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Wisconsin Document Technology Series + Electronic Publishing Bibliography + MISQ Discovery --------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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) To order a copy by e-mail, click here ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 I'll be editing The New River, and consequently I'm interested in receiving submissions of original and unpublished hypertext and hypermedia.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 Phone: 540.951.4112 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Pynchon Notes o "The most trustworthy repository for the finest Pynchon scholarship"; "ahead of other journals and university presses in charting new directions"; "the most forward-looking work ...appears in Pynchon Notes." --American Literary Scholarship o "A delight to read"; "an unusual, useful addition that should be in American literature collections"; its editors are "blessed with almost as much imagination as the focus of the journal." --Library Journal Pynchon Notes is published twice a year, in spring and fall. Submissions: The editors particularly welcome manuscripts submitted in electronic form (IBM-compatible preferred), but also accept hard copy. 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A yearly subscription (two issues) is $15.00 or receive the inaugural issue for $7.00--prices at the "student" level for everyone. I think you'll see that this journal is written for citizens interested in social change in society-at-large--even if seemingly "jargon"-filled please consider mentioning the availability of this new opportunity to whomever you know, within and beyond your own discipline, who might take an interest in theory, politics, and the everyday. RED ORANGE A Marxist Journal of Theory, Politics and the Everyday Dear Friend of the Left: Red Orange is a new journal devoted to Marxist critical and theoretical inquiry into contemporary life. At a time when most left journals have retreated into a broad liberalism, Red Orange offers radically transformative analyses of capitalism today. These analyses give the reader a coherently integrated knowledge of seemingly disparate contemporary practices by locating these within the context of the dynamic, structured, concrete global capitalist social totality in which these practices make sense and from which it becomes possible to conceive of and work towards the realization of substantial progress in the struggle for emancipation, justice, and equality. Red Orange goes against the liberal grain to explain the determinate interconnections among such seemingly discrete problems as racism, ethnocentrism, and imperialism; patriarchal sexism, heterosexism, and homophobia; ecological degradation and destruction; and the exploitation, alienation, and dehumanization of labor in the increasingly transnational organization of production within an ever more thoroughly computerized and totally electronic international workplace. Red Orange thus critically intervenes against localist understandings of these issues, supported by dominant directions within postmodern theory, that will not contribute to significant forms of progressive social change. Social change is the goal of Red Orange. All of the texts published in the journal relate directly to this overriding goal: how to construct a society founded upon meeting the needs of all people such that "the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." Red Orange, therefore, crosses established academic-intellectual boundaries and publishes essays in diverse fields and in various modes--from theoretical essays to analyses of the everyday; from investigations in global economics to sports and media studies; from long discourses on such questions as U.S. foreign policy and current tendencies in the sciences, to shorter pieces on, for example, the politics of shopping and consumption. The interest of Red Orange is global and thus it will deal with problems and issues not only in the U.S. and Europe but also in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia, and it will draw connections across regional, national, cultural, and subcultural borders. There is no publication similar to Red Orange at the present time in the U.S. What is, however, more disturbing is that the official stories--circulated by the dominant media, and by mainstream social theorists, philosophers, and government officials--maintain that the need for such radical journals and for such coherent understandings of the contemporary world no longer exists. According to these comforting narratives, not only is Marxism dead, but in fact the advanced capitalist West has arrived at a post-historical moment in which virtually all forms of radically transformative politics are seen to be anachronistic and even atavistic residues of the past. Postmodern life is, moreover, understood to be too complex to yield to systematic analysis, and, therefore, contemporary (post-)liberal capitalism is said to have marked the end of the viability and the legitimacy of all radically transformative forms of critical-oppositional praxis. In order for us to be able to provide coherent social analyses useful for emancipatory ends in such a climate of oppression, we need the help of all workers, thinkers, activists, writers, and teachers who are committed to work collectively towards the construction of socialist society. We would like to ask you to consider making a contribution towards the publication of Red Orange. If you are unable at this time to do so, we would like to suggest that you become a CHARTER SUBSCRIBER to Red Orange and help us with this project for transformation of social life here and around the world. In Solidarity, Robert Andrew Nowlan Editor, Red Orange POB: P.O. 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IN ADDITION, I am enclosing my check for: $25 $50 $75 $100 $200 as a tax deductible contribution towards the publication of Red Orange. *********************************************************************** * * * :::::::::::::: Yours, :::::::::::::: ROBERT CYMBALA - Managing Editor, Red Orange A Marxist Journal of Theory, Politics and the Everyday -----> PO Box 1055, Tempe AZ 85280-1055 - http://web.syr.edu/~rcymbala/red_orange.html - rcymbala@mailbox.syr.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Science as Culture Volume 5, Part 4 (No. 25) has appeared in the US and will soon elsewhere. CONTENTS "The water closet: public and private meanings" by Marja Gastelaars "Sex in the age of virtual reality" by Slavoj Zizek "Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part I: nativizing Hellenic science" by Scott L. Montgomery "Farm pollution as environmental crime" by Philip Lowe et al. "Contested expertise: plant biotechnology and social movements" by Derrick Purdue Reviews: Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of Modernity by Richard Barbrook, reviewed by John Barker Contested Technology: Ethics, Risk and Public Debate,, edited by Rene von Schomberg reviewed by Alison J. Hill Juvenile Violence in a Winner-Loser Culture by Oliver James reviewed by Vincenzo Ruggiero SaC 26 will include: "Reducing AIDS risk: a case of mistaken identity?" by Simon Carter "The Californian Ideology" by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron "A spoonful of blood: Haitians, racism and AIDS" by Laurent Dubois "Naming the heavens: a brief history of earthly projections, Part II: nativizing Arab science" by Scott L. Montgomery SaC 27 will include: "The corporate suppression of inventions, conspiracy theories and an ambivalent American dream" by Stephen DeMeo "Death comes alive: technology and the re-conception of death" by Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane "Inoculating gadgets against ridicule" by Mike Michael "Sperm stories: romantic, entrepreneurial and environmental narratives about treating male infertility" by Kirsten Dwight In future issues: "Designing flexibility: science and work in the age of flexible accumulation" by Emily Martin "Healthy bodies, healthy citizens: the anti-secondhand smoke campaign" by Roddy Reid "Israel's first test-tube baby" by Daphna Birenbaum Carmeli 160pp. Science as Culture is published quarterly by Process Press Ltd. in Britain: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html and Guilford Publications Inc. in North America: info@guilford.com. For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues (half price to subscribers), go to: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html#science The journal has an associated email forum: science-as-culture@sjuvm.stjohns.edu. To join, send message To: listserv@sjuvm.stjohns Body of message: SUB SCIENCE-AS-CULTURE yourfirstname yourlastname A web site associated with the journal and forum holds articles from back issues of the journal, as well as submissions under consideration (not obligatory), whose authors may benefit from constructive comments for purposes of revisions before the hard copy is printed, as well as longer piece not suitable for the email format which forum members may wish to discuss: http://www.shef.ac.uk/~psysc/rmy/sac.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Free Associations FREE ASSOCIATIONS: Psychoanalysis, Groups, Politics, Culture Volume 6, part 1 (No. 37) has appeared in the US and will soon elsewhere. The editors hope that members of this forum will be inclined to subscribe and to contribute to the journal and the internet forum and web site associated with it. CONTENTS THE FREE ASSOCIATIONS INTERVIEW Jonathan Pedder talks to Paul Gordon and Robert M. Young FEATURES "Psychotherapy in the British National Health Service: a short history" by Jonathan R. Pedder "The fifth basic assumption" by W. Gordon Lawrence, Alastair Bain, and Laurence Gould SPECIAL FEATURE: ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS "Olympia: a study in perversion - a psychoanalytic pictorial analysis of Edouard Manet's painting" by Jeanne Wolff Bernstein "The image in form" by Eric Rhode "Otto Dix (Tate Gallery, London, 11 March-17 May 1992)" by Robert Snell "Mondrian and his art: a non-pathographic perspective" by Patricia A. Lipscomb "The simple expression of the complex emotion: reflections on the painting of Mark Rothko and Richard Diebenkorn" by Paul Gordon DOCUMENT Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility BOOK REVIEWS Psychodynamic Technique in the Treatment of the Eating Disorders, edited by C. Philp Wilson, Charles C. Hogan, and Ira L. Mintz. Reviewed by Em Farrell When Nietzsche Wept, by Irvin D. Yalom. Reviewed by Gary Winship Jean Laplanche: Seduction, Translation, Drives, edited by John Fletcher and Martin Stanton. Reviewed by Chris Oakley Feminist Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, by Charlotte Krause Prozan Reviewed by Jean White 158 pages. Free Associations is published quarterly by Process Press Ltd. in Britain: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html where there is a full list For information about subscriptions and a list of back issues, go to: http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/gpp/process.html To correspond with the UK publis A web site associated with the journal and forum (psa-public-sphere@sheffield.ac.uk) holds articles from back issues of the journal, as well as submissions under consideration, whose authors may benefit from constructive comments for purposes of revisions before the hard copy is printed, as well as longer piece not suitable for the email format which forum members may wish to disc The forum, web site and journal are associated with the programme of research and teaching at the Centre for Psychotherapeutic Strudies, University of Sheffield. For full information about the centre, its staff (cvs and some writings) and programmes--including Distance Learning ones in Psychoanalytic Studies; Psychiatry, Philosophy & Society; and Disability Studies--go ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * The MIT Press "Examining an area too long Leonardo & Leonardo Music Journal regarded as a fringe by both scientists and a large part of the The Official Publications of the art world, the journal seems International Society for the especially relevant as more and Arts. Sciences and Technology more well-known artists take up (ISAST)Roger F. 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Recent Special Issue (28.5, October 1995): Leonardo Third Annual New York Digital Electronic Salon Computer-Art Exhibition Almanac Select 1996 Articles and Special Sections: Published monthly on the Internet Paris Reseau: Paris Network, Karen Craig Harris, Executive Editor O'Rourke; Theoreticians, Artists and Leonardo Electronic Almanac is a Artisans, Paul Feyerabend monthly, edited journal and Special Section--A Radical electronic archive published on the Intervention: The Brazilian internet by the MIT Press for Contribution to the International Leonardo/ISAST. LEA is an Electronic Art Movement international, interdisciplinary Art, Archaeology and Gestalt, forum for people interested in the Robert Wenger. use of new media in contemporary artistic expression, especially Five times a year, Leonardo's involving 20th century science and pages present eclectic inquiry technology. Material is contributed into the arts. 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Ciber@RT '96 is an annual international conference that has risen from the need of creating a space open for discussion and reflexion about the non-stopping evolution of New Technologies and its relation to the Art & Communication world. The present edition is fully dedicated to Virtual Reality, its social and artistic implications, its practical applications and the development of new interaction proposals, as well as the emerging phenomena of Virtual Communities. Conference Format: Ciber@RT '96 will start on Monday November 4th, and it will be developed during the three following days (November 5,6 and 7). Four masterly presentations and an undetermined number of communications will be presented. Electroacustic music concerts, performances and virtual art exhibitions will extend the programme to create a wide interdisciplinary spectrum for theoretic and creative brainstorming, debate and discussion. Every presentation will include simultaneous translation to English and Spanish. Communication sessions will be run in sequence, avoiding parallelism. The Conference will be a part of Ciber@RT, 'Second International Show on New Technologies: Art & Communication', where infographic works from schools and universities from all over the world, as well as special presentations, will be held. CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS The participants interested in presenting communications should send a summary to the Conference address, containing: - Title of proposed communication - Author(s) personal data (name, address, e-mail...) - Institution (if any) and position - Addressed area (see list below) - Abstract of communication (500 words maximum) - Brief curriculum vitae of author(s) - Technical equipment requirements for presentation This summary, including all documentation, can be delivered by ordinary or electronic mail (in the first case, a PC or Mac formatted diskette with the text and a hardcopy should be enclosed) before the reception deadline. The text of the communications and the speech can be in English or Spanish. No previously published communication will be accepted. All accepted communications will be edited and published by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia after the Conference. DEADLINES Summary of communications reception: July 25, 1996. Acceptance notification: September 10, 1996. Advanced registration: October 15, 1996. Selected authors will be informed of the deadline for the final version submission. REGISTRATION AND FEES Advanced registration fee for participants in the Conference will be 20,000 pta., and 15,000 pta. for students. This fee will give the right to attend all activities of Ciber@RT'96. Selected communicators will be exempt from the registration fee. Participants will receive a Certificate expedited by the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. The number of participants in the Conference is limited, so that early registration is encouraged. Registration after the advanced deadline wil have an increased fee. MASTERLY PRESENTATIONS JARON LANIER (USA) Visionary programmer, postminimalist music and cyberculture philosopher, he is one of the few persons in the planet that can be proud of having started a new industry. He developed in 1980 a new symbolic programing language, and in a few years he became a famous 'cyberenterpriser', owner of one of the world's strongest companies in the field (VPL). He sold its cyberglove to the NASA, and he begun to use the term 'Virtual Reality' in 1982, being one of the first persons to design virtual equipment. Nowadays he is associated to the University of Columbia N.Y (USA) leading several Robotics and Telepresence projects in the field of medical applications. PHILIPPE QUEAU (France): "Virtual Presences" Telecommunication Engineer and Research Director at the INA (The French Institute de l'Audiovisuel), he is one of the best international specialist in the study of synthetic images. He is also the responsible person for the IMAGINA Festival programme at Montecarlo, one of the most important festivals in the european field of New Images. Brilliant theoretician, he has written books as "Eloge de la Simulation - De la Vie des Langages a la Synthese des Images" (1986), "Metaxu: Theorie de l'Art Intermediaire" (1989) y "Le Virtuel: Vertus et Vertigues" (1993). MONIKA FLEISCHMANN (Germany): "Me and you: New Dialogues in the Cyber-Age" Artistic director of the Department of Visualization and Design of Media Systems (VMSD), and responsible of the area of computer art of the GMD(Sankt Augustin, Germany), one of the most important European research centres in the field of computer sciences and information technologies. She was co-founder in 1988 of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research on Art and New Technological Media ART+COM. Presently, Monika shares her work as main responsible of the CYBERSTAR Festival, oriented towards the search of interactive proposal for TV, with the realization of Virtual Reality projects and interactive installations that question the sensorial perception of the spectator. ZUSH (Spain): "The Augmented Reality" Highly reputed Comtemporary Artist, part of his art work has been developed as a collaboration with the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT). He is presently creating images for the Web, producing a CD-ROM based on his work, and he is also involved in an interactive project of the Instituto del Audiovisual of the Universidad Pompeu Fabra named 'Arte para Curarte'. SUGGESTED AREAS FOR COMMUNICATIONS 1.- VIRTUAL REALITY AND SOCIAL IMAGERY New markets and new ways of social control generated by synthetic realities. Which types of virtual hallucinations and visual drugs are generated by virtual reality?. Virtual environments and mass-media. Economical and social impact of digitalization and virtualization of information. Which role does cyberspace plays in colective consciousness?. Might it be a new dogma?. Do virtual techniques help us to better understand and apprehend the world?. Virtuality and cultural modeling. 2.- VIRTUALITY VS. REALITY Essence of virtual worlds. The virtual concept and our sense of reality. New representation systems. Are virtual realities metaphoric realities?. In the experience of virtual worlds, which roles do the image and the model play?. Fanciful spaces and symbolic world: the nature of virtual environments. Which are the psychological impacts of virtual worlds?. The potential nature of virtuality. 3.- VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES What is a virtual community?. Televirtuality and telepresence. Symbolic representation of human identity in the cyberspace: clones, avatars, aliases, ghosts, daemons... Which are our responsabilities in the virtual communities?. Mask games in cyberspace: private vs. public personality. Cybersex: which is the role of the body in the virtual worlds?. Has cyberspace its own life?. Does it scape from human control?. New algorithmic techniques for network control. Virtual labyrinths and vertigos. Hyperimages and hypertext. Autonomy and tyranny of the cyberspace. 4.- PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF VR Practical applications of interaction technologies. New application horizons of these technologies in the field of art and communication. Experience obtained in existing work environments from the technical point of view. Which is the present state of simulation techniques and what do they consist of?. Do they offer a real and practical advantage beyond the mere exhibition of technology?. Are the real time image synthesis techniques capable of becoming tools that allow new ways of world representation?. Do they produce a deep influence on our way of working, inquiring or amusing?. 5.- INTERACTION TECHNOLOGIES Up to which point a simulation of natural stimuli has been achieved?. What is the reason for the present limits?. Devices?. Our ignorance about psychological mechanisms of interaction?. The computer systems that should interpret and produce the stimuli?. What does the digital adaptation of audiovisual and telecommunication technologies involve?. Which are the interaction and real-time synthesis technology advances that allow us to feel immersed in a virtual environment?. What are the navigation techniques?. 6.- ART AND VIRTUAL REALITY Have the new horizons of virtuality produced a radical revolution in the conception of art?. Has the object idolatry finished?. Does virtuality generate new art languages with specific properties?. Which challenges does virtual art bear?. Interactivity and the artist-public relation. What is the role of the galleries and the critics when the creative offer can become almost infinite?. The new distribution streams. The museum in the age of virtual reality. Does virtual art have a potential nature?. What do we call life of an artwork?. Is the virtual artist an 'intermediate' artist?. Esthetics and policy in virtual art. SELECTION OF COMMUNICATIONS The evaluation and selection of the communications will be carried out by a selection committee and a scientific advisoring committee, composed of the following experts: Scientific Advisoring Committee: Xavier Berenguer (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Josep Blat (Universidad de las Islas Baleares) Pere Brunet (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya) Javier Echeverria (Universidad del Pais Vasco) Santos Zunzunegui (Universidad del Pais Vasco) Selection Committee: Salvador Bayarri (Universitat de Valencia) Josep Gavaldat (Universitat de Valencia) Jose M. Iturralde (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) Angela Molina (Director Ciber@RT'96) Emilio Rosello (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) Jenaro Talens (Universitat de Valencia) CIBER@RT '96 PRODUCTION & ORGANIZATION Angela Molina: Director / Chair Fernando Carrion: Coordinator Cesar Fernandez: Coordinator Jimmy Entraigues: Media Manager Aurea Ortiz: Technical Advisor CONFERENCE VENUE Ciber@RT '96 will be held in the Conference Room of the Faculty of Fine Arts (Facultat de Belles Arts) of the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. SPONSORS Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) Vicerrectorado de Cultura (UPV) Facultat de Belles Arts (UPV) SUPPORTERS Generalitat Valenciana - Direccion General para la Modernizacion de las Administraciones Publicas Institut Valencia de la Joventut (IVAJ) - Cinema Jove Valencia Universitat de Valencia - EG (UV) K-Tuin (Apple Valencia) Iberdrola Telefonica Fundacio Bancaixa CyberDrac ------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION FORM First name(s):_______________________________________ Surname:_____________________________________________ Passport number:_____________________________________ Job title:___________________________________________ Official education:__________________________________ University:__________________________________________ Department:__________________________________________ Address:_____________________________________________ Post Zip Code:_______________________________________ City / Country:______________________________________ Phone No.:___________________________ Fax No.:_____________________________ E-mail:______________________________ Date:________________________________ PAYMENT Payment for registration is required in pesetas and will be made by bank transfer, indicating your name and "Ciber@RT '96 Registration Fee", to the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. Once arranged the payment, please send us a copy of the bank transfer by ordinary mail or fax to the Centro de Formacion de Postgrado. Bank: CAJA DE AHORROS DEL MEDITERRANEO Account No: 2090-2832-640002-10 Cancellations: In the event of cancellation, and provided that written notice is received 20 days prior to the event, a refund of 50% of the registration fee will be made. No refund will be made otherwise. INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION Ciber@RT '96 Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Centro de Formacion de Postgrado Camino de Vera s/n 46071 Valencia. SPAIN Phone: +34 6 387 77 51 Fax: +34 6 387 77 59 E-mail: ciberart@cfp.upv.es WWW: http://faeton.eleinf.uv.es/ciberart96.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ecologies Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Graduate Scholarship Conference Ecologies: Rethinking Nature/Culture The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture (CCACC) is announcing a call for papers for its annual graduate scholarship conference, scheduled for November 15, 1996. The theme this year is "Ecologies: Rethinking Nature/Culture." This conference seeks to explore appropriate redefinitions of "ecology" by focusing on the politics, theoretical implications, cultural analysis and intellectual history of the nature/culture divide. CCACC encourages graduate students in all disciplines to submit papers that investigate a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: Urban ecologies, limits of "nature as discourse," possibility of scientific objectivity, domination of nature or the production of nature, rewriting nature writing, socio-biological restructuring of "race," ecologies of social reproduction, political economies of development, indigeounous people's ecologies, ecofeminism and feminist environmentalism, environmental racism, etc. Papers should be 8-10 pages in length. Please send 4 copies of your paper, a cover page that includes your address, telephone number, and departmental/institutional affiliation, and a one-paragraph abstract (4 copies); relevent media (slides, audio/video tapes) should be noted. Panel proposals will also be considered. Deadline for Submission: September 30, 1996 Send papers to Vanessa A. Ignacio, CCACC, 8 Bishop Place, Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Or for more information call (908) 932-8426. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * AULLA *Call for Papers* Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 29th Congress University of Sydney, Australia 10th-14th February 1997 "Remaking the Tradition" Language and Literature Studies in the Age of Multimedia Offers of papers of 20-40mins duration in any area of language and literature studies are welcome. Please send abstracts as soon as possible to: Brian Taylor, Convener Language Centre Brennan Bldg A18 University of Sydney NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA Fax: 02 9351 4724 Email: AULLA.XXIX@language.su.edu.au For further information AULLA invites you to visit our homepage: http://www.arts.su.edu.au/Arts/departs/conf2/home.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * ready.to.ware Greetings, I am the Publisher and Managing Editor of a new pop culture history and criticsm electronic magazine called "ready.to.ware," located at: http://www.tir.com/~rtw/rtw.htm We are currently looking for articles -- 900 to 1,500 words -- on any topics regarding pop culture and American culture history, with an eye toward consumer artifacts. Some ideas we particulalry want to currently explore include: The disappearance of the station wagon in American Family culture Retrospective on classroom safety films of the 50s and 60s You kind of get the idea. Best thing to do is to check out what is currently online at "ready.to.ware" (best when viewed with Netscape, and even better with version 2.0). keep in mind that we try to approach our research with a sense of humor, as well. While we do not pay for submissions, we will provide bylines, short author's bios, and hypertext links to your email and/or website (although websites are subject to review before linking). It's a great way to get some web exposure for your work. If you are interested, (or if you have any questions) please query to either this message or email me at: rtw@tir.com Look forward to hearing from you soon, regards Mike Kassel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * BLAST 5 **CALL FOR PARTICIPATION** BLAST 5: D R A M A WE INVITE YOU to develop a SCENARIO for BLAST 5. We are looking for submissions that make use of our contemporary experience of stories. These stories, increasingly nonlinear and hypertextual, contradictory and irresolute, are built upon an ever-expanding multiplicity of media, their lines of continuity networked into complex webs. The BLAST 5 project takes the form of a year-long drama composed of scenarios, intercutting real life, artificial life, scripted life, telematic life, and afterlife. The setting for BLAST 5, "Crossroads," appears below. In some manner, your scenario should engage this setting and the BLAST 5 drama that departs from it. Your scenario can take any form, but we encourage those that evoke action. The developing storylines will be hyperlinked and can be accessed at any time through the BLAST 5 "Theater of Operations" site on the World Wide Web (http://www.interport.net/~xaf/), or they may be relayed to you by someone who is participating in the project. Some form or aspect of your scenario--such as a score, script, recording, recipe, game, diagram, index, drawing, letter, plan, prop, map, mask, code--can be included in the BLAST 5 "vehicle" and/or in the various BLAST 5 "stage sets." These vehicles and stage sets are environments where the scenarios are played out. They provide a way for participants to engage your scenario and possibly assume roles in it. Scheduled stage sets include the Sandra Gering Gallery in New York in late 1996, and the "blast_stage" on the PMC-MOO [telnet: hero.village.virginia.edu 7777] at various times. The BLAST 5 Theater of Operations site on the World Wide Web may also operate as a stage set (or a part of one), and other stage set locations may be announced. The BLAST 5 vehicles are PORTABLE stage sets that individuals may buy or lease. They will be available for purchase at galleries (through Sandra Gering Gallery) and bookstores (through Distributed Art Publishers / D.A.P.). To submit a proposal, please send a short informal summary of your project to BLAST, 334 East 11 Street #2B, New York, NY 10003 USA, tel (212) 677-8146, fax (212) 505-6562, email xaf@interport.net. The project begins on February 1, 1996, and continues for a period of at least one year. Proposals may be submitted at any time during this period, however editorial review meetings are held on March 1, May 30, and September 1. We encourage you to contact us first to discuss any questions you might have before you submit your proposal. A conference will be scheduled to coordinate with the stage set at the Sandra Gering Gallery in late 1996. We are also requesting papers for presentation at this event. Please inquire as to themes and deadlines. BLAST 5 is produced by THE X-ART FOUNDATION, a nonprofit artmaking entity based in New York. BLAST is an art publication that involves its participants in new experiences of reading and content production. For information on the XAF and BLAST, please visit http://www.interport.net/~xaf/ or contact us for further information. EDITORS: Marlena Corcoran, Jordan Crandall, Ricardo Dominguez ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Sean Bronzell, Antoinette LaFarge, Heather Wagner, Adrianne Wortzel *** SETTING Sixth Avenue's nothing but old Highway Six as it passes through town. By some bad roll of the dice, I live at 1212, the intersection of Highway Six and the train tracks. Oh, it's not a bad neighborhood. There is no neighborhood. It's just where the line from the North Pole to the Gulf of Mexico crosses the line from the George Washington Bridge to the Pacific Ocean. Something called a town. At night when the trucks roll down so-called Sixth Avenue, I hear them coming from far away. The noise peaks and becomes a rattle as the truck passes. The bed settles as the truck pulls away. For a long, long time it gets fainter and fainter. At last I know it's gone and left me lying here in the wide midwestern night. The Doppler effect. We drew it on graph paper in school. We didn't learn to calculate how it feels when a bell curve of loneliness peaks at your front door. On rainy nights sometimes the lightning strikes the rails out on the prairie. The jolt travels many miles, setting off warning signals all along the way. Ding, ding, ding, flash. Before I learned better, I'd wait for the train. Why sleep now, I'd think, when any minute a distant rumble will turn to a grinding, shrieking, slow train crawling across Sixth Avenue. Ding, ding, flash. Nothing. Rain. "It's nothing," mumbles my husband. "Lightning on the tracks." I think of the pioneers who laid this grid on miles and miles of nothing. Not all of them made it. What about that fiddler from Bohemia. They buried him at the crossroads. I shake my husband and make him promise one more time. If I die, don't bury me here. --stay, "Crossroads" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory ------------------------------------------------------------------------ First International Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Attend an international conference while remaining at your campus or at home! -------------------------------- Call for Papers -------------------------------- Papers are invited for the First International Online Conference on Postcolonial Theory. Contributions can be on any aspect of postcolonial theory, especially with regard to its practical consequences in the analysis of society, literature and history. A self-reflexive area or perspective which is strongly encouraged arises from the nature of this conference itself: the fact that it will be conducted in cyberspace. In this connection amongst questions which can be asked are: * What will conferences or other communicative acts of this kind do to the reality of the contemporary postcolonial situation? * Will the difference between the haves and have nots with regard to acessibility to the information superhighway lead to a new configuration in postcolonial studies, where the division between East and West or North and South no longer prevails, but is replaced with a new configuration which may subvert the status of what was the powerful and powerless? * Because the internet is a largely western phenomenon and the main language used is English, what do these two factors do to the survival of non-Western cultures, and of the status of English as an international language? * What will the internet do to the status of the 'old guard' in postcolonial theory, some of whom are less conversant in the new medium than younger scholars? The above points are suggestions and are not intended as the official sub-themes or threads for the online conference. All papers on other themes within the purview of postcolonial theory will be considered. -------------------------------- Submission of Abstracts -------------------------------- If you are interested in submitting a paper, please send an abstract to the organiser of the conference, Ismail S. Talib, at the following e-mail address: poco@nus.sg. The abstract should not be more than 300 words. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is the 30th of November 1996. The abstract should be written in ASCII characters (i.e. saved as a text file) with the '_' character being used if you want to emphasise certain words, or indicate that they should be italicised (for example, _Orientalism_). -------------------------------- Selection of Papers -------------------------------- Although we intend to have as wide a selection of papers as possible -- considering that this is the first conference of its kind in this area and that definitions of 'quality' quite often display Western prejudice of what is academically 'acceptable' -- there will be a selection committee which will determine the suitability of the submitted abstracts. The selection committee will, it is hoped, ensure, as in more conventional conferences, that the likely papers will be of a sufficient degree of academic merit -- defined in a broad sense -- or, at least be of sufficient interest to generate further discussion. Papers which are deemed to be racially sensitive or racist, or are designed to hurt the sensibilities of people of either sex or of a certain culture, will not be accepted (even if they purport to pass off as a 'critique' of the field). The organiser reserves the right to reject papers even after their abstracts have been selected, especially if they deviate in significant ways from what was originally indicated in their abstracts. -------------------------------- Submission of Selected Papers -------------------------------- All selected papers should be submitted by the 15th of February 1997. Papers should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words in length. Papers which are received after the deadline, or exceed 5,000 words, will not be accepted. -------------------------------- Nature of Conferencing -------------------------------- All selected papers will be mounted on a web site; its URL will be announced in due course. As such, the papers can be read by anyone who has access to the World Wide Web. However, if you want to discuss any of the papers, you should subscribe (free of charge) to the conference's electronic discussion group. Information on how to join the group will be given shortly. Pre-conference announcements will be made in the discussion group. It is therefore advised that participants, whether they be potential paper writers or discussants, join the group as soon as an announcement on how to join it is given. It is anticipated that the conference will be held through the month of March 1997; specific dates will be given on when it is best to discuss specific papers or groups of papers. The electronic discussion list will also be used for post-conference announcements and for further or late discussions of papers after the official dates of the conference. -------------------------------- Form & Format of Submission -------------------------------- All papers should follow the latest MLA style specifications, although either American or British spelling can be used, so long as it is consistent. They should be sent via attachments to e-mail messages and should be in ASCII characters (for most wordprocessing software, saving your document as a text file will do the job). Knowledge of HTML is not necessary. However, it would be appreciated if minimally, at least the following HTML tags are included:

to indicate paragraph breaks, to indicate italic characters with to close the set of italic characters. All papers should be written in one electronic file. The use of frames is therefore discouraged. All footnotes should be found within this single document. Hypertext anchors to footnotes are not essential, and it is left to the writers to make these themselves if they want them to be included. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Unscientific Psychology Unscientific Psychology: Conversations With Other Voices A two day conference on progress and possibilities in creating a cultural, relational and performatory approach to understanding human life June 14-15, 1997 Edith Macy Conference Center Briarcliff Manor, New York Sponsored by the Center for Developmental Learning of the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy With each passing day, psychology's inability to provide solutions to critical questions history has raised as we approach the 21st century becomes more apparent. Just about everyone -- theoreticians, practitioners, policy makers, consumers and the general public -- is growing more and more disillusioned with psychology, as it fails to understand or deal successfully with pressing issues such as the nature of human sociality and anti-socialness, emotional pain, violence, identity, sexuality, prejudice and bigotry, creativity, depression, learning and educational failure, memories false and true, to name just a few. From the postmodern vantage point, the current crisis in psychology and the related fields of psychotherapy and education is rooted in misguided efforts to emulate the natural sciences: Human-social phenomena simply cannot be understood with the tools and conceptions that are used to study nature. Subjecting psychology to postmodern deconstruction, contemporary psychologists and philosophers find it to be a complex interweaving of the modern science paradigm with centuries- old philosophical presuppositions. Psychology's core conceptions -- such as development, behavior, the individual, the self, stages and patterns, rationality and irrationality, normality and abnormality -- are themselves rooted in philosophical-scientific assumptions about what it means to understand and to know. The challenge to psychology is equally a challenge to the modernist conception of understanding and knowing and its commitment to deeply-rooted methodological- philosophical biases, such as truth, objectivity, causality, duality and linearity. Understanding human life, some leading postmodern voices argue, demands a new epistology. Creating a new epistology -- an unscientific psychology -- is the activity of making new meaning. It is an emergent conversation created by and out of diverse voices who speak more poetically, culturally and historically than analytically and taxonomically. It is a conversation about persons (not minds), about relationships and relationality (not environmental influences on self-contained individuals), about human activity (not behavior), about narratives and stories (not Truth), about creating new forms of life (not adapting to forms of alienation). What is emerging is an approach to understanding human life as emergent, activisitic, relational and performatory. The invited presenters are leading voices in this conversation. The combination of rigor and creativity in their scholarship and practice is a provocative challenge to orthodox psychology. Erica Burman is Senior Lecturer in developmental and educational psychology at the Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England. Her recent works are Deconstructing Developmental Psychology and the forthcoming Deconstructing Feminist Psychology. She is also editor of Feminists and Psychological Practice and co-editor (with Ian Parker) of Discourse Analytic Research. Lenora Fulani is on the faculty of the East Side Institute's Center for Developmental Learning and a therapist at the East Side Center for Social Therapy. As a developmental psychologist and political activist, she has been a key player in the movement for independent politics in the US. She introduces diverse audiences--from community activists to politicians to inner-city teens--to the postmodern challenge. She is editor of _The Psychopathology of Everyday Racism and Sexism_ and a contributor to Erica Burman's forthcoming Deconstructing Feminist Psychology. Kenneth Gergen is the Mustin Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. He is the author of three of the most influential postmodern discussions of the social sciences: _Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge_; _The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life_; and _Realities and Relationships: Sounding in Social Construction_. Mary Gergen is Associate Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Her scholarship concerns postmodern and feminist theories. She is editor of _Feminist Thought_ and the Structure of Knowledge; and co-author (with Sara Davis) of the forthcoming _Conversations at the Crossroads: Social Constructionism and the Psychology of Gender_. Lois Holzman was on the faculty of Empire State College, State University of New York for seventeen years. She is currently director of the Center for Developmental Learning and the Barbara Taylor School (a Vygotskian laboratory elementary school), both in New York City. She is author of Schooling for Development: Some Postmodern Possibilities (forthcoming), and co-author (with Fred Newman) of _Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist_ and _Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life_. John R. Morss is Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago in New Zealand. A leading critical developmental psychologist, he is the author of _The Biologising of Childhood: Developmental Psychology and the Darwinian Myth_; and _Growing Critical: Alternatives to Developmental Psychology_. Fred Newman is a practicig psychotherapist, Artistic Director of the Castillo Theatre, and Director of Clinical Training at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York City where social therapy, the performatory approach he founded, is practiced. His recent books include _Let's Develop!_ and _Performance of a Lifetime: A Practical-Philosophical Guide to a Joyous Life_ and (with Lois Holzman) _Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist and Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life_. Ian Parker is Senior Lecturer in social and abnormal psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University in Manchester, England. Parker is the author of _The Crisis in Modern Social Psychology--and How to End It_, co-author of _Deconstructing Psychopathology_, and co- editor of _Deconstructing Social Psychology, Psychology and Society: Radical Theory and Practice and Discourse Analystic Research_. John Shotter is Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire. His most recent books -- C_ultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric and Knowing of the Third Kind_; and _Conversational Realities: Studies in Social Constructionism_ -- explore the dialogic realities of the lifeworld. The conference is designed to be informal and in-depth, with ample opportunity for participants to explore issues with the presenters. Saturday Breakfast Morning Session Lunch Afternoon Session (Workshops and/or dialogues with individual presenters) Dinner Evening Session Party and Performance Sunday Breakfast Morning Session (Workshops and/or dialogues with individual presenters) Lunch Afternoon Session Participants: The conference should be of interest to a wide range of people, including university faculty, graduate and undergraduate students; clinicians, social workers, educators, health and mental health workers. Costs: Conference registration: $100 Accomodations and meals: $200 (double occupancy Saturday night, 3 meals on Saturday,2 meals on Sunday) For information and/or to register, contact: East Side Institute 500 Greenwich Street New York, New York 10013 Phone: (212) 941-8906 Fax: (212) 941-8340 email: esiesc@aol.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Perspectives on Science I am currently soliciting articles for the next, and future, issues of the journal PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE: HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, SOCIAL The journal publishes studies of science, medicine, and technology that integrate historical, philosophical, and/or sociological understandings of the topic(s) being addressed. The editors of PERSPECTIVES believe that publishing interdisciplinary studies on specific scientific, medical, and technological topics will help scholars gain a more comprehensive understanding of the broader subjects of science, medicine, and technology. The journal has been published for five years by the University of Chicago Press. Past articles include: "The Resolution of Discordant Results," Allan Franklin "Rationality Among the Friends of Truth: The Gassendi-Descartes Controversy," Lynn S. Joy "Towards More Secrecy in Science? Challenges to an Ethics of Science," Mathias Kaiser "Cordelia's Love: Credibility, Validity, and the Social Studies of Science," Steven Shapin "Looting, Reparation, and Stewardship: Ethical Issues in Archaeology," Alison Wylie "The Political Cartography of the Human Genome Project," Brian Balmer. Articles on all topics related to science, medicine, and technology, written from all perspectives, are welcome. Each issue of PERSPECTIVES includes case studies, theoretical articles, and historiographic essays. For more information on the journal in general, or about submitting articles specifically, please contact me at the address given below. Thank you. Ed Lamb Managing Editor Perspectives on Science Department of Philosophy Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061-0126 Ph. (540) 231-7879 Fax (540) 231-6367 Email lamb@vt.edu, pos@vt.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * SFRA and Eaton Conferences CALLS FOR PAPERS The 1997 Annual Conference of the Science Fiction Research Association The 1997 J. Lloyd Eaton Conference on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature to be held concurrently at The Queen Mary, Long Beach, California, June 23 - 26, 1997 "WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME: EXPLORING THE SPACE - TIME CONTINUUM OF SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY" SFRA Conference Topic: "Space" To the dismay of many, "science fiction" is often equated with "space fiction." For that reason, fanciful tales like Lucian's True History often figure in histories of science fiction; one popular symbol for science fiction is a rocketship; and fact- based films like Marooned and Apollo 13 are still described as science fiction. This persistent association does raise immediate questions: why does this connection exist? Should it exist? How might it be sundered? However, one could also embrace this relationship and see space travel as a central expression of the genre's impulse to acquire knowledge and achieve progress - although the venue of space also enables many writers to critique that impulse, as the vacuum of space and alien planets become new backdrops for analysis of human hubris in the face of the unknown. The very ways that we describe space, as a new ocean or new frontier, demand analysis; even in the Earth-bound fantasies of the New Wave, space travel figures as a metaphor for personal exploration of "inner space," as well expressed in J. G. Ballard's famous statement, "The only alien planet is Earth"; and the now-common description of computer networks as "cyberspace" again suggests that space travel has today become both an everyday activity and a powerful icon, in science fiction and in life. We welcome proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspects of this topic, or related topics. Please send papers or proposals by April 1, 1997 to: Gary Westfahl The Learning Center University of California Riverside, California 92521 westfahl@pop.ucr.edu Eaton Conference Topic: "Time" Humans have always been fascinated with time. Heraclitus taught that we could not step into the same river twice, but Brigadoon somehow touches our world once and again. The nineteenth century introduced the possibility of time travel, as Mark Twain took us into the legendary past, and H. G. Wells built a machine to explore the distant future. Edgar Rice Burroughs's The Land That Time Forgot underscores the intimate connections between changes in the nature of time and the production of different worlds, as also suggested by stories of parallel universes. Modern fantasies offer powerful images of time slowing down, moving at different rates, or even submitting to the control of the individual will. Such explorations of time have occurred in fantasy and science fiction literature, fairy tales and myths, film and rock opera. The vicissitudes of time, a motif central to science fiction, create worlds without ends, as in Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths," and worlds without beginning, as in Robert A. Heinlein's "' - All You Zombies - '." And, as we approach the end of this millennium, we reflect on other moments when time itself seemed about to stop or fundamentally alter the universe; at the end of days, will we confront a Paradise Regained or Pamela Zoline's "The Heat Death of the Universe"? We welcome proposals for 30-minute papers on any aspects of this topic. Send papers or proposals by April 1, 1997 to: George Slusser, Curator, Eaton Collection Rivera Library University of California Riverside, California 92521 slus@ucrac1.ucr.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Uniting Academic Disciplines Call For Papers Connections: Uniting Academic Disciplines A Multi-Disciplinary Pop Culture Conference Friday-Sunday, February 7-9, 1997 The second University of Kentucky Graduate Conference explores popular culture from the perspectives of multiple disciplines. Graduate students in English, Film, History, Sociology, Psychology, Music, Theatre, and other disciplines pursuing Cultural Studies should submit glimpses of pop culture phenomena from the perspectives of their particular disciplines. Panel sessions will pair papers from various disciplines to promote cross-disciplinary discussion in the interest of making connections between our fields. Scheduled sessions include: presentations of academic papers, film screenings, informal discussion groups, poetry & prose readings. Submissions might include, but are not limited to: critical analysis of popular culture, music or theatre performance pieces, mass culture, regional culture, popular music and theatre performance, pop culture and psychology, trends in pop culture, historical antecedents of current phenomena, popular culture of the past, and popular fiction and poetry. Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be mailed by Oct. 31st, 1996 to--Connections Conference, University of Kentucky, 1218 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506. For questions or more information please e-mail Geoff Dennes at gcdenn0@pop.uky.edu or Rebecca Weaver at raweav1@pop.uky.edu. Panels now sceduled include Appalachian culture and Civil War re-enactors. The panel on re-enactors will be preceded by a documentary film screening, and the producers of the film will be on the panel along with several members of the Kentucky Orphans Brigade re-enactment group. We're deliberately keeping costs low to attract as many participants as possible. The registration fee is only $20.00, which includes refreshments at a reception Friday night, breakfast on Saturday and Sunday, and light snacks and beverages on Saturday afternoon. We're also offering limited accomodations in the homes of our graduate students. We want the Connections Conference to be friendly for first time conference participants. We encourage submissions from first-time conference participants or people who don't claim popular culture as a specialty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Networking the Humanities Networking the Humanties: Technologes, Communities, Globalization. The Annual Conference of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes. FRIDAY October 25, 1996 2:00 pm Globalization and the Nation: Toward a Multicultural Feminist Critique Ella Shohat, City University of New York-Graduate Center 4:00 pm Emerging Global Perspectives in the Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies Dina Iordanova, University of Chicago Panivong Norindr, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Andrew Wernick, Trent University, Canada 5:30-7:00 Reception SATURDAY October 26, 1996 1:00 pm Bodies Electric: or, The Modern Scholarly Prometheus (Our Hideous Progeny) Jerome McGann, University of Virginia 2:00 pm Virtual Collections Martin Meuller, Northwestern University Robert Morrissey, University of Chicago Robert Bruegmann and Peter Bacan Hales, University of Illinois at Chicago 3:30 pm Virtual Communities Wendy Plotkin, Univerity of Illinois at Chicaog Janet Smarr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign James Sosnoski, University of Illinois at Chicago Cosponsored by the Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago with support from Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities, Northwestern University; Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Chicago Humanties Institute, University of Chicago; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Office of the Chancellor, University of Illinois at Chicago. For additional information please contact: Linda Vavra Conference Coordinator LVavra@uic.edu at 312/996-6354 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Sociologies of Cyberspace Call for Papers SOCIOLOGIES OF CYBERSPACE The board of the Virginia Review of Sociology invites the submission of candidate chapters for a special volume titled "The Sociologies of Cyberspace." This volume will address whether and to what extent cyberspace represents, presents, or conduces social change of significance - that is, the manners in which and the degrees to which cyberspace is different from other social arenas, and whether and how this is sociologically significant. For purposes of this volume, we conceive cyberspace to include all forms of computer-mediated and -enhanced communications and interactions. We will give preference to those submissions that advance methodological approaches to, explicitly account for empirical findings about, and develop theoretical understandings of cyberspace. We are particularly interested in papers that go beyond a psychological and individualistic analysis, and particularly encourage those submissions that make comparative use of several online services and/or social groups. We hope to include a variety of empirical, methodological, and theoretical approaches to cyberspace, and intend to emphasize the possible diversity of such approaches. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: patterns of social life online, including demographic distributions as well as patterns of social control, boundary enforcement, role enactment, community building, resource allocation, and collective behavior; political, economic, and other determinants of online social life; and political, economic, religious, and other social consequences and implications of cyberspace, particularly including interactions between online and offline social life. Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate, printed in double spacing on only one side of each page. Citations and references should conform to that system prescribed by and for the American Journal of Sociology. Submissions should have a target date of October 31, 1996. Any acceptance of submissions beyond that date is at the discretion of the volume editor. We would appreciate a brief notice of intent by September 30, 1996. Comments and queries are welcomed and encouraged. For further information, or to submit a paper, please contact the editor of the volume J. Ellington ("Ellis") Godard, Cabell Hall 539, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 (jeg5s@virginia.edu). The faculty advisor for this volume will be Thomas M. Guterbock, and the series editor is Donald Black. The Virginia Review of Sociology is a series of volumes published by JAI Press, and coordinated and edited by the graduate students and faculty of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Each volume explores and reflects current empirical and theoretical development within the field of sociology. Themes of previous volumes have included law and conflict management, and cultural conflict in modern America. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Hartman Center Travel Grants John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History Special Collections Library Duke University Travel-To-Collections Grants Three or more grants of up to $750 are available from the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History, Special Collections Library, Duke University to: 1. graduate students in any academic field who wish to use the resources of the Center for research toward M.A., Ph.D., or other postgraduate degrees 2. faculty members working on research projects 3. independent scholars working on nonprofit projects Funds may be used to help defray costs of travel to Durham and local accommodations. In addition to the regular TTC grants described above, the Hartman Center will fund three J. Walter Thompson Research Fellowships. Each Fellow will receive a stipend of $1000 during their stay in Durham. Fellowships are available to researchers planning to spend a minimum of two weeks at Duke doing research in the J. Walter Thompson Company Archives. The major collections available at the Hartman Center at the current time are the extensive Archives of the J. Walter Thompson Company (JWT), the oldest advertising agency in the U.S. and a major international agency since the 1920s, and the advertisements (1932+) and a moderate amount of agency documentation from D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). The Center holds several other smaller collections relating to 19th and 20th century advertising and marketing, supported by a growing number of books, periodicals, films, and videos. For more information about the Hartman Center Collections, visit our WWW site at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/hartman/ REQUIREMENTS: Awards may be used between December 1, 1996 and December 31, 1997. Graduate student applicants (1) must be currently enrolled in a postgraduate program in any academic department and (2) must enclose a letter of recommendation from the student's advisor or project director. Please address questions and requests for application forms to: Ellen Gartrell John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising and Marketing History Special Collections Library, Duke University Box 90185 Durham, NC 27708-0185 Phone: 919-660-5836 Fax: 919-684-2855; E-mail: hartman@mail.lib.duke.edu DEADLINES: Applications for 1996-97 awards must be received or postmarked by October 15, 1996. Awards will be announced by late-November. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Human Relations, Authority & Justice Human Relations, Authority & Justice: Experiences and Critiques HRAJ on LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU - Human Relations, Authority and Justice: Experiences and Critiques This is an open, unmoderated forum designed to encourage the application of psychoanalytic and related psychodynamic approaches to the understanding of group, institutional, cultural and political processes. The forum is related to an electronic journal of the same name based at http://www.human-nature.com/HRAJ/home.html. There is also a US mirror site for ease of accessing and downloading writings from the web site: http://rdz.stjohns.edu/human-nature/HRAJ/home.html Most of those who are working on this project are based in London, England and Sofia, Bulgaria and work in the helping professions, organizational consultancy and group relations, while some work with ethnic minorities, crisis intervention, sexual abuse and other applied spheres. What brings them together is in the conviction that primitive, unconscious, irrational processes play a much larger part in human relations than is usually supposed and that unless full account can be taken of these processes and unless ways can be found to understand and contain them, improved relations are unlikely to ensue at any levels of human interaction from the individual to international relations. In particular, the group has made extensive use of the approaches to human relations developed by Wilfred Bion and others at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, summarised in his _Experiences In Groups_ (London: Tavistock, 1961) and the tradition of group relations and organizational consultancy which has followed on from that work in the Tavistock and elsewhere, in particular, in group relations conferences at Leicester and elsewhere, e.g., America, Israel, Germany, Australia, India. Other approaches, both psychoanalytic and systemic, are also drawn upon, in particular, on the normal role of psychotic anxieties in contributing to problems in groups and institutions. Group relations events were held in Sofia in 1992 and 1996, and there was a founding conference of the project in 1995. Those who have been taking part in this programme now feel that it is time to share our work and work in progress and to invite others to join in and to discuss similar projectsa and ideas, whether in Eastern Europe or in other parts of the world. Archives of HRAJ mail items are kept in monthly files. You may obtain a list files in the archives by sending the command INDEX HRAJ in the BODY of e-mail to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU on the Internet. To subscribe, send the following command in the BODY of mail to LISTSERV@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU SUB HRAJ yourfirstname yourlastname For example: SUB HRAJ Margaret Thatcher Owner: Robert M. Young You can send any technical queries about the forum or web site to: Ian Pitchford I.Pitchford@Sheffield.ac.uk or I_Pitchford@msn.com List of Initial Contents of WWW site: Human Relations, Authority and Justice: Experiences and Critiques http://www.human-nature.com/HRAJ/home.html 1. Announcement re: email forum, journal and web site 2. Papers from Conference on Group Relations and Organizational Behaviour, New Bulgarian University, 14 May 1995: W. Gordon Lawrence, "The Presence of Totalitarian States of Mind in Institutions"; Robert M. Young, "Mental Space and Group Relations"; David Armstrong, "Making Absences Present: The Contribution of W. R. Bion to Understanding Unconscious Social Phenomena" 3. Writings of Toma Tomov: Toma Tomov, Lecture delivered at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York City, May 12-17, 1990. Toma Tomov, "Psychoanalysis in a Post-Totalitarian Society," paper delivered to Seventh Annual Conference on "Psychoanalysis and the Public Sphere," University of East London, 12-13 November 1993. Toma Tomov, "Social Violence and the Social Institutions," paper written for the Seminar on Social Violence, October 14-15, 1995, Prague, to be published, ed. Keitha Fine. Toma Tomov, "The Politics of Mental Health in Bulgaria: Is There a Civic Role for Psychiatry?," paper delivered to symposium on "The Role of the Professional Psychiatric Associations" (GIP sponsored symposium); 25 August 9.00-9.30 a.m. X World Congress of Psychiatry, Madrid, 23-28 August, 1996. 4. Bulgarian Psychiatric Association, "Toward the Liberation of Mental Health: A Reform of Bulgarian Psychiatry." 5. Papers from 1992 Psychoanalytic Week: Robert M. Young, "Guilt and the Veneer of Civilization"; Robert M. Young, "Psychotic Anxieties in Groups and Institutions." 6. Robert M. Young, "Racist Society, Racist Science." 7. Report on First Group Relations Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, 18-22 December, 1992 by Robert M. Young. 8. Programme of Second Working Conference on Group Relations, Sofia, Bulgaria, 29 July - 2 August 1996: "Individual, Group and Organisation: Experiencing Authority, Leadership and Management in Institutions." 9. Haralan Alexandrov and Maya Mladenova, "Report on Leadership and Management Training with Bulgarian Gypsies, April-June 1996" 10. List of Publications of Dr Toma Tomov, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical University of Sofia, written in English. 11. Reading lists: W. R. Bion, Groups and Institutions, Racism and Virulent Nationalism 12. Papers which should be on-line in a day or so (from 21 Aug. 1996): Toma Tomov, Maya Mladenova and Haralan Alexandrov, "Psychodynamic Approaches to Training: The Experience of Group Work with Minority Leaders"; Toma Tomov and Nikolai Butorin, "Views Held by Psychiatrists of Their Profession: Are There Differences between East and West?" 13. Forthcoming papers (to be put on web site when they have been scanned in and edited): Toma Tomov and Evgueni Guentchev, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among Victims of Violence: A Report from Bulgaria"; David Armstrong, "The "Institution in the Mind": Reflections on the Relation of Psycho-analysis to Work with Institutions"; David Armstrong, "Names, Thoughts and Lies: The Relevance of Bion"s Later Writing to Experiences in Groups"; W. Gordon Lawrence,"Won from the Void of the Infinite: Experiences of Social Dreaming"; W. Gordon Lawrence, "Signals of Transcendence in Large Groups as Systems"; W. Gordon Lawrence, Alistair Bain and Laurence Gould, "The Fifth Basic Assumption." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Australian Humanities Review Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal and is published every three months under the auspices of the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee. Two issues are already available with articles by leading academics and writers on a range of topics, moderated feedback and discussion, information and links. In this second issue, Dennis Altman considers the globalisation of homosexuality and provides a critique of "queer theory" in the article "On Global Queering" with responses from Gary Dowsett, Donald Morton and Michael Tan and Christopher Lane. Aboriginal activist Marcia Langton writes about government disrespect for sacred "women's business" in "How Aboriginal Religion Has Become an Administrable Subject", while Kerryn Goldsworthy looks at Jane Austen mania. Australian playwright David Williamson's latest play "Heresy" is the target for Meaghan Morris and Paul McGillick and academic history takes some stick from Greg Dening and Stephen Muecke. Helen Daniel attempts to define the public intellectual and Graham Seal explores the cultural tradition of the outlaw hero. There is an e-muse section for open discussion on the articles carried. The Good Oil section carries information on important upcoming conferences and seminars with electronic addresses for follow-up information. Australian Humanities Review is free to all who come across it. I hope this new e-journal will be of interest to your Humanities department and you will bookmark the site for future access. Trish McKeown for Cassandra Pybus (Editor) The issue for August 1996 is now finished and available on URL http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Hawaiian Education Literacy Project Hi, Just a quick note to tell you about the Hawaii Education Literacy Project - a non-profit organization - and our efforts to promote literacy by making electronic text easier and more enjoyable to read. Given that we're both in the reading biz, I thought you might be interested. ReadToMe, our first program, reads aloud any form of electronic text, including Web pages, and is free to anyone who wishes to use it. The "Web Designers" section of our home page tells you how your pages can literally speak to your audience. Actually, all you need to do to make your pages audible is to add the following html code: Hear This Page! Requires ReadToMe Software... Don't got it? GET IT FREE! A beta test version of the program can be obtained from http://www.pixi.com/~reader1. I encourage you and your readers to download a copy and take it for a spin. Thank you for your time, Rob Hanson rhanson@freeway.net Hawaii Education Literacy Project ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * U. Wisconsin Document Technology Series The University of Wisconsin's Department of Engineering Professional Development announces its October-November 1996 course series in document technology. All courses will be held in Madison, WI. For more information on these document technology programs, contact Richard Vacca, program director, at: +1-608-262-4341 or +1-800-462-0876 +1-608-263-3160 (fax) vacca@engr.wisc.edu Implementing an SGML Publishing System October 22-25, 1996 Intended audience: SGML implementors such as managers of information technology and publishing groups, analysts, programmers, and applications developers Fee: $1,095; 3 or more registrants from the same organization, $930 each URL: http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/brochures/6896.html Integrating and Managing On-Demand Print October 28-29, 1996 Intended audience: Managers, supervisors, and staff in duplicating and printing operations, documentation and publications, or production and distribution Fee: $645; 3 or more registrants from the same organization, $550 each URL: http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/brochures/6897.html Managing Documents as Information Resources November 4-5, 1996 Intended audience: Managers and staff in IS/IT, publications and documentation, or other departments where document development is intensive. Fee: $645; 3 or more registrants from the same organization, $550 each URL: http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/brochures/6895.html Implementing Electronic Document Distribution November 6-8, 1996 Intended audience: Managers and staff developing electronic publishing and distribution systems and Web sites; content developers, document creators Fee: $895; 3 or more registrants from the same organization, $765 each URL: http://epdwww.engr.wisc.edu/brochures/6899.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Electronic Publishing Bibliography URL:http://info.lib.uh.edu/pr/v6/n1/bail6n1.html Version 25 of "Network-Based Electronic Publishing of Scholarly Works: A Selective Bibliography" is available. This updated PACS Review paper presents selected articles, books, electronic documents, and other sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet and other networks. Most sources have been published between 1990 and the present; however, a limited number of key sources published prior to 1990 are also included. Where possible, links are provided to sources that are available via the Internet. The bibliography has the following sections: 2.1 Economic Issues 2.2 Electronic Books and Texts 2.2.1 Case Studies and History 2.2.2 General Works 2.2.3 Library Issues 2.2.4 Related Electronic Resources 2.3 Electronic Serials 2.3.1 Case Studies and History 2.3.2 Critiques 2.3.3 Electronic Distribution of Printed Journals 2.3.4 General Works 2.3.5 Library Issues 2.3.6 Related Electronic Resources 2.3.7 Research 2.4 General Works 2.4.1 Related Electronic Resources 2.5 Legal Issues 2.5.1 Intellectual Property Rights 2.5.2 Other Legal Issues 2.5.3 Related Electronic Resources 2.6 Library Issues 2.6.1 Cataloging, Classification, and URIs 2.6.2 Digital Libraries 2.6.3 General Works 2.6.4 Information Integrity and Preservation 2.6.5 Related Electronic Resources 2.7 New Publishing Models 2.8 Publisher Issues 2.8.1 Related Electronic Resources The bibliography can be searched. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * MISQ Discovery Is it a journal? Is it an e-newsletter? Is it Superman [Superperson??]? MISQ Discovery, whose first 'issue' [?] has just emerged after a 2-year gestation period, provides a valuable discussion of the nature of such entities, at: http://www.misq.org/discovery/about.html Unsurprisingly, the very first paper 'published' is of interest to linkers, on Teledemocracy, at: http://www.misq.org/discovery/articles96/article1/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Cut here ------------------------------