*CFP* "(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)", A CONFERENCE ON DESIGN, CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY - PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

(In)tangible Heritage(s):

A conference on design, culture and technology – past, present, and future

15-17 June 2022

University of Kent in Canterbury, UK

 

The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings and products had, at their inception, social and cultural roles beyond their ‘object’ status. They continue to have them today. What we understand a designed object to be then, is a complex question of material and social import, and an intricate play of the tangible and intangible identities. Increasingly, it is also a question of hybrid experiences and overlaid histories. This conference address the range of issues connected to this scenario.

*CFP* "AUDIOVISUAL TRACES", NEXT ISSUE, RESEARCH IN FILM AND HISTORY JOURNAL

The peer-reviewed OA online journal Research in Film and History invites proposals for its next issue "Audiovisual Traces"

Andrey Tarkovsky approached filmmaking as “sculpting in time,” which means that film is able to “capture time.” In the recorded form, as a final product, a film leaves traces through time that can be preserved, reproduced, recontextualized, as well as forgotten and lost. Along this line of thought, these audiovisual traces acquire both temporal and spatial dimensions, material and mnemonic capacities. In this regard, e.g. archival footage filmed in the German Democratic Republic and reused or recontextualized in the German post-reunification cinema can be approached as audiovisual traces, as well as cinematically established representations of the Holocaust carefully reproduced in contemporary fiction films like „Persian Lessons" (Vadim Perelman, 2020).

In the next issue, Research in Film and History invites scholars to critically reflect on the following questions: How can the notion “audiovisual traces” be conceptualized in regard to cinema and audiovisual artifacts of various historical periods and national contexts? What functions can audiovisual traces have? What methods and approaches can be applied to study audiovisual traces? How can audiovisual traces be collected, evaluated, reinterpreted, or even redesigned? We encourage submissions that apply or critically reflect on research methods on the intersection of history, film, memory studies, and digital humanities. We also invite proposals on articles, video essays, and other forms of audiovisual research that focus on theoretically informed case studies.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, NEXT ISSUE, FOLIA TORUNIENSIA JOURNAL

On behalf of the editorial office of the scientific journal 'Folia Toruniensia' (pISSN 1641–3792, eISSN 2657-4837, DOI 10.12775/FT), I would like to invite you to cooperate.

FT is a scientific periodical publication of the Provincial Public Library – the Copernicus Library in Toruń, published in cooperation with the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. The journal contains articles devoted to archival studies, library, and information sciences. The journal's mission is to serve as a forum where the international scholars and scientists present their research since the 16th volume (2016) has been published in the formula Open Access, non-exclusive license Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0).

The Editorial Team of 'Folia Toruniensia' currently collects materials for the subsequent volumes. We are asking you to consider preparing articles for publication in our journal. Presently the publishing process is carried out using the Academic Platform of Journals content management system. Therefore, please report texts by APJ. Furthermore, we would like to inform you that by the commitments made, we are planning to close the 21st volume by the end of April 2021.

*CFP* "THE ALLURE OF OBSOLESCENCE", INAUGURAL ISSUE, ARTIFACT & APPARATUS: JOURNAL OF MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY

We are excited to announce the launch of and call for papers for a new peer-reviewed, open-access online journal, Artifact & Apparatus: Journal of Media Archaeology. We invite scholars, curators, and practitioners from art history, film and media studies, library and information science, science and technology studies, and related fields to contribute articles on the history, theory, aesthetics, and practice of media objects, broadly conceived. From digital information networks to early electrical communications tools; from closed-circuit video surveillance systems to mechanical typewriters; and from pre-cinematic optical toys to virtual reality artworks, we invite contributors to reconsider the material objects that record, store, transmit, and reproduce texts, images, sounds, and information.

Why "artifact and apparatus"? We want to harness these words' multiple meanings to encourage a revision of media history grounded in its material artifacts and technological apparatuses—both physical and virtual objects (lantern slides, video files, wax cylinders, newsprint) and the traces of their mediation and marks of their materiality (signal loss, bit-rot, deterioration, decomposition), as well as the instruments, machines, devices, and equipment (computers, cameras, cables, projectors) and their functions and dispositifs.

*CFP* "SEMIÓTICA DE LA CULTURA: MÉTODO Y CONCEPTOS", PRÓXIMO NÚMERO, REVISTA CUADERNOS DE INFORMACIÓN Y COMUNICACIÓN

La semiótica de la cultura, que tiene su origen en la teoría de la información, concibe la cultura como un sistema semiótico formado por el conjunto de sus textos. Además, cada cultura es entendida como la memoria no hereditaria de una colectividad. Este espacio es lo que se denomina semiosfera, fuera de la cual no hay semiosis.

Esta perspectiva considera, por un lado, los textos como dispositivos que producen sentido y, por el otro, la cultura como mecanismo de producción, conservación y transmisión de información.

Los textos se entienden como espacios de comunicación, que implican siempre un mecanismo de traducción, sea entre textos, o entre textos y destinatarios o entre cualesquiera participantes de la comunicación. En otras palabras, toda comunicación es vista como traducción entre sistemas semióticos.

El presente número de Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación pretende dar cuenta de este método de análisis de la comunicación y de la información, a través de sus conceptos.

*CFP* “FUTURE, A TIME OF HISTORY”, SPECIAL ISSUE, VERSUS JOURNAL

Founded in 1971 by Umberto Eco, who had been its editor-in-chief until his death in February 2016, Versus is one of the first international journals of Semiotics, Philosophy and Theory of Language. It is currently directed by Patrizia Violi (Università di Bologna). For the issue number 131 (December 2020), edited by Jorge Lozano (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Daniele Salerno (Universiteit Utrecht), Versus invites contributions on the semiotic and cultural construction of the future.

Although Structuralism mainly focused on the synchronic dimension of phenomena, temporality is for Semiotics and for the analysis of the historical discourse a fundamental theoretical and methodological aspect. Indeed, the major social and political changes we are experiencing nowadays ask for a reflection on how we imagine and construct possible futures. Jurij Lotman defines the future as the space of possible states. From this perspective, history and memory are to be framed within the fundamental orientation of culture toward future experience.

*CFP* “STARDOM AND THE ARCHIVE: AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM”, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Stardom and the Archive: an International Symposium

Saturday 8th February 2020

University of Exeter, Devon, UK

Confirmed Keynotes:

Professor Maryanne Dever (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney)

Dr. Lucy Bolton (School of Languages, Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary University of London)

New developments in star studies have been led by a number of recent and innovative scholarly collections, such as Lasting Screen Stars (Palgrave Macmillan 2016); Revisiting Star Studies (EUP 2017); and the BFI's recent Film Star Series publications, all of which challenge traditional Hollywood-defined models of stardom and foreground innovative new methods in star studies research.