http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14236 <pre> &lt;http://csws.uoregon.edu/?attachment_id=16568&gt; a The Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, Robert D. Clark Honors College, and the UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives As part of the Center for the Study of Women in Society¹s 40th Anniversary Celebration, and as a way of honoring the role that Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) played in the founding of CSWS, we are collaborating with the University of Oregon Knight Library and the Robert D. Clark Honors College (CHC) to create the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship. (Guidelines PDF &lt;http://csws.uoregon.edu/wp-content/docs/grants/Le_Guin_Fellowship_guideline s.pdf&gt; ) Purpose: The intention of the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship is to encourage research within collections in the area of feminist science fiction. The Knight Library houses the papers of authors Ursula K. Le Guin, Joanna Russ, Kate Wilhelm, Suzette Haden Elgin, Sally Mi</pre> Bryce Peake 2013-05-23T23:56:53 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14235 <pre>All, You are warmly invited to Tom Phillips' A Humument: treatments, reflections, responses at Birkbeck, University of London Saturday 13 July 2013, 10-5pm Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Reflections on A Humument from different periods and disciplines, including papers and discussion by Luisa Calè, Dennis Duncan, Holly Pester, Gill Partington, James Kidd, Zara Dinnen, Patrizia di Bello, Adam Smyth, Carol Watts, Alex Latter and -- most importantly -- Tom Phillips himself. Details: ahumument2013&lt; at &gt;gmail.com Programme can be dowloaded here: http://is.gd/ElhHdV For more on A Humument, go to http://humument.com/ Please do get in touch at ahumument2013&lt; at &gt;gmail.com for further information Regards, Adam Smyth, Gill Partington, Zara Dinnen. Birkbeck, University of London ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html </pre> Adam Gill Zara Birkbeck 2013-05-23T14:29:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14234 <pre>With all apologies for cross-posting, and sincere desire for a terrifically engaged working session of scholars of all kinds! Dr. Kirsten Pullen Ray A. Rothrock '77 Research Fellow Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Performance Studies Director, Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts Texas A&amp;M University TAMU4240 College Station, TX 77843-4240 kpullen&lt; at &gt;tamu.edu Dancing Sex: Eroticism, Embodiment, and Agency in Performance Dr. Kirsten Pullen, Texas A&amp;M University kpullen&lt; at &gt;tamu.edu&lt;mailto:kpullen&lt; at &gt;tamu.edu&gt; Working Session Rationale Dance is always already bound up with sex. Salome deployed dance to seduce a saint; young devadasis danced their sensual devotion in Hindi temples; Romantic era ballerinas revealed scandalous stretches of breeches-clad legs; the rock star Prince urged a ballet dancer to “get off, get off, GET OFF” as she penetrated another dancer’s mouth with her pointe shoe. The inescapable sexuality of the dancing body infuses traditional and popular d</pre> Kirsten Pullen 2013-05-23T14:05:21 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14233 <pre>I am delighted to announce the launch of Rowman &amp; Littlefield International, a new independent academic publisher focusing its publishing in the disciplines of: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Politics &amp; International Relations and Economics. Please visit our website: www.rowmaninternational.com for further information. You can also follow us on Twitter &lt; at &gt;RowmanInternat We will publish monographs, edited collections and supplementary titles, for a scholarly and advanced student audience, representing the latest research in some of the most exciting areas of Cultural Studies. In particular, we are interested in projects that explore: •Critical and Cultural Theory •Science, Technology and Culture •Globalisation •Asian Cultural Studies •Identity and difference •Conflict, Change and Precarity We are intrigued by the interdisciplinary nature of our subject areas and aim to publish titles at the interface of Cultural Studies, Politics and Philosophy. We are passionate about bringing incisiv</pre> Martina O'Sullivan 2013-05-23T10:57:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14232 <pre>Dear list, This position at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, may be of interest to list members: Lectureship in Media and Communication Studies Available from 1 September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter You will have a PhD in media and communication studies, or another relevant subject area. You will be able to teach journalism studies and aspects of 'promotional culture', including the critical analysis of public relations, marketing, branding and advertising. You must be able to demonstrate a developing record of research in media and communication studies, with a clear indication of potential to achieve internationally recognised standards of excellence, preferably in the areas indicated above. University of Leeds Grade 8 (£37,382 - £44,607 p.a.) Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Stephen Coleman, email s.coleman&lt; at &gt;leeds.ac.uk&lt;mailto:s.coleman&lt; at &gt;leeds.ac.uk&gt; Closing Date: 11 June 2013 Interviews are expected to be held on 10 July 2013 Further details can</pre> Bethany Klein 2013-05-23T08:58:09 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14231 <pre>The editors, Katarzyna Marciniak, Aniko Imre and Aine O’Healy, are happy to announce the release of the following books in the Global Cinema series published by Palgrave-MacMillan: The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas Edited By Mette Hjort Silencing Cinema Film Censorship around the World Edited By Daniel Biltereyst and Roel Vande Winkel Transnational Stardom International Celebrity in Film and Popular Culture Edited By Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits Feminism in a Globalized Present Krista Geneviève Lynes Please find more information about the series here: http://us.macmillan.com/series/GlobalCinema The editors are interested in receiving queries or proposals on any aspects of global cinemas. Please write to all three: marcinia&lt; at &gt;ohio.edu imre&lt; at &gt;usc.edu aohealy&lt; at &gt;gmail.com ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html </pre> Aniko Imre 2013-05-22T18:44:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14230 <pre>Fembot Unconference: Multiplying Standpoints and Participatory Feminism July 18-19, 2013 White Stag, Portland, Oregon The Fembot Collective &lt;http://fembotcollective.org&gt; , and its peer-reviewed journal Ada &lt;http://adanewmedia.org&gt; , value and feature intersectionality in terms of content, membership, editorial practices, and organizational structure. This unconference addresses issues related to our networks and their geographical and institutional limitations at a critical juncture in Fembot¹s history. In order to ensure that our politics are mirrored in our practices, we have invited five consultants (see below) with demonstrated expertise in participatory media theory and production to provide guidance in thinking about these issues. Day one will initiate a series of discussions organized around questions of accessibility, participation, strategies of inclusion, editorial bias, and the crafting of Ada Issue Four which will address these issues in journal form. Day two will be dedicated to a hack-a-tho</pre> Bryce Peake 2013-05-22T17:38:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14229 <pre>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 consume</pre> Stevphen Shukaitis 2013-05-22T06:38:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14228 <pre>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 lea</pre> madison moore 2013-05-22T13:50:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14227 <pre>*Apologies for cross-posting* Call for Papers: New Media &amp; 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 de</pre> Bertha Chin 2013-05-22T09:55:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14226 <pre>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 · </pre> Alzena MacDonald 2013-05-22T05:21:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14225 <pre>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, rhe</pre> Kevin Healey 2013-05-22T01:52:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14224 <pre>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 i</pre> Salo Merja 2013-05-21T19:11:00 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14223 <pre>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 </pre> Katharine Persephone Zakos 2013-05-20T19:00:38 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14222 <pre>Apologies for cross-posting! ----------------------------------------- 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 becom</pre> Lindsay Palmer 2013-05-20T16:23:41 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14221 <pre>Sponsored in part by the Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html </pre> Michelle Rodino-Colocino 2013-05-18T03:34:06 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14220 <pre>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</pre> Stevphen Shukaitis 2013-05-15T17:01:25 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14219 <pre>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 p</pre> Caitlin Bruce 2013-05-15T14:16:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14218 <pre>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_</pre> Amanda Lashaw 2013-05-14T21:01:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14217 <pre> 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 ou</pre> Katharine Persephone Zakos 2013-05-13T16:42:27 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14216 <pre>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, </pre> Joanna Zylinska 2013-05-13T09:11:45 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.studies.general