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SAMLA 92: THE GENRES OF CELEBRITY SCANDAL

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Friday, March 13, 2020 - 3:57pm
Blake Beaver / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 1, 2020

Given the evident command of the celebrity in 20th- and 21st-century media cultures and following modern trends toward trans-medial and inter-generic production, this traditional session calls for papers that explore the relationships between celebrity and generic scandals. How have filmmakers, television writers, tabloid/entertainment journalists, novelists, essayists, biographers, memoirists, and other cultural creators depicted celebrity scandal while pushing the limits of their given genre or medium? While the 20th and 21st centuries are the focus of this call, media and literary scholars of all periods are welcomed to apply. History-bending is happily encouraged alongside genre-bending. Scandals could involve:

WEIRD SCIENCES AND THE SCIENCES OF THE WEIRD

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Friday, March 13, 2020 - 3:57pm
PULSE - THE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND CULTURE
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Recent scientific discoveries in climatology, animal cognition and microbiology have radically altered our conceptions of ourselves and the environment we live in, both on micro and macroscales. Zooming in on the human microbiome and out to the planetary ecosystem, or even further into infinite cosmic spaces, the sciences are revealing strange dynamics of human-nonhuman interconnectedness, doing away with the established anthropocentrism and the idea of human exceptionalism.

Editing Marginalia & Footnotes

updated: 
Friday, March 13, 2020 - 3:57pm
Association for Documentary Editing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 20, 2020

Association for Documentary Editing’s Call for Papers

Modern Language Association Meeting

7-10 January 2021

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

 

 

Marginalia and footnotes are their own genres, but most editors concentrate on the main body of a text. Yet material outside that text body, whether as marginalia or footnotes, can have great bearing on the meaning of the main document.

 

Marginalia and footnotes raise a number of questions:

 

* What is the function of such material?

 

* Who made the marks, and when, where, and why?

 

* As editors, what do we do with them?