http://blog.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://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14288 <pre>Greetings, ***Please Note That The Article List Has Been Updated*** The statistics tell the story of the American family: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 marked the milestone when blended families or stepfamilies became the most common form of family in America; 2,100 new blended families are formed every day in this country; 41 percent of unmarried couples living together have children living in the home; over 65 percent of Americans are now a stepparent, a stepchild, a stepsibling, a step-grandparent, or touched directly by a stepfamily scenario. Moreover, the Pew Research Center reports interracial marriages are on the rise in America--in 1980, 3 percent of married couples were mixed race; today 1 in 12 couples are interracial couples. We will produce a carefully balanced academic work that chronicles the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of American families from the colonial period to the present. Key themes will include families and culture (including mass media), families </pre> Joseph Golson 2013-06-19T15:28:43 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14287 <pre>Dear all Please find below Any questions to celebritystudies&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&lt;mailto:celebritystudies&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; please! James and Su 2nd Biannual Celebrity Studies Journal Conference – CFP http://celebritystudiesconference.com&lt;http://celebritystudiesconference.com/&gt; When: June 19-21, 2014 Where: Royal Holloway, University of London Deadline for abstracts: November 4th, 2013 (250 words, +50 word bio) Successful abstracts notified by: December 6th, 2013 Enquiries/abstracts to: celebritystudies&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&lt;mailto:celebritystudies&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; Organisers: James Bennett and Su Holmes Follow us on Twitter or join the conversation: &lt; at &gt;CSJcelebstudies #celebstudies Routledge and Royal Holloway, University of London are pleased to announce the 2nd biannual Celebrity Studies Journal conference: ‘Approaching celebrity’. Confirmed keynote speakers: • Richard Dyer (Kings College, University of London) • Diane Negra (University College Dublin) • Mandy Merck (Royal Holloway, University of London) • Sean Red</pre> Bennett, James 2013-06-18T19:34:13 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14285 <pre>Greetings CULTSTUD-L'ers, I am excited to announce that *American Asparagus*, a new journal of cultural criticism loosely affiliated with the University of Chicago, is accepting submissions through *July 1, 2013* for its first issue. We will publish a wide range of materials, but we are especially interested in essays ("academic" and otherwise) that focus on popular culture and criticism. Our design is based on principles of *generative typography*: many stylistic elements of our final version(s) will be determined by somewhat random algorithms, so no two copies we print will ever be the same. Please see our website, www.americanasparagus.org, for more information on this topic. (We are preparing a short essay to explain the details, recent history and theory of this process. This will be posted to the website in the next few weeks.) Feel free to send any work along through our website's submission form, or just send me a quick email. Please do pass this along to anyone who might be interested! Thank you</pre> Melissa Scott 2013-06-17T19:56:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14284 <pre>This week’s In Media Res theme focus is Beyond the Brand (June 17 - June 21, 2013). Here's the line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Monday, June 17, 2013 - Melissa Aronczyk (Rutgers University) and Devon Powers (Drexel University) present: Beyond the Brand Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - Nora Draper (Annenberg School for Communication) presents: Brands, Knowledge and Surveillance Wednesday, June 19, 2013 - Cesar Jimenez-Martinez (London School of Economics and Political Science) presents: The Brands Are Out Tonight Thursday, June 20, 2013 - Katie McCollough (Rutgers University) presents: Industrial and Institutional Change in Brand Environments Friday, June 21, 2013 - Jonathan M. Bullinger (Rutgers University) presents: The Lack of Specificity in Regards to Branding Theme week organized by Darcey West Morris (Towson 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 p</pre> Katharine Persephone Zakos 2013-06-17T17:11:01 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14283 <pre></pre> Gilbert B. Rodman 2013-06-16T21:40:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14282 <pre>Some folks in the the cultstud 'hood may be interested in this CFP, closing 8/1/13. Please keep in mind that inquiries/submissions should go to Kane Faucher at kfauche&lt; at &gt;uwo.c&lt;mailto:kfauche&lt; at &gt;uwo.ca&gt;a I'm just a messenger… Best, Rob Reconstruction 13.3: Exploring Digital Narcissisms Edited by Kane Faucher For Freud, narcissism is the investment of libidinal energy redirected away from objects and toward the ego, whereas Lacan tells us it is a failure arising from the mirror stage precipitating a fruitless and perpetual search for the perfected image of the self. A "healthy" narcissism entails an optimal level of self-regard and esteem, whereas an "unhealthy" narcissism can lead to emotionally destructive consequences. In this way, the operative "borderline" between healthy ego formation and reactive defense of a fragile ego construct may, in fact, be more pronounced of an issue in the online environment where this struggle may find itself trans- or superimposed. One of the major shifts in web 2.0 has </pre> Peaslee, Robert 2013-06-14T15:26:18 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14281 <pre>Mud Map: Australian Women's Experimental Writing, edited by Moya Costello, Barbara Brooks, Anna Gibbs, and Rosslyn Prosser, has just been published. In this era of mixed methods of publishing, the anthology has been published as a Special Issue of TEXT, the online journal of Writing and Writing Programs. http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue17/content.htm Mud Map is the first (Australian) collection of its kind for the new century, following an Australian tradition of similar collections per decade since around 1970 (such as Mother, I'm Rooted, F(r)ictions, Telling Ways, The Space Between). Dr Moya Costello Lecturer, Writing. P School of Arts and Social Sciences, Room B1-05, B Block, Lismore Campus Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore NSW AUSTRALIA 2480 T +61 2 66203146 F +61 2 66203990 E moya.costello&lt; at &gt;scu.edu.au CRICOS Provider Codes: NSW 01241G, QLD 03135E, WA 02621K Staff Home Page: http://www.scu.edu.au/staffdirectory/person_detail.php?person=8066 Publications: http://work</pre> Moya Costello 2013-06-13T22:44:34 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14280 <pre> Universidad de las Americas Puebla, Mexico PhD Scholarships 2013 Doctorado en Creación y teorías de la cultura Scholarships available for a 4-year PhD on Creative Practice and Cultural Theories, awarded by a competitive process. Scholarships are available to candidates of any nationality. However, applicants must be proficient in Spanish. Applicants must hold a Masters Degree by the time of their application in the areas of Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences. The main topics of research can be find in the "Art Theory and Contemporary Media" Research Group's webpage: http://web.udlap.mx/masalladeltexto/proyecto-conacyt/mas-alla-del-texto/lineas-de-investigacion/ Applications will be received until June 26th 2013. This is a link where you can find the requirements to apply: http://web.udlap.mx/masalladeltexto/files/2012/03/Convocatoria-DCTC_2013.pdf For further information please contact Dr. Alberto Lopez Cuenca alberto.lopez&lt; at &gt;udlap.mx Dr. Ileana Azor ileana.azor&lt; at &gt;udlap.mx &lt;mailto:ileana.azor&lt; at &gt;ud</pre> Gabriela Mendez Cota 2013-06-13T22:29:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14278 <pre>“Ethical Consumption?” Teaching Media 1(4): 2013 Teaching Media is dedicated to promoting a collaborative exchange and dialogue between media studies scholars about contemporary approaches to teaching and critically engaging with multi-modal media. Call for Proposals: We are unquestionably leading more technologically driven lives. New communication technologies, from laptops to smart phones, emails to text messages, are conceptualized as tools for uniting people and ideas across distances, but at what cost? From the controversy over Apple and its supplier Foxconn to concerns over the environmental impact of producing and disposing of used technology, a number of ethical issues have arisen over the conditions under which technologies and other media products (like film production) are produced. New media technologies are often marketed by producers and developers as tools for building communities and connecting people. Yet in some cases, like the use of conflict minerals in cellphones, the production </pre> Jackie Arcy 2013-06-13T14:56:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14277 <pre>THE UNBORN HUMAN, edited by Deborah Lupton: http://www.livingbooksaboutlife.org/books/The_Unborn_Human Open Humanities Press is pleased to announce the publication of The Unborn Human, the 24th book in its open access Living Books About Life series. The essays in this collection, edited by Deborah Lupton of the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney, examine the unprecedented level of discursive prominence unborn human organisms – embryos and foetuses – experience in the contemporary era. Debates about the moral status of the unborn, about their claims to personhood and whether they should be treated as full human subjects, have been ongoing for a long time, particularly in areas related to religious philosophy, bioethics and abortion politics. Over the past half-century, however, these debates have become more diversified, intense and complex in response to a number of social, technological and economic changes. This Living Book about Life covers many of thes</pre> Gary Hall 2013-06-13T11:47:41 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14273 <pre>Hello all, Apologies for cross posting. Please see the link for details of a one year post at the University of Bath, which may be of interest to some on the list. The successful candidate would mostly contribute to the delivery of the BA Sport &amp; Social Sciences programme. Please feel free to contact me via email for an informal chat about the post, Best, Michael Silk http://www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy.aspx?ref=CC1733 Dr Michael Silk Reader, Head of Physical Cultural Studies Research Group (pcs&lt; at &gt;bath) Department of Education Faculty of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY England m.silk&lt; at &gt;bath.ac.uk http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/staff/michael-silk/ http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/research/physical-cultural-studies/ https://twitter.com/PCSbath ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html </pre> Michael Silk 2013-06-12T09:26:32 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14272 <pre>Reconciliation, democracy and the challenges for Indigenous-settler engagement Ravi de Costa, York University Chair Karen Jackson, Moondani Balluk &amp; discussant Tom Clark, Victoria University Abstract: A major difficulty for the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission has been in engaging the "mainstream", a task that forms one part of its mandate for reconciliation. Initial interest and media coverage has now subsided and notwithstanding considerable effort, its critical work of reexamining the injustice of Indian Residential Schools is now largely taking place without non-Indigenous Canada "witnessing" its efforts. Could this have been different? And if so, how? These questions shape an essential policy task for reconciliation and the TRC in particular: how to create social and cultural conditions that would prevent such injustice from happening again. In three parts, this paper takes up this discussion, first considering recent debates about deliberative and agonistic democracy and the public sphere</pre> Tom Clark 2013-06-12T06:07:07 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14270 <pre>Northeast Modern Language Association 2014 Convention April 3-6, 2014 Harrisburg, PA Panel: Civil Rights Discourse in Post-Stonewall LGBTQ Texts (Women's and Gender Studies division) In the years following Stonewall, discourse around LGBTQrights has often involved a discussion of the black civil rights movement. As amodel for non-violent activist practices, as a “success” story, and mostrecently, as an analogy circulating within marriage equality debates, the blackcivil rights movement has functioned as a powerful signifier in LGBTQ activism.David Eng observes that same-sex marriage advocates “insistently comparecurrent public resistance to same-sex marriage in terms of ‘outdated’anti-miscegenation laws” (“Freedom and the Racialization of Intimacy” 48). Theuse of “like-race” arguments, while politically pragmatic, can be problematicsince this historicist narrative configures racial liberation as a “completedproject” and “forecloses the possibility of reading homosexuality and ra</pre> Laura Westengard 2013-06-11T18:35:48 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14269 <pre>We are thrilled to announce that the Literary and Cultural Studies (LCS) major at Curtin University has been SAVED! You may be aware that on 28 April 2013 it was made public that the LCS major was flagged for discontinuance. A petition to have this decision reversed was immediately set up on Change.org. Three weeks later, it was then decided that the LCS major would be “quarantined” for 12 months; there would be new enrolments in 2014 and a review of enrolment numbers and other factors after 12 months. This was due to concerns over the viability of the program. After new calculations were carried out, it has been shown that enrolment numbers for LCS are comfortably above threshold and testament of the strength of the program. It is a great pleasure to inform you that the 12 month quarantine has been lifted, and LCS is in the clear! We wish to thank you all for your support, and your recognition of the importance of Literary and Cultural Studies as an integral area in the Humanities. ===== General list i</pre> Curtin Cultural Studies Collective 2013-06-11T05:21:55 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14265 <pre>I am trying to find an article or other information that can indicate the degree to which current music and music videos (overall, by a specific genre like hip hop, etc) are intentionally written to sell/promote a consumer product (clothing, alcohol, etc). Music videos were always selling a product, but primarily the product was the artist and song and a particular view on the world, and if we happened to also want to buy what the artist was wearing or drinking or had around him/her this was a secondary outcome. I'm trying to get a handle on how common it is now for a song or music video to have a primary aim of promoting a commercial product instead of or in addition to promotion of the artist/song. I have a student who is claiming that this is now a major intention behind music production - that artists are writing the works for the purpose of advertising these commercial goods, and I'm trying to find research that can help address consideration of this issue. We're not sure if this is something limite</pre> Betsy Eudey 2013-06-10T21:59:16 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14264 <pre>The following is a partial list of books available for review for the International Journal of Communication. If interested in submitting a review or review essay to IJoC, please contact Gina Finn (ginafinn&lt; at &gt;usc.edu) or Arlene Luck (aluck&lt; at &gt;usc.edu) by July 15 with the title of book(s) you're interested in reviewing and an address that a review copy can be sent. Reviews should be about 1,500 words in length and can be submitted at the journal's website. Please visit IJoC's website at http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc to read articles and book reviews by your colleagues. Partial List of Books Available for Review: Lois Peters Agnew. Thomas De Quincey: British Rhetoric's Romantic Turn, 2012 Ahmed K. Al-Rawi. Media Practice in Iraq, 2012 Fernando Arenas. Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence, 2011 Lucas Bessire and Daniel Fisher (Eds.). Radio Fields: Anthropology and Wireless Sounds in the 21st Century, 2012 Shampa Biswas and Zahi Zalloua. Torture: Power, Democracy, and the Human Body, 2011 Jean-Francois B</pre> Annenberg Press 2013-06-10T20:09:33 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14263 <pre>*Call for Papers* *4th Annual Graduate Student Conference* *Stony Brook University, The State University of New York* *Cultural Analysis and Theory Department* * * *Stony Brook Manhattan* *October 18th &amp; 19th, 2013* * * Keynote Lecture to be delivered by: *Jasbir Puar *(Rutgers University) *“Containers”* Containers have a dual function - to store and to deliver - and thus an inherent provisionality. Unlike a boundary, a container denotes some kind of material object or thing. Both may imply delimitation, but while boundaries suggest an abstract notion of crossing, breaking and transgressing, containers draw attention to *what *is being contained, the tensile strength needed to hold it, the function of the lid and the physical force needed to unfasten that lid. The question of containment is also inherently political: it suggests a potential volatility, ephemerality or threat of the matter contained. We propose four main conceptual frames for thinking what containers are and what they do: (</pre> Brent Smith-Casanueva 2013-06-10T16:44:35 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14262 <pre> This week’s In Media Res theme focus is Brush Up Your Shakespeare (June 10 - June 14, 2013). Here's the line-up: http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/ Monday, June 10, 2013 – Greg Steirer (Dickinson College) presents: Teaching "Shakespeare": The Authorship Question in the Classroom Tuesday, June 11, 2013 – Sarah Neville (West Virginia University) presents: Sassy Gay Friend and the Half-life of Shakespeare Adaptations Wednesday, June 12, 2013 – Britta McCreary (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) presents: "That’s What He Said": Shakespearean Asides on "The Office" Thursday, June 13, 2013 – Jen Boyle and Tripthi Pillai (Coastal Carolina University) presents: Zombie Shakespeare Friday, June 14, 2013 – Ellen Joy Letostak (Edison State College) presents: Sexual Shakespeare: The ‘Boob Tube’ Remediated Theme week organized by Ethan Tussey (Georgia State University). To receive links for each day’s posts and stay up to date on our latest calls for curators, please b</pre> Katharine Persephone Zakos 2013-06-10T16:11:51 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14261 <pre>*CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS* *CANADIAN NETWORK FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CULTURE (CNPC)/ RÉSEAU CANADIEN POUR LA PSYCHANALYSE ET LA CULTURE (RCPC)* (le français suit) Far from confining itself to the clinical sphere, psychoanalysis has, since Freud’s early explorations, set itself the task of challenging the assumptions of human knowledge. One of the most influential discourses of our late modernity, psychoanalysis has transformed, and continues to transform, the way we think about mental and social life, going so far as to question the premise that the two spheres are separable from one another. Scholars from across the humanities and social sciences, and from the so-called hard and applied sciences as well, have responded to the provocations of Freud, his followers, and critics. Especially provocative has been the concept of the unconscious – the idea, to be precise, that certain fundamental workings of thought proceed in their own logic in the absence of our knowledge. </pre> Imre Szeman 2013-06-10T16:08:15 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14260 <pre>Apologies for cross posting. The closing date for abstracts is this Friday, June 14th. MEDIATING CITYSCAPES Den Haag/The Hague 25-27 September, 2013 If urban space has historically been defined by the relation between static structures and mobile subjects, this dichotomy is fast giving way to hybrid spatialities characterized by dynamic flows which not only dissolve the fixity of traditional modes of spatial enclosure, but problematize the unified presence of the subject traversing their contours. Scott McQuire, The Media City (2008) As Scott McQuire suggests, the contemporary city is marked by a number of tensions found between fixity and flow and the resulting hybrid spatialities which are shaped by a multifarious range of mediations. Historically, certain of these mediations, such as film, photography, music, art, and more recently, mobile and locative media, have helped shape the diverse strata which compose both the material </pre> Geoff Stahl 2013-06-10T13:51:25 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.culture.studies.general/14259 <pre>Hi A recording of the recent 'After Neoliberalism? The Kilburn Manifesto' event, with Mike Rustin, Doreen Massey, Andrew Simms and Deborah Grayson discussing the document written by the founder editors of Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture -- Stuart Hall, Doreen Massey and Mike Rustin -- is now available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIVxeJX-3qU&amp;feature=youtu.be The next event, Vocabularies of the Economy, with Doreen Massey, Emma Dowling and Heather Wakefield is this Thursday 13 June in London, details here: http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/noticeboard.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to Soundings here for the introductory offer of £25 a year (or £20 for PDFs): http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/soundings/orders.html ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html </pre> Jo Littler 2013-06-10T11:00:36 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.culture.studies.general