B for BAD cinema: aesthetics, politics and cultural value
Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, April 15–17, 2009
Over the past decade, paracinema – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies – has seen a counter-cultural valorisation of all forms of cinematic trash or ‘badfilm.’ In many internet and print sources devoted to the celebration of paracinema, the term B-movie has (in contrast to its earlier studio-era sense) come to mean almost anything: disreputable and unworthy movies, low-budget exploitation movies, straight to TV or video movies, and even big-budget studio movies. B for BAD cinema seeks to negotiate some of the (aesthetic and moral) values and judgments inscribed in a B-movie culture in which films are deemed to be good-because-bad or bad-because-good. B for BAD cinema invites international film scholars, critics and filmmakers to present their thoughts on badfilm, with a particular focus on the following themes:
1. Cultural value and theory
2. Bad feeling and affect
3. Aesthetic value and bad art
4. Cultural morals and politics
5. Bad film theory and criticism
Plenary speakers include:
Elisabeth Bronfen
J. Hoberman
Angela Ndalianis
Adrian Martin
Ernest Mathijs
Murray Pomerance
Jeffrey Sconce
The Conference Conveners will accept proposals for individual papers or three-speaker panel sessions until November 14 2008.
Abstracts of no more than 250-words and a 100-word biography should be sent to Con Verevis: Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au
http://arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/news-and-events/2009/bad-cinema.php
Friday, October 31, 2008
Submission of Doctoral Dissertations
Effective October 31, 2008
Acceptance page with the original signatures
2. Abstract with the original signatures
3. Survey of Earned Doctorates
4. I.U. Exit Survey
1. One (1) unbound dissertation printed on 8-1/2” x 11, 100% cotton, watermarked, at least 20 lb. paper. This MUST be in a box approximately 9 inches by 11-1/2 inches in size.
2. Two (2) bound dissertations. (The University Graduate School must receive the bound copies before your degree will be awarded.)
a. One copy for the library (printed on 8-1/2” x 11, 100% cotton, watermarked, at least 20 lb. paper).
b. One copy for your department (only if required by your department; please check with your department to see if they require a bound dissertation and if yes, please ask if they have paper type requirements for their bound copy of your dissertation).
3. Acceptance page (signed - mandatory). Please see: http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/thesisGuide.php#D/ . Place this page in your unbound dissertation (follows the Title page).
NOTE: Because the original signed copy of the Acceptance Page must be placed in your unbound dissertation, it must be on the cotton paper, but you may use photocopies of this document for any other bound volumes.
4. Abstract (signed - mandatory). Please see: http://www.indiana.edu/~grdschl/thesisGuide.php#G . (This document is retained at the University Graduate School.)
5. *UMI Publishing Agreement (completed and signed).
6. *Dissertation Submission Form (microfilming - completed).
a. Please attach an extra Title page and abstract.
b. Also, please attach a personal check or a postal money order payable to ProQuest LLC for the microfilming fee - $65 (mandatory), copyright fee - $65 (if you plan to copyright your dissertation), and the Open Access fee - $95 (if this publishing option is selected).
7. *Copyright Registration Form (completed and signed). (Submit only if you plan to copyright your dissertation).
8. Survey of Earned Doctorates (completed).
9. University Graduate School’s Exit Survey (completed and signed). This survey is available at only the University Graduate School.
*Download these forms from: http://www.etdadmin.com/dissertation_publishing_agreement.pdf.
The Guide to the Preparation of Theses and Dissertations will be updated by the end of this week.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
G580/F401: Asian American Mental Health
Asian American Mental Health
G580/F401
(This course will also be cross-listed as an Asian American studies course.)
Instructor: Joel Wong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Education
Spring 2009, Mondays 2:30-5:00pm
There are no prerequisites for this combined undergraduate/graduate class; a background in psychology or counseling is not required. This is a survey course that addresses issues of Asian American ethnicity, culture, and race as they relate to mental health. Topics that will be discussed include body image, culture shock, intergenerational family conflicts, cultural influences on mental illnesses, stressors associated with racism and stereotypes, refugee trauma, indigenous healing approaches, etc. The prescribed textbook is Asian American Psychology: Current Perspectives (2009) by Nita Tewari and Alvin Alvarez. For more information, email the instructor at joelwong@indiana.edu.
G580/F401
(This course will also be cross-listed as an Asian American studies course.)
Instructor: Joel Wong, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Education
Spring 2009, Mondays 2:30-5:00pm
There are no prerequisites for this combined undergraduate/graduate class; a background in psychology or counseling is not required. This is a survey course that addresses issues of Asian American ethnicity, culture, and race as they relate to mental health. Topics that will be discussed include body image, culture shock, intergenerational family conflicts, cultural influences on mental illnesses, stressors associated with racism and stereotypes, refugee trauma, indigenous healing approaches, etc. The prescribed textbook is Asian American Psychology: Current Perspectives (2009) by Nita Tewari and Alvin Alvarez. For more information, email the instructor at joelwong@indiana.edu.
Call For Papers - Working Class Studies Association Conference
Class Matters:
Working Class Studies Association Conference Pittsburgh, PA June 3 - 6, 2009
The Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) is pleased to announce that its biennial Conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, June 3-6, 2009.
Proposals are invited for presentations, panels, workshops, and performances, according to the guidelines below. Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009.
The Working Class Studies Association
The WCSA promotes models of working-class studies, both inside and outside of the academy, that serve the interests of working-class people. These include critical discussions of relationships among class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other structures of inequality. WCSA is a multidisciplinary and international association; its members and conference participants include social workers, documentary filmmakers, writers, labor educators and cultural workers, as well as scholars and teachers across a range of academic fields. Web address: www.wcstudies.org.
WCSA Conference 2009
Featuring panels, plenaries, workshops, performances, screenings, site visits, and social gatherings, the conference provides an opportunity for academics, artists, activists, workers, independent scholars, teachers and students to present their projects, make connections, and learn about resources for the work we hold in common.
The conference theme, Class Matters, is intended to encompass the broad range of fields of study and forms of work promoted by the WCSA, and proposals may reflect this diversity. (See below for a listing of topics addressed at previous conferences.) Planners of the 2009 conference also have a particular interest in topics connected to "place" and location, including the local and global sites and environments of working-class lives and struggles.
Proposal guidelines
Proposals will be accepted in three categories:
a) Individual presentation, paper or talk. The program committee may group these into panel sessions.
b) Panel session, featuring three or four presenters, proposing jointly.
Typically 1.5 hours long, sessions may take the form of a workshop, round-table, or panel, and must provide time for response and interaction.
Workshops of longer duration will also be considered.
c) Performance, reading, or screening of creative work. Proposal must include a request for necessary space and/or technology.
Proposal format:
1. Proposed title
2. Category of proposal (see above)
3. Description, in fewer than 250 words, of the session
4. Names and institutional affiliation (where appropriate) of
all
presenters
5. Name, address, email, and phone numbers of the person making the
proposal
Submit proposals either as hard copy by mail to Class Matters Conference, English Department, 526 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, or as an email attachment to wcsa09@pitt.edu.
Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be made by February 1, 2009. Closer to the event a web-site will be available for posting of changes and updates, travel and lodging details, and the conference program.
Conference co-chairs:
Nick Coles, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh coles@pitt.edu
Charlie McCollester, Pennsylvania Labor Center, Indiana University of Pennsylvania charles@iup.edu Conference sponsors:
The 2009 conference will be hosted by Pitt's English Department, with support from the School of Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsors include the departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology, and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Labor Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Homestead Foundation.
Topics addressed at the 2005 (Youngstown State University) and 2007 (Macalester College) conferences: (This not an exclusive list, but one intended to suggest a range of interests represented.)
class in the classroom
working-class literature
labor and the body
class and the arts:
music, theater, visual art
labor rights / human rights
working-class history
transnational perspectives on class
class on campus:
students as workers
working-class academics
labor organizing
community activism
gender and class
working-class political theory
class and K-12 education
class and health care
media studies / criticism
war, class and the military
working-class / middle class
class and ethnicity
urban class issues
class and the environment
race / whiteness studies
the future of work
working-class economic theory
class and electoral politics
the anthropology of class
rural class issues
immigration / migrant workers
class and sexuality
working-class humor
class and religion
resistance and transformation
class in film
class in a global economy
Working Class Studies Association Conference Pittsburgh, PA June 3 - 6, 2009
The Working Class Studies Association (WCSA) is pleased to announce that its biennial Conference will be held at the University of Pittsburgh, June 3-6, 2009.
Proposals are invited for presentations, panels, workshops, and performances, according to the guidelines below. Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009.
The Working Class Studies Association
The WCSA promotes models of working-class studies, both inside and outside of the academy, that serve the interests of working-class people. These include critical discussions of relationships among class, race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and other structures of inequality. WCSA is a multidisciplinary and international association; its members and conference participants include social workers, documentary filmmakers, writers, labor educators and cultural workers, as well as scholars and teachers across a range of academic fields. Web address: www.wcstudies.org.
WCSA Conference 2009
Featuring panels, plenaries, workshops, performances, screenings, site visits, and social gatherings, the conference provides an opportunity for academics, artists, activists, workers, independent scholars, teachers and students to present their projects, make connections, and learn about resources for the work we hold in common.
The conference theme, Class Matters, is intended to encompass the broad range of fields of study and forms of work promoted by the WCSA, and proposals may reflect this diversity. (See below for a listing of topics addressed at previous conferences.) Planners of the 2009 conference also have a particular interest in topics connected to "place" and location, including the local and global sites and environments of working-class lives and struggles.
Proposal guidelines
Proposals will be accepted in three categories:
a) Individual presentation, paper or talk. The program committee may group these into panel sessions.
b) Panel session, featuring three or four presenters, proposing jointly.
Typically 1.5 hours long, sessions may take the form of a workshop, round-table, or panel, and must provide time for response and interaction.
Workshops of longer duration will also be considered.
c) Performance, reading, or screening of creative work. Proposal must include a request for necessary space and/or technology.
Proposal format:
1. Proposed title
2. Category of proposal (see above)
3. Description, in fewer than 250 words, of the session
4. Names and institutional affiliation (where appropriate) of
all
presenters
5. Name, address, email, and phone numbers of the person making the
proposal
Submit proposals either as hard copy by mail to Class Matters Conference, English Department, 526 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, or as an email attachment to wcsa09@pitt.edu.
Proposals must be received by January 4, 2009. Notifications of acceptance will be made by February 1, 2009. Closer to the event a web-site will be available for posting of changes and updates, travel and lodging details, and the conference program.
Conference co-chairs:
Nick Coles, Department of English, University of Pittsburgh coles@pitt.edu
Charlie McCollester, Pennsylvania Labor Center, Indiana University of Pennsylvania charles@iup.edu Conference sponsors:
The 2009 conference will be hosted by Pitt's English Department, with support from the School of Arts and Sciences. Co-sponsors include the departments of Anthropology, History and Sociology, and the Women's Studies Program at the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania Labor Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Homestead Foundation.
Topics addressed at the 2005 (Youngstown State University) and 2007 (Macalester College) conferences: (This not an exclusive list, but one intended to suggest a range of interests represented.)
class in the classroom
working-class literature
labor and the body
class and the arts:
music, theater, visual art
labor rights / human rights
working-class history
transnational perspectives on class
class on campus:
students as workers
working-class academics
labor organizing
community activism
gender and class
working-class political theory
class and K-12 education
class and health care
media studies / criticism
war, class and the military
working-class / middle class
class and ethnicity
urban class issues
class and the environment
race / whiteness studies
the future of work
working-class economic theory
class and electoral politics
the anthropology of class
rural class issues
immigration / migrant workers
class and sexuality
working-class humor
class and religion
resistance and transformation
class in film
class in a global economy
Friday, October 24, 2008
Early Vote Rally with Jane Pauley
Campaign for Change presents: Early Vote Rally with Jane Pauley
Sunday, October 26, at 3:30pm at the Showers Building Atrium (Get map)
Join us this Sunday to hear Jane Pauley, one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, a native Hoosier, a Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni, and an IU Graduate, speak about the importance of Early Voting! Following her speech, we will march to the Curry Building, which has extended its hours to include Sunday 1-5pm and EARLY VOTE!
DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID!
Sunday, October 26, at 3:30pm at the Showers Building Atrium (Get map)
Join us this Sunday to hear Jane Pauley, one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, a native Hoosier, a Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumni, and an IU Graduate, speak about the importance of Early Voting! Following her speech, we will march to the Curry Building, which has extended its hours to include Sunday 1-5pm and EARLY VOTE!
DON'T FORGET TO BRING YOUR PHOTO ID!
Course Permissions
If you plan to enroll in C700, C793, C810, or G901 for spring, you'll need to have your permissions set. Email me to let me know what to set.
HORIZONS OF KNOWLEDGE LECTURE
Sponsored by the Departments of Communication & Culture, Gender Studies, History, and American Studies
Presents transgender filmmaker
GWEN HAWORTH
of the award-winning 2007 film “She’s A Boy I Knew”
Speaking on "The Power of Self-Representation in Filmmaking on Issues of Gender and Sexuality"
Friday, October 31, 2008
Noon-1:15 p.m.
Room 100, 800 E. 3rd Street -- Q&A to follow
To see the film prior to the talk, please join us for a screening of
“She’s A Boy I Knew” (70 min.)
Thursday Oct. 30
7:15 – 8:30 p.m. in Wylie 015
Both events are free and open to the public.
Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation, Haworth's documentary “She's a Boy I Knew” begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition.
For more info on the film and filmmaker visit: www.artflick.com
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please contact Prof. Susan Seizer, 856-1986
Presents transgender filmmaker
GWEN HAWORTH
of the award-winning 2007 film “She’s A Boy I Knew”
Speaking on "The Power of Self-Representation in Filmmaking on Issues of Gender and Sexuality"
Friday, October 31, 2008
Noon-1:15 p.m.
Room 100, 800 E. 3rd Street -- Q&A to follow
To see the film prior to the talk, please join us for a screening of
“She’s A Boy I Knew” (70 min.)
Thursday Oct. 30
7:15 – 8:30 p.m. in Wylie 015
Both events are free and open to the public.
Using archival family footage, interviews, phone messages, and animation, Haworth's documentary “She's a Boy I Knew” begins in 2000 with Steven Haworth's decision to come out to his family about his life-long female gender identity. The resulting auto-ethnography is not only an exploration into the filmmaker's process of transition from biological male to female, from Steven to Gwen, but also an emotionally charged account of the individual experiences, struggles, and stakes that her two sisters, mother, father, best friend and wife brought to Gwen's transition.
For more info on the film and filmmaker visit: www.artflick.com
If you have a disability or need assistance, arrangements can be made to accommodate most needs. Please contact Prof. Susan Seizer, 856-1986
Thursday, October 23, 2008
MA Exam Process
In preparation for the upcoming MA Exam Colloquium, I thought I'd share some info about how the process works. On Friday, you'll hear all about the scholarship - I'll give you the low down on the bureaucratic side.
MA Exam are scheduled three times each academic year. The MA exam periods for this academic year are:
Jan 5-9
May 4-8
Aug 3-7
You will file an application to take your exam at least 30 days prior to your chosen date. I'll check your transcript for Incompletes or anything else that will prevent your taking the exam. Assuming you're good to go, I'll ask you to designate who your fourth exam reader will be, and exactly when (2 two-hour periods and 1 one-hour period) during the exam period you'll write and turn in your responses.
The actual "taking" of the exam is done electronically. At the beginning of your time periods, you will send me an email saying, "I'm starting now." At the end of the period (one or two hours), you'll send me the response. If you are intent on doing all this in camera, we'll work something out, but your final response will need to be word-processed.
Once you turn in your responses, I distribute them to the three members of the MA Exam Committee and to your fourth reader. Only the fourth reader will get a copy with your name; the MA Committee does a "blind" read. Each reader will certify your exam with a High Pass, Pass, or Fail within 30 days of the end of the exam period. You will be notified of the outcome after all four certification forms are returned to me and inspected by the DGS.
Remember that you will need to take the MA Exam in January if you plan to apply for the PhD program. The exam application deadline is Friday, December 5th. See or email me for a copy of the app.
MA Exam are scheduled three times each academic year. The MA exam periods for this academic year are:
Jan 5-9
May 4-8
Aug 3-7
You will file an application to take your exam at least 30 days prior to your chosen date. I'll check your transcript for Incompletes or anything else that will prevent your taking the exam. Assuming you're good to go, I'll ask you to designate who your fourth exam reader will be, and exactly when (2 two-hour periods and 1 one-hour period) during the exam period you'll write and turn in your responses.
The actual "taking" of the exam is done electronically. At the beginning of your time periods, you will send me an email saying, "I'm starting now." At the end of the period (one or two hours), you'll send me the response. If you are intent on doing all this in camera, we'll work something out, but your final response will need to be word-processed.
Once you turn in your responses, I distribute them to the three members of the MA Exam Committee and to your fourth reader. Only the fourth reader will get a copy with your name; the MA Committee does a "blind" read. Each reader will certify your exam with a High Pass, Pass, or Fail within 30 days of the end of the exam period. You will be notified of the outcome after all four certification forms are returned to me and inspected by the DGS.
Remember that you will need to take the MA Exam in January if you plan to apply for the PhD program. The exam application deadline is Friday, December 5th. See or email me for a copy of the app.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Role of Arts and Media in Exporting Culture
Coffee Hour with International Public Affairs Association(IPAA)
Oct. 24th, 2008
3:30 pm
IMU Grad Pad (floor below Starbucks, room east of computer lab)
Theme: Role of Arts and Media in Exporting Culture
Description: Weekly coffee and discussion hour held on campus by the International Public Affairs Association from SPEA. This is a great opportunity for IU students, faculty, staff, family, etc. from all departments to come and discuss any current international public affairs.
Highlights of the IPAA Coffee Hour:
-Network & meet other individuals with common interests and passions.
-Take a break from your usual routine and broaden your horizons by learning new perspectives and sharing your unique experiences.
-Enjoy learning from other talented individuals.
-Each week we'll have a general topic and information at a central table to spark discussion, or you can start a new topic at another table!
Oct. 24th, 2008
3:30 pm
IMU Grad Pad (floor below Starbucks, room east of computer lab)
Theme: Role of Arts and Media in Exporting Culture
Description: Weekly coffee and discussion hour held on campus by the International Public Affairs Association from SPEA. This is a great opportunity for IU students, faculty, staff, family, etc. from all departments to come and discuss any current international public affairs.
Highlights of the IPAA Coffee Hour:
-Network & meet other individuals with common interests and passions.
-Take a break from your usual routine and broaden your horizons by learning new perspectives and sharing your unique experiences.
-Enjoy learning from other talented individuals.
-Each week we'll have a general topic and information at a central table to spark discussion, or you can start a new topic at another table!
Spring Class Enrollment
Just a reminder that you may begin enrolling for spring classes on Thursday, October 23rd. Please remember that you have a 48 hour window in which to enroll and make changes to your schedule without incurring fees.
C503 - Intro to Media Theory and Aesthetics
C503 Intro to Media Theory and Aesthetics will be taught this spring. MA students who wish to take two of their three required courses in media should enroll in this to study Intro with a rested Hawkins.
Updated Website
The Series Editors of Reading Contemporary TV and co-founding editors of Critical Studies in Television at Manchester Metropolitan University announce that the website www.criticalstudiesintelevision.com has been updated with new Calls for Papers, new In Primetime announcements and 'In the News' has also been updated. Please encourage colleagues and fellow TV studies students to visit the site for regularly updated information in the world of TV Studies.
Call for Papers - "The Body in Pain and Pleasure"
*Third Annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Studies*
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Studies
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA
16 January 2009
*The Body in Pain and Pleasure*
As our lives are increasingly characterized by disembodied and mediated experiences, how is it that the individual comes to know pain and pleasure?
For the person in pain, Elaine Scarry famously argues, "'having pain' may come to be thought of as the most vibrant example of what it is to 'have certainty,' while … hearing about pain may exist as the primary model of what it is 'to have doubt.'" In other words, she argues that certainty is contingent upon the experiential reality of the body. Though Scarry is specifically addressing pain in the context of torture here, this same logic might be extended to pleasure – that to 'have certainty' of pleasure necessitates embodied experience. In terms of seeking certainty, Aristotle noted in *Nicomachean Ethics* "bodily pleasures are pursued by people who are incapable of experiencing other pleasures." In an age, however, when individuals are increasingly divorced from their bodies, how are pain and pleasure known or understood?
To this end, we are seeking graduate student papers that look to address the body in pain and pleasure from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives. We welcome projects that consider the following topics or others, as they illuminate our inquiry:
· Biopolitics and governmentality
· History and historiography
· Nation, state, and nation-state
· Religion
· Art, film, and literature
· Theatre and dance
· Popular culture
· Pornography and erotica
· Trauma
· The family
· Psychoanalysis
· Gender and sexuality
· Substance and substance abuse
· Terror and terrorism
· Crises and disasters
· Performance
· Philosophy and ethics
· BDSM
· Environmentalism
· Technology
· Race
· Illness, medicine, and death
· Justice and the law
· Sport and exercise
Please send 250-word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers (or panels of
3-4 presenters) to compstudiesconference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is November 10th, 2008. Accepted applicants will be notified by November 30th. In the body of the e-mail, please include the following
information:
Presenter(s) name(s):
Institutional affiliation(s):
Level of graduate study:
Title of paper:
Contact information:
Hosted by the Department of Comparative Studies
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH USA
16 January 2009
*The Body in Pain and Pleasure*
As our lives are increasingly characterized by disembodied and mediated experiences, how is it that the individual comes to know pain and pleasure?
For the person in pain, Elaine Scarry famously argues, "'having pain' may come to be thought of as the most vibrant example of what it is to 'have certainty,' while … hearing about pain may exist as the primary model of what it is 'to have doubt.'" In other words, she argues that certainty is contingent upon the experiential reality of the body. Though Scarry is specifically addressing pain in the context of torture here, this same logic might be extended to pleasure – that to 'have certainty' of pleasure necessitates embodied experience. In terms of seeking certainty, Aristotle noted in *Nicomachean Ethics* "bodily pleasures are pursued by people who are incapable of experiencing other pleasures." In an age, however, when individuals are increasingly divorced from their bodies, how are pain and pleasure known or understood?
To this end, we are seeking graduate student papers that look to address the body in pain and pleasure from a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives. We welcome projects that consider the following topics or others, as they illuminate our inquiry:
· Biopolitics and governmentality
· History and historiography
· Nation, state, and nation-state
· Religion
· Art, film, and literature
· Theatre and dance
· Popular culture
· Pornography and erotica
· Trauma
· The family
· Psychoanalysis
· Gender and sexuality
· Substance and substance abuse
· Terror and terrorism
· Crises and disasters
· Performance
· Philosophy and ethics
· BDSM
· Environmentalism
· Technology
· Race
· Illness, medicine, and death
· Justice and the law
· Sport and exercise
Please send 250-word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers (or panels of
3-4 presenters) to compstudiesconference@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is November 10th, 2008. Accepted applicants will be notified by November 30th. In the body of the e-mail, please include the following
information:
Presenter(s) name(s):
Institutional affiliation(s):
Level of graduate study:
Title of paper:
Contact information:
For AIs and Faculty
By action of the Faculty Council (January 10, 1967), instructors are required to provide an evaluation of performance to each student not later than after two-thirds of the semester has elapsed. Additionally, the IU Bloomington Campus has a policy that instructors will assign letter grades at midterm for all freshmen and University Division sophomores. This population also includes high school students enrolled on campus for university credit. Student grades at midterm are used for counseling purposes and are not recorded on the students’ permanent records.
We have identified that one or more of your courses contains student(s) in this midterm grade population. Your midterm grade roster(s) contains only the names of students who are in the selected population; therefore, the roster may list only a portion of the entire class.
Midterm grade rosters for collection of letter grades are now available in OneStart at http://onestart.iu.edu. Midterm grade rosters are available for updating at all times except Monday through Saturday, 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., and Sunday, 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Times given are Eastern Daylight Time.
The deadline for submission of midterm grades is Monday, October 27 at 10:00 p.m.
For those students listed on your midterm rosters, please assign a letter grade (A+ through F; or S or F for approved S/F graded courses) for each student on the roster. The following special midterm grades may be used to provide additional information for student counseling:
Excessive Absence Indicator
The M notation can be used in combination with only the grades of F or I (Incomplete) to indicate excessive absence.
• FM grade indicates students who are failing due to lack of attendance or who have never attended.
• IM grade indicates students for whom no progress evaluation is possible, whose current enrollment status is unknown, or who may be in the process of officially withdrawing.
It is important to note that the midterm grades roster “times out” after 10 minutes of inactivity. During the online grade entry process, remember to save frequently to avoid the risk of losing your data.
Assistance will be available on a walk-in basis in Franklin Hall 117 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on October 23, 24, and 27.
Additional information regarding the midterm grade process may be found on our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/midtermgrades.shtml.
Should you wish to print directions for grade entry, a one-page Adobe help sheet is available via http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/pdfs/Midterm.pdf.
We have identified that one or more of your courses contains student(s) in this midterm grade population. Your midterm grade roster(s) contains only the names of students who are in the selected population; therefore, the roster may list only a portion of the entire class.
Midterm grade rosters for collection of letter grades are now available in OneStart at http://onestart.iu.edu. Midterm grade rosters are available for updating at all times except Monday through Saturday, 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m., and Sunday, 12:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Times given are Eastern Daylight Time.
The deadline for submission of midterm grades is Monday, October 27 at 10:00 p.m.
For those students listed on your midterm rosters, please assign a letter grade (A+ through F; or S or F for approved S/F graded courses) for each student on the roster. The following special midterm grades may be used to provide additional information for student counseling:
Excessive Absence Indicator
The M notation can be used in combination with only the grades of F or I (Incomplete) to indicate excessive absence.
• FM grade indicates students who are failing due to lack of attendance or who have never attended.
• IM grade indicates students for whom no progress evaluation is possible, whose current enrollment status is unknown, or who may be in the process of officially withdrawing.
It is important to note that the midterm grades roster “times out” after 10 minutes of inactivity. During the online grade entry process, remember to save frequently to avoid the risk of losing your data.
Assistance will be available on a walk-in basis in Franklin Hall 117 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on October 23, 24, and 27.
Additional information regarding the midterm grade process may be found on our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/midtermgrades.shtml.
Should you wish to print directions for grade entry, a one-page Adobe help sheet is available via http://www.indiana.edu/~registra/pdfs/Midterm.pdf.
CMCL Student Colloquia Series - The MA Exam
Friday, October 24
Classroom Office Building, Room 100
4 - 5 pm
The CMCL Student Colloquia Series is pleased to present a special forum for Master's students in CMCL. The subject is the Masters' Exams. The panelists are Professors Mary Gray, Bob Ivie, and Jon Simons. Also on the panel is former Masters student Eric Harvey, who went through the exam process.
This panel will be driven almost solely by the questions from the MA students in the audience. Both 2nd and 1st year MA students are encouraged to attend, as this colloquium will not necessarily be repeated next year.
Classroom Office Building, Room 100
4 - 5 pm
The CMCL Student Colloquia Series is pleased to present a special forum for Master's students in CMCL. The subject is the Masters' Exams. The panelists are Professors Mary Gray, Bob Ivie, and Jon Simons. Also on the panel is former Masters student Eric Harvey, who went through the exam process.
This panel will be driven almost solely by the questions from the MA students in the audience. Both 2nd and 1st year MA students are encouraged to attend, as this colloquium will not necessarily be repeated next year.
Robert Gunderson Forum - October 23
The Robert Gunderson Forum in Rhetoric and Public Culture is pleased to announce that Professor Debra Hawhee, University of Illinois
will conduct a roundtable discussion of her forthcoming book From Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language (University
of South Carolina Press) on Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 3:00-5:00 PM in the Distinguished Alumni Room of the Indiana Memorial
Union.
Professor Hawhee has a joint appointment in English and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Bodily
Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (U. of Texas Press, 2004) and the co-author of Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
(with Sharon Crowley, Longman, 2009 [sic]). She currently serves as the Book Review Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech. And
according to the bio on her first book, she was a member of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team from 1988-1992
(which means she has two national championship rings -- not that anyone is counting.)
The roundtable discussion will concern Chapter Seven of her forthcoming book, "Welcome to the Beauty Clinic." Participants are
also strongly encouraged to read Kenneth Burke's short story "The Anaesthetic Revelation of Herone Liddell." Copies of both
essays are attached to this message.
NOTE: Professor Hawhee will hold an "office hour" to meet and talk with graduate students on Friday morning,
October 24th from 10-12:00 in COB 245.
will conduct a roundtable discussion of her forthcoming book From Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language (University
of South Carolina Press) on Thursday, October 23, 2008 from 3:00-5:00 PM in the Distinguished Alumni Room of the Indiana Memorial
Union.
Professor Hawhee has a joint appointment in English and Speech Communication at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Bodily
Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (U. of Texas Press, 2004) and the co-author of Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students
(with Sharon Crowley, Longman, 2009 [sic]). She currently serves as the Book Review Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Speech. And
according to the bio on her first book, she was a member of the University of Tennessee women's basketball team from 1988-1992
(which means she has two national championship rings -- not that anyone is counting.)
The roundtable discussion will concern Chapter Seven of her forthcoming book, "Welcome to the Beauty Clinic." Participants are
also strongly encouraged to read Kenneth Burke's short story "The Anaesthetic Revelation of Herone Liddell." Copies of both
essays are attached to this message.
NOTE: Professor Hawhee will hold an "office hour" to meet and talk with graduate students on Friday morning,
October 24th from 10-12:00 in COB 245.
Student Academic Center Free Workshops for the Weeks of 10/20 through 10/29
Please share the following information concerning the Student Academic Center free workshops for the upcoming two weeks. Our workshops are open to all students and they do not need to sign up in advance to attend. However students are advised to arrive early to get seating. Questions and/or concerns can be addressed to Sharon Chertkoff, Outreach Coordinator, SAC, 855-7313. Thanks for your support.
Monday, 10/20, Emergency Test Preparation: A Systematic Approach to Cramming, 7:00-8:00pm, Forest Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 10/21, Improving Essay Test Performance, 7:00-8:00pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 10/22, Improving Essay Test Performance, 7:00-8:00pm, Woodburn Hall 101
Monday,10/27, Improving Reading Speed, 7:00-8:00pm, Briscoe Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 10/28, Using Groups to Increase Learning, 7:00-8:00pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 10/29, Using Groups to Increase Learning, 7:00-8:00pm, Woodburn Hall 101
Monday, 10/20, Emergency Test Preparation: A Systematic Approach to Cramming, 7:00-8:00pm, Forest Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 10/21, Improving Essay Test Performance, 7:00-8:00pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 10/22, Improving Essay Test Performance, 7:00-8:00pm, Woodburn Hall 101
Monday,10/27, Improving Reading Speed, 7:00-8:00pm, Briscoe Academic Support Center
Tuesday, 10/28, Using Groups to Increase Learning, 7:00-8:00pm, Teter TEF 258
Wednesday, 10/29, Using Groups to Increase Learning, 7:00-8:00pm, Woodburn Hall 101
Which Future for Newspapers?
Please join us for the second in the Fall 2008 series of talks sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics (RKCSI). The RKCSI speaker series is designed to introduce faculty, students and staff across the university to current research in social informatics conducted at IU and around the world. The complete schedule for the Fall 2008 Speaker Series is posted on the web at:
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2008-fall
Speaker: Leopoldina Fortunati
Professor of Sociology of Communication
Faculty of Education
University of Udine, Italy
Topic: Which Future for Newspapers?
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 12:30-1:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Telecommunications Building, Room RTV 226
Graduate students are invited to join Dr. Fortunati for a discussion from 3-4pm in Room LI 001 at the main library.
Refreshments will be available.
ABSTRACT
The decline of newspapers started long before the advent of the Internet. However, the Internet has accelerated this decline. Internet users who read the news online, time spent reading news online, and the number of pages they view have been rapidly increasing. But is the future of newspapers really endangered? Beginning with the assumption that the press should be studied as a socio-technical system, we carried out an 11-nation survey of European journalists who are on the frontlines of the rapidly changing world of journalism to understand how they see the future of the press and how they assess changes in their jobs and in their professional status since the integration of the Internet in newsrooms. We also examined other data from editors and audience associations to contrast visions and perceptions. For more details on the talk, see
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2008-fall/163
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Leopoldina Fortunati is professor of the sociology of communication at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine, Italy. Her research focuses on cultural processes and ICTs. Her many books have been translated into 11 languages. She has served as editor with J.
Katz and R. Riccini of Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication and Fashion (2003) and with P. Law and S. Yang of New Technologies in Global Societies (2006). She is an associate editor of the journal The Information Society and also co-chairs The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC). For more information about Dr. Fortunati, see her home page at:
http://web.uniud.it/dest/docenti/fortunati/curriculum.htm
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/index.php/2008-fall
Speaker: Leopoldina Fortunati
Professor of Sociology of Communication
Faculty of Education
University of Udine, Italy
Topic: Which Future for Newspapers?
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 12:30-1:45 pm
Place: IU Bloomington, Telecommunications Building, Room RTV 226
Graduate students are invited to join Dr. Fortunati for a discussion from 3-4pm in Room LI 001 at the main library.
Refreshments will be available.
ABSTRACT
The decline of newspapers started long before the advent of the Internet. However, the Internet has accelerated this decline. Internet users who read the news online, time spent reading news online, and the number of pages they view have been rapidly increasing. But is the future of newspapers really endangered? Beginning with the assumption that the press should be studied as a socio-technical system, we carried out an 11-nation survey of European journalists who are on the frontlines of the rapidly changing world of journalism to understand how they see the future of the press and how they assess changes in their jobs and in their professional status since the integration of the Internet in newsrooms. We also examined other data from editors and audience associations to contrast visions and perceptions. For more details on the talk, see
http://rkcsi.indiana.edu/article.php/2008-fall/163
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Leopoldina Fortunati is professor of the sociology of communication at the Faculty of Education of the University of Udine, Italy. Her research focuses on cultural processes and ICTs. Her many books have been translated into 11 languages. She has served as editor with J.
Katz and R. Riccini of Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication and Fashion (2003) and with P. Law and S. Yang of New Technologies in Global Societies (2006). She is an associate editor of the journal The Information Society and also co-chairs The Society for the Social Study of Mobile Communication (SSSMC). For more information about Dr. Fortunati, see her home page at:
http://web.uniud.it/dest/docenti/fortunati/curriculum.htm
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Native American Heritage Month
Special guided tours of the Wanamaker Exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures will be held throughout November for Native American Heritage Month.
The Mathers Museum is seeking volunteers who are personally familiar with Native cultures and can address the stereotyping and staging done by the photographer, Joseph Dixon, as well as the social and political contexts of the photos.
More information about the exhibit can be found here: http://www.indiana.edu/~mathers/exhibits/wan.html.
(If this sounds like a handful, we can pair you with a partner and give you background material--the staging and stereotyping will be pretty evident to people who are familiar with a Native culture or cultures.)
NAGSA, AISA, and the Native American Community Center of Bloomington are coordinating volunteers. The tours will be held at the volunteers' convenience and dates/times will be publicized to educators and the general public.
Please e-mail Rebecca Riall at rlriall@indiana.edu if you are
interested in volunteering to guide such a tour, and include the
following information:
Name:
Tribal affiliation (if applicable):
Dates and times you would be available:
How many of the times listed above would you like to lead a tour?
Do you have any questions or concerns?
Would you prefer to lead a tour with a partner?
Other information we should know
GPSO Travel Grants
The GPSO Fall 2008 Travel Grant Application Deadline is October 25th. For more info about applying, click either the Funding Opportunities Link or the GPSO Link on the menu.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Upcoming Dissertation Defense
Margaret E. Van Blaricom
"Talking Family at the Beauty Salon: Reflections and Relations."
Thursday, October 30, 2008,
2:00 p.m.,
800 E. 3rd Street, Room 256,
Chair: Prof. Beverly J. Stoeltje (855-8014)
"Talking Family at the Beauty Salon: Reflections and Relations."
Thursday, October 30, 2008,
2:00 p.m.,
800 E. 3rd Street, Room 256,
Chair: Prof. Beverly J. Stoeltje (855-8014)
BPW/USA Call for Video Proposals
Informative | Edgy | Creative
Call for Video Proposals
CONTEST
Submit a proposal to produce a 3-minute informative, edgy, creative video on one of the following topics:
- Why should college students and young professionals be concerned about government policy on pay equity, work-life balance, and health?
- Once the election is over, how can college students and young professionals stay active and involved in advocacy for issues that affect working women?
- What qualities does a college student look for in their first job and work environment, and what BPW/USA resources can help with this?
BPW/USA – a national advocacy organization with a mission to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information – is launching this contest to the nation's top film schools. The video should have a primary target of college students, recent graduates, young professionals; a secondary target would include anyone who is interested in issues that affect workingwomen and their families.
Your Proposal Should Include:
- 200-word outline of your insight on one of the above topics
- 500-word summary of the video concept, its purpose, and how it is significant to the target audience
- Video title, draft script, including design and director notes, for the 3-minute video.
Proposals are due by October 31 via e-mail to youngwomenmisbehavin @bpwusa.org .
Do not create the video. However, please keep in mind that the winning video should be functional in Windows Media Player or RealPlayer. BPW/USA will review proposal submissions and meet with the winning production team to discuss details prior to video production. The ideal proposal will reflect the BPW/USA mission and have innovative concepts, design, and creatively address one of the questions above. The production team of the best video will receive a cash prize, have their credited video featured on the BPW/USA website, and be featured in a press release to national media.
Founded in 1919, BPW/USA is a multi-generational, nonpartisan membership organization with a mission to achieve equity for all women in the workplace through advocacy, education, and information. Established as the first organization to focus on issues of workingwomen, BPW/USA is historically a leader in grassroots activism, policy influence and advocacy for millions of workingwomen.
Schedule
October 16 – October 31: Call for Video Proposals
October 31 – November 7: Review of Proposal Submissions
November 10 (approximately): Winning Production Team Notified
November 11 – December 1: Video Production and Completion
Questions? E-mail Jennifer Jones at jjones @bpwusa.org
Great River Arts Institute Call for Submissions
Great River Arts Institute in Vermont, USA invites video arts professionals and emerging artists to submit interpretive video on the theme of ŒH2O - Film on Water¹ for the juried video exhibition scheduled for the fall of 2009.
This would be a great opportunity for artists of all ages and all experiences to show their work to a group of distinguished juries from major museums in the New England and New York City regions and to compete for the top prize of $5,000.
The submission deadline is April 15th, 2009.
For more information, including submission guidelines and criteria, please visit Great River's website at www.greatriverarts.org. For any questions, call Alexis Dohas at 802-463-3330 or email at alexis @greatriverarts.org.
This would be a great opportunity for artists of all ages and all experiences to show their work to a group of distinguished juries from major museums in the New England and New York City regions and to compete for the top prize of $5,000.
The submission deadline is April 15th, 2009.
For more information, including submission guidelines and criteria, please visit Great River's website at www.greatriverarts.org. For any questions, call Alexis Dohas at 802-463-3330 or email at alexis @greatriverarts.org.
Sixth Annual International Home Movie Day
The Department of Communication and Culture is proud to host this Sixth Annual international event. Join us for this celebration of amateur films and filmmaking held annually at many local venues worldwide.
Saturday, October 18
Non - Film Check-in
1-5 pm - Film ViewingClassroom Office Building, Room 100
800 East Third Street
Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best to care for them. Bring us you 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, or VHS video home movies from the past and present. We will screen them for all to watch.
Contact James Paasche at jpaasche @indiana.edu for more information.
Saturday, October 18
Non - Film Check-in
1-5 pm - Film ViewingClassroom Office Building, Room 100
800 East Third Street
Home Movie Day events provide the opportunity for individuals and families to see and share their own home movies with an audience of their community, and to see their neighbors' in turn. It's a chance to discover why to care about these films and to learn how best to care for them. Bring us you 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, or VHS video home movies from the past and present. We will screen them for all to watch.
Contact James Paasche at jpaasche @indiana.edu for more information.
CMCL Student Colloquium Series - "Job Interviews: A Panel Discussion"
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
NYU Conference Call for Papers: "Spike Frames: The Cinema of Spike Lee"
Spike Frames: The Cinema of Spike Lee
In 1993, the Departments of Cinema Studies, Film and Television, and Africana Studies collaborated in staging a major international conference focused on Pan-African Cinema, which uniquely showcased the contributions of film critics, academics, and industry professionals and explored the achievements of black cinema in a global context.
Building on the success of that conference and the insights and debates it inspired, we propose a major international conference to critically survey and celebrate the work of preeminent film-maker Spike Lee. The objective of this conference will be to revisit and discuss anew the remarkable achievements of Lee, as producer, director, film-maker, actor, and teacher in the context of the history of American cinema and, more specifically, within the developmental trajectory of ‘Black American Cinema,’ and its complex, tangled histories and debates. The conference title “Spike Frames” was chosen to suggest the diverse ways in which the outstanding quantity and flow of Lee’s films have ‘framed’ or influenced American film-making from the mid-‘80s into the 21st century.
We will also interrogate the ways the ‘Spike Lee phenomenon’ has often directly challenged the expectations and exclusionary practices of the dominant commercial film industry. As well, we will look at the ways Lee’s work has played with the seemingly contradictory ‘double bind,’ of what it means, exactly, to be an ‘independent’ film-maker while being a successful commercial ‘mainstream’ director. Moreover, it is our aim that the conference contribute to the research, debate, and scholarship on black American cinema, while also considering it in the broader context of global filmmaking the 21st century.
It is our goal that this conference will create support for the archiving and preservation of African American film through the Tisch School of the Arts Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, with every expectation that this will significantly contribute to building strong institutional structures for the study of black film-making, its debates, issues and images.
- Spike Lee and International Cinema (influenced by; influences on)
- Spike Lee and film aesthetics (cinematography; montage; sound; narration)
- Spike Lee and genre (revision; hybridity; polyphony)
- Spike Lee and authorship (as a director; as a producer; as an advertising executive)
- Spike Lee and marketing (of himself; of others {through bio-pics and public endorsements]; of products {Nike, Pepsi, etc.})
- Spike Lee and the city (
- Spike Lee and music (as soundtrack; as narrative inspiration; as metatext; music video)
- Spike Lee and performance (performativity; stardom; ensemble and improvisation)
- Spike Lee and documentary (documentary use of fiction conventions; fictional use of documentary conventions; performance films)
- Spike Lee and the politics of culture (class, gender, religion, nation, race)
- Spike Lee and new technologies (film vs. digital video; webstreaming; social networking)
- Spike Lee and African American film (legacy of early filmmakers, such as Oscar Micheaux; legacy on contemporary filmmakers, such as John Singleton or Kasi Lemmons).
kmc403@nyu.edu
School of Journalism Research Presentation
October 22, Wednesday
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
School of Journalism
Ernie Pyle Lounge
Ernie Pyle Lounge
Kevin Grieves, PhD Candidate, School of Journalism
“IT TAKES COURAGE” – TRANSBORDER JOURNALISTIC COLLABORATION IN THE SAAR-LOR-LUX REGION OF EUROPE
This research examines journalistic cooperation across borders as one of the most promising but simultaneously problematic variants of transborder journalism. Journalists from France, Germany and Luxembourg encounter significant hurdles when they produce collaborative programs in the transborder Saar-Lor-Lux region. Differing media structures, language barriers and professional conditions make for a rocky and fragile foundation for such cross-cultural endeavors. Yet journalists in this region confront these obstacles on a daily basis.
While this form of border-transcending journalism finds a place on the periphery of the newsroom, those journalists who are involved in such reporting and storytelling express deep passions about their work. My research addresses questions of journalists’ professional identities and explores what it means for these professionals to be members of a border-transcending community.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
2nd 8 Weeks Course
Fall 2008 SLAVIC/COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/JEWISH STUDIES
C565/365 INTERWAR CENTRAL EUROPE:
CULTURAL FLORESCENCE AND APOCALYPTIC VISION
Professor Bronislava Volková volkova@indiana.edu
T R 4-6
The years between the two wars presented a curious paradox in the heartland of Europe - Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. This area was characterized both by a particularly rich cultural florescence and an especially by an acute apocalyptic perspective.
The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach and links the political threats hanging over the area with the scientific, scholarly and artistic achievements of the period. Special emphasis is laid on the role of the Jews in the crosspollination of the intellectual climate. The issue of human values is explored in an integrative picture of these years. The authors read present a delightful smorgasbord of geniuses like Freud, Musil, Th. Mann, S. Zweig, K Capek, Kafka and Witkacy.
C565/365 INTERWAR CENTRAL EUROPE:
CULTURAL FLORESCENCE AND APOCALYPTIC VISION
Professor Bronislava Volková volkova@indiana.edu
T R 4-6
The years between the two wars presented a curious paradox in the heartland of Europe - Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia and Poland. This area was characterized both by a particularly rich cultural florescence and an especially by an acute apocalyptic perspective.
The course adopts an interdisciplinary approach and links the political threats hanging over the area with the scientific, scholarly and artistic achievements of the period. Special emphasis is laid on the role of the Jews in the crosspollination of the intellectual climate. The issue of human values is explored in an integrative picture of these years. The authors read present a delightful smorgasbord of geniuses like Freud, Musil, Th. Mann, S. Zweig, K Capek, Kafka and Witkacy.
Czech Film Series 2008-2009
Celebration of
Lindley Hall 102
7 PM
Czech/Slovak film about the Aryanization program during WWII in the
Introduced by Professor Bronislava Volková
Monday, October 13, 2008
CMCL Colloquium - Career Development
Friday October 174-5pm
Classroom Office Building Room 100
"Job Interviews: A Panel Discussion"
This colloquium will give CMCL grad students an opportunity to hear about the expected and unexpected questions/problems that arise in the job interview process. The panel will consist of Max Dawson, Susan Lepselter, Jon Simons, and Chris Anderson. They will talk from a variety of positions: as recent hires who just went through the process, as members of hiring committees, and as international applicants. The panelists will each deliver 5-10 minute nuggets of wisdom, with plenty of time devoted to your questions. Please come with questions in an attempt at demystifying this important part of our careers as academics.
Contact James Paasche, CMCL Grad Rep for the Colloquium Series, with questions
Classroom Office Building Room 100
"Job Interviews: A Panel Discussion"
This colloquium will give CMCL grad students an opportunity to hear about the expected and unexpected questions/problems that arise in the job interview process. The panel will consist of Max Dawson, Susan Lepselter, Jon Simons, and Chris Anderson. They will talk from a variety of positions: as recent hires who just went through the process, as members of hiring committees, and as international applicants. The panelists will each deliver 5-10 minute nuggets of wisdom, with plenty of time devoted to your questions. Please come with questions in an attempt at demystifying this important part of our careers as academics.
Contact James Paasche, CMCL Grad Rep for the Colloquium Series, with questions
IUB Accessibility Roundtable - "A Campus Looks at Web Accessibility"
“A Campus Looks at Web Accessibility”
Presented by Margaret Londergan, Director, Adaptive Technology Center
Wednesday, October 15th
Noon - 1:00 pm
IU Memorial Union - OAK ROOM
On Wednesday, October 15th, IUB’s Disability Roundtable will be presenting this semester’s second Accessible University session. The session is titled, “A Campus Looks at Web Accessibility." The session will be presented byMargaret Londergan, from noon to 1 pm at the IMU – Oak Room.
This month's presentation will focus on what IUB is doing as a system to promote web accessibility and make sure all of campus websites meet ADA compliance requirements. Faculty, students, and administrators are welcome to attend. You will hear more about the work of IUB's Web Accessibility Committee - it's charge, its place in IUB administration, its members, and the issues the Committee is currently working on. Also, you will learn more about the resources of IUB's Adaptive Technology Center in helping faculty, departments, and affiliate organizations make their websites more user-friendly to people with disabilities.
Margaret Londergan is the guest presenter. Margaret is the Director of our campus's Adaptive Technology Center, one of the key places on campus to receive advice and feedback about web accessibility.
The Accessible University series is a collaborative activity of IUB’s Disability Roundtable, coordinated by Vicki Pappas of the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Alice Voigt of the National Center on Accessibility. For further information about the Accessible University series or the Roundtable, please feel free to contact Vicki (cpps@indiana.edu) or Alice (ajvoigt@indiana.edu).
Requests for Accommodations
If you plan to attend this session and require a sign language interpreter, real time captioning, assistive listening system, other auxiliary aid or information in alternate format, please contact Rachel Westberg at the National Center on Accessibility, rwestber@indiana.edu, (812) 855-1091 (voice), or (812) 856-4421 (tty).
Friday, October 10, 2008
"Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales"
On Monday
November 3rd
7:30 pm
IUB Fine Arts Building
Room 015
Professor E. Patrick Johnson of Northwestern University will perform his one-man show entitled "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the
South Tell Their Tales." The performance traces the lives of several
black gay, queer, and trans-identified males across the U.S South.
Admission is free of charge.
Professor Johnson is Department Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor in the Departments of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Theatre & Drama at Northwestern. He is the author and/or co-editor of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke University Press); Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press); and, most recently, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (University of North Carolina Press).
November 3rd
7:30 pm
IUB Fine Arts Building
Room 015
Professor E. Patrick Johnson of Northwestern University will perform his one-man show entitled "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the
South Tell Their Tales." The performance traces the lives of several
black gay, queer, and trans-identified males across the U.S South.
Admission is free of charge.
Professor Johnson is Department Chair, Director of Graduate Studies, and Professor in the Departments of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Theatre & Drama at Northwestern. He is the author and/or co-editor of Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Duke University Press); Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (Duke University Press); and, most recently, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (University of North Carolina Press).
Spring Registration
Booklets containing CMCL course descriptions are available in the mailroom (thanks Tara!). They contain ugrad as well as grad courses. Other departments also send me course information occassionally; I'll post them here on the blog or on the bulletin board outside my office if they only come in hardcopy.
Registration should be open beginning on October 23rd. Please remember that you will have a 48 hour window to register.
Registration should be open beginning on October 23rd. Please remember that you will have a 48 hour window to register.
Call for Papers: Women's and Gender History
Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ March 5-7, 2009
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008
The Executive Committee of the Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 5-7, 2009. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.
This year’s theme, “Transforming Power,” seeks to interrogate a variety of trends shaping the field of women’s and gender history. The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, analysis of whether and to what extent power—as both a force in the world and an analytical scaffold—has been transformed over the past decades of feminist scholarship and activism. Of related interest, as well, would be proposals that engage the issue of difference in women’s and gender studies and history, especially the benefits and difficulties of using difference as a scholarly and political frame of reference. These questions are purposefully broad, inviting perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives. Additionally, in order to celebrate the Symposium's tenth anniversary and in keeping with our theme's focus on gender, power and the politics of location, we hope to assemble a specifically historiographic panel addressing the state of the field.We are, then, particularly interested in paper proposals that problematize the history of feminist history or suggest new historiographic avenues of inquiry for our futures.
For the Tenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work:
• Roderick A. Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.
To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com .
To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.
For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, David Greenstein or Laura Duros at gendersymp@gmail.com .
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ March 5-7, 2009
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2008
The Executive Committee of the Tenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 5-7, 2009. To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline. The Symposium organizers welcome individual papers on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history; papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.
This year’s theme, “Transforming Power,” seeks to interrogate a variety of trends shaping the field of women’s and gender history. The Symposium Executive Committee is interested in assembling a geographically and temporally diverse body of papers; exciting proposals could focus on, but would not be limited to, analysis of whether and to what extent power—as both a force in the world and an analytical scaffold—has been transformed over the past decades of feminist scholarship and activism. Of related interest, as well, would be proposals that engage the issue of difference in women’s and gender studies and history, especially the benefits and difficulties of using difference as a scholarly and political frame of reference. These questions are purposefully broad, inviting perspectives and reflections from a variety of temporal, geographical, and inter/disciplinary perspectives. Additionally, in order to celebrate the Symposium's tenth anniversary and in keeping with our theme's focus on gender, power and the politics of location, we hope to assemble a specifically historiographic panel addressing the state of the field.We are, then, particularly interested in paper proposals that problematize the history of feminist history or suggest new historiographic avenues of inquiry for our futures.
For the Tenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in his work:
• Roderick A. Ferguson, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Minnesota
The journal Gender & History will again sponsor a prize for the best graduate student paper presented at the Symposium. Conference presenters will also have the opportunity to publish their work in the on-line proceedings volume. We possess limited resources to subsidize travel expenses for presenters. Giving priority to presenters with limited conference experience, we will allocate these funds based on the quality of presenters’ proposals and the availability of funds.
To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method); please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com .
To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to: Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History 309 Gregory Hall, MC 466, 810 S. Wright Street Urbana, Illinois 61801.
For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs, David Greenstein or Laura Duros at gendersymp@gmail.com .
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
New Course this Spring - NELC-N695
Language and Society in the
NELC N-695/ N-305
3 cr/hrs
Weekly lecture/seminarProfessor Çiğdem Balım Harding
cbalim@indiana.edu
The course will help the students to have a holistic view of the area, its peoples and languages.
Students will be expected to work with their own language interests and countries of interest when preparing papers.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
First Annual James Naremore Lecture: Renovating Cinema History
Presented by the Department of Communication and Culture
Featuring Richard Maltby
Swain East 105, 5:00 pm
Friday 10/10
A Reception follows immediately at our building (800 East Third Street) in the upstairs lobby.
The talk is titled "Renovating Cinema History." Here's the synopsis:
In this lecture, Professor Maltsby will present an overview of recent historical work in writing the history of cinema distribution and exhibition, and the histories of cinema's audiences. The paper will explore some of the issues raised by writing historical studies of cinema that are not centrally about films, and discuss some of the opportunities that this new perspective provides for reconsidering the history of early and Classical Hollywood cinema.
Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology at Flinders University, South Australia. Before moving to Australia in 1997, he was the founding Director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter and then Research Professor of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
His publications include Hollywood Cinema: Second Edition (Blackwell's, 2003), "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, which won the Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000, and Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema, which was published in 2007 and is the most recent of five edited books on the history of movie audiences and cinema exhibition. He is Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History. He is currently completing Reforming the
Movies: Politics, Censorship, and the Governance of the American Cinema, 1908-1939.
Featuring Richard Maltby
Swain East 105, 5:00 pm
Friday 10/10
A Reception follows immediately at our building (800 East Third Street) in the upstairs lobby.
The talk is titled "Renovating Cinema History." Here's the synopsis:
In this lecture, Professor Maltsby will present an overview of recent historical work in writing the history of cinema distribution and exhibition, and the histories of cinema's audiences. The paper will explore some of the issues raised by writing historical studies of cinema that are not centrally about films, and discuss some of the opportunities that this new perspective provides for reconsidering the history of early and Classical Hollywood cinema.
Richard Maltby is Professor of Screen Studies and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology at Flinders University, South Australia. Before moving to Australia in 1997, he was the founding Director of the Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the University of Exeter and then Research Professor of Film Studies at Sheffield Hallam University.
His publications include Hollywood Cinema: Second Edition (Blackwell's, 2003), "Film Europe" and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1925-1939, which won the Prix Jean Mitry for cinema history in 2000, and Going to the Movies: Hollywood and the Social Experience of Cinema, which was published in 2007 and is the most recent of five edited books on the history of movie audiences and cinema exhibition. He is Series Editor of Exeter Studies in Film History. He is currently completing Reforming the
Movies: Politics, Censorship, and the Governance of the American Cinema, 1908-1939.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Rocky Mountain Communication Review General Call
As always, *RMCR* seeks substantive manuscripts examining any disciplinary topic in communication from any epistemological and methodological approach. We also publish manuscripts that are resources for future scholarship such as analytical literature reviews and annotated bibliographies. *In particular, RMCR solicits submissions that authors have presented at local, regional, and national conferences, who seek to move their essays from the conference level to publication. *Our mission at *RMCR* is to fill the space between convention papers and our national and regional disciplinary journals.
*This Graduate Student Life*
As a graduate student, do you also try to apply your scholarship in the community or engage in social justice, civic engagement, or try to make social change? Are there particular challenges that you face? Are there projects that you have worked on or efforts that you would like to share and discuss? Theories and methodologies that you find useful, relevant, or applicable to these goals? "This Graduate Student Life: Commentary and Community" is a regularly featured column about the experiences and challenges of graduate life. For the current issue, we are particularly interested in the experiences of graduate students who are actively trying to balance academic life while also applying their knowledge outside of the academy in the form of civic engagement, and social justice. All methodologies and theoretical backgrounds will be considered.
To be considered for the Winter 2008 Graduate Student Life forum, completed essays and/or proposals (which should include a 500-700 word synopsis of the planned essay) should be submitted to Autumn Garrison @autumngarrison@gmail.com on or before 12/01/2008. For more information, please contact Autumn.
Additionally, *RMCR* accepts proposals on a rolling basis for future editions of This Graduate Student Life. Please visit our archives (www.rmcr.utah.edu) to read previously published Graduate Life pieces.
*Special Sections and Alternative Scholarship*
*RMCR* is pleased to announce that it seeks nontraditional forms of scholarship to broaden the scope of the journal and to address a growing enthusiasm for technological innovations in the communication discipline.
The electronic format of the journal offers an outlet for a wide range of submissions. Scholars should consider the full spectrum of critically informed creative possibilities that online publishing can offer. Examples
include: films, new media, recorded technologically enhanced performance pieces, linear and interactive documentaries, e-games, interactive websites, visual and digital rhetoric.
Given the innovative nature of such submissions, traditional review processes may not apply. *RMCR* will work with the author/developer to ensure an impartial review of the project. All entries and suggestions should be directed to the special sections editor, Ru Wood @ rulon.wood@utah.edu
*Book Reviews*
We* *currently seek reviewers and suggested books (or other texts) for review in all areas of communication studies. We are interested in forthcoming or recently published books that address significant issues and promise to make important contributions to any of the following areas:
communication theory, cultural studies, rhetorical theory and criticism, qualitative and quantitative research methods, interpersonal, small group, intercultural, nonverbal, organizational, political, environmental, health, and mass communication. Please also see the attached flyer about an an opportunity to review the two volume book *Communication Activism*. We wish to publish this review in the upcoming issue of RMCR
The editorial board encourages authors and publishers to send forthcoming books to our editorial board or to inquire about submitting potential reviews. Submissions should include all relevant bibliographic information, a brief statement that describes the significance of the book related to the study of communication, basic information pertaining to publication, and a critical discussion of the text's central claim(s). Proposals received on or before October 31, 2008 will be considered for publication in our Summer issue. Subsequent proposals will be considered on a rolling basis for future editions of the journal. For more information or to submit proposals please contact Autumn Garrison @gmail.com
*Reviewers*
In addition to quality submissions, *RMCR* also seeks qualified graduate students to review incoming submissions. Applicants should possess a solid command of their communication sub-discipline(s) and methodology(ies) as well as the desire to gain experience in reviewing and editing. *RMCR *will do its best to ensure applicants receive papers relative to their areas of interest. Please complete the Reviewer Contact form found on our website (
www.rmcr.utah.edu) and forward the application along with your Curriculum Vita to the new Editor (autumngarrison@gmail.com).
*This Graduate Student Life*
As a graduate student, do you also try to apply your scholarship in the community or engage in social justice, civic engagement, or try to make social change? Are there particular challenges that you face? Are there projects that you have worked on or efforts that you would like to share and discuss? Theories and methodologies that you find useful, relevant, or applicable to these goals? "This Graduate Student Life: Commentary and Community" is a regularly featured column about the experiences and challenges of graduate life. For the current issue, we are particularly interested in the experiences of graduate students who are actively trying to balance academic life while also applying their knowledge outside of the academy in the form of civic engagement, and social justice. All methodologies and theoretical backgrounds will be considered.
To be considered for the Winter 2008 Graduate Student Life forum, completed essays and/or proposals (which should include a 500-700 word synopsis of the planned essay) should be submitted to Autumn Garrison @autumngarrison@gmail.com on or before 12/01/2008. For more information, please contact Autumn.
Additionally, *RMCR* accepts proposals on a rolling basis for future editions of This Graduate Student Life. Please visit our archives (www.rmcr.utah.edu) to read previously published Graduate Life pieces.
*Special Sections and Alternative Scholarship*
*RMCR* is pleased to announce that it seeks nontraditional forms of scholarship to broaden the scope of the journal and to address a growing enthusiasm for technological innovations in the communication discipline.
The electronic format of the journal offers an outlet for a wide range of submissions. Scholars should consider the full spectrum of critically informed creative possibilities that online publishing can offer. Examples
include: films, new media, recorded technologically enhanced performance pieces, linear and interactive documentaries, e-games, interactive websites, visual and digital rhetoric.
Given the innovative nature of such submissions, traditional review processes may not apply. *RMCR* will work with the author/developer to ensure an impartial review of the project. All entries and suggestions should be directed to the special sections editor, Ru Wood @ rulon.wood@utah.edu
*Book Reviews*
We* *currently seek reviewers and suggested books (or other texts) for review in all areas of communication studies. We are interested in forthcoming or recently published books that address significant issues and promise to make important contributions to any of the following areas:
communication theory, cultural studies, rhetorical theory and criticism, qualitative and quantitative research methods, interpersonal, small group, intercultural, nonverbal, organizational, political, environmental, health, and mass communication. Please also see the attached flyer about an an opportunity to review the two volume book *Communication Activism*. We wish to publish this review in the upcoming issue of RMCR
The editorial board encourages authors and publishers to send forthcoming books to our editorial board or to inquire about submitting potential reviews. Submissions should include all relevant bibliographic information, a brief statement that describes the significance of the book related to the study of communication, basic information pertaining to publication, and a critical discussion of the text's central claim(s). Proposals received on or before October 31, 2008 will be considered for publication in our Summer issue. Subsequent proposals will be considered on a rolling basis for future editions of the journal. For more information or to submit proposals please contact Autumn Garrison @gmail.com
*Reviewers*
In addition to quality submissions, *RMCR* also seeks qualified graduate students to review incoming submissions. Applicants should possess a solid command of their communication sub-discipline(s) and methodology(ies) as well as the desire to gain experience in reviewing and editing. *RMCR *will do its best to ensure applicants receive papers relative to their areas of interest. Please complete the Reviewer Contact form found on our website (
www.rmcr.utah.edu) and forward the application along with your Curriculum Vita to the new Editor (autumngarrison@gmail.com).
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