*CFP* "COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA POPULAR EN AMÉRICA LATINA Y CARIBE", MONOGRÁFICO 43, REVISTA COMUNICACIÓN Y MEDIOS

El presente número de la Revista Comunicación y Medios del Instituto de la Comunicación e Imagen de la Universidad de Chile convoca a presentar artículos originales que rastreen, teoricen y problematicen la comunicación y cultura popular en América Latina y el Caribe, tanto respecto del presente como en perspectiva histórica. 

Convocamos a presentar trabajos e investigaciones empíricas que contribuyan a identificar, analizar y revertir el modo en que se ha desconocido el potencial y la trascendencia de los “otros” populares, ya sea en términos políticos, económicos o culturales, de manera de generar conocimiento con sentido político sobre el rol de la cultura y la comunicación en las grandes transformaciones sociales. Buscamos trabajos recientes sobre la relación comunicación-cultura en América Latina y el Caribe, investigaciones originales que conjuguen la investigación aplicada con una reflexión macro-teórica sobre la cultura. Sugerimos proponer reflexiones que visibilicen nuevas claves de lectura y nuevas interpretaciones históricas de la resistencia político-cultural de los sectores sociales excluidos del continente, bajo una perspectiva feminista, interseccional (cf. Crenshaw 1991, Dorlin 2005, Kergoat 2009, Viveros 2016), decolonial (cf. Mignolo 2010) y que tenga en cuenta la dimensión comunicativa de la interacción social (cf. Habermas 1981, 2002, Negt & Kluge 1993, Fraser 1997).

*CFP* "TRUST IN THE TEXT", AARHUS UNIVERSITY

The introduction of movable type print in late fifteenth-century Europe began with the noble aspiration of making the Word of God available for all, most famously exemplified by the Gutenberg Bible. 

How could early printers have foreseen that their work would prepare the ground for the violence and social turmoil that would follow in the Reformation. Texts, broadly defined, were experiencing a powerful transformation. The trust that people placed in texts came under severe strain even as they were more readily available than ever before.  Texts of all kinds—the sermon of the local clergyman, a pamphlet expressing a political view, poetry, plays, even the Word of God itself—required new methods and systems for declaring their trustworthiness. In much the same way, the internet began with similarly high-minded intentions—‘the information superhighway’ connecting everyone in the world. Just as print had done five hundred years before, the world soon reels with unintended consequences of these new communicative technologies, again, chiefly around the question of trust. ‘Fake news’, the facilitation and proliferation of opinion including the views of those who hate or advocate violent resistance are some of the familiar concerns that stem from our own crisis of communicative trust. The text, in its many forms, once again is required to establish and declare its trustworthiness to an audience awash in words.

*CFP* "MEMORY, AFFECTS AND EMOTIONS", INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY ONLINE CONFERENCE

Affects, emotions and perceptions have always been at the center of philosophical discussion. Yet the so called “Affective turn” in social studies and humanities is relatively a new phenomenon inspired by Deleuze and Guattari´s influential works among others. Affective turn challenges the still dominant representational approach in semiotics, discourse analysis and text analyses of all kind. Its goal is to overcome human exceptionalism together with the domination of the word-based language over the other forms of expression in the process of creating meaning and knowledge altogether. Brian Massumi in The Politics of Affect (2015) defines affect as “being right where you are – more intensely” based on the bodily experiences of the relations with the world.

He compares affect with hope that can motivate one´s contribution to formation of a just and more inclusive society, the urgent transformation that has to start with the changes in ontology. The aim of the present conference is to create an academically challenging and productive space for discussion of affect based research practices throughout disciplines. We are particularly interested in exploring the potential of affective turn in the memory studies. As an interdisciplinary conference, we consider it important to discuss possible differences and similarities in the definitions of the affects as well as in the approaches to their studies and their application in research practice.

*CFP* "SOVIET UNDERGROUND AND PARALLEL CINEMA", SPECIAL ISSUE, EAST EUROPEAN FILM BULLETIN

In the early 1980s, two moments of underground film — the so-called Parallel Cinema — emerge in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) and Moscow. For the first time radical young filmmakers, painters and artists produce amateur films, mainly in 16mm, outside of Goskino’s state monopoly. While the Moscow school’s approach to film is shaped by the influence of conceptualist art, the Leningrad school, associated with “Necrorealism,” explores an expressionist and absurd cinema, circling around death, decay and horror.

As part of its Russia focus 2020, the East European Film Bulletin is preparing a special issue on Soviet Parallel Cinema (parallelnoe kino), an experimental film movement in the Soviet Union in the 1980s. We are looking for contributions on underground films and video art by, among others, Igor and Gleb Aleinikov, Evgeny Iufit, Evgeny Kondratiev (Debil), Boris Yukhananov, Andrej Myortvy, Konstantin Mitenev, Igor Bezrukov, Alexander Doulerain, Vladimir Zakharov, Oleg Kotelnikov etc.

*CFP* "GLOBAL QUEER AND TRANS* STUDIES", SPECIAL ISSUE, JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

In recent years there has been an increasing visibility of queer and trans* studies in International and Intercultural Communication. For example, Karma R. Chávez (2013) advocated for the field of inquiry called, Queer Intercultural Communication, to examine nuanced connections among queer and trans* identities, cultures, politics, and globalization. With scholars such as C. Riley Snorton, Megan Morrisey, Julia Johnson, and Gust A. Yep, Chávez (2013) called to push the boundaries of international and intercultural communication that maintain the logics of cisheteronormativity working with whiteness, patriarchy, ableism, and capitalism. Since then, Shinsuke Eguchi and Godfried Asante (2016) and Shinsuke Eguchi and Bernadette Marie Calafell (2020) have also expanded the circumference of Queer Intercultural Communication by emphasizing on the intersectional queer and trans* politics of belonging. However, such collection of queer intercultural scholarships yet struggles to fully locate global perspectives on queer and trans* identities, performances, and spaces.

Thus, this special issue calls to further expand the current state of Queer Intercultural Communication. 

*CFP* "AESTHETICS AND AFFECTIVITY", Nº 60.1, THE POLISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS

Emotions, feelings, and, generally, the whole sphere of affectivity make up one of the most fundamental elements of human life, and also play an essential (although sometimes problematic) role in art and aesthetic experience. In this regard, let us simply consider this: on one hand, it is certainly possible to think and talk of something like a “common world” in terms of sensations shared by all human beings; on the other hand, if we focus on each individual’s emotions and feelings, and the way the latter often condition our perception of the real, this same notion becomes somewhat ambiguous. If this is true concerning our experience of the world in general, it is even truer and clearer in the specific case of our experience with art. 

Reflections on the fundamental role played by affectivity in the whole realm of human experience leads us to recognize, for example, that every experienced object, apart from its purely factual properties, presents some “splits” into which the subject fits, so to speak—specifically, to recognize (following Merleau-Ponty) that our description of reality, even as it appears in perceptual experience, is always full of “anthropological predicates.” This becomes fully apparent if we consider such experiences as fantasizing and dreaming (or, in a more radical and even dramatic way, certain psychological pathologies in which the subject’s “private world,” especially influenced by his/her emotions and feelings, sometimes almost completely eclipses evidence of what we conventionally consider “real”), and also applies to a great extent to art and aesthetic experiences of different kinds.

*CFP* CALL FOR ARTICLES, VOL.3, Nº 1, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON STEREO & IMMERSIVE MEDIA

The International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media (IJSIM) is an open access and peer-reviewed journal that reflects on our progressively immersive media culture. It has a historical and critical perspective about immersion by considering that it draws both on state of the art technologies and on old and discontinued media that have once stimulated and expanded our perception.

While these technologies (from stereoviews to cinema, virtual reality or video gaming) have deeply strengthened the human relationship to virtual worlds, they have also made visual documents more engaging, offering them richer and inspiring interpretations of reality. 

This Journal aims at reflecting upon these topics and welcomes papers addressing one or more of the following themes: