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Patricia Morton | 1 Nov 2006 19:46
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Job Announcement: Asst. Prof. of Contemporary Art

PLEASE CIRCULATE

The Department of the History of Art at the University of California, 
Riverside announces an Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in 
international contemporary art and critical theory since 1945.  We 
seek applicants whose work addresses transnational artistic 
practices, new means of disseminating visual culture, gender and 
identity, the dynamic role played by art and visual culture in the 
contemporary world, and the impact of globalization on international 
art. The search is open to scholars in all areas of contemporary 
visual culture. The successful candidate will teach in  our 
undergraduate and graduate (M.A.) programs; help develop a proposal 
for a Ph.D. program; and advise students.

Ph.D. required.  Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, 
writing sample and three letters of recommendation to Jonathan Green, 
Chair, Contemporary Search Committee, Department of the History of 
Art, University of California Riverside, 900 University Ave., 235 
Arts Bldg., Riverside, CA 92521-0319. Review of applications will 
begin December 15, 2006 and continue until the position is filled. 
Salary commensurate with education and experience.  Position begins 
July 1, 2007.  The University of California, Riverside, is an EEO/AA 
Employer.

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Patricia A. Morton
Chair, History of Art Department
University of California, Riverside

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Leerom Medovoi | 2 Nov 2006 06:19
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CFP: Seminars at CSAUS (11/20/06; 4/19/06-4/21/06)

We invite participation in seven seminars to be held at the fifth  
annual  meeting of the Cultural Studies Association U.S. meeting,  
April 19-21 2006 in Portland, Oregon.

Seminars are small-group (minimum 8 individuals, maximum 15  
individuals) discussion sessions for which participants write brief  
“position” papers, read common texts, or exchange project abstracts  
prior to the conference.

In order to participate in a seminar, please send an email message  
directly to the indicated seminar contact person with “Seminar  
Request” in the subject line.  Your message should also include your  
name, contact information, and institutional affiliation.

Seminar requests should be sent by November 20, 2006.  You will be  
notified of your acceptance by December 20, 2006.  Seminar leaders  
will ask you for a presentation title to appear in the conference  
program.  This should allow you to pursue travel funding at your home  
institutions.

Titles and e-mail contacts for each seminar are as follows:

1) Why We Need AgriCultural Studies
Seminar Contact: Susan Squier, Penn State University (sxs62 <at> psu.edu)

2) Performativity
Seminar Contact: Matthew W. Hughey, University of Virginia  
(mwh5h <at> viriginia.edu)

3) The Resistance to Economics
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick | 2 Nov 2006 19:02
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making MediaCommons

Hello all,

I'm writing to let you know of an important development in the  
MediaCommons project, the media studies "press" that grew out of the  
meeting that we held on the future of scholarly publishing this past  
April at USC. The Institute for the Future of the Book (with the  
support of the MacArthur Foundation and the Annenberg Center for  
Communication at USC) has just launched making MediaCommons, a  
planning site where the project will begin to develop in public:  
http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org

making MediaCommons currently consists of three simple parts:

1) A weblog where Avi Santo and I, as founding editors, will think  
out loud and work with the emerging community to develop the full  
MediaCommons vision.

2) A call for "papers" -- scholarly projects that engagingly explore  
some aspect of media history, theory, or culture through an  
adventurous use of the broad palette of technologies provided by the  
digital network. These will be the first round of texts published by  
MediaCommons at the time of its launch.

3) "In Media Res" -- an experimental feature where each week a  
different scholar will present a short contemporary media clip  
accompanied by a 100-150 word commentary, alongside which a community  
discussion can take place. Sort of a "YouTube" for scholars and a  
critically engaged public, In Media Res is presented as just one of  
the many possible critical activities that MediaCommons could  
eventually host. With this feature, we are also making a stand on
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Oriana Solta Gatta | 3 Nov 2006 10:53
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international cultstud programs

If it is out there, could someone refer me to an online index of cultural studies graduate programs outside
of the U.S.?
Thanks in advance,
Oriana

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Karla-Tonella | 3 Nov 2006 18:35
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Re: international cultstud programs

>If it is out there, could someone refer me to an online index of 
>cultural studies graduate programs outside of the U.S.?

http://cultstud.org/links.htm  lists Teaching Programs in Cultural 
Studies -- most of them outside the US.

Karla Tonella

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murat.goc | 6 Nov 2006 15:18
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CFP: "Memory and Nostalgia"


EGE
UNIVERSITY
11th INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL STUDIES
SYMPOSIUM
May 9-11,
2007
Ege
University, Faculty of
Letters, Izmir,

 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
&ldquo;Memory and
Nostalgia&rdquo;
 
The
dialectic between &lsquo;Memory&rsquo; and &lsquo;Nostalgia&rsquo; has
always been a significant issue for various disciplines like history,
sociology, psychology, cultural studies, gender studies, media studies,
literature, etc. Especially nostalgia, as Sean Scanlan states, has
&ldquo;an uncanny ability to exceed any constraining definition&rdquo;
(1). As a Greek term, comprising the two parts &ldquo;nostos&rdquo; (to
return home) and &ldquo;algos&rdquo; (pain), nostalgia, Linda Hutcheon
explains, was coined in 1688 by a Swiss medical student &ldquo;as a
sophisticated &hellip; way to talk about a literally lethal kind of severe
homesickness&rdquo; (1). In Nicholas Dames&rsquo; terms, nostalgia is a
form of &ldquo;retrospect that remembers only what is pleasant and only
what the self can employ in the present; &hellip; [it is] an absence; what
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FLOW | 6 Nov 2006 16:04
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Flow Volume 5 Issue 3

Greetings,

We just wanted to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on
Television and Media Culture is out. This issue features columns by Eric
Freedman, John Corner, Sarita Malik, Tim Gibson, Katherine Haenschen, and Janet
McCabe and Kim Akass.

Please visit the journal at http://www.flowtv.org to read these columns and
contribute responses to them.

This issue's columns in brief:

"Intervention and the Kodak Moment" by Eric Freedman:
Photographic objecthood, migratory patterns, and the familial gaze in A&E's
"Intervention".

"Enemies Within" by John Corner:
The limits and possibilities of political critique on "Spooks".

"Muslim-Mania and the Liberal Impulse on British TV" by Sarita Malik:
British factual television is widely considered to be the best in the world. Yet
the coverage of stories foregrounding Muslims has been both sensationalist and
simplistic. This kind of bias emanates for two reasons: first, from commercial
pressures that even the publicly-funded BBC face, and two, from traditional
TV's quest to be seen to offer a fair and even-handed approach within the
broader paradigm of "public service broadcasting" through which it operates.

"More food for thought..." by Janet McCabe and Kim Akass:
Vesuvio, Artie Bucco, and Melodramatic Melancholy on "The Sopranos".
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Jonathan Cohn | 6 Nov 2006 20:14
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CFP: MEDIASCAPE

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

UCLA’s film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is  
now accepting submissions for the Features, Reviews, Columns and Meta  
sections of its next issue. This journal, a place for articles  
pertaining to visual culture, is peer-reviewed and published on an  
annual table. The deadline for the next issue is the 1st of January,  
2007.

Features:  Taking into account the increasingly blurry line between  
the many different components of the modern media landscape, the  
features section takes an inter-disciplinary and inter-media approach  
to scholarly discourse on the three main facets of contemporary  
visual culture: film, television and digital media. As such, the  
section seeks contributions from all areas within media studies, from  
film theory to moving image archiving, and welcomes contributions  
from other academic fields, such as history, literature, music,  
economics, political science, etc., as well as from media  
practitioners outside of academia altogether. The guiding principle  
uniting these contributions will be the perspectives, however  
disparate, that they offer on the mediascape that is common to all of  
us as media scholars, practitioners and consumers.

Submissions for the features section need not address the larger  
issues described above, so long as they offer a unique perspective on  
film, television, digital media, or any other aspect of moving image  
culture, preferably encompassing more than one. Though articles  
should be of a high level of scholarly rigor, the journal will not be  
read exclusively by media scholars. Writing should therefore be  
readable enough to be enjoyed by those outside of the field of media
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Paul Aitken | 6 Nov 2006 23:12

MA Thesis Questionnaire

Hello!

I am writing my Master’s thesis at McMaster University on online music
communities and file sharing/trading.  I would greatly appreciate your
participation in answering a short Email/Web questionnaire about your
experiences with online music communities and file sharing.  The
questionnaire will take you as long as you want to complete, and you can
skip any or all questions if you want to.

My thesis seeks to examine some of the major issues surrounding the building
and maintaining of online musical communities.  Through observation and
participation in blog culture, online music forums, and filesharing
communities, I will be discussing aspects of online music promotion and
consumption from both artist- and audience-centred perspectives.  As this
project is concerned with aspects of community and communication in online
environments, I feel it is absolutely necessary to ground these phenomena in
real practice.  To this end, the inclusion of commentary by those who make
up Internet communities provides for interesting points of departure for
further investigation.

I am very intrigued to hear what people have to say about their experiences
with music online.  I hope that the questionnaire is as fun for you to fill
out as I know it will be for me to read!

You can read more about the project at
http://www.paulaitken.com/academia_thesis.html

If you are interested in participating please read Letter of
Information/Consent and questionnaire online at
http://www.paulaitken.com/thesis_consent.html
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Imre Szeman | 7 Nov 2006 02:51
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M.A. in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory / McMaster University

Dear colleagues,

Please bring this to the attention of students who might be interested
in graduate work in cultural studies and critical theory. Apologies for
cross-postings. The deadline for applications is January 15, 2007.

Full program info can be found at:
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~cstudies/MA_CSCT.htm

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MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

McMaster University has emerged in recent years as a national centre
for the study of Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, with many
faculty across a wide range of disciplines devoted to the critical
analysis of contemporary culture. The Canadian Association of Cultural
Studies was founded by faculty members at McMaster in 2002. The English
Department offers a Combined Honours BA degree in Cultural Studies and
Critical Theory with a set of courses that have been phased in since
1997. And in 2004 the University appointed prominent cultural theorist
Henry Giroux as the first Global Television Network Chair in
Communication.

Building on these strengths, McMaster launched a new MA in Cultural
Studies and Critical Theory (CSCT) September 2005. The objective of the
program is to allow students to engage the heterogeneous body of
theories and practices associated with cultural studies and critical
theory in the critical investigation of culture. "Culture" here may be
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