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Randy Ontiveros | 1 Oct 2009 19:05
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Call for Papers: Environmentalism and Aesthetics in Chicano/a History (NACCS 2010)

Call for Papers
National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies
Seattle, Washington (April 7-10, 2010)

Environmentalism and Aesthetics in Chicano/a History

During the 1800s, Anglo-American explorers and settlers justified their
expropriation of Southwestern lands with the argument that Indians and
Mexicans in the region were incapable of taking proper care of the
region’s rich natural resources. Such discourses manifest themselves
today in the popular perception that Mexican-Americans and Mexican
immigrants lag behind Anglos when it comes to ecological awareness, but
as commentators like Devon Peña and Laura Pulido note there is in fact a
complex environmental ethic that permeates Chicano/a history. This panel
will examine the role that aesthetics has played in creating, debating,
and reproducing green politics within Mexican-American communities since
1848. Papers can address any form of Chicana/o cultural production
(visual arts, fiction, poetry, music, dance, etc.) and its relationship
to environmentalism.

Possible topics could include:

· Chicano movement art and environmentalism

· Landscape and the /corrido /tradition

· Hispano art and its relation to land use struggles in New Mexico

· Mexican-American art as a challenge to the dominant environmental movement
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clare birchall | 2 Oct 2009 13:08
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Culture Machine: Books in search of reviewers


Culture Machine <http://www.culturemachine.net> is seeking reviewers for a number of books. Our
reviews are between 1500-4000 words long. We’d like to receive the completed review within three
months from the receipt of the book.

If you’re seriously interested in reviewing one of the books below, please email Clare Birchall at
<c.s.birchall <at> kent.ac.uk>, indicating which book you’re willing to review and enclosing a short
CV/bio for yourself.

Thank you!
Clare

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Books available for review:

Georgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things On Method (Zone 2009)

Peter Sloterdijk, Terror From the Air (semiotexte)

Jacques Ranciere, The Future of the Image (Verso)

Joseph J. Tanke, Foucault’s Philosophy of Art: A Geneology of Modernity (Continuum)

Carolyn D’Cruz, Identity Politics in Deconstruction (Ashgate)

Sean Gaston, Derrida, Literature and War: Absence and the Chance of Meeting (Continuum 2009).

Simon Wortham and Alison Weiner, Encountering Derrida: Legacies and the Futures of Deconstruction
(Continuum 2007)
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Stevphen Shukaitis | 2 Oct 2009 11:16

Studies in Transversality: Militant Research London October 13-14

Studies in Transversality: Militant Research
hosted by Micropolitics Research Group

Tuesday October 13th
PUBLIC LECTURE by Colectivo Situaciones (Buenos Aires)
17.00 – 19.00
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College

Wednesday October 14th
PUBLIC SEMINAR with A Traversad por la Cultura (Madrid), Colectivo  
Situaciones (Buenos Aires), Euromayday Hamburg, S.a.l.e. (Venice),  
Universidad Nomada (Barcelona),  and many others.
14.00 – 19.00
RHB room 342 (in red brick main building), Goldsmiths College

Studies in Transversality is a series of encounters between  
researchers, cultural workers, and organisers who are concerned with  
the contexts and consequences of their practices beyond their  
respective fields of specialisation, and who wish to open new lines of  
subjectivation.  This session is the first of the year and brings  
together the practices of Colectivo Situaciones (Argentina), and a  
number of groups who are researching and organising around questions  
of creative labour, knowledge production and contemporary social  
movements in the UK and Europe today. Working through the notion of  
militant research, the session aims to examine the separations between  
university based academic research, cultural workers, and activists,  
the reason why these separations exist, and to share the working  
methods of these groups.

About Militant Research
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Totosy de Zepetnek, Steven | 3 Oct 2009 00:27
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please post

Call for papers: American Comparative Literature Association Annual  
Meeting 2010: "Creoles, Diasporas, Cosmopolitanisms" http:// 
www.acla.org , 1-4 April 2010, New Orleans. Seminar on "Anti-Semitism  
and Anti-Roma in Post-1989 Central and East Europe," Org. Steven  
Totosy de Zepetnek http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweblibrary/totosycv .  
The seminar "Anti-Semitism and Anti-Roma in Post-1989 Central and East  
Europe" is about the situation of Jews and Roma in Central and East  
Europe since the demise of the Soviet empire. "Central and East  
Europe" is defined as the regions of the former Austro-Hungarian  
empire and including the Baltics and the former East Germany. While a  
cultural, political, and social phenomenon across Europe, it is in  
particular since the demise of the Soviet empire that anti-Semitism  
and anti-Other occurs in the former states of Soviet colonialism. With  
regard to Austria and the the former East Germany as in post-1989  
Germany, the situation of the Jewry and the Roma is in many ways  
different than in the former communist states, nevertheless the  
phenomenon exists to a high degree. In the case of Austria and Hungary  
the phenomenon is of particular interest as these two countries have  
been involved in the Second World War including the extermination of  
Jews and Roma but did not undergo Vergangenheitsbewältigung similar to  
Germany, albeit for different reasons. In Hungary, for example, the  
term "cosmopolitan" is used as a negative term referring to Jews. In  
countries such as Slovakia or Romania, the phenomenon is also  
particularly virulent. The seminar invites abstracts of papers on  
aspects and occurrences of anti-Semitism, anti-Roma, and anti-Other  
(i.e., anti-immigrant) studied and analyzed in various fields  
including comparative literature, cultural studies, media studies  
(i.e., the phenomenon as it occurs in various media including new  
media), sociology, political science, philosophy, etc.; papers in  
interdisciplinarity are also welcome. Following peer review, selected
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Hakim Abdi | 3 Oct 2009 10:35
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Reminder: Conference on Applied Interculturality Research | Deadline (Oct 15th) Approaching


Dear Colleagues,

cAIR10 is a conference on Applied Interculturality Research taking place at the University of Graz,
Austria from April 7th to 10th, 2010. cAIR combines the resources of research (universities,
institutes) and practice (government, civil society, NGOs, schools, media) to raise awareness about
sexism, racism and xenophobia and reduce its prevalence and impact. cAIR helps practitioners to benefit
from researchers, and researchers from practitioners - and promotes high standards in both areas.
Keynote addresses will be given by international leaders in interculturality research and practice.

The extended deadline for submission of project summaries is October 15th - further information and the
guidelines for the project summaries can be found on our homepage: http://www.uni-graz.at/fAIR/cAIR10/

Please send your project summaries to: cair10 <at> uni-graz.at

Kind Regards,
Mag. Martina Koegeler
cAIR10 <at> uni-graz.at
 		 	   		  
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flow | 5 Oct 2009 00:55
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Flow Journal, Vol 10, Issue 9 is now online

Greetings,

We want to let you know that the new issue of Flow: A Critical Forum on
Television and Media Culture is available at http://flowtv.org.

This issue features columns from Denise Mann, R. Colin Tait, Matthew  
Ferrari, Racquel Gonzales, Adrienne McLean and Vicki Mayer.

This issue's columns in brief:

"NBC vs. YouTube: The Blogosphere's Bottom-Up Backlash Against Big  
Media" by Denise Mann  (http://flowtv.org/?p=4328)
Corporate lawsuits and populist outcry in the battle over YouTube.

"H d?oh TV: Watching With The Simpsons in High Definition" by R. Colin  
Tait (http://flowtv.org/?p=4319)
The consequences of HD from within and without the friendly confines  
of The Simpsons' Springfield.

"Pow! Ooomph! Skadoosh!: Combat Aesthetics and Intermediality" by  
Matthew Ferrari (http://flowtv.org/?p=4349)
An examination of combat aesthetics and the transmedia proliferation  
of mixed martial arts.

"The Beatles: Rock Band, A Revolution(?): Myth and Over-determined  
Discourse" by Racquel Gonzales (http://flowtv.org/?p=4373)
An analysis of the myth of the Beatles in light of the Rock Band video game.

"Biting Off Your Long Tail: Ruminations on Animal Planet" by Adrienne  
McLean (http://flowtv.org/?p=4351)
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Ranu Samantrai | 5 Oct 2009 14:22
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Re: Studies in Transversality: Militant Research London October 13-14

Hi Joe,
Thanks for passing on the AAUP conference information.  I am interested, but
also our travel budget has been all but eliminated this year, and so I'm
being cautious about conferences.

Have you seen this notice about "Militant Research"?  I wish we had known
about them earlier.

Hope your week is off to a good start,
Ranu

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 5:16 AM, Stevphen Shukaitis <stevphen <at> autonomedia.org
> wrote:

> Studies in Transversality: Militant Research
> hosted by Micropolitics Research Group
>
> Tuesday October 13th
> PUBLIC LECTURE by Colectivo Situaciones (Buenos Aires)
> 17.00 – 19.00
> Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College
>
> Wednesday October 14th
> PUBLIC SEMINAR with A Traversad por la Cultura (Madrid), Colectivo
> Situaciones (Buenos Aires), Euromayday Hamburg, S.a.l.e. (Venice),
> Universidad Nomada (Barcelona),  and many others.
> 14.00 – 19.00
> RHB room 342 (in red brick main building), Goldsmiths College
>
> Studies in Transversality is a series of encounters between researchers,
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Doug Henwood | 5 Oct 2009 21:18
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new radio product

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood

"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show"
Village Voice Best of NYC 2005

podcast:
<http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php>
iTunes:
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 
 >
or
<http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb>

opening commentaries now at:
<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/>

Facebook group:
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>.

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Just posted to my radio archive
<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:

October 3, 2009 (KPFA version) Susan Marks, author of Aqua Shock, on  
the water crises • Walter Benn Michaels, author of this and this and  
this, on neoliberalism’s use of “diversity”
				
September 17, 2009 Kari Lydersen, author of Revolt on Goose Island, on  
the Republic Doors and Windows worker takeover • Lee Badgett, author
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Doug Henwood | 5 Oct 2009 21:19
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new radio product

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood

"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show"
Village Voice Best of NYC 2005

podcast:
<http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/radio-feed.php>
iTunes:
<http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73801817 
 >
or
<http://tinyurl.com/3bsaqb>

opening commentaries now at:
<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/>

Facebook group:
<http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53240558375>.

--------------------------------------------------

Just posted to my radio archive
<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:

October 3, 2009 (KPFA version) Susan Marks, author of Aqua Shock, on  
the water crises • Walter Benn Michaels, author of this and this and  
this, on neoliberalism’s use of “diversity”
				
September 17, 2009 Kari Lydersen, author of Revolt on Goose Island, on  
the Republic Doors and Windows worker takeover • Lee Badgett, author
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McLaughlin, Lisa M. Dr. | 5 Oct 2009 22:37

Two or more tenure-track positions at Miami University

Apologies for cross-posting:

One or more tenure-track assistant professor positions in comparative media studies, beginning August
2010.  We welcome applicants from a range of disciplinary backgrounds; the position will be a joint
appointment in a developing program in comparative media studies and another program or department in
the humanities or social sciences. Expertise in one or more of the following areas is desirable: history
of media; technology and culture; creative non-fiction, documentary, and journalism in digital
contexts. PhD by date of appointment required. Candidates should submit a letter of application, a
curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and a sample of recent scholarship to Professor Richard
Campbell, c/o College of Arts and Science, 143 Upham, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056.  Review of
applications will begin on October 26 and continue until the position is filled.

Miami University is an EOE/AA employer with smoke-free campuses.  Campus Crime and Safety Report -
www.muohio.edu/righttoknow <http://www.muohio.edu.righttoknow/> . Hard copy upon request.

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