Tentative schedule for the ‘Political Popular” conference at UC Irvine has been posted. For the CFP, see earlier post here.
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Advanced oral history summer institute, UC Berkeley
ADVANCED ORAL HISTORY SUMMER INSTITUTE
REGIONAL ORAL HISTORY OFFICE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
AUGUST 13 – 17, 2012
The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) at the University of California, Berkeley, is offering a one-week advanced institute on the methodology, theory, and practice of oral/video history. This will take place at The Bancroft Library on the Berkeley campus from August 13 – 17, 2012. The cost of the five-day institute is $950.
Designed for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, college faculty using oral history interviews as part of a research project, the institute is also open to museum, institution and community-based historians engaged in oral history work. The goal of the institute is to strengthen the ability of its participants to conduct research-focused interviews and consider the special characteristics of interviews as historical evidence in a rigorous academic environment.
Further information and online applications are available at http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ROHO/education/institute. Please contact Director Robin Li with any questions.
Postdoc in gender and work, York University, Canada
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gender and Work
The Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of Gender and Work, Political Science, Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies, York University is pleased to announce a competition for a Postdoctoral Fellowship, tenable at York University for the 2012 – 2013 academic year.
The Chair invites applications from scholars who have earned a doctorate in the Social Sciences and who have a research background in fields such gender & work, work & society, labour studies, or political economy. The Fellow’s research program will involve participating in the various projects directed by the Chair, such as the Global Employment Standards Database, and a research group on Employment Standards Enforcement. Experience using both qualitative and quantitative research methods would be an asset.
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CFP: Pentecostal Politics of Space and Power, Italy
Pentecostal Politics of Space and Power
A Global Perspective
June 7−8−9, 2012
University of Padova, Italy
Pentecostalism emerged on a global scale in the twentieth century as one of the most influential religious movements and the most important recent development in Christianity.
With its new styles of religious leadership, powerful communication strategies, and widespread urban proliferation, Pentecostalism is creating new social orders and religious spaces while reshaping cities into battlegrounds of spiritual warfare.Massive Pentecostal crusades and religious events are transforming the nature of contemporary religious experience in many parts of the world. With the power of their charisma, messages and promises of salvation, deliverance, healing, and prosperity, women and men pastors have been steadily gaining influence in social, urban, religious and political spheres and challenging the power of mainstream religions and governments.
The conference brings scholars from Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the US together for a comparative analysis of the social, aesthetic and religious impact of Pentecostalism on global cities and societies. Plenary speakers include some of the leading thinkers in these areas.
Conference Program and website: http://www.pentecostalaesthetics.net/
CFP: Except Asia: Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective
Intriguing…
International Conference
Conference Date: June 25 – 27, 2013
Organized by Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, with the participation of Institut d’Etudes Transtextuelles et Transculturelles, Universite Jean Moulin, Lyon, France
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Simone Bignall (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Joyce C. H. Liu (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)
Brett Neilson (University of West Sydney, Australia)
Mark Rifkin (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University, USA)
Marcelo Svirksy (University of Wollongong, Australia)
*Other speakers to be confirmed
Over the past several decades, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s work has attracted a growing amount of interest spanning a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, including philosophy, literary theory, political philosophy, migration studies, security studies, geography, social and cultural studies of science and medicine, etc. The increasing recognition accorded to Agamben’s oeuvres has more recently resulted in the beginning of a serious dialogue about the transcultural aspects of his work, particularly with regard to the epistemological legacy of colonization, state-building, and revolution in the non-Western world. This conference aims to explore the enormous transversal potential of Agamben’s work by staging its transdisciplinary and transcultural dimensions. It is open to non-specialists (specialization defined here in relation to both Asia and Agamben) from any discipline interested in the mix and mutation of Asia and Agamben as a platform for transcultural investigation.
