Dear colleagues:

Kindly find in the attached the conceptual document and the CFP for the upcoming World Social Science Forum (WSSF) focusing on “Social transformation and the digital age” (Montreal October 13-15, 2013), organized by the International Social Science Council (ISSC). Apologies for any cross-posting.

Warm regards,

Aharon

Aharon Kellerman
Professor Emeritus, University of Haifa
President, Zefat Academic College
Vice-President, International Geographical Union (IGU)
Member, Academia Europaea
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From: Sally Wyatt [mailto:sally.wyatt@ehumanities.knaw.nl]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 2:53 PM
To: אהרן קלרמן
Subject: FW: participating in programme committee for WSSF in 2013

Dear Dr Kellerman,
First let me introduce myself – I have the great pleasure and honour of being the Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee for the World Social Science Forum, to be held in Montréal on 13-15 October 2013. The theme of the Forum is ‘Social Transformations and the Digital Age’. Please find attached the agreed text of the announcement of the call, which also provides more details of the content, plus the formalities which gives an indication of the time frame. The Forum is convened by the International Social Science Council, and hosted in Canada by a consortium led by the Montréal Secretariat of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
You were nominated by the International Geographical Union to be part of the Programme Committee. I am writing to you now to confirm whether you are indeed willing to be a member of the committee. This would involve actively encouraging people to submit proposals not only from your country but also from your field of interest and research, reviewing the proposals in February next year, and assisting in the composition of the panels and programme as a whole.
Please let me know by 20 October - so that we can include names of committee members on future publicity for the Forum.
I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,
Sally Wyatt

Programme Leader, e-Humanities Group
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW)
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Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture
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I just received this and wanted to share it with you. It is generally known that in addition to his work on post-structuralism and critical theory, Mark did some fundamental work on the constitution of the Information Society. He introduced the term, "the mode of information." He will be missed.

alladi venkatesh

Subject: Professor Mark Poster

Date: October 10, 2012 3:16:51 PM PDT

Dear Colleagues,

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our esteemed colleague
Mark Poster, Emeritus Professor of History and Film & Media Studies,
passed away in the hospital earlier this morning. Mark Poster was a vital
member of the School of Humanities, and for decades one of its most widely
read and cited researchers. He made crucial contributions to two different
departments, History and Film & Media Studies, and played a central role
in UCI's emergence as a leading center for work in Critical Theory.

In the first part of his career, when his focus was on modern European
intellectual history, his path-breaking publications included the
influential book Existential Marxism in Postwar France (Princeton
University Press 1975), a study of the intellectual world around Jean-Paul
Sartre. When the theory boom hit the U.S., thanks in part to this book,
he became a widely sought-after authority on French critical thought,
especially the writing of Michel Foucault, whose work he helped introduce
to American audiences. He played a crucial role in setting the History
Department on its current course, as one of the first departments--if not
the first department--in the discipline with a required graduate sequence
in theory. In that sequence Mark taught a Foucault seminar that became
legendary.

His investments in French intellectual history also positioned Mark Poster
for crucial contributions to the Critical Theory Institute at UC Irvine,
which he helped start as an informal reading group; by 1987 it was
established as a campus research institute. The international distinction
of Irvine, reflected in the CTI, the graduate emphasis, the Critical
Theory Archive, and departmental strengths, still defines the special
character of the School, and contributes to its international reputation
for scholarly innovation. Hosting internationally known scholars, the
Critical Theory Institute with its public seminars and Wellek lecture
series soon became one of the global hotspots in the humanities.

In the second part of his career, Mark became a seminal theorist of media
and technology. He was the founding chair of the Department of Film &
Media Studies at UC Irvine. Together with Franco Tonelli and Eric
Rentschler, he had helped shepherd the Film Emphasis of the early 1980s to
Program status by the end of that decade, and then to departmentalization
by 2002. In the process he was pivotal in hiring and mentoring faculty who
now serve the School's second largest major.

Mark Poster was a major figure in the rapid development of media studies
and theory in the USA and internationally. While as an intellectual
historian he could draw on Frankfurt School thought as well as on
cybernetics, he was particularly interested in the potential of
poststructuralism for media studies. From his translations of Baudrillard
to his dissemination of Foucault, Poster played a highly influential role
in the study of media culture, including television, databases, computing,
and the Internet; he continued to offer crucial commentary on the
relevance to technology and media of cultural theory, and his numerous
articles and books have been translated into a number of different
languages. Reflective of the breadth of his interests and expertise,
Poster held courtesy appointments in the Department of Information and
Computer Science and in the Department of Comparative Literature. First
hired at UCI in 1968, Poster had recently retired after 40 years of
service to the School and the Campus.

We will let you know as plans for a memorial event in the School develop.
In the meantime, we extend our condolences to his family and to all those
close to him.

Yours,

Jim Steintrager, Interim Dean, School of Humanities

Peter Krapp, Chair, Department of Film & Media Studies

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chair, Department of History

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