Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies, Utrecht, Netherlands

Posted on June 6, 2015 by cparry@uoregon.edu

Deadline: 06/14/2015

Job description

The Department of Media and Culture Studies (MCW) seeks an assistant professor (UD) in the area of Film & Media Studies with challenging tasks in education and research within a dynamic professional field and department.

For the available position, we are searching for a candidate in particular who has demonstrably good qualifications in the field of education, research and education management and who would be able to provide a combination of the following areas of education:

(New) screen theory;
Digital cinema;
Media production and creative industries.

In the field of education, the training courses that MCW provides (BA Media Studies, BA Communication and Information Sciences, BA Language and Cultural Studies; MA Media Studies) are aimed at an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to media and media culture. Attention to the (historic) transformation of media and media culture and the role of media in society form the main focus, with a concentration within the education on research skills and (qualitative) research methods.

Candidates who can be deployed broadly in several areas of education, preferably across media, will be given preference. Candidates with demonstrable affinity to communication studies issues are preferred. Good methodological knowledge and skills which also translate to education, are required for this position.

Qualifications

Experience in teaching at both Bachelor and Master level;
Capacity to train students in different (qualitative) research methods;
Considerable research output, evidence of which include a finished PhD and publications at an internationally recognized level;
Experience with successful applications for external funding is desirable;
Experience in a coordinating position is advantageous;
Good communication skills and team spirit;
Basic Teaching Qualification (BKO) according to Dutch university standards (or to be obtained within two years);
Fluency in English, preferably close to near-native standard;
Fluency in Dutch, preferably close to near-native standard.

Offer

The initial appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of two years. Subject to performance, this will be followed by a permanent position. The gross monthly salary for an assistant professor’s position will range from € 3,324 to € 5,171, for a full time position, consistent with the CAO scale 11/12 (Collective Labour Agreement) for Dutch Universities.

The salary is supplemented with a holiday pay of 8% and an end-of-year payment of 8.3% per year. In addition, we offer a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave, flexible employment conditions the possibility to participate in a collective health care plan, and other benefits. Conditions are based on the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities.

About the organisation

Utrecht University strives for excellence in teaching and study performance. This also holds for the clearly defined research profiles with respect to four core themes: Dynamics of Youth, Institutions, Life Sciences and Sustainability. Utrecht University has a strong commitment to community outreach and contributes to answering the social questions of today and tomorrow.

The Faculty of Humanities has around 7,000 students and 900 staff members. It comprises four knowledge domains:

Philosophy and Religious Studies;
History and Art History;
Media and Culture Studies and;
Languages, Literature and Communication.

With its research and education in these fields, the faculty aims to contribute to a better understanding of the Netherlands and Europe in a rapidly changing social and cultural context.

The enthusiastic and committed colleagues and the excellent amenities in the historical city centre of Utrecht, where the Faculty is housed, contribute to an inspiring working environment.

The Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University is an internationally renowned teaching and research consortium composed of scholars in Theatre, Dance, Film, Television, Music, Arts Policy, New Media, Game and Gender Studies. It is dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to media, performance, and culture in general. Attention to the (historic) transformation of media, performance and culture and their role in society form the main focus.

Culture is a dynamic mix of artistic, creative and everyday activities, with which people shape their identity and actions and within which societal structures and institutions gain shape. Media (old and new) have a crucial role in how this is happening. The Department offers a variety of courses at the bachelor, the master and the doctorate level.

The research of the Media and Culture Department is being coordinated by the Institute for Cultural Enquiry (ICON). Researchers at MCW participate in three ICON programmes: Gender Studies, Media & Performance Studies, and Musicology. All three have received excellent assessments in the most recent research visitation. Furthermore, researchers in our department play an important role in the university-wide focus area ‘Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights’ and ‘Game Research’. The Media and Culture department also hosts the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies (NOG).

Additional information

For additional information please contact prof. dr. Maaike Bleeker by email: M.A.Bleeker@uu.nl.
For more information about our courses, please consult:

For more information about Utrecht University’s research, see:

To Apply:

Applications should include a letter of motivation, curriculum vitae, a list of publications and evaluations of teaching. Please use the application button below. The application deadline is 14 June 2015.

Interviews will be scheduled for 25 and 26 June 2015.

The application deadline is 06/14/2015

Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist (2 Year Pilot Position, Northeastern University Libraries)

Posted on June 5, 2015 by cparry@uoregon.edu

They are: Northeastern University Library, an evolving research library with an ambitious vision to expand our digital initiatives and redefine library service in the 21st century through strong partnerships across campus, expanded collaboration in the classroom, continued growth of special collections tied to our Greater Boston communities, new services for creation across media formats, and the development of next-generation digital infrastructure to support these activities and more.

They seek out new tools and methods, test them on real-world projects, and make them available to the Northeastern community and beyond. They work every day to expand our understanding of digital scholarship, and help build it through the tools we provide to support Northeastern’s researchers.

You are: A Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist who will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across the University. You are excited to work with diverse groups within the Library and across campus, and proactive in outreach and communication. You are comfortable with providing many forms of education, from developing curricula and teaching classes to providing high-level research support in one-on-one consultations.

You are a collegial team member who will work closely with other departments within the Library, serving as a resource for statistics and visualization tools, services, and systems. You’re enthusiastic about the role of statistics and visualization in scholarship across the disciplines, and will develop both this position and the Library into focal points for statistics- and visualization-related activities across the University.

This position is in: the Digital Scholarship Group, an applied research group within the Library where we work with researchers at all levels on new techniques of representation, analysis, and dissemination that are transforming scholarly research.

Qualifications include:

Masters Degree in statistics, information design, or related discipline.
Minimum of 3 years experience working in a data intensive environment, preferably in an academic setting.
Working knowledge of major statistical software (SAS, STATA, SPSS, R).
Experience with at least one programming language (such as C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, R).
Experience with data visualization tools and with tool programming libraries.
Ability to construct and automatically extract information from databases.
Proven ability to manage multiple projects from beginning to end.
Skills and aptitude for developing and providing workshops to users.
Excellent interpersonal, marketing, and communication skills.

Please note: This is a two-year pilot position with opportunity for extension.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received; first consideration will go to those received by July 1, 2015.

To view the full job description, job grade and salary information, and apply, please visit: http://neu.peopleadmin.com/postings/35533

CFP: Special Issue: E-Diasporas, Living Digitally

Posted on June 3, 2015 by cparry@uoregon.edu

SUBMISSION DUE DATE: 1 September 2015
PUBLICATION: International Journal of E-Politics

OBJECTIVE OF THE THEMED ISSUE:
With the growth of international (im)migration and work through digital
space across time zones and in the last decade, the Internet and related
wireless and mobile technologies have become crucial for members of various
diasporic communities seeking to connect with both their countries of
origin and their host nations.

Connections are established not only through social media and email, but also through money transfers, philanthropy and business, gaming and related virtual environments. For instance Internet use facilitates information gathering efforts of (im)migrants searching for potential host countries, assist (im)migrants’ acculturation practices after migration, and advance the socio-economic development of diasporic subjects and those they may have left behind. In addition, we also have new forms of digital diaspora that occur through offshore labor forces that have their bodies in their “home” nations but work in time zones and relational socio-financial and organizational spaces that exist “in
diaspora.”

The co-editors of this special issue aims to understand the rhizomatic nature of migrant communities in a twenty-first century climate where the increasing use of online spaces influences the creation of diaspora politics, identity formation (or reclamation in the new nation), and the conception of new meanings of the terms ‘home’ and ‘homeland.’ Thus, this issue endeavors to expand ongoing conversations about dispersed global communities and the ways they relate with communications and information technologies. The International Journal of E-Politics is interdisciplinary so we welcome any disciplinary, theoretical or methodological approach.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
● Emerging or new definitions of ‘e-diasporas’

● Mobile money, financial investments, debt and e-diasporas

● The meaning of ‘home’ for dispersed populations

● The differences between ‘digital diasporas’ and ‘e-diasporas’

● Post-colonial and subaltern ‘e-diasporas’ (Dalit, Roma, etc.)

● Online communities for leisure or play (film viewing and discussions
in online spaces, gaming, creating hobby guilds, etc.)

● Political participation in ‘e-diasporas’

● The use of online spaces to create (social and political)
communities in the host nation

● Identity construction and the Internet

● Usage of social media to ‘click and connect’ with ‘home’

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
Researchers from any field of enquiry that deals with e-diasporas broadly
defined are invited to submit papers for this themed issue.

All submissions are due by September 1, 2015.

All queries to:
Radhika Gajjala, radhik@bgsu.edu

Tori Arthur, tarthur@bgsu.edu

Full papers to be submitted electronically: http://www.igi-global.com/submission/manuscripts/

CALL FOR PAPERS: ESC—Fear, Love, and Confusion: A Special Issue on the AUTOMATED BODY

Posted on June 2, 2015 by cparry@uoregon.edu

Deadline for submission of abstracts or completed papers: August 15, 2015

ESC: English Studies in Canada invites submissions for a special issue on
the automated body, edited by Cecily Devereux and Marcelle Kosman, to be
published Spring 2015. This special issue is situated in response to an
expanding range of questions and concerns about humans and automation in
early twenty-first-century cultural representation.

Such questions and concerns are arguably evident in representation from the earliest days of mechanization and industrialization in the late eighteenth century, and what a scant twenty years ago were referred to as “cybercultures” have been the focus for nearly three decades of academic considerations.

Contemporary cultural texts, we suggest, demonstrate a renewed engagement with questions of the implications of the convergence of the biological with the mechanical and the relationships and the limits of what Donna Haraway characterized in her 1985 “Cyborg Manifesto” as “couplings between organism and machine” and the “fear, love, and confusion” they generate. If fear is evident in what a 2014 New York Times op-ed (June 22) characterized as “robot-worriers’” concerns about automation and unemployment in the workplace, to take only one example, love of—and confusion regarding—human-machine convergences is evident in proliferating stories of transformation, connection, and relationship such as the 2014 film Her and Allison de Fren’s 2012 documentary The Mechanical Bride.

This special issue of ESC is interested in questions of automated bodies broadly conceived. It undertakes to bring into conversation a range of papers focused on any aspect of bodies and automation in cultural representation across media and disciplines. We are interested in automated embodiment as a distinctively contemporary concern yet also/and as well in the histories and archaeologies of such embodiment across periods and contexts.

 Bodies and/as machines; anthropomorphized machines; mechanical
enhancement; prosthetics
 Cybernetics, biomedical engineering, genetic engineering; new eugenics
and reproductive technologies
 Science fiction, fantasy, speculative and dystopic fiction and film;
genres and subgenres: cyberpunk, biopunk, steampunk; automated bodies in
comics media
 Fictions of transformation across media: Carlo Collodi’s Pinocchio,
Hoffmann’s “The Sandman,” Coppélia, The Nutcracker
 Fictions of male reproduction; parthenogenesis; auto-generation; cloning
 Mechanical bodies and televisual media: The Six Million Dollar Man, The
Bionic Woman, Dark Angel, Aeon Flux; media and mechanization
 Mechanical bodies in dance; dancing machines; machine music; music and
automatism; karaoke; Dance Dance Revolution
 Mechanical bodies and fitness; sports and automation
 Robots as themes and instruments in contemporary music: Daft Punk,
Ladytron, Kraftwerk, Radiohead, Robyn; Auto-Tune
 Avatars; gaming bodies (bodies in games, players’ bodies); virtual
automation; virtual companions; intimate operating systems: Her; Siri;
artificial intelligence
 Humans and computers; computer automation; machine dependency; devices,
appliances, watches, glasses; brain-computer interface
 Social media and automatism
 Robot, robotics, fembot, cyborg, cylon, clone, replicant; robots as
“immigrants from the future” (The Economist)
 Anthropomorphized robots; robots and affect; robots and love; robots we
love; robots we fear; human/robot hybrids; roboethics
 Donna Haraway: reading organisms and machines since “The Cyborg Manifesto”
 Gender and automation; automation and patriarchy; fantasies of
automation; housewives and mechanization
 Femininity and living dolls; Mechanical Brides, Stepford Wives, Windup
Girls
 Masculinity and living dolls; Lars and the Real Girl, My Living Doll,
Metropolis
 Automation, capital, and labour; automation and exhaustion; robots and
dirty human work; overwork and automation; automation and unemployment
 Bodies in industry; factory bodies; Taylorism; Fordism; factory girls,
typewriter girls; modernism, modernity, Modern Times
 Automated monsters (Chucky); zombies and/as automated bodies;
Frankenstein; bodies and/as weapons; automation and monstrosity
 Automatic writing; computer-generated poetry; hypnotism and performing
bodies
 Animals and automation; robot animals; cinema and mechanical creatures;
technologies of 3D animation
 Automobility, automaticity, bodies and cars; killer cars (Christine,
Killdozer)
 Automated toys and other things; sex toys; future toys
 Talking to machines: everyday life and automated systems
 Machines without humans: self-parking cars, self-flying planes, drones,
drone photography; killing machine
 Surveillance and security systems; facial recognition technology; NSA
monitoring; bio-identification

To Apply: Please forward either a 500-word abstract OR a completed paper (6000-8000
words, in MLA format) and a 50-word biographical statement to Marcelle Kosman (mkosman@ualberta.ca) and Cecily Devereux (cecily.devereux@ualberta.ca) by August 15, 2015.

Final revisions to accepted papers will need to be completed by December 15, 2015.

*ESC: English Studies in Canada *is a quarterly journal of scholarship and
criticism concerned with the study of literature and culture. Recent
special issues include “Hysteria Manifest: Cultural Lives of a Great
Disorder” (40.1: 2014), edited by Derritt Mason and Ela Pryzbylo); “The
Global Animal” (39.1: 2013), edited by Karyn Ball and Melissa Haynes), and
“Childhood and Its Discontents” (38:3-4: 2012), edited by Nat Hurley. For
more information visit ESC Digital at www.arts.ualberta.ca/~esc
<http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/%7Eesc> *ESC *normally accepts black and white
images, up to a limit of six per article. Contributors are responsible for
providing image files in black and white and for securing permissions in
advance of publication.

More information about ESC is available at:
http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~esc/submit.php.

Congratulations to the NMCC Graduating Class of 2015!!

Posted on June 1, 2015 by cparry@uoregon.edu

We are thrilled to announce the NMCC graduates for the 2015 school year. This group of students has strengthened and inspired our NMCC community through their energy, curiosity and scholarly enthusiasm for all things new media. We are very proud of the hard work and perseverance that these students have displayed in their academic pursuits during their time with us, and we look forward to celebrating their scholarly, artistic, and technological accomplishments in the years ahead. Congratulations class of 2015!!