An Archaeology of the Gaze
Studying the evolutions of the Iconography of Violence and Brutality

Anyone familiar with the war iconography of ancient sovereigns—from the Assyrian palaces and temples of Ramses II to Trajan’s Column—would not be surprised by these powers' claims to legitimate violence. It was entirely endorsed by the sovereign, reducing the victims of the conquering arm to mere foils for the political power asserting itself through force. In stark contrast, the photographs that journalists share from contemporary conflicts are often characterized by a specific focus on the victims, whose suffering has become central to the interpretation of violence.

HERA

Call for Papers

        Humanities Education and Research Association

Annual Conference, 12-15 March 2025

University of Houston-Downtown

Houston, Texas

"Humanities 2.0: Traditions & Technology"

‘Body horror,’ a subgenre devoted to corporeal transgressions, is undergoing a rebirth with films like Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance (2024)—a cautionary tale challenging the beauty industry and the gendered double standards of ageing. This emerging biopolitical discourse concerned with body dysmorphia, loss of control, abjection, susceptibility to illness and mutation is not limited to film. From classics like Frankenstein to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the Grand Guignol ghastly extends its arms to the literary sphere with emerging works like Mona Awad’s Rouge or Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.

Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.

We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections. 

• The first panel, a roundtable on “Kate Chopin in the Classroom/ Teaching Through Technology,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work in the contemporary classroom. How do you teach Chopin in the post-covid classroom? What in-class activities and assignments incorporating technology, multimodality, infographics, podcasts, TikTok videos, AI, etc. are engaging your students as they study Chopin? Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks.

The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025 and, in cooperation with the Bob Dylan Center, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival.  We now seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and creative sessions that will run across the event’s four days.

Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, European, and colonial writings,” writes Patrick Brantlinger. But often unacknowledged is the “extent to which racism informed virtually all aspects of Romantic and Victorian culture” (Taming Cannibals 6-7).

This conference aims to examine the question of figurative art at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, figurative artistic models are challenged by increasingly sophisticated technologies that reshape our definition of “the real,” and more particularly, of reality. AI-generated images tend to normalize manipulated and distorted representations of the world we live in and can sometimes become indistinguishable from real images (“deepfakes”).

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  This collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

https://ideasworthsaving.org/

Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 12-14, 2025

Conference page: https://labrc.co.uk/astrology-2025/

Call for Papers:

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 5, 2024
Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/cJAzkPYfKhJJNbWK7
Format: Online
Plenary Speakers: TBC
Fee: 100 GBP 

“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung

Call for Papers update

International Conference

Neobaroque and/in the Contemporary World

University of Wrocław, Poland  08-09 May 2025

https://neobaroque.now.2025.uwr.edu.pl