edmar writes:

Hello all. We are trying to reshape the climate in Chi town and conduct some urban landscaping to boot. Won't you please come to Chicago this spring? Regime change for US,
edmar

The Version>04: Invisible Networks Convergence
April 16-May 1, 2004, Chicago

Deadline Feb 15, 2004 for online submissions

The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence is an opportunity for creating connections between programmers, artists, scientists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, tactical media provocateurs, designers, architects, critical thinkers and culture workers of all kinds. The Version>04: invisibleNetworks convergence brings diverse groups together to share, communicate and organize while also asking participants to discuss these processes. Creating a tangible network of associations between participants, Version>04: invisibleNetworks fosters conversations, creative resistance and cultural action.Version>04: invisibleNetworks seeks to make our tactics transparent, discuss our shared resources and divergent approaches.

"Movements and Technologies of the Common:

Neuro -- Networking Europe"
Muffathalle, Munich Germany, February 26-29, 2004

SYNOPSIS

A new generation of media and network initiatives from all over Europe and
different parts of the world present and work on their projects in a broad
interactive framework that explores the different conceptual and practical
idioms used to articulate and create new social, political and artistic
practices.

"R/Évolution 3: POP"

March 19-21, 2004, Concordia University, Montreal

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
Hosted by the Ph.D. Humanities Program: Interdisciplinary Studies
in Society and Culture

Keynote speaker: Will Straw

"Globalization, Americanization and Contemporary Popular Culture"

Istanbul, Turkey, May 20-22, 2004

The University of Bahçeþehir, in collaboration with
Richmond, the American International University in London, announce the
2nd Annual "Media and Cultural Studies"
Conference

"Resistance"

7th Annual Conference

Society for European Philosophy

London, Aug, 26-28, 2004

At the University of Greenwich, Maritime Campus

Conference web site: www.gre.ac.uk/~jk13/SEP2004

The greatest thinkers and movements of European philosophy have been
concerned to question and analyse the systems of thought, economies and
patterns of behaviour that constitute the dominant ideology of their time.
Modern European philosophy has attained its power by producing concepts
and questions that interrupt the presuppositions and techniques of that
order.

However, the specificity of contemporary forms of power seems to rest in
the fact that, far from being challenged by resistance, they thrive upon
it; many of the old forms of resistance have not simply passed away, but
have been effectively taken into the very economy they sought to break.
This is the reality confronting philosophical thinking today.

Library of Social Science Symposium on the Psychological Interpretation of War

January 14-17, 2004, New York City

Anthony Giddens has observed that the failure of scholars to come to terms with the meaning of violence and war constitutes “one of the most extraordinary blank spots in social theory in the twentieth century.”  This is an astonishing lacuna.  War is a central institution in the history of civilization. World War I and World War II were the defining events of the 20th century.  Just when it seemed that we were moving toward a globalized existence, we have been thrown once again into a world dominated by ideologies of violence.

"LIfe After Capitalism" Conference

New York City, August 20-22, 2004

As a new wave of activism in the US and abroad popularizes
opposition to global capitalism, it is essential that we continue to
develop alternative visions of a post-capitalist society. This
conference seeks to create a forum for people from diverse movements
to refine collectively our analysis of capitalism, to develop new
visions for directly democratic economic and political systems, and
to build effective organizing strategies for actualizing our
visions. This conference builds on the project initiated by ZNet at
the 2003 World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

ReadMe Three

August 2004, Aarhus, Denmark

Dear all!

Below is the info on the conference we'll have as a part of the next READ_ME software art festival (last week of August 2004, Aarhus, Denmark).

savoir faire writes:

"Shock to the System"
Saturday Dec 20th, 2003, 9:30pm
CBGB's Gallery @ 315 Bowery btn 1st/2nd

An NYC Indymedia Video Collective fundraiser &
screening of Miami FTAA
protest and police brutality footage.

Performers:
David Rovics - Radical Folk Singer
Samoa - (formerly of Voluptuous Horror of Karen
Black)
Leftist Country Western
CEO - (the Chronic Electronic Orchestra) Trip-hop
with socially conscious lyrics
Dynamite Club - Avant garde kung fu punk rock
Seth Tobocman - radical slide projection and
spoken word
brad - anarchist love songs
Bat -spoken word
And Others

Featuring a new film from the streets of Miami
shot collectively by dozens of media activists.
Proceeds help replace thousands of dollars of
video equipment stolen by Miami police and to pay
for legal fees for Indymedia journalist.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

Culture and the Unconscious Conference

London, July 9-10, 2004

After our highly successful launch event in July this year, we are very
pleased to announce the second Culture and the Unconscious conference to be
held at SOAS, London on 9th and 10th July 2004. Bringing together,
psychoanalysts, artists and academics, this conference aims to bring the
clinically-based insights of psychoanalysts and the theoretical and critical
approaches of academics into dialogue with one another.