Hi Linda,
I would like to register continuing interest.
I will not be at Denver unfortunately but will include the SIG when I
renew my membership.
Regards,
Kym
Dr. Kym Macfarlane
Program Convenor Child and Family Studies
School of Human Services and Social Work
Griffith University
Logan Campus
Ph. 33821237
From:
Linda Graham <[log in to unmask]>
To:
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Date:
23/06/2009 07:06 AM
Subject:
New AERA SIG rules
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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