Embracing Our Differences® is an outdoor juried art exhibit
celebrating diversity. A critical part of the exhibit, (on display April, 2011) includes selected quotations from the general public that accompany the artwork. The quotations give individuals in the larger community a chance to have their voices represented by expressing their thoughts, feelings and ideas. The combination of art and the written word adds a deeper dimension to the overall experience. Since 2004, the exhibit has been viewed by more
Call for Papers: Fieldwork and Interdisciplinary Research Journal Issue, Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture (ISSN: 1547-4348) is an innovative online cultural studies journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of scholars and their audience, granting them all the ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.
Transverse, a graduate literary journal of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, invites submissions of essays, literary reviews, and creative writing (short stories, poetry, short plays) for the next issue, to be published in Spring 2007.
CFP: In many ways, poetry can be approached as the forgotten artifact in the cluttered basement of the popular literary genres. It conceals more than it reveals but it often has the potential to open the floodgates of possibility with a single monad: an object leads to a thought, a memory, a word, a letter, a comma, or a space. The carved ivory swans left behind by an extinct civilization prompt Al Purdy’s wandering “Lament for the Dorsets,” just as the stone hammer which sits atop Robert Kroetsch’s desk becomes the site of sustained poetic exercise. From Keats’ Grecian urn, to Sharon Olds’ “Photographs Courtesy of the Fall River Historical Society,”
The editorial staff for the new peer-reviewed journal Ethnoscapes: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context invites submissions for its second issue on the subject of "Transnational Migration, Globalization, and Citizenship." Ethnoscapes maps the development of important themes in the field of race and ethnic studies by using a "classic" piece as a point of departure for a reconsideration of critical issues within the contemporary economic, political, and cultural terrain.
