The Night Shift is a guide for those of you who are lost: for the thinkers amongst you who are frustrated by a lack of progress in creating a just society and for the practical amongst you who are at a loss as to what you should actually be doing.
In the journal Agone (issues 41 and 42) a whole collection of articles and papers examine the role of intellectuals in regards of liberation struggles. The co-coordinators of these issues, Thierry Discepolo, Charles Jacquier eta Philippe Olivera, present the debate as follows: “The “intellectual” would necessarily be “from the left”, he would only work “naturally” [...]
Women Aloud: Videoblogging for Empowerment (WAVE). The project involves training young women around India (one per state) to become citizen journalists telling video stories about positive change in their communities to an international audience online.
Critical Stew is proud to announce the launch of Lapiko Kritikoa, its Basque language edition. Lapiko Kritikoa embodies Subaltern Media’s philosophy of widening access of knowledge and ideas beyond the structures of the English language. Lapiko Kritikoa will publish original articles aimed at furthering critical theory and philosophy as well as translations of select articles [...]
O International Journal of Žižek Studies (IJZS) pretende lançar uma nova edição especial da revista destinada aos estudos Ibero/Latino-Americanos. Serão bem-vindos artigos que desenvolvam ou critiquem as ideias de Slavoj Žižek, bem como aqueles que analizem ou teorizem questões ibero/latino-americanas
El International Journal of Žižek Studies (IJZS) desea poner en circulación una edición especial de la revista destinada para escritos de estudios ibero / latinoamericanos. Damos la bienvenida a los artículos que elaboren o critiquen las ideas de Slavoj Žižek así como aquéllos que analicen o teoricen cuestiones ibero/latinoamericanas
The International Journal of Žižek Studies intends to bring out a special issue of the journal for writings on Iberian/Latin American Studies. We welcome papers on a wide range of topics that either elaborate or critique the ideas of Slavoj Žižek as well as analysing and theorising Iberian/Latin American questions.
Wide Screen (link) the online, peer-reviewed, open access journal on screen studies is now launched. The inaugural issue was published last week. The editors are thankful to the academics and practitioners on our editorial and advisory board from over nine countries whose wholehearted support was without cavil. Each is an academic or a practitioner of [...]
JAMES BEVERIDGE MEDIA RESOURCE CENTRE AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia CALL FOR PROPOSALS The JB MRC, AJK MCRC announces its second round of independent fellowships for the period March 1, 2009 – August 31, 2009. Applications are invited for the Junior Research Fellowships.
SAPC’s 4th meeting invites interdisciplinary contributions from across subjects in the arts, humanities and social sciences to engage with notions of popular culture. ’South Asian popular culture’ is defined in a broad and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass and new media, different ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. [...]
