Call For Papers

   The Inaugural Interdisciplinary Conference of the Virtual
   Communication, Collaboration and Conflict (VIRT3C) Research Group at
   the University of Hull

   VIRT3C@Hull 2010 Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption
   of Collaborative Networks

   19-20 March

   http://virt3c.wordpress.com/

   Public Keynote speaker:   Geert Lovink

   Keynote speakers:

   Gabriella Coleman [Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU]

   Mathieu O’Neil [Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV & Australian National  University]

   Our plenary theme is Developing the Virtual Society: Conflict in Adoption of Online Collaborative Networks. As virtual society develops, and peer technologies and practices pump in its heart, this conference brings together academics of all disciplines to discuss conflict in the adoption of collaborative networks. This is a time of confrontation between older forms of communication and organization and new ways of sharing, collaborating and acting collectively.

We seek to explore conflicts emerging in the transition from, and resistance to, horizontal participatory networks, as well as conflict within collaborative networks. We welcome suggestions for panels and papers on any area relating to our theme, and particularly in the following  areas:

   Network Theory
   P2P and FLOSS methodology adoption
   FLOSS methodology
   Open source conflicts and forking
   Adoption by NGOs and the developing world
   Adoption by social movements, hacktivism, cyberconflict
   Institutional resistance to networks
   Online P2P places and conflicts

   We encourage contributions, including, but not limited to, politics,
   economics, computer science, business, psychology, sociology, and law.

   With your abstract of no more than 300 words please include the
   following information:

   Name, postal address, email
   Institutional affiliation and position (if applicable)

   Please send abstracts in Word or pdf format to the organisers at athina.k   (at)   gmail.com

   Provisional Deadline for abstracts: 15th January 2010

Nos dirigimos a usted en la oportunidad de invitarle a participar en el Segundo Simposio Iberoamericano en Generación, Comunicación y Gerencia del Conocimiento: GCGC 2010   (http://www.2010iiisconferences.org/GCGC) a realizarse en Orlando, Florida, EE.UU., del 29 de Junio al 2 de Julio de 2010. Igualmente le agradeceríamos la divulgación de esta convocatoria a colegas que podrían estar interesados en la misma.

Las fechas límites de esta convocatoria son:

Propuestas de artículos y sesiones invitadas: 16 de Diciembre de 2009
Notificación de aceptación: 27 de Enero de 2010
Envío de la versión final del artículo: 17 de Febrero de 2010

Se aceptarán propuestas tanto para ponencias presenciales como virtuales. Estas últimas estarán apoyadas por foros electrónicos y presentaciones electrónicas (video, PowerPoint con o sin audio, etc.) si así lo decide el ponente, además de la presentación de la ponencia propiamente dicha en PDF que sería el insumo del respectivo foro virtual.

Todas las propuestas para ponencias, tanto presenciales como virtuales, se revisarán en base a los mismos procedimientos y los artículos aceptados serán publicados tanto en la memorias en papel como en la electrónica, en CD.

Los artículos y resúmenes extendidos que sean recibidos serán sometidos a tres tipos de revisiones, a saber: 1) anónimas (‘double-blind’) por parte de al menos tres revisores, 2) no anónimas (‘non-blind’), y 3) participativas a través de pares que hayan enviado un artículo o un resumen en la misma área o el mismo tópico de la conferencia.

Habrá sesiones virtuales pre-conferencia y post-conferencia (mediante foros electrónicos) asociadas a las sesiones presenciales establecidas en el programa de la conferencia. De esa manera, los artículos podrán ser leídos antes de la conferencia propiamente dicha, y el lector podrá interactuar con el respectivo autor durante 7 días antes de la conferencias, y después de la misma. Los autores también podrán participar en evaluaciones participativas (‘peer-to-peer’) de los artículos que han sido presentados en su sesión.

Los autores de trabajos que hayan sido aceptados para su presentación en la conferencia y que tengan al menos un autor inscrito en la misma tendrán acceso a los resultados de las revisiones y evaluaciones de sus respectivos artículos para los efectos de tener insumos que les permitan mejorar la versión final de sus trabajos y/o sus respectivas presentaciones en la conferencia.

Será otorgado un reconocimiento al mejor trabajo presentado en cada una de las sesiones de la conferencia. Los artículos galardonados y las evaluaciones que se hayan hecho de todos los artículos servirán de base para la selección de los mejores 10%-20% de los trabajos presentados, los cuales serán publicados en la Revista Iberoamericana de Sistemas, Cibernética e Informática (RISCI; http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/RISCI) sin costo adicional para sus autores.

De igual forma, nos gustaría invitarle a organizar una sesión invitada en un tópico relacionado con su área de investigación o de experiencia profesional. Si usted está interesado en organizar una sesión invitada, llene, por favor, la respectiva forma en el sitio Web de la conferencia. Al pre-aprobarle dicha sesión, usted recibirá una clave que le permitirá ingresar y modificar los datos relativos a los artículos de su sesión invitada.

Más detalles respecto al proceso de revisión, la política de aceptaciones, la organización de sesiones invitadas, etc., se encuentran el sitio Web de la conferencia.

Cordialmente,

El Comité Organizador

Alternative Culture

ALTERNATIVE CULTURE NOW: THE POLITICS OF CULTURE AT THE PRESENT CONJUNCTURE

Call for Proposals:

‘Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture’
Conference and Event
Budapest, Hungary
April 8-10, 2010

Proposal Deadline: January 25, 2010

How do things stand with respect to the fate of the alternative? Branded and normativized, incorporated into a whole ensemble of mainstream discourses, and no longer the threat it once posed to capitalist and communist states alike, the political and social force of the alternative seems to have faded away. And yet the dream of the alternative continues to inspire political and social movements, artists, theorists, and all kinds of creative practices. How might we begin to situate and think alternativity as a global phenomenon at this precise conjuncture in world history? What is alternative about culture today? And what might or can it become?

The alternative, of course, has always been phraseable in the singular and the plural. On the one hand, it is a phenomenon locked into local configurations, a multi-polar and non-totalizable practice of myriad deviation. Here, its ambit can be that of a family drama or workplace, a national concatenation, or the homogenizing logic of a dominant cultural medium or genre. The dreams it holds in reserve are vitally minor: the fissuring of a regime with a joke or dissidence, the freedom mobilized in small, almost imperceptible defections or reversals. The production of the alternative is in this sense the aggregate, spontaneous effort of innumerable cultural agents to resist every species of stasis and capture, every grammar and vernacular, every gestural hierarchy and total system.

At the same time, this molecular vision of the alternative, of a plurality of fissions and margins, has always been accompanied by attempts to think what it is in the tendency of a moment which suppresses cultural possibilities on a global level. This is a dream of a communication or inter-mediation between margins, a system of deviances which comprehensively address the conditions which negatively hypostatize the life of the virtual. Global patriarchy, violent state expansionisms, the inhibiting logics of capital, and the globalization of the English language can be envisioned as transnational, systematized normativities that threaten cultural specificity or possibility in a way that is never exhausted by its expression on the register of the local. Is there, in this sense, only one alternative: an alternative to which there is no alternative? This notion of a single alternative-a universal difference necessary to shelter the future lives of difference–immediately sets into motion its own paradoxical dialectics of alternativity, itself appearing to erase the thing it promises. How do we escape this vortex, or at least make its impasses productive?

Is one alternative more important than another? Can alternatives be exhausted or rendered obsolete? What kind of method could we develop to test the valences of alternatives? Can or should alternative culture polemically charge the space of its own marginality, or would this degenerate into an infinite sectarianism?

We understand “alternative culture” to include diverse forms of cultural expression and activity, which are connected by their shared goal of creating just, humane, and equitable human relations by means of their opposition to existing cultural, social, and political forms.

This conference encourages contributions from scholars, educators, artists, cultural workers, policy makers, journalists, and others involved in alternative culture and international cultural policies. We are especially interested in contributions addressing alternative culture in Central/Eastern Europe and countries/regions of the former Soviet Union.

Areas of inquiry for submissions may include, but are not limited to, the following general topics in relation to the politics of alternative culture today:

Aesthetics – Collectivity – post-Communist Culture – Creativity – Cultural Studies – Eastern Europe – Geography -Globalization – Higher Education – Media – Memory/Nostalgia – Music – New Media – ex-Socialist History – ex-Soviet Urban Spaces – Visual Culture

The “Alternative Culture Now: The Politics of Culture at the Present Conjuncture” conference will take place at the OSA Archivum in Budapest, Hungary, April 8-10, 2010. It is organized and sponsored by the International Alternative Culture Center, with the support of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (Central European University) and the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Studies (University of Alberta). The conference format will be diverse, including paper presentations, panels, round-table exchanges, artistic performances, and exhibitions. We encourage individual and collaborative paper and panel proposals from across the disciplines and from artists and community members.

Paper Submissions should include: (1) contact information; (2) a 300-500 word abstract; and (3) a one page curriculum vitae or a brief bio.

Panel Proposals should include: (1) a cover sheet with contact information for chair and each panelist; (2) a one-page rationale explaining the relevance of the panel to the theme of the conference; (3) a 300 word abstract for each proposed paper; and (4) a one page curriculum vitae for each presenter.

Please submit individual paper proposals or full panel proposals via e-mail attachment by January 25, 2010 to 
alternativeculturenow@gmail.com with the subject line “Alternative Culture Now.” Attachments should be in .doc or .rtf formats. Submissions should be one document (i.e. include all required information in one attached document).

Website: http://www.alternativeculture.org

Conference Organizing Team: Sarah Blacker (University of Alberta, Canada), Jessie Labov (Ohio State, USA), Andrew Pendakis (University of Bonn, Germany), Justin Sully (McMaster University, Canada), Imre Szeman (University of Alberta, Canada), Maria Whiteman (University of Alberta, Canada), and Olga Zaslavskaya (OSA, Hungary)

Sarah Blacker
Department of English and Film Studies
3-5 Humanities Centre
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
T6G 2E5

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“EUNIS 2010 is the 16^th Congress in a series of conferences within the framework of the European University Information Systems organisation (EUNIS).
EUNIS Congresses are international events that attract a large audience from Higher Education Institutions (HEI). It is a chance for international specialists, users, researchers, decision–makers and academic teachers from all over Europe to share their experience. Moreover, it is a very good event to present and publish the latest results of research, investigations and deployment concerning Information Technology in HEIs.

This edition of the annual EUNIS Congress, hosted by the University of Warsaw, will take place on 23-25 June 2010 in Warsaw, the capital of Poland.”

Important dates:

’til then… Keep a sharp eye on it!

Health

HEALTH, EMBODIMENT AND VISUAL CULTURE: ENGAGING PUBLICS AND PEDAGOGIES

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Conference: “Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture: Engaging Publics and Pedagogies”

November 19-20, 2010
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Conference Co-Chairs:
Sarah Brophy, Associate Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
Janice Hladki, Associate Professor, School of the Arts, McMaster University

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2010

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION:
This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore how visual cultural practices image and imagine unruly bodies and, in so doing, respond to Patricia Zimmermann’s call for “radical media democracies that animate contentious public spheres” (2000, p. xx). Our aim is to explore how health, disability, and the body are theorized, materialized, and politicized in forms of visual culture including photography, video art, graphic memoir, film, body art and performance, and digital media. Accordingly, we invite proposals for individual papers and roundtables that consider how contemporary visual culture makes bodies political in ways that matter for the future of democracy. Proposals may draw on fields such as: visual culture, critical theory, disability studies, health studies, science studies, autobiography studies, indigenous studies, feminisms, queer studies, and globalization/transnationalism.

CONFERENCE EVENTS:
Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
*Rebecca Belmore,* internationally recognized Anishinabekwe artist, Vancouver (exhibitions of her performance, video, installation, and sculpture include: Venice Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts);
*Lisa Cartwright,* Professor of Communication and Science Studies and Affiliated Faculty in Gender Studies, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego (/Screening the Body: Tracing Medicine’s Visual Culture/; /Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child/)
*Robert McRuer,* Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC (/Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability/; /The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities/);
*Ato Quayson,* Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto (/Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation/; /Relocating Postcolonialism/).

The conference will also feature /Scrapes: Unruly Embodiments in Video Art,/ an exhibition curated by Sarah Brophy and Janice Hladki, at the McMaster Museum of Art.

POSSIBLE THEMATICS:

1. Technologies
– medical technologies (e.g. medical imaging, drug therapies, prosthetics and other devices) and their implications for embodiment, subjectivity, community, kinship, and politics
– corporeality and the senses as sites/forms of knowledge-making
– biopolitics and surveillance
– the relationship between “old” and “new” technologies
– how technologies mediate social spaces of embodiment and interaction
– interrogations of the human and posthuman in medicine, science, and art

2. Cultural Production
– cultural pedagogy; the production of knowledge in sites of cultural production (e.g. galleries, festivals, classrooms, online, etc.)
– counter-publics (e.g. disability culture)
– indigenous modes of cultural production
– diasporic/transnational issues and practices
– new representational modes (e.g. digital arts, graphic memoir)
– documentary practices
– “doing politics in art” (Bennett)

3. Disability
– medical, scientific, and cultural discourses of disability
– performing and witnessing embodied difference
– interrogations of impairment
– genetics, reproduction, eugenics
– dis-ease and disorder
– “ability trouble” (McRuer)
– “radical crip images” (McRuer)

4. Affect
– explorations of “ugly feelings” (Ngai), “aesthetic nervousness” (Quayson), “moral spectatorship” (Cartwright), “empathic vision” (Bennett), and “seeing for” (Bal)
– relationships to medicalization, regulation, and surveillance
– affect as generative/productive in relation to concepts of ethical spectatorship and witnessing
– relationships between corporeality and theorizations of nature as dynamic and agentic (Barad, Grosz, Haraway)
– can we/should we move beyond the theories that posit /negative/ affect as a prime site for ethics?
– affect and global politics: representations of global mobilities, violence, war, terrorism

HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL:
We kindly invite submissions from scholars, artists, health professionals, community members, and activists in all areas and disciplines. Concurrent sessions will be 90 minutes in length. Proposals for the following formats will be considered:
1) Individual papers: 15 minutes in length
2) Roundtables: 4-5 participants, including a designated moderator and a plan for facilitated discussion of ideas
All submissions will be peer-reviewed.

Individual paper submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words
3) paper title and a 300-500 word abstract; the description of the paper’s content should be as specific as possible and indicate relevance to one or more of the conference thematics.
4) Details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VH S). Note that participants will need to bring their own laptops.

Roundtable submissions should include:
1) affiliation and contact information for each participant
2) a biographical note of up to 200 words for each participant
3) roundtable title and a 500 word proposal. The proposal should both indicate the relevance of the roundtable to one or more of the conference thematics and outline the organization of the proposed discussion.
4) details of audiovisual needs (e.g. DVD, LCD projection, and/or VHS). Note that participants will need to bring their own laptops.

All submissions should be sent via email attachment to
viscult@mcmaster.ca <mailto:viscult@mcmaster.ca> by January 15, 2010.
Please use the subject line “Proposal for Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture.” Attachments should be in .doc or .rtf formats.

If electronic submission is not possible, please mail or fax proposals to arrive by January 15, 2010.
Address: Sarah Brophy & Janice Hladki: Health, Embodiment, and Visual Culture Conference
c/o Department of English & Cultural Studies
Chester New Hall 321
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9
Fax: 905-777-8316

ACCESSIBILITY:
Presenters are encouraged to explore ways to make physical, sensory, and intellectual access a fundamental part of their presentation. Suggestions include: large print (18 point font) copies of handouts, large-print copies of paper or panel outlines, and/or audio descriptions of any film or video clips and images. Presenters are also encouraged to consider open or closed captioning of films and video clips.

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION PLANS:
Papers from the conference will be considered for a special issue of /The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies/.

CONFERENCE SPONSORSHIP:
Sponsored by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario (John Douglas Taylor Fund).

Sarah Brophy
Associate Professor
Department of English and Cultural Studies
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
L8S 4L9
brophys@mcmaster.ca

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The conference organising committee has received some great abstracts for papers and workshops, but a few people have indicated that they’d like more time to develop their ideas. So, we’ve extended the due date for abstracts until Friday 4 December.

Please check out the Call for Papers and consider submitting an abstract by next Friday. If you know of anyone who should be presenting next year, please encourage them.

A Revista Eletrônica Cadernos de História (UFOP) lança a chamada de trabalhos para a edição ano V n° 1, com seção temática de artigos Religião, Identidade e Cultura e seção livre para resenhas, transcrições comentadas, entrevistas e traduções. O prazo para envio de trabalhos se encerra no dia 1° de março de 2010.

O Historiografia.ning divulgou e nós também!

The INTED2010 (International Technology, Education and Development Conference) will be held in Valencia (Spain) on the 8th, 9th and 10th of March, 2010.

INTED 2010 will be an International Forum for those who wish to present their projects and innovations in Education and Technology, having also the opportunity to discuss the main issues and results in the field of Education and Research.

The general aim of the conference is to promote international collaboration in Education and Technology in all educational fields and disciplines. The attendance of more than 500 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is December 1st, 2009.

’til then… Keep a sharp eye on it!

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AS A BUSINESS IMPERATIVE James A.F. Stoner, Fordham University, & Charles Wankel, St. John’s University, New York Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

This book is in a new sustainability series published by Palgrave Macmillan.  Chapter are anticipated to be about 6000-7000 words.

We are interested in chapters on business logic for sustainability.  Chapters might examine this through various different prisms, such as a legal one, an industry one, a technological one, or a social one.  How these sorts of perspectives overlap in helpful or unhelpful ways would be of interest too.

We invite chapters on new models of business sustainability.  That is, how business, resources, and people fit together in a sustainability business model.  We hope that some authors will parse the systems nature of the “global sustainability equation” and of the task ahead of us in achieving global sustainability and then maintaining it as an ongoing, evolving, and continually changing situation.  We are interested in coverage of how entrepreneurs are stepping away from traditional business practices by adopting sustainability.  Cases will be critically assessed.  As customers become green focused it will become a more and more competitive requirement for companies to align with them.

We are also interested in action implications.  Assessing corporate environmental performance is a topic we are keenly interested in receiving chapter proposals on.  We invite chapters on corporate citizenship in the area of environmental stewardship.  Such factors as compliance with national and local laws, product design and packaging, energy efficiency, and minimization of toxic releases might be included.  Transportation industry’s sustainability opportunities would be a wonderful chapter to include.  Such a chapter might examine those things that make transport non-sustainable such as local air quality problems. It will then consider how every transportation mode and the entire system of transportation can be reoriented to fit with a sustainable future.  Another topic we are interested in is the role of microfinance and microenterprise in the development, adoption, and diffusion of sustainable technologies.  This chapter might discuss knowledge transfer from the developing to the developed world in the domain of economics and governance for sustainable development. Areas explored might include: the structure of commons governance institutions and the process of community-based participatory action research.

Motivating business is an important constellation of chapter topics for us.  We are interested in reports on redoing business curricula to emphasize global sustainability issues.  Empowerment for sustainability is an issue we hope to receive a chapter on.  This might discuss how average people in any organization can move toward sustainability. It might consider the manufacturing services and government sectors and also functions including top management, marketing, public relations, purchasing, facilities management, human resource management, finance and accounting, and health and safety.  Another topic we hope to receive a chapter submission on is the role of corporate boards in sustainability issues.  We have found that this topic is not covered much at all yet and would be great terra incognita for you to invade.  A proposal might consider corporate responsibility and sustainability management by corporate boards of directors who are taking a role in overseeing associated risks and opportunities. The consideration by boards of the interdependencies between environmental, social and financial performance, regulation, accountability, transparency and corporate governance, and potential impacts of climate change on business operations is increasing. Environmental awards is a topic we find undercovered in the literature.  We hope it is one that you might decide to tackle for a chapter in our volume.  Prestigious awards such as the Gold Medal for International Corporate Achievement and the Global 500 Role of Honor for Environmental Achievement can engage companies and their people towards realizing great sustainability improvement. Such a chapter might consider the changes in organizations who have put themselves into consideration for such awards and how such awards might be adapted to spur on even more environmental change.

Another area that we wish several chapters on is that of business transformations of its environment.  Designing green business facilities would be a great chapter.  Transforming business energy use in urban environments could be a chapter that might consider what businesses in urban environments can do to maximize global sustainability. A prominent would be a focus on energy use.  The impact of global industrial supply chains on sustainable development in developing countries is another important topic we solicit chapters on.  The change in developing countries’ abilities to handle cutting-edge technologies suggests that they are more able to handle cutting-edge environmental approaches and controls to the regulation and sensible planning of development.  Re-educating consumers is an important topic.  A chapter on this might have such themes and content as:  “No brainers” — absolutely obvious things all of us should do, and some of us are already doing, to improve our well-being by reducing wasteful, dissatisfaction-inducing consumption and by switching to more sustainability-friendly, more satisfying ways and consuming.

Finally, we would like to have chapters on new directions to new sustainable futures from the nebulous present in business.  This chapter might contain thoughts on what business needs to be doing and how it can be made to see what it needs to be doing.

Chapter proposals may be of any length but ideally about 200 words.  You should brief biographies of you and your coauthors, including terminal degrees, current affiliation, current rank, related publications, and contact information including office, mobile, Skype, email, and your home page.  Send your proposal to both James Stoner stoner@fordham.edu and Charles Wankel wankelc@stjohns.edu .  Our deadline for receipt of proposals is December 7, 2009.  We anticipate sending final drafts to the publisher in April of 2010 with publication in the fall of 2010.

Karl Marx

ROUNDTABLE ON MARX’S CAPITAL

Roundtable on Marx’s Capital

The SSPP is pleased to issue a CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS for a Roundtable on Marx’s Capital Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, February 24-27, 2011

Our second Roundtable will explore Volume One of Marx’s Capital (1867).  We chose this text because the resurgence in references to and mentions of Marx – provoked especially by the financial crisis, but presaged by the best-seller status of Hardt and Negri’s Empire and Marx’s surprising victory in the BBC’s “greatest philosopher” poll – has only served to highlight the fact that there have not been any new interpretive or theoretical approaches to this book since Althusser’s in the 1960s.

The question that faces us is this: Does the return of Marx mean that we have been thrust into the past, such that long “obsolete” approaches have a newfound currency, or does in mean, on the contrary, that Marx has something new to say to us, and that new approaches to his text are called for?

The guiding hypothesis of this Roundtable is that if new readings of Capital are called for, then it is new readers who will produce them.

Therefore, we are calling for applications from scholars interested in approaching Marx’s magnum opus with fresh eyes, willing to open it to the first page and read it through to the end without knowing what they might find. Applicants need not be experts in Marx or in Marxism.  Applicants must, however, specialize in some area of social or political philosophy.  Applicants must also be interested in teaching and learning from their fellows, and in nurturing wide-ranging and diverse inquiries into the history of political thought.

If selected for participation, applicants will deliver a written, roundtable-style presentation on a specific part or theme of the text.  Your approach to the text might be driven by historical or contemporary concerns, and it might issue from an interest in a theme or a figure (be it Aristotle or Foucault).  Whatever your approach, however, your presentation must centrally investigate some aspect of the text of Capital.  Spaces are very limited.

Applicants should send the following materials as email attachments (.doc/.rtf/.pdf) to papers@sspp.us  by September 15, 2010:

    • Curriculum Vitae
    • One page statement of interest in the Roundtable.  (Please include a discussion of the topics you would be willing to explore in a roundtable presentation.  Please also discuss the projected significance of participation for your research and/or teaching.)

Ben Fowkes’ translation of Capital (Viking/Penguin, 1976) is the official translation for the Roundtable, and should be used for page citations. However, applicants are strongly encouraged to review either the German text of Capital (the 2nd edition of 1873 is the basis for most widely available texts) or the French translation (J. Roy, 1872-5), which was the last edition Marx himself oversaw to publication; both of these are widely available on-line.

All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process via email on or before October 15, 2010.  Participants will be asked to send a draft or outline of their presentation to papers@sspp.us by January 15, 2011 so that we can finalize the program.

In order to participate in the Roundtable (but not to apply or to be selected), you must be a member of the Society in good standing. You can become a member of the Society by following the membership link at: http://www.sspp.us

William S. Lewis
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair,
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866, USA
(518) 580 5402

Board Member and Treasurer
Society for Social and Political Philosophy

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Is Another Crisis!

BEYOND THE CRISIS

http://www.iippe.org

INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR PROMOTING POLITICAL ECONOMY (IIPPE)

and

GREEK SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL ECONOMY

RETHYMNON, CRETE, SEPTEMBER 10-12, 2010

“BEYOND THE CRISIS”

Pre-amble: Following its three previous highly successful international research workshops for students in Crete, Naples and Ankara, the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) is now holding its FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN POLITICAL ECONOMY, co-organised with the Greek Scientific Association of Political Economy, and open to application from all engaged in political economy. Summaries of papers for consideration for inclusion (maximum 1000 words) should be submitted by 31st of March 2010 to iippe@soas.ac.uk with subject heading IIPPE CONFERENCE 2010. Full papers are required to be made available by 30 June 2010 for pre-circulation to Conference participants. It will be possible to attend the Conference without submitting a paper but numbers will be limited. There will be some funding available for those who are unable to rely upon institutional support for participation, with special provision for research students.

Themes: Following the global crisis, the prospects of, and need for, progressive political economy are stronger than for many decades. Orthodox economics is in disarray, but with only a smattering of its own practitioners accepting this, generally by demanding more realism and the incorporation of a few more or less arbitrary behavioural principles. After the collapse of the post-war boom, the recession and slowdown that followed gave birth to extreme forms of monetarism followed by a mild reaction in terms of reliance upon market and institutional imperfections and weakened Keynesianism. The prospects for a radical rethink within orthodoxy and of tolerance to heterodoxy remain bleak. But it is still crucial to sustain critical commentary on orthodoxy’s continuing principles and innovations as a new generation of students and researchers are caught between conforming to its reduced and flawed content and the economic realities of the world around them. Political economy has begun to prosper in the wake of the crisis, not least with the rising popularity of Minsky for example. It is imperative that the strengths and weaknesses of the diverse, often insightful, analyses of the nature, causes and consequences of the financial crisis be debated and fully engaged across competing paradigms and emphases. Nor is the crisis confined to economic effects and causes alone. Interdisciplinary approaches are essential to address the nature of, and prospects for, neo-liberalism, the shifting character of the “new world order”, US hegemony and the rise of China, and the economic and the social and cultural restructuring that have both preceded and will follow upon the crisis. This offers opportunities to engage with activists in understanding the impact and incidence of the crisis and in formulating alternatives and strategies in response to it.

The Conference welcomes proposals for papers that address one or more of these issues or any other issue within political economy. IIPPE working groups are entitled to organise a panel. But we also welcome proposals for panels independently of working groups on well-defined themes, with three or four contributions and contributors specified in advance. These must be submitted, ideally with paper summaries by March 31st, 2010, although earlier submissions have greater chance of acceptance as the Conference programme is filled out.

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The Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies Program (Department of English) at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, reminds us that their call for papers deadline is around the corner: November 30, 2009. “Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture” will be held on March 4-6, 2010. All proposals must be submitted electronically to cariblocationsconf@as.miami.edu

Global flows have long been one of the defining historical and cultural paradigms of the Caribbean. The organizers invite papers that consider questions related to the power dynamics that shape these paradigms and the cultural artifacts produced in the cross currents of these “global flows.” For description, see previous post CFP: Global Caribbean(s): Interrogating the Politics of Location in Caribbean Literature and Culture.

For further information and guidelines, see http://www.as.miami.edu/cls/

Op 25/02/2010 organiseert de de doctoral schools of human sciences en de vakgroep Communicatiewetenschappen- onderzoeksgroep Cemeso een master class met Prof. Dr. V. Kirchberg omtrent financiering van kunst en cultuur. We verlengen de deadline voor het indienen van een abstract met een maand. Dit om geïnteresseerde doctoraatsstudenten meer tijd/ruimte te geven. De nieuwe deadline valt hierdoor op maandag 30 november 2009.

Details of the inaugural issue of the “International Journal of Information Technology Project Management” (IJITPM) are now available from IGI Publishing. The special issue is about “Managing Virtual Project Teams.” Any queries regarding topics to be discussed as well as general submissions should be directed to the Guest Editor, Professor Peggy Beranek at: mberanek@uccs.edu Submission due date is: January 15, 2010.

With this we want to make you aware of a conference, The Etiology andEcology of Post-Soviet Communication, which we have planned for theweekend of May 7-8(-9) 2010 at the Harriman Institute of Columbia, inNew York City. The focus of the conference will be the development ofthe internet in the post-Soviet space, first and foremost Russia,though comparative work that goes beyond this geographical focus isalso of interest.

We anticipate panels on such questions as: emergence and evolution ofsocial networks; patterns of interlinking; the phenomenon of socialcontagion in online communications; political clustering in theblogosphere and beyond; public versus private identities;doublethink, cynicism, coded language; the emergence of opinionleaders in the blogosphere; freedom of the press on the internet;forms and degrees of censorship, online activism/social movements onthe internet; dissenters and political activism; democracy toautocracy in the Russian internet.

We would welcome one-page abstracts sent to

nmc.conference@gmail.com

by February 1, 2010.

Yours truly,

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#CathyCatharine Nepomnyashchy,

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#AlanAlan Timberlake

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#GuobinGuobin Yang (Project Leaders)

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#EugeneEugene Gorny

http://nmc.wikischolars.columbia.edu/Contact#FlorianFlorian Toepfl (Project Coordinators)

In conjunction with the Glasgow University Caribbean Discussion Group, the Caribbean Studies Association announces a major conference on the theme of “Caribbean Enlightenment,” which will examine the diverse and complex ways in which Enlightenment ideals have found expression in the Caribbean. The conference will be held on April 8 to 10, 2010, at the University of Glasgow. The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2009.

Keynote speakers will be J. Michael Dash (Professor of French, Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University), Paget Henry (Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Brown University), Nick Nesbitt (Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor of French, University of Liverpool), and Kei Miller (Creative Writing Department, University of Glasgow).

From the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804 to The Black Jacobins, surrealism, négritude, and the contemporary writings of such theorists as Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, the interrogation of universality has both contributed to the ongoing dissemination and creolization of Enlightenment discourse and has subjected it to a thorough critique. This conference will explore the various ways in which the site of the Caribbean, with its writers, artists, revolutionaries, and diverse peoples, has adapted and questioned the legacies of the Enlightenment. Acknowledging the Caribbean’s crucial role in the Atlantic world, the Enlightenment’s history of empire building and slave rebellions, colonial domination and postcolonial nation-building, the valorization of reason and its role in the division of knowledge will be interrogated against the dissemination of a discourse promoting universal human rights, democracy and equality.

The organizers invite panel proposals and/or paper abstracts that deal with any aspect of Caribbean Enlightenment.

Send panel proposals/paper abstracts (300 words) with a brief biographical statement (150 words) to Dr. Lorna Burns and Michael Morris at caribbeanenlightenment@gmail.com

For more information, see http://caribbeanstudiesassociation.blogspot.com/2009/11/cfp-caribbean-enlightenment.html

CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS PHILOMATHIA – University of Utah’s Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy is now accepting submissions for the spring 2010 issue. Papers of 7,000 words or less in any area of philosophy are welcome.

SUBMIT BY: December 11, 2009 For more details, including a pdf of submission requirements, click here.

For the Society for Social and Political Philosopy’s meetings to be held in conjunction with:

SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) in 2010.

The SSPP invites papers for two conference panels. We are seeking papers that address issues pertaining to:

Politics and Ontology

We seek to explore and challenge the hypothesis that all political theory presupposes an ontology. From the presumption of universal rationality, to the potency of class consciousness, to the privileges shaped by the social existence of race, gender and sexuality, political order always is or implies an ontological order. In many respects, the ontological question is the political question. Struggles for political change are as much about the expansion (or contraction) of shared ontological categories as they are about the rewriting of legislation or the redistribution of power and resources . The traditional allocation of rights, for instance, has been determined almost entirely on the basis of who, or what, one is presumed to be. While ontology and politics share a long, interconnected history, for much of modern history the connection between them has been downplayed or denied, since liberalism is premised on bracketing such supposedly insoluble and inherently conflictual metaphysical questions. In recent decades, however, this has changed. The explicit investigation of political ontology has taken center stage and, as a consequence, what we understand to be political or ontological has changed as well. Politics is no longer limited to the state, but permeates all of social existence to include the terrain of imagination, emotions, and representation. Ontology is no longer an ultimate foundation, but is constituted through relations of power and affects. In the works of such authors as Gilles Deleuze, Elizabeth Grosz, Giorgio Agamben, William Connolly, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Jean-Luc Nancy, Antonio Negri, and many others, the subject of political ontology has surfaced in an array of new formulations. For this panel, we invite papers that extend this investigation or that challenge this resurgence, both within the context of work that has already been done and in anticipation of work yet to be conceived.

Complete papers of 3000-5000 words (that can be summarized and presented in 20-30 minutes) should be submitted for consideration for the 2010 meeting (deadline: March 1, 2010). The SPEP Conference is scheduled for October 2010, in Montreal, Canada.

Authors should include their name(s) and contact information on the cover page ONLY.

Papers should be emailed as attachments in Word or RTF format to: papers@sspp.us

From the Law and Society Association Website:

Call for Participation Due Date: December 8, 2009

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT PAPERS

The 2010 Annual Meeting of Law and Society Association Thursday, May 27 through Sunday, May 30, at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel.

Theme: AFTER CRITIQUE: What is Left of the Law and Society Paradigm?

Born out of disillusionment with the failures of liberal legalism to deliver social justice or equality, law and society scholarship at the time aimed to expose those failures and challenge liberal legalism’s legitimating premises. Twenty years after the founding of LSA, during the decade of the 1980s, the critical impulse of law and society scholarship was itself put under the microscope by some who turned critique inward, calling out law and society scholars for embracing empty empiricism or for their complicity with legal and political elites. In this period, meta-debates raged over theoretical, methodological, and political questions.

More recently events in the academy and the world seem to have squelched our appetite for critique either of the legal order itself or of the premises and purposes of our own scholarship. In an era when the rule of law has come under sustained attach, can we go beyond celebrating it and allying ourselves with its projects? At a time when there are no dominant theoretical or methodological perspectives in the academy should we turn away from epistemological questions and just get on with our work?

The theme of the 2010 LSA Meeting–After Critique–invites us to consider the law and society enterprise today and to think about its future direction. We want to reflect on the various ways that law and society scholarship has been and should be engaged with the threat of terrorism and governmental responses to it, national and global attacks on the rule of law, questions of sovereignty and sovereign prerogative, the contemporary situation of identity politics, and the collapse of the global economy and the crisis of neo-liberalism.

We also want to think about whether there is anything meaningful and coherent in the phrase “law and society scholarship” as well as how we should position ourselves in relationship to other interdisciplinary enterprises, e.g. critical race theory, empirical legal studies, law, culture, and the humanities, etc. Is it time to revive our critical heritage as well as our traditions of theoretical and methodological self-scrutiny? What would this entail?

Vai realizar-se a CISTI’2010 (5ª Conferência Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação), de 16 a 19 de Junho de 2010, em Santiago de Compostela, Espanha.

Podem ser submetidos artigos nas seguintes temáticas:

• Organizational Models and Information Systems
• Knowledge Management and Decision Support Systems
• Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools
• Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems
• Human Centered Computing
• Health Informatics
• Information Technologies in Education
  

Os artigos podem ser de três tipos:

• Artigo: trabalhos concluídos ou consolidados sobre I&D realizada numa das temáticas da conferência. Estes artigos terão um limite máximo de 6 páginas.
• Artigo Curto: trabalhos em curso, mas com resultados preliminares relevantes a serem discutidos. Estes artigos terão um limite máximo de 4 páginas.
• Poster: trabalhos iniciais, mas com ideias relevantes a serem discutidas. Estes artigos terão o limite máximo de 2 páginas.

Datas Importantes:

• Submissão de artigos: 12 de Fevereiro de 2010
• Notificação de aceitação: 26 de Março de 2010
• Submissão da versão final dos artigos aceites: 9 de Abril de 2010

’til then… Keep a sharp eye on it!