Spring 2009 Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We have just a few important announcements to make before we all get back to work.
The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism, University of the Witwatersrand, July 5–15, 2009
Founded in 2008 as a place for experimenting with theory from the perspective of a global South, the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism invites participants from across the academic and intellectual world to a creative and critical event at the intersection of theory, politics, and aesthetics. The 2009 session, “Rethinking the Political Under Late Capitalism,” will bring together a range of top scholars, artists, and activists including frequent Public Culture contributors Achille Mbembe, Jean and John Comaroff, Ackbar Abbas, and Sarah Nuttall. This summer’s program will span ten intensive days of lectures, seminars, public events, exhibitions, and performances, and include explorations of Afrometropolitan Johannesburg. Both faculty and senior post-graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and critical studies in law, media, health, medicine, and technology, are encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is April 20, 2009. More information and application forms can be found here.
Public Culture Honored by AAUP
The Association of American University Presses recently chose Public Culture to represent excellence in journal design in its 2009 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show. The Show will premiere at the AAUP Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, June 18–21, 2009, and subsequently become a traveling exhibition.
Release of Winter 2009 Issue
Just out in time for spring, issue 21.1 features an impressive variety of stimulating contributions, including editorial pieces on the Colombian truth and reconciliation process and on ethnonationalism in Kenya, a stunning series of documentary photos from Tibet, a newly translated article from Michel Feher, essays by Elizabeth Povinelli on contemporary discourses of millennial governance and Gary Wilder on Aimé Césaire and liberation struggles—and much more.
We are particularly happy with the amount of great color art in this issue, and encourage authors to help us continue in this vein by submitting their proposals for illustrations of research essays, photo-essays and other visual essays, as well as reflections and reports on innovative critical cultural work to be considered for the Arts in Circulation section (see our submission guidelines for more information).
All the very best from everyone at Public Culture!