*CFP* "POLITICAL IMAGINATION: RETHINKING OUR VOCABULARY", LEXICAL WORKSHOP

Political Imagination: Rethinking Our Vocabulary Lexical Workshop

Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University

September 29 & 30, 2021

 

 

Political imagination is a concept that can be traced to a 200- year tradition of political thought and has returned to the public discourse in recent years in the context of theoretical artistic and activist conversations. In this workshop we seek to join this conversation by developing lexical concepts to explore Political Imagination and Imagination as Politics. Theories of decolonization, environmental justice discourses and activist groups around the world as Extinction Rebellion, Standing Rock, the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter use a political imagination rhetoric not only to criticize, challenge and oppose political realities but also to offer alternatives for them. At the same time, artists, writers and filmmakers are producing more and more cultural artifacts that engage with questions of futurism, alternative pasts, dystopias and imaginaries.

*CFP* "GLOBAL PUNK", PUNK SCHOLARS NETWORK ANNUAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Punk Scholars Network Annual Conference

Global Punk

12tg-19th December

Virtual Conference

A virtual, online, global conference spanning eight days is being brought together by the Punk Scholars Network – be a part of it. Punk is a truly global phenomenon that manifests in myriad ways in different scenes, political regimes, cultural contexts and individual experiences. Punk is many things to many people and seldom remains static over a lifetime. Increased globalisation, changes in connectivity and technology, and shifts in both capitalism and populism have impacted punk for better and worse. International and intranational punk scenes and connections are growing and finding commonality and conflict through music, education, mutual aid, performance, political activism and human behaviours. The global Coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the differences people face accessing resources and how governments respond. How have, and how will, various local punk scenes respond to this crisis, and what does their response tell us about punk as a global phenomenon?

*CFP* “SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN: BORDERS AND BORDERLANDS”, INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OXFORD

Somewhere In Between: Borders And Borderlands  

25 de abril 2020

St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford

In an ever changing world the problems of setting boundaries as well as the need to create meanings and establish understanding of diverse phenomena have always been of the utmost importance for humanity. Borders, boundaries, frontiers, and borderlands, naturally formed or man made, are grounded in various ethical traditions, and have always been associated with limits and restrictions. The ongoing process of globalisation is changing the role and stereotypes of borders, so that they are often seen as opportunities rather than constraints. However, in some cases they are still being militarized and conflicted.

The conference will seek to identify and analyse the processes of border-making and border permeability in contemporary societies through aesthetic forms. We seek to explore the historical origins of borders, their role in today’s global environment and define the notion of borders, which includes not only territorial, geographical, and political borders, but also cultural and metaphorical borders, imagined spaces where interests and ideologies overlap and compete.

*CFP* “REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACK MOTHERHOOD AND PHOTOGRAPHY”, CHAPTER BOOK

Women Picturing Revolution is pleased to announce a call for papers on the topic of Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography.

The forthcoming book published by Leuven University Press and distributed by Cornell University, Representations of Black Motherhood and Photography, will curate both essays and photographs on Black motherhood.  Contemporary books on motherhood and photography often lack attention paid to Black mothers. When the topic of Black motherhood is examined in academic scholarship, it often does not address a crucial missing component - visual representation and analysis of the Black mother in pictures.  This edited collection gives voice to the intersection of photography, Black motherhood and the ways in which Black mothers have navigated gender, race, and class. 

Photography is the overriding language of visual literacy and global communication. And images, now more than ever, serve as the way in which meanings are created and transmitted. In our visually-saturated age, how is it possible that this gap exists? Why does it exist? What are the implications of this void? What role, if any, does social media play as tools for survival and protection? How are Black mothers using self-portraiture to re-write the self? 

*CFP* "PRACTICES OF DISPLACEMENT: MAPPING MIGRATION IN CINEMA, CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE", XVII MAGIS INTERNATIONAL FILM STUDIES SPRING SCHOOL

Practices of Displacement: Mapping Migration in Cinema, Contemporary Arts and Cultural Heritage.

XVII MAGIS International Film Studies Spring School 

March 23d - 26th 2019

Gorizia (Italy).

In occasion of the XVII edition of the MAGIS Spring School, the Cinema and Contemporary Arts section will address the ever-topical issue of migration and its manifold relationships to art (and film) making, curatorship and exhibition. As suggested by Bourriaud (2007), in a global scenario contemporary art can be seen as “a practice of displacement”, for the way it transcodes and translates signifying elements from one context to another. If interpreted in relation to migration as a social phenomenon, “human displacement” can constitute a challenge to artistic practices as well as archival and curatorial ones (Ring Petersen, 2017; Johansson, Bevelander 2017): whenever dealing with the representations and heritage of deterritorialized communities, artworks and art institutions become sites to negotiate cultural differences (Durrant, Lord, 2017).

*CFP* "LIKE AN ANIMAL: REFUGEES, ANIMALS, AND MULTICULTURALISM", EDITED VOLUME

We would like to invite you to contribute with a chapter to a new co-edited volume titled ‘Like an Animal’: Refugees, Animals, and Multiculturalism. Communication scholars are very much welcomed to this multidisciplinary volume.

The volume explores the unexamined links between human migrants/refugees and nonhumans (refugees in their own right) during global migration crises. The volume’s goal is to open an interdisciplinary and multicultural discussion on the structural, symbolic, and discursive logics behind the human-animal divide as reflected and perpetuated in the case of human migration crises. Contributions will examine any of the intersections between human refugees and nonhuman animals’ interests, treatment, legal status, or media narratives and policies that target them in multicultural states: the EU, MENA, Latin America, and the US. Some of the questions we aim to address include: