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International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024
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International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024
“Evolving Forms”
University of Iowa, 19-21 April 2024
In July 2023, a tech startup called “Simulation Inc” released an AI technology that the company claims will make it possible to generate entire t.v. episodes—including dialogue, voice acting, animation, and editing—from nothing more than a two-sentence prompt. Somewhat oddly—and provoking suspicion that the project might be a hoax or internet prank—Simulation Inc’s website lists a fake address under their contact info: 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA.
Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.
The 4th POM ConferenceRWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg:
No promised heaven, these wild desires
Could all, or half fulfil;
– Emily Brontë, “The Philosopher”
Bronte Studies invites new and original essays of no more than 7,500 words responding to the theme of “The Brontes and the Wild,” which inspired the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s 2023 programme of events and activities and the Bronte Society’s conference.
ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"University of North Florida
May 16-19, 2024
Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals
The UBC Journal for Climate Justice (JCJ) is an emerging digital platform featuring climate justice research and insights at the intersections of art, advocacy, and academics.
Call for Online Book Chapters
Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2023
Editors: Prof. Eduardo CAMILO & Prof. Karima BOUZIANE
Publisher and copyright: LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,
Universidade da Beira Interior,
Rua Marquês D’Ávila e Bolama,
6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.
Rationale
A Billion and Fifty Year Spree: Science Fiction, and its Histories, ‘after’ Aldiss
University of Liverpool & Online, 23 January 2024
The realm of science fiction serves as a captivating tapestry, weaving together speculative narratives that extend beyond the bounds of conventional reality. Within this expansive genre, three thematic strands emerge as critical foci: Posthumanism, Alternate Realities, and Cyberculture. This exploration aims to unravel the nuanced layers embedded within these themes, offering a critical lens through which to examine the implications for contemporary society, ethical considerations, and the trajectory of human existence.
10×10 Research Grants on Photobook History
After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics (Rome, 10th and 11th June 2024)
Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 (37th Cycle of the PhD Programme in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation)
CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”
Published in his article in Mind when he was 38 years old, Turing’s question emerged from a life of relentless imagination. By then, Turing had applied his brilliance to help the allies win World War II and revolutionized computing—creating the foundation for much later developments in AI technologies and machine learning. His intrepidness included living as a gay man in a society that would criminalize and cause him irreparable harm for it.
Sponsored by the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies
University of Kentucky
Topic: Using storytelling to make science more accessible to lay audiences.
Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media into everyday lives, where digital objects and systems are shaping social and cultural paradigms anew. Contemporary writers, in and through their writing, actively engage with the digital media experience of the twenty-first century.
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment
Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.
Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) was not a blockbuster in the sense of Jaws, E.T or Jurassic Park (the other films covered in this book series) – it did however make a heavy return on its near $100 million budget and received critical praise in the media. The film is the product of several authors: science fiction writer Brian Aldiss on whose short story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ (1969) the film was based; Stanley Kubrick, whose project it had been initially before passing it over to Spielberg in the wake of Jurassic park, Spielberg made and released the film two years after Kubrick’s death.
Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta
53rd Annual Conference | March 21–23, 2024
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
TRANSFORMATIONS
ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2023
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We recently launched a blog series on medical and health humanities with an emphasis on the Global South. The blog series aims to bring together the multitude of discussions and expressive models of health and illness in order to explore interdisciplinary encounters and contestations related to agency, discourse, and power structures. We seek critical engagements within the framework of medical humanities for a more inclusive conception of health care and well-being that opens up a space for personal accounts of medicalized subjects on the margins of the medical establishment. The series emphasizes that embodiedness of health and illness belongs to the realm of narrativity both as personal experience and as part of medical epistemology.
We would like to invite proposals for chapters for a forthcoming edited collection on animals, fashion, and colonialism. Our project investigates the way that colonialism was inscribed on the female body through animal fashions in the long nineteenth century and beyond. Contributions are welcome from a wide variety of fields, with interdisciplinary approaches preferred.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body
September 4-6, 2024, Potsdam, Germany (on site)
We invite papers for a panel at the AAAS Conference 2024 in Seattle.
Call for Papers for volume 16, n° 1(33)/ 2024: Digital Methods and Fields: Feminist Perspectives
Guest editors:
Audrey BANEYX, Research Engineer, Médialab, Sciences Po, France, audrey.baneyx@sciencespo.fr
Hélène BOURDELOIE, Associate professor, CIS (CNRS) & LabSIC, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France, Helene.Bourdeloie@univ-Paris13.fr
Mélanie LALLET, Associate professor, UCO Nantes, Arènes, CHUS & Irméccen, France, melanie.lallet@yahoo.fr
Any philosophical consideration of the current zeitgeist requires an assessment of the quasi-object ( Latour 1993) constellation of Artificial Intelligence and its affordances without giving in to either knee-jerk optimism or unchanneled pessimism. For if doomsday was indeed near (as social media discourses want us to believe), and human labour progressively redundant to the machinations of human-made artificial intelligence, what is the limit case scenario, which makes such a provocation real, tangible and material beyond fatalistic projections of obsolescence? How does that reconfigure the idea of the Human as both the object and subject of cybernetic capital?
Multiple award-winning author Ann Leckie is extremely well-regarded in speculative fiction, but relatively understudied in academia. With a new book out in June 2023 that expands the world of the Imperial Radch trilogy, it is an exciting time to be an Ann Leckie scholar. This session invites essays that address her work broadly.
Global Perspectives on Surveillance
Call for Papers
Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (editor-in-chief Julia Lesage)
Section 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.
“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence
Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900
The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on artificial intelligence in the modernist era. Potential subjects include:
North American History and Culture in Popular Media in the German-speaking Lands
Northeast Modern Language Association
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2023, at: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20712
Abstract