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Title: Mediated Cultures, Political Discourses, and the Celebrity: Perspectives from India
Edited by Swapna Gopinath, Ramna Walia, and Rutuja Deshmukh
Email: celebritypoliticscfp@gmail.com
Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Jupiter, United States
Details
Video games are more popular than ever, and gaming is an increasingly common hobby. However, gaming raises a number of complex ethical issues. Perhaps the most familiar is the question of whether violent video games are morally appropriate or not. But beyond questions about the morality of gaming and what is appropriate content we might wonder what the overall value of gaming is. Gamers are quite passionate about their hobby, and with concerns about gaming-disorder on the rise, it is reasonable to ask what redeeming value video games have. What role, if any, can video games have in the good life?
“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse
Session Organized by Kris Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022
Proposals are due 15 August 2022
With the advent of social media and platform infrastructures, cancel culture has engendered new means of regulation through digital media platforms which appear to further silence already marginalised communities. Having roots in the Black vernacular tradition, the clear social justice agendas of culturally linked meta-networks of social media practices and community digital infrastructures are argued to have become highjacked by social elites (Clark, 2020). For some commentators this means that the viral nature of social media backlash can claim, to the detriment of democracy, various careers and reputations among well-known celebrities, political figures,
CFP: 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–13, 2023
Sponsored Session of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)
Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable)
Contact: Alexander L. Kaufman, alkaufman@bsu.edu
Session Modality: Virtual
To mark the 50th anniversary of Joanna Russ’s landmark short story, ‘When It Changed’, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow University are proposing an online conference (3-4 December 2022) on women’s role in reshaping science fiction.
The Association for Asian Studies 2022 Annual Conference
In Person: Thursday, March 16 - Sunday, March 19, 2023 in Boston, MA
Virtual: February 17-18, 2023
Organized Panel Proposal [will decide whether in person or in virtual with panelists]
Call for Papers
Imagining the Asian Past: Narratives and Themes in Multimedia
CALL FOR PAPERS
#NWFGRAINAU23
Activities organized by the Emerging Scholars' Forum (NWF) of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)
As part of
Solidarities. Networks – Convivialities – Confrontations
44th Annual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (GKS)
March 3-5, 2023, in Grainau, Germany
The Gothic is a wide-ranging mode that comprises multiple genres, including but not limited to literature, drama, film, television, art, music, games, comics, and graphic novels. It is also a shape-shifting mode. Like vampires or werewolves, expressions of the Gothic frequently and uncannily change form, thereby calling into question the stability and desirability of fixed generic, cultural, and mediatic boundaries. Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), the most often adapted Gothic text, first took the shape of both a novel and a play before transforming into innumerable plays, operas, ballets, graphic novels, TV shows, films, comics, and games.
Live Xinema Festival 2022 – Call for Participation
Live Xinema IV– Invitation to Participate
Building on the successes of the Live Cinema Conference held at King’s College London in 2016, the Live Cinema Summit at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018, and our online event Live Cinema III: The ReOpening in September 2020, we are convening: Live Xinema a new festival of research and innovation exploring the role of hybridity and liveness in the future of cinema. The Xinema in this year’s title reflects the hybrid nature of the event (across platforms) and expresses the sense of a crossroads, of converging and diverging paths of development and innovation.
We are considering three broad areas of enquiry:
Article proposals are welcome for an upcoming collection on Asian Popular Culture and the Gothic, edited by Li-hsin Hsu, Deimantas Valančiūnas and Katarzyna Ancuta. The collection is planned for submission to the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series.
“Lesbian Aesthetics: Living Queer Lives With Ali Smith”
Proposals are due August 15, 2022; the Full manuscripts due December 15, 2022.
Editors
Jaime Harker,
Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi; jlharker@olemiss.edu
Turner Nat Byrd, University of Mississippi; tbyrd1@go.olemiss.edu
Ali Smith is an anomaly in the contemporary publishing scene: an experimental writer
popular enough to be interviewed by the prime minister of Scotland; a lesbian writer lauded as
The Women in Supernatural: Critical Essays
Under consideration with McFarland & Company
Editors:
Susan Nylander, Barstow College
Mandy Taylor, California State University, San Bernardino
Project Overview
INSIDE VOICES
Fan Studies Network – North America Virtual Conference
October 13–16, 2022
SUBMISSIONS DUE AUGUST 1
Digital Nostalgia in/as Contemporary Creative Practice
Guest edited by Bethany Lamont (Bath Spa University) and Beth Wakefield (Bath Spa University)
We invite proposals from a range of researchers, makers, designers and producers to publish their research and creative practice, critically and creatively exploring the changing and emerging role of nostalgia as a 21st century phenomenon in/as creative practice.
NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.
Are you a major fan of DC or the Marvel Universe and its female characters: Captain Marvel, Wonder Woman, Black Widow, General Okoye, Princess Shuri or any others in the universe? We are developing an edited collection with interest already from publishers focused on Female Superheroes and their representation in a traditionally male-dominated film genre--action. Potential themes are female representations of power, strength (physically, psychologically, scientifically), as well as female minority representations of female power in superheroes and how they are similiar or different from their male counterparts. We are also interested in exploring how these female superheroes are portrayed when the director(s), producer(s), writer(s) are female.
Fandom flourishes thanks greatly in part to the contributions made by members of marginalized communities. From fanfictions based on queer readings of the original material, to fan art depicting BIPOC character headcanons, fandom has given people the opportunity to engage with media in ways that are oftentimes more inclusive than the original text itself.
Call for Papers
Queering Camelot: LGBTQQA+ Readings, Representations, and Retellings of Arthuriana
Fantastika Special Issue
Guest Editors: Rebecca Jones and Sebastian F.K. Svegaard
This is an open call for papers for a special issue of Fantastika continuing on from its Queering Fantastika issue, which will explore the queer side of Arthurian tales, adaptations, and fanworks. It seeks to include any and all media, whether directly adapting or only alluding to Camelot and Grail narratives. This issue will present a multivalent approach and is seeking both critical and critical practice-based research on this subject.
As a sport, basketball follows a certain set of rules and conventions which serve as a framework for players, coaches, and teams to play the sport. By their very nature, these rules are meritocratic which means that all participants are equal on the court, play by the same rules, and the only relevant (read as: game deciding) factors are effort, skill, and fortune. Such a perspective on basketball and sports leads certain fans and observers to statements such as “politics should be kept out of sports”.
Mapping the Impossible: Journal for Fantasy Research General Issue
https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/submissions/
Mapping the Impossible is an open-access student journal publishing peer-reviewed research into fantasy and the fantastic.
The call for papers for the next issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (Issue 11.1-2), on the general theme of 'narrative and identity', is now open.
Article submissions on any aspect of the theme are encouraged. The Issue's Editors particulalry invite articles on the following topics:
- self-representation on social media
- representations of disability and neurodiversity in popular culture
- re-inventions of genre and viewership/readership in popular culture
- alternative realities and modes of storytelling in (video) games
- online fandoms and identity
- popular icons
Call for Papers: Mapping the Impossible, Special Issue ‘Fantasy Across Media’
Submission deadline: 30 June 2022
Mapping the Impossible is an open-access student journal publishing peer-reviewed early-career research into fantasy and the fantastic.
For more information about the journal and submissions click here>>
https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/submissions/
Aims and Scope
Call for Submissions
Here for the Right Reasons: The Bachelor at Twenty
On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the premiere of The Bachelor (March 22, 2002), we seek submissions of abstracts for articles for a Contemporaries cluster devoted to the franchise. Since its premiere, the show has spawned a legion of spinoffs (The Bachelorette, Bachelor Pad, Bachelor in Paradise, Winter Games) as well as imitators and fictionalizations (Love Island, FBOY Island, UnREAL). The franchise also comprises a prodigious fanbase known as Bachelor Nation that encompasses a cottage industry of influencers, podcasters, and recappers.
Hi! My name is Dan Dissinger. I'm a professor in the USC Writing Program and I host a pop culture/nerd/nostalgia comedy podcast with my longtime friend and micro-brewery owner Manny Coelho.
The aim of the podcast is to revisit our childhood movies, tv shows, video games, music, etc, and to the ultimate test--THE NOSTALGIA TEST! It's a fun comedy podcast, and we always aim to have a great time.
This edited collection seeks to examine the intersections between two significant media systems: stardom and the franchise. It will explore the convergences, tensions and inter-dependences that star-driven texts and franchise cultures have constantly negotiated within the entertainment industry, on a global, historical and multiplatform scale. It aims to analyse franchise sites and strategies as significant nexus where an understanding of stars is created, managed and interpreted, and to analyse the place and value of the star to media franchise production.
If We Could Talk to the Animals: Representations of fauna in popular culture
PopCRN are celebrating World Animal Day with a virtual symposium exploring all things fauna in popular culture to be held online on Thursday 6th of October 2022.
Call For Interest
Chapters on Guerrilla Games Horizon series
Please distribute widely
This call is to assess interest in scholarly contributions for an edited volume on the
Horizon franchise. Released in February 2022 Horizon Forbidden West became an immediate
best-seller and with Zero Dawn is now part of one of PlayStation’s strongest new intellectual
properties.
This call is to assess whether there would be enough scholars interested to doing a chapter for an
edited volume on the franchise. Attention to the games, comics, board game, marketing, and all
Fandom today is often entangled with digital platforms, which offer spaces and features that make some aspects of fan culture more widely accessible amid increasingly globalized communities and models of consumption. Fans are perceived to be early adopters of new technologies, particularly those that provide space for gathering and community building. Likewise, many types of fan works, fan labor, and fandom participation depend on certain platforms for hosting, sharing, distributing, and discussing such content. However, fans also have complicated relationships with platforms, whether because their needs and uses are in conflict with other stakeholders or because platforms can generate and challenge notions of access, accountability, and community.