Images from PSI 15 (Performance Studies International) conference, in Zagreb, Croatia

The Faculty of Architecture of the University of Zagreb, where most of the events (sessions) took place.

Opening panel in the Youth Theater.

This was a huge conference, with many sessions and several shifts (performances). Next year PSI 16 will take place in Toronto, Canada (9-13 June 2010).

The prelude panel's table, with Jill Dollan, Janelle Reinelt, Richard Gough, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Patrice Pavis, Joseph Roach, Nicola Savarese. At the center, the two Croatian moderators: Lada Cale Feldman and Branislav Jakovljevic

Opening session (morning of 24th June, Zagreb Youth Theater): some of the experts in the table in front of a full auditorium). Joseph Roach (USA) speaking.

The four authors of this panel (Saturday 27, 12-14 h.) : Research, Organization, Technology and/as Artistic Performance 1. 

From left to right: Jon Mckenzie (Univ. of Wisconsin), Tiffany Wati-Smith (Univ. of London), Vítor O. Jorge (Univ. of Porto) and Kyle Gillette (Trinity University).

Vítor speaking

Vítor, Jon Mckenzie (Univ. of Wisconsin) and Tiffany Wati-Smith (Univ. of London). 

There was a tremendous heat in this room full of people of the 4th floor (stormy weather) of the Faculty of Architecture.

Photos: SOJ

RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium) conference

Source: Wac list

Anthropology graduate students at Binghamton University (SUNY) are organizing a RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium) conference, October 16-17, 2009. The theme will be "anarchism and archaeology."

The label “radical archaeologist” carries both theoretical and practical implications. As people who wear the label proudly, we share a commitment to engage with ideas that are often considered anti-establishment, marginal, or confrontational. Moreover, we embrace a political commitment to act against entrenched systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism and discrimination; and on a larger scale all forms of colonialism and imperialism.

The greatest threat to a radical position is a slow mainstreaming into respectability -- when a “grand theory” becomes institutionalized, when debates are reduced to questions of doctrine, when radical practice is bravely (re)presented in discourse but does not extend beyond the classroom or lab door.

This RATS conference challenges archaeologists to engage with ideas drawn from the political philosophy of anarchism: the belief that hierarchies of any kind are inevitably corrupting, oppressive and dehumanizing; and a paired commitment to act against hierarchies and coercive practices at all times. 

We believe that any discussion of theory is aimless without a paired focus on practice/praxis. Anarchism can easily be viewed as a principle of practice only. One goal of this conference is to examine the extent to which anarchist practice can, is, or should be grounded in theory. How can we rethink the dialectic, but all too often missing, link between anarchist theory within academia and anarchist practice outside of academia?

Few archaeologists self-identify as anarchists, yet we are perhaps uniquely suited to investigate and expose the situated, historical trajectories of hierarchy, domination and resistance. Moreover, as practitioners in the classroom, lab, field and society, we can set our imagination free and live out our ideas. We wish to explore the implications of anarchism for archaeological theory and practice. 

We challenge participants to consider:

1. Does anarchism have a body of theory that can be applicable to archaeological theory?

2. Can or should archaeology contribute to anarchist theory(?) and practice?

3. How would an anarchist archaeology be theorized and practiced?

4. What roadblocks (institutional, pedagogical, practical and otherwise) to anarchist archaeological theory and/or practice must be opposed, and how?

5. How can anarchist archaeological theory and methods be developed?

We invite papers on these and related topics for presentation and discussion. We envision a lively, participatory environment, with an agenda largely directed by the wants and needs of the group. Breakout session space will be made available. In addition to the papers and discussions, possibilities include but are not limited to video reports/digests, web presentations, poster/art creation and display, developing an agenda for an anarchist archaeology, etc. The goal is to open spaces for new forms of discussion and presentation. To that end, we welcome papers and participation from people in related fields, such as:

Sociocultural Anthropology

History

Sociology

American Studies

Political Science

and anyone else who wishes to attend.

Direct all submissions and inquiries to rats.binghamton.09@gmail.com

Experimental Archaeology: Craft, Skill and Performance

Conference call, 14-15 November '09, Aberdeen (Scotland): 'Experimental Archaeology: Craft, Skill and Performance'

" Following upon the conferences in London, Exeter and Edinburgh, the University of Aberdeen is delighted to host the next Experimental Archaeology conference on Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th November 2009, King's College campus, Old Aberdeen.

Registration of papers as well as registration of participation is still possible. Please check on line. 

"Experimental Archaeology: The systematic approach used to test, evaluate and explicate method, technique, assumption, hypothesis and theories at any and all levels of archaeological research." (Ingersoll, Yellen, McDonald, 1977)

Archaeologists are commonly imagined to spend their time patiently scraping back layers of earth and rubble in the hope of finding the wealth of artefacts and treasures hidden beneath. However, archaeological research does not end at the site of excavation. For the discoveries made there can open the door to a range of further opportunities for experimental investigation based on skill, craft and performance.

Experimental archaeology embraces at least two approaches to research. The first, and perhaps the most widely acknowledged, is to set up structured experiments designed to test clearly defined hypotheses, involving the precise replication of archaeologically recovered artefacts or the activities known to be associated with them. This is the approach advocated by Ingersoll, Yellen and McDonald. Secondly and more recently, experimental archaeologists have sought to learn for themselves the craft skills associated with what is known from the archaeological evidence about how people lived and worked in the past, in particular places and with the materials available to them. This latter approach has been motivated in part by a desire to gain a more visceral or experiential understanding of how past people may have lived and engaged with one another, with their possessions and with their environments. But it is also driven by the growing public demand that information about the prehistoric and historic past be presented in forms that are both visible and tangible, for purposes of both entertainment and education.

Both approaches are valid. Yet the scientific value of craft and performance remains insufficiently recognised within the bastions of academic archaeology, and as a result, they do not yet receive the credit they deserve as ways of expanding archaeological knowledge. The aim of this conference is to show how by working together, experimental archaeologists and craft practitioners can contribute towards a better understanding of the past. "

For more information or registration, please check http://www.abdn.ac.uk/experimental-archaeology/

8th International conference on the Evolution of Language

Evolang8

The Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS (UiL OTS) of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, hosts the 8th International conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang8).

The first call for papers was launched in February, 2009.

Submissions

The electronic submission system is already accepting submissions. Please follow this link to submit your paper or abstract: http://archive.lel.ed.ac.uk/myreview/

and use the 'start submission' option from the Authors menu to fill out the form and upload your paper/abstract.

CALL FOR PAPERS

EVOLANG 8, 2010, 14-17 April.

The conference welcomes substantive contributions relating to the evolution of human language from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology, Genetics, Population Biology, Linguistics, Psychology, Primatology, Ethology, Paleontology, Archeology, Artificial Life and Mathematical Modelling. Normal standards of academic quality apply. Thus, submitted papers should aim to make clear their own substantive claim, relating this to relevant scientific literature, and briefly setting out the method by which the claim is substantiated, the nature of the relevant data, and/or the core of the theoretical argument concerned.

TYPES OF SUBMISSION

There are two possible types of submission: Full Papers, which can have a length of between 6 and 8 pages. Abstracts, which can be at most 2 pages long. All accepted submissions will be published in the proceedings of the conference. All papers or abstracts accepted will be allotted the same presentation length (probably 25 minutes plus 10 minutes discussion).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Submissions due: 2 October 2009 Acceptance Notifications: 13 November 2009 Final versions due (provisional): 11 December 2009

PREPARATION and SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proceedings will be published by World Scientific. 

The Local Organizing Committee are taking various steps to ensure that Evolang 2010 will be a significant event from a scientific perspective. These include inviting, in addition to plenary speakers, a number of other leading scientists to present papers at the conference, extending the range of pertinent perspectives on langage evolution to be included in the programme, improving the review procedure for submitted papers, and exploring the possibility of publishing, in addition to the proceedings, a selection of reworked/expanded papers with an publisher of high repute. The names of the plenary and invited speakers can be found on the conference website at http://evolang2010.nl.

Source: http://evolang2010.nl/

BEYOND CITIZENSHIP: FEMINISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BELONGING

CALL FOR PAPERS
BEYOND CITIZENSHIP:
FEMINISM AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF BELONGING
An international, interdisciplinary conference
30 June – 2 July 2010
Birkbeck, University of London

Confirmed Speakers


Sara Ahmed
Davina Cooper
Antke Engel
Katherine Gibson
Julie Graham
(a.k.a J.K. Gibson-Graham)
Rebecca Gomperts
Ranjana Khanna
Gail Lewis
Lynne Segal
Margrit Shildrick
Birte Siim
Gloria Wekker
Anna Yeatman


The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic, political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship, for example, have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative potential and their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there has been a strong steer from research funders and policy makers towards research agendas which address the question of citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and multicultural societies.
But, can the concept of citizenship encompass the transformations that feminist politics seek? What are the restrictions and exclusions of contemporary forms and practices of citizenship? How does the concept of citizenship deal with power, inequality, and difference? What are the problems with framing our desires and visions for the future in terms of citizenship in a globalizing world of migration, mobility, armed conflict, economic crisis and climate change? Does the concept of citizenship restrict our imaginations and limit our horizons within nation-state formations? Can it ever really grasp the complexity of our real and longed-for attachments to communities, networks, friends and loved ones? Is it able to embrace the politics of embodiment and of our relationships with the non-human world? How have feminists historically and cross-culturally imagined and prefigured a world beyond citizenship? Is a feminist, queer or global citizenship thinkable, or should we find a new language for new forms of belonging?
We invite proposals for papers that address these questions and the broad theme of the conference. We particularly welcome papers which explore the interface between the feminist academy and feminist activism, and which are interdisciplinary and innovative in method and approach.
Individual paper proposals (max. 200 words) or proposals for panels of three or four related papers (max. 300 words) should be submitted by 1st December 2009 to: abstracts.beyondcitizenship@bbk.ac.uk
The conference will take place in central London.
A limited number of bursaries will be available.
For further information about the conference, visit:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr/beyondcitizenship/
Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging is organised by FEMCIT, an EU FP6 integrated research project on “Gendered citizenship in multicultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements”, in collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research, at Birkbeck, University of London, Rokkansenteret, at the University of Bergen, and is sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council.

Organizing Committee

Sasha Roseneil, Isabel Crowhurst, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London



Professor Sasha Roseneil
Director
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck
University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

s.roseneil@bbk.ac.uk

www.bbk.ac.uk/bisr

Beyond the Politics of Identity

A one day postgraduate conference hosted by the Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen on 20th June 2009

The positing of one's identity has become a renewed concern in our world today with its rapidly shifting geopolitical and social boundaries. The anchoring of the self to a specific place and time is key to creating social formations. It is this anchoring of the self within a social fabric which drives not only film practitioners but also the academic study of film and visual culture.

It is no coincidence that film and visual media studies have been inextricably linked to questions of identification and subjectivity. Ever since its institutionalization as an academic discipline in the early 1970s, it has ascribed to the notion that all media interpellates us as subjects. The image dictates its own form of recognition, its own perceptions of identity, and identifying the politics that are involved in that process has become a major concern in academic discourse, not just within the study of visual culture but postcolonial, gender and cultural studies as well. In this context, the politics of identity may be defined not just as the active advancement of the interests of previously marginalized identities but also as the ways in which visual culture creates and manipulates (both at a conscious and a sub-conscious level) images of identity for consumption by the general public.

If non-commercial cinema of the 1960s and 1970s was overtly political and concerned with stylistic representations of cultural and political change, current considerations are propelled by new technologies resulting in the democratization of filmmaking and the ever-increasing recognition that both social and individual identities are unfixed and multiple. Academic critiques of the politics of onscreen identity are accordingly focusing upon contemplation and self-reflexivity, to the point of questioning the very nature of the discourses and frameworks that lie at the nexus of identity and media studies: Why, in our current age of cultural sophistication, does the visual perpetuation of national/ethnic/gender stereotypes persist? What constitutes an 'authentic' representation of identity, given the individual's ability to hold multiple identities simultaneously? The academic community is not longer satisfied with solely engaging with images of identity; instead, it is the tensions of recurring patterns and the representation of multiplicity, history, memory and subjective perspectives which are of concern.

The Department of Film and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen is hosting a one-day postgraduate conference entitled Beyond the Politics Of Identity. Interdisciplinary in approach, the conference invites papers that address the concept of identity and the politics of identity at both theoretical and applied levels. Themes include, but are not limited to the following:

- Identity as a concept in changing cultures
- The paradox of constructing national identity in the era of a global media
- New media and the democratization of technologies
- The ethics of representation
- Temporal identities and the media as object
- Identity and the construction of spectatorship
- Redefining history: new representations of the past as determined by the self or others.

The key note speaker is Professor Michael Renov (USC). A prominent film theorist who works on documentary film, Dr. Renov's research interests include documentary theory, autobiography in film and video, video art and activism and representations of the Holocaust. He is the author of Hollywood's Wartime Woman: Representation and Ideology and The Subject of Documentary. He edited Theorizing Documentary, a seminal work in the thinking about documentary, and co-edited Resolutions: Contemporary Video Practices and Collecting Visible Evidence.

For more information, please contact cgovaert@abdn.ac.uk



Source: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/film/events/conferences/identity

What's the 'Matter' in Anthropology?

What's the 'Matter' in Anthropology?

Centenary Conference of the Oxford University Anthropological Society

Wednesday 13th May 2009
9:30am - 5:00pm
St Hugh's College, Oxford OX2 6LE

Social scientists are developing ways of thinking about relationships to take into account our interaction with everyday objects. Expressions of sociality are being extended beyond the individual, to include aspects of personality cultivated by the experience of living in the material world around us. But how does the material world catalyse relationships and how do those relationships create the person? Are we enskilled by materiality, or governed by it? How do the properties of objects impose aspects of their ‘personality’ onto us? How can we characterise those relations if they aren’t simply ‘social? And how far can anthropology take these ideas and provide culturally-informed theories which may be useful to the social sciences generally?

Chairperson

Professor Penny Harvey
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Manchester

Speakers

Professor Tim Ingold
Chair of Social Anthropology
University of Aberdeen

Dr Dan Hicks (co-author Professor Laurie Wilkie)
Pitt Rivers Museum, and School of Archaeology
Oxford University

Professor Daniel Miller
Professor of Material Culture
University College London

Professor Stephen Woolgar
Saïd Business School
Oxford University



Timetable

9.30am
Arrivals and registration

9.45am
Welcome and introduction

10.00am
Bringing Things Back to Life: Creative Entanglements in a World of Materials
Professory Timothy Ingold

11.00am
Going About Things: a view from archaeology
Dr Daniel Hicks (co-author Prof Laurie Wilkie)

12-1.00pm
Lunch - a selection of sandwiches and other snacks

1.00pm
"What's the matter with relationships?"
Professor Daniel Miller

2.00pm
Title tbc
Professor Stephen Woolgar

3-3.30pm
Coffee and Cake

3.30-4.30pm
Discussion panel of speakers
Chaired by Professor Penny Harvey

4.30
Closing remarks and thanks

Each speaker will present for 40 minutes followed by 20 minutes of questions.


More details:
http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/current-students/oxford-university-anthropological-society/events/ouas-centenary-conference/

http://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/uploads/media/Conference_flyer.pdf

Images of a Demystified World

"Images of a Demystified World:" Critical Theory Conference at JCU - May 13-15

May 13-15, 2009

John Cabot University of Rome is hosting its third international conference on Critical Theory, which will be held at the Guarini Campus in Rome, Italy – Via della Lungara 233.

The conference will examine the relevance of the Frankfurt School by addressing the philosophical tradition of the early stages of Critical Theory – and in particular the works of Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcuse – as well as the application of their theories to our contemporary society.

In order to reflect the wide range of topics addressed by Critical Theory, the conference will cover different aspects of philosophical reflection on politics, aesthetics, sociology, technology, literature and any other relevant field of study.
Registration will open on May 12 (Conference Fee: 80 Euros)

For further information please contact: sgiacchetti@johncabot.edu

Coordinator:
Stefano Giacchetti Ludovisi, John Cabot University

Keynote speakers:
Andrew Feenberg, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
David Ingram, Loyola University Chicago
Giacomo Marramao, University of Rome, Roma Tre
Stefano Petrucciani, University of Rome, La Sapienza
David Schweickart, Loyola University Chicago
Francesco Saverio Trincia, University of Rome, La Sapienza

Complete program at:

http://intranet.johncabot.edu/Myjcu/ir_documents/Final%20Critical%20Theory%20program.pdf

WAC: Overcoming Structural Violence

TAKE A LOOK BEYOND THE WALL!

Join Palestinian and international archaeologists this August in Ramallah for a congress on "Overcoming Structural Violence". Our Palestinian colleagues have been unable for a long time to join us at international meetings where many important new issues in the field of archaeology are discussed. With this in mind the World Archaeological Congress has organized an InterCongress in Ramallah from August 8-13, 2009. We invite you to submit papers and sessions and to attend this important gathering.

Program details, information on travel and accommodation, as well as registration forms are available at:

http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/site/ramallah.php

For submission of papers and sessions, please send an email to:

wacramcom@gmail.com

See you in Ramallah!

Reinhard Bernbeck and the
Steering Committee of the WAC InterCongress, Ramallah 2009


_______________________________________________
Source: WAC mailing list
WAC@flinders.edu.au
https://listserver.flinders.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/wac

The Dialogue of Knowledge:Problems and perspectives of Archaeological Open Air Museums and experimental archaeology in Europe

8th liveARCH conference: The Dialogue of Knowledge
7 - 11 October 2009
Problems and perspectives of Archaeological Open Air Museums and experimental archaeology in Europe
Százhalombatta (Hungary)

liveARCH (www.conference.livearch.eu) is announcing a call for an international conference organised by the “Matrica” Museum at Százhalombatta (Hungary). We expect about 150 people from over 10 countries. With its concluding meeting in Hungary, October 2009, the EU project liveARCH will offer all interested parties an opportunity to discuss current issues and concerns related to the present state of affairs. Members of both EXAR (www.exar.org) and EXARC (www.exarc.eu) are invited just like any colleagues interested.

One of the most vexing problems is the relationship of archaeological open air museums to the academic world. Clearly what is needed is a change in how academic research perceives such museums. Such change can only be successfully brought about if the museums in question convince researchers that what they can offer can be relevant to their fields of study.
archaeological open air museums as institutions also have to show that they have come of age and are becoming legitimate research places much the same as those based in established museums and ethnographic open air museums.
With these two viewpoints in mind we would like to provide an opportunity for an open dialogue. We therefore invite all interested professionals to deliver papers and stimulate discussions and debates.
We suggest the following themes:
▪ The future role of archaeological open air museums and experimental archaeology.
▪ Why archaeological open air museums are not "Disneylands"?
▪ Reconstruction: what it should and should not encompass.

We expect many authors to be willing to present their papers at the conference, although there are limited places. In order to make an honest judgment we specifically ask anybody interested in giving a paper to apply by 31st of May and send us your manuscript as well as a summary in both English and German by 20th July 2009.

Conference fee: € 195.00. This includes the conference of 3 days, airport transfer, transport between the hotel and conference venue (a ship on the Danube), all meals from dinner on Wednesday evening up until breakfast on Sunday morning, 2 excursions, coffee & tea. It does not include extra drinks et cetera.

Accommodation: € 40.00 / night (hotel), about € 10 / night (hostel).

For more information or registration, please check www.conference.livearch.eu

anarchism and archaeology

RATS ANNOUNCEMENT:
Anthropology graduate students at Binghamton University (SUNY) are organizing a RATS (Radical Archaeological Theory Symposium) conference, October 16-17, 2009.
The theme will be "anarchism and archaeology."

The label “radical archaeologist” carries both theoretical and practical implications. As people who wear the label proudly, we share a commitment to engage with ideas that are often considered anti-establishment, marginal, or confrontational. Moreover, we embrace a political commitment to act against entrenched systems of oppression, such as racism, sexism and discrimination; and on a larger scale all forms of colonialism and imperialism.

The greatest threat to a radical position is a slow mainstreaming into respectability -- when a “grand theory” becomes institutionalized, when debates are reduced to questions of doctrine, when radical practice is bravely (re)presented in discourse but does not extend beyond the classroom or lab door.

This RATS conference challenges archaeologists to engage with ideas drawn from the political philosophy of anarchism: the belief that hierarchies of any kind are inevitably corrupting, oppressive and dehumanizing; and a paired commitment to act against hierarchies and coercive practices at all times.
We believe that any discussion of theory is aimless without a paired focus on practice/praxis. Anarchism can easily be viewed as a principle of practice only. One goal of this conference is to examine the extent to which anarchist practice can, is, or should be grounded in theory. How can we rethink the dialectic, but all too often missing, link between anarchist theory within academia and anarchist practice outside of academia?
Few archaeologists self-identify as anarchists, yet we are perhaps uniquely suited to investigate and expose the situated, historical trajectories of hierarchy, domination and resistance. Moreover, as practitioners in the classroom, lab, field and society, we can set our imagination free and live out our ideas. We wish to explore the implications of anarchism for archaeological theory and practice.

We challenge participants to consider:
1. Does anarchism have a body of theory that can be applicable to archaeological theory?
2. Can or should archaeology contribute to anarchist theory(?) and practice?
3. How would an anarchist archaeology be theorized and practiced?
4. What roadblocks (institutional, pedagogical, practical and otherwise) to anarchist archaeological theory and/or practice must be opposed, and how?
5. How can anarchist archaeological theory and methods be developed?

We invite papers on these and related topics for presentation and discussion. We envision a lively, participatory environment, with an agenda largely directed by the wants and needs of the group. Breakout session space will be made available. In addition to the papers and discussions, possibilities include but are not limited to video reports/digests, web presentations, poster/art creation and display, developing an agenda for an anarchist archaeology, etc. The goal is to open spaces for new forms of discussion and presentation.

Abstracts for papers (150 words or less) are requested by Friday, April 24, 2009. In addition, proposals for specific working groups, or posters or other visual presentations, are requested by the same date (though these will be accepted later as well). Direct all submissions and inquiries to rats.binghamton.09@gmail.com

LINKS:
David Graeber's 'Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology':
http://www.prickly-paradigm.com/catalog.html#sp04
MARK LANCE’S BIO:
http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/lancem/


INFO ON THE SPEAKER:
Mark Lance, professor of philosophy and director of the Program on Justice and Peace at Georgetown University.

Mark Lance earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and held a three year post-doctoral fellowship at Syracuse University.
Professor Lance works mostly in the areas of philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophical logic, and metaphysics, but writes as well on pragmatism, feminism, meta-ethics, the foundations of mathematics, anarchist theory and applied issues of social justice activism. He has published over 30 articles and two books on such topics as relevance logic, normativity, meaning, Bayesianism, and sexual identity. He is currently writing books on anarchism and rational community, understanding, defeasible laws (with Margaret Little), and the pragmatics of social authority (with Rebecca Kukla), as well as articles on such topics as the foundations of set theory, and consensus decision making. His most recent book is 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': the pragmatic topography of the space of reasons, co-authored with Rebecca Kukla, which was recently published by Harvard University Press.
Outside of philosophy, Professor Lance is an activist and organizer, and has given more than 250 presentations on political and activist topics to universities, community organizations, religious institutions and activist meetings.

Recent Publications:

“Civil Society and Civil Disobedience: Strategy and Tactics of solidarity,”
in a volume of papers from the 2005 United Nations meeting on the implementation of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Wall in Occupied Palestine.
“Toward a unified strategy of Solidarity with Palestine: The case for the
Caterpillar campaign,” forthcoming in a volume of papers from the 2005 Trans-Arab Research Institute conference.
“Fetishizing Process,” Social Anarchism #38, 2005. Reprinted and widely debated on
numerous websites.
“Challenging Left Dogma on the Draft,” Left Turn, 2004, widely distributed and
debated on the web.
“Walls, ‘states,’ and resistance,” in Washington Report On Middle East
Affairs, October 2003.
“Israel’s Apartheid Wall and Palestinian Resistance,” published in Left Turn, Dec/Jan
2003/04.
“Not an anti-war movement,” published in Left Turn, Fall 2001, and The Peace
Chronicle, Fall 2001.
“Anti-Authoritarian activism in the wake of Sept. 11” in Perspectives on Anarchist
Theory, Summer 2002.
“Identity Judgments, Queer Politics,” (with Alessandra Tanesini), Radical Philosophy
100, March/April 2000. Reprinted in Queer Theory (Readers in Cultural
Criticism Series), ed Morland, Willox, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2004.
“Study, Act, Reflect, and Analyze: Service Learning and the Justice and Peace Studies Program at Georgetown,” (with Sam Marullo and Henry Schwarz), in Teaching
for Justice: Concepts and models for service-learning in Peace Studies,
Kathleen Maas Weigert and Robin J. Crews, eds., American Association for
Higher Education, 1999, pp. 47 – 55.


Awakening Reason: Towards a constructive anarchism
Moral Contextualism and Defeasible Laws (with Margaret Little)


Over 100 philosophical presentations at universities and academic meetings.

Over 250 presentations on political and activist topics to universities, community
organizations, religious institutions and activist meetings.

Modern Materials: the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and contemporary world

CHAT 2009
KEBLE COLLEGE, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Call for Papers

Modern Materials:
the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern and contemporary world

Friday 16 - Sunday 18 October 2009

How does the study of material things contribute to our understanding of the early modern, modern
and contemporary world? What is the distinctive contribution of archaeology in these studies?

CHAT 2009 focuses on the archaeological study of ‘Modern Materials’ - from ‘small things forgotten’ to
large and complex technological artefacts; and from discrete, single objects to large, disparate
assemblages.

The study of material things is a central element of all archaeology. But some have argued that a
concentration on materials fetishizes things, focusing too much attention on the empirical detail of
materials or manufacture. Equally, others have suggested that material culture studies are too often
strangely dematerialised – focused only on social relationships and not on the physicality of objects.
Responding to both these arguments, CHAT 2009 considers and celebrates the diversity of
archaeological studies of ‘modern materials’, and their interdisciplinary contribution.

Papers are invited that focus on the study of particular ‘modern materials,’ broadly interpreted: the
many material dimensions of the early modern and modern periods and the contemporary world (c. AD
1600 to present).

Questions addressed by the conference will include, but are not limited to:

- Is it helpful to define the archaeology of the modern world according to its focus upon material
things?
- How can contemporary and historical archaeology relate to anthropological material culture studies?
- How can we rethink archaeology’s distinctive approaches to studying things as important tools and
resources, rather than simply methods for dry empiricism?

Keynote speakers and discussants: to be confirmed March 2009.

Registration: £40 (including tea and coffee, wine reception, excluding accommodation)

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the conference committee at
ChatOxford@gmail.com by 31 May 2009 at the latest. Any queries should also be sent to the same
email address.

The conference website will be updated in the coming weeks: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk/

TAG 2009 Durham

Website:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/tag.2009/index.html

M(O)THER TROUBLE

M(O)THER TROUBLE


An international conference



on contemporary debates, analyses and representations of the maternal


to be held at



Birkbeck, University of London



Saturday 30 May, 10am – 9pm & Sunday 31 May, 10am – 5pm




A collaboration between


School of Psychosocial Studies, MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)


and


CentreCATH (Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History), University of Leeds





Convened by


Griselda Pollock (Leeds), Lisa Baraitser (London) and Sigal Spigel (Cambridge)






KEYNOTE SPEAKERS


Bracha Ettinger (EGS, Saas Fee) and Adriana Cavarero (Verona)




M(o)ther Trouble is a two-day international conference on the maternal, psychoanalysis and feminism. It brings into dialogue major thinkers who have called for the acknowledgement of the significance of the maternal (metaphor and psychic structure) and motherhood (social and subjective process and experience) for culture and society. The maternal is understood broadly as lived affective and embodied experience, social location and social relation, political and scientific practice, economic and ethical challenge, and as a theoretical question and structural dimension in human relations, politics and ethics. The conference is linked to an exhibition of artworks by Bracha Ettinger at the Freud Museum, and the conference fee includes free entry to the exhibition.

Over the last three decades two key spaces have attempted continuously to instigate discussions about the maternal: psychoanalysis and feminism, the latter functioning as an internal critique of the former when the two terms became historically engaged post 1968. Since then, both feminism and psychoanalysis have shifted and changed, as have the conditions under which women mother in our current technologically driven era of advanced capitalism. Consequently, debates on the maternal have been reworked, moving from an examination of the effects of mothering under patriarchy on women’s lives, to its valorization, to current analyses that chart the impact of globalization and its technologies on maternal subjectivities, identities and ethics. The maternal itself has emerged from these debates as a way of thinking ‘beyond’ or ‘outside’ inherited and prescribed modes of thought due to its capacity to unsettle philosophical models of subjectivity that are grounded in indivisible individualism.

This varied re-engagement with the maternal in its contemporary configurations now raises new questions about the powerful contributions of psychoanalysis and feminism to our current understandings of the maternal. It is timely to ask how psychoanalysis and feminism have themselves shifted and changed and what contributions are they now making to our understandings of contemporary maternal experience.

The conference includes:

keynote talks by Bracha Ettinger and Adriana Cavarero

parallel panels with invited discussants on Psychoanalysis, Reproduction and the Genetic Imaginary; Hate, Ambivalence, Matricide; and Maternal/Matrixial Ethics

representations of the maternal in film: Laura Mulvey and Alison Rowley in the evening.

In addition, there are three workshop sessions on Saturday afternoon. These are designed to provide further space for discussion and will not include formal papers. Instead, in each of the three workshops participants are asked to present relevant work for 10 minutes each, to serve as a departing point for conversations with the workshop attendees. You can attend the workshops as either audience or participant. If you would like to be a participant, please send a proposal for a 10-minute presentation. Proposals can either address the broad conference themes or may introduce other relevant interventions. We are particularly interested in points of intersection between feminism, psychoanalysis and the following issues:



maternal experience, identities and subjectivities;
maternal and pregnant embodiment and affectivity;
racial, ethnic, national and transnational genealogies of maternity;
the cultural politics of reproduction, natality and birth, including the impact, meanings, histories and possibilities that arise from new reproductive technologies;
maternal desires, sexualities and genders, queer maternal bodies, and trans-familial practices;
maternal aesthetics and representations of the maternal in literature, performance, digital and visual culture;
‘good’ and ‘bad’ mothering;
maternal ethics and the ethics of care.

All the papers that are accepted (regardless of whether they are presented on Saturday afternoon) will be circulated on the conference electronic site and will be part of the conference proceedings.





If you would like to present your work, please send a short description of your proposal (maximum 250 words) to mamsie@bbk.ac.uk (deadline 24 April 2009).



To register to attend the conference, please e-mail mamsie@bbk.ac.uk or visit www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk




NB. The conference fee of £100 (£45 students) includes free entry to:

BRACHA ETTINGER: Resonance/Overlay/Interweave:

Paintings, Drawings and Notebooks of Bracha Ettinger in the Freudian Spaces of Memory and Migration

The Freud Museum, 3 June 2009 - 25 July 2009

The multiple faces of identity in the design environment

2009 ADGD Conference-

The multiple faces of identity in the design environment

17 to 18 September 2009
Nottingham, United Kingdom

With the arrival of the new millennium,
traditional global phenomena and relationships
have been redefined. The event looks to explore
and further our understanding of the
relationships between identity, memory,
technology and architecture.

The deadline for abstracts/proposals is 23 March
2009.

Enquiries: guillermo.garmamontiel@ntu.ac.uk
Web address:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/adbe/news_events/events/75539.html
Sponsored by: Nottingham Trent University

Fear, Horror and Terror

3rd Global Conference
Fear, Horror and Terror

Saturday 19th September - Monday 21st September 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary
conference seeks to examine and explore issues
which lie at the interface of fear, horror
and terror. In particular the project is
interested in investigating the various contexts
of fear, horror and terror, and assessing issues
surrounding the artistic, cinematic, literary,
moral, social, (geo)political, philosophical,
psychological and religious significance of them,
both individually and together.

Papers, reports, work-in-progress and workshops
are invited on issues related to any of the
following themes:

1. The Contexts of Fear, Horror and Terror
- creating fear, horror and terror
- the properties of fear, horror and terror
- contexts of fear, horror and terror
- the language of fear, horror and terror
- the meaning of fear, horror and terror
- the significance of fear, horror and terror

2. At the Interface of Fear, Horror and Terror
- the role of fear, horror and terror
- techniques of fear, horror and terror
- marketing fear, horror and terror
- recreational fear, horror and terror
- aesthetic fear, horror and terror
- the temperature of fear, horror and terror
- the relation to anxiety, disgust, dread, loathing
- the relation to hope and the future

3. Representations of Fear, Horror and Terror
- fear, horror, terror and the imagination
- fear, horror, terror and pleasure
- fear, horror, terror and art, cinema, theatre
- fear, horror, terror and literature
(including children's stories)
- fear, horror, terror and the other
- fear, horror, terror and technology
- fear, horror, terror, hope and despair
- confronting fear, horror and terror

Papers will be accepted which deal with related
areas and themes. Pre-formed panel proposals are
also encouraged.

The 2009 meeting of Fear, Horror and Terror will
run alongside our new project on Villains and
Villainy and we anticipate holding sessions in
common between the two projects. We welcome any
papers considering the problems or addressing
issues of Fear, Horror, Terror, Villains and
Villainy for joint project sessions.

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
17th April 2009. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 7th August 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
a)author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d)
title of abstract, e) body of abstract
E-mails should be entitled: FHT3 Abstract
Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to
all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

* Michele Huppert
Behavioural Studies,
School of Political and Social Inquiry,
Faculty of Arts,
Monash University, Australia
E-mail: michele.huppert@arts.monash.edu.au

* Sorcha Ni Fhlainn
Hub Leader
School of English, Trinity College,
Dublin, Ireland
E-mail: snf@inter-disciplinary.net

* Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net,
Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: fht3@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the At the Interface
series of research projects. The aim of the
conference is to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative
and exciting. All papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into
a themed ISBN hard copy volume.

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference
travel or subsistence.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/evil/fear-horror-terror/call-for-papers/

Madness - Probing the Boundaries

2nd Global Conference
Madness - Probing the Boundaries

Monday 14th September - Thursday 17th September 2009
Mansfield College, Oxford

Call for Papers

This inter-disciplinary research conference seeks
to explore issues of madness across historical
periods and within cultural, political and
social contexts. We are also interested in
exploring the place of madness in persons and
interpersonal relationships and across a range of
critical perspectives. Seeking to encourage
innovative inter, multi and post disciplinary
dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all
disciplines, professions and vocations which
struggle to understand the place of madness in the
constitution of persons, relationships and the
complex interlacing of self and other.

In particular papers, workshops and presentations
are invited on any of the following themes:

1. The Value of Madness or Why is it that We Need
Madness?
~ Critical explorations: beyond
madness/sanity/insanity
~ Continuity and difference: always with us yet
never quite the same
~ Repetition and novelty: the incessant emergence
and re-emergence of madness
~ Profound attraction and desire; fear of the
abyss and the radical unknown
~ Naming, defining and understanding the elusive

2. The Passion of Madness or Madness and the Emotions
~ Love as madness; uncontrollable passion;
unrestrainable love
~ Passion and love as a remaking of life and self
~ Gender and madness; the feminine and the masculine
~ Anger, resentment, revenge, hate, evil
~ I would rather vomit, thank you; revulsion,
badness and refusing to comply

3. The Boundaries of Madness or Resisting Normality
~ Madness, sanity and the insane
~ Being out of your mind, crazy, deranged ∑ yet,
perfectly sane
~ Deviating from the normal; defining the self
against the normal
~ Control, self-control and the pull of the abyss
~ When the insane becomes normal; when evil reins
social life

4. Lunatics and the Asylum or Power and the
Politics of Madness
~ The social allure and fear of madness; the
institutions of confining mad people
~ Servicing normality by castigating the insane
and marginalizing lunatics
~ Medicine, psychiatry, psychology, law and the
constructions of madness; madness as illness
~ Contributions of the social sciences to the
making and the critique of the making of madness
~ Representations, explanations and the critique
of madness from the humanities and the arts

5. Creativity, Critique and Cutting Edge
~ Madness as genius, outstanding, out of the
ordinary, spectacularly brilliant
~ The art of madness; the science of madness
~ Music, painting, dance, theatre: it is crazy to
think of art without madness
~ The language and communication of madness: who
can translate?
~ Creation as an unfolding of madness

6. Unrestrained and Boundless or The Liberating
Promise of Madness
~ Metaphors of feeling free, unrestrained,
capable, lifted from reality
~ Madness as clear-sightedness, as opening up
possibilities, as re-visioning of the world
~ The future, the prophetic, the unknown; the
epic, the heroic and the tragic
~ The unreachable and untouchable knowledge of madness
~ The insanity of not loving madness

7. Lessons for Self and Other or Lessons for Life
about and from Madness
~ Cultural and social constructions of madness;
images of the mad, crazy, insane, lunatic, abnormal
~ What is real? Who defines reality? Learning from
madness how to cope with reality
~ Recognising madness in oneself; relativising
madness in others
~ Love, intimacy, care and the small spaces of madness
~ Critical and ethical implosions of normality and
normalness; sane in insane places and insane in
sane places

Papers will be accepted which deal with related
areas and themes. Pre-formed panel proposals are
also encouraged.

The 2009 meeting of Madness will run alongside our
project on Monsters and the Monstrous - Myths and
Metaphors of Enduring Evil and we
anticipate holding sessions in common between the
two projects. We welcome any papers considering
the problems or addressing issues of Madness and
Monsters for joint project sessions.

Papers will be considered on any related theme.
300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday
17th April 2009. If an abstract is accepted for
the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 7th August 2009.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the
Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word,
WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order:
author(s), affiliation, email address, title of
abstract, body of abstract E-mails should be
entitled: Madness 2 Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain
from using any special formatting, characters or
emphasis (such as bold, italics or
underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to
all paper proposals submitted. If you do not
receive a reply from us in a week you should
assume we did not receive your proposal; it might
be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look
for an alternative electronic route or resend.

Organising Chairs

Maria Vaccarella
Hub Leader, Making Sense Of:
E-mail: maria.vaccarella@yahoo.it

Abel B Franco
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
California State
University, USA
E-mail: abelbenjamin@yahoo.com

Rob Fisher
Network Founder and Network Leader,
Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland,
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
E-mail: mad2@inter-disciplinary.net

The conference is part of the 'Making Sense Of:'
series of research projects. The aim of the
conference is to bring together people from
different areas and interests to share ideas and
explore various discussions which are innovative
and exciting. All papers accepted for and
presented at this conference are eligible for
publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may
be invited to go forward for development into
a themed ISBN hard copy volume.

Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a
not-for-profit network and we are not in a
position to be able to assist with conference
travel or subsistence.

For further details about the project please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/

For further details about the conference please visit:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/madness/call-for-papers/

Resorting to the Coast: Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Leeds Metropolitan University would like to remind you of the following forthcoming conference and its

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS


Resorting to the Coast:
Tourism, Heritage and Cultures of the Seaside


25—29 June 2009
Blackpool, United Kingdom



organised by
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
&
Institute of Northern Studies
Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom

www.tourism-culture.com

Globally, coastlines are arguably the most important sites for tourist activity and tourism development. The various combinations of sea and shore have become highly popular and successful attractions, and a majority of the world’s leisure tourists cling to these liminal spaces at the margins of the land. The lure of the ‘seaside’, the beach, and the resorts which have evolved to service and entertain tourists, is immensely powerful, reflecting a long standing but ever-changing relationship between humans and the oceans. The dominance of coastal tourism within the modern period has generated a wealth of issues which this conference seeks to address, including: The patterns and trends in how tourists mobilise the resources of sea, sand and shore; Ways in which coastal communities have adapted to tourism; Environmental degradation and regeneration of coastal regions and marine ecologies; The historical forms, structures and aesthetics of ‘seaside’ resorts; Regeneration of ‘historic’ resorts; Continuing multi-national development of ‘pristine’ coastlines; Inclusivities and exclusivities in coastal resorts; Changing beach and seaside holiday ‘traditions’.

In addressing such issues this major international and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries on a global stage. We therefore welcome papers from: anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape studies, linguistics, museum studies, political science, sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning. The event will seek to draw upon ideas, cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new understandings of the relationships between tourism and the coast. It will also provide a major networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and professionals.




CALL FOR PAPERS
Key themes of interest to the conference include:

· Histories of coastal tourism developments and resorts;
· Regeneration of coastal economies;
· Social and environmental impacts of coastal developments;
· Representations of seaside holidays in popular culture;
· Worker migrations to coastal sites;
· Beach behaviours and traditions;
· Myths of the sea and coastal communities;
· Coastal resort art and architecture;
· Tourist coastal colonies.

Please submit a 300 word abstract including title and full contact details as an electronic file to the conference manager Daniela Carl (ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk). You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 16th March 2009.

CONTACT
For further details on the conference please visit: http://www.tourism-culture.com/pop_up/forthcoming_conferences.html?PAGE=3
or contact us at:

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
Faculty of Arts and Society
Leeds Metropolitan University
Old School Board, Calverley Street
Leeds LS1 3ED, United Kingdom.
Tel. +44 (0) 113 812 8541 or Fax +44 (0) 113 812 8544

Quarring techniques in Pre- and Protohistoric times - UISPP conference

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contact: uispp.cchs@cchs.csic.es

10th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe - Faculty of Arts, University of Porto

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