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RE: US Conferences and Visa Issues

I attended a conference in the US in September 2001 and have been to quite a few since. Academics from countries in the visa waiver program like Australia where the individual has a machine readable biometric passport should have no problem. I certainly haven't, though where I was outside the norm - a one way ticket from Denver to LA, no luggage from Fresno to Vegas - I got the full search. I have never been finger printed or photographed. For a conference a B1/B2 tourist/holiday visa is sufficient, you don't need a J1 exchange visitor visa. Academics have their own section on the US consul website. Marj Dr Marjorie Kibby, Senior Lecturer in Communication & Culture The University of Newcastle, Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia Marj.Kibby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +61 2 49216604 >>> Subhash.Jaireth@xxxxxxxxx 12/14/04 10:43 AM >>> Hi, In November I went to San Francisco on the invitation of the United States Geological Survey. I hold an Australian passport hence I didn't need a visa, but the USGS asked me to get a J1 visa, for this I had to go to the consulate in Sydney, face an interview (a formality) and finger printed. At the San Francisco airport I was, like all visitors, was photographed and finger printed. The officials were quite friendly. So it all depends on the passport you are travelling on and the nature of your visit. The hosting organisation/institution need to do a lot of work so that the visitors have fewer problems. Subhash -----Original Message----- From: cultstud-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cultstud-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yasmin Nair Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 10:23 AM To: Cultural Studies Subject: Re: [cultstud-l] US Conferences and Visa Issues Dear Geoff, It's thoughtful of you to ask this question, especially because most people don't think of these issues with regard to non-US and non-Canadian citizens. I believe that it can be especially difficult for people from what are designated as "Islamic" countries/countries on the "list" or with Islamic personal names to enter the US freely. But recent reports suggest that *all* foreign scholars and visitors are finding travel into the US vexing. My understanding is that even the British have been experiencing problems -- I use the word "even" in light of Blair's cosy relationship with Bush. The instance of Tariq Ramadan (who may, it turns out, actually have been mistaken for his brother whose politics are different) is only one glaring example of the arbitrary nature of the difficulties faced by scholars; he was prevented from entering the country to begin his appointment at Notre Dame, after having gone through the entire process of approval. One additional problem is the amount of time it takes to get visa paperwork done in one's home country, and this might actually hinder people from applying to come to the conference in the first place. My understanding is that delays in entering the US for foreign scholars are proving insurmountable for a great many. The New York Times has done a number of pieces on this and related issues -- a search through their database should dig up related articles; they would supplement the pieces in the Financial Times to which Doug referred. Yasmin --- Geoff Stahl <geoffs@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I haven't attended a conference in the US for some > years and being a > Canadian, getting across the border is usually not a > problem. I'm wondering > how things have changed in the wake of new visa > regulations, particularly > for scholars coming in for international > conferences. Are these new > requirements stopping people from coming to the US? > Can non-residence > conference attendees give us a sense of what the > process is? Cost, hassle, > etc.? I ask because I'm a member of an organization > which has been invited > to host a conference there and we're weighing our > options. > > Thanks, > Geoff > -------------------------------------------------- > Geoff Stahl, Post-Doctoral Fellow > Institut für Europäische Ethnologie > Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin > Germany > >From Sept-Dec 2004: > Renvall Institute & Department of Semiotics > University of Helsinki > Phone: +358 (50) 3518206 > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > cultstud-l mailing list: > cultstud-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. 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CFP: Theories/Practices of Blogging

Hello everyone, We would appreciate it if you could pass this on to interested writers/bloggers. Thank you for your time. Michael Benton http://www.reconstruction.ws http://dialogic.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is a call for papers for a special theme issue on ?blogging? to be published as a threshold issue in the journal Reconstruction. The editors of this theme issue are looking for papers/projects/manifestos on the subject of ?blogging.? Possible topics: Theorization of the Blogosphere Blogging Manifesto Politics and/of Blogging Aesthetics of Blogs Activist Blogging Auto/Biographical Blogs New Media/Communication Theories and Blogging New Journalism Blogging Civil Rights of Bloggers Global Culture and Blogging Local Culture and Blogging Education and Blogging Gender and Blogging Race and Blogging Collective Blogs Community of Bloggers Unrealized Potential of Blogging Critiques of Blogging Representations of Space/Place on Blogs Purpose of a Unique Individual/Collective Blog Audio and Visual Blogs We are especially interested in the experiences, theories and perspectives of those who actually blog. Feel free to propose other topics to the editors: Michael Benton (University of Kentucky; founder of the blog Dialogic) and Nick Lewis (co-founder of the Progressive Bloggers? Alliance and the collective blog NetPolitik) Send all queries, proposals and manuscripts to mdbento@xxxxxxxxx Read below about the journal Reconstruction and threshold special theme issues and their deadlines. The editors expect this issue to fill very quickly due to the importance of this subject. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) <http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Manuscripts may be written from any number of perspectives, and with any end in mind; possible sites for articulations may focus on the urban, the rural, the natural, the social, local and global ?culture,? politics, (auto)biography, medicine, the body, science, texts (music, cinema, literature), media (the internet, television), myth and religion. Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, communications, anthropology, music, political science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literary criticism, ecocriticism, criminology, urban planning, gender studies, etc. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed. This special issue is a threshold issue. Thresholds are about the transgressing, pushing or collapsing of boundaries; they are about the point of beginning, the entranceway and stimulation. Thus, threshold issues are dedicated to exploring an experimental theme, novel method(s) or theoretical apparatus(es) that might not normally find an audience. Rather than having firm publication dates ? due to the experimental nature of their contents ? threshold issues are published once a minimum number of acceptable submissions are received. If this minimum is not met by 18 months from the December 13, 2005, the approved manuscripts will be published in the next available issue of the journal. Information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission can be found at <http://www.reconstruction.ws/style.htm>. Reconstruction published quarterly (January, April, July, and October) and is currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Enter Dialogic: http://dialogic.blogspot.com Progressive Blog Alliance http://progressivealliance.blogspot.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ cultstud-l mailing list: cultstud-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l

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RGS-IBG CFP Spectro-geographies

Apologies for cross posting CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECTRO-GEOGRAPHIES Sponsored by: SCGRG / HPGRG / HGRG ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY WITH THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS ANNUAL CONFERENCE. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, LONDON, AUGUST 2005. The allegorical figure of the spectre has been used in a number of creative and imaginative ways. It may signify complex relations between absence, presence, the material and the immaterial, space, place, time and memory. Yet a definitive 'typology of hauntings' in geography has yet to be constructed. This session is an attempt to investigate what a nascent 'spectral turn' within the humanities / social science might mean for geography as a discipline and the possible emancipatory uses of spectral vocabularies within geography. Papers are sought that attempt to draw together a range of topics that could be considered 'spectral', and wider theorizations of spectrality, space, and social life. We are also eager for papers that utilize the works of key thinkers such as Marx, Benjamin and Derrida. Papers exploring the following themes are encouraged: *The sublime / gothic / uncanny aspects of place - the 'ghostliness of place' *Absent-presence / proximity and distance and (post)modernity *Phantasmagorias of late modernity / urban life / commodity fetishism after Benjamin and Marx *'Spectropolitics' and 'hauntology' after Derrida. *Non-linear conceptualizations of space and time *The philosophical inheritance of geographical thought - e.g. the theories, people and practices that 'haunt' geography / representational conventions and geographical methodologies *Enlightenment legacies within geography, non ocular-centric knowledges and recent attempts to make geography enigmatic *Methodologies that attempt to measure the immeasurable *Geographies of missing persons and lost identities *Ghosts, alterity and incommunicability * Unaddressed injustice and representations of subaltern voices / marginal others *The management of aporia and loss within social relations *The commodification of the supernatural *The role of the supernatural in dissonant landscape narratives *Heritage, tourism, place marketing and ghosts *Psychoanalysis / genealogical family spooks and skeletons in the closet *Spirituality and space *Death, memory, history and material culture Please send abstracts of no more than 150 words by 10th January 2005. We welcome informal enquiries / statements of interest. If sufficient interest is registered in this topic, we would be interested in pursuing publication possibilities - e.g. an edited collection. Organizers: Joanne Maddern (Dundee) j.f.maddern@xxxxxxxxxxxx Pete Adey (Aberystwyth) pna98@xxxxxxxxxx -- Peter Adey Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences Llandinam Building University of Wales, Aberystwyth Ceredigion Wales SY23 3DB PNA98@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ cultstud-l mailing list: cultstud-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l

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CFP: Theories/Practices of Blogging

Hello everyone, We would appreciate it if you could pass this on to interested writers/bloggers. Thank you for your time. Michael Benton http://www.reconstruction.ws http://dialogic.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is a call for papers for a special theme issue on ?blogging? to be published as a threshold issue in the journal Reconstruction. The editors of this theme issue are looking for papers/projects/manifestos on the subject of ?blogging.? Possible topics: Theorization of the Blogosphere Blogging Manifesto Politics and/of Blogging Aesthetics of Blogs Activist Blogging Auto/Biographical Blogs New Media/Communication Theories and Blogging New Journalism Blogging Civil Rights of Bloggers Global Culture and Blogging Local Culture and Blogging Education and Blogging Gender and Blogging Race and Blogging Collective Blogs Community of Bloggers Unrealized Potential of Blogging Critiques of Blogging Representations of Space/Place on Blogs Purpose of a Unique Individual/Collective Blog Audio and Visual Blogs We are especially interested in the experiences, theories and perspectives of those who actually blog. Feel free to propose other topics to the editors: Michael Benton (University of Kentucky; founder of the blog Dialogic) and Nick Lewis (co-founder of the Progressive Bloggers? Alliance and the collective blog NetPolitik) Send all queries, proposals and manuscripts to mdbento@xxxxxxxxx Read below about the journal Reconstruction and threshold special theme issues and their deadlines. The editors expect this issue to fill very quickly due to the importance of this subject. Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN 1547-4348) <http://www.reconstruction.ws> is an innovative culture studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies. Manuscripts may be written from any number of perspectives, and with any end in mind; possible sites for articulations may focus on the urban, the rural, the natural, the social, local and global ?culture,? politics, (auto)biography, medicine, the body, science, texts (music, cinema, literature), media (the internet, television), myth and religion. Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including, but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture, history, sociology, psychology, communications, anthropology, music, political science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literary criticism, ecocriticism, criminology, urban planning, gender studies, etc. All theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed. This special issue is a threshold issue. Thresholds are about the transgressing, pushing or collapsing of boundaries; they are about the point of beginning, the entranceway and stimulation. Thus, threshold issues are dedicated to exploring an experimental theme, novel method(s) or theoretical apparatus(es) that might not normally find an audience. Rather than having firm publication dates ? due to the experimental nature of their contents ? threshold issues are published once a minimum number of acceptable submissions are received. If this minimum is not met by 18 months from the December 13, 2005, the approved manuscripts will be published in the next available issue of the journal. Information on the preparation of manuscripts for submission can be found at <http://www.reconstruction.ws/style.htm>. Reconstruction published quarterly (January, April, July, and October) and is currently indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. Enter Dialogic: http://dialogic.blogspot.com Progressive Blog Alliance http://progressivealliance.blogspot.com/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ cultstud-l mailing list: cultstud-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.acomp.usf.edu/mailman/listinfo/cultstud-l