Anonymous Comrade writes:

"future/tense"

Time and Politics Conference

Graduate Conference in the Department of Anthropology,
Johns Hopkins University, February 28th, 2004

Risk, survival, trauma, globalization, technology, security -– each in its different way is tied to the contests and claims of an uncertain future, an embattled present or an un-mastered past. Anthropology, as a particular mode of engagement with the world, attempts to understand the ways in which these overarching phenomena fold into the weave of everyday life. The graduate students of the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University invite papers for future/tense, a student conference addressing notions of time and politics.

Anonymous Comrade writes:

"A Bridge to Africa"

A caravan of artists, media activists, scientists and technicians from all over the world is presently gathering in Andalucia in the south of Spain. The Euro-African project will cross the Straits of Gibraltar in December, and move south along the west-coast of Africa [map], reclaiming the Straits as a bridge, not a boundary. The Caravan describes itself as "a sound system, a circus, a mobile cinema and a stage for theatre and performance". It is constantly open for everyone who wants to participate.

anonymous kumquat writes:

On Monday & Tuesday, December 8-9, 2003 in Washington DC, the
Religious Working Group on the IMF/ World Bank will hold an
extraordinary national conference on

"Faith in Practice:
Connecting the Dots for Global Economic Justice."

For anyone who wants to develop a deeper spiritual/ religious
understanding of "globalization" from the top-down and from
the bottom up, combining knowledge of the facts with wisdom
about the choices, this could be am important education.

Shalom, Arthur

jim writes:

"Race and Labor Matters"
hosted by the Brooklyn College Graduate Center for Worker Education
Thursday, December 4th 6pm-10pm
Friday, December 5th 8am-6pm
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.), New York City

Historically, labor has played an important, if under analyzed, role in the struggle against racism. However, the U.S. labor movement has never fully addressed the complex and enduring issues of race and racism. Profound and ongoing structural, political, technological, and demographic transformations have fundamentally changed the dynamics of race and labor in America and in the globalized work force. What are the new problems, opportunities, and features of labor's 21st century color barrier?

Join leading labor scholars and trade union activists for a reframing of the relationship between race and labor in America. Through interdisciplinary approaches to the subject, panelists will consider significant economic, social, historical, and political conditions affecting racial stratification in union and non-union labor. Panels will discuss U.S. labor and race matters in relation to affirmative action, immigration, labor-community relations, diversity, globalization, anti-racist union efforts, union democracy, gender and possibilities for social change.

http://www.raceandlabor.org/index.htm"

jim writes:

"American Studies Association Panel on Culture, Activism, and Power:

Social Reform and Strategies for Change"

November 11-14, 2004

This panel will investigate how social activists deploy forms of culture as tool for reform. From the nineteenth century to the present, American reformers and community activists have staffed reading rooms, held sporting events, taught literature and language, and engaged in other practices that depend upon transmitting cultural forms across class or experiential boundaries. In the process, they also engage another aspect of culture by attempting to cross the boundaries that characterize distinct ethnic, middle-class, working-class or upper-class cultures.

This panel will investigate how cultural exchange reflects social power dynamics and challenges or reinforces class, ethnic, and racial boundaries in the pursuit of social reform and/or social justice. Contributors to this panel might address, for example, community activism past or present by insiders or outsiders to the community; union organizing and the uses of culture; missionary work in the United States or abroad; or prison voluntarism.

The panel also welcomes submissions from community activists about their own experiences.

Please send a 250-word abstract of your proposed paper and a one-page vita by December 31, 2003, to Emily Mieras, American Studies Department/Box 8262,
Stetson University, DeLand, FL 32723, or e-mail to emieras@stetson.edu.

Launch of "EZLN: 20 &10: Fire and Word" Campaign

Subcomandante Marcos

To the people of Mexico and the peoples of the world:

To the national and international press:

Brothers and sisters:

We are informing you that on this November 17, 2003 it will have been 20
years since the birth of the EZLN.

That is why the Caracoles of Oventic, La Realidad, La Garrucha, Roberto
Barrios and Morelia will be closed to the national and international
press, and to national and international civil society, from November 15
through the 20th of the same month. The same measures will be put into
force in those villages which are predominantly zapatista. Access will not
be allowed during those days. Without exception.

US Imperialism in the 21st Century

Conference, December 5, 2003

Casa Italiana, Columbia University

Following the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks, the US declared a
global "War on Terrorism" and increased its powers of repression at
home and intervention abroad.

This one-day conference aims to: explain the political and economic
causes of the perpetual US drive for global domination; assess its
impact on the US and the rest of the world, especially on Africa,
Europe, and the Middle East; and scrutinize new forms of anti-war
activism, challenge, and opposition.

Our main objective is to critically examine both the strengths and
weaknesses of 'War on Terrorism' as a strategy for US global
supremacy and the resistances it has generated.

"Radical Theory Forum"

A workshop at the European Social Forum, Paris

13 November 2003

As part of the European Social Forum, we are interested in assembling an
international network of intellectuals/activists who are interested in
the relationship between new theories and new forms of politics. How
can we
move beyond a simplistic opposition to representative politics? How can
the
network form contaminate the institutional spaces in which a vast
number of people live and work? How can we relate the analysis of new
forms of
power with experimentation in political practice?

1st International Visual Studies Conference:

Visual Studies in the 21st Century

CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION

Dates: 15th and 16th February, 2004

Venue: ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair, IFEMA, MADRID

The 1st International Visual Studies Conference will be held during ARCO'04, organised by the Amigos de ARCO Association, in collaboration with the Centro Párraga de Murcia.The Conference is being directed by José Luis Brea, Professor of Contemporary Art Theory at Spain's Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM).

"South African Social Movements"

Franco Barchiesi and Sean Jacobs, New York City, October 29, 2003

"Insurgent Communities: Changing Forms of Social
Antagonism in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
FRANCO BARCHIESI, UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA AND THE CUNY
GRADUATE CENTER

"New "Social Movements," Pressure Groups, and Media in
Post-Apartheid South Africa"
SEAN JACOBS, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR ADVANCED
STUDIES, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Discussant

THOMAS G. KARIS, CUNY

WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2003, 6:00 pm

(Refreshments will be served)

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

365 FIFTH AVE @ 34th Street

ROOM 5409

For more information contact:

Tatiana Carayannis tcarayannis@gc.cuny.edu

ARG, Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave,

NYC 10016-4309