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PSi Digest 36 (October 2008) Postgraduate Opportunities (Items 73 - 85) 73. Postgraduate Scholarships for Research on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash U, Melbourne, Australia The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary research centre, specialising in Comparative Literature, Literary and Cultural Theory, and Continental Philosophy. CCLCS offers the PhD degree by research only and by research and coursework, an MA degree by research, an MA in Critical Theory by coursework and research and a PG Diploma (Research) in Critical Theory. The postgraduate subjects taught cover the work of critical and cultural theorists such as Adorno, Benjamin, Bourdieu, Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault, Irigaray, Jameson, Kristeva, Said, Spivak, Williams and Žižek. Check the centre’s website for further details: www.arts.monash.edu.au/cclcs/postgraduate CCLCS provides the following resources to candidates enrolled in its postgraduate programs: For copies of the 2009 CCLCS Graduate Studies Prospectus contact: Ms Gail Ward, Executive Officer, Tel. (03) 9905 2208, email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au Postgraduate Scholarships for Research on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction Scholarship: Tax-free stipend of $20,007 pa (2008) plus project support funding. Applicants must have a First Class Honours degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent qualifications, and an interest in the research area. Top Up Scholarships: In 2009 the Centre will offer several top up scholarships of $10,000 pa to students who commence work on a PhD in the Centre and who hold an APA. These will be offered to students who want to work with the Centre’s leading research scholars on nominated topics. Topics and supervisor are listed below. Professor Andrew Benjamin: 1) Walter Benjamin; 2) Philosophy and the Visual Arts, epecially work on painting; 3) Philosophical aspects of 19th and 20th Century Jewish Thought, especially Rosenzweig and Levinas. Professor Andrew Milner: 1) Pierre Bourdieu, Fredric Jameson, Raymond Williams; 2) Utopia and Dystopia in Science Fiction; 3) Sociological Approaches to Literature, especially Cultural Materialism. Associate Professor Kate Rigby: 1) Ecophilosophy, Ecocriticism and Ecotheology; 2) Romanticism in European Literature; 3) German Literature and Critical Theory. Dr Alison Ross: 1) Rancière’s Critique of Modernism; 2) Kant’s Moral and Aesthetic Philosophy; 3) Michel Foucault. For further details contact: Professor Andrew Milner, Graduate Applications close 31 October 2008. 74. PhD Scholarships in Audience and Market Foresight with Smart Services CRC, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia The Smart Services CRC is a $120 million, commercially focused collaborative research initiative, developing innovation, foresight and productivity improvements for the services sector. Services are the largest sector of the economy representing approximately 80% of Australia’s GDP and 85% of employment. Within the services industries Smart Services’ initial programs will be customer-focused with outcomes translatable across the whole services sector. Initial research outcomes and demonstrators will principally be associated with the digital media, finance and government sectors. In order to achieve these goals, Smart Services CRC will be supporting research higher degree students at PhD and Masters level through scholarships, top-ups and in-kind support for research, travel, conferences etc. As a partner in Smart Services CRC, the Queensland University of Technology is offering scholarship packages for 2009. Research higher degree students with CRC scholarships will have access to the full range of resources offered by QUT (access to equipment and facilities, Grants-in-Aid, teaching opportunities etc.), as well as the opportunity to work with leading industry partners in the media, finance and government sectors on projects of direct real-world relevance through Smart Services CRC. The Audience and Market Foresight program in researching how audience and industry use of media is changing in the context of market and audience fragmentation, as well as underlying drivers such as user-created content, increasing use of social media, and the proliferation of mobile communications tools and devices. Led by the Creative Industries Faculty and the Faculty of Business, the Audience and Market Foresight program provides the opportunity to work collaboratively with industry partners such as Fairfax Digital and Sensis on aligning research activity with industry goals and strategies in the emergent digital media environment. The following topics are of interest to supervisors in the Audience and Market Foresight research project team: Professor Terry Flew (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) Audiences and markets for online and mobile media; Dr. Axel Bruns (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Drivers and motivations for users to participate in social media Websites; Dr. Christy Collis (Creative Industries Faculty, QUT) 1. Emerging uses and users of locative mobile media; Dr. Edwina Luck (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Future drivers of participation within virtual social media Dr. Larry Neale (School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations, Faculty of Business, QUT) 1. Network and device convergence
Smart Services CRC is a research and development partnership between 12 major industry players and six Australian universities, funded by the private sector and governments under the Australian Government’s Cooperative Research Centre program. Its aim is the creation of research-enabled commercial outcomes for its partners. For more information on the Smart Services CRC, go to http://www.smartservicescrc.com.au/AboutUs.html. For more information on scholarships at QUT, go to http://www.rsc.qut.edu.au/studentsstaff/scholarships/. Information for prospective research students in the Faculty of Business can be found at http://www.bus.qut.edu.au/research/. Information for prospective research students in the Creative Industries Faculty can be found at http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/research/future-student/. 75. AHRC Funded PhD Studentship in Contemporary African and African Diasporic Performance Practices, Goldsmiths, U of London, UK The Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing and the Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London are offering an AHRC sponsored PhD studentship in Fractured Narratives in Contemporary African and African Diasporic Theatre and Performance Practices. Applications are requested from candidates with a Masters Degree or equivalent qualification in a related subject area for a studentship in this dynamic and research active centre and department at Goldsmiths. The successful candidate would be a member of the Drama and Theatre Arts Research group in the Pinter Centre and contribute to the activities of the centre and the Department of Drama, particularly to the AHRC funded three-year project, ‘Beyond the Linear Narrative: Fractured Narratives in Writing and Performance in the Postcolonial Era’. The student will attend and contribute to the project’s seminars, conferences and creative events; help maintain its online blog and play an editorial role in resulting publications, including articles published in African Performance Review (APR), a journal based in the department. The student will also have the opportunity to be involved with the African Theatre Association (AfTA), which also has close links to the department. Proposals should endeavour to respond to the following sub-themes: The lead supervisor for the PhD project will be Dr Osita Okagbue. Applications, together with a three-page proposal, should be sent to David Smith (Drama Administrator) drama@gold.ac.uk or Department of Drama, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW. An on-line application form can be obtained here: Deadline for applications is 15 November 2008. Applicants must be able to register by January 12, 2009. For further informal information to discuss this studentship, contact Dr Okagbue: o.okagbue@gold.ac.uk or directly on 020 7919 7581. A reminder that SCUDD makes available £200 scholarships for research students in SCUDD members departments to go toward the costs of presenting at conferences. Do advise your supervisees to check details at: Or by going to 'information for members' from the home page - www.scudd.org.uk Mark Taylor-Batty The Pinter Society: www.pintersociety.org 77. Eduardo Cadava Masterclass, Oct 28 2008, U of Western Australia This masterclass will be organized around a close reading of the third version of Walter Benjamin’s famous essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of Technological Reproducibility.” It will seek to register the way in which Benjamin enacts and performs, within the movement of his writing, what he wishes to convey. It will pay particular attention to the way in which the essay seeks to present a series of theses that can be used as “weapons” against fascism, and against a Germany that wishes to define itself as a “total work of art.” Some attention will be paid to the ongoing relevance of the essay to contemporary debates about the role of technology in our everyday life, the relations between aesthetics and politics, and the grounds for political work. Texts: Copies of these texts will be made available to participants following comfirmation of registration. About Eduardo Cadava The IAS Masterclass provides an opportunity for postgraduate students to meet and discuss their research with a distinguished scholar who is visiting UWA. Institute of Advanced Studies 78. CFP: Postgraduate Colloquium, November 20-21 2008, Monash U, Melbourne (due Oct 1) The Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies organises an annual Postgraduate Colloquium, where postgraduate students from the Centre and the wider Faculty are able to share ideas and expertise. It is an opportunity for PhD and MA students doing substantial research projects to present parts of or summaries of their work to a friendly but interested audience on their home soil. Many postgraduate students and staff from the Centre, the wider Faculty and elsewhere have attended previous Colloquia and enjoyed both the intellectual fare and the amenities provided. CALL FOR PAPERS All Centre postgraduates are invited to present a paper or make some other form of presentation on any aspect of their research (20-25 minutes plus discussion). Postgraduate students working elsewhere in the Faculty in literary studies, cultural studies or critical theory are also welcome. Presentations incorporating audiovisual components are welcome. Panel proposals are also invited, whether research-oriented or on broader issues relating to university matters or current affairs. The Colloquium is open to postgraduate students; to supervisors and staff in the Faculty; and to prospective or recently completed postgraduate students. The Colloquium is an informal and relaxed event, which will provide an opportunity to mix with other postgraduates and share research interests. Lunch and refreshments will of course be provided. EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST If you are interested in making a presentation, please contact David Jack, Lydia Glick and David Lane at: colloquium08@arts.monash.edu.au Please supply the Title of your proposal and an Abstract (approx. 100-150 words). Please mention any preference as to date and time, as well as any audio-visual or other technical requirements. Expressions of interest should be received by Wednesday, 1st of October 2008. 79. CFP: Emerging Scholars Symposium, Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 5-8 2009, Chicago, US (due Oct 15) Two Emerging Scholar Debut Panels: One Graduate and One Undergraduate Undergraduate and Graduate students who have not yet presented at a major theatre conference are invited to submit papers for the 2009 Emerging Scholars Symposium, two debut panels of the Mid-America Theatre Conference. Papers for the two panels are welcome on any topic in theatre history, theory, or dramatic literature. Submissions that treat a subject related to this year's MATC theme, “Poor Theatre?”, are especially encouraged, though not required. Such papers might include discussions of... Up to three participants will be selected for each panel, and each panelist will have fifteen minutes to deliver his or her paper. Students whose papers are accepted will receive free conference registration, free admission to the conference luncheon, a one-year membership in MATC, and a cash prize of $50. Undergraduate winners will also be paired with a conference mentor. Papers should be 7-10 pages in length (1750-2500 words), and will be evaluated on writing quality, originality, and critical/theoretical sophistication. Submissions must be received by October 15, 2008. Please include the name of your academic institution, mail and email address, telephone number, and a brief bio, and specify whether you are submitting to the Undergraduate or Graduate Debut Panel. Email COMPLETED papers (no abstracts, please) as Microsoft Word attachments AND Stacey Connelly The Mid-America Theatre Conference is held every March at a mid-western city 80. CFP: ‘Thinking Gender,’ Student Research Conference, Feb 6 2009, UCLA, US (due Oct 22) Thinking Gender is a public conference highlighting graduate student research on women, sexuality and gender across all disciplines and historical periods. We invite submissions for individual papers or preconstituted panels. This year, we especially welcome feminist research on: - women and media For individual papers, please submit an abstract (250 word maximum), a CV (2 pages maximum, no resumes, please), and a brief bibliography (1 page maximum). For panels, please submit a 250-word description of the panel topic in addition to the materials required for the individual paper submissions. Please reference the submission guidelines at http://www.csw.ucla.edu/thinkinggender.html, and note that only complete applications adhering to the stated guidelines will be accepted. Deadline for Submissions: Wednesday, October 22, 2008, by midnight. We will only accept completed submissions emailed by the deadline, without exception. Please send submissions to: thinkinggender@women.ucla.edu UCLA Center for the Study of Women USC Center for Feminist Research 81. CFP: Ex Plus Ultra, Inaugural Issue April 2009 (due Oct 31) Ex Plus Ultra is a new international postgraduate journal of colonial and imperial history and post colonial theory under shared international editorship between the universities of Sydney, Leeds and Bristol, in collaboration with the Worldwide Universities Network. We are seeking articles, review essays and book reviews for our forthcoming first issue. The name Ex Plus Ultra is a play on the old Roman warning non plus ultra meaning "nothing further beyond" found by sailors and navigators at the borders of empire. The warning defines the geographical limits of empire and marks the "beyond" as nothingness. It labels that which empire does not know and that where empire does not go as a non-place and non-time. There is nothing further beyond. Here is fiction announcing itself as fact; temptation packaged as prohibition; polemic written as edict. Ex Plus Ultra meaning "out from further beyond", although nonsense Latin, is a response and rejoinder to non plus ultra. Ex Plus Ultra is a journal that encourages work that goes beyond merely unearthing "colonial" and "postcolonial" worlds and which seeks to contest those very categories. There was no cataclysmic rupture heralding the arrival of the "post-colonial" nor was the advent of colonialism defined, uncontested or in some cases even as significant for the colonised as has previously been assumed. The very categories of "colonial" and "postcolonial", insofar as they subscribe to linear, progressive time, are themselves imperial legacies. This is a journal committed to thinking of new ways to configure the broad, contradictory and diffuse processes of imperialism. Imperialism should not just refer to British imperialism or its privileged epistemic schemes. Imperialism is less to do with temporality (post or not post) as it is to do with relationships between empires, within empires and the constitution of colonised and colonising subjects. For the first edition of Ex Plus Ultra we are casting a wide net, inviting creative, scholarly papers of up to 6000 words that are generally concerned with colonial and imperial history and postcolonial theory. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: “X imperial intimacies: exploring the role of emotions, sex and desire in colonial and imperial power. All submissions must conform to Ex Plus Ultra submission guidelines available on request. Please attach any images or photos to be published along with your paper. The deadline for submissions is October 31 2008, please email all submissions to: The Editors at Ex Plus Ultra is a peer reviewed interdisciplinary journal. The first edition of Ex Plus Ultra will be published April 2009. To contact the current editorial collective please email: explusultra@usyd.edu.au 82. CFP: Young Scholars Award, History/Theory/Criticism/Literature, Southeastern Theatre Conference, US (due Dec 1) We invite submissions from graduate students and undergraduate students relating to our committee interest areas of history, theory, criticism, and literature. One graduate and one undergraduate paper will be chosen to win a $225 cash prize and to present their winning papers at the 2009 SETC conference in Birmingham, Alabama.* Though our interest area is committed to the scholarly exploration of the issues that revolve around any and every theatre presentation, though we focus on traditional studies in history, theory, criticism, and literature; we are also interested in contemporary subjects including: who teaches history, how we teach history, pedagogy, praxis vs. theory, censorship, telling/selling history, subjects that support as well as resist traditional approaches to history, theory, criticism and literature. Papers should be presentation length of 20 minutes/no more than 10 pages in length. Deadline for submission: December 1. 2008. Please submit by the deadline: your name and contact information (including email address) one electronic copy (preferred) attached to an email in Microsoft Word format, MLA style, or five paper copies by mail or to this address: *Winners must attend the 2009 conference to present their winning entry at the Young Scholars Award panel in Birmingham in March 2009 in order to accept prize money. For more information contact Dr. Dawn Larsen at llarsen@fmarion.edu 83. CFP: ‘Confounding Expectations: Collaborative Acts,’ May 4-6 2009, Graduate Student Conference, U of Calgary, Canada (due Dec 14) finearts.ucalgary.ca/gradconference The graduate students of the University of Calgary's Faculty of Fine Arts are pleased to announce this Call for Participation for their 2009 interdisciplinary graduate-student conference. The conference will take place Monday May 4th through Wednesday May 6th, 2009. The title of this year's session is Confounding Expectations: Collaborative Acts. In keeping with this theme, and the conference's interdisciplinary nature, the scope of submissions is much expanded. Academic Papers It is expected that the presentation of academic papers will remain an important part of the conference. We encourage submissions from all areas of arts research that pertain to the conference theme Collaborative Acts. The focus of the papers may include (but is not restricted to) such areas as critical theory, history, practice, and performance as it pertains to music, theatre, dance, and visual art. Presentations will be no longer than 20 minutes and a 10-minute question period will follow. Abstracts should be titled and be no more than 350 words in length. As well, the abstract should contain no information identifying you or your academic institution. Include such information on a cover sheet. Practice and Research. T his year we are also inviting proposals for presentations of creative research and practice. These presentations may take many forms including (but not restricted to): performance of original musical compositions, readings of original dramatic works, visual art exhibitions, lecture-recitals, network performances, etc… Venues for these presentations include several on-campus theatres, recital halls, and art galleries. (See our website for more detailed information.) Time-based or performance-based presentations must be no longer than 40 minutes and will also be followed by a 10-minute question period as appropriate. Proposals should include at least a written abstract of no more than 350 words and contain no information identifying you or your academic institution. (Such information should be attached on a cover sheet.) Within the proposal please specify your presentation's anticipated venue and technical needs. Supporting materials should also be submitted and could include copies of compositional scores, play scripts, video documentation of proposed performances, or images of visual art proposed for exhibition. All submissions must be received no later than 23:59 MST Sunday, December 14th, 2009. Proposals should be sent electronically to acdalton@ucalgary.ca. Proposals may also be mailed to the address at the bottom of this page, attention Aaron Dalton. If you have any questions regarding possible formats of submission, these can also be directed electronically to the above email address. The list of available performance/exhibition venues, as well as other general information (including travel and accommodation) can be found at our website: http://finearts.ucalgary.ca/gradconference. 84. CFP: ‘Sense and Sensation,’ Philament No 14 (due Jan 31) Philament, the online journal of the arts and culture affiliated with the University of Sydney invites postgraduate scholars to contribute articles, fictocriticism, reviews, and opinions forŠ Issue 14: Sense & Sensation SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 31st January, 2009 "Ah well! It means much the same thing," said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice's shoulder as she added, "and the moral of THAT is -'Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves." "To the senseless nothing is more maddening than sense." Possible themes include, but are not limited to: · Academic papers: up to 8,000 words. · Opinion pieces: reviews (book, stage, screen, etc.), conference reports, short essays, responses to papers previously published in Philament issues. Limit of 1000 words. · Creative Work: in the form of writing, images, sounds or a mixture of any or all three. All submissions should be limited to three pieces. All submissions may be sent as email attachment in a PC-readable format to: slamphilament@usyd.edu.au Academic papers must include endnotes and conform to the Philament house style of referencing (see http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament/submissions.htm ). For further information visit http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/publications/philament 85. CFP: AAP Adjudicated Emerging Scholars Panel, April 6-7 2009, (due Feb 1) The Association for Asian Performance (AAP) invites submissions for its 15th Annual Adjudicated Panel to be held during the Association for Asian Performance annual conference in New York City Aug 6th-7th, 2009, which precedes the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference. Anyone (current and recent graduate students, scholars, teachers, artists) early in their scholarly career or who has not presented a paper at an AAP conference before is welcome to submit work for consideration. To qualify one need not necessarily be affiliated with an institution of higher learning, although this is expected. Papers (8-10 double-spaced pages) may deal with any aspect of Asian performance or drama. Preparation of the manuscript in Asian Theatre Journal style, which can be gleaned from a recent issue, is desirable. Up to three winning authors may be selected and invited to present their papers at the upcoming AAP conference. Paper and project presentations should be no longer than twenty minutes. A $100 cash prize will be awarded for each paper selected, to help offset conference fees. AAP Conference registration fees are waived for the winners, who also receive one year free membership to AAP. The Emerging Scholars Panel Adjudication Committee is chaired by Dr. Kathy Foley, Editor of Asian Theatre Journal. Selected papers will be strongly considered for publication in ATJ, which is an official publication of AAP and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). Those interested in submitting work for review should mail four (4) copies of their paper or report to: Kathy Foley, Professor, Theatre Arts Deadline for Submissions: February 1, 2009 A separate cover sheet detailing the author's contact information-address, phone number, and email address (for both academic year and summer holiday) must accompany each submission. The author's name should not appear on the text proper. Please direct any inquiries regarding the emerging scholars panel to Dr. Foley. To find out about the benefits of becoming an AAP member, please check out our website at http://www.yavanika.org/aaponline |
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