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Signs and the MLA’s 2013 Annual Convention
In anticipation of the Modern Language Association’s 2013 Convention and its theme, “Avenues of Access,” we would like to highlight some content of particular interest to conference attendees, as well as information about Signs’ presence at the conference. First, we are offering open access to two recent articles. Ellen Samuels’s “Examining Millie and Christine McKoy: […]
Madeline Anderson, I Am Somebody (1969)
Stills from Madeline Anderson’s documentary film I Am Somebody (1969) appear on the cover of the Winter 2013 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 2), which contains an article by Shilyh Warren that discusses the film in depth. Artist Statement The kinship I felt toward the women of I Am Somebody compelled me to translate […]
Winter 2013 (vol. 38, no. 2)
The articles in Signs’s Winter 2013 issue span a range of disciplines, theoretical vantage points, and topics of study. Jonneke Koomen’s “Without These Women, the Tribunal Cannot Do Anything” explores the limits justice revealed in the nexus of prosecutors, translators, and survivors of genocide, among others, during the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Megan Moodie […]
Signs Events at the NWSA 2012 Conference
Signs will have several events at the National Women’s Studies Association’s upcoming annual conference, Feminism Unbound: Imagining a Feminist Future, November 8-11, 2012. Join Signs editor in chief Mary Hawkesworth, along with the editors of several other leading feminist journals, for the panel “Academic Publishing in Women’s Studies: Journals” on Friday, November 9, from 9:25-10:40 […]
Ebru Özseçen
Artist Statement Ebru Özseçen, Şerbet (1999-2010), installation view, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University (2012). 16 mm film installation. Photo by Dot Paolo. Courtesy of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art and the artist. Artist Statement:{{1}} Şerbet (1999-2010) The film shows a stack of Burma Baklava saturated with syrup like a cascading skyscraper. Şerbet, “sugared water” […]
Shahzia Sikander
Artist Statement Shahzia Sikander, stills from SpiNN (2003). Video animation. Courtesy of the artist. Shahzia Sikander, stills from The Last Post (2010). HD video animation, 10 minutes. Courtesy of the artist. Artist Statement: The digital animation SpiNN (2003) is a pun on the cable channel CNN. It depicts a mass of spiraling, abstracted forms, hovering like […]
Shiva Ahmadi
Artist Statement Shiva Ahmadi, Oil Barrel #9 (2009). Oil on steel, 34 1/2 x 23 1/2 x 23 1/2 in. Collection of Howard and Maryam Newman, Courtesy of the Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. Shiva Ahmadi, Hades (2011). Mixed media, 80 × 60 in. Courtesy of Leila Heller Gallery, New York, and the artist. […]
Katarzyna Pollok, Sara in a Snailhouse (2002)
Katarzyna Pollok’s Sara in a Snailhouse appears on the cover of the Autumn 2012 issue of Signs (volume 38, number 1), which features a comparative perspectives symposium on Romani feminisms, edited by Ethel Brooks. Artist Statement Sara is the name of a saint worshipped by Roma in the south of France. She is supposed to […]
Fatima Al Qadiri
Artist Statement Fatima Al Qadiri and Khalid Al Gharaballi, stills from Mendeel Um A7mad (NxIxSxM) (2012). HD video, 15:28 minutes. Courtesy of the artists. Fatima Al Qadiri, Bored (1997). Digital print, 64 5/8 × 78 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist. Artist Statement: My visual work examines the interplay among gender, style, and performance by […]