*CFP* "MIGRATIONS, CITIZENSHIPS, INCLUSION. NARRATIVES OF PLURAL ITALY, BETWEEN IMAGINARY AND DIVERSITY POLITICS", XXVI INTERNATIONAL 2021 CONFERENCE OF FILM STUDIES

XXVI International Conference of Film Studies

Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusion.

Narratives of Plural Italy, between Imaginary and Diversity Politics

Rome, May 6-8, 2021

Department of Philosophy, Communication, and Performing Arts - University of Roma Tre, Italy

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Áine O’Healy, Loyola Marymount University,

Igiaba Scego, writer and journalist,
Jennifer Smith, Head of Inclusion, BFI.

The global pandemic crisis triggered by COVID-19, on the threshold of 2020, also had a tremendous impact on creative industries, whose supply chains are kept on track, in Italy as elsewhere, thanks to mostly intermittent workers, with a weak social protection. While claiming an urgent recovery plan for the whole sector, we stand for a widening and broader diversity in the gamut of interested parties. In this way, it would be possible to respond to a global demand for participation, coming from groups that are scarcely present in senior positions and are associated with a strongly limited narrative. XXVI International Conference of Film Studies Migrations, Citizenships, Inclusion aims to meet this demand and return it in terms of analysis and operating proposals.

*CFP* "DIGITAL NARRATIVE AND INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING FOR PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WITH HEALTH AND SCIENCE", SPECIAL ISSUE, FRONTIERS SITE

Outside formal school education, digital media have emerged as a major source of information and knowledge that shapes how societies follow, understand, perceive, reason about and connect with health and science issues. This, however, has recently been greeted with some fears, with digital platforms in the largely unregulated social media sphere having been identified as key drivers of widespread mis/disinformation around the globe. 

Together with the rise of post-truth, populist politics, where science denial has become a personal and political act, digital platforms have fueled an increasing resistance to scientific theories and to science-based medical advice and public health policy (such as COVID-19 safety measures, vaccination safety and benefits, the facts of climate change, and even the notion of the Earth as a spherical planet). While such fears are strongly grounded and should continue to be raised in the public debate, it is important not to let them distract us from the less discussed but significant potential of digital media. This special issue will focus particularly on the power of digital narrative and storytelling.

*CFP* "MEDICAL CULTURE IN EAST ASIAN CINEMA AND MEDIA", EDITED VOLUME

The current COVID-19 global pandemic has inspired renewed attention to the intersection between public health and mass media. With constant media updates of case counts, healthcare guidelines, and preventive strategies, among other public health communications, the boundaries of various imagined communities have been newly established or strongly reinforced. The complex cultural and geopolitical region of East Asia, in particular, has become a center of media attention, following wide circulation of essentialized cultural norms (such as collectivity and uniformity), stereotypical accounts of hygiene habits, racialized discourses surrounding the East Asian bodies, and techno-orientalist narratives of East Asian use of digital means for disease tracing and control. 

Both personal and public health outcomes thus have become inextricably intertwined with processes of representation and (re)mediation, while the pandemic itself has become a media event inseparable from various audiovisual forms. We are therefore living a historical moment that demands reflection on the precarious socio-political structures revealed through audiovisual media, including health care access and its relation to class, gender, and ethnic hierarchies.

*CFP* "ANIMALITY AND TEXTUALITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, WORD AND TEXT JOURNAL

In “But as for me, who am I (following)?”, the second section of The Animal That Therefore I Am, Jacques Derrida contextualises his interest in a certain passage in Plato’s Phaedrus as a systematic interest in what he calls “the animality of writing”. Derrida diagnoses in the traditional anthropocentric opposition between the (human) ability to respond and mere animal reaction an echo of the ancient denunciations of writing as language that cannot reply back – opaque and mindless. In fact, as he demonstrates in Of Grammatology and elsewhere, the histories of the condemnation of writing and of the devaluation of animality are intertwined and feed off each other. Both are characterised as a deviation from the source of truth – speech and/or the soul – carried out by a certain embodiment.

In the current state of the increasingly institutionalised field of Animal Studies, the same opaqueness that was held against both animality and writing has been defended as a productive nexus in which to think about animals and their relationship to text. For example, Anat Pick’s concept of the creaturely, characterised by its focus on embodiment, has proved influential in conceptualising both animal and human being.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE 39, LA VALLE DELL'EDEN / EAST OF EDEN: JOURNAL OF CINEMA, PHOTOGRAPHY, MEDIA

For a long time, screenwriting has been largely ignored by film scholars, in Italy as well as in other countries. Film Studies have been – and partially still are – dominated by an auteur-centered approach, where the only relevant figure of the cast & credits is the director. But in the seventies, thanks to seminal books such as Pauline Kael’s The Citizen Kane Book (1974) – recently “rediscovered” because of David Fincher’s Mank (2020) – and Richard Corliss’ Talking Pictures: Screenwriters in the American Cinema (1974), things started to change. In Italy, the widespread influence of the politiques des auteurs had joined forces with the Rossellinian-Fellinian distrust – not to say contempt – toward the screenplay and the professional figure of the screenwriter. It is not a chance that, in Italy, when research in this area finally started, it avoided directly addressing the Italian screenwriters. The first important Italian scholarly books and essays were devoted to screenwriting in general (Giuliana Muscio’s anthology Scrivere il film, 1981), or to classical Hollywood screenwriters (Guido Fink’s essay on Samson Raphaelson, 1994). In the last twenty years, a new generation of film scholars has produced a series of stimulating, well researched books and essays on Italian screenwriting and screenwriters, from the silent years to the present (among others, see: Federica Villa, 2002 and 2010; Silvio Alovisio, 2005; Maria Pia Comand, 2006; David Bruni, 2011). Today, Italy has a significant production of studies on screenwriting in the Italian cinema. But of course there are still many unaddressed questions. For example, there is no systematic study, based on archival research, devoted to the scripts of the “commedia all’italiana”, a genre where writing plays a very relevant role. There are no studies on the big Italian directors conducted through the perspective of their collaboration with a screenwriter (i.e. Luchino Visconti and Suso Cecchi D’Amico).

*CFP* "FILM ON DEMAND - STREAMING PLATFORMS AND THEIR SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND CULTURAL IMPACT", SPECIAL ISSUE, STUDIA HUMANISTYCZNE AGH JOURNAL

Film and TV industries are undergoing yet another revolution today. It affects procedures, production companies, broadcasters, and other parties involved. The transformation is led and accelerated by influential streaming platforms and VOD services. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, or MUBI change the viewing habits, offering subscription-based content accessible anywhere and anytime. The number of subscribers keeps growing year by year, and many consumers give up cable and digital television and settle on VOD. The effects of time-shifted viewing and new reception habits are becoming increasingly apparent.

This special issue of Contribution to Humanities reflects on the social, economic, and cultural impact of streaming platforms. We are interested in the way they change film and television landscapes, both in terms of production and reception.

We welcome submissions addressing the following topics:

1. Evolution of the reception practices

*CFP* "GLOBAL QUEER FANDOMS OF ASIAN MEDIA AND CELEBRITIES", 21.6 ISSUE, COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM SECTION, FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES JOURNAL

Since the 2010s, K-pop music groups, Chinese, South Korean, and Thai TV dramas, Japanese ACG (anime, cosplay, and gaming) cultures, and Hong Kong, Taiwanese, and Singaporean films have continued to grow in popularity on a trans-geocultural scale. With little doubt, global flows of Asian entertainment media and pop culture have been paving the way for a decentering of the Western-dominated global mediascape. Certainly, due to the increasingly close and frequent collaborations between media industries in diverse geolocales, the too-often essentialized notion of “Asianness” and the problematic theoretical binarisms of East/West, global/local, and center/periphery need urgent contestation. It is also hard to ignore the central role played by androgynous personas, homosocial and homoerotic narratives, and norm-defying performances in the worldwide prominence of Asian media and celebrity cultures, as well as their flourishing queer fan communities in inter-Asian and Anglophone contexts.

This special Commentary and Criticism section aims to re-center Asia within fan studies through a combined global feminist and queer lens. It highlights the multivalent potential of queer in forming disruption and alternation to established meanings, identities, and norms in global media flows and fannish spaces devoted to Asian media and celebrities. It thus invites contributions that bridge global media studies, Asian pop culture studies, LGBTQ media and audience studies, and queer fan studies to identify promises and problems rooted in or emerging from transcultural, cross-linguistic, multi-ethnic, and (de-)globalist settings.

*CFP* "THE PHOTOGRAPHER", Nº 6 ISSUE, REVELAR: JOURNAL OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE STUDIES

REVELAR – Journal of Photography and Image Studies is open to works for volume no. 6 (2021). This edition, dedicated to «The Photographer», will publish works in the following modalities:

• Scientific papers
• Reviews (on books, essays or photography exhibitions)
• Photo-essays (open to both amateurs and professional photographers)

Inspired by the title of an unavoidable work on photography, Le Photographique: pour une théorie des écarts, by Rosalind Krauss (1990), we propose a discussion on the Photographer and the photographic discourse they instigate. Thus, the sixth issue of REVELAR is dedicated to: «The Photographer».

From alchemist to scientist, chemist to optometrist, amateur to professional, technician to artist, the photographer has redefined how the world is seen and shaped for the past 200 years. Perhaps it is significantly owed to them the construction of the strange concept, «visual culture», so often used.

*CFP* "A HANDBOOK OF INDIAN INDIE CINEMA", BOOK CHAPTER

Each year, a large number of Indian Indie films are released that suffer from lack of viewership even when it comes to their target audience, not to mention critical assessments: films that are regional, experimental in nature or have fresh, timely interventions. 

Many among these deserve recognition, not only from general audiences and moviegoers but also from film scholars and the academia. With the onset of streaming sites and OTT platforms, some of these have made it to the limelight, although a systematic handbook that discusses and features many of these films is currently, absent.

We look forward to filling this gap by compiling an accessible handbook of Indian indie films that also sets to capture the various conceptual paradigms, through close engagements.

We welcome abstracts of not more than 300 words along with a bio-note at this mail: indiecinemavolume@gmail.com. The last date for the submission of abstracts is March 31, 2021.

*CFP* "PROTEST, MEDIA AND CULTURE", BOOK SERIES

The book series 'Protest, Media and Culture' publishes edited collections and monographs dedicated to the study and analysis of an irrepressible phenomenon: the worldwide resurgence of social, cultural, political and economic discontent. The evidence for this development is found in the constant appearance of contentious activities, which emerge from a fundamental conflict between formal authority and those forces that, for a variety of reasons, attempt to censure, oppose, alter or even destroy the perceived iniquities of the 'dominant' social order. The series makes particular reference to the mediated character of protest and dissent, but also encompasses theoretical, organisational and practical issues, and includes both historical and contemporary examples.

The term 'Protest' identifies the visible act of collective resistance; 'Media' acts (variously) to suppress, amplify, or reconfigure this act; and 'Culture' designates the active interactional 'space' that allows the various meanings animated by protest to circulate. The Series Editors share an approach to Protest and Mediated Culture that emerged from their work in the interdisciplinary field of Media Discourse. Our call is for proposals that may touch upon, but which are not necessarily limited to, the following thematic headings:

*CFP* CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, ISSUE 8, FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE

Found Footage Magazine is an independent and printed film journal distributed worldwide. It offers theoretical, analytical, and informative content that hinges on the use of archival images in media production practices.

Found Footage Magazine is a printed and double-blind peer reviewed film studies publication devoted to the reuse and repurposing of extant media in moving image art.

FFM will select essays/articles that engage with scholar discourses from a wide range of found footage filmmaking theory and praxis.

 

Key words:

Found Footage filmmaking – Recycled Cinema – Collage Film – Archival Film – Compilation Film – Video Essay – Media Remix – Mashup – Supercut

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ESTUDOS DE JORNALISMO: SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL OF THE JOURNALISM AND SOCIETY SECTION OF SOPCOM

Estudos de Jornalismo is an open access scientific journal of the Journalism and Society section of SOPCOM (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences) with a biannual edition. The journal considers unpublished works that present research results and / or theoretical reflection in the scope of Communication Sciences, with a special focus on Journalism. The journal accepts scientific research papers, reviews and critical essays in Portuguese, Spanish and English with no fee charge to authors.

Papers must be submitted through the email revistaestudosjornalismo@gmail.com, as well as any questions.

Publication rules and other instructions for authors can be found in the appropriate section (in Portuguese).

 

Dates

*CFP* "50 AÑOS DE ESTUDIOS UNIVERSITARIOS DE COMUNICACIÓN EN ESPAÑA", VOL. 31, Nº 1, REVISTA PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

El reconocimiento de rango universitario para “los estudios de periodismo y demás medios de comunicación social” (Decreto 2070/1971) condujo a la creación, el 17 de septiembre de 1971 (Decreto 2478/1971), de las primeras facultades de Ciencias de la Información en España, en las universidades Complutense de Madrid y Autònoma de Barcelona. A estos dos centros públicos se agregó unos meses más tarde, en abril de 1972, el reconocimiento de ese mismo rango a los estudios de periodismo impartidos en la Universidad de Navarra, de titularidad privada (decreto 891/1972). La incorporación de los estudios de Comunicación a la universidad española se completó con la creación en 1981 de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad del País Vasco, y quedó consolidado con la multiplicación de nuevos centros en la década de los 90 del siglo pasado. Los registros más recientes (Civil, 2018) indican que en el curso 2016-2017 estos estudios estaban implantados en 67 universidades españolas, con una oferta de 205 titulaciones de Grado que seguirían alrededor de 45.000 estudiantes, y un cuerpo docente formado por unos 4.500 profesores (Saperas, 2016). Este crecimiento espectacular de los estudios de Comunicación sería el reflejo del éxito social de unas titulaciones bien posicionadas para atender las demandas planteadas por el dinamismo y desarrollo del sector profesional de la comunicación, impulsado en las dos últimas décadas por la revolución digital.

*CFP* "DOCUMENTARY AND DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS", VISIBLE EVIDENCE XXVII, 2021

Visible Evidence XXVII, 2021

Documentary and Democracy in Crisis

Frankfurt am Main, December 15-18 2021

 

Visible Evidence XXVII will take place in a hybrid format. Around half of the conference presentation slots will be allocated to online presentations for those who cannot make it to Frankfurt in person. In addition, the conference keynote lectures will be live streamed to those attending virtually. The organizing committee is currently examining additional means to make virtual participants and attendants further engaged with the in-person panels and interactions. We ask applicants to state in advance whether they’ll participate virtually or in person. We are aware that applicants’ conditions might change. We will therefore also ask you to confirm your form of participation (in person or virtually) upon receiving notification of acceptance and in mid-October, two months before the conference.

*CFP* "NIÑOS Y JÓVENES ANTE LOS DISPOSITIVOS: NUEVOS FENÓMENOS COMUNICATIVOS Y NUEVOS CREADORES DE PRODUCTO", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, REVISTA ICONO14

Los creadores de contenidos en las diferentes plataformas (como YouTube, Instagram o TikTok) son cada vez son más jóvenes. Los niños y adolescentes son protagonistas de este fenómeno tanto en la creación como en el consumo de los mismos. Los medios tradicionales se han relegado a un segundo plano dejando un claro protagonismo a las plataformas de intercambios de contenido (videos, fotografías, etc.). A través de ellos generan mensajes hacia sus iguales con los mismos lenguajes, códigos, preferencias y gustos. Esto promueve un gran interés de las marcas comerciales para estar presentes en este entorno digital. A su vez, hay unos límites legales que, en ocasiones, quedan difusos o más bien olvidados, y que deberían respetarse. Este monográfico pretende reflexionar desde diferentes ámbitos de la comunicación sobre el papel de estos menores como creadores de contenidos y su influencia y protagonismo en la sociedad actual.

 

Líneas de Investigación

Se invita a participar en investigaciones empíricas o intervenciones teóricas sobre los siguientes temas:

*CFP* "BOOKS ON SCREEN", SYMPOSIUM 2021 OF LEEDS AND ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITIES

Books on Screen

University of Leeds and Anglia Ruskin University

November 3rd, 2021

Online

 

The codex has long asserted itself as an indication of its owner's sophistication and status. Codex display under pandemic conditions has highlighted the complexities of presenting books on screen; we have become increasingly aware of the importance of book materiality through online discussions centred on #BookshelfCredibility and #PandemicBookshelves, which draw attention to the shelves lurking in our Zoom backgrounds. Such backdrops, like bookish tableaus on BookTube, Bookstagram, and other social media spaces, have invited scholarly examination of curated book displays. But this study of books on social media – books as a component of self-presentation – can be complemented by a broader study of books on screen: representations of the book in films, television, photography, game and other screen worlds. Indeed, books have long been featured on screen: the comic book in a-ha's iconic 'Take On Me' music video (1985) blends into reality; the magical tome in Myst (1993) transports gamers to a mysterious island; rare books are the stars of the recent film American Animals (2018). No matter the electronic medium, the physical form of the codex continues to assert itself as prop, metaphor, and plot device.

*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.

*CFP* "POSTHUMAN DRAG", EDITED COLLECTION

Is drag separable from gender? A preponderance of self-described "drag things" (versus drag kings and queens) specializing in performances of non-human entities and appearing everywhere from stages in local gay bars to digital platforms like Instagram and YouTube would suggest so; however, when we speak of drag in academic literature, we hew closely to notions of drag as demonstrating gender performativity above all else. This collection therefore seeks to theorize a previously underrepresented form of drag performance that does not necessarily play with gender so much as it plays with humanness:We call this "posthuman drag."

Since the inception of Queer Studies, the transformational art form of drag has provided a deep well from which to draw theorization on embodiment and gender performativity; Judith Butler's extensive scholarship on gender in particular has given us a means to use drag as a lens for denaturalizing the social and cultural preconceptions through which gendered embodiment is heteronormatively conditioned. Though Butler's work helped to rehabilitate drag by disentangling it from an essentialist pre–Queer Studies definition as an exclusively gay cismale practice of female impersonation, there remains a divisive bias toward drag queen performance in academic scholarship on drag (already perceptible in one of the first book-length studies on drag, Esther Newton's 1972 Mother Camp). Additionally, studies of drag tend to lean on a framework that perceives the relationship between drag and gender differentially on the basis of gendered embodiment, which is intimately bound to the cissexist norms against which drag would otherwise be capable of working.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, 2021 ISSUE, L'AVVENTURA: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ITALIAN FILM AND MEDIA LANDSCAPES

L’avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes aims at positioning itself at the heart of the contemporary debate on Italian visual and media culture, its history and its present characteristics. The journal’s main areas of interest include:

• Patterns, styles, figures: the evolution of styles and patterns, themes and narratives; the relationship between film and other art and communication practices; modes of production and industrial forms.
• Archive: film and media archives, as much as oral sources.
• Differences: local, national, gender and generational identities as shaped and molded in cinema and media discourse.
• Spectatorship: reception and audience studies within the Italian context or related to the Italian media products circulating abroad.
• Camera: the history and present of Italian photography, as related to visual and media culture.
• Contemporary tale: a fresh look onto contemporary narrative patterns within Italian media production.

*CFP* "EL CINE DE LUIS BERLANGA", Nº 25-2022, REVISTA FOTOCINEMA

El año 2021 se conmemoró el centenario del nacimiento del director Luis García Berlanga, uno de los cineastas españoles más internacionales e influyentes de nuestra cinematografía. Su universo fílmico, único y singular, ha traspasado la ficción para proyectarse en la realidad que está más allá de la pantalla, como reconoció la Real Academia Española (RAE) al incluir en el diccionario el término “berlanguiano”.

Desde su primera película, Esa pareja feliz (1951), codirigida con Juan Antonio Bardem, hasta la última, París-Tombuctú (1999), pasando por otros títulos significativos como Calabuch (1956), ¡Vivan los novios! (1969), su trilogía Nacional (1978, 1980, y 1982), La vaquilla (1985) o Todos a la cárcel (1993), Berlanga ha reflejado medio siglo de la intrahistoria de España con ironía y cierto jolgorio festivo. La mirada de este director, acompañada en gran parte por la pluma del guionista Rafael Azcona, ha retratado de manera sarcástica, pero a la vez conmovedora, la idiosincrasia de la realidad española. En el cine de Berlanga la trama, con situaciones esperpénticas, absurdas, caóticas, carnavalescas, reflejadas con un tono de humor negro, satírico y festivo, se despliega en planos secuencia corales donde los múltiples y variados personajes se mueven de un espacio a otro, mientras hablan y hablan. Personajes miserables, pero entrañables. Personajes atrapados en el “arco berlanguiano”, en esa estructura dramática que impide que puedan llevar a cabo sus sueños, alcanzar sus metas, y que hace de las películas de Berlanga crónicas de un fracaso, como el propio director decía.

*CFP* "CONSTRUIRSE UNA VOZ: CINEASTAS ESPAÑOLAS DEL SIGLO XXI", SECCIÓN CUADERNO, L' ATALANTE: REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS CINEMATOGRÁFICOS

Las niñas (Pilar Palomero, 2020) arranca con una colección de primeros planos que las presenta gesticulando, haciendo parecer que cantan. Después del ejercicio, la monja les pide a unas “cantar de verdad”, a otras mover solamente los labios. La profesora da las primeras notas en el piano, pero en el momento en el que las niñas toman aire para cantar o hacer como que cantan, el montaje introduce un corte a negro, un silencio tremendamente elocuente. El prólogo se propone como un canto cortado que abre un discurso que supondrá la travesía subjetiva de una niña que no sabe o no puede hablar hasta la articulación de una voz. Podemos interpretar a esa niña de vivísimos ojos atentos —interpretada por Andrea Fandos— como una heredera de Ana Torrent en El espíritu de la colmena (Víctor Erice, 1973), niña del cine español que alza el emblema del deseo de saber. Podemos interpretar a esa niña también como metonimia de una generación de directoras que años después podrán articular una voz a través del arte cinematográfico, al hacer trabajo de su vocación.

Cuando, en 2013, la revista Caimán Cuadernos de Cine intentó acuñar la etiqueta “Otro Nuevo Cine Español” para referirse a la nómina de nuevas firmas que habían ido surgiendo desde el comienzo del milenio en el cine nacional, el número de autoras no alcanzó la decena. Número a todas luces insuficiente, pero también indicativo de que había ya una semilla tanto por parte de las publicaciones como de las instituciones para apoyar paulatinamente un proceso de apuesta por la igualdad de oportunidades en la producción cinematográfica nacional. En 2017, en su décimo aniversario, Caimán presta su gran angular a las 50 directoras del siglo XXI, entre las cuales hay ya ocho españolas. Sin embargo, en la serie documental Women Make Film (Mark Cousins, 2018) solamente aparece Ana Mariscal.

16ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "EXILIO CUBANO: DESDE LOS MÁRGENES DEL DOCUMENTAL EN LA DIÁSPORA (2006-2018)"

 

*CFP* "LOS AÑOS 90 EN LA LITERATURA Y EL ARTE IBEROAMERICANOS", PRÓXIMO 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* "COMUNICACIÓN Y MODA: TENDENCIA, ESTILOS DE VIDA Y DISEÑO", VOL. 12, Nº 1, COMHUMANITAS: REVISTA DE COMUNICACIÓN CIENTÍFICA

La moda es arte, cultura, es una forma de expresión. Como fenómeno social, ha sido estudiada desde diversos enfoques: la filosofía, la estética, la sociología, su relación con la sociedad de consumo, los bienes de lujo, los sistemas de clases, el arte y los cánones de belleza, etc. La moda funciona como generadora simbólica y creadora de cultura, rige las relaciones personales y colectivas, crea historias, funciona como manifestación de modo de reacción ante determinadas circunstancias sociales y da un impulso significativo a la economía mundial. En su desarrollo como industria y en el impulso de su importante papel en la sociedad actual, la comunicación ha tenido un papel esencial.

En este contexto de evolución, desde el inicio de los medios tradicionales hasta la actualidad, destaca la necesidad de entender las estrategias comunicativas que se implementan en el campo de la moda y que distinguen a esta industria de las demás. Resulta importante preguntarnos sobre cómo las labores de comunicación contribuyan al desarrollo social y económico del sector de la moda, cómo apoyan su profesionalización e impulsan la gestión de la creatividad con sentido de responsabilidad social e inteligencia crítica. Nos interesa indagar sobre el papel de las redes sociales y los medios de comunicación en estos procesos, así como observar los cambios sufridos en los últimos años en el mundo de la moda y las tendencias, y las proyecciones o necesidades que debe cubrir la comunicación para subsanar sus crisis.

*CFP* "COVID-19: THE CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF A GLOBAL CRISIS", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CULTURAL STUDIES

What is the meaning of the coronavirus pandemic as a global crisis? Or, to unpack this somewhat naïve question: what does such a crisis feel, look like and signify to those living through it? How are its legibility, coherence and significance as a ‘crisis’ constructed and performed across highly variable cultural and social contexts? How does its occurrence maintain, amplify or transform cultural practices, representational repertoires, solidarities and power relations? And how can inquiry into something as vast, multifarious and pervasive as the pandemic generate new theory about the cultural construction of ‘crisis’ in our time - particularly since, at the moment of writing, it is still going on? In short, how might we address both the intensely particular manifestations of Covid-19 in different locations, times and populations, and yet grasp its totality as a global phenomenon?

Calling the pandemic a ‘crisis’ draws it firmly into the orbit of cultural studies in three primary ways, which can be summarized through three interconnected questions: how is Covid-19 constructed as a crisis? what it is a crisis of? and through what cultural agencies is it produced and reproduced?

*CFP* "100 YEARS OF PAULO FREIRE", VOL. 26, Nº 2, COMUNICAÇÃO & EDUCAÇÃO SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

In 2021, the centenary of the education philosopher, communication theorist, and public man, Paulo Freire, is being celebrated by thousands of researchers and promoters of a transformative education, all over the world.

For his universally recognized contribution, the scientific journal Comunicação & Educação will publish the Dossier “100 years of Paulo Freire”, a special edition, which should circulate at the end of this year. Paulo Freire (1921-1997), born in Recife, Pernambuco, is the most cited Brazilian intellectual reference all over the world. His extensive work is marked by a deep commitment to an emancipatory philosophy of the popular strata, through Education. The Brazilian educator is also a fundamental reference for the theories of communication in Latin America. This influence is recognized by leading researchers in the area, notably in Latin American cultural studies and community, popular and alternative communication. His pedagogy based on practice and dialog has been applied to projects in the countryside and in the city around the world. Freire continues to inspire and guide the practice of liberating pedagogy in various institutions and social movements, in formal and informal education. His praxis in the communication and education interface became the basis of thought that contributed to the emergence and consolidation of educommunication, as a concept and practice. 

*CFP* "COVID CRISIS AND POLITICAL COMMUNICATION", ISSUE 3/2021, COMUNICAZIONE POLITICA

Since the first months of 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has developed globally, generating consequences and reactions in various aspects of social life. One of the most specific and characterizing features of this crisis lies in the coexistence and interconnection of multiple elements of change in (so far) seemingly distant fields. The crisis immediately turned out to be “hyperconnected”, due to its genesis, geography, dynamics, institutions, impact, perspectives, communication, information, protagonists, as well as the centrality of the digital infrastructure that innervates communication and activities in the contemporary world.

In its most directly political aspects, the crisis has acquired great media visibility and has brought to the fore the issue of the connection between scientific and political communication. The stress to which healthcare institutions have been subjected has led to unprecedented responses from government institutions at different levels, in an attempt to reconcile the tackling of pandemic emergencies, the subsequent economic crisis and the reactions of public opinion. The emergency has also highlighted the role of “fake news” in shaping the public opinion and in affecting individual behavior and the progressive choices of decision makers. As scholars of political communication well know, the crowding of information and narratives in a hybrid and high-choice communicative environment constitutes a challenge for the functioning of democracies. 

*CFP* "IMÁGENES, IMAGINARIOS Y NUEVAS NARRATIVAS EN CONTEXTOS DE CRISIS", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, IC: REVISTA CIENTÍFICA DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN

Las imágenes, los imaginarios y las nuevas narrativas articulan, en la actualidad, modos de explicación de las diversas crisis (sociales, sanitarias, políticas, económicas y culturales) (Angulo, 2018; 2017b; 2017a; Arribas y Gómez Villar, 2014; Belzunegui Erazo, 2012; Castells, 2016; Cabrera, 2019; Butler, 2006; Lazaratto, 2013). Crisis y crítica tienen un ethos común (Browne, Del Valle, Silva Echeto, 2018; Del Valle y Silva Echeto, 2018; Richard, 2010; Silva Echeto, 2014). La etimología de la palabra “crítica” se asocia a la palabra “crisis”. El contenido de ambos términos designa “el momento decisivo en un asunto de importancia” y que, por lo tanto, reúne las acepciones de cortar, dividir, medir y también elegir, decidir y juzgar. Mientras la crisis es una potencia de mutación, la crítica es una fuerza de intervención. Los flujos segmentados y ramificados del capitalismo des-diferenció límites y fronteras, aunque trazó otras fronteras (por ejemplo en el caso de los flujos humanos-migratorios) y des-fronterizó otros (los flujos de capitales), nivelando “eclécticamente valores, gustos y opiniones en nombre del pluralismo de lo diverso” tendiendo “a anular el principio de la distancia (separación, distinción) que reclamaba la crítica modernista antes de ver tambalear su lugar de autoridad, invadida por la promiscuidad y la contigüidad de los signos que des-jerarquizan cualquier escala de valoración en un mundo de interpenetración de las redes que activan tráficos ambiguos entre lo uno y lo otro, lo igual y lo diferente, lo próximo y lo distante, lo integrado y lo disperso” (Richard, 2010: 24).

*CFP* "NARRATIVE AND MUSIC", CONFERENCE

"Narrative and music" Conference

From 15 to 17 November 2021, Brussels

The cognitivist turn sparked a renewed interest in narrative analysis that extends beyond the study of literature. It has expanded across media such as film, graphic novels, video games, and music. This conference focuses on the study of narrative and narrativity in music. While some critics are convinced of music’s capacity for story-building, others consider the use of narrative theory derived from literary studies for the analysis of music unsuitable. This conference takes music’s narrative potential as its point of departure but recognizes that musical narrativity is scalar. With ‘narrativity of music’ as an umbrella term, the conference has three subthemes: (1) the narrative capacity of music, (2) narrativity of minimalist music, and (3) the narrativity of music in intermedial works. 

*CFP* "WHEN AMERICAN TELEVISION BECAME AMERICAN LITERATURE", BOOK CHAPTER

Brill is interested in publishing a volume that broadly addresses American television series produced between (approximately) January of 1999 (debut of The Sopranos) and May 2015 (final episode of Man Men).  Specifically, the volume addresses the manifestation of American literary themes, recurrent references to American literature broadly and individual artists and works specifically, as well as the reconceptualization of established American characters.       

In a 2015 interview with David Simon (creator of The Wire) President Barak Obama offered that The Wire is, "one of the greatest -- not just television shows, but pieces of [American] art in the last couple of decades." The Wire combines hyperrealism (from a-quasi anthropological capture of syntax and dialect that recalls the language of Langston Hughes and Zora Neal Hurston to a preference for actors who lived “the game” in Baltimore’s inner city) with the reinvention of fundamental American themes (from picaresque individualisms to challenging American exceptionalism) within a (at the time) emerging convention: the premium cable serialized drama.

*CFP* "THE MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS OF MAGAZINE JOURNALISM", THEMATIC ISSUE, ANIMUS: INTER-AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDIA COMMUNICATION

It is open until April 30, 2021, the call for papers for the thematic issue "The multiple dimensions of magazine Journalism” to be published in Animus – Inter-American Journal of Media Communication (ISSN 2175-4977), a publication of the Postgraduate in Communication from UFSM Federal University of Santa Maria (POSCOM / UFSM), Brazil. Manuscripts must be written in Portuguese, Spanish or English with a length between 30.000 and 45.000 characters, to be considered for peer-review. The thematic issue will be published in the last trimester of 2021. This CFP aims to bring debates and reflections about news production in the magazine support, whether in physical or digital structure, through contributions from researchers in Social and Human Sciences, such as Communication, Journalism, Media Studies, History, Sociology, Studies Cultural, among others.

 

Contributions that address the following themes are encouraged:

• Magazine journalism in the digital environment / cybermagazine journalism;
• Migration from the printed to the digital environment;

*CFP* "REVISITING THE WARRIOR PRINCESS AND HER LEGACY: XENA 20 YEARS ON", VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Revisiting the Warrior Princess and her legacy: Xena, 20 years on

18th and 19th June 2021

Virtual Conference

 

On 18th June 2021 it will be twenty years since the controversial final episode of ground-breaking television series Xena: Warrior Princess, ‘A Friend in Need Part II’ aired. Although the series was first conceived as a spin-off from a series featuring a male hero, Hercules The Legendary Journeys, Xena's popularity surpassed that of Hercules, and ran for six seasons from 1995-2001. Xena paved the way for subsequent action heroines, from Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who reached our television screens in 1997, to the re-envisioned Wonder Woman in the recent blockbuster films. The (initially subtextual) relationship between Xena and Gabrielle also influenced the depiction of LGBT relationships in popular culture. Xena garnered a large fan base and spawned an interest in the ancient world for a generation of young viewers.

*CFP* "CINEMA, AESTHETICS AND MEMORY", I INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES CONFERENCE

Cinema, Aesthetics and Memory: I International Film Studies Conference

2, 3 and 4 of June of 2021

University of Coimbra (Online)

 

Cinema is a privileged territory for aesthetic and discursive experimentation regarding memory, both in fiction and documentary film. The subjective turn underwent in the latter field over the last decades of the 20th century belongs to a wider cultural process, in which the contemporary interest in the past leads to a desire to rework the official narratives of history. This dynamic has been especially active in Latin America, among other territories, since documentary film has had a crucial role in constructing a collective memory about the military dictatorships that generated profound loss and trauma in different countries. Patricio Guzmán, the filmmaker honored by this conference, is one of the best-regarded documentarists in Latin-America, author of an extensive work on the social and political history of his country, Chile. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 2ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION (EDU2021)

2nd International Conference on Education (EDU2021)

8th-12th August 2021

Athens, Greece

 

After the organization of seven successful annual international conferences (see previous conferences), the 2nd International Conference on Education (EDU2021) aims to provide an opportunity for academics, professionals, and industry experts from various fields, with cross-disciplinary interests, to discuss future directives and innovations in Education.

This year, apart from our face-to-face conference, we also propose and promote online participation, as some countries/participants might still face travel restrictions. Even if remote participation will only require half the normal registration fee, we will do our best to provide participants with equal opportunities to exchange, share, and communicate, as with F2F participants.

*CFP* "BEYOND FAKE NEWS: MITIGATING EPISTEMICALLY TOXIC CONTENT", AN INTERNATIONAL ONLINE WORKSHOP

University of Haifa/Zefat Academic College

An International Online Workshop

Beyond Fake News: Mitigating Epistemically Toxic Content

21st-22nd April, 2021

Online

 

In 2016, “fake news” took ‎center stage as a contributor to surprising political events. Reluctant to do so at first, Facebook and Twitter have since taken steps to fight dubious posts, and have drawn on independent fact ‎checkers to validate and flag stories that are reported as fake by users. Misinformation spreaders have not rested on their laurels either. They have started creating deepfakes, namely, artificial realistic faces and ‎videos that make ‎it appear as if people said or did something they didn’t, and artificial intelligence-generated images to create seemingly real ‎profile pictures on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn to lend the users an air of credibility. At the same time, individuals are regularly posting and sharing misinformation and disinformation without any apparent help or encouragement from malign actors, often without malevolent intent.

*CFP* "TRAUMA AND NIGHTMARE", 4TH INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

4th International Interdisciplinary Conference

Trauma and nightmare

(Online)

 

“Trauma” and “nightmare” have become the most popular metaphors of evil in our times. The old philosophical discussion about “the nature (or mystery) of Evil” has been replaced by modern (and postmodern) studies on trauma. Nightmare is a more and more frequent phenomenon, and it is being studied by dream and sleep researchers. However, nightmare means not only bad dream – today this term describes also a variety of unpleasant experiences, memories, emotions, so it deserves special attention as an important factor which characterizes human condition.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 6TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION AND MANAGEMENT

The 6th Annual International Conference on Communication and Management

1st-5th August, 2021

Communication Institue of Greece, Athens, Greece

The 6th  Annual International Conference on Communication and Management (ICCM2021) aims to provide an opportunity for academics, professionals, and industry experts from various fields, with cross-disciplinary interests, to discuss the future directives and innovations in communication and management.

We seek to build bridges between academia and professionals in the domains treated by this interdisciplinary conference. As a result, in addition to traditional panels, we welcome ideas for laboratories, workshops, and seminars to demonstrate projects, exchange and discuss ideas, and share best practices in relation to the conference themes.

*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.

*CFP* CALL FOR VIDEO-ESSAYS, ISSUE 7, TECMERIN: JOURNAL OF AUDIOVISUAL ESSAYS

Tecmerin. Journal of Audiovisual Essays launches its CFP for issue 7. It is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal, which also offers a monographic dossier each year. This journal is published by the research group Tecmerin (Television, Cinema, Memory, Representation and Industry) of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Department of Media).

The journal focuses on Spanish and Latin American cultural production, although not exclusively. Consequently, we especially invite scholars, researchers and creators to send pieces centered on the production, consumption, circulation and cultural exchange within these geographical areas. 

Instructions for authors

Researchers and creators may send their audiovisual essays to one of the following sections: 

• Video-Essays: audiovisual essays that offer a critical take on diverse aspects of cinema, television and popular culture.

*CFP* "PERIPHERAL CINEMA(S)", ISSUE Nº 3, TRANSLOCAL: CULTURAS CONTEMPORÂNEAS LOCAIS E URBANAS

A cultural phenomenon generated in the context of an urban, cosmopolitan and scopophilic modernity, in which the invention of new devices and techniques for registering and projecting images crossed sometimes with aesthetic and creative experimentalism, sometimes with journalistic, scientific and artistic interest in documenting reality, cinema took on an axial role in what Michel de Certeau (1990) called the practice of everyday life. Decisive for the definition of this visual regime simultaneously euphoric and phobic, transgressive and enlightening, as Isabel Capeloa Gil (2007) referred to, cinema has definitively contributed to the reconfiguration of contemporary societies, to the definition of its borders and for the prioritisation of its eco-sociocultural systems, by enhancing the flow, conveyance and re-imagination of values as well as social, cultural, political and economic dynamics that have organised the urban fabric from the end of the 19th century onwards.

This prominence did not invalidate, however, that the cinema also occupied a certain peripherality in the cultural, artistic and scientific systems. This has happened simultaneously because of its impure and sometimes massified character, often oscillating between the marketing of entertainment and information, and ideological propaganda; as well as because of its hybrid speech and radical gesture of the cinematographic vanguard, ascertained both at the level of creative experimentation in the conception of film language as to the level of world images selected and disseminated, daring to give voice to a plurality of narratives hidden in the dominant representations of these and in these societies, or making visible alternative ways of thinking about them, acting on them and reconstructing them in a less hegemonic way.

*CFP* "CENTERING WOMEN ON POST-2010 CHINESE TV" AND "GLOBAL TV IMAGES OF FEMALE MASCULINITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE &

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). This matriarchal narrative maneuver later led to the widely popular “big heroine dramas” of Chinese TV in the past decade, the narratives of which focus on the life trajectories, professional obstacles, familial relationships, and romantic lives of female protagonists living in either the contemporary era or a temporally and spatially remote world (Sun & Yang, 2019, pp. 26-28). At the same time, a growing number of reality shows, talk TV shows, dating programs, and lifestyle shows in the post-2010 years have addressed themes related to women’s sociocultural roles in both professional and private milieus, such as parenting skills, same-sex friendships and homosociality, and marital-familial issues in contemporary China characterized by cosmopolitanism, post-feminism, digitization, (post-)globalization, and deterritorialization.

*CFP* "ALGORITHMIC ANTAGONISMS: RESISTANCE, RECONFIGURATION, AND RENAISSANCE FOR COMPUTACIONAL LIFE", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA JOURNAL

In August 2020, the UK government’s black-boxed algorithm for deciding students’ grades made headlines. It had allegedly lowered the results of 40% of students, most of which from lower-income schools, thus crushing many students’ hopes for entering prestigious universities. Students went out to the streets and protested, memorably chanting “Fuck the algorithm!”. This recent case is just one of many that highlight a clear need for critical and empirical attention on algorithms and the work that they do, given their increasing importance in shaping social and economic life. There has been important work through critical studies that catalogue the multifaceted domination of algorithmic life and points of liberatory design out of it (Eubanks 2018, Costanza-Chock 2020), while recognising epistemological cleavages between powers of critique and scientific practice (Moats and Seaver 2019) in the seemingly impenetrable nature of “black boxed” algorithmic life (Pasquale 2015). Much critical scholarship tied to algorithms focuses on the ills of algorithms, or the ways in which a normativity can be developed around an ethical, equitable or fair expression of computation via design (see ACM FAccT). Other responses include consideration of critical practices that advance data science in ways that identify and create social and organizational arrangements necessary for a more ethical data science (Neff et al. 2017) or move towards data justice (Dencik et al. 2019, Taylor 2017, Johnson 2014) to offer equity as design goals. Yet Critical Data Practices are also taking an antagonistic turn, focussing on ways to actively employ algorithms for everyday, social, and political agency, influence, or resistance.

*CFP* "ALGORITHMS IN FILM, TELEVISION AND SOUND CULTURES: NEW WAYS OF KNOWING AND STORYTELLING", ONLINE CONFERENCE

Algorithms in Film, Television and Sound Cultures: New Ways of Knowing and Storytelling

Online Conference

April 29-30, 2021

 

Contemporary visual and sound cultures which increasingly rely on algorithmic analytics raise important questions on subjectivity and creativity in our ways of seeing and hearing, the ethics of the visual and the aural, the quantified self, the aesthetics and the provenance of the image.

The use of algorithmic analytics to create media content, including films, series, trailers and teasers have proliferated with the advent of networking and digital streaming platforms. Digital data sets have become commodities in the global media industry. The knowledge obtained from digital data sustains the flow of knowledge on the users’ choices, governing production and consumption processes. 

*CFP* "WHAT DOES THE ALGORITHM WANT? PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE CRITIQUE OF DIGITAL CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, CLCWEB

This special issue of CLCWeb asks: “What does the algorithm want?” Contributions are invited from scholars working in the area of psychoanalysis and digital/online media.

What does psychoanalytic criticism offer us as a practice for critically interrogating digital and online media?

Who among us does not already know about the critique of digital platforms? We hear all the time about big tech, big data, platform capitalism, communicative capitalism, surveillance capitalism, control society, and so forth. The Edward Snowden leaks about the PRISM program in 2013 provided evidence for what we all already secretly believed: that our online interactions and communications are all the time being monitored and collected by mega corporations and the government. 

The Cambridge Analytica scandal, revealed by whistle blower, Christopher Wylie, in 2018 taught us even more about the ways platforms manipulate users’ views of the world and the ways this impacts our actions and behaviours, our ethics and our politics.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, SECOND VOLUME, THE JOURNAL OF ANIME AND MANGA STUDIES

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is eager to announce a Call for Papers for our second volume.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandom surrounding these areas. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.

Because anime and manga studies is such a diverse field, JAMS welcomes papers regarding anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms as analyzed from any number of scholarly perspectives. Works published in JAMS first volume ranged from media industry history, to the intersections of disability and queer identity.

All papers published in JAMS are published with a Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

*CFP* "MUSIC AND NATIONALISM", 3RD GLOBAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Music and Nationalism

3rd Global Interdisciplinary Conference

Online

June 12, 2021

 

Music is commonly regarded as a universal language, and yet it is also through music that the fiercest of nationalistic sentiments and inspirations for protest and rebellion have been expressed.

As a unifying force, music has frequently been used in the quest to establish a national identity as well as to emphasise social and political beliefs and promote particular agendas. But in doing so, music also establishes ‘others’ who do not belong to the collective. In light of political scientist and historian Benedict Anderson’s characterisation of nationalism as an imagined community, it is hardly surprising that music, with its extraordinary power over the human imagination, should play such an integral part in the way nationalism is constructed and understood.

*CFP* IV PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS

El grupo de investigación TECMERIN (Televisión y Cine: Memoria Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid y Secuencias. Revista de Historia del Cine de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid convocan el IV PREMIO ALBERTO ELENA DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE CINES PERIFÉRICOS. Esta cuarta convocatoria continúa con la vocación de premiar el trabajo en castellano en torno al concepto de "cines periféricos" y, en general, a una hipotética periferia audiovisual, con la intención de animar así la que fuera una de las líneas principales en el trabajo como investigador del profesor Alberto Elena.

Si bien la convocatoria está abierta a toda propuesta de investigación relacionada con un área geopolítica periférica o del Sur (como prefirió referirse a estas áreas de producción y consumo cinematográfico Alberto Elena en sus más recientes trabajos) y cualquier tipo de propuesta audiovisual, el título de este premio pone en valor la idea de cierta producción audiovisual obviada de manera sistemática por determinadas corrientes historiográficas. Aunque superada la terminología inicial (sea cine del Tercer Mundo, sea Cine Periférico), lo cierto es que la idea de "cine periférico" rescató para la investigación audiovisual en castellano toda un área geopolítica aún pendiente de ser integrada plenamente en la historiografía mundial.

*CFP* "LA CRISIS DEL SISTEMA CAPITALISTA EN LA LITERATURA Y EL CINE HISPANOS", MONOGRÁFICO, POLIFONÍA: REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISPÁNICOS

Polifonía, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos invita a participar en este número, en el monográfico: «La crisis del sistema capitalista en la literatura y el cine hispanos». La fecha límite para el envío de propuestas se termina el 15 de mayo de 2021.

Polifonía busca artículos críticos e innovadores en torno a este tema, que analicen alguna de las siguientes crisis del capitalismo crudo – aunque no es excluyente - en el mundo hispanohablante para su publicación a fines del 2021:

• Distopías y crisis social
• Pandemia
• Crisis medioambiental
• Crisis migratoria
• Crisis laboral y de subsistencia
• Crisis alimentaria
• Crisis energética
• Crisis política
• Crisis cultural, hegemonía y medios de comunicación.

*CFP* "PHOTOGRAPHY, SOUND AND CINEMA RESEARCH", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE STEREO & INMMERSIVE MEDIA 2021

International Conference Stereo & Immersive Media 2021

“Photography, Sound and Cinema Research”

Online Edition

June 17-19, 2021

Organized by Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal

 

The International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media aims to bring together the research fields of photography, sound and cinema, considering their historical and current relationships with expanded and immersive environments. In 2021, due to the Corona virus pandemic, its 4th edition will adopt an online format and will combine traditional plenary sessions and themed parallel tracks, with a S3D Short Film Festival and a Virtual Art Gallery to showcase the most recent and diverse immersive artworks.

*CFP* "THE SHIFTING ECOLOGIES OF PHOTOCHEMICAL FILM IN THE DIGITAL ERA", ONLINE 2021 CONFERENCE BY THE ABERSTWYTH UNIVERSITY

The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era

7th-11th June 2021

Online

 

In today’s high-tech media landscape, where cycles of consumption and disposal and upgrades and updates are commonplace, the subject of obsolescence takes on a heightened significance. Many technological changes have occurred during the history of cinema, but none have had such a transformative effect on the industry as the transition from analogue (or photochemical) film to digital. Since the early 2000s, the medium of film has moved from a dominant to a marginal position as digital technology has rendered photochemical and mechanical technology obsolete on a commercial scale. Despite this, artists are finding new ways to work with film, forging alternative communities, pursuing artisanal methods, repurposing abandoned equipment, reinventing primitive techniques and exploring new hybrid technologies.

*CFP* "IVO VAN HOVE", SPECIAL ISSUE, LITERATURE/FILM QUARTERLY

Ivo van Hove is one of the most celebrated theatre artists working today—a fact made all the more surprising by his distinctive avant garde aesthetic. In 2019, Jason Zinoman of the New York Times struggled to name “another artist who has transitioned from experimental theater to the red-hot center of Broadway with as much success.” On stages across Europe and North America, the Belgian director has boldly reimagined canonical works of the stage and screen for a new century, often reflexively integrating video feeds and recordings into his productions. In the process, his work challenges the binaries between liveness and mediation, theatre and film, the commercial mainstream and the avant garde. It also provides a rich opportunity for scholars of theatre, performance, literature, film, and media to come together to analyze and interpret his oeuvre.

This special issue of Literature/Film Quarterly builds on the growing body of research on van Hove to discuss him as an adapter—not only in his staging of classic texts, but in his intermedial efforts to blend live performance and new media technologies. We welcome essays grounded in adaptation studies that consider textuality, remediation, technology, stagecraft, ideology, and/or aesthetics to examine not only van Hove’s artistry, but the enduring tensions between live and mediated performance.

*CFP* "POLITICAL COMMUNICATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, CONTRATEXTO JOURNAL

Contratexto is an Open Access refereed academic journal published by the Faculty of Communication at the University of Lima every six months, with emphasis on the field of communication and related branches. It edits articles, research papers, essays and bibliographical reviews in Spanish, Portuguese and English.

The 36th edition of Contratexto will address the new forms of communication education: extended classroom. This concept refers to the new pathways to emit messages and content through the use of media in the processes of teaching and learning. Thus, surpassing the barriers of the behaviorist framework, promoting disruptive, critical and creative thinking.

Dossier editors: Franahid D’silva (Universidad Nacional Abierta, Venezuela) and Mariana Gabriela Torres (Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina).

*CFP* "DIGITAL JOURNALISM IN CHINA", EDITED VOLUME

As the title suggests, this edited volume focuses on developments within digital journalism in China. It explores the implications of digital media technologies for journalists’ professional practice, news users’ consumption of and engagement with news, as well as the shifting institutional, organizational and financial structures of news media within the particular context of mainland China.

This book will hopefully form part of the Routledge Disruptions: Studies in Digital Journalism series. Disruptions refers to the radical changes provoked by the affordances of digital technologies that trigger changes in the business models, professional practice, roles, ethics, products and even the accepted definitions and understandings of journalism. For Digital Journalism Studies, the field of scholarly inquiry focused on the academic study of digital journalism, disruption results in paradigmatic shifts in scholarly concerns and prompts reconsideration of research methods, theoretical considerations and responses (oppositional and consensual) to such changes.

The Editors are particularly concerned to address the following topics, but authors are welcome to focus on other relevant themes.

*CFP* "PARTICIPATION IN TRANSITION: RETHINKING PARTICIPATORY CULTURE", SPECIAL ISSUE, BALTIC SCREEN MEDIA REVIEW

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed physical interaction among people, but it also continues to shape our relations with media and technology. Mediated and distant interaction and communication became the norm. This led to struggles for some individuals, groups, institutions, practices and services, while others blossomed and thrived. Is participatory culture, as we know it, changing as a result of the challenges of 2020?

Building on the 2020 volume of Baltic Screen Media Review, which explored the changes that the COVID-19 pandemic brought to media industries, we now call for papers on participation in the context of the pandemic and related crises.

While the pandemic has posed an incredible challenge in terms of media production, it has concurrently pushed innovation, resulting in a reinvigorated relationship between media and the audiences. Media was the window to the world for locked-down people, and via media and communication technologies people were informed, entertained and able to interact with one another. Yet, the incredible volume of data created from people’s media participation has enhanced rather than diminished the disproportionate power of already powerful platforms and corporations held over access, participation, public speech and cultural discourse.

*CFP* "PHARMACOLOGIES OF MEDIA", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIA THEORY JOURNAL

Are media doing us more harm than good? This question has shadowed accounts of new technologies for millennia, from the advent of writing right through to the emergence of social media. Beginning with Plato’s reflections on writing’s effects on memory, and under the influence of work by philosophers like Jacques Derrida (1981) and Bernard Stiegler (2011), media scholars often explore this question using the concept of the pharmakon.

In its Platonic sense, the pharmakon is both a remedy and a poison, or something that can both heal and harm. To describe media as pharmacological is to acknowledge that they can have both positive and negative effects. But this concept is difficult to disentangle from its medical origins. The pharmakon is a substance, a drug or a medicine, that might be intoxicating or beneficial. Like drugs, this double capacity is not inherently value-laden, or good and/or bad, but is a function of how the media operate. Like drugs, this capacity informs how media operate on, extend, or curtail our capacity to sense, think, or act. But here the analogy falls apart. Media and drugs address different domains of the body and have distinct cultures. If this analogy can only stretch so far, what are we to make of the concept of the pharmakon today?

*CFP* "PHONE CAMERA AT THE INTERSECTION OF TECHNOLOGY, POLITICS, AND TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING", ISSUE 18, FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL

In view of recent and current global events, the phone camera has emerged as an important and effective political apparatus. The centrality, proliferation, and prominence of phone footage across contemporary screen media and media platforms suggests that the phone camera is no longer just an indulgent phone fixture, but rather, an invaluable truth-telling tool. Practical, accessible, and autonomously used, the phone camera has been an essential technology to the present-day exposures of injustice, violence, and corruption around the world.

Media scholars have examined how the advent of phone camera technology has presented a new communicative strategy, challenged the epistemology of documentary truth, and disrupted prevailing models of representation—as well as present new modes of cinema—via its documenting and creative potential. Building on this body of work, Issue 18 of Frames Cinema Journal seeks to examine the political and inventive power of the phone camera, and its footage, by considering its complex intersections with technology, ideology, and other media. Frames invites considerations of phone footage’s formal, technological, and narrative properties as well as its relation to other networks of media and their transnational dissemination to contribute critically to the flowering academic discourse on the subject.

*CFP* "NARRATIVES IN DISPUTE: EPISTEMOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO CONFLICT, PEACE AND SECURITY", SPECIAL ISSUE, TRIPODOS JOURNAL

The monographic is looking for contributions that offer epistemological approaches to the fields of conflict, peace, and security studies. The understanding of these phenomena is always mediated by who tells the story and the language used for it. As a result, in every context there is always a plurality of narratives that are produced by top-down analysis and bottom-up experiences. How these narratives interact, clash, accommodate and influence each other is of utmost importance to make sense of how international interventions and the deployment of security and peace policies are received or confronted at the local level, and in turn, how bottom-up narratives could be integrated and get a central position. 

This call looks for critical articles –feminist, post-colonial, and/or critical and poststructuralist analysis– that focus on the process of narration and the actors involved in defining the script, as well as on intercultural translations by looking into possibilities of coexistence and tolerance.

 

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*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AUDIOVISUAL RESEARCHERS

8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers

June 23 to 25, 2021

Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa – Portugal

 

The 8th International Congress of Audiovisual Researchers will be held at Lusófona University, Lisbon, from 23 to 25 June 2021. The main goal of this international congress is to develop understanding of the paradigm shift set in motion by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the production of Digital Contents.

For the 2021 edition, the theme will be “Audiovisual and Creative Industries - Present and Future”. Alongside recognizing the importance of thinking and debating the challenges the audiovisual industry is facing today, mainly in the broader context of the creative industries, we also aim to promote the construction and consolidation of links between different sectors in the creative industries.

*CFP* "ACADEMIC LIFE IN THE PANDEMIC", SPECIAL FORUM SECTION, COMMUNICATION, CULTURE & CRITIQUE JOURNAL

The forum section in Communication, Culture & Critique publishes short, timely commentary pieces exploring contemporary issues in communication, media, and cultural studies for an international readership. COVID-19 is the focus of this forum, which is designed to gather narratives and commentaries from around the world, sharing situated and personal accounts of the pandemic’s many impacts on academic life. The forum’s essays will provide a critical perspective on academic life during the pandemic, with a focus on themes of power, inequality, and injustice. What opportunities and challenges have emerged from our amended work lives? How have existing inequalities been exacerbated or improved by the adaptations we have made to the ways we work? How have remote work practices affected the power dynamics in classrooms and academic departments? From reconciling homelife pressures while teaching/learning from home to adapting research projects and methods to accommodate the necessity of working remotely, these essays will explore how academics responded to COVID-19 in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Submissions should be narratives and commentaries, not research reports. Authors are encouraged to write in creative and/or experimental formats. While burnout and frustration are likely to shape some perspectives, we also seek submissions focused on humor and positive outcomes. Co-authored (or multi-authored) submissions are welcome. 

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION RESEARCH ON HEALTH DISPARITIES", SPECIAL ISSUE, HEALTH COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

The past year has witnessed heightened health disparities among distinct social groups which have been exposed and exacerbated by COVID-19. This global pandemic, in conjunction with other major crises, has brought challenges far beyond medicine and public health and is causing long term and devastating impacts. Socially vulnerable populations in particular are experiencing some of the greatest disparities caused by COVID-19. With the announcement of this Call for Papers, we ask in what ways health communication scholarship is producing knowledge and evidence-based practices to address health disparities and prepare for challenges to come. We believe addressing those emerging disparities in our ever-changing social environment requires multilateral collaboration. We encourage research involving interdisciplinary collaboration that could initiate meaningful dialogue and insightful knowledge sharing among scholars with different expertise on communication strategies to close social gaps enlarged by COVID-19.

This special issue seeks contributions on health communication research at individual, family, group, community, and societal levels in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has given rise to different types of local and global crises. Contributors are encouraged to embrace diversity in theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. We welcome submissions addressing health disparities caused by factors including but not limited to gender, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic status, ethnic and cultural background (e.g., BIPOC), educational level, ability level, and immigration status. Research from international and global contexts, including the Global South, are especially welcome.

*CFP* "FEMINISMS NOW", A VIRTUAL FEMINIST STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 2021 CONFERENCE

Feminisms Now: A Virtual Conference

The Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KFSEL)

28th-29th May, 2021

Via Online

 

The Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KFSEL) presents a virtual conference on “Feminisms Now” to be held on Zoom from Friday, May 28, 2021 to Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Women everywhere have disproportionately shouldered the social and economic fallout of COVID-19. Taking seriously the pandemic’s regressive impact on domestic violence, female care work, and women in the labor force, we invite scholars, students, and activists to discuss practical and theoretical challenges for feminism today. Beyond the gendered consequences of the pandemic, we’ll reflect on how recent movements such as #MeToo engage new technologies such as digital media to operate locally and globally. How might culturally contingent, specific concerns gain wider traction and concrete executive force? Is international feminist solidarity possible under the current conditions of global inequality and racist violence? Can feminism respond effectively to the rise of misogyny on social media?

*CFP* "TRIAL AND ERROR IV. RETHINKING DIGITAL NATIVE COMMUNICATORS TRAINING", ECREA JOURNALISM EDUCATION 2021 CONFERENCE

ECREA Journalism Education Conference 2021

May 13th, 2021

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

 

From the ECREA 'Journalism & Communication Education' TWG, we are happy to invite you to submit abstracts for our 6rd annual Conference titled, “Trial and Error IV. Rethinking digital native communicators training”, that will take place at the Autonomous University of Barcelona on May 13, 2021.

The unpredictable situation of the pandemic forces us to perform virtually for the first time. But we are sure that it will also be a great opportunity to exchange ideas between communication teachers at the European level.

*CFP* "FEELING DIGITAL AND REIMAGINING FIELDWORK DURING COVID TIME", U21 RESEARCHER RESILIENCE ONLINE WORKSHOP

The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS), and the HKU Anthropology Network and Department of Sociology are pleased to announce a call for participation in a workshop funded by Universitas 21 (U21). We will select 20 participants to form 5 groups, each conducting a set of experimental and auto-ethnographic fieldwork by using digital devices to perform critical “body-theatres”. These “body-theatres” will be designed and coordinated by our coach Ms. Anna Cruz Benavidez (Anthropologist and Theater Director at the OTRO CUERPO, a Theater and Research company). The participants will record the experimental fieldwork (less than one hour) and write ethnographic diaries to reflect upon these experiences. These recordings and diaries will be shared within a group and discussed by outstanding scholars in anthropology, sociology, media, and performance studies. The workshop’s outputs will be co-authored articles and other creative works based on the recordings and ethnographic diaries, followed by the discussants’ commentaries. We aim to combine these works into a creative edited volume.

Through the experimental fieldworks, we will form a deeper understanding of body politics and the critical phenomenology of living a “forced” digital life amidst the pandemic. We ask critical questions about our daily engagement with the “digital” and respond to the questions through artistic and philosophical bodily reflections. We seek to advance digital ethnography not simply as “fieldwork online” but as a broad system of intersubjective connections beyond a narrow boundary of empiricism.