Twenty-first century film and media have seen a rise not only in remakes and ‘re-imaginings’, but also in transmedia adaptations, works based in nostalgic callbacks, fan-written versions of media, and genre-bending remixes. While a wider body of work exists on transmedia storytelling and adaptation, contemporary superhero remakes and re-adaptations are still a largely unexplored subject, even as interest in the remake phenomenon continues to grow. The history of superheroes – and their supervillain counterparts – is rich in re-adaptations and remakes. This process seems intrinsic to the superhero’s textual and cultural journey, as it is re-shaped and re-moulded, from comics to film and other media forms.

November 15-17, 2019 – Atlanta, GA EXTENDED DEADLINE!

 
Eudora Welty used dialect in her stories to reproduce the full performance of power and identity associated with language. Of her early stories, Welty herself said in 1982, "I love to write dialogue but it’s very hard to prune it and make it sharp and make it advance the plot and reveal the characters—both characters—the one listening and the one talking."

South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Giving Voice to the Voiceless

SAMLA 91: Languages: Power, Identity, Relationships

November 15-17, 2019 | Westin Peachtree Plaza | Atlanta, Georgia

Giving Voice to the Voiceless

ArtsPraxis Volume 6, Issue 2

ISSN: 1552-5236

ArtsPraxis Volume 6, Issue 2 looks to engage members of the global Educational Theatre community in dialogue around current research and practice. This call for papers is released in conjunction with the release of ArtsPraxis Volume 5, Issue 2. The submission deadline for Volume 6, Issue 2 is June 1, 2019.

Submissions should fall under the category of Theatre and Health.

Call for Papers

Papers should be no longer than 4,000 words, must be accompanied by a 200 word abstract and 100 word biographies for the author(s), and conform to APA style manual. Submissions must be received by June 1, 2019.

TBA is an annual peer-reviewed journal organized by graduate students of the Visual Arts Department at Western University in London, Ontario. It provides an interdisciplinary forum for emerging and independent scholars and artists by bringing together studio, art history, cultural studies, theory, criticism and related fields. It welcomes experimentation and risk.   

We are currently inviting submissions for our inaugural issue, titled FAKE. 

Might there be truth(s) in the fake(s); fake(s) in the truth(s), and neither non-truth(s) nor non-fake(s)?

ENVIRONMENT: LAST CALL

September 27-28, 2019

McGill University

https://llcgrad2019.wordpress.com/

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may be no more, when no one is doing anything to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts when the most important facts clearly means nothing to our society?

-Greta Thunberg, “School Strike for Climate”

Following last year’s Pushing Boarders London, we have joined forces with the City of Malmö, Bryggeriet and Regional Museum Kristianstad to organise the second international conference on skateboarding, taking place from 14-18 August 2019 in Malmö, Sweden.