Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 07:54:56 -0500 (EST)
From: "Cyberdiva (a.k.a \"Radhika Gajjala\")" <rxgst6+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject: Virtual Speech Announcement


VIRTUAL SPEECH SERIES

[THIS TIME ITS ON THE WEB]
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The next "Virtual Speech" begins January 15th 1997
at http://www.pitt.edu/~gajjala/virtual-nancy.html 

To participate, you just need to interact via the guestbook, 
no need to subscribe to any lists. If you have
any questions contact me at

gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu

The Virtual Speech series was started in the Summer of
1996 for the virtual dissemination of knowledges. 
The first speaker was Professor John Beverley of  
University of  Pittsburgh. His paper can still be
viewed at http://www.pitt.edu/~gajjala/virtual-john.html.
The discussion took place at a Spoon Collective 
site - seminar-13. The archives are available via 
the spoon homepage (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons).
FYI, the previous announcement is attached to this one.

The Professor Nancy Condee of the Slavic Languages and Literature
Department at the University of Pittsburgh 
has volunteered to do the next virtual speech. 
This time, we plan to set this up via the world-wide-web. 
The paper will be can be viewed (starting January 15th, 1997) at 
http://www.pitt.edu/~gajjala/virtual-nancy.html 
and we will use the guestbook format for interaction.
Dr. Nancy  Condee's paper is entitled :

"The Second Fantasy Mother, or All Baths are Women's Baths"

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The paper is about Russian women's contemporary, 
urban bath-house, or *bania*. 
"The women's baths, are a site where the rites of 
female purity are enacted as the physical manifestation 
of other forms of purity (spiritual, sexual, psychological). 
 The household is reconstituted within this arena of 
symbolic celibacy, using the vehicle of the female body and 
including a period of obligatory, inert leisure before returning 
to the outside world.  Bathing is secular worship, wherein 
pleasure is closely linked to duty and ritual and whereby 
the debauch of the men's baths (if only in legend and 
fantasy) has no place." 
- Nancy Condee , "The Second Fantasy 
Mother, or All Baths are Women's Baths"
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The previous speech information:
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[Last updated on: Sun May 19 19:18:32 1996]


			ANNOUNCING A

		SERIES OF VIRTUAL SPEECHES 
	(for the virtual dissemination of knowledges)

The Virtual Site is "Seminar-13" a space
 provided by the Spoon Collective.



The Process: The "speaker" sends out a text of 
hir speech either to me at 
gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu (and I will forward 
the "speech" to seminar-13) or to 
the list, after the speech has been advertised 
for at least a week. The speech will be sent 
out in parts or all at once depending on the length of 
the text.

The virtual audience will have about a week or 
so to read the text and respond with comments, 
questions and so on.  The "speaker" will engage in 
discussion with the audience for a limited amount of time.

The "speech" and the discussion that follows 
will also be placed at a website so that those 
of you who do not want to receive large messages 
can access the speech from the web. 


The First Speech:

The First speech will be held at seminar-13 
(of spoon collective fame).
It will be sent out in the second week of 
May (and placed at the website).

You will be informed about when and how to 
interact with the "speaker" 
soon after the virtual speech is sent out 
(if it is long, you will receive
it in "chewable" parts)


About the Speaker:

The speaker will be Professor John Beverley 
who is currently  at the Univ of Pittsburgh and 
is known for his work on Latin American Subaltern 
studies.
       
SPEECH TITLE:

ON THE PROJECT OF THE LATIN AMERICAN SUBALTERN STUDIES GROUP

{ the website for this 
- HTTP://WWW.PITT.EDU/~GAJJALA/VIRTUAL-JOHN.HTML}

To participate in this virtual event, send a message to 
majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu with the message

SUBSCRIBE SEMINAR-13


[NOTE:I am seeking volunteer speakers - if interested please send me a 
direct message at gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu or rxgst6+-AT-pitt.edu]
  
thanks,

Radhika Gajjala

(moderator third-world-women
moderator sa-cyborgs
co-moderator postcolonial)


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