"Representing Climate Change: Ecology, Media and the Arts"

A conference and photography exhibition hosted by "The Cultures of Climate
Change".

at The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH), University of Cambridge.

15-17 October 2008

Call For Papers - Edited Collection
Down to "The Wire": Urban Decay and American Television

Edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
(University of British Columbia)

Call For Papers - Edited Collection
Down to "The Wire": Urban Decay and American Television

Edited by Tiffany Potter and C.W. Marshall
(University of British Columbia)

The English department at Baton Rouge Community College invites
submissions from faculty and graduate students to its spring 2009
annual writing conference, "Writing Matters: An Exploration of the
Diverse Nature of the Composition Classroom." Papers and panel
discussions are welcome in all areas relating to the composition
classroom, including technology, cultural diversity, teaching
methodology, interdisciplinary approaches, and writing across the
curriculum. Deadline for abstracts, which should be a maximum of 200
words, is Friday, Nov. 21, 2008. Selected participants will be notified
by Monday, Dec. 8, 2008.

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of IN SHORT, a new online
peer-reviewed journal. IN SHORT provides a home for scholarship on “small”
moving images from a diversity of critical and theoretical perspectives.
This peer-reviewed online journal has been created to encourage and
facilitate scholarly responses to "small" moving images of all kinds: short
films (documentary, fiction, narrative, experimental, etc.), music videos,
commercials, You-tube/viral videos, video art, television episodes, and
readings of a single scene from a longer film, etc.

David Bartholomae, in his introductory essay to his recent collection,
Writing on the Margins, notes that “In 1976, it was not uncommon for
those of us working with basic writers to say of our colleagues, ‘If they
can read Gertrude Stein and value what she does, why can’t they read the
work of basic writersâ€"why can’t they give it the same time and attention,
why can’t they value the work’.” It is still a very good, and
unanswered, question in 2008. Bartholomae’s remarks, along with his
attention to Stein in this recent essay, points to some still to be
explored implications of the student-centered, assignment driven, labor-