Conference - Teaching Citizenship & Civility

http://slpapers-proposals.blogspot.com/2009/05/international-conferenceteaching.html

Due 9/15

nternational Conference/Teaching Citizenship and Civility Call for Papers

The Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum Announces the 11th International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York
November 12-15, 2009

The Society picks conference themes to encourage faculty from the relevant areas to submit papers, panels, or other standard forms of presentation, but submissions may speak to any issue regarding ethics across the curriculum. Questions about possible submissions should be sent to the directors at Wade.Robison@rit.edu.

Theme: Teaching Citizenship and Civility

It is a hallmark of civility within a society that those of opposing points of view can reasonably discuss their differences and find common ground amidst their disagreements.

Teaching students to become civil citizens and modeling a civil society within our classes are always pressing concerns. The concept of citizenship may encompass a wide variety of ethical actions (such as volunteerism or philanthropy) and political relations (such as nationalism or globalism). Teaching students to become civil citizens requires consideration of the content and practice of citizenship, in all its forms. Even in classes where the content is far removed from what seems relevant to a civic education, the way in which the class is taught -- how disagreements about answers are resolved -- can teach lessons essential to civility. Teaching civility, in all its forms, is an education across the curriculum. Although the theme of the conference highlights the content and practice of teaching civil citizens, submissions are not limited to the conference theme.

Submissions (either papers or abstracts) should be formatted for blind review and sent by September 15th 2009 to the Secretary-Treasurer of the Society, Donna Werner, DWerner@stlcc.edu or by hard copy to Dr. Donna Werner, Philosophy Department (HE 103), St. Louis Community College, Meramec, 11333 Big Bend Boulevard, St. Louis MO 63122-5799. Phone: 314.984.7934.

We will make decisions about papers as soon as we can after they arrive. So the sooner you submit your abstract or paper or panel suggestion, the sooner you will hear from us regarding its suitability for the conference.

The Society publishes Teaching Ethics, and papers for conferences may be considered for publication either in that journal or in a possible anthology on teaching citizenship and civility.

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WPA Call for Experimental Media - rec'd by 8/1

From: Adam Griffiths
Date: 2009 May 6 2:10:52 PM EDT (CA)
Subject: WPA Experimental Media Series 2009 Call for Entries

WPA Experimental Media Series 2009

September 24, October 1, 2009 @ The Phillips Collection
October 28 & 29, Falvey Hall, Maryland Institute College of Art
Juror: Kelly Gordon, Associate Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden

Submission Deadline (received): August 1, 2009

For the next installment of the WPA’s Experimental Media Series, WPA
will present a selection of innovative video and sound works over the
course of two evenings at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC,
and two additional screenings of selections from the Phillips event
combined with student works at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

For the screening, WPA is calling all video and sound artists to
submit works that explore any subject matter of their choice in
innovative ways. A selection of the received video and sound works
will be presented in the framework of a public screening. Artists
selected for the screening nights will be notified during the last
week of August. Additionally, two artists submitting the most
compelling entries, as reviewed by the juror and based on overall
quality and innovation will be awarded the Kraft Prize for New Media
of $750 and the WPA Experimental Media Prize of $750 on October 1.
Please note that the WPA Prize will go to an artist living and working
in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Artists may submit up to 3 pieces in either sound or video with a
maximum run time of 3 minutes. Please remind artists to review the
guidelines closely in order to adhere to these basic requirements.

Link to WPA EMS 2009 Entry webpage: http://www.wpadc.org/events/calls2.html

Download Call for Entries: http://www.wpadc.org/pdf/EMS_2009.pdf

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Audio Art call

http://www.artslant.com/global/articles/show/6500

espacio-audio: audio projects
Deadline: June 1, 2009

espacio-audio (audio space) is a curated site-specific audio frequency dedicated to the promotion/ experimentation of audio art. It was created to addresses the lack of audio exhibition spaces in Houston, to serve as an outlet for audio experimentation, to promote audio artists within/ outside of the city of Houston and to challenge the physical boundaries of exhibition space through sound. It is drive-up/ walk-up site-specific frequency and is currently one of a handful of audio friendly exhibition spaces in Houston.

espacio-audio is currently seeking audio art proposals for our 2009-2010 season. The selected pieces will be aired for a three-month period at various locations throughout Houston. We are looking for works that transcend the existing perimeters of audio art. The pieces can be, but are not limited to, challenging, soothing, confronting or projecting opaque thought. There are no limitations on topics or proposed themes, no preference to abstraction or solidity of sound. We are simply looking for thought provoking proposals laced with innovation.


To apply please email the items listed below along with a description sheet and your audio sample to espacioaudio@gmail.com.

1) Overview of you project (500 words)
2) Description/theory behind your audio sample (1-2 pages)
2) Curriculum Vitae with updated address, phone number and email
3) Web site, blog and/or online audio sample

Applications must be received by June 1, 2009, 5:30 p.m. (This is not a post-marked deadline). Incomplete applications will not be reviewed. For additional information please visit http://espacio-audio.blogspot.com.
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Astrodime Intransit - FEED call

http://astrodime.wordpress.com/current-call-for-work/

Every day we are becoming more dependent on information: When we cannot access our e-mail, or forget our mobile, we often go into withdrawal. We have become part of the Network. Increasingly this connection is literal: an implanted pacemaker is tested and reset using tones over a phone line held near the chest. Science and Medicine announce such cybernetic innovation daily. We have been assimilated.

FEED explores the concepts of Network as influenced by Information Transmission, Sustenance, Consumption, Symbiosis. FEED questions the borders that separate human and machine, organic and inorganic. The project seeks to examine our societal hunger for constant information flow. FEED seeks to remind us that we too have become part of the information network: we feed it, as it feeds us.

Astrodime Transit Authority is collaborating with the FEED Exhibitio. INtransit Volume Number 5 will comprise part of the video submissions to the FEED exhibition happening in Boston in Fall 2009. INtransit: FEED will be screened in its entirety at the exhibition, as well as at other venues.

We are looking for short experimental films (35mm / 16mm / 8mm), videos (single channel experimental, videoart, or documentary), innovative animations, and experimental digital & graphic productions (to be screened). Accepted submissions will be published in a DVD video journal. Pieces under ten minutes are preferred. There is no entry fee. Preview discs will not be returned unless a SASE with sufficient postage is enclosed. Please label all materials.

Please send preview NTSC DVD submissions to:

Astrodime Transit Authority (INtranit FEED)
c/o 119 Gallery
119 Chelmsford Street
Lowell, MA 01851

Submission Due Date: June 1, 2009

Contact Information:
For INtransit V.5: FEED bebebeard@gmail.com
General AstroDime Questions: rocketscience@virtualberet.net
AstroDime Website: www.astrodime.wordpress.com/
FEED: the Exhibition: www.reanimationstudios.com/feed

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Lausanne Underground Film Festival

Switzerland

http://www.nmartproject.net/netex/?p=1004

6/15 due date, no entry fee

The film selection includes the following international competitions:
- short narrative films
- short experimental films
- animated short films
- feature films
- documentaries

Application here -
http://www.luff.ch/en/festival/news/archive/2009/april/article/appel-a-candidature/
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