The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and the New Media Lab will host The Digital Word, a day-long national conference on the future of academic publishing and the far reaching implications and possibilities of digital technology for textbooks, scholarly journals, and academic monographs. The conference, to be held at The CUNY Graduate Center, will feature roundtable discussions including publishers, scholars, teachers, and new media practitioners and funders who will address past successes and failures as well as ideas for future practice. The goal of the event is to provide common ground and the basis for on-going efforts to use new media in inclusive, affordable, and effective ways to engage in and disseminate scholarly work.Details

Hypatia has been published as an independent journal of feminist philosophy since 1986; Volume 25 will appear in 2010. In celebration of this significant anniversary, the current editors of Hypatia will host a conference at the University of Washington in the fall of 2009, to honor the accomplishments of Hypatia—its founders, editors, and contributors—and to consider where feminist philosophy is headed in the next 25 years. Details

A Space-Time of Ubiquity and Embeddedness (Theme leaders Ulrik Ekman and Mark Hansen)
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This conference will bring together academics, advocates, artists, and other cultural workers to examine the intersecting fields of archive and everyday life theory. From Simmel through Mass Observation to contemporary Cultural Studies theorists, the objective of everyday life theory has been, as Ben Highmore writes, to “rescue the everyday from conventional habits of the mind…to attempt to register the everyday in all its complexities and contradictions.” Archive theory provides a means to explore these structures by “making the unfamiliar familiar,” hence opening the possibility of generating “new forms of critical practice.” The question of a politics of the archive is critical to the burgeoning field of archive theory. How do we begin to theorize the archive as a political apparatus? Can its effective democratization be measured by the participation of those who engage with both its constitution and its interpretation? Details

The research group “Red-Letter Days in Transition” invites proposals for papers on topics relevant to the research project “Red-Letter Days in Transition. Calendric Public Rituals and the Articulation of Identities: Central Europe and the Balkans 1985 to the Present”. Preferred topics will include national days, commemorative holidays and politically significant red-letter days; however, the scope need not be restricted to these specific days.

Papers should focus on public discourse relating to these red-letter days and their role in the transition period, rather than on their ethnographic content, and should preferably be based on primary sources from the region. We particularly encourage text-oriented approaches. We are also interested in the theoretical underpinnings of studying red-letter days in the transition period.

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