31 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* "EL FUTURO DEL TRABAJO", REVISTA EMPRESA Y HUMANISMO


La vertiginosa metamorfosis de la sociedad, unida a las innovaciones técnicas, la progresiva maquinización y la híper-especialización laboral de los últimos decenios están originando una transformación del trabajo de incalculables consecuencias.

La llamada Industria 4.0 hará desaparecer algunos puestos de trabajo basados en el esfuerzo físico, al tiempo que ampliará el espectro de los empleos relacionados con el conocimiento y la creatividad. Este cambio exigirá nuevos modelos de formación y preparación profesional para adaptarse a las nuevas demandas de empleo que se generen. Será necesario cambiar los modos de formar profesionalmente a las generaciones futuras, poniendo énfasis en la Educación STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math), en las habilidades (soft skills and hard skills), pero sin olvidar el papel de las Humanidades.

La Revista Empresa y Humanismo invita a la comunidad investigadora a remitir sus trabajos para un número especial dedicado al futuro del trabajo. El objetivo es reflexionar sobre las tendencias en la evolución de todos los aspectos alrededor del trabajo desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar. 

*CFP* "BREAKING BOUNDARIES: ACADEMIA, ACTIVISM AND THE ARTS", CONFERENCIA


Alameda da Universidade, 1600-214 Lisboa (Portugal)
25-26 de septiembre de 2019

La Universidad de Lisboa celebra este encuentro internacional del 25 al 26 de septiembre de 2019 en Lisboa (Portugal). El propósito es vislumbrar y cuestionar las fronteras y el espacio común entre las humanidades, la atividad política y la producción artística. 

Se aceptan propuestas de profesores, estudiantes e investigadores independentes de distintas áreas y disciplinas, así como de artistas y ativistas que se ocupen de la relación entre diferentes formas artísticas, de ativismo político o del papel de las instituciones académicas. Los trabajos pueden estar relacionados con cualquier contexto o contextos culturales y geopolíticos.

*CFP* “PERFORM! THE IRISH SOUND”, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION 9TH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL AND CONFERENCE ISSTA 2019


ISSTA 2019: Perform! The Irish Sound
Science and Technology Association 9th international festival and conference
Oct 31st and 1st Nov 2019
CIT Cork School of Music, Union Quay, Cork City, Ireland

Keynote Lecture and Performance: Robert Henke (Monolake, Abelton, DE)
Keynote Workshop and Performance: Ellen King (Gash Collective, IRE)
Performance haunts our electronic music and sonic arts.

The technologies which facilitate our sonic creations transmit, but also sometimes obscure, the gestures of our sound production. Speakers, microphones and interfaces could be said to displace as they transmit or transduce. How much of the electronic music we hear is actually performed? How have our technologies changed our ideas of performance?

*CFP* “GREEK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: PERSPECTIVES, METHODOLOGIES AND PRACTICES”, JOURNAL OF GREEK MEDIA & CULTURE, SPECIAL ISSUE


Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the modes of production, distribution and consumption of screen media worldwide. This special issue will focus on the impact of such developments on Greek screen industries, especially cinema, television and video-on-demand.

We are seeking abstracts for articles that will examine any aspect of these screen industries, from a national, transnational and/or diasporic perspective. We welcome innovative methodologies, and explorations of distinctive industrial practices that situate local practices in a global context.

*CFP* “FRAMING THE PENAL COLONY”, NATIONAL JUSTICE MUSEUM, UK


Framing the penal colony
22-23 November 2019

Whether presented as a tabula rasa onto which all the hopes, desires, pathologies and detritus of Empire might be projected, as a brilliant story of nation-state building via a hearty mix of backbreaking labour and genocide, or as an abandoned scarred landscape of failed utopian dreams, the penal colony is a space as much imagined as real. 

This conference will explore historical and contemporary representations of the penal colony as philosophical concept, political project and geographical imaginary. While direct challenges to existing historiographies are anticipated, the intention is to consider the role of visual culture, maps, photography, cinema, graphic novels/comics, museums in 'framing' the penal colony alongside literature, philosophy, politics. If the penal colony is generally considered to belong to the past, its legacy remains in the form of the prison islands and convict labour camps still operative across the globe. What can historical and contemporary representations of the penal colony tell us about its continuing legacy and what opportunities do such representations offer for thinking critically and creatively about our own ‘carceral’ present?

30 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* "THE NETWORK SOCIETY TODAY: (REVISITING) THE INFORMATION AGE TRILOGY", WORKSHOP


(Barcelona, 10-11/June/2020)

Manuel Castells The Information Age Trilogy has been one of the most influential works to understand the societal change in the awake of the digital revolution of the last decades.  It is, as Frank Webster (2002: 97) points out, one of “the most illuminating, imaginative and intellectually rigorous account of the major features and dynamics of the world today”. The theory of the network society developed in these books “open[ed] up new perspectives on a word reconstituting itself around a series of networks strung around the globe on the basis of advanced communication technologies” (Stalder, 2006: 1). Indeed, the work of Manuel Castells has influenced a generation of scholars, shaped a research agenda and has got important repercussions beyond academia (Bell, 2007).

Yet, more than two decades after the launch of his theory, the network society and the information age have been developing at a faster pace that anyone suspected in terms of: socio-technological and economic transformation (e.g. platform capitalism, sharing economy, robotization, algorithmic driven society, artificial intelligence and IoT, etc.), power geometries, new identities and socio-political contestation (e.g. populism, indignados, gilet jaunes, alt-right, technopolitics, buen vivir, #meetoo, LGBTIQ, black-lives-matters, youth for climate change, etc.) and new geopolitics and geographies of inequality and power (the rise of China as global power, multipolarity, the emergence of the Global South, the uneven impact of environmental crises, etc.).

*CFP* “POWERFUL PLEASURES: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE AND BDSM”, BOOK CHAPTER


Over the past 40 years, much has been written about BDSM (Bondage, Dominance/Discipline, Submission/Sadism, Masochism) phenomena. Recently, this set of practices has increased in visibility in mainstream media (see for example the success of Fifty Shades of Grey; the BDSM imagery in music video’s like Pink’s Beautiful Trauma, Nicki Minaj’s Only and Rihanna’s S&M; and the representation of BDSM in popular tv shows like The Good Wife (2009-2016), Billions (2016 - ) and Riverdale (2016 - )). 

However, academic research on BDSM, which gained momentum during the sex wars in the early 1980s has been characterised by either psychological (e.g. Baumeister, 1988; Kleinplatz & Moser, 2006) or ethnographic (e.g., 2009; Rubin, 1981) angles. Though the cultural influence of BDSM appears to have increased and developed, the research on BDSM hardly has. This has resulted in a very limited understanding of this set of practices and lifestyles that have until recently been shrouded.

*CFP* BACKWARD GLANCES 2019: REBOOT, THE SCREEN CULTURES GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE


The Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference
Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
September 27 & 28, 2019

Fuller House, Twin Peaks, Spiderman, Roseanne, The Twilight Zone, Tomb Raider. Our popular film and television landscape is inundated with those media properties now popularly known as reboots. Whether the proliferation of reboots constitutes a true revival, giving new life to old texts, or an aesthetic emergency signaling the end of originality, it prompts us to ask what the notion of the reboot has to offer in considering the relationship between present and past. Backward Glances, Northwestern’s biennial graduate student media and historiography conference, invites submissions addressing the theme of “reboot” in all its many valences.

*CFP* CALL FOR PROPOSALS, PALGRAVE STUDIES IN EDUCATIONAL MEDIA


We would be delighted to receive proposals for single-authored or edited volumes that examine educational media in their cultural and socio-political contexts. We endeavour to publish one book each year open access. If you are interested or have any questions, please contact macgilchrist@gei.de.

There is no education without some form of media. Much contemporary writing on media and education examines best practices or individual learning processes, is fired by techno-optimism or techno-pessimism about young people’s use of technology, or focuses exclusively on digital media. An emerging body of studies is attending – empirically and conceptually – to the embeddedness of educational media in contemporary cultural, social and political processes. The Palgrave Studies in Educational Media series explores textbooks and other educational media as sites of cultural contestation and socio-political forces. Drawing on local and global perspectives, and attending to the digital, non-digital and post-digital, the series explores how these media are entangled with broader continuities and changes in today’s society, with how media and media practices play a role in shaping identifications, subjectivations, inclusions and exclusions, economies and global political projects. Including single authored and edited volumes, it offers a dedicated space which brings together research from across the academic disciplines. The series aims to provide a valuable and accessible resource for researchers, students, teachers, teacher trainers, textbook authors and educational media designers interested in critical and contextualising approaches to the media used in education.

*CFP* “POLITICS AND PERFORMANCE”, POLITICAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION, MEDIA & POLITICS GROUP ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS


Politics and Performance
‘Media and Politics Group’ Annual Conference
16th -17th December 2019
School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds

Keynote address by Professor Michael Saward (Warwick)
Roundtable session on ‘What makes a good political performance?’ including Prof Candida Yates (Bournemouth), Dr Lone Sorensen (Huddersfield), Prof John Corner (Leeds) and Prof Stephen Coleman (Leeds)

We are delighted to be celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the PSA Media & Politics group at the University of Leeds in December 2019. Our conference theme this year responds to the growing body of research emphasizing the performative dimensions of political communication. The deadline for abstract submission is Friday 28 June 2019 (see full details below).

*CFP* "POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY", SPECIAL ISSUE, REGIONAL AND RURAL POPULAR MUSIC SCENES


Popular Music and Society invites article proposals for a special issue on Regional and Rural Popular Music Scenes.  There is now an established body of literature on popular music scenes (see, for example, Straw, "Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Scenes and Communities in Popular Music"; Shank, Dissonant Identities; Bennett and Peterson, Music Scenes: Local, Translocal and Virtual).  Significantly, however, this literature is heavily centered on the urban metropolitan experience of music scenes or "music cities."  While such work is clearly important in understanding the cultural and economic importance of music, the dominance of this metro-centric approach also serves to further detract attention from regional and rural spaces and places, the latter also providing important settings for the production, performance, and consumption of popular music (Waitt and Gibson, "The Spiral Gallery: Non-Market Creativity and Belonging in an Australian Country Town").  This special issue will bring together a series of papers that will offer new insights regarding both the distinctive contributions made by regional and rural music scenes in the contemporary world and their connections to national and transnational networks of popular music production, performance, and consumption.

*CFP* "KIN", SPECIAL ISSUE 2019, COMPARATIVE WOMAN JOURNAL


Comparative Woman’s 2019 issue is looking for academic essays, poetry, art, interviews, and book reviews on our theme of “Kin.”

Theme: What is “kinship”? Is it merely biological or is it something that we choose? What are the bonds that we form? How do we form them? Why do we need these bonds? Why do these bonds matter? From Moms to Drag Mothers, covens to close-knit communities and cults, and siblings to fraternities: how do we recognize and establish “kin”?

MIssion Statement: Comparative Woman is an online journal with the aim to create an environment that explores topics related to comparative literature and women/gender studies through art and academic engagement from a multitude of perspectives. We seek to give artists a platform for reflecting on their thoughts and experiences according to each issue’s theme to present our readers with unique, diverse, and thought-provoking art while also exposing our readers to scholarly work on art and other forms created by women and the LGBTQ+ community or about women and the LGBTQ+ community in mediums both in and outside of the Western Literary Canon.

29 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* "MEDIA, NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND DEVELOPMENT IN LATIN AMERICA: POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES", CONFERENCE


4th and 5th July
This is a two-day conference. The first day takes place at City, University of London
The second day takes place at Loughborough University, London Campus.


About the conference
In an age of increasing media concentration and commercialisation, how can we envision a role for the media in development and for democracy? How can networked communications be better used by social movements, civil society and other marginalized groups who encounter difficulties in having a voice in the public sphere? How can ICTs (information and communication technologies) be used for development? How are feminist NGOs and women’s groups at present making use of communication tools and technologies to shape policy and pursue social change at a global and local level? What are some of the theoretical frameworks on communications and social change that we need to revisit? What are the more appropriate methodologies to study communication for social change (CSC) in the digital era? 

*CFP* “EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE POLITICS OF THE ALGORITHM”, TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY DUBLIN


Emerging technologies, social media and the politics of the algorithm
18-19 October 2019

The Centre for Critical Media Literacy (CCML) at Technological University Dublin is seeking proposals for papers and panels at its third annual interdisciplinary conference.

The politics of the algorithm, or what Zeynep Tufekci calls ‘computational politics’, happen in the real world, amid struggles for inclusion and justice; and ‘technopoly’ (Siva Vaidhyanathan’s term) is a vital matter for anyone seeking to address political and economy power. What are the implications of technological change for the people who use systems for communication and social media? What do these complex systems of computation mean, in particular, for those who have been using social media to organise networks and disseminate information?

*CFP* “DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND CONFLICT STUDIES: APPLYING DISCOURSE APPROACHES TO STUDYING CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION”, BOOK CHAPTERS


The editors are in talks with John Benjamins Publishing Company (Amsterdam) and plan to publish the edited volume in the Benjamins’ Discourse Approaches to Politics, Culture and Society (edited by Jo Angouri and Andreas Musolff). This book series is peer-reviewed and indexed in Scopus.

Discourse Analysis and Conflict Studies

Interest in the broad subject of conflict studies by linguists and language scholars has increased over the years with the growing incidents of conflicts, wars and political violence around the world. There have also been increasing and interesting studies that applied linguistic and discourse approaches to the study of violent protests, activism and political struggles. These studies have given significant insights to the role of language use or discourse in conflict initiation and conflict resolution. From these burgeoning studies, it is clear that there is a strong connection between how what is said or written and how conflict may develop and escalate.

*CFP* “FILM MATTERS”, OPEN CALL FOR UNDERGRADUATE PAPERS


Film Matters, published by Intellect, is seeking papers written by undergraduate film scholars for issue 11.3 (2020). Calls for papers are open to any undergraduate student currently enrolled at an institution of higher learning worldwide and working toward a Bachelor’s degree in any field. Recent graduates are also eligible, providing they submit to a call, the deadline for which occurs within six months from their graduation date (or up to a year, providing that the recent graduate is not enrolled in graduate school). Any original piece of written scholarship involving film criticism, history, or theory will be considered for publication. By submitting a paper for a call, authors are certifying that: (1) they are undergraduate students, currently enrolled at an institution of higher learning and working toward a Bachelor’s degree (or they are recent graduates of twelve months or fewer from the date of the call deadline, providing they are not enrolled in graduate school); (2) their submitted essays are original pieces of written scholarship, authored solely by them, and have not been published in any form, in any publication, heretofore; and (3) their submitted essays are not concurrently under review for publication in ANY other magazine or journal.

*CFP* “BREAKING BOUNDARIES: ACADEMIA, ACTIVISM AND THE ARTS”, UNIVERSITY OF LISBON


Breaking Boundaries: Academia, Activism and the Arts
25, September, 2019
Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Lisbon

Confirmed Keynotes: 
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Daniella Aguiar
Shahd Wadi

The international conference proposes to bring into focus and critically question common grounds and boundaries between and within the Humanities, political activity and aesthetic production. Indeed, what is the role of the Humanities in our universities and in wider society today? How do - or should - they engage with other disciplines and with our contemporary political scenarios? As far-right movements gain popularity across Europe, and old and new discriminations appear legitimized by some political leaders around the world, how is it possible to challenge these from within academia? Is it still possible to separate academic work and political activism? How have the arts engaged with political activism in the past and how are they engaging with it today? Can closer interactions between artistic practices, academic work and activism support resistance to widespread political, economic and social discriminations against the various “Others” of our communities?

*CFP* LLAMADA A CONTRIBUCIONES, III CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE MOVIMIENTOS SOCIALES Y TIC, CONGRESO MOVE.NET


III Congreso Internacional sobre Movimientos Sociales y TIC
14 y 15 de noviembre de 2019
Facultad de Comunicación, Universidad de Sevilla

Llamada a la contribución con textos académicos sobre los ejes temáticos propuestos para ser presentados en el III Congreso Internacional Move.net sobre Movimientos Sociales y TIC, que se celebrará en la Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Sevilla el 14 y 15 de noviembre 2019.

Los resúmenes de las comunicaciones deberán enviarse hasta el 15 de junio de 2019. Las comunicaciones finalmente aceptadas deberán leerse presencialmente en el Congreso  y serán objeto de publicación en el libro de actas, con ISBN y licencia Creative Commons, tras un proceso de revisión ciega por pares a cargo del comité científico.

28 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* "INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE MEDIA LAW & POLICY", SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMUNICATION LAW & POLICY JOURNAL


The First Amendment’s protections of speech and press have often placed the United States at the forefront of communication law given its exceptional position. However, our communication landscape has increasingly become one that knows no geographic boundaries. Communication law scholarship that reflects this international perspective has become more influential as law and policy decisions begin to have greater global impact. The shockwaves from the European Union’s recent implementation of its General Data Protection Regulation were felt worldwide as media companies and international corporations frantically prepared to comply. Elsewhere in the world, campaigns to decriminalize defamation gained strength and found success in countries such as Lesotho. Yet, international attempts to quell “fake news” and other rampant forms of misinformation continue to threaten freedom of expression.

We invite contributions to a special issue of Communication Law & Policy on global communication law and policy. The journal welcomes papers addressing media law from international and comparative perspectives. Subject areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to: defamation, privacy, access to information, internet governance, and intellectual property. A variety of methodologies, including traditional legal and historical research as well as quantitative and qualitative methods, are welcome. Scholarship focused on the Global South and emerging economies is encouraged, as are submissions by graduate students and junior scholars with an interest in expanding their areas of research to include an international, comparative or foreign law perspective.

*CFP* “GREEK SCREEN INDUSTRIES: PERSPECTIVES, METHODOLOGIES AND PRACTICES”, (6.2, FALL 2020)


Digital technologies are rapidly transforming the modes of production, distribution and consumption of screen media worldwide. This special issue will focus on the impact of such developments on Greek screen industries, especially cinema, television and video-on-demand. We are seeking abstracts for articles that will examine any aspect of these screen industries, from a national, transnational and/or diasporic perspective. We welcome innovative methodologies, and explorations of distinctive industrial practices that situate local practices in a global context.

Particular areas of interest may include but not limited to the following:

*CFP* “MOTHERS AND MOTHERHOOD: NEGOTIATING THE INTERNATIONAL AUDIO-VISUAL INDUSTRY.”, BOOK CHAPTERS


We are looking for abstracts for an edited collection, provisionally entitled Mothers and Motherhood: Negotiating the international audio- visual industry. This question of how women reconcile care-work with formal work and qualitative insights into mothers’ experiences in the audio -visual industry, is under-researched in international production studies literature; something that this collection seeks to address. Chapters will explore the gendered challenges facing mothers and the attempts they make to address those challenges in order to sustain their working lives.

Areas of inquiry could include, but are not limited to:

*CFP* “MEMORY AND THE CITY”, NUART JOURNAL ISSUE III


Following the successful international launch of Issue I and II of Nuart Journal , we are now calling for submissions for Issue III.

In Issue II of Nuart Journal , Jeff Ferrell’s visual essay employed discarded photographs to reanimate “a secret archive of city life… a dislocated urban history of visible ghosts and invisible intentions, a disorienting dérive through other lives, other times, and other places… another city within the city… pieced together from image, loss, memory, and imagination.”

Issue III seeks to build upon these noticings to focus on the evocative intersection of memory and the city, and the role of urban art cultures and the art of the streets in unravelling and critically reworking the city’s collective memories. We welcome traditional academic papers and more experimental visual submissions which critically address this theme.

*CFP* EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON HEALTH COMMUNICATION 2019


Biannual Meeting of the Health Communication Temporary Working Group of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
Annual Conference of the Health Communication Division of the German Communication Association (DGPuK)
13 to 15 November 2019,
University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ)

The Department of Communication and Media Research at the University of Zurich (IKMZ) is delighted to host the European Conference on Health Communication (ECHC) 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland, from 13 to 15 November 2019. The conference of the Health Communication Temporary Working Group of the ECREA and the Health Communication Division of the DGPuK has a thematic focus on social aspects of health communication. It will provide a platform for discussing the interrelations between health, health communication, and people’s social contexts on various levels and from diverse perspectives. With the aim to represent the full scope of current health communication research, the ECHC also welcomes research on further issues of health communication.

27 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* E-RESEARCH JOURNAL SECOND ISSUE (VOL 1: ISSUE II)


E-Research Journal is an A Quarterly, International, Peer Reviewed, Indexed, Refereed e-Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities

Languages: English & Urdu (Regional Languages will follow)

Send Your abstracts to eresearchjounal2019@gmail.com or visit the E-Research Journal's website.

Note: Any writer of the world writing in English or Urdu or other languages translated into English or Urdu.

Notes for competent contributors

*CFP* "CONDICIONES LABORALES Y DE SEGURIDAD DE LOS PERIODISTAS EN CONTEXTOS DE VIOLENCIA EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y EL CARIBE", REVISTA COMUNICACIÓN Y SOCIEDAD


En Latinoamérica, especialmente en algunos países como México, Colombia, Honduras y El Salvador, los índices de violencia e inseguridad se han incrementado exponencialmente debido a la presencia del grupos del crimen organizado. La violencia se ha instalado en la vida cotidiana de la población desde hace décadas.  Esto ha transformado la vida de millones de ciudadanos que la padecen directa o indirectamente por estas luchas entre cárteles y/o el enfrentamiento directo entre estos grupos delictivos y el Estado.

La violencia también ha afectado la cobertura que realizan los medios de comunicación, pues algunos medios han reportado recibir amenazas o tener periodistas infiltrados en las redacciones por parte del crimen organizado, lo cual ha dañado el derecho a la información y la libertad de expresión. Pero no solo estos actores, sino también los políticos y funcionarios imponen riesgos a la libertad de expresión y a la labor que realizan los periodistas.

*CFP* CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, "ALTERNATIVE SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATION FOR YOUNG SCHOLARS", YECREA SEMINAR


YECREA seminar on “Alternative scholarly communication for young scholars” 
at the University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
21-22 October 2019
 

The Young Scholars Network of ECREA (YECREA) is happy to invite all young scholars - doctoral students, post-docs, junior scholars, and other early-career scholars - to participate in two seminar sessions, organised as part of the joint conference on ‘Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media industries, digital cultures and politics’ in Helsinki.

This is a joint initiative of three YECREA Sections: Communication and Democracy; Digital Culture and Communication; and Media Industries and Cultural Production.

*CFP* “ASIA.LIVE: LOCATING LIVESTREAMING IN ASIA”, VIRTUAL WORKSHOP


ASIA.LIVE: Locating Livestreaming in Asia
Virtual Workshop
13 September 2019

The practice of broadcasting live video through the internet has recently seen a resurgence, as livestreaming platforms recuperated the format pioneered by cam sites from around the early 2000s (Senft, 2008). From Periscope and Twitch to YouTube and Facebook Live, livestreaming video is today a popular media format, especially among gaming communities, Esports audiences, and popular media commentators (Taylor, 2018).

The uptake of livestreaming in Asia around 2013 is, as of yet, a largely untold story. In the distinct digital ecosystems of the Asia region (Steinberg & Li, 2017), this format has been embraced not only by gamers and their audiences but by a diverse range of communities and performers, fuelling the rise of livestreaming genres like the South Korean mukbang (social eating) or the Chinese huwai zhibo (outdoor livestreams). This local uptake and regional diversification is accompanied by the rise of Asian livestreaming platforms. These are either revamped from established video streaming sites, such as afreecaTV in Korea, Niconico Namahosho in Japan, or Bilibili Live in China, or they come in the new forms of mobile-exclusive apps such as Bigo Live in South East Asia or Inke in China.

*CFP* “THE REPRESENTED, THE AESTHETIC AND THE HUMAN THROUGH VISUAL CREATIVE PRACTICE”, VRN 2019


The Represented, the Aesthetic and the Human through Visual Creative Practice
2nd International Residency Conference
5th and 6th September 2019 
Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester

The organizers invite theoretical, experimental, sensorial, and methodological contributions that cover themes including, but not limited to:
  • Individual expressions of perception, emotion, and identity
  • Cultural representations, memories, imaginings, and visions
  • Sociospatial encounters and understandings between different people and places
  • The politics and ethics of representation in visual research
  • The dynamic power relations at play in the construction and dissemination of images
  • Film, photography, performance, cartoons, sound, drawings, and any other sensory materials produced through critical, creative or reflexive processes in practice-as-research or ethnography are welcome.

*CFP* "WORLD WAR, ART, AND MEMORY: 1914 TO 1945", SPECIAL ISSUE, ARTS JOURNAL


The two world wars of the first half of the twentieth century, World War I (1914-1918) and World War II (1939 - 1945), wrought extraordinary levels of destruction. Much of the artistic production during the period reflected grim and complicated realities, while a number of works of art of the post-war period played a role in the memorialization of the wars or served as critical commentary on the wars’ historical legacies. We are calling for article proposals that explore how art expressed the collective experience and memory of these two monumentally important global conflagrations and of conflicts that occurred in the interwar years.

We seek articles that address the ways in which individuals, groups, and nations employed art to shape the collective memory and remembrance of these profoundly transformative conflicts. The articles can address all aspects of the visual arts in a variety of forms, including the applied arts and New Media. While the Eastern and Western fronts in Europe are expected to receive the most attention, both wars were truly global. Therefore, we welcome proposals that address any national context. In particular, we wish to explore the representation of these aspects of war: the experience of those who directly encountered battle; how imagery affected and connected those on "the home front"; how art formed evolving historical narratives of war; sites of memory and the memorialization of key people, events, and places.

24 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* "DIVA: HIP-HOP, FEMINISM, FIERCENESS", CENTRE FOR FILM, MEDIA, DISCOURSE & CULTURE SYMPOSIUM



The shift from the margins to the mainstream has occurred simultaneously, over the last few decades, for two groups that now jointly exert a central influence over contemporary culture and politics: female r’n’b and hip-hop artists, and feminist thinkers and activists. The coming together of these two groups and sensibilities has redefined contemporary popular music (in all senses of musics of black origin), and wider culture and politics, in the West – from the banlieues to the White House, from Black Lives Matter to #MeToo, from Betty Davis to Neneh Cherry, TLC to Aaliyah, Alicia Keys to Iggy Azalea, Beyonce to Ariana Grande, and all points in between.

The symposium will seek to address this ongoing development, within the scope of exploring the origins of this shift, its resultant successes and failures, its social activism and relationship to “Black Capitalism”, its identity politics and LGBTQ+ components, its saints and sinners and controversies old and new, and its oppositions to, and recuperations by, the establishment, in African-American and Afro-European contexts, and beyond.

*CFP* “NEW DISABILITY POETICS”, SPECIAL ISSUE, AMODERN JOURNAL


This issue draws together poets, critics, and hybrid practitioners in the fields of contemporary poetics and disability studies to posit new approaches to experimental aesthetic practices that interrogate and represent the social, political, and mediated realities of disability. The issue will bring together work on contemporary poets and artists with new takes on earlier experimental poetry, and will build on the work of Sheila Black, Jennifer Bartlett, and Michael Northen, editors of Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press, 2011) to include new work in disability poetics from a wide range of aesthetic practices, media, and orientations. 

We welcome papers that situates disability in dialogue with analyses of class, race, sexuality, immigration status, and other forms of social precarity, as well as work that situates disability poetics within local, national, transnational, and planetary scales of instability and shift. We encourage essays that will read disability across fields and situate the body as a site of lived experience within environmental and social systems that press upon it. This special issue is in dialogue with the New Disability Poetics Symposium, that was held at the University of Pennsylvania in October of 2018. As a continuation of that symposium, we encourage new points of collaboration between disability studies and poetics that provide new avenues of inquiry for work by poets and theorists with disabilities.

*CFP* "THE REPRESENTED, THE AESTHETIC AND THE HUMAN THROUGH VISUAL CREATIVE PRACTICE", RESIDENCY CONFERENCE


The Visual Research Network would like to announce a call for papers, mixed media presentations and residency participants for our 2nd International Residency Conference:


The Residency: 29th August to 3rd September in the Peak District
The Conference: 5th and 6th September 2019 at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, University of Manchester


The organizers invite theoretical, experimental, sensorial, and methodological contributions that cover themes including, but not limited to:

8ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "CHACHAS, SOLTERONAS Y ESPOSAS DOMINANTES: FEMINIDADES ENVEJECIENTES EN EL CINE ESPAÑOL POPULAR"


*CFP* “CREATIVITY & RISK: PRACTICES OF LEARNING TO LEAP INTO THE UNKNOWN”, SYMPOSIUM, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES CARDIFF


Creativity & Risk: Practices Of Learning To Leap Into The Unknown
Friday 6th September 2019

Keynote speaker John Giwa-Amu runs production company Red and Black Films. The company’s first feature, Little White Lies, won two BAFTA Cymru Awards & was BIFA nominated. The Machine, selected from over 6,000 films, premiered in Tribeca and won three BAFTAs Cymru. The Party, directed by Sally Potter starring Cillian Murphy won the Guild Prize at Berlin 2017, a BIFA and grossed $3.5m theatrically. John has won the BBC Talent Award, is a Breakthrough Brit honouree, named a Future Leader by Screen International & graduated from Inside Pictures.

“Encouraging creativerisk-taking among tertiary learners is evidently a complex pursuit. There is a clear need for educators to feel comfortable in allowing their students space and autonomy to take risks”.  Dr. Phoebe Hart (2017)

23 de mayo de 2019

*CFP* 3RD WORKSHOP ON GAMES-HUMAN INTERACTION, GHITALY 19


3rd Workshop on Games-Human Interaction
In Conjunction with CHITALY 2019
Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter
Padova (Italy), September 23-25, 2019

GHItaly19 aims at bringing together scholars and industry practitioners to establish a common ground on the topic. The main goal of the event is to spur discussion, exchange of ideas, and development of new ways of researching, teaching, and working on games-human interaction. The perspective that the workshop aims at investigating is the design of visual interfaces applied in the specific field of the production of video games. However, the application range of video games that the workshop invites to explore has to be intended in its broadest sense: both entertainment and applied finalities.

The workshop aims at collecting contribution advancing the research applied to video games. This edition will especially focus on the influence of visual interface design on the final quality of user experience.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

  • Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces 
  • Agency of objects 
  • Artificial Intelligence applications 
  • Biometric measures for interaction 
  • Critical or meaningful play experience 
  • Distributed and Online systems 
  • Full-body Interaction 
  • Game Design & Level Design 
  • Human Computer Interaction applied to visual interfaces Immersive VR systems 
  • Information Visualization 
  • Interaction Design Tools 
  • Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation Motion-based Interaction 
  • Moral choices 
  • Multimodal Interfaces 
  • (Multi)Sensory Interfaces 
  • Procedural rhetoric 
  • Sensemaking 
  • Storytelling 
  • Usability and Accessibility 
  • Visualization techniques 
  • Virtual and Augmented Reality


All paper submissions must be in English, and they must not exceed six (6) pages in length, including references. The papers must be formatted using the ACM SIGCHI format.

Papers must be submitted online via EasyChair submission system.

All the papers will be subject to a double review process by the members of the Programme Committee. The proceedings with the papers accepted to the GHItaly19 workshop will be published in CEUR Workshop Proceedings, and will be indexed by SCOPUS.

The authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to an international journal.

June 3: Submission deadline
June 21: Review notification
July 8: Camera ready submission
September 23: GHItaly 2019 Workshop