• First final promotion of students of architecture at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM). The exhibition took place in the international airport of Santiago. Students displayed their proposals for the city of Valparaiso to regular users of the airport features as well as an audience that attended just to see the uncommon event out from the conventional environment of the University. The evaluating comitee at the airport was integrated by architects: Mathias Klotz, Oliver Lang, Fernando Perez and Roberto Barria, as well as Rodrigo Tisi who was alive on a Video-Conference from New York City. To see the web site of the School of Architecture at UTFSM go to: www.arq.utfsm.cl/titulo.html

 

• Call for works - Studio 303 is looking for artists to participate in the 2nd edition of Projet/projo. This hybrid experience involving celluloid, magnetic tape & the human body will take place... We are seeking short films/videos (10 min. max.), installation pieces and live performance works. Entries should fall into one of three categories:

  *Live performance integrating projection (film/video/slides/light/shadow)

  *Films and videos for public screening

  *Installations involving projection(with or without a "live" element)

  The theme for the event is the human body mediated by the camera eye. Given the event's dates, submissions that address matters of the heart may receive special consideration. All disciplines are welcome. The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2001. Entries should include a VHS videotape, a concise description of the work proposed, a brief biography of the artist, and black & white photos when possible. Please send or deliver to Studio 303, to the attention of Projet/projo. S T U D I O 3 0 3 Dance & Related Arts Danse et arts connexes 372 Ste-Catherine O. Montreal Qc H3B 1A2 TEL: 514.393.3771 FAX: 514.393.3154 http://www.studio303.net

• Late Modern Planet: Globalization, Modern And Cultural Studies

11th. Annual Cultural Studies Symposium at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

Are we living in a late modern planet? Have we moved into the postmodern universe? In what ways have globalization and diaspora changed culture and society and when did this begin? How are shifts in technology, international politics, or transnational economics registered as changes in art, identity or other cultural forms? Activist, empirical, and theoretical papers welcome. We encourage papers from any historical period. Keynote Speakers: *LAN CAO, Author of "Monkey Bridge," Co-editor of "Everything You Need to Know About Asian American History," and Professor of international trade law at William and Mary School of Law. *BRUCE ROBBINS, Author of "Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress," "Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture", and "The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below"; Co-editor of "Social Text"; and Professor of English at Rutgers University. *LAWRENCE GROSSBERG, Author of "We Gotta Get Out of This Place", "Bringing it all Back Home", and "Dancing in Spite of Myself"; Co-Editor of "Cultural Studies"; and Morris Davis Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. *AMITAVA KUMAR, Author of "Passport Photos", Script-Writer for "Pure Chutney", and Associate Professor of English at Penn State University. Possible Topics: * Early and Late Modernity * "World Music" * Diaspora and Immigration * From Nation to Corporation * Hollywood's International Markets * World Wide Webs * Colonization, Empire, and Modernity

 

• W.E.B. DuBois & Frantz Fanon: Postcolonial Linkages and Transatlantic Receptions

  AN INTERNATIONAL, INTER-DISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, SCOTLAND

  CALL FOR PAPERS > The Department of Religious Studies at the University of Stirling in conjunction with the Centre for Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, the Scottish Association for the Study of America, and the Scottish Forum for Francophone Studies invite paper proposals for an inter-disciplinary conference.