*CFP* "USEFUL FILM IN (NEURO) PSYCHIATRY EUROPE, 1900-1950", WORKSHOP

Workshop “Useful Film in (Neuro) Psychiatry Europe, 1900–1950”

University of Lausanne 3-4 March 2022

This workshop is organized in the framework of the SNSF project Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse: autour de la collection Waldau, 1920-1990

 

Since its inception, the cinematograph had many applications in the medical field, and particularly in the fields of psychiatry, neurology and neuropsychiatry. With surgeons, neurologists and psychiatrists are at the forefront of using film as a tool for analyzing, storing, archiving, and transmitting knowledge. For a long time, the (neuro) psychiatric films made by doctors as part of their teaching and research have been overshadowed by educational and health films. But since 2000, and especially 2010, scholars from different disciplines are increasingly interested in these practices. Several interdisciplinary teams have conducted research, with the aim of rehabilitating film as a privileged source for both the history of medicine and the history of cinema.

*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR TOPICAL ISSUES, OPEN CULTURAL STUDIES

Open Cultural Studies invites groups of researchers, conference organizers and individual scholars to submit their proposals of edited volumes to be considered for publication as topical issues of the journal. 

 

About the journal: 

Open Cultural Studies is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that explores the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts. It interprets culture in an inclusive sense, in different theoretical, geographical and historical contexts. The journal would like to promote new research perspectives in cultural studies, but it also seeks to map out social and political scholarship that places questions of inequalities and imbalances of power at the heart of academic debate. 

 

Published special/Topical issues: 

*CFP* "DIALOGUE-SHARED EXPERIENCES ACROSS SPACE AND TIME: CROSS-LINGUISTIC AND CROSS-CULTURAL PRACTICES", 6TH ESTIDIA CONFERENCE

6th ESTIDIA Conference

Dialogue-shared Experiences across Space and Time: Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Practices

University of Alicante, Spain

15-17 June, 2022

 

From the Socratic dialogues to post-modern cyberchats, it is only in and through communicative interaction that we can understand the world, people, and how things are working around us (Bohm, 2004/1996, Rockwell 2003). By means of dialogue people are able to argue for their viewpoints, to come to terms with each other, to jointly solve problems, and to resolve conflicts (Pickering and Garrod 2021). Dialogue brings together women and men, young and old, people from the east and the west, from the north and the south. Through the creative synergy of shared thoughts, ideas, and experiences, we can travel anywhere in space and time. 

*CFP* "SOCIEDAD E IDENTIDAD EN EL AUDIOVISUAL LATINOAMERICANO Y ESPAÑOL", NÚMERO ENERO 2022, MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

A lo largo del siglo XX, los medios audiovisuales han sido los constructores más potentes de imaginarios sociales e identitarios. En el siglo XXI, la realidad de la globalización, la generalización de Internet y de las redes sociales y el surgimiento de las plataformas de consumo online han impulsado exponencialmente el intercambio cultural de dichos imaginarios. Se ha conformado así una cultura global que aglutina de forma paradójica la homogeneidad y la diversidad.

Por este motivo, este monográfico intenta responder a algunas cuestiones que se plantean en torno a la construcción de los imaginarios audiovisuales y suscitar el análisis de esta realidad compleja, tanto en el pasado como en el presente. El espacio de debate propuesto establece como marco la producción audiovisual (cine, televisión y otros canales posibles) de España y de Latinoamérica, con el fin de centrarse en la evolución social de estos ámbitos geográficos a partir de su representación en los medios.

A continuación, se proponen algunas líneas generales, aunque no exclusivas en torno al tema propuesto para el monográfico

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN POLÍTICA Y TECNOLOGÍAS APLICADAS: DESINFORMACIÓN, NOTICIAS FALSAS Y VERIFICACIÓN DE HECHOS", VOL. 25, Nº 112, REVISTA RAZÓN Y PALABRA

La facilidad de propagación de las noticias falsas en la sociedad digital constituye un peligro para la salud o la economía, pero también para la democracia en su conjunto. Esta es una consecuencia más de la popularización de la computación, de la robotización o de la segmentación algorítmica. En el marco de la Comunicación Política, sus consecuencias nocivas preocupan a instituciones, medios de comunicación y ciudadanía, muy especialmente en época electoral.

La crisis originada por la pandemia de COVID-19 ha generado un debate sobre la necesidad de establecer mecanismos de control que eviten la desinformación, así como el desarrollo de instrumentos que permitan verificar hechos. El “fact-checking”, pues, es una de las principales tareas de la comunicación, constituyéndose como pieza angular de la responsabilidad social: automatiza la corroboración de las noticias a través de la detección de la fuente, del análisis de contenido y de la dirección de los distintos flujos informativos. Y es que, en este contexto de miedo colectivo, la proliferación de datos inexactos y la utilización con fines de intoxicación de las redes sociales por parte de actores políticos erosiona la estabilidad social, la convivencia pacífica y las bases sobre las que se construyen las democracias liberales, también las iberoamericanas.

*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y CRISIS EN EL ESPACIO PÚBLICO", VOL. 31, Nº 3, REVISTA EL PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

En los últimos años hemos asistido a un proceso de creciente polarización y descrédito de las instituciones que tradicionalmente han sido representativas de un sistema democrático (Bennett; Pfetsch, 2018), tanto en la esfera internacional como en el contexto español. La irrupción de los populismos, la atomización del voto (Stroud, 2010) y las dificultades para alcanzar mayorías que permitan la formación de gobiernos sólidos plantean serias incógnitas de futuro en un escenario comunicativo híbrido, en el que la desinformación (Guess; Nyhan; Reifler, 2018) empieza a alcanzar niveles preocupantes para una mayoría de ciudadanos.

La pérdida de credibilidad de los medios de comunicación tradicionales, en paralelo a las posibilidades de creación y distribución de mensajes en la esfera pública a través de las redes sociales, ha abierto la puerta a actores políticos y sociales que habían quedado excluidos de la misma, pero también ha rebajado los estándares para la circulación de mensajes centrados en la divulgación de falsedades o en el discurso del odio. En este contexto, lejos de facilitar el consenso y la unidad en torno a valores democráticos, han contribuido a la polarización y disgregación (Sunstein, 2019), así como a una mayor presencia y visibilidad de posturas políticas que confrontan directamente con estos principios. La irrupción de un partido que comulga con los principios de la extrema derecha en el panorama político español -con representación en las instituciones tras casi cuatro décadas de presencia marginal, plantea la necesidad de reflexionar sobre un escenario político, social y mediático que se retroalimenta, y sobre las implicaciones en el sistema democrático.

*CFP* "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN. CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON SCIENCE AND FICTION", A JAPANESE-GERMAN CONFERENCE & EDITED VOLUME

Artificial intelligence and the human 

Cross-cultural perspectives on science and fiction

A Japanese-German conference in Berlin, Germany

12 and 13 May 2022

& Edited volume (2023)

 

Current debates on artificial intelligence often conflate the realities of AI technologies with the fictional renditions of what they might one day become. They are said to be able to learn, make autonomous decisions or process information much faster than humans, which raises hopes and fears alike. What if these useful technologies will one day develop their own intentions that run contrary to those of humans?

*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTER, ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SERIES

The Series Editors Galina Miazhevich, Christina Holtz-Bacha and Ilija Tomanic Trivundza invite the submission of book proposals for the Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education Series.

The Book Series aims to provide a diverse overview of the work of ECREA members and working groups, showcasing

• diversity of topics and areas within the field of contemporary media and communication research, and 
• addressing this diversity from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, and 
• promoting collaborative research of our members, either within or between ECREA Sections, Networks and Temporary Working Groups (S/N/TWGs).

 

New Series Feature – Open Access

*CFP* "MEDIA AND THE EU GOVERNANCE. DEMOCRACY, PARTICIPATION, AND INNOVATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, DE EUROPA JOURNAL

While the European Union (EU) has become increasingly crucial for the life and the work of its 450M citizens, the European integration process itself has historically been characterized by cyclical crises. While looking back, it is clear that economic and political tensions have previously opened new opportunities for widening and deepening the EU's integration. The present crisis seems different. A long-term falling trend of public trust in national and EU institutions has been undermining the European integration process and more recently “citizen dissatisfaction with national governments and disaffection from the EU has been on the rise” (Schmidt, 2015, p.57). The EU has had to face a long-lasting economic crisis, accompanied by the rise of populist and anti-EU parties that have been present in the European Parliament since the last two legislatures. Today, and on top of the political crisis described earlier, for the first time in the history of the EU, an unexpected force of disruption, such as the health crisis caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, has contributed to create an unprecedented critical situation for the European Union.

Aware of this epochal conjuncture, European leaders and Policy Makers have called for "The Future of Europe'' conference. This Conference should help to address the crisis openly, enlarge the participation of European citizens in European governance, and ultimately define the fundamental values and principles that have shaped the European communities, whose building “has always been plagued by uncertainty” (Williams, 2009, p.551). Following the delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the debate is now restarting with renewed energies. Recently, the European Commission has launched the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP) to counter disinformation and the rise of extremism and nurture pluralism in the European public space. Media, politics, and Institutions are all involved in contrasting the rise of extremism and reducing the distance between people and politicians, strengthening media freedom, and fighting disinformation. The EDAP tries to connect traditional goals pursued by the institutions over time: citizens’ empowerment and participation, transparency, innovation as institutional tools to improve internal cohesion in the European Public Sphere.

*CFP* "EUROPEANISATION THROUGH THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES INITIATIVE: IDENTITY AND HIGHER EDUCATION PERSPECTIVES", EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES INITIATIVE (EUI) CONFERENCE

 "Europeanisation through the European Universities Initiative: Identity and Higher Education Perspectives"

European Universities Initiative (EUI) Conference

12th November 2021

Approaching the EUI as an object of scientific study: conceptual and methodological frameworks - The EUI in the light of Europeanisation theories: integration /disintegration - The EUI in the context of EU public diplomacy and decision-making

Europeanizing identities through the EUI

• The EUI from a legal perspective

*CFP* "PAINFUL TRUTHS AND UNSPOKEN WORDS: REMEMBERING GENOCIDES AND THE HOLOCAUST IN DIFFERENT GENRES AND REGIONS OF THE WORLD", SPECIAL ISSUE, GENEALOGY JOURNAL

Initial world responses to the Holocaust included the declaration “never again” (Gilbert, 2000; Reese, 2017; Herman, 2018; Power, 2013). This Special Issue on “Remembering Genocides and the Holocaust” invites contributions from different fields, such as the film, music, museums, and literature. Contributions may explore specific representations in their own right or the relationship between representations and lived experiences pertaining to genocide/ holocaust. They may focus on how remembrances of Holocausts and Genocides have been transformed over time, including, but not limited to the globalization, nationalization or privatization of such memories. The following may help illustrate the scope of the Special Issue but are not intended to limit the choice of topic:

• Overview: how have portrayals of Holocausts or Genocides changed in response to the activities of political movements or advocacy groups; who decides official labels and categories, including the role of community representatives; issues of societal acceptability of representations; the different conceptual bases in which such representations are grounded and the historical, social, and political underpinnings of such changes, etc. 

*CFP* "MEDIA AND THE EU GOVERNANCE. DEMOCRACY, PARTICIPATION, AND INNOVATION", SPECIAL ISSUE 2022, EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL STUDIES JOURNAL

While the European Union (EU) has become increasingly crucial for the life and the work of its 450M citizens, the European integration process itself has historically been characterized by cyclical crises. While looking back, it is clear that economic and political tensions have previously opened new opportunities for widening and deepening the EU's integration. The present crisis seems different. A long-term falling trend of public trust in national and EU institutions has been undermining the European integration process and more recently “citizen dissatisfaction with national governments and disaffection from the EU has been on the rise” (Schmidt, 2015, p.57). The EU has had to face a long-lasting economic crisis, accompanied by the rise of populist and anti-EU parties that have been present in the European Parliament since the last two legislatures. Today, and on top of the political crisis described earlier, for the first time in the history of the EU, an unexpected force of disruption, such as the health crisis caused by the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, has contributed to create an unprecedented critical situation for the European Union. 

Aware of this epochal conjuncture, European leaders and Policy Makers have called for "The Future of Europe'' conference. This Conference should help to address the crisis openly, enlarge the participation of European citizens in European governance, and ultimately define the fundamental values and principles that have shaped the European communities, whose building “has always been plagued by uncertainty” (Williams, 2009, p.551). Following the delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, the debate is now restarting with renewed energies. 

*CFP* "MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGIES IN EUROPE", EASA MEDIA ANTHROPOLOGY NETWORK ONLINE WORKSHOP

“Media Anthropologies in Europe”

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 

Media Anthropology Network Online Workshop

14 & 15 October 2021

 

Building on previous EASA Media Anthropology Network activities – including the latest panels at the EASA conferences, the bi-annual workshops, and e-seminar series, we are organising an online workshop that aims at reflecting on different traditions and practices of ‘media anthropology’ in different European countries. What are the different traditions of media anthropology in Europe? How can we integrate the diversity of European media anthropology in the sub-discipline’s discourse and beyond? How do media anthropologies in Europe share their analysis and methodologies with sister disciplines and how do they collaborate? How do digital technologies contribute to a common terrain of inquiry and the sharing of media approaches/methodologies?

*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL CONTENT FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS IN THE NORDICS: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND RECEPTION IN A MULTI-PLATFORM ERA", ANTHOLOGY CHAPTER

The Nordic countries have a long and proud tradition of taking children and adolescents seriously as an audience with their own specific needs, in wider cultural policy frameworks focusing on children’s culture [børnekultur] as well as in specific film and media contexts (Bakøy, 1999; Christensen, 2002, 2006; Drotner, 1997; Jensen, 2017; Mouritsen, 1996; Rydin, 2000). However, the media use and viewing habits of children and adolescents have changed dramatically in the past decade – also in the Nordic region. Audiovisual content in the shape of film, series, and various “media snacks” on, for example, Netflix, Disney+, YouTube, Twitch, Snapchat, and TikTok are now a major part of their media diet, while their encounters with national film, series, and online content are declining.

This anthology invites contributions that further theories about industry notions of conducive production and distribution practices related to content for children and adolescents, and about children and adolescents’ receptionor “produsage” – or both – of audiovisual content and their own notions of relevance and quality in a digital and thoroughly globalised media landscape. Contributions can deal with questions concerning all genres and all aspects of audiovisual content made for or consumed by Nordic children and adolescents – from policy and production perspectives to textual analysisand reception studies. For example:

*CFP* "POSTCOLONIAL PUBLICS: ART AND CITIZEN MEDIA IN EUROPE", CONFERENCE AND EDITED VOLUME

We are delighted to invite contributions to a conference paper on the topic of postcolonial publics expressed and engaged through “citizen media” (Rodriguez 2001; Baker & Blaagaard 2016) and art, in a postcolonial Europe. The conference papers will also serve as chapters for an edited volume which will be published soon after.

We want to interrogate the proliferation of digital media and global culture, and the changes happening in public intellectual engagements. From the adoration of the single (often male, often white) genius to the anonymity of diverse, affective publics, a postcolonial perspective invites contemporary public engagement to have many faces and multiple voices, and addressing new issues such as the environmental crisis and the resurgence of racism. Creativity and art can play a significant role in this development. Performance and visual expressions in the European space interpellate the situated public, but also produce transnational political dialogue and travel across digital space. Embodied performances challenge the cerebral stereotype and classical conception of what public engagement is and should be. Moreover, digital platforms have made available space for expressions that break the form and formulas of public and political speech. However, despite the expansion of public participation, social divisions based on race, gender, sexuality and able-bodiedness still hold sway and begs the question of positionality in relations to institutions, in the different fields of art and media, when it comes to political and social change.

*CFP* "NORDIC SPECULATIVE FICTION", EDITED ANTHOLOGY

The Nordic Countries, including Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, are independent and unique communities, yet at the same time rooted in similar values, culture and history. This anthology aims to bring together scholars, researchers, theories and practises on Nordic speculative fiction, e.g. science fiction, fantasy, horror, the supernatural, and the futuristic, showing the diversity of the Norden (the North) in fiction, fandom and research.

Submissions, written in English, are welcome from all subject areas of Nordic speculative fiction that either:

1. Discuss the history and current status of speculative fiction research and fandom studies in or within the Nordic region, 
2. Offer analyses of Nordic fictions, fandom or users, 
3. Showcase the research (not necessarily dealing with Nordic fiction) of Nordic-based scholars, i.e. scholars currently affiliated with a Nordic university, or independent scholars who live or work within the Nordic region.

*CFP* "THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL IN POSTMILLENNIAL EUROPE", 9TH INTERNATIONAL SELICUP CONFERENCE

The Global and the Local in Postmillennial Europe

9th International SELICUP Conference (Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture)

An Online Event 21 –23 October 2021, Košice, Slovakia

 

Scholarly debates increasingly revolve around the influence of global economic processes on cultural production. As Jeffrey Nealon (2012) argues, contemporary concerns with the ‘structuring mutations in the relations among cultural production and economic production’ have gained prominence as a reaction to intensified neoliberalism and globalization. Nealon has noted how capitalism has lately increased its control over social and cultural mechanisms—an increase he relates to the ‘intensification of the existing biopolitical sources’. The relationships between globalization, cultural production and identity construction are further complicated by the myriad processes that have fundamentally reconfigured the economic, political, social and cultural spheres. Representing both the ‘tendency towards homogeneity, synchronization, integration, unity and universalism’ and the ‘propensity for localization, heterogeneity, differentiation, diversity and particularism’ (Bornman, 2003), globalization seems to give rise to structural tension in postmillennial societies.

*CFP* "SPACE, PLACE, AND LOCUS: MAPPING THE NEW EUROPE", ONLINE CONFERENCE

Space, Place, and Locus: Mapping the New Europe (Online)

Conference Date: 2-4th June 2021

 

The recent experiences of global pandemic and national lockdowns have forced us to slow down and scale down, but also to deviate from our routines and to rethink our mundane activities. We have become intimately acquainted with the private space of home while simultaneously detached from the public spaces of shared communal life. Inspired, rather than hindered, by these new circumstances, we invite young scholars and early-stage researchers to join ERA - a space of academic disruption where horizontal alliances are forged, hierarchies from the old world don’t matter, and new ideas are born. Before the pandemic, we fought for grants to attend prestigious conferences and events, we tried to outsmart each other, and we competed against one another in a publish or perish environment. ERA is a project which aims to foster transnational cooperatives between early-stage researchers and build bridges between people, places, and institutions, instead of vying for grants, scholarships, and publications. 

*CFP* "CORONAVIRUS, CRISIS AND CULTURE: POLICING, PROTEST AND THE MEDIATION OF DISSENT DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC", BOOK CHAPTER

Global restrictions on protest

In May 2020, the Bonavero Centre for Human Rights published an analysis of twelve nations’ response to the pandemic: the authors identified ‘a global rise in autocratic populism’ accompanied by ‘Covid 19 emergency measures’ that ‘risk becoming a foundation for greater consolidation of executive power’ (3). A month later, Amnesty International produced Policing the Pandemic, which drew attention to ‘systemic human rights concerns regarding institutional racism, discrimination in law enforcement and lack of accountability regarding allegations of unlawful use of force by law enforcement officials’ (4). In March 2021, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace identified over 230 anti-government protests in some 110 countries, with 25 significant protests aimed specifically at coronavirus restrictions.

This Call for Chapters from the Media Discourse Centre emerges in response to the worldwide limits placed on public protest during the last twelve months, and the social movements that have continued to mobilise in the face of these conditions. Contributors can discuss new manifestations of dissent, the adaptation of existing movements to political/pandemic restrictions, live and mediated events, and the online reconfiguration of the protest tradition (see below).  

*CFP* "HISTORICAL TRACES OF EUROPEAN RADIO ARCHIVES, 1930-1960", WORKSHOP

"Historical Traces of European Radio Archives, 1930-1960"

28-29 October 2021

University of Amsterdam and / or online

 

Bringing critical perspectives to bear on radio archives is the main departure point for this international workshop, which explores broadcasting, archives and the historical data they have co-produced. This two-day workshop brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars and practitioners invested in theoretically-informed, connective histories about radio archives. It takes up a historical-geographical focus on radio archival collections in Europe that were affected by war and political transformations between 1930 and 1960, including case studies for Axis, as well as Allied, countries during and after World War II.