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Help "Wipout" Intellectual Property: A Counter-Essay Contest
WIPOUT, the international intellectual property counter-essay contest, is
entering its latter stages after receiving more than 30 essays from 12
countries. The closing date for entries is 15 March 2002.
Entrants are asked
to address the same topic that the World Intellectual Property Organization
asked in a contest it also launched in 2001: "What does intellectual
property mean to you in your daily life?" All of the essays submitted to
WIPOUT to date and the contest rules can be found on the WIPOUT site:
wipout
Submissions are welcome in English, French, German and Spanish.
Conference on Cultural Imperialism
October 17-20, 2002, Trier, Germany
A two-day conference is being planned to be held in fall 2002 in Trier,
Germany, on Cultural Imperialism.
Contributions are invited from all relevant fields including history of
arts, architecture, history, popular music, the media, advertising and
PR, sociology, economics, political lobbying, WTO-GATS, food,
education,
linguistics and others. Publication of the proceedings is intended.
The Conference on Cultural Imperialism (working title) will begin on
Thursday october 17, 2002, with diner and perhaps a first evening
session. We will have two working days, Friday 18 and Saturday 19, and
participants will depart on Sunday 20 October after breakfast. The
venue is Robert Schuman House, Trier, a well-equipped new conference
center above the city of Trier where participants will also stay
overnight. At this moment we think about a more symposium-like
beginning
(Friday) aiming at sorting out the multiple facets of cultural
imperialism and pulling strings together, and a public event on
Saturday
aiming at media coverage.
Internet Research 3.0: NET / WORK / THEORY
International and Interdisciplinary Conference
of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
International Institute of INFONOMICS and University of Maastricht
Maastricht, the Netherlands
October 13-16 2002
Conference Website: http://www.aoir.org/2002
Call for papers
Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2002.
Submissions: http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/confman/
The Internet has become an integral, ubiquitous part of everyday life in
many social domains and international contexts. Yet, most of the public
attention on cyberspace remains fueled by utopian or dystopian visions,
rather than being informed by the growing body of research on the
Internet as a complex fact of modern life.
Internet Research (IR) 3.0, an international and interdisciplinary
conference, will feature a variety of perspectives on Internet research,
in order to develop a better theoretical and pragmatic understanding of
the Internet. Building on the previous well-attended international
conferences, the IR 3.0 will bring together prominent scholars,
researchers, and practitioners from many disciplines, fields and
countries for a program of presentations, panel discussions, and
informal exchanges.
National Student Antiwar Conference
Columbia University, February 22-24, 2002
Register at Anti War Conference
Get more information by writing conference@peopleforpeace.org.**
In this update:
1. Why We are Having this Conference!
2. Preliminary Schedule
3. Confirmed Speakers
4. Proposed Workshops
5. Submitting Proposals, Process, Delegate Structure
6. Registration and Housing
7. Still Time to Propose a Workshop or Submit a Proposal
8. How to Reserve a Literature Table
The World Can be Stopped! Insubordination is Possible!
All libertarians and libertarian organisations are invited to participate in
a meeting in Barcelona in which we will discuss the following rough draft of
a Libertarian Call to Sevilla and the proposals of actions and events which
will be brought by the friends and comrades from Andalusia.
TIME AND DATE: Sunday, 17th March at 10.00 a.m.
VENUE: To be announced. A central location in Barcelona.
History of Activism, History as Activism
A Graduate Student Conference
Sponsored by the Columbia History Department
Columbia University, New York, April 5-6, 2002
Dear colleagues,
we wish to invite you to our upcoming conference.
The proposed schedule for the two-day conference follows:
am writes:
Woomera 2002 : Autonomadic Caravan and Festival of Resistance
== an invitation to make the journey ==
Woomera is a remote town, 500 kms from Adelaide (Australia). It is also the centre of an economy of death, suffering and incarceration founded on the dispossession of indigenous lands.
Our humanity is obliterated in Woomera, in the concentration camp, by missiles, by nuclear weapons, by toxic waste, by colonisation, by capitalism, by fear and division.
We are making the journey to discover our humanity in the liberation of those who have been dehumanised.
We are making the journey to refuse the death, pain and confinements that are manufactured in the name of The Economy. We refuse the caging behind razor wire and the new world borders fashioned so that capital, by reserving for itself the 'right' to move around the world, can better enforce austerity, misery, the earth's destruction and the 'race-to-the-bottom'.
In 2002, each of us are making the journey in our own unique way to reveal the connections between dispossession and the enclosures; the dislocations that have occurred and are still occurring in the name of profits, warlords and empire.
We will not mimic what we go to abolish, but instead wish to open a multitude of paths toward a different world.
We invite you to make the journey with us.
More info at http://www.woomera2002.com/
email: infodesk@woomera2002.com
Automobility: A Conference
Hosted by the Centre for Social Theory & Technology at Keele University, UK, September 8th -10th, 2002.
Call For Interest: Papers, Discussants and Participants
Outline
Automobiles, their production, consumption and semiology, have vexed and intrigued theorists, governments, businesses, unions,
protestors and activists from their inception in the late 19th century to the present day. As a figure of the contemporary
landscape, the automobile coalesces the dominant concerns and themes of modernity, whether it be the rationalized, automated
production line of Henry Ford, or the seemingly insatiable appetite for speed and movement that is its counterpoint. As
undoubtedly important as the automobile is, the aim of this conference is to look beyond the car itself to consider the basic
conception of automobility that underlies it. To be automobile is to feel simultaneously autonomous and to have, at least the
potential for, movement. Yet paradoxically the automobile subject is anything but independent and autonomous. The lines of
subjectivization that automobilities traverse draw together complex webs of governance, desire, capital and resistances in order
to produce the phenomenon of an automobile self. Even further, automobility is characterised as much by motility as by mobility:
the potential for movement and independence seems to be indefinitely deferred as a future promise that perpetually reproduces the
desire for automobility.
"New Technologies in Media Literary" Program
Annual Mediterranean Regional Summit AGORA 2002"
Athens, Greece, 15-18 June 2002
Supervised by the Hellenic Audiovisual Institute
Produced by European Childrens' Television Center www.3rd-ws.org
Organized by Childrens' Media Development
Focused on New Technologies in Media Literacy, AGORA 2002 aims to bring
together some of the most prolific researchers, producers and innovators
from the field of ICT and education, while providing unique opportunities
for synergies and investements in the fast developing marketplace of the
Mediterranean basin.
Enclosed find a synopsis of AGORA 2002 program, as well as details for
participation, to a unique platform of possibilities for synergies and
investments on the children's audiovisual environment of the Mediterranean
region.
"Theory Trouble" Focus for Symploke Journal
symploke, a journal for the intermingling of literary, cultural, and
theoretical scholarship (ISSN 1069-0697),
seeks submissions for its special issue Theory Trouble (Vol. 11, no. 1).
Welcome are contributions discussing the current and future status of
theory in
the humanities. Is theory in trouble? What are the sources of this
trouble?
What is left of theory? Has theory lost its relevancy and critical edge?
Has it lost the self-identity that it once had? How important is it for
theory to ask self-reflexive questions about what it is and does? Is
self-reflexivity linked to relevancy?
Send manuscripts by 15 August 2002
to the Editor, Jeffrey R. Di Leo, symploke,
Department of English (MC
162),
University of Illinois at Chicago,
601 South Morgan St.,
Chicago, IL
60607-7120.
E-mail: editor@symploke.org.
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