*CFP* "APROXIMACIONES A LO MONSTRUOSO Y LO FEMENINO: DE LO “HUMANO” A LO POSTHUMANO", Nº 43, ESTUDIOS HUMANÍSTICOS. FILOLOGÍA JOURNAL

El número 43 (2021) de la revista Estudios Humanísticos. Filología tendrá como título "Aproximaciones a lo monstruoso y lo femenino: de lo “humano” a lo posthumano” y tiene como objeto recoger estudios originales sobre lo monstruoso y lo femenino y sus diferentes manifestaciones. 

Por ello proponemos recoger artículos escritos en español y en inglés que avancen en el estudio de esta temática. Se sugieren, sin excluir otras, las siguientes áreas de investigación: 

• Lo monstruoso femenino en literatura, cine, television, teatro, arte, etc.
• Lo monstruoso femenino y mitologías
• Lo monstruoso y la mujer creadora
• Lo monstruoso y la maternidad
• Lo monstruoso femenino y los cómics/webcomics
• Lo monstruoso femenino y los videojuegos
• Monstruos reales: de asesinas a femme fatales

*CFP* "PUNK PASSAGES: PUNK, AGEING AND TIME", EDITED COLLECTION

Writers are invited to submit chapter proposals for an edited collection of work exploring ageing, time and temporality in the context of punk.

Initial academic consideration of punk posited it as a youth culture and the positioning of punk in relation to time and historical location is of course commonplace in scholarship. This can be seen outside of academia too, for example the ‘celebration’ of the 40th anniversary of punk and the associated events which took place highlight the way punk is often link with a particular time in our collective memory. Just as punk scholarship has endeavoured to deal with the notion of punk retaining significance in individuals’ lives ‘post-youth’, empirical work has built around how punk is remembered and represented. And yet...tensions, issues and gaps remain unaddressed.

Whilst a body of work concerned with punk and ageing has begun to be developed, this is still very much in its infancy. Indeed, work approaching punk and ageing which takes into consideration intersectionality (for example speaking to also how gender, ethnicity/race, sexuality, disability and/or class intersect with ageing) is extremely limited. Similar problems are found in scholarship focusing on how punk is remembered and represented – this might entail the ‘writing out’ or the minimising of particular participants’ involvement (Reddington 2006, Stewart 2019, Wiedlack 2015), for example, or the way punk historiography assumes whiteness as the taken-for-granted subject position in punk (Davila 2019). 

*CFP* "DO ANCIENT EGYPTIANS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? THE RECEPTION OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN SCIENCE FICTION", 2021 WORKSHOP THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

Do Ancient Egyptians Dream of Electric Sheep? The Reception of Ancient Egypt in Science Fiction

9th July, 2021

University of Birmingham

In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) – a milestone in the history of the science fiction genre – the eponymous scientist is horrified when the creature he has assembled from assorted body parts is successfully animated. ‘A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch’, Frankenstein relates. This comparison – between a figure who represents the potential disastrous consequences of cutting-edge scientific enquiry and the bodies of the ancient Egyptian dead – is one that recurs later in the novel. Having dispatched his creator, the creature’s ‘vast hand’ is described as ‘in colour and apparent texture like that of a mummy’. Nearly two centuries later, Roland Emmerich’s Stargate (1994) also depicts ancient Egyptian bodies in settings infused with a futuristic aesthetic; alien entities acquire human forms in order to extend their lifespans, while sarcophagi are reimagined as regeneration chambers. 

*CFP* "CENTERING WOMEN ON POST-2010 CHINESE TV", SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE AND CRITIQUE JOURNAL

Since the beginning of China’s self-modernizing process and the birth of Chinese feminist movements in the first decade of 20th century, women’s bodies and desires have frequently been marshalled in service of male-dominated nationalistic and (post-)socialist discourses of China and Chineseness. The ideological-political mobilization of female gender, sexuality, and subjectivity has considerably transformed and complicated contemporary Chinese televisual representations of women. In the 21st century, Chinese cyberspace, along with its flourishing creative and media industries, has witnessed an unexpected “boom in women-oriented literature and culture” (Sun & Yang, 2019, p. 28). 

 

Notably, the rise of local media and literature produced by and/or for women, along with flows of feminist and LGBTQ movements within and beyond China in the new millennium, first nurtured the cyber literature genre of “matriarchal fiction.” Such fiction is often “set in a society ruled by women … [and] describes a woman’s ascent to power in the public arena, or her success at establishing and heading a happy domicile including one or more male sexual partners” (Feng, 2013, p. 85). 

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, JOINT AUTUMN CONFERENCE OF THE DIVISIONS OF MEDIA EDUCATION

Joint Autumn Conference of the Divisions of Media Education (DGfE and DGPuK)

16 and 17 September 2021

Leipzig and online

 

The concept of social cohesion is booming. The term, which until recently was virtually unknown beyond the world of think tanks, has become an integral part of media debates and political communication about the state of our society. One encounters it as a matter of course in party programmes, on election posters, in political commentaries, and in talk show discussions. At the same time, its meaning often remains diffuse in these contexts and can be reduced to the fact that social cohesion is basically something good and desirable, but is currently being threatened or is dwindling and therefore needs to be strengthened again. Against the background of this everyday observation, the conference aims at a heuristic and transparent deconstruction of the term from a media education perspective.

*CFP* "NEO-MEDIEVALISM MEDIA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM", ANTHOLOGY OF ESSAYS

The critical and commercial success of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy ushered in a new era of fantasy-medieval and historic-medieval texts in the new Millennium. These neo-medieval texts were not restricted to the big screen, but in true transmedia fashion, exploded on the small screen, in video games, comics, and a variety of other medias as the genre became popular and hence, lucrative. Nearly twenty years later, depictions of the medieval period, be it authentic or moored in fantasy, remain a dominate component in the greater pop culture, with shows like Game of Thrones, video games like Skyrim, many fantasy-medieval books, young adult comics, and the like.

With neo-medieval texts enjoying heightened popularity, it invites an academic gaze to unearth their importance. What is it about these texts that makes them fascinating, especially considering that they are rooted in the distant past as compared to the new Millennium we are living in? What are the different approaches we can take to make sense of these films, shows, books, etc. which in turn can be used to understand not just our present world, but the future we are going into?

 

*CFP* "GLOBAL JAMES BOND", CHAPTER BOOK

According to David Bordwell in Planet Hong Kong (2000), “a truly global cinema is one that claims significant space” in film markets around the world (82) beyond a film series (e.g. IP Man), cycle (e.g. kung fu craze of the 1970s), or era (e.g. “golden age” of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s). While Hollywood is the only industry that meets this narrow definition, we question if a partial exception or even expanded demarcation could be made for the James Bond franchise given its long-term popularity, widespread cinematic influence, revenue generation, and cultural viability for nearly 6 decades or half of cinematic history.

As the Bond films have been released in more and more markets, the franchise has increasingly relied on audiences outside of the UK and US (such as China) for the majority of its box-office revenue. This was most evident when MGM contemplated releasing No Time To Die in November 2020 even as the cinemas of the UK and US were closing in response to the coronavirus pandemic. When additional countries began imposing restrictions that would impact cinema attendance, the release date for the film was pushed to April 2021.

*CFP* "TERMINAL ON ACTIVISTS, DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY AND THE POST-SOVIET SPACE", SPECIAL ISSUE, RESISTIC JOURNAL

The ResisTIC research team is pleased to announce the following call for articles for the Terminal journal (open access, free-of-charge for authors). A French version is available here and contributions are accepted in both French and English. Activists facing “digital sovereignty”. Reactions and new mobilizations in the post-Soviet space.

The digital space, initially managed in a global, international and multi-stakeholder way, has in recent years been pushed towards a dynamic of national “digital sovereignties”. States are seeking to extend their sovereignty in and through digital space, to legislate, impose constraints or guarantee freedoms.

In this issue, we aim to explore the reactions to this trend by activist individuals and groups in various post-Soviet countries. These phenomena may include mobilizations for the protection of human rights in the digital age, media activism, forms of action led by technical experts and hackers, or reactions from more traditional activist and political worlds to the proliferation of digital tools and their “sovereignization”. We are also interested in actors’ mobilizations in favor of a sovereign national cyberspace that should meet security and “moral” criteria specific to each nation.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATING HEALTH AND PANDEMICS IN AFRICA: THEORY, PRACTICED, AND GUIDELINES", BOOK CHAPTER

The rapid spread of the SARs-COV 2, or novel coronavirus, the causative agent of COVID-19, from the City of Wuhan in China in late 2019, has wrought a lot of anxiety and economic downturn in the world. Political tempers have flared up with the West, led by the US, accusing China of deliberately releasing the virus into the world or covering it up until the infection reached pandemic levels. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been accused of being complicit in China's 'hiding' of the coronavirus.

This West versus East (China) 'conflict' has led to a lack of international agreements on a common approach to eliminating the virus. Russia, China, the US, Germany, France, Australia, and the UK are all working on their candidate vaccines. When Russia announced its Sputnik 5 vaccine release, the West was skeptical, but China and other sympathizers of Russia either overtly or silently managed the news. Then, by December 2020, Pfizer and Moderna had announced they had an effective vaccine. January 11, 2021, Pfizer announced it can quickly develop vaccines for future Covid-19 variants, fueling suspicions that a world order ordained by the Rockefeller Foundation, per its website, put in place in 2010 an assimilated plan to reduce the world population, annihilate the African population, and strain the global economy. However, media reports show that a densely populated Africa has so far recorded less than 50,000 deaths, whereas, as USA Today reports, health experts had forecasted that African health care systems would be overwhelmed as cases of COVID-19 escalated, and deaths exceeded 300,000 to nearly 3 million. 

*CFP* "ZOMBIES OF THE FUTURE: THE UNDEAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND", CHAPTER BOOK

Zombies seemed to have shambled into something of a literal “dead end.” With something of an eternal return to similar tropes and similar readings on their way to inevitable apocalypse. But this collection wants to “breath” new life into old undead bodies and focus solely on texts from the past 10 years or those that have used the zombie in unusual and previously unconsidered ways. Consequently this collection will be focused on 4 specific areas:

• The zombie beyond the zombie (post-zombie zombies) 
• Zombies and new media, e.g. Tik Tok, streaming, gaming etc. 
• Cross cultural zombies—Indigenous, Aboriginal, Indian, African, South Korea etc. 
• Futuristic zombies—zombie bodies in fantasy, sci-fi and visions of what’s to come.

 

This concerns popular culture in its widest interpretation books, films, games, comics, music, theatre, ballet, performance, art, fashion, etc.

*CFP* "THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE DIGITALISATION OF PUBLIC DIPLOMACY", CHAPTERS BOOK

In a 2013 commentary article posted on the US Department of State’s official blog DipNote, the former US Secretary of State, John Kerry, somewhat criticised the popular tendency among diplomacy practitioners, scholars and critics to make the term “digital diplomacy” the talk of the town. He claimed that this term (“digital diplomacy”) “is almost redundant - it's just diplomacy, period”. Kerry further stressed that, although the new information and communication technologies (ICTs) do tremendously contribute to the advancement of countries’ foreign policy objectives as well as to bridging the gap between people across the globe, they (the ICTs) fulfil the same core diplomatic functions as the traditional/analogue tools of public diplomacy. For instance, they enable diplomats to create dialogue among the broadest possible audience as well as to find common ground, which, after all, are what diplomacy is all about (Kerry 2013).

For many observers, Kerry’s pronouncement came to mean that it is futile to always stress the digitalised nature of ICT-driven diplomacy given the fact that a plurality of factors or indicators suggest that, in a near future, the use of digital technologies in diplomacy will become too banal that professionals and scholars in the discipline will no longer see the need to stress the “digital nature” of digital diplomacy.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON RECENT SOCIAL STUDIES AND HUMANITIES

International Conference on Recent Social Studies and Humanities

31 March, 2021 | Perth, Australia

(Virtual or Pre-recorded Video Presentation)

 

International Conference on Recent Social Studies and Humanities which will be held in Perth, Australia on March 31, 2021. The primary goal of the conference is to provide opportunities for the researchers, scientists, scholars, engineers and practitioners from all around the world to present and share ongoing research activities. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish research relations and to find global partners for future collaboration. We hope that the conference results constituted significant contribution to the knowledge in these up to date Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences fields.

*CFP* "STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION AND GLOBAL PANDEMIC", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION

There is no doubt the onset of COVID-19 has significantly changed the way we live. The global pandemic is generating on going and possibly long-lasting change on many aspects of communication, the workforce, the work environment, and multiple sectors of society. While numerous studies related to change leadership have consistently found that effective and timely communication and leadership are crucial to the successful management and acceptance of any dramatic change (Kool & Van Dierendonck, 2012), past studies of risk communication have largely built on experiences of environmental and natural disasters (Eisenman et al. 2007; Glik, 2007). Therefore, this Special Issue will contribute to the body of knowledge in strategic communication by focusing attention on the impact of COVID-19and the global pandemic on strategic communication and change management.

The long-lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the challenges and opportunities (Malecki et al., 2020) it presents in a post-COVID strategic communication social, political, and economic landscape need scholarly attention and investigation. This includes the impact and implications of information overload, trust, transparency, and dis/misinformation in the public arena during health crises (Rossman et al.,2018; Hills, 2019). It also includes the successful implementation of organizational responsiveness, managerial flexibility, and change leadership, as well as the applications of a wide variety of leadership competencies, styles, and initiatives in leading successful change transitions (Magsaysay & Hechanova, 2017). 

*CFP* "ALIENS: A COMPANION", CHAPTER BOOK

Aliens are everywhere in contemporary culture: from sci-fi franchises such as Star Wars to religious cults, conspiracy theories, and SETI deep-space explorations.

But despite a plethora of studies addressing various aspects of this phenomenon, there has never been a Companion that systematically discusses the meaning of aliens through a range of representative texts. Our collection is intended to fill this lack.

We are asking for essays of 2,500 words that frame a theoretical aspect of the aliens’ cultural role by centering on one text, whether literary or cinematic to use as a lens to look at the wider topic. The essays themselves should be accessible but address the big ideas.

The proposed Companion will be divided into several sections. The topics in each section may include but are not limited to the following:

*CFP* "50+ SHADES OF GOTHIC: THE GOTHIC ACROSS GENRE AND MEDIA IN US POPULAR CULTURE", POPMEC RESEARCH COLLECTIVE AND ACADEMIC BLOG CONFERENCE

50+ Shades of Gothic: The Gothic Across Genre and Media in US Popular Culture

Conference series PopMeC research collective and academic blog

 

Defining the Gothic has proven to be a difficult and elusive task for scholars, possibly as this literary current often pervades cross-genre narratives and media, embracing many topics related to the very essence of human nature. Indeed, the nature of whatever it may mean to be human seems to be at the core of William Veeder’s definition the Gothic as a healing mechanism found in societies that “inflict terrible wounds upon themselves,” especially in order “to help heal the damage caused by our embrace of modernity” (1998: 21). This wide definition of the Gothic acknowledges the pervasiveness of the genre and its ramifications when it comes to reacting—“healing and transforming” (1998: 21)—to the perils of societal structures and thus confronting the manifold disruptions of social and moral codes, as well as the actual and imagined fears intrinsic to the cyclical crises our societies face. 

The advent of modernity represented a major concern in the post-revolutionary United States. Inspired by the literary genre that emerged in 18th century England and its subsequent evolutions, Gothic fiction became a suitable means for exploring the newfound anxieties relating to the specific configurations of the colonial societies and their challenges as new communities. Drawing on European gothic tropes and arguably starting with Charles Brockden Brown’s tales, American Gothic fiction has been popular throughout the centuries up to the present day.

DEFENSA DE TESIS: "ALTERIDADES HISTÓRICAS Y AUTORREPRESENTACIÓN CINEMATOGRÁFICAS (2001-2019): REALIZADORES MAYAS (MÉXICO), GITANOS (ESPAÑA) Y MAPUCHE (ARGENTINA)"

  Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"Alteridades históricas y autorrepresentación cinematográficas (2001-2019): Realizadores mayas (México), gitanos (España) y mapuche (Argentina)"

Autor/a: TAMARA MOYA JORGE

*CFP* "FILM, AUDIOVISUAL FICTION AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY", SPECIAL CHAPTER COVID-19, Nº 47, QUADERNS DEL CAC

The next issue of Quaderns del CAC will devote its monographic section to linguistic diversity and audiovisual production. It also will have a specific chapter for research on communication and Covid-19. Below you will find more details about each section: Monographic Section. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it clear that citizens consume a very high share of fiction, both in films and series. There have also been changes in the way we access these audiovisual products, in favour of OTT services, and to the detriment of movie theatres and traditional television. This reality has placed the spotlight on the presence (or absence) of linguistic diversity in the audiovisual works that shape our media diets.

This focus has amplified the voices of alarm about the future of the audiovisual market that produces in languages other than the most spoken in the world: English, Chinese, Hindi, or Spanish. To guarantee the survival of this industry and the diversity of its content, we must first solve several problems. The viability of the audiovisual sector that produces in the languages of smaller nations or stateless nations, or regional or minority languages, depends on ensuring a significant supply of films and series for speakers of these languages, and on achieving a prominent circulation that reflects the diversity of cultures.

*CFP* "MAKING MONSTERS: THE PRODUCTION OF TERROR", MEDIA JOURNEYS 2021

Media Journeys 2021

Making Monsters: The Production of Terror

University of East Anglia's

Film Television and Media Departments Media Journeys series of symposiums.

7th June 2021

 

Monsters stalk through modern media. They are heard howling from radio, film and television. They are even spinning their tales on every corner of the World Wide Web. Whether adapting illusory techniques from stage, like Pepper’s Ghost, or creating new and experimental forms of monstrosity that range from classic film monsters to urban legends like the Slender Man, our media worlds are crawling with monsters. This symposium will explore the audio and visual processes, techniques and materials used to create these monsters.

*CFP* "BENGALI CINEMA", BOOK CHAPTER

Films do not exist in a vaccum: they are almost always conceived produced, distributed and consumed within specific economic and social contexts. Film is now an integral part of our culture. What is it about films that attract us so much? Why do we enjoy films so much? Why indeed should we study films? It is not only fascinating to look at how films are made or even constructed but how they affect us is also a seminal question. What becomes equally important is what they tell us about our society, our understanding of the world around us and how this differs from one nation to another. Cinema brings traditional forms of cultural memory (novels, short stories, plays) to life in an audio-visual medium that transcends barriers of language, space, and time which makes it such an invaluable tool of entertainment.

Since this book is about Bengali cinema an integral part of Indian cinema one cannot begin the discussion without reference to Bollywood as it is popularly known across the world. It is one of the important film industries in the world in terms of the sheer number of films it produces, Hollywood being the other. The first Indian film was Raja Harishchandra (1913) made by Dadsaheb Phalke which was but made via primitive equipment compared to the technology the film directors now have at their disposal. The distribution patterns too have alternated considerably as well with most films now getting digital releases.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, SECTION COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM, THE FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL

The Commentary and Criticism section of Feminist Media Studies aims to publish brief (~1500 words) timely responses to current issues in feminist media culture, for an international readership. Essays may pose a provocation, describe work in progress, or propose areas for future study. We will also consider contributions that depart from traditional academic formats. 

 

We encourage all submissions to strategically mobilise critique to also offer a productive contribution to both feminist politics and media studies. Submissions must go beyond mere description in order to be considered for publication in Commentary and Criticism.

Essays for Commentary and Criticism should be submitted to ScholarOne via the journal’s website.

 

Commentary and Criticism also publishes book, film and event reviews of ~1000 words. For review submissions and enquiries, please email the Associate Editors Dr Safiya Umoja Noble (snoble@g.ucla.edu) and Dr Melanie Kennedy (mjk29@le.ac.uk). Reviews should not be submitted via ScholarOne.

*CFP* "ROZHDESTVENSKY AND MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, EXPLORATIONS IN MEDIA ECOLOGY JOURNAL

In Soviet Union and Russia, the connection between communication technologies, language and culture has been extensively studied. This field has been called “General language studies” and “Studies of culture”.  In North America, this field is called media ecology. On two sides of the iron curtain, scholars were developing similar frameworks. Since the fall of the iron curtain, the work of McLuhan has been translated and published in Russian.  The works of Yuri Lotman, Roman Jakobson, and Mikhail Bakhtin are available in English, but have not been sufficiently applied to advancing the field of media ecology. The work of Yuri Rozhdestvensky, the founder of the Russian school of media ecology, has been translated, but not yet published.

We invite the scholars from these two traditions to become more familiar with and inclusive of each other’s work. The special issue of Explorations in Media Ecology will introduce the anglophone community to the work of Yuri Rozhdestvensky, and will include papers which use the Russian and Soviet theoretical frameworks and traditions of the study of culture and communication. We hope this issue will enrich media ecology as a field.

DEFENSA DE TESIS "EL CINE MUSICAL DE CARLOS SAURA (1981-2016)"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"El cine musical de Carlos Saura (1981-2016)"

Autor/a: GABRIEL DOMÉNECH GONZÁLEZ

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 2021 CONFERENCE IN REYKJAVIK

2021 conference in Reykjavik

Iceland

August 18-20, 2021

 

We welcome full papers, extended abstracts, panel presentations and workshops on the division's theme from a wide range of methodological and theoretical perspectives.

Send in your 500-word abstract by February 19, 2021 through the conference website.

The division highlights how topics related to the environment, science and risks are debated, represented and contested in the contemporary media environment.

*CFP* "THEORIZING ZOOMBIISM II: UNDEAD AGAIN", INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Theorizing Zombiism II: Undead Again, Interdisciplinary Conference

29-31 July, 2021

University of Gothenburg

 

The zombie as an allegory for cultural, social, and scientific analysis spans almost every discipline including humanities, biology, mathematics, anthropology, economics, and political science. This range of use for the zombie narrative is a clear indication of its adaptability and viability as a distinct framework for critical theory. Theorizing Zombiism 2: Undead again will thus serve as a timely and much-needed platform for the development of international and interdisciplinary relationships between researchers, educators, practitioners and other interested parties.

Note that we are hoping that the majority of the events at this conference can take place in a live, synchronous format. Having said that, we will also take advantage of alternative formats for participation and presentations, including (but not limited to) synchronous digital presentations, recorded presentations and virtual social events.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, INTERNATIONAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE, ARTS, SOCIAL SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

International Conference on Linguistics, Literature, Arts, Social Science & Humanities

March 20, 2021, | Jakarta, Indonesia

(Virtual/Online Conference)

 

The world is witnessing an unprecedented advancement and innovative approaches in various fields of science that shaped our life. The goal of the conference is to bring together researchers from all parts of the world. It provides researchers ample opportunities for exposure to diverse experience in different fields; to exchange new ideas and experiences face to face; to link to global counterparts; to meet their peers; to enhance their potential and widen horizons and scope for future research.

ICLLASH2021 Conference brings together researchers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world.

*CFP* LLAMADA A ARTÍCULOS, REVISTA INTERNACIONAL ESTUDIOS CULTURALES HISPÁNICOS

Estudios Culturales Hispánicos es una revista internacional e interdisciplinaria editada por el Centro de Estudios Hispánicos / Forschungszentrum Spanien de la Universidad de Ratisbona con el objetivo de contribuir a la investigación sobre la cultura española desde el enfoque de los estudios culturales y servir, asimismo, como foro para la discusión sobre los estudios culturales en el mundo hispánico.

La revista pretende promover el debate sobre la cultura en un sentido más amplio, lo que implica orientar enfoques propiamente disciplinarios (de la sociología, política, historia, literatura, lingüística, las ciencias de los medios etc.) hacia reflexiones interconectadas entre sí y encaminadas hacia una mejor comprensión de los fenómenos y procesos culturales en España y el mundo hispánico.

El centro de interés de la revista es la cultura española contemporánea, así como sus relaciones con América Latina y Europa. Tanto este enfoque temático como la perspectiva metodológica de los estudios culturales (cultural studies, études culturelles / histoire culturelle Kulturwissenschaft) se entienden como conceptos y nociones no claramente delimitados, sino abiertos.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 8TH EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA

8th European Conference on Social Media

1 - 2 July 2021, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus (UCLan)

 

ACPI is continuing to prepare for our conferences scheduled for the remainder of the year and into next year. We are aware that the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 may affect your ability to attend an event in person, but we are integrating interactive virtual participation where attendance is not possible. We urge you to continue to submit your abstracts and papers in line with the published dates (extensions will be granted on request). For more details and regular updates please click here or contact info@academic-conferences.org.

The European Conference on Social Media was established 8 years ago in Brighton and has subsequently been held in Portugal, France, Lithuania and Ireland. The conference has attracted participants from more than 40 countries and been attended by a combination of academic scholars, public sector workers, practitioners and individuals who are engaged in various aspects of the social media industry. A number of journals are selecting papers from the conference for further development and publication.

*CFP* "REPRESENTACIONES DE ESPAÑA Y LATINOAMÉRICA EN EL CINE Y EL AUDIOVISUAL", MONOGRÁFICO JULIO 2021, MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

La revista científica Miguel Hernández Communication Journal realiza el Call for Papers para el monográfico Representaciones de España y Latinoamérica en el cine y el audiovisual coordinado por Eva Hernández Martínez y Rosario Sánchez Vilela. Este monográfico se publicará en julio de 2021.

La fecha tope para propuesta de títulos y resúmenes es el 7 de febrero de 2021.  La fecha tope de recepción de artículos completos a la revista (a través de la plataforma de la revista) es el 1 de abril de 2021.

En la realidad de los seres humanos, solo existe lo que encuentra representación. Esto no quiere decir que lo otro, lo que no lo encuentra, desaparezca de la subjetividad del individuo; nada más lejos, pues puede permanecer oculto e irrumpir de forma más o menos violenta en producciones artísticas y comunicativas. La representación es la manera por la que los seres humanos construimos un mundo en común, siempre cambiante, controversial, pero común. A través de la representación hacen su aparición las distintas perspectivas sobre la realidad y el modo de comprenderla. Algunas de ellas están muy presentes y disponibles, de manera que parecen ocupar todo el espacio de la imaginación; otras permanecen en la sombra hasta que finalmente hacen aparición en la esfera pública desafiando la intersubjetividad. En el cine así como en el audiovisual en general distintas percepciones de la realidad alcanzan expresión simbólica.

DEFENSA DE TESIS "LA AGENDA BUILDING ANTES Y DESPUÉS DE LA CRISIS DE 2008. ANÁLISIS DE LA CUARTA FASE DE LA AGENDA SETTING EN EL CASO DE EL PAÍS, ABC Y EL MUNDO"

 Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Comunicación de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis: 


"La agenda building antes y después de la crisis de 2008. Análisis de la cuarta fase de la agenda setting en el caso de El País, ABC y El Mundo"

Autor/a: ITZÍAR BERNAOLA SERRANO

*CFP* "SHIFTING CONSTELLATIONS: GERMANY AND GLOBAL (DIS)ORDER", INTERNATIONAL PROJECT CONFERENCE

International Project Conference

Shifting Constellations: Germany and Global (Dis)Order

Wednesday 30 June - Friday 2 July 2021

 

IGES Birmingham’s DAAD-funded international research project (2019-21) explores Germany’s responses to unprecedented, ongoing disruptions and redefinitions in global politics, culture and society. The Covid-19 crisis has compounded longer standing challenges posed to a liberal globalisation consensus by more assertive national policies (Putin’s Russia, Britain’s Brexit) and a new brand of nationalist leaders (Xi Jinping in China, Trump in the US, Modi in India, Bolsonaro in Brazil). These ongoing disruptions and challenges to the global order have exposed and exacerbated social and racial inequalities, environmental injustices and related patterns of migration on global and national levels, which liberal ideas and approaches seem unable to address in a sustainable way. The project asks: how is Germany navigating this new “World in Revolt” (The New Statesman) which is characterized by the rise of populism and radical right-wing politics on the one hand, and civic discontent in action (Extinction Rebellion, ‘Me too’, BLM) on the other?

*CFP* "MEDIA AWARDS: BEYOND THE EGOT", 89 ISSUE, THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP

The “big four” American entertainment awards—the Emmy for television, the Grammy for music, the Oscar for film, and the Tony for theater, often referred to by the “EGOT” acronym—have long served as a barometer of mainstream taste cultures in their respective fields. While literature on media awards is not completely absent, its scope has been narrow. Popular press works on the somewhat standardized journalistic narratives surrounding the EGOT, particularly the Oscars. Scholarly literature has largely focused on awards as they pertain to the international art cinema circuit and its attached film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival.    

This call, while respecting the literature that addresses these familiar narratives, intends to reimagine and reinvigorate discussion of entertainment awards and their meaning within the media industries.

Awards are a near-ubiquitous feature of media cultures across mediums, narrative forms, industrial roles, and both geopolitical and virtual spaces: The Nolly Awards, for the span of a few years, recognized achievement in Nollywood films, i.e. the cinema of Nigeria; TikTok user Ashley Hufford (@ashleyhufford) recently sought to establish the “Tik Tok Tony Awards”; The Ursa Major Awards is awarded for “the furry arts.” 

*CFP* "REALIZING RESISTANCE EPISODE II: UNCHARTED GALAXIES", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

With the end of the Skywalker era of the Star Wars saga, and the emergence of spin-offs like The Mandalorian, Resistance, and Rebels, aca-fans from all disciplines have an opportunity to engage with nearly half a century of Star Wars media. As with our previous event, this conference aims to bring together scholars from across disciplines to examine Star Wars media as cultural texts. We invite scholarly and creative interventions with an explicit focus on themes of resistance and justice. How do these films and other media objects contribute to, reflect on, or depart from broader contemporary cultural practices and social discourses?

Since 2019, both the political and media worlds have experienced dramatic shifts and disruptions, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, a contentious U.S. presidential election, and an increasing sense of the vulnerability of democratic institutions and processes. Star Wars, as a cultural phenomenon, has also been embroiled in controversies and transitions, from reactions to The Rise of Skywalker and The Mandalorian to the emergence of Disney+ as a principle platform for the continuation of the Star Wars legacy. Star Wars has penetrated into the culture in surprising ways including martial arts classes offering lightsaber training, political protests that feature Star Wars iconography, the co-opting of the Empire and First Order by the alt-right, among many others. We encourage presentations that reflect on these contexts to offer new perspectives and innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to Star Wars scholarship.

*CFP* "LOS AÑOS 90 EN LA LITERATURA Y EL ARTE IBEROAMERICANOS", NÚMERO MONOGRÁFICO, REVISTA [SIC]

La revista [sic] invita a participar en su próximo número monográfico `Los años 90 en la literatura y el arte iberoamericanos´, coordinado por Álvaro Lema Mosca. El plazo para el envío de propuesta se cierra el 20 de marzo de 2021.

Se reciben artículos de investigación vinculados a esta periodización y sus principales características.

Ejes temáticos:

• La literatura de los 90: ruptura, transición, identidad.
• Los 90 entre la posmodernidad, el neoliberalismo y la revolución tecnológica en el campo de la cultura: estudios culturales, el problema de la identidad nacional, la crítica.
• Relacionamientos entre la movida contracultural postdictadura (segunda mitad de los 80) y principios de los 90.
• La novela negra, el thriller, el policial, lo fantástico, el realismo sucio, la ciencia ficción en los 90.
• La novela histórica de los 90: continuidad, ruptura, revisión.

*CFP* "DIGITAL STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH", SYMPOSIUM AT THE WATERFRONT MUSEUM, GALES

Digital Storytelling for Health

June 17th – 19th 2021

The Waterfront Museum, Swansea

 

We are looking for up to 30 people – practitioners and thinkers to join us for two days of conversation in Swansea in June 2021 – everyone who comes to the gathering will be a presenter and the sessions will be filmed to create an online event for a wider community in the Autumn.

To further improve the UK health service through the development of digital storytelling

 

 

Objectives

• Bring key practitioners together
• Present sessions which stimulate new insights and thinking

*CFP* "PROMISING JOURNEYS, PERILOUS ROADS: WOMEN'S JOURNEY NARRATIVES IN NEOLIBERAL INDIA", EDITED COLLECTION OF ESSAYS

Traditionally, men have had more access than woman to Indian public spaces, especially the cities, roads, and streets. Not surprisingly, then, the presence of women in patriarchal public spaces such as roads poses a threat to traditional spatial associations of the home and the woman that in turn are significant in the construction of Indian femininity. More important, women on Indian roads have felt threatened and experienced numerous and unbelievable instances of violence, some of which in the recent past have been globally and vocally condemned. Curiously, if narratives of traveling, self-sufficient women and their outdoor experiences remain scarce, what is rarer are theoretical and critical discourses surrounding and analyzing women’s predicaments on the road. Stressing this, academicians such as Manish Madan and Mahesh K. Nalla in their study tilted “Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces: Examining Gender Differences in Perceived Seriousness and Victimization” (2016) note that while a considerable amount of research has been done on  domestic violence in India, which mostly occurs indoors in private spaces, “the treatment of women in the public sphere, particularly with regard to sexual harassment (one of the most pervasive forms of violence against women)” (1) has only received public attention post the notorious Nirbhaya rape case (2012) due to media coverage and international outcry. Likewise, keeping mainly the Nirbhaya rape case and the gang rape of a young photo-journalist in Mumbai (2013) as a contextual backdrop, Shilpa Phadke in her article “Unfriendly Bodies, Hostile Cities Reflections on Loitering and Gendered Public Space” argues that the “overarching narrative appears to be that [Indian] cities are violent spaces that women are better off not accessing at all” (50).

*CFP* "THE KARDASHIANS AND TRANS FEMINITY: APPROPRIATION, ARTIFICIALITY, AND RACIAL ERASURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, TSQ*NOW

With Keeping Up With the Kardashians ending after 19 seasons, it seems timely to reflect upon the ways in which the Kardashian aesthetic transformation has been influenced by (and appropriated) trans femininity. This dossier will ideally include both paranoid and reparative readings. For, as much as Kardashian femininity could not exist without trans femininity, perhaps there is a way in which the Kardashian women have also made trans femininity increasingly possible. 

What I mean is that the drag queen, trans feminine aesthetic that the Kardashian women have so spectacularly appropriated has also changed the way we conceive of cis femininity as tied to any sort of aesthetic of authenticity. Taken even further, could we create a genealogy of contemporary trans femininity through a reading of the Kardashians? How can we put questions of race at the center of this trans-femme-cis-femme circuit?

Topics may include (but are not limited to):

• Critical race studies 

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 6.2., THE MISE-EN-SCENE: THE JOURNAL OF FILM AND VISUAL NARRATION

For its forthcoming issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) invites submissions that encompass the latest research in film and media studies. Submission categories include feature articles (6,000-7,000 words); mise-en-scène featurettes (1,000-1,500 words); reviews of films, DVDs, Blu-rays or conferences (1,500-2,500 words); M.A. or Ph.D. abstracts (250-300 words); interviews (4,000-5,000 words); undergraduate scholarship (2,000-2,500 words) or video essays (8-10 minute range). All submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 8th edition. Topic areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cinematic aestheticism
• Film spectatorship
• Frame narratology
• Auteur theory
• Mise-en-scène across the disciplines
• Pedagogical approaches to film and media studies
• Film/video as a branch of digital humanities research

*CFP* "GLOBAL CRISES: MEDIA, POLITICS, AND ENVIRONMENT", IX INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONFLICT, TERRORISM AND SOCIETY

IX International Conference on Conflict, Terrorism and Society

“Global Crises: Media, Politics, and Environment”

April 13-14, 2021

Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey

 

Crises signify conflicts, danger and chaos. Global crises, from health crises like COVID-19 pandemic to political crises, from war and terror to humanitarian disasters, represent the dark side of a globalized world. This year’s conference theme focuses on how do global crises emerge from, and result in, social, political, cultural, institutional, economic, technological and environmental changes. The conference aims to analyze the ongoing multi-dimensional crisis of global world and provide interdisciplinary approaches to the current global crises. The major themes to be covered with respect to global crises may include health crises (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic), wars and terrorism, global displacement and mass migration, legal crises and legitimacy, economic crises, disasters, catastrophes and risks, environmental challenges, poverty, politics (e.g. rise of populism, rise of nationalism), security (e.g. national security, digital security), the role of media in crisis time, disinformation and power relations. The conference also aims to understand how global crises are spawned by and shape our global age, and how they are represented in the media.

*CFP* "FUTURE OF JOURNALISM: 'OVERCOMING OBSTACLES IN JOURNALISM'", CARDIFF UNIVERSITY 2021 ONLINE CONFERENCE

Future of Journalism: “Overcoming obstacles in journalism” 

23rd-24th September, 2021

Cardiff University 

At present the conference will be virtual, in light of COVID-19 and social distancing. However, should conditions change, and time permitting, we envisage a blended conference, which will partly take place in JOMEC's state-of-the-art home in Cardiff's city centre. The theme for 2021 will be “Overcoming obstacles in journalism.”

2020 has been a year of unprecedented challenges and obstacles for journalism as an institution, and journalists as professionals. At the same time, journalism has never been more important. With audiences around the world urgently requiring reliable information on the coronavirus pandemic and major breaking news events, journalists have carried out their work under difficult and often dangerous circumstances.

*CFP* "A CLOUD IN A BOX: POLITICS, HISTORY, AND THE PET SHOP BOYS", BOOK CHAPTER

“Politicians are a bit pathetic. There’s no two ways about that.”

Neil Tennant.

 

The relationship between the Pet Shop Boys and the political has always been one of contention. In their four decades (and counting) of pop music, the duo—Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe—have amassed a large discography, not to mention film scores, movie productions, and their own stage shows. In the process, they have often thrown a critical light on what they see as the great hypocrisies of music and stardom. ‘I don’t really like the idea of people projecting themselves as being important humanitarian figures, which is the tendency for rock personalities nowadays’, Tennant once told journalists, in reference to Bono and U2—a reference further explored in the song How Can You Expect to Be Taken Seriously? on the 1990 album Behaviour. In an interview with Reuters, Tennant elaborated: ‘I don’t want to talk about it. We are musicians, not politicians.’

That being said, there is no doubt that the Pet Shop Boys have shaped their music, their careers, and their very presence through politics, the presentation of memory, and history. Tennant’s background in political history aside, the oeuvre of the group is littered with allusions to historical figures, events, and circumstances, from King Zog of Albania and T.E. Lawrence to Che Guevara, from the October Revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union and its consequences, from the Special Relationship to Brexit and the ubiquitously stricter migration controls that have become de jure in the Global West in the last two decades. 

*CFP* "GLOBAL AND REGIONAL CINEMA", 4TH B-FILM PGR SYMPOSIUM

Glocal and Regional Cinema. 4th B-Film PGR Symposium 

University of Birmingham

(Online event on Zoom, 5 March 2021)

 

B-Film, the University of Birmingham’s interdisciplinary research centre of film scholars, opens its PGR Symposium on ‘Glocal and Regional Cinema’ to all postgraduate researchers. Whether by exploring regional variations within individual nations or the role played by the local in global cinema, this symposium strives to put diverse manifestations of cinematic modes, genres, and styles in dialogue with one another.

This event is aimed at bringing PGRs from different academic institutions together to discuss their research in a welcoming and supportive environment. The initiative also intends to stimulate reflection on glocal and regional cinema in order to facilitate exchanges of ideas and encourage different approaches to the topics covered. The proceedings will take place in English and papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length.

*CFP* "TRANS IDENTITIES IN THE FRENCH MEDIA", EDITED VOLUME

As a preamble to this call for abstracts, we want to specify that we are using the terms “transgender” and “trans identities” as umbrella terms for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. Our use of “transgender” or “trans identities” thus encompasses a variety of experiences within and outside the gender binary, and a range of expressions, as trans individuals pursue many different options (medical changes, clothing, make-up, etc.) to bring their appearances into alignment with their gender identity, or may choose not to.

“Transsexualité, transidentité: un tabou français?” (“Transsexuality, transidentity: a French taboo?”[1]): such was the title chosen by the online French news magazine France Info for an article published in 2015 that discussed the lack of visibility and biases transgender people still experience in French society. Indeed, the production of images and narratives about transgender people in a French context is a complex process that demands to be further analyzed. On the one hand, there has been an increasing visibility of trans individuals in film and TV in recent years. TV documentaries such as Devenir il ou elle (Lorène Debaisieux, 2017) and Être fille ou garçon: Le Dilemme des transgenres (Clarisse Verrier, 2017) follow the lives of adolescents as they transition into their authentic gender; director Sébastien Lifshitz dedicated a documentary to one of France’s first individuals to have undergone gender confirmation surgery with Bambi (2013), and he hired a transgender actress to play the main character in his film Wild Side (2004). 

*CFP* "MEDIA EVENTS IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL, DIGITAL NETWORKS", 2022 VOLUME, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE NORDIC JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES 2022

In today’s media saturated environment, the battle for attention is more intensive than ever. Still, some events stand out and gather attention and momentum on a greater scale, for example large-scale sports events, presidential inaugurations, state funerals, the Eurovision Song Contest, major terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.

Media events is a recurring concept that points to both continuities and changes in our media landscape. Revisiting this concept constitutes a focal point for analysis of the complex role of media in a highly globalised and networked society. Dayan and Katz’s seminal study Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History (1992) provided a first, important framework for understanding the media’s construction of key historical events. This book concerned the ability of broadcast media to create ritual events that break with the routines of everyday life, unite audiences, and form shared frames of reference. Dayan and Katz foregrounded the integrative function of the media and focused primarily on celebratory events.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, ECREA CRISIS COMMUNICATION SECTION, PHD WORKSHOP YOUNG SCHOLARS NETWORK (ECREA)

As part ofour online activities throughout the first half of 2021, we would like to invite all young scholars to apply for our YECREA PhD Workshop jointly heldby ECREA’s Crisis Communication Section and Young Scholars Network (YECREA). The participation in the workshop is free of charge.

The aim of the workshop is to provide an online forum with individual feedback by senior scholars for doctoral students whose Ph.D. and research interest is related to the wide and interdisciplinary field of Risk and Crisis Communication.

The PhD Workshop will take place in May 2021. The exact date and time depend on the countries of origin/time zones of the individual participants. Further information on the date as well as on the respondents (senior scholars) will be announced later in time.

To apply for the workshop, please prepare and submit the _following two documents:

III SEMINARIO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CINES TRANSNACIONALES Y COSMOPOLITAS

III Seminario de Investigación Cines trasnacionales y cosmopolitas

20 de enero de 2021, 11:00 horas (Madrid)

Acceso: meet.google.com/rsm-vmos-ecg

 

Este tercer seminario abordará fenómenos relacionados con la movilidad humana en el cine, tales como el exilio o la migración transfronteriza. El encuentro se centra en las perspectivas teóricas transnacionales y cosmopolitas y evalúa su potencial para analizar cuestiones industriales, textuales y culturales de la historia del cine.

Esta publicación y este seminario se desarrollan en el marco del proyecto I+D “Cartografías del Cine de Movilidad en el Atlántico Hispánico” (CSO2017-85290-P), en el que trabajan gran parte de las autoras del libro y del presente encuentro.

*CFP* "DOCUMENTARY", FOURTH VOLUME, REFRACT: AN OPEN ACCESS VISUAL STUDIES JOURNAL

Refract’s fourth volume seeks to explore the entanglements between the document and the documentary as sources of information and forms of visual culture. Etymologically, document/ary derives from the Latin docere, to teach. The document is therefore a pedagogical tool. It can also be a disciplinary measure, a literary and legal form that ascribes value to people and property and gives shape to cultural beliefs called laws. And yet, the document defies boundaries–it is at once literary, visual, sociological, scientific, and historical. The aesthetic elements of the document/ary–its materiality, age, iconography, site(s)–are designed to facilitate the recording of information, providing authenticity and legitimacy by appearing to (re)produce, or provide evidence of, “the real.”

The document/ary can be read within a longer history of creative expression invested in the representation of reality or “truth.” Scientific illustrations, cartography, and portraits all construct and communicate evidence about the world. The invention of photographic technology in the 19th century ushered in the idea that a direct representation of reality was possible, a genre which formalised in the 20th century as the “documentary.” Outside of dominant western cultures, methods of truth-telling take on very different forms–such as oral histories and genealogies, non-logographic writing systems and records, and non-human knowledges–which have often been devalued, destroyed or overwritten by imperial epistemologies. 

*CFP* "GLOBALISATION, INCLUSION AND THE WEB IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID", WEBSCI' 13TH ACM WEB SCIENCE CONFERENCE

WebSci’21 | 13th ACM Web Science Conference

Globalisation, Inclusion and the Web in the Context of COVID

21-25 June 2021

Hosted by the University of Southampton, UK, delivered online

 

The Web has enabled a globally connected network of individuals and communities, but divides still exist and emerge in various online environments. Fostering an inclusive and just online environment is a persistent challenge: Web technologies can hinder or promote equity, and can exacerbate intersectional disadvantages. In recent years, this challenge has been amplified by the increasing prevalence of artificial intelligence and the automation of Web-based tasks as well as ongoing divides in Web access, use, and skill. The theme for WebSci 2021, Globalisation, Inclusion and the Web in the Context of COVID, calls attention to these challenges, particularly in light of the ongoing global effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Web Science is an interdisciplinary field dedicated to understanding the complex and multiple impacts of the Web on society, and vice versa. As such, the field of Web Science is particularly well situated to address these pressing issues. This year’s theme seeks to call attention to core issues facing the field, but as always we welcome a broad array of submissions relevant to Web Science.

*CFP* "SEXO, GÉNERO, SEXUALIDAD Y COMUNICACIÓN", VOL. 30 Nº 5, PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

Profesional de la Información solicita estudios de investigación de vanguardia, ensayos teóricos y artículos de revisión crítica original para un número especial dedicado a la Comunicación sobre sexo, género y sexualidad que se publicará en el Volumen 30, Número 5 (septiembre-octubre de 2021). También se considerarán artículos con un enfoque pedagógico, especialmente aquellos que dilucidan conceptos, tecnologías o procesos específicos.

Este número especial celebrará la pluralidad metodológica y teórica, con el objetivo de publicar una excelente colección de teorías e investigaciones que avancen el pensamiento sobre la comunicación de sexo, género y sexualidad.

A tal fin, el editor aceptará manuscritos que incluyan investigaciones que utilicen métodos científicos sociales cuantitativos y/o cualitativos; crítica de la retórica, de la cultura o de los medios, así como investigación creativa, especialmente si aporta avances teóricos.

*CFP* "NUEVAS FORMAS DE COMUNICACIÓN EDUCATIVA: AULA EXTENDIDA", Nº 36, REVISTA CONTRATEXTO

El número 36 de Contratexto abordará la temática referida a las nuevas formas de comunicación educativa: aula extendida. Esta se refiere a los nuevos caminos para emitir mensajes y contenidos, mediante el empleo de medios en los procesos de enseñanza y aprendizaje, que superan las barreras del enfoque aulístico-conductista para promover el pensamiento disruptivo, critico, creativo e incluir recursos mediatizados como el mobile learning, tablet learning, plataformas educativas, las nuevas percepciones de las tecnologías para aprender y conocer (TAC), emprender y participar (TEP).

Igualmente, esta convocatoria reconoce que, al haber una generación de estudiantes (receptores de mensajes) que tienen a su disposición un sin fin de aplicaciones, herramientas web, los procesos de comunicación igualmente implican nuevas formas de socialización que propenden el fortalecimiento de las habilidades sociales. En virtud de ello, esta edición recopilará las investigaciones y experiencias exitosas recientes, buenas prácticas y nuevas narrativas que se tejen en el nuevo sentido que otorga la sociedad a la comunicación en educación.

El dosier busca discutir los planteamientos del siglo XXI en virtud de las nuevas formas de comunicación educativa que contribuyen a garantizar aprendizajes facilitadas por las tecnologías.

*CFP* "LAZARSFELD AT 120", SHORT ESSAYS, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

The International Journal of Communication will publish a Forum timed to appear with the 120-year anniversary of Paul Lazarsfeld’s birth, in August 2021. We are inviting contributions of 1500- to 3000-word essays that reflect on the late sociologist’s legacy for communication research and for empirical social research more broadly.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Lazarsfeld and the institutionalization of social science research 
• Lazarsfeld’s media research program, beyond the best-known studies of opinion leaders and personal influence 
• Under-explored aspects of Lazarsfeld’s intellectual history 
• Lazarsfeld as historian of empirical research methods 
• The reception of Lazarsfeld’s research programs and methodological contributions around the world, including his native Europe 
• Questions of credit and division of labor in Lazarsfeld-directed research projects 
• Histories of lesser-known and uncompleted projects and proposals 
• Lazarsfeld’s place in the remembered history of media and communication research

*CFP* CALL FOR AUDIOVISUAL WORK, IAMCR NAIROBI CONFERENCE

IAMCR calls for academic audio and/or visual work to be presented at the IAMCR Nairobi conference, which will be held online from 11 to 15 July, 2021. With this call, IAMCR aims to stimulate the use of a broader range of modes for the communication of academic knowledge, complementing conference papers and oral presentations with audio and/or visual work. In particular, we seek podcasts and videos that integrate academic and aesthetic dimensions, and that use sound and/or image creatively to communicate academic knowledge. This implies that we will not select audio/visual work that merely consists of recorded lectures.

We call for audio/visual work with a maximum duration of 30 minutes, but shorter contributions are also welcomed. Proposals for presentation of audio/visual work will consist out of two documents, namely an abstract and a (basic) script. The abstract describes the research communicated by the audio/visual work (its research question, theoretical framework, methodology, research design and corpus, …), while the script provides a chronological description of the form of the audio/visual work. Each document has a maximum length of 500 words.

*CFP* "FRENCH THOUGHT IN DIALOGUE", VOL. 9.2, 2021 (II) ISSUE, CULTURE AND DIALOGUE JOURNAL

Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. Our second 2021 Issue (Vol. 9.2) will focus on the theme of French Thought in Dialogue

This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of French philosophy or theory of culture that explore in one way or another one of the following topics:

• Dialogical or intercultural experience 
• French thought and otherness, which may relate to one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.) 
• Philosophical reflection on specific aspects of French thought (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.) 
• Critique of the idea of French thought from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies

*CFP* "SEX, GENDER, SEXUALITY AND COMMUNICATION", VOLUME 30, ISSUE 5, REVISTA PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

Profesional de la Información seeks cutting-edge research studies, theoretical essays, and state-of-the-art critical review articles for a special issue dedicated to sex, gender, sexuality, and communication to be published in Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2021) to be published in the journal. Articles with a pedagogical focus, especially those that elucidate specific concepts, technologies, or processes, will also be considered. This special issue will celebrate methodological and theoretical plurality, with the primary goal being to publish an excellent collection of research and theory that advances thinking about sex, genders, sexualities, and communication.

To that end, the editor will accept manuscripts featuring research using quantitative and/or qualitative social scientific methods; critique-oriented methods such as rhetorical, cultural, or media criticism; and scholarship that is highly creative, especially as it advances theory.

 

Manuscripts submitted for consideration must clearly advance communicative aspects of one of the following special issue areas:

*CFP* "ENCANTAR Y REENCANTAR LAS RELACIONES ENTRE HUMANOS Y NO-HUMANOS EN EL MUNDO HISPANOHABLANTE", NÚMERO 13, REVISTA LÍNEAS

Con la llegada de la modernidad, se ha impuesto ampliamente en Occidente, la idea de que la naturaleza es una entidad dominable, regulada como una máquina, cuyos secretos aún no descifrados, no podrían resistir al progreso científico del hombre. Este último, amo y señor, se arrogó el derecho de explotar los recursos naturales juzgados inagotables. Desaparecieron las deidades y los poderes sagrados relacionados con los elementos naturales, se desvanecieron las correlaciones entre lo humano y el resto del cosmos. Poco a poco, la barrera entre lo humano y lo no humano, la naturaleza y la cultura se volvió insuperable (Descola 2005).

La crisis, o mutación ecológica (Latour 2015), que semejante relación con los seres vivos ha provocado, nos lleva a una nueva alteración de nuestra representación del vínculo entre lo humano y lo no humano que sacude los cimientos de este pensamiento moderno.

La naturaleza, su fuerza, su poder, desde lo infinitamente grande hasta lo infinitamente pequeño, nos recuerda que los humanos nunca han sido capaces de domarla y desentrañar sus misterios. Por otro lado, las amenazas ecológicas (calentamiento global, biodiversidad en peligro, etc.) que pesan sobre la supervivencia de la especie humana nos recuerdan cuán íntimamente estamos conectados, y en modo alguno separados, de los elementos de la biosfera.

*CFP* "SEMIÓTICA DE LA CULTURA: MÉTODO Y CONCEPTOS", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA CUADERNOS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN

La semiótica de la cultura, que tiene su origen en la teoría de la información, concibe la cultura como un sistema semiótico formado por el conjunto de sus textos. Además, cada cultura es entendida como la memoria no hereditaria de una colectividad. Este espacio es lo que se denomina semiosfera, fuera de la cual no hay semiosis.

Esta perspectiva considera, por un lado, los textos como dispositivos que producen sentido y, por el otro, la cultura como mecanismo de producción, conservación y transmisión de información.

Los textos se entienden como espacios de comunicación, que implican siempre un mecanismo de traducción, sea entre textos, o entre textos y destinatarios o entre cualesquiera participantes de la comunicación. En otras palabras, toda comunicación es vista como traducción entre sistemas semióticos.

El presente número de Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación pretende dar cuenta de este método de análisis de la comunicación y de la información, a través de sus conceptos.

*CFP* "NUEVAS TENDENCIAS EN INVESTIGACIÓN DE LA COMUNICACIÓN", NÚMERO 33, REVISTA DOXA COMUNICACIÓN

La investigación en el ámbito de la comunicación se ha venido caracterizando por su enfoque multidisciplinar, materializado en diversas escuelas, tradiciones y aproximaciones y, por tanto, en una serie de objetos de estudio y de resultados de investigación que tienen como uno de sus principales atributos una gran diversidad e incluso, en ocasiones, una enorme dispersión. Por otro lado, en las últimas décadas se ha producido una importante transformación en este campo, materializada en un aumento exponencial de la producción científica y en una mayor colaboración internacional entre los autores. En ello han tenido mucho que ver los cambios en la formación en comunicación, con un incremento muy significativo de la oferta educativa, unido a las modificaciones, en España, en la regulación del acceso a la carrera docente que han condicionado y condicionan también, en buena parte, el desarrollo de la investigación. 

Por ello, este monográfico plantea una reflexión que consideramos necesaria sobre los nuevos   retos y oportunidades que afronta la investigación en el campo de la comunicación y, de manera particular, el desafío de consolidar una identidad propia. Un panorama en el que cobran especial relevancia cuestiones como la formación, la especialización, la globalización, las diferencias y perspectivas de género o los debates éticos, entre otras. 

*CFP* "WOMEN, SPECTATORSHIP AND THE CINEMA OF THE REAL", SPECIAL ISSUE, MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE

In association with the Institute of Contemporary Arts (UK), MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture invites authors with expertise in film—narrative or documentary–-and visual and cultural studies, as well as in related disciplines, to contribute to our new focus issue ‘Women, Spectatorship and the Cinema of the Real’. The issue will be co-edited with Dr Laura Canning from the School of Film & Television at Falmouth University.

 

Background & Inspiration

The ICA’s annual film festival ‘Frames of Representation’ (FoR) returns for its fifth edition with a programme focussing on the role of spectatorship—a collection of works that explore the spaces between knowledge and participation through the act of viewing.

The festival continues to be an international showcase for the cinema of the real, exploring in-depth the aesthetic and political implications of filmmaking as both a collective practice and an art form. Exploring the spaces between knowledge and participation through the act of viewing, this year’s programme premieres 20 films from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, as well as discussions and Q&As.

*CFP* "FEAR, ANXIETY AND CRISIS IN EUROPE: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACH", EDITED COLLECTION

Early scholarly analyses of anxiety are inextricably intertwined with times of crisis. Sigmund Freud’s lecture XXV on anxiety is a seminal example. Delivered at the University of Vienna during the First World War as part of his introductory lectures on psychoanalysis (1915-1917, published in 1916-1917), in this piece Freud focused on a psychoanalytic study of the individual affective state of anxiety, which he defined as an emotional reaction to the perception of a potential threat or injury. Freud also distinguished between Angst (anxiety) and Furcht (fear) in that whereas the former focuses on the affective reaction, the latter focuses on the object that is the cause of this emotion.

While the First World War is not explicitly mentioned in this lecture, Freud’s historical context and private life, with his two sons serving in the Habsburg army, shaped his work, not only as reflected by his disillusionment with human nature that pervades his Thoughts for the Times on War and Death (1915), but also, it has been argued, in “broadening his understanding of human nature beyond sexual drive” (Górny 2016). Freud’s study of fear and anxiety articulated at a time of crisis globally and, particularly, in Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century is especially suitable when attempting to understand the dominant concern with such affective states and their interrelated individual and social dimensions in a contemporary global context. In this sense, since the turn of the twenty-first century, nearly a century after Freud’s lecture on anxiety, media, political and academic discourses have been characterised by the pervasive presence of “crisis.” 

*CFP* LLAMADA A PARTICIPACIÓN, VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORES MUNDO HISPÁNICO: CULTURA, ARTE Y SOCIEDAD

VI Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadores Mundo Hispánico: Cultura, Arte y Sociedad

Universidad de León

19 al 21 de mayo de 2021

 

La Universidad de León (España) celebra este congreso, en modalidad virtual, del 19 al 21 de mayo de 2021 en León (España). Se invita a todos aquellos investigadores no doctores (estudiantes de doctorado) a participar con sus propuestas en alguna de las secciones o líneas de investigación que se abordan, y que se corresponden con las disciplinas humanísticas: lengua española, lingüística, historia de la literatura, estudios históricos y arqueológicos, estudios artísticos, humanidades digitales y conservación y difusión de la información.

*CFP* "COLOUR CONTRAST: CHROMATIC CONNECTIONS IN CINEMA", ISSUE 17, COMPARATIVE CINEMA JOURNAL

The analysis of colour as a key component of cinema has particularly animated film studies scholarship in recent years, with interest in colour encompassing among other dimensions its connections with aesthetics, affect, history and politics. Research in this area has ranged across more than a century of the medium’s existence: from the manifold possibilities of colour in the silent era in Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe’s Chromatic Modernity: Color, Cinema, and Media of the 1920s (2019), to the most recent digital developments as captured in Carolyn Kane’s Chromatic Algorithms: Synthetic Color, Computer Art and Aesthetics after Code (2014), colour is a property of the film image that has remained a constant even as it has undergone dramatic changes over time.

While colour has been mined by a number of scholars for its specific national, industrial and technological potentials, the 17th issue of Comparative Cinema invites contributors to approach colour for its comparative possibilities, broadly conceived. The perspective of comparison encourages contemplation at the level of close analysis, but also gestures towards larger cultural-historical questions. Sergei Eisenstein (1957) once argued that specific hues do not have absolute correspondences with isolated values or meanings, but that the significance of a particular colour is relational, ‘dependent only upon the general system of imagery’ in a given film. But beyond the systemic relations of colours within a film, the importance of colour as an element on screen might also be viewed in comparison with colour outside of cinema altogether, in other media or in terms of the sundry ideological uses to which it has been put.

*CFP* "NEW MEDIA AND NATIONAL IDENTITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, THE ARAB AND MUSLIM MEDIA RESEARCH JOURNAL

The advent of satellite TV and social media networks have transformed the long assumed approaches of identity construction and production. Global TV and virtual media spaces have allowed audiences to become more active in the realisation of their identity as an existential foundation. Amidst this sophisticated development, mediascapes have proven effective tools in the formation of the self via a self-gratification process.

Furthermore, the articulation of a common national identity has nowadays assumed diverse sources. National identity as suggested by severalscholars is becoming a fluid and changing concept. In the core of its formationare expressions of language, culture, ideology, history and memory. The internet is probably becoming the most influential platform for such expression. Contrary to previous generations who used to be brought up through family values, education systems and religious teachings, nowadays satellite TV and online environmentsarguably seem the most influential spaces of interactions about identity and opinion formation.

*CFP* "EMERGING PATTERNS OF ASYMMETRIC INTERDEPENDENCE IN ASIA-PACIFIC", SPECIAL WINTER 2021 ISSUE, THE JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EASTERN ASIA

The Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia (JCEA), a refereed biannual open access journal on East and Southeast Asia is announcing a call for papers for a special Winter 2021 issue that discusses Emerging Patterns of Asymmetric Interdependence in Asia-Pacific.

More than half a century has passed since the first studies on the use of asymmetric interdependence as a tool of political leverage in international relations. Despite the large number of works published so far, the focus of research remains relatively narrow and limited mainly to trade and energy interdependence. The rapid spread of new technologies and communication systems, the internationalization of business and the growing integration of capital and financial markets that we witness in the last decade have created new domains in which asymmetric interdependence can arise.

In the last few years, emerging scholarship has acknowledged that states might develop and exploit in their partnerships new dimensions of asymmetric interdependence – such as technological, financial, scientific, etc. – and can make use of expanding networks of interdependence to fulfill their geopolitical goals. However, such studies exclusively address one of these dimensions only in the context of increasing competition between the United States and China.