category: film and television

Journal of Jesuit Studies: Artistic Discourses of Liberation Theology (themed edition)

full name / name of organization: 
University of Salford, Greater Manchester
contact email: 
b.halligan@salford.ac.uk

The idea of Liberation Theology continues to exert profound challenges - theological, ontological and theoretical - to the Catholic Church, long after the first context of its emergence and reception

Call For Papers: Cityscapes of the Future (June 30)

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Yael Maurer, Shawn Edrei, Meyrav Koren-Kuik / Tel-Aviv University
contact email: 
futurecityscapes@gmail.com

Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction

DH SoCal Research Slam

full name / name of organization: 
DH SoCal
contact email: 
stephanie.harper.15@my.csun.edu

DH SoCal is a network dedicated to building community and collaboration amongst digital humanists in Southern California.

Special Issue of Italian American Review on Italian-American Foodways; Abstracts submitted by May 1

full name / name of organization: 
Italian American Review published by Queens College's John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
contact email: 
rocco.marinaccio@manhattan.edu; pnaccarato@mmm.edu

Italian and Italian-American food has a long history in the homes, markets, and restaurants of the United States.

Silent Spring: Chemical, Biological and Technological Visions of the Post-1945 Environment - Travel Bursaries Available

full name / name of organization: 
An AHRC collaborative skills project hosted by Birkbeck, University of London
contact email: 
silentspring2013@gmail.com

A number of travel bursaries are available for postgraduates and early career researchers to participate in this project, which uses Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring to explore the relationship between

Branding TV: Transmedia to the Rescue

full name / name of organization: 
Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN
contact email: 
B.Derhy-kurtz@uea.ac.uk

CALL FOR PAPERS: Branding TV: Transmedia to the Rescue

Special-themed edition of Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN

Artistic Ireland, M/MLA, Nov 7-10, Milwaukee, WI

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association (M/MLA)
contact email: 
sophiadawn.christman-lavin@stonybrook.edu

From The Book of Kells to the seaside ditty in Ulysses to the Abbey Theatre’s Countess Cathleen, Ireland boasts a history replete with visual and performing arts.

[UPDATE] EXTENDED CFP APRIL 25TH - American Work: American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

full name / name of organization: 
University of Oxford
contact email: 
americanworksymposium@gmail.com

American Work

American Literature Symposium for Postgraduates and Early Career Academics

18 May 2013
Rothermere American Institute
University of Oxford

Stretching The Screen 15th Annual Cinema Conference, SFSU, October 17th - 19th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association, San Francisco State University
contact email: 
CSGSA@mail.sfsu.edu

This conference will seek to challenge the borders imposed on Cinema: between senses, ideologies, cultures, even the fluctuation of the medium itself in terms of its technologies, production, distribu

[UPDATE] Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries

full name / name of organization: 
Black Camera
contact email: 
delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr

Black Camera invites submissions for a Close-Up devoted to a critical assessment of Postcolonial Filmmaking in French-speaking Countries to be published Fall 2014.

[UPDATE] Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities (Submission deadline 16 April 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
De Montfort Unversity
contact email: 
dmulegacyconference@gmail.com

This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research.

MMLA 2013 (Milwaukee, Nov. 7-10) - Popular Culture - Illusion

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
marla.arbach@gmail.com

“Remember: all I’m offering is the truth, nothing more.” – Morpheus, The Matrix

Romancing the Long British 19th Century (1789-1914)

full name / name of organization: 
Journal of Popular Romance Studies
contact email: 
An Goris, managing.editor@jprstudies.org

The long British nineteenth century (1789-1914) appears to have the long global twentieth century (including the first decades of the twenty-first) in its thrall.

Humor in the Digital Age -- SAMLA (11/8 - 11/10)

full name / name of organization: 
Pete Kunze (Louisiana State University)
contact email: 
pkunze@lsu.edu

The American Humor Studies Association seeks papers for a panel, “Humor in the Digital Age,” for the 2013 South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference at the Marriott Atlanta from

Call for Submissions: Studies in Popular Coluture (Peer-reviewed Journal)

full name / name of organization: 
Popular Culture Association in the South
contact email: 
rhonda_w@gordonstate.edu

Studies in Popular Culture, a journal of the Popular Culture Association of the South, publishes articles on popular culture however mediated: through film, literature, radio, television, music, graph

The City in Word and Image - Problems and Possibilities of the Metropolis

full name / name of organization: 
University of Dundee
contact email: 
e.r.rogers@dundee.ac.uk

“All great art is born of the metropolis” - Ezra Pound

[UPDATE] The Lost Subject, 14th May, University of Dundee

full name / name of organization: 
University of Dundee
contact email: 
e.r.rogers@dundee.ac.uk

Tuesday 14th May 2013
Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee

International Beatles Conference Altoona PA February 7, 8, 9, 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Kenneth Womack Penn State Altoona
contact email: 
lmh13@psu.edu

On behalf of Kenneth Womack, editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles, I
am pleased to announce an international Beatles conference (“It Was 50 Years Ago

CfP: Beyond the Cut-Up: William S. Burroughs and the Image

full name / name of organization: 
The Photographers' Gallery
contact email: 
cherylplatt2@gmail.com

BEYOND THE CUT-UP: WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS AND THE IMAGE Conference

The Photographers’ Gallery, London, Saturday 15 February 2014

Confirmed plenary speakers:

CFP on Performance Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
contact email: 
rupkathajournal@gmail.com

We are going to publish a Special Issue (Vol V, No 2) from Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities (www.rupkatha.com) on the broad area of Performance Studies.

Interdisciplinary Popular Culture and Pedagogy (deadline August 31, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy
contact email: 
DialogueTheJournal@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the inaugural issue of Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, a peer-reviewed publication of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Associa

Calls: Cross-Cultural Studies

full name / name of organization: 
Center for Cross-cultural Studies
contact email: 
ccs1@khu.ac.kr

Dear Colleagues,

I'm Dongho Pak, Editor-in-Chief of <>.

Philament 2013 [UPDATE] Deadline extended May 31st 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Philament: The University of Sydney Journal of the Arts
contact email: 
philament.usyd@gmail.com

Issue 19: Surface/Depth

‘There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.’
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories edited collection

full name / name of organization: 
Editors: Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University Jaime Cantrell, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English, Louisiana State University
contact email: 
outinthearchives@gmail.com

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories
Call for Proposals, due May 1

Editors:
Amy L. Stone, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Trinity University

[UPDATE] Solo Performances On and Off the Page (PAMLA Conference, 11/1-3, 2013) Deadline: April 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Cathy Irwin/University of La Verne
contact email: 
tirwin@laverne.edu

This panel examines how solo performances (on the page, stage, internet, etc.) examine Judith Butler's notion of precarious lives, that is the shared vulnerability, fear and insecurity of contemporar

The Education/Industrial Complex- M/MLA- November 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Modern Language Association
contact email: 
mschiebe@qcc.cuny.edu

The American Literature II panel (permanent section)seeks papers examining novelistic/dramatic/poetic/cinematic depictions of the corporate influence on public education policy, the "Free Market" in

Research Residency Fellowship with Provisions Library 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Provisions Library
contact email: 
provisionslibrary@gmail.com

Provisions Library--an art and social change agent in Washington DC and Fairfax, VA--is now accepting proposals for National and Capital Research Residency fellowships for September 2013-September 201

CFP - 2nd Annual Marginalised Mainstream Conference: Fading and Emerging, 12-13 September 2013 [Deadline 17 May 2013]

full name / name of organization: 
Marginalised Mainstream 2013
contact email: 
marginalisedmainstream@gmail.com

Keynote speakers include: Dr Kate Macdonald (Ghent University, Brussels) and Dr Nicola Humble (University of Roehampton, London)

Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now - Deadline for Abstracts June 1st

full name / name of organization: 
University of Durham
contact email: 
literarydollsconference@gmail.com

Literary Dolls:The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now

University of Durham, International Women’s Day, 8th March 2014

SAMLA 2013 | Science Fiction Film: Proposals by May 25; Conference Nov. 8-10

full name / name of organization: 
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Annual Conference
contact email: 
sspence@clayton.edu

The panel organizers welcome paper proposals related to any aspect of science fiction in the cinema.

Comparative American Ethnic Literatures—Special Session, PAMLA – submissions due April 15, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
PAMLA--Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
melanieh@u.washington.edu

November 1-3, 2013, San Diego, CA

“FATHER LANDS, MOTHER COUNTRIES, AND WARDS OF THE (NATION) STATE”

[UPDATE] Science Fiction and the Social Construction of Science and Technology (Nottingham, July 22-23)

full name / name of organization: 
Science in Public conference, University of Nottingham
contact email: 
cleslie@poly.edu

The 2013 "Science in Public" conference at the University of Nottingham from July 22 to 23, 2013 aims to examine relations among science, publics, politics and publics.

Collaboration

full name / name of organization: 
Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture, University of Virginia
contact email: 
jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com

The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia.

Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15th

full name / name of organization: 
Panel on Film Noir and Neo-Noir, Abstracts due April 15th
contact email: 
crolens@ucsd.edu

Out of the Past, Into the Postmodern: From Film Noir to Neo-Noir

Hypervisibility III - Beyond the Closet: Coming-Out Narratives in Transnational Visual Cultures

full name / name of organization: 
University of Ottawa, Canada
contact email: 
florian.grandena@uottawa.ca

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF DATE.

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