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<!--StartFragment--><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:
Garamond">FYI: The date for “Occupations,” the 11<sup>th</sup> Annual Graduate
Conference in Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson
University, Toronto, Ontario has been changed from March 23-25, 2012 to April
27-29, 2012. Please see information on the revised deadline for submissions in
the CFP below. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 15px; ">Also of note, Edu-Factory’s “Our University! A Conference on
Struggles Within and Beyond the Neoliberal University” will be held in Toronto
the same weekend. We will be working in collaboration with the Edu-Factory
organizers on some events over this weekend; stay posted for details. For more
information on the Edu-Factory conference, see <a href="http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/the-university-is-ours/">http://www.edu-factory.org/wp/the-university-is-ours/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 15px; ">+ + +</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-prop-change:
ebiddl 20111220T0135"><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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-prop-change:
ebiddl 20111220T0135"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Garamond">11<sup>th</sup> Annual Graduate Conference in
Communication and Culture at York University and Ryerson University, Toronto, ON,
Canada<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">A</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond">pril 27-29,
2012 (new date!)<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:Garamond"><a href="http://www.comcultgsa.com"><span style="color:windowtext">http://thecomcult.wordpress.com</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 15px; ">Abstracts due: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">February 1,
2012 (revised deadline)</b></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:
Garamond">Email submissions and questions to: <span class="MsoHyperlinkFollowed"><a href="mailto:intersections.occupations@gmail.com"><span style="color:purple">intersections.occupations@gmail.com</span></a>
</span><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:
Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></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:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond">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:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond">– 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: 0.5in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; "><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
Garamond"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:ArialMT">The unfolding events at
Occupy Wall Street and elsewhere present </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;
mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond">possibilities for new politics,
and new forms of learning from, living with and engaging each other. Occupations
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, 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. We invite
graduate students from all related disciplines to submit proposals for
academic, artistic and activist presentations and workshops that explore and
otherwise critically engage occupations. <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:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
Helvetica">Please send a 250-word abstract to </span><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond"><a href="mailto:NSSRMemoryConference@gmail.com"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:
10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext">occupations.intersections@gmail.com</span></b></a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;
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 class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 15px; ">Workshop facilitators: Please provide a timeline indicating the
duration and one or two general learning objectives of your session, along with
space and technical requirements.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 15px; ">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 if applicable. If submitting creative works by post, please
mail the proposal, a copy of the work and viewing instructions to the following
address:</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:
Garamond"><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:Garamond">Intersections
/ Cross Sections 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:Garamond">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:Garamond">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:Garamond">Toronto, ON<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>M3J 1P3</span></div><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:Garamond">Occupations </span></b><span style="font-size:
11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond">is presented by and for
graduate student scholars, artists and activists through the organizing efforts
of the Communication and Culture Graduate Students Association (GSA). <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:Garamond"><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>
& <a href="http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/">http://www.ryerson.ca/graduate/programs/comcult/</a></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Perpetua"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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