Marxism and Communications Conference

Boston, Nov. 16, 2005

"Marxism and Communication Studies: Key Debates and Core Concepts"

Announcing: A one day Preconvention Seminar Conference at the National Communication Association Annual Meeting

8:30 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Wednesday, November 16, 2005, Boston, MA

Seminar Leaders: Lee Artz, Purdue University, Calumet; Dana Cloud, University of Texas, Austin; Stephen Macek, North Central College

Seminar Description: The current explosion of critical communication scholarship would be unthinkable without the achievements and insights of classical and Western Marxist thought. Notions derived from the Marxist tradition — "ideology," "hegemony," "reification," "commodification," "the dialectic," and "imperialism" — are regularly deployed in NCA conference presentations and journals such as Critical Studies in Media Communication and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. They even show up from time to time in textbooks on rhetorical and communication theory. Yet far too often such concepts are used in ways that obscure their Marxist roots and divorce them from any hint of materialism or recognition of class conflict.

Mario Savio and the 60's Free Speech Movement
How the Radical Movement Began

New York CIty, June 9, 2005

The June Anarchist Forum

On Thursday, June 9, at 7:30pm, the Libertarian Book Club's Anarchist
Forum will present NYU scholar Robert Cohen speaking on Mario Savio and the
60’s Free Speech Movement. Cohen has edited a book on that remarkable
period in Berkeley, California which sparked the transforming times in the
60s and 70s, when civil rights, anti-war actions, and radical change became
the center of American political life. Cohen’s biography of Mario Savio,
the hero of the Free Speech Movement, will be published soon and reveal
much about Savio that had until now been hidden. After Cohen speaks there
will be an open discussion session, when questions can be answered and
memories shared.

The event will take place at the New SPACE in the Fusion Arts Museum
57 Stanton Street, Manhattan, one block south of the 2nd Ave-Houston St. F
and V subway stop.

There is no set fee for the presentation, but a contribution to aid
the LBC is suggested. If you have questions, contact the LBC /Anarchist
Forum, 212-979-8353 or e-mail: roberterler@erols.com

New York Activist Calendar

June 6-12, 2005

The NY Activist Calendar (formerly the CREED NY Calendar) is a

weekly listing of events of interest to NYC-area activists. It is

compiled by volunteer labor and published by the Nicaragua

Solidarity Network of Greater NY. Send listings and corrections

to: NSN, 339 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10012, fax 212-674-9139,

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jerry goralnick wrote:

"Not In My Name" Living Theatre Workshop
New York City, June 18–19, 2005

The Living Theatre has been performing "Not In My Name" in New York City's Times Square on
days when there is an execution in the U.S. for the past ten years. Every
year we have a free workshop to rehearse new actors for the play.

"Finance, Attention and Affect"

Christian Marazzi
London, June 2, 2005

Here are details of Christian Marazzi's talk at Goldsmiths in London. In case you
don't know his work, he's a Swiss Italian economist who used to be close
to the journals Zerowork and Primo Maggio and has had immense influence on
the debate over immaterial labour and language.

The Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process (CSISP),
Goldsmiths College, University of London, invites you to a session of the
Economies and Technologies of Affect seminar series, summer term.

Thursday 2nd June

4.30-6.00pm, Room 137, Main Building

Finance, Attention and Affect

Christian MarazziM

Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera
Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

(Closest tube/train stops: New Cross/New Cross Gate)

Anonymous Comrade: writes

"Memorial Observance 2005"

New York City, May 29, 2005

New York City -- Veterans and military family members will conduct
a memorial observance on Sunday May 29th beginning at 1:00 PM at
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at 55 Water Street, at the end of
the FDR Drive, in lower Manhattan.

The program will start with an invocation by Joe Cross of the
Caddo Nation. Speakers include military family members Dante
Zappala and Debbie Anderson, and veterans David Cline, Alex
Ryabov, Greg Payton, and Ricky Singh. After laying a wreath at the
memorial, Iraq veterans and Gold Star family members will lead a
solemn and silent procession to the water's edge in Battery Park.
There participants are invited to cast flowers into the harbor in
memory of the dead, and to speak briefly about the nature and
meaning of their losses. The program will end with a rendition of
Taps.

"This year again we see our soldiers fighting, killing, and dying
every day in Afghanistan and Iraq," observes David Cline. "We
ended the second world war sixty years ago. Now we have a third
world war, this time a campaign for global military domination by
our own government. We ended the American war in Vietnam thirty
years ago. Now we have once again sent our young men and women
into a brutal and pointless occupation of once sovereign nations,
which posed no military threat to the United States."

"I Know New Media Art When I See It"

The Art of Participation: Collaborative Mapping

Dr. Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz

Monday, May 16, 6:30pm

The Thing at Postmasters

459 West 19th Street,
New York, NY 10011

A lecture by Dr. Judith Rodenbeck and Trebor Scholz

Museum curators often frame new media art in modernist terms that attempt to
provide easy and familiar rules for institutional inclusion or exclusion.
Yet while many emerging participatory mapping projects can be experienced at
art festivals such as Transmediale, ISEA, and Ars Electronica, when it comes
to more traditional art institutions their validity as art is often
questioned. Emerging art needs new venues and old venues need a new
definition of art.

New Media Education and Its Discontents

Conference, Friday, May 6th, 2005

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

This conference is organized by the Institute for Distributed Creativity
in collaboration with The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Elebash Recital Hall

The Graduate Center

City University of New York

365 Fifth Avenue, New York City

Join us for an intensive one-day conference about new media education.
Connect with other new media researchers and educators, present and discuss
urgent topics in new media education, exchange syllabi or swap resources.
The conference will be podcast and live blogged. Bring your USB memory key
and laptop.

Anonymous Comrade writes:
BLACK SHEEP BOOKS presents

"Anarchy in Montp"
Monday, May 23 from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.

a day of talks, panels, performances, and socializing at 4 Langdon Street
in Montpelier, Vermont

* 1:00 p.m.
BORN TO LOSE, FIGHT TO WIN!
WORKING-CLASS EXPERIENCE AND ANARCHISM
A panel with Mark Laskey, Sean, and Kristin

In this panel, three working-class anarchists will share personal stories and ideas about coming to anarchism from a working-class background, and what it means -- if anything in particular -- to be a "working-class anarchist." This highly subjective panel hopes to be a spark that ignites a lively discussion among the audience about class, struggle, revolution, anarchism, and really anything we decide to get into.

New York City Benefit for

Made in Palestine


[Editor's Note: Made In Palestine showcases a collection of contemporary art made by 23 Palestinian artists and refugees, who live in the occupied territories and in the Diaspora. Using oil paintings, works on paper, video, sculpture, textile art, ceramics, and photography,
the works on display present individual reflections on the Palestinian
contemporary experience and the political situation, in Palestine.]

We are very excited and pleased to announce our next event -- Feast for
Falasteen --hosted by the very generous owners of Mamlouk restaurant in
the East Village. Mamlouk has given us the entire restaurant for one
night to raise money for Made In Palestine. The ticket buys you one of
the best Arabic meals in the city, everything include, Argila water-pipe
as well, and the entire price of the ticket will go towards bringing the
Made In Palestineart exhibit to New York. Cash bar available.

Feast for Falasteen
Monday, May 16, 7pm @ Mamlouk
211 E. 4th St. (btwn Ave. A and B)
Tickets: $60 ($50 for students), $100 Patron Tickets
All proceeds go toward bringing Made In Palestine to New York City!
Music by Dhafer Tawil and Johnny Farraj.
Slides of Made In Palestine will appear on the Mamlouk balcony.