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Bollywood and Its Other(s)

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Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 5:31pm
School of Design, Communication and IT, University of Newcastle

Bollywood, with aesthetics of its own, is a veritable storehouse of material that can be read in as many ways as possible. As a genre that has grown and developed over a period of 100 years, it is coloured by India's history, politics, socio-economic conditions, culture, sensibilities, dreams, fantasies, hopes and expectations. It is a globalized cultural industry, cinema of attractions and the most fascinating film industry of the world packaged with romance, melodrama, action, costumes, songs and dance extravaganzas.

The Apocalypse and Disaster in Culture [Update] Deadline 11/1

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Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 12:10pm
Southwest PCA/ACA Conference February 19-22

The Apocalypse and Disaster in Culture
Area of the 35th Annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference
February 19-22, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the Hyatt Regency Hotel

The apocalypse and disaster are everywhere, even in Sleepy Hollow, for example. The Apocalypse and Disaster Area is calling for papers about anything apocalyptic or disaster-related. This can be in movies, television, literature, graphic novels, or any other cultural examples of disaster or the end.

Exploring the idea of "FREEDOM"

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Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 9:30am
The Arachneed Journal

The Arachneed Journal invites scholarly papers, commentaries, book reviews, interviews, multimedia presentation (audio visual) for its upcoming issue.
This issue focuses on "Freedom" as the broad theme. Thus contributions are invited from scholars, activists, professionals engaged in diverse streams of humanities and social sciences and allied arts.
We strongly encourage young and emerging scholars to submit their manuscripts for review, focusing on the above mentioned theme or an allied area.

ACLA 2014: The Speed of Capital: New Geographies, Mobile Optics, Emergent Narratives (Deadline: November 15, 2013)

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Sunday, October 27, 2013 - 1:57am
(American Comparative Literature Association) ACLA

The spread and consolidation of capital have been effected not just through brute force and hegemonic ideologies but through the dimension of speed. Through 'dromology'—the study of the logic and impact of speed—Paul Virilio argues that control is not primarily about laws and contracts "but first and foremost a matter of movement and circulation." This relationship between speed and control has taken new forms with the digital turn that have profoundly altered our sense of space, time, and matter. Papers should reflect on some of these lines of inquiry:

The Phoenix Papers, Rolling CFP

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 8:22pm
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association

We are pleased to announce the rolling CFP for articles and reviews for our online peer-reviewed, open access journal, The Phoenix Papers (ISSN 2325-2316). We welcome articles on fandom and media topics as well as reviews of anime, manga, books, movies, video games, TV series, web series, musical albums, performances, and other pop culture media products. We encourage scholars at all levels of achievement, whether affiliated with an institution or independent, to contribute to our journal. Contributors have been academics, independent scholars, students, and industry professionals. We accept submissions throughout the year with quarterly publication (January, April, July which also includes our conference proceedings, and October).

The Poetics of Fascism

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 7:53pm
American Comparative Literature Association

ACLA 2014 "Capitals" NYU, New York City, March 20-23, 2014

DEADLINE November 15, 2013

The Poetics of Fascism

Fascist ideology comprises a multifaceted aesthetical and theoretical register. Due to its semantic density, fascism poses a challenge when we try to define it or map its spatial and temporal boundaries. While there are multiple and disparate fascist movements, as in the case of Italy, Germany, Japan, Rumania, Spain and Latin-America, this panel inquires whether it is possible to identify a common mental and aesthetic structure among these instances as expressions of a "generic" fascism.

Classroom assignments relating Shakespeare to "classics" - to be compiled as a chapter in a forthcoming Ashgate companion volume

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 4:49pm
Nick Moschovakis and Sean Keilen

The editors of The Ashgate Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature (forthcoming 2016) welcome brief submissions of 700 words or fewer for a multiauthored compilation of classroom assignments relating Shakespeare's drama and poetry to classical works or traditions — or, alternatively, to the idea of "classics" or "a classic." By "classics" we do not mean only texts from ancient Greece or Rome (though we do, of course, mean those). Rather, eligible "classics" in our broad sense may be found in any canon of verse, drama, narrative, or even music and visual art that has exerted large cultural influence or carried high cultural prestige — from Egypt and Israel to China, India, Japan, and beyond.

Challenger Unbound [UPDATE] DEADLINE EXTENDED to 1 NOVEMBER 2013

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Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 5:08am
Tom Ue (ue_tom@hotmail.com)

Challenger Unbound
Department of English, UCL
9 December 2013

A century has passed since the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World. This one-day symposium offers an ideal opportunity to take stock of the Professor Challenger narratives and to reassess what these three novels and two short stories can offer to new generations of scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

Introduction:

Professor John Sutherland
Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature
Department of English Language and Literature
UCL

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Ian Duncan
Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English
Department of English
University of California, Berkeley

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association – call for proposals

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Friday, October 25, 2013 - 5:33pm
Dr. Elwood Watson

Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association – call for proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS:
GENERATION X

I am soliciting proposals for panels and roundtables topics on Generation X for the annual Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference taking place in Chicago, Illinois from April 16 to April 19th 2014. All topics will be considered.
Generation X is the demographic group of Americans born from 1965-1979. This is a unique generation on many levels with provocative experiences and insights. Please submit proposals by either e-mail (preferably) or U.S. Mail to

HBO Girls: The Awkward Politics of Race, Sex, Class, Privilege and Gender

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Friday, October 25, 2013 - 5:25pm
Dr. Elwood Watson

CALL FOR PAPERS
HBO Girls: The Awkward Politics of Race, Sex, Class, Privilege and Gender

I am inviting proposals/submissions for an edited collection on the HBO show tentatively titled HBO Girls: The Awkward Politics of Race, Sex, Class, Privilege and Gender (2012-present).
Since its debut in April 2012, the HBO indie themed program Girls has been a lighting rod of controversy. Even before the inaugural episode aired on April 15, 2102, there were critics (and fans) who were dropping various comments about the program. Things became even more intense after the airing of the first episode where it seemed that every other person (rather media critic) almost literally, had an opinion about the show.

Confronting Capital's Capital: New York City in Modern and Contemporary Media and Film

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Friday, October 25, 2013 - 4:38pm
(ACLA 2014, New York March 20-23, 2014, Deadline for submissions Nov 15, 2013)

New York City is in many respects the center of the world, artistically, culturally, and, of course, economically. In the latter regard, it became site of resistance to neoliberal capitalism in the fall of 2011 during the Occupy Wall Street movement. But in a broader perspective, debates about capitalism have focused on defining what New York City means from the beginning of the neoliberal era, if not before. The seminar invites proposals on New York City's place in the historical imagination of contemporary and modern capitalism.

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