*CFP* "NARRATIVES OF AMERICAN COLONIZATION AND IMPERIALISM", SPECIAL ISSUE, ASPEERS JOURNAL

400 years ago, the Mayflower arrived on Patuxet land and established the settler colony of Plymouth. Just two years later, the Patuxet peoples were pronounced extinct. Despite or due to this settler violence, the Plymouth colony gave rise to the American tradition of “Thanksgiving” and the mythology of Europeans building a ‘City upon a Hill’ in America.

200 years later, in 1820, eighty-six free black ‘immigrants’ traversed the Atlantic to establish the first settlement in Liberia. This was sponsored by the American Colonization Society (ACS). The ACS’s core belief was that Black freedom—Black voting, Black landowning, Black civil liberties—was incompatible with (white) American ideals and democracy, and that founding colonies in Africa promised to thus ‘whiten’ the US.

Now, in 2020, the United States has hundreds of military bases worldwide, spreading across scores of different countries and housing, according to some estimates, about 200,000 troops. Even though the US is technically a nation, its ubiquitous global influence on economies, politics, and cultures constitutes it as an empire.

*CFP* "MUSIC, CULTURE AND DIALOGUE", ISSUE 9.1, CULTURE AND DIALOGUE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL

Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. For each issue, the Journal seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator. Our first 2021 issue (Vol. 9.1) will focus on the theme of Music, Culture and Dialogue.

This Issue welcomes contributions from any areas of interdisciplinary philosophy of music, which include:

• Music as dialogue, its role and significance as intercultural experience.
• Comparative philosophy of music, which may analyse one or more particular cultural perspectives (Eastern, African, Western, Indian etc.).
• Philosophical reflection on modes of understanding the nature of music (anthropological, social, religious, political, psychological, scientific etc.).
• Inquiry into the cultural dimensions of music from across the traditions of interpretive and analytic philosophies. We welcome essays that address any of these topics from different cultural perspectives or philosophical traditions.

*CFP* "IN THE WAKE OF RED POWER MOVEMENTS. NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INDIGENOUS INTELLECTUAL AND NARRATIVE TRADITIONS", SYMPOSIUM

In the Wake of Red Power Movements. New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions

May 15/16, 2020

Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick

This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations?

The symposium is guided by the idea that North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions developed and recovered since the 1960s offer new and reclaimed ways of being, organizing, and thinking in the face of destruction, dispossession, and oppression; Indigenous ways of writing and righting are connected to ongoing social struggles for land rights, access to clean water, and intellectual and socio-political sovereignty; they are, as Maile Arvin, Eve Tuck, and Angie Morrill (2013) have pointed out, “a gift” from which most academic disciplines can benefit greatly.

*CFP* "INFORMATION STUDIES, RACE AND RACISM", NEXT ISSUE OPEN INFORMATION SCIENCE JOURNAL

On behalf of independent academic publisher De Gruyter, the open access journal Open Information Science we are announcing a Call for Papers for Topical Issue: Information Studies, Race and Racism.

As Safiya Noble asserts in her seminal work Algorithms of Oppression “The cultural practices of our society...are part of the ways in which race-neutral narratives have increased investments in Whiteness” (p. 59). There is a need to disrupt these race-neutral narratives in Information Studies research and there is a growing body of work that does just that by re-orienting Information Studies research to centralize discussions of race and racism. Many researchers also use critical theories to help analyze their findings or are offering counter-narratives highlighting minoritized actors (such as women and people of color). Re-centering Information Studies by contextualizing it within an analysis of how race and racism affects our field changes what we think we know, and our understandings about Information Studies. Only when these alternate narratives are integrated into the fabric of Information Studies research can Information Studies begin interrogating the long held beliefs in our field.

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

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

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

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

*CFP* "MÉXICO ESPECTRAL. FANTASMAS Y MUERTOS QUE HABLAN EN LA CULTURA MEXICANA CONTEMPORÁNEA", IMEX REVISTA

"México espectral. Fantasmas y muertos que hablan en la cultura mexicana contemporánea". La persistencia de la muerte y sus figuraciones en las culturas visuales y narrativas mexicanas es un reconocido lugar común en la cultura mexicana. El Mictlán, Xibalbá y otros inframundos, la Catarina, la Santa Muerte, fantasmas, muertos danzantes o narradores post-mortem, son figuras reconocibles en su folclore, religión, artes plásticas, literatura y cine. 

La revista iMex. México Interdisciplinario / Interdisciplinary Mexico invita contribuciones inéditas que interroguen las transformaciones y devenires de estos lugares comunes en los géneros artísticos, literarios y audiovisuales contemporáneos. Invitamos artículos que examinen desde un fondo teórico sólido y/o desde una perspectiva interdisciplinaria discursos y representaciones de lo fantasmal y la muerte.