John Badham's 1983 film War Games marked the beginning of cinema's relationship with a new medium: the Internet. Since then, as the technology has become ubiquitous in homes and in places of work, the internet has achieved increasing prominence in a variety of film genres. While some theorists have addressed Hollywood's attitude towards competing media in a more general sense, less has been written about the sociological and historical implications of the internet itself on screen. This proposed panel will look at the technophobic and technophilic narratives of internet technology in the context of its rapid integration into our daily lives and expanding presence on film over the last three decades.

Possible paper topics may include:

For a proposed panel at the 2011 Society for Cinema and Media Studies:

The work of scholars like Clemencia Rodriguez, John Downing, David Graeber, and Jeffrey Juris has increasingly revealed the necessity of analyzing film and new media in relation to broader activist social formations that transgress institutional and national boundaries. Although film and media studies has offered some substantive scholarship regarding this topic—particularly in regards to AIDS activism and Third Cinema—, it has all-too-often relegated concerns of activism and social movements to sociology and communication studies.

Essay proposals are sought for a volume of critical essays on Robert Cormier's fiction as part of the anticipated relaunch of Palgrave Macmillan's New Casebook series. All essays in the volume will be new and original pieces of work.

The aim of the volume is, primarily, to "show undergraduate readers how recent debates, issues and developments in the field of children's literature, and in modern critical theory, have affected approaches to" Cormier's works. Essays that take a range of approaches to Cormier's work are therefore sought.

Essays (of around 6,000 words) will be due in March 2011.

Please email a 400-500-word essay proposal and a 150-word biographical paragraph by 1 September 2010 to:

In "The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts," Milan Kundera observes that Central Europe is rarely perceived as an important region in Europe. Indeed, he attests that the nations that create Central Europe 'have never been masters of either their own destinies or their borders.' As such, the countries that form Central Europe have been viewed as extensions of thriving European countries, such as Germany. Yet, the subordination of Central European countries to either Western or Eastern European nations has had drastic impacts on the writers that emerged from this region, as they have been forced to write in non-native languages, have endured political oppression, and weathered several political upheavals.

I'm writing on behalf of a new reflective art journal, #3 , setting up here in London. As a journal, we are invested in providing a critical exhibition space through publication for artists from all over the word, dispersing critical/academic and creative reflection on art/architecture/aesthetics, with a particular intellectual focus on questions of spatiality/geography/physical structure/environment. Our forthcoming collaborations include explorations from an collaborative art studio in Kenya's Kibera slum, and comparative reflections on Cambodian temple architecture.

Crossroads: an International Conference
7-8 June 2012
Toulouse, France

Great things are done when men and mountains meet;
This is not done by jostling in the street.
- William Blake, MS Note-Book.

Call for Papers
"Practicing Theory"

The 2011 ASCA International Conference and Workshop:

Date: 2-4 March 2011
Venue: University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for papers and performances on the theme of Practicing Theory for its annual International Conference and Workshop.