This year’s conference “Ruptures and Revolutions: Moments of Change and Unrest” seeks to explore the impact and meaning of transformations and unrest in an increasingly global community.
Graduate and undergraduate students, journalists, activists and members of the community who study or actively engage in protests and moments of change are cordially invited to submit papers and posters addressing all topics pertaining to contemporary and past political and social movements; revolutions in technology, medicine, and science; economic and cultural change; and transnational, international, and national revolutions across space, time, and medium.
The conference welcomes submissions from a variety of fields that employ a wide array of methodologies. The committee encourages submissions of pre-organized panels (comprised of three or four panelists, in addition to the chair and a discussant), roundtable sessions, and creative poster presentations. Individual papers are also welcome and will be assigned by the Conference Committee to a suitable panel.
We ask that interested participants send a short CV, panel proposal, or paper abstract to hgsaconf2012@gmail.com. Panel proposals should include the names of participants, titles and summaries of individual papers. A/V technology will be available to participants.
The deadline for the submission of proposals is January 4, 2012.
Conference participation does not require a registration fee. The HGSA regrets that it cannot provide any travel funding to participants.
Visiting participants should contact hgsaconf2012@gmail.com to inquire about accommodations.

Themes can include, but are not limited to:
- Technology, Medicine, and Science
- Land, Space, and Human Geographies
- Social, International, and Environmental Law
- Performance, Aesthetics, and Tradition
- Oral History and Material Culture
- History, Memory, and Identity
- Environment and Sustainability
- Media and Visual Culture
- Rhetoric, Language, and Representation
- Community Activism and Civil Society

CRITICAL ETHNIC STUDIES II:  Settler Colonialism/Heteropatriarchy/White Supremacy

Social Transformation and the Academic Industrial Complex

Another Major Conference! (Yes)

To Be Held at the 

University of Illinois-Chicago,

September 19-21, 2013 (not 2012)

Confirmed speakers (more to come!)

Taiaiake Alfred, University of  Victoria

Robin D.G. Kelley, University of Southern California

Vijay Prashad, Trinity College

Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University

Cedric Robinson, UC Santa Barbara

Patrick Wolfe, La Trobe University

Jessica Yee, Native Youth Sexual Health Network

 Call for Papers will follow in January 2012

For more information, contact criticalethnicstudies@gmail.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Critical-Ethnic-Studies-Association/168136556584209

On behalf of the International Advisory Board, I would like to inform you of the:

SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES

Universidad Abat Oliba CEU
Barcelona, Spain
25-28 June 2012
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com

This conference will address interdisciplinary practices across the social sciences, and between the social sciences and the natural sciences, applied sciences and the professions. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of the social sciences.

This year’s Social Sciences Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain at Universidad Abat Oliba CEU.   Barcelona is home to buildings that date as far back as the Roman settlement as well as the World Heritage Site works of architect Antoni Gaudi, including the famous Sagrada Familia Church. Other notable sites include The National Museum of Art of Catalonia, Barcelona Zoo, and the Barceloneta Beach.

The conference will include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call-for-papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication, as well as access to the Journal.

Whether you are a virtual or in-person presenter at this conference, we also encourage you to present on the conference YouTube Channel. Please select the Online Sessions link on the conference website for further details.  We also invite you to join us on Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr at http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com .

The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and short abstract) is 22 November 2011. Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be found at the conference website - http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com .

We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Barcelona in 2012.

Yours Sincerely,

Gerassimos Kouzelis

Professor of Philosophy of Science and Sociology of Knowledge
Department of Political Science and Public Administration
University of Athens, Athens, Greece
For the Advisory Board, Social Sciences Conference and Social Sciences Journal

The Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico is currently searching for an Assistant Professor in American Studies with expertise in Popular Culture. The job description follows. Please forward this description to any faculty or advanced PhD students who might be interested in applying for this position. Any questions may be directed to Dr. Gabriel Melendez (gabriel@unm.edu), the chair of the search committee. Thank you in advance for sending this notice on to any qualified candidates.

Best regards,
Sandy Rodrigue
University of New Mexico
Department of American Studies
Department Administrator
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Assistant Professor of American Studies with expertise in Popular Culture

The Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico invites applicants for a probationary appointment leading to a tenure decision in American Studies with expertise in Popular Culture at the level of Assistant Professor. The appointment will begin in August, 2012.

We seek to appoint a candidate with wide-ranging  interdisciplinary interests in popular culture.  Responsibilities include: teaching in the area of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate level, graduate student mentoring, and service. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with the qualifications of the successful applicant.

Minimum qualifications: PhD by appointment start date in American Studies, Cultural Studies, Film/Media Studies, or a related field.

Preferred qualifications include: An established record or promise of excellence in scholarly research and publication; Demonstrated capacity to work cooperatively with faculty colleagues; Demonstrated capacity to teach students from diverse educational, socio-economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds; Interest in engaging in public intellectual work within and beyond the confines of the University; Excellence in teaching at the University level; Ability to mentor graduate students; Expertise in one or more of the following subfields: popular culture theory, film and media studies, expressive cultures, gender, popular music, digital cultures, social networking, or performance studies.

Applications can only be accepted online at https://unmjobs.unm.edu.
Please see posting number 0813182 for full details. For best consideration, application materials must be received by November 30, 2011.

A completed application consists of 1) a signed letter of application,
2) curriculum vitae, 3) samples of candidate’s scholarly writing, 4) sample syllabi of relevant courses and 5) a list of three references.

For questions about this position please contact Dr. Gabriel Meléndez at gabriel@unm.edu.

The University of New Mexico is committed to promoting and supporting the diversity of our campuses. UNM is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and Educator.

My name is Jenny Faber and I am a graduate student in the department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas. I would like to invite all interested graduate students to submit an abstract for review to participate in our upcoming conference:

The 15^th Annual Graduate Association of German Students Conference

“Honor and Dishonor, Mistakes and Redemption: Literature and Linguistics from Pre-Modernity to Modernity”

on February 24 and 25, 2012

in Lawrence, Kansas.

Submissions from graduate students from all academic disciplines are welcome.

Attached is the official call for papers.

I sincerely hope you can join us.

Best,

Jenny Faber

President, Graduate Association of German Students

tashbag@ku.edu         CallforPapersGermanDeptConf

Sport and the South Asian diaspora

 Special Issue Call for Papers to be published in October 2013

Guest editors: Daniel Burdsey (University of Brighton, UK), Stanley Thangaraj (Vanderbilt University, USA) and Rajinder Dudrah (University of Manchester, UK)

Sporting practices have been a central feature of South Asian diasporic formations ever since the mass migrations from the subcontinent during the middle and latter parts of the twentieth century. Yet, just as these communities have themselves evolved in a multitude of ways, the role and meanings of sport within them have likewise been subjected to contestation, resistance, modification and change. The relationship between sport and global South Asian groups remains nuanced and complex; on the one hand, it suggests progression and opportunity, and on the other, sport remains inexorably a site of subjugation and exclusion.  

This special issue aims to explore the changing social and cultural landscape of sport within the South Asian diaspora. Through established and emerging theoretical perspectives, and original empirical studies, the objective of the volume is to provide a critical (re-)examination of the roles that sports play within and in relation to South Asian groups in the diaspora. South Asian Popular Culture invites paper proposals critically addressing issues related to sport – from elite competition to community participation – across all segments of the South Asia diaspora. Though by no means limited to these questions, we anticipate that papers might address the following topics:

• ·      How do sporting practices link the various sites and communities of diaspora and homeland(s)? How does sport facilitate imaginaries of “home” within the diaspora? 
• ·      In what ways does sport facilitate the construction and articulation of “new ethnicities” / diasporic South Asian identities? 
• ·      How is sport used as a form of resistance in the South Asian diaspora? What is the relation of sport to power, resistance and domination?
• ·      How are femininities, masculinities, queer identities and other forms of intersectionality articulated through sport in the South Asian diaspora? 
• ·      What are the implications of the “War on Terror”, empire and neoliberal politics for sport and citizenship in the South Asian diaspora?
• ·      How are notions of transnationalism and (post-)colonialism constructed and experienced in relation to sport in the South Asian diaspora?
• ·      What is the role of the sporting celebrity in the South Asian diaspora? How is global South Asian sport represented and mediated?
• ·      How does sport discriminate, marginalise and exclude South Asians in the diaspora?
• ·      How does sport link to broader leisure forms, and creative and cultural industries in the South Asian diaspora?

Submission guidelines

Original articles (up to 7000 words including all notes and references) and shorter commentaries for the Working Notes section (1000–3000 words) are invited for submission to the special issue. Please email a 300 word abstract and a 150 word author biography in a Microsoft Word attachment to journalsapc@gmail.com by 16 December 2011. Initial review decision will be notified by 31 January 2012. Selected proposals should be submitted as complete manuscripts no later than 31 June 2012. All manuscripts will undergo peer review, based on initial editor screening. Manuscripts should not be under consideration by another publication at the time of submission. For more information and submission guidelines please visit:  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14746689.asp

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s & Gender History Presents:

INDECENCY

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign March 1-3, 2012

The Executive Committee of the Thirteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is pleased to announce a call for papers. The Symposium, which is the capstone event of the History Department’s Women’s History month celebration, is scheduled for March 1-3, 2012.
To celebrate and encourage further work in the field of women’s and gender history, we invite submissions from graduate students from any institution and discipline on any topic in the field of women’s and gender history. Papers submitted as a panel will be judged individually. Preference will be given to scholars who did not present at last year’s Symposium.

The history of gender and sexuality is in many ways the history of indecency-of bodies, acts, and attachments that were deemed indecent by culture or legal code, and of the various ways subjects questioned, resisted, or embraced that label. Indeed, indecency has long functioned as a pivot upon which concepts and experiences of inclusion and exclusion depend, and thus it offers us a valuable way of exploring both dominant paradigms and their undoing.

The theme is meant to be open-ended-provocative rather than prescriptive-and papers need not take up the question of indecency in any direct or obvious way. In gathering together what we hope will be a geographically, temporally, and disciplinarily diverse body of papers, the conference will create opportunities for dialogue and discussion across these different fields. To that end, successful proposals might focus on topics such as: the construction of indecency; immigration, hygiene, and public health; prostitution and “indecent” labor; religion and decency; obscenity, censorship, and the law; disgust and desire; material cultures of indecency; sensory perception and offense; propriety and literary form; menstruation; family structures; the grotesque in travel accounts; pornography; gossip as a historical force or source; the history of scandal; the moral economy of decency; responses to matter out of place; and alternative archives for exploring indecency. As always, we welcome proposals that surprise us by taking the theme in unexpected (or perhaps even indecent) directions.

For the Thirteenth Annual Symposium, we are delighted to announce a keynote speaker who engages many of these themes in her work:

* Judith Surkis, Scholar with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. Author of Sexing the Citizen: Morality and Masculinity in France, 1870-1920 (Cornell University Press, 2006), Surkis is currently at work on a project titled Scandalous Subjects:
Intimacy and Indecency in France and French Algeria, 1830-1930.

To submit a paper or panel by email (preferred method): please send only one attachment in Word or PDF format containing a 250-word abstract and a one-page curriculum vitae for each paper presenter, commentator, or panel chair to gendersymp@gmail.com

To submit a paper or panel in a hard copy format, please send five (5) copies of all abstracts and curriculum vitae to:

Programming Committee, Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History
309 Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
MC – 466

For more information, please contact Programming Committee Chairs Ashley Hetrick and Derek Attig at gendersymp@gmail.com

DEADLINE: December 1, 2011