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Modern/Postmodern Preface * Zygmunt Bauman "Postmodernity, or Living with Ambivalence." * Hans Bertens "The Postmodern Weltanschauung and its Relation to Modernism: An Introductory Survey." * Jean-Francois Lyotard from _The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge_ * Jurgen Habermas "Modernity versus Postmodernity." * Andreas Huyssen "Mapping the Postmodern." * David Herman "Modernism versus Postmodernism: Towards an Analytic Distinction." II. Representing the Postmodern Preface * John McGowan from, _Postmodernism and its Critics_ * Jacques Derrida "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourses of the Human Sciences." * Linda Hutcheon "Beginning to Theorize Postmodernism." * Ihab Hassan "Toward a Concept of Postmodernism." * Charles Russel "The Context of the Concept." III. Entanglements and Complicities Preface * Fredric Jameson from, _Postmodernism, Or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism_ * Michel Foucault from, _The History of Sexuality: Volume I: An Introduction_ * Jean Baudrillard "The Precession of Simulacra." * Thomas Kuhn "The Resolution of Revolutions." * Cornel West "Black Culture and Postmodernism." * Barbara Creed "From Here to Modernity: Feminism and Postmodernism." * Jane Flax from, _Thinking Fragments_ * Stephen Slemon "Modernism's Last Post." IV. Postmodern Practices Preface * Henry Giroux "Postmodernism as Border Pedagogy: Redefining the Boundaries of Race and Ethnicity." * Agnes Heller "Existentialism, Alienation, Postmodernism: Cultural Movements as Vehicles of Change in the Patterns of Everyday Life." * bell hooks "Postmodern Blackness." * Paul Maltby from, _Dissident Postmodernists_ * Houston Baker Jr. "Hybridity, the Rap Race, and Pedagogy for the 1990's." * Catherine Belsey "Towards Cultural History." State University of New York Press (518) 472-5000 2) -------------------------------------------------------------- Announcing: _BLACK ICE BOOKS_ _Black Ice Books_ is a new alternative trade paperback series that will introduce readers to the latest wave of dissident American writers. Breaking out of the bonds of mainstream writing, the voices published here are subversive, challenging and provocative. The first four books include: _Avant-Pop: Fiction for a Daydream Nation_ Edited by Larry McCaffery, this book is an assemblage of innovative fiction, comic book art, unique graphics and various other unclassifiable texts by writers like Samuel Delany, Mark Leyner, William Vollmann, Kathy Acker, Eurdice, Stephen Wright, Derek Pell, Harold Jaffe, Tim Ferret, Ricardo Cortez Cruz and many others. _New Noir_ Stories by John Shirley John Shirley bases his stories on his personal experience of extreme people and extreme mental states, and on his struggle with the seduction of drugs, crime, prostitution and violence. _The Kafka Chronicles_ a novel by Mark Amerika The _Kafka Chronicles_ is an adventure into the psyche of an ultracontemporary twentysomething guerilla artist who is lost in an underworld of drugs and mental terrorism, where he encounters an unusual cast of angry yet sensual characters _Revelation Countdown_ by Cris Mazza Stories that project onto the open road not the nirvana of personal freedom but rather a type of freedom more resembling loss of control. 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Recognizing that the African Christian church continues to define itself in distinctly Western terms, forty-nine participants from various denominations and all parts of Africa-- Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon--and the United States met to share ideas and experiences and to establish strategies for the indigenization of Christianity in African churches. Other special issues available by single copy: The William Grant Still Reader presents the collected writings of this respected American composer. Still offered a perspective on American music and society informed by a diversity of experience and associations that few others have enjoyed. His distinguished career spanned jazz, traditional African-American idioms, and the European avant-garde, and his compositions ranged from chamber music to opera. 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Today, _GENDERS_ continues to publish both new and known authors whose work reflects an international movement to redefine the boundaries of traditional doctrines and disciplines. Spring 1993 Special Issue _CHALLENGING ABUSE AND ASSAULT_ Anne Allison Dominating Men: Male Dominance on Company Expense in a Japanese Hostess Club Samuel Kimball _Into the light, Leland, into the light_: Emerson, Oedipus, and the Blindness of Male Desire in David Lynch's _Twin Peaks_ Vinay Lal The Incident of the _Crawling Lane_: Women in the Punjab Disturbances of 1919 Sandra Runzo Intimacy, Complicity, and the Imagination: Adrienne Rich's _Twenty-one Love Poems_ Grace A. 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The reader is invited to step into the mind of narrator Anne Mitchell, to see things as she sees them, to share her memories. _its name was Penelope_ is filled with uncomfortable truths, closely observed and stunningly retold: the rituals enacted at the opening of art shows of men dying of AIDS, the conflict between the demands of love and art, the pain and sacrifice and, occasionally, the rewards of a life in the arts. In her introduction, artist and hypertext author Carolyn Guyer writes: If you've never been able to make up your mind whether an artist's life is divine or hellish, read _its name was Penelope_. Judy Malloy tells the truth. Judy Malloy's artists books and electronic narratives, including _its name was Penelope_, have been exhibited at galleries and exhibitions throughout the world. 1992-3 venues include: The Computer Is Not Sorry The Houston Center (Boston) for Photography Women and Technology The National Library (Beverly Hills) of Lisbon Ringling School of Art Intl. Symposium and Design Electronic Art (Australia) An associate editor of _Leonardo_, Malloy has lived all over the world, from a tent on a small island in the Rhine to a house in the Colorado Rockies. She currently resides in Berkeley, California. Like all Eastgate hypertext titles, _its name was Penelope_ is carefully crafted for interactive performance on the computer. No conventional, paper version of the work exists, or can exist. The program runs on all Macintosh computers, models Plus or better. _its name way Penelope_ sells for $19.95. No additional software is required. Since 1982, Eastgate Systems, Inc. has been a leading publisher of quality hypertexts and hypertext writing tools, including Storyspace (tm) and Hypergate (tm) hypertext writing environments, Michael Joyce's _Afternoon, a story_, Sarah Smith's _King of Space_, and Stuart Moulthrop's _Victory Garden_. _its name was Penelope_ is available from: Eastgate Systems, Inc. PO Box 1307, Cambridge MA 02238 USA (617) 924-9044 (800) 562-1638 14) ------------------------------------------------------------ _Minnesota Review_ Tell your friends! Tell your librarians! The new _Minnesota Review_'s coming to town! **now under new management** Fall 1992 issue (n.s. 39): "PC WARS" includes essays by: * Richard Ohmann "On PC and related matters" * Michael Berube "Exigencies of Value" * Barry Sarchett "Russell Jacoby, Anti- Professionalism, and the Politics of Cultural Nostalgia" * Michael Sprinkler "The War Against Theory" * Balance Chow "Liberal Education Left and Right" Spring 1993 issue (n.s. 40): "THE POLITICS OF AIDS" Poetry, Fiction, Interviews, Essays. topics include: * Queer Theory and activism. * Public image of AIDS. * Politics of medical research. * Health care policies. Subscriptions are $10 a year (two issues), $20 institutions/overseas. 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For information contact: Mike Smith 406 Williams Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 E-mail: Mike Smith msmith@garnet.acns.fsu.edu 16) ------------------------------------------------------------- _NO MORE NICE GIRLS_ author: Ellen Willis In her new collection of journalism and cultural criticism, _No More Nice Girls_, Ellen Willis "offers serious readers the fruits of her wide-ranging curiosity, thoughtful analysis, penetrating insights, and utterly unapologetic commitment to freedom and pleasure as liberating, radical ideas" (_Booklist_). _No More Nice Girls_ will be published by Wesleyan/University Press of New England on February 26, 1993. A former columnist and senior editor at the _Village Voice_, Willis is the author of a previous collection, _Beginning to See the Light_ (also available from Wesleyan/UPNE), which was hailed as "stimulating and satisfying" by the _New York Times_ and as the work of an "outspoken, articulate and thoughtful woman" by the _Los Angeles Times_. _No More Nice Girls_ brings her project of cultural critique into the contemporary era of conservative backlash. 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Volumes I- XV are available for $225.00. 24) ------------------------------------------------------------- _VIRUS 23_ For those brave souls looking to explore the Secret of Eris, you may wish to check out _VIRUS 23_. 2 and 3 are even and odd, 2 and 3 are 5, therefore 5 is even and odd. _Virus 23_ is a codename for all Erisian literature Don Webb 6304 Laird Dr. Austin, TX 78757 0004200716@mcimail.com _VIRUS 23_ is the annual hardcopy publication of A.D.o.S.A, the Alberta Department of Spiritual Affairs. This is what a few of cyberculture's luminaries have had to say about it: All issues are available at $7.00 ppd from: _VIRUS 23_ Box 46 Red Deer, Alberta Canada T4N 5E7 Various chunks of _VIRUS 23_ can be found at Tim Oerting's alt.cyberpunk ftp site (u.washington.edu, in /public/alt.cyberpunk. check it out). For more information online contact Darren Wershler-Henry: grad3057@writer.yorku.ca 25) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Zines-L_ announcing a new list available from: listserv@uriacc To subscribe to _Zines-L_ send a message to: listserv@uriacc.uri.edu on one line type: SUBSCRIBE ZINES-L first name last name 26) ------------------------------------------------------------- _Postmodern Culture_ announces PMC-MOO PMC-MOO is a new service offered (free of charge) by _Postmodern Culture_. PMC-MOO is a real-time, text-based, virtual reality environment in which you can interact with other subscribers of the journal and participate in live conferences. PMC-MOO will also provide access to texts generated by _Postmodern Culture_ and by PMC-TALK, and it will provide the opportunity to experience (or help to design) programs which simulate object-lessons in postmodern theory. PMC-MOO is based on the LambdaMOO program, freeware by Pavel Curtis. To connect to PMC-MOO, you *must* be on the internet. If you have an internet account, you can make a direct connection by typing the command telnet dewey.lib.ncsu.edu 7777 at your command prompt. Once you've connected to the server, you should receive onscreen instructions on how to log in to PMC-MOO. If you do not receive these onscreen instructions, but instead find yourself with a straight login: and password: prompt, it means that your telnet program or interface is ignoring the 7777 at the end of the command given above, and you will need to ask your local user-support people how to telnet to a specific port number. If you have the Emacs program on your system and would like information about a customized client program for PMC-MOO that uses Emacs, contact pmc@unity.ncsu.edu by e-mail. 27) ------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************* Call for papers/participants in interdisciplinary conference on Cyborgs. ******************************* Please contact: Steven Mentor Dept. of English GN-30 University of Washington Seattle WA 98195 e-mail: cybunny@U.Washigton.edu We welcome all disciplines and perspectives including historians, philosophers, computer scientists, bio(nic?) engineers, medical technologists, cognitive psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, science fiction writers, poets, artists, and of course, cyborgs them/ourselves. We are planning to put on the conference in Winter, 1994, so please write us with issues, questions, quandaries, directions, permutations. 28) ------------------------------------------------------------- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers on Don DeLillo ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Papers are solicited on the topic of the writings of Don DeLillo (his fiction, drama, and journalism) for possible inclusion in a cluster section of a future issue of _Postmodern Culture_. Selected essays may also be included in a book collection planned for later publication. Inquiries may be sent to Glen Scott Allen at: E7E4ALL@TOE.TOWSON.EDU or by mail to: Stephen D. Bernstein English Department University of Michigan Flint, MI 48502 29) ------------------------------------------------------------- ********************* Call for Submissions ********************* _Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ is a research project investigating the use of hypertext technology by creative writers. The project consists of evaluations of software and hardware, critiques of traditional and computerized works, and a guide to sites of publication. We would like to request writers to submit their works for review. Publishers are requested to send descriptions of their publications with subscription fees and submission formats. We are especially interested to hear from institutions which teach creative writing for the hypertext format. To avoid swamping our e-mail account, please limit messages to a page or two in length. Send works on disk (IBM or Mac) or hardcopy to: _Hypertext Fiction and the Literary Artist_ 3 Westcott Upper London, Ontario N6C 3G6 E-mail: KEEPC@QUCD.QUEENSU.CA 30) ------------------------------------------------------------- *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Call for Papers/Fiction/Poetry _Minnesota Review_ Fall, 1993 *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Fall Issue (n.s. 41, 1993): "The Institution of English" Professional context and institutional formation of literature. We welcome articles and particularly review-essays on recent trends in criticism, theory, and literature such as "The New Medievalism" or the _boundary 2_ school, as well as on institutional structures, such as NEH, MLA, graduate assistantships, SCT, the rise of cultural studies programs, new journals, book series, and the politics of publishing. Essays, interviews, and reviews due by June 1, 1993. Send all queries, comments, suggestions, submissions, and subscriptions to: Jeffrey Williams Editor _Minnesota Review_ Department of English East Carolina University Greenville NC 27858-4353 31) ------------------------------------------------------------- _PHAGE_ Welcome to the Future --------------------- _PHAGE_ is a new magazine for people who are living on the new edge, surfing along the new wave of radical thought. This magazine was born from the need for a forum for new ideas in print media. _PHAGE_ will be designed and produced on the Macintosh computer, in an 8 1/2 x 11" format, and each issue will be in the area of 64 pages. We are planning to sell the magazine at a cover price of $3.50 (US), but until costs are measured, we cannot say for sure. We are looking for submissions and assistance with this project from all angles: fiction writers, essayists, ranters, graphic designers, artists, poets, etc.. Submissions are welcome in any form, in any style or tone, though that is not a guarantee that everything we receive will be printed. We are looking for submissions as soon as possible, but feel free to send them whenever you like. However, due to a lack of available resources, we are unable, for now, to reward monetarily those who contribute to _PHAGE_. While we have little money, our primary interest is producing the highest-quality magazine possible, containing an immense spectrum of information. Possible topics include: Focusing on the Edges of Culture, examining the Fringes of Reason and the Reasons of the Fringe, the Here and Now and Soon-to-Be, via unstructured Tones that Ebb and Flow from In-Form Information to Formless Rants of Altered States. If you would like to contribute to _PHAGE_ in any way, please send all queries, submissions, tips, words of wisdom, etc., to us on the Internet at: obscure@mindvox.phantom.com obscure@zero.cypher.com or ahawks@nyx.cs.du.edu If you do not have Internet access, please send mail to: _PHAGE_ Magazine PO Box XXX Green Bay, WI 54304 32) ------------------------------------------------------------- [PMC editor's note: the SUNY Press Series _Postmodern Culture_ is not affiliated with the electronic journal _Postmodern Culture_.] ************************************* Announcement and Call for Submissions _Postmodern Culture_ ************************************* _Postmodern Culture_ A SUNY Press Series Series Editor: Joseph Natoli Editor: Carola Sautter Center for Integrative Studies, Arts and Humanities Michigan State University We invite submissions of short book manuscripts that present a postmodern crosscutting of contemporary headlines--green politics to Jeffrey Dahmer, Rap Music to Columbus, the Presidential campaign to Rodney King--and academic discourses from art and literature to politics and history, sociology and science to women's studies, from computer studies to cultural studies. This series is designed to detour us off modernity's yet-to-be- completed North-South Superhighway to Truth and onto postmodernism's "forking paths" crisscrossing high and low culture, texts and life-worlds, selves and sign systems, business and academy, page and screen, "our" narrative and "theirs," formula and contingency, present and past, art and discourse, analysis and activism, grand narratives and dissident narratives, truths and parodies of truths. By developing a postmodern conversation about a world that has overspilled its modernist framing, this series intends to link our present ungraspable "balkanization" of all thoughts and events with the means to narrate and then re-narrate them. Modernity's "puzzle world" to be "unified" and "solved" becomes postmodernism's multiple worlds to be represented within the difficult and diverse wholeness that their own multiplicity and diversity shapes and then re-shapes. Accordingly, manuscripts should display a "postmodernist style" that moves easily and laterally across public as well as academic spheres, "inscribes" within as well as "scribes" against realist and modernist modes, and strives to be readable-across-multiple- narratives and "culturally relative" rather than "foundational." Inquiries, proposals, and manuscripts should be addressed to: Joseph Natoli Series Editor 20676jpn@msu.edu or Carola Sautter Editor SUNY Press SUNY Plaza Albany, NY 12246-0001 33) ------------------------------------------------------------- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Call for Papers _PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness_ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You are invited to submit papers for publication in the inaugural issue of _PSYCHE: an interdisciplinary journal of research on consciousness_ (ISSN: 1039-723X). _PSYCHE_ is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain. _PSYCHE_ publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of Cognitive Science, Philosophy, Psychology, Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, and Anthropology. Interdisciplinary discussions are particularly encouraged. _PSYCHE_ publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience four times per year. As an electronic journal, the usual space limitations of print journals do not apply; however, the editors request that potential authors do not attempt to abuse the medium. _PSYCHE_ also publishes a hardcopy version simultaneously with the electronic version. Long articles published in the electronic format may be abbreviated, synopsized, or eliminated from the hardcopy version. Submitted matter should be preceded by: the author's name; address; affiliation; telephone number; electronic mail address. Any submission to be peer reviewed should be preceded by a 100- 200 word abstract as well. Note that peer review will be blind, meaning that the prefatory material will not be made available to the referees. In the event that an article needs to be shortened for publication in the print version of _PSYCHE_, the author will be responsible for making any alterations requested by the editors. Any figures required should be designed in screen-readable ASCII. If that cannot be arranged, figures should be submitted as separate postscript files so that they can be printed out by readers locally. Authors of accepted articles assign to _PSYCHE_ the right to publish the text both electronically and as printed matter and to make it available permanently in an electronic archive. Authors will, however, retain copyright to their articles and may republish them in any forum so long as they clearly acknowledge _PSYCHE_ as the original source of publication. Subscriptions Subscriptions to the electronic version of _PSYCHE_ may be initiated by sending the one-line command, SUBSCRIBE PSYCHE-L Firstname Lastname, in the body on an electronic mail message to: LISTSERV@NKI.BITNET 34) ------------------------------------------------------------- *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ Call for Papers on the work of Derek Walcott *+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+*+ _VERSE_ is calling for submissions for a special issue devoted to the work of Derek Walcott: 12-15 page articles on his poetry or plays; poems that are indebted to Walcott in some way. _VERSE_ is a journal published both in the UK and out of the College of William and Mary in Virginia. The articles should be written for an informed, but not necessarily academic, audience. Deadline: end of August. Please direct inquires to: Susan M. Schultz Department of English 1733 Donaghho Road University of Hawaii-Manoa Honolulu HI 96822 (h) 808-942-3554 (w) 808-956-3061 35) ----------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS PANEL: Feminist Theory and Technoculture CONFERENCE: Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) DATE: April 8 & 9, 1994 PLACE: Pittsburgh, PA This panel will address a variety of feminist theories (poststructuralist, Marxist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, ecofeminism, etc.) as they respond to the problems and possibilities of the culture of technology. Topics include (but are not limited to) the Internet (incl. bbs, lists, email, electronic conferences, MUSHES, MUDS, etc); television, telephone, fax and other electronic media; and technoliterature. Send inquiries to lxh16@po.cwru.edu Send abstracts and papers by September 1 to Prof. Lila Hanft Dept. of English 11112 Bellflower Rd. Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, OH 44106-7117 36) ------------------------------------------------------------- _International Conference on Refereed Electronic Journals: Towards a Consortium for Networked Publications_ October 1-2, 1993 (Friday & Saturday) Sponsored by: Medical Research Council Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada The University of Manitoba The Delta Winnipeg Hotel 288 Portage Avenue Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 0B8 The aims of the conference are: (1) to make academic merit the sole consideration in the publication of journal-type research, (2) to advance the idea that the academic community should have a hand in determining what gets published and how it is disseminated, (3) to provide an outlet for research publication that is not subject to the severe economic constraints of traditional paper-journal publishing, (4) to make collective use of the scholarly advantages of network publication (savings in production costs, increased speed in publication and dissemination process), (5) to provide an effective and low-cost means for universities and learned societies to play a greater role as disseminators of research information, and not only as producers and consumers. This historic two-day event will be organized as a series of plenary working sessions that will include presentations from major resource people from a variety of fields. An exhibition of the latest computer technology is also planned. Registration is limited to 200 participants. Registration Information Fees: If paid by September 1, 1993: $150.00 (Cdn) If paid after September 1, 1993: $200.00 (Cdn) Dinner for Guests of participants: $ 30.00 (Cdn) Requests for information or the completed Conference Registration Form together with payment should be sent to: Ms. Helga Dyck, Co-ordinator Institute for the Humanities Room 108 Isbister Bldg. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Canada ph.: (204) 474-9599 fax: (204) 275-5781 e-mail: umih@ccu.umanitoba.ca 37) ------------------------------------------------------------- "THE WATCH-TOWERS OF PEACE" An Art Installation By Fred Forrest (FR) May 28th - 4th June 1993 Installation telephone Numbers: 0043 3453 5411 0043 3453 5412 0043 3453 5413 SEND YOUR MESSAGES OF PEACE TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FROM ACROSS THE BORDER IN AUSTRIA. RING THESE NUMBERS FROM EVERY CORNER OF YOUR PLANET TO COVER THE LAND OF WAR WITH SLOGANS OF PEACE. DISSEMINATE YOUR ENERGIES IN REAL TIME THROUGH POSITIVE WAVES. We would like to draw your attention to an installation that will be realised by the artist Fred Forrest within the framework of the European Month of Culture in Graez. The installation will incorporate the general theme "Entegenzte Grenzen" (Dismissed Borders) and function as leading project. It will open in April and can already be considered as extraordinary and exemplary. The technological communication media Fred Forrest is going to install at the Slovenian border will be placed in such a way that they will look in the direction of the former Yugoslavian territory and are called "OBSERVATION TOWERS FOR PEACE". These technological communication media will consist of five sound amplifiers connected to computers and the INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE NETWORK. The metal structures designed to carry these strong amplifiers will be erected in Ehrenhausen, directly at the Austrian-Slovenian border. Through these amplifiers, peace messages are to be emitted in real-time mode. These peace messages will be transmitted to the amplifiers via telephone from the whole world over. A computer will be used to transform the messages via synthesizer into one collective sound signal. The modulation of this whistling sound will change in accordance with both the number of incoming phone calls and the distance from which they come. There is no doubt that the interaction of Fred Forrest's project and its symbolic dimension in view of the present geopolitical situation make the installation a first class media event and emphasize the meaning of our modern society's new forms of communication. For more information, please write to: Fred Forrest Territoire Du MZ, 60540 Anserville, France Tel 44 08 43 05 Fax 44 08 59 67 38) ------------------------------------------------------------- _MONTAGE 93: INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF THE IMAGE_ (1-800-724-4332) montage93@brock1p.bitnet The future of visual communication will open up to educators, professionals and the public during an international festival slated for July 11 through August 7, 1993 in Rochester, New York. The festival will explore the present and future of image-making as well as the fusion of art and technology. _MONTAGE 93_ will feature the latest advances in imaging technology through a series of events which include a Trade Show, International Film and Video Festivals, Lecture and Panel series, Arts & Technology Exposition, International Student Festival and world-premiere exhibitions. The lecture and panel discussion series will focus on numerous topics including digital museums, living in the computer age, privacy and civil liberties in the computer age, Virtual Reality, the future of film and video, and more. Sixteen exhibitions, including 11 premiering at the festival, along with the works of over 300 international artists will feature photography, computer graphics, holography, video, electrostatic imaging, electronic transmission and other advanced techniques. The Trade Show will include a pavilion of over 50 international companies dealing with many facets of technology. Expect to see manufacturers of next-generation of digital cameras, Interactive and Virtual Reality, Computer 2D and 3D graphic software, business imaging and more. The International Student Festival will draw about 500 students and educators from across the globe. A Media Teachers Educational Conference will also take place during _MONTAGE 93_. The Arts & Technology Exposition puts you inside simulated studio environments as artists and tool developers demonstrate still, moving, dimensional, and interactive image-making systems. The International Film Festival will feature screenings of new films, 35 and 16 mm, created by independent producers. Video, Etc. is a showcase of video, computer animation, and time- based electronic work by international artists and independent producers. Several professional conferences will take place during _MONTAGE 93_ including: High-Tech Global New York; Oracle; Fast Rewind; International Visual Sociology Association; and the Media Arts Teachers Association. _MONTAGE 93_ now has available ticketing and registration information. This includes the names and topics scheduled for panel discussions and seminars. Please call 1-800-724-4332 and request additional information or call (716) 442-6722 (overseas) or e-mail: montage93@brock1p.bitnet. 39) ------------------------------------------------------------- _FEMISA_ FEMISA@mach1.wlu.ca _FEMISA_ is conceived as a list where those who work on or think about feminism, gender, women and international relations, world politics, international political economy, or global politics, can communicate. Formally, _FEMISA_ was established to help those members of the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section of the _International Studies Association_ keep in touch. More generally, I hope that _FEMISA_ can be a network where we share information in the area of feminism or gender and international studies about publications or articles, course outlines, questions about sources or job opportunities, information about conferences or upcoming events, or proposed panels and information related to the _International Studies Association_. To subscribe: send one line message in the BODY of mail-message sub femisa your name to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca To unsub send the one line message unsub femisa to: listserv@mach1.wlu.ca I look forward to hearing suggestions and comments from you. Owner: Deborah Stienstra stienstr@uwpg02.uwinnipeg.ca Department of Political Science University of Winnipeg 40) ------------------------------------------------------------- _HOLOCAUS: Holocaust list_ HOLOCAUS on LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU HOLOCAUS@uicvm has become part of the stable of electronic mail discussion groups ("lists") at the University of Illinois, Chicago. It is sponsored by the University's History Department and its Jewish Studies Program. To subscribe to HOLOCAUS, you need an Internet or Bitnet computer account. From that account, send this message to LISTSERV@UICVM.BITNET or LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu: SUB HOLOCAUS Firstname Surname Use your own Firstname and Lastname. You will be automatically added. You can read all the mail, and send your own postings to everyone on the list (We have about 100 subscribers around the world right now). Owner: JimMott@spss.com The HOLOCAUS policies are: 1. The coverage of the list will include the Holocaust itself, and closely related topics like anti-Semitism, and Jewish history in the 1930's and 1940's, as well as related themes in the history of WW2, Germany, and international diplomacy. 2. We are especially interested in reaching college teachers of history who already have, or plan to teach courses on the Holocaust. In 1991-92, there were 265 college faculty in the US and Canada teaching courses on the Holocaust (154 in History departments, 67 in Religion, and 46 in Literature). An even larger number of professors teach units on the Holocaust in courses on Jewish history (taught by 273 faculty) and World War II (taught by 373), not to mention many other possible courses. Most of these professors own PC's, but do not use them for e-mail. We hope our list will be one inducement to go on line. _HOLOCAUS_ will therefore actively solicit syllabi, reading lists, termpaper guides, ideas on films and slides, and tips and comments that will be of use to the teacher who wants to add a single lecture, or an entire course. 3. H-Net is now setting up an international board of editors to guide _HOLOCAUS_ policy and to help stimulate contributions. 4. _HOLOCAUS_ is moderated by Jim Mott (JimMott@spss.com), a PhD in History. The moderator will solicit postings (by e- mail, phone and even by US mail), will assist people in subscribing and setting up options, will handle routine inquiries, and will consolidate some postings. The moderator will also solicit and post newsletter type information (calls for conferences, for example, or listings of sessions at conventions). It may prove feasible to commission book and article reviews, and to post book announcements from publishers. Anyone with suggestions about what _HOLOCAUS_ can and might do is invited to send in the ideas. 5. The tone and target audience will be scholarly, and academic standards and styles will prevail. _HOLOCAUS_ is affiliated with the _International History Network_. 6. _HOLOCAUS_ is a part of H-Net, a project run by computer- oriented historians at the U of Illinois. We see moderated e-mail lists as a new mode of scholarly communication; they have enormous potential for putting in touch historians from across the world. Our first list on urban history, _H- URBAN@UICVM_, recently started up with Wendy Plotkin as moderator. _H-WOMEN_ is in the works, with discussions underway about other possibilities like Ethnic, Labor, and US South. We are helping our campus Jewish Studies program set up _JSTUDY_ (restricted to the U of Illinois Chicago campus, for now), and are considering the creation of _H- JEWISH_, also aimed at academics, but covering the full range of scholarship on Jewish history. If you are interested in any of these projects, please e-write Richard Jensen, for we are now (as of late April) in a critical planning stage. 7. H-Net has an ambitious plan for training historians across the country in more effective use of electronic communications. Details of the H-Net plan are available on request from Richard Jensen, the director, at: campbelld@apsu or u08946@uicvm.uic.edu 41) ------------------------------------------------------------- _UTNE READER INTERNET E-MAIL SALONS_ Calling all: _Utne Reader_ readers Neighborhood Salon Associates members Interested others The Utne Reader Neighborhood Salon Association is launching a global network of Internet mailing lists designed to foster small group dialogue about hot topics and timeless conundra. We call them E-mail Salons and they are patterned after the hundreds of Neighborhood Salons (face-to-face) that we've helped form across North America since 1991. Helping to revitalize democracy through vigorous discussion of issues and ideas is part of the mission of the Neighborhood Salon Association (NSA), our not-for-profit community service, funded in part by the Surdna Foundation. We believe that both online and face-to-face salons help revive the endangered art of conversation. Anyone who does not live in Canada or the United States can participate for free. Likewise, anyone who has an account on PeaceNet, EcoNet, the Web, GreenNet or other APC (Association for Progressive Computing) network can participate free of charge. Otherwise, you must be a member of the Utne Reader Salon Association to participate. For a one-time sign-up fee of $12 ($20 Canadian) you receive: * Placement in at least one E-mail Salon of up to 25 participants. * A printed list of 20-30 members near you who have also joined the NSA over the past two years. * Access to contact information on existing Salons (face-to-face) in your area. * A printed copy of the Salon-Keeper's Companion, our 8-page guide to conducting salons, council, and study circles. WILL MY NAME END UP ON A JUNKMAIL LIST? We will not be giving or selling any of our salon mailing lists to anyone. Likewise, we ask that you not use any list of salon names for anything other than salon-related communications. 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