I'll sure be glad when this barrage of emails fades away!
2009/6/22 Rosaria Caporrimo <[log in to unmask]>
> Please remove me from list.... nothing personal....too many e-mails, too
> much to do, too little time.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
>
>
> Rosaria Caporrimo, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology
> Dept. of Secondary Education & Youth Services
> Queens College, Flushing, NY; 11367
> Tel#: 718-997-5150
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> --- On Mon, 6/22/09, Linda Graham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> From: Linda Graham <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: New AERA SIG rules
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, June 22, 2009, 4:48 PM
>
>
> Dear Foucault List and SIG Members,
>
> Firstly, my apologies if this goes to folks who have recently requested
> removal from the listserv. We will action that as soon as we can but we
> also have busy schedules, so if you wish to be removed, please just send a
> request to delete your details from the Foucault list directly to Christine
> or I and this will help reduce traffic to the whole list.
>
> However, it is very pleasing to see that the main volume of emails to the
> list are those requesting to remain on it! Thank you to each of you for
> your interest and commitment.
>
> Overnight I received an email from AERA management and there are a few
> changes that I want to share with the list as these will affect the future
> of the SIG. These relate to the administrative culling of small SIGs, the
> new process of review and lastly, the new AERA session allocation method:
>
> 1. Membership Minimums: As in past years, AERA will take the official
> membership count on June 30. SIGs with fewer than 45 members, the minimum
> number of members required for a SIG in good standing, will be notified that
> they have one year to increase their membership to that minimum.
>
> 2. Review Panels: This is the time when you and your program committee are
> creating the review panels to rate the submissions for the 2010 Annual
> Meeting program. Smaller SIGs may wish to share panel members, or panels on
> specific topics with another SIG or division with similar interests.
>
> On the first topic, I urge those of you who do want to see the Foucault SIG
> remain as a space for critical theoretical work to make sure that your
> Foucault SIG membership is up to date. This is easily done when you renew
> your AERA membership. It is not a matter of funding I can assure you as
> Christine and I have kept the membership rates lower than other SIGs. It is
> a matter of keeping the SIG viable for, as you can see from the above AERA
> communication, those with less than 45 members will be forced to justify
> their existence.
>
> As to the second, I have to admit I'm still confused and somewhat
> ambivalent about the review panel idea. In any case, it excludes graduate
> students from the review process (they can still review but their scores are
> not counted). Christine has objected about this process to AERA management,
> particularly because of its affect on small SIGs but ... to no avail.
>
> 3. My final point is an important one: the SIGs presence at AERA has been
> seriously dwindling over the last few years because AERA have changed how
> they allocate sessions. It is now allocated on number of proposals
> submitted - not number of SIG members, as it used to be.
>
> This has drastically affected us. For example, in 2007 we received about
> 34 proposals and were allocated 19 slots (mainly individual paper sessions
> and we massaged this up to 21 by requesting longer sessions - not ideal but
> better than rejecting good papers). In 2008 however, we only received 11
> proposals and were granted 4 slots - all individual roundtables. This also
> has implications for the presence of SIG members at the conference as one of
> our international presenters couldn't get funding to present at a roundtable
> and so didn't come (this is common in Australia also). So basically in 2008
> we had three people present in the Foucault SIG.
>
> This can't continue. Therefore I ask folks to remember the Foucault SIG
> when they renew their AERA membership and, if you are hatching something
> Foucauldianesque right now, do submit it to the SIG for Denver in 2010.
>
> Christine and I will be getting back to you soon with some plans for a
> revitalisation of the SIG that will hopefully broaden the church to include
> those members now experimenting with Agamben, Deleuze, Butler and so on. We
> raised this at the 2009 SIG Business Meeting - although one of the people
> most interested in the reasons for change happened to be a right-wing member
> of the press! Her question was "So, why don't people like Foucault?"
>
> We gleefully gave her a number of reasons, so she probably doesn't like us
> now but let me remind you, this SIG's reason for being is to act as a space
> for those who do. (ie., Welcome Joseph Kurz, new program co-chair!)
>
> I hope you all continue to submit your work and, if you do attend AERA next
> year, please come to the Business Meeting.
>
> Regards,
>
> Linda (2010 Foucault SIG Chair and Program Co-Chair)
>
>
>
>
>
> Dr Linda J. Graham
> Macquarie University Research Fellow
> Children and Families Research Centre
> Faculty of Human Sciences
> Macquarie University NSW 2109
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