Thursday, May 6, 2010

Tonight! Draper Celebration and Anamesa Launch Party


Draper Spring Year-End
and Graduate Celebration

Thursday, May 6th
Draper Map Room, 14 University Place
Festivities will start at 5:00 PM


Join us to celebrate the end of another productive year at Draper and to recognize the achievements of our May graduates.

Current students, graduates, and faculty are all invited, and guests are welcome.
Food and drink will be served.

Hope to see you there!

And don't forget the
Anamesa Spring Issue Launch Party afterwards at
the Stoned Crow (85 Washington Place) from 7 - 9 PM.




Call for Papers: Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs: Transformation of the 21st Century City

Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010
The Transformation of the 21st Century City
October 7-9, 2010
Dallas, TX

This is to remind you that the call for papers deadline is May 31. Please note that the breadth of the conference has been expanded beyond the arts and technology, to capture the many influences transforming the 21st century city.
Call for papers guidelines can be found on the conference web site: http://aglsp.org/2010_Conf_Home.html

Keynote speakers include Dr. Gail Thomas, President and CEO of The Trinity Trust Foundation in Dallas, to remake the Trinity River Corridor, and Dr. Caroline Brettell, Dedman Family Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, SMU, who will speak on 21st Century Gateways: Immigration and America's Cities.

We look forward to seeing you in Dallas.

Ellen Levine
Administrative Manager
AGLSP Home Office
Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
c/o Duke University
Box 90095
Durham, NC 27708
919-684-1987
919-681-8905 (fax)
www.aglsp.org

To respond to this email or contact the Association Office, send your email to "info@aglsp.org." Do not use the REPLY function.

Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs
National Office
c/o Duke University
Box 90095
Durham, NC 27708-0095
Tel: 919.684.1987
Fax: 919.681.8905
www.aglsp.org
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Call for Papers: Piracy (Due June 1)

Piracy
Friday, 15 October 2010
Brandeis University
Department of English
Eighth Annual Graduate Conference
Plenary Speakers: Professor Caren Irr, Department of English, Brandeis University; one additional plenary, TBA


From buccaneers, corsairs, and plunderers to the IP police, from compelling literary figures to recent fierce debates over digital piracy and intellectual property, the figure of the pirate and definitions of piracy are nothing if not flexible and well-traveled, particularly in recent years, in terms of relevance in different cultural contexts.

What do we mean when we use these words to label an activity or an individual? How do these words act as framing devices and function as explanatory schemata? What ideological baggage do they carry, and why have they proven to be so flexibly applicable across such a variety of contexts? What are the moral and ethical underpinnings to their usage? How is piracy viewed differently across cultures and disciplines?

Open to interdisciplinary approaches and scholarship, ranging from English and comparative literature to the history of ideas and the social sciences, this conference endeavors to explore different constructions of and responses to ideas and representations of “the piratical” in contemporary and past cultures.

Possible topics might include:

* Piracy, copyright, and intellectual property
* Piracy and pirates in literature and history
* IP police
* Genealogies of the pirate and the piratical
* Pirates and queerness
* Piracy and moral didacticism
* The cultural politics of race and piracy
• Digital reproduction, p2p file-sharing technologies
, bittorrent technologies, open-access software
* Literary and musical texts associated with piracy and pirates, irrespective of theme
* Gendered and sexualized representations of the pirate and piracy
* Outlaws, pirates and poachers and the geopolitics of the culture industry

* Piracy and sacrifice
* Piracy as the expression/outside of global capitalism

* Fair Use/Abuse and issues of plagiarism
* Piracy and inter/transnational law, property rights and human rights

* Piracy and the War on Terror

* Piracy, parody, and appropriation
• Creative piracy in the form of mashups, mix-tapes, montage/collage
* The pirate as celebrated/reviled figure of rebellion and neo/colonial resistance

* Freebooters, pirates and buccaneers, and their place in capitalist and neo/colonial relations of production

* Racialized representations and performativity of the pirate and piracy in film, animation, art and literature

* The pirate as a figure of trangressive dis/ability
* Mutiny

Please send a 300 word abstract and a brief biographical statement (no more than 75 words) for your 15 minute presentation to ddonatac@brandeis.edu by midnight EST Monday 1 June 2010. Proposals must also include the title of the paper, presenter's name, institutional affiliation (including department), email address, mailing address, and telephone number. Since this is a graduate conference, preference will be given to graduate students; we do, however, welcome proposals from graduating undergraduates, independent scholars, and others who do not fit in these categories.

For more information visit our conference website at http://sites.google.com/site/piracyahoy/. Email ddonatac@brandeis.edu with any questions.

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Daniel V. Donatacci, MA, MLIS, MFA
President, Graduate Conference Organizing Committee
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English and American Literature
Department of Women's and Gender Studies
-Brandeis University

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Spring Year-End and Graduate Celebration This Thursday, May 6th

Draper Spring Year-End
and Graduate Celebration


Thursday, May 6th
Draper Map Room, 14 University Place
Festivities will start at 5:00 PM


Join us to celebrate the end of another productive year at Draper and to recognize the achievements of our May graduates.

Current students, graduates, and faculty are all invited, and guests are welcome.
Food and drink will be served.

Hope to see you there!

And don't forget the
Anamesa Spring Issue Launch Party afterwards at
the Stoned Crow (85 Washington Place) from 7 - 9 PM.