*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, VOLUME 7, Nº 1&2, EJOTMAS: EKPOMA JOURNAL OF THEATRE AND MEDIA ARTS

EJOTMAS: Ekpoma Journal of Theatre and Media Arts Call for Papers Interested scholars and practitioners are hereby invited to submit articles for review and possible publication in Volume 7, Nos. 1&2 of EJOTMAS.  The volume will be published in September, 2019.

Although EJOTMAS receives manuscripts throughout the year, it only publishes a volume of two issues once in two years (that is, it is a biennial journal). Contributors are encouraged to submit manuscripts in English as the only preferred language. Contributions have to be sent electronically to omoera@yahoo.com and coaluede@yahoo.com.  In an effort to reach wide readership, this journal maintains both print and electronic versions.

Contributors are requested to adhere to the following guidelines:

*CFP* "LAST SYMPOSIUM STANDING: INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM ON SURVIVAL MEDIA", UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS

Since the early 2000s, a wide range of 'survival' media has been created, watched, played and explored. Alongside the rise in the production of survival media, this popularity is also evidenced by the prevalence of survival narratives in more traditionally established genres such as horror, disaster and thrillers. From reality TV shows like 'Survivor' to video games such as The Long Dark, from advertising to films such as 'Trapped' and '127 Hours', this symposium explores what can be learnt from examining these narratives which foreground human survival. 

What does the popularity of survival narratives in contemporary media tell us about the realities and concerns of individual and collective survival across the world? Positioning survival media as a 21st century global phenomenon, how can we understand the challenges of our survival in the contemporary world such as climate change by exploring the landscapes and terrains imagined by survival media?

*CFP* "MEDIATING TRAVEL: DIGITAL MEDIA, TOURISM, AND THE COSMOPOLITAN SELF IN A HYPERCONNECTED WORLD", IUAES 2019 PANEL

We would like to invite paper submissions to the IUAES 2019 panel on "Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a Hyperconnected World", co-convened by Regev Nathansohn (Department of Communication, Sapir Academic College) and Christian Ritter (MEDIT, Tallinn University).

Panel title:

Mediating Travel: Digital Media, Tourism, and the Cosmopolitan Self in a Hyperconnected World [Commission on the Anthropology of Tourism]

Short abstract:

Digital media technologies have transformed the relationships between hosts and guests in tourist places. Inviting theoretical and empirical contributions from the global south and north, this panel seeks to gain new understandings of the mutual shaping of cosmopolitan selves and digital media.

*CFP* "PLATAFORMAS DIGITALES DE LA COMUNICACIÓN Y LA CULTURA", POST-CONGRESO IAMCR 2019 UC3M

Post-congreso IAMCR 2019

Plataformas digitales de la comunicación y la cultura

Viernes de 12 de julio de 2019

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Campus Puerta de Toledo (Madrid)

Organizan:

Grupo de investigación de Diversidad Audiovisual, Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (España)

Laboratoire d’excellence Industries culturelles & création artistique – LabEx ICCA (Francia)

Sección de Economía política de IAMCR

*CFP* "TECHNOLOGY, WOMEN, AND GOTHIC-HORROR ON-SCREEN", GOTHIC FEMINISM CONFERENCE

Gothic Feminism presents:

Technology, Women, and Gothic-Horror On-Screen

2 – 3 May 2019

University of Kent

Keynote speaker: Dr Lisa Purse (University of Reading)

Gothic and technology appear, on the surface, to evoke contradictory connotations. As David Punter and Glennis Byron highlight, the Gothic came to be a term associated with the “ornate and convoluted”, “excess and exaggeration, the product of the wild and the uncivilized, a world that constantly tended to overflow cultural boundaries” (Punter and Byron, 2004, 7). Technology, on the other hand, is a term often linked to science, innovation and progressive invention. If the Industrial Revolution is emblematic of what one imagines a technological revolution to be, then technology becomes synonymous with the associations defining 18th Century culture, described by Terry Castle as “the period as an age of reason and enlightenment – the aggressively rationalist imperatives of the epoch” (Castle, 1995, 8).

*CFP* "NEW DIRECTIONS IN ITALIAN FICTION", ISSUE 27 (SPRING 2019) LA FUSTA, THE DIGITAL ITALIAN STUDIES JOURNAL

La Fusta, the digital Italian Studies journal edited by the Italian Graduate Society at Rutgers University, is now welcoming submissions in English or Italian. Issue 27 (Spring 2019) will concentrate on the theme “New Generations of Italian Writers.” Articles, book reviews, and creative writing are being considered for publication.

Premio Strega, Premio Campiello, and other literary awards attract readerships as much as they did in the past. Some of the intellectuals emerging as best-selling authors, such as Camilleri and Ferrante, have written captivating stories which reflect the varied cultural landscape of Italy. Furthermore, while society and culture have always influenced literature, recent immigration to Italy has affected the works of writers to an unprecedented degree. We welcome articles that consider theoretical discussions about authorship and the figure of the author, social issues, multicultural communication, reflections on migration and integration, and the connection between ‘letteratura della migrazione’ and the mainstream literature.

*CFP* "IMMERSIVE AND INTERACTIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND LIVE PERFORMANCE: VR/AR/MR PRACTICES", UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES

Immersive and Interactive Technologies and Live Performance: VR/AR/MR practices

TaPRA Performance & New Technologies Working Group Interim Event

Saturday 6th April 2019, 

University of South Wales, Cardiff Campus, The ATRiuM

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Jorge Lopes Ramos (executive director ZU-UK).

Launch & Wine Reception: Launch of Performance and VR Practice special issue, IJPADM. Wine reception and conversation with Kerry Francksen and Sophy Smith (eds.).

Following on from the annual conference at Aberystwyth and previous group events and conversations, the aim of the 2019 interim event is to explore different practices and modes of immersive and interactive technologies in live performance, as well as to investigate new narrative possibilities and audiences’ virtual experiences in live performance created by immersive technologies. As Kerry Francksen and Sophy Smith (2018) note, ‘[t]he use of virtual reality (VR) technologies has seen a significant resurgence in both industry-led and artistic communities in recent times. This re-emergence can be linked to the continuing growth and advancement in smart phone technologies (e.g. developments in accelerometers and gyrospic chips), as well as a significant interest within the games industry for developing a greater quality gaming experience.’ 

*CFP* "PHILOSOPHY AND AESTHETICS OF SEXUALITY IN JAPAN", SPECIAL ISSUE THE POLISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS

Sex is one of the most essential elements of human life. Without it, the continuity of the generations of any nation would be impossible. Desire, whether unfulfilled or otherwise, sexual fantasies come true, religious, social, and moral taboos—all of these elements have influenced the shaping of sexuality in any given culture, while sublimation of this sphere of life has been reflected in art, literature, philosophy, the performing arts, pop culture, and many other areas. However, due to differences in cultural patterns, the results may be different, strange, incomprehensible, and sometimes even unacceptable to viewers from another part of the world who are unfamiliar with their historical or sociocultural context. So it is with Japan. According to Ruth Benedict, “[i]n the seventy-five years that have passed since the opening of Japan to the world, the Japanese have become the heroes of such fantastic stories that no other nation in the world can compare with them in this respect.” Decades have passed since the publication of her book about Japan, and yet many stereotypes about the Japanese, and especially about their sex life, continue to circulate. On one hand, Japan appears, in the general consensus, as a land of sexual peculiarities and deviations, often inconceivable to Westerners, assumed to date from “ancient” times; on the other hand, the media informs us of the latest research results, according to which the Japanese have completely given up cohabitation.

*CFP* "VENUS A TRAVÉS DEL ESPEJO: EROTISMO Y CREACIÓN EN EL MUNDO HISPÁNICO (LITERATURA, CINE, CÓMIC Y ARTES PLÁSTICAS)", UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID

The international conference “Venus a través del espejo: erotismo y creación en el mundo hispánico (literatura, cine, cómic y artes plásticas)” will take place at the Universidad de Valladolid (Spain) on May 8, 9 (on-site sessions), 10 & 11 (online asynchronous sessions), 2019, in order to reflect from an interdisciplinary perspective on the presence of eroticism in the literary works, films, graphic novels and the arts of the Hispanic World. The aim is to share and learn about new theories and methodologies to approach the problems presented by the expression of eroticism. The semi-online nature of the conference offers and ideal context for a global exchange of research without limits imposed by distance or time differences. This conference is part of the activities developed by the research project “Ovidio versus Petrarca: nuevos textos de la poesía erótica española del Siglo de Oro (plataforma y edición)” (ref. FFI2015-68229-P).  

 

We invite scholars to present proposals that touch on one of the following topics:

*CFP* "INDIAN ANIMATED MEDIA AND CULTURE", EDITED COLLECTION

Proposals are invited for chapters in a new edited collection on the topic of ‘Indian Animated Media and Culture.’

Indian animation has transformed dramatically over the last twenty-five years. No longer a cottage industry or government-funded communication enterprise, a diverse globally-engaged production sector has emerged. Large Indian studios have built global reputations securing animation and visual effects production contracts, while other artists and firms have made strides in original content for local television and film festival audiences. While outsourcing still represents a majority of entertainment output, work-for-hire contracts have slowly given way to co-production. International brands have also set up shop in India, from multinational distributors like Disney XD or AT&T’s Cartoon Network, to producers like Technicolor and Ubisoft. In striking contrast to these developments, artisanal and even explicitly non-commercial animation continues to be produced, and in some cases thrive.

*CFP* "TRANSFORMING COMMUNITIES", 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON C&T

9th International Conference on C&T - Transforming Communities

3 - 7 June 2019, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

The biennial Communities and Technologies (C&T) conference is the premier international forum for stimulating scholarly debate and disseminating research on the complex connections between communities – in their multiple forms – and information and communication technologies.

C&T 2019 welcomes participation from researchers, designers, educators, industry, and students from the many disciplines and perspectives bearing on the interaction between communities and technologies, including architecture, arts, business, design, economics, education, engineering, ergonomics, informatics, information technology, geography, health, humanities, law, media and communication studies, and social sciences.

*CFP* "DIGITAL⇌CULTURE 2019", ONE-DAY CONFERENCE DIGITAL CULTURE RESEARCH NETWORK

DIGITAL⇌CULTURE 2019

A one-day conference hosted by the Digital Culture Research Network, and supported by the Midlands3Cities DTP (M3C) Cohort Development Fund

Friday 10th May 2019

University of Nottingham

 

The Digital Culture Research Network is pleased to open the call for papers for our second annual conference – ‘Digital⇌Culture 2019’.

This year’s theme of ‘ACCESS’ seeks to respond to the continued ways in which digital technologies are profoundly impacting social, cultural, and institutional interactions with content, data, and platforms. Rapidly changing modes of knowledge and value production means of accessibility, and concerns around privacy and censorship have given rise to increased scrutiny of the current digital landscape and our interactions with(in) it.

*CFP* "MELODRAMA OUTSIDE OF ITSELF. ARCHETYPES, INTERMEDIALITY, MASS CULTURE", TESTO A FRONTE JOURNAL

Considered for centuries a marginal dramatic genre straddling the high and low-mimetic modes, with the seminal essay The Melodramatic Imagination: Balzac, Henry James, Melodrama, and the Mode of Excess (1976) by Peter Brooks melodrama has been credited the status of a dominant narrative form of mass culture. It is now clear that melodrama is a declination of modern imagination oriented to elaborate plots marked by a sharp ethical polarization, by an uninhibited taste for excess (lingering in absolute and devouring passions, as well as in extreme situations to the limit of representability) and by a smug aesthetic of amazement: in short a Manichean and boosted device which from the late Eighteenth century vaudeville spreads, during the Nineteenth century, in opera, in the currents of visionary, historical and social romantic painting, in the realist, naturalist, decadent novel, touching the modernist one, and, during the Twentieth century, explodes in the cinematic melo and then in the television seriality. Literary studies, visual studies, film studies and television studies offer today many glances. sometimes contradictory, but always stimulating, on this complex phenomenon which has always been transversal to codes, genres and media.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS 2019 ISSUES, KOME JOURNAL

KOME, an international Open Access journal published by the Hungarian Communication Studies Association is currently seeking articles for its 2019 issues.

KOME is a theory and pure research-oriented journal of communication studies and related fields. Theoretical researches and discussions that help to understand better, or reconceptualize the understanding of communication or the media are its center of interests; being either an useful supplement to, or a reasonable alternative to current models and theories. Given the connection between theory and empirical research, we are open to submissions of empirical papers if the research demonstrates a clear endorsement of communication and/or media theories. KOME is also committed to the ideas of trans- and interdisciplinarity and prefer topics that are relevant for more than one special discipline of social sciences.

For submission, send your paper to the Editorial Office kome@komejournal.com

*CFP* CALL FOR BOOK PROPOSALS, ROUTLEDGE CRITICAL ADVERTISING STUDIES

Routledge Critical Advertising Studies tracks the profound changes that have taken place in the field of advertising. Presenting thought-provoking scholarship from both prominent scholars and emerging researchers, these groundbreaking short form publications cover cutting-edge research concerns and contemporary issues within the field. 

Titles in the series explore emerging trends, present detailed case studies and offer new assessments of topics such as branded content, economic surveillance, product placement, gender in marketing, and promotional screen media. Responding quickly to the latest developments in the field, the series is intellectually compelling, refreshingly open, provocative and action-oriented.

Anyone interested in contributing to the series should contact the series editor Jonathan Hardy at j.hardy@uel.ac.uk.

*CFP* EUPOP 2019, 8TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION (EPCA), UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK

EUPOP 2019

Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, July 16th – 18th, 2019

Individual paper and panel contributions are welcomed for the eighth annual international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), to be held at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick), Ireland, July 16th – 18th, 2019.

EUPOP 2018 will explore European popular culture in all its various forms. This includes, but is by no means limited to, the following topics: European Film (past and present), Television, Music, Costume and Performance, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Popular Literature and Graphic Novels, Queer Studies, Sport, Curation, and Digital Culture.

*CFP* CALL FOR VIDEO PRESENTATIONS AT IAMCR 2019 CONFERENCE

Five IAMCR sections and working groups (S&WGs) have launched an experimental initiative to call for video presentations for the IAMCR 2019 conference.

These sections and working groups are: 

• The Participatory Communication Research Section (PCR)
• The Community Communication and Alternative Media Section (CCAM)
• The Popular Culture Working Group (POC)
• The Media and Sport Section (MES)
• The Environment, Science and Risk Communication Working Group (ESR).

This initiative is driven by the need to make headway towards virtual conference participation. The five participating S&WGs, supported by IAMCR’s Executive Board, believe that the association cannot remain blind to the environmental impact that our conferences have, or to the unfortunate exclusions that characterize current conference models. As IAMCR members, we all have an ethical-ecological responsibility here. Moreover, the five S&WGs believe that we should also acknowledge and stimulate the creative opportunities that video presentations can offer to conference presenters.

*CFP* "MASCULINITY AND BODY IMAGE IN THE 21ST CENTURY", AHRC NETWORK LAUNCH

Masculinity and Body Image in the 21st Century

Birmingham City University

Friday 3rd May 2019

Popular culture is saturated with images of men’s bodies that might once have been dismissed as homoerotic, pornographicor obscene.  Now commonplace, images of sexualized male bodies inform understandings of contemporary masculinities and can be felt in the ways men experience and describe their bodies and represent themselves on and off line.

This 24-month AHRC funded research network will explore the pervasiveness of sexualized masculine embodiment across contemporary popular culture, and set an ambitious agenda for subsequent research. The network steering group includes Begonya Enguix, Joao Florencio, Jamie Hakim, Mark McGlashan, Peter Rehberg and Florian Voros. Our first, free to attend event in Birmingham in May 2019 will set priorities for the network by addressing contemporary concerns about men’s physical and mental well-being within the context of a sexualised culture and will focus on male body image.

*CFP* "HORRIFIC BODIES: SURVEILLANCE, SCREENS AND SCREAMS", NORTHERN LIGHTS: FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES YEARBOOK

Body horror concerns narratives in which the corporeal uncanny is produced through the destruction or annihilation of the natural human body. The contemporary screen contains countless examples of horrified and terrified bodies; watched, tracked, analysed, transformed and degenerated, these ‘horrific’ bodies speak to the angst of the current social, cultural, political and technological world in which we reside. 

The practices of surveillance, both diegetic and non-diegetic, offer new versions of modern horror; while the horror genre itself has been generously theorized and analysed, its intersection with practices of surveillance opens up new avenues for discussion and the possibility for radical critique of representational systems. Surveillance, of and within horror narratives, offers a particular nuance to our readings of the genre, and the critique of surveillance itself may help us to excavate how we construct notions of gender, race and power, as well as the psychological terror and fear of surveillance itself. The focus of this special edition of Northern Lights, therefore, is the intersection between the horror genre and practices of surveillance, and this edition seeks to promote emergent approaches to screen analysis.

*CFP* "POETIC CINEMA IN UKRAINE AND BEYOND: HISTORY, MEMORY AND LEGACY", SPECIAL ISSUE EAST EUROPEAN FILM BULLETIN

As part of its Ukraine focus 2019, the East European Film Bulletin is preparing a special issue on the history, memory and legacy of poetic cinema in Ukraine and Beyond.

"Poetry" and "poetic cinema" have been key to defining Ukrainian cinema both positively and negatively. The concept of "poetry" has been deployed by those interested in delineating the demarcations of a unique cinematic culture, as well as by those wishing to write alternative narratives through revolutionary filmmaking attempts and revisionary academic accounts on what defines Ukrainian cinema.

We are particularly interested in:

*CFP* "NEW REFLECTIONS ON FASHIONING IDENTITIES: LIFESTYLE, EMOTIONS AND CELEBRITY CULTURE", UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON

New Reflections on Fashioning Identities: Lifestyle, Emotions and Celebrity Culture

14 June 2019

University of Roehampton

London, UK.

A one-day symposium supported by the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-VisualCultures (CRFAC), in association with the Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures(FCVC) Network.

Symposium convened by Dr Theodora Thomadaki, University of Roehampton

Keynote Speakers

Dr Shaun Cole Associate Professor of Fashion at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Gok Wan Multi-award-winning UK presenter, fashion expert and on-screen consultant.

*CFP* "NEW REFLECTIONS ON FASHIONING IDENTITIES: LIFESTYLE, EMOTIONS AND CELEBRITY CULTURE", ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM

New Reflections on Fashioning Identities: Lifestyle, Emotions and Celebrity Culture

14 June 2019

University of Roehampton

London, UK.

A one-day symposium supported by the Centre for Research in Film and Audio-Visual Cultures (CRFAC), in association with the Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures (FCVC) Network.

Symposium convened by Dr Theodora Thomadaki, University of Roehampton

Keynote Speakers

Dr Shaun Cole Associate Professor of Fashion at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.

Gok Wan Multi-award-winning UK presenter, fashion expert and on-screen consultant.

*CFP* 40TH CONFERENCE OF THE PORTUGUESE ASSOCIATION FOR ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES (APEAA), UNIVERSITY OF PORTO

40th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA)

40th APEAA Meeting

6-8 June 2019

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

University of Porto, Portugal

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Alex Houen (Cambridge University)

Isabel Fernandes (Universidade de Lisboa)

Other keynote speakers to be confirmed.

The Department of Anglo-American Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto is pleased to announce the 40th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, which will take place between 6 and 8 June 2019.

*CFP* "PERFORMATIVITY AND CREATIVITY IN MODERN CULTURES", INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Performativity and Creativity in Modern Cultures

An Interdisciplinary Conference

22–24 November 2019, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Performativity and creativity have often been used vaguely in a number of discourses in cultural studies, economics, political ideologies or advertising. The purpose of this conference is to explore the force of these concepts in pragmatic approaches to cultures and closely related industrial production (“creative industries”), in technological developments connected with performing arts and cultural communication, as well as in commercial entertainment. 

In recent approaches, the understanding of performativity has transcended its original linguistic dimensions (Austin, Searle) and their deconstructionist critique (Derrida, Hillis Miller). In our view, it can be better described by studying notions like “fiction”, “play” (Iser), “gender” (Butler), “technology” (Foucault) or “social roles” (Goffman, Ross and Nisbett). 

*CFP* 4TH TRANSNATIONAL JOURNALISM HISTORY CONFERENCE

4rd Transnational Journalism History Conference

June 20-21, Groningen, The Netherlands

The fourth annual conference on Transnational Journalism History is seeking papers that study historical transformations in journalism from a transnational perspective.

We welcome papers that discuss theoretical or methodological issues as well as empirical case studies from all parts of the world. Specifically, we invite contributions that consider:

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION, CREATIVITY AND IMAGINATION: CHALLEGING THE FIELD", NORDMEDIA 2019 CONFERENCE

NordMedia 2019 will be held on 21st -23rd August at Malmö University in Sweden. The theme of the conference is Communication, Creativity and Imagination: Challenging the Field. There will also be a pre-conference for PhD-students held two days prior to the conference 19-20th August.

For further information than that given below, please contact Margareta Melin (margareta.melin@mau.se), Linnea Mörth (linnea@morth.se) or Henrik Örnebring for the pre-conference (henrik.ornebring@kau.se).

About the theme

In an increasingly interconnected and accelerated world, our academic field offers significant opportunities to grapple with shifting and often contentious media and communication landscapes. With these opportunities comes a charge for responsible research and reporting of results, as scholars make their work public through their teaching, publishing, and engagement in the world beyond the academy. Are we living up to this charge? Do our current approaches work? How might we work both responsibly and creatively?

*CFP* "DIGITAL FORTRESS EUROPE: EXPLORING BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MEDIA, MIGRATION AND TECHNOLOGY" TWO-DAY CONFERECE

Digital Fortress Europe: Exploring Boundaries between Media, Migration and Technology

30 and 31 October 2019, Brussels, Belgium

The two-day conference “Digital Fortress Europe” intends to be a forum to reflect on the relations between media, migration, and technology. These relations demand our fullest attention because they touch on the essence of what migration means in societies that are undergoing democratic challenges. Research shows that media and technologies play a vital role for people who migrate, but that the same media and technologies serve to spread xenophobia, increase societal polarization and enable elaborate surveillance possibilities. With its intensifying anti-migration populist discourses, humanitarian border crises and efforts to secure borders through technological solutions, the European context provides a pulsating scene to examine such deepening relations. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL ISSUE, NORTHERN LIGHTS: FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES YEARBOOK

Europe at the Crossroads: Cinematic Takes The history of the idea of ‘European identity can be described in terms of, on one hand, a constant oscillation between two poles, one instrumental or pragmatic (the Europe of norms), the other affective (the Europe of values and feelings) and, on the other hand, in terms of a continuous, unresolved conflict between the belief in some ineffable European ‘spirit’ or ‘ethos’ and the outright rejection of any sort of ‘European identity’. 

Indeed, a recurring theme in all critical writings on Europe and European identity is the idea that to be European is to doubt that there is something like a ‘European identity’. To illuminate the ambiguity pervading attempts to define European identity one need only juxtapose the traditional characteristics of Europeanness deriving from the continent’s founding philosophical and religious traditions, including Christianity, Roman law and the Enlightenment – here ‘Europeanness’ is defined in relation to the concepts of the polis, citizenship, democracy and participation, rationalism, universality and cosmopolitanism – with the immense contradictions underlying the concept of Europeanness defined in relation to political and economic circumstances.

*CFP* 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMMUNICATION, MEDIA, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN

8th ICCMTD Conference

Athens dates between 05 – 07 April 2019

We invite you to attend the “8th International Conference of Communication, Media, Technology and Design” and submit full paper proposals, and participate in panel discussions. All presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by a respected Scientific Board Members of the ICCMTD.

The themes of the conference aiming for the exchange of information on research, development, and applications of Communication Technologies, Social Media, Visual Communication and Design, Integrated Marketing Communication, Communication Education, Communication Barriers, Health Communication, Media Management and Economics, Political Communication and Communication and Media Studies in General.

*CFP* "EXPLORING FLOWS AND COUNTER-FLOWS OF INFORMATION ALONG THE NEW SILK ROAD", SPECIAL ISSUE COMMUNICATION AND THE PUBLIC

The “New Silk Road”, or in the Chinese official discourse, the “Belt & Road initiative一带一路” was launched in 2013 to reconnect China with countries in Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa and to establish different levels of cooperation with new partners. The complexity of this initiative is reflected in the diverse definitions provided by different stakeholders such as:

1. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an ambitious effort to improve regional cooperation and connectivity on a trans-continental scale. The initiative aims to strengthen infrastructure, trade, and investment links between China and some 65 other countries (The World Bank) 
2. China's ambitious plan for linking Asia and Europe and Africa through new massive infrastructure projects (European Parliament)
3. The Belt and Road Initiative is a systematic project, which should be jointly built through consultation to meet the interests of all, and efforts should be made to integrate the development strategies of the countries along the Belt and Road. (Chinese Government)

*CFP* "FAKING IT?: CONCEPTUALISING 'FAKE' IN CULTURE, SOCIETY AND ACADEMIA", CONFERENCE AND ISSUE 9(1) EXCURSION JOURNAL

“In a world that really has been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.” -Guy Debord, La Société du spectacle

“Georgio Peviani is doing everything that a successful fashion designer needs to do, apart from existing.“ -Oobah Butler, Vice

In the era of ‘Post-truth’, where “a few claims on Twitter can have the same credibility as a library full of research” (Coughlan 2017), the distinctions between the original and the inauthentic, the actual and the seeming or the experienced and the imagined are becoming less and less distinguishable. Fake has become an omnipresent feature of both our daily lives and a globalized, ultra-connected culture: it is in the way we dwell and break free from spaces and ideas.

*CFP* "GLOBAL COLOUR AND THE MOVING IMAGE", CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

Global Colour and the Moving Image

10 - 12 July 2019

University of Bristol

Keynote speakers:

Professor Barbara Flueckiger, University of Zurich

Professor Ranjani Mazumdar, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Special screening and Q&A at the Bristol Watershed with British film director John Boorman CBE

Ten years on from the ‘Colour and the Moving Image’ conference in Bristol, the study of film colour has grown impressively. While the majority of research has been undertaken on early 20th century colour processes, far less is known about the introduction and application of colour technologies from the second half of the 20th century onwards. As stocks such as Eastmancolor, Agfacolor, and Fujicolor became cheaper, national film industries increasingly converted to colour, exhibiting a variety of aesthetic, cultural, economic and intermedial approaches to its application.

*CFP* "IS IT OKAY TO BE GAY? HOW MAINSTREAM MEDIA CULTURE INFLUENCES GENDER & SEXUALITY", CHAPTER BOOK

According to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law (Gary J. Gates. “How Many People are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender?” April 2011), 3.5% (or 9 million people) of the US adult population identify as part of the LGBT community; another 19 million Americans (8.2%) have engaged in same-sex relations, while 25.6 million (11%) recognize their own same-sex attraction; further, there are 700,000 transgender individuals in the US. NBC News tells us that worldwide overall LGBTQ acceptance has increased, though in a polarized fashion. (“The Shifting Global Terrain of L.G.B.T.Q. Rights” The New York Times, 6/21/18) Although gains have been made, legally as well as socially, nationally and globally, there are also continuing challenges. We would like to provide a platform for authors to discuss these challenges and the many ways in which media representation influences LGBTQ+ perceptions, hence policy. This will take the form of a critical reader to be used across disciplines and will function as a primary or ancillary text for undergraduate college students. Thus, we are in need of fifty-plus essays which are mindful of influencing the latest generation of scholars.     

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS VOLUME 29, ISSUE 1, LITERA: JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE STUDIES

Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies - Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, which is the official publication of Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Western Languages and Literatures, is an open access, peer-reviewed, multilingual, scholarly and international journal published two times a year in June and December. The journal is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography.

The objective of the Journal is to publish disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary, theoretical and/or applied research articles that focus on Western languages and literatures in the following fields: literary studies, linguistics, cultural studies, media studies, translation studies and language teaching. Litera: Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Studies - Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi provides a forum for exploring issues basically in literature, language, art and culture. The target group of the Journal consists of professionals, academicians, researchers, post graduate students, related academic bodies and institutions.

*CFP* “CULTURAL MEMORIES AND NATIONAL IDEOLOGIES: EXPLORING POLITICAL MYTHS THROUGH CINEMA” FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL. ISSUE 15, SUMMER 2019

Political myths operate with varying levels of visibility in our everyday lives. They are a fundamental component of our everyday perception, functioning as an influential ideological and emotional force within social life. They serve vital sociological functions, articulating the hopes and fears of a given society and uniting disjointed people through forms of collective identity deemed acceptable and gratifying. Political myths function as vehicles of political doctrine utilised by all social groups in the consolidation of their respective ideologies. Consequently, such myths are often perceived as inherent truths endowed with the strength and conviction of religious belief by those invested in them and delusions and fallacies by those who are not.

Cinema, one may argue, is the consummate medium of modern day political mythmaking. In our contemporary media society, images and sounds play an increasing role in the shaping of our perceptions and social experiences, moulding the very structures of daily life. Films help contribute to the construction of our political values, our social identities, our understanding of what it is to be a certain class, ethnicity, gender or sexuality. Films shape our morality, dictating what is good and evil, right and wrong. By transcoding the discourses of the social world into images, films present audiences with the materials through which they construct their subjectivities.

*CFP* "MUSIC & SPORT: KNOWING THE SCORE", LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY ONE DAY CONFERENCE

Music & Sport: Knowing the Score

A conference to explore the relationship between music and sport

26th June 2019, Leeds UK

Fields of Vision

Music Leeds

Leeds Arts Research Centre

Hosted by The School of Film, Music & Performing Arts, Leeds Beckett University

From team songs sung after a match to Arthur Honegger’s 1928 ‘Rugby’ symphonic movement; from terrace chants to Neil Hannon’s ‘Duckworth-Lewis Method’ concept album, sport and music have always been inextricably linked. Both produce moments of community, transcendence, and emotional resonance - and both are vital components of the past, present and future of modern culture.