*CFP* "COLONIAL SLAVERY IN EUROPEAN MUSEUMS: ARTS AND REPRESENTATIONS", EDITED BOOK

Often at the political crossroads between state institutions and associations calling for increased emphasis on the memory, truth and colonial legacies, museal institutions that speak about slavery have historically reinforced patrimonial discourses that celebrate European abolitionists and neutralize claims to alternate memories. 

Ten years after the international colloquium “Exposer l’esclavage-méthodologies et pratiques” (Musée du Quai Branly, 11-13 May 2011), and amidst recent calls to “decolonize” museums, our collection seeks to examine the representation of colonial slave trade and slavery across European museal contexts. Our project proposes to investigate the degree to which European museums featuring the slave trade, slavery and their abolitions have responded to many of the questions raised at this colloquium by museum directors, scholars, and artists. Given the recent explosion of global protests against racialized police brutality and the desecration of statues and monuments symbolizing racism, what further changes do these museums envision?

*CFP* "BLACK MASCULINITIES, DRESS AND STYLE", SPECIAL ISSUE, CRITICAL STUDIES IN MEN'S FASHION JOURNAL

Like other colonized or otherwise marginalized communities, self-identified Black people employ their bodies as their primary vehicle of cultural expression. For men of African ancestry in particular, how they fashion themselves has literal life or death consequences. Framed by current anti-Black racism protests the world over, the goal of this special issue is to assemble a body of scholarship on the intersections of Blackness, masculinity and appearance.

Authors engaged in studies about blackness and masculinity in relation to dressing and styling practices are encouraged to submit articles, independent of the type of research, methodologies or theoretical frameworks implemented.

Potential themes might include but aren’t limited to:

*CFP* "THE FEMALE GAZE IN CINEMA", GENDER RESEARCH WORKSHOP

Gender Research Workshop

“The Female Gaze in Cinema”

24 October 2020 – Online (Time TBC)

organised by

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

Academic LAB

Film has long been a male-dominated industry, but for decades female directors against all odds have made an indelible mark on cinema. Today there is growing recognition of the important contributions made by women to the world of moving image, with audiences calling for more opportunities to be given to female screenwriters, cinematographers, editors, producers, performers and directors in a bid to defeat gender inequality.

*CFP* "CHICAGO: AN IRISH-AMERICAN METROPOLIS? POLITICS, ETHNICITY AND CULTURE FROM 1930S TO THE PRESENT TIME", INTERNATIONAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Chicago: an Irish-American Metropolis? Politics, Ethnicity, and Culture from 1830s to the present Time

An International and Multidisciplinary Conference

21st-23rd 2021, 

University of Paris

Keynote Speakers:

James Barrett, Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

David Brundage, Professor of History, University of California at Santa Cruz

Aileen Dillane, Professor of Ethno-musicology, University of Limerick

Clair Wills, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, University of Cambridge

Viewed from continental Europe, Irish immigration to the United States often relates to American harbors, like New York City, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or even to two major “Irish” towns: Boston and New York City. This prevailing but restrictive outlook is easily explained.

*CFP* "INTERACCIÓN Y VISUALIZACIÓN", NÚMERO ESPECIAL, REVISTA EL PROFESIONAL DE LA INFORMACIÓN

El pasado 23 de marzo Navid Mamoon y Gabriel Rasskin, dos estudiantes de la Carnegie Mellon University lanzaron Covisualizer, una aplicación de visualización interactiva que permite consultar, prácticamente en tiempo real y por medio de un globo terráqueo, el número de víctimas y afectados por el Covid-19 en todos los países. En pocos días llegó a los 70 millones de usuarios. Covisualizer es sólo una de las numerosas interfaces que se han creado para facilitar la comprensión y consulta de los datos estadísticos que constantemente se registran sobre la pandemia. Su éxito se debe a la habilidad mostrada por sus autores en diseñar una interfaz en la que visualización e interacción se combinan eficazmente.  Es decir, por medio de la interactividad, el usuario explora los mapas y establece su propia narrativa visual. A través de mapas interactivos medios de comunicación, agencias estatales y centros de investigación han construido el relato de la epidemia focalizando aquellos aspectos del brote que han considerado más relevantes (Danielson, 2020).

Plantear interactividad y visualización como binomio refuerza la centralidad del usuario en los procesos de acceso, diálogo y relación con datos por medio de interfaces (McKenna et al., 2017). Así, por ejemplo, en comunicación social, frente a los medios clásicos en los que en un artículo periodístico el texto explicaba la historia y las gráficas o imágenes daban soporte o evidencia a lo narrado, en lo nuevos medios digitales se escapan de ese papel secundario. 

*CFP* "THE DETECTIVES: CRITICAL ESSAYS ON SELECT ENGLISH AND BENGALI DETECTIVE FICTION", EDITED VOLUME

In the popular fiction genre, the appeal and attraction of the reader is paramount and consistent. The event of crime and the solving of it through what the father of detective fiction Edgar Allen Poe called "ratiocination" is a result of the paradigm shift towards empiricism, the faculty of thinking and reasoning under influence of the Cartesian and Enlightenment tradition. Later with the advancements in psychoanalysis following Freud which probed into the inner workings of the human mind and forensic science with its back-tracing and interpretation of hidden physiological and spatial evidence further propelled the development and popularity of crime fiction, especially detective fiction and also derivatives like police procedurals, American hard boil fiction, espionage, sensational and crime thrillers. During the flourish of British classic detective fiction master story plotters set it to the highest benchmark. This influenced and inspired later fiction. The genre also saw adaptations and re-presentation in film and television with equal popularity.

In India, during British colonization, especially in the Bengal presidency, cultural transmission acted as a catalyst for the production and popular reception of imitative detective fiction in the early years and later subversion and appropriation through intelligent weavings of indigenous cultural nuances and traditions, thus manifesting a postcolonial approach.

*CFP* "NO GOING BACK: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION AND POST-PANDEMIC POLITICS", FELLOWS CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL COMMUNICATION AND POST-PANDEMIC POLITICS

Biennial Early Career CARGC Fellows Conference

No Going Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics

8th-9th April, 2021

University of Pennsylvania, EEUU

On suddenly sparse streets, artists confront the grim reality of the moment. With a nod to the anti-globalization movement or the music notes seemingly playing off the guest that has overstayed its welcome, both messages diagnose the ailment and gesture toward a hope for and belief in change. In a moment shaped by closures – of borders, stores, schools, offices, jobs, and, for many, a dream of “going back to normal” – what openings are made possible?

The second biennial early career conference by the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School at the University of Pennsylvania asks: What are post-pandemic politics? We understand post-pandemic, not as a myopic focus on COVID-19, but rather as an optic illuminating both persistent and emergent conditions of inequity and precarity. We also use post-pandemic as an opportunity to imagine new forms of politics, community, solidarity, and action.