CALL FOR PAPERS, CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS
Social Theory Forum 2008: "A Foucault for the 21st Century: Governnentality, Biopolitics and Discipline in the New Millennium"
The Fifth Annual Social Theory Forum will be held on April 16 and 17, 2008, at UMass Boston. Keynote speakers will include Charles Lemert (Wesleyan University), Barbara Cruikshank (UMass Amherst), James Brenauer (Boston College), and Margaret McClaren (Rollins College). For the complete program click here. For information about its call for papers click here. For further information please contact the chair of the STF 2008 organizing committee, Jorge Capetillo-Ponce.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
Editor of the theme-based Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (ISSN: 1540-5699) seeks scholarly papers (about 20-35 pages), short essays and commentaries (5-15 pages) or book/article reviews (3-5 pages) in sociology and from across the disciplines on the following themes for three of its upcoming Volume VI issues. Initial abstracts and/or brief letters of intent or inquiry regarding the thematic relevance of proposed submissions are highly encouraged and should be emailed as early as possible to the journal editor mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu. The submission deadline for all the three themes has been extended to July 1, 2008.
III. From the Classroom: Scholarships of Learning and Teaching the Sociological Imagination
For submission guidelines, peer reviewing policy, and further elaborations on the issue themes, please visit http://www.okcir.com. Human Architecture is published online free of charge, in hard copy, and as book, the individual issues being also assigned ISBN numbers. Contents are compiled in Sociological Abstracts and in Ebsco's SocINDEX with Full-Text, accessible in subscribing academic libraries worldwide.
NEW FACULTY
Assistant Professor Lakshmi Srinivas and Full-Time Lecturer (2007-8) Shea Cronin Join the Sociology Faculty
The Department of Sociology is pleased to announce and welcome the joining to its faculty of Lakshmi Srinivas as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Sociology at UMass Boston, and Shea Cronin as a full-time Lecturer during the 2007-8 academic year. Professor Srinivas received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her areas of specialization and interest include Media and Popular Culture, Media Reception, Spectatorship, Public Culture, Consumption, Globalization, Ethnography, and Bollywood Cinema. To read more about Professor Srinivas's recent publications, please visit her webpage. Shea Cronin is teaching courses on Police in Society, and Social Statistics during Fall 2007.
PUBLICATION NEWS
Publication of the New Issue (vol. 8, 1) of The Discourse of Sociological Practice
The volume 8, issue 1, of The Discourse of Sociological Practice, the official journal of the UMB Sociology Department edited by Professor Siamak Movahedi was published in May 2007. The issue features sole-authored articles by Jerry S. Piven, Stephen Soldz, Frank Nutch, Richard H.Ogles, and Robin Gomolin, and an article co-authored by Marcelo Svirsky, Aura Mor-Sommerfield, Faisal Azaiza, and Rachel Hertz-Lazarowitz. The journal articles are accessible online here. For more information please contact siamak.movahedi@umb.edu.
Publication of New Issues (vol. V) of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge
The Fall 2006 issue of Human Architecture on the theme "Othering Islam" includes the proceedings of an international conference on Islamophobia, organized by Ramón Grosfoguel (U.C. Berkeley) and Eric Mielants (Fairfield University) in June 2006, at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, France. Grosfoguel and Mielants also served as guest co-editors of this issue.
The Spring 2007 issue of Human Architecture on the theme "Insiders/Outsiders: Voices from the Classroom," part of the journal's continuing scholarships of learning series, includes articles by various undergraduate (including First Year Seminar) and graduate students from UMass Boston, a co-authored student/faculty paper from Long Island University, and another by a creative art therapist and artist in NYC.
The Summer 2007 Special Double-Issues of Human Architecture on the theme "Reflections on Fanon" includes papers by distinguished scholars, faculty, and doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students, as part of the proceedings of the Fourth Annual Social Theory Forum held on March 27-28, 2007, at UMass Boston.
All the journal articles in the three issues of Human Architecture are accessible online here. For more information, please contact the editor of the journal mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu
New Book, Advancing Utopistics
Mohammad H. Tamdgidi , Assistant Professor of Sociology at UMass Boston, published his new book, Advancing Utopistics: The Three Component Parts and Errors of Marxism (Paradigm Publishers, 2007). For more information please visit here or contact mohammad.tamdgidi@umb.edu.