"Eighteenth Century Native
Communities of New England
in the Context of Colonial Change"
Location: Connecticut, United States
Call for Papers Date: 2001-04-30
*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****
Conference Title: Eighteenth Century Native Communities of New
England in
the Context of Colonial Change.
Sponsor: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center,
Mashantucket, CT
Location: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center,
Mashantucket, CT
Date: September 20-21, 2002
Deadline for Title & Abstract: April 30, 2001
Generally speaking, Native communities are viewed as though the
events and
processes of the eighteenth century affected only their economic,
social,
and political institutions, without a comparable effort to understand
how
colonial society was changed. In this conference we seek to bring
multiple
perspectives and disciplines to bear on our understanding of
the effects
that events and processes have had on colonial and Native communities.
We
also seek to explore the inter-relationships among the communities.
Some
possible topics include the impacts of climate and demography,
religious
movements, colonial wars, trade, agriculture, maritime, fishing,
and the
emergence of the factory system. This is merely a suggested list,
and we
welcome other topics that fit within the intent of the conference.
Accepted participants will be provided a modest stipend to help
defray the
costs of travel and lodging. Persons interested in participating
in the
conference should send a title and abstract no later than April
30, 2001 to:
Dr. Jack Campisi
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
110 Pequot Trail
P.O. Box 3180
Mashantucket, CT 06339-3180
For further information, please contact Dr. Jack Campisi at
(860) 396-6864, or Dr. Kevin McBride at (860) 396-6814 or by
email:
<mcbride@mptn.org>
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WORDLIFE: KEYWORDS IN MULTI-ETHNIC STUDIES
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY (New York, New York)
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 1, 2001
DESCRIPTION
Any critical endeavor is perhaps best begun by first taking time
to define
oneís terms, the vocabulary of key concepts and words that will
be used to
sustain the claims that ultimately will be made.
The symposium organizers are here thinking specifically of terms
or keywords
that pervade our seminar conversations and papers but that are
rarely
footnoted; terms that, through their repeated utterance, have
been emptied
of meaning; but terms that ? nevertheless - have accumulated
a kind of
cultural capital of their own. In essence, we are interested
in determining
what such terms mean to multi-ethnic fields of study, i.e. African
American,
Black (Caribbean and British), Latino/a American, Asian American
and Native
American Studies. How have these fields of study put pressure
on terms that
began to appear increasingly as cultural studies and critical
theory took
root in the academy?
It is our hope that by returning to key terms that have influenced
much of
our own work that the methodological and conceptual shifts that
our fields
of study have incurred in the last twenty-five years will emerge.
As a
result of this project, it may also become apparent that the
use of certain
terms is not properly sustained by our work, which may demand
the production
of new terms.
We will be accepting abstracts of papers that address the following
key
words and concepts:
nation/nationalism
memory/history/narration
ěraceî
gender
class
queer
diaspora
tradition/influence
feminism
hegemony
other(ness)
labor/work
orality/literacy
deconstruct(ion)
subjectivity
reparation(s)
representation
policy
agency
mimicry/mimesis
We invite papers that problematize our understanding of the aforementioned
terms which often go unchallenged as they circulate. THAT SAID
? *AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT* - PAPERS NEED NOT be DIRECT EXAMINATIONS.
In fact, WE ENCOURAGE submissions that pursue their interrogative work
vis-a-vis CLOSE
READINGS and exegeses of literary/cultural/historical/political
texts and
moments.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Conference abstracts should be between 250-400 words and sent
as email texts
or as Microsoft Word attachments to either of the email addresses
below.
Presentations should not exceed 15 MINUTES (10-12 DOUBLE-spaced
pages).
The deadline for abstracts is Monday, AUGUST 6, 2001.
Papers for abstracts selected for presentation are due NOVEMBER
1, 2001.
Papers should also be emailed as Word attachments. If this is
not possible,
contact Khary Jones or Zaheer Ali and other arrangements will
be made.
CONTACTS
Khary Jones (ksj14@columbia.edu)
Zaheer Ali (za22@columbia.edu)
Association of Black and Latino/a Graduate Students
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Columbia University
535 West 116th Street, MC 4304
109A Low Memorial Library
New York, NY 10027
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HISPANIC INTERNET SUMMIT:
"The Leadership Forum for Hispanics in the New Economy"
April 26 - 29, 2001
The Hispanic National Bar Association, in partnership with the United
States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the National Society of Hispanic
MBAs
and the League of United Latin American Citizens, is pleased to present
the inaugural Hispanic Internet Summit: "The Leadership Forum for
Hispanics in the New Economy," where business leaders, attorneys and
policymakers will gather to identify the wealth of new opportunities
and
challenges presented by the New Economy.
The Hispanic Internet Summit is a high-level Conference designed to
explore the latest developments in the Internet industry - particularly
after a year that has brought seismic shifts to the Internet landscape.
By now you have heard that Hispanics are poised to become the largest
minority group in the United States by 2003, and you have heard about
the
exponential growth of the Latin American Internet market. Those are
not
events slated to happen in the distant future - they are happening
right
now! By attending the Hispanic Internet Summit, you will gain
unparalleled access to the industry leaders and the decision makers
who
will shape the course of the New Economy for years to come.
For details, please visit
http://www.hnba.com/Hispanic_internet_summit/index.htm
Jaime Viteri
SHPE-MRCC President
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Popular Culture Association, October
18-20,
2001, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla-Cholula,
Mexico.
*****Call for Papers*****
Call for Papers: "Orality and Performance Stylistics in Literature
by
Women Writers of the Americas." Deadline for receipt of abstracts
is May
18. Please send abstracts to: ehawthorne@fac.howard.edu.; telephone
(202) 806-4221.
This panel seeks papers exploring writing based in orality and
performance, by women of the Americas, especially as it consciously
foregrounds linguistic innovativeness. Writers in this genre
engage not
only issues of self-expression and self-identity, but social
structures
so as to negotiate versions of national and cultural identity.
Writers
concerned with boundary crossings--of race, class, ethnicity,
nationality, sexuality--are of particular relevance to this panel.
Historical, cross-cultural, linguistic, interdisciplinary, theoretical
are among the approaches we seek. Abstracts should be about 200
words,
in English, on topics such as the following:
Orality/performance: implications for literature, culture, education,
popular culture, cross- or multi-cultural encounter
Linguistic crossings: indigenous with hegemonic cultures Autobiography
and memory-telling
"Talk" and psycho-cultural function
Orality and (re)configuring cultural/national identity
Negotiating boundaries: literary, national, cultural, social
Poetics of orality
Politics of orality
Homeostasis (Ong) and its contemporary relevance
Theorizing orality in postcolonial literatures and cultures
Orality as critique of historiography/anthropology
Performance as liberation/resistance
Postmodernity of performance/orality practice or poetics
Vernacular idiom in twenty-first century popular or literary
contexts
Identity and self-expression versus the communal
Orality and literacy
Cultural idioms in a new cultural sphere
For information on conference see web site: www.udlap.mx/congress,
click
on 3Popular Culture/American Culture2 etc. Program organizer
is:
RollinsPC@aol.com |
"Movimentos
Sociais: História e Historiografia"
(Social
Movements: History and
Historiography)
*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****
The "Humanas" Review, a publication of the Humanities Sciences Center
of the State University of Londrina, invites scholars to publish articles
and
reviews in the next number dedicated to History. Contributions
should be on
the theme: "Movimentos Sociais: História e Historiografia"
(Social
Movements: History and Historiography).
This subject raises the preoccupation to discuss and to present new
studies
in the Social History field. Further to evaluating, we can rethink
analysis
practices and Historical comprehension in view of the challenges
placed by
societies. Manifestations forms, organizations of groups and
movements are
some concerns that the Social History must respond to.
Deadline: May, 15 Proposals should be sent to:
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Revista Humanas - a/c André Joanilho.
Departamento de História, sala 127A, CCH,
Campus Universitário
Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, PR 445 Km 380.
Cx Postal 6001
86051-990 - Londrina - Paraná - Brasil
André Luiz Joanilho
Depto. de História
Universidade Estadual de Londrina
alj@uel.br
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Museums, Libraries and
Archives: Summer Institute for
Knowledge Sharing
Sponsored by UCLA's Department of Information Studies in the Graduate
School of Education and Information Studies.
August 6-10, 2001 Los Angeles
The UCLA/Getty Summer Institute is a forum for the intensive
exploration of new methods for creating, sharing and preserving
electronic information in libraries, archives, and other cultural
heritage institutions. Information specialists, registrars,
librarians, archivists, curators, researchers, and educators
with
responsibility for managing and disseminating information about
their
institutions' collections are invited to attend this five-day
course.
Sessions will take place on the UCLA campus and at the Getty
Center.
The Summer Institute will provide theoretical and practical sessions
on:
Special collection digitization projects: Implications on the
collection, the institution, scholarship, interoperability, and
longevity.
Organization of and access to digital resources: Models, principles
and tools for creating information and imaging systems in museums,
libraries, and archives.
Collaborating: Improving one's capacity to work and solve problems
with others.
Funding: Challenges, strategies, and opportunities.
For course and registration information visit:
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si>http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si
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Women and Performance: a
Journal of Feminist
Theory
Issue # 25: "The Labor of the Question: Dramaturgyî
(In memoriam of Judy Rosenthal)
**CALL FOR PAPERS**
Politically and socially engaged artists often experiment with innovative
approaches to the creative process. While exploring new methods
forstaging, directing, acting, and choreographing, these artists
generate
powerful responses to the complex dynamics of image and identity
in the
hyper-capitalism of the 21st century.
To question both established methodologies for making performance
and old
assumptions regarding text and stage is the creative, even subversive,
labor of the "dramaturg." To merge these old methods and assumptions
with
new ones is to propose a "dramaturgy" that labors in and through
our
multifaceted contemporary world.
Dramaturgs work as collaborators, researchers, motivators, confidants,
disruptors, healers, and critics--often all at the same time.
Working
across discrete categories is dramaturgyís subversive project
-- calling
attention to the arbitrary nature of such categories, but also
forcing the
creation of new modes of labor, divided according to sets of
principles
that are never to be fully codified.
As dramaturgy invades all levels of art-making, from theatre to
dance, from
film to the visual arts, from architecture to the performance
of "everyday
life" (with all its implications for a politics of identity)
it proposes
ever renewed, ěyet-to-be-scripted,î artistic and political practices.
Dramaturgy no longer defers to the past, nor to the hegemony of
the text as
great pacifier of meaning. Rather, it provocatively turns towards
the
textural and the excessive as sites for existential, dramatic,
and
political in(ter)vention. Dramaturgy, as unexpected weaving of
text and
texture, world and stage, presence and representation, becomes
a
generatively disruptive process rather than a museological stabilizer
of
theatrical and semiological
truths. The creative and political potential of dramaturgy in
contemporary
performance is thus filled with exponential amount of innovation
and
resistance.
This issue is in memory of Judy Rosenthal, and dedicated to her
contributions to theorization of the field of dramaturgy. We
are soliciting
papers that reconsider the aesthetic role and political power
of dramaturgy
in contemporary art-making. We would like to encourage in particular
essays
that explore innovative and experimental approaches to dramaturgy
in the
most diverse fields. Topics may include (but not be limited to),
"dramaturgy and feminism," "visual dramaturgy," "dramaturgy of
everyday
life," "dramaturgy as resistance," "dramaturgies of
the body," "dramaturgy and architecture," "dramaturgies of identities,"
"dramaturgy and/in desire," "dramaturgical labor," "questioning
dramaturgy," "un/marking dramaturgy."
We are asking for scholarly articles, art work, performance texts,
reviews,
and experimental pieces of writing that address these topics.
Article
manuscripts should be 15-20 double-spaced pages. Reviews at 3-5
pages.
!!!HARD-COPIES ONLY PLEASE!!!
Send two copies of articles and texts to:
Cindy Brizzell and André Lepecki, Editors Issue 25
Women & Performance
New York University
Tisch School of the Arts
Department of Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10003.
DEADLINE -- JULY 30th 2001
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Racial (Trans)Formations:
Latinos and Asians Remaking the United
States
*****CALL FOR PAPERS*****
Whether as racialized labor migrations or colonized subject
populations, Latinos and Asians have long played crucial roles
in the
social production of "America" and "American"-ness. Both Latin
America and Asia, as well as Latinos and Asians, have been central
to
the consolidation of historical projects of U.S. nation-state
formation and empire-building, at least since the nineteenth
century.
Nonetheless, a heightened and pronounced awareness of
the
significance of Latinos and Asians for the transformation of
the
contemporary U.S. has arisen largely in the wake of the monumental
reformulation of the U.S. immigration and naturalization regime
in
1965. With Latinos and Asians together comprising the vast majority
of contemporary migrants to the U.S., the intensified interest
in
these social groups is rather evidently animated by questions
of
racial formation and transformation.
Social categories such as "Latino" (or "Hispanic") and "Asian"
(or
"Asian American") are notorious for the ambiguities and incongruities
they entail for efforts in the United States to identify and
name
diverse groups of people with origins in these vast regions of
the
globe. Nonetheless, these hotly contested labels have become
pervasive and increasingly salient, both for hegemonic projects
that
homogenize these groups as "minority" populations, political
constituencies, or market segments, as well as for efforts that
seek
to produce community and build strategic coalitions for
self-representation. The intrinsic incoherence of such social
categories, combined with their persistent meaningfulness, are
telltale indicators of the ongoing reconfiguration of Latinos
and
Asians as racial formations in the U.S.
This conference contributes to a much-needed density of critical
dialogue in the study of the United States through a concentrated
focus on research that examines diverse social relations BETWEEN
Latinos and Asians. Likewise, this call solicits paper proposals
that foreground the wider processes of racialization that mediate
constructions of both nationally-specific and pan-ethnic Latino
and
Asian identities in the U.S. -- in relation to one another, as
well
as in relation to the hegemonic polarity of whiteness and Blackness.
While we are foregrounding the salience of Latino and Asian racial
formations, it is likewise crucial that the gendered, sexualized,
and
class-specific dimensions of these social processes also be
emphasized. Indeed, one of the central concerns of the conference
will be to examine some of the ways that Latinos and Asians together
are implicated in an on-going transnationalized reconfiguration
of
the broader social formation of the U.S. nation-state itself.
The conference is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Ethnicity
and Race at Columbia University, with the co-sponsorship of the
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University and the
Center
for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro) at Hunter College of the City
University of New York.
The event will be held on March 1-2, 2002 on the Morningside Heights
campus of Columbia University in New York City. We welcome paper
proposals from scholars operating in all disciplines and
interdisciplinary fields concerned with Latino and Asian American
Studies and the comparative study of racialization in the U.S.
Abstracts are due by November 1, 2001.
Send abstracts of papers to:
Nicholas De Genova
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Latina/o Studies
Columbia University
416 Hamilton Hall, MC 2880
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027
Email. npd18@columbia.edu
Fax. 212-854-0500 |