[Linganth] Panel looking for meeting space

[P. Kerim Friedman]

Ken,

First, a clarification: The alternative meetings being held in the bay
area are mostly being held during the original time slot in November -
when most people still have tickets to go to the original AAA meetings.
The AAA meeting in Atlanta is in December, when many people simply
can't make it (or won't go for other reasons). Many sub-sections have
decided that it is the only way to get anything done, while others feel
that it is the only right thing to do. Expect more announcements from a
variety of sub-sections today.

<http://aaaunite.blogspot.com/2004/10/sub-section-mini-meetings.html>

Regarding reimbursement. It isn't clear to me why one wouldn't get
reimbursed for attending an SLA mini-session hosted outside of the
AAA's normal time slot. The different sections have different
contracts, but I know in the caste of SEAA they have the authority to
hold their own conferences in addition to the AAA meeting, as Laura
made clear in her message. Although I suppose if someone already got
reimbursed on the basis of attending one meeting it may be difficult to
change that to another one.

Regarding jobs. Since so few people will be attending Atlanta, I
imagine that most schools are going to make other arrangements to
contact those they are interested in hiring. At least I hope they are,
since I am on the job market this year and (like many others) I can't
go to Atlanta because it conflicts previous travel plans. (In my case I
bought very expensive, non refundable, plane tickets to India where I
am attending a conference on the same dates as the Atlanta conference.)

Although we are coordinating the alternative plans of various AAA
sub-sections via the blog, AAA UNITE is not calling for a boycott of
Atlanta. (The petition, with over 600 signatures to-date, for such a
boycott, was started by another group.) For those who go to Atlanta we
are suggesting that people avoid staying at the (non-union) Hilton, and
try to spend their money outside of the hotel as well. However, we do
feel that the decision to move to Atlanta was wrong and are calling for
changes in the way the AAA writes contracts so that it isn't forced
into a similar position in the future. There will be meetings in the
Bay Area during the November weekend to put together an official list
of demands regarding both the AAA decision making process and how it
makes contracts. Some AAA Unite members will then go to Atlanta to meet
with the AAA executive board and go over these demands. If you wish to
be involved in the process, please join the AAAUNITE listserv.

kerim

On Oct 27, 2004, at 11:33 PM, Kenneth Ehrensal wrote:

> There is only one small glitch with the idea of having SLA sessions in
> the
> Bay area when AAA meets (where ever the hell) they might meet.  Anyone
> who
> is dependent on their Dean or Provost picking up the tab probably
> needs to
> go to the "official" site to get reimbursed.   Also, anyone who is job
> shopping needs to be where the placement activity is (and department
> reps
> will not be funded to go to someplace other than were the meeting is,
> either).
>
> [just as a note, before anyone flames me, in a former life I was an
> Education Director for a PA AFL-CIO labor council and regional labor
> education director for the PA-SSHE, so I am sick to death about this
> whole
> issue, at another level]
>
>
>
> ***********************************************************
> ***********************************************************
>
> Kenneth N. Ehrensal
> Associate Professor
> Management Department
> Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
> ehrensal at kutztown.edu
> http://faculty.kutztown.edu/ehrensal
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "P. Kerim Friedman" <kerim.list at oxus.net>
> To: <linganth at cc.rochester.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 8:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Linganth] Panel looking for meeting space
>
>
>> How about we move *all* SLA sessions and business meetings to the Bay
>> area (not SF so that we keep the pressure on the city in support of
>> the
>> workers, but Berkeley or Oakland), as many other sessions are doing?
>>
>> 600 people have signed an online petition saying they will boycott the
>> Atlanta conference, many subsections are canceling or moving to the
>> Bay
>> Area, and other people are simply planning on staying home. For many
>> people the December meetings conflict with exams or travel plans and
>> they simply can't go. It seems clear that Atlanta will be a bust, and
>> it is likely that the AAA board are happy with it that way, since they
>> don't have to officially break their contract with the Hilton -
>> risking
>> a lawsuit.
>>
>> This may be a reasonable strategy for the AAA to adopt for legal
>> reasons, but it doesn't mean that SLA business meetings and panels
>> need
>> to suffer as well. We could follow the lead of SEAA, SAW, CAE, SMA,
>> etc. and still hold meetings in the Bay area in November. Finding
>> space
>> will be difficult, but it shouldn't be impossible.
>>
>> kerim
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2004, at 5:54 PM, Adam Hodges wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Bay area scholars,
>>>
>>> I'm looking for a place in the San Francisco area where the panel I
>>> have
>>> organized for AAA could still meet on November 19.  It is a double
>>> panel
>>> with about ten scholars, most are coming from overseas and have
>>> unchangeable
>>> plane tickets (so a majority of the panel will be in San Francisco
>>> regardless.)  We would love to find a university willing to host our
>>> panel
>>> so we can present and discuss our work with anyone interested in
>>> attending.
>>> If you belong to a department or organization at a Bay area
>>> university
>>> and
>>> would be interested in hosting us, please let me know.  The panel
>>> description is below, and the topic may be of interest to scholars
>>> from
>>> various disciplines, including linguistics, communication, media
>>> studies,
>>> anthropology, sociology, etc.
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Adam
>>>
>>> DISCOURSE, WAR, AND TERRORISM
>>> Volunteered session for 2004 AAA annual meeting
>>> San Francisco, November 17-21
>>>
>>> Panel Organizers:
>>> Adam Hodges adam.hodges at colorado.edu
>>> Chad Nilep chad.nilep at colorado.edu
>>> Dept. of Linguistics
>>> Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
>>>
>>> SESSION ABSTRACT
>>> Language is a primary tool used in the construction of cultural
>>> understandings; and discourses in the aftermath of September 11, 2001
>>> have
>>> provided the frameworks through which the world now views global
>>> terrorism.
>>> This panel explores the discursive production of identities,
>>> ideologies, and
>>> collective understandings of terrorism in light of the Bush
>>> administration’s
>>> ongoing “war on terror.”  At issue are how enemies are defined and
>>> identified, how political leaders and citizens react, and how
>>> societies
>>> collectively understand their position in the world vis-à-vis
>>> terrorism.
>>> Intimately involved in the production of cultural understandings are
>>> the
>>> media, and importantly tied to the language used by political leaders
>>> are
>>> ideologies that drive policy.
>>>
>>> This panel joins scholars from around the world and across
>>> disciplines
>>> to
>>> analyze these issues.  In particular, the narrative of the “war on
>>> terror”
>>> is examined in light of the Bush administration’s ideological stance
>>> vis-à-vis terrorism as a military war.  The discourse and actions of
>>> the
>>> administration are looked at within the larger post-Cold War context
>>> to
>>> explain the conflation of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein in the
>>> discourse of the New World Order.  Reactions to the “war on terror”
>>> discourse are viewed in places such as Serbia, where intellectuals
>>> see
>>> the
>>> global war against terrorism as an opportunity to upgrade their
>>> country's
>>> position on the international stage and revive Serbia's myth as
>>> “defender of
>>> the West.”  A gendered perspective looks at the Bush administration’s
>>> war of
>>> liberation in light of the masculinization of the Arab population in
>>> the
>>> United States and the simultaneous emasculation within the Arab
>>> world.
>>>
>>> The panel takes a close look at the media’s role in shaping reactions
>>> to and
>>> creating cultural understandings of terrorism.  Media reports of AP
>>> and
>>> Reuters are examined with regard to the portrayal of emotions such as
>>> fear,
>>> worry, and concern.  The formation of Arab identities is examined in
>>> stories
>>> that appear in the New York Times and Christian Science Monitor,
>>> where
>>> “Arab” is used to describe alternately a religion, a phenotype, a
>>> region, a
>>> language, and a nationality, sometimes in the same article.  The
>>> explicit,
>>> implicit, and presupposed discursive strategies used in titles and
>>> subtitles
>>> of the French language Swiss press to construct negative identities
>>> of
>>> the
>>> Other in the Iraq war are analyzed.  Finally, the Bakhtinian notion
>>> of
>>> heteroglossia and the dialogic construction of meaning are used to
>>> explore
>>> the processes by which Western discourses on terrorism are
>>> entextualized by
>>> program moderators, guests, and callers in Aljazeera talk shows.
>>>
>>> _________________________________
>>> Adam Hodges
>>> Department of Linguistics
>>> University of Colorado
>>>
>>> « Le véritable voyage de découverte ne
>>> consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux
>>> paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux
>>> yeux. »
>>>   -Marcel Proust
>>>
>>> www.adamhodges.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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