Hello,
You may be aware that the CMCL faculty voted at the end of the previous academic year (2010-2011) to make several changes to our MA program. Among them was a change to the MA methods requirement. Previously MA students needed to take C505, C506, OR C507 to fulfill their degree requirements; following the change, you needed to take TWO of those classes.
In February 2012 the faculty voted again, at my behest, to repeal the change to the MA methods requirement. It was a close vote, and in the end the faculty decide to overturn its decision from last year. Bottom line, what that means is that you are welcome and encouraged to take additional methods courses as an MA student in Communication and Culture, but you are only required to take one. Please note that this course should "align" with one of the two introductory theory courses you've taken. If, for example, you've taken the intros to RPC (C501) and P&E (C502), then you should take a methods course from either of those two areas (i.e., C505 or C507).
Please do not hesitate to check in with me if you have any questions about this change. I imagine this is welcome news for most of you, but in any case I'm happy to talk through any concerns you may have.
Cordially,
Ted
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
CFP - Critiquing Culture
The Cultural Studies Graduate Conference at George Mason University 2012
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars.
Walter Benjamin
Featuring Doug Henwood as Distinguished Keynote Speaker Henwood is editor and publisher of the Left Business Observer, a contributing editor to The Nation, and host of a weekly radio program on KPFA (Berkeley). He is the author of Wall Street, The State of the USA, and After the New Economy.
The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 6th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at George Mason University (Research 1 Building, Room 163) in Fairfax, Virginia.
CALL FOR PAPERS
At George Mason University, we acknowledge the need to specify Cultural Studies as an academic field with definable features and particular modes of methodological inquiry. In our view, Cultural Studies examines cultural objects as products of the wider social, historical, economic and political conditions that structure their formation, and acknowledges the interrelationship between these factors. In particular, Cultural Studies focuses on power relations and inequalities, which shape the horizon of possibilities for any cultural object at hand, be it a political discourse, an economic model, or a mass cultural product. As a field, Cultural Studies has expanded both geographically and theoretically, building upon its origins in the Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies through the inclusion of a range of critical approaches including Marxist political economy, poststructuralism, feminism, critical theory and post-colonial studies. While the objects of Cultural Studies vary widely, the field aims at political relevance and efficacy.
In an attempt to establish a vibrant community for scholars working in precisely this interdisciplinary vein, the Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee at George Mason University invites graduate students to submit research papers for a conference specifically oriented toward the examination of cultural objects, whether through Marxist, structuralist/poststructuralist, feminist, or other critical lenses. We encourage the submission of papers related, but not limited, to the following broad themes:
• Political Economy
• Mass & Popular Culture
• Gender & Sexuality
• Race & Ethnicity
• Representation & Aesthetics
And, given that 2012 is an election year, the conference strongly encourages papers that address, critique, or otherwise analyze:
• American Electoral Politics
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a current CV should be sent to critiquing DOT culture AT gmail DOT com (critiquing.culture@gmail.com) by 1 June 2012. Please include presentation title, presenter's name, institutional affiliation, contact information, A/V requests, and any special needs required in the email. Abstracts should be sent as .doc or .rtf file attachments.
Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars.
Walter Benjamin
Featuring Doug Henwood as Distinguished Keynote Speaker Henwood is editor and publisher of the Left Business Observer, a contributing editor to The Nation, and host of a weekly radio program on KPFA (Berkeley). He is the author of Wall Street, The State of the USA, and After the New Economy.
The Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee (SOC) at George Mason University invites paper proposals for our 6th annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, September 22, 2012 at George Mason University (Research 1 Building, Room 163) in Fairfax, Virginia.
CALL FOR PAPERS
At George Mason University, we acknowledge the need to specify Cultural Studies as an academic field with definable features and particular modes of methodological inquiry. In our view, Cultural Studies examines cultural objects as products of the wider social, historical, economic and political conditions that structure their formation, and acknowledges the interrelationship between these factors. In particular, Cultural Studies focuses on power relations and inequalities, which shape the horizon of possibilities for any cultural object at hand, be it a political discourse, an economic model, or a mass cultural product. As a field, Cultural Studies has expanded both geographically and theoretically, building upon its origins in the Birmingham Center for Contemporary Cultural Studies through the inclusion of a range of critical approaches including Marxist political economy, poststructuralism, feminism, critical theory and post-colonial studies. While the objects of Cultural Studies vary widely, the field aims at political relevance and efficacy.
In an attempt to establish a vibrant community for scholars working in precisely this interdisciplinary vein, the Cultural Studies Student Organizing Committee at George Mason University invites graduate students to submit research papers for a conference specifically oriented toward the examination of cultural objects, whether through Marxist, structuralist/poststructuralist, feminist, or other critical lenses. We encourage the submission of papers related, but not limited, to the following broad themes:
• Political Economy
• Mass & Popular Culture
• Gender & Sexuality
• Race & Ethnicity
• Representation & Aesthetics
And, given that 2012 is an election year, the conference strongly encourages papers that address, critique, or otherwise analyze:
• American Electoral Politics
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a current CV should be sent to critiquing DOT culture AT gmail DOT com (critiquing.culture@gmail.com) by 1 June 2012. Please include presentation title, presenter's name, institutional affiliation, contact information, A/V requests, and any special needs required in the email. Abstracts should be sent as .doc or .rtf file attachments.
Employment Opportunity: Stanford University
Lecturer and Associate Director
Program in Science, Technology and Society - Stanford University
The Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Stanford University seeks a Lecturer to serve as Associate Director for a three-year, renewable term starting on September 1, 2012 (with an annual appointment of nine months).
The Program serves approximately 170 undergraduate majors. It brings together faculty from across the humanities, the social sciences, engineering and the natural sciences to explore issues emerging at the intersection of their fields. The Associate Director will teach three courses per year, manage our Honors Program (which includes leading monthly research and writing workshops in collaboration with others), and advise students in the STS Program. He or she will also develop a research profile through publications and presentations and will work with the Director and the Program’s Executive Committee to set curricular priorities and policies, facilitate innovative and collaborative teaching, develop research programming (including lecture series and symposia), and help to connects STS majors to research labs and projects on campus.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a cognate discipline at the time of appointment. They should have an excellent record of undergraduate teaching and a forward-looking research agenda related to STS. Fields of special interest include social and cultural approaches to information technology; sociology of innovation; bioethics and biopolitics; science, technology and the environment; and security studies. Applicants should also be able to build bridges across multiple intellectual communities and possess exceptional communication and organizational skills.
To apply send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and a sample of your research-based writing as a single PDF file to Denise Curti, STS Program Manager, at dcurti@stanford.edu. Please also arrange to have three confidential letters of recommendation sent by email to the same address.
The review of files will begin on April 21.
Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and staff. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research and teaching missions
Program in Science, Technology and Society - Stanford University
The Program in Science, Technology and Society (STS) at Stanford University seeks a Lecturer to serve as Associate Director for a three-year, renewable term starting on September 1, 2012 (with an annual appointment of nine months).
The Program serves approximately 170 undergraduate majors. It brings together faculty from across the humanities, the social sciences, engineering and the natural sciences to explore issues emerging at the intersection of their fields. The Associate Director will teach three courses per year, manage our Honors Program (which includes leading monthly research and writing workshops in collaboration with others), and advise students in the STS Program. He or she will also develop a research profile through publications and presentations and will work with the Director and the Program’s Executive Committee to set curricular priorities and policies, facilitate innovative and collaborative teaching, develop research programming (including lecture series and symposia), and help to connects STS majors to research labs and projects on campus.
Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in a cognate discipline at the time of appointment. They should have an excellent record of undergraduate teaching and a forward-looking research agenda related to STS. Fields of special interest include social and cultural approaches to information technology; sociology of innovation; bioethics and biopolitics; science, technology and the environment; and security studies. Applicants should also be able to build bridges across multiple intellectual communities and possess exceptional communication and organizational skills.
To apply send a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, and a sample of your research-based writing as a single PDF file to Denise Curti, STS Program Manager, at dcurti@stanford.edu. Please also arrange to have three confidential letters of recommendation sent by email to the same address.
The review of files will begin on April 21.
Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its faculty and staff. It welcomes nominations of, and applications from, women and members of minority groups, as well as others who would bring additional dimensions to the university's research and teaching missions
The Latino Studies Program
&
Indiana University Cinema
invite you to a
Latino Film Festival & Conference
April 5-7, 2012
IU Cinema, Bloomington
The three-day festival will feature a range of award-winning contemporary films, including:
Sleep Dealer (2008), Blacktino (2011), Gun Hill Road (2011),
Memories of Overdevelopment (2010) & Maria, My Love (2011)
We will also be screening the classics Zoot Suit (1981) and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968),
as well as the powerful documentaries The Sixth Section (2003) and Farmingville (2004)
Author Edmundo Desnoes and filmmakers Alex Rivera, Rashaad Ernesto Green,
& Miguel Coyula will be on-hand for Q & A sessions
Keynote Address will be delivered by Charles Ramirez Berg (UT Austin)
Conference panels will engage leading film scholars, filmmakers, and the public
in discussions of immigration, identity, gender & sexuality
For conference information click HERE.
All events are FREE and open to the public, however screenings are ticketed
For program details and FREE TICKETS visit:
www.cinema.indiana.edu
Sponsored by:
Latino Studies Program, IU Cinema, Chicano-Riqueño Studies Program, Black Film Center/Archive,
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, La Casa Latino Cultural Center, Department of American Studies,
Department of Communication & Culture, Department of English, Department of History,
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, College Arts & Humanities Institute,
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs, The College
Latino Studies Program
Indiana University
814 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3657
www.indiana.edu/~latino
&
Indiana University Cinema
invite you to a
Latino Film Festival & Conference
April 5-7, 2012
IU Cinema, Bloomington
The three-day festival will feature a range of award-winning contemporary films, including:
Sleep Dealer (2008), Blacktino (2011), Gun Hill Road (2011),
Memories of Overdevelopment (2010) & Maria, My Love (2011)
We will also be screening the classics Zoot Suit (1981) and Memories of Underdevelopment (1968),
as well as the powerful documentaries The Sixth Section (2003) and Farmingville (2004)
Author Edmundo Desnoes and filmmakers Alex Rivera, Rashaad Ernesto Green,
& Miguel Coyula will be on-hand for Q & A sessions
Keynote Address will be delivered by Charles Ramirez Berg (UT Austin)
Conference panels will engage leading film scholars, filmmakers, and the public
in discussions of immigration, identity, gender & sexuality
For conference information click HERE.
All events are FREE and open to the public, however screenings are ticketed
For program details and FREE TICKETS visit:
www.cinema.indiana.edu
Sponsored by:
Latino Studies Program, IU Cinema, Chicano-Riqueño Studies Program, Black Film Center/Archive,
Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, La Casa Latino Cultural Center, Department of American Studies,
Department of Communication & Culture, Department of English, Department of History,
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, College Arts & Humanities Institute,
Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs, The College
Latino Studies Program
Indiana University
814 E. Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405-3657
www.indiana.edu/~latino
INFORMATIONAL INTERVIEWS WITH NGO REPRESENTATIVES
Friday, March 30, 9-11:30 a.m.
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
A limited number of individual appointments have been scheduled with the speakers for this Friday’s International Careers event. Students have the opportunity to schedule a 15-minute appointment between 9-11:30 a.m. to conduct an informational interview with a representative from one of the following organizations:
* Jessie Wild, Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Foundation believes that all humans deserve the right to information, and that access to information is imperative to give people educational opportunities so they can experience life to its fullest. We work on how information resources can be used for education sources, particularly focusing on improving knowledge resources and access in developing countries.
* Raechal Carbone, Heartland Alliance: Heartland Alliance believes that all of us deserve the opportunity to improve our lives. Each year, we help ensure this opportunity for more than one million people around the world who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety. Our policy efforts strengthen communities; our comprehensive services empower those we serve to rebuild and transform their lives.
* Kate Hesel, International Rescue Committee: The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
To schedule an appointment, please email jjschepe@indiana.edu to request an appointment time by noon on Thursday, March 29. Include at least 2 possible times you are available.
Once you have received confirmation about an appointment time, you are instructed to:
* Review the organization’s website
* Create a list of questions to ask the organization’s representative
* Bring a resume to your scheduled appointment
* Arrive 5-10 minutes early for your scheduled appointment
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
INTERNATIONAL WORK: CAREERS WITH NGOS
Panel Discussion and Networking
Friday, March 30, 1-3 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
Want to work for an international organization? Interested in human rights, relief, development, and public health? Plan to attend IU Bloomington's 2nd annual career event focused on international non-governmental organizations. This event will include a panel discussion, networking and resource tables for each organization.
Learn about employment opportunities and network with representatives from the following organizations:
* Wikimedia
* Heartland Alliance
* International Rescue Committee
* Save the Children
This event is sponsored by the IU Area Studies and Title VI Centers, International Studies Department and the Indiana University Career Development Center and Arts & Sciences Career Services.
Visit IUCareers.com and register through your myIUcareers account.
Walnut Room, Indiana Memorial Union
A limited number of individual appointments have been scheduled with the speakers for this Friday’s International Careers event. Students have the opportunity to schedule a 15-minute appointment between 9-11:30 a.m. to conduct an informational interview with a representative from one of the following organizations:
* Jessie Wild, Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Foundation believes that all humans deserve the right to information, and that access to information is imperative to give people educational opportunities so they can experience life to its fullest. We work on how information resources can be used for education sources, particularly focusing on improving knowledge resources and access in developing countries.
* Raechal Carbone, Heartland Alliance: Heartland Alliance believes that all of us deserve the opportunity to improve our lives. Each year, we help ensure this opportunity for more than one million people around the world who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety. Our policy efforts strengthen communities; our comprehensive services empower those we serve to rebuild and transform their lives.
* Kate Hesel, International Rescue Committee: The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster. At work today in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
To schedule an appointment, please email jjschepe@indiana.edu to request an appointment time by noon on Thursday, March 29. Include at least 2 possible times you are available.
Once you have received confirmation about an appointment time, you are instructed to:
* Review the organization’s website
* Create a list of questions to ask the organization’s representative
* Bring a resume to your scheduled appointment
* Arrive 5-10 minutes early for your scheduled appointment
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
INTERNATIONAL WORK: CAREERS WITH NGOS
Panel Discussion and Networking
Friday, March 30, 1-3 p.m.
Whittenberger Auditorium, Indiana Memorial Union
Want to work for an international organization? Interested in human rights, relief, development, and public health? Plan to attend IU Bloomington's 2nd annual career event focused on international non-governmental organizations. This event will include a panel discussion, networking and resource tables for each organization.
Learn about employment opportunities and network with representatives from the following organizations:
* Wikimedia
* Heartland Alliance
* International Rescue Committee
* Save the Children
This event is sponsored by the IU Area Studies and Title VI Centers, International Studies Department and the Indiana University Career Development Center and Arts & Sciences Career Services.
Visit IUCareers.com and register through your myIUcareers account.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Gunderson Award Nominations Sought
The CMCL Lecture and Colloquium Committee announces the opening of nominations for the two CMCL Gunderson awards from the last calendar year (Spring 2011-Fall 2011).
The Gunderson Awards are the top CMCL graduate student awards. We strongly encourage faculty to acknowledge your students’ achievements by nominating the best paper written in your graduate seminar(s) in 2011 for the Virginia Gunderson award. We also strongly encourage graduate students to nominate your best seminar paper from 2011 for the Robert Gunderson award if it meets the criteria given below.
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated award for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. Beyond the recognition for the student’s achievement, a $1,000 award is granted. The winner of this award also will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall semester. [Note: AMST also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two different awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.]
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student award for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. Beyond the recognition of outstanding graduate student work, a small honorarium is granted to the winner. The criteria used to judge this award will be: originality of its risky and interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, as well as quality of writing and research overall.
Please, be aware also of the award rules:
* Students can only win one of these two awards per year;
* No student can win the same award two consecutive years (in 2011 Mack Hagood won the Virginia Gunderson award and Chris Gilbert won the Robert Gunderson award).
* one paper cannot be submitted for both awards. On this last point, if a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
For faculty: Please take a moment to think of the best paper written for your graduate seminar(s) in 2011, and if you consider it to be award-winning, advise the student to submit it for the Virginia Gunderson award by April 4th. That’s all you need to do – no letter, no report, only kudos. If your nominee wins you’ll be asked to present the award on April 27th, and to introduce the winner’s presentation to the department colloquium at the start of the fall semester.
For students: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Simons' mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
(1) the name of the desired award on it;
(2) the name of the student; and
(3) the name of the Professor who is nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written.
There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; these awards are judged anonymously. You should submit the paper as it was when you submitted it for your seminar assignment, rather than a version you may have been working on since then.
Deadline: Wednesday, April 4th, 5pm.
This year’s L & C committee faculty members are Karen Bowdre, Phaedra Pezzullo, and Jon Simons.
The Gunderson Awards are the top CMCL graduate student awards. We strongly encourage faculty to acknowledge your students’ achievements by nominating the best paper written in your graduate seminar(s) in 2011 for the Virginia Gunderson award. We also strongly encourage graduate students to nominate your best seminar paper from 2011 for the Robert Gunderson award if it meets the criteria given below.
The Virginia Gunderson Award is a faculty-nominated award for the best paper written in a CMCL graduate seminar in the past year. Beyond the recognition for the student’s achievement, a $1,000 award is granted. The winner of this award also will be expected to present her/his paper at the first CMCL colloquium in the Fall semester. [Note: AMST also has a Virginia Gunderson Award; these are two different awards. This call is only for the CMCL one, which is judged separately.]
The Robert G. Gunderson Award is a self-nominated student award for a paper that was written for a CMCL graduate seminar; the student may or may not be a CMCL major. Beyond the recognition of outstanding graduate student work, a small honorarium is granted to the winner. The criteria used to judge this award will be: originality of its risky and interdisciplinary contribution to the study of public culture, as well as quality of writing and research overall.
Please, be aware also of the award rules:
* Students can only win one of these two awards per year;
* No student can win the same award two consecutive years (in 2011 Mack Hagood won the Virginia Gunderson award and Chris Gilbert won the Robert Gunderson award).
* one paper cannot be submitted for both awards. On this last point, if a faculty member nominates a student for the Virginia Gunderson award, the Lecture & Colloquium Committee will automatically withdraw the paper from the Robert Gunderson Award voting process.
For faculty: Please take a moment to think of the best paper written for your graduate seminar(s) in 2011, and if you consider it to be award-winning, advise the student to submit it for the Virginia Gunderson award by April 4th. That’s all you need to do – no letter, no report, only kudos. If your nominee wins you’ll be asked to present the award on April 27th, and to introduce the winner’s presentation to the department colloquium at the start of the fall semester.
For students: Submit three hard copies of the seminar paper to Prof. Simons' mailbox with a separate title sheet including:
(1) the name of the desired award on it;
(2) the name of the student; and
(3) the name of the Professor who is nominating the paper and/or the Professor who taught the graduate seminar for which it was written.
There should be no identifying markers on the paper itself; these awards are judged anonymously. You should submit the paper as it was when you submitted it for your seminar assignment, rather than a version you may have been working on since then.
Deadline: Wednesday, April 4th, 5pm.
This year’s L & C committee faculty members are Karen Bowdre, Phaedra Pezzullo, and Jon Simons.
From the Chair: Graduate Program Updates
In response to popular demand, I will let you all know what's what in terms of John Lucaites and Mary Gray and what their new professional situations mean to the Graduate Program.
Mary (who will be on leave from IU for a while and working at Microsoft Research in Boston) is still available to be on graduate exam and dissertation committees as a co-chair or a committee member. She will be returning to teach an advanced undergraduate course in fall 2013, and, depending on what can be arranged, she may be able to offer a graduate section of this course, or to arrange to co-teach graduate seminars with other faculty. If students develop projects that intersect with what Mary will be doing at Microsoft Research, she will do what she can to support this work--which could be everything from having them out to Boston/Microsoft for a visit, to meeting with these students when she's in Bloomington, to conducting Skype discussions with these students. The two student committees that she now chairs--and that involve digital media topics--will remain at IU in CMCL. They are not coming to Microsoft Research with Mary. Microsoft Research has agreed to pay for these students' remaining years in the program because they have been working with Mary as the chair of their committees and Microsoft wanted to make certain that they could continue to work with Mary while she was at Microsoft Research. So, all-in-all, Mary will be available as a mentor in many capacities while she is at Microsoft and when she returns periodically to IU to teach courses.
The Dean has agreed that John (who is the new Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities) can teach one course during summer 2013 -- C513: "Rhetoric and Judgment" -- and that, assuming that this works out to everyone's satisfaction, the Dean will let John continue to teach a graduate course each summer. We are all assuming this arrangement will work out very well, and John already has plans to teach "Visual Citizenship" in the summer of 2014. He will also continue to serve as a graduate advisor to his current students as well as to others who would like to work with him--as always, this will be a matter of "fit" with regard to John's agreeing to work with new students as an advisor, on special projects, or as chair or committee member on exams and dissertations. Where appropriate, John will also consider independent studies courses, though this will have to be managed carefully and kept to a minimum. He also plans to hold office hours in CMCL twice each week to meet with students. As with Mary--and all things considered--John will also be available to CMCL graduate students in most of the ways he was before he accepted the position of Associate Dean.
I would like to thank both John and Mary for being so generous in making themselves available to the CMCL Graduate Program even though they have new full-time positions outside of CMCL.
Best, Alex
Mary (who will be on leave from IU for a while and working at Microsoft Research in Boston) is still available to be on graduate exam and dissertation committees as a co-chair or a committee member. She will be returning to teach an advanced undergraduate course in fall 2013, and, depending on what can be arranged, she may be able to offer a graduate section of this course, or to arrange to co-teach graduate seminars with other faculty. If students develop projects that intersect with what Mary will be doing at Microsoft Research, she will do what she can to support this work--which could be everything from having them out to Boston/Microsoft for a visit, to meeting with these students when she's in Bloomington, to conducting Skype discussions with these students. The two student committees that she now chairs--and that involve digital media topics--will remain at IU in CMCL. They are not coming to Microsoft Research with Mary. Microsoft Research has agreed to pay for these students' remaining years in the program because they have been working with Mary as the chair of their committees and Microsoft wanted to make certain that they could continue to work with Mary while she was at Microsoft Research. So, all-in-all, Mary will be available as a mentor in many capacities while she is at Microsoft and when she returns periodically to IU to teach courses.
The Dean has agreed that John (who is the new Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities) can teach one course during summer 2013 -- C513: "Rhetoric and Judgment" -- and that, assuming that this works out to everyone's satisfaction, the Dean will let John continue to teach a graduate course each summer. We are all assuming this arrangement will work out very well, and John already has plans to teach "Visual Citizenship" in the summer of 2014. He will also continue to serve as a graduate advisor to his current students as well as to others who would like to work with him--as always, this will be a matter of "fit" with regard to John's agreeing to work with new students as an advisor, on special projects, or as chair or committee member on exams and dissertations. Where appropriate, John will also consider independent studies courses, though this will have to be managed carefully and kept to a minimum. He also plans to hold office hours in CMCL twice each week to meet with students. As with Mary--and all things considered--John will also be available to CMCL graduate students in most of the ways he was before he accepted the position of Associate Dean.
I would like to thank both John and Mary for being so generous in making themselves available to the CMCL Graduate Program even though they have new full-time positions outside of CMCL.
Best, Alex
CFP - CODE: A Media, Games & Art Conference
Call for Papers and Creative Works
CODE - A Media, Games & Art Conference
21-23 November 2012
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jussi Parikka - Reader, Winchester School of Art
Christian McCrea - Program Director for Games, RMIT University
Anna Munster - Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
DESCRIPTION
Code is the invisible force at the heart of contemporary media and games, routinely obscured by the gadget fetish of breathless tech marketing and scholarly focus on more visible social and technical interfaces. With the recent material turn in media studies and the refinement of new approaches including software studies and platform politics, which emphasise interrogating the formal characteristics and underlying technical architecture of contemporary media, the time has come to bring code out into the open.
Code can be defined in two distinct but related ways: as an underlying technological process, a set of rules and instructions governing, for instance, the permutations of all those 0s and 1s obscured behind user interfaces, but also as a cultural framework navigated and understood socially and performatively, as is the case with legal, social and behavioural codes. As an operative principle, code's significance thus extends far deeper than its current digital manifestation.
For this conference, we invite submissions of papers and creative works that
consider the role of code as a simultaneously material and semiotic force that operates across the wider cultural, social and political field, with particular emphasis on media, games and art.
The conference theme is also an opportunity to reflect on how, as academics and creative practitioners, we often participate in but can also challenge the disciplinary and institutional codes that can arbitrarily separate these domains.
CODE will be a transdisciplinary event that brings media studies, media arts and games studies into dialogue through individual papers, combined panels, master classes and an included exhibition.
THEMES
We welcome submissions related to any aspect of code in all its diversity. Possible considerations might include, but are not limited to:
- Code and the in/visible: what are the technical, ideological and academic aspects that work to obscure codes? And what might be the strategies for making codes visible again? Topics: 'screen essentialism' (Kirschenbaum 2008); race and/as technology (Chun 2009); glitch and error; programming activism; DIY coding; game exploits.
- Code and/as ideology: as something that both carries and obscures meaning, what is code's relationship to ideology? Topics: Black-boxing; the fetish of visualisation (Chun 2011); 'there is no software' (Kittler 2005); code as social frame; encoding/decoding.
- Coding the disciplines: media and games studies. How do these closely related disciplinary formations account for their existence? What epistemological and methodological insights might they share or contribute to one another, perhaps through emergent fields like software studies and platform politics? Or should they remain distinct?
- The deeper history of code: as a principle of information exchange, code's centrality in media and communications technologies goes beyond the digital. What is the role of code in the deeper history of media, and what are the media archaeological resonances or links between 'old' and 'new' forms of code? Can their emergence often be traced back to the military-industrial complex? Topics: Prehistory of code; Morse code and semaphore; encryption and cryptography; cybernetics and early computing; pre- and non-digital games.
- Code and the public/private: What are the historical, legislative, technological and cultural settings for the emergence of 'public privacy', in which public signifying systems are vehicles for highly personal messages? Topics: public, private and intimate spheres; epistolary networks; social media; reality programming; celebrity; geolocating identity, meaning and destination.
- 'Code and other laws of media': the continuities and discontinuities of different codes. Just as legal codes embedded in technical protocols like digital rights management may disastrously overextend copyright protections (Lessig 1999), how else do different codes meet, overlap, extend and come into conflict with one another? Topics: Copyright and intellectual property; distribution; technical, legal, social and behavioural codes.
- Security codes: Though code often serves to secure and obscure authority, it remains vulnerable to hacking, raising the spectre of a whole new form of risk society operating at the level of code and through its breaches and accidents – how does this play out across networked information, communication and entertainment environments? Topics: phone hacking; Wikileaks; Anonymous and software-based protest; gaming hacks and cracks; data theft.
- Code and agency: Interactive media, games, art and cultural practice can all deal with the relationship between the interacting participant and the coded system. What aesthetics and politics are at work when the participant's presumed agency and the coded constraints are in tension? Topics: aesthetics of code-based media; interface; participant experience; emergence/counter-play; proceduralism and performativity.
- Bodies in code: how do information and code, not only interfaces and devices, reconfigure the social, political and corporeal body, and vice versa? How might we conceptualise the materiality and ontology of code in relation to phenomenologies of embodiment and new materialism? Topics: post-humanism (Hayles 1999); new and vital materialism (Bennett 2010); genetics and other codes for the body; disembodiment and immateriality.
- Failures of code: Much of code's power lies in its invisibility, a transparency that allows it to be embedded as the 'common sense' of everyday life, but what happens when code fails, socially culturally, politically or technologically, or is exploited? Topics: rules and disobedience; comedy; subversion; disruption; revolution.
For further discussion, please view the conference website:
http://code2012.wikidot.com
CREATIVE WORKS
Code operates, as if by stealth, beneath the materiality of networked media performances, software art, games, mobile apps, locative and social media. But code also presents artists, performers and creative practitioners with opportunities to construct innovative hybrid media forms that can extend our understanding of contemporary art practice. From video installations in the 1960s, through to sophisticated interactive media and augmented reality applications, artists have arguably been at the forefront of innovation, adopting the language of the computer to forge new creative frontiers.
We invite contributions that examine the creative potential of code, including but not limited to, the implications of code for contemporary art/ists, code as art and/or performance, code as avant-garde, virus and anti-art.
The CODE conference will include a thematic exhibition. We are seeking submissions of screen-based works, pervasive games, and locative media projects that respond to the conference themes. Projected and performance works will also be considered.
SUBMISSIONS
- Individual 20 minute paper presentations: 300 word abstract.
- Panel submissions: panel submission should include three/four individual abstracts of 300 words, a panel title, and a 200 words rationale for the panel as a whole.
- Artists should submit a 250 word outline of the proposed creative work including links to supporting documentation (10 stills or up to 3 minutes of video).
All submissions are due 31 May 2012 and should be emailed to
codeconference@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Please include your name, affiliation, contact details, and a brief bio.
A special journal issue or edited collection on the conference theme is planned.
FURTHER INFORMATION
- Conference website: http://code2012.wikidot.com (includes venue and
registration information, thematic discussion, reading list, etc.)
- Contact: codeconference@groupwise.swin.edu.au
CODE - A Media, Games & Art Conference
21-23 November 2012
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Jussi Parikka - Reader, Winchester School of Art
Christian McCrea - Program Director for Games, RMIT University
Anna Munster - Associate Professor at the College of Fine Arts, UNSW
DESCRIPTION
Code is the invisible force at the heart of contemporary media and games, routinely obscured by the gadget fetish of breathless tech marketing and scholarly focus on more visible social and technical interfaces. With the recent material turn in media studies and the refinement of new approaches including software studies and platform politics, which emphasise interrogating the formal characteristics and underlying technical architecture of contemporary media, the time has come to bring code out into the open.
Code can be defined in two distinct but related ways: as an underlying technological process, a set of rules and instructions governing, for instance, the permutations of all those 0s and 1s obscured behind user interfaces, but also as a cultural framework navigated and understood socially and performatively, as is the case with legal, social and behavioural codes. As an operative principle, code's significance thus extends far deeper than its current digital manifestation.
For this conference, we invite submissions of papers and creative works that
consider the role of code as a simultaneously material and semiotic force that operates across the wider cultural, social and political field, with particular emphasis on media, games and art.
The conference theme is also an opportunity to reflect on how, as academics and creative practitioners, we often participate in but can also challenge the disciplinary and institutional codes that can arbitrarily separate these domains.
CODE will be a transdisciplinary event that brings media studies, media arts and games studies into dialogue through individual papers, combined panels, master classes and an included exhibition.
THEMES
We welcome submissions related to any aspect of code in all its diversity. Possible considerations might include, but are not limited to:
- Code and the in/visible: what are the technical, ideological and academic aspects that work to obscure codes? And what might be the strategies for making codes visible again? Topics: 'screen essentialism' (Kirschenbaum 2008); race and/as technology (Chun 2009); glitch and error; programming activism; DIY coding; game exploits.
- Code and/as ideology: as something that both carries and obscures meaning, what is code's relationship to ideology? Topics: Black-boxing; the fetish of visualisation (Chun 2011); 'there is no software' (Kittler 2005); code as social frame; encoding/decoding.
- Coding the disciplines: media and games studies. How do these closely related disciplinary formations account for their existence? What epistemological and methodological insights might they share or contribute to one another, perhaps through emergent fields like software studies and platform politics? Or should they remain distinct?
- The deeper history of code: as a principle of information exchange, code's centrality in media and communications technologies goes beyond the digital. What is the role of code in the deeper history of media, and what are the media archaeological resonances or links between 'old' and 'new' forms of code? Can their emergence often be traced back to the military-industrial complex? Topics: Prehistory of code; Morse code and semaphore; encryption and cryptography; cybernetics and early computing; pre- and non-digital games.
- Code and the public/private: What are the historical, legislative, technological and cultural settings for the emergence of 'public privacy', in which public signifying systems are vehicles for highly personal messages? Topics: public, private and intimate spheres; epistolary networks; social media; reality programming; celebrity; geolocating identity, meaning and destination.
- 'Code and other laws of media': the continuities and discontinuities of different codes. Just as legal codes embedded in technical protocols like digital rights management may disastrously overextend copyright protections (Lessig 1999), how else do different codes meet, overlap, extend and come into conflict with one another? Topics: Copyright and intellectual property; distribution; technical, legal, social and behavioural codes.
- Security codes: Though code often serves to secure and obscure authority, it remains vulnerable to hacking, raising the spectre of a whole new form of risk society operating at the level of code and through its breaches and accidents – how does this play out across networked information, communication and entertainment environments? Topics: phone hacking; Wikileaks; Anonymous and software-based protest; gaming hacks and cracks; data theft.
- Code and agency: Interactive media, games, art and cultural practice can all deal with the relationship between the interacting participant and the coded system. What aesthetics and politics are at work when the participant's presumed agency and the coded constraints are in tension? Topics: aesthetics of code-based media; interface; participant experience; emergence/counter-play; proceduralism and performativity.
- Bodies in code: how do information and code, not only interfaces and devices, reconfigure the social, political and corporeal body, and vice versa? How might we conceptualise the materiality and ontology of code in relation to phenomenologies of embodiment and new materialism? Topics: post-humanism (Hayles 1999); new and vital materialism (Bennett 2010); genetics and other codes for the body; disembodiment and immateriality.
- Failures of code: Much of code's power lies in its invisibility, a transparency that allows it to be embedded as the 'common sense' of everyday life, but what happens when code fails, socially culturally, politically or technologically, or is exploited? Topics: rules and disobedience; comedy; subversion; disruption; revolution.
For further discussion, please view the conference website:
http://code2012.wikidot.com
CREATIVE WORKS
Code operates, as if by stealth, beneath the materiality of networked media performances, software art, games, mobile apps, locative and social media. But code also presents artists, performers and creative practitioners with opportunities to construct innovative hybrid media forms that can extend our understanding of contemporary art practice. From video installations in the 1960s, through to sophisticated interactive media and augmented reality applications, artists have arguably been at the forefront of innovation, adopting the language of the computer to forge new creative frontiers.
We invite contributions that examine the creative potential of code, including but not limited to, the implications of code for contemporary art/ists, code as art and/or performance, code as avant-garde, virus and anti-art.
The CODE conference will include a thematic exhibition. We are seeking submissions of screen-based works, pervasive games, and locative media projects that respond to the conference themes. Projected and performance works will also be considered.
SUBMISSIONS
- Individual 20 minute paper presentations: 300 word abstract.
- Panel submissions: panel submission should include three/four individual abstracts of 300 words, a panel title, and a 200 words rationale for the panel as a whole.
- Artists should submit a 250 word outline of the proposed creative work including links to supporting documentation (10 stills or up to 3 minutes of video).
All submissions are due 31 May 2012 and should be emailed to
codeconference@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Please include your name, affiliation, contact details, and a brief bio.
A special journal issue or edited collection on the conference theme is planned.
FURTHER INFORMATION
- Conference website: http://code2012.wikidot.com (includes venue and
registration information, thematic discussion, reading list, etc.)
- Contact: codeconference@groupwise.swin.edu.au
Queertopia! CFP deadline extension until April 8
Last call for the extended Queertopia! submission deadline! Abstracts of 250 words are due APRIL 8th to nuqpgsa@gmail.com, along with a 100 word presentation summary & 75 word bio (to go in the conference booklet).
Attached, please find the full call for proposals for this year's Queertopia! 5.0 at Northwestern University. Now in its fifth year, the theme for Queertopia! this May 25-27 is Sexing the Law: Love as/at the Limit.
This year's theme invites scholars, artists, and activists from all disciplines to sex the law; that is, to explore the violent / erotic tension between sexuality and "law" in the broadest sense possible. As always, Queertopia! is an interdisciplinary affair as we invite proposals from all areas of research! Additionally, Queergasm! An Interdisciplinary Performance Event will be part of the academic festival, this year hosted at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, and as always we'll close out the conference with a celebratory party. Queertopia! is sponsored by Northwestern University's Queer Pride Graduate Student Association and The Graduate School.
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Queer Pride Graduate Student Association
Northwestern University
Visit our website:
http://groups.northwestern.edu/queerpride/
"Like" our Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/qpgsa/
Attached, please find the full call for proposals for this year's Queertopia! 5.0 at Northwestern University. Now in its fifth year, the theme for Queertopia! this May 25-27 is Sexing the Law: Love as/at the Limit.
This year's theme invites scholars, artists, and activists from all disciplines to sex the law; that is, to explore the violent / erotic tension between sexuality and "law" in the broadest sense possible. As always, Queertopia! is an interdisciplinary affair as we invite proposals from all areas of research! Additionally, Queergasm! An Interdisciplinary Performance Event will be part of the academic festival, this year hosted at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, and as always we'll close out the conference with a celebratory party. Queertopia! is sponsored by Northwestern University's Queer Pride Graduate Student Association and The Graduate School.
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Queer Pride Graduate Student Association
Northwestern University
Visit our website:
http://groups.northwestern.edu/queerpride/
"Like" our Facebook Page:
http://www.facebook.com/qpgsa/
Monday, March 26, 2012
The 2012 Media@IU Spring Reception
April 4
8PM-10PM
WELLS HOUSE
1321 East 10th Street
Hosted by the Media@IU Initiative, with support from the Office of the Provost.
We invite all faculty, staff, graduate students, and creative media workers/artists to the 2012 Media@IU Spring Open Reception, happening at The Wells House, April 4 (from 8PM-10PM).
The reception offers an opportunity for everyone interested and/or engaged in research and creative production in the fields of media and communication to gather informally, share experiences, and reflect on the future of media at Indiana University.
At the reception we will have an open call-out to any graduate student or faculty member interested in helping to organize and manage the first annual Media@IU conference, planned for Fall 2012. The conference will provide an annual platform for presentation and discussion of scholarly and creative works for graduate students across the entire IU campus.
8PM-10PM
WELLS HOUSE
1321 East 10th Street
Hosted by the Media@IU Initiative, with support from the Office of the Provost.
We invite all faculty, staff, graduate students, and creative media workers/artists to the 2012 Media@IU Spring Open Reception, happening at The Wells House, April 4 (from 8PM-10PM).
The reception offers an opportunity for everyone interested and/or engaged in research and creative production in the fields of media and communication to gather informally, share experiences, and reflect on the future of media at Indiana University.
At the reception we will have an open call-out to any graduate student or faculty member interested in helping to organize and manage the first annual Media@IU conference, planned for Fall 2012. The conference will provide an annual platform for presentation and discussion of scholarly and creative works for graduate students across the entire IU campus.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
AAADS 9th Annual Herman C. Hudson Symposium
The African American and African Diaspora Studies Graduate Society would like to invite you to the 9th Annual Herman C. Hudson Symposium, March 30-31, 2012 at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
This year’s theme is “Black Diasporas: Race, Space and Community”.
This symposium seeks to demonstrate the complex ways in which the concepts of “Black” and “Geography” inform each other and shape the formation of individual and community identities. The keynote speaker is Krista Thompson, an Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Her keynote address, entitled “Performing
Visibility: Street Photography in the African Diaspora,” will take place on March 31, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
For more information on the panels and keynote address for the Herman C. Hudson Symposium, please see the attached flyer or visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~afroamer.
This year’s theme is “Black Diasporas: Race, Space and Community”.
This symposium seeks to demonstrate the complex ways in which the concepts of “Black” and “Geography” inform each other and shape the formation of individual and community identities. The keynote speaker is Krista Thompson, an Associate Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Her keynote address, entitled “Performing
Visibility: Street Photography in the African Diaspora,” will take place on March 31, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 2:15 PM in the Grand Hall of the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center.
For more information on the panels and keynote address for the Herman C. Hudson Symposium, please see the attached flyer or visit our website at http://www.indiana.edu/~afroamer.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Post Doc Positions: Yale Two-Year Post-Doc Fellowships in Performance Studies
Two-Year Post-Doctoral Fellowships, beginning in 2012-2013. Interdisciplinary Performance Studies at Yale (IPSY), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Criteria for selection will include a Ph.D. by the beginning of the fellowship period and a research specialty in some aspect of performance or the literature produced in connection with performance, including but not limited to theater, drama, dance, music, performance art, and social performances as viewed from a humanistic perspective. Successful candidates will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to interdisciplinary teaching, research, and publication in performance studies. Fellows will teach one course per term; attend program seminars and events.
Search will continue until the positions are filled.
Send letter of application, CV, and the names and addresses of three references to:
Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English
c/o May Brantley, Administrator
Department of Theater Studies
220 York Street, P.O. Box 208296
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8296
Search will continue until the positions are filled.
Send letter of application, CV, and the names and addresses of three references to:
Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater and English
c/o May Brantley, Administrator
Department of Theater Studies
220 York Street, P.O. Box 208296
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520-8296
Course Ad: SLIS-S542 International Information Issues (Summer II)
S542: International Information Issues (Summer II)
Class number: 15705
Instructor: Younei Soe (ysoe@indiana.edu)
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:45
Dates: June 18th—August 27th, 2012
Location: SLIS 036
Today, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new media is embedded in the everyday lives of citizens across the globe. These technologies represent the primary tools whereby users seek information on a wide range of subjects. This course will examine certain issues presented by the enmeshment of ICTs and the new media within three different domains. Within everyday civic life, we will explore how ICTs and other new media influence users’ civic learning and engagement (sessions 2-5); under systems of access and use, we will investigate the issues surrounding the digital divide and open access (sessions 6-8); and under culture and institution, we will analyze the culture of Internet communities in terms of the concept of the public sphere while concurrently discussing Internet freedom, regulations, and organizations (sessions 9-11).
No prerequisites. Graduate students of social science, cultural studies, policy studies, or any other field who are interested in global issues under the influence of ICT and the new media are most welcome.
The syllabus is ready. If you are interested in taking this course, please email Younei Soe (ysoe@indiana.edu) and ask for the syllabus (and ask ANY questions)!
Class number: 15705
Instructor: Younei Soe (ysoe@indiana.edu)
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-3:45
Dates: June 18th—August 27th, 2012
Location: SLIS 036
Today, the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and new media is embedded in the everyday lives of citizens across the globe. These technologies represent the primary tools whereby users seek information on a wide range of subjects. This course will examine certain issues presented by the enmeshment of ICTs and the new media within three different domains. Within everyday civic life, we will explore how ICTs and other new media influence users’ civic learning and engagement (sessions 2-5); under systems of access and use, we will investigate the issues surrounding the digital divide and open access (sessions 6-8); and under culture and institution, we will analyze the culture of Internet communities in terms of the concept of the public sphere while concurrently discussing Internet freedom, regulations, and organizations (sessions 9-11).
No prerequisites. Graduate students of social science, cultural studies, policy studies, or any other field who are interested in global issues under the influence of ICT and the new media are most welcome.
The syllabus is ready. If you are interested in taking this course, please email Younei Soe (ysoe@indiana.edu) and ask for the syllabus (and ask ANY questions)!
Monday, March 19, 2012
Course Ad: HPER-V617 Special Topics in Environmental Health Public Health Ethics
Course Content:
New graduate level public health elective will be offered this summer session by the Environmental Health department. Offered as V-617, Special Topics in Environmental Health will explore the field of Public Health Ethics.
Course description:
Public Health Ethics will explore the conflicts that arise when science, politics and ethics meet autonomy, individual rights community, and the common good and multi-cultural values. Using a case-study discussion format this course will focus on what the ethical issues are, what information is available to decision makers, who are the stakeholders, what values are at stake in the decision making process , what options available to decision makers and identify the process used to make the decisions. Cases such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Cuba’s Quarantine of AIDS Victims, Ethics and Infectious Disease, Ethics in Public Health Research will be discussed.
Questions:
Contact Jo Anna Shimek, Clinical Assistannt Professor, jmshimek@indiana.edu.
The course is opened to all graduate level students from any discipline and will be taught during the first six week session.
New graduate level public health elective will be offered this summer session by the Environmental Health department. Offered as V-617, Special Topics in Environmental Health will explore the field of Public Health Ethics.
Course description:
Public Health Ethics will explore the conflicts that arise when science, politics and ethics meet autonomy, individual rights community, and the common good and multi-cultural values. Using a case-study discussion format this course will focus on what the ethical issues are, what information is available to decision makers, who are the stakeholders, what values are at stake in the decision making process , what options available to decision makers and identify the process used to make the decisions. Cases such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Cuba’s Quarantine of AIDS Victims, Ethics and Infectious Disease, Ethics in Public Health Research will be discussed.
Questions:
Contact Jo Anna Shimek, Clinical Assistannt Professor, jmshimek@indiana.edu.
The course is opened to all graduate level students from any discipline and will be taught during the first six week session.
School of Journalism LGBT Media Panel April 10th
The Ernie Pyle School of Journalism is sponsoring a queer media panel discussion Tuesday, April 10
6 pm
School of Journalism auditorium room in Ernie Pyle Hall
Here to speak about media, sex, and LGBT portrayal in the press are:
Diana Cage, author, radio host, former editor of On Our Backs lesbian sex magazine, and editor at Velvetpark;
Amos Mac, founder/publisher of the transgender quarterly magazine Original Plumbing;
and Trevor Hoppe, Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, whose writing on HIV/AIDS has been cited around the country and whose new collection of essays, “Beyond Masculinity: Queer Men on Gender and Politics,” will be out this summer.
Please save the date and inform anyone interested to please attend.
6 pm
School of Journalism auditorium room in Ernie Pyle Hall
Here to speak about media, sex, and LGBT portrayal in the press are:
Diana Cage, author, radio host, former editor of On Our Backs lesbian sex magazine, and editor at Velvetpark;
Amos Mac, founder/publisher of the transgender quarterly magazine Original Plumbing;
and Trevor Hoppe, Ph.D. candidate in the joint program in Sociology and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, whose writing on HIV/AIDS has been cited around the country and whose new collection of essays, “Beyond Masculinity: Queer Men on Gender and Politics,” will be out this summer.
Please save the date and inform anyone interested to please attend.
CFP- TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BOOKS AND PUBLISHING
30 June - 1 July 2012
Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.booksandpublishing.com/conference-2012/
The Books and Publishing Conference serves as an inclusive forum for examining the past, current and future role of the book. It proceeds from recognition that although the book is an old medium of expression, it embodies half a millennium's experience of recording knowledge. Its pervasive influence continues to shape newer forms of information technology, while at the same time providing a reference point for innovation.
This year's Books and Publishing Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain at Universidad Abat Oliba CEU. Barcelona is home to architecturally notable buildings that date back to Roman settlements and is home to the World Heritage Site works of architect Antoni Gaudi, including the famous Sagrada Familia Church. Conference participants will have the opportunity to embark on a guided tour of Barcelona that will highlight world-renowned points of interest. For information on accommodations visit, please click HERE.
The conference will include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call-for-papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Book. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. We also invite you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr at
http://www.BooksandPublishing.com/conference-2012/ .
The next deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 3 April 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website
- http://booksandpublishing.com/conference-2012/ .
Universidad Abat Oliba CEU, Barcelona, Spain
http://www.booksandpublishing.com/conference-2012/
The Books and Publishing Conference serves as an inclusive forum for examining the past, current and future role of the book. It proceeds from recognition that although the book is an old medium of expression, it embodies half a millennium's experience of recording knowledge. Its pervasive influence continues to shape newer forms of information technology, while at the same time providing a reference point for innovation.
This year's Books and Publishing Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain at Universidad Abat Oliba CEU. Barcelona is home to architecturally notable buildings that date back to Roman settlements and is home to the World Heritage Site works of architect Antoni Gaudi, including the famous Sagrada Familia Church. Conference participants will have the opportunity to embark on a guided tour of Barcelona that will highlight world-renowned points of interest. For information on accommodations visit, please click HERE.
The conference will include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call-for-papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of the Book. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal.
Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details. We also invite you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr at
http://www.BooksandPublishing.com/conference-2012/ .
The next deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 3 April 2012. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website
- http://booksandpublishing.com/conference-2012/ .
Employment Opportunity: Bilkent University
Bilkent University, American Culture and Literature
position in American Culture and Literature
Institution Type: College / University
Location: Turkey
Position: Assistant Professor
The Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University invites applications for one faculty position beginning Fall semester 2012. Applications are invited from candidates with primary fields in American Studies, American literature, American history, film studies, art history, theatre and drama, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical theory.
Applicants should be able to teach one or more of our first and second year courses--Introduction to American Studies, Methods and Texts, American Texts and Contexts, and the Survey of U.S. History--as well as courses pertinent to the applicants specialty within the range of third and fourth year courses that we offer. We would prefer applicants who can work within interdisciplinary contexts; we are open to considering candidates with various fields and periods of specialization. Experience in teaching content-based English writing skills would be highly desirable.
For information about how to apply, please contact Chris Rivera at crivera@bilkent.edu.tr
position in American Culture and Literature
Institution Type: College / University
Location: Turkey
Position: Assistant Professor
The Department of American Culture and Literature at Bilkent University invites applications for one faculty position beginning Fall semester 2012. Applications are invited from candidates with primary fields in American Studies, American literature, American history, film studies, art history, theatre and drama, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical theory.
Applicants should be able to teach one or more of our first and second year courses--Introduction to American Studies, Methods and Texts, American Texts and Contexts, and the Survey of U.S. History--as well as courses pertinent to the applicants specialty within the range of third and fourth year courses that we offer. We would prefer applicants who can work within interdisciplinary contexts; we are open to considering candidates with various fields and periods of specialization. Experience in teaching content-based English writing skills would be highly desirable.
For information about how to apply, please contact Chris Rivera at crivera@bilkent.edu.tr
CFP - Association for Jewish Studies 44th Annual Conference
The Association for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 44th Annual Conference, December 16-18, 2012 at the Sheraton Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
The proposal submission deadline is May 9, 2012.
The Association for Jewish Studies Conference is the largest annual gathering of Jewish Studies scholars worldwide, featuring more than 160 sessions on the latest research in Jewish Studies, an exhibit of major publishers, professional development and digital media workshops, cultural events, receptions, and more.
The full Call for Papers is now available on the AJS website (www.ajsnet.org) along with sample abstracts; general information about hotel, meals, and registration; suggestions for organizing sessions; and information on travel grant opportunities. You will also find a Sessions Seeking Participants web page to facilitate the organization of conference session proposals.
For more information, go to www.ajsnet.org/session.htm.
Please do not hesitate to contact the AJS office (ajs@ajs.cjh.org or 917.606.8249) if you have any questions regarding the submission process.
The proposal submission deadline is May 9, 2012.
The Association for Jewish Studies Conference is the largest annual gathering of Jewish Studies scholars worldwide, featuring more than 160 sessions on the latest research in Jewish Studies, an exhibit of major publishers, professional development and digital media workshops, cultural events, receptions, and more.
The full Call for Papers is now available on the AJS website (www.ajsnet.org) along with sample abstracts; general information about hotel, meals, and registration; suggestions for organizing sessions; and information on travel grant opportunities. You will also find a Sessions Seeking Participants web page to facilitate the organization of conference session proposals.
For more information, go to www.ajsnet.org/session.htm.
Please do not hesitate to contact the AJS office (ajs@ajs.cjh.org or 917.606.8249) if you have any questions regarding the submission process.
Dhar India Studies Program Presents Diasporic Desires: Making Hindus and the Cultivation of Longing
Shana Sippy, Carleton College
Thursday, March 22nd
5:30 pm
Dhar India House (825 E. 8th St.
This lecture explores the discourse of desire among Hindus living in the United States. Based on over 9 years of fieldwork conducted in the U.S. and the U.K., Sippy examines contexts and strategies of desire and argues that the cultivation of desire is a centerpiece of making Hindu identity in the diaspora.
Thursday, March 22nd
5:30 pm
Dhar India House (825 E. 8th St.
This lecture explores the discourse of desire among Hindus living in the United States. Based on over 9 years of fieldwork conducted in the U.S. and the U.K., Sippy examines contexts and strategies of desire and argues that the cultivation of desire is a centerpiece of making Hindu identity in the diaspora.
First Talk of the Spring Semester Series Sponsored by the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
THE POLITICS OF FILE SHARING IN THE UNITED STATES: THE RISE AND FALL OF SOPA AND PIPA
Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana University
Friday, March 23, 2012
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LI001 Wells Library (SLIS in Wells Library; East 10th St. entrance)
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee, available at 1:45pm.
ABSTRACT:
The recent withdrawal of two bills before Congress designed to prevent the illegal hosting of copyrighted content by companies operating outside the United States provides an important example of the power of Internet-based political campaigns that are backed by large numbers of Internet users. The bills were backed primarily by content-owning firms in the film and recording industries who were looking for new ways to prevent the illegal use (which they call piracy) of their intellectual property via digital file sharing. It looked at first that the bills would sail through Congress with little opposition. But it turned out that a well-organized campaign by a wide variety of interests opposed to the legislation was successful to the surprise of many observers. This talk explores the origins of the controversy and attempts to explain the outcome.
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Hart is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught international politics and international political economy since 1981. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973 to 1980. He was a professional staff member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980 to 1981. Hart worked as an internal contractor at the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress 1985-86 and helped to write their report, International Competition in Services (1987). His books include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), Globalization and Governance (1999), Managing New Industry Creation (2001), Technology, Television, and Competition (2004), and The Politics of International Economic Relations 7th edition (2010). He has published scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. For more information, see: http://mypage.iu.edu/~hartj
This 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 Center is jointly sponsored by the IU Schools of Informatics and Library & Information Science, and the Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
Jeffrey Hart, Department of Political Science, Indiana University
Friday, March 23, 2012
2:00pm - 3:30pm
LI001 Wells Library (SLIS in Wells Library; East 10th St. entrance)
Talk preceded by an informal gathering with cookies, tea, and coffee, available at 1:45pm.
ABSTRACT:
The recent withdrawal of two bills before Congress designed to prevent the illegal hosting of copyrighted content by companies operating outside the United States provides an important example of the power of Internet-based political campaigns that are backed by large numbers of Internet users. The bills were backed primarily by content-owning firms in the film and recording industries who were looking for new ways to prevent the illegal use (which they call piracy) of their intellectual property via digital file sharing. It looked at first that the bills would sail through Congress with little opposition. But it turned out that a well-organized campaign by a wide variety of interests opposed to the legislation was successful to the surprise of many observers. This talk explores the origins of the controversy and attempts to explain the outcome.
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Hart is Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has taught international politics and international political economy since 1981. His first teaching position was at Princeton University from 1973 to 1980. He was a professional staff member of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties from 1980 to 1981. Hart worked as an internal contractor at the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress 1985-86 and helped to write their report, International Competition in Services (1987). His books include The New International Economic Order (1983), Interdependence in the Post Multilateral Era (1985), Rival Capitalists (1992), Globalization and Governance (1999), Managing New Industry Creation (2001), Technology, Television, and Competition (2004), and The Politics of International Economic Relations 7th edition (2010). He has published scholarly articles in World Politics, International Organization, the British Journal of Political Science, New Political Economy, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. For more information, see: http://mypage.iu.edu/~hartj
This 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 Center is jointly sponsored by the IU Schools of Informatics and Library & Information Science, and the Kelley School of Business. For more information about the Center, please visit http://rkcsi.indiana.edu
School of Journalism Research Colloquium: 'The Humanist Tradition in French Magazine Photojournalism'
Claude Cookman, Professor of Journalism
Monday, March 19, 4:00 pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Cookman will speak on his research in progress, a book on the tradition of humanism practiced by French magazine photojournalists from the 1930s through the 1970s. He will also discuss this tradition’s influence on American photojournalism. This project grows out of his 2010-11 sabbatical.
Bio
Claude Cookman is a Hoosier, a native of Anderson. For more than 18 years he enjoyed a professional career in daily journalism, primarily as a photography editor at the Associated Press in New York, The Louisville Times, where he shared in the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, and The Miami Herald. He earned a doctorate in the history of photography from Princeton University. Cookman’s second book, entitled American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings, was published in 2009 by Northwestern University Press. He has taught visual communication, including the history of photography, at Indiana University’s School of Journalism since 1990. His research specialization is French magazine photojournalism.
Monday, March 19, 4:00 pm
Ernie Pyle Lounge (2nd Floor)
Ernie Pyle Hall
Cookman will speak on his research in progress, a book on the tradition of humanism practiced by French magazine photojournalists from the 1930s through the 1970s. He will also discuss this tradition’s influence on American photojournalism. This project grows out of his 2010-11 sabbatical.
Bio
Claude Cookman is a Hoosier, a native of Anderson. For more than 18 years he enjoyed a professional career in daily journalism, primarily as a photography editor at the Associated Press in New York, The Louisville Times, where he shared in the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, and The Miami Herald. He earned a doctorate in the history of photography from Princeton University. Cookman’s second book, entitled American Photojournalism: Motivations and Meanings, was published in 2009 by Northwestern University Press. He has taught visual communication, including the history of photography, at Indiana University’s School of Journalism since 1990. His research specialization is French magazine photojournalism.
Katherine Hayles will be visiting campus on March 22-23rd
Thursday, March 22nd
3:30 pm
IMU Dogwood Room
Sponsored by the Center for Theory in the Humanities, media@iu, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies.
"The Technogenetic Spiral: Implications and Interventions."
Abstract:
Technogenesis is the idea that humans and technics are co-evolving together, both historically and in the contemporary period. While genetic adaptation was involved in previous eras, in the contemporary period the primary mechanisms of adaptation run between technologically engineered environments and human cognitive systems, including consciousness, subconsciousness, and the (adaptive or cognitive) unconscious. The adaptive presssures toward increased information density and more (and more flexible) information streams (among other factors) are re-configuring human cognition on multiple levels, including neurophysiological. This talk will explore the implications of these adaptations and discuss works of digital literature that attempt to intervene constructively in the present situation.
Bio:
Hayles is professor of English at Duke University and is the author of numerous books, including How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999), for which she won the Rene Wellek Prize. Her most recent publications are: Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008), a primer of electronic literature; My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005); Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.) (2004). Hayles has won numerous prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship, and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the University of California.
3:30 pm
IMU Dogwood Room
Sponsored by the Center for Theory in the Humanities, media@iu, and the Sawyer Seminar on Science Studies.
"The Technogenetic Spiral: Implications and Interventions."
Abstract:
Technogenesis is the idea that humans and technics are co-evolving together, both historically and in the contemporary period. While genetic adaptation was involved in previous eras, in the contemporary period the primary mechanisms of adaptation run between technologically engineered environments and human cognitive systems, including consciousness, subconsciousness, and the (adaptive or cognitive) unconscious. The adaptive presssures toward increased information density and more (and more flexible) information streams (among other factors) are re-configuring human cognition on multiple levels, including neurophysiological. This talk will explore the implications of these adaptations and discuss works of digital literature that attempt to intervene constructively in the present situation.
Bio:
Hayles is professor of English at Duke University and is the author of numerous books, including How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics (1999), for which she won the Rene Wellek Prize. Her most recent publications are: Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (2008), a primer of electronic literature; My Mother Was a Computer: Digital Subjects and Literary Texts (2005); Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience (ed.) (2004). Hayles has won numerous prestigious awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Residential Fellowship, and two Presidential Research Fellowships from the University of California.
Podcast: John Lucaites and Robert Hariman from University of Nebraska
This podcast is of an interview John Lucaites and his research partner, Robert Hariman, had on a public affairs radio program while participating in a discussion at the University of Nebraska Visual Literacy Program. The podcast will be live until Tuesday, March 27, 2012.
Professors Lucaites and Hariman, authors of No Caption Needed, also blog about the impact of iconic photographs on public opinion and political culture.
Professors Lucaites and Hariman, authors of No Caption Needed, also blog about the impact of iconic photographs on public opinion and political culture.
Friday, March 9, 2012
IU GROUPS Summer Teaching Application Information
The IU GROUPS summer teaching application may be found on the GROUPS website under Employment/Graduate Employment(http://sac.indiana.edu/gradEmploy .
Once on ths page, scroll down to "Associate Instructor 2nd Summer Session Assistantships." This is the section that describes teaching for Groups. The application can be downloaded there.
Applications are due on March 19.
Once on ths page, scroll down to "Associate Instructor 2nd Summer Session Assistantships." This is the section that describes teaching for Groups. The application can be downloaded there.
Applications are due on March 19.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
The Mexico Solidarity Network Presents Luz Rivera Martinez
Friday March 9
6-8 pm
Rachaelʼs Café (300 East 3rd St.)
Luz will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. She established CNUC (the National Urban and Peasant Council) in the late 1980s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade Agreement, and today the organization includes thousands of peasant families across the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. As CNUC's lead organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, defend family farms, and build inspiring, community-based health, education, and infrastructure projects. Luz is an amazingly inspiring speaker with a wealth of experience and her talk will have important lessons for anyone interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements.
Here's a video of a talk by Luz given this past November.
The presentation will be in Spanish and English, with introductory remarks and translation provided by my co-organizer Tony Nelson. More information on the talk is included below.
The Mexico-US Solidarity Network presents
"Sowing Struggle: Urban and rural social movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico"
featuring Luz Rivera Martinez of the Consejo National Urbano Campesino (CNUC)
Download sample flier
http://mexicosolidarity.org/sites/default/files/sample.pdf
Luz Rivera Martinez will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. Luz is an inspiring speaker and her talk will have important lessons for anyone interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements.
During the Mexican Revolution support for Emiliano Zapata was strong in Tlaxcala, and under the slogan of "the land belongs to those who work it" many peasants occupied the plantations their families had labored on as serfs for generations.
Today, the Revolution lives on through the work of the Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino (CNUC). Luz established CNUC in the 1980s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade Agreement, especially regarding its dismemberment of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, which enshrined peasants' right to communally own the ejido lands redistributed during the Revolution.
As CNUC's lead organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, defend family farms, and build inspiring, community-based autonomous projects. CNUC has a long history of disposing of corrupt leaders, democratizing the budget, coordinating community-driven infrastructure projects, including peoples' history in education, and expanding access to healthcare.
Luz and CNUC also work closely with the Apizaco merchants union, a bus-drivers' cooperative, and the National Assembly of Braceros. CNUC is also a member of the Zapatistas' Other Campaign, an international network of organizations struggling against neoliberalism and for autonomy from the grassroots.
*The Mexico Solidarity Network is an organization located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood dedicated to popular education and autonomous community organizing. In addition to our community work and speaking tours bringing Mexican social movement actors to the US, MSN also administers a unique, social justice-oriented study abroad program that allows students to learn about grassroots movements in Mexico by living with the families that comprise them. This 13-week, 16-credit program is accredited by the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and our school of record in the US is Hampshire College. For more information, visit www.mexicosolidarity.org/studyabroad
6-8 pm
Rachaelʼs Café (300 East 3rd St.)
Luz will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. She established CNUC (the National Urban and Peasant Council) in the late 1980s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade Agreement, and today the organization includes thousands of peasant families across the Mexican state of Tlaxcala. As CNUC's lead organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, defend family farms, and build inspiring, community-based health, education, and infrastructure projects. Luz is an amazingly inspiring speaker with a wealth of experience and her talk will have important lessons for anyone interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements.
Here's a video of a talk by Luz given this past November.
The presentation will be in Spanish and English, with introductory remarks and translation provided by my co-organizer Tony Nelson. More information on the talk is included below.
The Mexico-US Solidarity Network presents
"Sowing Struggle: Urban and rural social movements in Tlaxcala, Mexico"
featuring Luz Rivera Martinez of the Consejo National Urbano Campesino (CNUC)
Download sample flier
http://mexicosolidarity.org/sites/default/files/sample.pdf
Luz Rivera Martinez will speak about her 20 years of experience constructing autonomy, organizing outside the electoral system, and resisting free trade. Luz is an inspiring speaker and her talk will have important lessons for anyone interested in women's, peasant, and labor movements.
During the Mexican Revolution support for Emiliano Zapata was strong in Tlaxcala, and under the slogan of "the land belongs to those who work it" many peasants occupied the plantations their families had labored on as serfs for generations.
Today, the Revolution lives on through the work of the Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino (CNUC). Luz established CNUC in the 1980s to coordinate resistance to the impending North American Free Trade Agreement, especially regarding its dismemberment of Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution, which enshrined peasants' right to communally own the ejido lands redistributed during the Revolution.
As CNUC's lead organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, defend family farms, and build inspiring, community-based autonomous projects. CNUC has a long history of disposing of corrupt leaders, democratizing the budget, coordinating community-driven infrastructure projects, including peoples' history in education, and expanding access to healthcare.
Luz and CNUC also work closely with the Apizaco merchants union, a bus-drivers' cooperative, and the National Assembly of Braceros. CNUC is also a member of the Zapatistas' Other Campaign, an international network of organizations struggling against neoliberalism and for autonomy from the grassroots.
*The Mexico Solidarity Network is an organization located in Chicago's Albany Park neighborhood dedicated to popular education and autonomous community organizing. In addition to our community work and speaking tours bringing Mexican social movement actors to the US, MSN also administers a unique, social justice-oriented study abroad program that allows students to learn about grassroots movements in Mexico by living with the families that comprise them. This 13-week, 16-credit program is accredited by the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana and our school of record in the US is Hampshire College. For more information, visit www.mexicosolidarity.org/studyabroad
Spring Break Hours at CMCL
Staff hours during Spring Break will be 8 am-4pm daily. The building should be unlocked all week, and mail delivery will continue.
At least one staff member will be here everyday, but call or email ahead if you need to see a specific staff member. Sabrina will be out the beginning of the week; Kathy, the end.
Have a relaxing break!
At least one staff member will be here everyday, but call or email ahead if you need to see a specific staff member. Sabrina will be out the beginning of the week; Kathy, the end.
Have a relaxing break!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Exploring Graduate School
Wednesday, March 7
7:15-8:30pm
Classroom Office Building, room 203
What the heck is graduate school anyway? What is it like? How is it different from being an undergraduate? How do I even start researching schools?
All of these questions, and many more, will be discussed at this week's Lambda Pi Eta meeting-- all students are welcome!
CMCL graduate student panelists include: Jeremy Gordon, Antonio Golan, Valerie Wieskamp, Sarah Florini, and Javier Ramirez.
(For questions about Lambda Pi Eta, please contact Professor Cindy Smith cds@indiana.edu, or co-presidents Bre Caldwell "Brecaldw@umail.iu.edu" and Morgan Riley "rileymo@umail.iu.edu")
7:15-8:30pm
Classroom Office Building, room 203
What the heck is graduate school anyway? What is it like? How is it different from being an undergraduate? How do I even start researching schools?
All of these questions, and many more, will be discussed at this week's Lambda Pi Eta meeting-- all students are welcome!
CMCL graduate student panelists include: Jeremy Gordon, Antonio Golan, Valerie Wieskamp, Sarah Florini, and Javier Ramirez.
(For questions about Lambda Pi Eta, please contact Professor Cindy Smith cds@indiana.edu, or co-presidents Bre Caldwell "Brecaldw@umail.iu.edu" and Morgan Riley "rileymo@umail.iu.edu")
Brian Larkin Guest Lecture - "Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria"
Program in African Studies
WEDNESDAY EVENING SEMINAR GUEST LECTURE
Brian Larkin - Barnard College
"Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria"
7 March 2012
5:30 - 7:30 pm (refreshments at 4:45 pm)
Center for the Study of Global Change/201 N. Indiana
Biography
Brian Larkin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. He sits on the board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
Brian Larkin's research focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. Larkin examines the introduction of media technologies into Nigeria - cinema, radio, digital media - and the religious, social and cultural changes they bring about. He is interested in how media technologies comprise broader networked infrastructures that can shape a whole range of actions from forms of political rule, to new urban spaces, to cultural life. A central question in Larkin's work has been what would media theory look like if we approached it from the realities of media history in Nigeria? To this end, Larkin emphasizes both the powerful influence of communication media but also their failures and the breakdown endemic to technologies.
Representative Publications:
2002. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2004. 'Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy'. Public Culture 16(4):289-314.
2008. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press.
2008. 'Introduction to Media and the Political Forms of Religion'. Special Edition of Social Text. 26(3): 1-9. Co-written with Charles Hirschkind.
2008. 'Ahmed Deedat and the Form of Islamic Evangelism'. Social Text (26(3): 101-121.
2010. 'Imperial Circulation: Cinema and the making of anxious colonialists'. In, Globalizing American Studies. Brian Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar eds. Chicago University Press.
WEDNESDAY EVENING SEMINAR GUEST LECTURE
Brian Larkin - Barnard College
"Techniques of Inattention: The Mediality of Loudspeakers in Nigeria"
7 March 2012
5:30 - 7:30 pm (refreshments at 4:45 pm)
Center for the Study of Global Change/201 N. Indiana
Biography
Brian Larkin is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College. He sits on the board of the Society for Cultural Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association.
Brian Larkin's research focuses on the ethnography and history of media in Nigeria. Larkin examines the introduction of media technologies into Nigeria - cinema, radio, digital media - and the religious, social and cultural changes they bring about. He is interested in how media technologies comprise broader networked infrastructures that can shape a whole range of actions from forms of political rule, to new urban spaces, to cultural life. A central question in Larkin's work has been what would media theory look like if we approached it from the realities of media history in Nigeria? To this end, Larkin emphasizes both the powerful influence of communication media but also their failures and the breakdown endemic to technologies.
Representative Publications:
2002. Media Worlds: Anthropology on New Terrain. Faye Ginsburg, Lila Abu-Lughod, Brian Larkin eds. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2004. 'Degraded Images, Distorted Sounds. Nigerian Video and the Infrastructure of Piracy'. Public Culture 16(4):289-314.
2008. Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria. Duke University Press.
2008. 'Introduction to Media and the Political Forms of Religion'. Special Edition of Social Text. 26(3): 1-9. Co-written with Charles Hirschkind.
2008. 'Ahmed Deedat and the Form of Islamic Evangelism'. Social Text (26(3): 101-121.
2010. 'Imperial Circulation: Cinema and the making of anxious colonialists'. In, Globalizing American Studies. Brian Edwards, Dilip Gaonkar eds. Chicago University Press.
Friday, March 2, 2012
Summer Course Announcement for Those Hoping to Teach Production Courses
TEL-T 540 (15601): Special Projects in Telecommunications (3.0)
(This summer, this replaces T583. Susanne Schwibs has approved it as a prereq for teaching C360.)
TOPIC: Instructional Methods for Digital Media Production
Designed for those interested in teaching video, broadcast and new media, this course introduces techniques and practices for digital production. Course content enables graduate students to review and refine basic digital production skills in preparation for teaching responsibility. While exploring pedagogy and lesson planning, students shoot single camera field production and multi-camera broadcast studio production.
Instructor: John Walsh
Summer 2012 / First Four-Week Session 5/8 -- 6/1
Tues. 9-11a / Wed. 8:30a-12:30a / Thurs. 8:30a-12:30a
(This summer, this replaces T583. Susanne Schwibs has approved it as a prereq for teaching C360.)
TOPIC: Instructional Methods for Digital Media Production
Designed for those interested in teaching video, broadcast and new media, this course introduces techniques and practices for digital production. Course content enables graduate students to review and refine basic digital production skills in preparation for teaching responsibility. While exploring pedagogy and lesson planning, students shoot single camera field production and multi-camera broadcast studio production.
Instructor: John Walsh
Summer 2012 / First Four-Week Session 5/8 -- 6/1
Tues. 9-11a / Wed. 8:30a-12:30a / Thurs. 8:30a-12:30a
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A Special Guest and Presentation, Monday, March 5
The Dhar India Studies Program, working with the Center for the Study of the Middle East, and Ambassador Faisal Istrabadi, is pleased to bring Saeed Shafqat, a noted Pakistani political and policy analyst, to IUB for a special talk
End Game in Afghanistan: What are the implications for Pakistan?
Monday, March 5
5:30 pm
India House - 825 E. 8th St.
Dr. Shafqat (http://www.saeedshafqat.com/profile.html) has kindly provided this abstract of his presentation:
As American and NATO forces make a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan starting summer of 2011 leading to a declared total disengagement by 2014; radicalism and governance are likely to gain new regional salience-- improving regional governance and security will increasingly fall upon Afghanistan’s neighbors and near neighbors (Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Russia and Central Asian States). These regional actors had been engaged in the Afghan war (and its spillover effects--civil war, cross border terrorism and civil strife) since the late 1970s. Pakistan has been and for the foreseeable future is likely to be a key player in the region. Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan has led to transformative political, economic and social consequences at home. Breeding religious militancy, escalation in suicide attacks disrupting societal peace and harmony and deepening the crisis of governance. Over three million Afghan refugees moved into Pakistan and changed the demographic composition and culture of many parts of Pakistan: heroine trade, drug addiction, proliferation of portable arms and cross border terrorism emerged as serious new governance challenges. Consequently, over these decades a complex web of jihad, sectarianism and extremist groups became a potent force, changing the complexion of Pakistani State and society. The analysts and policy makers are trying to figure out how will US decision impact Pakistan’s fledgling democracy? Second what kind of strategies India and Pakistan are likely to follow to fill in the anticipated ‘power vacuum’ that this withdrawal offers? Providing a critical appraisal of Pakistan’s Afghan policy, will draw attention to possible future scenarios.
This talk is free, open, and welcoming to the campus and community.
End Game in Afghanistan: What are the implications for Pakistan?
Monday, March 5
5:30 pm
India House - 825 E. 8th St.
Dr. Shafqat (http://www.saeedshafqat.com/profile.html) has kindly provided this abstract of his presentation:
As American and NATO forces make a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan starting summer of 2011 leading to a declared total disengagement by 2014; radicalism and governance are likely to gain new regional salience-- improving regional governance and security will increasingly fall upon Afghanistan’s neighbors and near neighbors (Iran, Pakistan, India, China, Russia and Central Asian States). These regional actors had been engaged in the Afghan war (and its spillover effects--civil war, cross border terrorism and civil strife) since the late 1970s. Pakistan has been and for the foreseeable future is likely to be a key player in the region. Pakistan’s involvement in Afghanistan has led to transformative political, economic and social consequences at home. Breeding religious militancy, escalation in suicide attacks disrupting societal peace and harmony and deepening the crisis of governance. Over three million Afghan refugees moved into Pakistan and changed the demographic composition and culture of many parts of Pakistan: heroine trade, drug addiction, proliferation of portable arms and cross border terrorism emerged as serious new governance challenges. Consequently, over these decades a complex web of jihad, sectarianism and extremist groups became a potent force, changing the complexion of Pakistani State and society. The analysts and policy makers are trying to figure out how will US decision impact Pakistan’s fledgling democracy? Second what kind of strategies India and Pakistan are likely to follow to fill in the anticipated ‘power vacuum’ that this withdrawal offers? Providing a critical appraisal of Pakistan’s Afghan policy, will draw attention to possible future scenarios.
This talk is free, open, and welcoming to the campus and community.
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