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litsci-l-digest         Monday, April 24 2006         Volume 01 : Number
174



In this issue:

     RE: Abstracts DO NOT BELONG
     Re: abstract--I like them!
     RE: Abstracts DO NOT BELONG
     FWD: Book Announcement: WATCHING WILDLIFE

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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:56:27 -0500
From: "Mark Bonta" 
Subject: RE: Abstracts DO NOT BELONG

Is there a way to opt for a "daily digest"? This is something I've used
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on Yahoo groups.

I find it ironic that this is the first actual discussion to take place
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on this list-serv in a while...=20

Dr. Mark Bonta
Assistant Professor of Geography
Division of Social Sciences
POB 3264
Cleveland MS 38733
662.846.4096



- -----Original Message-----
From: litsci-l-owner@duke.edu on behalf of Henry S. Turner
Sent: Wed 4/19/2006 10:37 AM
To: Joe Amato
Cc: LITSCI-L@duke.edu 
Subject: Re: Abstracts DO NOT BELONG
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Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but it's a relatively simple matter to=20
set rules for your email program that will sort all messages with a=20
certain subject heading into a dedicated folder (i.e. "SLSA 2006" or=20
even "Trash" ).  I assumed that this was why all the submissions had
to=20
follow a fixed format (SUB 06 etc).

Henry Turner

On Apr 19, 2006, at 10:15 AM, Joe Amato wrote:

> Katherine, appended is what you find at
>
> http://www.dactyl.org/thought/SLSA2006/cfp.htm 
>
> which suggests that this listserv *is* indeed to be used for=20
> conference submissions.
>
> Now the proposals are, presumably, and as below, to be the basis
for=20
> (online) exchange---something to which this list has never been
esp.=20
> prone.  I won't hazard a guess as to why this is, but at any rate,=20
> listserv exchange these days tends to be so fraught that I wonder=20
> whether anyone really will post in to discuss so many fascinating=20
> conference submissions.
>
> Anyway, fyi, respectfully.
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
> -----------------------------
>
> NEW OPEN-FORUM SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
>  We are trying something different with the submission process this=20
> year. Participants are urged to submit their paper/panel abstracts
to=20
> the SLSA listserve, and all listserve subscribers are invited to=20
> respond to the abstracts with comments and questions. Individual=20
> submitters are encouraged to use the listserve to self-organize
into=20
> coherent panels. If you do form connections and would like to be=20
> placed together in a panel, please let the program chair know by
the=20
> submission deadline. We hope that this new procedure will stimulate=20
> dialogue among participants before the conference begins so that
the=20
> overall experience of SLSA 2006 will be richer and more useful for=20
> everyone involved.
> For individual papers as well as for panel and other proposals, please
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> submit abstracts of no more than 200 words per speaker, in plain
text=20
> (no attachments) pasted into an e-mail message to LITSCI-L@duke.edu=20

> with "SUB 06" followed by the title of the panel or talk in the=20
> subject line. In addition, please offer up to 5 keywords to
classify=20
> the paper or session: e.g. "science fiction, technology, biology,=20
> theory, visual art, ecocriticism, Whitehead, Renaissance, media,=20
> cinema, Gaia, rhetoric, poetics, semiotics," and etc.. For each=20
> speaker, provide an e-mail address and each speaker's institutional=20
> affiliation, academic department, or professional status (e.g.=20
> Independent Scholar) or profession (e.g. Technologist, Novelist)=20
> whichever is applicable. The appearance of your submission on the=20
> listserve will be the acknowledgement of its receipt by the program=20
> committee.
>
>
>
>> on a list-serv.  PLEASE figure out who they really go to, and STOP=20
>> THIS
>>  NONSENSE.  Moderators, step in, please.  I really don't want to read
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>> 50+ paper
>>  proposals.  You owe the list members an apology.
>>
>>
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> --=20
>  Joe Amato, Managing Editor
> American Book Review
>  Illinois State University
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>  Normal, IL  61790-4241
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:18:54 -0500
From: Leigh Van Valen 
Subject: Re: abstract--I like them!

Empirically, though, de gustibus quondam disputandum est.
  -Leigh

>Dear Lit-Sci,
>
>I'd just like to weigh in as someone who appreciated receiving the
abstracts.
>I can't go to the conference and was fascinated to watch the
development of
>ideas and connections around some of this year's themes.  I've archived
many
>of the e-mails, sent others on, answered a couple.
>
>De gustibum non est disputandum.
>
>Mary Baine Campbell
>
>
>-


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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:42:39 -0500
From: "Katherine Arens" 
Subject: RE: Abstracts DO NOT BELONG

1) I have counted I think three requests to be REMOVED from the
list-serv=

because of this barrage.  If you set up a header for SPAM filter, you
sho=
uld
warn people to filter BEFORE the messages come in.
2) Most places that want to show abstracts have an online submission
form=
 with
a display -- OR they send out digests of clusters.  Join the
21st-century=
,
please.  PHP is a nice invention.  Try it sometime.
3) Yes, there is a digest.  it comes with the most ghastly conversion
fro=
m
html mail that I have seen in three years and 6 list-servs.  Don't go
the=
re. =

I was, as in this case, told it was "my fault" for not managing my
settin=
gs
right. =

Don't bother responding to me.  I am now within a very few useless
emails=
 of
unsubscribing this listserv.


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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:29:53 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: FWD: Book Announcement: WATCHING WILDLIFE

A vivid examination of nature television*and what it reveals about human
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society.

WATCHING WILDLIFE
Cynthia Chris
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2006
ISBN 0-8166-4546-9 | hardcover | $60.00
ISBN 0-8166-4547-7 | paperback | $19.95

Watching Wildlife traces the history of the wildlife genre from
precinemati=
c, colonial visual culture to its contemporary status as flagship =
programming on global television. Cynthia Chris's analysis of shows such
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as Crocodile Hunter and film and television history like the launch of =
Animal Planet, points out how documentary images of animals present =
prevailing ideologies about human gender, sexuality, and race.

"In this rich, fascinating account of why wildlife films should be =
understood as human cultural artifacts, Cynthia Chris demonstrates how =
ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality have found comfortable
surroundin=
gs in the feigned objectivity of the nature film." *Nigel Rothfels

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's
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webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/chris_watching.html 

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