*CFP* "SENSING THE ARCHIVE. EXPLORING THE DIGITAL (IM)MATERIALITY OF THE MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE", ISSUE 19, FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL

Shrunken film strips, faded footage, distorted sound, and a harsh vinegar scent; such lamentable deterioration exposes the material vulnerabilities of audio-visual heritage which often determine the work of archivists and conservators. With constant changes in the technology of access have come profound changes to the world of dusty boxes, narrow strip-lit and high-stacked aisles, and data stored in obscure and obsolescent formats. At the same time, audio-visual materials offer new sensory modes of historiography. What kinds of historical knowledge lie within these resources and how can they be revived?

Mass digitisation has transformed the ways in which we can access, understand, and interact with histories stored in audio-visual media. Digitisation highlights the tangibility of the medium, and the fluidity of the material. Archives have always had their absences and lacunae, but digital materiality – or immateriality – produces new instabilities that require novel ways of approaching audio-visual heritage. How does our sensory experience of film history change due to the digital turn? What kind of research behaviours and patterns can this process enhance, and what kinds of research are inhibited?

*CFP* "MACHINE VISION IN CONTEXT: POLITICS AND PRACTICES OF COMPUTATIONAL SEEING", SPECIAL ISSUE, PHOTOGRAPHIES JOURNAL

This special issue will bring together interdisciplinary scholarship that engages critically with the evolving, recursive interrelations between machine vision and photography.

The heightened capacities of machines to ‘see’ and visually categorize the world have been the subject of numerous recent journalistic exposés and public outcry. Whether critiquing the role that machine vision plays in efforts to track, detain, and penalize targeted communities, or charting the incorporation of similar technologies into urban infrastructures, self-driving cars and ‘smart’ appliances, there is a growing awareness that it is reshaping what is seen and what counts as seeing. Online, recognition algorithms increasingly automate the tasks of tagging, categorizing and extracting meaning from the “unmanageable and unassimilable” accumulation of images circulating across networked environments (Henning 2018). Within this context of volume, scale, and distributed production, the photographic image appears to have receded from the realm of human perception (Zylinska 2017), working instead as an ‘operative’ agent (Hoelzl & Marie 2015) that drives and draws together the constellation of hard and soft platforms that comprise the contemporary mediascape (Dvořák and Parikka 2021; Mackenzie & Munster 2019). Images and their audiences are being ‘put to work,’ as the solicitation and generation of metadata as well as the non-human recognition of pixel- and user-based patterns facilitates the improvement and expansion of computerized vision (Sluis 2020).

*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* CALL FOR ARTICLES, ISSUE V, NUART JOURNAL

Following the successful international launch of Issues I, II, III and IV of Nuart Journal, we are now calling for submissions for Issue V. This is an open call, not restricted to any theme. However, we are interested in artistic forms of response and resistance in our current times; in the new challenges and inequities emerging from the impact of the pandemic; and in the productivity of unexpected alliances and new creative connections.

Artists and writers working in public space tend to respond immediately to political issues, and the art on our cities’ streets powerfully reflects both our communities’ anxieties about, and aspirations for, our collective future.

Nuart Journal is a peer reviewed journal that features provocative and critical writings on a range of topics relating to street art practice, graffiti, and urban art cultures. We accept submissions from a broad range of authors including cultural heritage workers, historians, critics, media, culture and communication studies scholars, cultural and human geographers, political theorists, anthropologists, ethnographers, sociologists, psychologists, criminologists, curators, artists, writers, taggers, anarchists, and out and out vandals.

*CFP* "INDIGENOUS RESEARCH OF LAND, SELF, AND SPIRIT", CHAPTER BOOK

The call for chapters to the collection entitled Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit has been reopened and title release moved to October 2020.

Indigenous cultures meticulously protect and preserve their traditions. Those traditions often have deep connections to the homelands of indigenous peoples, thus forming strong relationships between culture, land, and communities. Autoethnography can help shed light on the nature and complexity of these relationships.

Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit is a collection of innovative research that focuses on the ties between indigenous cultures and the constructs of land as self and agency. It also covers critical intersectional, feminist, and heuristic inquiries across a variety of indigenous peoples. Highlighting a broad range of topics including environmental studies, land rights, and storytelling, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, academicians, students, and researchers in the fields of sociology, diversity, anthropology, environmentalism, and history.

*CFP* "MIGRANT BELONGINGS. DIGITAL PRACTICES AND THE EVERYDAY", CONFERENCE

Migrant Belongings. Digital Practices and the Everyday

4-6 November 2020

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Migrant belonging through digital connectivity refers to a way of being in the world that cuts across national borders, shaping new forms of diasporic affiliations and transnational intimacy. This happens in ways that are different from the ways enabled by the communication technologies of the past. Scholarly attention has intensified around the question of how various new technical affordances of platforms and apps are shaping the transnationally connected, and locally situated, social worlds in which migrants live their everyday lives.

This international conference focuses on the connection between the media and migration from different disciplinary vantage points. Connecting with friends, peers and family, sharing memories and personally identifying information, navigating spaces and reshaping the local and the global in the process is but one side of the coin of migrant-related technology use: this Janus-faced development also subjects individual as well as groups to increased datafied migration management, algorithmic control and biometric classification as well as forms of transnational authoritarianism and networked repression.

*CFP* "DIGITAL TRUTH-MAKING", 7TH CONFERENCE OS THE SECTION "DIGITIZATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE"

Digital Truth-Making

Ethnographic Perspectives on Practices, Infrastructures and Affordances of Truth-Making in Digital Societies

7th conference of the Section “Digitization in Everyday Life” of the German Association of Cultural Anthropology and Folklore Studies (dgv)

Institute for European Ethnology & Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)

7-9 October 2020

Organizers: Christoph Bareither, Dennis Eckhardt, Alexander Harder, Julia Molin

Over the last two decades, the ubiquity of digital infrastructures has brought about numerous drastic changes to a globalized world. One of the most pressing socio-political questions on a global scale is how digitization has changed the ways in which particular truths are enacted and established in everyday life. On the one hand, this addresses the practices of truth-making in political contexts: "post-truth" and "fake news" not only dominated the last US presidential election, but have also long since become decisive factors in political upheaval in Europe, South America and Asia. Social media have become crucial platforms for political meaning-making as well as the constitution of emotional beliefs and “alternative facts”. But the question of the specifics of practices of digital truth-making also encompasses much more than the sphere of the political. 

*CFP* “REFLECTION ON RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AMONG UNMARKED GROUPS”, 8TH ETNOGRAPHY AND QUALITATIVE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

8th Etnography and Qualitative Research Conference

Reflection on Research Experience Among Unmarked Groups

3-6 de Junio de 2020

University of Bergamo, Italy

Ethnography has been historically linked with the colonial relationship between Europe and their ex-colonies and with other asymmetries. For social anthropology, for example, fieldwork has consisted for a long time in the study of “exotic cultures” in non-European societies, and for sociology in the research of “marginal groups” in modern societies.

Fieldwork research has an a priori: the researcher or participant observer belongs to a “we” group (civilized and Westerns) and the informant or participant observed, belongs to a “they” group (primitive and non-Western). This tendency is today mainly maintained. Researches about “unmarked” groups (white, wealthy and heterosexual people, for example) are scarce. Although the “unmarked” comprises the vast majority of social life, the “marked” commands a disproportionate share ofattention from social scientists currently doing ethnography studies.

*CFP* “ANTRHOPOLOGY OF MEDIA”, CHAPTER BOOK

We invite you to submit book proposals for the Media Anthropology book series published by Berghahn Books. Pioneering a dedicated series for media anthropology, the collection has brought out several influential books that are widely read and referenced.

The series aims to curate some of the finest works in the exciting field of media anthropology, and invites new contributions that strongly resonate with these objectives: The ubiquity of media across the globe has led to an explosion of interest in the ways people around the world use media as part of their everyday lives. 

This series addresses the need for works that describe and theorize multiple, emerging, and sometimes interconnected, media practices in the contemporary world. Interdisciplinary and inclusive, this series offers a forum for ethnographic methodologies, studies of media practices that especially go beyond Eurocentric accounts, explorations of transnational connectivity, mediated forms of political subjectivities and political action, and studies that link culture and practices across fields of media production, consumption and circulation.

*CFP* "EXPANDING THE FRAME: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM AND ITS OTHERS", PANEL AT 16TH RAI FILM FESTIVAL & CONFERECE

Precarious landscapes: forensis and decolonial futures 

a panel at the 16th Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival & Conference

Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others

March 27 - 30, 2019 - The Watershed, Bristol, UK

Convenors: Daryl Celeste Meador (New York University), Toma Peiu (University of Colorado Boulder)

This panel will be discussing the practicalities and ethics of producing images and sound in vulnerable landscapes. Work coming from ethnographers and media artists researching border areas, diasporas and environmentally, politically or economically exposed geographies is expected to challenge notions of centrality and subalternity.