*CFP* "ARAB STARDOM: TRANSNATIONAL GLAMOUR AND PERFORMANCE", CHAPTER BOOK

Arab cinema is often discussed in terms of political representation and independent art film, but rarely in terms of stardom, glamour, performance or masquerade. Aside from a few individual studies on female stardom or aspects of Arab masculinity, no major English-language study on Arab stardom exists, and collections on transnational stars or world cinema often neglect to include Arab performers. This new book, provisionally titled Arab Stardom: Transnational Glamour and Performance, seeks to address this gap in the scholarship by providing the first study dedicated entirely to Arab stardom on screen. Building on the work of star studies scholars such as Richard Dyer,Russell Meeuf and Raphael Raphael, Andrea Bandhauer and Michelle Royer and Sabrina Qiong-Yu, this collection will provide contextual analyses of off-screen representation, as well as close textual analyses of films and star personas, thereby offering an in-depth study of the Arab star as text and context of Arab cinema. Using the tools of audience reception studies, the collection will look at how stars are viewed and received in different cultural contexts, both within and outside of the Arabic-speaking world.

*CFP* "ASIAN TIGERS IN THE DIGITAL JUNGLES", SPECIAL ISSUE, GALACTICA MEDIA: JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES

Southeast Asia is the most densely populated region in the world, where neighboring states are political and economic heavyweights, leading players in a globalized world, and small countries that retain their distinctive appearance and style. It is a cauldron of ethnic groups, religions, worldviews, which has given rise to many alternative ways of integrating traditions and modernity.

In particular, Asian media, especially electronic ones, and social networks such as Chinese Weibo, WeiChat, Tencent and Qzone, South Korean Naver, and Japanese Line can serve as an example of such integration.

East Asian cinema and TV-show production display clear influence of Western, primarily Hollywood, standards. Yet they have many original characteristics, some of which are due to national historical experience and mentality, while others are dictated by state censorship and political agenda.

No less interesting is the representation that Asian peoples and cultures receive in Western cinema and commercials, and the recent growing protest of East and Southeast Asian natives against discrimination and stereotyping of their image.

*CFP* "MÚSICA, SO I SILENCI ALS VIDEOJOCS", NÚMERO 3, JOURNAL OF SOUND, SILENCE, IMAGE AND TECHNOLOGY

La revista científica Journal of Sound, Silence, Image and Technology (Joss) nace en el seno del grupo de investigación homónimo (SSIT), vinculado a los centros universitarios del TecnoCampus, adscritos a la Universidad Pompeu Fabra (UPF). La vocación de esta publicación es recoger el debate académico y la investigación científica sobre la relación del sonido como concepto ancho con un contexto audiovisual. Para este tercer número de la revista, tendremos en cuenta artículos sobre la relación entre música, sonido y silencio a los videojuegos.

Los estudios sobre el audiovisual se han ido consolidando a lo largo de las últimas dos décadas, y se puede afirmar que durante este tiempo, se han hecho su merecido espacio en la musicología académica. Sin embargo, dentro de los estudios audiovisuales, los videojuegos siguen siendo hoy en día uno de los temas menos tratados, en parte por los retos y dificultades metodológicas que conlleva su estudio. 

*CFP* “BOB DYLAN ON SCREEN”, CHAPTER BOOK

On May 12, 1963, Bob Dylan left the set of the Ed Sullivan Show, incensed the producers rejected his decision to “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues.” This non-circulation of his image through television provided valuable publicity and Dylan would boast of “the song they didn’t let me play on TV.” This incident stands at the beginning of an ambivalent and complicated relationship between Dylan’s persona, as expressed through his words and music, and its dissemination through screen media. This has been an uneven process: the documentary Dont Look Back (1967) is a classic of direct cinema and played an important role in broadcasting Dylan’s image, but its planned follow-up, Eat the Document (1972), went a different direction: Dylan insisted on editing it himself, it showed once on television and vanished into obscurity. The editing alone of his self-directed four-hour film Renaldo and Clara (1978) occupied more than a year of Dylan’s career, which should logically qualify it as a major work. Instead it’s little more than a footnote even for Dylan’s most devoted fans, watched by few and liked by fewer; Martin Scorsese’s repurposing of footage in Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (2019) may be Renaldo and Clara’s lone legacy. Masked and Anonymous (2003) was scarcely better received. Though it found some admirers, Dylan himself would express disappointment with it in a 2012 interview with Mikal Gilmore, stating that, When you want to make a film and you’re using outside money, there’s just too many people you have to listen to. He even joked that they should have hired Cate Blanchett to play his part, Jack Fate.

*CFP* "PRODUCCIÓN Y CONSUMO DE MEDIOS. ABORDAJES DESDE LA COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL", CAPÍTULO DE LIBRO

Inaugurado en agosto de 2018, el programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila encuentra su pertinencia en la necesidad de modelar diseños de investigación social que incidan en la generación de alternativas, que atiendan las problemáticas existentes en los distintos sectores sociales -particularmente los de la entidad y la región- en pro de mejorar la calidad de vida y contribuir a un estado de bienestar social. A dos años de su inicio, la comunidad académica formada por estudiantes y profesores de su Acentuación en Comunicación Social, en colaboración con la Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, A.C., busca fortalecer la generación de conocimiento en el campo de la comunicación social a través de la publicación del libro “Dinámicas de grupos socioculturales. Abordajes desde la comunicación social”, publicación de propuestas innovadoras en la investigación de los fenómenos sociales que tengan como objeto estudio el papel de los procesos de comunicación en la dinámica constitutiva de sectores poblacionales o actividades socioculturales específicas. 

El libro podrá contener hasta 10 capítulos, cuyo resultado haya sido “aprobado” o “aprobado con modificaciones” por los dictaminadores y se apegue a la temática de la obra. 

*CFP* "BEYOND THE 2ºC BUSINESS AND POLICY TRAJECTORIES TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION", EDITED BOOK

We are accepting contributions from international scholars and practitioners that work at the interface of in business and policy, as well as related fields such as economics, management, development studies, finance, and entrepreneurship. The contributions can:

• Shed new light on our understanding of climate-related vulnerabilities and risks
• Present new and emerging processes for internalizing adaptation approaches
• Identify new barriers to large scale and/or local climate change adaptation
• Explore the synergies and trade-offs in adaptation
• Investigate approaches to overcoming conflicts in business and policy adaptation trajectories

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit abstracts of no more than 500 words, a bibliography for their proposed chapter, and a CV by June 30th, 2020.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN AUDIOVISUAL: TRADICIONES, TRANSFORMACIONES Y PROYECCIONES", VOL. 16, Nº 1, INMEDIACIONES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

Este número de InMediaciones de la Comunicación aborda el campo de la comunicación audiovisual en un contexto contemporáneo, signado por procesos de mutación acentuada y acelerada. Luego de emerger a fines del siglo XIX, y de expandirse y asentarse en las décadas siguientes mediante la inicial hegemonía del cine, la experiencia audiovisual dio forma decisiva al imaginario del siglo XX. Con el tiempo, el ascenso de la imagen electrónica hizo más complejo un territorio audiovisual que marcó de modo central la cultura y la comunicación de masas de la anterior centuria. Mediante definiciones mediales sólidamente establecidas en el caso del cine y la televisión, junto a la aparición del video como elemento cuestionador, apto para las hibridaciones y tensiones entre comunicación y arte, entre lo masivo y lo alternativo, el campo de lo audiovisual ya era llamativamente intrincado en la cultura de las últimas décadas del siglo anterior. Pero de un modo que al principio parecía afectar sólo áreas particulares, o incidir en las determinaciones tecnológicas de lo audiovisual, la irrupción de lo digital, desde entonces, ha alterado radicalmente el territorio entero, impregnando la producción, la circulación y la fruición audiovisual con alternativas múltiples.

*CFP* “DECOLONISING FILM AND SCREEN STUDIES”, EDITED VOLUME

… you cannot mobilize a movement that is only and always against; you must have a positive alternative, a vision of a better future that can motivate people to sacrifice their time and energy toward its realization.

Obioma Nnaemeka, “Nego-feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,//29.2 (2003), p.364

Inspired by the RhodesMustFall movement at the University of Cape Town in May 2015, certain higher education institutions, individuals and collectives across the world have engaged in renewed, contemporary work to try to decolonise academia over the past four years. These movements are not new, and need to be historicised in relation to the long history of struggles for political decolonisation, complex engagement with the word “decolonisation” itself, and a wealth of significant theorizing around decolonising (e.g. wa Thiong’o 1986, Tuhiwai Smith 1999). These contemporary movements are also not uncontested, with some arguing that the term “decolonisation” has provided a useful way of bringing together academics from different disciplines with similar agendas around transformation, and others arguing that the term hides a range of distinct activities and practices, some of which appropriate or exploit the term without real commitment to fostering change.

*CFP* "DINÁMICAS DE GRUPOS SOCIOCULTURALES. ABORDAJES DESDE LA COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL", CAPÍTULO DE LIBRO

Inaugurado en agosto de 2018, el programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila encuentra su pertinencia en la necesidad de modelar diseños de investigación social que incidan en la generación de alternativas, que atiendan las problemáticas existentes en los distintos sectores sociales -particularmente los de la entidad y la región- en pro de mejorar la calidad de vida y contribuir a un estado de bienestar social. A dos años de su inicio, la comunidad académica formada por estudiantes y profesores de su Acentuación en Comunicación Social, en colaboración con la Asociación Mexicana de Investigadores de la Comunicación, A.C., busca fortalecer la generación de conocimiento en el campo de la comunicación social a través de la publicación del libro “Producción y consumo de medios. Abordajes desde la comunicación social”, publicación de propuestas innovadoras en la investigación de los fenómenos sociales que tengan como objeto estudio el papel de los procesos de comunicación en la dinámica constitutiva de sectores poblacionales o actividades socioculturales específicas. 

El libro podrá contener hasta 10 capítulos, cuyo resultado haya sido “aprobado” o “aprobado con modificaciones” por los dictaminadores y se apegue a la temática de la obra. 

*CFP* "TRANSLATION, REMEDIATION, SPREAD: THE GLOBAL CIRCULATION OF COMICS IN DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION", SPECIAL COLLECTION, THE COMICS GRID: JOURNAL OF COMIC SCHOLARSHIP

This Special Collection of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship will focus on the global circulation of comics in digital forms, from webcomics to subscription services from traditional comics publishers. The Collection’s emphasis will be on the international, multi-lingual, multi-format, diverse nature of “comics”. Comics have circulated in their original language and in translation since the inception of print: as a physical object, comics (including strips in newspapers) can travel across international borders with their readers, or they can be translated for publication in new locales. Recent technologies have made digital distribution possible, theoretically allowing for global access to comics published online anywhere in the world as well as the possibility of distributing translated versions within a proprietary system.

Translation is central to the global circulation of comics and comics as an art form are often experienced in translation (Evans 2017).  While there is a growing body of work on the translation and circulation of comics (Zanettin 2008, Altenberg and Owen 2015, Mälzer 2015, Reyns-Chikuma and Tarif 2016; see overview in Zanettin 2020), little has yet addressed the new world of digital distribution and how this is affecting translation practices. Work on the digital distribution of comics (e.g. Priego 2010, Steirer 2014, Crucifix et al. 2017-19, Augureau et al. 2018) has tended not to address this at a global scale or to investigate how comics are distributed across languages.

*CFP* "PERSUASION, PREJUDICE AND PROGRESS - MEDIA IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS", CONFERENCE OF CENTRE FOR CRITICAL MEDIA LITERACY, TECHNOLOGICAL

Persuasion, prejudice and progress – media in the marketplace of ideas

Conference of Centre for Critical Media Literacy, Technological 

University Dublin, October 27–28, 2020

Scholarship on the use of social platforms has added in recent years to longstanding debates about media’s capacity to reinforce or challenge discriminatory practices, to set or upset political agendas – and, this year, to disseminate or undermine public-health advice. In the midst of a global Covid-19 crisis that has highlighted the persuasive role of old and new media, and that has seen misinformation and bigotry spread almost as ubiquitously as handwashing advice, the Centre for Critical Media Literacy is seeking proposals for papers and panels at its fourth annual interdisciplinary conference.

Within a broad and inclusive theme of ‘persuasion, prejudice and progress’, there will also be a more specific conference strand. We are seeking research that addresses how people with disabilities, as well as their educators and families, have used media to advocate for equality – and how those efforts have been mediated in digital and traditional public spheres.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, VIDEOJOGOS 2020, 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIDEOGAME SCIENCES AND ARTS

Videojogos 2020

12th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts

26-28 November 2020

Videojogos 2020 will be the 12th International Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts.

It is a joint organization between the School of Public Management, Communication and Tourism – Polytechnic Institute of Bragança (EsACT – IPB) and the Portuguese Society of Videogames Sciences (SPCV).

As in previous editions, this conference will gather researchers, professionals in the extended area of videogames, teachers and students in a forum to discuss videogame related topics and their impact on various aspects such as society, health, heritage, economy or education. The goal is to promote the exchange of ideas, share experiences and results in the areas of interest, through presentations, workshops, interactive demos and panels.

*CFP* "SCREENING CENSORSHIP: NEW HISTORIES, PERSPECTIVES, AND THEORIES ON FILM AND SCREEN CENSORSHIP", CONFERENCE

We are pleased to announce the CFP Conference for the conference "Screening Censorship: New Histories, Perspectives, and Theories on Film and Screen Censorship", Ghent, Belgium, October 16-17, 2020

Throughout the history of film and cinema, censorship has existed everywhere–in all kinds of shapes, colors, and dimensions. The act of restricting the free production, circulation, screening and consumption of movies was never unique to authoritarian regimes. Age restrictions, film cuttings, bans, industry discouragements, and other types of censorial interventions also occurred in countries where media freedom and the freedom of speech were and are highly regarded principles. 

Censorship has had far-reaching implications on filmmakers, distributors, exhibitors, and audiences across generations, and across genres. Hard, strict institutional censorship often came alongside implied or ‘suggested’ forms of soft censorship, including, importantly, the self-censorship or audiences disciplined into particular viewership positions.

*CFP* "NATIONALISM AND THE HUMAN CONDITION: THEN AND NOW", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS

The discourse of Nationalism has undergone a sea change in the recent years. Even If it received a new spirit of historiographic enquiry from Benedict Anderson’s “Imagined Communities” project, the current Nationalist discourse has largely tried to be supremacist, and in being so has laid bare its darker sides in invoking an “exclusivist” model of political subjectivity. The sovereign’s sense of heightened selfhood has something to do with this; it is thus quite similar in terms of what Bindu Puri suggests: “To debate involves an intellectual welcome to an opposition in ideas. The manner of that welcome is structured in a form, which is hospitable to learning. Such intellectual hospitality to a difference in ideas as an opportunity to learn suggests a diminutive presence of the ego in the life of the mind. However, it is in ideas that the ego could seem at its strongest. For one is most stubbornly attached to how one understands things—to one’s vision of what constitutes the best form of life in general or perhaps of political life. This is evidence of the strange dichotomy of the human condition. It is most restricted where it most needs to be free.” (Puri, The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth) 

The cruel irony thus lies here, that debates, which largely a midwife in the birth of democracies, finds herself out of commission, in the recent climate of exclusivity of the Nationalist discourse. Debates, which were a mainstay in the formulation and the possible future of the Indian Nationalism, as one finds in Gandhi’s debates with Savarkar, Tagore and Ambedkar; has today transmuted into a scripted spectacle organised in news channel studios.

*CFP* LLAMADA A CONTRIBUCIONES, VOLÚMENES 47 (2021) Y 48 (2022), REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS DE GÉNERO Y SEXUALIDADES

Revista de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades, invita a enviar ensayos que serán considerados para su publicación en los números de los años 2021 y 2022.

La revista da prioridad a temas relacionados con género, sexualidad, autoras y artistas, teorías feministas y masculinidades en el contexto de las literaturas y las culturas hispánicas y lusobrasileñas, desde la Edad Media hasta el presente. 

Los autores deberán ser especialistas con niveles de máster o doctorado: profesores, investigadores vinculados a centros de enseñanza superior o independientes o escritores, o estudiantes de máster o doctorado. Los autores cuyos trabajos se admitan deberán ser, o hacerse, miembros de la Asociación de Estudios de Género y Sexualidades.

*CFP* LLAMADA A CONTRIBUCIONES, NÚMEROS 31 Y 32 (ENERO Y JULIO 2021), SECCIÓN PUNTOS DE FUGA, L'ATALANTE: REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS

Se abre la convocatoria de artículos para la sección Puntos de Fuga de los números 31 y 32, que se publicarán en enero y julio de 2021, respectivamente. La edición será exclusivamente electrónica.

Los textos publicados en L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos serán ensayos inéditos sobre temas relacionados con la teoría y/o praxis cinematográfica y tendrán, como interés principal, aportar aproximaciones al hecho cinematográfico que se realicen preferentemente desde la historiografía o el análisis audiovisual. Se valorarán aquellos textos que se aproximen a objetos de estudio novedosos con metodologías rigurosas y bien evidenciadas. Se privilegiarán aquellos textos que tomen como referencia principal los procesos de significación mediante el análisis de la forma audiovisual y/o de los elementos narratológicos específicos de nuestro campo, centrándose en las metodologías específicamente vinculadas con el tratamiento de la imagen. Si bien se aceptan trabajos con otras metodologías que se aproximan al hecho fílmico desde miradas transversales (estudios culturales, aproximaciones filológicas, etc.) consideramos que el interés principal de la revista se encuentra localizado en los estudios que toman las herramientas expresivas específicamente cinematográficas como los elementos principales generadores de discurso. Del mismo modo, se privilegiarán aquellos textos que no se limiten a describir, enumerar o resumir detalles concretos del argumento, sino que apliquen de manera rigurosa una metodología de análisis concreta y evidenciada y que arrojen, a su vez, resultados concretos y novedosos.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, MEDIATIZATION STUDIES JOURNAL

“Mediatization Studies” is the first international journal devoted entirely to the mediatization concept, which is one of the most influential topics in the field of media and communication studies. 

The (meta)process of mediatization tend to be perceived and analysed as a multidimensional phenomenon, which includes various forms of media-related transformations. Our goal is to contribute to the understanding of this process and make the mediatization theory more accessible to non-media scholars, as well as to promote the innovative research ideas committed to new manifestations of mediatization, that take place in different national and technological conditions.

For Volume 4 we are expecting theoretical and empirical papers that apply mediatization perspective in its multiple dimensions.

The deadline for full paper submissions is September the 30th 2020.

*CFP* "DECENTRING THE AVANT-GARDE: LANDSCAPE, TRAVEL AND THE GAZE IN EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND VIDEO", SPECIAL ISSUE, VOL. 57, PAPERS ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

The special issue of Papers on Language and Literature (vol. 57) aims to highlight the work of filmmakers working on the margins of the avant-garde, including those using traditional (8 mm or 16 mm) and new (hybrid) media formats, and the ways they (re)address the questions of landscape, travel and the gaze. Although certain avant-garde films, including those made by Vertov, Bolotowsky, Kubelka, Winkler, Lehman, Welsby, Snow, Fischinger, Dutta, Rashidi, Takahiko, Frampton, Brakhage and others, have received some attention from researchers, there exists a number of underrepresented works, which use landscape and travelogue forms to challenge the hegemonic master narratives and undermine the image of majority groups and interests, continuously breaking the taboos and censorship of the mainstream (film) culture. Likewise, this issue will hopefully extend the use of some recent revisionist theories, which have moved beyond structuralist-formalist thinking to incorporate intermediality and heterogeneity (Branden), spectatorship and (gendered) body politics (Lambert-Beatty), corporeal turn in avant-garde film (Osterweil), expanded cinema practices (Sutton), materialism (Walley) or personal registers (Kase), to the study of landscape and travelogue films, many of which clearly de-center formalist strategies.

*CFP* "CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE 46.4 (WINTER 2021), CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY

2020 marks the tenth anniversary of Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking work, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, which brought unprecedented attention to the ongoing discrimination present in the United States’ criminal justice system and its many devastating effects. 

Numerous studies have also documented the ways in which children and young adults are impacted by the criminal justice system, whether they are in it themselves, have a family member in it, or are living with the expectation of entering it in the future. 

This special issue will examine the responses of children’s literature and media, both contemporary and historical, to existing criminal justice systems in the United States and other countries and the representations of these systems in works for young people.

*CFP* "POETIC JUSTICE: NARRATING PERSONHOOD, SOLIDARITY, AND CITIZENSHIP", CFVP VIRTUAL VIDEO SYMPOSIUM

Poetic Justice: Narrating Personhood, Solidarity, and Citizenship

CFVP Virtual Video Symposium

Utrecht University

This one-day digital symposium brings together international colleagues for an interdisciplinary conversation on the use of narratives to make claims about (or foreclose the possibility of) social justice in both formal and informal political situations, for example in art, memoir, social media, protest movements, and legal documents.  As such, the event unpacks the vital role of storytelling within contemporary political struggles, including, for example, in films about restorative justice, in newspaper representations of the Dutch farmers’ strike, and ethnography regarding labor organization in the digital media industry.  Only by better understanding how stories shape who is included and excluded from social institutions may we thoughtfully narrate a more open and inclusive society, since policy and politics begin with an act of imagination.  Please feel free to interpret the theme liberally.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, SUPERMODELS OF THE WORLD: RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE AS INTERNATIONAL PHENOMENON ONLINE SYMPOSIUM

Supermodels of the World: RuPaul's Drag Race as International Phenomenon symposium

25th September 2020

School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK

Depend on further developments, online participation may become our primary method for all to engage in this one day event. We will, of course, update accordingly.

Since its 2009 debut, RuPaul’s Drag Race has shifted from a niche American reality show anomaly to an award-winning global success. This one day symposium will examine its international reach with versions of the contest created in the UK, Thailand and Canada alongside, titular host, Rupaul having already hinted at further growth when teasingly asking journalists “how many countries are there?”.

As a major popular culture event, panels will look to ascertain whether Drag Race - as the dominant depiction of drag in this early part of the 21st Century - represents an expansion or the homogenization of this aspect of LGBTQ+ culture. For example, have the geographical diversions within this TV show (journeying from Cameroon to Northern Ireland, South Korea to Puerto Rico) provided an opportunity to showcase localized interpretations, performances or incarnations? Or has this all-conquering drag empire imposed its own hegemony.

*CFP* "EL POSTHUMANISMO Y LA NARRATIVA BREVE HISPÁNICA", NÚMERO 14, LEJANA: REVISTA CRÍTICA DE NARRATIVA BREVE 2021

Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve invita a colaborar en el número 14 en el monográfico `El posthumanismo y la narrativa breve hispánica´. 

Este número tiene el objetivo de reflexionar sobre la vigencia del posthumanismo y los conceptos afines enumerados, ofreciendo tanto reflexiones teóricas como análisis de obras concretas de narrativa breve en español, entendida esta categoría como una que abarca toda obra en prosa peninsular o hispanoamericana, escrita en español, desde la época medieval hasta nuestros días, que tenga extensión limitada, comprendiendo géneros y subgéneros variadísimos en la amplia gama desde el microcuento hasta la nouvelle o la novela corta.

Se esperan artículos monográficos relacionados con las siguientes líneas de investigación, dejando posibilidades abiertas para proponer otras:

*CFP* "THE FILMS OF DENIS VILLENEUVE", BOOK CHAPTER

Québécois screenwriter and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s nimble creative spirit is reflected in his tremendously varied body of work. From the earlier, primarily French-language films that he wrote and directed – Un 32 août sur terre (1998), Maelström (2000), Polytechnique (2009) and Incendies (2010) – to the Canadian-Spanish coproduction of the enigmatic Enemy (2013), to his critically and commercially successful Hollywood films – Prisoners (2013), Sicario (2015), Arrival (2016) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017) – Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of violence and retribution.

Despite a body of work that counts nine currently released feature films (the tenth, Dune, is to be released later in 2020) and seven short films, and although he has won multiple industry awards, Villeneuve has not yet been the object of a monograph in any language. Some of his films are based on previously existing works of fiction or films (Incendies, Enemy, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049); accordingly, many of the articles that have appeared on these films deal with questions of adaptation or intermediality. Few scholarly articles have appeared on Un 32 août sur terre, Maelström, Prisoners, Enemy or Sicario; the scholarly work that exists on Polytechnique largely deals with the relation of this film to the real-life tragedy of the 1989 École Polytechnique massacre it re-enacts.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y LOS EFECTOS DE LA PANDEMIA EN LA REALIDAD SOCIAL, EN LAS ORGANIZACIONES E INSTITUCIONES, EN LOS GOBIERNOS, Y EN LAS REPRESENTACIONES DE LA GLOBALIZACIÓN", SPECIAL ISSUE, SINTAXIS JOURNAL

En una sociedad acostumbrada a dar por hecho que la libertad de movimiento, la continuidad de las actividades y el libre albedrío de las personas en todo el mundo están asegurados y que su continuidad era un hecho irrefutable, el surgimiento de la pandemia más grande en la historia moderna puso en entredicho lo que realmente significa el margen de libertad que se tiene como ser humano antes las grandes circunstancias de la naturaleza. Las certezas que se tenían hasta antes de esta crisis sanitaria se vinieron abajo. El Covid-19 representa un baño de agua fría sobre la fragilidad de la condición humana. La pandemia saca a relucir los temores más profundos que aquejan desde siempre a la humanidad: el miedo a la muerte en aislamiento. La llamada Sopa de Wuhan (elaborada en una cocina o en un laboratorio, para el caso es lo mismo) revela la crisis de conciencia sobre insensatez del maltrato y abuso indiscriminado a la naturaleza.

La aparición aparentemente repentina del Covid-19 no es un acto aislado. Como se sabe, en 1918 murieron 60 millones de personas y el 25% de la población se vio afectada por la irrupción de la llamada Gripe española, que demostró ser más letal que las dos grandes Guerras Mundiales juntas. Se trata de la madre de todas las pandemias, más mortífera que las Peste del Peloponesio, que la Plaga Antonina, la Plaga de Justiniano y la Peste Negra.

*CFP* "ALT KIDLIT: WHAT CHILDREN'S LITERATURE HAS BEEN, NEVER WAS AND MIGHT YET BE", CHAPTER BOOK

Children’s and young adult literature (CYA) is an Anglo-European formation that has been exported to and adapted by nations and cultures around the globe. Sometimes it has cooperated or merged with native, Indigenous, or local traditions of child-associated narrative, but more typically it has circulated like other products of Western settler-imperial culture. Its emergence is linked with Western notions of childhood and Western print culture. CYA is now firmly established as a body of work, a field of discourse, and a cultural good.

We sometimes question its definition or borders but tend to accept and even naturalize it as a phenomenon. Alt KidLit troubles that acceptance by building on existing scholarship and sketching an alternative history of what children’s literature has been, never was, and might be now and/or in the future. Fortunately, CYA has become more diverse in representation, scope, and form, as many scholars have noted. In some sense, CYA is already “alternative” or has alternative tendencies, and there is no “outside” of CYA so to speak. And yet CYA is still overwhelmingly white and otherwise normative in its structures and materials. How might CYA be diversified further, as a body of work, a cultural idea, a field of study? What are the alternative texts, contexts, and possibilities of CYA past, present, and future?

*CFP* "A CRITICAL COMPANION TO TERRY GILLIAM", EDITED COLLECTION

Terry Gilliam is not only popular for being part of the Monty Python-troup but also for the movies he has directed in his own style, such as Time Bandits (1981), Brazil (1985), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). From dystopian to fantastic and magical settings, and worlds often populated by bizarre figures, Gilliam’s movies are united by their bizarreness in various ways. In this regard his oeuvre offers an incredibly fertile ground for critical examination, analysis and discussion.

This anthology is designed to honour the year of Terry Gilliam’s eightieth birthday and is expected to be part of the A Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna. The goal is to showcase previously-unpublished essays that explore Gilliam’s oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. Contributions should focus on movies directed by Gilliam, starting with his debut (together with Terry Jones) Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), followed by his first solo debut Jabberwocky (1977), right up until his latest movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018). We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject which can illuminate the diverse facets of this director’s work as well as his visual style. There are several themes worth exploring when analyzing Gilliam’s works, utilizing any number of theoretical frameworks of one’s choosing. We request that chapters be based on formal, academic analysis. 

*CFP* "LONDON'S EAST END: A SHORT ENCYCLOPEDIA", CHAPTER BOOK

From the transient street art of Banksy and Pablo Delgado to the exhibitions of Doreen Fletcher and Gilbert and George; from the novels of Charles Dickens and Monica Ali to televisual series produced by the BBC and ITV; and from early eighteenth-century churches designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor to twenty-first century skyscrapers conceived by Norman Foster, the East End is an iconic area of London.

In the span of four hundred years, the region to the east of the Tower of London, and north of the River Thames, has undergone a series of transformations. In the sixteenth century, it was arable land with a few dispersed villages. By the nineteenth century, it was one of Europe’s worst urban slums and an object of investigation for literary writers, social scientists, philanthropists, Salvationists, and journalists with a bent for the sensational.

*CFP* "THE US REPRESENTATION IN POPULAR CULTURE AND MEDIA", ARTICLES FOR THE POPMEC ACADEMIC BLOG

We are a lively academic collective interested in investigating the articulation of the numerous and heterogeneous representations which have been constructing images of the US. Our research delves into how the US—their history, society, and diverse cultures—have been represented in popular media and cultural creations. Our blog aims at providing a collaborative, engaging, and fair environment for any interested scholar, promoting the sharing of knowledge, experience, and ideas across disciplines and thematic fields. We’re also working to foster a stimulating space for early career researchers and postgraduate students in North American studies, thus we’ll warmly welcome their proposals.

True to the PopMeC spirit, we would like to take advantage of this (confusing and boring) quarantine moment to keep on producing and sharing engaging, stimulating, fun academic work. We invite you to browse the academic blog popmec.hypotheses.org, and write write write! Contribute to feed our space with your work, have fun jotting down your thoughts, ideas, reshaping your working papers, putting your pop review out there!

*CFP* "INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON RETHINKING EVIL IN FILM AND TELEVISION", CHAPTER BOOK

Evil as a philosophical concept which has been interpreted in a wide range explanations: physical factors such as natural disasters, diseases, accidents, metaphysical explanations based on the conflict between the devil and God, and the moral framework that points to human nature. Narratives in cinema and television sometimes based on a simple good-evil dichotomy and sometimes based on individual or social experiences of evil and follow a more complicated method. In this context, it seems important that the changing representations of evil on screen are addressed in the context of the commonness, charm, normalization or popularity of evil.


Objective

Objective of this publication is exploring the evil as a philosophical concept and popular phenomenon in narratives of cinema and television. This book will aim to contribute to the literature and analyzes in the book will make understanding the issue.

*CFP* "PERIODISMO DE MIGRACIONES: PRODUCCIÓN Y CONSUMO DE NARRATIVAS SOBRE LA MOVILIDAD HUMANA EN LA ERA DIGITAL", VOL. 27, Nº 1, REVISTA ESTUDIOS SOBRE EL MENSAJE PERIODÍSTICO

Según el último reporte de la Organización Internacional de las Migraciones, en 2019 alrededor de un 3,5% de la población mundial (272 millones) se movió a un país distinto al de su nacimiento. Se estima que cerca de 30 millones son refugiados. Mientras que la mayor parte de los migrantes nacidos en África, Asia y Europa residen dentro de sus regiones de nacimiento, la mayoría de los migrantes de Latinoamérica, el Caribe y Norteamérica residen fuera de su región de origen. En este llamado a contribuciones buscamos promover la crítica, abordar el diálogo y sugerir vías de avance en la cobertura de las migraciones, la movilidad y el refugio. Buscamos artículos que examinen el discurso mediático en estos tiempos de cada vez mayor interconexión pero de creciente disrupción y desinformación.

La migración internacional ocupa una posición prominente como tema de interés periodístico en diferentes contextos nacionales. El discurso público en torno a su naturaleza tiende a responsabilizar a las personas migrantes, de manera indirecta o directa, de problemas sociales como el desempleo, la inseguridad o la ruptura de la cohesión social. La creciente oferta de representaciones mediáticas sobre la movilidad humana ha generado también reflexiones sobre el impacto del exceso de visibilidad o hipervisibilidad de los inmigrantes y refugiados. En contrapartida, frente a las narrativas de amenaza, criminalización y deshumanización, existen también trabajos periodísticos que se orientan en el respeto a la dignidad de las personas migrantes y hablan de derechos humanos. Estos destacan por su innovadora mirada comprensiva y por aplicar estrategias de colaboración entre equipos de periodismo internacional.

*CFP* "HEXIS, HABITUS, HABIT: HOW TO THINK SECOND NATURE", 31TH ISSUE, LO SGUARDO JOURNAL

Lo Sguardo‘s 31th issue will be devoted to the concept of ‘habitus’, a long-standing philosopheme at the intersection of ontology, ethics, practical philosophy, epistemology, anthropology, and sociology.

The term habitus is the Latin translation, popularized by Aquinas, of the Aristotelian hexis. Though in the Aristotelian corpus this term conveys multiple meanings, hexis can be shortly defined as a stable acquired quality or disposition, which is possessed neither by nature nor contrary to nature. Furthermore, hexis does not simply coincide with ‘disposition’ (diathesis) in that the latter is momentary, while the former requires stability and durability over time. Episteme and virtues are typically defined as hexeis, durable and stable acquired dispositions respectively to demonstration and to the way the soul copes with pleasures and pains.

*CFP* "MÚSICA, SONIDO Y MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONTRAPULSO JOURNAL

En el marco de los movimientos sociales y las crisis políticas que imperan en la América Latina del siglo XXI, el próximo número de Contrapulso –agosto 2020– convoca el dossier “Música, sonido y movimientos sociales”, con artículos que aborden el modo en que la música popular ha acompañado históricamente estos procesos en la región. Creemos necesario prestar atención al modo en que la música se relaciona con demandas por cambios en los modelos imperantes, orientadas ahora hacia el resguardo de derechos medioambientales, sociales, económicos y culturales.

La música y el sonido también han actuado como vehículo de denuncia y reparación emocional ante la vulneración de los derechos humanos, constituyéndose en prácticas vitales de protesta, movilización y generación de sentido a través del arte y la escucha.  Convocamos manuscritos inéditos de hasta 8.000 palabras que consideren desde la aparición y desarrollo de la canción protesta, hasta el uso de música, sonido y performance en el marco de las demandas sociales. También convocamos artículos sobre temas libres y reseñas de publicaciones. 

*CFP* "RETHINKING RELATIONS: MICHEL SERRES AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES", 2020 CONFERENCE

Rethinking Relations: Michel Serres and the Environmental Humanities

11-13 November, 2021

University of Konstanz, Germany

Few contemporary thinkers have explored the passages between the sciences and the humanities as poetically and vigorously as Michel Serres. Spanning from 1968 to 2019, his work presents an evocative cartography of the interstitial spaces that connect mathematics, philosophy, physics, myth, history, religion, literature, technology, media, ecology, and art. The baseline of his thinking is an appreciation of complexity, of the ways in which contingency generates newness and form emerges as a function of unforeseen translations, ruptures, and linkages.

With a penchant for the poietic processes of the natural world, he derives epistemological insight from the dynamics of oceans, mountains, clouds, storms, whirlpools, and tectonic plates—objects that are “multiple in space and mobile in time, unstable and fluctuating” (Genesis). Bridging the two cultures for him entails a ceaseless journey from “us to the world” (Hermes V), from the human to an environment that is never reified as an ontological outside. He recognizes that the production of knowledge is “always linked to an observer submerged in a system or in its proximity,” an observer who “is structured exactly like what he observes” (Hermes). 

*CFP* "LITERATURE FOR CHANGE: HOW EDUCATORS CAN PREPARE THE NEXT GENERATION FOR A CLIMATE-CHALLENGED WORLD", CHAPTER BOOK

Essays or K-12 lesson/unit plans analyzing how literature frames a specific environmental concern are invited from educators around the world. Contributions will be organized in an instructional follow-up resource to Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward (2018). Intended to support educators’ implementation of literature-based interdisciplinary climate instruction, the project is titled Literature for Change: How Educators Can Prepare the Next Generation for a Climate-Challenged World. The collection will be published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 

Essays or lesson/unit plans should analyze the ways a particular text/film (or group of works) handles an environmental concern. Submissions should explore the ways in which the literature helps frame the concern but may also be focused on patterns of human behavior that underlie or contribute to it—for example, studying the merits of scientific progress and human ambition in relation to effects on social connections and the natural environment.

*CFP* "EL MEME EN INTERNET", NUEVO NÚMERO, REVISTA VIRTUALIS

El meme en Internet constituye un objeto de estudio que, con base en Dawkins (1976), puede ser entendido como una unidad cultural que es originada / replicada / modificada por los usuarios de esta red, a partir de diversos formatos (cadenas de caracteres, imágenes estáticas con o sin textos incrustados, GIFs animados y audiovisuales) y que forma parte del acervo de una comunidad. Desde esta perspectiva, dicho fenómeno comunicativo puede ser encontrado incluso desde algunas de las primeras etapas de Internet a finales de la década de 1990, en foros de Usenet y el correo electrónico, tanto en emoticones y acrónimos, como en el encadenamiento lúdico de contenidos en torno a un asunto determinado (dentro lo que se conoce como efecto de arrastre / bandwagon effect, y donde el caso de All your base are belong to us es uno de los primeros ejemplos de lo que hoy popularmente se conoce como tren del mame).

A pesar de su existencia desde hace ya un tiempo relativamente considerable, tanto como fenómeno de la comunicación virtual, como noción explicativa; su abordaje empírico y conceptual recientemente ha dado lugar a una renovada atención derivada de su reconocimiento académico y popular. 

*CFP* "GOBIERNO DIGITAL Y TECNOPOLÍTICA", SPECIAL ISSUE, VITAM JOURNAL

En la última década, el uso de Internet y de las Redes Sociodigitales se volvió una necesidad de primer orden para el gobierno y por supuesto para los ciudadanos, la gran mayoría de países en el mundo se percataron que Internet permitía mejorar los procesos burocráticos y con ello facilitar la convivencia entre la ciudadanía y el gobierno. Con ello, Internet sería considerado en gran parte del mundo como un derecho fundamental para los ciudadanos, porque precisamente este medio de comunicación garantizaba derechos fundamentales como: el derecho a la información, la libertad de expresión y la transparencia. Y bajo esta lógica se comenzó a vincular directamente el uso de la tecnología con la calidad de la democracia.

Sin embargo, al ir creciendo el número de usuarios de Internet se comenzaron a gestar los denominados “movimientos en red” o de “ciberactivismo”, los cuales tenían como principal característica que su organización se daba a partir del uso de las redes sociodigitales e internet (y éstos servían como ese espacio idóneo para agrupar ideas, construir afinidades e identidades alrededor de los objetivos que perseguía el movimiento). Los movimientos de ciberactivismo, a la larga han comenzado a demostrar que el llamado “cerco” o control informativo impuesto desde los medios de comunicación tradicionales (prensa, radio y televisión) se diluye frente a las nuevas agendas comunicativas que se construyen desde internet y las redes sociodigitales.

*CFP* "DOCUMENTARY AND DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS", VISIBLE EVIDENCE XXVII CONFERENCE

Visible Evidence XXVII. 

Documentary and Democracy in Crisis

16th-19th December 2020

Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (TFM) at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

What we call documentary today emerged in the 1920s and 1930s in response to a perceived crisis of liberal democracy, as a mode of factual representation which empowers citizens to participate in the

political process. But how does documentary respond to what has been widely diagnosed as the current crisis of democracy? How does documentary react to the return to nationalism and other forms of political tribalism in the face of global migration? How does documentary shape our perceptions of the consequences of globalization, from climate change to the transformation of the economy? And how can documentary in theory and practice contribute to defend the space and modes of deliberation necessary for the life of democracy?

*CFP* "INFORMATION, INFOMEDIATION AND FAKE NEWS", INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM JOURNALISM AND PLATFORMS

International Scientific Colloquium Journalism and platforms: Information, infomediation and fake news.  Infomediation platforms (Smyrnaios, Rebillard, 2019) have become the dominant force of a ‘reintermediation’ of information online by organising a large variety of contents and making them available to internet users. Information from journalists, which we would qualify here as news, finds itself subject to exogenous imperatives which finish by influencing editorial decisions on information medias (Bell, Owen, 2017). This ‘platformisation’ of information online has coincided with an acceleration of the circulation of non-journalistic information besides/news/, from satire to disinformation, which increases the offer of contents proposed to internet users. In this open environment where journalistic productions, disinformation, click traps, infotainment and satire live together, journalism needs to rethink itself.

The aim of this conference is to explore new journalistic practices in relation to “fake news” at the heart of environments dominated by platforms. By “fake news”, and because the polysemy of the term has sometimes contributed to its instrumentalisation, we mean more precisely ‘information problems’ (Wardle, Derakhsan, 2019) in all their diversity.

*CFP* "SYNTHETIC MEDIA AND SYNTHETIC REALITY: FROM DEEPFAKES TO VIRTUAL WORLDS", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE SN SOCIAL SCIENCES JOURNAL

The term ‘synthetic media’ can be used to describe a broad range of content generated, in whole or in part, by employing machine learning or other means of automatic content generation. Such content is currently taken to encompass primarily video, audio, image, and text, but it also extends to digital objects of various descriptions (e.g. virtual influencers), augmented reality (games, product try-on tools etc.), and fully immersive virtual environments. This shift will certainly bring numerous benefits, particularly in terms of fostering creativity and democratising content editing and generation by automating the process. 

Synthetic media will also enable new ways of storytelling that will span the physical and the virtual environments, potentially erasing boundaries between the two. However, the same attributes of automation and democratisation will also make synthetic media potential security threats, enabling manipulation and deception on a large scale, which is a matter of great concern in a world already permeated by fake news and post-truth (the debate about the manipulative potential of deepfakes is a case in point).

*CFP* "MUNDOS IMAGINADOS" Y "ANIMACIÓN Y REALIDAD", PRÓXIMOS NÚMEROS (2021), REVISTA CON A DE ANIMACIÓN

Un año más lanzamos la convocatoria para enviar artículos de investigación para los dos próximos números semestrales de Con A de animación, 2021. Para la presente convocatoria proponemos dos marcos temáticos: “Mundos imaginados” y “Animación y realidad”. 

No obstante, y como de costumbre, se podrán presentar trabajos originales e inéditos sin restricción temática ni enfoque, siempre que esté relacionado con la animación:

• Reflexiones de tipo teórico, estético o analítico.
• Crónicas y aproximaciones historicistas.
• Análisis desde la práctica del medio.
• Aproximaciones docentes.
• Aproximaciones interdisciplinares (literatura, cine, artes, cómic, videojuegos, etc.).

*CFP* "EN LA CRISIS SANITARIA: LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN Y EL DERECHO A LA COMUNICACIÓN FRENTE A LOS BULOS Y MANIPULACIONES", NÚMERO 14, RAE-IC: REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE LA ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA COMUNICACIÓN

RAEIC, Revista Española de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación abre su llamada a propuestas para los artículos del monográfico sobre “En la crisis sanitaria: La libertad de expresión y el derecho a la comunicación frente a los bulos y manipulaciones”.

Inmersos en plena crisis de la covid-19, su impacto no solo alcanza el ámbito sanitario, social o económico, sino también el comunicativo. En esta situación de crisis sanitaria, los ciudadanos necesitan información para poder adaptarse y comprender lo que está pasando. Para reducir la incertidumbre y el miedo. La humanidad ha pasado por crisis semejantes, incluso peores. Sin embargo, hay tres aspectos que hacen diferente la emergencia de la Covid-19 de otras: la globalización, la aceleración y la sobreabundancia informativa, aquejada a menudo por noticias falsas. 

*CFP* "TOURISM, ECONOMIC, BUSINESS, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE" ACADEMIC CONFERENCE TEBEC 2020

Tourism, economic business, education and social science academic conference

5-8 July 2020

Tel-Aviv Israel

Tebec invites you to submit abstracts for presentations focusing on: Tourism, Economics Business, Social Sciences, Teaching, and Education.

TEBEC is an interdisciplinary conference, and Media and communication  Studies scholars are welcome

TEBEC offers an unparalleled opportunity for individuals representing the governmental, educational, private, and Non-Profit sectors to share research findings, management experience and techniques, to advance knowledge.

The conference fee include a free tour to Jerusalem, which offer informal opportunity to meet scholars from different countries and different disciplines.

Additional tour to Nazareth and Tiberius is available at additional fee.

Types of Presentation:  1. Traditional Research Presentations: 15-minute oral presentations with 5-minute Q&A, grouped by topic.

*CFP* "NARRATIVES OF DISPLACEMENT", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

"Narratives of Displacement" International Conference

6 November 2020 - Palma, Spain

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

The British and Comparative Cultural Studies Research Group (BRICCS), Unversity of the Balearic Islands, Spain

in collaboration with

Research Project RTI2018-097186-B-I00 and RED2018-102678-T (MCI/AEI/ERDF, EU)

The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.

*CFP* "TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION", EDITED COLLECTION

Climate change is one of the most significant challenges facing the global community in the 21st century, and with its position at the border of people, technology, science, and communication, Technical Communication has a significant role to play in helping to solve these complex environmental problems. Curiously, however, Technical Communication (TC) research has remained relatively quiet on the contributions of our field to environmental action. This collection of essays seeks to redress this dearth of published research on environmental concerns in TC by engaging scholars and practitioners in a deep conversation about the ways that our field has contributed to pragmatic and democratic action to address climate change.

This collection seeks to explore the actual practice of international technical communicators participating in government projects, corporate processes, nonprofit programs, and international agency work that shapes global environmental action.

*CFP* "MORAL COMMUNICATION. OBSERVED WITH SOCIAL SYSTEMS THEORY", LUHMANN CONFERENCE 2020

“Moral communication. Observed with social systems theory”

Luhmann Conference 2020

Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia

15-18 September 2020

The conference committee invites contributions on the significance of moral communication in Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. As readers familiar with his work will recognise, Luhmann’s approach to morality is characterised by a profound moral scepticism and a certain neglect of moral communication not only as an occasional topic, but also as a distinct form of communication. As contemporary society is continuously producing moral communication, however, social systems theory is bound to adequately deal with this phenomenon if its claim to a universal theory is to be maintained. We therefore welcome contributions from scholars with an interest in moral communication at all levels of society.

*CFP* "TRANSFORMATIONS AND CONSEQUENCES IN SOCIETY DUE TO COVID-19 PANDEMIA", VIRTUAL INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

Transformations and consequences in society due to COVID-19 pandemia

Virtual International Academic Conference

AAB College

September 5-6, 2020

 

in partnership with:

Pedagogical University of Kracow, Poland

Faculty of Criminalistics, Criminology and Security Studies, University of Sarajevo

Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Tirana

Faculty of Pedagogy - St. Clement Ohridski University-Bitola, North Macedonia

University of Structural Engineering & Architecture 'Lyuben Karavelov', Sofia

Communication Institute of Greece, Athens

*CFP* "LONELINESS", INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY ONLINE CONFERENCE

What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is alone? Is loneliness really disastrous? Are there any benefits of loneliness? Can loneliness become an epidemic? In order to answer such questions, during our conference we will have to concentrate on many particular issues. Thus, we are interested in all aspects of loneliness in the past and in the present-day world.

The conference is intended as an interdisciplinary event. Hence, we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: sociology, psychology, psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, gender studies, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, consciousness studies, social policy, cognitive sciences, history, and others.

The aim of our conference is to provide opportunities for researchers from a range of disciplines and countries to share their research, create an academically challenging and productive space for discussion, and enable them to establish long-lasting, ever-growing scientific networks and contacts with professionals in other countries and institutions. 

*CFP* “RECONCEPTUALIZING AND REIMAGINING CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION IN LIGHT OF YOUTH LED GLOBAL MOVEMENTS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, CITIZENSHIP TEACHING & LEARNING

Since the start of 2019, the world has witnessed startling anti-government mass demonstrations. From Sudan, where a dictator ruled the country for over three decades, to Hong Kong, where hundreds of thousands of protestors are demanding democracy and an end to police brutality. The mass movements, which are largely youth-led and involve a wide array of people who might have never been politically engaged before, are taking place in unprecedented numbers in Algeria, Bolivia, Catalonia, Chile, Iraq, Lebanon and more around the world. The protestors from across the globe, in spite of the varied contexts, have common calls and framings: the demonstrations are anti-institution, demanding socio-economic reforms with a clear lens of and for equality and the end of corruption and neo-liberal policies.

This mass mobilization is not only unprecedented in size and spread, but also in its ability to create spaces for expression that know no redlines or limits. From artistic expression – almost depicting events in real-time – to songs, dance and collective discussion where people from all backgrounds have a say. While largely leaderless, anti-institution and horizontal in power distribution, these mass movements have been organized and effective in making significant changes on the level of the people, particularly in their ability to reclaim space and shift narratives that have previously been limited by institutional dominance and official discourse. The change is yet to reach the level of the ruling elites, who devise education strategies, curricula and policies, including citizenship education (CE).

*CFP* "HEXIS, HABITUS, HABIT: HOW TO THINK SECOND NATURE", 31TH ISSUE, LO SGUARDO JOURNAL

Lo Sguardo‘s 31th issue will be devoted to the concept of ‘habitus’, a long-standing philosopheme at the intersection of ontology, ethics, practical philosophy, epistemology, anthropology, and sociology.

The term habitus is the Latin translation, popularized by Aquinas, of the Aristotelian hexis. Though in the Aristotelian corpus this term conveys multiple meanings, hexis can be shortly defined as a stable acquired quality or disposition, which is possessed neither by nature nor contrary to nature. Furthermore, hexis does not simply coincide with ‘disposition’ (diathesis) in that the latter is momentary, while the former requires stability and durability over time. Episteme and virtues are typically defined as hexeis, durable and stable acquired dispositions respectively to demonstration and to the way the soul copes with pleasures and pains.

In the wake of Augustine’s treatment of subject and virtues and following Aquinas’ theoretical and terminological mediation, Scholastic moral psychology and theology are largely committed with the concept of habitus. The mushrooming of qualitatively differentiated habitus, corresponding to a taxonomy of the complexio animi, complies with the attempt to attenuate the tensions within the Aristotelian legacy, making it functional to uphold central concerns like free-will and theological virtues.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION OUTBREAK", VOL. 3, Nº 2 (2021), SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL

The World Health Organization has characterized COVID – 19 as pandemic based on its “spread and severity”. Many reports say that COVID-19 can be transmitted through human contact demonstrating the capacity of individuals to move from one place to another. As part of mitigating the spread of this virus, “social distancing’ is now being implemented. In Southeast Asia, most countries are implementing a wide range of policies: from variations of quarantine, area-specific lockdown to that of the “business as usual” mode of operation consequential to varied, and sometimes, unpredictable human actions.

Interesting thoughts can be derived from this current event that underscores the importance of communication as part of survival. In the implementation of the practice on “social distance,” more people are utilizing alter forms of communication to maintain relationships. The field of communication becomes more relevant as people demand more information and knowledge on the pandemic and other issues that pertain to it. Alongside the establishment of communication as a need for maintaining human relationships and for gaining knowledge are inquiries on rights: Are we getting all the information that we need to survive this pandemic? Do we all have access to internet? Can we say that maintaining relationships can be temporarily replaced by online or remote forms of communication? Evident in this event as well are numerous forms of human actions that emerge problems on power relations and bold displays of social differences.

*CFP* "MEDIATING CHANGE", INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

Mediating Change’ International Colloquium

20-21 November 2020

Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism

Charles University, Prague

The colloquium is organised by the Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism (Charles University).

The colloquium is supported by the 4EU+ consortium project Mediating Change: Strengthening collaboration in research and research-oriented education (Charles University, University of Copenhagen, University of Warsaw), and by DESIRE, the Centre for the study of Democracy, Signification and Resistance Societies are in a permanent dialogue with change. Change is dealt with in configurations of the present and societies’ visions of the future, entailing reflections and re-constructions of the past. Our apprehension of the features and dimensions of change drives political, economic and cultural responses, at the individual and collective level. Furthermore, change is perceived as a positive or negative outcome or prospect, as an opportunity or a threat, driving the social actors’ struggles for maintenance or reconfiguration of power positions.

*CFP* "IDENTITIES AND REPRESENTATIONS", 3RD INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS CONFERENCE ICON

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge that will accompany us for some time in the future. What consequences does this have for our ICON conference in November? ICON will take place – COVID-19 should not deter you from handing in your abstracts. If circumstances allow it, we will welcome our speakers and guests as planned at the university of Mainz – of course with all necessary precautions concerning hygiene and distancing. Alternatively, we are ready to set up a digital conference – including talks and discussions via video and chat. We will inform you about the format and details of the conference a few months in advance, so everyone will have enough time for preparations. We are looking forward to welcoming all our participants on November 20 and 21– either in person or in the digital world.

Identities and representations

Why identity? The opportunities people are or aren’t given, the decisions they do or don’t make, the qualities they ascribe to themselves and to others – identity is entangled everywhere. Mention, e.g., a particular sexual orientation, ethnicity, or mental condition and one risks being reduced to a single characteristic. The way we perceive ourselves and others is constantly shaped by language, image, picture, sound, gesture, clothing; the list goes on. Forms of representation can include and exclude, promote and limit self-expression, as well as hinder seeing beyond stereotypes.

*CFP* “MORAL COMMUNICATION. OBSERVED WITH SOCIAL SYSTEMS THEORY”, 2020 CONFERENCE

Moral Communication. Observed with Social Systems Theory

15-18 de Septiembre de 2020

Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia

The conference committee invites contributions on the significance of moral communication in Niklas Luhmann’s social systems theory. As readers familiar with his work will recognise, Luhmann’s approach to morality is characterised by a profound moral scepticism and a certain neglect of moral communication not only as an occasional topic, but also as a distinct form of communication. As contemporary society is continuously producing moral communication, however, social systems theory is bound to adequately deal with this phenomenon if its claim to a universal theory is to be maintained. We therefore welcome contributions from scholars with an interest in moral communication at all levels of society.

The conference series has always been characterised by fruitful interactions of scholars with diverse paradigmatic and empirical backgrounds in disciplinary fields as different as political science, aesthetics, sociology, theology, history, economics, health, psychology, ecology, education, and organization studies.

*CFP* "CONTAGIONS AND NON-HUMAN ANIMALES: (RE)VIEWING DISREGARDED SPECIES IN REAL AND IMAGINED PANDEMICS", ESSAYS COLLECTION

The impact of COVID-19 and the threat that it poses to future human experiences has been well-documented in news reports during the past few months. However, now that non-human animals are possible carriers and becoming infected, their experiences, while often overlooked, are nevertheless integrated into the worldwide pandemic.

Thus, this collection seeks to balance essays about non-human animals during real-world pandemics, such as the COVID-19 one, with those of their experiences during literary or cinematic ones. 

The scope of this call for papers is broad and can include topics such as:

• Animals as victims of contagions 
• Animals as vilified virus carriers 
• Differences between wild animal and companion animal experiences 
• How animals and humans are treated differently in the media during COVID-19 
• How animals’ futures may change due to the current pandemic

*CFP* "WIRED CHINA: DIGITAL MEDIA AND ONLINE CULTURE", WORKSHOP

Wired China: Digital Media and Online Culture

27th-28th November 2020

University of Zurich, Switzerland

Digital technologies have in the last decade profoundly changed China’s cultural landscape. Messaging apps such as WeChat and Chinese-language podcasts have become important platforms for critical debate, whilst the rising popularity of online platforms for fiction writing, video sharing, shopping, movie ratings and gaming reflect new practices of media consumption and reception. State surveillance and censorship play an important role in China’s wired culture, but web-based cultural activities do not only take place in the shadows of a repressive state but also reflect profound social and cultural transformations, technological developments as well as innovative engagements with traditional aesthetics.

For instance, online fiction and poetry often follow the same formal conventions and linear structure of printed publications, whereas digitally born narrative formats are more adapted towards online consumption. Examples are microfiction (weixiaoshuo), which is circulated on Weibo and has 140 Chinese characters or less and, most recently, microdrama (duanju) on Douyin.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, ATINER 8TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON BRANDING

ATINER

8th Annual International Colloquium on Branding

27-30 July 2020

Athens, Greece

ATINER, will hold its 8th Annual International Colloquium on Branding, 27-30 July 2020, Athens, Greece sponsored by the Athens Journal of Business & Economics. Academics and researchers are invited to present the results of their scientific work by presenting a paper and contribute to a discussion on the current and future developments in branding research.

Fee structure information.

Special arrangements will be made with a local hotel for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a number of special events will be organized, including a pragmatic symposium (as organized in Ancient Athens but fine-tuned to synchronous ethics), a special one-day educational island tour, a Mycenae and island of Poros visit, an Athens educational walking tour, a day trip to Delphi, and an ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion visit. Details of the social program.

*CFP* "CIENCIA FICCIÓN, GÉNERO Y EXCLUSIÓN", MONOGRÁFICO 24, REVISTA 452ºF

Desde sus inicios, la ciencia ficción se ha caracterizado por su naturaleza extrapolativa y proyectiva, así como por su interés en la exploración de la sociedad y la cultura en que surge. Este rasgo ha resultado en la creación de personajes y mundos ficcionales que presentan posibilidades factibles de futuros, que nos obligan a examinar el presente a partir de ellos. 

Ya desde los años 60 del siglo XX, aunque con algunos ejemplos anteriores, las mujeres incursionaron de forma definitiva y contundente en este género cultivado y leído mayoritariamente por hombres, renovándolo y llevándole asuntos relacionados con el género sexual (gender) abordado desde perspectivas feministas. En este panorama, el género se pensó como una forma de exclusión y se incorporaron temáticas que se intersecaban con él, como la etnia, la clase social, la pertenencia a poblaciones vulnerables o minoritarias, o los afectos movilizados en la intersección de estas categorías. Baste recordar algunos textos seminales de Ursula K. Le Guin u Octavia E. Butler, por ejemplo.  

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION AND SOCIO-SCIENTIFIC CONTROVERSIES IN HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT", VOLUME 14, ISSUE 2 (JUL-DEC 2021), ANUARIO ELECTRÓNICO DE ESTUDIOS EN COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL "DISERTACIONES"

The modern promise that science and technology would lead us to an unlimited development has been tensioned by the new technologies of information, the ICTs. The changes in the relationship between experts and citizens show that tension and the socio-scientific controversies in the field of scientific-technological research are now the study objects in scientific-technological, health, and environmental research.

It has been more than fifteen years since the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva in 2003, where the representatives of the member States of United Nations announced the foundation of a society based on the exchange of knowledge, in which the multiplication of the information networks, digital literacy and the promised end of the digital divide would be the definitive factors to defeat poverty and ignorance.

The unlucky prophecy predicted something else than broken promises. The ambivalence of the so-called information and knowledge society is clearly shown in the fact that, on the one side, the global horizons grow, communications speed up and more sophisticated technical devices are produced, but on the other, citizens have more tools to question them. We encounter citizens that criticize, resist and actively look for new forms of participation or generation of knowledge when they face the scientific and technological developments that affect them.

*CFP* "DEMOCRACY AND/OR POPULISM: EXCLUSION, EQUALITY AND DISAGREEMENT", 2020 CONFERENCE

Democracy and/or Populism

Exclusion, Equality and Disagreement

7th- 9th September 2020

University of Brighton, UK

This conference invites reflection on the relationship between Democracy and Populism; and consideration of new developments in democratic theory and politics in the 21stcentury. This is all the more pertinent in light of the extraordinary intervention of states across the globe in response to CV19. In this light we explore two related areas of critical thought and politics.

Populism is at the centre of contemporary political, critical and democratic debate. Is the demosdistinct from the populus? Is populism a necessary element of democratic politics or merely the perverse shadow of capitalism? Does populism open space for democratic renewal or is populism of necessity exclusionary and racist? Has neoliberalism spawned a right-wing and racist populist politics?

*CFP* "USING POPULAR CULTURE IN ONLINE AND EMERGENCY REMOTE TEACHING", THE SECOND ANNUAL POPULAR CULTURE AND PEDAGOGY: TWITTER CONFERENCE

The second annual Popular Culture and Pedagogy Conference 

July 15th, 2020

A part of effective teaching is learning from our peers. The goal of The Popular Culture and Pedagogy Conference is to share successes as well as potential teaching practices for other scholars and educators to borrow and learn from while creating a space where we can share feedback, and reflection on how we can employ popular culture in the classroom. Originally we planned for #POPC2 to be in the fall but the accelerated timeline of this conference came about as many of us are unsure if we will be teaching online or in-person next semester.  This allows for an exchange of ideas after our emergency remote teaching ends and before (or during) our planning for the next semester.