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Chvasta, Marcy | 1 Mar 2007 16:05

New Issue of +Liminalities+


+Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies+ is pleased to announce the release of issue 3.1.
http://liminalities.net

Contents:

"Mirrored Asylum: Reflections on Naming, Home and Subjectivity in Ireland"
by Sara McKinnon

"On Answering Machines and the Voice Abject"
by Joshua Gunn, with Flash design by Crystal Watson

"Love, Longing, Language, Lust: An Erotic Daydream Post-September 11th"
script and performance notes by Laura Winton

"Methodology of the Heart: A Performative Writing Response"
by M. Heather Carver

Editor's Introduction: Performance & Pedagogy
by John T. Warren

+Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies+ is a peer-reviewed online journal for performance
studies scholarship, criticism, praxis, and pedagogy. We welcome the submission of essays,
interviews, reviews, performance scripts, poetry, and multimedia projects. We support a wide range of
performance perspectives, practices, methodologies, media, contexts, styles, and sites. All
submissions should be in cross-platform formats. For information or inquiries, contact Marcyrose
Chvasta or Michael LeVan at editor <at> liminalities.net.

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Gary Hall | 1 Mar 2007 17:11
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Culture Machine: call for contributions

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

CULTURE MACHINE
http://www.culturemachine.net
http://www.culturemachine.net/csearch

Open access publishing has been operating successfully within the
sciences for over 15 years now. Yet compared to other online movements
and practices, such as creative commons, free software, open source and
peer-to-peer, which have variously been regarded as providing models for
new regimes of culture, new kinds of networked institutions, even for
the future organisation of society, the open access movement has had
relatively little impact on the humanities to date.

By making the research literature freely available to researchers,
teachers, students, investigative journalists, policy makers, union
organisers, NGOs, political activists, protest groups and the general
public alike, on a worldwide basis, open access is seen as having the
potential to break down some of the barriers between the university and
the rest of society, as well as between countries in the so-called
‘developed’ and ‘undeveloped’ worlds. It is also held as helping to
overcome the ‘Westernization’ of the research literature through the
creation of a far more decentralised and distributed research community.
So why, given the often radical nature of the content of their work,
have those in the humanities, and to a lesser extent the social
sciences, been so reluctant to challenge what John Willinsky in The
Access Principle refers to as the ‘complacent and comfortable habits of
scholarly publishing’? Why have those in the sciences apparently proved
the more institutionally, socially and politically progressive in this
respect?
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David M Silver | 1 Mar 2007 18:08
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new reviews in cyberculture studies (march 2007)

folks,

a new set of book reviews [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/booklist.asp ] from
the resource center for cyberculture studies [ http://rccs.usfca.edu/ ]
for march 2007:

1. Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet Age
Author: Mary Chayko
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 2002
Review 1: Chrys Egan
Author Response: Mary Chayko

2. New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality
Editors: Christina Garsten & Helena Wulff
Publisher: Berg Publishers, 2003
Review 1: Petra Sonderegger

3. Saved from Oblivion: Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams
Author: Andreas Kitzmann
Publisher: Peter Lang, 2004
Review 1: Timothy D. Ray
Author Response: Andreas Kitzmann

4. The Wired Homestead: A Sourcebook on the Internet and the Family
Editors:  Joseph Turow & Andrea Kavanaugh
Publisher:  MIT Press, 2003
Review 1: Carolyn Jabs

5. Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS
Editors: Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier
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Daragh O'Reilly | 1 Mar 2007 18:45
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Seminar: 'Creativity and the Art Enterprise' - Artist-Brands / The Art Firm / Museum Governance

With apologies for cross-posting
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UK ESRC Seminar Series: “Rethinking Arts Marketing”
Seminar Five: Creativity and the Art Enterprise
Date/Time: Wednesday 11th April 2007
Venue: University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland

Speakers:

Pierre Guillet de Monthoux
Ben Jeffries
Ruth Rentschler
Jonathan Schroeder

The programme for this event has now been finalised, and is shown below,
together with administrative arrangements and other information.

PROGRAMME

9.30-10.00
Coffee and Registration in the MacRobert Arts Centre, University of Stirling

10.00-10.05	Introduction and Welcome

10.05-11.15
Sex, Lies and Museum Governance: When Creativity Goes Awry
by Ruth Rentschler, Deakin University

With so many controversies in museum governance in the past decade or more,
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Jo Littler | 1 Mar 2007 21:18

Albanian/Eastern European TV institutions

Hi

I have a student who wants to write about the changes happening  
within TV broadcasting institutions in Albania. Does anyone happen to  
know of any media and cultural studies texts which look at TV  
broadcasting institutions there - or in the Balkans or Eastern Europe  
in general?

If anyone does and could reply to me off-list, that would be great.

thanks

Jo 

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Jeremy Gilbert | 2 Mar 2007 18:04

Music Culture Research Symposium at the University of East London

Music Culture Research at the University of East London

A symposium presented by the School of Social Sciences, Media and  
Cultural Studies, University of East London

March 14th 2007

2:00pm – 7:00pm

Room E.1.07

Docklands Campus

University of East London

(Cyprus DLR)

http://www.uel.ac.uk/

All welcome

For further information contact  Jeremy Gilbert j.gilbert <at> uel.ac.uk

Speakers:Andrew Blake, Andrew Branch, Yumi Hara Cawkwell, Jeremy  
Gilbert, Steve Goodman, Tim Lawrence, Helen Reddington, Jo Thomas.

Papers and Contributors

Andrew Blake
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Catherine Baker | 2 Mar 2007 22:48

Fwd: Narrating the Nation Conference, Reus, 4-5 October 2007

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From: Hugh O'Donnell <hod <at> gcal.ac.uk>
Date: 02-Mar-2007 16:50
Subject: Narrating the Nation Conference, Reus, 4-5 October 2007
To: MECCSA <at> jiscmail.ac.uk

 *Narrating the Nation
Television Narratives and National Identities
*An International Meeting, Reus (Catalonia), 4-5 October 2007

http://www.urv.cat/comunicacio/narratingthenation.htm

Narration is a powerful tool for the definition of reality and television
remains even today the medium that has the most pervasive presence in
everyday life. Many authors have noted the importance of television in the
construction of collective identities and more specifically in the
definition of national communities. However, less work has focused on
television narratives in fictional and reality programs (drama, comedy,
documentary, reality shows, entertainment, current affairs and news, even
adverts) and their implications for the changing processes of national
identity formation.
Narrating the Nation: Television Narratives and National Identities aims to
bring together scholars researching the processes of national identity
building in relation to television narratives and the ways in which national
identity is reflected in and itself influences television programs in
content and form. Thus, this event will be an opportunity to strengthen
international relations in a field in which scholars often work solely or
primarily within their own national social, political and media contexts.
This conference is conceived as an open meeting for the exchange of
experiences in the fields of television fictional and reality based
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Janet Staiger | 5 Mar 2007 16:00
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CFP--Media History Conference

Media History:  What are the Issues?
Call for Papers

University of Texas at Austin
October 11-13, 2007

Autodidacts produced the first histories of film and television; 
academicians contributed tomes from the 1960s on, with waves of fact-philia 
and empiricism-phobia following.  Now, after 100 years of writing media 
histories, it seems opportune both to take stock and to move forward, 
perhaps optimistically.

This conference seeks to ask:  Where are we now?  What are the issues today 
in writing media history and histories?   What have we accomplished?  Where 
might we go?  For whom and why?   Papers may present historical work in 
progress but should indicate a metahistorical or historiographical 
contribution.  Papers may deal with a single medium or the problems of 
writing multi-media or convergent histories.  Papers may consider a 
"single" production/reception space (e.g., Bollywood, Hong Kong, the 
Kayapo, Ingmar Bergman, Al Jazeera, MySpace, YOUTUBE, the ColbertNation) or 
cultural flows.

Confirmed keynote speakers are:
         Michele Hilmes, University of Wisconsin, Madison
         Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University
         Kathleen Newman, University of Iowa
         Chon Noriega, University of California at Los Angeles
         Gaylyn Studlar, University of Michigan

Abstracts of no more than 750 words and author biographies of no more than
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Leanne Downing | 6 Mar 2007 05:20
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cfp Screen Scapes

Please circulate widely and apologies for cross posting.

Call for Papers 
  Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media
  Abstract Deadline: June 31st 2007 
  Scheduled Release Date: August 20th 2007

  SCREEN-SCAPES: 
  Screen technologies have become an integral part of the urban landscape. From the gigantic screens that
adorn the sides of city buildings to the hand held screens of mobile phones and personal media players,
screen technologies inform the architectural, economic and experiential parameters of our urban
locales. For this special edition of Refractory we are seeking papers that deal with screen technologies
and the spaces that they occupy. Large or small, outdoors or indoors, public or private, we want to know
your thoughts on how screen technologies shape and influence the urban environment.

  A broad and multi-disciplinary approach to this topic is encouraged. Possible areas of consideration may
include, but are not restricted to: 

   Discussions of the affective/ economic/ architectural/ geographic/ sensory/ and experiential
influences of screen technologies   
   Analyses of screen cultures – festivals/ cinemas/ drive-ins/ 3D screens/ outdoor cinemas/ independent
exhibitions  
   Digital technologies and multi-platform release mechanisms  
   Historical influences on screen technologies and entertainment space
  Please submit completed articles of 3,000-7,000 words to the guest 
editor Dr. Leanne Downing (downingl <at> unimelb.edu.au). Articles are to be submitted electronically as a
rich text format document by May 31 2007. Articles should be formatted using the Chicago Author-Date
System (see Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed). Refractory is a fully refereed journal. All submissions
will be anonymously peer reviewed before acceptance.
  http://www.refractory.unimelb.edu.au
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Reena Dobson | 6 Mar 2007 07:40
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CFP - In the Pipeline: New Directions in Cultural Research on Water - extended CFP deadline

apologies for x-postings

 UPDATED AND EXTENDED CFP DEADLINE FOR:

IN THE PIPELINE: New Directions in Cultural Research on Water

A SYMPOSIUM - 19-20 JULY, 2007
Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  16 MARCH, 2007

SUPPORTED BY:
*          Centre for Cultural Research, University Of Western Sydney
*          ARC Cultural Research Network
*          Australian Academy Of Humanities
*          Australian Water Association

With drought and climate instability putting pressure on current and
future water supplies, there have been many calls for change in water
use cultures. Yet almost all Australian research on water users has
investigated the attitudes and socio-demographic characteristics of
individuals, not cultures, usually with a view to changing or predicting
individual behaviour.

Meanwhile, unknown numbers of researchers in Australia and overseas are
working on projects investigating water use and water-related issues
from cultural or sociotechnical perspectives, and/or with strong
concerns for cultural dimensions of water practices, ownership,
technologies, uses and values.  These researchers can be found in
government and non-government organisations, and across a variety of
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