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Call For Proposals:
DIGITAL engAGEment: Media. Literate. #activist
Conference Date: May 18, 2018
Conference Location: 25 Broadway, New York, NY
Deadline for proposals: March 19, 2018 via email (please see below)
“Digital Spatiality”
A special issue of Asiascape: Digital Asia
Guest Editors:
Dr. Rahul K. Gairola, Murdoch University, Australia
Dr. Martin Roth, University of Leipzig, Germany
Digital technologies, namely the “internet,” have catalyzed a dramatic shift in the production of space and how we conceive it. They are ambiguous at their borders, at once expanding yet shrinking notions of home and homeland, of the local and the global, and of the intangible and the material. Such fuzziness and shifting boundaries generate new spatial relations on multiple layers which we call “digital spatialities.”
Speculative fiction covers a broad range of narrative styles and genres. The cohesive element that pulls works together under the category is that there is some “unrealistic” element, whether it’s magical, supernatural, or a futuristic/technological development: works that fall into the category stray from conventional realism in some way. For this reason, speculative fiction can be quite broad, including everything from fantasy and magical realism to horror and science fiction—from Gabriel García Márquez to China Miéville to Octavia Butler. This panel aims to explore those unrealistic elements and all their varied implications about society, politics, economics, and more. Please submit a 250-300 word abstract, a brief bio, and any A/V needs by May 2
Call for Papers:
Politics and Aesthetics of Obsolescence
Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature /
Moving Image & Media Studies Conference
October 12th-13th, 2018
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Michigan State University)
Professor Joel Burges (University of Rochester, NY)
ISHS invites humour researchers and practitioners to Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss humour from its basic definitions to innovative research and everything in between. Bringing together a variety of scholars, students and creative practitioners, we welcome proposals of papers, posters, special panel contributions, workshops and other academic formats related to humour research or the applications of humour research in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Abstract submission / registration: www.folklore.ee/ishs2018/
Call for Submissions: Sūdō Journal volume 1, 2018.
“Blood, Sweat and Tears”
We invite scholars, educators, activists, and college students to help create Model UN simulations based off the comic book series The Black Panther. The goal is to create an online archive of Black Panther committee simulations that are made available at no cost to middle schools, high schools, and universities organizing their own Model UN conferences.
Those interested are encouraged to contact Roberto Sirvent at rdsirvent@hiu.edu. When contacting Roberto, please indicate one (or more) of the following that best describes you:
The SAMLA 90 Fighters from the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and their Allies will be held at the Sheraton Birmingham in Birmingham, AL, from November 2-4, 2018.
MUSLIMS IN AMERICA
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, mipsters, filmmakers, and visual artists, through the lens of social and political activism. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in literary and cultural texts as reflections of grassroots or macropolitical movements.
Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
CFP: conference, film festival, and exhibition reports
Chapter proposals are invited for a volume of essays about songwriter Townes Van Zandt. The editors welcome proposals from scholars in any field: music, music history, English, communications, American studies, sociology, politics, philosophy, religion, marketing, etc. Edited chapters should be 20-25 pages in length (5000-7500 words). Submit typed, double-spaced papers using 12-point Times New Roman font and adhere to the latest updates according to MLA style conventions.