*CFP* "PEACE, INTERSECTIONALITY AND UNCERTAINTIES", THE 6TH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE

Peace, Intersectionality and Uncertainties

The 6th International Communication and Media Studies Conference

Eastern Mediterranean University (Cyprus)

Famagusta, North Cyprus: 25-26 November 2021

 

 

The Center of Research and Communication for Peace in the Faculty of Communication and Media Studies at Eastern Mediterranean University invites submissions addressing the general theme of Peace, Intersectionality and Uncertainties the 6th International Communication and Media Studies Conference will be held on 25-26 November 2021 in Famagusta, Northern Cyprus. The conference is dedicated to bringing together a significant number of diverse scholarly events for presentation within the conference program. Thus, academic scientists, early-stage researchers, and graduate students are invited to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of communication. It also provides a platform for researchers to present and discuss recent innovations, trends, and concerns raised with Covid-19 pandemic as well as practical challenges encountered, and solutions adopted in the Communication and Media Studies. 

*CFP* "INTERSECTIONALITY AND DIGITAL PLATFORMS", SPECIAL ISSUE, FRONTEIRAS JOURNAL

In recent years, the intersectional perspective has been highlighted in research focused on acknowledge how discrimination articulates by different structures of oppression. The perspective is widely disseminated by the ideas of American black jurist and feminist, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who systematized the concept of “intersectionality” in 1989 in the United States. In Brazil, and a few years earlier but still in the 1980s, Lélia Gonzalez already denounced the effects of the double oppression of sexism and racism over black women. Beyond universities, the concept has been appropriated by social movements. It also circulates in discourses on digital platforms that try to draw attention to the way these oppressions cross and structure the everyday practices of many people. Thus, this configures huge gaps in spaces of power and construction of knowledge. The debate on intersectionality and its effects in everyday lives finds fertile ground in digital platforms for the inclusion of diverse experiences and concrete experiences in view of the particularity of each person.

 

We announce a call for a special issue of Fronteiras Journal, a Brazil-based open access journal, on intersectionality and digital platforms. The special issue encourages submissions that explore one or more of the following issues:

• Intersectionality, citizenship and social media

*CFP* "DISCOURSE, INTERSECTIONALITY, CRITIQUE: THEORY, METHODS AND PRACTICE", SPECIAL ISSUE, CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDIES JOURNAL

Since being coined by the African-American feminist legal theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, intersectionality has increasingly been taken up as both an ontology and a hands-on framework on a global scale. The intersectional approach is acknowledged for its potential to map the relation between the different systems of oppression which construct our multiple identities and our social locations in hierarchies of power and privilege. In parallel, critical discourse studies has been consolidating as a form of linguistically-oriented, critical social research, with a special interest for asymmetries between participants in discursive events and their unequal capacity to control how texts are produced, distributed and consumed.

This Special Issue will explore the convergence between CDS and intersectionality as a theory, method and practice for the exploration of different crossroads of inequality and oppression. By investigating the junctures between critical discursive and intersectional approaches, this Special Issue intends to contribute to the development of a critical research framework that enables the acknowledgment of the profound ways in which discursively, institutionally and/or structurally constructed sociocultural categorizations interact and produce different kinds of societal inequalities and unjust social relations. These, in turn, can be analysed in terms of the mutual and intertwined processes of resistance and transformation that arise out of them.

*CFP* "RACISM, NATIONALISM AND XENOPHOBIA", 3RD INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference

Racism, Nationalism and Xenophobia

8-9 de junio 2020

Gdansk, Poland

It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.

Our first conference on racism, nationalism and xenophobia took place in March 2016. The second adition was held in June 2018. We hosted over 80 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world.

*CFP* “OTHER VOICES: REDEFINING THE HUMANITIES”, ISSUE OF THE WATCHUNG REVIEW

Colleges and universities have experienced their own rapid and foundational changes and challenges over the past two decades: deep and permanent funding cuts; attacks from political factions and business interests questioning the purpose and value of higher education itself; extreme pressures to produce “work-ready” graduates; the continuing “adjunctification” of the professorate; and the closure of programs, departments, colleges, and entire universities. The humanities often suffer the worst due to these effects, and they also face lopsided initiatives that highlight and fund STEM fields at the expense of the so-called “soft sciences” and the “arts.” Meanwhile, efforts toward “STEAM” have been inconsistent and, at times, counterproductive.

Yet the humanities remain in the vanguard of social and cultural changes, as they always have. Ever responsive to the cultures and societies from which they come, the humanities is in the midst of a metamorphosis as the role of the arts and letters in the 21st century evolves to represent, articulate, interpret, challenge, champion, and create the myriad and rapid changes underway. 

Watchung Review invites scholarly articles and creative works that take up the reimaginings of the humanities and its place in the 21st century. We invite broad interpretations of these reimaginings, especially ones sensitive to new or underrepresented voices.               

*CFP* “GENDER PERFORMATIVITIES IN DEMOCRACY UNDER THREAT”, 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON CULTURAL STUDIES

7th International Congress on Cultural Studies

Gender Performativities in Democracy Under Threat

21-23 Octubre 2020

University of Aveiro, Portugal

1. Gender Performativities in Democracy Under Threat

For the 7th International Congress on Cultural Studies we return to the debate on gender issues. In this edition, we aim to enquire the political, economic, social and historical materiality that gender issues and their performativities summon and articulate in times of democracy under threat.

2. Sessions

The 7th International Congress on Cultural Studies – Gender Performativities in Democracy Under Threat hosts three types of presentations: 

*CFP* CALL FOR STREAMS, LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2020

London Conference in Critical Thought

14- 15 de Agosto de 2020

Kings College, London

The Call for Streams is now open for the 9th annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT), hosted and supported by the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy, Kings College London.

The LCCT is a free, inter-institutional, interdisciplinary conference in critical thought that takes place annually in institutions across London. LCCT follows a non-hierarchical, decentralised model of organisation that undoes conventional academic distinctions between plenary lectures and break-out sessions, aiming instead to create opportunities for intellectual critical exchange regardless of participants’ disciplinary field, institutional affiliation, or seniority. The conference is envisaged as a space for those who share theoretical approaches and interests but who may find themselves at the margins of their academic department or discipline. Following this decentralised, ‘margins-at-the-centre’ logic, LCCT has no overarching or predetermined theme. Each year the conference’s intellectual content and academic tone are set by thematic streams that are conceived, proposed and curated by a group of stream organisers. Each stream generates its own intellectual rationale and Call for Papers, with conference participants responding to the accepted stream proposals. 

*CFP* “PREGNANCY AND THE MEDIA”, SPECIAL ISSUE, COMMENTARY AND CRITICISM-FEMINIST MEDIA STUDIES

The broad expansion of the post-feminist media landscape of the past couple of decades brought about an increased visibility of spectacularised and idealised ideas of pregnancy – a romanticised “new momism” (Douglas and Michaels, 2004). Alongside these romanticised discourses, though, exist numerous examples of mediated pregnancies that sit outside of such glamorised and perfect representations of pregnancy. This context has also opened up new networked spaces for people to seek and offer support online in relation to pregnancy, as well as spaces to search for or share (self-)representations of pregnancy. The editors of Commentary and Criticism invite short essays that critically consider pregnancy and contemporary media. 

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:

*CFP* “HYBRID DIALOGUES: TRANSCENDING BINARY THINKING AND MOVING AWAY FROM SOCIETAL POLARIZATIONS”, 5TH ESTIDIA CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES L’ORIENTALE

Hybrid Dialogues: Transcending Binary Thinking and Moving Away from Societal Polarizations

5th ESTIDIA Conference

Global Discourses (and Counter-Discourses) of Hostility in the Social Media Age

19-21 September 2019

University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy

Organizer: Dr. Eleonora Esposito (University of Navarra)

We invite submission of abstracts for a panel entitled Global Discourses (and Counter-Discourses) of Hostility in the Social MediaAge, to be proposed as part of the ESTIDIA (European Society for Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogue) Conference, to be held on 19-21 September 2019 at the University of Naples L’Orientale, Italy. The fast-emerging technologies of the participatory web have transformed the way we communicate, explore and connect to the world forever. The new range of indigenous genres, contents and practices, situated at the intersection of mass and interpersonal communication, fosters the pursuit of personal interests in a shared scenario as well as the creation and maintenance of global relations that validate and support identities and behaviours. Not simply grounded in the incessant sharing of information content, the social media communication paradigm is characterized by a limitless potential for ordinary (rather than élite) media performance, with an ever-growing number of bottom-up discourse formations and disseminations.

*CFP* “SONIC FUTURES: PERFORMING IDENTITY IN THE 'GLOBAL' CITY”, LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION

Sonic Futures: Performing Identity in the ‘Global’ City

April 25

London College of Communication

The idea for this one-day conference stems from a series of workshops, Sonic Futures: Identity and Sustainability through Music and Performance, supported by London College of Communication(Teaching and Learning Fund) in collaboration with May Project Gardens (Hip Hop Garden). Adopting a mixed-method approach, this pilot project sought to engage students from LCC in a series of workshops that explored the connections between social issues (e.g. social cohesion, participatory and sustainable practices and active citizenry, to name a few), politics and identity formations at the intersections of class, ethnicity, race, gender and the environment. 

*CFP* “THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION”, DEREK JARMAN LAB, LONDON

The Essay Film Form and Animation: Intersectionality in Motion

12-13 June 2019

Derek Jarman Lab

London

The conference explores the ways in which animated form mobilises or challenges ideas of the essay film. We, therefore, encourage submissions that engage with how animation represents complex and intersecting social issues and power relations. Major axes of social division in a given society at a given time operate not “as discrete and mutually exclusive entities, but build on each other and work together” (Collings and Bilge, 2016, p. 4). It is very challenging to convincingly visualise and configure these phenomena and how they intersect. But animation seems perfectly placed to rise to this challenge, due to its hybrid, metamorphic and pervasive tendencies.

*CFP* “BEYOND DISCIPLINES”, CMCI EMERGING VOICES CONFERENCE 2019, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON

Beyond Disciplines

CMCI Emerging Voices 2019

Thursday, 6th June 2019 – Friday, 7th June 2019

Bush House, King’s College London

WC2B 4BG, London

The PhD student community at the Department of Culture,Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), in the Faculty of Arts & Humanitiesat King’s College London (KCL) is pleased to open the call for papers for our 6th annual conference.

This year’s conference celebrates new and emerging directions in the research of culture, media and creative industries that challenge how we understand and see technological, environmental, political, institutional and aesthetic developments that are shaping our cultural landscape.