CFP: Ethnoscapes Spring 2008

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

Issue Two, Spring 2008
�Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship�

The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary
Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its
second issue on the subject of �Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship.�
Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and
ethnic studies by using a �classic� piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration
of critical issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue, authors
are under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by that work.

Issue two explores the subject of "Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship"
with consideration of the chapter "The Shock of Alienation" from Oscar Handlin's
ground-breaking The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made
the American People. In this chapter, Handlin investigates the relationships between
labor, cultural membership, citizenship, and the production of racial difference. Citing
violence against Chinese and Filipino immigrants in the early 19th century, he details
the ways in which labor tensions in the US were integral to the establishment of
federal anti-immigration policy aimed at these "unassimilable" groups. According to
Handlin, cultural variation and poverty status became the criteria used to infer an
ostensibly inherent racial inferiority that served as the basis for denying Chinese and
Filipino immigrants the rights and protections that accompanied citizenship.

While labor, cultural membership, and race remain central components of the current
complexities of immigration, new concerns have emerged since the 1951 publication
of Handlin's Pulitzer Prize-winning history. On one hand, new signs of deterritorialization�
the increasing incidence of dual citizenship, home-country remittances, expatriate
involvement in home-country politics, and "diasporic" community-building�have led
some to assert the declining relevance of the nation-state as a primary attachment and
the declining significance of citizenship itself. On the other, debates and policy
developments around immigration and citizenship suggest that the nation-state's power
to regulate the movement of labor and capital within and across borders is far from
obsolete. In particular, state power continues to have a profound impact on racialized
disparities, processes of racialization, and on the burdens and benefits of citizenship.
In this new context, we are compelled to reconsider the nature of transnational migration,
the nature of citizenship, the link between the two, and the role of race in mediating that link.

To this end, the �Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship� issue of Ethnoscapes
seeks manuscripts that investigate: A) Economic Flows, Migration, and Racialized
Disparities How is migration racialized/ethnicized and gendered? What is the relationship
between late capitalist economic operations, migration, and racialized disparities in
health, education, self determination and representation, and wealth? In what ways do
�citizenship gaps��spaces in which market participation forecloses political membership�
re/produce racialized disparities globally?

B) Borders, Boundaries, and �The Nation�
How is immigration policy racialized? What is/should be the current role of the nation-state
in generating policy that regulates the movement of wealth and people across borders and
in regulating resultant disparities? What forms of regulation/governance that exceed the
nation-state can be conceptualized? What role does cultural nationalism play in political
membership? What transnational forms of political and cultural membership are/can be
imagined?

C) Processes of Racialization
In what ways are immigrant populations affecting domestic racial hierarchies and racial
identities? How are transnational cultural flows affecting conceptualizations of race and
ethnicity? Their relationship to nation?

The deadline for manuscript submission is March 2, 2007. Please send submissions to
mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=mmaltry%40kirwan
institute.org>  and editors@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=editors%40kirwan
institute.org> . See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare
your document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.

Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

CFP- Ethnoscapes Fall 2007

Call for Papers

Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

Issue One, Fall 2007
�Race and Coalition�


The editorial staff of the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary
Journalon Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its
inaugural issue on the subject of �Race and Coalition.� Ethnoscapes maps the
development of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a
�classic� piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical issues
within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.

While the classic piece establishes the thematic parameters of each issue, authors are
under no obligation to actively engage the arguments posed by that work.

Issue one explores the subject of �Race and Coalition� with consideration of Stokely
Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles V. Hamilton�s �The Myths of Coalition� from the
1967 text Black Power: The Politics of Liberation.  In their seminal essay, the authors
question the viability of coalitions that do not seek radical changes in racial hierarchy,
include partners with disparate amounts of economic and political power, and rely on
sentimentality and goodwill to build and maintain cohesiveness.

The authors argue instead that viable and productive coalitions must do the following:

1)         recognize the self-interests of the groups involved in the relationship;
2)         have the capacity for realizing the self-interests of each group;
3)         articulate their own �independent base of power�;
4)         have specific goals.

Proceeding from this articulation of coalition politics, Ethnoscapes seeks manuscripts
that investigate the dynamics of �Race and Coalition� with particular attention to one
or more of the following themes:

A) Theoretical Foundations of Coalition. If organizing is no longer forged on the basis
of shared identity or �unity,� what serves as the �foundation� for political mobilization?
What new forms of coalition, alliance, or issue-based organizing have emerged in the
current political, economic, and cultural context? Can these convergences operate
only temporarily or can they be more sustained? How can/must/do coalitions negotiate
differences along the lines of gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, and class in
articulating a shared platform? What productive alliances have been or can be forged
between different marginalized groups? What makes these coalitions cohere? How do these
projects (re)shape experiences of race and ethnicity?

B) The Multicultural Terrain of Organizing in the United States. With the rise of
Asian/Pacific American and Latino/a social movements, how is the concept of �coalition�
being rearticulated today? Does the �people of color� construct, expressing the common
bonds of non-white groups, still make sense? What new challenges to coalition-building
emerge in the context of the variable power relations of nations, economic operations,
and discourse that characterize the contemporary multiracial terrain of US organizing?
What strategies can be mobilized to negotiate these differences? What roles are available
to whites in multiracial coalitions and in coalitions for racial justice?

C) The Global Context. What challenges and possibilities do new communications and
other technologies linking people across the globe offer for multiracial coalitions?
How do the ties of nation, state, and culture complicate efforts to organize
pan-ethnically? How can models of organizing around race throughout the world, or on
behalf of racially identified groups and concerns, usefully inform organizing strategies
in the US context, or vice versa? What is at stake and where are we headed?

The deadline for manuscript submission is February 16, 2007. Please send submissions
to mmaltry@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=mmaltry%40kirwaninstitute.org>
and editors@kirwaninstitute.org
<http://webmail.kirwaninstitute.org/src/compose.php?send_to=editors%40kirwaninstitute.org> .
See http://www.kirwaninstitute.org/ethnoscapes/styleguide.html to prepare your
document in accordance with the style guidelines of Ethnoscapes.

Melanie Maltry
Assistant Editor, Ethnoscapes
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

Predoc Fellowship

2007-2008 Pacific World Predoctoral Fellowship

The Department of History and the American West Center at the University of
Utah invite applications for their 2007-2008 predoctoral fellowship in the
history of U.S. relations with the Pacific World.  Graduate students who
have completed all requirements for the doctoral degree except the
dissertation (ABD) are eligible. Applicants whose research focuses on any
area within the Asia-Pacific region are welcome, but historians and other
interdisciplinary scholars whose research addresses the history of Pacific
Islander communities in the Pacific World or in the United States are
particularly encouraged to apply.  The fellowship includes a stipend of
$30,000, health coverage, conference travel, and office space.

In addition to actively pursuing the completion of her or his dissertation,
the successful candidate will teach one course for the history department
and participate in the American West Center�s 2007-2008 Pacific Initiative
which will culminate in a conference on �Pacific Worlds and the American
West.�  Salt Lake City, home to the University of Utah and to one of the
largest Pacific Islander communities in the U.S., provides an ideal
location for this series of events as well as for research in this area.
The American West Center�s 40 years of community-based work and the
Center�s enlarged focus on the Transnational West, as well as the
University of Utah�s growing strength in Asian Studies, International
Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnic Studies, and Gender Studies will
offer the fellow a rich work environment and a vibrant community of mentors
on which to draw.

Applicants should send a letter of interest, CV, and a writing sample.
Three letters of recommendation should be sent under separate cover. All
materials should be addressed to Professor Matthew Basso, Co-Director,
American West Center, Department of History, University of Utah, 380 South
1400 East, Room 211, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0311.  Completed applications
are due February 28, 2007.  Questions can be addressed to
mattbasso@history.utah.edu.

The University of Utah is an AA/EOE employer and this fellowship takes as
one of its goals the promotion of diversity within the academy.  Candidates
who are members of one of the historically underrepresented groups in the
American professoriate are strongly encouraged to apply.

___________________________________________
Matthew Basso
Co-Director, American West Center
Department of History and Gender Studies Program
University of Utah
380 South 1400 East, Room 211
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0311
801-581-6121, (fax) 801-585-0580

2007 California Community Colleges Job Fair

Please forward to graduate students and postdocs - there are only two job
fairs for community colleges per year and only one in N. Cal. - both in
January:

2007 California Community Colleges Registry Job Fairs Meet with community
college recruiters:

January 20, 2007; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Los Angeles Airport (LAX) Hilton
5711 West Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA  90045
Phone:  (310) 410-4000

January 27, 2007; 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
San Francisco Airport (SFO) Marriott
1800 Bayshore HWY
Burlingame, CA  94010
Phone:  (650) 692-9100


The job fairs are FREE and NO REGISTRATION is required.

Dress for success.  We encourage use of public transportation since parking
is limited and parking fees will apply.  Call the hotel directly for parking
questions.

For employment opportunities, please visit our website.

http://www.cccregistry.org/

The California Community Colleges are equal employment opportunity
institutions.

Postdoc Fellowship in Race + Ethnicity

*2007-2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Race and Ethnicity*
Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago
invites applications for the 2007-2008 postdoctoral fellowship to begin September 24,
2007 and end June 30, 2008. Qualified candidates from all disciplines and all ranks
who have their Ph.D. in hand are encouraged to apply.

Fellowship Description: The goal of the fellowship is to support the work of an
outstanding scholar whose research focuses on the study of race and ethnicity by
allowing the fellow to devote his or her energies to the further development of their
research agenda. The fellowship carries a stipend of $45,000, a travel and research
budget of $2,500, and up to $2,500 for moving expenses. The fellow will be provided
with office space and a computer at the Center, and full access to University
libraries and other facilities. Awardees will be expected to be in full-time residence
during the academic year beginning September 24, 2007; teach one 10-week
undergraduate course related to race and ethnicity (one quarter); present his or
her work at one of the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop
meetings; and actively participate in the workshop and other activities sponsored by
the Race Center.

The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) at the University
of Chicago is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to promoting engaged scholarship
and debate around the concepts of race and ethnicity. We are especially interested in
how these ideas and their structural and cultural manifestations impact and shape
people�s daily lives. Faculty affiliated with the Center recognize the significance of the
black/white paradigm in the United States, however, we are committed to expanding
the study of race and ethnicity beyond this framework. Broadly, our research program
encourages the study of race and processes of racialization in comparative and
transnational frameworks as well as work that highlights the intersection of race and
ethnicity with other categories such as gender, class, sexuality and nationality, and
interrogates social and identity cleavages within racialized communities.

Eligibility: Applicants for the 2007-2008 academic year are required to have a Ph.D.
and must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States at the time of application.

Application Process: All applications should include the following:
1) Formal letter of application describing your work and the project(s) that will be
undertaken over the course of the fellowship year (2-4 pages)
2) Writing sample, which may be a published or un-published work (not to exceed
30 pages double-spaced)
3) Curriculum vitae
4) Syllabus and one-page description of proposed course
5) Two letters of recommendation under separate cover

Deadline: Complete applications must be *received* at the address below by *February
 2, 2007*. The recipient will be announced in late April-early May 2007. For additional
information call (773) 702-8063 or e-mail csrpc@uchicago.edu. Submitted material will
not be returned to the applicant. Incomplete applications will not be considered. Email
applications not accepted.

Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
The University of Chicago
Attention: Postdoctoral Committee
5733 S. University, Chicago, Illinois 60637

*Contact Info: *
CSRPC/The University of Chicago
Attention: Postdoctoral Committee
5733 S. University,
Chicago, Illinois 60637
773-702-8063

*Website: *http://csrpc.uchicago.edu

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
May 30 - June 2, 2007
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Submission Deadline:  January 24, 2007

Co-Sponsored by:
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

Web address: http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org

The 6th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences will be held
from May 30 (Wednesday) to June 2 (Saturday), 2007 at the Waikiki Beach Marriott
Resort & Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will provide many opportunities for
academicians and professionals from social sciences related fields to interact with
members inside and outside their own particular disciplines.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Social Sciences are Invited):
*Anthropology
*Area Studies (African, American, Asian, European, Hispanic, Islamic, Jewish,
Middle Eastern, Russian, and all other cultural and ethnic studies)
*Communication
*Economics
*Education
*Energy Alternatives
*Ethnic Studies/International Studies
*Geography
*History
*International Relations
*Journalism
*New Urbanism
*Political Science
*Preservation and Green Urbanism
*Psychology
*Public Administration
*Social Work
*Sociology
*Sustainable Development
*Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
*Urban and Regional Planning
*Women�s studies
*Other Areas of Social Science
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas


For detailed information about submissions see:
http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm

Submitting a Proposal:
1.  Create a title page for your submission.  The title page should include:
a. title of the submission
b. topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c. presentation format (see http://www.hicsocial.org/cfp_ss.htm for format choices)
d. name(s) of the author(s)
e. department(s) and affiliation(s)
f. mailing address(es)
g. e-mail address(es)
h. phone number(s)
i. fax number(s)
j. corresponding author if different than lead author

2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to social@hicsocial.org.
Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.

Please note that there is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead author.

To be removed from this list, please click the following link:
http://www.hicsocial.org/remove/ or copy and paste the link into any web browser.

Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
P.O. Box 75023
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 946-9932
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: social@hicsocial.org
Website: www.hicsocial.org

IRB Upcoming workshops

The IRB Administration is pleased to inform you about educational opportunities
in 2007:

►Highlighting IRB Policy presentation entitled, "Understanding Exemption and
Expedited Research Categories" - This training will help you understand the
general requirements of exempt and expedited review research and will cover
each of the exempt and expedited categories. This presentation is scheduled
for the following dates:
-Tue, Jan 9 - Clinical Trials Brown Bag Meeting from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
at the Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC), Conference Room
1444 - UCDMC
-Tue, Jan 23 - Meyer Hall, Foster Room from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm - Davis
Campus
-Tue, Jan 30 - Clinical and Translational Science Center (CTSC),
Conference Room 1444 from 3:00 pm - 4:30 - UCDMC

►New Submitter's Orientation - This training prepares you to submit to the UC
Davis IRB. It covers UC Davis IRB forms, the types of IRB review, regulations
and much more...
This training is scheduled at UCDMC in the CTSC Conference Room 1444 from
10:00 am to 12:00 pm for the following dates:
-Thu, Jan 18
-Thu, March 8
-Thu, June 21
-Tue, Sept 18
-Thu, Nov 15

Davis Campus training is from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm in Meyer Hall, Foster Room on
the following: Thu, April 19

For details regarding any IRB Admin training, please see our "Events and Training"
section of our website at http://www.research.ucdavis.edu/IRBAdmin

FIVE different but related CFPs (read carefully!)

Mediascape
CFP: Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons (1/15/07;
3/29/07-3/31/07)
CFP: Hauntology, or Spectral Space (2/15/06; journal issue)
CFP: Space and Displacement (Turkey) (2/15/07; 4/21/07-4/22/07)
CFP: Kritikos: V.4 2007 (no deadline noted; journal issue)
CFP: Visions of Community: The Suburb in Recent Literature and Film (1/5/07; ASA,
10/11/07-10/14/07)
CFP: Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market (6/20/07; journal issue)

MEDIASCAPE Call for Submissions:

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

Submission guidelines and section-specific calls for the next issue can be found on the
submissions page of the Mediascape website: 
http://www.tft.ucla.edu/mediascape/about/submissions06.html

Any other questions can be directed to Erin Hill (erinhill@ucla.edu).

________________________________________________________________________
CFP: Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons (1/15/07;
3/29/07-3/31/07)

Moments of Futurity: From Present Conditions to Material(izing) Horizons The Ninth Annual
Conference of the Marxist Reading Group 
Keynote Speaker Fredric Jameson
March 29-31 at the University of Florida

Underwritten as it is by narratives of progress, rhetorics of novelty, and the logic of
speculation, capitalism asserts a monopoly on futurity, both as a semantic category and
a material horizon. While globalization ideologues insist that history has ended and
trumpet the present as the future (or, as Thomas Friedman and Merrill Lynch put it in
1999, "The World is Ten Years Old"), Marxism proposes a radically different narrative.
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group investigates the future from a
Marxist perspective and challenges Marxist scholars and activists to reclaim the category
of futurity.

Marxist theory and criticism are saturated by a rhetoric of the historical: historical
materialism, history as class conflict, the imperative to historicize. But what is the
history of the future in Marxism? That is, how is the category of the future configured
in various Marxisms? In what ways could an engagement with futurity, as a semantic,
temporal, and material category, lead beyond the notorious theory/practice impasse? How 
do we look beyond the material conditions of the present to find material horizons?
Answers to such questions can be located in a host of fields spanning the humanities and
the social sciences, and they can be informed by a variety of theoretical dimensions: Can
one historicize the future? Can dialectics reveal horizons? Can totalized mappings of the
present also grasp at the future? Do utopian projects lead the way? Ultimately, this
conference seeks papers that think the future via Marxist theory.

Fredric Jameson will provide the keynote address for this conference. The William A. Lane
Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies at Duke University, Jameson
has been among the leading voices of Marxist theory for the past decades, and his
contributions to literary and cultural theory have impacted the fields of literature and theory
indelibly. He is the author of Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,
The Political Unconscious, and recently Archaeologies of the Future.

Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:
Historicizing futurity
Representations of futurity
The future and the literary
Rhetorics of futurity
Utopia
Science Fiction
The future of capitalism
The future of activism
The revolutionary class
Communism
Marxism and New Media
The "end of history"
Globalization
Future(s) Markets
The future as nostalgia
Nostalgia for the future
Resisting futurity

Abstracts of 250 words must be submitted by January 15, 2007 to the conference website,
http://grove.ufl.edu/~gsg/bwwc/index.php?cf=5

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by February 5, 2007. Questions about the
conference may be directed to 2007mrg@gmail.com.

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CFP: Hauntology, or Spectral Space (2/15/06; journal issue)

Public Domain, Inc. is pleased to announce the call for PERFORATIONS 29.
Guest editor for this issue will be Dr. Thomas Mical, Carleton University School of
Architecture. As usual with perforations, deadlines are somewhat fluid but please notify
Thomas Mical or Robert Cheatham of your intent by February 15 2007 in order to be
included in the release notification.

Article length is at your discretion. Experimental hypertexts are especially welcome.
Other forms of media, video, etc., may have length restrictions, please cc media
editor Chea Prince or technical editor, Jim Demmers. If you have any questions please
query one of the editors.

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Guest Editor:        Dr. Thomas Mical                 thomas_mical@carleton.ca
Senior Editor:         Robert Cheatham                  zeug@pd.org
Technical Editor:           Jim Demmers                  Jdemmers@pd.org
Media Editor:          Chea Prince                  Chea@pd.org

Hauntologies, or Spectral Space
Call for Submissions
 
This issue of Perforations asks for informed speculations in art, literature, architecture,
and aesthetics concerning the ethereal others which are never quite present or absent:
including uncanny presences outside the frame of representation, anamorphic blurs
of concepts or images; leaking, stained, or spectral spaces, disappearing figures or
soluble identities; of all that sometimes works like miasmas, pneumas, and vapors;
and all possible manifestations of specters (real or imaginary). This includes speculative
revenants of repetitions of all sort including catastrophic trauma (the spectral
delays/deferrals of Freudian 'nachtraglichkeit') as well as any embeddings of notions of
'eternal return,' as having hauntological portent for communities and thought to come.
 
In its entirety, the issue seeks to selectively map an ephemeral cartography (a
haunto-topography) of the range of barely discernible ghosts, these "ontological specks"
or "pathological kernels", that traverse the instrumental Cartesian worldview of "clear
and distinct" entities. Authors are asked to chase and capture the multiple potential
meanings and effects of their favorite ontological spectre.
-----------------------------------------

Formed in 1991 to examine issues of theory, art, culture and community in a saturated age
of technical media, Perforations is perhaps the longest continuously running journal on-line.
                
The call for perforations 30, HUT TECH, will be released soon.

Perforations raison d'tre here:
http://www.pd.org/~chea/Perforations/perf1/perf-intro.html
<http://wwwpd.org/~chea/Perforations/perf1/perf-intro.html>

Perforations index page:
http://www.pd.org/~chea/HTML/perforations-index.html
<http://wwwpd.org/~chea/HTML/perforations-index.html>

podcasts, videos, and other projects here:
http://www.pd.org
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CFP: Space and Displacement (Turkey) (2/15/07; 4/21/07-4/22/07)

  Space and Displacement
  A Multi-Disciplinary Symposium

Sponsored by the Program in Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas Bilkent University
21-22 April 2007 

Displacement is a major aspect of geo-politics (bio-politics), as well as a central term in
contemporary philosophy and cultural theory. Many artists, writers and theorists have
focused on various aspects of the phenomenon of displacement (exiles, refugees,
immigrants, prisoners). Cultural examples range from the politically radical, e.g.
Coetzee on internment camps as no-place, to the broadly socio-psychological e.g. Nuri
Bilge Ceylan's films. How can we theorize from this a post-nationalist contemporary
theory of space (the way Giorgio Agamben - after Foucault - does with the idea of the
camp, bio-politics, the exception - Guantanamo, etc.)? How does large scale displacement
change our conceptions of urban space (e.g. Mike Davis on third-world macro-cities) or of
political power (e.g. Immanuel Wallerstein on the decline of U.S. power)? What are the
spaces of thought today, and how can contemporary thought conceive the space(s) of
being (e.g. the post-Heideggerian work of Stuart Elden or Jeff Malpas)

We invite papers addressing the notion of displacement or issues related to the
representation or conceptualization of space in film, fiction, art, politics, philosophy,
sociology and related disciplines for the 4th Annual Bilkent University Multi-Disciplinary
Symposium.

Please send a short (one-page) abstract to the following e-mail address
(mkolb@bilkent.edu.tr) by February 15, 2007.

Please contact Martina Kolb (+90312 290 3132), or consult the CCI web page 
(http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~cci/)
for more information.

____________________________________________________________________
CFP: Kritikos: V.4 2007 (no deadline noted; journal issue)
  
  Kritikos: journal of postmodern cultural sound, text and image
  ISSN: 1552-5112
  http://intertheory.org/kritikos
  
  Kritikos publishes work in cultural theory and criticism.
 
  http://intertheory.org/Submissions--Kritikos.htm

_________________________________________________________________
CFP: Visions of Community: The Suburb in Recent Literature and Film (1/5/07; ASA,
10/11/07-10/14/07)

The proposed panel for the American Studies Association's annual meeting, October 11th
through 14th, seeks to examine novels and films that represent contemporary suburban
experience.

Although recent literature and films seem to have done little to alter the suburban myth,
which assumes that the suburbs are populated exclusively by bored, lonely, and atomized
white middle class families, the suburbs themselves bear little resemblance to the
borderlands of the 1920s and 30s or the bedroom communities of the1950s and 60s.
The distinctions between the city and the suburb have become increasingly blurred:
many industries have relocated to the suburbs, making them increasingly accessible to
the nation's poor.  No longer the exclusive domain of the white middle class, the suburbs
are increasingly reflecting the economic, racial and ethnic mix of the nation. Perhaps in 
response to these rapid changes, there is a sense of urgency to recent novels and films
one does not find in earlier suburban stories. Disaster looms large in these later works
(from the threat of child molester in Tom Perrotta's *Little Children*, to  a large scale
'airborne toxic event' in Don Delillo's *White Noise*, a school shooting in Homes'
*Music For Torching*, and  a wild fire and mudslide in T. C.Boyle's *Tortilla Curtain* ),
exposing the falseness of the perception of the suburb as a safe, if bland, haven. The
characters in these works struggle with how to live in constant fear.  In a New York *Times*
editorial immediately after the September 11th attacks, Richard Ford urged his fellow
suburbanites "to think large and small at once about whom we're connected to and separate
from and about what we mean by community." This panel seeks to revisit the suburb in the
context of these new stakes.

Submit 1-page abstracts and c.v's  by January 5 to Kathy Knapp ( FordhamUniversity), 
panel organizer, at kathyknapp@gmail.com.

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CFP: Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market (6/20/07; journal issue)

Call for Essays
Shakespeare Bulletin - Special Issue
Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market

Shakespeare Bulletin, a journal of performance criticism and scholarship incorporating
the Shakespeare on Film Newsletter, announces a special issue devoted to
Shakespearean Screen Adaptations for the Teen Market.  Essays should address
questions concerning the transformation of Shakespeare's plays from their textual
incarnations to cinematic and video renderings designed for teenage audiences. 
Subjects that might be addressed in such essays include:

The definition of a Shakespearean teen film adaptation
Recent trends in Shakespearean films aimed at teenagers
The differences between a teen film version, an adaptation, and a spinoff
The effects of teen film conventions on Shakespearean film adaptations
The language of Shakespearean film adaptations intended for the teen market
Shakespearean teen film adaptations and the DVD as a viewing medium
Shakespearean adaptations designed for teen TV audiences
Strategies for marketing Shakespearean film adaptations to teenage viewers
The social and historical context of Shakespearean film adaptations for teens
The use of Shakespearean film adaptations in the high school or college classroom

Essays may explore these subjects in a theoretical manner, or they may focus
attention on one or more films (such as Romeo + Juliet, 10 Things I Hate about You,
or She's the Man) that illuminate some aspect of these issues.  Documentation
of sources in such essays should conform to the most recent edition of the MLA
Style Manual.  Contributions should be sent in electronic form (Word format) by
June 20, 2007 to the issue's special editor, Michael D. Friedman, at
friedmanm1@scranton.edu.
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The SCMS homepage: http://www.cmstudies.org

Postdoc at Columbia University

POSTDOC: Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University

The newly formed Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University in New York City
seeks Post-doctoral Fellows for the academic year 2007-2008.  The goal of the Committee
is to provide a space for cross-disciplinary, transnational, and otherwise expansive
exploration of the world, including processes of globalization, comparisons past and
present, and pressing contemporary issues.  The Committee welcomes applicants from all
disciplines and seeks a mix of fellows from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities
to help create a new agenda for global thinking and action. Fellows will be expected to
teach or assist with one undergraduate or graduate course as well as to plan and
participate in symposia and other activities of the Committee.  The remaining half of
the Fellow's time will be devoted to individual research. Salaries will be competitive.

Please send CV, a letter explaining research interests and plans for research and writing
during your tenure with the Committee, at least one paper or other suitable evidence of
scholarship, and three letters of reference to:

Dr. Joseph Stiglitz
Chair, Committee on Global Thought
814 Uris Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Review of applications will begin January 1, 2007. Final deadline is April 1, 2007.

Additional information about the Committee on Global Thought can be obtained by
e-mailing the Assistant Director of the Committee, Dr. Gustav Peebles, at
gp2119@columbia.edu . 

CFP: UCSC Conference

Call for Papers:
APARC Graduate Student Conference 2007 (Saturday, February 24)
University of California, Santa Cruz

The Asia-Pacific-Americas Research Cluster (APARC) at UC Santa Cruz invites submissions to its second graduate student conference on the theme of the spatial, political, and conceptual formation of the Pacific.

Various human activities have shaped a globally interconnected and locally inflected world of the Pacific: the development of tourism; the processes of displacement and migration; the transnational political and commercial relations; the transmission and translation of texts and theories, etc. How have different practices of movements, travels, and migrations made and remade the Pacific? How have various notions of mobility and "rootedness" shaped local and transnational imaginations of the Pacific as a place and a concept? How far has the Pacific been entangled with discourses of nationalism, colonialism, identity, gender, ethnicity, or race? We welcome papers that discuss diverse range of topics across fields and disciplines.

This year's keynote speaker is Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asia/Pacific/American Studies at New York University and author of Memories of a Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship of Chinese in Panama (Stanford University Press, 2005).

The deadline for abstracts is December 31, 2006.

Your submission should include the following:
1. Your name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and year
2. 3 to 4 keywords or technical terms describing your topic
3. An abstract of your paper in approximately 300 words

Please submit your abstract via email attachment (.doc or .rtf only) to ctakakir@ucsc.edu.

*Important Note: Due to budgetary constraints and policies, we are unable to fund student travel and accommodation expenses. Participants are asked to secure funding at their home institutions. We sincerely hope that it will not prevent contributions to this promising occasion.

For more information: http://www2.ucsc.edu/aparc/aparc.htm

Dissertation writing workshop

*Practical Strategies *
*For Writing a Dissertation - A pragmatic seminar for graduate students in all disciplines*

*Saturday, February 3, 2007*
*12:30-5pm*
*2 Wellman Hall*

Need help tackling the dissertation? Feel overwhelmed by the scope and structure of your
project? *Dr.* *Dorothy Duff Brown*, Director of Jaynes Street Associates in Berkeley has
over 29 years of experience in writing consultation and will share strategies for writing the
dissertation. Questions addressed include:

   * *Criteria for Your Work*
         o How to work strategically � not just expend lots of time and
           effort

   * *Time Management for Scholars *
         o how to keep writing without feeling overwhelmed and how to
           maintain your momentum

   * *The Material Representation of Ideas *
         o how to transition from data collection and reading to
           writing - and how to know when to stop

   * *Effective Communication with Your Committee About Your Work*
         o How to get practical and useful feedback from your committee
           in a timely manner

*Please register at:* (url to be added)

*Sponsored by Office of Graduate Studies(Professional Development Series),
French & Italian, English, Comparative Literature, and the Music Department*