science and culture

This panel will investigate space exploration in speculative literatures. It looks at the myriad ways in which works of speculative fiction have imagined, challenged, or otherwise engaged with outer space as a site for new colonialisms, the extension of racial supremacies, and/or environmental violence. We are especially interested in scholarship which explores the growing body of criticism situated at the intersection of black studies and speculative fiction. How has space functioned as a stand-in for the geographical expanse of the planet before its mapping and conquest by European colonialism?

VERGE STUDIES IN GLOBAL ASIAS

ISSUE 7.2 DIGITAL ASIAS

Edited by Jonathan E. Abel (Penn State) ＆ Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (UC-Irvine)

Deadlines | verge@psu.edu

Essays | May 1, 2020

For our tenth year anniversary issue, Technoculture is seeking critical essays and creative works from a broad range of academic disciplines that focus on cultural studies of technology, and especially on the future of the study of technology and culture.

Essays and creative works we publish examine the topic technology and society, or, perhaps, technologies and societies. This call is ongoing and open topic, and we encourage a broad definition of technology. Topics could include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of subjects related to the social sciences and humanities.

"Energy and Infrastructure: An Environmental Humanities Roundtable" (MLA 2021)

Jacob Goessling, Jordan B. Kinder, and Andrew B. Ross

A non-guaranteed roundtable organized by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Toronto, January 7th-10th, 2021. Scholarship exploring any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, interests, influence, and/or life is welcome. Send abstract and short bio by 13 March 2020 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Inviting abstracts for the MLA panel: Persistence in the Digital World: Rights, Movements, Knowledge and Humanities

How does the networked public seize digital means and build new frontiers of knowledge and rights? What new forms of social movements and humanities in digital spaces sustain hopes for persistence? Send 400-word abstracts to rianka.roy@gmail.com.

Link: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2021/webprogrampreliminary/Paper12576.html

Rianka Roy, PhD

University of Connecticut

Eugenics and the Body How has eugenics—a discourse of the perfectibility of man that centers reproduction—influenced the literary construction of bodies in the broadest sense (literal, figurative, (non-)human, national, etc.)? Submit 300-word abstract for paper and 50-word bio. This is a CFP for a non-guaranteed session at the MLA.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 18 March 2020

Send submissions to: Kim Adams, New York U (kaa401@nyu.edu ) Mercedes Trigos, New York U (mtrigos33@gmail.com )

Dear scholars:

Medical Humanities--BMJ is seeking content for its affiliated blog on this year’s journal theme: Access. Please see more details here:

https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-humanities/2020/02/12/seeking-blog-content-on-this-years-theme-access/

We look forward to reading and publishing your work!

Thank you,

Cristina Hanganu-Bresch

Blog Content Editor,Medical Humanities

Conference websitehttps://chicybercon.com/Submission linkhttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chicybercon2020Abstract registration deadlineFebruary 29, 2020Submission deadlineMarch 13, 2020

This conference aims to be a source for researchers, university academics, computing professionals, and upper-level students interested in the techniques, laws, and training initiatives currently being implemented and adapted for secure computing.

ChiCyberCon'20 is an activity of the Center for Cyber Security and Forensics Education (IIT C²SAFE). 

Submission Guidelines

Over the past two decades, queer, transgender, and sexuality studies have moved away from the medical model, turning away, as Regina Kunzel puts it, “from the clinic, the couch, and the psychiatric hospital to look instead at histories of sociality, of citizenship, community, culture, politics, the state.” In this special issue, however, we want to return to the sciences of sex, including and beyond the couch, to consider how the surveying and hierarchizing energies of “science” have been put toward the production of understandings of both sexual practice and binary sexual difference, in all of their gendered and racialized dimensions.

Call for Papers & Panels

EISA PEC 2020

Section 24

'Performing Anthropo(s)cenes: Politics of/with(in) Popular Culture'

16-19 September 2020 (University of Malta)

https://eisa-net.org/pec-2020-sections/#topanchor

Section Chairs:

Dr. Robert A. Saunders (SUNY) - saunder@farmingdale.edu 

2021 Clute International Academic Conferences Maui (CIAC) | Education | Business | Science | Technology
https://www.cluteinstitute.com/maui21

January 3-7, 2021

Sheraton Maui Resort and Spa
2605 Kaanapali Pkwy
Lahaina, HI 96761

Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020

OVERVIEW

The Clute Institute, established in 1985, sponsors all Clute International Conferences to promote excellence in academic research.

The relationship between the sciences and the humanities is one that is currently marked by tension. Often viewed as distinct in their approaches to collecting and creating data, the two fields rarely come together to combine methodologies and form what could be a powerful symbiosis of qualitative and quantitative research. For our 18th annual conference, the English Graduate Student Organization is especially interested in exploring the past, present, and future relationships between STEM and the humanities.

IV International symposium. Barcelona, April 28th, 2020. MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Coordinated by Christian Alonso (University of Barcelona). Keynoted by Gerald Raunig (Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich, European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies, Vienna)