第 13 屆英美文學學會
國際學術資訊 第一一○期
Contents
Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
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Conferences in North America
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Conferences in Europe
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Journals and Collections of Essays
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Conferences in Asia Pacific and Other Places
Language, Literature, and Ecoculture
July 23-25, 2014
Due: June 9, 2014
Cameroon English Language and Literature Association
conference@cella-cameroon.org
Language, Literature and Ecoculture Faculty of Arts, University of Buea, South West
Region, Cameroon 23-25 July 2014
“… the culture of nature – the ways we think, teach, talk about, and construct the
natural world – is as important a terrain for struggle as the land itself.” (Alexander
Wilson)
In the global economy, human cultures continue to shape and to be shaped by
ecosystems through the process of modification and commodification of the
environment. The dramatic worldwide decline in natural and cultural capital is an
indication that ecological systems are becoming more vulnerable. In the intellectual
domain, environmental sub-disciplines have emerged with a focus on how to seek
solutions for the preservation and maintenance of social- ecological systems.
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Ecoculture informs and is informed by the body of eco-discourses that seek to preserve
the connections between knowledge (local and scientific), nature and culture. This
conference seeks to generate challenging discussions on how cultural and natural
processes inform, shape, shift and/or construct perceptions of and actions toward nature.
Subthemes include but are not limited to:
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Ecoculture Communication Ecoculture and Ecocriticism Ecoculture and
Language Change Eco-sustainability
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Eco-Self sufficiency, Ecocultural Ethics Ecocultural Symbolism
Eco-Connections (Lost) Nature and Culture
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Ecosystem and Human System Ecoculture and Literary Creativity
Proposals for 20 minutes presentations and 1-hour plenary sessions are welcomed.
Abstracts of 250 words in Ms Word format (Times New Roman, Font Size 12) should
be submitted to: conference@cella- cameroon.org
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of English Language,
Literature and Culture and a book.
MAJOR ACTIVITIES
Opening ceremony Keynote Address(es) KITAL 2014 Presentations
Plenary and Parallel sessions Cultural Night
Closing Ceremony
REGISTRATION FEE
Scholars (Cameroon): 20.000frs Students (Cameroon): 10.000frs
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Scholars (International): $ 100.00 Students (International): $ 50.00
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Registration fee includes breakfast, complimentary lunch, and conference
material
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Registration fee does not include accommodation.
IMPORTANT DATES
Call for Papers: January 2013
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 9th June 2014 Notification of selected abstracts:
30th June 2014 Registration Deadline: 30th June 2014
CONVENER
Professor Nalova Lyonga
Vice Chancellor, University of Buea
(Post)Graduate Travel Grants available for DNS
Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV ‘Ideas
and Enlightenment’
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December 10-13, 2014
Due: June 15, 2014
University of Sydney
sihn.dns@sydney.edu.au
The 15th David Nichol Smith Seminar organizing committee is pleased to announce
that they will be able to offer a limited number of travel grants to expand postgraduate
participation in the 2014 ‘Ideas and Enlightenment’ conference. These are provided
through generous funding contributions from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
the Putting Periodisation to Use Group, and the Sydney Intellectual History Network at
the University of Sydney. These scholarships are part of an extended postgraduate
program at DNS XV, which will be supported by the newly formed DNS Graduate
Caucus. We anticipate that the program will include paired mentoring between junior
and senior colleagues at the conference and a professional development workshop.
Those awarded scholarships travel grants would be expected to be actively involved in
this program.
Conditions:
Travel grants (up to a maximum amount of $2000) will be awarded as reimbursement
of travel expenses. Funds may be used for transportation to and from the conference
and accommodation only, not for meals). Partial grants may be offered. Recipients
must attend the full conference and present a paper at the David Nichol Smith Seminar
XV at the University of Sydney. Costs incurred, up to the amount granted, will be
reimbursed upon presentation of receipts. In certain cases, fares or other expenses may
be paid directly by the DNS XV organizing committee through the office of the Sydney
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Intellectual History Network. Applications from international and Australian
postgraduate students are invited.
Eligibility:
The recipient must be actively engaged in full- or part-time doctoral study in
eighteenth-century studies, in any field, at a recognised university.
Applications should include:
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A completed application form
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A copy of their DNS proposal for a 20 minute paper (250-word paper proposal
and 2-page CV)
These materials must be sent as a single pdf document and attached to an email sent to
the attention of the organising committee at: sihn.dns@sydney.edu.au. Inquiries about
the scholarships should also be directed to members of the committee through this
email.
Application forms are available to download from the on the conference webpages:
http://sydney.edu.au/intellectual-history/news-events/dns-conference-2014.shtml
Closing date: 15 June 2014
Changing Humanities in a Changing World
November 27-29, 2014
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Due: August 18, 2014
Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University
papers@changinghumanities.org
Our world is rapidly changing, and these changes – in communication, technology,
politics, the economy and the environment – deeply and widely affect people across the
globe. The problems these changes cause, whether at the personal or societal level,
have become increasingly and overwhelmingly complex. Today’s digital world, for
instance, has caused instability in the existing contrasts between globalization,
nationalism and localism. It has also resulted in a reshaping of human thought and
emotion. New ethics and values, new worldviews, new questions of the self, spirituality,
and identity, have emerged even as some of the old standards persist. This requires a
new understanding of the world and our societies beyond the existing frameworks.
Scholarship in the humanities must adapt, both in its epistemological and
methodological assumptions, to facilitate critical thinking and better responses to these
challenges and complexities. The humanities, not in its confined, narrow role and
specialization in language and communications, but in its broad approach to
surrounding socioeconomic, political and cultural conditions, need to be rethought.
We would like to welcome papers (a full paper around 20-25 A4 pages, 12,000 –
15,000 words, along with an abstract, 500 – 600 words, in English or Thai) BEFORE
August 18th, 2014 in the following areas:
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Research Methodologies in the Humanities
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Creativity, Critique, and Spirituality
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The Polemics of the Self and the Ethical Life
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Globalization and Localism from a Humanistic Perspective
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Cultural Studies in the Humanities
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Digital Humanities
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Communication and Identity
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Poetics of Politics / Politics of Poetics
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Conferences in North America
Indigenous Studies
October 3-5, 2014
Due: April 30, 2014
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
mailto:adahan@mnstate.edu
Indigenous Studies Area - Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture
Association, Indianapolis, IN, Friday- Sunday, October 3-5, 2014.
The area seeks panel and paper proposals that address any aspect of Indigenous,
Aboriginal, First Nations, Maori, and Sami popular cultures. In addition, the area
highly encourages comparative papers between Indigenous and, say, Asian, Hispanic,
Pacific Islander, or African popular cultures. Topics might address, but are not in any
way limited to the following:
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Film Television New Media
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Video Games, Blogging, YouTube Advertising
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Fashion
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Popular Literature
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Comic books, Graphic novels, and Cartoons Radio shows
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Folklore Sports
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Theater, Festivals, Spectacles, and Ceremonies Music
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Visual arts
250 word abstracts may be submitted before or by 30 APRIL 2014. Submissions should
be made electronically via our online submission system,
http://submissions.mpcaaca.org. Please direct questions and inquiries to the Area
Chair, Anthony Adah at adahan@mnstate.edu
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 30th APRIL 2014
For more information about the conference, including how to submit to a different area,
please visit the conference website at www.mpcaaca.org/conference
Modernist Waste Streams
November 6-9, 2014
Due: May 2, 2014
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Alexander McKee / University of Delaware
abmckee@udel.edu
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency defines a "waste stream" as "The total flow
of solid waste from homes, businesses, institutions, and manufacturing plants that is
recycled, burned, or disposed of in landfills, or segments thereof such as the 'residential
waste stream' or the 'recyclable waste stream.'" This panel deploys this term to address
the relationship between production, consumption, and waste that existed at the start of
the twentieth century. It invites papers from all disciplines that examine modernist
attitudes toward waste and abundance. Possible topics include depictions of waste in
Eliot, Joyce, Beckett, etc.; the recycling of waste in Cubist collages and Surrealist
objets trouvés; and representations of the monumental waste that is associated with
modern warfare. Please send a 250-word abstract and brief professional bio (2-3
sentences) to Alexander McKee at abmckee@udel.edu by May 2.
*This CFP is for a proposed panel for the Modernist Studies Association Conference to
be held in Pittsburgh on November 6-9.
Reading Matters
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June 11-13, 2014
Due: May 15, 2014
Troy University
troyreadingmatters@troy.edu, pmenon@troy.edu
Reading Matters Interdisciplinary Summer Conference Call for Presentations:
Papers are invited for the first academic conference dedicated to engaged reading
organized by Troy University. This interdisciplinary summer conference, “Reading
Matters,” will take place from June 11 to June 13, 2014, at Troy University, Troy,
Alabama.
This conference is an attempt to rethink what it means to read and how we read in our
current culture. The topic is intentionally broad in order to encompass and encourage a
wide variety of potential themes including historical, sociocultural and disciplinary
contexts. We welcome any sustained attempt to explore and rethink the various aspects
involved in engaged reading.
“Reading Matters” will address issues about both digital and material texts. We
welcome presentation topics including, but not limited to:
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The value of reading and re-reading
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Engaged reading and the academy
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The art and skill of reading
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Reading literature and its humanizing influence on the reader
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Contemporary ethical and sociability (of/and) reading practices
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Technology and reading
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Community reading and its outcomes/ Reading environments
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The “primary” and “secondary” literature dyad (role of critical reading)
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Reading student writing
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Engaging a non-reader or reluctant reader
Because the goal of this conference will be to foster a dialogue on general issues on
reading, we are especially interested in proposals that will foster discussion for
constituted panels, non-traditional presentations, and also individual papers.
Please send abstracts of about 300 words by May 15 to troyreadingmatters@troy.edu
For further details of the conference, please visit:
http://trojan.troy.edu/qualityenhancementplan/conference.html
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Conferences in Europe
Cosmographies: Textual and Visual Cultures of
Outer Space
July 24-25, 2014
Due: April 25, 2014
Niamh Downing/Falmouth University
niamh.downing@falmouth.ac.uk
Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Chris Welch – Professor of Astronautics (ISU, Strasbourg), and Vice-President of
the British Interplanetary Society
Prof. Philip Gross – Professor of Creative Writing (The University of South Wales,
UK), T. S. Eliot prizewinner and author of Deep Field (2011)
Organisers: Dr. Niamh Downing (Senior Lecturer in English and Writing); Dr. Dario
Llinares (Senior Lecturer in Film); Dr. Sarah Arnold (Senior Lecturer in Film)
In his introduction to Space Travel and Culture (2009), David Bell suggests that the
neglect of ‘outer space’ in the humanities and social sciences is in part due to the
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negative stance towards the technological utopianism of the mid-twentieth-century
‘space race’, where ‘Apollo stands now as a future that never happened, or a history
that seems not to connect with our present’ (4). For James Hay the emergence or
invention of ‘outer space’ as a ‘historical, geographic, and theatrical stage for shaping
discourse about rights and responsibilities, war and peace, security and risk’ is
profoundly tied to the cold war era (2012: 29). Yet even while the ‘space race’ may be
understood as historically and culturally last century, ‘outer space’ continues to serve
as a sphere of human technological enterprise, a battleground of political discourse and,
a rich source of socio-cultural production.
The critical neglect of ‘outer space’ has been remedied in part by Bell, Denis Cosgrove,
Fraser MacDonald, whose work collectively offers the beginnings of a ‘critical
geography of outer space’ (MacDonald 593). MacDonald observes that ‘the last fifty
years has seen the outer- Earth become an ordinary and accessible sphere of human
endeavour, our presence in (and reliance on) space making it one of the enabling
conditions for our current mode of everyday life in the west’ (593).
Further interventions, such as Alexander Geppert’s, Imagining Outer Space: European
Astroculture in the Twentieth Century (2012), provide a historiographical perspective,
interrogating the ‘heterogeneous array of images and artifacts, media and practices that
all aim to ascribe meaning to outer space while stirring both the individual and the
collective imagination’ (8). A cross-disciplinary series of essays published in Down to
Earth: Satellite Technologies, Industries, and Cultures (2012), edited by Lisa Parks
and James Schwoch, along with Dario Llinares' study, The Astronaut: Cultural
Mythology and Idealised Masculinity (2011) attempt to bring together geographical,
historical and cultural/ media studies approaches to examine astro-culture.
A common aspect of these approaches is an acknowledgement of the need to
encompass cultural, filmic, artistic, and literary engagements with outer space as
objects of enquiry. The influence of spatial thinking on film and literary scholarship,
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demonstrated by an increasing concern with urban space, mobility and the proliferation
of terms such as ‘cinematic-’ or ‘literary geographies’, has rarely resulted in a turn
towards ‘outer space’. Indeed, the arrival of ‘cyberspace’ could arguably be said to
have had a profound effect on the cultural understanding and importance of ‘outer
space’ in the collective imaginary. Visual and textual scholarship has arguably
under-engaged with the fields of cultural geography, cultural history and cultural
studies that are re-imagining ‘astroculture’/‘celestial space’ as part of what Cosgrove
calls a ‘cosmography for the twenty- first century’ (35).
This 2-day conference seeks to explore the significance of ‘outer space’ in textual and
visual culture, including literature (fiction/non- fiction/scientific or legal texts), film
(cinema/documentary/youtube/television/NASA or ISS clips or broadcasts), digital
media (games/twitter/social media), photography, material culture, ephemera and
popular culture.
We especially welcome papers that move beyond the paradigms of science-fiction
studies, and engage with geographical or historical approaches to visual or textual
cultures of ‘outer space’. We invite papers on the following themes (but not limited to):
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20th century and post-millennial representations of outer space Poetics/poetries
of outer space Non-fiction and outer space, from film documentary to the nonfiction novel (for example, Al Reinert’s For All Mankind, Patricio Guzmán’s
Nostalgia for the Light, Oriana Fallaci’s If the Sun Dies, Norman Mailer’s Of A
Fire on the Moon)
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Digital games and outer space
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Visual/textual representations of rockets, satellites, telescopes, the International
Space Station, and other material technologies of outer space
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Posthumanism – visual/textual representations of sentient/non- sentient life
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Weird fictions and outer space
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Papers that seek to establish frameworks for a cinematic or literary geography of
outer space
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Papers that examine terms such as ‘cosmography’, ‘celestial space’,
‘astroculture’, in relation to literature, film, other visual/textual media
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Visual/textual gendering of ‘outer space’
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Governance, laws, and capital of outer space in visual/textual culture
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Discourse analysis of space law, treaty, governance in technical literature
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Non-western/Non-Soviet space programmes and their representation (for
example Cristina De Middel’s Afronauts (2012)
http://www.icp.org/support-icp/infinity- awards/cristina-de-middel)
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Space tourism/personal space flight
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Heritage and outer space (archaeologies of outer space, space debris, heritage
sites, museum orbit)
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Ecology and outer space (space as wilderness or environment, terraforming,
pollution, waste, life, texts such as Charles Cockell’s Space on Earth (Palgrave
2006), Guy Laliberté http://www.onedrop.org/en/projects/projectsoverview/GAIA.aspx
Abstracts of 250-300 words for final presentations of 15-20 minutes should be sent to
cosmographies@falmouth.ac.uk by Friday 25th April 2014. Please include name,
affiliation, title of paper, and brief bio. Participants will be notified by Friday 2nd May.
There will be two channels for publication of selected papers from the conference:
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1. An edited journal issue
2. An edited collection of essays. We have had preliminary discussions with a major
commercial academic press and aim to have a proposal based on selected abstracts
with publishers prior to the conference.
Eighth European Congress of Analytic Philosophy
August 28 to September 2, 2014
Due: April 25, 2014
Romanian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SRFA)
ecap8@g.unibuc.ro
ECAP 8 – Eighth European Conference of Analytic Philosophy University of
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
28 August - 2 September 2014
www.esap.info/ecap8
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ECAP-conferences are organized every three years by the European Society for
Analytic Philosophy (ESAP). The aim of these conferences is to establish contacts and
encourage collaboration among European analytic philosophers. The previous
conferences took place in 1993 (ECAP1 in Aix en Provence), 1996 (ECAP2 in Leeds),
1999 (ECAP3 in Maribor), 2002 (ECAP4 in Lund), 2005 (ECAP5 in Lisboa), 2008
(ECAP6 in Krakow), and 2011 (ECAP7 in Milan).
The Eighth ECAP will take place in Bucharest, Romania, from the 28th of August to
the 2nd of September, 2014, and is locally organized by the University of Bucharest in
collaboration with the Romanian Society for Analytic Philosophy.
We invite contributions for the following parallel sessions:
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History of Philosophy
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Epistemology
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Philosophy of Science
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Logic
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Philosophy of Language
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Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory
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Metaphysics
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Ethics
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Aesthetics
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Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
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Contributed papers will be scheduled for a 30-minute presentation (including
discussions).
GUIDELINES FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Abstracts must be written in English and be prepared for blind review, with all
self-reference and personal data suppressed. Abstracts should indicate the title of the
paper and the parallel session for which it is submitted. Please submit both a short
abstract of no more than 200 words, and a long abstract of no more than 1000 words
(references included).
Long abstracts should have the following format: Times New Roman, font size 10, 1,5
line spacing. Long abstracts should not only contain the position defended or the issue
discussed, but also indicate the outline of the argument. Submission is made through
the EasyChair website (see Guidelines below)*.
Short abstracts will be inserted in the EasyChair submission page in text format. Long
abstracts will be uploaded as files in either doc or pdf format.
Please select only one section during submission!
THE NEW EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION is April 25th, 2014.
Notification of acceptance is expected by May 25th, 2014.
(*) Guidelines for EasyChair submission The EasyChair login page for ECAP8 is at:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecap8
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In order to access the submission page, the creation of an EasyChair account will be
required.
IMPORTANT: Please notice that what is called "abstract" in the EasyChair "Title,
Abstract and Other Information" section corresponds to the short abstract of this call,
and what is called "paper" in the EasyChair "Upload Paper" section corresponds to the
long abstract of this call. A visual guide to submission will be posted shortly on the
conference webpage.
PLENARY AND INVITED SPEAKERS
Confirmed plenary and invited speakers for the conference are:
Plenary speakers:
Kit Fine (New York University)
Susanne Bobzien (University of Oxford)
Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield) – for the special plenary “Women in
Philosophy”.
Invited speakers:
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History of Philosophy: Sarah Broadie (University of St Andrews)
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Epistemology: Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh)
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Philosophy of Science: Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)
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Logic: Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde)
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Philosophy of Language: Asa Wikforss (Stockholm University)
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Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory: Clotilde Calabi (University of Milan)
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Metaphysics: Penelope Mackie (University of Nottingham)
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Ethics: Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena)
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Aesthetics: Kathleen Stock (University of Sussex)
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Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law: János Kis (Central European
University)
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Mircea Dumitru (University of Bucharest, Romania, president)
Michele Di Francesco (Institute for Advanced Study, IUSS - Pavia, Italy) Jerome
Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France)
Mehmet Elgin (Mugla University, Turkey)
Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Budapest, Hungary) Olav Gjelsvik
(University of Oslo, Norway)
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
Petr Kotatko (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)
Fiona Macpherson (University of Glasgow, UK) Genoveva Marti (University of
Barcelona, Spain)
Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland) Pedro Santos (University of
Algarve, Portugal)
Nikolas Strobach (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE SPECIAL WORKSHOPS
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(offered during the conference)
Special Workshop 1 (30 August 2014) - Mathematical cognition and its relevance for
the philosophy of mathematics
Organizers: Sorin Costreie (Bucharest) & Markus Pantsar (Helsinki) Invited speakers:
Jessica Carter (Odense), Paula Quinon (Lund) and Dirk Schlimm (McGill)
Special Workshop 2 (31 August 2014) - The Philosophy of Gottlob Frege Organizer:
Sorin Costreie (Bucharest)
Invited speakers: Philip Ebert (Stirling), Michael Potter (Cambridge), Marcus Rossberg
(Connecticut), Joan Weiner (Indiana)
Special Workshop 3 (2 September 2014) - Expressibility, Reducibility, and
Extendability
Organizer: Iulian D. Toader (Bucharest)
Invited speakers: Marianna Antonutti-Marfori (Keele), Michael De (Konstanz), Mihai
Ganea (Toronto)
Submission for contributing papers for the Conference Affiliated Workshops is open.
We are looking for high-quality contributions on these topics.
Presentations will be 30 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for discussion. Please send a
500-word abstract, prepared for blind review, to ecap8@g.unibuc.ro
Deadline for submission is April 25th, 2014.
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Notification of acceptance is expected by May25th, 2014.
For more information, please contact the organizers or visit:
http://www.esap.info/ecap8/?page_id=29
REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE FEES:
Registration to the ECAP8 opens May 25th 2014, and the deadline for early registration
is July 25th 2014. Payment should be made online. The webpage for payment and
registration will be indicated on the ECAP8 website in due time. Conference fee
includes: registration to the conference, conference materials including the book of
abstracts, and refreshments for the coffee breaks.
NB: the conference fee does not include the conference dinner. Registration and
payment for the conference dinner will be available as a separate option on the
registration website in due time.
Conference fees are as follows:
Early registration (before July 25th 2014):
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80 euros: students (graduate and undergraduate) - 160 euros: non- students
(permanent faculty, post-doc, teachers) Late registration (after July 25th 2014):
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130 euros: students (graduate and undergraduate) - 220 euros: non- students
(permanent faculty, post-doc, teachers)
LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
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Constantin Brincus, Marian Calborean, Mihai Cernea, Sorin Costreie, Mihnea Dobre,
Alexandru Dragomir, Mircea Dumitru, Toni Gibea, Corina Grigoriu, Bianca Savu,
Radu Uzkai, Constantin Vica, Cristina
Voinea
LOCAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Marin Balan (S1), Romulus Brancoveanu (S10), Sorin Costreie (S5), Richard
David-Rus (S3), Mihnea Dobre (S1), Alexandru Dragomir (S4), Mircea Dumitru (S4),
Adrian Iliescu (S10), Daniela Jalobeanu (S3), Emilian Mihailov (S8), Laurentiu Staicu
(S7), Gheorghe Stefanov (S6), Constantin Stoenescu (S2), Constantin Vica (S9)
CONTACTS
About submission: All inquiries concerning the submission of abstracts should be
addressed to the dedicated EasyChair address: ecap8@easychair.org
About the conference: All other inquiries concerning the conference should be
addressed to: ecap8@g.unibuc.ro
Fax: +40213131760 Telephone: +40213077302 / +40724911233
Website: www.esap.info/ecap8
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission: March 25th 2014 April 25th 2014 Notification of acceptance:
May 25th 2014 Registration opens: May 25th 2014 Early registration deadline: July
25th 2014
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British Culture after 9/11
June 27, 2014,
Due: April 28, 2014
Rehana Ahmed / Teesside University
after911@tees.ac.uk
Teesside University (Darlington Campus) Friday 27 June 2014
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Claire Chambers (University of York)
Professor Peter Morey (University of East London) Avaes Mohammad (poet,
playwright, performer)
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The years following 9/11 and 7/7 have witnessed the emergence of a diverse body of
British fiction, film, art and music that has sought to respond to the events and their
legacies. This conference will examine cultural representations of post 9/11 Britain to
explore how writers and artists have crafted new ways of representing trauma,
nationhood and cross-cultural encounter, and reimagined human subjectivity in the face
of the dehumanising ideologies of terror and counter-terror. More specifically, this
conference will: examine the role of artists and writers as ‘public intellectuals’ in post
9/11 British culture; explore the representation of the British Muslim experience in post
9/11 Britain; and investigate the extent to which ‘9/11 culture’ can be theorised as a
coherent category of cultural and historical analysis.
Artists as Public Intellectuals in Post 9/11 Culture
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To what extent has the aftermath of 9/11 witnessed a revival of the figure of the
writer as public intellectual? To what extent has this revival served to promote
voices privileged by race, class and gender?
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In what ways have British Muslim artists and writers been constructed as
representative voices within contemporary British culture? In what ways is the
contemporary British Muslim intellectual positioned in the public sphere?
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Has the written word been privileged over other forms of representation in public
debates about the implications of the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks? In what ways have
the visual arts, film, performance, music and media contributed to our
understanding of post 9/11 British society?
British Muslims and Multiculturalism after 9/11
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What role have the contemporary arts played in confirming or disturbing
dominant representations of British Muslims as secular modernity’s
fundamentalist Other in the wake of 9/11 and 7/7?
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As public figures and media commentators from across the political spectrum
declare the ‘failure’ of multiculturalism, can creative artists enable us to see
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beyond assimilationist models of citizenship and articulate an alternative
cross-cultural dialogue?
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How has the New Atheist movement, associated with figures such as Christopher
Hitchens and Martin Amis, influenced the post 9/11 British novel, and what are
the implications of this for Islam and Muslims in Britain?
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How can we rethink artistic controversies that have pitted creative freedom
against minority offence? What can such controversies tell us about the politics
of representation in post 9/11 Britain?
Theorising 9/11 Culture in British Contexts
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To what extent do artistic responses to 9/11 reflect the claim that the collapse of
the World Trade Center marked the final death knell of postmodernism?
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To what extent have artistic works produced in Britain after 9/11 reflected,
responded to, or interrogated writers’ and cultural commentators’ concerns with
the ‘crisis of representation’ supposedly precipitated by the terrorist attacks?
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What is at stake in using ‘post 9/11’ as a cultural prefix? In what ways has this
term been used to describe, construct or market a burgeoning cultural genre?
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How useful is the term ‘post 9/11’ in capturing the contemporary British
structure of feeling? How, and to what effect, do British responses to 9/11 differ
from American examinations of the event and its aftermath?
We welcome contributions, from both practitioners and academics, which address all
forms of cultural representation, including, but not limited to: visual arts, theatre, dance,
performance, literature, autobiography, film, television, digital arts, music, sound art,
fashion and comedy.
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Proposals (of up to 300 words) for papers of 15 minutes should be submitted to
after911@tees.ac.uk by Monday 28 April 2014. Please include a brief biography. The
conference organisers intend to publish selected work emerging from this conference in
an edited collection.
Theorising the Popular fifth international conference
July 30 to July 1, 2014
Due: April 30, 2014
Liverpool Hope University
millerj@hope.ac.uk
The Popular Culture research group at Liverpool Hope University welcome papers
from academics and graduate students for its fifth annual international conference,
'Theorising the Popular'. Its aim is to demonstrate the intellectual originality, depth and
breadth of ‘popular’ disciplines, as well as their academic relationship with and within
‘traditional’ subjects. The group breaks down disciplinary barriers and challenges
academic hierarchies.
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We would especially welcome papers in the following areas, although we invite
proposals from all disciplines:
Film TV
Music
Drama & Participation Gender:
Feminism/Femininities/Masculinities/Queering/Sexualities/Representations of the
Body
Literature Language/Linguistics Fan Cultures Comedy
Politics Sport
Media/Communications Business Studies
Papers should be 20 minutes in length. Please send abstracts of 300 words to Dr Jacqui
Miller millerj@hope.ac.uk by April 30th 2014
Representing Alterity in Society in Crisis: the
construction and representation of the Other in
society and in texts
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July 28-31, 2014
Due: April 30, 2014
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Communication, University of Genoa, Italy
j.douthw@virgilio.it ; elizurru@gmail.com ; dfvirdis@gmail.com
Despite claims of progress being made in the removal of barriers to equal opportunity,
the facts often belie the situation, since the creation and maintenance of Alterity
continues to represent a mode of subjugation and/or an instrument employed to keep
social groups divided and so create or maintain inequality among them.
Indeed, in the world we live in boundaries are always in a state of flux, "responding" to
(reacting to and shaping) socio-economic and historical forces and adapting to meet
new "needs". In this light, the Other has been variously identified in terms of class,
gender, age, religion, ethnicity, depending on time and place, and Otherness has
certainly not been overcome as a means of division. What should not be forgotten is
that the opposition to the Other has always represented an efficacious tool to divide and
rule, as the racist discourses on class, ethnicity, gender, age or religion bring out
forcefully, and Otherness continues to be exploited to political, economic and social
ends, a phenomenon whose importance increases in most societies, where the divide
between rich and poor is growing continually, where the earth’s resources are
continually wasted, and exploited to the benefit of the richer parts of the globe.
The conference thus welcomes papers tackling any issue related to the creation,
enforcement and maintenance of Alterity, or examining concrete situations and their
representation. Two broad types of contributions are encouraged: a) theoretical
approaches, and b) analyses of case studies.
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With regard to theoretical approaches, contributions are welcome which investigate
and pinpoint the actual means and processes by which Otherness and identity are
constructed and maintained, as well as adapted to changing socio-political conditions.
Analyses of texts, including multimodal texts, are also encouraged. Thus contributions
are sought from linguists, discourse analysts, stylisticians, historical linguists, literary
critics, film and multimodal theorists, communication theorists, but also from
sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, criminologists, political scientists,
economists, historians, philosophers, educationalists and others working in domains
dealing with texts in which any form of Alterity and/or resistance to inequality is
represented, discussed or analysed, and/or in which the underlying ideology and
discourse on Alterity is investigated.
Keynote speakers include Prof. Lesley Jeffries (Chair of English, University of
Huddersfield), Prof. Zoltan Kovecses (Professor of Linguistics, University of
Budapest), Prof. Abioseh Porter (Head of English, Drexel University), Prof. Vincenzo
Ruggiero (Professor of Sociology, Middlesex University), Prof. Michael Toolan
(Professor of English Language, University of Birmingham).
The conference language is English, as will be the ensuing publication. Please send
abstracts up to 300 words to John Douthwaite (j.douthw@virgilio.it), Daniela
Francesca Virdis (dfvirdis@gmail.com) and Elisabetta Zurru (elizurru@gmail.com) by
April 30th, 2014. Abstracts should be sent as Word attachments. Please include your
full name, academic title, affiliation, postal address, email address, the title of your
presentation and five keywords. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 7th,
2014.
Please note that all the rooms in the Department of Educational Sciences are equipped
with computer and overhead projector so you can project all supported documents,
spreadsheets, presentations and films. Should you require any special equipment
beyond these applications, please specify in the abstract.
Detailed information on the conference, travel, accommodation etc. may be found on
the conference website at http://www.lingue.unige.it/eventi/alterity/ .
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Borders and Crossings Conference
September 11-13, 2014
Due: May1, 2014
University of Veliko Turnovo (Bulgaria) and University of Wolverhampton, U.K.
b.colbert@wlv.ac.uk
We invite all with an interest in the study of travel writing to the 13th Borders and
Crossings conference. Proposals for 20-minute papers and for full panels are sought
from scholars working in all areas of travel writing, including literary studies, book
history, geography, art history, translation studies, anthropology, history, and media
studies. Current travel writers are also very welcome and there will be space for
readings.
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Papers on all aspects and periods of travel writing are welcome. Areas of enquiry might
include (but are not limited to) the following:

Representations of travel through South East Europe
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Travel and translation/interpretation

Globalization, cosmopolitanism, and transnationalism

Travel writing and ethics

Representations of travel and the new media

Travel illustration and multimedia

Travel writing and science

Travel writing and intertextuality
Conference languages are English and French. Please indicate in which language you’d
like to deliver your paper.
Please email a 250-word abstract by 1 May 2014 to: udmillak3@gmail.com;
B.Colbert@wlv.ac.uk; and G.Hambrook@wlv.ac.uk. Please include your institutional
affiliation and your preferred e-mail address.
Information about accommodation costs and the conference fees will be e-mailed to all
potential participants in late May. Postgraduate students and unsalaried participants
will pay reduced fees.
Website: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=38601
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Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference
May 23, 2014
Due: May 5, 2014
University of Manchester
americanstudiesconference2014@gmail.com
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference
Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson Building
The University of Manchester
Friday 23rd May
The Annual American Studies Postgraduate Conference at the University of
Manchester has become a firm fixture in Manchester’s academic conference calendar
and each year more invited speakers and participants from beyond the university join us
to help promote postgraduate research and innovation. Alongside papers from current
and recent postgraduates at Manchester and from further afield, the conference
provides a training element focused on research and public engagement designed to aid
postgraduate students looking to make a career in academia. In addition, this year
marks the first time the conference is to be held in the new Graduate School, a bespoke
space for postgraduate study and training within the university.
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Our keynote address will be delivered by Stacey Robertson, the Interim Dean of the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Oglesby Professor of American Heritage
at Bradley University in Illinois. Stacey is the author of a number of books including
Betsy Mix Cowles: Champion of Equality(2014) and Hearts Beating for Liberty:
Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest(2010). She has lectured at more than one
hundred different venues nationally and internationally and is the co-director of the
non-profit organization Historians Against Slavery.
We are currently accepting abstract submissions of up to 200 words for 15 minute
presentations on any aspect of American Studies. This year we are also offering a
number of travel awards to presenters from outside of Greater Manchester. To be
considered for an award please submit a 150 word proposal outlining why you would
benefit from an award.
Submit abstracts and proposals for travel awards to
americanstudiesconference2014@gmail.com.
The deadline for abstract submissions is Monday 5th May and for travel awards Friday
16th May.
Refreshments are provided as well as lunch and there is no conference fee to pay.
Please RSVP via email or through Eventbriteby searching for ‘Annual American
Studies Postgraduate Conference’
This promises to be an exciting event and we look forward to seeing you on the 23rd.
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American Studies
September 26-27, 2014
Due: May 8, 2014
SAAS, Swedish Association for American Studies
chloe.avril@eng.gu.se
Eighth Biennial Conference of the Swedish Association for American Studies
Örebro, 26-27 September 2014
Second Call for Papers: Call for Contributions to Panels
SAAS is an academic network that encourages scholarship in the multidisciplinary
field of American Studies. SAAS seeks to develop a critical understanding of the role,
place and meaning of the United States and North America. In Sweden, research about
the US/America is conducted in many different disciplines; the biennial SAAS
conference thus functions as an important forum for interdisciplinary exchange and
provides American Studies scholars with an opportunity to meet and network.
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This is a second call for papers for the 8th SAAS conference, which will be held in
Örebro 26-27 September 2014. We invite abstracts for individual papers (200-250
words) that deal with topics covered by the panels presented below.
The panels that welcome contributors are:
Contemporary North American Poetry
This panel explores contemporary North American poetry, with a focus on spoken and
written traditions and the relationships between these traditions. Papers can explore
these traditions as they relate to, for example, genre, performance, identity, and
political or social contexts.
Postmodern North American literature
This panel explores recent postmodern writers and texts in the North American context.
It welcomes discussions of any issues related to such writers and text, as well as
explorations of the label itself, but particularly encourages a focus on thematic and
formal concerns related to a contemporary visually oriented society and/or on postapocalyptic or dystopian narratives.
Understanding “American family” in the 21st century
This panel invites presentations that focus on contemporary (21st century)
understandings of “family” as these are expressed or envisioned in various social and
aesthetic arenas. We are particularly interested in papers that address the links between
family relations, familial identities, and familial practices on the one hand, and
nationhood on the other.
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Nation-building and Imagination in 19th-Century American Culture This panel
explores the connections and struggles between nation- building and imagination in
19th-century American culture. Papers may focus on literature but also on other
expressions of imagination that support or question nation-building efforts in this
period.
Religion and American Culture
Religious and political thinking has always gone hand in hand in America. This panel
welcomes papers in all fields that shed light on how this crucial conflation informs
American culture, past and present.
We welcome contributions from junior and senior scholars in areas including, but not
limited to, Anthropology, Art, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, Gender
Studies, Literature, Musicology, Popular Culture, Political Science, Religion, US or
North American History.
Please note that this is not a general call for papers and that we only welcome
contributions for the panels listed above.
Send your abstracts to Jenny Bonnevier (jenny.bonnevier@oru.se) and Chloé Avril
(chloe.avril@eng.gu.se) by May 8, 2014.
For more information about the conference, please contact Jenny Bonnevier or check
the website for updates: www.saasinfo.se
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The 'Exotic' Body in 19th-century British Drama
September 25-26, 2014
Due: May 25, 2014
Tiziana Morosetti/University of Oxford
rebedconference@gmail.com
Convenor: Dr. Tiziana Morosetti (Oxford)
Confirmed speakers:
Professor Ross Forman (Warwick), Dr. Peter Yeandle (Manchester),
Dr. Hazel Waters (Institute of Race Relations, London)
Increasing attention has been paid in recent years to the representation of the Other on
the 19th-century British stage, with key studies such as Acts of Supremacy: The British
Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930 (Bratton et al. 1991), The Orient on the Victorian
Stage (Ziter 2003), Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom,
1850-1910 (Brooks 2006), Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery
and the Black Character (Waters 2007), Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial
Encounter (Gould 2011), China and the Victorian Imagination: Empires Entwined
(Forman 2013). Building on these, the conference aims at exploring the concept,
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politics, and aesthetic features of the ‘exotic’ body on stage, be it the actual body of the
actor/actress as s/he performs in genres such as the ‘Oriental’ extravaganza, or the
fictional, ‘picturesque’ bodies they bring on stage. A term that in itself needs
interrogation, the ‘exotic’ will therefore be discussed addressing the visual features that
characterize the construction and representation of the Other in 19th-century British
drama, as well as the material conditions, and techniques that accompany the ‘exotic’
on stage on the cultural and political background of imperial Britain.
One of the dissemination activities for the two-year project ‘The Representation of the
“Exotic” Body in 19th-century English Drama’ (REBED), funded under the 2011
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships scheme, the conference also hopes to function
as a site for discussing the state of the art on the ‘exotic’ in the theatrical cultures of
both Romantic and Victorian Britain; contributions on ongoing research and/or
recently completed projects are therefore particularly encouraged.
Although attention will be paid mostly to the non-European Other, papers addressing a
European ‘exotic’ are also welcome.
Topics include the following:
Definitions of ‘exotic’:
-Is the non-European Other on stage really ‘exotic’?
-Are any genres more ‘exotic’ (or more liable to convey ‘exotic’ stereotypes) than
others?
-Do different dramatis personæ and/or settings convey different degrees of ‘otherness’?
-Can the British on stage be ‘exotic’, and, if so, to what extent?
-Is the spectacular on stage itself ‘exotic’?
Staging the ‘exotic’ body:
-How are costumes, make-up, scenery, movements employed to construct the ‘exotic’?
-Are any visual features more recurrent than others?
-To what extent is the visual representation of the ‘exotic’ body historically accurate?
-How does music contribute to the staging of the Other?
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-Who embodies the ‘exotic’? Is the acting career informed by bringing the Other on
stage?
-Who were the audiences? Did their composition have an impact on the performance of
the ‘exotic’?
-Are any experiences abroad relevant to how managers staged the Other in Britain?
-In what ways were representations of the ‘exotic’ body informed by venues?
-The Other on the London stage and the provinces
Cultural and political backgrounds:
-To what extent did audiences’ expectations affect theatrical representations of the
Other?
-In what ways do class, gender, race inform the acting and managing of ‘exotic’ pieces?
-To what extent did scientific and anthropological accounts inform theatrical portraits
of the Other?
-Were illustrations of (European and/or) non-European countries informed by theatre?
-In what ways have political narratives influenced (or been influenced by) the ‘exotic’
on stage?
-Has the legal frame for the theatre influenced the staging of the Other?
-Visual points of contact between popular entertainment and theatrical representations
of the Other
The travelling ‘exotic’:
-How do texts such as Arabian Nights, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Mazeppa ‘travel’
between dramatic and non-dramatic genres?
-Survival of a Romantic ‘exotic’ in the Victorian staging of the Other;
-Is Othello on the Romantic and Victorian stage ‘exotic’?
-How do translations/adaptations from other languages contribute to the construction of
the Other on the British stage? Can we define a British specificity when it comes to the
‘exotic’?
-Has the theatrical representation of the ‘exotic’ in Britain had an impact on non-British
stages?
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The legacy of 19th-century ‘exotic’ body:
-Contemporary plays/performances addressing the Other on the 19th-century British
stage (e.g. Lolita Chakrabarti’s Red Velvet)
-The ‘exotic’ body on the British stage in a diachronic perspective
-The non-European Other in the 20th- and 21st-century Christmas pantomime
Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a short bio should be sent to
rebedconference@gmail.com by 25 May 2014. Speakers whose abstracts have been
accepted will be notified by 15 June.
Milton Society panels/papers
March 26-28, 2015
Due: May 31, 2014
Milton Society of America
hiltner@english.ucsb.edu
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The Milton Society of America has been granted Associate Organization status with the
Renaissance Society of America. This means that the MSA may henceforth submit up
to five panels at the annual meeting of the RSA, beginning with the 2015 meeting in
Berlin. We will also hold a seat on the RSA Council, allowing us to participate in its
deliberations.
Thus we are writing to call for panels and papers seeking inclusion in the program of
the 61st annual meeting of the RSA, to be held in Berlin on 26-28 March 2015 (more
information on the Berlin conference is available on the RSA website). Proposals
covering any aspect of Milton studies will be given full consideration, but especially
desirable are those falling under the following themes:

Affect

Cultural exchange, including but not limited to the Continent

Periodization (Renaissance, Early Modern, Long Restoration)

Poetics of materialism
Panels must be organized by a current member of the Milton Society of America.
Required are a 1-2 page description of the panel and a 1- 2 page abstract for each of its
papers. The panel organizer and each presenter must also submit curricula vitae of two
pages. Please send all materials by May 31 to Ken Hiltner (hiltner@english.ucsb.edu).
Papers may be submitted by anyone. Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages and a
curriculum vitae of two pages by May 31 to Ken Hiltner (hiltner@english.ucsb.edu).
Please be advised that all participants in the Berlin conference must be members of the
Renaissance Society of America.
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Fan Studies Network 2014 Conference
September 27-28, 2014
Due: June 1, 2014
Fan Studies Network
fsnconference@gmail.com
Call for papers: THE FAN STUDIES NETWORK 2014 CONFERENCE
27-28th September 2014 Regent’s University London, UK
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Paul Booth (DePaul University)
Dr. Rhiannon Bury (Athabasca University)
Mr. Orlando Jones (star of Sleepy Hollow, appearing for a virtual Q&A)
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For two years the Fan Studies Network has provided a fruitful and enthusiastic space
for academics interested in fans and fandom to connect, share resources, and develop
their research ideas. Following the success of our first symposium in November 2013,
we are delighted to announce the FSN2014 Conference, taking place over two days at
Regent’s University London from 27-28th September 2014.
FSN2014 will feature three fantastic keynote speakers. The first will be Dr Paul Booth,
author of Digital Fandom: New Media Studies (Peter Lang, 2010), Time on TV:
Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television (Peter Lang, 2012) and editor of Fan
Phenomena: Doctor Who (Intellect, 2013). His newest book, Media Play: Pastiche,
Parody, Fandom, is forthcoming from University of Iowa Press. The second keynote
will be Dr. Rhiannon Bury, author of Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms
Online (Peter Lang, 2005) and currently writing her second book for publication with
Peter Lang, entitled Television 2.0: New Perspectives on Digital Convergence,
Audiences, and Fans. We are also incredibly delighted that Mr Orlando Jones, an
American film and television writer, producer, and actor who currently plays Captain
Frank Irving in Sleepy Hollow (Fox, 2013-) and vocal proponent of fan culture, will be
joining us via Skype to participate in a virtual Q&A session.
We invite abstracts of no more than 300 words for individual 20 minute papers that
address any aspect of fandom or fan studies. We also welcome collated submissions for
pre-constituted panels. We encourage new members, in all stages of study, to the
network and welcome proposals for presentations on, but not limited to, the following
possible topics:

Activism and fandom

Producer-audience interactions

Non-Western fan cultures

Ethics in fan studies
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
Defining fandom

Anti-Fandom and Non-Fandom

Fan use of social media platforms

Fandom (and) controversies

The future of fan studies
We also invite expressions of interest (100- 200 words) from anyone wishing to host a
short session of ‘speed geeking.’ This would involve each speaker chairing a short
discussion on a relevant topic of their choosing, and then receiving extensive feedback,
making it ideal for presenting in-progress or undeveloped ideas. If you have any
questions about this format of presentation, please contact Richard McCulloch at
mccullochr@regents.ac.uk.
Please send any enquires/abstracts to: fsnconference@gmail.com by SUNDAY 1st
JUNE. Notifications of decisions will be sent out w/c 16th June.
You can find out more information on http://fanstudies.wordpress.com/ or talk about
the event on Twitter using #FSN2014.
Conference Organisers:
Lucy Bennett and Tom Phillips (FSN chairs)
Bertha Chin, Bethan Jones, Richard McCulloch, Rebecca Williams (FSN board)
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Historical Auto/Biographies in the Arts
March 25-27, 2015
Due: June 15, 2014
LEBDAI
benaouda.lebdai@univ-lemans.fr
March 25-26 (Le Mans), March 27 (Angers), 2015
The auto/biographies of famous historical characters articulate a personalized approach
to events: not only do they underline the agency of charismatic individuals at key
moments of the past, but they also bring to light private and intimate details that put
forth the human value of testimonials. Whether conceived as scientific studies or used
as primary sources for biographic novels, historical biographies illustrate the porosity
of genre boundaries. The writing of history makes use of fictional devices that
dramatize the narrative of History. In postcolonial studies, Homi Bhabba enhances the
importance of the historical subject who tells his/her own story, providing a counter
narrative to official history – whether colonial or postcolonial (ex: Mahatma Ghandi’s
biography or Nelson Mandela’s autobiography). The focus on a central protagonist
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gives meaning to the narrative of History in the past or in the present, embodied by an
emblematic character whose private life is overshadowed or put in the limelight by the
weight of duty. The writing and the film making of historical auto/biographies may be
displayed as imaginary reconstitutions; they also illustrate the bearing of memory,
feelings and resentment, on the narrative of history.
Historical biographies blur the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction on screen and
on stage: the documentary techniques are used to construct an impression of
authenticity in biopics whereas the comedian’s interpretation gives life to the character
on stage. From novel to screen, from scientific writing to artistic creation, historical
biographies articulate a historical discourse whose ideological construction we
endeavor to decipher. Does the writing of historical biographies make only heroes?
Through a comparative approach between various artistic (cinema, theatre, literature,
visual arts) and cultural (French, Anglo-American, Hispanic, German) productions, we
will question the myth of the “Great Man” history formulated by historian Clayborne
Carson.
Possible avenues for exploration:

biographical works (novels, films, plays, paintings) and their historical discourse

the adaptations of biographical and autobiographical novels

the relation to autobiographies and to the history of the French New Wave
Cinema

ethno-biographical cinema and the representation of the filmed subject and its
culture

the scientific and documentary writing of historical auto/biographies

the ideological discourse of biopics and their contribution to memory
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
gender, race and class in historical biographies

the economic-industrial factors behind the making of biopics
(cinema/television/theatre)
Organizing Committee
Delphine Letort (Le Mans), Benaouda Lebdai (Le Mans), Tanya Ann Kennedy
(Farmington), Daniel Gunn (Famington), Erich Fisbach (Angers) Christophe Dumas
(Angers)
Please send an abstract of 200-250 words and a brief CV (which must include your title,
institutional affiliation and email address) by June 15, 2014 to:
Benaouda.Lebdai@univ-lemans.fr
Delphine.Letort@univ-lemans.fr
Erich.Fisbach@univ-angers.fr
The mediated society: Living and working with
immersive media technologies
October 31 to November 1, 2014
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Due: June 16, 2014
University of Applied Sciences
patrck.rupert-kruse@fh-kiel.de
The mediated society: Living and working with immersive media technologies
Fourth interdisciplinary conference illusion immersion involvement [iiiiv]
The Institute of Immersive Media (ifim) organizes the fourth interdisciplinary
conference illusion immersion involvement, October 31 to November 1, 2014, Kiel,
Germany. The conference website is:
http://www.immersive-medien.de/de/konferenz-iii.
The fourth interdisciplinary conference illusion immersion involvement invites
researchers and developers to meet on the campus of the University of Applied
Sciences Kiel to enjoy the fresh sea air and immerse themselfes in the multidisciplinary
discussion on immersive media in the context of everyday life. We are therefore
looking forward to the submissions of lecture abstracts that deal with the concept of
immersive media in theory and practice.
The catchphrase of the "all embracing media" can be related the ubiquitous media in
our daily life, but also to the fact that there seems to be more and more media, which
actually immerse the users in a physical way. Such innovative media technologies are
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used in research and development, science and entertainment, but their paradigms of
use are not nearly explored yet.
Because the media evolution progresses rapidly, we are forced to integrate new
technologies into our life world, andit seems to make sense, to reflect and to anticipate
this development scientific and conceptually. In the course of this we can only guess
how the media of the future will look and work. However, reflections from media
theory or feasibility studies like the Illumiroom by Samsung and Microsoft or Movies
like Minority Report (2002), Gamer (2009) or Prometheus (2012), are showing us
today what we might can expect from future media. But some immersive media
technologies and aesthetic strategies of immersion are already present in almost all
areas of our present daily life - in the entertainment sector, in teaching and research, in
medicine or in our own living rooms.
So the fourth interdisciplinary conference illusion immersion involvement is dedicated
to the reflection of the current situation, the (r)evolution of immersive media and the
anticipation and design of new media technologies and applications. Our goal is to
bring together researchers and developers in this field, in order to stimulate the
discussion about current projects and future-oriented developments, so that resulting
from the exchange of thoughts on developments and results, new ideas will emerge.
Please send your paper abstract, a brief biographical information, and contact details to
Prof. Dr. Patrick Rupert-Kruse via: immersive- medien@fh-kiel.de. The deadline for
submissions is June 16, 2014. The lectures can set a theoretical, technological or
aesthetic focus, discuss psychological and physiological problems as well as
conceptual and practical applications.
In cooperation with the conference there will be the festival of spatial media
COORDINATES.
The festival COORDINATES is dedicated to the artistic use and research possibilities
of surrounding media, and provides media professionals a forum to present their work.
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For more information, please contact koordinaten@fh-kiel.de or
https://www.facebook.com/KoordinatenFestival.
Messengers from the Stars - Episode III
November 19-21, 2014
Due: June 27, 2014
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)
mensageirosdasestrelas@gmail.com
The first two editions of the Conference Messengers from the Stars (Episode I and II),
organized in 2010 and 2012, gained a significant success. So, we announce a third
conference dedicated to this subject. The several contributions of national and
international participants (artists and academics), which were of high quality and
interest, justify that we further develop this thematic line. This is a wide universe with
international tradition and recognition in several areas of modernity. The national and
international promotion of Science Fiction and Fantasy has gathered a widespread and
varied audience, and fostered the open debate on theoretical and creative issues, which
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underlie this genre. The amount of works produced in the different formats available
raise unique theoretical, aesthetical, ethical, ideological and social issues, thus assuring
the richness of the next forum.
The University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) invites you to take part
in this initiative to be held at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, from
November 19-21, 2014. We welcome papers of about 20 minutes (maximum) and also
joint proposals for thematic panels consisting of 3 participants.
Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

Artificial Intelligence

Comic Books

Fantasy and Children’s Literature

Fantasy and Science Fiction on Screen (cinema, Web, video games, etc…)

Fantasy and the Gothic

Imagination and Fantasy

Journey

Place and Non-place

Science and Fiction

Utopias/Dystopias
Abstracts: Abstracts (250 words maximum) should be sent to
mensageirosdasestrelas@gmail.com along with a short biographical note (100 words
maximum) by June 27th 2014. 2014. Notification of acceptance will be sent by July
25th 2014.
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Working Languages: Portuguese and English
Registration:
Early bird registration: July 28th - 60 € | Students: 30 €
Late bird registration: September 22nd - 80 € | Students: 40 €
Note:
1.
Only after proof of payment is registration effectively considered.
2.
Participants are responsible for their own travelling arrangements and
accommodation.
3.
Undergraduate and post-graduate students must send proof of student status with
their registration.
Figurations of Intermediality in Film
October 24-25, 2014
Due: June 30, 2014
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Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
intermedia.figurations@gmail.com
Intermediality has emerged as one of the major theoretical issues of contemporary
thinking about film bringing a fresh view upon the ways in which the moving pictures
can incorporate forms of all other media, and can initiate “dialogues” between the
distinct arts. The most important works on cinematic intermediality so far have targeted
the notion of intermediality both as a general concept and as a specific rhetoric in the
works of individual artists (like Peter Greenaway or Jean-Luc Godard). Surveying the
current cinematic “landscape” we may encounter some astonishing films that seem to
have been designed on the principle of dismissing a conventional, “self-effacing” style
(to use Bordwell’s term for classical cinema) in favour of forging an explicitly
intermedial visual rhetoric. From the experimental, avant-garde canon to some current
examples of mainstream, “hypermediated” digital cinema, from painterly movies
bordering on installation art (like Lech Majewski’s The Mill and the Cross or The
Roe’s Room), to so-called “slow cinema” projects, such films challenge us in finding
the adequate theoretical framework for analysis.
By organizing this conference we would like to initiate a wider discussion among
scholars whose researches may be connected to the idea of inter-media relations in
moving images and are engaged in deeper explorations into the poetics of
intermediality in film. In doing so we wish to bring into the spotlight one of the key
aspects of intermediality: the fact that intermediality as such always manifests itself as
a kind of “figuration” in film through which medial differences are visibly and
self-reflexively “re-inscribed” within the moving image, and that in general,
philosophical terms, intermediality can even be conceived as belonging to the domain
of the “figural” in the sense used by Lyotard, and elaborated by D. N. Rodowick in his
book Reading the Figural (in which he claims the “figural” to be a kind of interface for
media relations in film).
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In the past few decades there have been several important theoretical works that have
dealt with the ways in which moving images operate within a network of interrelated
media and with instances in which the boundaries between individual media and arts
have been effectively blurred through techniques that enable the features of one
medium to resurface within another, and which may offer theoretical vantage points for
analyzing possible figurations of intermediality. We may list here studies re-evaluating
cinema’s connections to traditional forms of visual arts (e.g. Angela Dalle Vacche’s,
Susan Felleman’s, Belén Vidal’s, Steven Jacobs’s works on cinema and painting, or
theoretical analyses of the figuration of the tableau vivant in cinema in seminal books
by Brigitte Peucker, Pascal Bonitzer, Joachim Paech, etc.), but also the recent studies
referring to the relationship of cinema and photography (e.g. Damian Sutton, Garrett
Stewart, Régis Durand, David Campany, etc.), and implicitly to the relationship of
stillness and motion within cinema, along with analyses of the connections between
cinema, video and installation art (e.g. Raymond Bellour, Yvonne Spielmann, etc.).
In the context of shifting paradigms in film poetics from stylistic patterns of modern or
postmodern cinema towards what we may term as “post-media cinema,” the figural
aspects of intermediality also manifest new forms that may require a search for further
theoretical perspectives for identifying and interpreting techniques that figurate
intermedial relations. In doing so, perhaps, we should also keep in mind that although
intermediality often occurs as a form of aesthetic detachment or as some sort of
hypermedia ornamentalism, such figurations can also insist on “tangibility,” or, as
Brigitte Peucker reminds us in her book, The Material Image. Art and the Real in Film
(2007), on “the merger of representation with reality,” both through establishing the
viewers’ intimacy with the medium and through the performative potential of such
figures to produce an increasingly haptic cinema, a cinema of “sensual excess” in
which the “body” of the medium and the mediation of bodies and sensations sometimes
become intertwined in ways that may suggest a rethinking of the figurations of
intermediality from the perspective of phenomenology or visual anthropology, and so
on. As such, intermedial figurations may be conceived as open to a wide range of
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philosophical, aesthetical, ideological, historical, and media theoretical interpretations
that we hope papers presented at this conference will explore.
Proposals are invited to address (but are not limited to) the following questions either
from a theoretical point of view or through concrete analyses:

Intermediality and the figurations of intermediality in film from a theoretical
perspective:
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theories of intermediality and intermedial figurations (film and media theoretical,
philosophical approaches, psychoanalysis, visual anthropology etc.);
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intermediality and the concept of “the figural” and “figuration” as discussed by
Lyotard, Deleuze, Rodowick, etc.
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The rhetoric of intermedial cinema, art theoretical and aesthetical considerations:
figuration and (dis)figuration, mise-en-abyme and embedding, intermediality and
metalepsis, the tableau vivant in cinema, possible trans-medial “adaptations” of
traditional rhetorical figures/tropes (e.g. ekphrasis, hypotyposis, etc.),

Intermediality and inter-sensuality in film: figures that merge “hypermediacy”
with “immediacy,” the represented and sensed body as a site of intermedial
figurations, etc.
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Remediated images as figurations of intermediality and post- mediality:
recontextualization as/and remediation, reframing, media collage, remix, etc.
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Figurations of intermediality as imprints of (and meditations upon)
history and time, cultural and personal identity or intercultural exchange:
1. relating the rhetoric of intermediality to the specific personal, cultural,
historical, ideological contexts, ideas and artistic paradigms in which they
occur;
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2. the poetics and politics of intermediality in the cinema of Eastern and Central
Europe.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
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BRIGITTE PEUCKER (Yale University, USA), author of Incorporating Images:
Film and the Rival Arts (1995), The Material Image: Art and the Real in Film
(2007), currently working on a book titled Aesthetic Spaces: The Place of Art in
Film.
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EIVIND RØSSAAK (National Library of Norway), author of The Still/Moving
Image: Cinema and the Arts (2010), and editor of the volume Between Stillness
and Motion (2011).
Conference website:
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/xv-film-and-media-studies-conference-intransy
lvania
Deadline for the submission of proposals: June 30, 2014.
We will notify you about the acceptance of your proposal by: July 7, 2014.
Submission of proposals: please download the submission form from our website,
complete and send it as an attachment to the following address:
intermedia.figurations@gmail.com.
The best papers written based on the conference presentations will be published either
in English in our department's international, peer reviewed scientific journal (Acta
Universitatis Sapientiae. Film & Media Studies) or in a conference volume.
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The official language of the conference is English.
Conference fee (which includes participation, conference buffet and banquet): 120
EUR, special fee for participants from post-communist countries: 70 EUR. The fee is to
be paid on arrival at the conference registration desk.
We address this call for papers not only to university scholars, researchers but also to
students of PhD programs, or even to M.A. students who wish to engage in a debate on
the given topic. The conference proposes to facilitate academic communication
between existing centers of research specializing in film and media studies within
different universities, and at the same time, it encourages students on different
academic levels to be initiated into scientific research.
Days of Justinian I
September 26-27, 2014
Due: July 1, 2014
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Euro-Balkan University and University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus—School of
Humanities and Cultural Heritage
contact@euba.edu.mk
2nd International Scientific Symposium “Days of Justinian I”
Special Thematic Strand for 2014
“Samuel’s State and Byzantium: History, Legend, Tradition, Heritage”
The International scientific symposium “Days of Justinian I” is an annual
interdisciplinary scholarly forum aimed at the presentation of the latest research
followed by discussions on various aspects of Byzantine and Medieval Studies, that
include the treatment and interpretation of cultural, historical and spiritual heritage in
contemporary Europe.The Symposium is dedicated to Emperor Justinian I with the aim
to address a broad range of issues related to Byzantium and the European Middle Ages,
comprising the exploration of the cultural and historical legacy as an integrative
component of the diversities and commonalities of Unified Europe.
This year the International Symposium “Days of Justinian I” chose a special thematic
strand “Samuel’s State and Byzantium: History, Legend, Tradition, and
Heritage”. Namely, the year 2014 commemorates the millennium of the legendary
conflict between Emperor Basil II and Tsar Samuel over the Balkans that ended with
the tragic death of Samuel in October 1014, after the defeat at the battle of Belasica.
The conflict itself is an illustrative example of how the legends and myths were created
and constructed, both in Medieval and Modern times, incorporating many aspects of
historical and cultural tradition and heritage.The specificity of this conflict is its
enduring impact on the Medieval and Modern Balkans, consequently indicating the
need to present a more thorough and broader picture in order to understand the
contested interpretation and different perspectives and to offer a clearer picture of how
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the medieval past was used in modern history, politics and culture. The legendary
conflict between Basil II and Samuel is a universal phenomenon,thus embracing
broader discussions and geographical areas in exploring various aspects of religion,
ideology, identity, heritage, political and cultural memory and myth-making reflected
in the historical and cultural legacy.
Papers are welcomed on various topics that may include, but are not limited to the
following areas of discussion:

Basil II versus Samuel: Real or imaginary conflict over the Balkans?

The Legend of Basil II and Samuel and the “Macedonian question”

Interpreting the legends in medieval and modern Europe

(De)Constructing the narratives and myths in medieval and modern Europe

Continuity and discontinuity in political ideology between medieval Bulgaria
and Samuel's state
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Ethnicity and identity in the Middle Ages: Defining the “others” in Europe

Popular religion, "native" churches, and medieval heresy
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The Ohrid Archbishopric and religious tradition: medieval and modern
perceptions of religion and ideology
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The representation of Byzantium in art, literature, music and material culture:
medieval and modern concepts and approaches

Byzantine and the Middle Ages in European history and culture: Bridging the
East and West
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Preserving the cultural heritage: Interpretation, restoration and protection

Cultural legacy as a factor of interaction and dialogue between different cultures
in Europe.
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PAPER SUBMISSION
First Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 1 July, 2014
Second Deadline for submitting the abstract of the papers: 1 September, 2014
Notification of acceptance for early applicants: 5 July, 2014
Notification of acceptance for other applicants: 5 September, 2014
Deadline for submitting the full papers for publication: 15 February, 2015
Please send the application form to the address:
contact@euba.edu.mk; pstevkovski@gmail.com
Application form download here:
http://www.euba.edu.mk/tl_files/Justinian/Application forms Days of Justinijan.pdf
Euro-Balkan University
Blvd. Partizanski Odredi 63, 1000, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
Tel/Fax. 00389 2 3075570
Presentation of the papers will be limited to 10 minutes.
Working languages: Macedonian, Italian and English.
No participation fee is required.
Travel and accommodation expenses are covered by the participants themselves.
The full papers will be peer-reviewed by the International Scientific Committee.
Papers delivered at the Symposium will be published in the Proceedings of the
Symposium.
For further inquires please contact the Secretary of the Symposium:
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Petar Stevkovski: pstevkovski@gmail.com.
Please check the Euro-Balkan website: www.euba.edu.mk for news on the Symposium,
the agenda, special events and the online application form.
Follow us on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Days-of-Justinian-I/260759300767845
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Journals and Collections of Essays
Novel-Writing Playwrights and Playwriting Novelists
after Beckett
Due: April 30, 2014
Review of Contemporary Fiction
djernigan@ntu.edu.sg
Many of our more experimental contemporary novelists have written occasional plays
(Flann O’Brien, Doris Lessing, Dermot Healy, Susan Sontag and Toni Morrison come
to mind) – although often times these plays have received scant critical attention from
those academics who study their work. Conversely, many contemporary playwrights
have written novels which have received scant attention as well (Harold Pinter, Tom
Stoppard, Wendy Wasserstein, and Ntozake Shange come to mind). This collection of
essays would give contributors an opportunity to discuss – among other things – the
various resonances between the two mediums – both in the works of individual authors
– and more generally (i.e., you might expect to see the formal features of a novelist’s
fiction show up in unexpected ways in their drama, and vice versa).
Samuel Beckett becomes an obvious literary touchstone in this respect, as he is equally
famous in both mediums. Moreover, much Beckett criticism deals with both mediums
simultaneously by looking at aesthetic and philosophical issues which transcend fiction
and drama (most notable in this regard is Enoch Brater’s The Drama in the Text:
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Beckett’s Late Fiction). And so it is with Beckett in mind that we look to consider other
novelists and playwrights who have worked in both mediums, albeit even if in a more
limited fashion than Beckett. The expectation is that looking at such cross currents in
the various subjects’ works will open up new avenues for discussion, ultimately leading
to new observations about each author’s better known work.
SUBMISSIONS
Proposals: Please submit 300 – 500 word proposals to Daniel Jernigan
(djernigan@ntu.edu.sg). Proposals should outline the primary argument of the
proposed essay in a way that speaks to the concern of the CFP (although the listed
authors are meant only as a sample of the possibilities).
For more information about The Review of Contemporary Fiction, please visit their
website—http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/call-for-papers-novel-writing-playwrights-a
Deadline for proposals: April 30th, 2014. Response by May 30th, 2014.
Completed essay submissions: Those who are invited to complete the essays will bear
the following in mind:
Essays should follow MLA guidelines Essays should be 5000 – 6000 words
Deadline for final submission: August 15th, 2014. Publication Date: Winter 2015.
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Memory in Popular Culture
Due: May 1, 2014
Heather Urbanski, Fitchburg State University
memoryinsf_book@icloud.com
Upcoming collection on memory in popular culture, under contract with McFarland
and Company, seeks proposals for academic essays on the complex role of rhetorical
and social memory in science fiction, fantasy, fandom, and online gaming. Abstracts
due 5/1/14 with final essays due 11/15/14.
Details
For the upcoming collection Essays on Memory in Popular Culture, I am seeking
contributions that describe and analyze the complex rhetorical memory involved in
contemporary popular culture reception and consumption.
The key assumption of this collection is that, contrary to the conventional wisdom that
memory is no longer important, this rhetorical canon has been transformed and
complicated rather than subsumed, as recent scholarship into such areas as digital
media, fandom studies, and memory objects demonstrates. This collection, therefore,
seeks essays that document and examine this rhetorical principle in all its complexity.
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Submissions are being solicited that examine cultural memory within the following
categories:

Science Fiction and Fantasy Genre texts

Fandom activities (including fan fiction and cosplay)

Online Gaming

Digital collaboration and media
In addition to traditional academic essays (approximately 5,000 words each), there will
also be a section for player and participant reflections (approximately 1,000 words) that
briefly describe the experience of fan memory from a non-academic perspective.
Priority will be given to those authors who are members of the fandom communities
they are discussing. I am looking for fans to analyze their own interests, as opposed to
academics who stand outside the community and then theorize about the activities they
observe. Graduate students and junior faculty are especially encouraged to submit
abstracts. I am also particularly interested in essays describing the activity-based
experiences of fandom from global (i.e., non- Western) and other diverse perspectives.
While the underlying premise of this collection is rhetorically based, interdisciplinary
approaches are most desirable. In particular, my goal is to collect perspectives that
cover the intersection of contemporary interpretations and explorations of the ancient
rhetorical canon of memory, fandom studies, narrative theory, and scholarship into
digital media. Please also keep in mind, however, that the primary audience includes
both fans and academics so the approach should be accessible to interested, but not
expert, readers.
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Please submit 250-500 word abstracts (as Word or .rtf email attachments) for essays
targeted at 5,000 words or for participant reflections at 1,000 words by May 1, 2014 to
memoryinsf_book@icloud.com.
Problems of Education in the 21st Century
Due: May 10, 2014
Scientia Socialis
problemsofeducation@gmail.com
We would like to invite proposals for articles for an international blind peer-review
scientific journal (Twentieth Call for Papers).
“Problems of Education in the 21st Century” ISSN 1822-7864
http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/Problems_of_Education.htm
http://www.scientiasocialis.lt/pec/
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Papers submitted to PEC_20CFP_2014 should be original work and substantively
different from papers that have been previously published or are under review in a
journal or another peer-reviewed conference. Particularly we invite submission of
papers describing innovative research on all aspects of education and related areas.
Submitted papers will be assessed based on their novelty, scientific and technical
quality, potential impact, and clarity of writing.
Application form: 10 May 2014
Full paper: 05 June 2014
http://www.jbse.webinfo.lt/Journal_PEC.engl.2014.20_CFP.pdf
Resisting and Reproducing: Reconstructing the
matrix of sexual politics in Greater China and
Singapore
Due: May 15, 2014
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
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reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com
Reconstruction 15.1: Resisting and Reproducing: Reconstructing the matrix of sexual
politics in Greater China and Singapore
Edited by Chiu Man-chung
From the 1980s, after the rise of postmodernism and postcolonialism, people started to
understand that there are no authentic meanings of sex/uality, gender, justice and law
across different cultural and legal discourses / machines. That is still the situation in this
age of virtual Global-Localization and Internet; i.e. how the dynamics among the above
mentioned concepts are re-constructed, inter-re-produced and mutually-manufactured
in particular / singular matrices still requires meticulous investigation and detailed
examination. This special issue aims to put the deliberation and discussion of sexual
politics in the cultural and jurisdictional context of Greater China and Singapore, the so
called 'poor little rich girls', where there are fast growing economics and financial
markets, but a lack of sufficient human rights protection mechanisms and an
acceptance of sexual powerless. The articles collected in this volume not only engage
with sexual politics in the discourse of law, but also in a religious context and within an
economic matrix.
The special issue starts with the article of Professor Huang Ying-ying of Ren Min
University of China. She sets her discussion of sexual politics in Mainland China
within the context of the deployment of market-based economic reforms and Open
Door Policy (1970s), and argues that economic growth has brought changes in sexual
desire, practices and identities in Mainland China. According to Huang, the changes
have occurred on two parallel yet singular levels: on the one hand, new types of sexual
politics and knowledge are reproduced, and that has brought with it an affirmative and
rights-based understanding of sexuality; on the other hand, a scientific, medicalized and
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anti- obscenity movement was brought to Mainland China via two waves of the
sexology movement that occurred respectively in the early 20th Century and in the
1980s.
The argument put forward by Huang creates the context of further discussion in relation
to the legal control of sexuality in Mainland China. Professor Guo Xiao-fei of China
University of Political Science and Law in his article rightly points out, from the
perspective of sociology, that even though the criminal law controlling sexual offenses
in Mainland China is vague and seems loose, it can still be used to suppress the sexually
powerless as there is a lack of constitutional protection provided for the sexually
powerless and those classified as sexual “deviants”.
When comparing the criminal laws in Mainland China and Singapore, we find that,
from the paradigm of critical socio-legal studies and gender / sexuality politics, they are
surprisingly (or not) similar. According to Dr. Laurence Leong of Singapore National
University, although Singapore, like Mainland China, is economically very prosperous
and powerful, there is still a serious lack of legal protection for the LesBiGayTrans
community. Through the lens of anti- discrimination, he discusses recent cases on
sexual orientation discrimination, and critically explores the questions of judiciary
independence and (lack of) connection between law and society in Singapore.
Hong Kong, like Singapore, was a former British Colony; but is now (since 1997) a
Special Administrative Region in Mainland China. Due to the absence of universal
suffrage in Hong Kong, the will and views of the majority (reflected and constituted by
survey and media) become the only voice and construct the legal discourse, when it
comes to legislation and human rights protection. In other words, protection of and
respect for the sexual powerless, in the context of law making, becomes extremely
difficult. Dr. Joseph Cho, a renowned activist, elaborates the hurdles that he faced and
negotiated in the last two decades. The focus of his article is placed on the dynamics
and interactions between Hong Kong hardline Christians and the parents in the
discourse of education.
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It is the above-mentioned machine which has created the series of reforms related to
law controlling sexual assault in Hong Kong that have been proposed over the last
decade. These include the establishment of sexual offence record checks, the revision
of assumption about the age of male sexual capacity and a redefinition of rape. Chiu
Man-chung, a consultant of the Association Concerning Sexual Violence against
Women, analyses the reform proposals from the philosophical perspectives of Zizek
and Deleuze and argues that unless the reforms can accommodate the multiple desires
of different sexually powerless, they will be useless and meaningless. Chiu also argues
that when considering and attempting to transfer / transplant foreign legal reforms and
underlying theories into the Hong Kong/Chinese context (for example de-genderization
and desexualization, Zizekian and Deleuzean schools of thought), assemblages of
localization and infiltration cannot be ignored. Chiu therefore proposes that Daoism, a
traditional Han-Chinese school of philosophy, can help in constructing the platform for
a cultural / legal osmosis.
In 2013, a groundbreaking court case (W v. Registrar of Marriages) in Hong Kong
signified the recognition of a transsexual’s marital rights. It however seems that such
legal recognition does not exist in Taiwan. Maurice Chang, the Clerk of Justices of
Taiwan’s Constitutional Court, argues that the transsexual’s right to marriage is in fact
already protected by the current Taiwanese Constitution and related interpretations
offered by Taiwan’s Constitutional Court. In his article, he examines the current
situation relating to transsexual rights and reviews the existing legislation on gender
change from the paradigms of human rights and comparative legal studies.
Discussion of gender discourse in Taiwan is not complete if we ignore the influence of
the Taiwan Rail Public Event, where, – in 2012, a group of people engaged in group sex
on a train. Professor Xu Ya-fei of NanHua University (Taiwan) argues that the incident
signifies a new age of sexual freedom in thought and action, and sensitizes us towards
the implications for police-state-like rule.
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Please send related submissions (by May 15 to chiumanchunghk@hotmail.com) which
discuss the history, development and reflection of gender / sexual culture in Greater
China and Singapore.
Screening War
Due: May 15, 2014
Diffractions - Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture
info@diffractions.net
Diffractions - Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture Issue 3 | September 2014
Screening War
If the Great War, whose centenary is commemorated this year, is often deemed as the
birth of modern warfare, it is also the antechamber of modern war representation,
laying the foundations of representational strategies that would become recurring in the
visualisation of subsequent conflicts. Indeed, modern war is a product of both
imaginary and material forces. As George Roeder has contended, war is a “way of
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seeing” (Roeder, 2006) couched in templates and prescriptions that organise the visual
experience of war while at the same time containing the impact of its conduct. The
visual mediation of war reflects ideological conceptions, manages anxiety and vents
social fantasies. In fact, the recent visual history of war seems to mirror a growing
demand for visibility, from Baudrillard’s claim that “the Gulf war did not take place”
(Baudrillard, 1991) due to its contained imagery, to the pluralisation and dissemination
of multiple images, from surveillance footage to soldier’s private videos, as the case of
Abu Ghraib has shown not so long ago.
At the same time, this demand for visibility is often hampered by dynamics of opacity
that regulate and obstruct the visualisation of war in spite of the proliferation of warfare
images. In addition, as many authors have begun to argue, images themselves have
become a central instrument not only for understanding war but also to actually waging
war, replacing techno-war as the dominant warfighting model (Mitchell, 2011; Roger,
2013). With new logics of creation, consumption and reproduction emerging within a
convergence culture, the conditions of seeing and showing war are nevertheless
haunted by past conflicts and by visual reconceptualisations of them. This issue aims at
reflecting upon the manifold ways war has been brought to the screen in various genres
and at different historical moments.
Themes to be addressed by contributors may include but are not restricted to the
following:

Audiovisual representation of war past and present

Artistic renditions of war

Terror and spectacle

Cyber war, surveillance, inside views of war

Convergence, post-convergence and participatory culture
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
Representations of captivity

Visibility and opacity of war

Violent images and images of violence

Reporting war and the ethics of seeing
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Agency, resistance and citizenship

War iconography across the ages

War and (post-)memory

War and gender

Homefronts and homecomings

Aftermath, conciliation and peacemaking
We look forward to receiving articles of no more than 20 A4 pages (not including
bibliography) and a short bio of about 150 words by May 15, 2014 at the following
address: submissions@diffractions.net.
DIFFRACTIONS also accepts book reviews that may not be related to the issue’s topic.
If you wish to write a book review, please contact us at reviews@diffractions.net.
Reading the Queer in Literature, Culture and Theory
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Due: May 15, 2014
Subashish Bhattacharjee
subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com
Submssions are invited for a forthcoming edited volume on the representations of the
'queer' in the various genres and sub-genres of literature, art, cinema, culture and
popular culture, theory, philosophy and history and any other relevant areas.
Submissions should be made in accordance to the latest edition of the MLA Handbook,
within 5,000 words by May 15, 2014.
The papers are expected to be scholarly in nature, and yet accessible to a fairly general
readership.
Topics may include but are not limited to:

depiction of the queer in fiction, drama, poetry

the queer on stage, on screen

the queer in theory

historicising the queer

interrogating sexuality/gender
Enquiries may be addressed to subashishbhattacharjee@gmail.com
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Living Legacies: Literary Responses to the Civil
Rights Movement
Due: June 1, 2014
Laura Dubek
laura.dubek@mtsu.edu
Fifty years after the March on Washington, students of American history, literature,
and media studies learn about the civil rights movement from (auto)biographies of
movement leaders, archival footage of major events, narrative and oral history
presented in documentaries such as Eyes on the Prize (PBS), civil rights museums and
special exhibits, annual commemorations, and retrospective analyses provided by
critical race scholars in response to contemporary events. This edited collection will
explore how poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists, and filmmakers—at the time and
since—have contributed to our understanding of the civil rights movement and its
legacy.
Topics might include (but are not limited) to the following:

Memoirs of civil rights activists

Lillian Smith, the south, and white civil rights activists Langston Hughes’s Jesse
B. Semple as civil rights activist Justice, Alabama & Harper Lee’s To Kill a
Mockingbird James Baldwin’s nonfiction, fiction, & drama
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
Mississippi & Alice Walker’s Meridian Chicago & Gwendolyn Brooks’s poetry
Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun
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Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop & the Remaking of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Oral History & Spike Lee’s 4 Little Girls
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The civil rights movement & Children/Adolescent literature Toni Morrison’s
Dreaming Emmett
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Virgil Tibbs & In the Heat of the Night

The civil rights movement in film: Mississippi Burning to The Butler Visual
Rhetoric: Emmett Till & Trayvon Martin
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21st century depictions of the civil rights movement in popular culture
Please send a 750-1000 word abstract and one paragraph bio to Laura Dubek, Middle
Tennessee State University, laura.dubek@mtsu.edu, by June 1, 2014. A book proposal,
with a proposed TOC and the editor’s essay on Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, will
be sent to an academic press. Projected publication for the book is fall 2015.
Immersion and Intervention: Convergences in Art
and Science Research
Due: June 1, 2014
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Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com
Reconstruction 15.2: Immersion and Intervention: Convergences in Art and Science
Research
Edited by Hervé Regnauld and Alan Ramón Clinton
Traditionally, at least in practice, “humanists” have viewed nature and culture as
separate spheres, while scientists have tended to view nature as a global milieu in which
humans are immersed. The extent to which science has retained its humanism and to
which philosophy has made a “post-human” turn presents new opportunities for
rethinking the history of artistic and scientific practices as well as their potential futures.
It is no accident that Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari have written about both “minor
science” (characterized by hydraulic turbulence) and “minor literature” (characterized
by Lucretian, tactical “swerves”), both of which produce previously unforeseen
molecular objects, events, and molar recuperations.
This new philosophical situation causes us to be interested in several topoi which are
not mutually exclusive:
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Historical revaluations of the supposed separations of art and science.
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Immersion as such: if both humanists and scientists are, inevitably, immersed in
the environments they analyze, what are the relationships between, for instance,
landscape (as a part of the environment), art (as a representation of landscape),
and scientific landscape representation? How are both scientific and novelistic
descriptions of human neurological states fictive/narrative in nature as well as
illuminating?
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Swerves and Collisions: as science and the arts produce cultural objects of
unpredictable trajectory, what sorts of collisions happen or have happened by
chance, what new cultural objects result, and how are these introjected,
incorporated, or dissolved in the historical and phenomenological Umwelt?
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Interventions: following Van Fraassen’s (2002) idea that both art and science
intervene in the world in more or less wilful (rather than merely empirical) ways,
what sort of collaborations between these two modulations of human endeavour
might occur in the future, for good or ill?
Editors Regnauld and Clinton would like to see the following types of submissions: a)
new interpretations from art historians and historians of science; b) analyses of specific
collisions between art and science disciplines; c) philosophical and theoretical
(re)articulations of art and science in light of their mutual immersion(s); d) works and
or manifestos from artists and scientists who have moved outside their original
disciplines; e) descriptions or demonstrations from scientists and artists who have or
are collaborating on research projects.
Please send submissions to herve.regnauld@uhb.fr and
reconstruction.submissions@gmail.com with the subject heading “Immersion and
Intervention” by June 1, 2014.
Natural Spaces and Phenomena in Early Modern
Literature
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Due: June 1, 2014
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
mge1108@gmail.com
This panel welcomes papers about any aspect of Early Modern/Renaissance Literature
as examined through and ecocritical or natural lens. Paper proposals addressing the
conference theme of Sustainability are especially welcome. By June 1, 2014, please
submit a 200-250 word abstract, a brief bio, and A/V requirements to Mary Grace
Elliott, University of New Hampshire, at mge1108@gmail.com.
Non-native Species
Due: June 6, 2014
James Stanescu and Kevin Cummings
criticalspecies@gmail.com
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Within a growing literature of animal studies and animal ethics, scholars have critically
examined factory farms, zoos, companion animals, and laboratory testing. What
remains underexplored are the logics of extermination deployed against feral or
non-native species. The existing vocabulary utilized to describe non-native species
often represents these animals as pests that wreak havoc on the eco- system,
promiscuously over-populate, and spread disease. This rhetorical framing justifies a
militarized relationship to these species. Furthermore, the debate over non-native
species divides common ground between animal activists and environmentalists. If the
world is moving very slowly towards less cruelty in the treatment of animals and a
modest increase in awareness about the basic dignity that should be afforded to all
creatures, there is a vast slippage in the case of feral and non-native species that merits
attention.
We are looking for essays that critically explore the affiliation between humans,
non-native species, and the environment. These essays will be part of a submission for
an edited volume to be published by an academic press. We are excited to invite
scholars from a variety of disciplines and epistemic positions, including thinkers from
multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds. 300-500 word abstracts should be
emailed to criticalspecies@gmail.com. Interviews and reprints from journals will be
considered.
Topics might include:
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Bridging the gap between environmental ethics and animal ethics
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Rhetorical examination of the tropes of nativity, exoticness, and/or invasion
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Media and mediated accounts of invasive species
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Ecofeminist approaches to overpopulation, fertility, and promiscuity
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
Queer critiques of reproductive futurism
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New materialist and speculative realist interventions in non-native species
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Colonialism and critical geographies
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Economic imperatives and wild/pristine spaces
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Defining ecosystem harm and the terminology of equilibrium, balance, and
harmony
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Questions of cohabitation and competition with endangered species
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Introducing, re-introducing, and restoration ecology
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Invasivores
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The biopolitics of wildlife management and/or hunting
The deadline for submission of abstracts is June 6, 2014. Please address
correspondence to Dr. James Stanescu and Dr. Kevin Cummings.
Dr. Kevin Cummings is associate professor and chair of the Department of
Communication Studies and Theatre at Mercer University. He publishes in the areas of
rhetoric and media theory.
Dr. James Stanescu was the winner of the 2012 international critical animal studies
dissertation of the year for The Abattoir of Humanity: Philosophy in the Age of the
Factory Farm. He publishes in the areas of continental philosophy and critical animal
studies and is the author of the blog Critical Animal http://criticalanimal.blogspot.com
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The Apollonian: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
Due: June 15, 2014
The Apollonian: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
apollonianjournal@gmail.com
Submissions are invited for the inaugural issue of The Apollonian: Journal of
Interdisciplinary Studies, a bi-annual, peer-reviewed print journal.
Volume I, Issue I
-Open Issue
-Word Limit: 2000 words
-Citations and references in accordance with MLA Handbook, 7th edn.
-Submissions must include a cover page with the following:
-Author/s name
-Affiliation
-Email
-Abstract (within 200 words)
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-Author/s bio (within 150 words)
-Declaration
Last date for abstracts: June 15, 2014
Last date for complete submissions: July 1, 2014 Acceptance/rejections will be notified
by: July 25, 2014.
Enquiries/Submissions must be sent to: apollonianjournal@gmail.com
Food on the Home Front, Food on the Warfront:
Conflict and the American Diet
Due: June 30, 2014
Tanfer Emin Tunc and Annessa Ann Babic
tanfer.emin@gmail.com and annessababic@gmail.com
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Food on the Home Front, Food on the Warfront: Conflict and the American Diet
Edited by Tanfer Emin Tunc and Annessa Ann Babic
Food has been an inextricable part of American warfare since the inception of the
nation. From the traveling cooks of the Revolutionary War, to the advent of canned
provisions during the Civil War, to the renaming of German dishes such as sauerkraut
(liberty cabbage) and hamburgers (liberty steaks) during World War I, to the rise of
Asian cuisine during World War II and the Vietnam War, to the surge of Middle
Eastern cuisine and the French fries/freedom fries controversy of the post 9/11 era,
military conflict has impacted the American diet both on the warfront and on the home
front. While international politics and domestic propaganda ostensibly initiated and
sustained many of these dietary changes, some outlasted the wars with which they were
originally associated, becoming a permanent part of American culinary culture. The
consumption of canned food, for example, was originally designed for soldiers and
travelers who could not always access a fresh cooked meal. Canned food was then sold
to middle class consumers as luxury items which would facilitate their busy lifestyles.
After World War II, however, canned food was democratized through mass production,
becoming a generic and inexpensive part of American life. Today, it is a significant part
of the national palate, spawning entire industries (tuna) and foodways (spam cuisine).
War has also prompted Americans to rethink their consumption of food, ranging from
the improvement of domestic beer brewing (when patriotic Americans refused to
consume German beer); to the conservation and home gardening movements of World
Wars I and II; to more recent efforts centering on organic and green consumption after
Americans witnessed what chemicals could do to the human body during the Vietnam
and Gulf Wars. Food has also served as points of contention between war-torn nations,
with Hershey Bars and Coca Cola functioning first as soft power or cultural “envoys of
peace,” and later as insidious portents of the American capitalism and imperialism that
many associate with “hard power” US global interventions.
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This edited volume seeks to explore the meaning of food in relation to American
conflict and war. The editors encourage the submission of abstract dealing with the
ways in which war has impacted American foodways and culinary culture since the
eighteenth century. We are especially interested in submissions that consider material
objects such as menus, posters, food packaging, recipes and cookbooks as well as
media representations, including pamphlets, short films, and public service
announcements produced by the US government, related agencies, and NGOs. Topics
may include, but are not limited to: representations of food and war in American
literature; war and the scarcity of food; food conservation movements and grassroots
activism; home production and canning; gender, class, race and food; the evolution of
the American diet; culinary creativity, food substitutions, and changes in cooking style;
the American consumer and shopping habits; food, war, and children; propaganda and
patriotism; cooking classes, textbooks and indoctrination; food rationing and hoarding;
nutrition during wartime; and comparative/transnational approaches.
Essay abstracts of no more than 500 words and one-paragraph bios should be emailed
to Drs. Tanfer Emin Tunc (tanfer.emin@gmail.com) and Annessa Ann Babic
(annessababic@gmail.com) by June 30, 2014. If selected, full-text essays of 8,000
words (maximum) will be due October 31, 2014.
Regional Approaches to Queer Asian Cinema
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Due: July 1, 2014
James A.Wren
jameswren1@charter.net
Reconstruction 15.3: Regional Approaches to Queer Asian Cinema Edited by James
Wren
There have been many full-length monographs dealing with the issue of Queer Asian
cinema, and beyond a certain degree of redundancy, all are, when said and done, either
overly general in their summation, offer few new insights into the subject, or focus on
the same half- dozen examples as evidence of some still-uncertain theme. Regionalism
is, for the most part, excluded from discussions. Thus, when we speak of Queer Asian
cinema, we concomitantly speak of a paradox, of a homogeneous entity that we
somehow have "pulled together" as a singular, clearly defined mediation of time and
space. To remedy these issues, Reconstruction solicits papers from scholars worldwide
to challenge our current paradigms, which provide readings of one or more works
across time and space through the specific lens of regionalism.
To take one example, even the most cursory examination of the long history of the film
in China and its sophisticated development and evolution into the multifaceted
products we witness today suggest an obvious different view. In place of a single China,
we speak of Mainland China/Han China/ Beijing-focused film, etc., alongside Hong
Kong Film, Macao Cinema, Taiwanese Film, Diaspora Film (hwachou film as for
example, but including Peramekan film, Ethnic Chinese American or Chinese-in-Japan
Filmmakers), etc. Immediately, the potential for cultural difference--real
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difference--ought be obvious. Or consider the various associations and characteristics
attached to such terms as Han, Tibetan, Fujian or Shandong (ask, for example, someone
in the Mainland the question: "Which region of China has the most 'masculine' men?
While the answers may vary considerably (having done this, I have been told that men
in Shandong are most handsome--obviously a stereotype co-opted and widely
expressed; Shandong men are in the same breath described as being "less educated" or
"less sophisticated”), certain shared subjectivities come to light. The same can be said
for Singapore Chinese, HK Chinese or even those from Gansu or Fujian.
In truth, it appears that certain images of gender identity and construction exist
throughout the various venues we term Asia and that these differ one from the other,
oftentimes in significant and important ways (insofar as they mediate how we view the
text and its dealings with sexual orientation).
Or, consider the connotations that a "Seoul Man" carries when compared to someone
originating in Korea's Busan region. Invariably, individuals from Busan and localities
nearby will note that Seoul masculinity is "tainted," affected, at times overtly
"homocentric.” Likewise, individuals from Seoul are quick to point out that Busan
masculinity is built upon an artifice of machismo, that individuals are intentionally
uncultured and rude--and that these are the marks of a "manly" (non-gay) Korean man.
These are but a few examples of regional differentiations and stereotypes that, just as in
American cinema, inevitably find themselves entering, more or less directly, into the
visual landscape that represents Queer Asian cinema. What does it mean when, to
borrow a phrase from Roland Barthes, “the stereotype goes queer”? How do various
films or directors invoke, promote, and subvert regional stereotypes relating to
representations of LBGTQ individuals and communities? What do we learn about
various subcultures and regions throughout Asia when the traditionally straight lens of
anthropology is given a queer twist? Other approaches, as long as they address
regionalism in some way, are also welcome.
Send inquiries at any time and completed manuscripts of no more than 10,000 words to
James A.Wren at jameswren1@charter.net by July 1, 2014. Letters of interest,
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including region and possible films to be covered are welcomed (single sentences are
satisfactory at this point). The editor welcomes and encourages every opportunity to
establish contact with prospective writers at any time prior to submission.
Polari Journal of queer creative writing
Due: July 1, 2014
Polari Journal
dallas.baker@scu.edu.au
Polari Journal of queer creative writing is holding an open call for submissions for its
next issue (published October 2014). There is no specific theme for this issue. However,
Polari Journal tends towards the shorter forms: short stories, poetry, essays, scholarly
papers, one act plays/scripts and reviews. In general, the word limit for fiction, plays
and essays is 6000 words. Reviews should not be more than 1500 words. For poetry,
the maximum is 100 lines.
At this time financial remuneration is not offered. All rights remain with the author/s.
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The Final Date for submission is July 1st 2014. Review the Submissions Guide on the
menu above. Send all submissions to the managing editor: editor@polarijournal.com
The Academy and Its Futures
Due: July 15, 2014
Benjamin Mangrum / Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics
bmangrum@email.unc.edu
Ethos: A Digital Review of the Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics—a peer-reviewed,
interdisciplinary online journal and digital forum— invites submissions for its October
2014 issue, entitled “The Academy and Its Futures.” For this issue of Ethos, we invite
submissions of original scholarly work that consider the academy as a heterogeneous
social institution, one that is at once marked by employment inequities and intellectual
freedom, entrenched privileges and unique opportunities for social justice, increased
privatization and an on- going history of public reform. We welcome essays that
consider the university as an object of critical study. Essays may approach this inquiry
through specific disciplinary avenues, new academic horizons (such as the digital
humanities or Open Access scholarship), or prominent crises facing the university (e.g.,
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shrinking departmental budgets, growing continent labor, the politics of athletic
programs). This issue aims to document the various crises marking the academy’s
contemporary life, while also pointing to directions for its possible futures.
Approaches to this topic might include, but are not limited to:

critical university studies
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digital humanities

race/ethnic/national identity and the academic workforce

gender inequality in academic publishing

new media in the classroom

medical humanities

defining academic labor and its legal problems

the public scope of academic work

historical accounts of the changing academic landscape
Ethos welcomes all submissions that engage with topics related to “The Academy and
Its Futures,” including various methodological and critical approaches from various
intellectual fields. Articles should be between 4000 and 7000 words in length and
should be submitted in a format adhering to the MLA guidelines. We encourage authors
to avoid jargon whenever possible. Submissions received before July 15, 2014 will be
considered for the October 2014 issue. Submissions well before the due date are
encouraged. We also welcome book reviews relevant to this topic.
Ethos is a digital project maintained by a collective of public intellectuals and
supported by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North
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Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to our referred journal, the project also features
weekly review posts on cultural criticism and public life. To learn more, visit the
project at www.ethosreview.org/.
Multiplicity And Divisions In America Today
Due: July 23, 2014
Out of Many
OutOfMany2015@Gmail.com
Great Stories Needed: Edited Prose Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction
and Fiction
We are seeking outstanding prose for the anthology OUT OF MANY:
MULTIPLICITY AND DIVISIONS IN AMERICA TODAY. OUT OF MANY will
showcase emerging writers for an emerging generation. We are under contract with an
academic publisher and hope to feature a broader spectrum of voices than those
typically found in prose readers. 5000 words maximum; shorter is better. Longer may
need justification. Minorities of all stripes are encouraged to submit. Experimentation
welcomed. Humor, fun and play appreciated. Writers will keep their copyright.
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Send us your best, your most delightful, your most insightful, your most alive, your
most beautiful…. Submit your creative non-fiction or fiction to
OutOfMany2015ATgmailDOTcom (OutOfMany2015@Gmail.com) as an attachment;
include a brief biography.
Manuscripts should be double-spaced, paginated, with the author’s name and
submission title on each page. Deadline for submissions is Friday July 23, 2014.
Possible multipliers or dividers may include ideology, religion, class, race, gender, sex,
sexuality, ethnicity, culture, language, generation, color, nationality, aesthetics. This is
far from an exhaustive list.
Possible subjects for Out of Many: Multiplicity and Divisions in America Today should
be seen as a suggestion, and are of course open to interpretation. What matters most is
the quality of your story: the bigness of its heart, the freedom of its language, the power
of its words, and the beauty of its vision.
Dr. C. Goodison & Dr. R. Goodison, City University of New York
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The Films of Jess Franco
Due: July 30, 2014
Ian Olney
iolney@ycp.edu
Edited Volume: The Films of Jess Franco
Editors: Antonio Lázaro-Reboll (University of Kent) and Ian Olney (York College of
Pennsylvania)
Jesús “Jess” Franco (1930-2013) is one of the most prolific and madly inventive
filmmakers in the history of cinema. His remarkable career spanned more than half a
century and produced almost two hundred films shot in Spain and across Europe. He is
best known as the director of jazzy, erotically-charged horror movies featuring mad
scientists, lesbian vampires, and women in prison, but dabbled in a multitude of genres
from comedy to science-fiction to pornography. Although he made his career in the
ghetto of low-budget exploitation cinema, he managed to create a body of work that is
deeply personal, frequently political, and surprisingly poetic. Franco’s offbeat films
command a devoted cult following; they have even developed a mainstream audience
in recent years, thanks to their release on DVD and Blu-Ray. To date, however, they
have received relatively little scholarly attention. The Films of Jess Franco seeks to
address this neglect by bringing together original essays on Franco and his movies
written from a variety of different theoretical perspectives by noted scholars around the
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world. Ultimately, its aim is to encourage a reassessment of this critically undervalued
director and his significant contributions to popular European cinema.
The editors of this proposed volume invite original essays on any aspect of Jess
Franco’s work; all theoretical approaches are welcome. Possible topics might include:

Franco as Horror Auteur

Gender and/or Race in Franco’s Films

Queer Franco

The Franco Soundtrack

Franco’s Non-Horror Films

Late Franco (Films of the 1990s and 2000s)

Franco as Spanish Filmmaker
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Franco as Transnational Filmmaker

Franco and the Art Film

Franco’s Influences

Sex and Eroticism in Franco’s Films

Franco and Film Adaptation

Performance and Stardom in Franco’s Films

The Politics of Franco’s Films

The Cult of Franco

Franco’s Legacy
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Please send abstracts of 500 words to Antonio Lázaro-Reboll
(a.lazaro-reboll@kent.ac.uk) and Ian Olney (iolney@ycp.edu) by July 30, 2014. Final
essays will be due January 30, 2015. Essays should be 6,000-8,000 words in length and
should follow MLA guidelines for citation and documentation.
Radicalism
Due: July 30, 2014
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism
jsr@msu.edu
JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism-a print academic journal published by
Michigan State University Press-announces a call for articles and reviews for our tenth
year of issues. We are interested in articles on radicalism in a wide range of contexts
and areas, and encourage articles from humanities and social science perspectives. The
Journal for the Study of Radicalism engages in serious, scholarly exploration of the
forms, representations, meanings, and historical influences of radical social movements.
With sensitivity and openness to historical and cultural contexts of the term, we loosely
define "radical," as distinguished from "reformers," to mean groups who seek
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revolutionary alternatives to hegemonic social and political institutions, and who use
violent or non-violent means to resist authority and to bring about change. The journal
is eclectic, without dogma or strict political agenda, and ranges broadly across social
and political groups worldwide, whether typically defined as "left" or "right." We
expect contributors to come from a wide range of fields and disciplines, including
ethnography, sociology, political science, literature, history, philosophy, critical media
studies, literary studies, religious studies, psychology, women's studies, and critical
race studies. We especially welcome articles that reconceptualize definitions and
theories of radicalism, feature underrepresented radical groups, and introduce new
topics and methods of study.
Submissions should be 20-30 pages in length, in .doc format, and conform to Chicago
Manual of Style endnotes. Please include a one- paragraph abstract. Images for possible
use in an article should be 300 dpi. Authors are responsible for requesting and receiving
permission to reprint images for scholarly use.
Send queries or completed articles to the editors at jsr@msu.edu by July 30, 2014. Our
Call for Papers is always current at https://www.msu.edu/~jsr/
See http://www.msupress.msu.edu/journals/jsr for more information.
Background
JSR's primary purpose is to serve as a venue for fine scholarship in this developing
academic field. We expect scholarly contributors to come from a wide range of
perspectives and disciplines, and we especially welcome articles that reconceptualize
definitions and theories of radicalism, feature underrepresented radical groups, and
introduce
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new topics and methods of study. We seek articles that make a clear larger point, and
that offer a real contribution to the field.
Future Issues
Subsequent issues will be devoted to radical groups typically ignored in academic
scholarship, and we remain interested in articles that challenge conventional notions of
or received versions of the history of radicalism. We also are interested in articles on
state-sponsored forms of radicalism or terrorism, "grand experiments" gone terribly
wrong, animal rights activism, and ecological activism.
Cavell and History
Due: July 31, 2014
Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies
akhan134@uottawa.ca
It is easy to believe when reading Cavell that one has stumbled upon “privileged
knowledge,” so that the intimate experience of going over some of Cavell’s close
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readings makes one feel “privileged” in a sense, to the point where it becomes
inconceivable that others – from, say, other disciplines or specialties – could be reading
Cavell correctly, unless they too are beginning from the same vantage point.
Yet whether the discussion begins with Wittgenstein or Austin (ordinary language
philosophy), Nietzsche or Kierkegaard (Continental philosophy), Emerson or Thoreau
(American studies), Shakespeare or Beckett (literature and drama), Capra or Cukor
(film and romance), Coleridge or Kant (poetry and ethics), or, even, music
discomposed, Cavell’s insights have less to with specialized knowledge than with his
unique ability to make his readers feel as though they – suddenly and somehow – have
a real stake in what otherwise seems to be a privileged field. The understanding
Cavell’s philosophical work and readings afford us is the humane sort, unencumbered
by (a lack of) specialization.
Conversations is a journal that seeks to promote precisely this sort of communal,
human conversation. For dialogue between seemingly disparate realms of thought to
thrive, it is imperative that contributors not simply take up Cavell’s work solely within
a given specialization, but that efforts are made to extend Cavell’s thinking to other
realms and disciplines as well, either familiar or unfamiliar to Cavell’s thought. While
interdisciplinary conversation occurs quite frequently between film and philosophy,
literature and film, or literature and philosophy, Conversations puts no restrictions on
the nature of the dialogues, or number of disciplines, at the outset.
The end result, it is hoped, will be a dissolution of disciplinary boundaries at best, or, at
least, an assurance that conversation can occur between otherwise perfectly delimited
discourse communities. Hence it is hoped that humanistic lessons and insights
supposedly unique to certain specialized investigation are made salient and shareable
with a broader audience — in true Cavellian spirit.
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CFP NO. 2
Cavell and History
Whatever one makes of Cavell’s writings, one can hardly say they are historical. We
are told, for example, that America’s military entanglement weighs in on his thoughts
in “Disowning Knowledge,” but what exactly has King Lear to do with Vietnam? Does
the essay require, or deserve, proper historicizing? Would such an exercise benefit of
Cavellian study, or detract from it?
Moreover, Cavell himself explicitly, if still somewhat coyly, historicizes his skeptical
argument in his introduction to his collection of essays on Shakespeare (Disowning
Knowledge, pp. 20-37). Coy because Cavell is hardly interested in employing a
“professional” historical methodology. When he discusses the “advent of skepticism”
(20), as, historically speaking, marking the appearance of Shakespeare, Descartes, and
the New Science, he notes also that, fictionally speaking, the Roman world of
Shakespeare, as depicted in Antony and Cleopatra, is “haunted by the event of
Christianity” (21). Do competing threads of Romanization, Christianization, the advent
of skepticism, the New Science, and Renaissance theatre require sorting out?
Lastly, in discussing the appearance of what he coins the seven comedies of remarriage
in Pursuits of Happiness, he expressly denies a cause-and-effect relationship leading to
the appearance of this new genre:
My thought is that the genre emerges full-blown, in a particular instance first (or a set of
them if they are simultaneous), and then works out its internal consequences in further
instances. So that, as I would like to put it, it has no history, only a birth and a logic (or
a biology). (27-28)
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Once again, we accept submissions from all theoretical perspectives and disciplines
and encourage attempts to assimilate seemingly disparate disciplinary areas of Cavell’s
thinking. For the second issue of Conversations, the editors welcome papers that deal
with Cavell’s somewhat murky relationship to history, professional or otherwise.
Possible paper topics include:

historicizing Cavell
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the use of Cavell in broader philosophical discourse

philosophizing history

historicizing philosophy

the authority of history versus the authority of self

the influence of Marx on Cavell’s thought

the influence of Heidegger on Cavell’s thought

the influence of Hegel on Cavell’s thought
Papers should be no more than 6000 words, including footnotes, and must follow the
notes and bibliography citation system described in The Chicago Manual of Style. We
also welcome shorter, more intimate pieces addressing specific questions (800-1200
words). Complete articles should be sent to akhan134@uottawa.ca no later than July
31st, 2014.
https://uottawa.scholarsportal.info/ojs/index.php/conversations
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Literatures of the Post-Socialist European Diaspora
in the United States
Due: July 31, 2014
Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Ioana Luca
Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu, ioana.luca@ntnu.edu.tw
Special Issue: Literatures of the Post-Socialist European Diaspora in the United States
(July 31, 2014)
Since the 1990s, scholars have emphasized the need for "transnational" (Fishkin),
"global" (Giles), or "planetary" (Dimock) approaches to US American literary
production. The increasingly transnational perspectives on ethnic and immigrant
writing that have emerged in the field also intersect with concerns about limitations
posed by borders, languages, and disciplinary boundaries articulated by comparative
literature scholars, such as Spivak, Damrosch, and Saussy. While transnational
scholarship has examined connections between the United States and other parts of the
globe, the role of post-socialist Europe in US American Studies and the significance of
the writing by US immigrant authors from former socialist nations have rarely been
explored. This special issue will address this oversight. It will primarily focus on the
emergence and consolidation of a body of fiction by postsocialist US writers, much of it
has already received literary acclaim.
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The issue will examine themes centered around but not limited to the following
questions:
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What is the place of post-socialist diasporic writing in US literary studies?

What methodological intersections between US American studies, post-socialist
studies, immigration and diaspora studies can be forged in view of the fictional
work?
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What literary traditions, cultural forms, and ideological legacies inform the work
of these writers? What predominant genres are employed?
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How does their writing address the legacies of the Cold War in the United
States?
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What connections does their work establish between the United States and events
in post-socialist Europe, including the economic, social, and cultural
transformations in each country and the wars in the former Yugoslavia as well as
the NATO intervention in the region?
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What forms of post-1989 migration or exile in the United States are chronicled in
this writing? What diasporic or transnational post- socialist immigrant practices
in the United States are chronicled or imagined?
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What connections exist between this work and other US literary production,
including the work of other migrant authors?
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How does the new writing intervene into US-based debates about neoliberalism,
globalization, gender, race/ethnicity, immigration, trafficking, human rights,
diaspora, and citizenship? What forms of critique do these works pose to the US
cultural imaginary?
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What issues arise from the global circulation and translation of these writers'
work?
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Please send two-page abstracts to Claudia.Sadowski-Smith@asu.edu and
ioana.luca@ntnu.edu.tw by July 31, 2014. Final essays of 8,000- 10,000 word length
will be due on December 1, 2014. As part of preparing the special issue, we will
organize a related conference panel at the March 2015 American Comparative
Literature Association meeting in Seattle. However, contributors will not be required to
attend in order to be included in the special issue.
Book and Film Reviews on "Trespassing Medicine"
Due: August 1, 2014
Trespassing Journal
editor@trespassingjournal.com
The editors of Trespassing Journal seek book and film reviews for its fourth issue
entitled “Trespassing Medicine” to be published online in November 2014.
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Trespassing Journal is a fully peer-reviewed biannual journal that is committed to
publishing fresh and original research in the fields of artistic production (including
literature, film, new media, video-art, fine arts, experimental and avant-garde art, etc.)
that trespass the sacrosanct grounds of the theoretical and artistic disciplines, and also
question the established boundaries between art, science, and philosophy. Trespassing
Journal focuses on artistic misfits, art and politics, artistic production in exile, and
contradictory realms where art and technics break away from conventions.
Trespassing Journal accepts relevant book and film reviews on recent books and films
for its fourth issue on 'Trespassing Medicine'. Potential contributors are invited to
submit a book or film review (700-1500 words in MLA style), along with contact
information to the editors by 1 August 2014.
For more information please contact the editors at editor@trespassingjournal.com and
visit the journal's website http://trespassingjournal.com/
Digital Storytelling in Latin America and Spain
Due: August 1, 2014
Letras Hispanas
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ocleger3@mail.gatech.edu
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Letras Hispanas
Paperless Text: Digital Storytelling in Latin America and Spain (1983- 2013)
Special Issue Editors:
Osvaldo Cleger, Georgia Tech
Phillip Penix-Tadsen, University of Delaware Deadline for Submissions: August 1,
2014 Tentative publication date: Fall 2015
Digital storytelling takes on many forms in Spain and Latin America. Starting from the
very advent of electronic media, the regions’ hackers, programmers, authors and artists
have created a spectrum of multimedia literary and poetic projects that represent a
diverse array of approaches and concerns. Currently, as countries on both sides of the
Atlantic report triple-digit annual growth in e-book sales, the populations of Latin
America and Spain are spending increasing amounts of time consuming and creating
content for tablets and other digital devices, from personal computers to smartphones to
video game consoles. As digital storytelling gains prominence, it brings with it
fundamental new challenges for concepts regarding the nature of narrative discourse,
from our notions of what constitutes a text, to the contextual meaning of semiotic or
literary devices, to models of narrative structure and authorship.
While the hastening spread of new media technology throughout Latin America and
Spain is a relatively recent phenomenon, e-reading and digital storytelling are as old as
the first personal computers that entered the market in the mid-1970s. Scholars
commonly refer to the late 1980s and early 1990s as the dawn of digital storytelling,
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with the publication of some of the earliest works of hypertext fiction, such as Michael
Joyce’s afternoon, a story (1987) or Colombian-born author Juan B. Gutiérrez’s earliest
versions of Extreme Conditions (1996). However taking into account that interactive
fiction had preceded hypertext fiction by at least a decade, with the earliest example,
William Crowther’s Colossal Cave Adventure, appearing in 1976, and Don Quijote, La
Aventura being released in Spain by Dinamic Software in 1987, it is possible to
conclude that digital storytelling has been present for even longer.
Since 2000, the proliferation of social networks, online literary and cultural
publications, blogs, and e-books--along with the mobile devices that make all of these
things legible--have made digital storytelling even more ubiquitous. Likewise, these
new media bring with them new expressive devices that open up a wide range of
possibilities for experimenting with stories that not only combine text with sound and
moving images, but that also incorporate such technologies as Google Maps, touch
screens used for navigation or for triggering animation and effects, or the tablet’s GPS,
camera and audio capabilities to display an augmented reality layer embedded in the
story. These and other contemporary transformations to the practices of reading and
writing are expanding what authors can do-- and readers can experience--when it
comes to digital storytelling.
For this special issue of Letras Hispanas we will consider papers addressing Digital
Storytelling in the Ibero-American context from a variety of perspectives and
methodologies. We are particularly interested in articles that focus either on specific
e-genres (such as hypertext fiction, blog-fiction, location-based narrative, etc.), on the
effects of specific media technologies on storytelling, or on specific questions related to
the creation, distribution and consumption of digital media in the Latin American and
Spanish context.
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Software, platforms and devices that have transformed the art of storytelling
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Interactive fiction (or Aventuras Conversacionales) during the Golden Age of
Spanish Software (1983-1992)
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Hypertext and multimedia narrative and poetry from Latin America and Spain
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Blog-fictions and Blog-novels from Latin America and Spain
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Hybrid textualities: from blog to book (blook) and back again
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Extreme short fiction (or minificción) on Twitter and other social networks
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Serialized online narratives
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Location-based narratives or geolocative narratives
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Augmented reality and storytelling
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Animated and interactive stories for the iPad and other tablet readers
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Children’s literature for e-tablets
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The e-book industry in Latin America and Spain
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Cultural representation in new media

Video games and storytelling

Procedurality and storytelling
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Interactivity and storytelling
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Challenges and prospects for the future of digital storytelling in Ibero-America
Submission process:
Authors must submit a detailed abstract (300-500 words, English or Spanish) and
preliminary bibliography by August 1, 2014 to the special issue editors, Osvaldo Cleger
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(ocleger3@mail.gatech.edu) and Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ptpt@udel.edu). Please copy
both in your email with the subject line “Special Issue of Letras Hispanas.” Authors
will be selected for inclusion in the special issue based on the strength of these abstracts,
but publication is contingent upon review of the completed manuscript.
All completed manuscripts must be submitted by January 15, 2014. Manuscripts will be
accepted in English and Spanish. All submissions should be between 5000 and 8000
words in length and must adhere to the MLA Style Manual. All submissions will go
through the regular double-blind review process of Letras Hispanas and follow the
standard norms and processes for peer reviewed publications.
For more information about this call for papers, please contact the Special Issue Editors
or the Directors of Letras Hispanas, Sergio Martínez (sm55@txstate.edu) and Agustín
Cuadrado (cuadrado@txstate.edu).
Manifestas: Supporting Women’s Studies In
Academia
Due: August 15, 2014
_Feminist Spaces_
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feministspacesjournal@gmail.com
As an up-and-coming online, interdisciplinary student journal,
_Feminist Spaces_ is now accepting student submissions for their inaugural issue to be
published September 2014.
_Feminist Spaces_, a publication sponsored by The University of West Florida’s
Women’s Studies Collective, has issued their first call for papers, titled Manifestas:
Supporting Women’s Studies In Academia.
_Feminist Spaces_ invites undergraduate and graduate students from universities
nationwide to compose 1-2 page statements or multimodal/artistic pieces that
investigate why Women’s Studies is important to them individually, as well as to
America’s educational institutions. These statements, which may adopt a standard
essay or creative form, will be published in the Fall 2014 issue of our online journal.
Deadline for submission is Friday, August 15th, 2014, with a release date scheduled for
early September.
Please send all works to feministspacesjournal@gmail.com
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Text in Context
Due: September 15, 2014
Southern Connecticut State University
textincontext.southernct@gmail.com
Text in Context is a graduate student journal published electronically by graduate
students in the English Department at Southern Connecticut State University. We seek
submissions exploring the text itself and its function(s) and implications both internally
and externally—literary analysis, poetry studies, critical theory, popular reception of a
particular work, close readings, historical relevance, etc. Though the journal primarily
deals with English studies, we welcome original papers from other disciplines,
provided those papers focus on the text and/or its context—pedagogy and instructional
design, localization of language in the brain, regional dialects and their origins, etc. We
currently seek scholarly papers to include in the publication.
Pop Culture in Context
Volume 2, Issue 1 (Fall 2014/Winter 2015) will also feature a section of papers devoted
to popular culture and its contexts. Papers submitted to “Pop Culture in Context”
should explore the ways in which popular culture circulates within texts, replicates
itself through texts, or creates and shapes its own contexts through texts. A “text” may
be visual or cultural; it need not be strictly literary. Some potential questions papers
may address include, but are not limited to:
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Is popular culture primarily subversive or conservative?
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
In what ways do the concerns of popular novels, graphic novels, films, music,
and television series intersect with those of more canonical literary works?

How are issues of gender, race, class, and sexuality explored and represented in
popular contexts?

To what degree is an understanding of how popular culture functions becoming
an intrinsic part of our studies of anthropology, economics, history, literature,
political science, sociology, art, culture, etc.?
“The Text and Time: Past, Present, Future”: Selected Papers
Once again, our Fall/Winter issue will feature selected papers from Southern
Connecticut State University’s Annual Graduate Conference. Volume 2, Issue 1 (Fall
2014/Winter 2015) will highlight selected papers from the April 26, 2014, conference,
“The Text and Time: Past, Present, Future.”
Book Reviews
We are seeking book reviews of scholarly texts that have been published within the past
two years (2012 to present). Reviews should be no more than 1,000 words and should
conform to the MLA guidelines listed below.
Submission Guidelines
The submission deadline for our Fall 2014/Winter 2015 issue will be September 15,
2014.
Please send submissions electronically to textincontext.southernct@gmail.com as MS
Word email attachments, indicating in the body of the email to which section you are
submitting your paper. Our editorial board employs anonymous peer review in its
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selection process; thus, author name and contact information should appear in a
separate file and not in the manuscript itself.
Submissions should be no longer than 2,500 words in length, set in 12pt, Palatino font,
double-spaced, with 1” margins, and adhere to 2009 MLA style. All submissions must
be the author’s original thought and therefore must include a complete works cited page
also in MLA format. Please also include a short abstract and third-person author bio, no
more than 150 words each.
If figures, illustrations, and/or video clips accompany the submission, please present
them in separate files. The author has sole responsibility for any copyright permissions
and fees.
Requirements
Authors must be currently enrolled in a program of graduate study at an accredited
university. Submissions must be previously unpublished, but the author retains future
publishing rights.
Editorial Board
Chelsea Dodds Jennifer Garcia Nicole Lowman Andrew Phelps Katie Sutton
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Journal of Irish Migration Studies in Latin America
Due: September 30, 2014
Society for Irish Latin American Studies
lizarra@usp.br
Travel Writing: Encounters within and through Irish and Latin American spaces
Deadline for articles: September 30th, 2014
Contributions are now invited for the 2014/15 Special Issue of the Journal of Irish
Migration Studies in Latin America, an international, refereed online journal, edited by
Sinéad Wall and Laura Izarra.
Ireland and Latin America share experiences of colonisation which were to some extent
aided by travel accounts from the early 1600s through to the 1900s, many of which
were concerned with either military fortifications or commercial matters. Just as the
'New World' had become a zone to be exploited for its natural wealth, by the mid
nineteenth century travel writing about Ireland had become a means of expressing
British anxiety about the island. After the famine period of 1845 to 1852 Ireland
became a place to be exploited by potential property investors as well as by writers
hoping to make money out of the sometimes harrowing descriptions of poverty and
hunger.
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This Special Issue of the IMSLA seeks to engage with writings about Ireland and/or
Latin America which offer different interdisciplinary perspectives from which to
reconsider colonial encounters as well as texts which address the various effects,
including psychic effects, provoked by the changing cultural formations of the late
twentieth/early twenty-first centuries. These encounters might be framed within or
going beyond what Mary Louise Pratt denotes as 'contact zones' –i.e. 'social spaces
where disparate cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other', or what Avtar Brah
defines as 'diaspora space', that which 'marks the intersectionality of contemporary
conditions of transmigrancy of people, capital, commodities and culture'– including not
only Latin American spaces but Irish spaces also. Therefore, the present issue on Travel
Writing aims to consider narratives which could be read against various theoretical
frameworks from various fields of knowledge such as history, sociology, anthropology,
literature, linguistics among others, in order to highlight different experiences of power
relations and cultural practices. We invite papers which interrogate travel between
Ireland and Latin America and which examine alternative discourses of travel, whether
in an Imperial or contemporary context. All articles will be subject to peer review and
must conform to the Contributors
Guidelines of the journal, which can be accessed at:
http://www.irlandeses.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Contributors-Guidelines-1_21
_13.pdf
Articles should not be longer than 5,000 words, including references and notes.
Suggested articles include, but are not limited to:

Historical or fictional accounts, diaries and reports (official or private) by
missionaries, soldiers, diplomats, entrepreneurs among others

Encounters between Ireland and Latin America

Irish Migration, exile or diasporic writing about Latin America and vice versa

Irish/Latin American Interpretation and reinterpretation of travel writing
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
Writing at the margins

Women writing and gendered spaces

Postmodern and virtual travels

Transnational writings
For consideration, please submit articles (as an attached Word document) via email
with the subject line "IMSLA Special Issue" by 30 September 2014 to: lizarra@usp.br
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