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A Workshop on Synthetic Sound and Modular Thought
October 2-4, 2020
York University
Toronto, Canada
Storytelling and Identity through Digital MediaSpecial Issue for Storytelling, Self, Society Journal Digital media has drastically altered the way ordinary folk and professional users develop, tell, and share stories of culture. It challenges notions of authenticity and truth and the ethics of who has the privilege to tell a story. This special issue of Storytelling, Self, Society will investigate the way digital media has specifically altered practices such as narrative, character/identity, culture, story creation, and dissemination. Research questions might include: How do public and private users develop cultural media?
When: April 3 & 4, 2020
Where: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Keynote speakers: Dr. Sherryl Vint & Dr. Rei Terada
Proposal: 250 words
Contact: Heidi Wallace and Sarah Wilhoit; arizonanewdirections@gmail.com
KEYNOTES:
Imagining Nature in the Anthropocene
1st NCHU Summer School for the Environmental Humanities in Asia
Date: June 29th – July 3rd 2020
Venue: National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
Description
FEMSPEC JOURNAL was founded in 1999. Here are some links to the journal’s homepage and other related sites,
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/batyawein (with profile of founder)
https://www.facebook.com/FemspecJournal/
Want to review some of your Holiday-reading titles?
We are still looking for reviews of some of the major title releases from 2019 for our next edition.
Options include
FRANKISSTEIN by Jeanette Winterson
THE TESTAMENTS by Margaret Atwood
THE SECRET COMMONWEALTH by Philip Pullman
CFP: Telepoetics
Dana Research Centre, Science Museum, London, 27 May 2020
Deadline for proposals: 10 March 2020
Guest Editors: Matt Crofts and Layla Hendow, University of Hull.
The CinemArts: Film and Art History SIG of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies seeks submissions for its Graduate Student Essay Prize, with the winner to be announced at the 2020 conference. This award is meant to recognize outstanding scholarship from students currently enrolled in a recognized graduate program and working at the intersection of film, art and visual culture. Applicants must be current SCMS and CinemArts members (but not necessarily presenting at the 2020 conference). Submissions may include revised seminar papers, dissertation excerpts, or any essay published in 2019-2020. Submissions are limited to one per applicant, should not exceed 8,500 words (excluding notes), and must use a standard citation format. If the winning essay
The 53rd Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
Glendon College, York University, 25 April 2020
Keynote Speakers:
Jody Berland, York University
Susan Hamilton, University of Alberta
Call for Papers
Light in Dark Places: Victorian Animals and Human Interventions
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Fantasy
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
Literary Veganism - An Online Journal is seeking submissions of literary essays, creative non-fiction, fiction, and poetry. Though this is a new journal, the editors have experience (Bibliotekos site and anthologies) and are looking for high-quality work. Writings would be by, for, or about vegans. You don't need to be a vegan to submit. Please refer to the submissions tab on the website www.litvegan.net We are hopeful that the journal will act as a conduit to another anthology.
US Popular Culture Workshop :
SUPERNATURE
Danièle André and Christophe Becker
La Rochelle Université & Université Paris 8 – CRHIA
For the AFEA (The French Association of North-American Studies) 2020 Conference - Post(-)America, Lille University (France), May 26-29, 2020.
deadline for submissions:
15 February 2020
full name / name of organization:
Diplomatica https://brill.com/view/journals/dipl/dipl-overview.xml
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For this special issue of Diplomatica we invite proposals for essays on aspects of diplomacy’s relationship to the natural environment. Essays may cover any historical period up to the present-day. The central questions that this special issue poses are:
How does the natural environment condition, cause, or complicate diplomatic action?
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 24, 2020
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UNIVERSITY OF OREGON PORTLAND • APRIL 30–MAY 2, 2020
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World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion
May 21-22, 2020, University of York, York, UK
Registration deadline: Jan 10, 2020
Keynote Speakers:
Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Penn State University, USA
Daisy Hildyard, author of The Second Body (2018)
more to follow
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 24, 2020
WHAT IS INFORMATION? '
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON PORTLAND • APRIL 30–MAY 2, 2020
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From Annihilation to High Life: Feminist Posthumanism and Postfeminist Humanism in Contemporary Science Fiction Film
Joint panel of the Posthumanism Research Network and FSAC Annual Meeting of the Film Studies Association of Canada (FSAC), June 02-04, 2020, University of Western Ontario, London (ON)
Organizers: Julia Empey (WLU) and Russell Kilbourn (WLU)
Deadline for submission of abstracts: January 06, 2020
In an age of technological growth, globalization, and neoliberalism, the ways we build trust are being dramatically transformed. Simultaneously, funding for education has become subject to market- and data-driven directives, neglecting the needs of vulnerable communities and ecologies. How do we learn to trust and trust in learning when our communities and connections are increasingly distant, ephemeral, and mediated? How do we avoid falling to game-theoretically governed social, economic, and informatic relations? What aspects of trust are under-considered in efforts for learning and change? Where are the flows of trust in above/below-ground networks (institutions, organizations, grassroots movements, communities of practice, etc.)?
Posthuman Praxis of ‘human’
In posthuman theory we do have an obligation, but it is never what we think it is, because the ethical event cannot be known in advance… Posthuman Ethics shows we cannot ‘do’ ethics, and evaluate whether something was as ethical or not as we would hope.
-- Patricia MacCormack
Calling all Gunters! The past few years have seen a growing number of scholarly interventions on Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011), exploring topics that range from his portrayal of dys/utopias (see Nordstrom, Ue) to his use of Pac-Man as a metaphor (Ue and Munday), and from Cline’s treatment of masculinity (Condis) to his invocation of Arthurian romance (Aronstein and Thompson). In 2018, the novel was adapted into a critically and commercially successful hit, earning an Academy Award nomination.
The fifteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at the University of Sheffield from Wednesday 15 April until Friday 17 April 2020.
Keynote speakers will be Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford), Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff), and Professor Angela Wright (Sheffield).
The BSLS invites proposals for 20-minute papers, panels of three papers, or special roundtables on any subjects within the field of science (including medicine and technology), and literatures in the broadest sense, including theatre, film, and television.
After the success of the Folk Horror in the Twenty First Century conference hosted by Falmouth University, we are holding another related conference in 2020.
The present is dark. With the rise of right-wing populism, global migrations and immigrations, continued violence, abuse and crime, prejudice and intolerance, there is increasing anxiety about the future. The Earth itself is under threat from environmental catastrophe and a mass extinction event is anticipated. The collapse of society, morality, and the environment was often also feared in the past, particularly in Gothic, horror and dystopian fictions and texts. What were the monsters of the past? What are our monsters now?
Graduate Center for Literary Research Annual Conference Call for Papers
Climate Fictions
April 18-19, 2020
McCune Conference Room, HSSB
As climate change has become a central topic of discussion, laced with the uncertainty of tomorrow, the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to reframe their conversations with a focus on this ubiquitous topic as it has been interpreted in literary fiction, as well as within the arts.
Theorizing about the body has never been more urgent than in our current era of climate change. Stacy Alaimo has compellingly argued that “potent ethical and political possibilities emerge from the literal contact zone between human corporeality and more-than-human nature.” In the decade or so since she first penned those words, these ethical and political possibilities have become even more urgent, and the borders of the contact zones themselves have become more blurred. Climate change has had increasingly intimate corporeal implications (especially in the Global South), and the widening gap between the rich and the poor has only exacerbated these matters, as has the global rise in right-wing extremism.
Disability has functioned historically to justify inequality for disabled people themselves, but it has also done so for women and [other] minority groups. That is, not only has it been considered justifiable to treat disabled people unequally, but the concept of disability has been used to justify discrimination against other groups by attributing disability to them.
- Douglas C. Baynton, Disability and the Justification of Inequality in American History
Abstract:
Title: Almanac for the Anthropocene: A Compendium of Solarpunk Futures by Phoebe Wagner & Brontë Wieland
Under contract for Salvaging the Anthropocene series from West Virginia University Press: https://wvupressonline.com/series/salvaging_the_anthropocene
Dear Colleagues,
Theere is one week left as the CFP for the Handbook of Research on Machine Ethics and Morality has been extended to December 2, 2019. Thank you to everyone who has submitted a proposal. I’m expecting a similarly robust exchange for this extended call. Again, I’m interested in approaches to the topic from the humanities, with exploration on rhetorics and philosophies of artificial intelligence, machine ethics, and moral machines.
Parallèle 67 was created in 2018 at the initiative of undergraduate and graduate students in the History of Art at the Université de Montréal. Its objectives are to create a space for discussion between visual and material culture, museology, anthropology of art, among many other disciplines; to provide an opportunity for fruitful collaboration between students and students; and finally, to showcase their research. Bilingual, it is intended as a platform that publishes short articles pertaining to issues that are indiscriminate with respect to theoretical approaches, historical periods or geographical regions.
Poetics before Modernity
invites papers on
'Poetics among the Disciplines'
to be proposed for
Scientiae, Amsterdam, 3-6 June 2020