From isaloul at gmail.com Wed Feb 7 01:36:56 2007 From: isaloul at gmail.com (isaloul@gmail.com) Date: Wed Feb 7 00:43:04 2007 Subject: [CASA] From BLINK by Ihab Message-ID: <20070207074227.9ACB2268CC@gandhi.blink.org.uk> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://manifestor.org/pipermail/casa/attachments/20070207/a2fa43af/attachment.htm From pcuninghame at hotmail.com Fri Feb 9 17:14:04 2007 From: pcuninghame at hotmail.com (Patrick Cuninghame) Date: Fri Feb 9 17:14:19 2007 Subject: [CASA] CASAZINE #3? Message-ID: Can anyone send me a copy of Casazine #3, either in electronic or printed form? an article of mine appears in it but I have not yet received a copy. Thanks a lot for your help. Best, Patrick Cuninghame From: isaloul@gmail.comTo: casa@manifestor.orgDate: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:36:56 +0000Subject: [CASA] From BLINK by Ihab Israeli Apartheid Week. Feb, 12 - Feb, 15, 2007. London.=========================================== Israeli Apartheid Week Reporter : =========================================== All events held at: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG Map Day One: Monday February 12, 2007 European Racism and it?s Magic Mirror: Israeli Apartheid6:00 pmKhalili Lecture Theatre,Speaker: Yitzhak LaorNovelist, regular contributor to the New Left Review and editor of Mita?am , A Review of Literature and Radical Thought Day Two: Tuesday February 13, 2007 Israel: the Mask of Democracy6:00 ? 7:00 Khalili Lecture Theatre Speaker: Jonathan CookA former staff journalist of the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He has also written for The Times, Le Monde diplomatique, International Herald Tribune, Al-Ahram Weekly . Author of Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State Followed by a lecture by Eyal Sivan from 7:00 - 8:30 pm Construction of Double Standard Humanity through Cultural Representation. Zionism, Israeli Media and Rationalising Racist Consciousness.7:00 ? 8:30 Khalili Lecture Theatre Speaker: Eyal SivanFilmmaker and writer, films include Route 181 co-directed with Michel Khleifi and Izkor: Slaves of Memory. Lecturer at Sapir Academic College. Day Three: Wednesday February 14, 2007 Worlds Apart: Apartheid and the Palestinian Citizens. 07:00 pm Venue: G2Speaker: Nadim RouhanaFounding Director, Mada al-Carmel: Arab Centre for Applied Social Research. Professor of Conflict Studies, George Mason University. De-Arabization of Land and De-Arabization of Jews.Speaker: Amnon Raz-KrakotzkinProfessor of History, Ben Gurion University Day Four: Thursday February 15, 2007 The Disengagement and the Gaza Ghetto 07:00 pmVenue: G2Speaker: Toufic HaddadActivist, former co-founder, editor of Between the Lines, and co-author of forthcoming book Between the Lines: Israel, the Palestinians and the U.S War on Terror. 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URL: http://manifestor.org/pipermail/casa/attachments/20070209/35b92a0e/attachment.html From artivistic at yahoo.ca Sun Feb 11 12:04:00 2007 From: artivistic at yahoo.ca (Le Sophie) Date: Sun Feb 11 12:04:19 2007 Subject: [CASA] [reminder] CFP Artivisti07 :: un.occupied spaces Message-ID: <111844.86221.qm@web31514.mail.mud.yahoo.com> [ sorry for x-postings ] http://artivistic.omweb.org/modules/wakka/CFP2007 A r t i v i s t i c 2 0 0 7 [ 25-27 October (tbc) :: Montreal ] < CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > [ [ [ un.occupied spaces ] ] ] We are infiltrating all levels of society. Artists, activists, academics, architects, bureaucrats, the homeless, anarchists, first nations, immigrants, doctors, geeks, lawyers, teachers, witches, philosophers, clowns. Artivistic does not only provide a platform for political artists and artistic activists, but partakes in the very movements that work for change. In the pursuit of temporary moments of pleasure, we move towards freedom, for resistance is perpetual and oppression, ever-changing. We oppose the progression of monolithic thought and work for the development of new and dynamic forms of knowledge, exchange, representation and practices of everyday life. We aim to stimulate the mind, the imagination, and the body. We seek alternative models, portals unto un.occupied spaces. Artistivic moves beyond the moment, becoming a process of contamination through interpersonal dialogue that exceeds the event. Building on the 2005 generation, Artivistic in 2007 will continue to ask questions that do not leave us thinking we have resolved the issues. We strongly suggest that you answer one, or all, of our questions with a question of your own. Please submit your proposal for participation related (but not restricted) to the following : < what is indigenous ? > The very use of the term ?indigenous? presupposes a claim to the existence of rights. The right to land. The right of return. The right to self-determination. The right to a life with dignity. In what context does indigenous mean something and how is it represented today? What is the relationship between identity based on place, the land and/or territories and the right to resources? What is indigenous in the context of globalisation, migrations and mobility? (Perhaps the question is not what is indigenous but how is indigenous?) < what is a natural space ? > The environment is in a pretty bad shape. Yet, does not typical environmentalism often propose ?solutions? which alienate the very people that could make a difference by using a false dichotomy (natural/human-made, natural/artificial, nature/culture) and by perpetuating the myth of a pristine nature? Current strategies often make use of fear and guilt to provoke action, yet will we not be helping our environment in a more efficient way once we let go of our arrogance as humans and start living with and in the world rather than of, and alienated from, the world? < what is (there) to occupy ? > The term ?occupation? often inspires images of invasion, enclosure and rape. How are spaces and bodies ruled over? What is public space, ultimately? Why do reserves exist? To ask what is occupation is in fact to ask what is left to occupy for occupation is more pervasive than it first appears. At the same time, occupation echoes resistance when it comes to certain forms of appropriation. So how does one occupy appropriation or how can one appropriate occupation? Your abstract or project description should be no longer than 250 words, your bio 75 words (seriously, we will stop reading after that). Please also include 50 words on how you will stimulate audience participation (sorry, NO paper reading). We welcome proposals for : roundtables, workshops, expeditions & walks, interventions, performance, projections, show-and-tells, broadcasts, games, visual arts, media & technology arts, street arts, informal arts, experimental arts, is-it-art arts, etc. and any combination of the above. We also welcome proposals having to do with personal experience, lessons learned, or future projects that could include other participants of Artivistic (this is a good place to start organising and collaborating). Deadline : 15 February 2007 Please send your proposals to : participation.artivistic@gmail.com > The Autonomous Conference Artivistic also includes an open-source component. Participants will be able to sign up on the day-of to hold an ad-hoc session that is not in the official program but is fully part of the event. You can prepare in advance, but you don?t need to submit anything. > Co-presentations Artivistic cannot fulfil its networking and pluralist agenda without collaborating with existing organisations of overlapping mandates. If you are an organisation interested in mutual aid in the context of event planning, please contact us (considerably in advance) with your idea for an event that you would like to organise and present with us : info.artivistic@gmail.com > Volunteers If you want to help us before, during and/or after the event, that would be really nice of you! We need a lot of extra hands with promotion, billeting, set-up, facilitation, cooking, tech, time-keeping, documenting, wrap-up, etc. Please email us at : volunteers.artivistic@gmail.com > Travel funding Unfortunately, we are unable to provide funding for your travel (we are not even getting paid to do this), but will be happy to offer any assistance with your own steps in finding funding. On the other hand, in-house accommodation and food will be provided to all Artivistic participants. > Press If you want to cover Artivistic, please send us your information by email here : press.artivistic@gmail.com Artivistic [ http://artivistic.omweb.org ] is a transdisciplinary three-day gathering on the interPlay between art, information and activism. Artivistic emerges out of the proposition that not only artists should talk about art, academics about theory, and activists about activism. Founded in 2004, the event aims to promote transdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue on activist art beyond critique, to create and facilitate a human network of diverse peoples, and to inspire, proliferate, activate. General inquiries : info.artivistic@gmail.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? En finir avec le spam? Yahoo! Courriel vous offre la meilleure protection possible contre les messages non nollicit?s http://mail.yahoo.ca Yahoo! Courriel From ldavis at oceanfree.net Mon Feb 19 06:08:42 2007 From: ldavis at oceanfree.net (Laurence Davis) Date: Mon Feb 19 06:09:04 2007 Subject: [CASA] CFP: Anarchism & Utopianism Panel(s) at USS Plymouth Conference Message-ID: <003a01c75427$150dc470$0201a8c0@home6yks5fkixn> Dear All, I am organising a panel (or panels, depending on the level of interest) on the theme of anarchism and utopianism at the 8th international conference of the European Utopian Studies Society, which will be held at the University of Plymouth (U.K.) from July 12-14, 2007. The main focus of the panel will be the contemporary resonances of historical associations between the two traditions, particularly in the form of revolutionary movements, countercultural communal experiments, unorthodox work and living arrangements, alternative education and spirituality, and/or works of literature, philosophy, and visual art. Contributions are encouraged from those with an interest in any aspect of the subject, but I am particularly keen to receive proposals on the contemporary relevance of anarchist utopian currents in the 1960s. If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible off list (ldavis@oceanfree.net). More details about the conference are available here: http://www.utopianstudieseurope.org/confevents.htm. Small grants generously funded by the Anarchist Studies Network may be available on a need-only basis to offset a portion of travel costs. Laurence Davis (Dublin, Ireland) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://manifestor.org/pipermail/casa/attachments/20070219/1542da9b/attachment.html From kriss at sch0ll.de Mon Feb 26 07:47:33 2007 From: kriss at sch0ll.de (Kriss Sol) Date: Mon Feb 26 07:45:49 2007 Subject: [CASA] Fwd: edu-factory: transnational project on university transformations References: <10B445C1-EB5D-411F-8E84-C3958C94A90B@ulster.ac.uk> Message-ID: <1A26F9D7-B225-4546-856D-A6BE62F7BB33@sch0ll.de> dear all, a new project of trying to explore conflicts in the knowlegde production. some of you might be interested... kriss > > From: info@edu-factory.org > Subject: edu-factory: transnational project on university > transformations > Date: 22 February 2007 16:29:08 GMT+00:00 > To: conricerca@hotmail.com > > Dear friends, > > We would like to invite your participation in a new > transnational project entitled edu-factory. The idea of the > project is to explore conflicts in the contemporary > production of knowledge and to examine the contemporary > transformations of the university. The project takes the > form of an email discussion list with an accompanying > website. In the first instance, we will run a structured > email discussion entitled ?Conflicts in the Production of > Knowledge? (22 February ? 22 May 2007). > > A number of researchers and activists from various global > locations will make scheduled posts to the list > (participants include Patrick Bond, Marc Bosquet, Amit > Basole, Silvia Federici, Brian Holmes, Andrew Ross, Chandra > Mohanty, Jie-Hyun Lim, Angela Mitropoulos and Jon Solomon). > The discussion will explore topics such as: > > - The paradigmatic nature of the university as a site of > struggle in the contemporary knowledge/information economy > - The rise of student movements in some locations (e.g., CPE > movement in France, NYU strike) and their absence/decline in > others > - Cognitive capitalism, transformations in labor relations, > precarity and the devaluation of degrees > - The ambivalence of oppositional knowledges as challenges > to institutional power and as processes of domestication > - The changing relations between universities and cities, > territorial administrations and global flows > - The invention of new kinds of nomad universities and > experiments in autonomous education > > The aim of the discussion is to sound out the geographically > disjunctive relations between the participants, creating a > collective knowledge of globalising society that in turn > contributes directly to the theme of university > transformations and the construction of new forms of > relation and resistance. > > To subscribe to the edu-factory list please send an empty > email message to the following address: > > list-subscribe@edu-factory.org > > Further information about the project is available at the > edu-factory site: > > http://www.edu-factory.org > > We look forward to your participation and ask you to > distribute this invitation widely through your networks. > > The edu-factory collective, > ESC Atelier Occupato, Roma (http://www.escatelier.net) > > Alberto DeNicola > Annetta Curcio > Brett Neilson > Claudia Bernardi > Davide Sacco > Francesco Brancaccio > Gigi Roggero > Paolo Do > Simone Capra > > > _______________________________________________ > ::fibreculture::announcements:: > To subscribe or unsubscribe from fibreculture announce, please > visit the List Info page: > http://fibreculture.org/mailman/listinfo/announce_fibreculture.org > > Fibreculture website: > http://www.fibreculture.org