*CFP* “HISTORIES, TECHNOLOGIES, AESTHETICS”, FILM STOCK, BOOK CHAPTERS

Contributions are sought for Film Stock: Histories, Technologies, Aesthetics, a volume that aims to offer a critical overview of the history of film stock in its multiple material, technical, social, political, industrial, and aesthetic dimensions. The scope of the book is conceived in truly global terms: we particularly welcome contributions that address non-Western contexts, as well as contributions that work between national or regional contexts. The book’s focus on film stock as a form of material culture is animated by a host of recent and emergent trends in the discipline of film and media studies, and we anticipate that contributions will critically engage with film stock’s many material components, its ecological and environmental aspects, its economic and industrial histories, and the ideological underpinnings of its material and technical bases. We welcome contributions not only from film scholars but also from archivists, preservationists, and practitioners; proposals for contributions of various lengths are welcome.

Because this volume aims to be a sourcebook, we seek contributions that are based in particular historical and industrial contexts, but also address broader questions pertaining to the materiality of media, the history of cinema, etc. Essays should explore the production, distribution, and use of film stock from the 1890s to the present and may address, but are by no means limited to, the following topics:

*CFP* "AFECTOS Y VIOLENCIA EN LA CULTURA LATINOAMERICANA", COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL

Afectos y violencia en la cultura latinoamericana

Coloquio internacional

Universidad de Utrecht, Holanda

5-6 de diciembre de 2019

Después de más de diez años de efervescencia teórica sobre el tema de los afectos, el panorama actual muestra una diversidad de enfoques, que van desde la crítica queer y feminista, las lecturas deleuzianas basadas en Spinoza, la narratología afectiva con su atención por la estructura emocional de relatos, hasta la psicología cultural, la sociología de los emociones y los estudios cognitivos. Desde la producción en Latinoamérica, múltiples son los acercamientos a la problemática de los afectos o emociones que intentan crear nuevos conceptos o trasladar la comúnmente usada matriz anglófona a las latitudes del Sur.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, VOLUME 3, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAMES BOND STUDIES

The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 3.

The International Journal of James Bond Studies is an academic peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing interdisciplinary scholarship on all aspects of Ian Fleming’s James Bond franchise. The journal aims to develop contemporary critical readings of Ian Fleming’s James Bond across literary, filmic, and cultural history, and offers broader criticism of the popular appeal of Fleming’s creation and its relation to the spy genre. The journal will appeal to scholars, academics, and cultural critics whose work focuses on Ian Fleming and James Bond, as well as to fans of the James Bond franchise who wish to supplement their knowledge in this area.

*CFP* “MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS”, MECCSA 2020, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

Media Interactions and Environments

MeCCSA 2020

8-10 January 2020

University of Brighton, UK

Interactions with media are increasingly pervasive, woven into the textures and cultural politics of everyday lives. And when the spaces of our homes, shops, schools, offices and cities are so intensively mediatised, media becomes our /environment/, brought to life through our mundane, personal, professional, creative, commercial and ideological interactions. But what are the social, political and material implications of these media and cultural experiences and encounters? Whose voices and perspectives are included or excluded, and how is power and agency reconfigured, realigned or reproduced in this complex media landscape? The theme Media Interactions and Environments is designedto address this critical moment in contemporary media culture, and appeal to a broad range of media, communication and cultural studies interests and approaches.

*CFP* "GROUNDED PLACE", SPECIAL ISSUE, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CREATIVE MEDIA RESEARCH

International Journal of Creative Media Research is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed and open access academic journal devoted to pushing forward the approaches to and possibilities for publishing creative media-based research.

We live in a world of ecological crisis; a world in which we are witnessing sharpening class differences between a mobile global elite, economic migrants, and an often still largely stationary working population. Shifts in global and local power have seen the nation state, international capital and grounded communities thrown into new combinations and relations.  In response to these changes, how might moving media practitioners and artists communicate, evoke or interrogate ‘groundedness’, or what Arif Dirlik refers to as a sense of what is included in place ‘from within place’? (Arif Dirlik, ‘Globalization, indigenism, social movements, and the politics of place’, Localities, 1 (2011): pp.47-90).

*CFP* "RECLAIMING THE TOMBOY: POSTHUMANISM, GENDER REPRESENTATIONG AND INTERSECTIONALITY", CHAPTER BOOK

We are currently seeking chapter submissions for an edited volume exploring the evolution of the tomboy figure from classic literature through to modern popular culture, through the lens of posthumanist theory. As recent critics have discussed, the figure of the tomboy is complex and multifaceted, represented across many different modes and employing a vast array of different narrative, visual, and rhetorical styles and techniques. Over time, tomboy figures have illustrated a shift in the conceptualization of gender, sexuality, race, and other identity politics and philosophies. In their unashamed breaching of identity borders and boundaries, these figures are the ideal locus for exploration of the way in which posthumanism itself represents an evolution in identity and rights philosophies.

This volume invites cutting-edge literary and cultural studies scholarship, with a particular focus on representation and intersectionality as they are illuminated by posthumanist theory.  Submissions of an interdisciplinary nature (humanities and other disciplines) are particularly welcome.  

*CFP* INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ECOCRITICISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies

19 October 2019 – London, UK

organised by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.

*CFP* "DEATH AND EVENT: REMEMBRANCE, MEMORIALISATION AND THE EVENTAL", CHAPTER BOOK

Despite the wide variety of events studied or addressed by event scholars and event managers, very few consider death from a perspective of event studies or event management. Yet, it is the one event that none of us can evade. How death is articulated through the events around it, how the end of life is marked (whether that be the life of an individual, a group, or a community) through evental structures in diverse cultural, ideological, societal frameworks, is a vastly under-explored domain. 

From the practicalities around a highly stage-managed event of commemoration or memorialisation, in the details of state funeral or day of remembrance, to the sudden outpourings of grief and unstructured informal societal responses to some events of death around well-known figures, the loss of someone personally close to us or our responses shed light on culturally normative modes of expression, hegemonic power, or an ideological context within which the death occurs and the living act and interact. 

*CFP* CALL FOR PODCAST CONTRIBUTORS, "BOOKS AREN'T DEAD"

The co-producers of Books Aren’t Dead, a podcast with authors of books and games that deal with intersections between feminism, new technology, new media, and digital spaces are looking for contributors and collaborators. Books Aren’t Dead is affiliated with the Fembot Collective and the peer-reviewed journal Ada.  

We invite graduate students, junior scholars, and faculty interested in interviewing and/or profiling authors, makers and scholars of new publications/games/digital projects that deal with any of these themes. The goal of Books Aren’t Dead is to provide a forum for discussing and promoting new feminist works and to facilitate networking among feminist scholars, junior faculty, and graduate students. These interviews are designed as audio book reviews, highlighting the scholar featured while also providing the interviewer with a publication. The co-producers will provide support as needed throughout the process, as our goal is to build a pool of interviewers and contributors.

*CFP* NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES TO THE GIALLO FILM, SPECIFIC CHAPTER BOOK

Essays are sought for an academic book that aims to examine the popular cycle of films widely known as “giallo.” Growing out of the Gothic Italian cycle (but influenced by foreign cycles such as the German “Krimi” film), the giallo film was a cultural and historical phenomenon. Meaning yellow in Italian, the giallo was an umbrella term for crime fiction, named after the bright yellow covers of cheap paperbacks ranging from Agatha Christie to Edgar Wallace. Soon enough, the term giallo was adopted to signify a Italian cycle of thriller cinema much closer to the horror film than the suspense or noir films made in America. Mario Bava kickstarted the cycle with two films, The Girl who Knew Too Much (La Ragazza che Sapeva Troppo, 1963) and Blood and Black Lace (Sei Donne per l’Assesino, 1964), while Dario Argento gave the definitive form with his The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L’Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo, 1970). The giallo film influenced its American counterparts, paving the path to the American slasher formula of the 1980s.

Even if there are two books on the subject, including Mikel Koven’s excellent La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film (McFarland, 2006) —a monograph recounting the history of the cycle­—, there is a strong lack on essays taking individual films for a close reading and analytical insight. Thus, for this collection, I am not interested in chapters engaging with an overview of the cycle but in essays analyzing individual, overlooked films and unexplored areas and directors. Essays on the usual “suspects” such as Bava or Argento are welcome, but my goal is offering a critical collection on the most neglected aspects of the cycle.

*CFP* "THE PICTURESQUE: VISUAL PLEASURE AND INTERMEDIALITY IN-BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY CINEMA, ART AND DIGITAL CULTURE", CONFERENCE

The Picturesque: Visual Pleasure and Intermediality in-between Contemporary Cinema, Art and Digital Culture

25-26 October, 2019, Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Continuing our series of conferences dedicated to rethinking intermediality in contemporary cinema and visual culture, we propose to initiate a discussion around aspects of intermediality that may unfold from the perspective of the picturesque.

The much-debated notion inherited from the art theories of the late 18th century originally denoted both an aesthetic quality (something pleasing to the eye situated between the serenely beautiful and the awe-inspiring sublime) and a particular visual impression (something that looks like a picture in nature). It anticipated and later became deeply entangled with many of the ideas of Romanticism, of modernity and postmodernity by shifting the appeal of images from knowledge to imagination, sensation and mood, by applying the frame of art to life, or the frame of one art to another, and emphasising the abstract aesthetic value of a kind of pictured vision. Photography appropriated it as a strategy of so-called pictorialism and popular culture perpetuated it in various forms of spectacularization from the early dioramas and panoramas to today’s ubiquitous digital screens through which we continually reframe our lives in picturesque images.

*CFP* "AMERICAN HORROR STORY" SYMPOSIUM

American Horror Story – A Symposium

University of East Anglia

Friday the 13th of September 2019

Convened by Professor Richard Hand (UEA) & Professor Mark O’Thomas (Greenwich)

We are seeking submissions that engage with the television series American Horror Story created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. Over eight seasons since 2011 American Horror Story (AHS) has continued to push the boundaries of the televisual form in new and exciting ways. Emerging in a context which has seen a boom in popularity for horror series on television, AHS has distinguished itself from its ‘rivals’ such as The Walking Dead, Bates Motel or Penny Dreadful through its diverse strategies and storylines which have seen it explore archetypal narratives of horror culture as well as engaging with genuine history. Utilising a repertory company model for its casting, the show has challenged issues around contemporary politics, heteronormativity, violence on the screen, and disability to name but a few. Papers across a range of disciplines are sought that might include theatre and performance studies, horror studies, queer studies, television studies, cultural studies, musicology, narratology, and gothic studies among others. Papers may choose one particular episode or season to focus on, a selection of seasons, or seek to interrogate the entire corpus of work over its eight consecutive seasons.

*CFP* "GENEALOGIES OF ONLINE CONTENT IDENTIFICATION", SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTERNET HISTORIES: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

In today’s digital landscape, cultural content such as texts, films, images, and recorded sounds are increasingly subjected to automatic (or semi-automatic) processes of identification and classification. On a daily basis, spam filters scan heaps of emails in order to separate legit and illegit textual messages (Brunton, 2013), algorithms analyze years of user-uploaded film on YouTube in search for copyright violations, and software systems scrutinize millions of images on social media sites in order to detect sexually offensive content. To an increasing extent, content identification systems are also trained to distinguish “fake-news” from “proper journalism” on news websites, and taught to recognize and filter violent or hateful content that circulates online.

These examples reveal how machines and algorithmic systems are increasingly utilized to make complex cultural judgements regarding cultural content. Indeed, it could be argued that the wide-ranging adoption of content identification tools is constructing new ontologies of culture and regimes of truth in the online domain. When put to action, content identification technologies are trusted with the ability to separate good/bad forms of communication and used to secure the value, authenticity, origin, and ownership of content. Such efforts are deeply embedded in constructions of knowledge, new forms of political governance, and not least global market transactions. Content identification tools now make up an essential part of the online data economy by protecting the interests of rights holders and forwarding the mathematization, objectification, and commodification of cultural productions.

*CFP* "THE REVELANCE OF THE USIA/S ARCHIVES TO THE FIELD OF FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES", JOURNAL OF E-MEDIA STUDIES

The Journal of e-Media Studies invites papers concerning the motion picture activities of the United States Information Agency (USIA). In response to the increased availability of USIA materials in multiple archives in the United States and the emergence of pertinent international scholarship, this call for papers invites new work that broadly addresses the relevance of the USIA archives to the field of film and media studies.

During the second half of the twentieth century, the USIA and the constituent global branches of the United States Information Service (USIS) factored diplomatically across the Cold War world through the production, distribution, and sponsorship of films and the export of audiovisual and televisual media infrastructure and expertise. The archive roughly holds 18,000 films made throughout the world and distributed to over 150 nations in nearly fifty languages. They represent a variety of subject matters and filmmaking styles, including narrative documentary; newsreel (weekly magazines, cultural topics, diplomatic visits); puppet animation and cartoons; “how-to” agricultural, modernization, and military films; and fiction (moderating the distribution of Hollywood titles).

*CFP* "REPRESENTING THE SCOTTISH PAST IN FILM, TEXT, AND MEDIA", SCOTTISH STUDIES 2019 FALL COLLOQUIUM

Scottish Studies 2019 Fall Colloquium

‘Representing the Scottish Past in Film, Text, and Media’

Centre for Scottish Studies

University of Guelph

“The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.” – Antony Beevor

Depictions of medieval and early modern Europe have captured the imaginations of the young and old since the nineteenth century. Continued revisiting and reshaping of historical narratives in film, television, and literature highlight the ways in which the pre-modern past continues to resonate with twenty-first century audiences. Interest in texts such as Justin Kurzel’s Macbeth (2015), HBO’s Game of Thrones, Showtime’s The Tudors, Starz’s Outlander, The History Channel’s Vikings, BBC’s Wolf Hall, and Philippa Gregory’s The White Queen draws attention to the ways in which we persistently engage with these past narratives while bringing them into dialogue with contemporary popular culture. In doing so, these texts ask us to consider the relationship between race and national identity, as well as issues of sexuality, gender, and equality. As the growing conservatism of national governments dominates global discourse, the perceived brutality, oppression, and general uncertainty of life in a ‘less civilized’ age provides a way for contemporary societies to grapple with the issues at hand.

*CFP* "RADICAL PERSPECTIVES ON HORROR CINEMA", EDITED BOOK

Horror cinema is perhaps more readily available today than ever before. With a mere keystroke, one can say hello to all sorts of terrors—from the apocalyptic creatures of Bird Box to the puritanical evil of The Witch and from the Turkish hell demons of Baskin to the Korean zombies of Train To Busan. Notably, this resurgence in horror is not confined to our cinema and iPad screens; it is taking place all around us. We live in neo-fascist times, after all, and if some monsters are produced by Amazon, other monsters are destroying the Amazon. 

Indeed, real-life ghouls are taking power across the globe, rolling back women’s rights, harassing the LGBT community, amplifying racism and xenophobic bigotry, exacerbating wealth disparities, destroying the lives of countless immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers, and ensuring that a worldwide ecological catastrophe awaits us in the near future—all with the giddy encouragement of their mob-like supporters. Had George Romero lived long enough to make another Living Dead film, he would have surely given his zombies “Make America Great Again” hats.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, MEDIÁLNÍ STUDIA/MEDIA STUDIES

Peer-reviewed journal Mediální studia / Media Studies invites texts for issue 2/2019.

Studies are based on original research, solving the issue raised empirically, theoretically or methodologically. The recommended length of the studies is 6000-8000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 100 words.

Essays explore upcoming or current media trends or events and discuss their relevance. Or, they ruminate upon different conceptual or methodological approaches. The recommended length of the essays is 3000-4000 words, including footnotes and references with an abstract of up to 150 words, up to 10 keywords, and brief information about the author up to 150 words.

*CFP* "'WOULD YOU KINDLY?': CLAIMING VIDEO GAME AGENCY AS INTERDISCIPLINARY CONCEPT", Nº8/2019, G|A|M|E, THE ITALIAN JOURNAL OF GAME STUDIES

The new issue of G|A|M|E proposes a re-examination of the concept of agency in games. We welcome contributions that address the idea of agency from a variety of academic perspectives, taking into account its interdisciplinary history and application, in order to expand our critical understanding of the concept more broadly. We therefore invite scholars from all fields to reflect on different notions of agency, not only in relation to physical and digital games, but also to other media and art forms as they impact on games and game studies. At the end of the influential first-person shooter Bioshock (2K Games, 2007), its critique of the rhetoric of choice and freedom emerges from the dialogue between the protagonist Jack and the visionary despot of Rapture, Andrew Rayan. Rayan's seemingly innocent question ‘Would You Kindly?’ conceals a cognitive trigger that casts a shadow over the protagonist's actions. By shattering the illusion of free will for both character and player, the game breaks the fourth wall and confronts the user with the question: who is being/has been controlled?

Already central to the fields of Human-Computer Interaction as well as that of design (e.g. Sherry Turkle, 1984; Brenda Laurel, 1991), agency was redefined more than twenty years ago in Janet Murray's seminal volume Hamlet on the Holodeck (1996, p. 123) as ‘the satisfying power to take meaningful action and see the results of our decisions and choices’. To this day, the concept of agency is still prominent in scholarly debates on video game and game design: to describe a key ontological category that delineates the multiplicity of paths as well as the breadth of choices made available by interactive texts; and also –closer to Murray’s acceptation– to define a primary category of video game aesthetics, a textual effect attached to the pleasure of taking meaningful decisions within virtual environments.

*CFP* "MEDIA INTERACTIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS", MECCSA 2020

MeCCSA 2020, University of Brighton, UK

Conference Theme – Media Interactions and Environments

8-10 January 2020

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Trine Syvertsen, University of Oslo

Professor Sarah Kember, Goldsmiths University of London

The Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association are pleased to invite the submission of abstracts, panel proposals and practice-based contributions for the MeCCSA 2020 Conference, to be held from 8-10 January 2020 at the University of Brighton. The theme of the conference is Media Interactions and Environments.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, VOLUME 2, Nº 2/Nº 3, BROLLY JOURNAL

Brolly welcomes submissions of original papers that make contributions to the research field of social sciences, pursuing the changes that occur in the contemporary world.

We publish each issue a selection of articles in the areas of philosophy, sociology, political sciences, ethics, education, semiotics, psychology, communication, economic and cultural studies.

Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2019 - General Topics

Submission Deadline: July 25, 2019

Vol. 2, No. 3, December 2019 - Special Issue: "30 Years After the Berlin Wall"

Submission Deadline: November 25, 2019

*CFP* "JAPANESE HORROR: NEW CRITICAL APPROACHES TO HISTORY, NARRATIVES AND AESTHETICS", CHAPTER BOOK

The cultural phenomenon of Japanese Horror has been of the most celebrated cultural exports of the country, being witness to some of the most notable aesthetic and critical addresses in the history of modern horror cultures. Encompassing a range of genres and performances including cinema, manga, video games, and television series, the loosely designated genre has often been known to uniquely blend ‘Western' narrative and cinematic techniques and tropes with traditional narrative styles, visuals and folklores. Tracing back to the early decades of the twentieth century, modern Japanese horror cultures have had tremendous impact on world cinema, comics studies and video game studies, and popular culture, introducing many trends which are widely applied in contemporary horror narratives. The hybridity that is often native to Japanese aestheticisation of horror is an influential element that has found widespread acceptance in the genres of horror. These include classifications of ghosts as the yuurei and the youkai; the plight of the suffering individual in modern, industrial society, and the lack thereof to fend for oneself while facing circumstances beyond comprehension, or when the features of industrial society themselves produce horror (Ringu, Tetsuo, Ju on); settings such as damp, dank spaces that reinforce the idea of morbid, rotten return from the afterlife (Dark Water)—these are features that have now been rather unconsciously assimilated into the canon of Hollywood or western horror cultures, and may often be traced back to Japanese Horror (or J-Horror) cultures. Besides the often de facto reliance on gore and violence, the psychological motif has been one of the most important aspects of Japanese Horror cultures. Whether it is supernatural, sci-fi or body horror, J-Horror cultures have explored methods that enable the visualising of depravity and violent perversions, and the essence of spiritual and material horror in a fascinating fashion, inventing the mechanics of converting the most fatal fears into visuals.

*CFP* "THE FIGURE OF TERRORIST IN LITERATURE, FILM AND MEDIA", INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International conference at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, November 8 and 9, 2019

In their pioneering 1996 study Terror and Taboo, cultural anthropologists Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass point out a curious paradox in the contemporary preoccupation – or, rather, obsession – with terrorism: whereas the topic of terrorism has been ubiquitous in Western public discourse since the late twentieth century, the voices of terrorists themselves are usually silenced. Zulaika and Douglass explain this by suggesting that the terrorist is “the paradigm of inhuman bestiality, the quintessential proscribed or tabooed figure of our times.”

To say that there is such a thing as a “terrorism taboo” is not to say that terrorism is not talked about. Quite the opposite is true: quoting Michel Foucault’s well-known phrase, we may, in fact, speak of a “veritable discursive explosion” surrounding the subject of terror, which the events of 11 September 2001 have propelled to the forefront of political action and media attention. What is taboo, then, is not the topic of terrorism as such; it is the political subjectivity of the perpetrator of terrorism, for “the very attempt to ‘know’ how the terrorist thinks or lives can be deemed an abomination.”

*CFP* "A CRITICAL COMPANION TO ROBERT ZEMECKIS", CHAPTER PROPOSALS

The Critical Companion to Popular Directors series seeks chapter proposals for a new volume dedicated to Robert Zemeckis. The director’s oeuvre includes major blockbusters such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Back to the Future trilogy, Forrest Gump and Cast Away, as much as equally-successful stories such as What Lies Beneath, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, Flight and, most recently, Alliedand Welcome to Marwen. All of his achievements have offered (and still offer) an incredibly fertile ground for critical examination, analysis and discussion. Indeed, the scholarship on Zemeckis has never ceased to proliferate and several volumes have focused on the director’s works.

This anthology will explore Zemeckis’ multi-medial oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. This volume seeks previously-unpublished essays that explore the director’s heterogeneous career, not only through his “greatest hits,” but also his earliest works (I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars) as well as his less success full works (Romancing the Stone) and his work for TV. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject that can illuminate the diverse facets of the director’s work and his visual style.

*CFP* “HISTORICIZING MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CONCEPTS OF THE DIGITAL AGE”, BOOK CHAPTERS

ECREA Communication History Section is launching a call for chapters for a new book project tentatively entitled Historicizing media and communication concepts of the digital age. The book aims to historicize some of the most relevant ideas and concepts in contemporary digital media studies, and will appear in the series “Studies in digital history and hermeneutics” directed by Andreas Fickers (DeGruyter Editor). 

The volume will be both online with free access and printed thanks to the support of C2DH at the University ofLuxembourg, and will be edited by Gabriele Balbi, Nelson Ribeiro, Valérie Schafer and Christian Schwarzenegger – the former and current management team.

*CFP* “CARRY ON CAMPING: THE POLITICS OF SUBVERSION”, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

Carry on Camping: The Politics of Subversion

A One-Day Conference

Friday 6 September 2019

University of Brighton

Keynotes: Elizabeth Wilson and Professor Richard Dyer

Camp has enjoyed many definitions throughout decades of academic discussion and debate. For Susan Sontag it is a ‘sensibility’: ‘the essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration’(1964: 515). For Richard Dyer (1977), as argued in an essay titled ‘It’s being so camp as keeps us going’, camp is a form of queer resistance, a way of looking at objects rather than any inherent qualities in those objects themselves. Fabio Cleto (1999) also sees camp as an unstable, but powerful, progressive critical tool; while for David Halperin, camp is connected to irony as a strategy of subversion. ‘Camp,’ Halperinwrites, ‘is a reminder of the artificiality of emotion, of authenticity as a performance’(2012: 288). In both academic and popular terms, camp is clearly a quality that evades easy definition.

*CFP* "ECOLOGIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE", EDITED COLLECTION

Environmental images and representations have proliferated in recent years in media and pop cultural texts due to the widespread recognition of their powerful role in informing audiences about urgent ecological issues. Stephen Rust, Salma Monani, and Sean Cubitt, for instance, acknowledge “that popular cultural artifacts are at least as significant mediators of the human-environmental relationship and its attendant anxieties and joys as are literature and the fine arts” (Rust et al. 2016, 4).

Ecomedia scholars have emphasised the importance of reading various forms of mass media and popular culture from the perspectives of ecology, sustainability, climate change and the Anthropocene. Notable works in this subfield of ecocriticism include Rust, Monani, and Cubitt’s Ecocinema Theory and Practice (2013) and Ecomedia: Key Issues (2016) as well as Rayson K. Alex, S. Susan Deborah and Sachindev P.S.’s Culture and Media: Ecocritical Explorations (2014), and Alex and Deborah’s Ecodocumentaries: Critical Essays (2016). Meanwhile, the limited literature of Southeast Asian ecomedia studies is scattered in various journals such as Utopian Studies and Environmental Communication, and books such as Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects (2018). There is yet to be published a scholarly book dedicated specifically to ecocritical readings of Southeast Asian mass media and popular culture artifacts.

*CFP* "EUROPEAN ELECTIONS: POPULISM & EUROSCEPTICISM", MEDIAFLOWS CONGRESS

European Elections: Populism & Euroscepticism

Valencia, Spain | 20-22 November 2019

For further information, please visit the Mediaflows congress web page or contact the Organising Committee by email:

• Germán Llorca Abad & Guillermo López García (Directors). German.Llorca@uv.es, Guillermo.Lopez@uv.es
• Vicente Fenoll & Marina Requena (Secretaries). Vicente.Fenoll@uv.es, Marina.Requena@uv.es

The European elections of May 2019 take place in a scenario of particular uncertainty. The rise of populist movements of different ideologies, often linked to Eurosceptic positions, is combined with a crisis situation in the European Union. Institutional crisis, deriving fundamentally from the consequences of Brexit, the exit from the United Kingdom, scheduled for October of this year. But there is also an economic and political crisis, in a world where Europe's influence is tending to decline.

*CFP* "AUDIENCE ICONOGRAPHY", THEMED SECTION OF PARTICIPATIONS: JOURNAL OF AUDIENCE & RECEPTION STUDIES

Iconography is an approach to visual culture that seeks to interpret conventions and meanings of representation. Used in twentieth-century art history to create classifications of symbols, themes, and styles in formal works of Western art, iconographic research has been applied since to subjects including music, dance, medicine, tourism, politics, food, and urban planning. The digitization of museum and library archives--not to mention the rapid adoption of social media in everyday life--has further revived iconography as a needed means to create understanding across the plethora of visual information now available for study. For this themed section of Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, scholars and researchers are invited to explore the ways that we might advance iconographic research for audience studies. 

Visual representations of people experiencing performance date to antiquity. Yet visual culture remains a relatively under-theorized source for the study of historical audiences. Especially throughout the nineteenth century, technological developments in printing increased the circulation of published images, offering a new expansive window onto audiencing, from public spectacle to theater. The twentieth century was the age of photography; news coverage of musical theater, clubs, concerts, sporting events, and other public gatherings yielded a treasure trove of visual information. 

*CFP* “CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY IN TURKEY”, NEW BOOK SERIES

We are happy to announce the launching of a timely and much needed book series with Peter Lang Publishing, titled “Culture, Society and Political Economy in Turkey”.

Drawing from an experience of publication and from an academic network developed by the editors over the years, the series aims at launching new research on culture, society and political economy in Turkey from both established and emerging scholars, with the goal of shaping the field.

We are looking for original material from the areas of sociology, political science, anthropology, political economy and related fields, with a theoretical and empirical focus. As importantly, the series is also looking for translations from materials this far not accessible to the English-speaking audience.

*CFP* "SOCIAL MEDIA, SAFETY AND HEALTH PROMOTION IN THE WORKPLACE", CHAPTER BOOK

Twelve years after social media’s entry to mainstream communication, occupational health and safety (OHS) practitioners seem hesitant in adopting this method of information sharing.

Using examples from related disciplines - such as health promotion and disaster management - this edited volume will highlight the opportunities for harnessing social media strategies in OHS.

Social media, when used well, can be a powerful and persuasive communication channel: it enables the presentation of information in multiple forms and modes; it facilitates fast and meaningful interactions between people, organisations and stakeholders; and it can cut through other communications clutter in entertaining ways.

Individuals, industry, governments and other relevant organisations and disciplines, such as health and disaster management agencies, have, to varying degrees, utilised social media successfully.

*CFP* "BODY, MIND, AND THE POSTHUMAN: A COROLLARY TO POSTMODERN THOUGHT", LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES JOURNAL

“Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?”

Nietzsche

Within post-Enlightenment thought supremacy of a disembodied and ahistorical Cartesian subject, surveying the objective world lying before and imparting it meaning in accordance to its own wishes, becomes the ground of what is understood as being human. This anthropocentric conception, challenged in various manners—most comprehensively in Heidegger’s reformulation of human subject as Dasein—within the history of ideas, however remains the frame of reference till the end of 20th century. With the advent of 1990s epistemologies are remodelled, tracing their roots to Heidegger’s Letter on Humanism, to incorporate first an anti-human strain of thought and then, subsequently, announce the death of a coherent human subject—whether in Derrida’s concept of differánce, or in Foucault’s dirge on death of man with the corollary of the author being reduced to a “function”—as an essential and stable entity, an announcement that contributed to a scattered and de-constructed postmodern landscape of mind.

*CFP* “AUTOMATING COMMUNICATION IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY​: CONTEXTS, CONSEQUENCES, CRITIQUE”, ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY (HIIG)

Automating Communication in the Networked Society​: Contexts, Consequences, Critique

November 6-8, 2019 

Berlin

Keynote by Shoshana Zuboff

This is the annual conference of the German Communication Association’s Division “Digital Communication”. The theme speaks to a broad set of issues, including the dynamics of innovation, actors and strategies, digital methods and their critical reflection, and theoretical contributions. Please find the Call for Papers below and at the conference website.

A defining—yet understudied—feature of digital communication is automation: the production of content, the distribution of information and messages, the curation of media use and the governance of content are all increasingly shaped and influenced by automated processes and automated actors.

*CFP* "THRESHOLD, BOUNDARY, AND CROSSOVER IN FANTASY", DISCUSSION GROUP

Threshold, Boundary, and Crossover in Fantasy

Organised by the University of York Fantasy Discussion Group

To be held in York 12th-13th March 2020

Keynote speakers: Professor George P. Landow (Emeritus Professor, Brown) and Dr. Rob Maslen (University of Glasgow)

‘There was nothing Lucy liked so much as the smell and feel of fur. She immediately stepped into the wardrobe and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them, leaving the door open, of course, because she knew that it is very foolish to shut oneself into any wardrobe. Soon she went further in and found that there was a second row of coats hanging up behind the first one. It was almost quite dark in there and she kept her arms stretched out in front of her so as not to bump her face into the back of the wardrobe. She took a step further in – then two or three steps – always expecting to feel woodwork against the tips of her fingers. But she could not feel it.’ – C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, first published in 1950.

*CFP* "CINEMA AND OTHER ARTS", INTERNATIONAL MEETING

International Meeting Cinema and other Arts

29-31 October 2019

Universidade da Beira Interior

Throughout the history of motion pictures we have witnessed a complex debate around the reciprocal relationship it establishes with other arts, that is mostly defined by creative efforts and experimental gestures in both domains, permeated by the dialogic quality of how those other arts express themselves in cinema and the latter transmutes into the former. From advocating the aesthetic value of a moving image to more hybrid forms built on new benchmarks, cinema dwells on a constantly reciprocating relationship with other arts which takes up many forms, whether because there is tension among them and one is present in the other, or ultimately because borders are blurred. This is a research field that can count on methodological processes capable of structuring scientific discourse due to the operational possibilities of intertextuality and artistic creation’s dialogic quality.

*CFP* COMMUNITY THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF COMMUNICATION STUDENTS

CommUnity the 6th International Symposium of Communication Students

CommUnity the 6th International Symposium of Communication Students will be held between 10-11 October 2019 at Anadolu University, Faculty of Communication Sciences in Eskisehir, Turkey.

The symposium gives importance to get the global one and the local one together in a common point. For this reason, “CommUnity 6th International Symposium of Communication Students’’ aims to give support to create an academic environment in which undergraduate, graduate and PhD students of communication area. Students will be able to present their papers, share information with each other and produce common studies.

Communication studies are interdisciplinary area in which the individual and the society are located in the center as well as economical, political, historical, cultural and artistic elements are included. Therefore, “CommUnity 6th International Symposium of Communication Students’’ can set a contextual relation between other disciplines in social and human sciences and communication area, and also allows to open a window to evaluation of studies that are conducted by undergraduate, graduate and PhD students who are unique and can contribute to the area.

*CFP* "SPORT COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE", SPECIAL ISSUE COMMUNICATION & SPORT JOURNAL

Communication & Sport is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Sport Communication and Social Justice.”  Now in its seventh year, Communication and Sport (C&S) is a cutting-edge, peer-reviewed bimonthly journal that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport. C&S publishes research and critical analysis from diverse disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to advance understanding of communication phenomena in the varied contexts through which sport touches individuals, society, and culture. In 2018, Communication & Sport was the winner of the prestigious PROSE Award as the Best New Journal in the Social Sciences. Communication & Sport has a current Clarivate Analytics two-year impact factor of 2.395 and is ranked 14/83 (Q1) in the Communication and 17/50 in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism categories, ranking above many longstanding legacy journals in both Communication/Media and Sport Studies.  Detailed information about Communication & Sport.

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS THEORIZING: VOICES AND REPRESENTATION", VOLUME 15, ISSUE 2, PRISM JOURNAL

PRism is an open access peer-reviewed public relations and communication research journal (ISSN 1448-4404).  PRism is devoted to promoting the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars globally.

PRism was under the editorship of Elspeth Tilley from its foundation in 2003 until 2019 when the Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Researchand Evaluation (CARE) at Massey University became the publisher of the journal. Mohan Dutta is the Director of CARE and the new Editorial Advisor of PRism Steve Elers is the new Editor.

In this special issue, we welcome rigorous and original contributions that explore Indigenous voice as a space for theorizing communication. We welcome submissions that examine Indigenous/First Nations as participants in the generation of transformative knowledge claims. 

*CFP* "GLOBALIZATION AND GENDER IMPLICATIONS", ISSUE GLOCALISM: JOURNAL OF CULTURE, POLITICS AND INNOVATION

Glocalism, a peer-reviewed, open-access and cross-disciplinary journal, is currently accepting manuscripts for publication. We welcome studies in any field, with or without comparative approach, that address both practical effects and theoretical import.

The long-term effects of contemporary globalization on gender identities and gender relations are becoming increasingly apparent. Their significance for the social sciences is clear and most of the recent research on gender transformations analyzes them as a linear consequence of the modernity revolution, without an effective evaluation of the contradictory impact of globalization on the gender factor. All the different representations of gender relations in economic processes, as in political decisions or in cultural and social assets, seem to underestimate the positive and negative implications of the global flows of news, values, goods, persons and technologies.

*CFP* "LAS NUEVAS NARRATIVAS, EN EL ENTORNO SOCIAL", XI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL LATINA DE COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL

XI Congreso Internacional Latina de Comunicación Social

Las nuevas narrativas, en el entorno social

La Laguna (Tenerife), 2, 3, 4 y 5 de diciembre de 2019 (lunes a jueves)

Líneas de trabajo del congreso: El congreso se organiza sobre una línea preferente reflejada en su título y admite contribuciones referidas a trabajos de investigación en el ámbito de la Comunicación y las Ciencias Sociales.

En el congreso se entregará el libro de resúmenes- CAC 160 (ISBN: 978-84-17314-10-1 y Depósito Legal pendiente de confirmar) y el CD con el libro colectivo: CAC 159 (ISBN: 978-84-17314-11-8 y Depósito Legal pendiente de confirmar). 

Diploma: Se entregará diploma de asistencia y diploma de ponente a quienes presenten ponencia o comunicación, previamente inscritos o matriculados en el congreso. Los diplomas serán unipersonales. 

*CFP* "HUMAN RIGHTS IN TURKEY: A FADING SHADOW OF DEMOCRACY", CHAPTER BOOK

Over the last several decades, Turkey has been confronted with the anti-democratic practices of its government. The country has been unable to resolve critical issues regarding and affecting the rights of the nation’s various minority ethnic groups, those who hold beliefs and ideologies different from the mainstream and the sanctioned or deal with issues of gender, which are main concerns of human rights defenders (Langley, 2002). Even though in the early 2000s, Turkey took several critical steps in the name of democratization as a result of its desire to join the European Union, this progress was not sustained. The country advertised its goals as increasing democratic values, integrating laws with European standards, increasing the prosperity of her citizens, and showing concern for the general welfare of Turkish society. During this period, Turkey achieved considerable progress and became recognized as one of the most successful countries in the world in decreasing human right violations and promoting democratic values (Abramowitz, 2018). Such progress ended as the politicians could not find their way to unite the country’s differing interests into a politically cohesive whole. Under the current government, in fact, Turkish society has become more polarized than ever before under an autocratic regime that has brought a halt to the democratic transformation.

*CFP* CRITICAL ESSAYS ON JAMES WAN, CHAPTER BOOK

Critical essays are sought on the cinema of Malaysian/Australian director, screenwriter and producer James Wan. As 2018 marks Wan’s first incursion into superhero cinema with Aquaman, a film that reportedly is DC Films’ biggest worldwide grosser, critical attention on the director keeps intensifying. With huge critical and box office successes such as Saw (2004), a film that kickstarted a whole franchise, The Conjuring I and II (2013 and 2016), films that started a whole filmic universe, together with Death Sentence (2007), Insidious I and II (2010 and 2013), Furious 7 (2015) and Dead Silence (2007), it can be argued that we are facing a new Hollywood auteur with an identity of his own.

Still, there is a striking lack of critical studies on the works of James Wan, even when he has been responsible of some of the most interesting blockbusters of the last few years.

Creating for the new millennium a form of film horror that relies more on atmosphere than in jump scares a kind of dread almost extinct at the big screen since the times of director Jacques Tourneur and producer Val Lewton? Wan has imposed a uniquely rich style and vision which does not reject the commercial and the genre formula but in fact embraces it. His efforts as producer follow this marked interest in genre, franchise and remake, both in film (Lights Out 2016; Annabelle: Creation 2017, The Curse of La Llorona 2019­) as in TV (MacGyver; Swamp Thing).

*CFP* “MEDIA, GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE: RESISTANCES AND REDEFINITIONS THROUGH PERFORMANCES, PRODUCTIONS AND CONSUMPTION”, UNIVERSITY OF PADUA

Media, gender and sexuality in contemporary Europe: Resistances and redefinitions through performances, productions and consumption

15-16 November 2019

University of Padua

Organized by Gender & Communication Section in collaboration with Women’s Network and Film Studies Section (ECREA)

Keynote speakers

Prof. John Mercer (Birmingham City University)

Prof. Karen Ross (Newcastle University)

The relations between gender, sexuality and the media are ubiquitous and firmly embedded in everyday practices at a cultural and social level. Our understanding of how people across Europe interpret and consume media content and perform gender and sexual identities within this context is changing alongside the modification of the media landscape. 

*CFP* “TESTING AGAINST THE WORLD: WHAT DO TOOLS DO (FOR YOU)?”, DISEÑA, SPECIAL ISSUE

A very special issue of the journal DISEÑA investigates the hopes, fears, expectations and intimacies we evolve with and through instrumentations, tools, and mediums. How do we account for the sensitive, intimate ways in which our tool sets, and our choice of these, infrastructure co-productions of knowledge and meaning?

Submissions can take the form of academic papers, narrative essays and more-than-textual contributions by design, art and media researchers, as well as experimental humanities researchers, philosophers and natural science investigators.

DEFENSA DE TESIS "PERIODISMO DE DATOS: EL BIG DATA COMO ELEMENTO DIFERENCIADOR SOCIOCULTURAL E INSUFICIENCIA DE LA LEY DE TRANSPARENCIA EN ESPAÑA"

Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis:

“Periodismo de datos: el big data como elemento diferenciador sociocultural e insuficiencia de la Ley de Transparencia en España.”

Autor/a: LEONARDO ALBERTO LA ROSA BARROLLETA

*CFP* "DOCUMENTING JAZZ 2020" CONFERENCE

Documenting Jazz 2020

Birmingham City University,

16-18 January, 2020

“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are.”

John Berger, (ed.) Ways of Seeing. 1987.

Birmingham City University is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Documenting Jazz 2020 conference, to be held on 16–18 January 2020. Now in its second year, Documenting Jazz brings together colleagues from across the academic, archive, library, and museum sectors to explore and discuss documenting jazz. Since its first edition in Dublin 2019, the Documenting Jazz 2020 Conference aims to offer an unparalleled variety of experiences drawn from across the world. We hope to include contributions from individuals of all career stages, from established scholars and practitioners to those just starting their careers. We embrace the academic sector and other heritage and cultural organisations in partnership with each other and with communities. Our keynote speakers are drawn from across the academic sector to inspire debate and discussion amongst participants.

*CFP* "IN / VISIBLE: REPRESENTATION, DISCOURSE, PRACTICES, DISPOSITIFS", CONFERENCE

In / Visible: Representation, Discourse, Practices, Dispositifs

22nd October 2019, Palermo University (Italy)

The University of Palermo together with the joint Ph.D. program Studi Culturali Europei/ Europäische Kulturstudien organizes the interdisciplinary graduate conference “In / Visible: Representation, Discourse, Practices, Dispositifs” (University of Palermo, 22 October 2019). The international conference will focus on the different aspects of in/visibility from a cultural, philosophical, literary and artistic, historical and sociological perspective. The chosen working languages are Italian and English.

From their position at the crossroads among the humanities, cultural studies testify to the coexistence of heterogeneous objects, techniques, and forms of knowledge that are heterogeneous. From this perspective, in / visibility constitutes one of the aspects each discipline – from literary criticism to psychoanalysis, from history to gender studies- can somehow shed light on. The road that leads to the investigation of the representation of the in/visible is not univocal, but inherently plural and intrinsically interdisciplinary.

*CFP* CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS, 11TH CONFERENCE ON VIDEOGAME SCIENCES AND ARTS

VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts

27-29 November 2019, Aveiro, Portugal

Ten years, and ten years more

The 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts will be held on November 27-29, organised by the Departament of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, and the Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). The annual conferences of the SPCV promote the scientific gathering of international researchers in Portugal. These conferences are attended by researchers and professionals in the expanded field of videogames — Multimedia, Communication, Technology, Education, Psychology and Arts — to disseminate work and exchange experiences between the academic community and with the industry.

In 2009 the conference was held at University of Aveiro. 2019 will mark the coming back after 10 years. We intend then to show a thorough roadmap of the evolution of the national and international game research during these 10 years, as also ideas and speculations for the next 10 years.Also, this time we plan going full international, using as working language English, for the CFP, the website, as the Proceedings.

*CFP* CALL FOR PAPERS, GALACTICA MEDIA: THE JOURNAL OF MEDIA STUDIES

Galactica Media is a young Journal that requires support from colleagues (media, communication and cultural studies).

Online edition of “Galactica Media: the Journal of Media Studies” is a periodic academic e-journal without printed forms (since 2019). The journal publishes scholastic articles, reviews, information resources, reports of expeditions, conferences and other scientific materials.

Journal publishes articles on quarterly basis. Now we are preparing the second issue, which should be published in August. But we also accept articles for the third and fourth.

Our online edition is devoted to the topical issues in the field of studies of media and mass culture in the broadest coverage of: history, cultural studies, anthropology, philosophy, etc.

*CFP* “CAMBODIA, LAO PDR, MYANMAR, THAILAND, AND VIETNAM”, SOUTHEAST ASIAN MEDIA STUDIES, VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019

Editor: John Charles Ryan, PhD (University of New England)

OBJECTIVE

The third issue of the Southeast Asian Media Studies journal aims to provide a collection of research articles about the mass media of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, bringing together discursive inquiries on media studies and literacy in and about the aforementioned countries.

RECOMMENDED TOPICS

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

Backward Glances 2019: REBOOT

The Screen Cultures Graduate Student Conference

Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University

September 27 & 28, 2019

Keynote Speakers: Professors Susan Murray and Reem Hilu

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.

DEFENSA DE TESIS "GEOGRAFÍAS POPULARES: LA IMAGEN EXTERIOR DE ESPAÑA EN EL PERIODISMO TURÍSTICO Y DE VIAJES (1970-2015)

Próxima defensa de tesis del Departamento de Humanidades de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.

Información de la tesis:

"Geografías populares: La imagen exterior de España en el periodismo turístico y de viajes (1970-2015)"

Autor/a: MARIA RAMÓN GABRIEL

*CFP* "THE GLOBAL PROMOTION AND MEDIATION OF THE UN'S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS", CONFERENCE

Following April's MDC/LCPR Jakarta conference on the UNSDGs, please find a CFP for the Media Discourse Centre's follow-up event, The Global Promotion and Mediation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, Monday 16th September 2019

Organisers: Stuart Price and Ben Harbisher

Submission email for all contributors: mdcevent@dmu.ac.uk

Eventbrite registration link

Essential Details

The Media Discourse Centre, in collaboration with the International Journal of Media Discourse and the London School of Public Relations (Jakarta), is pleased to announce the second stage of its Call for Papers [keynotes to be announced]. This phase of the event will consist of a full-day MDC conference on the UNSDGs, paying particular attention to the rhetorical composition and discursive framework of the Goals, the response of governments and public authorities, and the empirical evidence produced by the Jakarta/Bali case studies.

*CFP* "CENSURA Y MEDIOS AUDIOVISUALES", TECMERIN: REVISTA DE ENSAYOS AUDIOVISUALES

Tecmerin: Revista de Ensayos Audiovisuales lanza su tercera y cuarta convocatoria para la publicación de vídeo ensayos. Es una publicación semestral, con revisión por pares, enmarcada en las actividades del grupo de investigación Tecmerin (Televisión, Cine, Memoria, Representación e Industria) de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Departamento de Periodismo y Comunicación Audiovisual).

En el número 3 mantenemos nuestra CFP abierta, con un interés especial, aunque no exclusivo, en la producción cultural de España y Latinoamérica. Por consiguiente, y de una manera amplia, se invita a mandar propuestas focalizadas en la producción, consumo, circulación e intercambio cultural en estas áreas geográficas.

El número cuatro será un monográfico especial sobre el tema “Censura y Medios Audiovisuales”, con el catedrático Manuel Palacio como editor invitado.

*CFP* THE COMPASS, 2019 ISSUE

The Compass is an online scholarly journal run by students in Arcadia University’s Honors Program. It is dedicated to providing a platform for undergraduate research and insight so that it may inspire, intrigue, and inform an audience. Submissions from all disciplines are welcome and are accepted on a rolling basis. Only work done as an undergraduate student is considered.

Submission Process:

Fill out the online submission form at: tinyurl.com/compassi7

Email your submission as a word document attachment to thecompass@arcadia.edu.

Papers are preferred to be in Chicago style, but they may be submitted in any citation style. If a paper is chosen, an editor will work with the author to change the format to Chicago style.

*CFP* ZIP-SCENE CONFERENCE ON ANALOGUE AND DIGITAL IMMERSIVE SPACES, #KALEIDOSCOPICVIEW

Zip-Scene Conference on Analogue and Digital Immersive Spaces 

#kaleidoscopicview

Proposed dates: 10-12 November, 2019

Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary

Topic: Interactive Narratives – the Future of Storytelling and Immersion in mixed reality mediums and performing arts

New digital tools provide novel opportunities for interactive digital narratives (IDN) in mixed reality environments, performance art and analogue immersive spaces. But does this mean that we can tell existing stories in a better way in these environments? Or should we change our way of thinking about how we perceive our world in order to create more comprehensive narrative experiences? In a recent keynote (ICIDS 2018 conference) Janet H. Murray – author of the groundbreaking volume Hamlet on Holodeck – the Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (1997/2016), reminds us that “a kaleidoscopic habit of thinking” can help us “envision a more integrated transformational future” and “open up the possibility of expanding our understanding of the world and our cognitive capacity” (Murray, 2018:17). To better grasp the complexity of the world, it is important to enhance emerging artistic practices in order to create opportunities for critical reflection while acknowledging the changed relationship between creators and audiences turned participants/prosumers/experiencers.