In the context of wider postcolonial and decolonial shifts that have occurred in both critical and popular thought over the past decades, we have seen growing interests in recovering and recentering histories of Islamic civilizations and their shaping influence on knowledge, systems,and technologies that we now associate with the modern world. Whether recognized as the powerful authorities that transformed trade, belief, politics, science, and art in the premodernworld, or as the ‘other’ necessary for Western colonial self-fashioning, as per Edward Said’s formative theorization of them in Orientalism, there is no denying that Muslims and Islamicate societies hold a fundamental place in our (global) past.

The 21st century has been marked as an emerging epoch of new discourses with a dynamic change of intellectual, methodological, epistemological and critical avenues of research to address the swiftly changing nuances of social, political, economic, personal and professional lives of human beings all over the world. Researchers have embraced innovative approaches, methodologies and pedagogies to navigate the new complex frontiers of 21st Century. As the world grapples with multifaceted challenges such as climate change, economic inequality, and global health crises, the need for innovative approaches to economic development has become more urgent than ever.

4th EDITION THEME: Do Films Lie?

"Film is 24 lies per second at the service of truth, or at the service of the attempt to find the truth."
Michael Haneke

Cinema exists within the narrative frame that the director or writer chooses. How closely that reflects reality is entirely arbitrary. Yet it is undeniable that like all art, film plays a fundamental role in shaping the way we think about politics, culture, identity, and social norms.

Call for Proposals: Thinking Politics Book Series (Edinburgh University Press)

Artificial intelligence, technological oligarchy, the environment in distress, a growing authoritarianism and postcolonial imperialism — just some of the flashpoints of the current millennium.

And yet, from the margins, fresh voices emerge, innovative social movements and protest coalitions arise and challenge technocracy and populism.

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Who are the thinkers who can seed the changes that matter most to us today?

How can political theory take us forward, in positive ways?

We invite submissions to our panel at 4S 2025 in Seattle, Washington (September 3 – 7, 2025). Please see details below:

Blackness as Onto-Epistemological Departure and Arrival*

To think in terms of risk is to imagine the future as a set of foreseeable possibilities and to ameliorate the potentially hazardous ones through action in the present. Distinct from danger, which is seen as inchoate and incalculable, risk carries with it the notion of statistical, probabilistic, or otherwise enumerated legibility, and the costs and benefits of prospective courses of action are given the narrative authority of mathematical language. But even as risk posits itself as a rational approach to considerations of the future, it ignores the mythology of its own construction: risk is, as its critics note, always a process of storytelling.

For close to nine hundred years, Gawain has been a favorite hero in Arthurian myth, especially when it comes to his appearance in the late fourteenth-century chivalric romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. While scholarship on the poem continues to expand in many fascinating ways, David Lowery’s 2021 adaptation, The Green Knight, has changed the way scholars can approach and teach the medieval poem. The editors of this book proposal seek essays that explore some of the compelling changes Lowery makes to the base text of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and what we can learn about the importance—or dangers—of retelling popular stories in new and inventive ways.

Aesthetics of the Clinic

Call for Papers
 
IABA European Conference
Life Writing, and Social Transformation 
July 23 to 26, 2025
Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra
 
Call for papers until 15 January 2025
 
We are pleased to announce that the next IABA Europe Conference will be held at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra in partnership with the Centre for Social Studies, 23-26 July 2025. We invite proposals for individual papers or panels of 3-4 papers as well as round-table suggestions on the theme of the Conference: “Life Writing and Social Transformation”.
 

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday April 24th and Friday April 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due on Friday January 10th, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.

The crafts of India are varied and illustrate the economy, history, culture, religious beliefs, politics, material culture, societal formations and creative faculties of a civilization. The craftsmanship of many states of India reflects diverse cultural influences and has a significant narrative relating to its origins. For ages, crafts have served as an archive of culture and heritage in various communities in India. Every state of India narrates its tales of handicrafts. The wonderful artistry of handcrafted artifacts, the traditions woven in time, get eroded by automation and accuracy, which draw us towards the ‘sophistication’ of repetitive mass production in a capitalist society.

Our culture is undoubtedly influenced by various forms of games, especially video games. These relatively new forms of expression quickly became a driving force of culture. All the generations have become indulged in the pleasure and escapism of games. Nowadays, most of us relax by playing on tabletop systems, devices, or by using cards or miniatures. 

Conference online (via Zoom): 13-14 February 2025

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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ABOUT CONFERENCE:

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/

Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members

Call for Papers:  

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing