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Liminalities, like Kairos, is proof that an online journal is more than a print journal online, and proof that an online journal can have staying power. Maybe this is the issue you decide to start reading it regularly? --db

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It is my honor to announce the release of issue 8.5 of Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, a gedenkschrift for John T. Warren. You may find the issue on the Liminalities website at: http://liminalities.net/8-5/

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• conferences

We are just over a week since the close of NCA Disney-Style. I didn't go -- first because my travel expenses in the last year were huge (RSA, then CSSR, then Print Culture in Madison, then "Survive and Thrive" just a stone's throw away in St Cloud with Rex Veeder, then "Widening the Circle" in La Crosse, WI -- these little nickel and dime trips are killing me, though I like that I can drive easily to them). But second because this is the year of the Disneyfication of my national associations.

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The Fembot Collective is delighted to announce the launch of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology! The inaugural issue, "Conversations Across the Field," features articles by: Anne Balsamo and Alex Juhasz, Mia Consalvo, Sarah Kember, Krista Geneviève Lynes, Vicki Mayer, Lisa Nakamura, Kim Sawchuk, and Carol Stabile. We invite you to read the articles at http://adanewmedia.org/.

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• interviews

Figure/Ground Communication's latest scholarly interview is with Henry Armand Giroux. Dr. Giroux was born September 18, 1943, in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Armand and Alice Giroux. Giroux taught high school history in Barrington, Rhode Island from 1968 to 1975. Giroux received his Doctorate from Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. He then became professor of education at Boston University from 1977 to 1983.

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• book announcements

Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
Introduces
STUDIES IN NEW MEDIA
Series Editor: John Allen Hendricks

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• book announcements

Well Met
Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
by Rachel Lee Rubin

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BOOK ALERT from the UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS
The Insistent Call: Rhetorical Moments in Black Anticolonialism, 1929-1937
Aric Putnam

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• composition pedagogy

"...the elevator pitch contains implicit rhetorical connections to audience, purpose, argument, and context that any faculty who teaches speech will recognize immediately. For example, at Kettering University, the elevator pitch has been distilled down into an implicitly rhetorical heuristic based on the Need, Approach, Benefit, Competition (NABC) model described by Carlson and Wilmot in their book Innovation (2006).

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• book announcements

Announcing: the recent publication of Critical Conversations About Plagiarism, the second book in the Lenses on Composition Studies series by Parlor Press.

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• fellowships

Applications are now available for Summer 2013 Research Fellowships at The Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston. Fellowships are open to academic scholars, independent researchers, and graduate students. The Library’s collections, centered on the papers of Mary Baker Eddy and records documenting the history of Christian Science, offer scholars countless opportunities for original research.

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