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THE THIRD ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE MEDIA ECOLOGY ASSOCIATION

June 21-23, 2002

Hosted by the Communication Arts Department

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71st Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)

New York, NY 10021

media-ecology



--Would you like to spend a coffee break debating the ideas of
Marshall McLuhan, Walter Ong, Lewis Mumford, Susanne Langer, George
Herbert Mead, or Neil Postman?

--Is the history of technology and the culture of those who use it as
important to you as how it is currently being used?

--Are you interested in exploring orality and literacy; print media,
television, and the Internet; language, culture, and consciousness, or
media ecology education and policy; technology and information
systems?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider joining us for
the Third Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association at
Marymount Manhattan College.

Keynote speaker Elizabeth Eisenstein, author of The Printing Press as
an Agent of Change, will address "Old Media in the New Millennium."

Featured presentations by Leonard Shlain, author of The Alphabet
Versus the Goddess, and Donald Theall, author of The Virtual Marshall
McLuhan.

Special film screening: McLuhan's Wake, by Kevin McMahon.

Steve Bloom wrote:

June 11, 2002

At an informal dinner gathering last week activists
from more than a dozen
organizations in the NYC area began kicking around
the idea of what
peace/anti-war forces should do in this city to mark
the first anniversary
of September 11. It became clear to us that this was
the kind of question
where a broad consultation with many groups and
constituencies was
essential, and we decided to work toward a meeting
which could initiate such
a process. The date of Thursday, June 20, seemed
like a good one, with no
conflicts that we were aware of.

Consulting with others in the week since we discover
that many have, indeed,
been thinking about what needs to be done in NYC in
September, and it does
seem likely that a reasonably broad consultative
meeting could take place on
June 20. However, we also discovered one potential
scheduling conflict. The
"Not In Our Name" organization (NION), which has
been circulating a "pledge
of resistance" also has a meeting scheduled for that
night, part of a
regular series of Thursday evening meetings.

We have initiated a discussion about how to deal
with this scheduling
difficulty with the people organizing the NION
meeting. However, even if we
end up with two meetings on the same evening we
think it is important not to
wait, to at least begin the broader consultation
process we envision. We
know that June 20 is a reasonable date for many, and
whatever date we pick
in NYC there will be scheduling difficulties for
someone. It will simply be
necessary for both meetings to proceed with full
awareness that another
process is also going on, and that coordination and
further consultation
will be necessary if we are going to achieve the
broad consensus and
collective action we need. So we are asking that
folks plan to attend on
June 20, at 6:30 pm (place to be announced).

Although this process is open to all, the concept is
not necessarily to
build June 20 as a mass meeting, attended by all
activists, but rather to
conceive it as a representative gathering, involving
a range of
constituences and organizations, to begin a process
of discussion and
consultation which we hope will lead to a concensus
about what to do on or
around September 11. The sooner we come together to
begin planning this
event, the broader/more inclusive it can be and the
more time we will have
to organize it and publicize it.

Your input is essential if we are going to help
define our common interests
and plan an action which reflects that interest.
Please plan for someone
from your organization/constituency to be there. And
urge others to do the
same.

Below is an alert from the NYC waste activists. The Greens may want to use a stronger message but the feeling is that we are about to lose recycling in NYC. Call your city council person soon and often.

Spread the word!

Guido writes "


A call to action for a convergence of total liberation against colonialism -- against the celebration of genocide -- against Columbus Day in Denver, Colorado 2002.



Comrades. Our world is in flames.

And there is an entity with many names responsible for this.

Some call it a machine with no engines. Some call it a demon -- infecting the meek. Some call it leviathan -- devouring worlds. Some call it a god -- at war with the goddess. Its names are endless, but there is one thing for sure. It will stop at nothing in its annihilation of all things truthful.

Fourth Annual Southern Girls Convention

July 19 - 21, 2002, Athens, Georgia

southern girls

Please visit the new website, and learn more about this exciting upcoming
event!

WHAT IS THE SOUTHERN GIRLS CONVENTION?

The Southern Girls Convention is an annual grassroots meeting of social
justice activists devoted to empowering women and girls in the South, and
discussing Southern culture, views and stereotypes of the South, and the
struggle for social justice. Each year's convention is hosted by a different
Southern community and facilitated by local organizers. Past conventions were
held in Memphis, Tennessee, Louisville, Kentucky, and Auburn, Alabama. Last
year's convention in Auburn drew over 500 participants from all over the
South and beyond.

This year's SGC invites activists from across the country to meet in ATHENS,
GEORGIA on the weekend of July 19-21. Hundreds of activists will meet for a
weekend of discussion, action, and entertainment devoted to building
pro-woman community in the South.

"Trajectories of the Self"

Language-Communication-Culture Conference

Évora, Portugal, Nov 27-30, 2002

Organisers: Ana Clara Birrento acbirrento

Margarida Morgado morgadofrazao

"Writing the self" has become a wide area of research from multiple
research positions. The self as object of inquiry is at the heart of many
identity projects and feminist approaches as well as of discussions of
postmodern conditions of living.
The self as ontological being and subject of experience, problems of
referentiality and identity formation are important aspects of discussion
about writing the self that we would like to see articulated with the self
as cultural and linguistic assumption and as matter of interpretation based
on cultural codes, institutional and material formations, following lines
opened by Elspeth Probyn in her Sexing the Self (1993, p. 4): "The
possibility of the self rests within a filigree of institutional, material,
discursive lines that either erase or can be used to enable spaces in which
"we" can be differently spoken".

We welcome 20-minute papers dealing with some of the questions that are
listed below:

- How do writings of the self put the self to work?

- How do narratives of the self inscribe the subject in language, in
imagination, in society?

- How do narratives of the self rethink identity, subjectivity and the body?

- What do projects of writing (or rewriting) the self include, reject,
repudiate, and why? What is brought to the surface and into visibility and
what remains hidden?

- How do autobiographies and other writings of the self dispute and
negotiate boundaries and barriers of social formations?

- How do images of the self and the self as an image comment on the
conjuncture of discourses and everyday commonplaces (Probyn)?

Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 30, 2002

Andrew Stern writes "Argentina Ahora: A Movement Beyond Politics

An exhibit featuring photos, words, films and posters
documenting a nation's collapse and a people's
creative response. The work of photographers from the
Buenos Aires based art & media collective Argentina
Arde, as well as independent photographers from New
York and Seattle, displayed with narrative text
excerpts and a selection of posters and street art.

Tuesday June 4th, 6pm-Midnight @ Walker Stage

At Walker Stage on the 4th, Ocote Soul Sound will play
with Martin and members of Antibalas. The doors open
at 6pm, the screening is at 8pm and Ocote Soul Sound
goes on at 10pm. Admission is sliding scale $5-$10.
All proceeds go to benefit independent media makers in
Argentina.

Friday June 7th, 6pm-Midnight @ La Peña del Bronx

At La Peña del Bronx on the 7th, the doors also open
at 6pm and the screening is at 8pm. Special musical
guests, to be announced, will play from 10pm on. La
Peña is a latino political info and cultural center in
the Bronx. All proceeds from this show will go to
benefit independent media makers in Argentina as well.

Walker Stage
56 Walker St.
Between West Broadway and Church
212-905-2835

La Peña del Bronx
226 E 144th St.
(718) 402-9411
http://www.lapenadelbronx.com
Take 2, 4 or 5 trains to 149th/Grand Concourse, La
Peña is 1.5 blocks from the subway.

Resources:
To see a sneak preview of photos from the show go to:
http://nyc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=251 91&group=webcast

For background information on the situation in
Argentina check out this article at:
http://argosy.mta.ca/argosy01-02/03.14.02/13.html

Or read "A Postscript for the Global Anti-Capitalist
Movement" taken from "Que Se Vayan Todos: Argentina’s
Popular Rebellion", a beautiful publication with
writing by
John Jordan, Jennifer Whitney and photography by
Andrew Stern at:
http://nologo.org/resources/02/05/07/1341226.shtml

For ongoing coverage of events in Argentina go to:
http://argentina.indymedia.org

For more information about Argentina Arde, other
featured artists, details about the documentary
screening, and dates of this exhibit in other cities:
http://www.postworldindustries.org"

From La Paz, Bolivia -- the second edition of the anarchist
magazine El Radikal is now available. This latest number
is filled with topical interest, both local and
international -- notes on the death of the Bolivian
dictator, the university struggles, the Venezuelan
question, texts by Kropotkin and much more.

To request an electronic version (.ppt), write to:
elradikal@antisocial.com . The magazine is in Spanish.

WW3Report writes "Israeli Refusenik Haggai Matar, co-author of the Senior's Letter to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, will be making the following appearances in NYC:

Tuesday, May 21, 2002 8:00 PM

Riverside Church Global Justice and Peace Ministry

490 Riverside Drive (between 120th and 122nd Streets)

contact: Global Justice Ministry, 212-870-6853

Cosponsorsed by the Interfaith Community.

Saturday, May 25, 2002 (morning service)

Congregation B'nai Jeshurun

Church of Saint Paul & Saint Andrew

86th Street and West End Avenue

For more nformation call 212-787-7600

Haggai Matar will speak briefly during the morning service and meet
with members of the congregation afterwards.

Audio and Video of Matar in Madison: http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/275 18.html

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