If you are planning to take the PhD Qualifying Exam in August, 2012, please bring me your application by next Friday, July 6th. I've emailed the app to the grad student distribution list, but if you need another copy, let me know and I'll send you one.
Please don't worry too much about the physical signatures of your committee members. They may email me their willingness to write questions.
If you have further questions, you have only to ask them.
Friday, June 29, 2012
Friday, June 22, 2012
CFP-Cinephilia/Cinephobia: New Mediations of Desire and Disgust
University of Pittsburgh, November 9-11, 2012
Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
Keynote by Christian Keathley, Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College. Keathley is author ofCinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (Indiana University Press, 2006), and currently at work on a book titled The Mystery of Otto Preminger, under contract with IU Press.
Over the last decade, academic and popular film institutions have reignited debates surrounding cinephilia and its discontents. Recent pieces in Cinema Journal, Film Comment, as well as essay collections (2005'sCinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory) and monographs (Jonathan Rosenbaum's 2010 Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition), in modes both nostalgic and speculative, are (re)considering cinephilia not simply as love of the moving image, but as heterogeneous desires for cinema’s fragments, peculiarities, materialities, and affects. In other words, we can be certain that cinephilic (and cinephobic) attitudes and practices are quite alive today – but for whom, in what forms, and to what ends?
Attending these critical conversations are ever-encroaching “aversions” toward cinema, including institutional prohibitions, censorship against filming and exhibition, modes of media refusal, and institutional objections to the moving image’s dissemination and preservation. If cinephilia has long raised tensions between academic and popular critical voices, between preservation and fetishism, and between film appreciation and critique, how are these tensions recovered or recast in contemporary film and media studies – particularly in light of digital media, new categories and avenues of “criticism,” and media studies’ present investment in affective response? Susan Sontag famously expressed the joy of cinematic immersion as a “kidnapping” that requires the physical experience of a darkened theater; how, then, does cinephobia stand to transform a desire for cinematic experience into a revolt against the powers of the cinematic apparatus and its affective control?
Following Marijke de Valck’s assertion that cinephilia endures “precisely because it forms a bridge between the biographical and the theoretical, the singular and the general, the fragment and the whole, the incomplete and the complete, and the individual and the collective,” our conference invites presentations that consider the enduring importance of cinephilia and cinephobia to film and media studies: both how these ideas have shaped and articulated our complex relations to moving images, and how they continue to raise new questions for our field.
Possible topics may include:
* Cinephilia/phobia through digital media (mash-ups and remixes; GIFs; Twitter, Tumblr, and online community)
* Cinephilic/phobic expressions in TV and other visual media (art, installation, fashion)
* Cinephilia/phobia and video games
* Desire, disgust, and pornography
* Cinephilic/phobic expressions in “non-visual” fields (literature, music, philosophy)
* Queer spectatorship, historiography, and affect
* Transnational and subcultural cinephilias/phobias
* Affective modes of spectatorship, “fan” practices and fictions
* Obsession with and/or distrust of medium and site specificity (VHS, Super 16mm, theaters and exhibition practices, protest and destruction)
* Endangered and extinct media technology and practices
* Desire, disgust, and archival work
* Historical and contemporary forms of film criticism (from Cahiers to the video essay)
* Institutional and “underground” modes of exhibition (film festivals, award systems, art house, 3D)
* Phobia from within: media boycotts and oppositional viewing practices
* Phobia from without: prohibition and censorship, fair use practices
* Cinephilia/phobia as methodology, ideology, and/or pathology
* Cinephilia/phobia and film pedagogy
We welcome approaches from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to: Film and Media studies, Art and Art History, Visual Culture, Feminist and Queer Studies, Communication, Critical Theory, Literature, Musicology, and Philosophy.
Interested graduate students may submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) – along with institutional/departmental affiliations and current email – to pittfilmgradconference@gmail.com. For more information, please contact the FSGSO by email at the above, or visit our website, Special Affects:http://www.fsgso.pitt.edu
Hosted by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization (FSGSO)
Keynote by Christian Keathley, Professor of Film and Media Culture at Middlebury College. Keathley is author ofCinephilia and History, or The Wind in the Trees (Indiana University Press, 2006), and currently at work on a book titled The Mystery of Otto Preminger, under contract with IU Press.
Over the last decade, academic and popular film institutions have reignited debates surrounding cinephilia and its discontents. Recent pieces in Cinema Journal, Film Comment, as well as essay collections (2005'sCinephilia: Movies, Love, and Memory) and monographs (Jonathan Rosenbaum's 2010 Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition), in modes both nostalgic and speculative, are (re)considering cinephilia not simply as love of the moving image, but as heterogeneous desires for cinema’s fragments, peculiarities, materialities, and affects. In other words, we can be certain that cinephilic (and cinephobic) attitudes and practices are quite alive today – but for whom, in what forms, and to what ends?
Attending these critical conversations are ever-encroaching “aversions” toward cinema, including institutional prohibitions, censorship against filming and exhibition, modes of media refusal, and institutional objections to the moving image’s dissemination and preservation. If cinephilia has long raised tensions between academic and popular critical voices, between preservation and fetishism, and between film appreciation and critique, how are these tensions recovered or recast in contemporary film and media studies – particularly in light of digital media, new categories and avenues of “criticism,” and media studies’ present investment in affective response? Susan Sontag famously expressed the joy of cinematic immersion as a “kidnapping” that requires the physical experience of a darkened theater; how, then, does cinephobia stand to transform a desire for cinematic experience into a revolt against the powers of the cinematic apparatus and its affective control?
Following Marijke de Valck’s assertion that cinephilia endures “precisely because it forms a bridge between the biographical and the theoretical, the singular and the general, the fragment and the whole, the incomplete and the complete, and the individual and the collective,” our conference invites presentations that consider the enduring importance of cinephilia and cinephobia to film and media studies: both how these ideas have shaped and articulated our complex relations to moving images, and how they continue to raise new questions for our field.
Possible topics may include:
* Cinephilia/phobia through digital media (mash-ups and remixes; GIFs; Twitter, Tumblr, and online community)
* Cinephilic/phobic expressions in TV and other visual media (art, installation, fashion)
* Cinephilia/phobia and video games
* Desire, disgust, and pornography
* Cinephilic/phobic expressions in “non-visual” fields (literature, music, philosophy)
* Queer spectatorship, historiography, and affect
* Transnational and subcultural cinephilias/phobias
* Affective modes of spectatorship, “fan” practices and fictions
* Obsession with and/or distrust of medium and site specificity (VHS, Super 16mm, theaters and exhibition practices, protest and destruction)
* Endangered and extinct media technology and practices
* Desire, disgust, and archival work
* Historical and contemporary forms of film criticism (from Cahiers to the video essay)
* Institutional and “underground” modes of exhibition (film festivals, award systems, art house, 3D)
* Phobia from within: media boycotts and oppositional viewing practices
* Phobia from without: prohibition and censorship, fair use practices
* Cinephilia/phobia as methodology, ideology, and/or pathology
* Cinephilia/phobia and film pedagogy
We welcome approaches from a range of disciplines, including but not limited to: Film and Media studies, Art and Art History, Visual Culture, Feminist and Queer Studies, Communication, Critical Theory, Literature, Musicology, and Philosophy.
Interested graduate students may submit abstracts (maximum 300 words) – along with institutional/departmental affiliations and current email – to pittfilmgradconference@gmail.com. For more information, please contact the FSGSO by email at the above, or visit our website, Special Affects:http://www.fsgso.pitt.edu
CFP-Evaluating and Assesing Broabdand Policy
Is it working?
Evaluating and assessing broadband policy
A by-invitation
experts’ workshop
New America
Foundation
September 19-21, 2012
With
broadband becoming the central means for providing information services in the
21st century, policymakers struggle with choosing the best model to
ensure universal access, adoption and usage. Broadband policy choices range
from massive government investments to total deregulation and everything in
between—including various combinations of regulatory regimes, limited
government investment and public-private partnerships. Debates regarding the best
path to follow often tend to reflect ideological convictions or stakeholder
interests. It is thus requisite to provide analytic scholarly input to the
debate, delivered through the evaluation and assessment of broadband deployment
policies that have been adopted in recent years.
The
Institute for Information Policy at Penn State University and the New America Foundation
are pleased
to announce this call for paper proposals focused on discussing and exploring
the assessment and evaluation of broadband policies and their implementation. Proposals based on new research data and
analysis are especially welcome.
Authors
of the selected papers will be invited to present and discuss them during a
three day by-invitation-only experts
workshop designed to bring together up to a dozen American and international
experts to be held at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., between
September 19 - 21, 2012. This workshop is part of a
series of events focused on “Making Policy Research Accessible,” organized by
the IIP, with the support of the Ford Foundation and the Media
Democracy Fund. For programs
of previous workshops see: https://blogs.comm.psu.edu/iip/?page_id=24). Presenters at the workshop will be
invited to submit their completed papers for review by the Journal of Information Policy (www.jip-online.org).
Topics of papers may include,
but are not limited to issues such as:
·
Methodologies for the assessment of broadband projects
·
Case studies of
assessment of broadband policy implementations
·
Assessment and
evaluation of specific BTOP projects and of the BTOP process
·
Assessment and
evaluation of state-level broadband policy implementations
·
Case studies of
other public and private broadband initiatives
·
Theory of policy
evaluation and its application to broadband
·
The opportunity
costs of delayed reforms and regulations
·
Impacts of the
rate of progress of broadband policy
·
Comparative
studies of broadband policies and their implementation
·
Proposals for a
meaningful set of metrics for broadband evaluation
·
Identification of
a uniform set of indicators for successful broadband policies
·
Evaluation of
broadband training and capacity-building programs and activities
·
Evaluation of
broadband programs for historically unserved or underserved communities
·
Assessment of
broadband initiatives directed at community and civil society institutions
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Employment Opportunity: Columbia College Chicago
One-Year Lecturer in Cultural Studies,
Cultural Studies Program
Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences
The Department of Humanities, History, and Social
Sciences at Columbia College Chicago invites applications for a One-Year
Cultural Studies Lecturer position for its Cultural Studies Program starting August
16, 2012. Minimum qualifications
include: An ABD in Cultural Studies or
related field (Ph.D. Preferred) and at least two years experience teaching introductory cultural studies courses, such
as Introduction to Cultural Studies and Cultural Theories, at a college-level
institution
(see http://colum.edu/culturalstudies
for curriculum details). Preference will
be given to candidates who work in one or more of the following areas: (New)
Media studies; visual culture and political economy; American Studies; Asian
American Studies; and post-colonial studies.
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over
12,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and
communications in a liberal arts setting.
How to Apply:
All applicants must apply online at www.colum.edu/EmploymentServices
(Job ID 100384).
Please note that the posting will appear internally as of
June 5 and externally as of June 8 under ID 100384.
IMPORTANT: Review of applications will begin immediately
and will continue until the position is filled.
To ensure full consideration, please submit a letter of interest,
curriculum vitae, and the names of three references. Only materials submitted through Columbia
College Chicago's online portal will be considered.
At the start of the online application, please upload ONE
document that combines your letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and statement
of teaching philosophy; do not upload each document separately. The title of
your document should be less than 60 characters and saved as a word.doc,
word.dox, or PDF only.
Complete the online application, including the names and
contact information for three references.
You will receive an email confirmation once you have
successfully submitted your application.
If you experience technical difficulties please email careers@colum.edu. Do not contact the
hiring department or search committee for assistance.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Columbia College Chicago encourages qualified female,
LGBTQ, disabled, and minority individuals to apply for all positions.
For more information about this position, please contact:
Jaafar Aksikas, Chair
Cultural Studies Search Committee
Cultural Studies Program
Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences
Columbia College Chicago
624 S Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL
Jaksikas@colum.edu
CFP - Reception and Cultural Diversity
Reception Study and Cultural Diversity
We are soliciting submissions for a collection of essays on
Reception Study and Cultural Diversity. Essays may address the
following topics: theoretical developments in reception study and
theories of reading (e.g. on the concepts of “horizon of expectation,” “implied
reader,” “rhetorical” or “historical” hermeneutics”) necessitated by reception
in the context of cultural diversity; accounts of reading across cultural
differences; the role of reception in the production of a
multicultural literary tradition; the role of reception in production of
African American, Native American, Asian American, Latino American literary
traditions; reception histories of specific works and authors; the problematics
of addressing a multicultural readership; the academic and popular reception of
specific texts; the phenomenon of transnational reception; the relationship of
reception and immigration; and other related topics. The deadline for
completed manuscripts is October 1, 2012. Essays will be published
in our co-edited collection and in a special issue of the RSS journal Reception.
Send proposals, and inquiries to:
Patsy Schweickart, Department of
English
Purdue University
pschweic@purdue.edu
or
Phil Goldstein
University of Delaware-Wilmington
pgold@udel.edu
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