Recently, we see a growing scholarship in design, art, technology, and science regarding their relationships with disability and thus exploring issues of materiality as well as complex embodiment and cognitive difference. In opposition to previous narratives, these novel and critical accounts center disability as a creative force, an embodied experience that fosters innovation and allows for new affordances of already known and circulating objects, practices and knowledges.
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International Conference, 26-28 June 2025, University of Graz
CALL FOR PAPERS
What is critique? What can Critical Theory do for society? Which forms of critique may claim any relevance in late capitalism? How can a critical public opinion manifest itself in the 21st century? How can we distinguish critique from political ideologies and conspiracy theories? (see Fridays for Future, Querdenker, etc.) What characterises critical thinking? How can radical thought be rendered practically relevant?
The Center for Transregional Culture and Society at Nagoya University is proud to announce its 2024 Annual International Symposium, Urban Issues Revisited: History, Ecology, Media. This international symposium will bring together scholars of history, anthropology, cinema, media, literature, architecture, ethics, sociology, and environmental studies to interrogate how urban past(s) have and continue to impact urban present(s) and future(s), especially in Asia.
In the cities of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand, real estate seems to be almost a second nature. It is a pervasive fact in daily life, structuring the economy and the environment. Wealth is tied up in it, our planning systems serve it, and our culture obsesses over how to obtain and improve it. But real estate has no independent history or power in itself.
A new book series with Bloomsbury on Philosophical Anthropology is seeking proposals for possible inclusion in the series.
The series will largely focus its publication agenda on the following avenues:
Dear friends,
Registration is now open for the hybrid conference on Socialism and Indigeneity in the Americas, to be held at UCL and online on 9th and 10th January. Please find panel titles and times below, and links for registration at the bottom. We look forward to welcoming you to what promises to be a fascinating and exciting couple of days! The full programme and abstracts will be made available early in January.
With best wishes
Dr. William A. Booth
SOCIALISM AND INDIGENEITY IN THE AMERICAS
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African and African-American Studies and Museum Studies offer joint master’s degrees with coordinated curricula so students are able to complete two M.A. degrees in three years. <https://afs.ku.edu/overview> Fifteen graduate credit hours are applied to both programs, allowing students to complete a 33-credit-hour AAAS degree and a 36-credit-hour Museum Studies degree with just 54 graduate credits.
The African & African American Studies Department at the University of Kansas is currently accepting applications for its M. A. program <https://afs.ku.edu/graduate-program> Applications are due May 1 for Fall 2024 admission.
1st Aesthetix International Conference on Indian Arts and Literature
(Entire proceedings to be published in the Aesthetix Journal of Indian Studies)
(March 9- 10, 2024)
Organized by