29 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* OP. CIT.: A JOURNAL OF ANGLO-AMERICAN STUDIES, 2ND SERIES, NR 8: 2019


Op. Cit.: A Journal of Anglo-American Studies (the Journal of APEAA – Associação Portuguesa de Estudos Anglo-Americanos/ the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies) is calling for papers for its forthcoming issue, 2nd Series, Number 8, which will be published in November 2019.

Proposals along the Journal’s usual fields, disciplines and areas of research are welcome. The Journal covers all aspects of the cultures of the English-speaking countries from a variety of angles, including literary studies, cultural studies, post-colonial studies, performance, film and theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, translation studies, linguistics, language teaching and methodology.

*CFP* "DIGITAL DIPLOMACY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES", EDITED BOOK


In this twenty-first century of digitalization, the world is changing and its impact on international life is unlimited. Digitalization is influencing the international society and imposing new challenges on international actors (states, international organizations, NGOs, and transnational corporations). Nowadays, it offers new opportunities for international and bilateral cooperation, and it reinforces the role of the emergent actors within global governance. Digitalization facilitates the inclusion of all actors in global issues.

This explains the emergence of new phenomena, such as e-diplomacy and how diplomats and international actors in general are more open to each other and also to the individuals.

Related to these issues, the Institut International de la Recherche Scientifique is preparing the edition of the book Digital diplomacy: Challenges and opportunities to be edited in Morocco this year.

*CFP* “MINORITY WOMEN AND WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGING REPRESENTATIONS AND ARTICULATING NEW VOICES” BOOK CHAPTER


This edited volume of Lexington Books (an imprint of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.) invites scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit manuscripts on the theme of “Minority Women and Western Media: Challenging Representations and Articulating New Voices”.The edited volume will join the Communicating Gender book series published by Lexington Books.

Representations of minority women are often limited and predominantly negative in much of Western mainstream media. The experience of minority women in the West can involve discrimination and misrepresentation not only because of gender but also race, religion, class, sexual orientation and perceptions of their otherness. Sub-cultures and community dynamics may further marginalize women compared to their male counterparts such that when minorities speak, it is in fact minority men speaking.

*CFP* "FAMILIAL INFLUENCES ON SUPERHEROES", EDITED COLLECTION


The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes, will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature films.  Many superheroes have experienced the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others.  Thus, the individuals that the superheroes gravitate towards become an integral part of their lives, to the point where they form a necessary and vital “familial network” of connections that would either replace those that were lost or never fully established.  This network ranges from “substitute” parents/guardians as well as siblings and relatives, to significant others and even more extended members comprising superhero teams.  Each chapter will focus on a specific superhero and how s/he has been impacted by the aforementioned familial figures.  Through this collection of essays, readers will understand the psychological makeup of superheroes much better and see that behind every hero is a family member(s) encouraging them to use their powers for the benefit of humanity.  

28 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "JOURNALISM AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE", VOL.14 Nº1 (2020), JOURNALISM PRACTICE


Call for papers for a special edition (Journalism and Sexual Violence) for Journalism Practice (2020, Vol 14, No 1). Full papers due - Journalism Practice’s Scholar One by 18 June 2019.


The guest editors of Journalism Practice invite rigorous empirical scholarly work related to the theme of journalism practice, sexual violence, pre or post the #MeToo era. Papers need to delineate their use of the concept of sexual violence and examine how it is reported on, or distributed by legacy or social media. Research should be based around either quantitative, qualitative, computational and/or mixed research methods. Papers are also encouraged to assess the implications or impact of such reportage, and where appropriate offer recommendations to improve journalism practice vis-à-vis reporting of sexual violence. 

*CFP* "ANIMATING LGBTQ+ REPRESENTATIONS: QUEERING THE PRODUCTION OF MOVEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE, SYNOPTIQUE: AND ONLINE JOURNAL OF FILM AND MOVING IMAGE STUDIES


At the heart of animation is movement, and the expression of movement is negotiated differently across media. How then do LGBTQ+ communities reappropriate the specificities of animation, comics, videogames, and other forms of visual representations that rely on putting bodies into motion? How does animation support the emergence of social and political movements from within, between, and outside media production spaces? 

Since 2010, studies of LGBTQ+ representation in animation have steadily increased in number. From queer readings (Halberstram 2011), to media histories (McLelland, Nagaike, Suganuma, Welker 2015), to queer media makers (such as bisexual, non-binary creator Rebecca Sugar and other queer animators like Noelle Stevenson and Chris Nee), animation production has become a vital site for the study, performance, and persistence of queer media practices. Although much conversation has been devoted to queer readings of texts in transmedia movements, the people, circuits, and institutions of queer animated media production have attracted significantly less attention.

*CFP* "SEXUALITY, SECURITY AND SURVEILLANCE IN DIGITAL SPACES", 5TH GEOGRAPHIES OF SEXUALITY CONFERENCE


Sexuality, Security and Surveillance in Digital Spaces (CfA - session)
Prague, September 26th – 28th, 2019

Networked platforms have become fully integrated in almost every aspect of everyday life in the digital age. In particular, notions of digital activism through digital mobilization have become deeply intertwined in civil society groups, non-profit and LGBTIQ+ organizations. These platforms are used, particularly, by marginalized groups to make visible various human rights abuses and also create safe spaces outside of, but in relation to the daily varied forms of hetero/homonormativities. Conversely, state officials and moral entrepreneurs are continuously stretching their communications to networked platforms in order to voice their discontent with emerging voices against “traditional” and nativist’s discourses. Their tactics involves state funded surveillance of marginalized virtual communities and individual social media accounts. 

*CFP* “STUDENTS IN CHANGING HIGHER EDUCATION LANDSCAPES”, THE UNIVERSITY OF SURREY


Students in Changing Higher Education Landscapes
One-day conference
Friday, 14th June 2019

Across many countries of the world, higher education landscapes have changed significantly over recent years. Market mechanisms have become more prominent, and politicians have become increasingly concerned about graduates’ transitions into the labour market. In some nations, although not all, students are now expected to make a substantial contribution to the cost of their higher education and, across mainland Europe, the Bologna Process has reshaped the nature of students’ experiences considerably. This one-day conference seeks to explore understandings of students in this shifting context.

*CFP* "THE ILLUSION OF INCLUSION: REPRESENTATIONS OF ISLAM IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AND MEDIA", EDITED COLLECTION


This project argues that there is still a need for accurate and sensitive representations of Muslims in children’s literature and media. Such portrayals must begin at a deeper level and must directly confront and reconstruct the habitually white conventions of Western publishing and production. Ultimately this project seeks to examine Muslims as both protagonists and minor characters in recent narratives to ask if these examples are accurate, inclusive, and socially responsible. Inclusion and visibility are not enough, and we should not settle for making minority figures more visible and consumable for the dominant culture, but instead insist upon more accurate depictions.  Such renderings can occur only when children’s literature and media are recreated to provide space for diverse characters without the risk of reducing such characters to caricatures or stereotypes navigating a plot that is designed for non-Muslim characters.  

Individual chapters are currently being solicited.

27 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "RECLAIMING THE SCREEN: ADDRESSING OVERLOOKED WOMEN IN FILM AND TELEVISION", POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

‘Reclaiming the Screen: Addressing Overlooked Women in Film and Television’
Postgraduate Conference - Friday 14th June 2019.

Keynote speaker: Dr. Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor of Film, University of Southampton).

£5 conference free: to be paid in cash upon registration

MA travel bursaries available - email cath.postgrad@gmail.com for more information.

‘[T]he tragedy of film history is that it’s fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history’ - Louise Brooks

*CFP* "ASIAN REPRESENTATION MATTERS", SPECIAL ISSUE MISE-EN-SCÈNE, THE JOURNAL OF FILM & VISUAL NARRATIVES


For its forthcoming themed issue, Mise-en-scène: The Journal of Film & Visual Narration (MSJ) seeks submissions on Asian representation in film and television and the latest research concerning this topic. Why is it that Asian characters have long been expected to depict stereotypes like the nerdy sidekick, the “exotic” girlfriend, the silent henchman, or the “tiger” mother? Even Asian roles, such as Charlie Chan or Major Kusanagi, have a history of being #WhiteWashedOut by Hollywood. However, recent films produced and starring Asians like Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians seem to be heralding a new era of authenticity in minority representation. 

Mise-en-scène welcomes submissions that unpack this theme of Asian representation. Although all submission categories are open to this special call for papers, feature articles (6,000-7,000 words) are of particular interest to our editorial team. Submissions must include a selection of supporting images from the film(s) under analysis and be formatted according to MLA guidelines, 8th edition. 

*CFP* “EMOTIONS, POPULISM AND POLARISED POLITICS, MEDIA, AND CULTURE”, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI


Emotions, Populism and Polarised Politics, Media, and Culture
MaPo/WhiKnow Conference
August 19-20, 2019


Globally hyped populism and polarised politics require attention to the ways in which emotional engagements and performance intertwine. Our two-day conference looks at cases of politics, media, and culture, and explores the link between emotions and populism, polarizing politics that spills over to media and culture.

The conference is organized by two Academy of Finland funded projects, Mainstreaming Populism in the 21st Century (MaPo), and Whirl of Knowledge: Cultural Populism in European Polarised Politics and Societies (WhiKnow). It is also organised in connection with two Helsinki Summer School courses “Rhetoric-Performative and Post-Foundational Analysis” and “Populism on the Loose in Europe and Beyond”. Both draw on the political philosophy of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, taking forward the discourse theoretical, hegemony-focused Essex school approach.

*CFP* "HISPANISMO Y CINE: MODERNIDAD Y EMERGENCIA GLOBAL", VI ENCUENTRO ACADÉMICO TECMERIN, UC3M

Congreso Internacional
Hispanismo y Cine: Modernidad y emergencia global
2-5 julio de 2019, 

La atención por el cine en el campo de los estudios de hispanismo no ha dejado de crecer en las últimas décadas. Puede decirse, incluso, que el cine y otros medios audiovisuales han dado un nuevo impulso al hispanismo en los tiempos de la globalización económica y cultural.

*CFP* “CREATING COMICS, CREATIVE COMICS 2019: BEYOND”, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES


Creating Comics, Creative Comics 2019: Beyond
Comics Symposium 2019
Friday 31st May – Saturday 1st June 2019
University of South Wales, Cardiff Campus

We are interested in what lies beyond. In current comics practice, what lies yonder? In particular we are interested in emerging issues of materiality and practice that creators and practitioners consider when constructing work. We ask how these constructions developed for viewing-reading change according to materiality, embodied practices and creative decision making.

This two-day single-panel Symposium, aims to explore, practitioner and creator perspectives in comics creation and production.

*CFP* "CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SCIENCE FICTION FILM: THE BUSH, OBAMA AND TRUMP YEARS", VOLUME EDITED


Since the turn of the millennium the United States of America has undergone what many have considered to be a series of political, financial, and institutional crises. At the same time, the increasing popularity of the science fiction genre has, in many ways, frequently both dramatized and provided a commentary on the fears and anxieties this period has evoked. The philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that allegory emerges most frequently in periods of crisis and uncertainty, correspondingly it is no coincidence that some of the most powerful films to emerge from American cinema in the last two decades are allegorical texts and many of which have come from the science fiction genre. What are they able to tell us about the turbulent times in which they were made? How might they be uniquely positioned to function as cultural artefacts intrinsically connected to their historical moments? How do the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the frames of the screens?

With this in mind we are seeking scholarly, research informed and dynamic chapter-length contributions to an edited volume on the topic of the contemporary science-fiction genre in American film. This collection of essays will examine and explore how recent films have reflected, portrayed and interrogated the social, political and cultural climate of this fractious period during the presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

26 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* NORDMEDIA 2019, PHD STUDENT PRECONFERENCE


PhD Student Preconference   
Aug 19-20

The NordMedia organizing committee, FSMK (The Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research) and NORDICOM cordially invite PhD students to submit paper proposals for the NordMedia 2019 PhD student preconference. The preconference will run from Monday, Aug 19 (half-day, starting with a joint lunch) to Aug 20 (full day, ending with a joint dinner) and be focused on PhD students presenting their work in a friendly, informal setting, getting feedback both from senior scholars and from their peers. As part of the event, we will also run an article publication workshop (with advice on publishing articles in international peer-reviewed scholarly journals) with academic journal editors and other senior academics. A detailed schedule will be released later. We are happy to announce that keynote speaker Dr Patrick McCurdy will participate in the feedback/mentoring sessions, as will NORDICOM Director and Nordicom Review editor Jonas Ohlsson.

*CFP* "DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES", CHAPTER BOOK


Recent developments in the communication technologies have led to significant changes in the communication process and these changes vary from the way we reach information to how we perceive and distribute it. These changes should be studied and analyzed in detail to be able to see how the concept of communication changes and how these changes can be considered either as possible improvements as well as problems to come up with solutions. This call for chapters is for an edited book titled as “Digital Transformation in Communication and Media Studies”.

The book is organized as a manual on how the digital transformation has affected communication-related issues as well as a roadmap for the possible future of this transformation. Manuscript submissions may address the following themes through a research-based approach. Contributors are to focus on a certain or various way how the digital transformation has affected communication and media studies on below mentioned thematic areas in addition to other related themes with the above scope in mind:

*CFP* PROPUESTAS DE COMUNICACIÓN IV CONGRESO DE JÓVENES INVESTIGADORXS CON PERSPECTIVA DE GÉNERO


IV Congreso de Jóvenes Investigadorxs con Perspectiva de Género

Desde el Instituto Universitario de Estudios de Género de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid tenemos el placer de anunciaros la celebración del IV Congreso Internacional de Jóvenes Investigadorxs con Perspectiva de Género que tendrá lugar los días 24, 25 y 26 de junio de 2019 en el campus de Getafe de dicha universidad.

Este congreso está dirigido a jóvenes investigadores/as que realizan actualmente o han realizado recientemente su investigación doctoral o trabajo fin de máster en temáticas de género (hasta 5 años de lectura de tesis), tanto en universidades españolas como en el extranjero. Nos proponemos constituir un foro común en el que se aborde la situación actual de la investigación científica con perspectiva de género, a la vez que se pretende fomentar el interés y la divulgación sobre estos temas en las diferentes áreas de conocimiento.

*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS, MECCSA PGN CONFERENCE 2019


MeCCSA PGN Conference 2019
July 1-2, 2019, Bangor University

Delivery technologies become obsolete and get replaced; media, on the other hand, evolve. –Henry Jenkins (2006: 13)

The changes that have taken place within any aspect of media over the last several decades have been immense; some areas of the field are all but unrecognisable following such drastic adaptations and alterations. It is these adaptations, these changes, the evolution of media itself that is the theme of this conference. ‘Media evolution is a cultural process; it does not follow a grand plan either, but sometimes the direction and speed of the development can be – more or less – planned’ (Stöber, 2004: 485-486). However, ‘recent developments in literature as well as in literary theory… have posed new challenges to established theories and concepts’ (Reinerth and Thon, 2016: 11), and as such we must ourselves evolve both creatively, and academically. Elements of media evolutions are the focus of this conference but such a topic can be interpreted in a multitude of ways; fields of research such as narratology, practice-based research, creative practice, film studies, game studies, performance analysis, etc. are but a few of many examples.

*CFP* "TRANSMEDIA AS A STRATEGY: CRITICAL AND TECHNICAL EXPERTISE FOR TODAY'S MEDIA GALAXY", SPECIAL ISSUE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSMEDIA LITERACY


The International Journal of Transmedia Literacy has launched a new Call for Papers for its next issue 5 (2019), guest-edited by Dr Stefano Calzati (Tallinn University of Technology and Politecnico of Milan) and Prof. Asun López-Varela (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

The issue's focus is on "Transmedia as a Strategy: Critical and Technical Expertise for Today’s Media Galaxy" and it aims to highlight the heterogeneity of the transmedia galaxy: How to critically approach the communicative phenomena that are part of the transmedia galaxy? What are the skills and competences needed to create transmedia outputs?

The intersection of these questions characterises the middle-ground between theory and practice, which can be best explored by highlighting the operativity of transmediality as not much a descriptive term, but a strategy for better understanding (and teaching) transmedia phenomena.

25 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "CHARACTER ASSASSINATION, REPUTATION, AND SOCIAL JUDGEMENT", SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL THEORY


In recent years, the issue of character assassination (CA) gained prominence mainly due to public interest to issues concerning incivility and the frequent use of aggressive communication by political actors following the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Character assassination refers to the use of personal attack or another form of symbolic offense designed to reduce the credibility of the target or undermine his/her reputation in the evaluation of some third party audience. Essentially, character assassination is a communication process and an act of persuasion in which the attacker attempts to influence public opinion who plays the role of the judge or the evaluator of the target’s quality of character. The view of character assassination as an outcome is primarily concerned with the effectiveness of character attacks and the assessment of persuasive effects of negative engagement. The academic community has been working on this notion since years, preceding the boom of CA use by media and public figures, but this research never reached a broader public and in particular was never translated into a social theory debate.

*CFP* "CULTURAL TRAUMA AND MEDIATED CATASTROPHE", SPECIAL ISSUE, GENEALOGY JOURNAL


In contemporary societies, incidents of natural disaster, political violence, war, genocide, and other forms of social suffering and upheaval have become the subject of cultural trauma narratives that interpret and commemorate such events for public memory. These cultural trauma narratives are communicated by various media that make possible collective witnessing of, and identification with, the effects of catastrophe. This Special Issue of Genealogy will address a range of cultural traumas and consider the ways that they constitute various communities—ethnic, national, generational, gendered, etc.—via different media, including not only print and audio-visual media but also collective action such as protest and performance.

This Issue specifically invites articles that pursue genealogical approaches to cultural trauma; that is, those that question dominant narratives and consider voices, perspectives, memories, and histories that prompt us to rethink established versions of past events. Articles should consider the ways that empathy for, or identification with, collective trauma can sometimes distort, disguise, or displace the actual nature of events and their social, political, and psychological implications and consequences. Contributors to this Issue are also encouraged to engage with different critical and theoretical accounts of trauma, memory, and history, such as in work by Cathy Caruth, Marianne Hirsch, Dominick LaCapra, Jeffrey Alexander, and Rodger Luckhurst.

*CFP* “THE BRIDGES OF MEDIA EDUCATION 2019” 10TH INT. CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD


The Bridges of Media Education 2019
13-14, September 2019

The Department of Media Studies invites you to the 11th International Conference Bridges of Media Education 2019 to be held on 13th  and 14th  September 2019 at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of  Novi Sad, Serbia.

The conference aims to gather researchers from the Central and Eastern Europe (and beyond) in exchange of scientific knowledge and experience. Thematically oriented towards regional challenges and questions brought by digital technologies, it encourages the discussions about global processes and trends in the light of local specificities.

*CFP* "WITH HAT AND RED SCARF. THE BUILDING OF FEDERICO FELLINI'S PUBLIC IMAGE", SPECIAL ISSUE JOURNAL OF ITALIAN CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES


The centenary of the birth of director Federico Fellini in 2020 invites a unique opportunity to reassess his contribution to the history of Italian culture from new perspectives. With his monumental film production, which has been extensively studied—at least from La dolce vita forward—the Riminese director gradually seeped into Italy’s daily life. While his films have sparked lively debates since he first became popular in the 1950s, less attention has been devoted to the process that has led many scholars to consider him the emblematic figure of the film artist, both as a major character in the cultural history of Italy and as the symbol of what is quintessentially ‘Italian’.

Unlike other Italian directors, Fellini became a newsworthy and publicized figure beginning in the 1960s. He contributed to the creation of an ‘elusive’ image of himself (Hodsdon 2017) both through the construction of several cinematic alter-egos and through unmistakable appearances with his hat and red scarf in documentaries, feature films, illustrated news magazines, press and TV reports, and other forms of media. Equally, he emerged as a staunch defender of certain political and cultural struggles, such as those against television commercials or against Berlusconi (who was still an editor at that time). Additionally, he became an object of scrutiny and discussion for journalists, critics, cinephiles, colleagues, and biographers searching for an openly hagiographical definition of the threshold of the Italian artistic tradition.

*CFP* “PREGNANCY AND THE MEDIA”, SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM-FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES


The broad expansion of the post-feminist media landscape of the past couple of decades brought about an increased visibility of spectacularised and idealised ideas of pregnancy – a romanticised “new momism” (Douglas and Michaels, 2004). Alongside these romanticised discourses, though, exist numerous examples of mediated pregnancies that sit outside of such glamorised and perfect representations of pregnancy. This context has also opened up new networked spaces for people to seek and offer support online in relation to pregnancy, as well as spaces to search for or share (self-)representations of pregnancy. The editors of Commentary and Criticism invite short essays that critically consider pregnancy and contemporary media. 

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

22 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "WOMEN AND SPACE IN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA", SPECIAL ISSUE ANIKI, THE PORTUGUESE JOURNAL OF THE MOVING IMAGE

The second half of the 20th century was characterized, in many countries, by the emergence of a new relationship between women and space. Easier access to the labour market, as well as to higher levels of education, were important victories for women, even if these were defined by obvious asymmetries in terms of class, race and location. Across the world, while fighting for fairer social, workplace and sexual rights, women not only abandoned, and occupied in new ways, the domestic space; they also began to inhabit, in a more affirmative manner, the public space, as well as that of the media.

It wasn’t long before such changes had an impact on film. It is not a coincidence that in many films of the 1960s and 1970s we see on screen women walking, working or fighting for their survival in the streets of different cities. Nature, often used as a metaphor for women, because attributed values traditionally associated with the feminine condition, such as purity, emotion and irrationality, also became a space for contestation. Women simultaneously came to occupy the spaces of representation and of production of film. In Brazil, in the 1970s, there was, for the first time in history, a growing number of women directors. Many of these have not only been able to direct more than one film since beginning their careers, but are also still active. In Portugal, three decades after Bárbara Virgínia, conventionally known as the country’s first woman filmmaker, active in the 1940s, women filmmakers finally re-emerged in the 1970s. The growing number of women that have been playing important roles in the most diverse areas of the cinematographic industry is not, of course, restricted to these two countries.

*CFP* "JOURNALISM AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE", SPECIAL EDITION OF JOURNALISM PRACTICE


Theme rationale and scope: Beginning in 2006, the #MeToo hashtag was created by African American civil rights advocate Tarana Burke to deal with sexual violence (sexism, misogyny, sexual harassment, assault and rape) amongst the black community in the US. In October 2017 allegation by Hollywood actor, Alyssa Milano, against prolific film director Harvey Weinstein, co-owner of US Entertainment Company (Miramax Films), led to the revitalisation of #MeToo. #MeToo sparked a movement across the US, UK, Canada, Israel, India and Australia, with more than 85 million people sharing the hashtag (Kunst, Bailey, Prendergas & Gundersen, 2018). Since then other hashtags, such as #MeNoMore; #TrustWomen; #BelieveWomen; #BeenRapedNeverReported; #YesAllWomen; #HimToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #TimesUpand #NowAustralia have emerged, each reflecting an intersectionality between sexual violence, identity politics, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, language, poverty and human rights in our daily lives (Rodino-Colocino, 2018; Menzies, Ringrose & Keller, 2018).

*CFP* 9ª CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL SOBRE REVISTAS CIENTÍFICAS EN CIENCIAS SOCIALES Y HUMANIDADES


Logroño, 23 y 24 de mayo del 2019 (22 de mayo: talleres)

El lema para esta edición de CRECS es Evaluación de publicaciones científicas: fuentes tradicionales y nuevas propuestas. Los temas que queremos tratar además de los habituales son los siguientes:

  • Nuevas propuestas y recursos para la categorización de revistas científicas
  • Iniciativas de evaluación de monografías y revistas, diferencias y paralelismos
  • Las revistas en el sistema de evaluación de la actividad científica
  • Políticas editoriales: autoevaluación y aprovechamiento de datos de citación
  • Estrategias para aumentar el impacto académico de las revistas
  • Incidencia de la internacionalización sobre la evaluación de revistas
  • Indicadores de calidad de revistas no basados en citas
  • Aplicación de métricas a nivel de artículo: ventajas e inconvenientes

*CFP* "RE-EXAMINING TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY FILM CULTURE: TWENTY YEARS OF FILM STUDIES", SPECIAL ISSUE FILM STUDIES JOURNAL


She told herself that she had NT$ 500,000 in the bank. When she'd used it up, she would leave him for good. This happened ten years ago; in the year 2001. The world was greeting the twenty-first century and celebrating the new millennium.

(Millennium Mambo, 2001, Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Millennium Mambo is set at the turn of the century but its main character voice-over narration is situated in 2011; the events are seen retrospectively. Similarly, this issue of Film Studies is situated at the beginning of the third decade of the twenty-first century and looks back to turn-of-the-century cinema, film scholarship and criticism.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS VOLUME 10, NUMBER 2, SHORT FILM STUDIES JOURNAL


Short Film Studies is a peer-reviewed journal designed to stimulate ongoing research on individual short films as a basis for a better understanding of the art form as a whole. In each issue, two or three short films will be selected for comprehensive study, with articles illuminating each film from a variety of perspectives.

These are the works that will be singled out for close study in Short Film Studies Vol. 10, Number 2: 

  1. Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger Segment in Jørgen Leth’s 66 Scenes from America Denmark, 1982 Segment’s run time: 4 min 28 sec. 
  2. Bullet in the Brain David Von Ancken USA, 2001, 14 min 


21 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "ADVERTISING CHINA", ISSUE JOMEC: JOURNALISM, MEDIA & CULTURAL STUDIES


This issue of JOMEC Journal seeks focused cultural and media studies articles on advertising and China. (The word ‘and’ in the phrase ‘Advertising and China’ includes meanings such as ‘in, on, using, involving’, etc.) This special themed issue will be called ‘Advertising China’ and the editors seek articles that engage with topics such as (but not limited to) the following:

  • advertising in China; 
  • the use of China and Chinese imagery in advertising; 
  • comparative studies of advertising involving China and other national, geographical and cultural regions; 
  • differences and similarities in advertising across cultures; 
  • issues in gender, ethnicity, cultural value; and so on.

*CFP* "PUNK PEDAGOGIES" SYMPOSIUM


We will be hosting a 1-2 day symposium at Mansions of the Future in Lincoln (UK) on the 4th and 5th of July 2019 on the subject of punk pedagogies as part of the Punk Scholars’ Network’s series of themed symposiums.

Since 1997 saw the publication of “Never Mind the Tagmemics, Where’s the Sex Pistols” (CCC 48.1 pp 9 -29) there has been an increasing interest in the way in which the ethics, attitudes and people of punk rock can inform, shape, critique and revolutionise teaching pedagogies. In part this is due to the rising number of punkademics and punk teachers, but it is so much more than that. It is also because of the value for education in approaches that centre on philosophies such as Do-It-Yourself, creativity and resistance; a framework of enquiry and a toolkit that potentially helps take cynicism to critique. In short, punk can offer pedagogical tools for interrogating the world around us. However it is a two way street, and punk can learn much from newly emerging pedagogical ideas and approaches within secondary, further and higher education. This 1-2 day symposium aims to provide a space to explore, in a supportive environment, those interactions and lessons. It seeks to ask questions such as what can be gained from using punk tools and approaches as a pedagogical approach within ‘the classroom’? What can experiences and innovations in ‘the classroom’ offer to the continuing development and learning of punks and the subculture of punk rock?

*CFP* “BORDERLINES VII: PERFORMING THROUGH THE UNKNOWN CONFERENCE”, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY AND CIRID


Borderlines VII: Performing through the Unknown
Thursday 20th June 2019

The seventh annual interdisciplinary conference on performance hosted by De Montfort University's the Drama Research Group and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID), is scheduled to take place on Thursday 20th June 2019.  

Sarah Gorman, Reader in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Performance at Roehampton University, London,will be our keynote speaker for the conference (see further details below).

*CFP* “INNOVATIONS ONLINE”, INNOVATIONS IN ONLINE WORKSHOP, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER


Innovations Online
Workshop
Thursday May 9


The Innovations in Online Research Network is a regional academic group that aspires to connect postgraduate researchers across the North West of England interested in online research methods. We also aim to promote interdisciplinary and collaborative research opportunities for all involved.

20 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "HORROR, CULT AND EXPLOITATION MEDIA III: A RESEARCH WORKSHOP FOR PHDS AND EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS", NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY


Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers
Friday 3 May 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

PhD students and Early Career Researchers working in the field(s) of “horror, cult and exploitation” screen media, are invited to submit abstracts about their research to deliver at a workshop at Northumbria University on Friday 3 May 2019. The workshop – which follows two highly successful events in 2017 and 2018 – will take the format of a mini-symposium, and consist of three sessions, each made up of four speakers. Speakers will each deliver a 5-10 minute talk about their research to their peers and to a panel of academic experts from Northumbria’s Film and Television Research Group, providing a short introduction to their current project and identifying several questions for discussion. After each presentation, there will be an opportunity for the academic panel and other workshop participants to feedback to each speaker, and to ask follow-up questions.

*CFP* "SPONSORED EDITORIAL CONTENT", SPECIAL ISSUE DIGITAL JOURNALISM JOURNAL


Amid falling display advertising and subscription revenues, sponsored content has offered publishers the potential for increased earnings, and marketers a means to tackle ad-avoidance and boost engagement (Harms et al., 2017). Sponsored content is now the second most important revenue generator (44%), after advertising (70%) and ahead of subscription (31%), according to a worldwide newsroom survey (ICFJ 2017). Sponsored editorial content is material with similar qualities and format to content that is typically published on a platform, but which is paid for by a third party. Advertising that resembles editorial long predates the digital age, but brands are increasingly involved in the production of publisher-hosted branded content, including material described as paid content, sponsored content, native advertising, programmatic native, content recommendation and clickbait.

Sponsored content has been the focus of considerable industry interest over recent years, amid continuing controversy (Wojdynski and Golan, 2016). The inclusion of paid content designed to be ‘native’ to its editorial environment has generated most concerns, ranging from deception and reader awareness (Wojdynski and Evans, 2016) to the impact on editorial integrity, credibility and trust in publishing (Levi, 2015; Piety, 2016; Einstein, 2016). 

*CFP* "SOUTH-NORTH CULTURAL AND MEDIA STUDIES", SPECIAL ISSUE CRITICAL ARTS JOURNAL


Critical Arts is a peer-reviewed journal publishing 6 numbers annually, in the general fields of communication, cultural and media studies, art and digital culture and critical indigenous qualitative methodologies. Three of the six numbers are reserved for general issues and single submissions. Three are allocated to theme issues. Recent topics include ‘Brand China’, the ‘Ethnographic Turn in Art’, ‘African Cultural Studies’ and ‘Media and Empire’.

Critical Arts seeks conceptual freshness, textured writing, and experiential analysis which draws readers into its articles, narrative themes and its theoretical explorations.

Critical Arts encourages articles that can potentially influence the ways in which disciplines think about themselves. Our niche includes critical inter-hemispherical dialogues generated within South-North and East-West relationships. The Journal addresses how people, institutions and constituencies cope within, resist and engage this relational nexus.

*CFP* "ADAPTATION: IN SERVICE OF CINEMA OR NOVEL?", SPECIAL ISSUE LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES


Collaborations of cinema with other art forms open up myriad of issues like the medium’s ability to maintain fidelity to the original narrative, its transformation of the original narrative, or its desire to treat the original as only an occasion for a different narrative. Adaptation studies have, as yet, largely concentrated on studying films as derivatives of original works reinforcing Rabindranath Tagore’s observation that “[c]inema is still playing second fiddle to literature.” It is commonly viewed as a presumptuous palimpsest whose merit lies in its techniques of appropriation, intersection, and transformation of the source text.

Recent studies however are looking at both literature and cinema as paratextual modes of expression which shape ideas and feelings of the recipients of these art forms in disparate ways. Instead of dry comparisons between the aesthetics of the two mediums films are now interpreted as autonomous semiotic systems whose technological and scriptural innovations not only enrich viewers’ experiences but are seen as creative mechanisms that bring their narratives out of the shadow of the written text. Moving beyond the accepted textual relations cinematic framework, as the new discursive event, gains an enhanced cultural and social relativity through its unconventional narrative techniques and relevance to specific historical space and time. 

*CFP* "THE ALLURE OF THE EROTIC: AN INCLUSIVE INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE", 2ND GLOBAL CONFERENCE


2nd Global Conference
The Allure of the Erotic: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 12th October 2019 - Sunday 13th October 2019
Vienna, Austria

We have a curious and fascinating range of relationships with the erotic. Perhaps this is fitting given its widespread presence in all aspects of daily life and the power it has to elicit all manner of emotional, aesthetic, rational and irrational responses.  In everything we do, from painting to sculpture to dance, from literature to letters to historical documents, from film and television to theatre and performance to photography and all forms of visual media, it is there. Across disciplines, professions, businesses, vocations and practices, the erotic is alive and flourishing.

Wherever humans have lived so has the erotic, as evidenced in fragments of letters between long-separated lovers, in carved phalluses and voluptuous stone goddesses and in music that makes our hearts yearn for something we cannot name. It draws people together yet can sow discontent when it cannot be attained. It crosses racial, ethnic, social, socio-economic, political, educational and age-related boundaries. It causes intense joy and excruciating pain. And it motivates demonstrations of both love and madness, and everything in between.

19 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "MEDIA CONTROL AS SOURCE OF POLITICAL POWER IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE", WORKSHOP


Media Control as Source of Political Power in Central and Eastern Europe
Organized by the Russian Media Lab in collaboration with the Research Centre for East European Studies at the University of Bremen
Helsinki, 02 – 03 September 2019

We invite proposals for papers to be discussed at an intensive two-day workshop on “Media Control as Source of Political Power in Central and Eastern Europe” at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki on 02 – 03 September 2019. The workshop will involve around 15 scholars, and early-career researchers are especially encouraged to apply. Travel expenses and accommodation costs of invited participants will be covered by the organisers.

The workshop aims to bring together approaches from political science, media studies and other relevant academic disciplines to get a more comprehensive picture of the role of media control in consolidating and expanding political power in authoritarian regimes and in “backsliding” democracies. The focus of the workshop will equally be on the interplay of media and political actors and on the effect of this relationship on regime dynamics.

*CFP* “MEDIA & COMMUNICATION: THE STATE OF THE ART”, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY


27-28 June 2019

Keynotes:

We see in the classroom, our students are concerned not with the BBC or newspapers, but with Instagram, Pinterest and other forms of networked digital media. This raises questions about the ways in which media theory is responsive to new technological developments: are traditional media theories sufficient to explain changes in technology, society and audiences? The central aim of this conference is to explore the extent to which existing theories of media and communication are adequate for the analysis of our contemporary media landscape.

*CFP* III EUROPEAN DATA AND COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISM CONFERENCE


1-2 July 2019

The III European Data and Computational Journalism Conference  aims to bring together industry, practitioners and academics in the fields of journalism and news production and information, data, social and computer sciences, facilitating a multidisciplinary discussion on these topics in order to advance research and practice in the broad area of Data and Computational Journalism.

We invite the submission of both academic research-focused and industry-focused talks for the conference, on the subjects of journalism, data journalism, and information, data, social and computer sciences.

*CFP* "THE SUPERHERO PROJECT", 3RD GLOBAL MEETING


The Superhero Project: 3rd Global Meeting
Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd September 2019
 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Essen, Germany

“The Bat-Man, a mysterious and adventurous figure, fighting for righteousness and apprehending the wrong doer, in his lone battle against the evil forces of society… his identity remains unknown.” – Detective Comics #27 (1939)

In 2018, the superhero genre reached a remarkable milestone with the eightieth anniversary of Superman, with the character’s signature title of Action Comics reaching its one thousandth issue, which sold over half a million copies and, not unimportantly, finally returned The Man of Steel to his iconic red trunks.

*CFP* “FOLK HORROR IN THE 21ST CENTURY”, FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY (UK)


Folk Horror in the 21st Century
Thursday September 5 and Friday September 6, 2019


The conference organizers Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University, UK) and Dawn Keetley (Lehigh University, USA) invite proposals on all aspects of folk horror, in all periods, across all regions and in all mediums, exploring the meanings and manifestations of the folk horror renaissance in the 21st century.

Since at least 2010, critics and bloggers have been working to define folk horror, understand its appeal, and establish its key texts, including what has become the central triumvirate of the folk horror canon of the 1960s and 1970s— Witchfinder General  (Michael Reeves, 1968),  Blood on Satan’s Claw  (Piers Haggard, 1971), and  The Wicker Man  (Robin Hardy, 1973).

18 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "DATA COMUNICACIÓN: DATA DRIVEN / HUMAN DRIVEN", Nº 16 COMUNICACIÓN Y HOMBRE, REVISTA INTERDISCIPLINAR DE CIENCIAS DE LA COMUNICACIÓN Y HUMANIDADES


En este número de Comunicación y Hombre, Revista Interdisciplinar de Ciencias de la Comunicación y Humanidades, queremos iniciar un debate acerca del uso de los datos en la comunicación y que aportaciones pueden dar a este campo bajo el punto de vista del humanismo.

La comunicación que hemos llamado DATA Comunicación, es aquella basada en el uso de bases de datos: DB y especialmente de BDB, Big Data, Open Data, Company Data, Textual Data… El aprovechamiento de un conjunto de grandes cantidades de datos clasificados y organizados de tal forma que pueden ser encontrados con gran rapidez y facilidad, que pueden llegar a ser datos heterogéneos en el caso del BIG DATA.

Parece lo más frío del mundo, lo asociamos con grandes máquinas que sustituyen al cerebro humano y sin embargo da claves de la vuelta a valores muy humanos como la razón, la emoción, la verdad.

*CFP* "PARTICIPATION IN A WORLD OF COMMUNICATION" INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, UCLOUVAIN SAINT-LOUIS


Participation in a world of communication
International colloquium
September 12 & 13, 2019
UCLouvain Saint-Louis, Brussels (Belgium)

The issues of participation overwhelm discourses and practices, while questioning at the same time the visions of communication that they involve. Participation remains nevertheless a polysemic concept, reinterpreted by different disciplines, as it can be employed by multiple and diverse lines of activities: politic, social, economic, cultural, etc. As a scientific concept, it is used in different fields of research such as political sciences and management sciences, but also in sociology, cultural studies… and information and communication sciences. During this conference, we wish to revisit and question the concept of participation, while making these different approaches interact with each other. Exploring the concept of participation with a communicative approach, beyond disciplinary differences, is making us question peripherical concepts such as collaboration, debate, mobilization and even engagement. During this conference, we acknowledge participation as a boundary object. It can be defined as a “rhizome” in which different points of views encounter each other and cooperate.

*CFP* "COMMUNICATION AND STIGMATIZATION: THEORY, RESEARCH, AND APPLICATIONS", INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM


International Symposium on Anti-Stigma Communication
"Communication and Stigmatization: Theory, Research, and Applications"
September 19-20, 2019, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Stigmas are created, spread, and reduced through communication. Many people are affected by structural, public, or self-stigmatization because of their gender, race, age, disability, health status, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, etc. Substantial differences exist in the literature regarding theoretical conceptualizations, measurement approaches, and communication-based intervention strategies. Likewise, attempts to erase stigmatization through interpersonal, mediated, or mass communication remain challenging and yield inconsistent results.

This international symposium aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines and with different target groups, to exchange views about foundations, mechanisms, measurement approaches, data analysis strategies, and findings related to anti-stigma communication. This comprises strategies for fostering pro-social attitudes and behaviors, as well as empowerment strategies for enhancing the inclusion and social participation of stigmatized individuals or groups.

*CFP* "AFTERSHOCKS: GLOBALISM AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY", 16TH INTERNATIONAL ISSEI CONFERENCE


Aftershocks: Globalism and the future of democracy
From the border: A cosmopolitan look at the cinema of globalization.

Global processes have affected identities and social relations in drastic ways. Beyond their positive and negative consequences, these processes have changed our ways of looking at and understanding our place in a fast-changing world. Cosmopolitan theories offer ways of looking at the various challenges posed by globalization, from politics and economics to culture and the arts. Alongside its aspirational dimension of envisioning a society of universal human rights and respect for diversity, Cosmopolitanism offers a methodology for researching political, social and cultural realities. Central to this enquiry, as several theorists have argued—Gloria Anzaldúa, Anthony Cooper and Chris Rumford, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson—are the concept of the border and the actual borders and borderlands that affect the life of growing numbers of people across the world.

*CFP* "THE FILMS OF RAKHSHAN BANIETEMAD", REFOCUS SERIES


Rakhshan Benietemad is one of the first Iranian female directors with a career spanning over 40 years. Besides leaving a rich legacy through both her documentaries and fiction films, she has been an influential figure in Iranian film industry. This is evident especially in her endorsement and collaboration in establishing ‘Karestan’, a documentary initiative to produce documentary films on Iranian entrepreneurs.

Rakhshan Banietemad along with other female pioneers such as Pouran Derakhshandeh and Tahmineh Milani not only have paved the way for women to enter the film industry in Iran, she has also helped transform the representation of women in Iranian films. Incorporating stories from her research and documentaries into her fiction films has created some of the best female-centric social realist films coming out of Iran. Although Rakhshan Banietemad and her films have been subject of much scholarly writing, there are many aspects of her films that have not been scrutinised in full, in a cohesive study such as the proposed one. The proposed anthology intends to put together a comprehensive and fresh study of her work. Chapters focusing on both single films and themes or her work as a whole are welcomed. 

*CFP* “RESISTING DIGITAL CULTURE: DYSTOPIAS, DISTORTIONS, DISCONNECTIONS”, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON


Resisting Digital Culture: dystopias, distortions, disconnections
10th May 2019

Current debates about digital technology are caught in a death spiral of gloom, doom and anxiety. After a long period of optimism that accompanied the explosion of social media and assumptions of their democratic potential, today’s discourse is dominated by fear. Fear about the unchecked power of digital monopolies like Facebook, Google and Amazon; about the (ab)use of social media by far right political movements; about the psychopathologies, risks and trade-offs associated with constant and unyielding connectivity; fears about the radical surveillance enabled by the digital.

What are the actual dangers we face in a world where almost every aspect of our life is digitally mediated? What are the ways people are trying to respond to these dangers, individually and collectively? What solutions do society and technology offer for challenging total digital interpellation? This international conference will explore the digital pessimism that is currently engulfing our understanding of the internet and social media, and assess possibilities for resistance.

15 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "SHAPING KNOWLEDGE: ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN WORD AND IMAGE", MEDIA PRACTICE EDUCATION AND MECCSA PRACTISE NETWORK ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM 2019


‘Shaping Knowledge: encounters between word and image’
Media Practice Education and MeCCSA Practice Network Annual Symposium 2019
Hosted by the School of Arts, University of Kent
Friday 14th June 2019

This symposium will explore the interaction between word and image within media-based practice research. As creative practice has increasingly found a home within academia, and as digital technologies have made possible new methodologies and forms of output, the hegemony of the written word within arts and humanities scholarship has been challenged from different directions. From curated exhibitions, through audiovisual essays and interactive websites, to sound and Internet art, practice research now challenges the logocentric focus of humanities research across all media.

*CFP* “MEDIATIONS OF FOOD: IDENTITY, POWER, AND CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL IMAGINARIES”, THE GLOBAL MEDIA JOURNAL — CANADIAN EDITION 2019: VOLUME 11, ISSUE 1


In the field of transnational media studies, food and food cultures are traditionally examined as type of media content, environmental/commodity object, or mode of sustenance (with some cultural significance), or, alternatively, as medium through which relations of gender, class, sexuality, and dis/ability are made manifest. Given this bifurcated lens, this issue seeks to bring together articles that examine the nexus between food cultures, identity, and media representation in more detail. Specifically, we seek submissions that use food as a lens through which to study how its mediated representation (e.g. television, print, film, the Internet/social media) reflects complicated histories of colonialism, empire, neoliberalism, and inequality, but also cultural resilience, social belonging, community, and political awareness.

Papers that draw into this discussion the complicated relationship between food media and racialisation, gender, class, sexuality, dis/ability, and other manifestations of identity are particularly welcome – especially those that take an intersectional approach and engage with the significance of changing and culturally contingent conceptions of health and bodily comportment. Articles that examine the use of food as a form of power and resistance, in both productive and dangerous ways, and which reveal how larger patters oppression and marginalization intersect with the social imagery, political economy, public policy, and cultural survival are also desirable.

6ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "PLANET HALLYUWOOD: LA INDUSTRIA CINEMATOGRÁFICA DE COREA DEL SUR EN LA ERA DE LA GLOBALIZACIÓN"


*CFP* "PERIODICALS AND VISUAL CULTURE", 8TH CONFERENCE OF EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR PERIODICAL RESEARCH 2019


11-13 September 2019

The subject of the 2019 European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) Conference will be the visual culture of periodical literature, viewed in its broadest sense and in a comparative context. This approach is intended to encompass all visual aspects of periodicals, including typography, covers, format, illustration, fine and avant garde art, cartoons, advertising copy, photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, illustrated travel accounts and ethnographic studies, religious imagery, propaganda and all other dimensions of the visual culture of the printed page. Of particular interest are the development and use of new print technologies for the reproduction of images, the juxtapositions or interactions of imagery and text (at the level of the page or the opening, the issue or the series), the evolution of visual tropes/memes (for example in propaganda and advertising), innovation in design, the emergence of new markets, studies of reader reception of and engagement with visual cultures, the formal (legal) or informal (editorial) regulation of the printed image, and the influence of periodical illustration on art and photography more broadly and on the use of imagery in the daily press in particular.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL ISSUE VOL.6 FOUND FOOTAGE MAGAZINE


Found Footage Magazine is a printed and double-blind peer reviewed film studies publication. FFM offers theorical, analytical and informative content related to the use of the archive and extant images in found footage cinema. Found footage filmmaking has became the most pervasive tendency in avant-garde film during the last decades. Found Footage Magazine’s goal is to endorse these practices and promote a lively dialogue about the use of the archive in documentary film and experimental cinema. 

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

14 de marzo de 2019

*CFP* "ENTRE LA SALA DE CINE, EL LIBRO Y LA GALERÍA. AUTORES, OBRAS E INSTITUCIONES", REVISTA FONSECA: JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION


Según el filósofo canadiense Eric Méchoulan, las artes son laboratorios. Para comprender esos laboratorios son especialmente útiles los estudios intermediales. La investigación centrada en la intermedialidad debe tener en cuenta no solo las relaciones entre medios, sino también entre estos, las obras, y las instituciones que legitiman y dan visibilidad. Este aparato institucional resulta decisivo en la creación de un marco de significación para las artes en sus relaciones y se establece, a su vez, como un médium que es más permeable en unas épocas que en otras.

Existen muchas y muy distintas propuestas artísticas que podemos calificar como intermediales, que alcanzan sin embargo visibilidad y legitimación solo en el marco de una institución (Sistema del Arte, Cine, Literatura).

En este monográfico queremos ocuparnos de autores que han desarrollado o desarrollan su trabajo en dos o más marcos institucionales tradicionalmente separados -literatura, cine y sistema del arte- produciendo en cada uno de ellos obras de carácter intermedial. No es frecuente encontrar figuras como la de Jean Cocteau, que desarrolló su trabajo en las tres, aunque en su caso no sean muchas las obras que podemos considerar realmente intermediales. 

*CFP* "MEDIA IN AMERICA, AMERICA IN MEDIA", MARIE CURIE-SKLODOWSKA CONFERENCE


23-24 May 2019
Lublin, Poland

The Department of American Literature and Culture together with the Department of Social Communication at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University invite the submission of abstracts for Media in America, America in Media conference to be held on 23-24 May in Lublin, Poland. This is a second edition of a joint effort of the American Studies and Political Science scholars who aim to generate a cross-disciplinary debate that brings together divergent yet complementary voices reflecting on American media environment and America’s portrayals in media across the globe. Conference languages are English and Polish.

Since the conference is being held under the patronage of Polish Rhetoric Society, we are honored to present our Keynote Speaker, Prof. Kris Rutten from Ghent University in Belgium, the President of Rhetoric Society of Europe.

*CFP* “ODD MAN OUT (CAROL REED, 1947): FILM, HISTORY, POLITICS”, NUI GALWAY


“Odd Man Out” (Carol Reed, 1947): Film, History, Politics
May 25 2019
NUI Galway, Ireland

Papers are invited for a one-day symposium on Carol Reed’s 1947 film starring James Mason as a wounded IRA man on the run, scuttling through the dark streets of Belfast in a bid to evade capture by the British authorities.

The symposium (and screening of the film) is organised by Breandán Mac Suibhne (The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland, Oxford 2018) and Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital MediaNUI Galway) and seeks to develop upon existing scholarship across a variety of themes and approaches. 

*CFP* INTERNATIONAL NETWORK ON DIGITAL LABOUR, DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM 2019


Doctoral Colloquium 2019
Paris, France, 13-14 June

The International Network on Digital Labour is an association of scholars from a variety of backgrounds working on the different areas related to digital labour. In its desire to integrate young scholars, and to foster collaborations between them and senior members, the network launches its first series of Doctoral Colloquia that will take place during two events in 2019. This call for participants will be for the first one: a half-day workshop that will take place on the second day of a conference hosted by France Stratégie (the French Government policy institute) and other partners in Paris, France, on the 13 and 14 June.

The colloquium will welcome MRes, MPhil, and PhD students and candidates in different stages of their research who work on the many aspects of computer-mediated work, platform economies, online value production, automation, and tech-enabled outsourcing. It aims to give junior researchers the chance to interact with other scholars working in similar areas of interest and discuss their current projects, methodological issues, and receive advice on the thesis writing process and career prospects. Please note that, while the registration to the colloquium is free, the network cannot provide for travel funding.