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ANNOUNCEMENTS AND ADVERTISEMENTS
Postmodern Culture v.6 n.3 (May, 1996)
pmc@jefferson.village.virginia.edu
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Every issue of _Postmodern Culture_ carries notices of events,
calls for papers, and other announcements, free of charge.
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If you respond to one of the ads or announcements below, please
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Publication Announcements
* Essays in Postmodern Culture
* The New River
* Works and Days
* Media Ecology
* Pynchon Notes
* Gallaudet University Press
* The MIT Press
* The Denver Quarterly
* SUNY Press
* James Joyce Quarterly
* The Centennial Review
* Public Culture
Conferences, Calls for Papers, Invitations to Submit
* Call for Hypermedia Submissions to PMC
* Literature and Ethics
* Film: Culture: History
* Cultural Violence
* Katharine Sharp Review
* Virtual Masquerades: Electronic Textuality and On-Line
Personae
* Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia
* IASS-AIS Sixth Congress 1997
* Sociological Studies of Telecommunications,
Computerization, and Cyberspace
* Calls for Papers in English and American Literature
* NEH: Teaching With Technology
* The Epiphany Institute
* College Literature
* JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory
Web Sites and Other Announcements
* Cultural Cartographies Conference Prize
* HSS Web Server
* 19th Century American Women Writers Web
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* Essays in _Postmodern Culture_:
An anthology of essays from _Postmodern Culture_ is available in print
from Oxford University Press. The works collected here constitute
practical engagements with the postmodern -- from AIDS and the body to
postmodern politics. Writing by George Yudice, Allison Fraiberg, David
Porush, Stuart Moulthrop, Paul McCarthy, Roberto Dainotto, Audrey
Ecstavasia, Elizabeth Wheeler, Bob Perelman, Steven Helmling, Neil
Larsen, David Mikics, Barrett Watten. Book design by Richard
Eckersley.
ISBN: 0-19-508752-6 (hardbound), 0-19-508753-4 (paper)
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* The New River: A Hypermedia Archive
Sometime later this year, the English Department at Virginia Tech, in
connection with _The Blue Penny Quarterly_, will launch _The New River_, a
revolving archive of hypertext and hypermedia literature and art. I'll
be editing _The New River_, and consequently I'm interested in receiving
submissions of original and unpublished hypertext and hypermedia. I
would like to see lyric and narrative art that exploits the computer
as a site for creative work. Since _The New River_ will be a web-based
archive, work produced in HTML is preferred. However, stand-alone
hypertext/media will also be considered -- to be published, perhaps,
as work available for downloading. Information on submission
procedures for _The New River_ is available from _The Blue Penny
Quarterly_:
http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/olp/bpq/Guidelines.html
Ed Falco
English Department
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112
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* Works and Days
Call for Subscriptions to WORKS AND DAYS since 1994
The New Series/The Second Decade/The Next Generation
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In its 1994 "The Geography of Cyberspace" issue, WORKS AND DAYS looks
into the future of literary and rhetorical studies. Far from
abandoning the journal's longstanding concerns for cultural studies,
pedagogy, and institutional critique, its editorial collective sees
the need to address these issues in the light of recent technological
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The Geography of Cyberspace
Edited by David B. Downing and James J. Sosnoski
1994
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CyberSpaces:
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1995
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Cultural Studies and Composition:
Conversations in Honor of James Berlin
Edited by Keith Dorwick, David B. Downing, and James J. Sosnoski
Hypertext Edition Edited by Keith Dorwick
1996
Contributors: Joanne Addiison, Kris Blair, Michael Blitz, Beth
Campbell, David B. Downing, Patricia Harkin, Teresa Henning, C. Mark
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* media ecology
beginning summer 1996
MEDIA ECOLOGY
http://raven.ubalt.edu/features/media_ecology/
_media ecology_ is a journal of intersections. Published here are works
that examine techniques and technologies of transmitting messages, the
content and meaning of those messages, and cultural interactions with
the technologies and the messages. A place is also reserved in the
journal for creative works that make use of new technologies.
Intersections of theoretical and disciplinary positions are welcomed
and encouraged. Submissions may be informed by semiotics, rhetoric,
pedagogy, critical theory, and other positions that consider the
manner in which culture, communications systems and technologies
function together.
_media ecology_ is a journal that seeks to make an intersection between
traditional refereed scholarship and serious non-academic critique. It
will provide a home for important work originating in many different
sectors.
Departments
Understanding New Media - A McLuhanesque review of new
technologies.
The Lab - A laboratory for creative work utilizing hypertext.
The Law - Consideration of the legal ramifications of new
technologies.
Paradox - Consideration of unrealized potentials, nasty
inconsistencies and irresolvable dilemmas.
Reviews & Announcements
Publication
_media ecology_ will have a rotating publication schedule on
the World Wide Web. Annually our sister publication,
_Readerly/Writerly Texts_, will publish the _Media Ecology
Review_, a print collection of the strongest pieces
translatable to print.
Sponsorship
_media ecology_ is sponsored jointly by the Institute for
Language, Technology, and Publications Design of the University
of Baltimore, and _Readerly/Writerly Texts_, published at
Eastern New Mexico University.
Call For Submissions
Please send submissions electronically (MLA format where
applicable) to Stephanie B. Gibson, Editor. Send for further
guidelines and information: sgibson@ubmail.ubalt.edu.
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* Pynchon Notes
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* Gallaudet University Press
Study the Cost of Being "Unusual"
_The Politics of Deafness_, by Owen Wrigley
The questions Wrigley raises are troubling and politically compelling.
Each chapter encourages readers to examine their own values and
thinking in regard to those with hearing loss.
-- _Library Journal_
_The Politics of Deafness_ embarks upon a post-modern examination of the
search for identity in deafness and its relationship to the prevalent
hearing culture that has marginalized Deaf people. Author Wrigley
plainly states his intention to disrupt "normal" thought about the
popularly considered condition of deafness as a physical deficiency.
>From his decade of experience working and living in the Deaf community
in Thailand, he uses wide-ranging examples to go beyond disputing
conventional theorists for their interpretation of deafness as the
lack of a sensory function. By calling attention to the different
lingual potential created by the instant visual expression of
cyberspace, he explodes orthodox conceptualization of the nature of
language as serially ordered and dependent on sound.
In bold style, this provacative work poses the relationship of the
bodies physical and mental of Deaf people as subject to a form of
"colonialism" by the dominant Hearing culture. It proceeds to expose
and attack presumptions and practices that derive from and descend
upon deaf bodies. Related analysis also addresses tensions little
noted in the current literature on deafness and on the popular move to
reconstitute Deafness as a global culture.
Through displacement of logistical anchors, ironic stances, and
disconcerting perspectives, _The Politics of Deafness_ practices a form
of de-naturalization to demand space within and between the
normalizing frames of daily lives. By doing so, it offers an
insightful and intriguing perspective on the meanings of Deafness, the
politics of Deaf identity, and what is costs to be "unusual."
Owen Wrigley is a consultant with the United Nations Development
Programme and an Advisor to the National HIV/AIDS Control and
Prevention Program of the Union of Myanmar.
ISBN 1-56368-052-1, 6 x 9 hardcover, 304 pages, illustrations,
references, index
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* The MIT Press
"An unconventional but beautifully produced
publication that is worthy of high praise. . . .
This _Leonardo_ issue [25:3/4, 1992, _Visual
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-- _The Mathematical Intelligencer_ (16:1, 1994)
_Leonardo Electronic Almanac_ is published monthly on
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_Leonardo Electronic Almanac_ is a monthly, edited journal
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Recent authors and articles include:
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Five times a year, _Leonardo_'s pages present eclectic inquiry
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* The Denver Quarterly
Editors: John Williams, founder 1966-70, Burton Feldman 1970-75,
Gerald Chapman 1975-76, Burton Raffel 1976-77.
1966 - DENVER - 1996
QUARTERLY
Volume 31, Number 1, Summer 1996
30th ANNIVERSARY ISSUE
featuring
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poetry fiction and essays by
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Alice Walker, William Wiser, Rosmarie Waldrop,
William Matthews, David Mus.
Jan Gorak on Njabulo Ndeble, Laura (Riding) Jackson on poetry and
truth.
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* SUNY Press
_Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows_,
by Vincent B. Leitch
Through informative, original, and incisive case studies in postmodern
economics, philosophy, literary criticism, feminism, pedagogy, poetry,
painting, historiography, and cultural studies, this book demonstrates
that disorganization and disaggregration characterize postmodern
times. Postmodern phenomena, Leitch argues, resemble imploded
geological formations with historical strata in kaleidoscopic
disarray, and neither economics, nor politics, nor culture escapes
this novel form. Among the influential figures analyzed are Roland
Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, John Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Sandra
Gilbert, Susan Gubar, Henry Giroux, Stanley Aronowitz, Linda Hutcheon,
Fredric Jameson, J. Hillis Miller, Pentti Saarikoski, and Julian
Schnabel.
". . . With street-smart wit and scholarly expertise, Leitch
grounds high theory in the material conditions of daily life,
ranging all the way from the shattered dishes of Julian Schnabel
to the smooth, hyper-real orbit of space-age communication."
-- Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University
195 pages
$16.95 paperback ISBN 0-7914-3010-3
A volume in the SUNY series, Postmodern Culture
Joseph Natoli, editor
state university of new york press
1-800-666-2211 (orders)
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_POSTS: Re Addressing the Ethical_, by Dawne McCance
Posts is a collection of original essays that relates the ethical to
the problematic of the text as a POST or a sending in the work of
Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva,
and Michel Foucault. What brings these diverse thinkers together here
is the suggestion that something ethical happens (IL ARRIVE) through
the text only if it is not a self-presentation. The book's innovative
studies of deconstruction, psychoanalysis, and genealogy phrase the
ethical as the question of how to read and write AFTER without either
a decidable sender or a predetermined addressee. The collection will
be of interest to all those concerned with ethics and with the ethical
implications of recent developments in literary criticism, postmodern
theory, psychoanalysis, architecture, feminism, philosophy, and
religious studies.
A volume in the SUNY series, Postmodern Culture
Joseph Natoli, editor
169 pages, $14.95 paperback
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* James Joyce Quarterly
_James Joyce Quarterly_
Volume 33
Fall 1995 through Summer 1996
Sheldon Brivic Reality as Fetish: The Crime in
_Finnegans Wake_
Ronald Bush James Joyce: The Way He Lives Now
Hilary Clark "Legibly depressed": Shame, Mourning,
and Melancholia in _Finnegans
Wake_
Archie Loss The Censor Swings: Joyce's Work and
the New Censorship
Brigitte Sandquist The Tree Wedding in "Cyclops" and
Paradigms for Cata-logic
Stephen Whittaker and The Three Whistles and the Aesthetic
Francis X. Jordan of Mediation: Modern Physics and
Platonic Metaphysics in Joyce's
_Ulysses_
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_James Joyce Quarterly_
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* The Centennial Review
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* Public Culture
CELJ Best New Journal of the Year, 1992
Editor Associate Editors
Carol A. Breckenridge Arjun Appadurai,
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Lauren Berlant Dilip Gaonkar, Marilyn Ivy
_Public Culture_ has established itself as a field-defining cultural
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* Call for Hypermedia Submissions to _Postmodern Culture_
With the continuing interest in the World Wide Web and other
distributed information systems, hypermedia projects have
become both more numerous and more sophisticated. _Postmodern
Culture_ will continue to publish important offerings in
hypertext and hypermedia, presenting works that extend and
redefine electronic expression. We especially invite
conceptually challenging projects: texts/programs/performances
in which multiplicity of discourse serves as more than an
auxiliary for traditional language and forms. Scholarly as
well as creative projects are welcome: this call goes out to
philosophers, historians, ethnographers, and other researchers
as well as artists in all media.
Guidelines
o Projects created for the Web (HTML/HTTP) are preferable,
but we will consider other systems and media.
o Submissions must not have been featured in other electronic
publications and should have had minimal network exposure.
Copyright if any must be held by the author(s). To offer
your work for consideration, please send letter or e-mail
briefly describing your project. Include URL if your text
is accessible via the World Wide Web.
For further information, contact Stuart Moulthrop,
samoulthrop@ubmail.ubalt.edu.
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* NEH: Teaching With Technology
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Teaching with Technology
** A National Endowment for the Humanities Special Opportunity **
NEH's Division of Research and Education Programs announces
a special, three-year opportunity for support of Teaching
with Technology projects designed to strengthen education
in the humanities in both schools and colleges by developing
and using today's rapidly evolving information technologies:
including digital audio, video and imaging, hypertext and
hypermedia, video-conferencing, speech processing, the
Internet, and World Wide Web sites. The Endowment seeks to
increase the number and usefulness of technological resources
with rich, high-quality humanities content; to improve the
effectiveness of such resources by shaping them around
sophisticated, creative, and engaging approaches to teaching
and learning; and to increase greatly the number of teachers
who can integrate these humanities materials into their daily
teaching. Successful projects will be of national
significance and will extend the potential benefits of
educational technologies to a broad range of those studying
history, literature, languages, and the other humanities
disciplines in schools, colleges, and universities.
Any U.S., nonprofit, tax-exempt organization or institution
dedicated to improving humanities education is eligible to
apply for support through this program.
** Types of Projects **
At the Teaching with Technology deadlines, the Endowment
seeks proposals that address one or more of the following
categories:
1. Materials Development: Projects that plan and design
interactive educational software with excellent humanities
content.
2. Field Testing and Classroom Applications: Projects that
design and field-test innovative classroom uses of existing
materials or those being developed.
3. Teacher Preparation: Projects that enable school and
college teachers to integrate specific technologically
innovative humanities materials and approaches into their
teaching; these may be national summer institutes or
collaborative projects among teachers in the same or
neighboring institutions.
Applicants are encouraged to be as creative as possible in
proposing uses of newer technologies and innovative
strategies for using information technology in humanities
teaching.
** Deadlines for Receipt of Applications **
+ Initial Teaching with Technology deadline: April 5, 1996
+ Following the initial deadline, applications for
Teaching with Technology may be submitted against the
following regular program deadlines:
+ Humanities Focus Grants: Sep 16, 1996; Jan 15, 1997
+ Other Education Development & Demonstration Projects:
Oct 1, 1996; Oct 1, 1997
+ National Summer Institutes & Seminars: Mar 1, 1997;
Mar 1, 1998
Guidelines and applications may be retrieved from the NEH
World Wide Web site: http://www.neh.fed.us (under Guidelines)
For further information or to request guidelines and
application forms by surface mail:
Division of Research and Education, Room 302
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20506
education@neh.fed.us
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* Katharine Sharp Review
Call For Papers
Katharine Sharp Review
GSLIS, University of Illinois
ISSN 1083-5261
(This information can also be found at
http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review)
This is the first call for submissions to the Summer 1996
issue of the _Katharine Sharp Review_, the peer-reviewed
e-journal devoted to student scholarship and research
within the interdisciplinary scope of library and
information science.
All submissions should be received by Monday, May 13, 1996.
Although it is not required for submission, we would
appreciate an abstract (of 150-200 words) or indication
of intention to submit. Submitted articles must be
accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
For more information, including instructions for authors,
please see the KSR webpage at http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/
review/call.html or email us at sharp-review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu.
Kevin Ward
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sharp-review@edfu.lis.uiuc.edu
http://edfu.lis.uiuc.edu/review
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* Virtual Masquerades: Electronic Textuality and On-Line Personae
CALL FOR PAPERS
A Special Session at the Annual Meeting of the
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
University of California, Irvine on November 8-10, 1996
Many have commented on the emotional volatility of e-mail,
newsgroups, and listserv correspondence, and on the
compelling -- if not addictive -- qualities of interactive
hypertext and hypermedia. What is going on in this textual
exchange? How are these effects achieved by electronic
writers; how are these effects received by electronic
readers? Who are these mobile, fluid, multiple -- if not
mutant -- subjects precipitated by on-line texts? Where
are they? And how long do they last? This session
invites papers that speculate on the literary formation of
on-line ethos; on the rhetorical exchange of electronic
texts; on institutional or other resistances to such a
creative metamorphosis; on implications of hypertext
fiction; on new hybrid hypermedia genres exemplified by
"games" like Myst; or on other related issues.
Please submit a 1 page abstract (a paper may be included)
by APRIL 1, 1996 to:
The Electronic Text Collective
c/o Ellen Strenski
200 HOB-1
Department of English & Comparative Literature
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717
Queries or abstracts via e-mail to: Mark Mullen,
cclegg@pepperdine.edu. (Dues are $20 regular, $10 student or
emeritus.)
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* Gender and Space: South/Southeast Asia
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite critical essays for an interdisciplinary
anthology on the conceptualization of space in South
and Southeast Asian contexts in the 19th and 20th
centuries. The emphasis is on a feminist analytics
of women's and men's experiences of space in such
topics as political, social, and/or psychic
cartographies of imperialism, nationhood, urbanization,
technological production (cyberspace, etc.),
(e)migration, enforced/ chosen exile, and cosmopolitanism.
Papers might also consider how narratives (visual,
written, spoken, enacted), spatial designs, and
sociocultural practices configure race, class, gender
(also transgendering), sexuality, religion/spirituality,
and the politics of public and private realms inside,
between, and outside predetermined boundaries.
Countries: Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal,
India, Laos, Indonesia, Singapore, Pakistan, Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the
Philippines.
WE LOOK FORWARD ESPECIALLY TO SUBMISSIONS ON COUNTRIES
OTHER THAN INDIA.
Send 2-3 page proposals or 25-30 page papers by May 31,
1996 to Esha Niyogi De (UCLA) or Sonita Sarker (Macalester
College) at idr2end@mvs.oac.ucla.edu or sarker@macalstr.edu.
Or mail to S. Sarker, Macalester College, 1600 Grand
Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105.
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* IASS-AIS Sixth Congress 1997
First Call for Papers
Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture
La semiotique: carrefour de la nature et de la culture
La semiotica. Interseccion de la naturaleza y de la cultura
6th Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
--Association Internationale de la Semiotique IASS-AIS
Guadalajara, Mexico -- July, 13-18, 1997
This is already the 6th Congress of the International
Association for Semiotic Studies (founded in 1969).
The five previous congresses were held in Milano (1974),
Vienna (1979), Palermo (1984), Barcelona & Perpignan
(1989), and Berkeley (1994).
Theme: The development of science during the last decades
has shown the need of an interdisciplinary dialogue
between scholars investigating nature and culture in the
different corners of the world. Semiotics has shown that
it has an important role to play in this scientific
intercourse: It provides a sign-theoretic basis for the
coming together of anthropologists, linguists, literary
critics, communicologists, mathematicians, biologists,
physicists, and others, in an open debate to increase our
knowledge about ourselves in our relation with nature and
culture.
Objective: This is an international academic event open
to all scientific communities which will permit to get in
touch in a direct manner with recent developments in the
field of semiotics and neighboring disciplines. Since it
is the Congress of the IASS-AIS participants are invited
to join the Association (for membership information see
below).
Plenary Speakers:
* Mieke Bal (The Netherlands)
* Jean-Claude Gardin (France)
* Junzo Kawada (Japan)
* Floyd Merrell (USA)
* Michael O'Toole (Australia)
Languages: English, French, and Spanish (plenary sessions
will have simultaneous translation). Participants should
send the title and an abstract of 200 words in any of the
three official languages.
Screening Committees:
* The title and abstracts from Europe, Africa, Australia
and Oceania should be sent to the European Screening
Committee (Chair): Dinda L. Gorlee, Van Alkemadelaan 806,
NL-2597 BC Den Haag, The Netherlands; phone=fax
+31-70-3586745, or e-mail to Rene Jorna:
r.j.j.m.jorna@bdk.rug.nl
* Participants from North America, South America and Asia
should send their abstract and title to the Mexican
Screening Committee (Chair): Adrian Gimate-Welsh,
Pacifico 350 H-103, Los Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico,
D.F., Mexico; fax +52-5-5495764, phone +52-5-6895686
(weekdays), fax +52-22-430418 (weekends), e-mail:
agw@xanum.uam.mx
Registration Give your name, affiliation and mailing
address, and indicate the mode of payment. Send it
together with a brief description of your line of
research and photograph (the organizers plan to prepare
a brochure of all participants) to: Adrian Gimate-Welsh,
Pacifico 350 H-103, Los Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico
D.F.,Mexico.
Fees:
* Before March 1997 US$ 75.00
* After March 1997 US$ 100.00
This includes registration, congress materials, cocktail
reception and a dinner-concert. To pay your fees before
March 1997, send a bank money order to the account number
50075176-10 of the Commerce Bank of California (bank code
ABA-122233645) through any US bank. The money order
should be made out to
Marta Regina Jimenez Castilla and/or Adrian Gimate-Welsh
and sent to Mexico by mail to: Pacifico 350 H-103, Los
Reyes, Coyoacan, 04330 Mexico D.F., Mexico. You can also
make a direct transfer from your bank to the given account
number.
Honorary Executive Committee:
Jose Sarukhan Kermez, Rector - UNAM
Julio Rubio Oca, Rector General - UAM
Andres Lira, President - El Colegio de Mexico
Jose Luis Gazquez Mateos, Rector - UAM-I
Edmundo Jacobo Molina, Rector UAM-A
Guillermo Smidhuber de la Mora, Secretary of Culture, Jalisco
Bureau of the IASS-AIS: Executive Committee of the
President/President: Mexican Association of
Roland Posner (Germany) Semiotics and Organizing
Vice-Presidents/Vice-Presidents: Committee of the 6th
John Deely (USA), Congress President: Adrian
Gerard Deledalle (France), S. Gimate-Welsh (UAM-I)
Solomon Marcus (Romania), Honorary Presidents: Jose
Lucia Santaella Braga (Brazil), Pascual Buxo (UNAM)
Eero Tarasti (Finland) Vicepresidents:
Secretary General/Secretaire Rebeca Barriga Villanueva
General: (COLMEX)
Jeff Bernard (Austria) Gilberto Gimenez (UNAM)
Assistant Secretary General/ Secretary General and
Secretaire Generale Adjointe: Treasurer:
Gloria Withalm (Austria) Regina Jimenez-Ottalengo (UNAM)
Treasurer/Tresoriere: Communication and Culture
Magdolna Orosz (Hungary) Coordinators:
Assistant Treasurer/Tresorier Ma. Rayo Sankey Garcia (BUAP)
Adjoint: Juan Manuel Lopez R. (UAM-A)
Richard L. Lanigan (USA)
Editor-in-chief of Semiotica/ Scientific Committee:
Redacteur en chef de Semiotica: The Bureau of the IASS-AIS and
Thomas A. Sebeok (USA) the following scholars:
Takashi Fujimoto (Japan),
Pierre Pellegrino (Switzerland),
Vilmos Voigt (Hungary),
Rosa Ma. Ravera (Argentina),
Horst Ruthrof (Australia)
European Screening Committee: Mexican Screening Committee:
Chair: Dinda L. Gorlee (The Chair: Adrian S. Gimate-Welsh
Netherlands), (UAM-I),
Jesper Hoffmeyer (Denmark), Cesar Gonzalez (UNAM-IIF),
Rene Jorna (The Netherlands), Jose Pascual Buxo (UNAM-IIB),
Sandra Schillemans (Belgium), Renato Prada Oropeza (UV)
Membership Information:
The annual fees for individual membership amounts to US$
25.00; membership benefits include: two issues per year
of the _IASS-AIS Bulletin-Newsletter_ (IASS-AIS news,
congress calendar, upcoming events) and the _IASS-AIS
Bulletin-Annual_ (the yearbook of the IASS-AIS with
reports on conferences, recent publications, tables of
contents of relevant journals, semiotics on the Web,
theses, research projects, etc.). Please send your name,
home & office address, phone & fax numbers and e-mail
together with a check or money order, payable to the
IASS-AIS, to:
(all countries except North & South America:)
Magdolna Orosz (Treasurer of the IASS)
Tiszaors u. 20, H-1171 Budapest, Hungary;
fax: +36-1-3435062,
e-mail: orosz@osiris.elte.hu
(North & South America:)
Richard L. Lanigan (Assistant Treasurer of the IASS)
Dept. of Speech Communication, Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, IL 62901-6605, U.S.A.;
fax: +1-618-453-2812,
e-mail: rlanigan@siu.edu
For any further information on the IASS-AIS please contact:
Jeff Bernard (Secretary General), Gloria Withalm
(Assistant Secretary General)
Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies ISSS
Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
phone & fax: +43-1-504 53 44, e-mail:
gloria.withalm@hermes.hsak.ac.at
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* Sociological Studies of Telecommunications, Computerization,
and Cyberspace
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Edited Collection of Articles for Book Publication
Sociological Studies of Telecommunications, Computerization,
and Cyberspace
Original sociological articles on cyberspace, information
technology, and computerization are requested for publication
in an edited volume.
The edited collection will present original research on the
social, economic, political, and cultural dimensions of
cyberspace and telecommunications systems. The materials will
be organized around relevant and significant sociological
themes and issues, and will examine the emerging social
transformations associated with information technology,
globalization, and cyberspace.
As it is historically understood that new instrumental
technologies have significant social consequences in
conditioning and limiting human freedoms, this collection
of articles will contribute to increasing our understanding
of the social changes and new forms of political controls
and social relations that accompany the creation of electronic
communications in cyberspace.
Submissions may focus on social relations, identity, and
privacy in cyberspace, political, legal and ethical issues,
social inequalities, work place transformations,
globalization, property rights, and subcultural
manifestations associated with computerization.
The unique and necessary quality of this collection is
that it would be edited and organized from a sociological
perspective and emphasize the theoretical and conceptual
issues that have been historically developed by sociological
investigators and theorists. Unlike many current publications,
the goal is to avoid futuristic hyperbole, positive and
negative, and to include empirical studies of social relations
and social structure. This volume is intended not as a mixed
bag of popular, technical, business, educational, and
philosophical writings, but is planned to offer systematic
sociological investigations.
Articles should not exceed approximately thirty double-spaced
pages, including all tables, illustrations, endnotes, and
references.
Two copies of the article should be sent to Prof. Joseph E.
Behar, Department of Sociology, Dowling College, Oakdale, New
York 11769. Inquiries are welcome.
e-mail: jbehar@igc.apc.org
Telephone: 516-567-0356.
Publisher: Dowling College Press. Series: Studies in the
Humanities and Social Sciences. Publication Distribution:
State University of New York at Binghamton. Early 1997.
Deadline for submissions: June 15, 1996.
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* Calls for Papers in English and American Literature
For the last two years, the English Department at the
University of Pennsylvania has kept a collection of calls
for papers, conference announcements, etc., on English and
American literature, on Penn's English Web and English
Gopher.
To facilitate the exchange of information on upcoming
conferences and publication opportunities, Penn English
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cfp@english.upenn.edu. We encourage conference or panel
organizers and volume editors to find the largest possible
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Announcements can include upcoming conferences, panels,
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English and American literature, and can include calls for
completed papers, abstracts, and proposals. The boundaries
are flexible: all English-language literatures, cultural
studies, queer theory, bibliography, humanities computing,
and comparative literature (even when not concerned
specifically with English or American literature) are
within the pale. Conferences or panels devoted exclusively
to literature not in English, to music or art, to history,
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* Literature and Ethics
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********************* CALL FOR PAPERS *********************
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LITERATURE AND ETHICS
An International Conference
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 4-7 July 1996
"[T]he word 'ethics' seems to have replaced 'textuality'
as the most charged term in the vocabulary of contemporary
literary and cultural theory" (Steven Connor, _TLS_,
5 January 1996).
Speakers to include: Simon Critchley (U of Essex; _The
Ethics of Deconstruction_), Geoffrey Galt Harpham (Tulane
U; _The Ascetic Imperative_, _Getting It Right_, "Ethics"
in the new ed. of _Critical Terms for Literary Study_),
Dan Jacobson (University College London; South African
novelist and critic; _Adult Pleasures_), Laurence Lockridge
(New York U; _The Ethics of Romanticism_), Ian MacKillop
(U of Sheffield; recent biography of F R Leavis),
Christopher Norris (U of Cardiff; _What's Wrong with
Postmodernism_, _Truth and the Ethics of Criticism_, etc.),
Ricardo Miguel Alfonso (U Rovira i Virgili), Anne Cubilie
(Georgetown U), Andrew Gibson (U of London, Royal Holloway),
Juliet John (U of Liverpool), Willy Maley (Glasgow U),
Norman Ravvin (U of Toronto), Valeria Wagner (U de Geneve).
Papers are invited from all points-of-view within this
currently lively area of debate. You may wish directly
to relate literary texts or theories to the discipline or
discourses of moral philosophy, or you may wish to examine
literary study, itself, in terms of engagement or social
value. Sessions may include: Theories of Literature and
Ethics; Ethics-Oriented Readings of Specific Texts; Ethics
and Post-Structuralism; The State of Humanism; Ethics v.
Politics; Ethical Criticism and Queer Theory; Literature,
Ethics, and Feminism; Texts as Reflections of Moral
Concern or Agents of Moral Change; The Author as Moralist;
Criticism and Current Human Crises.
Please send abstracts (200-300 words) by 15 March 1996
to the following address (to which any enquiries should
also be sent):
Dr Dominic Rainsford
Department of English
University of Wales
Penglais
ABERYSTWYTH
Dyfed
SY23 3DY
UK
Direct Line: (01970) 622213 / +44-1970-622213
Fax: (01970) 622530 / +44-1970-622530
E-mail: dcr@aber.ac.uk
Abstracts may be submitted by mail, fax or e-mail.
Extensive information about Aberystwyth, the University,
and the Department of English is available on the
World-Wide Web:
http://www.aber.ac.uk/
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* Film/Culture/History
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT & CALL FOR PAPERS
FILM/CULTURE/HISTORY
1996 marks both the 100th anniversary of film in Scotland
& the 50th anniversary of the Edinburgh Film Festival.
To commemorate these events, Aberdeen University Cultural
History Group are pleased to announce a major international
conference from the 26th to 28th August 1996, to be run in
association with the Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival
(11th-25th August). The major aim of this interdisciplinary
conference is to explore the relations between Film, Culture
& History, but it will also extend the theme of this year's
Drambuie Edinburgh Film Festival - Films that changed the
World. Proposed areas of discussion include: film &
subversion; film & national identity; gender, race & film
culture; non-narrative traditions; questions of European
cinema. Further suggestions are welcome.
Abstracts for papers, which should be no longer than one
page in length, should reach the conference committee at
the address below by the 15th March 1996.
Further information can be obtained from:
Colin Whatford, Conference Director, Film:Culture:History
Cultural History Group
Old Brewery
Aberdeen University
Regent Walk
Aberdeen AB9 2UB
Scotland UK
Tel: (Int+44) 01224 272457: Fax: (Int+44) 01224 272369:
E-mail C.Whatford@abdn.ac.uk
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* Cultural Violence
Interdisciplinary Conference, 7-8 March, 1997, The George
Washington University.
Keynote speaker Elizabeth Grosz.
Conference organizers welcome both specific and broad
interpretations of the conference theme. Innovative and
interdisciplinary forms of presentation and collaboration
are also welcome. One page anonymous abstracts must be
submitted in triplicate, along with separate listing
of name, paper title, academic affiliation, address,
telephone, and e-mail by November 15, 1996.
Inquiries to Jeffrey A. Weinstock, Program in the Human
Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington,
DC 20052; (202) 547-9437; fax (202) 547-9437; e-mail:
jaw@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu.
More information available at our web site:
http://www.gwu.edu/~violence
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* The Epiphany Institute
Announcing The Epiphany Institute:
Mapping New Rhetorical Spaces and Building Bridges
from Current to New Technologies
June 9 - 14, 1996
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
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INSTITUTE GOAL: To develop a plan with specific strategies
for change at the participants' institutions in an
atmosphere of collaboration and shared knowledge-building.
Guided by national leaders of the computers and learning
movement, participants will discover ways new technologies
pervade culture and impact teaching and learning.
At the end of this participants will have:
o Gained an overview of the impact of and theoretical
implications of technologies on culture and pedagogies;
o Modified and richly annotated a traditional syllabus, brought
with them from one of their institution's courses, to
create an information technology-rich syllabus.
o Drafted a plan for coordinated faculty development and change
on a departmental level; and
o Acquired a wide array of computer skills and resource
information.
DAILY SCHEDULE
Sunday -- June 9
3:00 - 4:00 Leaders' Meeting for Epiphany Team
4:00 - 6:00 Registration; Special session for "Newbies"
6:00 - 10:00 Whole group: Welcome gathering and dinner;
Introductions and orientation; Distribution of materials.
Monday -- June 10
8 - 8:30 Registration; Continental breakfast; Newbie help
as needed
8:30 - 9:30 Small group formation with facilitators:
"Mind-Stretching"
9:30 - 11:00 Whole group: New Writing Environments: The
Web; ENFI; Hypertext; MOOs, etc.
11:00 - 12:30 Web; ENFI; Hypertext, continued.
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch. (We'll encourage daily "working
lunches" with small groups. Epiphany Team leaders will
meet during lunchtime.)
2:00 - 3:00 Groups -- devising a workplan for the week.
3:00 - 4:00 Group work
4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: reports back from small groups
5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time
6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own;
readings/assignments.
Tuesday -- June 11
8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: The Making of Knowledge in the
Age of Electronic Text; and Stories; Inkshedding.
9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 1 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
11:00 - 12:30 Small group meeting with facilitators
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch.
2:00 - 3:00 Concurrent sessions 2 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
3:00 - 4:00 Concurrent sessions 3 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: Discussion of readings & progress
reports
5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time
6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own;
readings/assignments.
Wednesday -- June 12
8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: Discussion of readings connected
to course redesign
9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 4 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent sessions 5 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch.
2:00 - 3:00 5-Minute presentations on redesign of syllabi
(in computer labs)
3:00 - 4:00 00 5-Minute presentations on redesign of syllabi
cont. (in computer labs)
4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: Campus and departmental structure
and support for technological change
5:00 - 6:00 Lab or group time
6:00 - 10:00 Open labs; dinner on your own;
readings/assignments.
Thursday -- June 13
8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Whole group:
9:30 - 11:00 Concurrent sessions 6 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
11:00 - 12:30 Concurrent sessions 7 (Demos, Presentations,
Workshops)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 6:00 Open labs or R & R (Tours of Richmond, or
whatever)
6:00 - 10:00 Banquet. Featured speaker: Randy Bass,
Georgetown University
Friday -- June 14
8 - 8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Whole group: Summing Up the Themes and Setting
an Agenda for Change
9:30 - 11:30 Preparation time for afternoon presentations
11:30 - 2:00 Lunch.
2:00 - 3:00 Group presenations on syllabus redesign
3:00 - 4:00 Presentations by groups continued
4:00 - 5:00 Whole group: New Directions; Final Thoughts;
Evaluation
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Team members could include any or all of the
following:
Department leaders * Collaborative learning specialists
* Composition theorists * Literary studies and writing
teachers interested in pedagogical, rhetorical and cultural
changes resulting from technologies * Writing-Intensive/Writing
Across the Curriculum leaders * Writing center directors
and coordinators * Others interested in computers and making
changes to infuse classroom practice with new technologies
TOPICS TO BE COVERED INCLUDE:
An overview of literature and resources in field of
composition and computers including both theory and
practice.
Translation of composition theory and practice in an
electronic environment including collaboration theory.
Synchronous and asynchronous computer-mediated
communication (CMC)
Local area networks (LANs)
Wide area networks (WANS)
Hypertext as writing and presentation medium
Email
Networked classrooms and groupware
The World Wide Web as a site for teaching, research and
publication
HTML programming
MOOs (Multi-User Dimensions, Object-Oriented) and the
Composition in
Cyberspace program
Presentation software
Portfolio and Webfolio assessment
Strategies for creating a technology-rich curriculum
Lo-Tech ways to emulate high tech applications
Additionally, we will address specific needs of
individual institutions.
THE EPIPHANY PROJECT
Epiphany is a two-year project, started in summer of 1995,
funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, Gallaudet University,
and George Mason University, but it is also sponsored by
the Alliance for Computers and Writing and affiliated with
the American Association for Higher Education, meaning
it will continue after the two-year period of the grant.
Also participating in the development and implementation
of the Epiphany Project are SRI International, Virginia
Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond.
The Epiphany Project mission statement: To introduce
structures and strategies for pedagogical change in the
age of electronic text and to develop a package of
methods and materials to support teachers in taking
advantage of those changes.
Epiphany resources will include:
* Workshop designs
* Plans for teacher support
* Case studies
* An electronic syllabus archive and an electronic
syllabus builder
* A World Wide Web home page
* Guidelines for campus coordination
* Descriptions of the rhetorical shifts in our culture
* A video for workshops
and
* A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing, the Epiphany
Project resource workbook.
INSTITUTE LEADERS:
Trent Batson, Gallaudet University
Elizabeth Cooper, Virginia Commonwealth University
Ron Corio, Virginia Commonwealth University
Joe Essid, University of Richmond
Dona Hickey, University of Richmond
Michael Keller, Virginia Commonwealth University
Donna Reiss, Tidewater Community College
Greg Ritter, Virginia Commonwealth University
Sydney Sowers, Virginia Commonwealth University
Judy Williamson, George Mason University
Anne Woodlief, Virginia Commonwealth University
INSTITUTE FEE: The cost to attend the Epiphany Institute
is $500. Attendance for the full program is expected.
Institutions are encouraged to send teams of individuals.
Registration includes: conference materials; computer lab
access and training sessions for 5 days; a Welcome Dinner
on Sunday evening (June 9); a banquet Thursday evening
(June 13) with a speaker, and continental breakfasts
Monday through Friday.
PARTICIPANTS WILL BE PROVIDED WITH:
A workbook of exercises to help in thinking through a
plan for departmental change that addresses information
technology and faculty development; A copy of the
Epiphany guide book, A Field Guide to 21st Century Writing:
Ample resource material for organizational and corporate
connections; Demo versions of software for classroom use;
Copies of readings.
INSTITUTE PARTICIPANTS NEED TO BRING: A syllabus from a
writing class where technology was not used along with
copies of the catalog description and related curricular
material for the course.
ACCOMMODATIONS -- Participants are responsible for making
their own lodging arrangements. Lodgings below are within
walking distance of VCU facilities. You can choose between
a VCU residence hall and hotels. More information is
below. Return the dorm reservation form (below) with your
registration. (NOTE: Dorm reservation deadline is May 1.)
REGISTER NOW. Enrollment limited -- we will try to give
priority to teams of individuals who are interested in
becoming Epiphany sites, but also anticipate being able
to accept others who want training.
Registration confirmation: When we confirm your
registration, we will send information about parking
(for which there will be an additional fee), Institute
readings to be done in advance, and other details. We
will also send two forms to help us plan to meet your
needs -- these need to be mailed upon receipt of your
registration confirmation.
REGISTRATION FORM
Please print this application for the Epiphany Institute
and send it by U.S. mail to: Michael Keller, VCU English
Dept, P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284-2005. Include
a check made out to for $500 for each participant from
your institution.
Register early -- limited to 40 participants. Registration
deadline: 20 May 96. (If you wish to stay in a dorm and
have linen service, however, the registration deadline is
May 1. See below.)
You will receive confirmation of your registration, and
other information by U.S. mail.
IMPORTANT -- Application packet: This form along with
two others will be part of your application packet. Please
return, upon receipt, the two forms that will be mailed to
you with your registration confirmation -- These are the
Mankato Internet Skills Rubric and a survey about your
teaching practices and computer experience, and they are
essential for planning purposes to help leaders best meet
needs of participants.
(Please Print)
Name_____________________________________________________________
Title _____________________________________________________________
Institution________________________________________________________
Mailing Address __________________________________________________
City ______________________________
State _____________ ZIP________________
Phone _______________________ day _______________________ evening
FAX # ________________________________
Email address ____________________________________________
Your URL if you have one ____________________________________________
Is your campus an Epiphany site, or did your campus apply to be an
Epiphany site? (Please indicate which.)
___________________________________________
List other members from your campus who will be attending this
Institute with you:
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
____________________________________________
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***** RESIDENCE HALL RESERVATION FORM -- DEADLINE MAY 1 ****
Name: ___________________________________________
Sex M / F (circle one)
Institution: ___________________________________________
Phone: ___________________________________________
E-mail: ___________________________________________
Arrival ___________________________________________
(date/time)
Departure ___________________________________________
(date/time)
Gladding Residence Center -- All rooms are located in
four bedroom suites with a shared bathroom between two
bedrooms. One-time delivery of linen is provided by an
outside contractor for $5.00 per person (needs to be
reserved by May 1) for the length of the stay. (Pillows
are not provided.) The Gladding Residence Center is
equipped with laundry facilities, pay phones (in the
lobby area) and a vending area but does not provide
items such as ice, clock/radios, pots and pans, or
dishes. $12.50 per night per person (sharing a room).
$25.00 per night for a single.
Single Room $25.00 x ____________ nights ____________
Shared Double $12.50 x ____________ nights ____________
Roommate's name________________________
One time linen delivery $5.00
Request Blanket Y/N ____
(Reserve by May 1st)
Total housing $___________
Make checks to VCU. Mail check and form to Michael Keller,
VCU English Dept., P.O. Box 842005, Richmond, VA 23284-2005.
****** Off Campus Housing Information *******
Participants who are staying off campus are responsible
for making their own lodging arrangements. Lodgings
below are within walking distance of VCU facilities.
You should mention VCU affiliation when registering in
order to get special rates.
Holiday Inn (Historic District) -- single/double $45 (VCU rate)
301 W. Franklin St., Richmond
(804) 644 9871
Linden Row Inn -- single/double $66 (VCU rate)
First and Franklin St., Richmond
(804) 783-7000
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* College Literature
_College Literature_
a triannual refereed journal of scholary criticism
and pedagogy
Kostas Myrsiades, Editor
The leading journal for students and
teachers of literature
Call for contributions on the following topics:
Anthologies and the teaching of introductory literatures
Inter-American literatures: theories and practice
Ethnographies of teaching literatures
The interpellation of subjectivity in the literature classroom
Teaching popular cultures
Electronic/Cyberspace
Editorial institutions and the profession of literature
Subscriptions
Academic $18/year; regular $24/year;
Institutional $48/year
College Literature, Philips 210-211
West Chester University, West Chester, PA 19383
610-436-2901/2275/2276
COLLIT@WCUPA.EDU
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* JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory
POSTCOLONIAL AND COMPOSITION STUDIES CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
_JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory_ invites articles
for an upcoming special issue devoted to composition
theory and postcolonial studies. This special issue
will explore the ways in which these two areas of study
may most productively inform one another as well as the
ways that theories of composition are -- or are not --
responsive to the issues raised most persistently in
postcolonial studies. Articles should focus not on
critiquing literary texts or on describing particular
classroom techniques, but rather on analyses of how
concepts articulated within postcolonial studies affect,
or can affect, writing and reading processes, theories
of composing, theories and practices of literacy, the
history and politics of rhetoric and composition, or
other related issues.
Articles should be 3,500 to 7,500 words in length and
use current MLA style format. Please submit two hard
copies and one disk copy by January 5, 1997 to Andrea
A. Lunsford and Lahoucine Ouzgane, c/o Department of
English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210.
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* Cultural Cartographies Conference Prize
_Postmodern Culture_ is pleased to present the Cultural
Cartographies Award to Tim Watson (Oxford University)
for his paper, "Eyre Apparent: Imperial Inheritance
After Morant Bay." The paper was delivered at "Cultural
Cartographies: Surveying the Postcolonial Body," a
graduate student conference held on March 29-31, 1996,
at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. The
award carries an honorarium of $100.
Presenters at the conference were invited to submit their
papers for an essay competition, to be judged by the
conference organizers and by the editors of _Jouvert_ and
of _Postmodern Culture_. Work presented at the
conference was considered overall to be very strong,
indeed no one work can be considered to be the best
offered for our consideration. We would like therefore
to list other papers that were also judged to be very
good:
* Christopher Breu (U.C. Santa Cruz), "Practicing
Disruptive Economics: The Remapping of the Economic
Space of the Americas in Maryse Conde's _Moi, Titiuba,
Sorciere . . . Noire de Salem_"
* William Bossing (NC State U), "The Familiar"
* Kathryn Romack (Syracuse U), "From 'Teaching Nonsense'
to the Disappropriation of Foe"
Tim Watson's essay brings historical conflict and the
conflict of ideas together to bear on constructions of
inheritance in the British Empire. It connects the
literary with the political so that the two do not so
much appear in debted to one another as functions of an
historical situation. Literary and intellectual
conflict in England then appears part of the larger
intellectual entaglement of colonialism. The essay is
also particularly well written. --Eyal Amiran
The conference will be held again in 1997.
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* HSS Web Server
The History of Science Society has recently established
a web server. The address is:
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~hssexec/index.html
Bob O'Hara (darwin@iris.uncg.edu)
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* 19th Century American Women Writers Web
The 19th Century American Women Writers Web (19CWWW) is
a World Wide Web site devoted to the study and appreciation
of 19th Century American culture, especially women writers
of the period. The site is located at
http://www.clever.net/19cwww/.
What's new on the 19CWWW:
o The Mary Eliza Tucker Lambert page has been added to
the 19CWWW e-text library, a growing archive of
digitized versions of women's poetry, fiction and
historical material. Lambert, who historians believe
was of mixed African-American and caucasian ancestry,
edited the St. Matthew's Lyceum Journal. The 19CWWW
is pleased to present over 30 poems from Lambert.
(Special thanks to Janet Gray of Princeton for her
donation and digitization of these materials.)
http://www.clever.net/19cwww/vlibe.html.
o The multimedia exhibit of 19th Century Art from the
Carnegie Museum is in its last week! View highlights
of the Museum's collection, listen to real-time audio
narration by the collection's curator, and register
for the chance to win hundreds of dollars of
art-related computer software that we'll be giving
away at the end of the month.
http://www.clever.net/19cwww/exhibit.html.
o Learn details of our upcoming exhibit to commemorate
Women's History Month, an original Internet program
about 19th century women and the labor movement. Check
out our description, a link for which is available
under the "what's new" banner on the opening page to
the site.
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Volunteers Needed!
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Feel free to distribute the following information to your
colleagues, students and friends.
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The 19CWWW is run by a group of volunteers who feel that
bringing 19th Century American Women's Studies to the web
is a very important project. Even though the site has won
awards (including being ranked by independent rating
guides in the top 5% of all web sites and in the top 3% of
all sites, based on content, graphic design and overall
experience), we'd like to make the site even better.
If you think such a project is worthwhile, we'd love to
have you join us. The amount of time you devote to the
19CWWW can be up to you. We need help in the following
areas:
o Page editors. There is a huge amount of public-domain
material that needs to be put into electronic form. If
19th Century women's literature isn't digitized, it may
be left out of the emerging "digital canon." Other
digitizing sites like Project Guttenberg and Wiretap
aren't digitizing these works. Someone has to. We need
folks to be page editors for particular authors or subjects
(suffrage, abolition, temperance, labor) and to lead the
digitizing of materials.
o Links editors. While the 19CWWW appears to be the
largest site devoted to this subject, there are other
sites on the web with materials to offer. If you like
to surf the web, scavenging in virtual corners for
information, why not put your talents to work for a good
cause? Your mission would be to search out information
that you think would be interesting in furthering the site's
mission, "the study and appreciation" of women writers of
the period.
o Grant writers. The 19CWWW is attempting to raise funds
for various projects, first among them is an attempt to
digitize materials pertaining to 19th Century African
American women, something that is severely lacking on the
Internet at this time. I have a pile of perspective grant
information -- people are needed to query granting
agencies and, if they fund projects such as the 19CWWW,
to write proposals.
Please contact me at editor@clever.net if you need more
information on the above or (especially!) if you'd like to
help us in our efforts.
Tyler M. Steben
Editor, 19CWWW
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