15ª SESIÓN SEMINARIO DOIMECO, "HABITAR LA CIUDAD EN EL CINE ESPAÑOL FILMADO EN MADRID (2000-2019)"

*CFP* "AFTER DOUGLAS CRIMP", ISSUE 33, INVISIBLE CULTURE: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL FOR VISUAL CULTURE

For its thirty-third issue, InVisible Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that engage with the legacy of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019). Douglas was foundational to InVisible Culture and its institutional home, the Graduate Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. The first issue of InVisible Culture included his essay “Getting the Warhol We Deserve,” in which Douglas used Warhol’s gayness as an interpretative hinge while also advocating for the importance of cultural studies’ contributions to art criticism. Besides his profound influence on art scholarship, Douglas’s pedagogy reverberates through the work of those he taught and mentored in various academic and art institutions. We invite contributors to reflect on the myriad ways in which Douglas’s legacy impacts the pasts, presents, and futures of art history and cultural criticism.

Throughout his career, Douglas made crucial contributions to art theory, queer theory, and cultural studies. In 1977, Douglas curated the seminal exhibition Pictures at New York’s Artists Space, which established him as one of postmodern art’s major interlocutors. He continued to spur critical engagements with art institutions and postmodernism with his many essays in October and his 1993 book On the Museum’s Ruins. During the rise of the AIDS crisis, Douglas turned to what he called “cultural activism”; his writings later collected in Melancholia and Moralism (2002) helped galvanize a generation of queer activists.

*CFP* "WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP IN THE PUBLIC RELATIONS INDUSTRY: AN INTERNATIC PERSPECTIVE", CHAPTER BOOK

As part of the EUPRERA project on Women in Public Relations,, I have so far edited and released four reports and one journal article based on original empirical research we have conducted as a team, and more publications and reports are pending (for current publications, see below).

I am now editing a book on women and leadership in public relations, with EUPRERA project partners submitting chapters based on research they’ve done for the project. I have obtained a contract with Routledge and the book will be published in ‘New Directions in Public Relations and Communications Research book series. 

 

However, I am looking for more contributions, most notably from the United States, United Kingdom and the countries not represented in the project (confirmed submissions so far include Croatia, Georgia, Spain and Portugal) from Europe or elsewhere in the world.

*CFP* "GENDERCOM 2021. TRANS-VERSAL. DISIDENTES SEXUALES Y DE GÉNERO EN LA COMUNICACIÓN", VI CONGRESO INTERNACIONAL DE GÉNERO Y COMUNICACIÓN

Gendercom 2021. Trans-versal. Disidentes sexuales y de género en la comunicación

VI Congreso Internacional de Género y Comunicación

25 y 26 de febrero de 2021 (Presencial y online)

 

Toda representación cultural se basa en la realidad, en unos casos con el objetivo de cambiarla, en otros, con la idea de reforzarla. A finales de los años 70, los estudios de género determinaron que había una clara brecha entre la idea de masculinidad y de feminidad en los medios y se impulsó la búsqueda de nuevas formas de crear y representar.

Cincuenta años después, nos encontramos, de nuevo, en un periodo de cambios. Las disidencias sexuales y de género están cada vez más presentes en los contenidos, delante y detrás de la cámara: personajes del colectivo LGTBQ+ y creativos que forman parte de dicho colectivo se abren paso para mostrar una nueva sociedad.

*CFP* "GENRE/NOSTALGIA", AN ONLINE FILM AND TELEVISION STUDIES CONFERENCE

Genre/nostalgia 2021

An online film and television studies conference

University of Hertfordshire, January 5&6 2021

 

Film and TV genres and nostalgia have long been intertwined. Fundamentally, both are rooted in the practice of creatively recycling and adapting modes of the past; Steve Neale’s (1990) assertion that genres are processes of repetition and variation is also applicable to many films and programmes which reimagine historical events, past eras, earlier styles and classic works of literature. Period dramas regularly cite the codes and conventions of past genres as a means of triggering collective memories of an era, while for multiple other film and TV genres, the past is a key component: for instance, science fiction might depict the past as a function of time travel, while the Western is founded on its 19th century American frontier setting, and gothic horror is often associated with Victorian England or based on fin de siècle literature.

*CFP* "CRISES AND COMMUNICATION", VOL. 8, COMMUNICATION JOURNAL

Notwithstanding the current situation, periods of crisis and upheaval exacerbate inequities in our communication infrastructure and throw into sharp relief the profound barriers to access. In such fraught moments, we can glimpse the extent to which our systems of mediation differentially serve and confound us according to our positionality within these systems. To understand the effects of crises on communication, it is important to consider the history of systems of mediation that have both limited and encouraged access, participation, and equity across knowledge, space, and culture. What have crises, both present, perpetual, and past, intimated about flaws, gaps, and inequities in systems of communication that are overlooked or disregarded under “normal” (if “normal” exists) conditions? How might we think about how infrastructure relates to the crises and thus the infrastructures of communication are the infrastructures of communication in/justice? How and why are people and communities affected differently in these crises, and how do systems of communication and mediation both mitigate and compound these phenomena?

Questions of meaning making, truth, misinformation, and access are welcomed within our new collection. In particular, bringing new context and contextualization (whether philosophical, historical, archeological, rhetorical, ecological, or otherwise) to query contemporary crises of communicative access issues are welcome.

*CFP* "PHOTOGRAPHY & RESISTANCE", SPECIAL ISSUE, MAI: FEMINISM & VISUAL CULTURE

MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture invites authors with expertise in visual and cultural studies and related disciplines to contribute to our upcoming special issue on photography and resistance. Of particular interest are contributions that illuminate the lives and work of women and non-binary photographers and that draw on the insights and practices of anti-racist and intersectional feminism.

Photography, as Yvonne Vera writes, “has often brought forth the most loaded fraction of time, a calcification of the most unequal, brutal, and undemocratic moment of human encounter (1999). Photography has also been used as a form of resistance to repressive regimes, to oppose war and violence, and as a means to challenge heteronormative patriarchy. 

Photography offers both a means of critique and a way of making visible events and forms of power that are not intended to be seen. Feminist and LGBTQ+ photographers have taken up cameras as a way to produce entirely new visual vocabularies, to reimagine the world otherwise, and to challenge hegemonic ways of seeing.