Call for Submissions: Anamesa 2011 Issue

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Spring 2011 Issue of Anamesa

Anamesa, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of graduate student writing and art based at New York University, is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2011 print issue. Graduate students across all disciplines are encouraged to send in writing (including but not limited to academic essays, creative non-fiction, reportage, interviews, reviews, short stories, poetry, and other unclassifiable prose creations) and art of all sorts (such as photography, drawings, paintings, film stills, posters, prints, etc.). Anamesa considers material from diverse subject matter, and publishes creative and intelligent works that exemplify the transdisciplinary spirit of the graduate community.

Submission guidelines for papers: Include complete paper (up to 6000 words), abstract (up to 200 words), and cover sheet. Academic papers must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style. All paper submissions—both non-fiction and fiction—are blind-reviewed so there should be no author-identifying information in the text of the paper. Although the publication will be in English, we are also interested in texts in translation.

Submission guidelines for art works: Visual art submissions must be in digital format with a minimum resolution of 300 DPI and no smaller than 5 x 7 inches.

The submission deadline is February 18th. Send submissions and queries to anamesa.journal@gmail.com. Please include in the body of the email: your name, departmental affiliation, expected degree and date, telephone number, and email address. We accept multiple submissions, but we ask that you place each submission in a different email message with the subject heading listing the relevant genre (e.g., “essay,” “fiction,” or “photography”). All works MUST be produced by members of the graduate community (student or faculty) and failure to disclose university affiliation will result in the rejection of your submission.

For further information and to view previous issues of Anamesa, visit www.anamesajournal.org. Printed copies of Anamesa are available at the office for the John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master's Program in Humanities and Social Thought at 14 University Place.

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Anamesa
an interdisciplinary journal
www.anamesajournal.org

CFP: Concordia (Montreal) English Grad: Orientations and Simulacra of Public and Private Sites (Due 2/10)

Attending (to) the Party: Orientations and Simulacra of Public and Private Sites

Throughout history, the notion of ‘party’ has served as a site for exploring prevailing liminalities: from ideological display to decorous intimacies to social multitudes, the party has served as a means of further repressing or extolling self within private and public domains, projecting identity formations of the other, or combating the enigmatic reflections of the public world. The dialectic of inclusion and exclusion—who is invited into a space, a sphere, an identity—has been used as a social tool and political wedge while at once advancing the bounds of restraint within prescribed modes of behaviour. Distinctions and delineations of such orientations in literature have never been straightforward: least of all today, where boundaries of private and public are more blurred than ever. How is a performance of belonging or of ‘being private’ received within a crowd, a gathering, a nation, or in a culture of social networking—do reflections or simulations of the ‘party’ ever stop? Is artifice encouraged by the heteroglossia, the absurdities of the carnivalesque, inversions of decorum? Individuals and collectives both encounter and anticipate fusions of the expected and unexpected in their search to negotiate lines between indulgences, reasonable parts/parties, or embodiments of culture. The notion of the party is not—and has never been—confined to the limits of social space, but rather is a transitory site of individual and group. Both textual and inter-textual notions of ‘party’ may include cocktail gatherings, reflections on singularity, revolutionary mobs, the construction of online identities, or a middling of ‘inbetweeness’. It is a site of shared intersection—or collision. It is circuitousness, it is necessity; amid orientations of debauchery, protest, subsumption, or migration—singly or all at once.

We invite papers focusing on the following themes:

-Party of one: identity projections
-Figuring decorum: alterations & presentations of normalcy
-Simulacrum: masks, constructions & artifice
-Sites of (in)visibility: notions of exclusion and inclusion
-Block party: politics, affiliations, negotiating lines

Concordia University's English Literature Graduate Colloquium examines the dynamics of ‘party’, prompting dialogues from all gathering points: from the political to the bacchanal, from the physical to the philosophical. We invite graduate students to contribute to this interdisciplinary English Literature colloquium by submitting a 200-250 word abstract to attendingtheparty@gmail.com by February 10, 2011.

For view the abstract online, and for colloquium updates, please visit our weblog: http://attendingtotheparty.blogspot.com/

CFP: Re-Production, SUNY Binghamton (Due 1/24)

Re-Production, March 4-5, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN, Deadline Extended to Jan 24

Keynote: BRIGID DOHERTY, Princeton University

Re-production, with equal emphasis on the embedded relation of repetition and production, expresses the problematic of biological, technological, and linguistic apparatuses of capture immanent to capitalism, to history altogether. Reproduction of the imaginary, of bodies, of practices of inscription—verbal, affective, institutional—are not separable from the reproduction of subjectivity, of human life. An analysis of reproduction as both concept and tool would thus speak to the materiality of textual, linguistic reiteration and of physiological, bio-physical, and bio-political production with a difference. We thereby invite papers from multiple disciplines including, but not limited to the following:

re-production and bio-chemical, affective, energetic embodiment

re-production and biological, cosmological, ecological rhythms

re-production and biotechnology

re-production and capitalist/ non-capitalist conditions of production

re-production and capitalist subjectivity

re-production and class/gender/race/

re-production and cognitive-psychic modeling

re-production and colonial knowledge

re-production and consciousness

re-production and cultural codes

re-production at a time of digitalized information

reproduction and evolution

re-production and film

re-production and habituation

re-production and literature

re-production and literary theory and criticism

re-production and materialism

re-production and memory, recollection, trauma

re-production and narrative practices

re-production and perception, sensation

reproduction and the political

re-production and processes of signification

re-production and processes of subjectification

re-production and repressive apparatuses

re-production and ritual

re-production and spaces of representation

re-production and temporality

re-production and translation studies

re-production and the unconscious

re-production and value

re-production and viral transmission

BRIGID DOHERTY, Associate Professor of German and Art & Archaeology, Princeton University, will be our keynote speaker. Her biography can be found here: http://www.princeton.edu/artandarchaeology/faculty/bdoherty/

Please email your 250-word abstract or any queries regarding the conference to re.production2011@gmail.com. You may also view this CFP at http://www2.binghamton.edu/comparative-literature/conference.html. Abstracts must be received by January 24, 2011, and should include the participant’s name, institutional affiliation, email and phone number.

Please send paper abstracts to:

Re-production Conference

COLI GSO

Department of Comparative Literature


P.O. Box 6000

Binghamton, NY 13902

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Diviani Chaudhuri
Teaching Assistant
Department of Comparative Literature
SUNY Binghamton

CFP: Places and Displacement Conference at Columbia. Due 1/15

NOTE TIGHT DEADLINE! JANUARY 15!

CFP: Places and Displacement: A Graduate Student Conference

Apr. 1, 2011 (New York City, New York, USA)

Center for International History
Department of History
Columbia University

Places and Displacement
A Graduate Student Conference

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for the annual
graduate student conference in international and global history,
sponsored by the Columbia University Department of History and Center
for International History, to take place at Columbia University in New
York City on April 1, 2011.

This year’s conference will focus on the issues of place. Place
indicates the intersection of communities and geography. It asks us to
consider the meanings and attachments people assign a city, country,
or region. A sense of place can give meaning to a location or
community. It can also be conspicuous in its absence. We understand
displacement broadly, not merely as the forced and voluntary movements
of people.

Displacement encompasses the ways place can dissolve, the ways
individuals and communities transcend places, and how culture, ideas,
and technologies are reshaped as they move from place to place.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

- places in imagination and memory
- cartographical interpretations of place
- refugees, stateless peoples, indigenous communities and displaced persons
- displacement and its effect on labor and market
- fashion, architecture, style and urban planning in relation to place
- colonial and post-colonial claims to place
- contact zones and borders
- gender and places
- religion and its effect on places
- place and the construction of race, nation and ethnicity

Specialists from Columbia University will provide commentary.
We see the conference as an opportunity to problematize place and
examine its role in history and historiography. We welcome papers that
explore the topic from either a theoretical, empirical, or
methodological perspective or a combination of these approaches. We
welcome submissions from all time periods and geographic regions that
offer a transnational, international, or global approach to the
conference theme. We encourage interdisciplinary research and,
although proposals with a historical perspective are particularly
welcome, we will also consider contributions from fields including but
not limited to anthropology, economics, literature, philosophy,
religious studies, political science, sociology, geography, law,
architecture and urban planning, and public policy.

Limited funding for travel and assistance in arranging accommodation
may be available.

Graduate students interested in participating should submit a paper
abstract not exceeding 300 words and a recent CV not exceeding 2 pages
as email attachments (Word or PDF) by January 15, 2011 to Gil Rubin
and Anna Danziger, at cih.conference@gmail.com. Participants will be
notified in February. Feel free to contact the conference
coordinators, Aurélie Roy (aar2150@columbia.edu) or Mark Judd
(maj2143@columbia.edu) for additional information about the
conference.

Gil Rubin, Anna Danziger
cih.conference@gmail.com
Email: cih.conference@gmail.com

CFP: Places and Displacement: Grad Student Conference (Submission Deadline 1/15)

NOTE TIGHT DEADLINE! JANUARY 15!

CFP: Places and Displacement: A Graduate Student Conference
Apr. 1, 2011 (New York City, New York, USA)

Center for International History
Department of History
Columbia University

Places and Displacement
A Graduate Student Conference

Graduate students are invited to submit proposals for the annual
graduate student conference in international and global history,
sponsored by the Columbia University Department of History and Center
for International History, to take place at Columbia University in New
York City on April 1, 2011.

This year’s conference will focus on the issues of place. Place
indicates the intersection of communities and geography. It asks us to
consider the meanings and attachments people assign a city, country,
or region. A sense of place can give meaning to a location or
community. It can also be conspicuous in its absence. We understand
displacement broadly, not merely as the forced and voluntary movements
of people.

Displacement encompasses the ways place can dissolve, the ways
individuals and communities transcend places, and how culture, ideas,
and technologies are reshaped as they move from place to place.

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
- places in imagination and memory
- cartographical interpretations of place
- refugees, stateless peoples, indigenous communities and displaced persons
- displacement and its effect on labor and market
- fashion, architecture, style and urban planning in relation to place
- colonial and post-colonial claims to place
- contact zones and borders
- gender and places
- religion and its effect on places
- place and the construction of race, nation and ethnicity

Specialists from Columbia University will provide commentary.

We see the conference as an opportunity to problematize place and
examine its role in history and historiography. We welcome papers that
explore the topic from either a theoretical, empirical, or
methodological perspective or a combination of these approaches. We
welcome submissions from all time periods and geographic regions that
offer a transnational, international, or global approach to the
conference theme. We encourage interdisciplinary research and,
although proposals with a historical perspective are particularly
welcome, we will also consider contributions from fields including but
not limited to anthropology, economics, literature, philosophy,
religious studies, political science, sociology, geography, law,
architecture and urban planning, and public policy.

Limited funding for travel and assistance in arranging accommodation
may be available.

Graduate students interested in participating should submit a paper
abstract not exceeding 300 words and a recent CV not exceeding 2 pages
as email attachments (Word or PDF) by January 15, 2011 to Gil Rubin
and Anna Danziger, at cih.conference@gmail.com. Participants will be
notified in February. Feel free to contact the conference
coordinators, Aurélie Roy (aar2150@columbia.edu) or Mark Judd
(maj2143@columbia.edu) for additional information about the
conference.


Gil Rubin, Anna Danziger
cih.conference@gmail.com
Email: cih.conference@gmail.com

Draper Alumna Brooke Borel Published in Popular Science

Great news from Draper alumna Brooke Borel, who has been working as a successful freelance science journalist since she graduated in 2007: her first long form article, entitled "Almost a Mile Below South Dakota, a Race to Find Dark Matter," has been published in January's issue of Popular Science. She also has pieces forthcoming in the same outlet later this year. Congrats, Brooke!

The piece begins:

"Between 1876 and 2002, the people of Lead, South Dakota, extracted $3.5 billion worth of gold from the Homestake mine. It was the town’s main business, and when falling prices and diminishing returns finally shut it down, no one was sure what to do with the remaining 8,000-foot hole in the ground. Then, in 2007, the National Science Foundation decided that an 8,000-foot hole would be the perfect place to put its proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory, or DUSEL, a massive research complex that will include the world’s deepest underground lab.

Now a team of physicists and former miners has converted Homestake’s shipping warehouse into a new surface-level laboratory at the Sanford Underground Laboratory. They've painted the walls and baseboards white and added yellow floor lines to steer visitors around giant nitrogen tanks, locker-size computers and plastic-shrouded machine parts. Soon they will gather many of these components into the lab’s clean room and combine them into LUX, the Large Underground Xenon dark-matter detector, which they will then lower halfway down the mine, where—if all goes well—it will eventually detect the presence of a few particles of dark matter, the as-yet-undetected invisible substance that may well be what holds the universe together."

To read Brooke's article in full, see the Popular Science website, here: http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-12/mining-dark-matter

To read a 2009 interview Draper conducted with Brooke about science journalism, check out in.ter.reg.num's archives, here: http://draperprogram.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-with-draper-alumna-brooke.html

Call for Papers: Complicities, Stony Brook English Graduate Conference (Abstracts Due 1/31)

One of the conference organizers of the event below notes that "As in years past, we would love to have participation from NYU students, and we encourage them to submit an abstract. Our deadline is January 31, but is flexible into the first few weeks of February, if need be. If there are any questions, I would be happy to field them via this email address, or at sbcomplicity2011@gmail.com."

Complicities: The Stony Brook English Graduate Conference, Friday, 3/11/2011

English Department, Stony Brook University

contact email:

sbcomplicity2011@gmail.com

Date: Friday, March 11, 2011
Location: Stony Brook Manhattan Campus, Midtown

Keynote: Dr. Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY Graduate Center

Home to the longest-running graduate conference in the nation, the English Department at Stony Brook University invites scholars of all disciplines to submit papers to its 2011 Manhattan event.

Derived from the Latin verb “complicare,” meaning to “fold together,” Complicity conveys conflicting messages: On the one hand, it is rarely used without a certain connotation of dismissal, condemnation, or indictment; on the other, its mostly ignored kinship with concepts such as solidarity, loyalty, commitment, and responsibility undermines its notoriety as a quintessentially “negative” word – particularly in the context of political activism.

Complicity offers a productive set of ambivalences that awaits to be discussed and reinterpreted: Is it somehow avoidable? Need one strive to avoid it? Can one possibly engage the label with impunity? How might one strive to endorse or resist the “folding-together” expressed in the word’s definition in new and productive ways, and how have contemporary and past artists, intellectuals, and activists attempted to do so?

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Manifesto Writing (Futurism, Dada, Expressionism, Surrealism); Aesthetics and politics of the Avant-Garde; Memoirs, Autobiographies, Confessions; Polemic; Existentialism - Personal Responsibility; Solidarity; Collaboration; Networks; Utopias and Dystopias; Reform enterprises; Rebellions; Revolutions; Communism, Fascism, Nazism; Patriotism; Nationalism; Empire; Fanaticism; Discrimination; Violence; War; Terrorism; Conspiracy; Self-interest; Dissent; Condemnation, Punishment, and Exile; Regret; Disavowal; Typologies; Orientalism; Knowledge Production; Subjecthood; Psychoanalysis; Jurisprudence; Eco-activism; Fashion; Advertisement; Consumer Trends; Pornography; Technology; Surveillance; Biopolitics.

Submit abstracts of 250 words by January 31, 2011 to
Burcu Kuheylan and Matthew Kremer
Stony Brook University
SBcomplicity2011@gmail.com

Please make your name and paper title the subject of the email.