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Jamie Hakim | 3 Jan 2011 11:56
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Centre for Cultural Studies Research (UEL) - Women, Work, Equality: From Dagenham to the Coalition Cuts

Women, Work, Equality:

>From Dagenham to the Coalition Cuts

16 February 2011, 14:00 to 16:00

The idea of job creation and job cuts, working and what to do with those who
aren’t working, lies at the heart of the coalition government’s reform
programme. The plan is simple: public sector jobs and the welfare state are
to be cut radically, while the private sector is supposed to fill the vacuum
in terms of job creation and big society caring. Responding to the measures,
which will hit women disproportionately, the Centre for Cultural Studies
Research is hosting a discussion that will focus on the feminist struggle
for equality. The event is the third in CCSR’s “Debt, Pain, Work” series
that interrogates the discourses and policies of the coalition government.

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*Speakers*

Anna Bird, Head of Policy and Campaigns, the Fawcett Society

Sarah Boston, Middlesex University, documentary film maker, currently
filming for the TUC’s archive of women’s fight for equal pay for work of
equal value

Beatrix Campbell, award-winning journalist, author, broadcaster, campaigner
and playwright

Tim Hall, University of East London and London Living Wage campaign
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Nicholas Ruiz III | 4 Jan 2011 16:46

Kritikos V.7 Nov.-Dec. 2010

November-December-2010

A Faustian Bragain, or An Open Letter 
  to the President of SUNY Albany...(g.petsko)

The Catastrophe of the Digital 
  and the Fate of Photography...(g.coulter)

 
  And so Lyotard thought: "Specifically, 
  I went too far in identifying knowledge with narrative."...(n.ruiz)

Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D

NRIII for Congress 2012
http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html
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Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org

Nicholas Ruiz III for Congress
PO Box 1372
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32170

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Nicholas Ruiz III | 4 Jan 2011 17:03

Kritikos V.7 Nov.-Dec. 2010

Kritikos V.7 November-December-2010 (link update)

A Faustian Bargain, or An Open Letter 
  to the President of SUNY Albany...(g.petsko)
http://intertheory.org/bargain.htm

The Catastrophe of the Digital 
  and the Fate of Photography...(g.coulter)
http://intertheory.org/catastrophe.htm

 
  And so Lyotard thought: "Specifically, 
  I went too far in identifying knowledge with narrative."...(n.ruiz)
http://intertheory.org/lyotard.htm

Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D

NRIII for Congress 2012
http://intertheory.org/nriiiforcongress2010.html
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Editor, Kritikos
http://intertheory.org

Nicholas Ruiz III for Congress
PO Box 1372
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32170

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MYERS, BENJAMIN | 5 Jan 2011 17:38
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Interview with Lynne Huffer, author of the Book "Mad for Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory"

We are pleased to announce that The Critical Lede has published a new interview with Lynne Huffer (Emory
University) about her new book “Mad For Foucault: Rethinking the Foundations of Queer Theory.” 
Huffer talks with us about queer performativity, Foucault’s use of irony to articulate madness,
undoing subjectivity, and her archival work on unpublished work by Foucault. The interview can be
accessed by following the link bit.ly/gHpYG4 and clicking on the podcast tab on the top of the page or by
searching for the podcast on iTunes.
The Critical Lede is a weekly podcast that focuses on recent scholarship in qualitative/critical
communication scholarship. We review articles and interview authors of recent books. We are always
thrilled to get suggestions to feature on the podcast.  Please send them either to
thecriticallede <at> gmail.com or post them on our facebook page bit.ly/gh5EoE

W. Benjamin Myers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Speech
Department of Fine Arts and Communication Studies
USC Upstate
864.503.5870

Dr. Desireé Rowe
Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts and Communication Studies
University of South Carolina - Upstate

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Daniel Goldberg | 5 Jan 2011 21:24
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Reminder and Extension -- CFP: Canadian Communication Association (CCA) Annual Conference 2011 / Colloque annuel de l’Association canadienne de communication (ACC) 2011

*Please circulate widely.*

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Dear CCA members and friends,

Happy New Year!

This is a reminder that it is time to submit your proposals and make your
plans to attend the 2011 meeting of the Canadian Communication Association
at the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS)
2011 Congress, to be held from June 1 – 3, 2011 at the University of New
Brunswick and St. Thomas University. The Call for Papers is pasted below.

The deadline to submit panel and paper proposals has been extended to
January 31, 2011.

NOTE REGARDING SUBMISSIONS: When submitting a proposal via the OCS system,
please be sure to check ALL THREE boxes in the submission checklist to
ensure your submission is processed.

Best wishes,

Darin Barney
Canada Research Chair in Technology and Citizenship

President/Président
Canadian Communication Association/L'Association canadienne de communication

Dept. of Art History and Communication Studies
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Tracy Wuster | 5 Jan 2011 22:25
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CFP: Humor Studies at ASA 2011

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

The Humor Studies Caucus of the American Studies Association is seeking
papers for the 2011 ASA Conference:

*"Imagination, Reparation, Transformation"*

*October 20-23, 2011*

*Baltimore, Maryland*

*http://www.theasa.net/annual_meeting/page/submitting_a_proposal/*

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Proposals on any aspect of American Humor will be welcomed.

Proposals due by: *January 15th*

Panels will be assembled for submission by the January 26 ASA deadline.

Proposals should be no more than 500 words and should include a brief CV.

Proposals should be sent to Tracy Wuster: wustert <at> gmail.com

If you are interested in chairing a panel, please contact the above person.

*In addition, we are looking for people to fill three specific panels:*

*1)  Humor and Politics:*
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Megan Halena | 6 Jan 2011 21:50
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Call For Papers - Florida Consortium for Women's and Gender Studies Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS
Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies Conference
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Florida
April 1-2, 2011

Keynote Speaker: Gail Dines
Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, Wheelock College, Boston
http://gaildines.com/

Gendered and Racialized Technologies of Change:Moving Discredited
Knowledge from the Margins to the Center

We understand “gendered and racialized technologies of change” to
comprise the techniques and practices through which feminists and
queer activists generate change in the organization of social,
political, and economic relations. The purpose of this conference is
to cross disciplinary boundaries and bring together feminist and queer
discourses regarding these technologies.
We welcome individual papers, panels and roundtables or workshops as
well as innovative presentational formats from scholars, activists,
and graduate students addressing, but not limited to, the following
issues:

• Activist Strategies
• Civil and Human Rights
• Sexual Bodies, Sexualized Bodies, and Body Politics
• The Military Industrial Complex
• Corporate Culture
• The Feminization of Poverty
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Simone Varriale | 7 Jan 2011 15:14
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Reminder and Extension - CFP: Social Science and Cultural Politics

Dear all,

Just a reminder about the next Postgraduate Conference at University of
Warwick (UK). It is now possible to send proposals until February 1st.
Apologies for cross-posting and, as usual, feel free of sharing this CFP
with anyone potentially interested.

5th Annual Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference
“Social science and cultural politics”

12th March 2011 - Sociology Department, University of Warwick (UK)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cultural politics is a concept used to label a complex range of social
phenomena, frequently as diverse as media cultures and ideologies, forms of
political action and social movements, institutional and professional
cultures. However, social sciences themselves are driven (explicitly or
otherwise) by ideological commitments and assumptions about their own role
in society (this being particularly questioned at the moment, especially in
the UK).

We would emphasise, therefore, a double perspective of inquiry. On one hand,
how different areas of social science conceive their own cultural politics,
reflecting (or not reflecting) on their own 'culture'. On the other hand,
how the notion of ‘cultural politics’, as well as the subsidiary concepts of
culture and politics, are addressed by current research projects concerned
with the realms of political and cultural activity. From this angle, we
encourage a wide notion of cultural politics, which could encompass topics
like media cultures and subcultures, cultures of institutions and
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Doug Henwood | 8 Jan 2011 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

opening commentaries at:
<http://lbo-news.com/>

Note: this show no longer originates at WBAI. For an explanation, see the links on the radio archive page, below.

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

January 8, 2011 (return after holiday reruns) Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen on the state of energy and
climate politics in DC • Lucia Green-Weiskel, author of this Nation piece, on Cancún and Chinese
energy and climate politics

it joins:
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December 18, 2010 Lucas Zeise, columnist with Financial Times Deutschland, on why Germany is taking such a
hard line on the eurocrisis • Jodi Dean, keeper of the I Cite blog and author of Blog Theory, on what
digital culture is doing to our minds, our politics, and our society

December 11, 2010 Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, author of Starstruck, on celebrity today • Joshua
Holland, author of The Fifteen Biggest Lies About the Economy, talks about several of those lies (for the
rest, buy the book)
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Jonathan Gray | 9 Jan 2011 06:30
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ICA Preconference on Aesthetics & Value - extension


please note the extension to Jan 31, 2011

POPULAR COMMUNICATION ICA PRECONFERENCE - BOSTON 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Placing the Aesthetic in Popular Culture: Quality, Value, and Beauty in Communication and Scholarship

Co-sponsored by the Popular Communication, Philosophy of Communication, and Visual Communication Divisions

26th May 2011

For
 many within the correlate fields of media, cultural, and communication 
studies, art, beauty, and aesthetics are highly problematic, heavily 
loaded terms. Critical theory posited the evaluative schemas on which 
such terms rely as discursively constructed and as frequently laden with
 culturally chauvinistic politics, and cultural studies in particular 
offered a firm rejection of the notion that the study of culture should 
begin with a favorable judgment of the text in question. Yet aesthetics 
never went away. Even if unaware, many scholars continued to select 
research projects based around judgments of a subject matter’s aesthetic
 prowess or poverty. More importantly, though, the discourse of 
aesthetics, quality, and beauty never went away for audiences and the 
media industries, as seen in discussions of “quality television,” for 
instance, or in the valorization of “independents” and “art house” 
production in film, in the debate regarding whether videogames are art 
that is currently heading to the US Supreme Court (with the future of 
videogame regulation hanging in the balance), or in the continuing
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