Summer 2008 Newsletter
Dear Friends,
We hope that mid-year finds you doing well, and would like to apprise you of some exciting new developments at the journal.
Public Culture 20th Anniversary Lecture Series
We are currently planning a series of lectures to celebrate the journal’s twentieth year. The lectures will be held at Columbia University and will likely feature one speaker monthly in both the fall of 2008 and the spring of 2009.
New website coming this fall
Public Culture’s website is being completely rebuilt and redesigned. In addition to featuring a full catalogue of back content, a streamlined organization, and a fresh, dynamic design, the site will introduce new genres of web-exclusive content including letters to the editor, interviews with scholars and artists, and blogs.
Public Culture Ranked Bestselling Journal in e-Duke Scholarly Collection
We learned recently to our great delight that Public Culture has become the bestselling journal in the e-Duke Scholarly Collection, which provides online access to twenty-nine Duke humanities and social science journals. More information on the e-Duke collection is available here.
Public Culture now on Wikipedia
A page devoted to the journal has appeared on this most public of sites. Have a look, and start editing!
Soliciting Pieces on Israel, Pakistan, and India
The editors of Public Culture have issued a call for submissions relating specifically to Israel, Pakistan, and India, to be published in a series of special issues.
See our general submissions guidelines. For more information or to submit your work, please send an e-mail to submissions@publicculture.org.
Release of Spring 2008 Issue
Fresh from the presses, issue 20.2 offers a remarkable collection of new independent essays, each charting in its own way startling intersections between different disciplines, vocabularies, and paradigms. The essays range from Rosalind Morris’s piece on the politics of risk, profit, and rush as they are managed both by insurance companies and by capitalist speculators in a gold-mining region of South Africa to Duy Lap Nguyen’s look at the critical role played by leisure in the Viet Cong’s socialist education and military training programs. In a demonstration of Public Culture’s continued commitment to publishing original visual work, this issue also features Aric Mayer’s re-framing of the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Katrina, Shiloh Krupar’s satirical “de-tour” of Shanghai’s grandiose Urban Planning projects, and a handsomely illustrated essay by Partha Chatterjee in which the author finds evidence of self-conscious disciplinary transformation in the recent production of Indian visual culture.
Editorial Committee Welcomes Two New Members
We are delighted to announce that Mamadou Diouf and Janet Roitman will be joining our Editorial Committee in the Fall. Diouf directs Columbia University’s Institute for African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs, and is also a faculty member in the university’s Departments of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) and History. Roitman holds a joint position as an associate professor in the Anthropology Department and in the Graduate Program for International Affairs at New School University.
Until Soon…
We expect to be back in touch this fall, to unveil the journal’s new site and with more details on the lecture series and plans for the twentieth anniversary celebration…
Until then, from everyone at Public Culture, have a wonderful summer!