News from the IAS
Body: The IAS received 32 applications for the winter grant-giving round, making it one of the most competitive in IAS history. With so many good project proposals, it was truly difficult to choose, but you all made it a little bit easier. Thanks to your donations this year, we were able to increase our grant amount from $2,000 to $4,000 annually in order to fund more writers and translators worldwide. We hope to be able to continue to boost this amount in the future.
The IAS is pleased to award the following grant awards for winter 2008:
Amy Seidenverg, "Apex: Locating Cascadia Forest Defense in Feminism, Anarchism, and Queer Theory," $500
Anna Elena Torres, "Fraye Arbeter Shtime/Free Voice of Labor: An Anthology of 87 Years of Yiddish Anarchist Writing," $500
Andy Cornell, "The Movement for a New Society: Consensus, Prefiguration, and Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s," $500
Daniel Cairns, "Chinese Anarchist Periodicals," $500
For more details, see
http://www.anarchiststudies.org/grantrecipients
The next grant deadline is June 15, 2008.
Body: The IAS is again curating the Radical Theory Track at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, American University, Washington, DC. The full line-up of ten talks is now available at http://www.anarchiststudies.org/node/54.
Body: Saturday, February 9 at 7:30 pm
at the New Community Church
614 S Street NW
Washington, DC
(directly across from Shaw/Howard Metro, green line;
use Howard University exit)
How might we think about politics and political action in this period of political despair? One way is to consider political action--at least democratic political action--as collective action out of the presupposition of equality. We'll discuss what this means, how it works, and where we find it in our world.
For those unfamiliar with him, Todd is probably best known (in our circles) for his text "The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism," but is also widely known for works on the philosophy of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and more recently Jaques Ranciere. This weekend's discussion will be focused on what Ranciere offers in the way of reclaiming equality from the liberal tradition, in favor of a more radical application in collective political action, and what that might look like on the ground, in ongoing social movements.
Co-sponsored by the IAS and
the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR)
Free! Donations appreciated!
Body: Sunday, February 10, 2008 / 5:00 p.m.
at the Brian MacKenzie Infoshop
1426 9th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20001
(202) 986.0681 / http://www.dcinfoshop.org/
Nearly as early as Hillary or Obama, anarchists were hot on the campaign trail. Plans to resist the 2008 U.S. presidential elections were afoot in 2006. As German Jewish anarchist Gustav Landauer once observed in relation to "anarchist assassination politics" that they "proceed from the intentions of a small group... following the example of the big political parties. ...What they are trying to say is: 'We are also political.' ...[Yet] these anarchists are not anarchic enough." His comments apply to electoralism too: being political is the right impulse, but the tactic(s) and indeed the focus are wrong. Certainly, in the United States, presidential elections represent rare moments when many people "participate." But why the anarchist fascination with something that's far from anything we'd recognize as politics? And why, if we choose to engage, do anarchists frequently use strategies that mirror statist and/or liberal forms, or are simply unimaginative? Perhaps, in zeroing in on presidential elections, we aren't anarchic enough either.
Cindy is an anarchist activist and educator from Vermont. She has been involved with the Institute for Social Ecology, and is currently a board member with the Institute for Anarchist Studies and a co-organizer of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition conference. She is also a collective member of the all-volunteer Black Sheep Books in Montpelier, Vermont.
A FREE EVENT. Donations encouraged to benefit the IAS.
Body: Saturday, January 26, 2008
OPIRG Windsor's Conscious Change conference
For more details, see http://opirg.uwindsor.ca/
Body: The IAS would like to remind everyone that our Winter 2008 grant deadline is rapidly approaching: January 15, 2008. Twice yearly, the IAS funds radical writers and translators around the world. We want to see YOUR ideas in this round of proposals, so get to it! Apply on this same Web site (see "Grants" section), where you can also find more information including past grant recipients and other IAS projects.
Body: The full schedule of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference, as well as panel and presentation descriptions and presenters' bios, is now online. Check it out here.
Registration for RAT is full. However, we will be audiotaping the conference sessions, so you should be able to listen online in a couple of months.
Body: Stay tuned for a listing of RAT presentations and panels for the fall 2007 conference. We hope to audiotape some of the talks and then post them online later, for those who can't attend RAT.
Body: RAT registration is now open, but is limited to 150 people, on a first-come, first-serve basis until we're full--with registration definitely closing by October 12 at the latest. Everyone coming to RAT (presenters and participants alike) must all register and pay the registration fees in full by or before October 12. RAT has no outside or independent funding to cover the expenses of renting space and providing room/board, so everyone who attends contributes financially to making this conference possible. Those who register for RAT can also book a table(s) for bookstores, infoshops, magazines, and other projects.
For full details, go to the "Projects" section on this Web site, and from there to the RAT Conference subsection.
Body: We are pleased to announce the grant recipients of the summer 2007 cycle of IAS awards for critical scholarship:
$500 to Noel Barcelona for "Anarkismo:
Is There a Truly Filipino Anarchist Theory and Movement?"
This essay will explore the evolution of anarchist theory and practice in the Philippines, examining its past and with a view toward its future. It will critically study questions such as: When did anarchist theory in the Filipino context emerge? Is there a truly Filipino anarchist theory? How concrete is the practice of anarchist theory here in the Philippines, and how does anarchism shape Filipino mass and revolutionary movements? What are the contradictions between anarchism and other current "leftist" theories in the Philippines?
Noel is a journalist living in Quezon City, Philippines.
$250 to Mark Derby for "A Country Considered to be Free:
A Transnational History of the IWW in Aotearoa, New Zealand"
This essay will describe special features of the IWW in New Zealand such as the constant use of Maori language in its newspaper, and the huge impact of imported radical literature, which meant that IWW ideas and direct action strategies can be observed in parts of the country that never saw an actual member of the organization.
Mark works as a historical researcher for the Waitangi Tribunal, a New Zealand government institution that investigates and issues findings on claims by Maori of breaches of the Treaty of Waitangi (signed in 1840 by Maori chiefs and the British Crown), and is the union delegate for his workforce. Although New Zealand born and of Irish descent, he is a fluent speaker of the Maori language and holds a masters in New Zealand studies.
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