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danna c. bell-russel | 2 Jun 2003 18:32
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Courage, Patriotism, Community Web Site at Library of Congress

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Courage, Patriotism, Community Web Site Debuts on Library of Congress website

   In honor of Memorial Day and in celebration of the American spirit, the 
Library of Congress is
   launching a new Web site highlighting its collections of veterans’ 
stories, patriotic music and
   community life. The new site, called Courage, Patriotism, Community, is 
accessible at
   http://www.loc.gov/courage.

   Courage, Patriotism, Community comprises three Web presentations: 
Experiencing War: Stories from
   the Veterans History Project; Patriotic Melodies: Selections from I Hear 
America Singing; and
   Community Roots: Selections from the Local Legacies Project.

   Experiencing War (http://www.loc.gov/warstories) features selected 
stories from the Library’s
   Veterans History Project in the American Folklife Center. Created by an 
act of Congress in 2000, the
   Veterans History Project provides veterans and the civilians who 
supported them the opportunity to
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G K Blank | 2 Jun 2003 21:28
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Re: call for proposals


Hello--has anyone put a proposal together for Understanding Sport project,
or the Understanding Modernity/Postmodernity, or Understanding Popular
Music?

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Kim Blank, PhD
Professor, Director of Writing
Dept of English
University of Victoria, Box 3070
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada   V8W 3W1

On 5/14/03 8:28 PM, "Jennifer Webb" <jlw <at> comedu.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

> Understanding X
> 
> SAGE Publications¹ Understanding X series aims to publish a range of
> books for undergraduate students studying contemporary culture
> (fields, issues, politics), and cultural theorists & theories.
> 
> The rapid development of information and knowledge in the cultural
> sphere, and the complexity of the material with which cultural theory
> and sociology students must engage, make it extremely difficult for
> students to understand, absorb or apply key concepts in their work.
> Nor can they easily make sense of why particular theorists and
> theories are so central to this field, largely because much cultural
> theory is written in what is, for newcomers, a rather impenetrable
> style. Books in this series provide an engaging and accessible
> introduction to those theorists, theories and fields which students
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Stephen Muecke | 4 Jun 2003 08:08
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Cultural Studies Review 9:1


Announcing the new issue of Cultural Studies Review

Affective Community
May 2003

'Affective Community' is both a special section in and the tag for the 
new issue of Cultural Studies Review. Facilitated by co-editor Linnell 
Secomb, this section contains essays that explore the possibility of 
community based on difference. Writers included are Rosalyn Diprose, 
Robyn Ferrell, Leela Gandhi, Fiona Probyn, Katrina Schlunke and Nikki 
Sullivan. Also in this issue Scott McQuire writes on Big Brother, while 
Paul Dawson writes on creative writing and the new humanities and 
Heather Kerr, on fictocritical empathy. A strong line-up of reviews 
beckons.

In 2003 Cultural Studies Review continues to offer a rich selection of 
contemporary writing in cultural studies, as well as re-invigorated 
reviews and new writing sections. Editors Chris Healy and Stephen Muecke 
are pleased to announce that they are now joined by Amanda Lohrey as New 
Writing Editor and Ruth Barcan as Reviews Editor.
For more information on Cultural Studies Review, including samples of 
published material, see our website < 
http://www.csreview.unimelb.edu.au>.

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Jon Simons | 4 Jun 2003 14:18
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Image and Critique conference

Forthcoming: International Conference for Theorists & Practitioners

IMAGE & CRITIQUE - Image - Thought - Text
Saturday 13th - Sunday 14th September 2003
University of Nottingham (UK)

Plenary Speakers include: W.J.T. Mitchell; James Elkins; Marquard Smith

Please find attached a leaflet and booking form, alternatively further
information available at: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/nirv

A significant intellectual and political shift has directed focus away
from textuality, towards visuality and the image, but to what extent has
this moved us on in our approach to images, and the theory that comes
after?  This conference seeks to question the apparent contest between
images and text associated with this shift, a contest that frequently
impels academics and practitioners to privilege one side or the other. In
bringing together key international theorists from across a range of
disciplines, along with a number of innovative artists and practitioners
whose work incorporates and challenges the relationship between image and
text, the conference will assess the role of images in cultural and
political critique. Three inter-relating sessions will explore issues of:
(1) Visual theory; (2) Visual rhetoric; and (3) Visual literacy.

Additional activities include: a practical workshop, 'Figuring out
Thinking', in which participants will be encouraged to experiment with the
formation of critical image constellations, and a film screening of the
work of arts collective Blast Theory, whose use of virtual environments
and complex visual constellations pose questions of the ideologies present
in the visual and digital informations that envelop us.
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danna c. bell-russel | 5 Jun 2003 13:53
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Save the Date for the 3rd Annual National Book Festival

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2003 NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL TO BE HELD OCTOBER 4 ON THE NATIONAL MALL

Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced Saturday, Oct. 4, 
as the date for the third annual National Book Festival. The popular 
festival is organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress and hosted 
by Mrs. Laura Bush. This year’s festival will be bigger and better than 
ever—with new pavilions for “Home & Family,” “Teens and Children,” and 
“Poetry”—and takes place rain or shine from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the 
National Mall between 7th and 14th streets in Washington, D.C.

Pavilions devoted to “Children,” “Fiction & Imagination,” “Mystery” and 
“History & Biography” are back again, featuring readings and performances 
by more than 80 award-winning authors, illustrators and storytellers. Also 
scheduled are appearances by popular storybook and television characters 
for the kids and book sales and author signings for their parents. Other 
pavilions will include displays of literacy and reading promotion materials 
from around the country and offer fun, hands-on activities for all ages. 
And it’s all free!

Invited to appear at the 2003 National Book Festival are Robert Caro, 
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Master of the Senate,” the third volume 
in his series “The Years of Lyndon Johnson”; the 2003 Caldecott (for 
illustration) and Newbery (for story) award winners in children’s 
literature, Eric Rohmann and Avi; mystery writer Laura Lippman, whose
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Helen Lee | 5 Jun 2003 16:58
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several questions on how one would introduce cultural studies to undergraduate students

1). within the tri-boro region in new york, which school is the leading
institution in cultural studies? 
2). does city university or state university of new york offer a degree in
cultural studies? 
3). can anyone recommend an introductory text book that defines cultural
studies for undergraduate students? 

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Sumita Chakravarty | 5 Jun 2003 21:20
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Re: several questions on how one would introduce cultural studies to undergraduate students

Try Elaine Balwin et al's "Introducing Cultural Studies."

At New School University's undergraduate Lang College, we offer a
concentration in Cultural Studies and Media.

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danna c. bell-russel | 5 Jun 2003 22:19
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Announcement of update of After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor

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D Day Release of Updated Pearl Harbor Audio Presentation

On June 6, the 59th anniversary of the D Day invasion, a new version of the 
American Memory presentation After the Day of Infamy: "Man-on-the-Street" 
Interviews Following the Attack on Pearl Harbor will be released. The 
updated presentation includes a revised homepage, a "Related Resources" 
section, several new photographs of interviewers along with other changes 
designed to improve web site navigation.

The presentation was created by the American Folklife Center in the Library 
of Congress. The address is http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afcphhtml.

The Pearl Harbor interviews were part of the Radio Research Project of the 
Library of Congress, which was initiated by Librarian Archibald MacLeish in 
1941 as an experimental project funded by the Rockefeller Foundation to 
produce "popular education" radio programming related to local, regional, 
and national history, traditions, and lore in America. The aim was to 
prevent fascism from taking root in the United States during a time when 
democracies throughout Europe were under siege.

In mid-1941, the project's team of writers, researchers, and recording 
engineers began to move out into local communities to interview and record 
the speech, music and songs of ordinary Americans from all parts of the 
country, describing their lives, singing their songs, and telling their 
stories.
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Jo Littler | 6 Jun 2003 20:28

Jobs in Media and Cultural Studies and Journalism

> Please circulate - thanks.
>
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> Media, Communications and Cultural Studies
> Middlesex University, London
>
> Several new positions are available:
>
> Lecturer in Media Communications
> £24,679 - £30, 157     (Ref ARTS54G)
>
> An opportunity to contribute to teaching, research and administration 
> within the Media and Cultural Studies programmes of the curriculum 
> area of Media, Communication and Cultural studies.  You should:
> Have research and teaching interests in one or more of the 
> following: political economy, marketing, advertising, sociology of the 
> media
> Be experienced in teaching and assessing Media and Cultural Studies 
> at degree level
>
> Lecturer in Cultural Studies
> £24, 679 - £30, 157     (Ref ARTS48G)
>
> You would contribute to teaching, research and administration within 
> the Media and Cultural Studies programme of the curriculum area of 
> Media, Communication and Cultural Studies.
> You should:
> Have research and teaching interests in one or more of the 
> following: cultural theory and identity, popular culture, theories of 
> postmodernism, information society.
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Ric Brown | 6 Jun 2003 07:30
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Cultural Studies

At Pratt, we just started an undergraduate B.A. Program in Cultural 
Studies.  You can go to the pratt web site at www.pratt.edu and download 
the current catalog.  The Pratt website is under construction right now, 
however, but is still workable.

I also teach the Intro to Cultural Studies course.  You can see some of 
the past syllabi at http://www.geocities.com/brbgc

Cheers,
Ric

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Asst. Professor of Cultural Studies
Department of Social Science & Cultural Studies
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Pratt Institute
Dekalb Hall, 3rd Floor
200 Willoughby Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11205
Vox 1.718.636.3533     fax 1.718.636.3573

BRBrownIII <at> earthlink.net

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