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CFP: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 5TH)

By
Marilyn Weber
 – May 9, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

CFP: The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 5TH)

 

JITP, The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (http://cuny.is/jitp), cordially invites submissions for all sections.

 

JITP welcomes work that explores critical and creative uses of interactive technology in teaching, learning, and research. We invite submissions of audio or visual presentations, interviews, dialogues, or conversations, creative works, manifestos, or jeremiads as well as traditional long-form articles. Submissions might explore content-neutral uses of technology, such as blogs, clickers, or multimedia projects, used in any discipline. Submissions might also focus on disciplinary uses of technology, such as software designed specifically to aid language learning or physics instruction. Discipline-specific submissions should be written for non-specialists.

 

Submissions that focus on pedagogy should balance theoretical frameworks with practical considerations of how new technologies play out in the classroom. Research-based submissions should include discussions of approach, method, and analysis. Successes and interesting failures are equally welcome (although see the Teaching Fails section below for an alternative outlet).

 

We intend that the journal itself – both in process and in product – serve as an opportunity to reveal, reflect on, and revise academic publication and classroom practice. All submissions will be considered for our Behind the Seams feature, in which we publish dynamic representations of the revision and editorial processes, including reflections from the participants.

 

All work appearing in the Issues section of JITP is reviewed independently by two scholars in the field, who provide formative feedback to the author during the review process. The submission deadline for the Fall 2013 issue is June 5, 2013 (Deadline Extended).  Tool Tips, Teaching Fails, Assignments, and Book Reviews sections operate under a publish-then-peer-review model. Submissions for these sections are accepted on a rolling basis.

 

All work should be original and previously unpublished. Essays or presentations posted on a personal blog may be accepted, provided they are substantially revised; please contact us with any questions at editors@jitpedagogy.org.

 

As a courtesy to our reviewers, we will not consider simultaneous submissions, but we will do our best to reply to you within 2-3 months of the submission deadline.

 

To view the journal, read the full guidelines, or submit, please go to http://cuny.is/jitp

 

For technical details – file formats, documentation style, etc – please see our complete guidelines at http://cuny.is/jitpguidelines

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CFP: UCLA History+ Conference

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – March 8, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

Call for papers for third annual History + conference at UCLA:

Historical Disobedience: Transgressive Subjects, Methods, and Stories

A Graduate Student Conference

Friday, November 1, 2013

 

In the wake of the social turn, the cultural turn, and more recently, the interest in transnational history, the historical landscape today looks decidedly different than it did prior to these developments.  Nevertheless, a number of possibilities for transgressing the traditional bounds of the discipline remain.  Accordingly, the theme of the 2013 UCLA History Graduate Student Association Conference is Historical Disobedience: Transgressive Subjects, Methods, and Stories.  We seek to present graduate student work which “transgresses” traditional disciplinary boundaries in terms of topic, methodology, and concept.  We welcome works from graduate students in history as well as those from other departments which examine historical topics.  We invite submissions concerning all time periods and geographical locations.  For more information, see attached flier.

 

All submissions are due by April 15, 2013.

 

Submit papers here:

 

E-mail all questions to Sarah Pripas-Kapit at srpripas@ucla.edu.

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Request for Proposals for the 2013 CUE Conference

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – March 8, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

Dear Colleagues,

 

I write to invite you to submit a proposal for the 2013 annual CUE Conference, Transformations in Teaching and Learning: Research and Evidence Based Practices at CUNY, which will be held at John Jay College on May 10, 2013.

 

The conference focuses on  the what individuals have done at CUNY to improve student success.  We are interested in presentations about a  specific innovation or strategy you have tried based on the research literature or your own experience. How do you know whether or not it was successful?

 

 

We welcome proposals in the following six theme areas.

 

1. The Scholarship of Teaching

2. Cohort Programs (SEEK, FYE, Honors, Macaulay, ASAP, etc.)

3. High Impact Practices in the Classroom

4. High Impact Practices on Campus

5. STEM Fields and Quantitative Reasoning

6. Academic Support Services

 

Proposals are due March 15, 2013. To learn more, submit a proposal or to register for the conference, visit the conference’s website athttp://www.jjay.cuny.edu/cueconference2013. Charles Blaich will be the keynote speaker.  The will be opportunities to network with colleagues over breakfast, lunch and the end of day reception.

 

I look forward to seeing you in May.

 

Please forward this email and the attached flyer to others on your campus who would be interested in the conference.

 

All the best,

 

Anne Lopes

 

 

 

Anne Lopes, Dr. phil.

Dean of Undergraduate Studies

 

899 Tenth Avenue

New York, New York  10019

212-484-1347 (Office)

212-484-1179 (Fax)

alopes@jjay.cuny.edu

deadline extended! CFP – The Renaissance of Roland Barthes, Comparative Literature and English departments

By
Marilyn Weber
 – March 5, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers, GC Events

 The Renaissance of Roland Barthes

Speakers: Jonathan Culler, Diana Knight, Rosalind Krauss, D.A. Miller, and Lucy O’Meara

 

The students of the Comparative Literature and English departments at the City University of New York Graduate Center present the second annual interdisciplinary conference on Critical Theory, to be held April 25-26, 2013. The conference will be devoted to the writings of French literary theorist and critic Roland Barthes.

In response to Roland Barthes’ tragic death in 1980, Michel Foucault observed that Barthes, in his lecture courses only a week before the accident, seemed “completely developed;” Foucault recalled thinking at the time: ‘He’ll live to be ninety years old; he is one of those men whose most important work will be written between the ages of sixty and ninety.’ Barthes’ final lecture course, Preparation of the Novel, staged the search for a Vita Nuova and a “third form” between or beyond the Essay and the Novel that would, in the manner of “the Neutral,” baffle or outplay the paradigms of theory and literature. Even if we can only hypothesize what hybrid work of critique and narrative Barthes would have gone on to create, the brilliance, theoretical significance, and formal innovation of his late work, especially his lectures, has yet to receive the international attention it deserves. In light of the publication of the final installment of his lecture courses, How to Live Together, we invite presentations from all fields to explore ANY aspect of Roland Barthes’ oeuvre: the tightrope his writing walks between the forms of the novel and the essay, the evolution of his writing and thinking throughout his life, the engagement of his work with literary or cultural texts, and the relationship of his work to critical theory, as well as to any and all other disciplines. Some of the questions this conference seeks to explore include, but are not limited to:

  • How can we re-think or complicate the narrative that takes The Pleasure of the Text (1973) as the beginning of a shift not only in Barthes’ thinking, but in French theory, more generally, from structuralism to post-structuralism? How does Barthes’ “late work” reflect upon, and even dramatize, such a historical transition?
  • Do the epiphanies of Barthes’ later work, such as The Neutral, bear out the questions raised in his earliest writings, such as Writing Degree Zero? Or does a later work like The Empire of Signs engage in a mode of cultural criticism distinctly different from earlier works such Mythologies?
  • How do the often genre-bending structures of Barthes’ writings elucidate, demonstrate, or call into question their theoretical content?
  • How does Barthes’ writing increasingly incorporate, as both method and subject matter, multiple types of media, from Camera Lucida’s engagement with photography and essays on film, music, and visual art to the late lectures that are themselves a strange hybrid form?
  • How did Barthes’ work change or inaugurate fields of discourse as wide-ranging as utopian studies, affect theory, cultural studies, queer theory, and reception aesthetics?
  • What are the political implications of Barthes’ work, such as How to Live Together, especially in light of contemporary revolutionary movements?
  • Taking Foucault’s cue, what would Barthes, if he had lived until 90, have gone on to write? What legacy did Barthes create, and what was left undone? What was, is, or will be the “third form?”

Please submit a 300 word abstract for a 15-20 minute paper by March 15, 2013 to barthesconference2013@gmail.com. Proposals should include the title of the paper, presenter’s name, institutional and departmental affiliation, and any technology requests. We also welcome panel proposals of three to four papers.

This conference is co-sponsored by the Writers’ Institute at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the Center for Humanities, the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, Columbia University Press, and the Doctoral Students’ Council.

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CFP – University of Connecticut 10th Anniversary Conference of the Human Rights Institute

By
Marilyn Weber
 – February 28, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers, Conference Opportunities

CALL FOR PAPERS
Graduate Conference
10th Anniversary Conference of the Human Rights Institute
September 18, 2013
University of Connecticut, Storrs
Deadline for Proposals: April 8th, 2013
The Human Rights Institute is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a conference (September 19-21) that will showcase the “Connecticut School of Human Rights,” an interdisciplinary, contextual approach to human rights. Interest in human rights has expanded beyond law schools throughout the academy, and in particular into the social sciences and humanities. The conversations that will take place at the conference point toward new horizons for the Institute and for the interdisciplinary study of human rights for decades to come.

The Graduate Human Rights Conference will kick off the interdisciplinary conversation on Wednesday, September 18, 2013 at the Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut. We aim to bring together graduate students interested in human rights, from multiple disciplines, to present and share their research interests. The Graduate Conference will include a workshop on publishing in the field of human rights as well as complimentary breakfast and lunch. We encourage Graduate students to come to these events on Wednesday and stay for the 10th Anniversary Conference which will include many prominent human rights scholars.
Panel Themes: The Graduate Conference encourages interdisciplinary social science, law, and humanities approaches to understanding human rights issues. Panel themes may include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:
 Economic and Social Rights
 Education and Human Rights
 Environmental Rights
 Foundations of Human Rights
 Gender and Human Rights
 Group Rights
 Health and Human Rights
 Human Rights and International Law
 Humanitarianism
 Literature and Human Rights
 Political and Civil Rights
If you would like to present a paper, please submit a 300-500 word abstract and short bio to the Human Rights Institute at humanrights@uconn.edu by April 8, 2013:
Please feel free to contact us at humanrights@uconn.edu if you have any further questions.
Limited travel assistance may be available for accepted panelists.

CFP: Deadline Extended: March 1st. Commodities, Capitalism and Culture

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – February 13, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

Deadline Extended March 1st Commodities Capitalism and Culture

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CFP – Interdisciplinary Conference on Conversion and Disenchantment at the New School – April 26th and 27th

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – February 13, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

The Kronstadt Moment/The Road to Damascus

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Conversion and Disenchantment

April 26th and 27th, The New School for Social Research, NY.

www.kronstadt-damascus.com

 

In the seminal collection of essays The God that Failed, Louis Fisher recounts the story of anarchist Alexander Berkman, who recalls the specific moment when he became an avowed enemy of the Bolsheviks – the bloody rebellion on the island of Kronstadt. For Berkman, this specific event defined the crisis point of his ideological faith; it was the moment of disenchantment, of a kind of “de-conversion”. Fisher appropriates this term to define his own moment of realization noting that “I had no ‘Kronstadt’ for many years”.

Such moments of “de-conversion”, or disenchantment, juxtapose a recurring trope in Western thought—that of conversion itself. Traditionally, these are moments of religious revelation and/or transformation, as with Paul on the road to Damascus, but there are moments of scientific transformation, as well. In the well-known myth of Archimedes in his bath, the “Eureka” moment of inspiration could be said to be the source of a ‘universal conversion’ of thought, or a complete paradigm shift. The perpetuation of such myths over the centuries has defined our understanding of what conversion and disillusionment are, how they function, and what mystery or power such experiences hold.

This persistence begs the questions of whether the allegory of conversion itself prepares certain individuals for this experience? And, on the contrary, for its reversal? Are we, in the Western world, socially predisposed to codify an experience in an allegorical manner?

In the past century, how has conversion/disenchantment made itself manifest through secular movements? Through contemporary religious groups?

This conference will seek to address the topic of conversion and disenchantment from a variety of academic disciplines, and we encourage submissions from researchers and graduate students in all fields. Some suggested topics include, but are of course not limited to:

· The perpetuation of the ‘transformative journey’ conversion allegory in Western history

· Neuro-scientific research pertaining to conversion/de-conversion

· The Bielefeld based cross-cultural study on de-conversion in the US and Germany

· Rousseau on the road to Vincennes

· Biographical inquiries of conversion/disenchantment

· Conversion with Judaism: from Conservative to Haredi

· Conversion and the politics of religion in early modern Germany

· Questioning the concept of conversion as a ‘gain’, and de-conversion as a ‘loss’.

· The role that nature plays in the classic conversion allegory

· Secular conversion/anti-conversion in the 20th century, the  so-called “Faith of the Faithless”?

· Psychological studies pertaining to conversion

· Possible abdication of responsibility in conversion/disenchantment – the power of an ‘outside force’

· Augustine’s conversion as recounted in The Confessions

· Conversion and ritual

· What problems does ‘reverse-conversion’, or loss of faith, pose for the member of a contemporary sect?

· Conversion and ‘de-conversion’ relating to political movements, particularly Communism.

· What barriers do groups of the ‘converted’, whether religious or political, erect to hinder disenchantment or “reverse-conversion”?

· Descartes’ conversion to science as recounted in the Discourse on Method

· An investigation of conversion metaphors in literature

· Beyond the individual – Max Weber and the “disenchantment of the world”

 

Speakers include: 

Simon Critchley (NSSR), Thomas Macho (Humboldt, Berlin), Dr. Simon Dein (UC London), James Miller (NSSR)

Call for Papers:

Proposals of 350 words of less and a short biography are due by March 1st to conference@kronstadt-damascus.com. Group presentations welcome! Please indicate if you have any multi-media needs.

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Call for Papers for the New York State Association of European Historians

By
Tracy E. Robey
 – February 4, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

Call for Papers

 The 63rd annual meeting of the New York State Association of European Historians will be held at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY on October 4-5, 2013. We invite proposals for papers on any topic in European history. We strongly encourage graduate student participation and welcome panels and proposals on work(s) in progress. Proposals for papers and/or panels should be submitted electronically to Martin Ederer and Julie Gibert by April 30, 2013 (please send proposal to both email addresses):  ederermf@buffalostate.edu and gibert@canisius.edu.

The New York State Association of European Historians is a genial regional historical association that welcomes innovative ideas and presentations. This is a great opportunity to try out new ideas. Please forward this CFP to your friends, department colleagues, advanced graduate students and colleagues at local community/junior colleges.

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Call for Papers: Thinking Publicly Proposals, Drew University (Madison, New Jersey)

By
Marilyn Weber
 – January 30, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

Call for Papers: Thinking Publicly Proposals

Due: February 7, 2013 Date of Conference: June 7-8, 2013 Location: Drew University (Madison, New Jersey)

 

What exactly is a public intellectual? Can it be a blogger, a comedian, a teacher, a scientist, a historian, a celebrity, a small-town government official? Or does a public intellectual transcend these categories? How have our conceptions of public intellectuals changed over time? How does an intellectual function in the public sphere today?

Who listens to the public intellectual?

 

The Graduate Program in History and Culture at Drew University looks forward to discussing these questions and more at Thinking Publicly, a conference on public intellectuals, on June 7-8, 2013. Through this conference we hope to provide a space for emerging scholars to voice their perspectives on public intellectualism. We aim to broaden our ideas about public intellectuals and go beyond the limiting boundaries between disciplines. We highly encourage proposals from graduate students in all fields. New scholars, working public intellectuals, and independent scholars are also welcome to submit.

 

Papers and panels on all aspects of public intellectualism will be considered. Some potential topics include: • the history of public intellectuals • public intellectualism in a global framework • defining and problematizing the term public intellectuals • the use of humor in public intellectualism • platforms for public intellectuals to disseminate information • the role of public intellectuals in social justice and civic engagement • intersections between the arts and sciences • the use and methodology of present scholarship outside academia • teachers as public intellectuals • the future landscape of higher education • newer technologies and social media’s impact on the scholar • intellectuals providing obstacles for, rather than enlightening, the public • the forgotten “lost causes” of public intellectuals

 

Please submit a 400-word paper proposal no later than February 7, 2013.

Paper submissions should include a tentative title, a brief description of the project, and a two-page CV. Panel proposals should consist of a 200-word topic description, individual paper abstracts, and CVs for each presenter. Questions and paper submissions can be emailed to:

hc@drew.edu.

 

CFP – 8th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics

By
Marilyn Weber
 – January 29, 2013Posted in: Calls for Papers

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th Annual Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics

This conference is an interdisciplinary meeting aimed at bringing together scholars from Appalachian State University (Boone, NC) with scholars from other universities in North Carolina, the surrounding states, and abroad. We have already hosted seven of these meetings in the past, which have been very successful. Our past keynote speakers have included John Wallis, Jeremy Black, Peter Lindert, and Price Fishback. This year’s speaker will be Dr. Philip Hoffman, Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics and Professor of History, California Institute of Technology; a world-renowned scholar of financial institutions and government capacity for violence. We will also feature 7-9 panels with scholarly papers, divided among different topical themes, including an undergraduate and a graduate panel. This year’s theme will be How Did Europeans Come to Rule the World? The paper or panel proposals do not have to be directly tied to the conference theme, although papers fitting with theme will be given special consideration.

 

The conference will take place on April 20, 2013, in Raley Hall on the Appalachian State University campus in Boone, North Carolina in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Those interested in participating should let the organizers know by FEBRUARY 15, 2013. A one-page abstract describing the scholar’s proposal should be submitted to the organizers by that date. A full paper should be sent to the organizers by March 1, 2013. There is only a modest registration fee (regular: $75; (graduate) students: $30; ASU faculty and students: free). The organizers cannot provide funding for accommodations or travel expenses. We offer meals to the participants during the meeting at reduced cost in addition to the registration fee.

 

Organizers (contacts for paper proposals and practical matters):

• Jari Eloranta, Associate Professor (Appalachian State University, Department of History): phone: 1-828-262-6006<tel:1-828-262-6006>, email: jari.a.eloranta@gmail.com<mailto:jari.a.eloranta@gmail.com>

• Jeremy Land, Ph.D. Student (University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Department of History):  phone: 1-704-689-2055<tel:1-704-689-2055>, email: land25.jeremy@gmail.com<mailto:land25.jeremy@gmail.com>

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