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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference

June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom

Communities | Structures | Entanglements

Proposals Deadline: Monday, December 18th

The VI Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 is thrilled to announce a Call for Proposals focused on the compelling and intricate themes of "Communities | Structures | Entanglements." These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.

DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference

Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.

Call for participation: “Expanded Practices: Composition in the Postsecondary Fine Arts Classroom” 

One-day hybrid symposium on March 25, 2024 @ 4th Space, Concordia University

Co-organizers: Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett (molly-claire.gillett@concordia.ca) and Dr. Sandra Huber (sandra.huber@concordia.ca) in tandem with the teaching team of FFAR 250 “Keywords: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines”

The Graduate Student Conference Committee 

of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs 

& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization 

at Western University 

is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference

«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; 

the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»

CFP - Unauthorized: Media Piracy, Digital Forgery and Generative AI

The specter of replicating – movement, physical reality, and life itself - has haunted cinema ever since Maxim Gorky stepped into the Lumières’ “Kingdom of Shadows.” Over a century later, digital copies and online piracy of media content raise questions of distribution, access, and emerging technologies’ impact on authorship, perpetuating the age of the unregulated reproduction. More recently, AI’s entry into creative production has made concerns over image duplication and fabrication as urgent as ever.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The Centre for the Study of Women and Gender at the University of Warwick would like to invite postgraduate students from any institution working in gender and women’s studies or any related field to present at the Graduate Student Seminar Series for the coming academic year 2023/2024. 

There is no particular ‘theme’ for this year’s seminar series. We welcome submissions from all disciplines on any gender related topics. There will be up to five (5) seminar slots spread over the year. 

Call for Papers: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference, 1 March 2024

Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique

Keynote Speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes

• Deadline for Submission: 12 January 2024
• Acceptance Announcement: 29 January 2024
• Date of conference: 1 March 2024
• Event Venue: UCD Humanities Institute; HI Seminar Room H204
• Contact Email: hiphdconference2024@gmail.com

Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom

Call for Papers

If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.

Postcolonial studies as a way of reclaiming history from the perspective of the colonised continues to uncover the myriad fraught legacies of colonialism. The emergence of newer interdisciplinary areas of inquiry, such as climate change, has further revealed tangled legacies of colonialism that continue to persist. The burgeoning field of postcolonial print culture studies, in turn, has been bringing to the fore a fascinating terrain of production, circulation and consumption of print in colonial contexts that is particularly enriching our knowledge of anticolonial resistance in various ways.  This conference aims to bring together academic work in some of the newer sub-fields of postcolonial inquiry with attention to continuities.

Love in/and/for Games

Postcolonial studies as a way of reclaiming history from the perspective of the colonised continues to uncover the myriad fraught legacies of colonialism. The emergence of newer interdisciplinary areas of inquiry, such as climate change, has further revealed tangled legacies of colonialism that continue to persist. The burgeoning field of postcolonial print culture studies, in turn, has been bringing to the fore a fascinating terrain of production, circulation and consumption of print in colonial contexts that is particularly enriching our knowledge of anticolonial resistance in various ways.  This conference aims to bring together academic work in some of the newer sub-fields of postcolonial inquiry with attention to continuities.

The Medieval Studies Program at Cornell is pleased to announce the 34th annual Medieval Studies Student Colloquium (MSSC), which takes the idea of “Subjectivities” as its theme. The conference will be held virtually over Zoom on Saturday, March 2nd, 2024.   

Fantasy, a genre that has captivated the hearts and minds of countless individuals throughout history, invites us to embark on extraordinary adventures beyond the realm of the ordinary. A space where magic, mythical creatures and epic quests reign supreme, Fantasy offers a respite from reality and inviting us to explore realms beyond the boundaries of our imagination.

This is a Call for Papers for an online workshop titled Laughing in the Face of Evil: Humorous Perspectives on Perpetrators in Contemporary American Literature and Popular Culture. The workshop asks what humor can contribute to our understanding of perpetrators by examining a selection of works from contemporary American literature and popular culture. Does humor help demythologize certain perpetrators whose international fame turned them into quasi-mythical figures? Can the ownership of humorous content about a traumatic situation or process endured by a specific marginalized community be transferred to other communities?