Television program intern for VPA

The College of Visual and Performing Art is developing a television program. Our program will air on WFWA PBS 39 and feature artists and representatives from the local arts community talking about upcoming arts events. The half-hour show will be conducted in an interview format similar to “The Charlie Rose Show, ” and will air between late August 2009 and May 2010. Each show will consist of two to three segments with different guests. Dean Chuck O’Connor will serve as moderator. Although the show will air every week, it will be taped every other week- two shows at a time.

We are looking for an intern for the following:

• Serve as the Assistant Producer on the show
• Pre-interview guests and write a series of questions to be asked on-air by the moderator
• Write the script and teleprompter text
• Obtain graphics, video, and information from guests that they would like to see on the screen.
• Be available on stage during taping

Our need is for someone who has some knowledge or interest in the arts.

For more information, contact oconnorc@ipfw.edu.

CFP: The Popular in Global Times

CALL FOR PAPERS

CLR Journal (Culture, Language and Representation), ISSN: 1697-7750, seeks contributions for its forthcoming volume to be published, May 2010, on the topic of

The Popular in Global Times

Articles are welcomed that engage with the role of popular culture and the politics of everyday life in shaping new and/or alternative life-styles and cultural spaces in the age of globalization.

Possible suggested topics would include, but are by no means reduced to:

-The phenomenon of narrativization as a powerful device in the establishing and development of the popular.
- Popular strategies of contention, appropriation and subversion regarding globalization.
-The current status of popular culture in relation to emerging digital cultures.
-The popular and youth cultures.
-The popular in the Media, Arts, education, literature, film, linguistics.

Both theoretical and case studies that explore the interface of popular culture and globalization are welcomed.

Please, send two hard copies and a WORD document of your contribution to:

Jose R. Prado (editor)
Dept. Estudis Anglesos
Campus Riu Sec
12071 Castellon
Spain

Articles should not exceed 6000 words; book reviews, 600-1200 words.

Deadline for submissions: 15 October, 2009

For any enquires regarding this Call for Papers, or related issues about the Journal, you may contact the Editors at prado@ang.uji.es

or access the Journal webpage at www.clr.uji.es

CLR is currently indexed in ISOC, Latindex, MLA, ABELL.
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White Before We Got Here CFP

TITLE: _White before We Got Here: Youth and the Hidden Curriculum of Whiteness_

EDITORS: Lisa Arrastia and Bill Ayers

DEADLINE: MONDAY 29 JUNE 2009

DESCRIPTION & SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Go to

SUBMIT WORK BY EMAIL ATTACHMENT TO: Lisa Arrastia <arras004@umn.edu>

We’re searching for essays, poetry, lyrics, and visual/performance/installation art by young women and men no older than 25 at the time of writing.

Submissions to our edited book may be creative non-fiction, personal essays; poetry; and all types of artwork. The only rule is that the work has to be yours and has to be original. By “original” we mean that the work you submit to us must be unpublished and not under consideration by another publication or media source.

Work submitted should demonstrate an attempt to examine how you see and experience whiteness in your life, and/or culture, community, city, town, nation. Some ideas you might consider in generating your piece:

• Discuss or show a time when whiteness kept you silent or made you holla back at the world!?
• Show or tell us how whiteness has marked you in some way.
• Identify a time when you remember being taught (in spoken or unspoken ways) cultural values and social norms that you would consider a part of whiteness. Allow us to see what happened and why you think you were being taught these norms and values? Who and what continue to teach you the practices of whiteness?
• Describe a time when you witnessed someone close to you benefiting from whiteness and what those benefits looked like and felt like in your life? What did they mean in the larger context of your life?
• What is the cost of whiteness to you? What are its limitations?
• What do you love about the cultural values and social norms of whiteness and what is difficult about those values and norms for you?
• Describe a time when you complied with the norms and values of whiteness, how you felt about doing so, and why you conformed?
• What does whiteness sound like to you; what does it feel like, look like, or smell like?
• If you could change whiteness, how would you alter it and why?
• If whiteness could talk, what would it say?
• In 100 years, what will whiteness be if anything?

*SUBMIT WORK TO LISA ARRASTIA at <arras004@umn.edu>.*

If you need help thinking about what to write, create, and/or you want to discuss and get help refining your ideas before you make a formal submission, *email Lisa* at <arras004@umn.edu>.

We’ll notify you of our decision as soon as we can. Note that all submissions not accepted for the book will be included on a web site, which will accompany the publication of the book.

We look forward to seeing your work!

Bill Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

Lisa Arrastía, University of Minnesota (arras004@umn.edu)
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Child Care Center Benefit Auction

THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND RETURNING ADULTS HAS TEAMED WITH THE IPFW CHILD CARE CENTER TO BRING YOU THE LAST (AND BEST) STUDENTS WITH FAMILIES EVENT
OF THE 2008-09 SCHOOL YEAR

A SILENT AUCTION TO BENEFIT CHILD CARE CENTER PROGRAMS AND THE MINI MASTODON ROMP –A CARNIVAL OF FUN FOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

FRIDAY, APRIL 24
6 TO 8 P.M.
WALB STUDENT UNION BALLROOM
(PIZZA HUT WILL SERVE DINNER BEGINNING AT 6 P.M.  – THE MEAL AND ALL ACTIVITIES ARE FREE FOR ALL IPFW STUDENTS AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILIES – BRING A STUDENT I.D.)

FOR RESERVATIONS, PLEASE CALL 481-6029 OR 481-6921.

Sponsored by the Center for Women and Returning Adults, Indiana Purdue Student Government Association and the IPFW Child Care Center

COMFEST Film Festival April 29

Hey everyone,
 
This year’s COMFEST will be held WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29th from 7pm-10pm in Neff 101. For those of you that don’t know what COMFEST is, it is the annual screening of selected student video projects for the school year. A faculty pannel will be screening the films to decide what will be shown. This semester’s “A Beautiful Night” is likely to be featured as well as selected footage from Film Club’s “Act One.”
 
****I am looking for someone with any sort of Graphic Design skills to make up a poster so we can print them off and start putting them around campus. Something simple with the name/date/time/place. Please let me know if anyone can do this….
 
****Also, we will need help setting up from 6pm-7pm on the night of the event…let me know if you are available then as well.
 
Thanks all…HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!

~Your friendly Film Club Officers~
ipfwfilm@yahoo.com

Call for Papers: Manufacturing Happiness (Graduate Student Conference)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Manufacturing Happiness: Investigating Subjectivity, Transformation, and Cultural Capital

The Graduate Students of George Mason University invite paper proposals for our 4th Annual Cultural Studies Conference. The Conference will take place on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

This conference considers practices, institutions, and products that promise happiness, in a sense of inducing “the good life,” typically expressed as self-realization or finding one’s purpose—borrowing Agamben’s term, subjective technologies that have a specific relationship to social and political forces. How do practices designed or claimed for such diverse purposes as personal stress management, recovering from colonization, parenting, global conglomeration, and corporate development work? What kinds of transformations do they bring, in terms of personality, power, and communitas? And what becomes of the living cultural traditions from which these practices are abstracted, as in the care of the psychotherapeutic practice of “western Buddhism,” which Zizek claims is the “hegemonic ideology par excellance of late capitalism?” From the transmission of packaged idealisms and practices with a putative relationship to traditional sources
to the commodified transactions for services and goods, the conference organizers seeks papers that investigate the growing cultural industries, both global and local, devoted to manufacturing happiness.

The wide-ranging contexts for our investigation include, but are not limited to: the social positions within the family, home, workplace, community, or nation-state; geographical and global considerations of institutional development and affiliation; the political economy of corporate training models; cultural capital and legitimation; media and mediation (print, television, DVD, Internet, radio, etc.); religious connections and origins; the confirmation and construction of identities (gender, physical, class, spiritual, national, sexual, and race) in social or political realms; and the rise and intensity of ecological subjectivities.

Examples:
•    Integral Institute, Integral Naked, and Ken Wilber
•    est Training
•    Shambhala Training
•    Eckhardt Tolle  and Oprah’s Book Club
•    Weight loss and Constructing Beauty
•    The “Human Potential” Movement
•    The Zen Alarm Clock
•    The Secret
•    Hollywood Kabballah  Centre
•    Transpersonal Psychology
•    The “Self-Help” Industry
•    Magazines such as What Is Enlightenment?

Please e-mail a 500-word abstract of your presentation along with a short CV to Michael Lecker (mlecker@gmu.edu) no later than June 15, 2009.
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Free Lecture and Workshop by Experimental Composer at Fort Wayne Museum of Art

Hello area faculty and staff,
We are pleased to announce a special visit from experimental composer Erik DeLuca from Miami, FL, in town for the National SEAMUS Conference at Sweetwater Sound the weekend of April 17th. See below for this extraordinary opportunity to see something a little different at the Museum, and we invite you to share this email with anyone you think might be interested–especially students!
 
Join composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist, Erik DeLuca, for a brief lecture on the history of phonographs and the mechanics of a record player at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.  The lecture will be followed by a workshop on how to build our own record players with homemade items such as pencils, sewing needles, paper, and tape.  Anyone who attends the workshop will be invited to perform their record player with DeLuca the next day at Sweetwater Sound on April 17th.  By performing, you will receive free admission to the national SEAMUS conference for that day.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about the art of electro-acoustic music.  Check out the SEAMUS conference schedule at http://seamus.sweetwater.com/schedule/
 
When/Where: Thursday, April 16th from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the auditorium at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

What: Free lecture and workshop – your attendance includes free admission to SEAMUS Conference at Sweetwater on April 17 AND optional performance with Erik DeLuca: Friday, April 17th from 1-4 p.m at Sweetwater Sound
 
Please RSVP to Megan Mirro at mirro@fwmoa.org or call 260-422-6467 Ext. 347 no later than Wednesday, April 15th at 3:00 p.m.  We only have space for the first 100 people to RSVP.
 
“Creatively, Erik DeLuca is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist who is currently based in Miami, Florida. He writes electro-acoustic music, presents installations and regularly improvises using live electronics.  DeLuca is currently finishing his Masters in Music from Florida International University, where he is researching underwater acoustics, funded by a Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Grant, for the creation of a new sound installation, The Deep Seascape: the Sonic Sea.”
 
Discover more about Erik at:
 
www.erikdeluca.com
 
Thank you!
 
 
Amanda Martin
Curator of Adult Programs
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
311 E. Main St
Fort Wayne, IN 46802
(260) 422-6467 ext. 322

Diversity Showcase

We’d like to remind you about the Diversity Showcase, which will take place in the Walb Ballroom this Thursday, April 9, from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm.  IPFW faculty, staff, and students will be showcasing their myriad and multifaceted efforts to infuse diversity into the work and life of the university.  Please stop by and encourage your students to stop by as well.  You will find it both educational and inspiring!

Pat Ashton and Rose Costello
Diversity Council Co-Chairs

CFP: Grad Student Conference

Please Join us at the University of Toronto on May 8 and 9, 2009 for a two-day conference aimed at the study of the human body.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 20.

Now in its sixth year, the Graduate Research Conference is designed to bring together graduate students to share their research in a positive environment and to engage with other students and ideas from across the many disciplines that comprise studies in sport, health and physical activity. We welcome students from cultural studies, nursing, motor control, education, sociology, kinesiology, physiology, nutrition, sexual diversity studies and many others.

Students can present research ‘in progress’, test out ideas for a thesis or dissertation proposal, make a dry run of a future conference paper or present original research.

Please send a 200 word abstract, including your name and affiliation to conference.exs@utoronto.ca by APRIL 20, 2009

Keynote Addresses will be delivered by Ann Peel and Dr. Simon Darnell

Ann Peel is a former international class racewalker who competed for Canada in the 80’s.  Early in her career she became an advocate for athletes and for women’s full participation in sport. With Bruce Kidd she led a successful international campaign for the inclusion of the women’s racewalk in international competitions, and co-founded Athletes CAN in 1991.  She now works with young athletes to educate them about the conditions under which they play sports, coaches, and celebrates her children’s achievements. She is the Director of the Institute at Havergal College.

Simon C. Darnell is a graduate of the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto and currently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of International Development Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax. His doctoral research focused on the experiences of young Canadians serving as volunteer interns within the Sport for Development and Peace movement. In previous research, he has examined the marketing and media coverage of celebrity Olympic athletes in Canada. His current project explores how and where sport fits into the macro-politics of international development since World War II. His work has appeared in Sport in Society, the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and the Canadian Journal of Communications

For more information email conference.exs@utoronto.ca
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Grad Students Needed for IPFW Photo Shoot

This is from University Relations.  If you are interested, please send me your name and preferred email address no later than T 14 April so that I can forward this information on to Marketing.

I am looking for 15-20 students to be featured in a television commercial for IPFW graduate programs. If you would submit some names and email addresses to me, I’ll contact the students to see who can be available [once I know the date of the photo shoot]. I’ll submit photos and heights to the producer/director who will choose five. The students they are looking for should represent a variety of heights, hair color, ethnicity, gender; they should be clean-cut, engaging, and represent IPFW in a positive light. They will only be photographed standing as a group, i.e., no speaking parts. Please submit names to me no later than next Wednesday, April 15th.
 
Thank you for your consideration and assistance. I really appreciate your help.
NJ
 
Director of Marketing
University Relations and Communications
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499
 
Support Services Building, Room 125
260-481-6710