[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 116, Issue 23

Wed Mar 26 15:11:31 PDT 2014

Saludos para tus padres. Especialmente a tu madre, a quien recuerdo con
mucho cariño.

Eduardo

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>    1. CFP Reminder: Creating Cultures, postgraduate conference in
>       Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College
>       London (Jeremy)
>    2. Cultural Rhetorics conference October 30-November 1 (Phil Bratta)
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> Subject: [Air-L] CFP Reminder: Creating Cultures, postgraduate
>         conference in Culture, Media, and the Creative Industries, King's
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> This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions is
> at the end of the week (Friday 28th March).
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> Call for Papers: Creating Cultures, a postgraduate conference in Culture,
> Media, and the Creative Industries, King's College London
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> http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/
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> Keynote speaker: Prof. Lev Manovich, CUNY
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> Held on the 12th and 13th of June 2014, this multi-disciplinary
> postgraduate conference seeks a broad array of perspectives that explore
> cultural representations, practices, and industries. The title 'Creating
> Cultures' prompts inquiries into concepts of culture being created,
> cultures of creativity, cultures evolving and changing, and also cultures
> of creative work and play.
>
> Culture evokes ideas about its conflicting and disputed foundations, and
> culture as a medium through which social, political, spatial, and
> historical meanings are communicated and understood. The theme of this
> conference invites explorations of power relations, gender, subjectivity,
> the spatial, technology and contemporary media.
>
> Abstract submissions for presentations and pre-formed panels are invited on
> themes in cultural and/or media studies, such as:
>
> Power and cultural politics
> Identity and representation
> Media and mediation
> Digital cultures, new media, and media futures
> Cultures and change
> Popular culture
> Contested and counter cultures
> Art and artistic practice
> Cultural labour and industries
> Territorial and spatial cultures
> Globalisation and transnational cultures
> Cultural and media research methodologies
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> Please submit 300 word abstracts, or proposals for creative presentation
> formats, and a maximum 100-word biography to cmci-conference at kcl.ac.uk<javascript:;>by
> the 28th of March. Decisions on submissions will be sent by the 17th of
> April.
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> For any queries contact: Jeremy Matthew (jeremy.matthew at kcl.ac.uk<javascript:;>)
> or
> Photini Vrikki (photini.vrikki at kcl.ac.uk <javascript:;>), and please
> check our website at
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> http://thecmcisocialfactory.wordpress.com/creating-cultures-postgrad-conference/
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> From: Phil Bratta <philbratta at gmail.com <javascript:;>>
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> Subject: [Air-L] Cultural Rhetorics conference October 30-November 1
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> Call for Proposals: http://culturalrhetorics.org/cfp.php
> 2014 Cultural Rhetorics Conference
> "Entering the Conversation"
> Michigan State University <http://www.msu.edu/>, East Lansing, Michigan,
> USA
> October 30 - November 1, 2014
> What is this conference for?To continue ongoing conversations in the
> emergent field Cultural Rhetorics, connect conversations among those doing
> work in this field, and build a consortium of cultural rhetorics
> practitioners.Who is this conference for?Anyone who wants to join the
> conversation about cultural rhetorics! Faculty, grad students, teachers,
> scholars, writers, artists, activists ...How can I participate?Submit a
> proposal.<
> http://culturalrhetorics.org/coming-soon.php?Title=Online+Submission>
>  We're looking for papers, panels, roundtables, performances, media
> installations, posters, readings, workshops & more that define, expand,
> illustrate, and/or question what it means to join the cultural rhetorics
> conversation.Apply to be a
> particpant<
> http://culturalrhetorics.org/coming-soon.php?Title=Apply+to+the+Roundtable
> >
>  in our opening roundtable -- "What does it mean to do cultural rhetorics &
> what does it look like?"Proposals must be submitted by April 15th,
> 2014.Cultural
> Rhetorics scholars study meaning-making practices and, sometimes, the
> things produced through those practices like baskets, books, dances, poems,
> web-sites, buildings, landscapes.We use the term "cultural rhetorics" to
> emphasize an orientation to a set of constellating methodological and
> theoretical frames we engage in our scholarly and teaching practices. Those
> frames draw from and across Rhetoric & Composition Studies, various Ethnic
> Studies fields, Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Studies, Gender Studies,
> Performance Studies, Cultural Studies, and others.While cultural rhetorics
> covers a wide breadth of fields and disciplines, we haven't had a central
> home or space to get together and share our work. The 2014 Cultural
> Rhetorics Conference: Entering the Conversation, hosted by the Cultural
> Rhetorics Theory Lab and the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American
> Cultures at Michigan State University, is that space.
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> Department of Writing, Rhetoric & American Cultures
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> Writing Center Satellite Coordinator
> Michigan State University
> 300 Bessey Hall
> East Lansing, MI 48824
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