Notices: Conferences, Calls for Papers, Submissions 

Volume 14, Number 1
September, 2003 

Conferences, Calls for Papers, Submissions

• Postcolonial Studies

  Call for Papers: Special Issue on Postcolonialism and Digital Culture

  Postcolonial studies is heavily affected by processes of globalization. Among these trends is the spread of networked computing and digital culture, from email and websites, from Usenet to massively multiple online games and digital art, from net news journals to blogs. Digital culture also affects the world labor market as workers around the globe are recruited into high technology jobs as diverse as assembly line production of computers, "homeworked" programming of software, and call centers where workers are taught the rudiments of foreign (mostly American) cultures to enable telephone support for products and services. New media, in short, are now global.

  This special issue inquires into the consequences of such phenomena for the postcolonial condition.

  Date for submissions: 1 September 2004

  Please mark submissions for the attention of Mark Poster.

  Submission guidelines can be found on the Web at <www.ipcs.org.au>.

  Postcolonial Studies
  The Institute of Postcolonial Studies
  78-80 Curzon St
  North Melbourne VIC 3051 AUSTRALIA
  Email: ipcs@netspace.net.au

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• Video Games: CFP for PCA/ACA

  PCA/ACA - National Conference
  7-10 April 2004, San Antonio, Texas
  Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 November 2003

  The Video Games area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers/panels on video games and video game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held 7-10 April 2004 in San Antonio, Texas. All topics related to video games and video game studies will be considered. Possible paper or panel topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Current trends in Video Games/Video Game Studies
  • Video Games and Rhetoric
  • Video Games and Culture
  • Video Games and Film
  • International Video Game Studies
  • Teaching Video Games

  In order to be considered, your 100-word (or longer) abstract/proposal must be received by 15 November 2003. Your abstract should be mailed or emailed to:

  Nathan Garrelts
  Developmental English
  New Mexico State University at Alamogordo
  Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310
  email: garrelts@nmsua.nmsu.edu

  More information about the conference can be found at <www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/>.

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• Powering Up/Powering Down

  28 January-1 February 2004

  TEKNIKA RADICA is now accepting proposals for an interdisciplinary colloquium investigating arts technologies and received histories. Powering Up/Powering Down will take place on the campus of UC San Diego and surrounding venues in San Diego and Tijuana. For 3 days artists, musicians, writers and scholars of diverse backgrounds will collaborate on a living laboratory-opera through their individual contributions and the exchanges they ignite.

  We invite you to propose your presentations, performances, installations/objects, and workshops that challenge conceptual polarities (white/racialized, male/female, high/low tech, machine/body) and that outwit limitations on access to knowledge, resources, and equipment. We welcome performances and objects/installations in any medium or combination of media, as well as scholarly papers, panel proposals, workshops, and skill-shares.

  Please submit proposals by 14 November 2003. The abstract should give a working title and clearly indicate its relevance to the colloquium theme.

  Send your proposal to:

  TEKNIKA RADICA
  Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA)
  University of California, San Diego
  9500 Gilman Ave. Dr. 0037
  La Jolla, CA 92102-0037

  For more information, please contact Juliana Snapper at juliana@teknikaradica.org.

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• The Postmodern Imagination and Beyond

  Call for Submissions to E-Journal

  The electronic English Studies Forum invites the submission of innovative critical studies and creative writing for its forum on "The Postmodern Imagination and Beyond." This site explores the postmodern imagination as well as the postmodern understanding of the nature/role of imagination in contemporary literature and culture. What distinguishes the post-postmodern imagination?

  Send inquiries or submissions to:

  Trey Strecker, Editor in Chief
  English Studies Forum
  Department of English
  Ball State University
  Muncie, IN 47306-0460
  tstrecker@bsu.edu

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