*CFP* “THEATRE ECOLOGIES: ENVIRONMENT, SUSTAINABILITY AND POLITICS”, INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR THEATRE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

Translation, Adaptation, Dramaturgy Working Group 

International Federation for Theatre Research Conference

13-17 de Julio de 2020

NUI Galway, Ireland

The constantly shifting eco-system that constitutes theatre is the central theme of IFTR 2020 as we come together to consider ecologies of theatre and performance globally, and to ask how we, as an interdependent network of scholars and artists, can reflect and respond to our interconnections with the environment and with each other through performative and critical interventions.

Ecology is the study of the relationship between living organisms and their environments (whether cultural, political, social or biological). Naming theatre’s aesthetic and working practices as ecologies permits scholars to locate theatrical performances within not only social, political and cultural networks, but also interrelated biological systems. Inherently political, embodied and performative, theatre ecologies are constructed by – and responsive to – wider social, political, cultural, and physical environments.

*CFP* “UNMADE, UNFINISHED, UNSEEN: SHADOW HISTORIES OF CINEMA AND TELEVISION CONFERENCE”, MONTFORT UNIVERSITY

Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television Conference 

16-17 de Septiembre de 2020

De Montfort University, Leicester

Keynote speakers

Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton)

Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow.

Unmade films and TV programmes have become a subject of both academic and popular interest, driven partly by the opening of archives with significant holdings of unproduced screenplays. As well as books on Kubrick’s Napoleon and The Greatest Movies You’ll Never See, recent years have seen documentary films on ‘lost projects’ such as Lost in La Mancha (2002) and Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013), radio adaptations of Unmade Movies like Welles’s Heart of Darkness, and stage readings of unproduced Hammer scripts such as Vampirella.

*CFP* “DISCOURSES ON THE FUTURE OF FOOD”, 2ND BIENNIAL CONFERENCE ON FOOD & COMMUNICATION 2020

The 2nd Biennial Conference on Food & Communication 2020

Discourses on The Future of Food

23-25 de Septiembre, 2020

University of Ljubljana

Keynote speaker Prof. Josée Johnston, University of Toronto

Food features as a powerful cultural signifier, often evoking associations with issues of gender, class, race and power. Food-related activities, such as grocery shopping, meal preparation, and eating, along with the public and private spaces in which these activities occur, provide the basis for many of our complex daily communicative practices.

Food is also located at the core of some of the most challenging social issues of our time, often manifested in oppressive relations of inequality, and in the placement of food at the center of calls for social justice. Today, cumulative food-related crises and controversies have become central to ongoing attempts to address the health of the global population and the planet.

*CFP* "MOBILITIES ON SCREEN", CHAPTER BOOK

This edited collection aims to capture the way human mobility is represented on screen (any type of screen: cinema, television, museum or public displays, tourist information, urban advertising, mobile devices etc). The project is based on the premise that human mobility is a major defining aspect of contemporary life, that mobility has become the paradigm of being and creating in the world, one that affects not just the creative industries and traditional media content and consumption, but also everyday life and banal practices and engagements with screen media.

For the purpose of this collection mobility is conceptualized as both movement and connection/disconnection. Mobility would refer in this instance to the liquidity of contemporary life, migration, media spreadability, communication growth, transmediality, networking, activism, cosmopolitanism, travel and tourism etc. Papers that apply or provide a theoretical update of globalization, post-colonialism, cosmopolitanism, tourism, place-making, network theory, transmedia production and consumption, prosumer theory, and diasporization, are particularly welcome. Equally, innovative methods of capturing mobilities on screen are invited. We expect authors to provide contemporary screen media examples which represent human mobility, but also illuminate creative industry contexts and practices, as well as inform our understanding of prosumer and fandom performance. In particular, the contributions should make it clear how the case study captures various expressions of change, transition, in-betweenness, liquidity, travel, fragmentation, remaking and connecting. Case studies are not limited to any geographical region.

*CFP* “CLIMATE FICTION, FRICTION & FACT”, SPECIAL ISSUE, EXCHANGES JOURNAL

Exchanges is a quality-assured, interdisciplinary scholar-led, open access journal dedicated to disseminating research and original thinking from new and early career scholars. Following the Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change Utopian Studies Society conference (USS, 2019), which focussed on the eutopian and dystopian possible outcomes of anthropogenic global warming, the journal is delighted to announce a call for contributions to a special issue inspired by these topics.

Issue Theme

Despite right-wing political scepticism, scientifically there is near-consensus that anthropogenically induced greenhouse gas emissions are already having a profound and catastrophic effect on the Earth’s climate. This existential threat to humanity and the current ecosphere, also provides a conceptual and critical lens through which to reconsider broad and disparate aspects of art and culture, society, socio-economics and politics alike.

*CFP* “PSYCHOSOCIAL BODIES”, ASSOCIATION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES 2020 CONFERENCE

Psychosocial Bodies, Association of Psychosocial Studies

2-3 de julio de 2020

University of Essex, UK

Join us for a diverse and creative conference exploring the theme of Psychosocial Bodies. The conference will take place over 2 days at the University of Essex campus in Wivenhoe Park in Colchester. The conference will include cultural and social events on Thursday evening for those delegates who are staying overnight in Essex student accommodation (£55pppn B&B) or travelling home later in the evening.

The theme Psychosocial Bodies intends to cover psychosocial thinking about identity and the body, as well as bodies of knowledge. Relevant topics to be explored might include: Identity, mind and body; Abject, disruptive, non-conforming, unmournable bodies; the ‘body betrayed’; Bodies as the site for resistance; Embodied knowledge; The body politic; Socially-situated bodies of knowledge; Decolonizing bodies of knowledge; virtual bodies; technologically modified bodies; cyborgs and/or disability studies.

*CFP* "EAT/PLAY/TWEET", AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON STORYTELLING AND IDENTITY IN POPULAR CULTURE

Eat/Play/Tweet

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Storytelling and Identity in Popular Culture

The Popular Culture Research Centre (Auckland University of Technology) welcomes papers for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. The conference will be held in Auckland on 7-9 July 2020.

The conference aims to bring together researchers in the field, and foster important interdisciplinary scholarly conversations in popular culture. Practices of storytelling are at the centre of the ways in which popular culture disseminates information.

From film to television, from Twitter accounts to the latest fandom trend, popular culture provides us with an arena where our narratives of the everyday can transform from immaterial notions to very material and tangible objects of consumption. Popular culture is privileged in its ability to both reflect and influence our identities, and the way we live, in our twenty-first century context.

*CFP* DRHA 2020: DIGITAL RESEARCH IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS 2020, CONFERENCE

DRHA 2020: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2020

University of Salford, MediaCityUK, UK.

September 6-9, 2020

Digital Curation has become ubiquitous on a scale ranging from large digital preservation programmes to individual citizen curation projects that often involve collaborations between professionals and enthusiasts. Extending Joseph Beuys’ controversial assertion that everyone is an artist, now everyone is a (digital) curator. Curation in the context of Contemporary Art is closely aligned with Digital Curation skills; while a grounding in contemporary art marking is essential, of course, the ability to understand the contemporary media ecology within which the works are created, exhibited, documented, and preserved is equally relevant for contemporary art curators. Similarly, in Performance there’s an interest in curation of emerging formats, or immersive documents including social media and augmented/virtual reality, as well as perspectives relating to the motivations, needs and aspirations of readers or audience members who might engage with such document. More broadly, Digital Curation aligns with interest in Digital Heritage, Digital Forensics, Digital Preservation, and Digital Archives.

*CFP* "PERSPECTIVES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: CLIMATE, CONFLICT AND MIGRATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, ITINERARI JOURNAL

The purpose of this special issue of Itinerari would be to tackle the interrelation of Climate, Conflict and Migration, and the ways their pertaining ecological, political, and ethical complexities are construed and circulated via various cultural practices and ways of symbolization.

In the light of the recent challenges and controversies migration policies has been facing in the US, UK and the EU, and the current administrations’ ambiguous attitudes towards the role environmental factors play in the proliferation of conflict and, consequently, migration, addressing the relation between these global factors is an urgent and topical issue.

Migration has become a key player in the recent radicalization of global politics, and has frequently been construed via media outlets as well as in political discourse as a threat to national security and to perceived cultural values, or as it is frequently referred to in Western political parlance, ‘our way of life’.  From Huntington’s highly controversial Clash of Civilizations (1996) to Derrida’s concept of ‘hostipitality’ (2000) to Zizek’s ideas about the militarization of society (2015) to Thomas Nail’s most recent Theory of the Border (2016), migration has been mobilized both as political capital as well as a new critical idiom that thematizes discourses on how we understand human subjectivity, and the ways we negotiate historical and cultural legacy. 

*CFP* “RECLAIMING QUEERS, CRIPS AND OTHER MISFITS”, MONSTER SUMMER SCHOOL II

Monster Summer School II

Reclaiming Queers, Crips and Other Misfits

17-21 de Mayo de 2020

Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra

Portugal

I claim: my right to be a monster […]

My right to explore myself

To reinvent myself

To take my mutation as my noble exercise.

Susy Shock |“yo monstruo mio”

*CFP* “PLAYING LAW: A JURISPRUDENCE OF VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL REALITIES”, CHAPTER BOOK

Law is the ultimate multiplayer role-playing game. Through law, individuals are characterised, subject-object relations are constructed and enforced, and concepts of worth and identity are founded. Playing Law seeks to showcase the power of play and the boundless potential of the video game as a medium capable of facilitating experiences which unlock the next level of jurisprudential evolution. This is not only true of games which require players to act as legal characters, but is true of all games which involve the player-avatar – a subject confined in a codified space. This edited collection seeks to explore the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law. Featuring critical readings of video games as a means of understanding law and justice, this book highlights the power of playing jurisprudentially.

In the realm of the digital game space, players simulate, relate and engage with environments and experiences shaped by legality. In these interactive environments, players are not static – they are forced to be law enforcers (LA Noire; Battlefield Hardline; Super Mario Bros), compelled to be vigilantes (Grand Theft Auto; Batman: Arkham Knight; Watch Dogs), or otherwise made to follow the rules of the game.

*CFP* "SPORT AND DISCRIMINATION" CONFERENCE

Sport and Discrimination Conference

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Friday 29 May 2020

The fifth annual Sport and Discrimination Conference examines the intersectional nature of discrimination in sport. This one-day event, Friday 29 May 2020, at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, invites presentations by academics, postgraduates, students and policy makers from a variety of backgrounds and specialisms.

Discrimination is a complex issue and this conference attempts to showcase how intersectionality can be used as a conceptual framework to explore and understand human experiences within sport. For Lind (2010: 3), intersectionality is “a multi-faceted perspective acknowledging the richness of the multiple socially-constructed identities that combine each of us as a unique individual.” Our identity markers therefore culminate to help shape our journey’s, experiences, and successes/failures within sport, and society. Anderson and Hill Collins (2010: 5) add, “At any moment, race, class, or gender may feel more salient or meaningful in a given person's life, but they are overlapping and cumulative in their effect on people's experience.” This conference thus intends to investigate how our identity markers including ‘race’, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, etc. operate within sport.

*CFP* "MEDIATING, CONSTRUCTING, DISMANTLING RACE(ISM)", 2020 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Mediating, Constructing, Dismantling Race(ism)

International Conference Organised by: Communication and Media Research Institute & The Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, UK

17 April 2020

The Boardroom 309 Regent Campus, 

University of Westminster, London, W1B 2HW

Institutional and structural racism are major realities that impede different areas of social life, both domestically and internationally. Over the past decade, mass protests in West Asia, North Africa, South America, and other parts of the world created an important transformative momentum, which in turn triggered debates about race, cultural difference and the role of anti-racism in grassroots politics against authoritarianism. The (not so) new issues activists are facing include migration, modern forms of slavery, backlash against indigenous assertion, the plight of south-Asian and African (domestic, construction) workers, the trafficking of female migrants across Europe, colourism and the mainstreaming of Far Right politics speaking against liberal multiculturalism in the defence of the imagined majority.

*CFP* “JOURNALISM AND TRAFFICKING: DEVELOPMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES”, SPECIAL ISSUE, THE BRAZILIAN JOURNALISM RESEARCH JOURNAL

This Special Issue of Brazilian Journalism Research will look at the relationship between journalism and trafficking. Trafficking is a rather complex phenomenon which comprises arms trafficking, drug trafficking and human trafficking. All three top the world’s criminal enterprises, with drug trafficking taking the number one slot, human trafficking taking third, and small arms following not too far behind. In great expansion, human trafficking umbrellas sex, labor, organ and child trafficking, or the illegal adoption of children. Trafficking is no respecter of persons; it can affect the young/old, rich/poor, educated/illiterate, Global North citizen/Global South citizen, etc. 

Media – in particular news coverage – contribute toward shaping public understanding and opinion on societal issues. They also influence (inter)national policies, programs, and legislative action.

This special issue explores the range of ways that media, broadly construed, are connected with all facets of trafficking. How might media be influencing trafficking legislation? How might it be affecting victims? Perpetrators? What effect has journalism coverage of trafficking had on the crime? In what ways might media representations of trafficking be legitimating or challenging different kinds of power imbalances and social hierarchies based on gender, class or race?

*CFP* “THE CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES: PATHWAYS BEYOND ECONOMIC GROWTH”, RGS-IBG ANNUAL 2020 CONFERENCE

RGS-IBG Annual 2020 Conference 

1-4 Septiembre de 2020

King's College, London

The cultural and creative industries (CCIs) have been subject to increasing policy and academic attention in the past twenty years (Gross, 2020a). The sector has been seen variously as a flagbearer for the future of the digital economy, a stimulus for urban regeneration, a fix for local and regional development disparities (Chapain & Comunian, 2010), a way to address income inequality and a catalyst to address exclusion and marginalisation. These discourses have been prompted by, and reflected in a series of shifts in material, financial and discursive support for the CCIs around the world. 

For example, in Latin and South America the creative industries have evolved into the Orange Economy, and are seen as a key way to simultaneously develop the economy, society and infrastructure (Restrepo & Márquez, 2013). The Inter-American Development Bank has urged Latin and South American governments to ‘squeeze the orange’ and assimilate cultural production into the economy through new accounting techniques, policy interventions and IP regulations. Similarly, policymakers internationally have used CCIs in new rhetoric for economic development like Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s current Minister of Information and Culture, declaring them “Nigeria’s new oil” (Lai Mohammed, 2017).

*CFP* "SHARING WAR MEMORIES - FROM THE MILITARY TO THE CIVILIAN", WAR MEMORIES (2020) INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

War Memories (2020)

Sharing War Memories – From the Military to the Civilian

24, 25 & 26 June 2020 (Le Mans University, France)

 

War narratives are subject to emphases, orientations and points of view that give a particular flavour to wars fought by populations (anonymously, individually and/or hidden in an organisation, secret or not) and by the military (from high command to the ‘unknown soldier’). Such accounts evolve with the benefit of hindsight, the writing of history textbooks and the constant (re)interpretations of archives (new or not) and the official version a country wishes to put forward according to its political agendas and visions of patriotism, citizenship and human rights, or its diplomatic or international policy objectives. The narratives of wars vary with the context and the need for men and women to express their inner feelings when faced with the torments and human atrocities of war; they also reflect the place of individuals within a group and the implications of group cohesion within the larger community.

Civilians’ knowledge of the war effort and the involvement of the military is informed by two types of documents: primary sources (letters, emails, photographs, videos, testimonies, trench gazettes, blogs, etc.) provide direct information about the war experienced at an individual level, whereas secondary sources mediate these artefacts by incorporating them into another narrative.

*CFP* "INTERNET, HUMOR, AND NATION IN LATIN/X AMERICA", EDITED VOLUME

The internet is both a medium, the latest in a long line of previous mass media, and a space of trans-individuation and collective co-creation. As a media channel and a format, it tends to privilege certain forms, lengths, affects. As a commons, it is nurtured by all participants and shapes their affects and subjectivities in ways that have deep cultural, economic, political consequences inside and outside the nation. As a relatively de-territorialized space, it interacts in myriad ways with the forms of cultural and political territorialization of the nation. Finally, as a communicational infrastructure, the internet is tied in more classical ways to the geopolitics of information production and circulation.

Humor, on the other hand, is often based on mechanisms of superiority, relief, or incongruity. As theorized by Simon Critchley, for example, ethnic humor in a national context is an instance of superiority-based humor. It functions like “a secret code” that is shared by all those who belong to the ethnos and it produces a context and community-based ethos of superiority. This superiority is expressed in two ways: first, foreigners do not share our sense of humor or simply lack a sense of humor. Secondly, foreigners are themselves funny and worth laughing at. Thus, humor plays a key role in the signaling of boundaries of identity—who stands inside or outside significant creative spaces. With the nature of the internet and humor in mind, we are seeking contributions for a volume provisionally titled Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin/x America.

*CFP* “SPORTS AND/AS MEDIA”, ISSUE FOR THE VELVET LIGHT TRAP JOURNAL

Historically, media studies scholars have shied away from sports-related media texts due to a variety of perceived challenges: the sheer volume of texts (there’s always something on), their inaccessibility (the texts are ephemeral and controlled by corporate archives), the ambivalence of sports cultures (at once masculine and mainstream), and more. Additionally, other fields have long dominated sports scholarship, with communication studies and sociology shaping the academic discourse and asserting their own approaches. To mitigate these challenges, media studies scholars have applied alternative approaches to understanding sports media, such as critical-cultural analyses that account for sports media constructions of difference via gender, sex, and race—and athletes’ abilities to contest those differences. There have also been deft examinations of the media industries’ economic and ideological dependence on sports; historiographical accounts that mine a wealth of underexplored repositories and sources; and audience studies that foreground the reception and consumption of the sports genre.

While these studies placed sports media squarely in the foreground, others have used sports as a case study to illuminate broader trends in media studies. For example, scholars have recently revealed the key role sports broadcasts played in the innovation and diffusion of color television, while others have considered the pivotal role broadcasting, licensing, and franchising rights played in the conglomeration and consolidation of cable networks and providers. Others have addressed gaps in audience and fan studies by engaging with under-studied sports fan cultures.

*CFP* “RAPE AND THE BLACK EXPERIENCE: A LITERARY RESPONSE”, CHAPTER BOOK

As per most of the definitions, rape is defined as non-consensual penetration of either the vagina or the anus. However, it is not merely physical, though it is rooted in biology, but its impacts are psychological in nature. Its consequences are experienced not only by the victim but by the victimizer as well. In almost all the cultures, rape is deployed as a weapon of domination by patriarchy. The penultimate threat for a woman, as it has been observed since centuries, is the fear of being raped. Through rape, patriarchy has often exercised absolute hegemony.

Every culture/society has responded to the idea of rape in its unique way. Some societies are quick in punishing the rapists whereas some give the victimizers a chance to argue their cases. What is most common is the fact that most often the perpetrators go scot free and the victim is held responsible by the society and discriminated against. Black Women like any other have confronted the violence of rape, but their suffering is slightly unique because of their position in history and society. They have been ravished in Africa during colonial expansion and they have been violated in the new world during the times of slavery. They have been defiled by the White men and they have been corrupted by the Black men. Sometimes, they have been deflowered by their own fathers and brothers and at other times they have been despoiled by the system itself.

*CFP* “GENDER AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN CONTEMPORARY ACADEMIA”, PANEL, ECREA WOMEN’S NETWORK

ECC 2020 Conference 

Panel on Gender and Knowledge Production in Contemporary Academia

2-5 de Octubre de 2020

Braga, Portugal

The Women’s Network aims to address gender inequalities in research and higher education and to amplify the voice offemale and LGBTQ+ scholars.

The initial objective is to create a platform for scholars to speak up about the problems they encounter within academia such as gender bias, and to stimulate the exchange of research, experiences, insights and practices around gender inequality. By identifying differences, strengths and weaknesses in Europe, the network aims to contribute to equality in all dimensions.

*CFP* "ART, TECHNOLOGY, COMMUNICATION" INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE CINEMA, AVANCA/CINEMA 2020

AVANCA | CINEMA 2020

International Conference Cinema – Art, Technology, Communication

22 to 26 July, 2020

Avanca, Portugal  

In July 2020 AVANCA | CINEMA Conference celebrates its 11th edition confirming that this is one of the leading conferences in the field of cinema. Researchers are invited to participate in this edition of the conference in AVANCA where the scientific community members, who dedicate their studies to cinema and its relationship with art, communication and technology, can find a space for diffusion, debate and sharing of their work.

The Conference along with the Avanca Film Festival offers a unique experience to all those who participate in this summer movie party. New projects, new approaches, and the magic of cinema will inspire everyone!   

The conference has four official languages: Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.   

*CFP* “VIRAL MASCULINITIES”, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 2020 CONFERENCE

Viral Masculinities  

31 de enero de 2020

University of Exeter, UK

Keynote Speakers

Professor Tim Dean (University of Illinois).

Professor John Mercer (Birmingham City University).

Professor Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku).

We’re living in viral times; ours is a time of contagion. As Tony Sampson writes in his book Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks, “the networked infrastructures of late capitalism are interwoven with the universal logic of the epidemic” (Sampson 2011, 1–2). Deeply connected to contemporary biopolitics and modes of digital sociability, virality also underpins news forms of wealth creation and accumulation sustained by 21st-century media, whilst at the same time (paradoxically, perhaps) presenting a political threat through the risk it carries of “contagious overspills” that may undo borders, nation states, institutions, ontologies and subjectivities (2).

*CFP* "CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES", 13TH BIENNAL CONFERENCE

Hosted by the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, and the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES), the 13th biennial “Crossroads in Cultural Studies” Conference will bring scholars together in Lisbon, Portugal to engage with the past, present and future of Cultural Studies scholarship. The conference will take place from 28 to 31 July 2020 in Lisbon, a unique city that will offer a vibrant cultural backdrop for the scholarly programme.

The Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference has played an important role in the creation of a global discussion on Cultural Studies. It has become a major international conference where scholars from all five continents gather regularly to exchange views and insights on current research. Co-organised by the CEAUL/ULICES and the Association for Cultural Studies (ACS) in 2020, the Crossroads conference is held every other year in different parts of the world. Previous conferences have taken place in Birmingham (United Kingdom), Urbana-Champaign (USA), Istanbul (Turkey), Kingston (Jamaica), Hong Kong (China), Paris (France), Tampere (Finland), Sydney (Australia) and Shanghai (China).

*CFP* "EPISTOLARY FORMS IN FILM, MEDIA AND VISUAL CULTURE", BOOK CHAPTER

“We are living in a great epistolary age, even if no one much acknowledges it. Our phones, by obviating phoning, have reestablished the omnipresence of text. Think of the sheer profusion of messages … that we now send. “(Sally Rooney, 2019)

As Irish novelist Sally Rooney observes, despite the frequent assumption that technological advances provide constantly new forms of communication, these new forms: the email, the blog, the text message, the tweet, the update are actually haunted by old ‘epistolary’ forms: the letter and the diary. Both the letter and the diary have strong historical relationships to privacy, secrecy and intimacy, as well as to anonymity masquerade and deception, all notions that are both prevalent and highly contested in our current age. By focusing on the connection between a wide-range of media and these epistolary forms our aim is to consider their continuing significance for the mediation of self-expression and the building of relationships.

*CFP* “TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE VARIATION IN THE GLOBAL CLASSROOM”, CHAPTER BOOK

Proposed chapter abstracts are invited for a volume entitled Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom: Ideas and Activities from Teachers and Linguists. This collection is a follow-up to the 2019 Routledge volume Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom: Strategies and Models from Teachers and Linguists). 

Like its predecessor, this collection will feature research-based and classroom-tested models for teaching the English language to students primarily in secondary school contexts--though proposals for teaching English in elementary and university contexts will also be considered. In this new volume, emphasis will be given to the teaching of English with a global perspective on language use. One type of contribution will be from teachers and/or linguists working in countries in which English is a primary language, who teach the subject within a global or world Englishes framework. Also welcome are contributions from those teaching ESL (English as a Second Language) or ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) who incorporate different dialects of English in their instruction in any classroom contexts around the world.

*CFP* “MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF LAW AND JUSTICE: MIDDLE EASTERN PERSPECTIVES”, INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

International Workshop

‘Media Representations of Law and Justice:  Middle Eastern Perspectives’

12−13 de Marzo de 2020 

Leipzig, Germany

The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the international and interdisciplinary Workshop ‘Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives’ in Germany at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, 12−13 March 2020.

Law and/in popular culture has been an emerging field of research (at least) since the 1980s. Its initial prominence was primarily limited to North America – the main hub of popular legal culture which, through various kinds of movies and television shows, impinged on what people generally believe about law and legal institutions. By now, the interrelation of law and popular culture has made its way into European legal academia. In addition, transnational comparative studies on how law and justice are portrayed in movies and fictional television dramas have been conducted, providing additional insight for both scholars of law and media studies.

*CFP* "DISCOURSES OF FICTIONAL (DIGITAL) TV SERIES", FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA

Discourses of fictional (digital) TV Series

Universitat de València

Forthcoming Conference

3-6 November 2020

Conference Convenors: Carmen Gregori-Signes & Claudia Alonso Recarte, Miguel Fuster-Márquez, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller.

We are delighted to announce that the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València and the Institut Interuniversitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades de la Comunitat Valenciana (IULMA) will be hosting, on the 3th-6th November 2020 in Valencia, Spain, the International Conference on Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series. The conference will address series originally produced in English.

*CFP* "DIGITALIZATION AND CHALLENGES OF DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES IN EUROPE", PANEL, EUROPE OF THE 21ST CENTURY, 20TH INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC CONFERENCE

Digitalization and challenges of democratic processes in Europe

a panel within the 20th international academic conference

Europe of the 21st CENTURY

February 6-7, 2020 Collegium Polonicum, Słubice

On behalf of the organizers, namely the Faculty of Political Science and Journalism at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan and the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology at the University of Granada we would like to extend an invitation to participate in the panel entitled “Digitalization and challenges of democratic processes in Europe”, that will take place on February 6th 2020 in Collegium Polonicum in Słubice during conference “Europe of the 21st Century”.

The new media and the Internet are transforming political institutions and ways of not only political communication, but also broader political dynamics, transforming relations between politicians and citizens. Undoubtedly, digital technologies have profoundly altered democratic processes worldwide, including electoral processes.  The new media became in this context a great platform for information, involvement and mobilization activities of the electorate.

*CFP* "DATAFICATION OF MEDIA (AND) AUDIENCES", SPECIAL ISSUE, MEDIEKULTUR JOURNAL

Academic knowledge built over the last five decades on media audiences may be called into question by algorithmic recommendations, machine learning, platform design and new metrics that describe, anticipate and shape the audience’s every move. 

While we hold that audiences are selective in their choice of content (Katz et al., 1974), form communities of interpretation (Fish, 1980) and are freely giving their attention to public issues (Warner, 2002), it would appear that they are now increasingly being selected, calculated, interpreted and anticipated by media on the basis of a wide range of data provided more or less willingly and consciously. 

This datafication of media (and) audiences – i.e. the quantification of audience mediated experiences – is not to be understood simply as a new form of knowledge, but also as a new era in the commodification of audiences, challenging our understanding of audiences as an agentic and autonomous subjects.

*CFP* “DOUBLES, DUALITY, DOPPELGÄNGERS”, SPRING AND FALL 2020 ISSUE, THE MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION JOURNAL

Members of the MMLA are invited and encouraged to submit articles to the Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association in English, Spanish, French, and German.  Please note that the JMMLA no longer accepts submissions on open topics: each Spring issue will be a single-topic special issue; each Fall issue will be devoted to papers building on the conference theme from the previous year. The current call for papers is listed below.

Please read the submission guidelines for additional information. 

Spring 2020 - Life in the Middle

For this issue, we’re drawing on the organization’s midwestern roots to think about living, working, teaching, and doing scholarship “in the middle,” including (but not limited to) the American Midwest. We invite essay submissions for this general issue that consider what it means to occupy, exist, move, or migrate through middle spaces, and which contemplate themes of intersectionality playing out broadly across the realms of art, activism, politics, institutions, and cultures. While we are inspired by the middle spaces, or “flyover country,” that form our institutional home, we actively seek to build upon the connections linking interior or liminal spaces, and their populations, across on a broad, global scale.

*CFP* "MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO POLITICAL DISCOURSE. #3: RESPONDING TO NEW CHALLENGES", MAPD 2020 CONFERENCE

MAPD 2020

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse

#3: Responding to new challenges

25-26 June 2020

University of Liverpool

Following on from previous “Political Discourse - Multidisciplinary Approaches” conferences in London (2016) and Edinburgh (2018), we are pleased to announce MAPD 2020 (Multidisciplinary Approaches to Political Discourse) will take place in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool on 25-26 June 2020.

The global political arena is changing at an unprecedented pace. We see the resurgence of authoritarianism, nativism/nationalism, sovereignism, populism and far-right movements driving major changes across societies against the backdrop of increasing global inequalities, left/right fragmentation, migration. In addition, we witness power plays between well-established and emerging global players resulting in re-militarization and ‘trade wars’. Obvious manifestations of these turbulent times include phenomena such as Brexit; the rise of political actors like Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Erdogan, Salvini and discursive articulations around hate speech, incivility, Islamophobia and Euroscepticism.

*CFP* "(DON'T) LOOK BACK: OUR NOSTALGIA FOR HORROR AND SLASHER FILMS", EDITED COLLECTION

On first consideration it may not seem like “nostalgia” and horror and slasher films have any clear connections. Usually nostalgia is applied to events and experiences that have a pleasant connotation, even if these pleasant feelings are a result of a rose-tinted view of the past. While nostalgia can refer to personal feelings as well as larger communal or cultural memory and pleasure, there is also an implied action to it- that someone is seeking to reclaim, or revisit a specific time period or place for an explicit reason. Applying this understanding to remakes, revisions, reimaginings helps us understand what the purpose of these reworked creations are, the work they’re doing, and how they build on and expand on an already understood and accepted set of narratives, tropes, characters, and beliefs.

Since the national and global trauma of 9/11 we have seen dozens of remakes, reboots, revisions, and reimaginings of horror and slasher films from the 1970s and 80s. Each work seeks to capture some element of the original- the simple understanding of good and evil, the audience reaction to scares, an aesthetic homage, the commercial popularity. If we shift our perspective to view these films through the lens of nostalgia, we can see that many of these narratives are grounded in trauma, the performance of it, the aftermath, how people survive and later work through it. Whether it is a movie, mini-series, television show, or video game, these remakes can be organized according to several subtopics that perform different work within the media and reflect different fears, anxieties, and desires of a specific historical and cultural moment, although the argument could be made that some texts belong in a variety of categories, and there is noticeable overlap.

*CFP* "GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL TV", CONFERENCE

Gender and Transnational TV conference

Liverpool 11-12 June 2020

This conference aims to forge interdisciplinary links between those working in Television and Media Studies, Modern Languages and Gender Studies. Television and media research is changing, the rapid evolution of this medium has been theorised in terms of the technological advances that changing modes of distribution bring, its textual, narrative and aesthetic developments, and its role as a mediator of cultural identity. 

Scholarship in this area has produced prolific studies of US and, to a lesser degree, UK television to exemplify the ways in which constructions of gender are mediated through different televisual formats and genres. This conference will refocus this research through analysis of television made beyond these English-speaking territories and consider the important work being done in Modern Languages to understand and analyse the ways in which transcultural and transnational mediations of gender are made visible, produced and understood through popular television.

*CFP* "SPACES OF WAR: CORPOREAL WAR", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Spaces of War: Corporeal War

May 21st-22nd 2020

Building on the success of our 2018 international conference ‘Spaces of War: War of Spaces’, the Editors of the Media, War and Conflict Journal are holding our second conference at Accademia Europea Di Firenze, Florence, Italy in May 2020.

Alongside traditional papers, the expected conference programme will include film screenings and methodological workshops on Digital verification; Visuality/photography; The archive; Performance that are designed to facilitate the development of new ideas, networks and/or research proposals through dialogue with practitioners.

*CFP* “CRITICAL DIGITAL AND SOCIAL MEDIA STUDIES”, CHAPTER BOOK

Critical Digital and Social Media Studies is an established book series edited on behalf of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and published by the University of Westminster Press (UWP). We invite submissions of book proposals that fall within the scope of the series.

After the publication of twelve titles in the series (and several others commissioned for 2020) we invite submission of book proposals (adhering to the guidelines set out below) as one document with one full chapter for book titles in the range of 35,000-80,000 words. The books in the series are published online in an open access format available online without payment using a Creative Commons licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) and simultaneously as affordable paperbacks. We are able to publish a number of books in the call without any book processing charges for authors. Potential authors are welcome to contact the series editor outside of the initial time frame of this call for book proposals but should note that priority for funding support for suitable projects will be given to those proposals meeting the deadline. There is a preference for the submission of proposals for books whose writing can be finished and that can be submitted to UWP within the next 6-15 months. In the event of a surplus of strong proposals preference will be given to single-authored book proposals over edited volumes.

*CFP* "NORTH KOREAN CULTURE AND CINEMA", SEPTEMBER 2020 ISSUE, SITUATIONS: CULTURAL STUDIES IN THE ASIAN CONTEXT JOURNAL

We invite submissions of full-length essays on the important but largely understudied topic of “North Korean Culture and Cinema” for the September 2020 issue. The existing studies on North Korean cinema have mainly focused on the ideological role of the cinema as a propaganda tool of the state. Given the rapidly changing circumstances of North Korea under Kim Jong-un’s leadership and his ongoing attempts to reform and open the regime, however, we seek to illuminate North Korean cinema from a broader set of perspectives, including thematic, formal and technical approaches to the topic as well as its relationship with other artistic forms and emergent technologies. 

This special issue will feature articles from the following scholars, and we anticipate that many other scholars will be interested in taking part in this important unfolding scholarly debate.

Immanuel Kim (George Washington U): “Comedian Comedy: Faces of North Korean Film Culture.”

Jeehye Kim (U of Arizona): “Feminizing the Other: North Korean Women in Film.”

*CFP* “WAR MEMORIES: SHARING WAR MEMORIES. FROM THE MILITARY TO THE CIVILIAN”, LE MANS UNIVERSITY 2020 CONFERENCE

War Memories.

Sharing War Memories. From the Military to the Civilian 

24-26 de junio de 2020

Le Mans University, Francia

With keynote speeches by:

Jonathan Bignell (Professor of Television and Film, Reading University, United Kingdom)

Keynote provisional  title: Television and Ephemerality: Remembering and Forgetting War

Daniel Palmieri (Historian, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland)

Keynote provisional title: Now, the World without me. Humanitarians and Sexual Violence in Time of War.

Stéphanie Bélanger (Professor, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario)

Keynote provisional title: Voice or Loyalty? Dealing with Memories in the Armed Forces

*CFP* CALL FOR CRITICAL ESSAYS, VOL.10, ISSUE 2020, TECHNOCULTURE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

For our tenth year anniversary issue, Technoculture is seeking critical essays and creative works from a broad range of academic disciplines that focus on cultural studies of technology, and especially on the future of the study of technology and culture.

Essays and creative works we publish examine the topic technology and society, or, perhaps, technologies and societies. This call is ongoing and open topic, and we encourage a broad definition of technology. Topics could include depictions of technologies that treat a wide range of subjects related to the social sciences and humanities.

As a journal, we are interested in a conception of technology and the humanist impulse that pushes beyond contemporary American culture and its fascination with computers; we seek papers that deal with any technology or technologies in any number of historical periods from any relevant theoretical perspective.

*CFP* “THE POPCULTURAL LIFE OF SCIENCE: STORIES OF WONDER, STORIES OF FACTS”, I INTERNATIONAL H/STORY SEMINAR 2020

I International H/Story Seminar 

The Popcultural Life of Science:

Stories of Wonder, Stories of Facts

20 de Mayo de 2020

University of Silesia Katowice, Polonia

For decades, we have been fed scientific and popcultural stories of the “we use only 10% of our brain capacity” sort. Recently, a set of new truths has been granted to us. For instance, in his 2014 popscience book Hirnrissig [Harebrained], the neurobiologist Henning Beck debunks 20 of the most widespread neuromyths, including the ubiquitous misconception that our brains work like superfast computers with limitless capacity and the idea that you can train your brain as if it were a muscle. Although these revelations of his are not new to people whose data consumption revolves around topics of trivia, anecdotes and scientific myths, others may appear indeed surprising. Bearing in mind the popularity of the theory that mirror neurons govern our behaviour, it is rather surprising to read that the scientists involved have merely put forward some preliminary observations on the basis of experiments conducted on monkey brains; and that it is far too early to create parallels and explain complex human behaviours through mirror neurons theories.

*CFP* CALL FOR STREAMS, LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2020

London Conference in Critical Thought

14- 15 de Agosto de 2020

Kings College, London

The Call for Streams is now open for the 9th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), hosted and supported by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, Kings College London.

The LCCT is a free, inter-institutional, interdisciplinary conference in critical thought that takes place annually in institutions across London. LCCT follows a non-hierarchical, decentralised model of organisation that undoes conventional academic distinctions between plenary lectures and break-out sessions, aiming instead to create opportunities for intellectual critical exchange regardless of participants’ disciplinary field, institutional affiliation, or seniority. The conference is envisaged as a space for those who share theoretical approaches and interests but who may find themselves at the margins of their academic department or discipline. Following this decentralised, ‘margins-at-the-centre’ logic, LCCT has no overarching or predetermined theme. Each year the conference’s intellectual content and academic tone are set by thematic streams that are conceived, proposed and curated by a group of stream organisers. Each stream generates its own intellectual rationale and Call for Papers, with conference participants responding to the accepted stream proposals. 

*CFP* "METODOLOGÍAS MIXTAS EMERGENTES EN INVESTIGACIÓN SOCIAL: EL RETO DE LA DIGITALIZACIÓN", Nº65 (2020-4), REVISTA COMUNICAR

Este número monográfico pretende analizar las transformaciones que ha generado la tecnología digital en el ámbito de la investigación en Educación y Ciencias Sociales. Con la integración de la tecnología en el aula, al igual que ocurre en el mundo social, la aparición de nuevas formas de información y recogida de datos ha propiciado la posibilidad de incorporar sistemas de recogida de información sistemáticos de los procesos sociales mediados por tecnología digital, además de los instrumentos clásicos de observación (mirada del observador, cuestionarios abiertos y cerra-dos, entrevistas, grabaciones –audio y video–, etc.). La aparición de recursos tecnológicos digitales está posibilitando la identificación de interacciones entre personas, los procesos de lectura, la generación de contenido digital –en forma de opinión o de aportación de conocimiento-, la exhibición de lo personal hacia lo público (vida privada/vida social), las dinámicas de consumo, incluso las dinámicas de movimiento, motricidad y desplazamiento de las personas. 

Aspectos como la ubicuidad de la tecnología digital que, inconscientemente por nuestra parte, recoge información sobre nuestros gustos, tendencias, compras, movimientos/desplazamientos/viajes, etc., están facilitando los procesos de orientación hacia la acción. Esta manera de recoger información y analizarla de manera automática lleva desarrollándose hace más de 20 años, cuando se inician los procesos de desarrollo de la Web 2.0, pero con la extensión de la Web semántica y de los nuevos sistemas Big Data, la configuración de perfiles que permiten gobernar tendencias sociales, han tenido un gran desarrollo. 

*CFP* "ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL PLATFORM LABOUR", EASA 2020 LISBOA

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Platform Labour

EASA 2020, Lisboa

Digital labour platforms function as a central infrastructure that mediates, organises and controls flexible work. The panel aims to discuss anthropological perspectives on global platform labour, its genealogies as well as its embeddedness into diverse histories, local contexts and power relations.

Digital platforms are not only transactional spaces which create different modes of connection, but also central infrastructures for the global circulation of goods, data and the reconfiguration of labour. Labour platforms of the so-called gig economy such as Deliveroo or Upwork function not only as mediators between capital and labour, they also reorganize, redistribute and regulate flexible labour – and thereby remind us of older but still existing infrastructures for the mediation of labour such as the putting out system for home-based work or the traditional street corner for day labourers. Thinking through the platform as an infrastructure that mediates, organises and controls labour therefore allows to move beyond the notion of platforms as completely new and disruptive actors.

*CFP* “CROSSING BORDERS WITH A NEW MEDIUM: RADIO AND IMPERIAL IDENTITIES”, 2020 CONFERENCE

Crossing borders with a new medium: radio and imperial identities   

7-8 de Mayo de 2020

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa

The emergence of radio introduced profound changes in public communication, changing patterns of information dissemination at local, national and international levels. While in the early 1920s broadcasting was mostly operated by small stations listened to by a small group of people who owned radio sets, before the end of the decade large stations had already emerged on the scene, aiming to reach nationwide or even international audiences. The audio medium soon became a central instrument in the construction and dissemination of national cultures and shared identities. While this was obviously the case in the interwar dictatorships, in Western democracies broadcasting (first radio and later on television) also took centre stage in the dissemination of popular culture and was seen as a powerful tool of propaganda and of creation of national identities (MacKenzie, 1986; Douglas, 1999; Scannell & Cardiff, 1991; Hilmes, 2008) as well as of imagined communities (Anderson, 1983).

*CFP* “MIGRATION AND RELIGION”, THE MIGRATION 2020 CONFERENCE

The Migration Conference

Migration and Religion

2-5 de Junio de 2020

South East European University, North Macedonia

The Religion and Migration track invites the submission of papers exploring all facets of the intersections of mobility, migration, and religion. 

All papers presented at the conference must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another conference. Structured abstracts (up to 500 words) are invited for submission.

Structured long abstracts should state clearly the objectives, referring to relevant literature, methods, results and conclusions of the work, and should be no more than 500 words in length.

Up to 5-6 key references cited in the abstract can be given and these are not included in the word count.

*CFP* "LOCAL MATTERS. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR LOCAL JOURNALISM", SPECIAL ISSUE 3/2020, PROBLEMI DELL'INFORMAZIONE JOURNAL

The special issue 3/2020 of Problemi dell’Informazione aims to explore and critically discuss how local journalism is trying to redefine its identity against the economic, cultural and technological challenges of the contemporary mediascape. Although the tensions currently affecting the local media are partly coinciding with those observed at the national level, relevant differences are likely to be found in the potential ways out and the concrete repercussions that these shared structural conditions have on the way of operating, of intercepting audience and reaching economic sustainability. The crisis that has affected journalism in recent times is part of the wider digital revolution and has manifested with a constant erosion and fragmentation of the audience, a huge decline of advertising investments and a wider questioning of the credibility of journalistic mediation and trust in professional authority. However, as pointed out by Zelizer (2015), the use of a unitary concept such as "crisis" risks to overlook not only the diversity of underlying political, technological, occupational, ethical and social issues but also the potential variety of solutions and ways out.

This issue stems from the belief that this historical moment is propitious to give local journalism the analytical attention it deserves. The empirical and theoretical acquisitions on the subject are still scarce, especially if compared to those concerned with national and global journalism (Nielsen, 2015).  The gap is worth filling especially now that the challenges and opportunities implied by the complex and contradictory scenario together constitute an incredibly fruitful starting point to deeply focus on the present and the future of local media.

*CFP* "ACCESO UNIVERSAL Y EMPODERAMIENTO DIGITAL DE LOS PUEBLOS FRENTE A LA BRECHA DESIGUAL. NUEVAS FORMAS DE DIÁLOGO Y PARTICIPACIÓN", Nº46, REVISTA TRÍPODOS

Hasta hace muy poco los discursos y estrategias mundiales sobre la desigualdad social iban directamente relacionados, entre otros, con la brecha digital de acceso de la ciudadanía a los recursos e infraestructuras tecnológicos. Esto hoy día ha cambiado, según los últimos informes internacionales, siendo creciente, y ahora igualmente preocupante la brecha digital, pero en el uso de las mismas. Desde una visión particularmente euroamericana se presenta un monográfico que tiene el propósito de contribuir al análisis y discusión de los aspectos teóricos, prácticos y de investigación empírica referidos, no sólo a la necesidad de un acceso universal a las tecnologías, sino especialmente a la acuciante urgencia de que se produzca un verdadero empoderamiento ciudadano de las mismas gracias a la alfabetización digital.

Introducción

“El futuro ya está aquí pero desigualmente distribuido”. Con estas palabras de William Gibson (1994), padre del concepto de “ciberespacio”, podemos imaginar cómo ya se atisbaba lo que hoy día, sin duda, ha supuesto una enorme revolución: la tecnológica. Pero como revolución, su incursión no se ha llevado a cabo de manera homogénea e igualitariamente distribuida. 

*CFP* "THE REUNIFICATION OF SOUTHERN JUTLAND 1920/2020", Nº21, ACADEMIC QUARTER JOURNAL

When in the beginning of September 2019, Queen Margrethe II visited Flensburg in Southern Schleswig as kick-off of the festivities of the centennial for the drawing of the border and the reunification of Southern Jutland and Denmark, she gave a speech in German. In the speech, she warmly advocated for intercultural cooperation between Danes and Germans: Jahrzehnt für Jahrzehnt sind wir Dänen und Deutsche – und die Minderheiten beiderseits der Grenze – einander nähergekommen. Es gibt eine wichtige grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit – sowohl zwischen Institutionen als auch zwischen Menschen. Das müssen wir schätzen und entwickeln. (Kongehuset 2019)

The Queen’s appearance differed significantly from King Christian X’s highly symbolic crossing of the Danish-German border at Kongeåen in 1920. At the time, the King resembled a lord of victory lord aloft on a white horse, the same way as Napoleon in 1807 was riding through the Brandenburg Tor. While the drawing of the border originally was a result of war conflicts, namely the Schleswig War II which in 1864 ended with Denmark’s defeat and territorial losses, and later World War I. 

*CFP* “HUGH GRANT”, SPECIAL ISSUE, CELEBRITY STUDIES JOURNAL

Since his breakthrough role in Maurice (J. Ivory, 1987) and his rise to fame with 4 Weddings and a Funeral (M. Newell, 1994), Hugh Grant has been one of the most popular British actors in the public imaginary.

His continued collaboration with Richard Curtis in the 1990s and early 2000s, in films such as Notting Hill (R. Michell, 1999) and Bridget Jones’s Diary (S. Maguire, 2001), cemented his fame internationally, inextricably associated with the romcom genre.

Yet, his career and public persona have undergone a shift in the 2010s. During a period of self-imposed semi-hiatus from acting, in which the tour de force playing six different characters in Cloud Atlas (The Wachowskis and T. Twyker, 2012) represents a notable exception, Grant has devoted himself to campaigning for the protection of privacy. Starting with his article in The New Statesman (2011) exposing the phone hacking practices at News of the World and continuing with his engagement through “Hacked Off” and Twitter, where he has further vocally opposed Brexit, Grant has become more closely associated with political activism. At the same time, his image has been reshaped through fatherhood, often depicted as the reason behind his career change in the press.

*CFP* “ETHICS”, 7TH ISSUE, CHIASMA: A SITE FOR THOUGHT JOURNAL

Chiasma: A Site for Thought is pleased to invite submissions for its seventh issue, on theoretical and philosophical investigations into the concept of ethics. Ethics bleeds into our colloquial discourse, arising in everyday life through discourse on a multitude of interests:

Contemporary news media is forever obsessing over the ethics of events—including but not limited to the preponderance of military weaponry (c.f. Drone strikes) and general war, economic and political decision making, religious observation and debate, and (above all else) celebrity gossip. Conceptual investigations into the ethical have even re-entered popular culture with the popularity of the television show The Good Place which asks the question: “who died and put Aristotle in charge of ethics?” before moving on from Hellenic ethics to the Enlightenment philosophy of David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and continuing on to the existential philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre.

*CFP* "DIVERSIDAD SEXUAL Y GÉNERO EN LA EDUCACIÓN, LA FILOLOGÍA Y LAS ARTES", VOLUMEN COLECTIVO

El Departamento de Literatura Española e Hispanoamericana de la Universidad de Sevilla invita a la comunidad académica y a otros colectivos relacionados con el asociacionismo, el género o la juventud a participar en un libro interdisciplinar que trendrá como eje transversal la diversidad sexual y se enfocará desde la perspectiva de género. El volumen se dividirá en tres apartados temáticos: la Educación, la Filología y las Artes. La fecha límite para el envío de propuestas termina el 10 de enero de 2020.

Se aceptarán trabajos de investigación, resultado de proyectos o exposición de buenas prácticas por parte de asociaciones feministas, LGTBIQ+ y otras personas o grupos que expongan experiencias con resultados positivos a partir de proyectos culturales, inclusión, educación formal y no formal o a través de otras vías de transformación social. Estos trabajos deberán adaptarse al rigor científico y académico pertinente y a las normas de publicación de la Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, con la que se ha acordado llevar a cabo este proceso.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, HUNGARIAN JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN STUDIES

The international journal, Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies (HJEAS) solicits papers on “Translation, Rewriting and Adaptation” for a special issue in 2021. HJEAS is available world-wide on ProQuest and archived on JSTOR. 

Scholarly essays are welcome on a wide range of related topics, such as novels adapted to film, drama productions based on films, free translations of classic drama for the Anglophone stages, continuation of novels or novels rewritten for a new kind of readership (e. g., Foe by Coetzee, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler, etc.) poetry and poetry sequences adapted for stage or performance. 

Essays should be 7-10,000 words, double spaced with parenthetical citations using Works Cited following the MLA Handbook 7th edition.

*CFP* "FAMILIAR MONSTERS: THE SERIAL KILLER IN POST-9/11 TELEVISION", CHAPTER BOOK

Since 9/11 there has been a significant increase in narratives dealing with serial killers in popular television. Series about serial killers such as Showtime’s Dexter (2006-2013), NBC’s Hannibal (2013-2015), A&E’s Bates Motel (2013-2017), Fox’s The Following (2013-2015), BBC’s The Fall (2013-), and Netflix’s Mindhunter (2017-) have all received critical acclaim and garnered large fanbases. What is it about serial killers that has attracted audiences to incite such a boom in these types of narratives on television? Clearly the serial format of television programming is uniquely suited for the presentation of these characters’ modus operandi, but why has television proven to be such a fertile ground for serial killer narratives in post-9/11 popular culture? The narrative content and discourse of this kind of television programming has resulted in viewers developing a strong admiration for serial killer characters, which has seemed to produce a morbid identification with them. This potentially indicates a growing understanding of serial killers as in some unsettling way uniquely human in their psychological condition and philosophical worldview rather than simply unredeemingly inhuman. What is it about serial killers that make these characters deeply enlightening representations of the human condition that, although horrifically deviant, reflect complex elements of the human psyche? Why are serial killers so intellectually fascinating to audiences? We invite scholars from any field who are interested in this subject to submit paper proposals of no longer than 500 words on topics related to serial killers on television in post-9/11 popular culture.