From D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl  Sun Nov  1 10:13:16 2009
From: D.Yanow at fsw.vu.nl (Dvora Yanow)
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 16:13:16 +0100
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] NSF Workshop Plenary Session videos
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From jhuns at vt.edu  Tue Nov  3 11:34:30 2009
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:34:30 -0500
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Claude Levi Strauss est mort
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> Claude Levi Strauss has passed away
> http://www.lemonde.fr/
> http://news.google.com/news/search?um=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=claude+levi+strauss&cf=all&as_qdr=h&as_drrb=q
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> last year Unesco had a nice symposium for him which he attended and  
> wrote a paper for, it can be googled.
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> Jeremy Hunsinger
> Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
> Political Science
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From jhuns at vt.edu  Fri Nov  6 17:26:44 2009
From: jhuns at vt.edu (jeremy hunsinger)
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:26:44 -0500
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Fwd: ISA CfP
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deadline extended to nov. 15.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Timothy W. Luke" <twluke at vt.edu>
> Date: November 6, 2009 5:19:45 PM EST
> To: jhuns at vt.edu
> Subject: Fwd: ISA CfP
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> Jeremy:
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> Can you send this around to all our usual lists,
> since they extended the deadline to 11.15.09.
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> Thanks,
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> Tim
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From cxwilkinson at googlemail.com  Wed Nov 11 05:38:10 2009
From: cxwilkinson at googlemail.com (Wilkinson, C.)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:38:10 +0000
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] URGENT: Closure of Sociology at
	University of Birmingham
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Please circulate as widely as possible.

It was announced yesterday evening that the University of Birmingham
intends to close the Department of Sociology, resulting in
redundancies for both academic and support staff, as well as an
inevitable reduction in course provision. Further details are provided
below, or can be found at www.keepsociologyatbirmingham.com

If anyone wishes to sign the petition or otherwise raise concerns over
this short-sighted decision before November 26, support for our
colleagues will be very welcome.

With thanks and best wishes,

Claire

--

Claire Wilkinson
Lecturer in Russian
Centre for Russian & East European Studies
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT


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*From:* Yvonne Jacobs
*Sent:* 10 November 2009 19:47
*To:* CREES ALL; Business School All; Education All; G & S All; Social
Policy All
*Subject:* URGENT: CLOSURE OF SOCIOLOGY
*Importance:* High

*An urgent message from staff in the Department of Sociology*

Dear Colleagues,

Following a Review of the Sociology Department that was first proposed
18 months ago, the Head of the College of Social Sciences is seeking
through the College Executive Board to close the Department. One of
our degree programmes (Media, Culture and Society) will be closed
altogether, and the other (Sociology) ?transferred? to Social Policy
with just 3 staff retained and the rest (14 academics and 2 out of 3
support staff) made redundant.

We are asking you to join us, our students, and colleagues in the
wider academic community in fighting this unwarranted closure
proposal: it is based on a deeply flawed review process and evidence
base. We suggest the decision brings to a head problems in the College
arising from a total lack of strategy for Birmingham social science,
and an out of control College management that is a threat to academic
integrity and the reputation of the University.

The reasons for the Review were never adequately explained: at
different times it was said to be about finances, or research
performance, or student recruitment. At the outset, we welcomed the
opportunity to engage constructively and collegially in the Review
Process to develop strategies for the Department, but this opportunity
was systematically denied to us. Incredibly, no staff or students from
the Department were invited onto the Review Group, and we were never
told how the Department?s submissions to the Group were being used. In
addition, the External Advisors appointed to the Review ? two very
senior British Sociologists ? have gone on record as saying they were
marginalised from the process. We were not even allowed to see the
Review report itself until it had passed through the College Board,
and the Head of College announced his decision verbally to Department
staff.

As many of you will know, the present Department was established in
2004 following another previous closure in 2002. Predominantly early
career staff were recruited to what was heralded as a 10- year project
to re-establish Sociology at Birmingham. The fact that this strategy
would likely lead to a modest RAE 2008 result was explicitly
recognised, although the Department went on to submit the highest
proportion of staff into the RAE of any unit in the University. The
Chair of a Strategic Review of the Department undertaken in 2004,
Professor Judith Petts (current PVC Research and Knowledge Transfer)
stated that: ?/the University needs to recognise that the outcome of
2008 may be modest relative to the leading departments. The panel
cannot emphasis strongly enough that should this be the case, the
University must hold its nerve and continue to support the
department./?

The Department?s two undergraduate programmes are ranked 4^th
(Sociology) and 5^th (MCS) in /The Guardian?s /national league tables.
Feedback from students and external examiners, degree results and
relations between students and staff are all excellent. College
mismanagement of undergraduate recruitment in the current academic
year* *led to over-recruitment in some areas and cut backs in others;
this has not been explained. We are particularly upset that, having
ignored student interests throughout the process, College managers
have now wasted no time in launching a PR offensive on students,
writing and arranging ?briefings? to assure them that their degrees
will be ?unaffected?.

In short, as a result of a botched Review and a College management
determined to look ?tough?, committed, predominantly early career
academics and support staff are to be made redundant in a frozen jobs
market. The education of a diverse body of students will be severely
harmed and the reputation of social sciences at Birmingham further
damaged.

We believe that we are the first on the line in what will be a series
of similarly aggressive Reviews of Departments.

We urge you to support our call to the University Senate (18 November)
and Council (26 November) to:

/1) Reject the proposals of the College of Social Sciences Executive
Board as being based on a flawed review process and evidence base./

/2) Institute a new, transparent review of Sociology that includes all
stakeholders, lifts the threat of redundancies and addresses the
institution?s wider strategy for the social sciences./

*Sign the Petition at:*

*http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/keepsociologyatbirmingham/*

*For more information and copies of review documents and our responses
see the link below. We?re working to get the site up and running over
the next 24 hours and will be updating it as this situation unfolds:*

*http://www.keepsociologyatbirmingham.com*

Signed,

*Ross Abbinnett*

*Gezim Alpion*

*Louise Brown*

*Shelley Budgeon*

*Sin Yi Cheung*

*Justin Cruickshank*

*Jonathan Fish*

*Emma Foster*

*Andrew Knops*

*Will Leggett*

*Jose Lingna Nafafe*

*John Lynch*

*Mairtin Mac an Ghaill*

*Giovanni Porfido*

*Alex Smith*

*David Toke*

*Dan Whisker*

Yvonne Jacobs

Department of Sociology

Room 1249, 12th Floor Muirhead Tower

University of Birmingham

B15 2TT

0121 414 3307

Fax 0121 414 6061

email Y.L.Jacobs at bham.ac.uk

From vpdrul at essex.ac.uk  Fri Nov 13 02:46:04 2009
From: vpdrul at essex.ac.uk (Druliolle, Vincent P)
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:04 +0000
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] Conference "The Social Life of Methods"
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A lot of people on this list should be interested in such an event

*****

6th Annual Conference 2010: The Social Life Of Methods - 31 August-3 September, St Hugh's College Oxford
Call for Papers

During the past century and longer, social scientific methods have come to be extensively deployed in government, administration and business, as well as in academic research. Maps, enumerations, surveys, interviews, indicators, software and visualizations proliferate. The aim of this conference is to consider how we can best understand the agency of social science methods in both shaping, and themselves being affected, by economic, social and cultural change, both historically and in the current context when digitalization poses specific challenges to established repertoires of social science methods.

Mindful of the ideas developed within Science and Technology Studies, which show how objects in the natural and medical sciences can be social agents, we seek to broaden this agenda to focus more particularly on methods within the social sciences and humanities. Papers are invited from interdisciplinary audiences addressing the following issues:

 *   Is it useful to explore how agency can be located in certain kinds of social scientific methodological repertoires?
 *   What kinds of methods succeed and which fail? What are the respective powers of different sorts of qualitative and quantitative forms of analysis? How can we explain why certain sorts of methods become hegemonic in certain domains, and what consequences follow from this?
 *   What is the role of the visual in social science methods? How is this changing?
 *    With the proliferation of digital data, are we currently seeing a crisis of standard social science methods based around the sample survey and the interview, and what does this portend for our understanding of socio-cultural change? Does the idea of a descriptive turn offer a useful way of grasping the role of these new methods?
 *   What is the transformative and critical potential of social science research methods, both historically and today?

We are interested in using reflecting theoretically about how actor network theory, genealogy, complexity theory, feminist theory, anthropological studies of expertise, ecological studies of knowledge, political economy and field analysis can be used to understand and illuminate these issues. There will be four themes which will structure the sessions of the conference:

1: The device:  what kinds of device have come to play an important historical role, and which have failed? How can we better understand the histories of nations, social groups, individuals and organizations through a focus on devices?
2: The challenge of digital data: what is the implication of the proliferation of digital information for the ordering of economic, social, political and cultural knowledge?
3: Envisaging the visual: how have visual methods historically competed with textual and numerical methods, and how far is their role changing in the current context?
4: Transformative practice: history, discipline and movements: how can methods be mobilized to critique and challenge dominant methodological repertoires, focusing especially on the role of historical analysis, ethnographic, feminist, and subaltern methods?

Please submit either (a) proposal for individual papers, or (b) panel proposal including 3 papers by the end of February 2010.

CRESC Conference Administration, 178 Waterloo Place, Oxford Road, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, Tel: +44(0)161 275 8985 / Fax: +44(0)161 275 8985

CRESC.AnnualConference at manchester.ac.uk<mailto:CRESC.AnnualConference at manchester.ac.uk> <mailto:CRESC.AnnualConference at manchester.ac.uk>  / http://www.cresc.ac.uk









url  :    http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/conference2010/callforpapers.html

From a.cienki at let.vu.nl  Fri Nov 20 10:07:28 2009
From: a.cienki at let.vu.nl (Cienki, A.)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:07:28 +0100
Subject: [Interpretationandmethods] CfP - metaphor conference
Message-ID: <C72C6F40.4097%a.cienki@let.vu.nl>

Second call for abstracts

RaAM 8 conference: Metaphor and Domains of Discourse
http://raam8.let.vu.nl/

We are pleased to announce the 8th conference of the Researching and
Applying Metaphor International Association (RaAM), which will be held at VU
University (Vrije Universiteit), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 30 June
through 3 July 2010.

As an association, RaAM strives to advance the study of metaphor, metonymy
and other aspects of figurative language, with a commitment to the
application of metaphor research to 'real world' issues. In light of this,
the theme of the upcoming international conference will be 'metaphor and
domains of discourse'. The theme is intended to highlight the socio-cultural
as well as the situational diversity of metaphor as manifested in, for
example:
-- government and politics;
-- religion and ethics;
-- education;
-- science and healthcare;
-- business and organizations;
-- mass media and journalism; and
-- literature and the arts.

The conference will feature plenary lectures by:
- Paul Chilton
  Dept. of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK
- Dedre Gentner
  Dept. of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy,
  Northwestern University, USA
and an address by the outgoing Chair of the RaAM Executive Committee:
- Lynne Cameron
  Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University, UK

We are soliciting abstracts for 20-minute papers and for poster
presentations. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words (excluding
references), and should be submitted via the conference web site at
http://raam8.let.vu.nl/abstractsubmission.html . The deadline for abstracts
is 31 December 2009. Notification of acceptance decisions will be sent by 1
March 2010. Early registration will be open between 1 March and 30 April
2010.

The conference will also include a new way of linking basic and applied
research: in addition to regular papers and a poster session, a selection of
'real world workshops' will be offered. The workshops will involve
demonstrations for, and with, conference participants on how metaphor can be
used as an intervention or tool to change people's way of thinking and
reasoning. 'Real world workshops' will be offered on:
-- Metaphor in communicating public interest issues
   (Joseph Grady, Cultural Logic, USA)
-- Metaphor in business organizations
   (Joep Cornelissen, Leeds University Business School, UK)
-- Metaphor in education professionals' discourse
   (Graham Low, University of York, UK)
-- Metaphor in knowledge management
   (Daan Andriessen, INHolland University of Applied Sciences, NL)
-- Metaphor and metonymy in painting
   (Irene Mittelberg, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
- Metaphor in product design
   (Paul Hekkert, Technical University Delft, NL).

A limited number of travel bursaries/stipends will be available for PhD
students from the RaAM Executive Committee and the local organising
committee. In addition, an Early Career Prize and a prize for the best
presentation by a PhD student will be awarded during the conference, and
there will also be a raffle for book vouchers for PhD students attending a
RaAM conference for the first time. Details are available at
http://raam8.let.vu.nl/phdforum.html .

Several tutorials geared toward PhD students will also be offered on 30 June
before the conference begins. The topics include:
- Identification of figurative networks in multimodal discourse
- The use of dictionaries and WordSmith Tools with the Pragglejaz MIP
- Metonymy as a research tool
- How to make an effective conference presentation.
Descriptions can be found on the conference website at
http://raam8.let.vu.nl/preconferencetutorials.html .

The RaAM8 scientific committee consists of:
John Barnden (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Frank Boers (Erasmus College of Brussels, Belgium)
Lynne Cameron (Open University, United Kingdom)
Jonathan Charteris-Black (University of the West of England, United Kingdom)
Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
Charles Forceville (Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Veronika Koller (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Zouhair Maalej (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia)
Brigitte Nerlich (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
Elena Semino (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Gerard Steen (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
Dvora Yanow (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
Ning Yu (University of Oklahoma, United States of America)


We look forward to welcoming you to Amsterdam for RaAM 8!
The local organizing committee:
Alan Cienki and Gerard Steen (chairs);
Lettie Dorst, Berenike Herrmann, Anna Kaal, Tina Krennmayr, Tryntje Pasma

Not yet a member of the RaAM International Association and wish to join?
See the link for 'Joining' at the top of the web page
http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html
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