*CFP* "RACISM, NATIONALISM AND XENOFOBIA", 4TH INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

 "Racism, Nationalism and Xenofobia"

4th International Interdisciplinary Conference

InMind Support

26 - 27 July 2021 (Online)

We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history, politics, psychology, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, economics, law, literary studies, theatre studies, film studies, fine arts, design, memory studies, migration studies, consciousness studies, dream studies, gender studies, postcolonial studies, medical sciences, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, cognitive sciences et al.

​Different forms of presentations are encouraged, including case studies, theoretical investigations, problem-oriented arguments, and comparative analyses.

*CFP* "FEMINISMS NOW", A VIRTUAL FEMINIST STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 2021 CONFERENCE

Feminisms Now: A Virtual Conference

The Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KFSEL)

28th-29th May, 2021

Via Online

 

The Korean Society for Feminist Studies in English Literature (KFSEL) presents a virtual conference on “Feminisms Now” to be held on Zoom from Friday, May 28, 2021 to Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Women everywhere have disproportionately shouldered the social and economic fallout of COVID-19. Taking seriously the pandemic’s regressive impact on domestic violence, female care work, and women in the labor force, we invite scholars, students, and activists to discuss practical and theoretical challenges for feminism today. Beyond the gendered consequences of the pandemic, we’ll reflect on how recent movements such as #MeToo engage new technologies such as digital media to operate locally and globally. How might culturally contingent, specific concerns gain wider traction and concrete executive force? Is international feminist solidarity possible under the current conditions of global inequality and racist violence? Can feminism respond effectively to the rise of misogyny on social media?

*CFP* "EXCLUSIONS IN THE HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY OF COMMUNICATION STUDIES", INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION REMOTE PRECONFERENCE

Exclusions in the History and Historiography of Communication Studies

International Communication Association Remote Preconference

May 27, 2021

Online

The broader field of communication studies is in a moment when we are—or should be—intensively interrogating patterns of exclusion and hegemony that have continued to constitute it: around global region (de-Westernizing, theory from the South, persistent patterns of American influence/hegemony), race (#communicationsowhite), gender (#metoo, #gendercom, Matilda effects,), and indigeneity/colonization (postcolonial and decolonial initiatives). To frame these exclusions as constitutive is to head off any easy solutions in terms of greater inclusivity, though that needs to be part of the mix; rather, it is to invite us to consider all of the ways in which these and other exclusions have functioned to center certain problems, theories, methods, languages, nations, social identities, and publication venues; and to exclude or marginalize others that are cast as differentially less valuable, lower status, Other, and more. To frame them as constitutive is also to draw attention to how those exclusions are performatively enacted on an ongoing basis through the full range of practices, social and epistemological, through which the field (re)produces itself.

*CFP* "DISINFORMATION CULTURES", SPECIAL ISSUE, MOVING IMAGE AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE GROUP

“Disinformation” emerged from the Soviet intelligence bureaucracy during the Cold War as a tactic for managing perception and consensus through the media. Rather than refuting or suppressing ideas that undermined the state agenda, false information and simulated events were disseminated to destabilize the positive character of truth itself. 

In the decades following the collapse of the "bipolar" world system—and given the elaborate projects of controlled opposition required to maintain a decaying global capitalist hegemony—disinformation became ubiquitous. Now, it permeates the very air that we breathe, deployed by state and non-state actors, corporations, and individuals alike. In this milieu of private military contractors, hyper-politicized meme accounts, fake gurus, and sponsored content, where does disinformation end and scamming begin? The hypervigilant, anxious mindset required to weather such a cycle struggles to find footing on non-reactionary ground.

*CFP* “HYBRID WARS IN THE AGE OF PLATFORM IMPERIALISM”, 2020 CONFERENCE

Hybrid Wars in the Age of Platform Imperialism

25-26 de Septiembre de 2020

National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

Keynote speakers

Dr. Oliver Joseph Boyd-Barrett, Bowling Green State University, Ohio (USA)

Dr. Piers Robinson, Organization for Propaganda Studies (UK)

Dr. David Miller, University of Bristol (UK)

This conference provides a forum for researchers who seek to analyze, challenge, and rethink the concepts of “platform imperialism” in the age of hybrid warfare.

Basically, we are interested in the exchange of opinions on the following issues:

• The distribution of global power in terms of the domination over the global platform market by the West (predominantly, the US: e.g., Google, Facebook, Youtube) and control over regional platform markets by China (Baidu, QQ, etc.), Russia (VK, Yandex, etc.), Korea (Cyworld), and so on.

*CFP* "RECONFIGURING THE (TRANS-)CULTURAL", INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP RECALIBRATING CULTURE, HEIDELBERG CENTER FOR TRANSCULTURAL STUDIES

Thinking through and beyond (i.e.: trans) established understandings of culture, the International Workshop Recalibrating Culture – Reconfiguring the (Trans-)Cultural sets out to rethink notions of culture, hitherto conceived as self-contained, and clearly separable, man-made and stable units. Taking a critical view of this perspective, Heidelberg has for many years developed the transcultural approach. In this workshop, we offer to expand and critically evaluate, as well as to theorize the transcultural from a visual perspective: expanding visual culture into visual transculturality and reconsidering the transcultural from the visual. In doing so, we add new dimensions of thinking the transcultural.

There is a profound need to revise the (often pejorative) concepts of ‘culture’, ‘nature’ and ‘human’ and to recalibrate the transcultural. We engage in critical revisions of the new ‘post-culturalisms’, such as neo-naturalisms, post-humanisms and techno-centrisms, practicing something one could call a post-anthropocentric media studies.