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CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX
Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney
PoP Moves, an international network of popular dance researchers, invites proposals for a Special Topics Issue of The Journal of Popular Culture on the topic of mediating popular dance histories. For well over a century, popular dance has been present across changing media technologies: from printed instruction manuals in magazines and newspapers to radio, film, and television to digital platforms and social media, dancing has circulated between different bodies, cultural communities, and across geographical and social boundaries.
Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.
Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like feminism, anti-racism, anti- and post-colonialism, and ecocriticism have called out the human’s complicated entrenchment in and with other/othered bodies and landscapes. Posthumanist scholars like Rosi Braidotti define the (post)human body as necessarily relational, nomadic, ever-changing with and in response to others. As such, the body becomes a site for radical transformation through which we may interrogate contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, income inequality, and climate change.
Call for Papers
New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
An International Conference, 28 and 29 March 2025
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
A recent New York Times article, “Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say,” reported on the ongoing debate among scientists about classifying the Anthropocene as an epoch or an event. Regardless of its definitive place on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene is a significant marker of history, signifying humans’ profound impact on the environment and the course of evolution. This raises critical questions about the nature of evolution in the Anthropocene. How do we define evolution in this age? The Anthropocene is characterized by human achievements and significant challenges, including wars and climate destruction. These crises force us to question: what kind of Anthropocene are we striving to preserve?
EXTENDED DEADLINE
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for Alizés 45 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments, has been extended to September 1, 2024.
Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments
Deadline for abstracts (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words):: Sptembre 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2024
Submission of full draft papers: January 31, 2025
Submission of final papers: June 15, 2025
Languages: English, French
The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open.
The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).
FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH
This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley).
Infrastructure and Abstraction
“The immaterial has become… immaterial.”
– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Submitted by:
Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
With apologies for cross-posting, please consider submitting, and please share widely.
We seek proposals for the 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge). This reader contains upwards of 50 relatively short, tightly-written, good-quality research reports. We're looking for the same wide range of content as in prior editions, preferably focusing on contemporary media content.
The Franciszek Karpinski Institute of Regional Culture and Literary Research has the pleasure to invite you to
The First International Scientific Symposium
T H E L A N G U A G E S O F C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S
Date: 26–27th September 2024
Venue: the Pedagogical Library in Siedlce, 2 Aslanowicz(a) Street, Siedlce (Poland)
Details are in the attachments below ↓
Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled. As former colonies across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean fought for and gained independence, new national agendas navigated the competing pressures of the Cold War and resisted a dichotomous world order. This conference will explore transnational artistic exchanges and cultural diplomacy in the years 1947-1989, especially across regions in the Global South. We hope to foster new conversations about the confluence of art and politics in larger cultural imaginaries.
The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to
The First Scientific Conference
P O L I S H & R U S S I A N C I N E M A S
Date: 25–26th October 2024
Venue: The Eastern House Show-Window,
Warsaw (Poland), 6 plac Konstytucji
Details are in the attachment below ↓
How are Asian American and Pacific Islander bodies figured across different media—in contemporary novels, poetry, and visual arts? How do the transits and residues of US empire across the Pacific inform these representations? This panel investigates texts that center AAPI bodies and their varying materialities, wherein racialized bodies take on other-than-human forms (i.e., paper, digital, textual, watery, earthy, animal, etc.). The panel aims to explore how these embodiments are shaped by the residual and ongoing violences of US empire and/or war in the Pacific.
Asia’s Maritime History and Identity at Cultural Crossroads
CSCL Graduate Conference - Universality Renewed - March 21st to 22nd, 2025. Minneapolis, MN.
Keynote Speaker: Todd McGowan, University of Vermont
Nutan Adarsh Arts, Commerce, and Smt. M. H. Wegad Science College, Umred, Dist. Nagpur
Announces
A Call for Papers for an Edited Book with ISBN
On
Indian Knowledge Tradition: Values and Philosophies
Dear Researchers,
Under the guidance of the college’s language department, we are publishing an interdisciplinary edited book with an ISBN number on the theme of "Indian Knowledge Tradition: Life, Values and Philosophy," centred around the Indian knowledge systems in the context of the new educational policy. We request you to submit well-researched papers addressing any of the following sub-themes.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JULY
Call for Papers – The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s First Annual Symposium
October 31-November 1
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin
NEW DEADLINE: 31 JULY
Keynote Speaker: Professor Hil Malatino (Penn State)
Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA 2025 in Philadelphia.
CfP (July 30, 2024): BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences (London, UK) – NEW SERIES
Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2024 (General Topic)
Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024
No processing or publication fees.
#OpenAccess
ISSN 2516-869X (Print)
ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)
Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly
Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk
Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts
50th Annual Cleveland Symposium
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Friday and Saturday, November 22-23, 2024
In the four hundred years since its invention in Renaissance Florence, opera has become synonymous with the grandiose, the excessive, and the melodramatic, yet it has only gained a foothold in the academy as an object of serious academic study within the past fifty years. Since then, however, an abundance of scholarship has yielded everything from formal musicological readings of operatic works to theoretical inquiries inspired by psychoanalysis into voice and performance. And topics like the relationship between opera and sovereignty in seventeenth century Italy and the appropriation of Wagner by the Third Reich underscore how opera has never been far from the political sphere in the Western world.
The "Poetry and Pain" panel at the NeMLA Conference in spring 2025 will address how pain is felt, articulated, negotiated, alleviated, withstood, or appreciated through poetry and poetics. Elaine Scarry’s formative work, The Body in Pain (1985), describes physical suffering as an inexpressible, singular force that establishes an interpretive void between sufferer and witness. More recently, scholars of disability studies such as Margaret Price have retheorized pain as shared, structural, creative, or even desirable. This session aims to explore the many ways in which poetry thus contends with pain. Does poetry’s speaker/reader construction mimic or alter the sufferer/witness divide?
This panel is part of NeMLA 2025, which features the theme of (R)EVOLUTION.
Description:
Call for Papers: MIRAJ 13.2
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/miraj-the-moving-image-review-art-journal#call-for-papers
Moving Image Review and Art Journal is currently accepting contributions for inclusion in Issue 13.2 (launching December 2024). The Editorial team is currently interested in receiving scholarly articles and opinion pieces (5000–8000 words), feature articles and interviews (3000–4000 words) from art historians and critics, film and media scholars, curators and, not least, practitioners.
Call for Papers: NeMLA’s 56th annual Convention
Dates: March 6-9, 2024
Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 16th, 2024
Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed
Panel Description:
NeMLA 56th Annual Convention
Philadelphia, PA, 6-9 March 2025
Primary Area / Secondary Area:
French and Francophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies
Chair:
Atim Mackin (Harvard University)
New Forms of Revolution in the Francophone World
Revolutions have always been pivotal moments in the history of societies, but the forms they take are constantly evolving. This panel aims to explore the new forms of revolution within French and Francophone contexts. We seek contributions that question, analyze, and discuss the following aspects (among others):
JOURNAL OF BODIES, SEXUALITIES, AND MASCULINITIES
Call for Papers: Global Debates around Circumcision and Anti-Circumcision
This Special Issue of JBSM is guest edited by:
Atilla Barutçu, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Türkiye
Lauren Sardi, Quinnipiac University, CT, USA
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University, MB, Canada
Special Issue Call for Papers: Fictions of the Pandemic
Guest Editors: Roanne Kantor (Stanford) and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Rice) Extended Deadline for Submissions: 1 August 2024