New York RAT, First Issue Published

New York RAT

The first issue of the New York RAT was printed last week and
is being distibuted all over the city. Look for your copy at
Bluestockings, St. Mark's Books, Clovis Press (in the free drawer),
and various coffeeshops around the city.

If you have any suggestions about where else we can distribute
them, or if you want to help out with distribution, please email us!
We are hoping to get some feedback about the first issue as
well as contributions and suggestions for the next issue. Hope to hear
from you!

Love & resistance,

The Black RAT collective

First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 5-7, 2005

The First International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 5-7, 2005. The theme
of the First International Congress of Qualitative Research focuses on
"Qualitative Inquiry in a Time of Global Uncertainty." The mission of the
conference is to provide a forum for conversations on the interdisciplinary
implications of positivist legislation and academia for critical qualitative
scholarship especially in indigenous, border, feminist, race, queer, and
ethnic studies, and to build and expand the already robust tradition of
Qualitative Inquiry.

“The Post-National Nation: Ideology and Institution in the Global Era”

March 25-26, 2005, Rice University, Houston, Texas

Call for Papers

In academic and public contexts, the nation-state has long served as a point-of-origin for discussing and articulating identity, ideologies, economies, histories and literary or cultural productions. As our title suggests, the ascendancy of global paradigms have brought new urgency to long running analyses and interrogations of the nation-state model.

"Objection or Obstruction:

The Culture of Protest in the Twenty-First Century"

M/C Reviews, Co-editors: Jodi Crome and Kate Cuthbert

Throughout the twentieth century, protest has been instrumental in
revealing weaknesses in social, political, and environmental foundations.
In the last twelve months, protest documentaries such as Fahrenheit 9/11
and The President vs. David Hicks have foregrounded once again the ability
of protest to bring salient socio-political issues and concepts to greater
public attention. However, the potency of protest has also spurred debates
over its effectiveness as a tool for social change: can protest educate,
or can it only coerce?

Today's heightened political environment — springing from inquiries into
the Iraq war, questions about choices made in the Middle-East, and
elections on both sides of the Pacific — has reawakened the protest debate.
We would like to examine the concept of the protest and its potential
success or failure in the twenty-first century.

M/C Reviews is looking for new contributors. M/C Reviews is an ongoing
series of reviews of events in culture and the media. It includes the
themed sections 'events', 'screens', 'sounds', 'style', and 'words' which
publish reviews as they come to hand. It also publishes feature issues,
themed groups of reviews centring on a particular cultural event,
category, or genre.