Fall 2013 Faculty and Instructors: Please e-mail amstdy@umn.edu by Monday, October 21st to let us know if you WILL or WILL NOT be using your classroom during finals week. We need to notify the Office of Classroom Management of all course levels, so please be sure to include both your graduate and undergraduate level courses. If you are unsure of when your final is to be held, click here to check the schedule.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Looking for Tutors
The Rock Star Supply Co. is looking for dedicated and inspirational tutors. Tutors commit to 90 minutes a week for the semester. They currently have the highest need for volunteers for Fridays. Tutors will go into a high school class and assist a teacher. Please email Robert at smit7169@umn.edu or Ariel at Ariel@rockstarsupplyco.org for more information.
The Radical History Review Seeks Proposals
The Radical History Review seeks proposals for their upcoming special issue that will contemplate the empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects. It will combine transhistorical, transregional, and local-level case studies to provide macro-level perspective on the work of sexuality in imperial processes. Abstracts no longer than 300 words are due by February 1, 2014.
This special issue will contemplate empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects. Contributions from across several disciplines will reconsider the history of sex and (or in) empire, critically engaging scholars' recounting of those pasts in recent decades. From steam ships to steam rooms and sweat lodges to sweat shops, processes of pleasures and desire shaped the regulation and classification of bodies. On beaches, in boardrooms, from temples to taverns, sexual practices have always shaped imperial power relations. And in the many places and relationships where colonialism still shapes economics (slavery, debt peonage, underemployment, and their legacies), sex and sexuality remain a driving--if sometimes compounding or hidden--force in power relations.
A feminist point of departure for investigation of these processes as both economic and cultural, Anne McClintock's 1995Imperial Leather argued that there are three key areas to which scholars of empire should attend: "intimate relations between imperial power and resistance; money and sexuality; race and gender" (5). Nearly two decades later, Nayan Shah's work inStranger Intimacy on mass migration, male intimacy, and state desires for gendered order tracks "struggles over companionship, domesticity, and public life" as these pertained to contested notions of legitimacy in tenancy, property-holding, work, citizenship, and the tenure of capital (3). Shah demonstrates how economic empires in North America were built and brokered through "strange" ethnic and gendered intimacies; how these very intimacies were treated as threats to race and sex hierarchies deemed essential to national viability; how money and sexuality determined individual and collective fates; and how intimate practices blurred the distinctions between imperial subjects and imperial subjection.
Given the direction historical scholarship has taken at the crossroads of sexuality and empire--and given the broad historiographical space between Anne McClintock and Nayan Shah--what kind of questions is it now possible to ask? How do we speak across disciplinary, regional, temporal, national, methodological boundaries? Can we determine a "state of the field" in histories of empire and sexuality--and how might such a determination help us reassess local, regional, national, and transnational phenomena?
We use the gerund form--"Sexing Empire"--to indicate fluidity and continuity in the relationships between sex and imperialism, across traditional periodizations and geographies. Moreover, we wish to invite essays that speak to the sexual violence of empire--a violence implicated in a second, unspoken gerundic phrase: "fucking empire." This phrase serves as a double-edged point of departure, suggesting the ways in which imperial fuckings could simultaneously facilitate, incarnate, and/or destabilize uneven power relations, as--for example--imperialist states sought to fuck and be fucked by their colonized subjects. One need only look at how ancient armies like those of Alexander the Great, who through conscription or voluntary service displaced masses of men, sometimes resulting in rape and intermarriage as a tactic of conquest and/or empire. Such intermarriage and sexual violence were official policy, making notions of diaspora complex and necessary to the expansion of empires, ancient and contemporary. Given the experimental format that RHR offers, we wish to include traditional academic essays, visual images, and activist perspectives on, about, and against "Fucking Empire."
This special issue will combine transhistorical, transregional, and local-level case studies to provide macro-level perspective on the work of sexuality in imperial processes. In the various iterations of empires and colonial formations, how can we account for the technologies of desire? How does settler colonialism, as a transhistorical phenomenon, create categories of rapability, expendability, and social death as forms of sexualized violence? How have historical actors mobilized on behalf of the state or against the state based on politics of sexuality and/or conquest? Can we revisit the historicization of the contact zone as a site from which to study sexuality and sex? How might we track the physical, embodied, or affective symptoms of empire across time and space? We seek innovative case studies that answer these questions from a variety of disciplinary, periodic, regional, national, and transnational perspectives. Themes we wish to consider include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Colonial imaginaries, representations, voyeurism/surveillance, and fantasies of sex and race
• Diasporic convergences and continuities in sexuality, sexual identity, religion, and gender (Southeast Asian, African, Armenian, Indigenous/First Nations, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Latino/a, etc.)
• Queer formations, communities, migration, and diasporas
• Sex and economic exchange or sexuality grounded in material realities
• The violence and pleasure of racialized erotics
• Pleasure, play, and the erotics of domestic space and communal space
• Enslaved sexualities and kinships
• Carceral spaces and the erotics of punishment and violence
• Empire producing ecstasies, erotics and the religious
• The erotics of tourism and travel
• Sexual publics and counter-publics in the Americas
• Pornographies of Empire
• Cultural Productions and Media representations of sexualized empire
• Colonial regimes of sexual hygiene and health policy
Procedures for submission of articles: At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 300 words; these are due by February 1, 2014 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 123 submission" in the subject line. By March 15, 2014, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article to undergo the peer review process. The due date for completed drafts of articles is July 1, 2014. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication; publication depends on the peer review process and the overall shape the journal issue will take.
Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), and secure written permission to reprint all images, meeting all minimum requirements set by Duke University Press for images.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 123 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall/Winter, 2015.
For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include "Issue 123" in the subject line.
This special issue will contemplate empire as a global process involving sexualized subjects and objects. Contributions from across several disciplines will reconsider the history of sex and (or in) empire, critically engaging scholars' recounting of those pasts in recent decades. From steam ships to steam rooms and sweat lodges to sweat shops, processes of pleasures and desire shaped the regulation and classification of bodies. On beaches, in boardrooms, from temples to taverns, sexual practices have always shaped imperial power relations. And in the many places and relationships where colonialism still shapes economics (slavery, debt peonage, underemployment, and their legacies), sex and sexuality remain a driving--if sometimes compounding or hidden--force in power relations.
A feminist point of departure for investigation of these processes as both economic and cultural, Anne McClintock's 1995Imperial Leather argued that there are three key areas to which scholars of empire should attend: "intimate relations between imperial power and resistance; money and sexuality; race and gender" (5). Nearly two decades later, Nayan Shah's work inStranger Intimacy on mass migration, male intimacy, and state desires for gendered order tracks "struggles over companionship, domesticity, and public life" as these pertained to contested notions of legitimacy in tenancy, property-holding, work, citizenship, and the tenure of capital (3). Shah demonstrates how economic empires in North America were built and brokered through "strange" ethnic and gendered intimacies; how these very intimacies were treated as threats to race and sex hierarchies deemed essential to national viability; how money and sexuality determined individual and collective fates; and how intimate practices blurred the distinctions between imperial subjects and imperial subjection.
Given the direction historical scholarship has taken at the crossroads of sexuality and empire--and given the broad historiographical space between Anne McClintock and Nayan Shah--what kind of questions is it now possible to ask? How do we speak across disciplinary, regional, temporal, national, methodological boundaries? Can we determine a "state of the field" in histories of empire and sexuality--and how might such a determination help us reassess local, regional, national, and transnational phenomena?
We use the gerund form--"Sexing Empire"--to indicate fluidity and continuity in the relationships between sex and imperialism, across traditional periodizations and geographies. Moreover, we wish to invite essays that speak to the sexual violence of empire--a violence implicated in a second, unspoken gerundic phrase: "fucking empire." This phrase serves as a double-edged point of departure, suggesting the ways in which imperial fuckings could simultaneously facilitate, incarnate, and/or destabilize uneven power relations, as--for example--imperialist states sought to fuck and be fucked by their colonized subjects. One need only look at how ancient armies like those of Alexander the Great, who through conscription or voluntary service displaced masses of men, sometimes resulting in rape and intermarriage as a tactic of conquest and/or empire. Such intermarriage and sexual violence were official policy, making notions of diaspora complex and necessary to the expansion of empires, ancient and contemporary. Given the experimental format that RHR offers, we wish to include traditional academic essays, visual images, and activist perspectives on, about, and against "Fucking Empire."
This special issue will combine transhistorical, transregional, and local-level case studies to provide macro-level perspective on the work of sexuality in imperial processes. In the various iterations of empires and colonial formations, how can we account for the technologies of desire? How does settler colonialism, as a transhistorical phenomenon, create categories of rapability, expendability, and social death as forms of sexualized violence? How have historical actors mobilized on behalf of the state or against the state based on politics of sexuality and/or conquest? Can we revisit the historicization of the contact zone as a site from which to study sexuality and sex? How might we track the physical, embodied, or affective symptoms of empire across time and space? We seek innovative case studies that answer these questions from a variety of disciplinary, periodic, regional, national, and transnational perspectives. Themes we wish to consider include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Colonial imaginaries, representations, voyeurism/surveillance, and fantasies of sex and race
• Diasporic convergences and continuities in sexuality, sexual identity, religion, and gender (Southeast Asian, African, Armenian, Indigenous/First Nations, Middle Eastern, Jewish, Latino/a, etc.)
• Queer formations, communities, migration, and diasporas
• Sex and economic exchange or sexuality grounded in material realities
• The violence and pleasure of racialized erotics
• Pleasure, play, and the erotics of domestic space and communal space
• Enslaved sexualities and kinships
• Carceral spaces and the erotics of punishment and violence
• Empire producing ecstasies, erotics and the religious
• The erotics of tourism and travel
• Sexual publics and counter-publics in the Americas
• Pornographies of Empire
• Cultural Productions and Media representations of sexualized empire
• Colonial regimes of sexual hygiene and health policy
Procedures for submission of articles: At this time we are requesting abstracts that are no longer than 300 words; these are due by February 1, 2014 and should be submitted electronically as an attachment to contactrhr@gmail.com with "Issue 123 submission" in the subject line. By March 15, 2014, authors will be notified whether they should submit a full version of their article to undergo the peer review process. The due date for completed drafts of articles is July 1, 2014. An invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication; publication depends on the peer review process and the overall shape the journal issue will take.
Please send any images as low-resolution digital files embedded in a Word document along with the text. If chosen for publication, you will need to send high-resolution image files (jpg or tif files at a minimum of 300 dpi), and secure written permission to reprint all images, meeting all minimum requirements set by Duke University Press for images.
Those articles selected for publication after the peer review process will be included in issue 123 of Radical History Review, scheduled to appear in Fall/Winter, 2015.
For preliminary e-mail inquiries, please include "Issue 123" in the subject line.
12th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media in Athens, Greece
The Athens Institute for Education and Research organizes its 12th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media on May 12-15 2014 in Athens, Greece. Please submit an abstract by October 14th 2013.
The conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/media.htm.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Communications, Mass Media and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair of a session or observer. Past conferences drew participants from five continents and more than 50 countries, presenting papers on diverse topics such as political communication, EU enlargement, Website design, cross-media ownership, war correspondence, cultural studies, film, public relations, telecommunication policy, advertising, agenda setting, juvenile audience preferences, and cross-national communication, among others. For programs of previous conferences and other information, please visit the conference website: www.atiner.gr/media.htm.
The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/SOC-MED.htm.
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-MED.doc by the 14 October 2013 to: Yorgo Pasadeos, Professor of the University of Alabama and Head of the Mass Media & Communication Research Unit, Athens Institute for Education and Research, ATINER.Abstracts should include the following: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address, and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.
If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a panel (session, mini conference), chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER (gtp@atiner.gr).
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 250 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.
The conference website is: http://www.atiner.gr/media.htm.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of Communications, Mass Media and other related disciplines. You may participate as panel organizer, presenter of one paper, chair of a session or observer. Past conferences drew participants from five continents and more than 50 countries, presenting papers on diverse topics such as political communication, EU enlargement, Website design, cross-media ownership, war correspondence, cultural studies, film, public relations, telecommunication policy, advertising, agenda setting, juvenile audience preferences, and cross-national communication, among others. For programs of previous conferences and other information, please visit the conference website: www.atiner.gr/media.htm.
The registration fee is €300 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with a local luxury hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of social events will be organized: A Greek night of entertainment with dinner, a special one-day cruise in the Greek islands, an archaeological tour of Athens and a one-day visit to Delphi. Details of the social program are available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/SOC-MED.htm.
Please submit an abstract (email only) to: atiner@atiner.gr, using the abstract submission form available at http://www.atiner.gr/2014/FORM-MED.doc by the 14 October 2013 to: Yorgo Pasadeos, Professor of the University of Alabama and Head of the Mass Media & Communication Research Unit, Athens Institute for Education and Research, ATINER.Abstracts should include the following: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an email address, and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions are reached within 4 weeks.
If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. organize a panel (session, mini conference), chair a session, review papers to be included in the conference proceedings or books, contribute to the editing of a book, or any other contribution, please send an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER (gtp@atiner.gr).
The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER) was established in 1995 as an independent academic association with the mission to become a forum, where academics and researchers - from all over the world - could meet in Athens to exchange ideas on their research and to discuss future developments in their disciplines. Since 1995, ATINER has organized more than 250 international conferences, symposiums and events. It has also published approximately 150 books. Academically, the Institute consists of five Research Divisions and twenty-three Research Units. Each Research Unit organizes an annual conference and undertakes various small and large research projects. Academics and researchers are more than welcome to become members and contribute to ATINER's objectives. The members of the Institute can undertake a number of academic activities. If you want to become a member, please download the form (membership form). For more information or suggestions, please send an email to: info@atiner.gr.
Third Year Students' Written Preliminary Portfolio Exam Materials
3rd year students: the fall semester date on which Written Preliminary Portfolio Exam materials are accepted by the department is Friday, November 1st at 12:00pm, noon. If you are planning to submit your portfolio exam materials for this semester, contact amstdy@umn.edu regarding your intent to submit on November 1st and to confirm the members of your examination committee.
Political Theory Colloquium hosts the first of their grad student-led reading groups
The Political Theory Colloquium will host the first of their grad student-led reading groups Friday, October 4th in Lippincott--social science 1314 from 1:30-3:00. Their discussion this week will focus on settler colonialism and the dynamics of settler-Indigenous conflict within our broader thematic of "disordering empire." David Temin will open up the meeting and conversation.
The discussion this week will focus on settler colonialism and the dynamics of settler-Indigenous conflict within our broader thematic of "disordering empire." They will be reading the below texts as a way of guiding the conversation, so for those who plan to attend, please have these read by the meeting.
David Temin will open up the meeting and conversation with a few brief remarks on settler colonialism as a framework for investigating different imperial-settler sites and the diverse set of questions such a lens helps us to raise about power, Indigeneity, empire, democracy, and decolonization. Then we'll focus our discussion on the following texts suggested by Adam Dahl on settler colonialism in New Zealand:
The Treaty of Waitangi: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/treaty/read-the-treaty/english-text. Please read the treaty, as well as the following sketch of the differences between the Maori and English versions of the treaty: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/treaty/read-the-Treaty/differences-between-the-texts
JGA Pocock, "Law, Sovereignty, and History in a Divided Culture: The Case of New Zealand and The Treaty of Waitangi" from The Discovery of Islands (please find attached)
J._G._A._Pocock_The_Discovery_of_Islands__2005.pdf
They look forward to a productive discussion as we kick off their reading groups this semester and continue our conversation about empire.
As usual, fresh-brewed coffee will be served.
The discussion this week will focus on settler colonialism and the dynamics of settler-Indigenous conflict within our broader thematic of "disordering empire." They will be reading the below texts as a way of guiding the conversation, so for those who plan to attend, please have these read by the meeting.
David Temin will open up the meeting and conversation with a few brief remarks on settler colonialism as a framework for investigating different imperial-settler sites and the diverse set of questions such a lens helps us to raise about power, Indigeneity, empire, democracy, and decolonization. Then we'll focus our discussion on the following texts suggested by Adam Dahl on settler colonialism in New Zealand:
The Treaty of Waitangi: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/treaty/read-the-treaty/english-text. Please read the treaty, as well as the following sketch of the differences between the Maori and English versions of the treaty: http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/politics/treaty/read-the-Treaty/differences-between-the-texts
JGA Pocock, "Law, Sovereignty, and History in a Divided Culture: The Case of New Zealand and The Treaty of Waitangi" from The Discovery of Islands (please find attached)
J._G._A._Pocock_The_Discovery_of_Islands__2005.pdf
They look forward to a productive discussion as we kick off their reading groups this semester and continue our conversation about empire.
As usual, fresh-brewed coffee will be served.
Coffee Hour with Professor John Borrows
The Department of Geography, Environment and Society is hosting a Coffee Hour on Friday, October 4th at 3:30 in room 445 Blegen Hall. Professor John Borrows, the Robina Chair in Law, Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School, will give a talk titled "Mobility and Indigenous Peoples."
Complimentary refreshments and coffee will be served at 3:15.
Abstract:
Mobility has often been used to undermine Indigenous peoples' rights. Indigenous peoples, are denied rights if they move too frequently. Conversely, if they move too little - others still diminish their rights. In most legal systems Indigenous peoples are characterized as either being too nomadic or too static to protect their most significant relationships. Thus, mobility should be of special concern for Indigenous peoples. Its negative characterizations and consequences undermine the very foundations of Indigenous peoples' ability to sustain themselves in the world. This talk discusses the implications of the negative characterizations of Indigenous mobility in law and policy.
Complimentary refreshments and coffee will be served at 3:15.
Abstract:
Mobility has often been used to undermine Indigenous peoples' rights. Indigenous peoples, are denied rights if they move too frequently. Conversely, if they move too little - others still diminish their rights. In most legal systems Indigenous peoples are characterized as either being too nomadic or too static to protect their most significant relationships. Thus, mobility should be of special concern for Indigenous peoples. Its negative characterizations and consequences undermine the very foundations of Indigenous peoples' ability to sustain themselves in the world. This talk discusses the implications of the negative characterizations of Indigenous mobility in law and policy.
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