POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP_Wired Up Program

Job description

We are currently looking for a postdoctoral researcher to participate in the Wired Up program. Wired Up is an international, interdisciplinary collaborative project between the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The project is funded by Utrecht University, through the prestigious High Potential Programme. Wired Up researches how new digital media practices, in particular the Internet, impact on the lives, identities, learning and socialization of migrant youth.

For more information about Wired Up visit the website.

Additional information about the project and this position can be obtained by sending an email to Sandra Ponzanesi, e-mail: s.ponzanesi@uu.nl or by phone 31 (0) 30 253 7844.
The Postdoc will be hosted at the Research Institute for History and Culture. More information can be found at the website of the OGC.

More information about the Gender Graduate Programme where the postdoc will be integrated can be found here.

How to apply:
Applications (by e-mail) should be accompanied by:
* a covering letter in English that sets out the candidate's motivation for applying for the position, stating qualifications and suitability and how these could contribute to the project and his/her ideas how to strengthen the team (about 100 words); * a curriculum vitae in English and, a list of publications; * a copy of your doctoral degree and a list of your MA or RMA marks; * a sample of 2 relevant publications (in English); * contact details of two referees (names, affiliations, telephone numbers and e-mail addresses).

Interested candidates should send their application by March 7, 2010 at the latest. E-mail applications should be sent in pdf or doc format to the Personnel Department, attn. Ms. Ingrid Wagenaar: humanitiesjobs.gw@uu.nl, and should specify your name and vacancy number 681006 in the message as well as in the topic, include a list of attachments in the message, and specify your name in every attachment.

Conference_LONDON THE PROMISED LAND REVISITED

LONDON THE PROMISED LAND REVISITED:
A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION OF 15 YEARS OF THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION AND ITS DIVERSITY

15th May 2010 - 9.30 am - 4 pm
Queen Mary University of London

CHAIR: ANNE KERSHEN (FOUNDER OF THE CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF MIGRATION)

SPEAKERS:
Caroline Bowden (QMUL) - English Nuns and London in the 17th century; exile or
establishment?
John Eade (Roehampton) - Keeping up with multicultural diversity in the global
city; the implications for research and policy making.
Nicholas Evans (Hull) - Protecting Fortress Britain? Maritime solutions to alien
immigration - past and present.
Cathy McIlwaine (QMUL) - Legal Latins: negotiating migrant irregularity among Latin
American migrants in London.
Parvathi Raman (UCL) - Tales from the Boundary - cricket and national identity in
the South Asian Diaspora.
Bronwen Walter (Anglia Ruskin) - Irish/Jewish diasporic intersections in the East
End: paradoxes and shared locations.
John Wood (OU) - Crime, the Courts and Ethnicity in 18th and early 19th century
London: Blacks as victims and offenders.

Registration:
Advance:£20 (£30 on the day): Concessions - students and senior citizens: £15
advance (£20 on the day)

To register and for further details contact:
Louise Mead, Senior Events Officer
Department of Corporate Affairs
Queen Mary, University of London
Tel: 020 7882 5148
fax: 020 7882 3706
email: louise.mead@qmul.ac.uk

Call for Paper: Travelling Languages: Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

Travelling Languages:
Culture, Communication and Translation in a Mobile World

10th Annual Conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) in Association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University.

3 - 5 December 2010, Leeds, United Kingdom

organised by Jane Wilkinson (University of Leeds) and Mike Robinson (Leeds Metropolitan University).


The world is ever ‘on the move’. The opportunities and challenges of both real and virtual travel are very much at the heart of the emergent interdisciplinary field of ‘mobilities’, which deals with the movement of peoples, objects, capital, information and cultures across an increasingly globalised and apparently borderless world. In the practices, processes and performances of moving – whether for voluntary leisure, forced migration or economic pragmatism – we are faced with the negotiation and re-negotiation of identities and meaning relating to places and pasts.

Within the increasing complexities of global flows and encounters, intercultural skills and competencies are being challenged and re-imagined. The vital role of languages and the intricacies of intercultural dialogue have largely remained implicit in the discourses surrounding mobilities. This Conference seeks to interrogate the role of intercultural communication and of languages in the inevitable moments of encounter which arise from all forms of ‘motion’.

This international and interdisciplinary event is the 10th anniversary conference of the International Association of Languages and Intercultural Communication (IALIC) and is being organised in association with the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Through this event we aim to bring together many of the sub-themes of previous IALIC conferences and to focus upon the issues of culture, communication and translation in a mobile world, including: languages and intercultural communication in local and global education, tourism, hospitality, migration, translation, real and virtual border-crossings.

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to receive 20 –minute research papers or descriptions of pedagogical practice which address or go beyond the following themes:

* Moving languages - continuities and change;
* Real and virtual border crossings;
* Tourist encounters and communicating with the ‘other’;
* Tourism’s role in inter-cultural dialogue;
* The languages of diasporas and diasporic languages;
* Dealing with dialects and the evolution/dissolution of communities;
* Hospitality and languages of welcome;
* Learning the languages of migration;
* Lingusitic boundaries and socio-cultural inclusions and exclusions;
* ‘Located’ and ‘dislocated’ languages and identities;
* Practices and performances of translation.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words including title and full contact details as an electronic file to Jane Wilkinson at IALIC2010@leeds.ac.uk. You may submit your abstract as soon as possible but no later than 1st June 2010.

Please send any queries to us at IALIC2010@leeds.ac.uk

For more details clik here

Call for Paper_The Concept of Mixed Migration | Geneva, 8-9 April 2010

Call for Papers for an international conference on:

"The Concept of Mixed Migration: Reflecting on Today’s Migratory Policies, Movements and Paradigms Shifts"

Geneva, 8-9 April 2010

All information here

Lettere A Colori: Descrizioni di dipinti nella corrispondenza di Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Even if not specifically connected to the topic of this blog, I want to outline my recent publication on NINES (a peer-reviewed online forum on Nineetenth Century) founded by Jerome McGann.

My work is Lettere A Colori: Descrizioni di dipinti nella corrispondenza di Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Give a look if you are curious, it deals with Dante Gabriel Rossetti's letters that describe paintings . If you want to know more read the introductory essay I wrote. The exhibition concerns some of Rossetti's letters that I have translated because extraordinarily related to his and others' paintings. Technically they are called ekphraseis (from the Greek word).

This work is part of my PhD research that is going to be published soon with Bonanno Editore. Enjoy!

Call for article_journal Studies in Travel Writing

In 2012 the Journal Studies in Travel Writing will publish a special
issue on travel writing and Italy, edited by Sharon Ouditt (Nottingham
Trent University) and Loredana Polezzi (Warwick University).


Essays, of around 7,000-10,000 words, may focus on any aspect of the
construction or refraction of Italy through travel writing in any
period, although we particularly welcome papers that (i) focus on
significant trends or transitions (e.g. with reference to related areas
such as visual culture) in travel writing about Italy; (ii) are
concerned with contemporary images of Italy, including those produced by
immigration, return migration or long-term settlement; and/or (iii)
display an engagement with the ideologies and methodologies that impact
on the discussions central to travel writing.


The timetable is as follows: Abstracts of around 500 words by 1 February
2010; essays to be commissioned by 1 April 2010; commissioned essays due
to editors by 1 December 2010; referees' reports by 1 April 2011; final
copy to editors by 1 August 2011.


Please send abstracts to both sharon.ouditt@ntu.ac.uk and
L.Polezzi@warwick.ac.uk

Feminist Media Studies Journal_December 2009

Feminist Media Studies--Volume 9:4 (December 2009)

Special Issue: Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference
Guest Editors: Aniko Imre, Katarzyna Marciniak, and Aine O'Healy

***This special issue of "Feminist Media Studies" might be of interest to some of the blog's readers***


TABLE OF CONTENTS:

GUEST EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Transcultural Mediations and Transnational Politics of Difference
Anikó Imre, Katarzyna Marciniak, and Áine O’Healy

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 385-390

ARTICLES
Gender and Quality Television: A Transcultural Feminist Project
Anikó Imre

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 391-407

Buying Up Baby: Modern Feminine Subjectivity, Assertions of “Choice,” and the
Repudiation of Reproductive Justice in Postfeminist Unwanted Pregnancy Films
Pamela Thoma

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 409-425

Jennifer Fox’s Transcultural Talking Cure: Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (2007)
Angelica Fenner

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 427-445

Tracing Women’s Routes in a Transnational Scenario: the Video-Cartographies of
Ursula Biemann
Federica Timeto

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 447-460

East/West Encounters: “Indian” Identity and Transnational Feminism in Manushi
Anita Anantharam

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 461-476

Rumors from around the Bloc: Gossip, Rhizomatic Media, and the Plotki Femzine
Red Chidgey, Jenny Gunnarson Payne, and Elke Zobl

Feminist Media Studies 9:4 (2009): 477-491