Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 43 No. 2 | September 2017

Call for Papers

Intermediality in Global and Sinophone Contexts

Guest editor

Yomi Braester (University of Washington, USA)

Since its emergence, cinema has been preoccupied with the relationship between film and politics, and across its long history filmmakers have explored the relationship between film and social change. This history seemed to reach its apogee in the 1960s with the global explosion of radical filmmakers intent on exploring cinema’s revolutionary capacities. Of these movements, Godard’s political modernist cinema and Latin American third cinema are the most well-known and have since come to stand as both the height and limit of a politically committed film practice.

Many have requested an extension on this so we have extended the deadline to 10/15/16.

Call for Proposals - Special Guest Edited Issue of

Taboo: The Journal of Culture & Education

Lemonade:

Black Womanhood, Identity & Sexuality

Guest Editors:

Venus Evans-Winters, PhD

Illinois State University

Call for chapters in an edited, interdisciplinary collection of essays.  Chapters will explore the intersection of social class, film, television, communication, social media, and other related topics (which might include income inequality, class warfare, social justice movements, gaming culture, among others). We are interested in portrayals from a range of media and genres: film, games, television, Twitter, YouTube, art, and more.

We encourage submissions from all disciplines. Topics of possible interest include:

•    Depictions and understandings  of demonstrations, political activism, online, and across media.

This roundtable addresses the negotiation of the textual authority of those who call themselves or are called "women" vis à vis critical approaches in feminist and translation theory. The convergence of feminist and translation studies allows for the examination of power differentials in relation to women's roles as authors, translators, and activists. Moreover, this criticism has been useful in revealing the historical and present silencing of women's contributions as cultural agents. The goal of this roundtable is to consider how translation brings global and historical feminisms into dialogue, and in doing so, challenges legacies of hegemonic cultural authority.

Call for Participation (edited volume) DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 10/31/16

Poetic Words in the 21st Century Neoliberal City

CALL FOR PAPERS
"Shattered"
Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought

“When you are in the middle of a story it isn’t a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it.”
– Margaret Atwood

“Here am I and there is my body dancing on glass”
– Sarah Kane