Lady Monica Cockfield PhD scholarship, University of Salford, UK‏

Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust Scholarship for a PhD in European Studies Every year the University of Salford offers a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidates wishing to study for a PhD. The European Studies Research Institute is very happy to announce that it is in a position to also advertise for an extra Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies (after we appointed our first Cockfield PhD student in April 2009) with the aim of providing a student from a low-income background the chance of studying for a PhD on the European Union. Applications are now invited for PhD study based in the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI). The PhD scholarship is worth £12,000 per annum over three years and is open to UK/EU students. The closing dates for applications is 10 August 09. The earliest registration date for the successful applicant is September 2009. Please apply for the Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies using the normal application material. Those who are shortlisted for the scholarship will be asked to provide evidence of how they meet the criteria listed above. In addition, please also provide a letter to indicate to what extent your application fulfils the aims of the scholarship listed above. For details on how to apply for a PhD please visit: www.esri.salford.ac.uk <http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/> http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/esri/p/?s=5&pid=15 For any additional queries, please contact: Dr Christian Kaunert T +44 (0)161 295 4839 c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Dr Christian Kaunert Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History Crescent House University of Salford Manchester M5 4WT European Studies Research Institute http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk E-mail: c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Tel.: +44(0)161 295 4839

Cultural Translation Conference‏

Cultural Translation
11th December 2009, Cardiff University
Call for Papers

Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. ... And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)

The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. ... Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is ... how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)


For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:

Intercultural encounters
Translation between cultures
Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
Theories and practices of cultural translation
Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
Re-examining the assumptions of translation
Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies

Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.
Deadline: 1st September 2009
Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk

NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.

Organisation: The conference is organised by:

The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).

Call for applications for Research Assistant and PhD Studentship - The Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds‏

ESRC/AHRC Fellowship under the 'Global Uncertainties: Security for all in a Changing World' Programme of Research Councils UK on The Challenges to Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds. The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University is pleased to invite applications for two positions arising from the award of the above Fellowship to Professor Nicholas Wheeler. RESEARCH ASSISTANTThis position will entail identification and acquisition of research materials and general organisational support (including dissemination) for this multidisciplinary project. The successful candidate must have a PhD in a discipline relevant to the project, be familiar with a wide range of research methodologies, and have excellent IT skills. Experience in organising workshops/conferences would be an advantage. This position is available from 1 September 2009 and is a fixed term post for 3 years. For more information, please seehttp://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/IP.09.05%20Ext.pdf PHD STUDENTSHIPThe central research question to be addressed by the linked studentship is: what role has trust played and can play in the nuclear relationshipbetween the United States and USSR (1983-1991) and the United States and Russia (1991-2010)? For more information please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/pga/web/IntPol_GU_PhD_Schol_2009.htm For further details of the proposed area of research, please see the'Statement Summary' athttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/Statement_Summary.pdfFor more information on both positions and the project, please see the website of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies athttp://www.aber.ac.auk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/DavidDavies.htm Professor Nicholas J WheelerDirectorDavid Davies Memorial Institute of International StudiesDepartment of International PoliticsAberystwyth UniversitySY23 3FETel +44 (0) 1970 622852Fax + 44 (0) 1970 622708

Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Ernest Mandel‏)

NEW TITLE - Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream DeferredJan Willem StutjeWith a foreword by Tariq AliTranslated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker Published 18th May 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist andeconomist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second WorldWar as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium andduring his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel'sfaith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazioppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentrationcamps. He retained his connection to his Jewish roots throughout hislife, but believed that security and liberation for the Jewish peoplewas best achieved through world revolution and universal emancipationrather than nationalism. A brilliant orator in several languages,Mandel was an indefatigable revolutionary militant and a key leader inthe Fourth International, He had an enormous impact on the thoughtand practice of the 1968 generation. His writings range frominnovative economic and political theory to a study of the SecondWorld War and have been published in over forty languages. His lastmajor work, Late Capitalism, had an influence that reached from thesocial sciences into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje,the first writer with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewedmany of the leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of newmaterial, detailing Mandel's arrest by the Nazis and his role in LatinAmerican guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions withboth scholars - Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson - and comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book alsoyields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life. JAN WILLEM STUTJE is a historian affiliated with the Institute ofBiography at the University of Groningen. He has published a life ofDutch Communist Party leader Paul de Groot and studies of the Dutchand international labour movement in scholarly publications in theNetherlandsand abroad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise for Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred: "An extraordinary accomplishment. This book deserves a place ofhonour in the library of anyone who is interested in the history oftwentieth-century revolutionary socialism." Walter Lotens, Kritischlezen "A masterful and critical biography that reads like a thriller." FredBraeckman, De Morgen "Stutje does a good job of avoiding the temptations of hagiography,and paints a fascinating portrait of Mandel, a Marxist thinker andradical political figure who is undeservedly almost forgotten." PietPiryns and Hubert van Humbeek, Knack "This impressive scholarly biography deals not only with ErnestMandel, but equally with the success and tribulations of theTrotskyist movement that he helped lead for decades and with societyas a whole. This smoothly written book inadvertently evokes the imageof a biblical prophet, whose personal life and happiness, loves,friendships and career were sacrificed time and again to the greatstruggle against exploitation and injustice - a man who knew that hehad to give up everything except hope." Ludo Abicht, AKTIEF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISBN 9781844673162 £19.99 / $34.95 / Hardback / 424 pages Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred is available from all goodbookshops and: http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/stutje_jw_ernest_mandel.shtml UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1243505552&sr=1-2 http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673162/Ernest-Mandel US: http://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243508020&sr=8-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Verso's new blog for information on our upcoming events, newreviews and publications and special offers.http://versouk.wordpress.com/ And get updates on Twitter too!http://twitter.com/VersoBooksUK

BISA: Conference 2009 Draft Programme‏

Dear Colleagues, The BISA Conference Committee has now finalised the draft programme for the 2009 Conference at the University of Leicester. The full details of the draft programme are now available on the BISA website at: http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139-conference-provisional-programme-2009&catid=35-conferences Some of you will understandably be disappointed to find that your proposal is not included in the final programme. We had a large number of panel and paper submissions this year and the Conference Committee had to reject a number of paper submissions for various reasons. We added papers to several existing panels in order to include as many paper proposals as possible and constructed a number of panels out of the many orphan paper proposals we received. In addition to the guidelines already issued at the time of the call for papers, the decisions of the Conference Committee were also informed by the following considerations (in no particular order): 1. The relevance and timeliness of the subject of the panel/paper;2. The configuration of the panel - mix of lecturers/Profs, PhDs; mix of institutional affiliation, participation of activists/NGO reps/ officials etc.;3. Papers/ panels representing new work not previously published; 4. Equitable inclusion of the work of the BISA Working Groups. In the end the Committee believes that we have put in place an interesting and varied programme that is as inclusive as possible and certainly representative of the academic interests and expertise of the current membership. We will shortly be sending you an email about registration for the conference. If you have any queries or questions about the draft programme, please do not hesitate to contact us at bisa-conference@aber.ac.uk. With all best wishes, Richard Jackson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr Richard JacksonSecretary, British International Studies Association (BISA)Editor, Critical Studies on TerrorismReader, Department of International PoliticsAberystwyth University,Penglais, Aberystwyth,Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3FE, United KingdomTel: +44 (0)1970-621955New Book: Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agendahttp://www.routledge.com/books/Critical-Terrorism-Studies-isbn97804154 Secretary, British International Studies Association (BISA) http://www.bisa.ac.uk/Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge journals)www.informaworld.com/criticalterrorism Deputy Director,Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV)http://users.aber.ac.uk/mys/csrv/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bio/Geo Politics of Religion Seminar (NYC)

2009-10 Seminar at Macaulay Honors College at CUNYNew York, NY Bio/Geo Politics of ReligionCo-Directors: Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch Macaulay Honors College at CUNY invites applications from New York area faculty and doctoral students for the second annual Macaulay Seminar to be held during the 2009-10 academic year. The Macaulay Seminar seeks to generate lively discussion on a topic vital to our time, to enrich teaching, and to help facilitate research toward publication. The seminar will meet once per month on Monday evenings throughout the year. Each member of the seminar will be expected to participate fully in the Seminar and present a paper at the conference on the same topic to be held April 16-18, 2010 at Macaulay. Participants will be selected from departments across academic divisions to encourage wide-ranging discussion. All full-time faculty members and graduate students are eligible. (Other interested parties are welcome to apply.) A stipend of $750 will be awarded to participants. This seminar will explore what Michel Foucault called “biopolitics,” the relations of power that focus on the management of life, with specific regard to organized religions and practices of religious conduct. Although recently religion has been widely recognized as a leading force in contemporary life, with movements of both faith-based solidarity and conflict being played out on the world stage, the present context has a long history through which these movements may be understood. Relevant topics might include themes of apocalypticism and millennialism, the economics of evangelicalism, fundamentalist movements over time and space, the policing of bodies and souls, textual literalism and interpretation, bio- and geo-political conjunctions, manuals of guidance and techniques of surveillance, utopian religious communities in life and literature, and connections between ecos, bios, power, and justice. Readings will be selected to accommodate the specific interests and expertise of the participants. Co-Directors: Lee Quinby is the inaugural Visiting Professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York City. The author of three books, Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994), and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991), she is also editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1988) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (2006). Sylvia Tomasch is Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs at Macaulay HonorsCollege and Professor of English at Hunter College, both in the City University of New York. Recent publications include articles on the history of medieval studies, Chaucer, medieval antisemitism, historical cartography, and medieval postcoloniality. Application deadline: July 30, 2009. To request an application or for further information, email lee.quinby@mhc.cuny.edu or sylvia.tomasch@mhc.cuny.edu Macaulay Honors College35 W. 67th StreetNew York, NY 10016t: (212) 729-2919f: (212) 530-8130

Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Fredric Jameson)

NEW TITLES: TWO NEW EDITIONS OF FREDRIC JAMESON CLASSICS

THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY

FREDRIC JAMESON

Published 13 April 2009


A definitive collection of the renowned cultural critic’s early essays

“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.”
Terry Eagleton—London Review of Books

“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
Colin MacCabe

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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist literary tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from the ideological allies.The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.

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ISBN 978-1-84467-276-9 / £70 / $120 / Hardback / 448 pages

ISBN 978-1-84467-277-6 / £24.99 / $44.95 / Paperback / 448 pages

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ALSO AVAILABLE BY FREDRIC JAMESON FROM VERSO:

FABLES OF AGGRESSION: WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE MODERNIST AS FASCIST

“Jameson’s little book on Wyndham Lewis is an important and in many ways brilliant work, as much for its treatment of Lewis himself as for its two other important contributions: to an understanding of the ideology of modernism, and to an understanding of a socio-political-psychoanalytic theory of criticism… Jameson is sensitive both to detail and to the larger intellectual and political issues raised by a writer like Lewis… He provides a serious, challenging, and extremely intelligent alternative to the reigning ahistorical formalist criticism.”
Edward Said

“A highly original study of the novels of Wyndham Lewis… The book is supremely important as a contribution to Marxist criticism especially. It is ironic that it took a critic whose ideological position was so opposed to his subject to offer the best assessment of the ideological and literary bases of Lewis’ creativity… This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postmodernism.”
Hayden White

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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators.
Lewis’s originality, however, can only fully be grasped when it is understood that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist.

In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis’ explosive language practice—utterly unlike any other English and American modernism—can be grasped as can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’ style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’ works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.

FABLE OF AGGRESSION draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis’ incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.

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ISBN 978-1-84467-278-3 / £60 / $110 / Hardback / 200 pages

ISBN 978-1-84467-279-0 / £19.99 / $34.95 / Paperback / 200 pages

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Available for sale at the forthcoming FUTURISM EXHIBITION at the TATE MODERN
Also:
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Fredric Jameson is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.

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