Senegalese Ousmane Sembène was one of the most important African artists of the 20th century as a writer and a film director. Yet there are only a handful of studies on his cinematic body of work. They usually adopt the same structure: the analysis of his films in chronological order. This essay collection tackles his work and legacy in a deeper way. Sembène articulated his observations in fiction films instead of documentaries, embracing the African tradition of telling and transmitting stories that creatively reflect the circumstances of a people. His films have strengthened the cause of liberation from colonial domination and other forms of oppression.

HIGH ARTISTIC SPECULATION: TIME TRAVEL AND POPULAR CULTURE

CFP: Film, Digital Media, and Music (Extended Deadline June 1, 2017)

Long Beach Indie Film, Media and Music Conference

(August 30-September 3, 2017)

www.longbeachindie.com

Submission Deadline: June 1, 2017

Celebrating global diversity, the Long Beach Indie International Film, Media and Music Festival (August 30-September 3, 2017) is looking for scholars, journalists, and entertainment industry professionals to bring their intellect, art, and energy this year’s Film, Media, and Music Conference.

We invite monographs, edited collections, and shorter single-authored books (30,000 – 50,000 words) for the exciting new book series,

Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference

Series editors: May Friedman, Associate Professor, Ryerson University (Canada); Silvia Schultermandl, Assistant Professor, University of Graz (Austria)

Call for papers for a roundtable at the 2018 NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, April 12-15: https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/session.html

This roundtable will examine teaching methods and strategies for addressing the fiction of terrorism in the contemporary literature classroom. With a focus on teaching after 9/11, and in a moment fraught with tensions about politics and secondary education (see, for example, the “Professor Watchlist”), this roundtable will also address the ways faculty can frame their classes—not only for the students they teach, but for a general public concerned with the politics of college and university faculty.