Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India
12-13 December, 2022
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India
12-13 December, 2022
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
Dear Colleagues,
We are looking for proposals for the second volume of Screening Sex: The Sex Scene.
The Sex Scene: Representation, Performance, Aesthetics is the second of two volumes that will launch the Screening Sex book series with Edinburgh University Press (the first: The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry). We are open to essays that will interrogate the form, function, politics and significance of the sex scene in film, television and beyond. Taking the ‘sex scene’ as a critical starting point for the book series, the two edited collections offer a critical exploration of the significance of sex on screen and in sexual cultures, combining original research with a review of existing and current literature and debates.
Call for Submissions for 2022 Issue for Interdisciplinary Academic Journal published by Cardiff University Press deadline for submissions: January 31, 2023 full name / name of organization: Intersectional Perspectives: Identity, Society, and Culture (IPICS) published by Cardiff University Press contact email: intersectionalperspectives@cardiff.ac.uk
Baltic Horror (Edited Collection)
Editor: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Horror cinema and nationhood are inextricably linked together. As Robin Wood stated in his now classic essay “American Nightmare”, the horror film is the nightmarish meeting of director and audiences, both acknowledging that the film is the enactment of national repressed fears and anxieties. Wood’s thesis has been applied to other geographies, including Latin-America, Asia or part of Europa. Regarding the latter, Italy, Spain or UK have been object of different studies, essays and monographies. Yet, there are European geographies still lacking critical attention
Organizers:
(Aaron) Feng Lan (flan@fsu.edu), Florida State University
Lily Li (lily.li47405@gmail.com), Eastern Kentucky University
East Asian War Films
This session seeks papers that look at how disability is depicted in reality competition series. Participants are encouraged to consider the edit that the contestant(s) received and whether accommodations were provided during the competition. How are contestants asked to represent, and educate audiences of, a diverse community that includes those with invisible and/or silent disabilities?
The conference is being held by the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 23-26, 2023, 2022 in Niagra Falls, NY.
Mapping the Impossible is an open-access student journal publishing peer-reviewed research into fantasy and the fantastic. We welcome submissions from undergraduate and postgraduate students (and from those who have graduated within the last year) from any higher education institution. We publish articles on any aspect of fantasy and the fantastic and any work within this transmedial genre.
We are currently open to submissions for our special issue entitled ‘Fantasy Across Media’, matching the theme of GIFCon 2022.
CFP: Journal of Class & Culture special edition: Class and Contemporary UK Film and Television.
The Journal of Class & Culture is a peer-reviewed journal bringing a cultural dimension to the analysis of class, and a class optic to the understanding of culture. This special edition follows on from a conference in July and focusses on class and contemporary UK film and television. Papers are invited that explore the intersection of capital, contemporary UK film and tv, and class-orientated research within contexts of production, formal qualities, and consumption.
Boundaries and Margins in Fantasy
10th - 12th May 2023
University of Glasgow Online Conference
The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic is pleased to announce a call for papers for Glasgow International Fantasy Conversations (GIFCon) 2023 with the theme of 'Boundaries and Margins'.
Carrie Paechter, in her article “Rethinking the possibilities for hegemonic femininity: Exploring a Gramscian framework” (2018)6, discusses the challenges and possibilities of conjuring a space where the discursive model of feminine essentialism can be better perceived as a binary opposite of hegemonic masculinity and patriarchal oppression. A few popular generic spaces within the mediascape, where machismo claims a front row within the psyche of the audience, have hitherto been dominated by male leads. Since the early 2000s, media representation has been witnessing a tangible shift with the emergence of female leads. The characters played by women started appearing more convincing.
We are soliciting chapters for a forthcoming book, Figures of Freedom in Anthropocene Fiction, a collection of essays examining how American literary, filmic, and televisual narratives have represented and reimagined themes of personal and political agency within the context of 21st-century aspirations and anxieties.
Since the cultural turn of the 1970s that placed culture at the centre of scholarly debates, the field of cultural studies has expanded to explore the presence of meaning, affect, society, and thought in academia. Etymologically drawing upon the Latin “colere”, culture implies growth and cultivation, also accumulation and acquisition. Raymond Williams defined it pluralistically, calling culture a way of life at once material, intellectual and spiritual.
The creative work of historical fiction brings a prior time and place, one known but unfamiliar, into the present. Jerome de Groot considers one purpose of historical fiction is to “challenge the orthodoxy and potential for dissent [which will] challenge mainstream and repressive narratives.” Its characters and settings represent the cultural issues and struggles of their own time while also asking readers to recognize that many of the same situations still exist and need attention. The social and racial marginalization of women in the United States has been gaining that attention in popular culture outlets, including a recent Saturday Night Live cold open.
The goal of this seminar is to provide a forum in which to discuss how TV shows (reality shows, true crime, documentary broadcasts, docufictions, and web series) bridge the gap between factual knowledge and myths, and how they facilitate the transfer of ordinary knowledge into the implausible, especially in Iberia and Latin America. Entertainment business and journalism intertwine to engage an audience-oriented to the consumption of serialized narratives.
OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS AND (AUDIO)VISUAL ESSAYS.
NEW DEADLINE: 10TH OF OCTOBER, 2022
Animation and Comics: In-between Panel and Frame
Editors: Editors: Sahra Kunz (UCP-EA/CITAR); Ekaterina Cordas (UCP-CECC); Ricardo Megre (UCP-EA/CITAR).
This call aims to pioneer a cross-disciplinary discussion platform that would initiate a fruitful dialogue between the fields of Animation and Comics. Responding to a growing artistic and academic interest in these two media and to the new conceptual, practical and theoretical challenges they pose, we feel the need to provide a space for academics and artists to share ideas about these subjects.
Tales of explorers and adventurers often blur the line between science and fiction, with chronicles of the exotic and the unknown becoming the stuff of legends and the building blocks of history. Explorer’s tales spin heroic stories of adventures that cross borders, shatter boundaries, develop new knowledge, and, in so doing, depict the causes and consequences of seeking dominion over people and places.
MEMORY AND REPRESENTATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2023 National Conference in San Antonio, Texas, April 5-8, 2023.
Memory and Representation: Area Description
The Southern Humanities Conference, 2023
Call for Papers
Conference Theme: Myths and Mythmaking
San Antonio, Texas, January 26-29, 2023
The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians,
performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an
interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.
The modern world is redolent with myths, mythologies, and mythmakers in various guises. Myths are
The Fan Culture & Theory Area of the PCA offers a venue for fan scholars from across the globe to share their research and exchange ideas on this growing field. Papers on all of the many aspects of the topic are invited. The following list of past and possible topics is extensive but not exhaustive:
Dark times call for dark and demonic stories. Deep and dark works and our fixation on them provide apocalyptic, devastating, and shocking revelations about individuals, society, and nature. While works of horror tear audiences away from realistic norms and social acceptability, they confront us with extreme embodiment, emotion, and intellectual crisis. Norms of decency, sensitivity, and reason are in decline but simultaneously acquire added value. This session investigates the meaning and importance of horror, terror, and monstrosity through the study of film, graphic fiction, and literature. What do these works demand from us?
CALL FOR PAPERSSpecial Issue of Feminist Media Histories on Curating Feminist Film Archives
https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/pages/cfp_2
Guest Editors: Maggie Hennefeld and Laura Horak
“The loss of stories sharpens the hunger for them.”
—Saidiya Hartman, “Venus in Two Acts” (2008).
“Let us not begin at the beginning, nor even at the archive. But rather at the word ‘archive.’”
—Jacques Derrida, rchive Fever: A Freudian Impression (1995).
CFP: Shirley Jackson: Intertexts and Afterlives
Guest Editors: Emily Banks (Franklin College) and Alexis Finc (Virginia Commonwealth University)
NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT: SEPT 30TH 2022
Global Perspectives on Surveillance
Call for Papers
Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2023
Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago)
Description
This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life.
Thematic track | 16th SAAS CONFERENCE Universidad de Granada, March 28-30, 2023
Ominous Future, Damaged Present and Nostalgia for the Past: Return to Normalcy?
Call for Papers
Reading HBO’s Euphoria - Edited Collection
In recent years, there has been no more controversial TV series than HBO’s Euphoria. Adapted from an Israeli production by the same name, by Sam Levinson, its explicit portrayal of Gen Z addiction, sexual violence, and identity crisis has attracted cult devotion and open-mouthed condemnation. The furore around Euphoria’s portrayals of heroin, nudity and mental health have obscured just how complex a take on our culture this high school drama really is. Peek behind the social-media-mirroring of its tone, and you find a work of deep sophistication.
SCMS Translation/Publication Committee
Call for Translations
2022-2023
*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 30th, 2022*
The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies publishes translations of outstanding scholarly and creative work on cinema. The originals may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region. We welcome two types of proposals: (1) a single text such as a journal article, book chapter, or self-contained section of a book that focuses on a particular topic in a unified, coherent way; and (2) a group of smaller texts that are linked thematically, geographically, or otherwise.
Father, Fathering and Fatherhood in the Italian American Narrative (tentative title)
Elisa Bordin and Theodora Patrona, editors
Call for papers: XXIV Annual Graduate Student Conference, Feb. 9 & 10, 2023
School of Cinema, San Francisco State University
Deadline Submission: October 30th, 2022
“Requiem for Netflix? Reflections on Two Decades of Streaming”
Keynote Speaker: Juan Llamas-Rodriguez (Assistant Professor, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
The ability to engage with moving images without leaving the home on an increasingly dizzying number of devices and with more and more physically disparate audiences has forced a reckoning with the very nature of these images.
As the pandemic has made it palpable, anxieties can turn into pervasive affects with detrimental effects on the psychological well-being of the individual. To be anxious is to be on edge, not only psychologically, but also ontologically and existentially; or to use Heidegger’s terms, it is to be in a state of “groundless floating” (1996).