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annual graduate conference hosted by the Joint Programme in Communication and
Culture at York and Ryerson Universities, Toronto. Please distribute widely.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Perpetua">+ + + </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Perpetua">
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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">CFP for INTERSECTIONS / CROSS
SECTIONS 2012: “OCCUPATIONS” (March 23–25, 2012)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">11<sup>th</sup> Annual Communication and Culture Graduate Conference,
York University/Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Abstracts due: December 23, 2011; notification by January 23, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Conference date: March 23–25, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Please email submissions and questions to: </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><a href="mailto:intersections.occupations@gmail.com"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">intersections.occupations@gmail.com</span></a>
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent:
.5in"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">Occupare: (Latin.) To seize,
capture<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">Occupy
but better yet, self manage…. The former option is basically passive—the latter
is active and yields tasks and opportunities to contribute.… To occupy
buildings, especially institutions like universities or media, isn’t just a
matter of call it, or tweet it, and they will come. It is a matter of go get
them, inform them, inspire them, enlist them, empower them, and they will come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">– Michael Albert, “Occupy to
Self Manage” (<a href="http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33609"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33609</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">)</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">I think
that our political structures are corrupt and we need to really think about
what a democratic society would be like. People are learning how to do it now….
This is more than a protest, it’s a camp to debate an alternative
civilization.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0.5in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">– David Graeber, “The Man
Behind Occupy Wall Street,” interviewed by Seth Fiegerman (<a href="http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33897"><span style="color:windowtext;
text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">http://interactivist.autonomedia.org/node/33897</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;
text-underline:none">)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0.5in; margin-left: 3in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">This is a critical moment, as “Occupy everywheres” present possibilities
for new politics, and new forms of learning, engaging and living with each
other. From the recurring occupations of the squares in Greece and Italy to the
UK’s winter of discontent and the Arab Spring, to the summer of protest in
Spain and the North American autumn—at general assemblies around the globe,
people are running their own lives, influencing the media and discussing what
is to be done without politicians. The recent occupations are an education in
direct democracy and the solidarity necessary for action. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Occupy Wall Street, and the occupations around the world, are attempts
to build the social compositions that are the precondition for action. They are
the working-through of a problem that ‘politics-as-usual’ works to suppress—the
massive exploitation that is capitalism, and the emergence of politics adequate
to address it. At this stage, the occupations are the connection of people,
ideas and machines—the cumulation of assemblages that might build something. What
happens next depends on what is being built now.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">As it was written upon the recent expulsion of OWS from Zuccotti Park:
“You can’t evict an idea whose time has come.” We invite graduate students from
all related disciplines to submit proposals for academic, artistic and activist
presentations and workshops that explore, celebrate, analyze and otherwise
critically engage with the ideas emerging from occupations. Possible areas of
engagement include: politics and aesthetics, movement research and performance
studies, humanities and digital humanities, critical disability studies, labour
studies, social theory, social movement theory, policy, political economy, communications
studies, media, culture, pedagogy, technology, artistic practice and activism. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-pagination:
none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Please send a 250-word abstract, as well as a brief biographical
note (100 words) to </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><a href="mailto:NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">occupations.intersections@gmail.com</span></a></span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;
mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> by </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">December 23, 2011</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica">.
Proposals should list paper/panel title, name, institutional affiliation and
contact details. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Workshop facilitators: Please provide a tentative timeline
highlighting the duration and one or two general learning objectives of your
session, along with a clear indication of space and technical requirements. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua">Artists: If sending creative works by email, please limit attachment
size to 5 MB or less, or direct us to a URL. Include viewing instructions,
comments and titles in your email if applicable. If submitting creative works
by post, please mail the proposal, a non-original copy of the work, and viewing
instructions to the following address (well before the submission deadline):<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">Intersections
2012 Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">c/o Graduate Program in
Communication and Culture <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">3013 TEL Building, York
University <br>
4700 Keele Street<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 17.85pt; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">Toronto, ON<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>M3J 1P3 <o:p></o:p></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">Intersections / Cross Sections 2012: Occupations </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua">is presented
by and for graduate student scholars, artists and activists through the
organizing efforts of the Communication and Culture Graduate Students
Association (GSA):<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b><a href="http://www.comcultgsa.com">http://thecomcult.wordpress.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><br>
For more information about the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and
Culture at York and Ryerson Universities: <a href="http://comcult.yorku.ca">http://comcult.yorku.ca</a>
and <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/">http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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