theory

STUDIES IN THE HUMANITIES CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERSThe 6th Global Forum of Critical StudiesAsking Big Questions Again

23 - 25 November 2017, Lucca, Italy

Agora Cultural Centre

Deadline for Paper Proposals: 15th of September 2017

In his contribution to an anthology of keywords for American cultural studies, Bruce Robbins registers an ambivalence at the heart of the term “public.” This ambivalence, Robbins writes, stems from the fact that the term’s “claim to represent the social whole has continued to bump up against evidence that large classes of people have been omitted from it.” Indeed, “public,” as a terminological category, requires universality. But in our contemporary historical situation – due to enduring social antagonisms, increasingly uneven distributions of resources and power, and ever-lengthening histories of exclusion and oppression – the fault lines of this never-universal are showing with renewed clarity, even as globalization continues to demand thinking

CFP: The Ear of a Woman: Passive Female Audience in History and Literature:

An International Conference

11-12 April 2018

Venue: Djerba, Tunisia

Deadline for abstracts: 30 Nov. 2017

Call for Papers

Call For PapersRendering (the) Visible III: LiquidityAtlanta, February 8-10, 2018Deadline: October 20, 2017

Since the early 2000s, the idea of “liquidity” has been mobilized in discourses ranging from social theory to aesthetics, from informatics to architecture, to describe a new relationship with the networked environments of life within global capital. More specifically, within the study of moving image culture, we have seen an increasing turn toward affective relations, plasticity, resonances and flows, whereby images and sounds—no longer grounded in an analogical relation to the real—are seen variously as malleable, untethered, “viral,” or fluid.