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ephemera politics of consumption issue released

Stevphen Shukaitis — 2013-05-22T06:38:02

New ephemera issue on the politics of consumption released...

ephemera volume 13, number 2
The politics of consumption
http://www.ephemerajournal.org/issue/politics-consumption

This age of austerity comes on the back of a lengthened period of 
apparently rampant consumer excess: that was a party for which we are 
all now having to pay. A spectacular period of unsustainably funded 
over-indulgence, it seems, has now given rise to a sobering period of 
barely fundable mere-subsistence. Consumption, narrated along such 
lines, is a sin which has to be paid for. Beyond the deceptive theology 
of consumption, however, lies actual politics. In May 2012, we hosted a 
conference at Dublin’s Royal Society of the Antiquaries of Ireland in 
order to analyse and debate the politics of consumption. This special 
issue is the outcome of the discussions which took place during that 
event. It features conceptual and empirical investigations into the 
politics of consumption, a head-to-head debate on the idea of consumer 
citizenship, a series of notes on the relationship between art, 
politics, and consumption, and reviews of two recent books. Taken 
together, these diverse pieces underline the need for a 
politically-oriented analysis of consumption, not only for the sake of 
informing academic debates but also for the sake of informing 
contemporary consumption practices. Consumption, we argue, is political: 
to approach it otherwise is to dogmatically seek refuge in a world of 
fantasy.


CONTENTS
The politics of consumption
Alan Bradshaw Norah Campbell Stephen Dunne

Consumption matters
Ben Fine

The dialectics of progress: Irish ‘belatedness’ and the politics of 
prosperity
Kate Soper

Alienated consumption, the commodification of taste and disabling 
professionalism
Peter Armstrong

Towards a consumerist critique of capitalism: A socialist defence of 
consumer culture
Matthias Zick Varul

A liquid politics? Conceptualising the politics of fair trade 
consumption and consumer citizenship
Eleftheria Lekakis

 From politicisation to redemption through consumption: The 
environmental crisis and the generation of guilt in the responsible 
consumer as constructed by the business media

The potential of consumer publics
Adam Arvidsson

Utopias of ethical economy: A response to Adam Arvidsson
Detlev Zwick

Thinking beyond neo-liberalism: A response to Detlev Zwick
Adam Arvidsson

The myth of metaphysical enclosure: A second response to Adam Arvidsson
Detlev Zwick

On things and comrades
Olga Kravets

Can the object be a comrade?
Stevphen Shukaitis

Commodity as comrade: Luibov Popova – Untitled textile design on William 
Morris wallpaper for Historical Materialism
David Mabb

Re-appropriating Che’s image: From the revolution to the market and back 
again
Antigoni Memou

In praise of anti-capitalist consumption: How the V for Vendetta mask 
blows up Hollywood marketing
Ruud Kaulingfreks Femke Kaulingfreks

Commodity fights in Post-2008 Athens: Zapatistas coffee, Kropotkinian 
drinks and Fascist rice
Andreas Chatzidakis

Irish utopian realism?
Gavin Brown Angus Cameron

Consumption and its contradictions: Dialogues on the causes of buying
Georgios Patsiaouras

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Thought Catalog Seeks Media Studies Essays

madison moore — 2013-05-22T13:50:00

Proposals Due June 14th, 2013

Thought Catalog, a New York City-based media brand, is pleased to launch a media studies “Think Tank” dedicated to advancing research in media studies. We are particularly interested in article-length essays that focus on the work of Walter Ong, John Fisk, Dick Hebdige, Stuart Hall, Douglas Rushkoff, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrilliard and other canonical media theorists. We also encourage focused essays on topics related to media studies and postmodernism.

Accepted essays may be turned into eBooks for a general audience, and will be sold by Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Kobo, and Barnes and Noble. Writers will be compensated for their work.

Fun, smart, and creative: the Thought Catalog platform extends across the web, mobile, and eBooks. Our website, thoughtcatalog.com, has over 5 million monthly readers and over 500,000 social media followers and fans. Thought Catalog eBooks are routinely some of the best-selling on the Internet.

Article-length essays should be at least 5,000 words but no more than 30,000, and we prefer pieces that have already been written or that are already in progress.

/// HOW TO SUBMIT///

Please submit a short biography, title and a brief summary of your essay to: manuscripts< at >thoughtcatalog.com and madison< at >thoughtcatalog.com. We will contact you if we are interested in reading a full manuscript.

Please include your Full Name and “Academic” in the subject heading. Proposals are due Friday, June 14th, 2013. Full manuscripts should be ready to submit within a month after the contract is signed.

Seminar papers, conference papers, articles in progress, etc., are all welcome.

For more on our Digital Books, see: www.thoughtcatalog.com/ebooks.
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CFP: New Media and Society special issue on crowdfunding

Bertha Chin — 2013-05-22T09:55:23

*Apologies for cross-posting* 

Call for Papers: New Media & Society special issue on crowdfunding.

Edited by Lucy Bennett, Bertha Chin and Bethan Jones

The concept of crowdfunding, where grassroots creative projects are funded
by the masses through websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo has been
steadily gaining attention in the last few years. The 2013 success of the
Veronica Mars movie campaign, along with the successful crowdfunding
projects spearheaded by musicians like Amanda Palmer and, most recently,
actor Zach Braff, has raised much discussion surrounding the rich and
powerful possibilities of this method of funding. However, the practice has
also invited much criticism, not just of Kickstarter but also of
crowdfunding in general.  Among some of the most common accusations levelled
at crowdfunding are: it is used by media conglomerates to exploit fans;
successful artists using the scheme take money away from genuine independent
producers who actually need it; and the time and money spent on delivering
perks to donors detracts from the time and money invested in the actual
project. However, others have argued that the existence of crowdfunding
affords media scholars new ways of examining the role of the audience in
television and film production, that fan agency needs to be more widely
considered in discussions of fan exploitation, and that ‘fan-ancing’ is
leading to a new business model for the financing of artistic projects that
is free from studio or network intervention.

This special issue seeks to examine and unravel the debates around
crowdfunding and thus brings together contributors from a range of academic
disciplines. We are seeking papers that offer a wide range of perspectives
on the processes of crowdfunding projects, from analyses of the crowdfunded
projects themselves, to the interaction between producers and audiences, and
to the role that Kickstarter plays in discussions around fan agency and
exploitation. Thus, we invite proposals on, but not limited to, the
following topics surrounding crowdfunding:

- Case studies of crowdfunding campaigns
- Fandom
- Unsuccessful crowdfunding efforts
- The role of the internet and social media in crowdfunding
- Producer/funder relationships
- Crowd funding in the music, film, television and games industries
- Anti-fandom
- The role of auteurs and cult names/media in attracting backers
- Fan exploitation and labour
- Rewards and producer accountability
 
Please send 400 word abstract proposals, along with a short author
biography, by 20th June 2013. Please email these, along with any other
enquiries, to bennettlucyk< at >gmail.com, bertha.chin< at >gmail.com and
bethanvjones< at >hotmail.com. Final, selected, articles will be due during
January 2014.

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CFP (Reminder): Representations of “The Family” in T elevision (Edited Collection)

Alzena MacDonald — 2013-05-22T05:21:05

We invite contributions for an edited collection that examines the shifts in representations of “the family” in television. It is the aim of this book to trace and critically explore the many permutations of the family in relation to cultural anxieties and socio-political change.


We seek submissions adopting a Cultural Studies approach that critique “the family” in relation to issues including, but not limited to:



·         Familial compositions. E.g. “blended”, “single parent”, “adoptive/foster”, “same-sex”, “patriarchal nuclear”, “dysfunctional”.

·         Specific subject positions and cultural constructs. E.g. patriarch/father figures, matriarch/mother figures, “the teenager”.

·         Gender

·         Sexuality (including monogamy and polygamy)

·         National identity

·         ‘Race’/ethnicity

·         Class

·         Postmodernism

·         Late capitalism

·         Generational relationships

·         Public/private domains

·         Urban/suburban anxieties

·         Surveillance society

·         Loss of community/re-workings of community



Texts that could be discussed include, but are not limited to, Family Ties, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Growing Pains, The Cosby Show, Diff’rent Strokes, Good Times, The Nanny, Step-by-Step, Full House, Who’s the Boss?, The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Desperate Housewives, Modern Family, Two and a Half Men, The Gilmore Girls, Family Matters, Big Love, Married with Children, Roseanne, Fresh Prince of Bel Air, The Wonder Years, Seventh Heaven, Life Goes On, South Park, Packed to the Rafters, Offspring, House Husbands, Kath and Kim, Redfern Now, Till Death Us Do Part, Bless this House, Love Thy Neighbour, The Royle Family, My Family, Dani’s House, Life with Boys.



Please send a 300-500 word abstract with a working title and brief biographical statement (including your contact information, affiliation, position and also a list of relevant publications) in MS Word format to the editors, Dr Kara-Jane Lombard and Dr Alzena MacDonald, Lecturers in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts at Curtin University (Perth, Western Australia), via shared mailbox: TV.families< at >curtin.edu.au<mailto:TV.families< at >curtin.edu.au> by 7 June 2013.



Please note: the submission of a complete paper is not necessary. We will invite papers (6500 - 7000 words) for the collection after the deadline for abstract submission.



_________________________________________
Dr Alzena MacDonald
Lecturer | Department of Communication & Cultural Studies
School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts
Curtin University
Tel | +61 8 9266 7129
Fax | +61 8 9266 3152

Email | Alzena.MacDonald< at >curtin.edu.au<mailto:cAlzena.MacDonald< at >curtin.edu.au>
Web | http://curtin.edu.au<http://curtin.edu.au/>

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Job Opening: Lecturer in Media Studies

Kevin Healey — 2013-05-22T01:52:38

Lecturer in Media Studies
UNIVERSITYOF NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Department of Communication at the University
of New Hampshire, Durham, invites applicants for one non-tenure
track, benefits-eligible Lecturer in Media Studies for the 2013-2014 academic
year.
The Department seeks broadly
trained individuals with expertise in critical, theoretical, and/or historical
approaches to media studies. The successful candidate will teach existing media
courses at the undergraduate level, including Introduction to Media Studies, as
well as courses in his or her own specialty. The teaching load is six courses
per academic year. Committee work and advising are not required. Fall 2013
courses begin on August 26, 2013.
Excellent teaching
credentials are essential. Ph.D. or ABD in Communication preferred; highly qualified
candidates with master’s degrees will be considered.
The Department of
Communication has approximately 500 majors and offers an undergraduate
curriculum that integrates critical media studies, rhetorical studies, and
interpersonal studies. UNH supports diversity among its faculty and strongly
encourages minority and women candidates to apply. Hiring is contingent upon
eligibility to work in the U.S.
Send hard copies of a letter
of application, vita, statement of teaching philosophy, and evidence of
teaching excellence (e.g., sample syllabi and teaching evaluations) as soon as
possible to Professor Joshua Meyrowitz, Chair, Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire,
Horton Social Science Center, 20 Academic Way, Durham, NH03824, USA.
Three letters of reference are also required and may be sent by mail, Interfolio.com
or other credential services, or by email attachment. Review of application
materials will begin on June 5, 2013, and will continue until the position is
filled. For questions or to indicate interest in the position while hard-copy
materials are on their way, send an email to joshua.meyrowitz< at >unh.edu, or call (603)
862-3031,or reach
the department at (603) 862-2292. UNH is in the beautiful seacoast region of
southern New Hampshire, about an hour north of Boston.

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CFP: Helsinki Photomedia 2014 conference

Salo Merja — 2013-05-21T19:11:00

Call for Papers: HELSINKI PHOTOMEDIA 2014

The second international photography research conference
March 26, 2014 – March 28, 2014
Organized by Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture

Theme: Photographic Powers

Keynote Speakers:

Paul Frosh (Israel)
Jorge Ribalta (Spain)
Jeff Wall (Canada, tbc)
Joanna Zylinska (UK)

Deadline for 500 word abstracts: 1 September 2013

http://helsinkiphotomedia.aalto.fi

Helsinki Photomedia 2014 offers various platforms, where artistic, philosophical, social, cultural, economical and technological approaches meet. We welcome submissions from all areas of photography research. Conference language is English.

In our world images embody power in multiple ways. Sciences need images in order to visualize their results and in order to envision new aims. Institutions need images in order to make themselves effective. Individuals need images in order to shape their identities. Imagination needs and produces images, and so do the arts. History needs images.

Power can be restrictive or productive, personalized or impersonal. It can be inherent to the images or related to the context. Power relations can be built up and worked against with images. Images can humiliate and empower. Power has many names: force, capacity, ability...

The power of images can be both imaginary and symbolic. It can be transformative and conservative, emancipatory and suppressive, subversive and destructive.

Power is inscribed in technologies, practices and discourses of photography in many ways. Photographic powers have their past, presence and future. They have their visible and invisible forms.

Photography research is inevitably involved in shaping the photographic powers, often without noticing or admitting it. Helsinki Photomedia 2014 will take up the multifaceted question concerning the photographic powers by focusing on topics including (but not limited to):

• Productive forms of power in contemporary photographic culture

• Power of imagination in photography

• Power of knowledge production in photography research

• Theories of power as regards photographic images

• Empowering forms of photography

For previous Helsinki Photomedia 2012 conference see Photographies Journal 1/2013.

Merja Salo
Professor
Visual Communication and Photography
Department of Media, Photography
Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture
Haemeentie 135 C
00560 Helsinki
+358 50 5855238
merja.salo< at >aalto.fi

In Media Res – Resident Evil at the Movies

Katharine Persephone Zakos — 2013-05-20T19:00:38

This week’s In Media Res theme focus is Resident Evil at the Movies (May 20 - May 24, 2013).

Here's the line-up:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/


Monday, May 20, 2013 - Marianna Martin (University of Chicago) presents: "New York Sequence Initialized": Genre Cues and Play in the Resident Evil Film Franchise

Tuesday, May 21, 2013 - Racquel M. Gonzales (University of California, Irvine) presents: Whose Aesthetics?: Resident Evil as a Video Game Movie

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - Sean Cashbaugh (Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin) presents: Guarantee Me You’ll Bring This Corporation Down: Narrative Closure and Resident Evil’s Anti-Corporate Politics

Thursday, May 23, 2013 - Kalisha Cornett (University of Chicago) presents: Jill Sandwich: The Cinema and ‘Resident Evil’

Friday, May 24, 2013 - Carly Kocurek (Illinois Institute of Technology) presents: Alice Remembers Everything: The Resident Evil Franchise as Film Franchise

Theme week organized by Carly Kocurek (Illinois Institute of Technology) and Marianna Martin (University of Chicago).

To receive links for each day’s posts and stay up to date on our latest calls for curators, please be sure “like” our newly launched Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mediacommons.inmediares

You can also follow us on Twitter at < at >MC_IMR

For more information, please contact In Media Res at inmediares.gsu< at >gmail.com<mailto:inmediares.gsu< at >gmail.com> or email the Coordinating Editor, Ethan Tussey, at etussey< at >gsu.edu<mailto:etussey< at >gsu.edu>.

Best,
The In Media Res Team


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CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality

Lindsay Palmer — 2013-05-20T16:23:41

Apologies for cross-posting!
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CFP: Media Spaces of Gender and Sexuality
Media
FieldsJournal
University
of California, Santa Barbara
 
This
issue of Media Fields investigates the connections between
media, space, gender, and sexuality, seeking conversations that center on these
interrelations and negotiations. We invite papers that raise questions of how
media spaces construct gender, and how gender, in turn, constructs media
spaces; how spaces condition and are conditioned by gender performances and
sexual practices; and how gender legibility limits (or allows) access to
various media spaces.
 
Film and
media scholarship historically came of age through its study of the
relationship between gender, sexuality, and media. Much has been written about
the status of women as objects of the cinematic gaze, as well as about the
status of female and queer-identified subjects as media producers. Yet in more
recent times, issues of gender and sexuality have once again become
marginalized in academic discourse, revealing the need for new explorations
that coincide with the impact of the “spatial turn.” In this age of conflict,
dissent, surveillance, and migration—when the study of media is often also the
study of the precariousness and dynamism of the spatial—it is particularly
important to trace the interconnections between space, media, and gender.
 
We are
inspired by the work of those film and media scholars who have explored such
interconnections. Lynn Spigel’s seminal book on the gendered discourse
surrounding domestic television viewing provides us with one useful example, as
does Lucas Hilderbrand’s forthcoming work on the culture of gay bars after
Stonewall. While some scholars like Spigel and Hilderbrand have studied the
connections between gender, space, and media in their own work, fewer media
studies journals have made this topic a primary focus. As a result, we seek
scholarship that deals with space in a range of ways: essays might discuss
online spaces that allow for specific negotiations of gender or sexuality, or
with gender embodiment in physical spaces of various scales, from the very
local (the living room, for example) to the global.
 
Essays
might also draw upon feminist interventions into Marxist/historical materialist
theories of space, as well as engaging the intersections between gender, race,
and class. These important intersections exceed the label, “identity
politics”—a label that we feel is now often deployed in order to debunk the
continued relevance of gender and sexuality to any scholarly conversation.
While we do indeed call for political approaches to gender and space—essays
informed by the agendas of feminist and queer activism—we stress that gender
and sexuality are not merely areas of special interest, but are instead
structuring principles of discrimination that permeate our lives on a number of
registers.
 
Thus, our
approach is multivalent. We invite submissions that consider this complexity,
possibly addressing the following topics:
 
--Transnational
Queer and Feminist Media: How are flows of bodies, labor, capital, and images
gendered and sexualized?
 
--Queering
Questions of Scale: How does heterosexism delimit notions of nation, state, and
the transnational?
 
--Gendered
Spaces of Conflict and Dissent: How do media contribute to the gendering of the
different spaces of war and dissent as well as of the subjects who are
involved?
 
--Gender,
Sexuality, and Online Spaces: How are social media practices and spaces
gendered and sexualized?
 
--Queer/Feminist
Gaming: representations of gendered and sexualized spaces in mainstream video
games, gendered geographies of video game production,  gendered spaces of
gaming culture
 
--Spaces
of Surveillance: How is surveillance fundamentally gendered, sexualized, and
spatialized? How does voyeurism continue to bolster certain experiences of
space and place?
 
--Gendered
Infrastructures: How are media infrastructures gendered, and why does this
matter?
 
--Gender,
Sexuality and Access: How do gender and its legibility (e.g., normativity)
result in certain types of access to particular spaces?
 
We are
looking for essays of 1500-2500 words, digital art projects, and audio or video
interviews exploring the relationship between gender, sexuality, and space. We
encourage approaches to this topic from scholars in cinema and media studies,
anthropology, architecture, art and art history, communication, ecology,
geography, literature, musicology, sociology, and other relevant fields.
 
Feel free
to contact issue co-editors, Hannah Goodwin and Lindsay Palmer, with proposals
and inquiries.
Email
submissions to submissions< at >mediafieldsjournal.org by May 30th, 2013.

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CFP: UDC Project & Censored in San Francisco November 1-3

Michelle Rodino-Colocino — 2013-05-18T03:34:06

Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco









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Interface 5(1) now out. Struggles, strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social movements

Stevphen Shukaitis — 2013-05-15T17:01:25

Interface: a journal for and about social movements
http://interfacejournal.net

Volume five, issue one (May 2013): Struggles, strategies and analysis of
anticolonial and postcolonial social movements

Issue editors: Aziz Choudry, Mandisi Majavu, Lesley
Wood http://www.interfacejournal.net/current/

Volume five, issue one of Interface, a peer-reviewed online journal
produced and refereed by social movement practitioners and engaged
movement researchers, is now out, on the special theme "Struggles,
strategies and analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social
movements”. Interface is open-access (free), global and multilingual.
Our overall aim is to "learn from each other's struggles": to develop a
dialogue between practitioners and researchers, but also between
different social movements, intellectual traditions and national or
regional contexts.

Like all issues of Interface, this issue is free and open-access. You
can download articles individually or a complete PDF of the issue (7.44
MB). Please note that you can also subscribe (free) on the right-hand
side of the webpage to get email notification each time a new issue or
call for papers is out. This issue of Interface includes 388 pages and
21 pieces, by authors writing from / about Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Chile, India, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, the UK and the US among
other countries.

Articles in this issue include:
• Aziz Choudry, Mandisi Majavu, Lesley Wood, Struggles, strategies and
analysis of anticolonial and postcolonial social movements
Anticolonial and postcolonial social movements
• Dip Kapoor, Trans-local rural solidarity and an anticolonial politics
of place: contesting colonial capital and the neoliberal state in India
• Ian Hussey and Joe Curnow, Fair Trade, neo-colonial developmentalism,
and racialized power relations
• Julia Cantzler, The translation of Indigenous agency and innovation
into political and cultural power: the case of Indigenous fishing rights
in Australia
• Hilde Stephansen, Starting from the Amazon: communication, knowledge
and politics of place in the World Social Forum
• David Austin, Aziz Choudry, Radha d'Souza and Sunera Thobani,
Reflections on Fanon's legacy (four short pieces)

General articles
• Cynthia Cockburn, A movement stalled: outcome of women's campaign for
equalities and inclusion in the Northern Irish peace process
• M. Dawn King, The role of societal attitudes and activists'
perceptions on effective judicial access for the LGBT movement in Chile
• Paul Sneed, Infotainment and encounter in the pacification of Rocinha
favela
• Mark Stoddart and Howard Ramos, Going local: calls for local
democracy and environmental governance at Jumbo Pass and the Tobeatic
Wilderness Area
• Anna Feigenbaum and Stevphen Shukaitis with Camille Barbagallo, Jaya
Klara Brekke, Morgan Buck, Jamie Heckert, Malav Kanuga, Paul Rekret and
Joshua Stephens, Writing in a movement: a roundtable on radical
publishing and autonomous infrastructures (roundtable)

Special contribution
• Tomás Mac Sheoin, Framing the movement, framing the protest: mass
media coverage of the anti-globalisation movement
This issue’s reviews include the following titles:
• Raúl Zibechi, Territories in resistance: a cartography of Latin
American social movements. Reviewed by Colleen Hackett.
• Peter Dwyer and Leo Zeilig, African struggles today: social movements
since Independence. Reviewed by Jonny Keyworth.
• D. Roderick Bush, The end of white supremacy: black internationalism
and the problem of the color line. Reviewed by Hleziphi Naomie Nyanungo.
• Jean Muteba Rahier, Black social movements in Latin America: from
monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism. Reviewed by Mandisi Majavu.
• Christian Scholl, Two sides of a barricade: (dis)order and summit
protest in Europe. Reviewed by Ana Margarida Esteves.
• Alice Te Punga Somerville. Once Were Pacific: Māori connections to
Oceania. Reviewed by Ella Henry.

A call for papers for volume 6 issue 1 of Interface is now open, under
the heading "Pedagogical practices of social movements". Along with
themed submissions we welcome pieces on any aspect of social movement
research and practice that fit within our mission statement
(http://www.interfacejournal.net/who-we-are/mission-statement/). We can
review and publish articles in Afrikaans, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian,
Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Maltese,
Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish,
Turkish and Zulu. The website has the full CFP and details on how to
submit articles for this issue at
http://www.interfacejournal.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Interface-5-1-CFP-vol-6-no-1.pdf.
The forthcoming issue of Interface (November 2013), celebrating our
tenth issue, is open-themed.

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Due Sunday: Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture July 15-19, 2013 at Northwestern University

Caitlin Bruce — 2013-05-15T14:16:40

Subject: DUE SUNDAY: Call for Participants:
Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze
Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture
July 15-19, 2013 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208

The annual one-week summer institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture
for graduate students will be held at Northwestern University
(Evanston, IL) on July 15-19, 2013. This year’s institute theme is:
“Film and Media in the Tracks of Deleuze”. Thirty years after the
publication in French of Cinema 1: The Movement-Image, Deleuze’s work
on cinema remains at the center of contemporary debates on film, and
its relationship to other visual media, as well as to philosophy,
literature and political thought. This institute will bring together
prominent scholars of film, literature and theory to explore the
relationship of Deleuze’s work on cinema to his thought as a whole, as
well as to that of other major theorists who are, in various ways, in
dialogue or conflict with that work. It will particularly focus on the
possibilities and limits of Deleuze’s approach to media aesthetics
both for interpreting historical and contemporary media practices and
for mapping the relationship of film (and art in general) to politics.

The seminar, directed by Professors Scott Durham and Dilip Gaonkar,
will consist of five days of presentations and discussions led by four
distinguished group of visiting faculty. They are:

Serge Cardinal, Professeur agrégé, Département d’histoire de l’art et
d’études cinématographiques, Université de Montréal.

Tom Conley, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and
Literatures and of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard
University.

Gregory Flaxman, Associate Professor of English and Comparative
Literature and Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies, UNC, Chapel
Hill.

Eleanor Kaufman, Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and
French and Francophone Studies, UCLA.

Lectures will occur in the afternoon and the mornings will be
dedicated to workshops around readings (assigned in advance) for each
lecture. The overlapping format enables both student and faculty
participants to continue informal scholarly discussion during group
lunches and dinners.

The seminar is sponsored by the Center for Global Culture and
Communication, an interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern
University School of Communication. The Center will subsidize
transportation (up to $250), lodging, and some meals for admitted
students. Applicants should send a letter of nomination from their
academic advisor, along with a one-page statement explaining their
interest in participating in this year’s institute, to the summer
institute coordinator Caitlin Bruce (bruce.caitlin< at >gmail.com). We will
adopt a policy of rolling admissions. Priority will therefore be
granted to strong applications that are submitted in a timely fashion,
preferably by May 19th. All inquiries should be directed to Caitlin
Bruce (bruce.caitlin< at >gmail.com).

Posted by: Caitlin Bruce, bruce.caitlin< at >gmail.com

The Future of NGO Studies--Call for Session Participants

Amanda Lashaw — 2013-05-14T21:01:59

Call For Participants

The Future of NGO Studies conference is seeking individuals who are
interested in becoming presenters for existing sessions. The conference
will include roughly fifteen sessions, and the following are currently
recruiting participants:

1. Beyond Neoliberalisms: Broadening the Focus of NGO Studies**

2. The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs

3. The Ethics and Politics of NGO-Dependent Anthropology

4. Social Problems through the Lens of NGOs

5. Laboring in Nonprofits and NGOs

6. Re-contextualizing NGOs as Fieldsite

7. NGOs in the World System: Product or Provocation?

Please visit the conference website for session descriptions and email
addresses of session organizers, whom you should contact by JUNE 15 if you
would like to submit an abstract.  The following link connects to all
session descriptions; please note that the subset of sessions seeking
presenters is indicated by bold organizer names that link to appropriate
contact information.

http://www.niu.edu/ngold/news/conference_sessioins.shtml.

The website also provides a conference overview, a preliminary schedule,
and a link to our pre-registration poll of people planning to attend the
fall meeting.  We hope you'll join us.


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The Future of NGO Studies Conference

Presented by: Northern Illinois University's Center for NGO Leadership and
Development

Co-sponsored by: DePaul University's Irwin W. Steans Center for
Community-based Service Learning, Anthropology Department, School of Public
Service, and International Public Service

Conference Coordinating Committee: Christian Vannier, Mark Schuller, Steve
Sampson, David Lewis, Amanda Lashaw, and Pat Foley

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In Media Res – The Feelings Business: The Real Housewi ves Franchise

Katharine Persephone Zakos — 2013-05-13T16:42:27

This week’s In Media Res theme focus is The Feelings Business: The Real Housewives Franchise (May 12 - May 17, 2013).

Here's the line-up:
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/


Monday, May 13, 2013 - Rachel Silverman (Embry Riddle University) presents: Welcome to The Clubhouse

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 - Jacquelyn Arcy (University of Minnesota) presents: Real Housework: Branding Emotional Labor in The Real Housewives of New York City

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - Kimberly Springer (School of Information, University of Michigan) presents: The Real Housewives of Atlanta’s African Adventure

Thursday, May 16, 2013 - David R. Coon (University of Washington Tacoma) presents: Weathering a Recession with The Real Housewives

Friday, May 17, 2013 - Chelsea Bullock (University of Oregon) presents: The Labor of Intimacy in the Affective Marketplace of The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Theme week organized by Jing Zhang (Georgia State University).

To receive links for each day’s posts and stay up to date on our latest calls for curators, please be sure “like” our newly launched Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mediacommons.inmediares

You can also follow us on Twitter at < at >MC_IMR

For more information, please contact In Media Res at inmediares.gsu< at >gmail.com<mailto:inmediares.gsu< at >gmail.com> or email the Coordinating Editor, Alisa Perren, at aperren< at >gsu.edu<mailto:aperren< at >gsu.edu>.

Best,
The In Media Res Team




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Photomediations Machine: launch + call for contributions

Joanna Zylinska — 2013-05-13T09:11:45

PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE
http://www.photomediationsmachine.net

We are pleased to announce the launch of Photomediations Machine: a 
curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as 
performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced 
and engaged.

Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making 
by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political 
flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing 
theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and 
mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of 
mediations past and a site of production of media 
as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, 
non-profit and fully open access.

Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine 
has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa 
Cartwright, Alberto López Cuenca, Asbjørn Grønstad, Richard Grusin, 
Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. 
Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, 
Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister 
project to the online open access journal Culture Machine 
(http://www.culturemachine.net), established in 1999.

***
Photomediations Machine invites the following types of submissions:

• Visual projects that fit the photomediations theme (selection of 
images, links to video hosted elsewhere). We accept submissions from 
artists themselves as well as from theorists and curators. All visual 
projects need to be accompanied by a short description or a 
contextualisation piece.

• Short articles (up to 2000 words, including references) on any aspect 
of photomediations, accompanied by one or more images.

• Reviews (up to 1400 words, including references) of any relevant 
exhibitions, events or publications, accompanied by one or more images.

• Interviews with artists, theorists, activists and curators (up to 2000 
words) working at the interstices of photography and media, accompanied 
by one or more images.

• Announcements / news about current exhibitions, installations, events 
and publications that will be of interests to Photomediations Machine’s 
readers (100-500 words), accompanied by one or more images.

Please submit all text as a Word or rtf document and all images as 
low-res jpegs (1024×768 px; 72dpi). For written submissions, please use 
the Culture Machine style sheet. Authors need to clear copyright to all 
images used. Decisions about individual submissions will be made by 
Photomediations Machine’s curators in consultation with members of its 
International Advisory Board and external advisors.

Please send your submission to: mail< at >photomediationsmachine.net

Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net
Twitter: < at >Photomediations

2nd CFP: Traveling Whiteness: Interchanges in the Study of Whiteness

Benita Heiskanen — 2013-05-12T01:20:18

2nd CFP: Traveling Whiteness: Interchanges in the Study of Whiteness

October 18-19, 2013
University of Turku, Finland

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Mike Hill (University at Albany-SUNY)
Dr. Philomena Essed (Antioch University)

The study of Whiteness emerged in the United States as a field of inquiry
into the historical, social, and cultural aspects of Whiteness as a source
of identity formation and socio-historical power relations. During the past
three decades, the notion of Whiteness has been studied from a number of
inter/disciplinary, theoretical, and geographic perspectives. As the study
of Whiteness has traveled across geographic locations and scholarly
contexts, it has become a subject of heated debates regarding its
epistemological conceptualization, theoretical delineation, and
methodological applicability.

“Traveling Whiteness” calls attention to the various geographic,
socio-historical, and cultural contexts within which the study of Whiteness
emerges. In particular, we are seeking to explore the following questions:
Where does the study of Whiteness appear? How does the notion of Whiteness
transform in its multiple locations? How does it shape our understanding of
race/racism? What epistemological, theoretical, and methodological
challenges does traveling bring with it? How does Whiteness transform
within specific inter/national, socio-historical, and political contexts?
What possibilities and prospects does traveling entail?

Possible topics for paper presentations, complete panels, and thematic
workshops may include:

• Social Constructions of Whiteness
• Identity Formation and Whiteness
• Race, (Anti-)Racism, and Whiteness
• Ideologies and Discourses of Whiteness
• Class, Social Inequalities and Whiteness
• Gender, Sexuality, and Whiteness
• Spaces/Places of Whiteness
• Representational Whiteness
• Legislation and Whiteness
• Sporting Whiteness

Please email abstracts of 250 words for either 20-minute paper
presentations or complete panels or thematic workshops, together with a
max. 150-word bio, including name, institutional affiliation and position,
phone number and postal and email addresses, to travelingwhiteness< at >gmail.com
.

Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2013. Participants will receive notifications
of acceptance by July 15, 2013.

For further information, please visit the conference website at:
www.utu.fi/traveling-whiteness/<https://mail.utu.fi/owa/redir.aspx?C=p_2fA_8FQkqTRZB_5xzhKG_4a6U9ItAIjr41NzD8aJBZyrprhG9Sys64u7giMTPHP8Xuutr7a_I.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.utu.fi%2ftraveling-whiteness%2f>

For general inquiries, please contact the Conference Coordinator Aleksi
Huhta, email: aleksi.huhta< at >utu.fi.

The Organizing Committee at the University of Turku:

Dr. Benita Heiskanen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and Cultural
History)
Ph.D. Candidate Aleksi Huhta (General History)
Dr. Suvi Keskinen (Sociology)
Dr. Lotta Kähkönen (Gender Studies)
Dr. Johanna Leinonen (Turku Institute for Advanced Studies and General
History).

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Re: Hiroshima bomb description?

Rebecca Devers — 2013-05-10T21:22:57

I believe that in the film _Atomic Cafe_, a member of the clergy speaks about the beauty of the mushroom cloud. 


RD

Rebecca Devers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, English
Assistant Editor, NANO: New American Notes Online (www.nanocrit.com)
New York City College of Technology, CUNY
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-260-5118
Office: Namm 528
Mailbox: Namm 512
Was the film Trinity and Beyond? (Narrated by William Shatner(!), if I
remember rightly...

- Rob Gehl

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New issue: Liminalities, "On Studying Ourselves and Others"

Tony Adams — 2013-05-11T05:04:50

Stacy Holman Jones and I are pleased to announce a special issue of
Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (issue 9.2):

http://liminalities.net/9-2/

The issue, "On Studying Ourselves and Others," features essays about
identity, performance, reflexivity, narrative, community, ethnography, and
autoethnography. The contents:

Performing Identity, Critical Reflexivity, and Community: The Hopeful Work
of Studying Ourselves and Others
Tony E. Adams & Stacy Holman Jones
(I)dentities: Considering Accountability, Reflexivity, and Intersectionality
in the I and the We
Bernadette Marie Calafell

Seeking Care: Mindfulness, Reflexive Struggle, and Puffy Selves in Bullying
Keith Berry 

Once Upon a Time: Looking to the Ecstatic Past for Queer Futurity
Julie Cosenza 

Notes from a Pretty Straight Girl: Questioning Identities in the Field
Sandra L. Faulkner 

Finding "Home" in/through Latinidad Ethnography: Experiencing Community in
the Field with "My People"
Wilfredo Alvarez 

Collaborative Intersectionality: Negotiating Identity, Liminal Spaces, and
Ethnographic Research
Brielle Plump & Patricia Geist-Martin

Blackgirl Blogs, Auto/ethnography, and Crunk Feminism
Robin M. Boylorn 

Listening for Echoes: Hypertext, Performativity, and Online Narratives of
Grief   
Kurt Lindemannn


Liminalities is an open-access peer-reviewed journal for performance
studies, theory and praxis. The goal of the journal is to embrace the
possibilities for presenting work in performance studies (broadly construed)
by exploring and exploiting the "staging" potential of digital media.
Liminalities publishes essays, aesthetic works, digital media projects,
artist pages, performance scripts, themed forums, documentaries, reviews,
interviews, works about performance in urban environments, and works about
pedagogy & performance.

For information on submitting work to the journal, see here for a general
call, as well as for information on our three ongoing series (The City,
Digital Horizons, and Performance & Pedagogy): http://liminalities.net



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Re: Hiroshima bomb description?

Jon Cruz — 2013-05-11T04:32:13

Perhaps not in the priestly pocket, but physicist Robert Oppenheimer's dystopian benediction upon seeing the fruits of his scientific labor may be a valuable complement:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x39eRJA1aVU

Jon Cruz

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Re: Hiroshima bomb description?

Bo Jacobs — 2013-05-11T00:03:25

There are two things you may be talking about. The first is an Army film made in 1945 titled The Atom Strikes. This film showed a long interview with a German Catholic priest who saw the Hiroshima explosion from a monastery just outside of Hiroshima. His description does not include the description of it being the most beautiful thing in creation. This interview was also included in another Army film in 1945 titled Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Tale of Two Cities.

The other thing you are more likely referring to is a US military propaganda training film that is excerpted in Atomic Cafe. In this film a chaplain is telling US soldiers in a trench on the night before their participation in an atomic test in Nevada in the early 1950s not to worry about the test the next day, and that he has participated in many atomic tests. He describes what they will see and calls the detonation one of the most beautiful things he has ever seen in his life. This was made in a studio, probably Lookout Mountain Studio in Los Angleles on behalf of the military to show to troops when they arrived at Camp Desert Rock to participate in a test. The chaplain is so bad (hence the inclusion in Atomic Cafe) as to be laughable, but the servicemen are all played by actors. If this is the one you are interested in, I'm sure I have a copy of the original source film for Atomic Cafe and can find that for you if you need.

Let me know if you need more details on one of these films such as full name and production information.

Hope that this helps.

Best,

Bo Jacobs

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Re: Hiroshima bomb description?

Jen Schneider — 2013-05-10T21:09:47

You might also try the montage doc Atomic Cafe.

Jen

Jen Schneider, Associate Professor
Liberal Arts and International Studies
SH415, Colorado School of Mines
Golden, CO  80401

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Re: Hiroshima bomb description?

Greg Wise — 2013-05-10T21:01:40

Perhaps it was in "The Day After Trinity", a 1980 documentary by Jon Else? It's been years since I've seen it.

Greg

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Was the film Trinity and Beyond? (Narrated by William Shatner(!), if I remember rightly...

- Rob Gehl

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