[UPDATE] Please submit by June 15, 2015 to be considered for both online publication and forthcoming print publication. Regular contributors are also sought for blog columns and reviews.

The Journal of Digital Media Arts and Practice is dedicated to providing a platform for scholarly and creative publishing on the burning issues in the rapidly evolving, always contested, and unpredictable field of new media and digital media arts. The purpose of the journal is to provoke questions and discussion on digital media arts research and practice as a means of moving the field forward with rigor, thoughtfulness, and collaboration.

Topics might include but are not limited to:

This panel proposes to explore the relationship between the science of medicine and the art of representation. The power of language to create and control lived experiences within a social context is widely accepted. We know that the way in which we experience gender, sexuality, and other identity constructs are formed by the words we use. We also know that power dynamics are shaped and reinforced by domestic and public discourse. This panel seeks to explore these issues in the medical field. How does the language we use to represent medical realities shape or create the experience of various medical conditions? How can the diagnostic categories we use to describe illness or other disorders influence the ways in which we experience them?

Actor/Audience Bodies in Early Modern Theater
How might actors' theatrical materiality interact with playgoers' bodies to shape perception and response in the early modern playhouse? Violence, gender, the supernatural, the non-human, cognition, theology, passions. Abstracts by March 28, 2015 to Sarah Outterson-Murphy (soutterson@gmail.com).

Connecting, Rethinking and Embracing Difference
The Persons and Sexualities Project

Thursday 24th September – Saturday 26th September 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

The Weaponising of Cinema: Hollywood, Propaganda and Portrayals of Enemies of the State/s
The Hollywood and the World Project

Friday 24th July – Sunday 26th July 2015
Mansfield College, Oxford, United Kingdom

As the series editor for Engagements with Literature, a new series from Routledge, I am interested in receiving proposals for books that might suit the remit of the series, described below. The series launches this fall with two exciting titles—Engagements with Narrative and Engagements with Close Reading. Two other titles—Engagements with Nature Writing and Engagements with Contemporary Critical Theory—are in progress.

If you have an idea for a book in this series, please contact me at litengagements@gmail.com. I am open to considering any topics that may suit the description below. I would like to know what your experience is as a scholar, author, and teacher.