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Reading the Fin de Siecle
Henry Street
antiTHESIS
Knowing Mass Culture
Ends and Means
Aesthetics of Everyday Life
Culture and Policy in the Digital Age
Drive
Virginia Film Festival
Postmodern Culture
Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction
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Reading the Fin de Siecle, Writing the Millennium
The Eighth Quadrennial
International Conference On Comparative Literature
Tamkang University
Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, R. O. C.
We take great pleasure in announcing that the Eighth Quadrennial International Conference on Comparative Literature, sponsored by the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China and hosted by Tamkang University, will be held on Tamkang's campus in Tamsui, Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, on 27-29 August 1999.
The general theme of the conference is 'Reading the Fin de Siecle, Writing the Millennium.' Papers related to the following topics are solicited:
1. Literary and Cultural Studies at the Crossroads 2. The Turn of the Century and the End of Literacy 3. Crossing into the Millennium: SciFi and Cyberspace 4. Space, the City and the Body at the End of the Century 5. Eschatology: Illness and Its Metaphors 6. Alternative Modernity and Postcolonialism
The official language of the conference is English. The conference seeks papers that span the disciplines of literature, film, art, architecture, music, subculture, etc. Papers accepted will be arranged for presentation at the conference. We also reserve the right to publish the papers in the proceedings of the conference.
The deadline for proposals is 15 December 1998. Notice of acceptance, together with a registration form, will be sent before 15 January 1999. The registration fee of the conference is US$75. All participants from abroad whose papers have been accepted will be provided with board and lodging for the duration of the conference. Please send your proposal (500 words maximum) to:
Dr Robin Chen-hsing Tsai
The Eighth Quadrennial International Conference on
Comparative Literature
c/o English Department
Tamkang University
Tamsui, Taipei Hsien
Taiwan 25137
R. O. C.
Tel: +886-2-2621-5656 ext. 2957
Fax: +886-2-2620-9912
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Henry Street:
A Graduate Review of Literary Study
Invites submisssions for upcoming issues:
7.2
General issue
deadline: November 1, 1998
8.1
Postmodernism, Primitivism, Nostalgia
deadline: December 15, 1998
_Henry Street_, now in its seventh year of publication, is an inter- national forum for graduate students of English and related disciplines. We invite contributions of critical essays, short fiction and poetry from graduate students in English or a related discipline. We also welcome essays on pedagogy, the job market, graduate programs, and other topics of interest to graduate students.
_Henry Street_ is indexed by the MLA and the Canadian Periodicals Index.
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SUBMISSIONS
Essays should not exceed 7000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard 8.5' x 11' bond. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author's name should not appear on the manuscript.
Send two copies of submissions, and include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Canadian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation.
Send your submission to:
_Henry Street_
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada
B3H 3J5
You can also send e-mail inquiries to [log in to unmask] Please note that this address is for inquiries only, not submissions.
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Issue 7.1 includes:
* Michele Hilton, '_Tristram Shandy_ and the Cant of French Criticism'
* Steven Dougherty, 'Dreaming the Races: Biology and National Fantasy
in 'The Fall of the House of Usher''
* Thom Satterlee, 'In Our Own Words'
* Tamas Dobozy, 'Those Dynamic Duos: The Hegemony of Individualism in
the Late Twentieth Century and its Cumulative Effect on Partnership, the Cooperative and Marital Union' :)
Fiction by Sumanth Muthyala and Tim Conley; poetry by Mitchell Andrew and
K. I. Press; reviews, and more.
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antiTHESIS Volume 10: inSIGHTS AND outPOSTS
Insight:
1. the ability to perceive clearly or deeply; penetration 2. looking in from the outside
3. physical sight; inspection
Outpost:
1. an outlying settlement
2. the edge of known space
3. place where defensive watch is kept
4. a policing settlement on the border country
VOLUME 10 of antiTHESIS is seeking contributions engaging with current issues in postcolonial studies.
Submissions could include:
- the politics of identity, ethnicity, and difference - ways of looking, sighting, being sighted - migration and diaspora
- postcolonial feminisms
- cross-cultural contacts, translations, questions of hybridity - misrecognitions, exclusions and inclusions - ways of travelling, mapping, and performing cultures
SUBMISSIONS: Essays should not exceed 6000 words, and must follow MLA guidelines for citation and presentation and include a Works Cited list. All submissions, except poetry, should be double-spaced on standard A4 paper. Send two hard copies of submissions and one disk copy. We prefer that disk submissions use Microsoft Word, Word Perfect or ASCII. Please include a self-addressed return envelope accompanied either by Australian stamps or international reply coupons. Manuscripts submitted without SASE cannot be returned. The cover letter must indicate the author's degree status and university affiliation.
SEND TO:
antiTHESIS
Department of English with Cultural Studies University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3052
AUSTRALIA
Fax: 61-3-9344-5494
>>>>DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: January 15 1988<<<<
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is an annual postgraduate transdisciplinary journal produced by the English with Cultural Studies Department, University of Melbourne.
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The editors of antiTHESIS would like to announce the publication of Vol.9, 'Everyday Evasions: Cultural Practices and Politics'. The issue collects a diverse group of theoretical, empirical and ficitonal pieces/notes on everyday life - several inflected by Deleuzian thought - by contributors
>from Australian, U.S.A, U.K, Taiwan and South Africa.
Contents and sales details below. Apologies for cross-posting. Thanks, Daniel.
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Greg WISE 'Everyday Life is Where the Rubber Hits the Road...' Greg SEIGWORTH 'Houses in Motion'
Sarah SQUIRE 'The Subversive Charm of Flirtation: A Dalliance' Stephen MUECKE 'Notes Written One Sunday in Badde Manors Cafe in Glebe' Ian BUCHANAN 'The 'Everyday' is an 'Other'' Ross GIBSON 'Everyday Life is a System of Manifestations...' John FROW 'A Note on the Everyday'
Innes PARK 'Awareness, Avoidance and the Everyday' Tara FORREST 'Distraction and Action: Breaking Cinematographical Habits' Hélène FRICHOT 'Unprecedented'
Pia EDNIE-BROWN 'Getting Things Out of Perspective' Bernhard FRANK 'All Over'
Stuart KOOP 'The Separation of Art from Everyday Life...' Lara TRAVIS 'Vanitas'
Lyndal WALKER 'House Style'
Chris WOMERSLEY 'The Final Days of Share House Number Eight' Paul LOBBAN 'Little Freedoms: Margaret Hoby's Diary and the Spaces of the Early Modern Household'
Margaret MORSE 'The Artificial Synthesis of the Human Capacity...' Emma WILLIAMSON 'The View From the Road' Lucia SAKS 'Discover the Nation-and Eat It: The TV Cookshows' Davy CHI 'The Scent of HIV' & 'I'm Not Stupid' (Translated & Intro. by Fran MARTIN)
Dean KILEY 'In the Spare Few Minutes...' Ilinca STROE 'Popular Culture Revisited' Catherine PADMORE 'Venus Rising'
McKenzie WARK 'The Art of Conversation in a Media-Soaked Planet of Noise' (Interviewed by Daniel PALMER)
*Credit card purchases can be made at Readings Bookstore (www.readings.com.au).
Annual Subscriptions:
Within Australia: Individual $15, Institution $25 Overseas: US$15 and US$25 (includes postage) Back-issues available. Send cheque or money order to:
antiTHESIS
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Call for Papers
Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge a conference at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
April 29 - May 1, 1999
This conference will focus on the production of knowledge within global media culture. It will consider not only how scholars have come to know media culture, but how media and mass cultural forms have themselves instituted various forms of knowledge. It will explore how print, film, television, and electronic cultures have generated particular ways of knowing, with their own epistemological and pedagogical practices, standards of evidence and authority, operations of perception and cognition, truths and blindspots. How have popular media forms and genres shaped our ways of thinking, including our ways of thinking about mass culture itself? To frame an encounter between academic knowledges of mass-mediated culture and media culture's own epistemological objects and procedures--to consider not just how we think about popular media but how we think through them--the conference will bring together those who study popular narratives and genres, film, television, and new technologies with media practitioners in those fields (film and video producers, interactive media artists, web and video game designers).
Papers and presentations may consider such topics as: constructions of truth, identity, and experience within media and technological forms; the creation and documentation of various realisms and realities; mediated perceptions of space and time, history and community; relations between global and local knowledge; shifts in information access, storage, and circulation; changing literacies and new forms of 'common sense'; encounters between media and academic genres; the use of popular forms as models for scholarly work; the implications of thinking through various genres (such as the documentary, the detective narrative, science fiction, melodrama, comedy) and voices (sensationalized, personalized, paranoid, networked); the drive toward and/or refusal of knowledge within mass cultural texts; the production (or over-production) of knowledge in such things as conspiracy and millennial theorizing; media pedagogies and philosophies.
Invited speakers:
Mark Amerika (novelist/digital artist, Boulder, CO) Susan Burgess (political science/women's studies, UW-Milwaukee) Lawrence Cohen (anthropology, UC, Berkeley) John DiStefano (film/video producer, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago)
Mary Ann Doane (film studies, Brown Univ.) Bernard Gendron (philosophy/music studies, UW-Milwaukee) Herman Gray (sociology/African-American studies/media studies, UC,
Santa Cruz)
Todd Haynes (filmmaker, New York City)
Lynne Joyrich (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee) Robert McChesney (media studies, UW-Madison) Patricia Mellencamp (film/television studies, UW-Milwaukee) Constance Penley (film/television studies, UC, Santa Barbara) Stephen Wilson (art/new technologies, San Francisco State Univ.) Mimi White (television studies, Northwestern Univ.) Mark Williams (film/television studies, Dartmouth)
Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 1998 Please send proposals (no more than 3 pages) and vita to: Lynne Joyrich, Conference Organizer
Center for Twentieth Century Studies
P.O. Box 413
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
Phone: (414) 229-4141; Fax: (414) 229-5964; email: [log in to unmask]; http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/20th.
Selected papers from the conference will be considered for inclusion in a book planned for publication in the Center series Theories of Contemporary Culture with Indiana University Press.
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Ends and Means
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~phl002/techno.htm
Journal of the University of Aberdeen Centre for Philosophy Technology and Society.
Ends and Means, the CPTS newsletter is issued, free of charge, twice a year - in October and April. To be included on the mailing list please fill out the form below. Short articles on any topic in the area of philosophy and technology are welcome
Contact:
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Extended Deadline -- Philosophy & Geography Iv: Aesthetics Of Everyday Life December 1, 1998
The Society for Philosophy and Geography is pleased to announce the fourth volume of their peer reviewed annual:
Philosophy And Geography
Volume 4: Aesthetics Of Everyday Life
Editors: Andrew Light Jonathan Smith
Department of Philosophy Department of Geography
SUNY Binghamton Texas A&M University
This volume will collect papers that investigate aesthetic dimensions of everyday life (broadly construed). Particularly of interest are those papers which look at aesthetic components of space, place, and everyday environments, including particular kinds of spaces and places. Also welcome are papers which examine aesthetic themes of everyday life in film, literatue, and popular culture. Articles may be theoretical or empirical, and may view the problem from various scholarly perspectives, including historical or cross-cultureal comparison, and/or connect their themes to moral, political or legal philosophy. Because the audience for this volume is multidisciplinary, authors are *strongly* encouraged to write in a style that is generally accessible. This does not necessarily mean that the material must be simplified, but that extra care must be taken to avoid jargon, to situate questions in a wider academic context, and to be clear about the purpose of the stated inquiry.
Deadline, December 1, 1998. 10,000 words *maximum* (longer papers will not be considered); use Chicago Manuel of Style for footnotes. A Complete Style Guide For The Journal Is Available Via E-Mail Upon Request <[log in to unmask]>.
Send *three* copies of submissions to:
Andrew Light, Co-Editor
Philosophy and Geography
Department of Philosophy
State University of New York, Binghamton
PO Box 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
Editorial board: Albert Borgmann (Montana), Augustin Berque (Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Socialies), J. Baird Callicott (North Texas), Edward Casey (SUNY, Stony Brook), Denis Cosgrove (Royal Holloway, London), Arthur Danto (Columbia), Avner de-Shalit (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem), James Duncan (Cambridge), Nicholas Entrikin (UCLA), Andrew Feenberg (San Diego State), Mark Gottdiner (SUNY at Buffalo), Derek Gregory (British Columbia), David Harvey (Johns Hopkins), Kathleen Higgins (Texas, Austin), Nuala Johnson (Belfast), Bernd Magnus (UC Riverside), Thomas McCarthy (Northwestern), Bryan Norton (Georgia Institute of Technology), Carole Pateman (UCLA), John Pickles (Kentucky), Juval Portugali (Tel Aviv), Moishe Postone (Chicago), David Seamon (Kansas State), Neil Smith (Rutgers), James Wescoat (Colorado), Iris Marion Young (Pittsburgh).
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Convergence: Culture and Policy in the Digital Age Conference
18-20 November 1998
Brisbane, Australia
http://www.gu.edu.au/gwis/akccmp/Convergence_conf.html
*Convergence* is a conference about the convergence of technologies, communications systems and content, of broadcasting and collecting institutions, of temporal and interactive media, of practices and art forms, of industry and culture and of policy domains - culture, industry, information,
communications.
DRAFT PROGRAM (subject to change):
DAY ONE - WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 1998
8:00-8:45 am Registration
8:45-10:00 am Conference Opening and Keynote Address
Regulating for Convergence
Richard Collins
Head of Education, British Film Institute
10:00-10:30 am Morning Tea
10:30am-12:00pm Focus Session
Australia's Cultural Network and Other Federal Government Online Cultural Initiatives
John Cook
New Media Section, Department of Communications and the Arts
Australian Indigenous Cultural Network
Djon Mundine
Steering Committee member, Australian Indigenous Cultural Network and Senior Curator, The Gallery of Aboriginal Australia, National Museum of Australia
12:00-1:00pm Keynote Address
Cathy Robinson
Chief Executive, Australian Film Commission
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
2:00-3:30pm Focus Session
Radio and TV in the Digital (Mir)age
Debra Richards
Executive Director, Australian Subscription Television and Radio Association (ASTRA)
Converging Signals: Digital Radio and Program Associated Data Bruce Berryman
Radio 3RRR Broadcaster and RMIT Lecturer
3:30-4:00pm Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:00pm Keynote Address
Disney and Convergence
Janet Wasko
University of Oregon
DAY TWO - THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 1998
8:00-8:45 am Registration
8:45am-11:00am Focus Session
Copyright Reform for the Digital Environment Kylie Browne and Nick Smith
Intellectual Property Branch, Department of Communications and the Arts
The PAML Pilot Project: A Case Study in Copyright and Intellectual Property
Helen Simondson, PAML Project Officer, Cinemedia and Kay Daniels, Intellectual Property Branch, Department of Communications and the Arts
11:00-11:30 am Morning Tea
11:30-12:30pm Keynote Address
Digital Tools for a Convergent Culture: Policy and Practice John Rimmer
Chair, Australia Council's New Media Arts Fund
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30-3:00pm Focus Session
The Chucker, Ma'am and the Man in the Moon: Digital Broadcasting and Shared Experience
Jock Given
Director, Communications Law Centre
Towards a Galaxy Not so Far Away: Planning for Convergence Geoff Heriot
General Manager, Corporate Strategy, ABC
3:00-4:00pm Keynote Address
The Survival of Music Copyright: The Challenge to the Established Principles of Reciprocity and Solidarity Roger Wallis
Director, City University Multimedia Research Group, London
4:00-4:30pm Afternoon Tea
4:30-6:00pm Focus Session
Global Arts Link
Louise Denoon
Director, Global Arts Link Ipswich
Forget the Technologies: Let's Talk Convergence Colin Mercer
Comedia, UK
7:30pm Conference Dinner - Green Papaya North Vietnamese restaurant
Dinner speaker
Mark Latham (to be confirmed)
DAY THREE - FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 1998
8:00-8:30 am Registration
8:30-10:00 am Focus Session
Audience Development Strategies in New Media Environments Patricia Gillard
ACT Manager, Roy Morgan Research
New Modes for a Digital Age? The Future of Libraries as Public Goods Eric Wainwright
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Support) and Rector, James Cook University
10:00-10:30 am Morning Tea
10:30am-12:00pm Focus Session
The Need for International Cooperation on Broadcasting and Online Content Issues
Gareth Grainger
Deputy Chairman, Australian Broadcasting Authority
Regulating the Content of Television in the Digital Age Christina Spurgeon, Lecturer, Southern Cross University and Sally Stockbridge, Senior Classification Officer, Network TEN
12:00-1:00pm Keynote Address
Ian Delaney
ATSIC Commissioner for Arts, Broadcasting and the Environment
1:00-2:00pm Lunch
Launch of Media International Australia inc Culture and Policy and subscription giveaways
2:00-3:30pm Focus Session
SUNSCREEN: Production and Screen Culture in a Global Convergence Environment (A Queensland Perspective)
Ian Gray
General Manager, Production and Industry Development, Pacific Film and Television Commission
Knowing the Processes but not the Outcomes: Australian Cinema Faces the Millennium
Tom O'Regan
Director, Centre for Research in Culture and Communication, Murdoch University
3:30-4:00pm Afternoon Tea
4:00-5:00pm Keynote Conclusion
Verging on Convergence
Stuart Cunningham
Head, School of Media and Journalism, QUT
5:15pm Conference Close
For a conference registration form, email [log in to unmask] or go to the Convergence website.
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DRIVE
I would like to invite you to attend the opening of an exhibition of moving-image studies for DRIVE. These studies refer to the project I am working on with Peter Weibel for the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum in Graz. The date is Thursday, 22 October, from 6-8 pm at Sandra Gering Gallery, 476 Broome Street, New York (tel 212 226-8195). There will be machine-image modules, and rushes that you can strap on.
DRIVE emphasizes movement and the operative quality of rhythm. It explores the representation, internalization, and enaction of movement, as this movement is inextricably bound up in technological capacities and imperatives. At its core is the format of the 'moving image,' both in terms of cinema--the set of conventions through which the world of movement has come to be represented--and in terms of computerized information systems. In these latter terms, movement is represented by way of its processing through the mechanisms of the database. The format of the database floats above the cinematic image-field, combining with it to generate a new kind of moving image. Harnessed to new technological assemblages and driven by processing imperatives, such 'machine-images' do not so much represent movements as track them. Informed by the organizational paradigm of the database, tracking provides an 'improved,' more productive and efficient form of seeing. Providing the conditions through which images are viewed and through which images see, it protects one--informationally and corporeally--from an 'outside' unprocessed reality that is increasingly constituted as dangerous.
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Highlights Of The 1998 Virginia Film Festival
The 11th annual Virginia Film Festival will be held in Charlottesville from October 29 through November 1, 1998. The theme of this year's event is 'Cool.' Through the screening and discussion of over seventy classic and premiere films, the Festival will explore aspects of jazz and the mystique of 'coolness.' The complete program is available at http://www.virginia.edu/~vafilm
*Eminent Authors and Critics Participating in Panels and Discussions
Discussion reigns at the Virginia Film Festival, the only film festival where speakers outnumber films. The scholars and critics brought to the annual University of Virginia-sponsored event are public intellectuals who illuminate the Festival's movies and theme. Among the eminent scholars attending this year are ROBERT FARRIS THOMPSON, the Yale art historian who is well known for his explorations of African arts aesthetic of the cool. THOMAS FRANK is the editor of The Baffler and its anthology, Commodify Your Dissent! as well as the new study of Madison Avenues appropriation of countercultures, The Conquest of Cool. B. RUBY RICH is a leading feminist film critic whose new collection of essays, Chick Flicks, is being published this fall by Duke University Press. RAY CARNEY is the pre-eminent authority on Beat cinema and the films of John Cassavetes, as well as the director of the Film Studies Program at Boston University.
*Actors Studio Tribute
On opening night, October 29, ARTHUR PENN, director of such classics as Bonnie and Clyde and Little Big Man and currently the President of the Actors Studio, will be joined by Studio alumnus RIP TORN, one of Americas most accomplished actors, for a special 50th anniversary tribute to the Actors Studio. Penn and Torn will attend the TNT and DirecTV-sponsored Opening Night Gala at the Bayly Art Museum, the opening night screening of Penns 1959 film Mickey One and a post-film discussion on The Actors Studio and Film Acting, moderated by Roger Ebert and sponsored by Bravo and Adelphia. At 10:00pm in Culbreth Theatre, Rip Torn will return to introduce the 70s American classic Payday in which he gives a complex rendition of a country-and-western star on the skids.
* Beat Generation Artists
Art, music, poetry, photography, filmmaking: the Beat movement in the 1950s and 60s had an impact on virtually every major art form. The Virginia Film Festival is celebrating this creative period in the American arts by co-hosting an exciting series of performances and events with the Bayly Art Museum. The centerpiece of these programs will be 'Glory Days: The Beat Generation Photographs of Fred W. McDarrah,' a Bayly Museum exhibit that will run from Oct. 2 through Dec. 23. Additionally, a special Beat Generation Reunion on Oct. 31 will bring together three of the most important Beat Generation artists, composer DAVID AMRAM and poets ED SANDERS and DIANE DI PRIMA, in a live performance melding poetry, jazz, and film. These artists will be joined by the Beat-influenced avant-garde filmmakers KEN JACOBS and CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN, whose work will be featured during the Film Festival, in an Oct. 31 panel discussion on The Art of Spontaneity.
*Roger Ebert selects Antonioni's Blowup for Festival workshop Film critic ROGER EBERT will return to the Virginia Film Festival to apply his remarkable teaching skills to Michelangelo Antonioni's '60s masterpiece Blowup, during this year's Regal Shot-by-Shot Film Workshop. Mr. Ebert's workshops have been dubbed 'democracy in the dark,' since he solicits active audience participation in the interpretation of film classics. This metaphysical mystery, starring David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave, will be explored over three two-hour sessions: Friday, October 30, 4:00-6:00pm, and Saturday, October 31 and Sunday, November 1 from 10:00am to noon.
*Independent Filmmakers Featured
The 1998 Festival theme, Cool, will include a special focus on the topic Filming Rebel Women/Rebel Women Filming, with featured filmmakers SADIE BENNING (screening Flat is Beautiful), LYNN HERSHMAN (Conceiving Ada), Carolee Schneemann (Fuses) and SHERRIE ROSE AND MELISSA BEHR (Me and Will). A panel discussion on this topic will be moderated by feminist critic B. Ruby Rich on Sunday, November 1, 11am at Newcomb Theatre. Additional indie filmmakers attending include TOM MUSCA (screenwriter, Stand and Deliver) with his new feature, Melting Pot, SPENCER NAKASAKO with Kelly Loves Tony, and directors ADAM JOYCE and LARRY FISHMAN accompanying short films on the program Hipsters, Slackers and Mad Artists. TIM AND DAPHNE MAXWELL REID will present two episodes from their Showtime series, Linc's. Also included in the Festival lineup are Bruce McDonalds Hard Core Logo, Iara Lees Modulations, Richard LaGraveneses Living Out Loud, Lance Mungias Six String Samurai, and Penelope Spheeris The Decline of Western Civilization III.
*Classics Highlighted by A Chaplin Evening with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra
The 1998 Virginia Film Festival will present over thirty classic films demonstrating the many ways films construct images of cool, with a special focus on the use of jazz underscoring to create a cool ambience. One featured event will demonstrate the earliest instance of jazz scoring the use of ragtime music to accompany silent films. THE PARAGON RAGTIME ORCHESTRA, a twelve-piece orchestra from New York headed by Rick Benjamin, will accompany A Charlie Chaplin Evening on Friday, October 30 at 7pm in Culbreth Theatre. Additional classic film highlights in the Festival program include Mickey One and Alices Restaurant accompanied by director Arthur Penn, The Manchurian Candidate with composer David Amram, a blaxploitation double feature of Superfly and Foxy Brown, Jean-Pierre Melvilles Le Samourai, and the pre-release version of The Big Sleep.
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Richard Herskowitz
Director, Virginia Film Festival
Dept. of Drama, 109 Culbreth Rd.
Charlottesville, VA 22903-2446
804-982-5326/804-924-1447 (fax)
http://www.virginia.edu/~vafilm
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PMC Call For Reviews -- Deadline November 9
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_Postmodern Culture_ is looking for reviews of recent books, films, CDs, plays, TV shows, concerts, sporting events, performances, exhibitions, conferences and conventions, happenings, and so forth, for the January 1999 issue. Reviews should be approximately 2000-3500 words long, and should follow the journal's format guidelines below.
The deadline for submissions is 9 November. A selection will be made at that time. All correspondence will be answered and all submissions will be given careful consideration.
Send reviews and queries to Paula Geyh, the review editor at [log in to unmask], not to the _PMC_ offices. If e-mailing reviews, make sure the document is not encoded, and that it has been stripped of all word-processing codes (i.e, saved as ASCII or DOS text).
Submissions can also be sent on floppy disk to Paula Geyh at the Department of English, Faner Hall, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901.
All submissions should follow the format guidelines detailed below.
FORMAT GUIDELINES FOR _PMC_ REVIEWS
You can save us a good deal of work by following these guidelines:
Reviews should generally run between 2000 and 3500 words, or about 8-14 ordinary manuscript pages.
Set margins to half-inch left, two-inch right, and set your font to Courier 10cpi (or any 10cpi, non-proportional font). This is very important, as it prevents too many characters on a line.
Put a title at the top of the first page, and under it your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address. Center these lines.
Number all paragraphs of your text with bracketed numbers. These bracketed numbers should be margin-released into the left-hand margin (this will place them at the 0' spot on the line).
Indent (to 1') the first line of each pargraph and all lines of set- off quotations.
Single-space the document throughout.
Use _this_ for underlining titles, *this* for bold print or emphasis, %this% for foreign words, and ^this^ for superscript.
Footnotes, if any, should follow MLA format.
Page references in the text, if any, should not be preceded by p., pp., or any other notation; use just the page number itself.
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Trent University Graduate Program in
Methodologies for the Study of History and Culture
and
Canadian Society for Hermeneutics and Postmodern Thought
Rhizomatics, Genealogy, Deconstruction
*May 20 - 23, 1999*, Trent University
Keynote Speakers
Rosi Braidotti Peter Dews Paul Rabinow
Utrecht University University of Essex Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposals are invited for papers addressing, in a comparative manner, the implications that the work of Deleuze, Foucault and
Derrida carries for philosophy, politics, the human sciences,
literature and the arts.
E-mail or send three copies of abstracts (200-300 words) of
proposed papers
*by November 30, 1998*
to either of the conference co-organizers:
Constantin V. Boundas David Morris
Department of Philosophy Department of Philosophy
Trent University Trent University
Peterborough, ON Peterborough, ON
Canada K9J 7B8 Canada K9J 7B8
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