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LAX --> PHX

Archinodes is juggling the most amazing projects these days, including conference presentations, app development, and communication design consultation work.

After spending a few days offline and eating tacos in Los Angeles, I am now settling in to a little nook in downtown Phoenix, gearing up for ICA 2012.

I'm here to co-present on a panel entitled Fembot & Ada: Exploring Feminist Digital Publishing, with Jacquie Wallace and the amazing folks from Fembot, spearheaded by Carol Stabile at the University of Oregon:

Across the humanities and social sciences, academic publishing is in a state of crisis. University presses are rethinking their lines and adjusting strategies in response to cuts in budgets and changes in the industry. Not only are journal subscriptions increasingly expensive, forcing universities to cut back on their acquisitions, but journals themselves are struggling to secure the unpaid labor they once relied upon. As Antonio Gramsci would remind us, moments of crisis are also moments of great opportunity. In this spirit, this panel draws from lessons learned in the past, and projects into the future the full potential of the publication, as imagined through a feminist lens.

I am also particpating on a session entitled Feminist Networking, Dissemination an Activist Strategies Via New Media facilitated by Paula M Gardner, OCAD U, CANADA:

By popular request across the division, the FSD extended session will provide a forum to discuss issues of pressing concern to the Feminist Scholarship division, and central to our feminist work in the academy, as mentors, and in practices of disseminating our work into the community. The session is divided into four discussion areas. Each discussion will be initiated by a range of brief “teasers” from panelists and followed by dialogue among all session members.

Spy on #fembotica12 and #ica_fsd to follow these talks.

 

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