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CFP: IACLALS Annual Conference on Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations 12–14 February (Offline) 2026, co-hosted by Bangalore University

2025-08-27T09:35:00.000+05:30

Food and Food Cultures in the Global South: Aesthetics, Intersections and Mediations

12–14 February 2026

co-hosted by

The Department of English, Bangalore University, Jnanabharathi Campus, Bengaluru-560056

Food and food cultures serve as crucial sites for performance, story-telling, memorialization, identitarian politics, ritualistic practice and assertions of power and cultural capital. They also facilitate a fertile field of critical inquiry in terms of intergenerational trauma, ecological ethics, colonial and postcolonial structures and resistance, migration and connectivity. The multiple ways of thinking, preparing and consuming food enable one to understand it as a site mediating complex social relationships and self-representation in diverse cultural and literary texts and contexts.

Food and foodways symbolize types of cultural capital which in turn influences larger concerns of identity and identity formation. Food is part of rituals and ceremonies that span almost all occasions of human existence – whether as offering or for consumption. Processes of resistance and resilience also find reflection in multiple food representations. Within an expanding food literacy, both public and domestic spaces highlight the historical politics of food and eating. The realpolitik of food production narrates tales of exploitation, appropriation and marginalization.

Understanding gastro semantics, culinary cosmopolitanism and gastro-tourism enables both informed understanding and a rethinking of one’s relationship with food at local and global levels. Theorizing food requires an interdisciplinary approach involving ethnographic, historical, geographical, political, literary, aesthetic, gender, ethnic, agricultural, economic, nutrition and cultural studies. Food activism focuses on seed sovereignty, farmers’ markets, and eating disorders. An epistemology of embodiment and hierarchy can be constructed in the politics of who cooks, who serves and who eats.

Sub-ThemesDigital gastronomy and food aesthetics

Food practices: rituals, ceremonies and offerings

Food, faith and taboo: religious laws and transgressions

Gastronomic and taste philosophies

Gastro-feminism and masculinities: gender, food and culture

Disability and Food practices

Food and food culture in cinema, literature and art

Culinary colonialism and the decolonial palate

Food as semiotic system

Kitchen as archive

Kitchen as domestic, commercial, trans or queer performative space

Carnivalesque food and food practices

Food sovereignty: hunger, memory, famine, starvation

Indigenous foodways

Food writing: culinary histories, recipes, menus

Food and human rights

Food distribution and public health

Food activism and advocacy

Urban food practices, diet and nutrition

Food porn and food exotica

Submission GuidelinesAbstracts of 250–300 words with a bio-note of no more than 50 words may be submitted using the submission link by 18th September 2025.

Acceptances will be conveyed by 18th October 2025.

Abstract submission link: https://forms.gle/nJ3eNEMGZyCdnK8i7

CDN Prize 2026

If you wish to participate in the “C.D. Narasimhaiah Prize” for the Best Paper Presented at an Annual Conference, kindly type “Submission for CDN Prize” in the subject line of the email when you send the full paper to iaclalsbuconference2026@gmail.com.

Last date for submission of complete papers: 24th November 2025

For details: https://iaclals.in/cdn-prize/

MMM Prize 2026

IACLALS also announces the next edition of the “Meenakshi Mukherjee Memorial Prize” for the Best Academic Paper published by a member during the previous two years (2024 & 2025).

Submission link: https://forms.gle/bHbF7ZWyM1yWnHoV8

Last date for submission: 18th September 2025

For guidelines: https://iaclals.in/mmm-prize/

Membership

The conference is open only to members of IACLALS. Participants are encouraged to become members before sending abstracts.3-Year Membership: Rs. 1500

Life Membership: Rs. 5000

Annual Membership for Students/Research Scholars: Rs. 1000 (Postgraduate level and above)

For details, contact the Treasurer at: treasurer.iaclals@gmail.com

Registration FeeFaculty: Rs. 3500/-

Research Scholars: Rs. 2500/-

Includes: Lunch, refreshments on conference days, and conference kit.

Mode of payment: To be announced.

Registration dates: 15th November – 15th December 2025

Contact

For all conference-related queries: iaclalsbuconference2026@gmail.com

Accommodation

Participants will make their own arrangements. A list of nearby hotels, guest houses, and homestays will be provided later.

About the Department of English, Bangalore University

Established in 1964, Bangalore University is one of the most prestigious public state universities in Karnataka, with NAAC accreditation of grade A++ (2023) and NIRF ranking of #81 under the ‘University’ category. The Department of English, with an illustrious history, continues to strive for academic excellence, interdisciplinarity, and social responsibility.

Important DatesSubmission of Abstracts: 18th September 2025

Confirmation of Acceptance: 18th October 2025

MMM Prize Submission: 18th September 2025

CDN Prize Submission: 24th November 2025

Receipt of Complete Papers: 31st December 2025

#CFP: Mapping #Body #Space Continuum in #Urbanscapes

2025-02-19T13:18:00.001+05:30

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

deadline for submissions:

March 15, 2025

full name / name of organization:

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies

contact email: editors@ellids.com

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences. This is dependent on the dynamics of cultural inclusion and exclusion. The impulse of action within this dynamic is the basis of spatiality, that is, the human aspect of space, as it is constructed and occupied according to the social identity and purposiveness of particular bodies.

The inscribed role of the human body in consciously forming the spaces within a city shapes their social and political order, which assimilates the individual within larger establishments while giving one the freedom to express one’s individuality. The emotional attachment of individual bodies to personalised urban spaces and collective embodied memory consigns values and functions to a space. The actions of human body, thus, are pertinent for deliberating upon individuated identities interacting with larger constructs—the dialectics between I and the Other, or the influence of space itself on interpersonal relations and interactions. In this manner, spaces can also be said to act upon human bodies through variegated provisions for association, performance, and engagement. These living spaces, on some occasions bring people closer through communal life, but on other occasions also subject them to isolation and social categorisation. In these instances, these places transform into sites of anonymity and loneliness, where ties of social relations are often broken.

Keeping in mind the reciprocity between space and body, Volume 7 Issue 1 of LLIDS invites papers on the understanding of space as to how it creates a flux of embodied experiences between anonymity, immersion, relatability, and belonging, as well as investigating how experience, in turn, maps and moulds spaces based on how bodies inhabit and traverse them. The CFP anticipates research enquiries which extend the discourse on spatiality and the role of the body and its agency in the imagination and formulation of spaces. LLIDS seeks scholarly contributions which address the above theme and/or go beyond them. Some suggestive thematics are listed below:

Urban leisure infrastructure
Heterotopic Spaces
Immersive experiences in Space
Art in the city
Aesthetics of space
Suburbanization
Home and the city: Interpersonal and the Impersonal
Spatial influence on meaning and behaviour
Memories of city: Psychological ownership
Apathy of the urban dweller
Transforming meaning of spatiality
Dynamics of intercorporeal spaces

Submission Process:

Please submit your work via the Submission form: https://forms.gle/KiAYjV1wT5h4sFzi7.
Each of the authors needs to sign and email a separate Author Undertaking (https://ellids.com/archives/Author-Undertaking.pdf) from their respective email IDs to complete the submission process.

Submission Criteria Checklist:

Only complete papers along with a 150 words abstract, list of keywords, and Works Cited will be considered for publication.
Word limit for submissions (excluding Title, Abstract, Keywords, Footnotes, and Works Cited list): 3,500–10,000 words
The papers need to be formatted according to the guidelines of the MLA 8th edition.
Please read the complete submission guidelines before making the submission – http://ellids.com/author-guidelines/submission-guidelines/.
LLIDS has a Zero plagiarism policy. The Similarity Index of the submissions (Quote percentage) needs to be under 20%, unless absolutely required by the research. The similarity index is a calculation of the percentage of quotes from the word count (excluding title, abstract, keywords, footnote, works cited list).

Submission deadline: 15th March, 2025

Facebook: www.facebook.com/journal.llids/

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/language-literature-and-interdisciplinary-studies.

CFP: In-Comparative (Indian) Literatures National Conference 13-14 February 2025 Centre for Comparative Literature School of Humanities, University of Hyderabad

2024-12-18T15:16:00.003+05:30

It has been 65 years since the Czech-American Rene Wellek brewed a crisis in the

disciplinary discourses of Comparative Literature. Ever since, almost all Comparatists are forced to take a stand for or against this elephant in the classrooms. Various ACLA Reports (Levin 1965, Green 1975, Bernheimer 1993, Saussy 2014 and Heise 2024) have all been, in one way or another, an apology for the in-disciplinarity, or even anti-disciplinarity, of

this so-called discipline.

Comparative Literature(s) in India have been no different, as the scholars find themselves

caught between the disciplinary battles among Cultural Studies, Dalit Studies, Gender Studies, Minority Studies, Translation Studies and Visual Studies, to name a few, and, of course, the Social Sciences. Still, no one seems to have stopped to ask, whose crisis are we carrying? Is this a Euro-American crisis forced upon us, or have we encountered our own crisis? If yes, then what are they? Is ‘crisis’ necessarily negative? Isn’t lack of crisis that stagnates the discipline, making it redundant? If disciplines are anyway historical formations, then, what does the never-ending debate on the disciplinarity of the discipline based on some ‘origin’ entail? Shouldn’t we rather be exploring the many ‘beginnings’ of the praxis? That is to conceive Comparative Literature as not something that originated in

Euro-America and then came to India, but to reconceive it as a practice that has parallel

beginnings across the world. That is nothing but to decolonize Comparative Literature(s) of India.

‘In-comparative’ is a framework we propose to make sense of the very many incomparable

spatial and temporal experiences, languages, literatures, cultures, communities and

civilizations of ‘India.’ Emily Apter has already drawn attention to ‘un-understandability,’

‘untranslatability’ and ‘incomparativity’ as theoretical constructs, along with Eric

Auerbach’s notion of ‘unGoethean’: “to critique the form of non-cosmopolitan World Literature or standardized literary monoculture” that nationalized itself. No wonder then

James Porter hailed Eric Auerbach as the father of incomparative literature! But that is also to assert that literatures of India are always already in comparative as well asincomparative.

Here, ‘in,’ like in Alain Badiou’s ‘inaesthetics,’ or Jacques Derrida’s ‘im-possibility,’ is not a negation, but an irreducible divisibility that affects the very essence of comparison, its lack of coevality and concomitant equivocality. In-comparative is to critically deconstruct the binary pitfalls that comparison has fallen into. In-comparative is also to resurrect comparison as insurrection, as critique, and not just finding the commonality that binds

together. It is to reach (for) the being-in-common rather than continue to search for a

common being. It is to deterritorialize, even absolutely, without reterritorializing despite territorial boundedness.

These are not some abstract crises that are imposed on Comparative Literature from

outside. They have emerged from the research happening in Comparative Literature and

allied disciplines in India. When the existing disciplinary discourses are insufficient to

address the questions and frameworks that animate and worry the actual works, it is

probably time to pause and unthink ‘in-disciplinarity.’

Please submit Abstracts of about 500 words by 29 December 2024.

- MT Ansari

ansarimt@gmail.com

CFP: Digital Humanities and AI – Intersections, Innovations, and Implications-IIT Dhanbad-31 January -1 February 2025

2024-12-16T15:08:00.000+05:30

The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry. AI technologies like machine learning, natural language processing, and generative models have expanded the digital humanists' toolkit. Their ability to process and analyze vast datasets opens up new research possibilities in archives, literature, history, philosophy, language, cultural studies and other areas, However, these opportunities come with challenges such as ethical concerns, reinforcing biases, and other implications.

This conference invites submissions from academics, researchers, students, industry professionals, early career scholars, and practitioners related to the theme, including but not limited to the following topics.

Digital Humanities and Large Language Models

LLMs-representation of small/ marginalised/indigenous languages

Digital Humanities Pedagogy and AI

Digital Art and Generative AI

Machine Learning and NLP

Prompting engineering and Humanities

GLAM sectors (Digital Gallery, Digital Archives, Digital Libraries and Digital Museum)

Digital Cultural Heritage, Digital History, Digital Life Writing

Humanities-Driven Approaches to AI Development and Deployment

Digital humanities, Public Policy and Decision-making

Responsible AI and Humanities

Gender, Caste, Class and Technology

Digital Multilinguality

Ethics and Questions of AI in the Humanities

Digital Ethics (Deepfake, Jailbreaking,

Electronic Literature

Digital Society, Digital Identities

Digital Economies, Digital Labour

Gaming and DH

Digital Healthcare

Digital Mapping

Computational Linguistics

Digital Connectivity and Community

Critical Code and Software Studies

Digital Environmental Humanities

Decolonizing Digital Humanities: Non-Western Approaches.

Accessibility in Digital Humanities: Bridging Digital Divides

Cognitive Science and AI

AI, Posthumanism, and the Humanities (AI and Posthumanism: Rethinking the Human in Humanities)

AI’s Impact on Intellectual Property and Creative Ownership

Kindly note that this is an in-person conference which will take place at Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, Jharkhand.

There are a few JPN Travel Bursaries available for students and scholars.

The best paper award will be given to the selected participant.

Selected papers will be published with a reputed publisher.

Important Dates

Abstract (max. 500 words)Submission: Due 5 January 2025

Abstract Acceptance Notification: Within two days of submission

Conference Date: 31 January -1 February 2025

The abstract should be sent to iitismdh@gmail.com

For more information, please visit our webpage at https://sites.google.com/view/dh-hss-iit-dhanbad/home.

Registration Fee Details

INR. 750: Indian Master students and precariously employed

INR. 1500: Indian research scholars

INR. 2500: Indian faculty members and industry personnel

USD 100: International participants

CFP: Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference on Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India-November 19—20, 2024-Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

2024-09-09T23:08:00.001+05:30

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024

November 19—20, 2024

Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India

The post-Independence Indian theatre has been largely influenced by the realist theatre tradition of the West with some persistent exceptions in different regions across India, that are committed to revive, explore and establish the Indianness of Indian theatre, however complex the notion of ‘Indian’ may be. As the nationalist movement in colonial India had gained momentum in the first half of the twentieth century, theatre practitioners attempted to decolonise Indian theatre by imbibing indigenous cultural forms and expressions beyond the Proscenium. In fact, the postcolonial intersection in Indian theatre was ushered in by rejecting ‘the modernity associated with western modes of representation’ and by asserting an ‘alternative postcolonial modernity based on premodern indigenous traditions of performance’ (Dharwadker 2019, 22). The concerns raised in the First Drama Seminar in New Delhi in 1956 on the need to create a ‘new’ theatre for the ‘new’ nation, that was self-conscious and self-reflexive, found expressions through movements such as People’s Theatre (already practised by IPTA), the Theatre of Roots and Third Theatre. Various forms of folk, traditional and regional performances were also revived to strengthen the drive towards Indianness in performance making—in terms of the use of performance elements, performers’ training, selection of performance space and content for dramatization. These performances have been mostly addressed to the commons of the society, where the issues and concerns of the grassroots are primarily explored.

One of the most significant engagements in the postcolonial Indian theatre has been with place as performance space, where place and person intersect to allow place to be a potential actant in the playmaking process as well as its meaning production. When a performance embodies social or historical situatedness beyond the Proscenium stage, it attains a wider provision to intersect with performance of protest, narrative of resistance, sociopolitical activism and unorthodox conditions. The environment of an open-air unorthodox performance space surrounds, sustains and contains the performance and contributes to its meaning production—creating an embodied experience for the spectators.

Postcolonial Indian theatre has also witnessed the rise of applied performance practices where a play is developed through participatory workshop with non-actors belonging to a particular community in focus. Such productions are mostly research-oriented, workshop-based, community-centred and purpose-driven, where the entire playmaking process is shared by the participants, collaborators, facilitators or performers. Sometimes the barrier between the performers and the spectators becomes fluid and an intersection of body, space and environment is observed. Although the community performances in unorthodox performance spaces in local communities broadly diverge from the commerciality of the Proscenium convention, the lack of consistent financial support and enthusiastic collaborators poses a constant threat to their survival in India.

In this background, the conference seeks deliberations on the non-Proscenium forms and practices of theatre performances in postcolonial India, which shape a distinct Indian identity in terms of performance making. The performance forms and practices may be examined through diverse cultural, theoretical and theatrical discourses in the postcolonial Indian context. The seemingly overlapping performance practices and ideas listed below are only indicative and not restrictive in nature.

People’s theatre: Nationalism, Cultural activism and the Mass

Indigenous performance: Folk, Traditional and Ritual

The Theatre of Roots: Rooted, Uprooted or De-rooted?

Street theatre: Politics, Propaganda and Social activism

Performance of protest: Art, Dissent and Performativity

Applied performance: Therapy, Education and Engagement

Participatory performance: Research, Workshop and Collaboration

Intimate performance: Body, Space and Proximity

Ecological performance: Ecology, Climate change and Green dramaturgy

Organic theatre: Nature, Embeddedness and Organicity

Site-specific performance: Art, Aesthetics and Environment

We invite abstracts of not more than 300 words from college/University students, research scholars and early career researchers to be emailed to the conference convenor at english.rkm@gmail.com. The names, contact numbers, email ids and affiliations should be clearly mentioned in the abstracts. Please write “SRC2024 Abstract” in the subject heading of your email.

Important Dates

Last Date of submission of Abstract: Friday, 20th September 2024

Notification of acceptance of Abstract: Wednesday, 25th September 2024

For queries: english.rkm@gmail.com

Convenor: Pranab Kumar Mandal, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

CFP: Two-Day International Seminar on Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation 3rd & 4th October 2024 ~ Pondicherry University

2024-08-24T23:02:00.002+05:30

The Department of English at Pondicherry University has been an important educational destination for research scholars and students, ever since it commenced functioning in 1986. Over the years, the department has produced innumerable PhD and M. Phil scholars, in addition to a large number of postgraduate students. The faculty of the department with their different specializations and academic interests are at the forefront of innovative teaching and advanced research varying from contemporary literary, cultural and language studies to theoretical explorations. The department also runs a Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication in English, an add-on program, in much demand among students and employees.

Furthermore, the department has also sought to enhance the language and communication skills of students from across the University through Functional

English and other communication-oriented courses. Another hallmark of the department is the Research and Cultural Forum (RCF) which acts as an avenue for scholars and students to showcase their research work and creative abilities. The department has also been at the forefront of organizing seminars, workshops and faculty development programs.

About Research and Cultural Forum (RCF):

Conceived thirty-five years ago as Research and Journal Alert Forum (RJAF) at the Department of English, Pondicherry University, RCF is a platform for research scholars and students of the department to discuss their research findings in various areas related to literature and culture and also present their creative talents. Run exclusively by the research scholars of the department, under the guidance of the faculty members and the support of MA students the forum hosts invited talks, workshops and interactive sessions by experts of national and international repute in the emerging areas of English Studies. The forum was recently renamed Research and Cultural Forum to integrate the department's research and cultural outputs. Now, it proudly undertakes the mission of bringing together and highlighting the role of literature in social transformation through this two-day International Seminar.

About the Seminar:

A Two-Day International Seminar has been planned by the Department of English on the 3rd & 4th of October 2024, with the focus area “Mirroring Change: Literature and Social Transformation”.

Theme:

Literature has been able to predict, analyze, and critique social, economic and political change for a long time. This, in turn, has contributed to understanding social and political transformation through a medium that has been conventionally seen to be largely imaginative and fictional. While Orwell’s cautionary tale, 1984 predicted the effects of totalitarian regimes and surveillance, Harriet Beecher’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin “helped lay the groundwork for the American Civil War” (Kaufman, 2006: 18). If Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath brought into full view the travails of America during the Great Depression, Munshi Premchand’s Godaan brutally exposed poverty and the evils of the zamindari system in India. Literature has thus been constantly in sync with the changing silhouettes of society.

The conference aims to explore how literature has closely interacted with and mirrored the intricate matrix of the social and political milieu. This interaction has resulted in innumerable texts that have reflected these significant changes and helped us understand an ever-changing world. The wide gamut of social, political, economic, cultural, sociological and anthropological change has prompted the writer to ask questions, show up the mirror and sometimes even offer prescriptions for ills, thus making literature a vehicle for social transformation. The conference aims to investigate and explore the significant role that literature has played in reflecting these changes, therefore acting as truth-seeker, sentinel, chronicler, and critic, all rolled into one.

The conference aims to explore the interchange between literature and social transformation across varied arenas and can include, but is not restricted, to the following areas:

• Political upheaval and social movements

• Caste, class and hierarchy

• Reigns, regimes and democracy

• Marxism and literature

• Changing dimensions of gender

• Queer narratives

• Geographies, borders and migration

• Indigenous literatures

• Anthropocene, Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism

• Dalit literature and social justice

• Technology and literature

• Popular culture and subcultures

• Medical imperialism and illness narratives

Registration Fee:

Faculty Members: Rs. 2000

Research Scholars: Rs. 1000

PG Students: Rs. 500

Co-authors are required to pay individually.

UG students (participation only): Rs 200

Abstracts:

Abstracts can be uploaded through the Google form link

below on or before 30th August 2024.

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/CA78DHY86yfQtzhW9

Your queries may be addressed to rcfseminar202 4 @gmail.com

Important Dates:

Last date for sending abstracts: 30th August 2024

Confirmation of acceptance will be communicated by: 2nd September 2024

Complete papers are to be sent by: 27th September 2024

Address for Communication:

Drishya K.

Steward C.

Research Scholars

Department of English

Pondicherry University

Puducherry-605014

8589825788, 8270410154

CFP: 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025) -The University of Hong Kong

2024-08-24T00:26:00.000+05:30

Call for Papers: What is Asian Cinema?

We invite paper and panel proposals to present at the 14th Asian Cinema Studies Society conference to be held at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) during May 22-24, 2025. As a non-profit scholarly organization, the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) actively fosters international research in Asian film and media and publishes the flagship peer-reviewed journal Asian Cinema (Intellect). With the support of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC), the Master of Arts in Literary and Cultural Studies Programme (MALCS), and the Department of Comparative Literature of HKU, ACSS brings its first face-to-face meeting since the global pandemic back to Hong Kong, a major Asian metropolis, transport hub, filmmaking capital, and connective node of regional, inter-Asian, and transpacific cultural globalization.

ACSS 2025 invites participants to present papers on any aspect of Asian film and media, though we encourage proposals that address the question: “What is Asian cinema?” Although often understood as cinematic practices, institutions, cultural formations, and critical discourses in or from Asia, the term “Asian cinema” belies its contradictions and complexities as an idea. Historically, scholars challenged such simplistic and binaristic understandings by investigating: how “Asia,” “Asian,” and “cinema” were defined under colonialism and postcolonialism; the way transnational productions trespass national and regional boundaries; the complex relations between home/ancestry/ethnicity/linguistic sharedness and diaspora; as well as how cinema itself often redefines and rewrites the meanings of “Asia” and “Asian.” Recently, theorists posit that the term “Asian cinema” implicitly constructs “cinema” and “media” as universal concepts modified by a particular concept: “Asian,” a construction that perpetuates the orientalist knowledge formation of Asia as an exception to the norm.

In light of these provocations, we ask: Does studying cinema in, from, about, or by Asia/Asians always suggest a power relation between an observer and an observed or an irreconcilable difference between Asia and somewhere else? Do strategically essential concerns justify the particularity of Asian film and media studies? How do evolving meanings and technologies of “cinema,” “film,” and “media” in our era of digital globalization reshape ideas of “Asia” or “Asian?” And, what was Asian cinema?

We welcome discussions and interventions addressing these questions both directly and indirectly, and from different disciplinary perspectives, methods, and approaches. Possible topics in relation to Asian film and media may include, but are not limited to:

● Colonialism, postcolonialism, decolonization, nationalism, empire, globalization

● Digital and online media, cultures, communities, and fandoms, streaming and platforms, video games, new media, seriality, intermediality, transmediality, post-cinema, big data, AI, CGI, deepfakes, surveillance

● Environmentalism, ecocriticism, animal studies and/or plant studies, anthropocene

● Film and media theory, philosophy, and discourse

● Historiography, memory, media archaeology and ecology, industry, exhibition, distribution, censorship/regulation, museology and curation, film festivals, stars

● LGBTQIA+, disability, race, ethnicity, class, feminism, and gender

● Pedagogy, production, performance, criticism, sound, music, effects, choreography

● Poetics, narrative, aesthetics, genre, documentary, experimental, animation, authorship, studios, independent, reception, audience, waves, movements

● Regional, national, transnational, indigenous, diaspora, language communities, refugee, exilic, inter-Asian, transpacific, Asian/American, Asian Australian, Asian Canadian

● Urban, rural, archipelagic, oceanic, and other spatial and environmental imaginaries

Please send proposals or enquiries to acssconference2025@gmail.com. For individual paper proposals, send a 200-300 word abstract and include the title, author name(s), institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email contacts, as well as a brief (50-100 word) biography of the contributor. For pre-constituted panel proposals (of 3-4 papers), provide a brief description (100 words) of the overall panel along with the individual abstracts and contributor information. Sessions will be 90 minutes in duration, and time limits will be strictly enforced. The deadline for submission of proposals is 10 November 2024. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by the end of January 2025.

There will be no conference registration fee per se, but all presenters must be members of the Asian Cinema Studies Society, which requires an annual fee of $550 HKD / $70 USD. Full-time students (with ID) and underemployed scholars may pay a discounted fee of $450 HKD / $57 USD. The fee covers one year membership, one volume (two issues) of Asian Cinema, and gives access to the society’s executive meeting at the conference.

CFP: Two-Day National Conference on the theme INDIAN ETHOS IN ENGLISH WRITINGS 24th and 25th October 2024(Hybrid Mode)-SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR

2024-08-19T16:45:00.000+05:30

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF KASHMIR

Is Organising a Two-Day National Conference

on the theme

INDIAN ETHOS IN ENGLISH WRITINGS

24th and 25th October 2024

(Online and Offline Mode)

About Central University of Kashmir

The Central University of Jammu & Kashmir was stablished alongside 15 other Central Universities in the year 2009 by an Act of Parliament. Later the university was bifurcated into two Universities: the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) and the Central University of Jammu (CUJ). Currently, the University has Nine (09) schools with 21 constituent Teaching Departments offering over 45 PG, UG, diploma, research, and Vocational programmes.

About the Department of English

The Department of English is the first department established in the School of Languages (SOL), Central University of Kashmir. The Department provides an intellectually nourishing and conducive atmosphere to the students aspiring to undertake an in-depth study of English Literature as it offers a variety of courses covering all the major genres of English literature and the fundamentals of English language teaching.

About the Conference

The Two-Day National Conference on Indian Ethos in English Writings aims to embark on an exploratory journey to uncover the nuances of Indian culture and identity as represented in English literature. The event will bring together scholars, writers, and researchers to discuss, debate, and share insights on the intersection of Indian culture and English literature. This confluence of scholars, writers, and researchers will delve into the complexities of Indian English writings, examining how the country's rich heritage and traditions are portrayed in various genres and periods. Through keynote addresses, paper presentations, and interactive sessions, the conference seeks to foster a deeper understanding of India's cultural landscape and literary terrain. By providing a platform for discussion, debate, and creative expression, the event endeavours to unravel the intricacies of Indian ethos in English writings, ultimately contributing to a richer understanding of the nation's cultural identity. Join us in this intellectual sojourn and uncover the essence of India's cultural soul.

Sub-themes / Tracks

1. Indian identity in English literature

2. Cultural nuances in Indian English writing

3. Representation of Indian ethos in English literature

4. Intersection of tradition and modernity in Indian

English writings

5. Indianness in English Language

6. Indian Knowledge System Vis-à-vis English Writings

Target Audience

1. Scholars and researchers in English literature, language and cultural studies

2. Writers and authors of Indian English literature

3. Scholars/students pursuing higher studies in English literature

4. Cultural enthusiasts and literature lovers

Call for Papers and participation

Abstract: 300 words with author/s details (affiliation, email id & mobile number) by or before 27th Sep. 2024

Full Paper: 3000 words by or before 15th Oct.2024

Email Id: ieew2024cukashmir@gmail.com

Category-wise Registration Fee in INR

Early bird registration - Before 2nd Oct.2024

Paper Presentation Only Participation

Online Offline Online Offline

Faculty 1200 2500 900 2000

Scholars 900 2000 600 1800

Regular Registration - After 2nd Oct. 2024

Paper Presentation Only Participation

Online Offline Online Offline

Faculty 1500 3000 1200 2500

Scholars 1000 2500 800 2000

Chief Patron

Prof.A.Ravinder Nath

Hon’ble Vice-chancellor, Central University of Kashmir

Chairperson

Prof.Sandhya Tiwari

Head, Department of English; Dean, School of Languages

Coordinators

Dr.E.Krishna Chaitanya, Assoc.Prof., Department of English

Dr.Ihsan-ur- Rahim Malik, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Dr.Ishrat Bashir, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Mr.Sunil Kumar Mannil, Asst. Prof., Department of English

Organising Team

Scholars, students & staff of the Dept. of English RSVP

Dr.E.Krishna Chaitanya -9550916069

Sudeb Mondal – 7074062363

Shahid Nabi – 9682506446

CFP: Three-Day International Conference on “Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths And Challenges” -August 28 - 30, 2024. The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad,

2024-06-04T23:16:00.001+05:30

Concept Note

Post-Technological Rationalist thought on natural and social phenomenon is marked by two major emphases: a. The move away from discipline-specific knowledge-systems, towards the construction of a transdisciplinary knowledge base/knowledge regime (Sverker Sorlin 2018), through the configuration of a knowledge-infrastructure to regulate the flow of ideas across established, as well as new/emergent knowledge-sites, and b. The recognition of the slippages across the traditional impact/value binary, with impact increasingly being seen as the first step in the direction of value creation. The emergent knowledge ecosystem suggests the tasks cut out for humanities, factoring in the seamless connection across natural, cultural, and technological phenomena that marks the planetary-scale crises confronting humanity. Offering a socially usable critique of established processes of knowledge production and building cultural structures of preparedness for the unforeseen (Helge Jordheim and Tore Rem 2014) are these crucial tasks. The ‘crisis’ in humanities can now be seen as the proactive response to these crucial, challenging tasks, justly viewed as opportunities. The favorable climate for inter and cross- disciplinary approaches in traditional humanities, and the emergence of bio-, techno-, medical-, geo-, digital-, public- humanities, lend credence to this belief.

The Three-day International Conference on Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges offers a forum for scholars interested in understanding and disseminating the new role that humanities has come to assume, by deliberating on ways in which humanities can contribute to the socio-economic, cultural, and environmental challenges facing the world today.

Themes and Sub-Themes (List is not Exhaustive)

Post-Truth and Post-human Knowledge

• The Adventures of Philosophy in the Post-Truth Era

• Rethinking Critical Posthumanities

• Moves beyond Anthropocentrism

• New Academic Posthumanities

Situating the Posthuman Subject

• Apprehending Human and Non-Human Rationality

• Dealing with a Nonconscious Future: Agendas and Strategies

• Reclaiming Agency: Putative Action-Plans for the Cyborg Self

Public Humanities

• Humanities of the Street: Challenges and Responses

• Public Creation and the Discipline: Dealing with Ephemerality and Fluidity

• Knowledge Cocreation Ecosystem: Power, Trust and other Issues

• Citizen Humanities: Emerging Participatory Modes in Natural and Cultural Heritage

Varieties of New Materialism

• Revisiting Ethico-Onto-Epistemology

• Chronicling Acts of Diffractive Reading

• Agential Realism: Re-Configuration and Impact Evaluation

• The Academic Fortunes of New Materialist Vitalism

• Negative New Materialism: A Negative Moment or Constructive Aspect?

• Performative New Materialism: Critical Assessments

Innovative Medicine on the Moral/Ethical Plane

• The Research-Practice Continuum: Ethical Conundrums

• Assisted Reproductive Techniques: Unanswered Ethical Dilemmas

• Neuroethics: Plotting the Field

Technology, Embodiment and Gender

• Ubiquitous Technologies, Embodied Cognition and Interaction

• Technology and Embodiment in Learning Spaces

• Technology and Gender Equality in the Global South

Globalization of the Body

• The Unstable “We”: Vaccine Nationalism and Viral Sovereignty

• Re-configuring the Biomedical Technoscape

• Engaging with Ontological Wholeness and other Myths

• The Political-Economy of the Body: Globalization and Precarity

• Troublesome Discursive Formations: Eugenic Utopias

Alternative Schemes of Thought, Knowledge, and Self-Representation

• Comparative Relativisms: Way out of the Maze or Mission Impossible?

• Critical Constructivism: The Return of the Prodigal `Essence`?

• Epistemological Anarchism: Method’s Radical Other or its Uncanny Double?

• Forms of Self-Representation: Diachronic/Narrative or Episodic/Non-Narrative?

New Perspectives on the Anthropocene

• Deep Ecology: Tracing the Metabolic Connections with other Disciplines

• Varieties of Eco-Feminism: Sustainable Theory?

• Disenchantment and New Animism: Progressive or Atavistic?

• Social Ecology and Bioregionalism: Theorizing Eco-Justice

Understanding the Technological Sublime

• Artificial General Intelligence and the Technological Sublime

• Biotechnological Sublime: Views from the Intersection of Nature, Technology, Art

• Environment Narratives and/on Next Nature

Visuali0ty1and Image Studies

• Images, Circulation and Practices

• Visuality and the New Media

• Everyday Imaging, and Critical Thinking

Minority Discourses: New Approaches

• NewFrontiers in Dalit Literary Studies

• Film Studies

• Graphic Narratives: The Politics of Reception

• Globalization and Diaspora Literary Studies

• Alternative Literature Studies

Literatures of the Global South

• South Asian Literature

• Indian Art and Aesthetics

• Postcolonial Diaspora Art

• Refugee Literature

• Literature and Migration

• Identity: Representation, Culture and Politics

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Narrative Traditions

• Theorising Orality

• The Ritual Revisited

• Issues in Performance Ethnography

• Performance and Public Spaces

• Folkloristics and Modern Narratives

• Retelling Myths: Critique, Ideology, Aesthetics

• Mythicizing Worldviews

Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Disciplinarity and Gender Studies

• Feminist Praxis

• Women’s Studies

• Masculinity Studies

• Queer Studies

• Gender Responsive Pedagogy: Issues in

Ideology and Methodology

Original, Unpublished papers on the above themes are invited from members of university and college faculty and other institutions, independent researchers, research scholars registered with universities and research institutions.

Send your abstract, in about 250 words, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email Id and mobile number.

Email your abstract to: ihceflu2024@gmail.com

● Last date of Submission of Abstracts: July 5, 2024

● Communication regarding Acceptance of Abstracts: July 15, 2024

● Registration: July 30, 2024

● Submission of Full Papers: August 10, 2024

Send your abstract, in about 250 words, with a title, your name, institutional affiliation, email Id and mobile number.

Email your abstract to: ihceflu2024@gmail.com

CFP: Orientalism and Asian Studies | Transnational Asia

2024-05-19T18:23:00.000+05:30

Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) has profoundly affected teaching and research in Asian Studies, raising fundamental questions about why and how we study Asia. Nearly fifty years later, we are faced with a need to reflect on what has changed and remains unchanged since Said’s seminal intervention in Asian Studies. Specifically, Transnational Asia is calling for papers that address pedagogical and instructional issues––in particular, Asian Studies classes in colleges and universities that engage directly with the themes and critiques raised in Said’s Orientalism and its reverberating effects. We are particularly interested in papers illustrating changes in classrooms and on campuses that have happened and are happening hand in hand with changing socio-economic and political conditions, not only in Asia but also in the rest of the world. We especially welcome cross-disciplinary approaches, including language instruction, art, history, area studies, anthropology, literature, ethnic studies, and geography. Prospective contributors are asked to send their abstracts by August 31 to transnational.asia@rice.edu.

Transnational Asia: an online interdisciplinary journal is a web-only journal from the Chao Center for Asian Studies, Rice University. Transnational Asia publishes scholarship that challenges traditional understandings of Asia, moving beyond the confines of area studies and a nation-state focus and capturing the emergent forms of Asia-related, Asia-inspired, and Asia-driven themes and sites of inquiry in the world today.

Contact Information

Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Sonia Ryang

Co-Editor: Dr. Richard J. Smith

Journal Manager: Amber Szymczyk

Contact Email

transnational.asia@rice.edu

URL

https://transnationalasia.rice.edu

Call for Papers: International #Anthology on #Sylvia #Plath among Strangers around the World

2024-05-02T08:46:00.002+05:30

The international network SPAW (Sylvia Plath around the World) invites scholars to contribute to an international anthology about Sylvia Plath and translation from a global perspective. Scholarly texts, written in English, about a wide range of topics concerning Plath and translation, reception, adaptation and influence are welcome.

Sylvia Plath is a well-known and highly influential 20th century author, and her writing has paved the way for significant changes especially in women writers’ subject matter, literary forms, and techniques from the late 1960s onwards. Plath’s novel The Bell Jar (1963) is a modern classic, and the publication of her poetry collection Ariel (1965) is considered an important literary event in 20th century literary history. Describing Plath’s influence on American poetry, Linda Wagner-Martin claims that ”the results of the impact of Plath’s work are as pervasive as the influence of Ernest Hemingway’s terse yet open prose” (2006: 52), and depicting Plath’s effect on British poetry, Fiona Sampson has asserted that: ”Plath’s influence has passed into the vocabulary of the poetically possible: in English but potentially in the many languages into which she is translated” (2019: 357).

Plath’s influence has indeed transcended national and language borders. For example, Ivana Hostová has shown how Plath was translated into Slovak in the late 1980s, which influenced a number of prominent Slovak women poets in their writing and inspired numerous plays and poems being written of and about Plath. In a similar fashion, Jennifer Feeley has analyzed how different Plath translations impacted Chinese women’s poetry in the 1980s and 1990s resulting in “a bold new gendered poetics that marks a turning point in Chinese women’s writing” (Feeley, 2017: 38). Anna-Klara Bojö has shown that in Sweden, Plath was not received primarily as a feminist poet, but rather as a renewer of modernist lyricisms, and, taking a different angle on the subject of Plath in translation, Sofía Monzón Rodríguez has analyzed how the Francoist censorship board banned Plath’s texts on account of their sexually explicit and profane language.

Although Plath’s prose and poems have been translated into more than 30 languages, research concerning the translation and transmission processes, Plath's reception and influence stretching beyond English language borders is not readily available. We, the editors, therefore invite scholars around the world to contribute to an anthology concerning translation, reception and influence of Sylvia Plath in a global perspective.

We ask interested writers to submit an abstract (about 300 words) before September 15th, 2024.

Preliminary deadline for papers is May 1st, 2025.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, Sylvia Plath and:

· translation and retranslation

· post-translation

· reception

· influence

· literary history

· the literary market

· adaptation into other media, such as plays or music

· literary criticism

Please direct any questions you may have, and send your abstracts to: spaw.anthology@gmail.com

/The editors:

Anna-Klara Bojö

Sofía Monzón

Ivana Hostová

Contact Information

Anna-Klara Bojö, Gender Library and Archive at Gothenburgh University

Sofía Monzón, Utah State University

Ivana Hostová, Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Contact Email

spaw.anthology@gmail.com

URL

http://www.uslit.sav.sk/en/call-for-papers-sylvia-plath-among-strangers-around-…

Attachments

Call for Papers: Sylvia Plath among Strangers around the World

Call For Papers: Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for Papers for Vol. 3,

2024-05-02T08:18:00.003+05:30

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

By placing creative expressions at the center of a wide range of contemporary and historical intercultural relationships, the journal explores forms of belonging and spaces of difference and dissidence that challenge both universalist and exclusionary paradigms.

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is hosted by Georgetown University, Washington D.C., and is co-supported by the “Plurielles” Research Group, Bordeaux Montaigne University, France. Its founders and editors-in-chief are Prof. Didier Coste (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), Dr. Christina Kkona (Bordeaux Montaigne U.), and Prof. Nicoletta Pireddu (Georgetown U.).

Each journal issue includes 5-7 scholarly articles (6000-8000 words each) and several book reviews (1000 words each) and/or review essays (3000 words each).

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism invites submissions for Volume 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2025)

It welcomes original and theoretically insightful contributions to cultural cosmopolitanism in connection with the following disciplinary domains and methodological approaches (but not exclusively):

Anthropology; Border studies; Cultural historiography; Cultural sociology; Ecocriticism and environmental studies; Exile, migration, and diaspora studies; Feminism, gender, sexuality, queer and transgender studies; Film and media studies; Global South studies; Mediterranean studies; Nativism and indigeneity; Oceanic and island studies; Performance studies; Philosophy; Poetics and aesthetics; Politics and cosmopolitics; Race and ethnic studies; Transatlantic studies; Translation studies; Transnational and global studies; Visual arts; World literature.

Prospective authors wishing to discuss proposals for articles, book reviews, or review articles can contact the Editors-in-chief at migratingminds@georgetown.edu by October 31, 2024.

Full-text articles and reviews should be submitted by February 28, 2025 through the designated online form.

Migrating Minds only accepts unpublished manuscripts that are not under consideration elsewhere. Books proposed for reviews should have been published no earlier than 2023.

Migrating Minds also welcomes articles on a rolling basis and proposals for special issues or sections. Please contact the Editors-in-chief for further discussion.

Migrating Minds articles are indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Google Scholar, and WorldCat.

Contact Information

Nicoletta Pireddu, Didier Coste, Christina Kkona, co-Founders and co-Editors in Chief

Contact Email

migratingminds@georgetown.edu

URL

https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu

Attachments

migrating-minds-call-papers-vol3-issue-2-fall-2025.docx

Call for Book Chapters- Social Work and Social Change: Education, Research and Practice (Springer)

2024-04-18T10:27:00.002+05:30

Social work as human service-based profession has a long and rich history of being intricately linked to social change. From early reformers advocating for better living conditions to contemporary practitioners working for poverty, inequality, racial justice, crime, drug addiction and so on, the profession has consistently strived to create a more equitable society. This edited book aims to explore the complex relationship between social work and social change, exploring how the profession contributes to positive societal transformations and how the concept of social change itself is understood within the social work field. Social work, at its core, is a profession dedicated to promoting social justice and fostering positive societal transformations. While social work is inherently tied to the pursuit of social justice and equity, little is known about the specific mechanisms through which the profession actively contributes to social change. This book seeks to bridge this gap by offering a comprehensive exploration of the multifaceted ways in which social work education, practice, and research intersect with and contribute to broader processes of social transformation. Furthermore, this proposed volume explores the intricate and dynamic relationship between social work and social change, focusing on the critical roles of education, practice, and research in driving meaningful progress. We will explore how these three pillars work together to equip social workers with the knowledge, skills, and evidence-based practices necessary to be effective change agents.

The contribution in this volume should be in position to explore the following questions:

How is the concept of social change itself conceptualized within social work broadly and particularly in its different specializations (e.g., child welfare, gerontology, mental health, social justice social policy, community organizing etc.)?
How does social work education, research and practice contribute to social change at micro, macro and meso levels?
What are the various frameworks and approaches used by social workers to promote social change?
How do issues of power, oppression, and social justice influence social work's role in social change?
How can social work better measure and document its impact on social change efforts?
How do global and technological advancements influence the ways social workers approach and achieve social change?

We invite social work educators, scholars, practitioners, and researchers engaged in social work and social change to submit chapters that address the central themes outlined above. Contributions can be theoretical, empirical, research-based or practice-oriented, offering diverse perspectives on how each area (education, practice, research) contributes to social change within the social work. We aim to include 15 chapters (maximum) for this proposed volume.

Contact Information

Dr. Koustab Majumdar, email- koustabm@ranchi.rkmvu.ac.in

Contact Email: koustabm@ranchi.rkmvu.ac.in

URL

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/379485517_Call_for_Contributions_Book-…

Call for papers #Queer Cold Wars: Deconstructing Bipolar Visions of #Gender and #Sexuality

2024-04-11T08:23:00.002+05:30

Editors: Tatiana Klepikova (University of Regensburg), Maryna Shevtsova (KU Leuven),

Emil Edenborg (University of Stockholm)

In the twenty-first century, “LGBTQ+” has emerged as a key discursive cornerstone to signal alliances and oppositions and underpin broader geopolitical claims in the international arena. From the US War on Terror, backed by the rhetoric that Jasbir Puar defines as “homonationalism” (Puar 2013) or the EU’s use of LGBTQ+ issues in enlargement processes (Shevtsova 2020; Slootmaeckers 2017) to bans on displaying “abnormal sexual relationships and behaviors” on television in China, the declaration of the “international LGBT movement” an extremist organization in Russia, or police raids in gay clubs in Venezuela, there has emerged a picture of a world allegedly firmly divided into two camps—of states supporting LGBTQ+ rights and ones vehemently opposing them. This binary has often been theorized through the opposition of “homonationalism” vs. “heteronationalism” (see, e.g., Renkin & Trofimov 2023), and its most recent visceral manifestation is Russia’s invasion into Ukraine under the banner of fighting for “traditional values” (see, e.g., Kratochvíl & O’Sullivan 2023). Additional binaries such as Christianity vs. Islam, West vs. “the rest,” and democracy vs. autocracy have often also underpinned this framing.

Yet, how do we reconcile such binary frameworks with facts such as, for instance, a growing sexual and gender diversity within religious institutions in the uncompromisingly Catholic Argentina, Colombia, and Mexico, where queer priest:esses have been increasingly appointed as heads of parishes or churches (Bárcenas Barajas 2014; Córdova Quero 2018)? Or with the hosting of events like the Queer Art Festival in Azerbaijan—the country consistently ranked as “the worst in Europe in terms of LGBTQ+ rights” by ILGA Europe (Safarova 2021; ILGA-Europe 2023)? At the same time, signals of conservative developments come from regions firmly seen as the “pro-LGBTQ+ camp”—the introduction of “LGBT-free zones” in Poland (Ploszka 2023), a ban on gender studies in Hungary (Pető 2021), decidedly homophobic claims by the German AfD (Doer 2021), or the denial of gender affirmation to trans-individuals in Florida (Human Rights Campaign 2023). Set alongside each other, these practices decidedly call for a more nuanced approach to the idea of a bipolar world.

The proposed edited volume seeks to deconstruct an alleged bipolarity in international relations and explore the entanglements and slippages between homonationalism and political homophobia as two global forms of ideological and cultural domination. Our reference to and modification of the historical Cold War is intentional. As this concept emphasizes international political competition, tension, and proxy conflicts between two adversary camps, scholars have debunked the myth of their monolithic and dichotomic nature by revealing both the plurality within them and the porosity of boundaries “separating” them (e.g., Klepikova & Raabe 2020). In theorizing the contemporary “queer Cold Wars,” the proposed edited volume attends to such pluralities of actors and political systems that are never uniform or fully aligned in their goals, seeking to explore the roles of states, supranational organizations, transnational movements, and local and global communities. It also advocates for examining the role of the globalized economy and the spreading of neoliberal capitalism as a vehicle for transporting and adopting (and adapting) ideas of homonationalism and political homophobia (think here, for example, of Rahul Rao’s concept of “homocapitalism”; Rao 2015). Finally, it recognizes the alignment of these new “Cold Wars” with the arrival of the era of digital cultures and interrogates the role of digital infrastructures and networks in troubling the alleged binaries.

We welcome papers that seek to trouble binary geopolitical visions of sexuality and gender from the following perspectives and beyond:

religion (organized faith, economics of belief, etc.)
economic perspectives (humanitarian aid, homocapitalism, etc.)
education (schooling, ban on sex education, “protection of minors” discourse)
research (challenges to queer research globally, bans of research institutions, ethics of transgressing boundaries of the global West/South/East divides)
healthcare (regulations, adoption of ICD-11)
media (representations, global cultures of queerness, streaming platforms as vehicles of queerness)
culture (literature, film, arts; infrastructures of queerness – festivals, etc.)
memory politics (museification; showcasing of national and/or transnational queer histories)
mobility (sex tourism, asylum seeking, etc.)
digital cultures (networked homophobia; digital activism, etc.)

Contributions from all Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines are welcome (Political Science, Social Science, History, Economics, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Religion Studies, Media Studies, Memory Studies, Education Science, Medical Humanities, etc.)

Timeline and Requirements: Please submit a 500-word abstract and a short bio (one PDF) by May 31, 2024 (to maryna.shevtsova@kuleuven.be; tatiana.klepikova@ur.de; emil.edenborg@gender.su.se).

In case of acceptance (communicated by late June), a 4000-word extended draft should be submitted by October 11, 2024. The editors are currently seeking funding to workshop extended drafts among contributors—should this funding be granted, the workshop will take place on October 28–29, 2024 in Leuven, Belgium.

Full papers (up to 7,000–8,000 words, incl. footnotes and references) will be due by February 1, 2025. All contributions will undergo a rigorous peer review before publication. Editors are also securing funding to publish the edited volume in open access. They will submit a proposal to an international publisher following the selection of abstracts submitted in response to the call for papers.

Contact Information

Editors: Tatiana Klepikova (University of Regensburg), Maryna Shevtsova (KU Leuven),

Emil Edenborg (University of Stockholm)

Contact Email

tatiana.klepikova@ur.de

URL

https://marynashevtsova.com/call-for-papers/

Call for papers: "History and Memory: Epistemological Reinterpretation of #Africa's #Past in a #Post_Colonial Context" -Práticas da História: Journal on #Theory, #Historiography and Uses of the Past (#SCOPUS, Open Access)

2024-04-11T08:13:00.004+05:30

Call for papers for Práticas da História: Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past (SCOPUS, Open Access)

Theme: History and Memory: Epistemological Reinterpretation of Africa's Past in a Post-Colonial Context

Editors: João Pedro Lourenço (Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação de Luanda), Maria da Conceição Neto (Universidade Agostinho Neto)

The extraordinary advances in historiography on Africa and in Africa in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century, running parallel to the contestation and end of colonial empires, were not accompanied by an equivalent pace of transformation in the teaching of history in African countries, in terms of theories, methods and organization of content to be transmitted. After several decades, the distance remains between the "decolonizing" effort in historiography, with some success, and the way history is taught to young Africans, still reflecting a Eurocentric vision of the history of humankind, whether in periodization or in selection of the most relevant themes. In general, the history of Africa continues to be studied in a fragmented way, with little emphasis on its connections with world history, in which it only appears fully integrated with (as a result of) European expansion and subsequent colonization. Despite the now classic reference to the continent as the "cradle of humankind", there are still narratives that do not take into account the temporal depth of African history, its ancient relationships with other spaces and the diversity of historical situations before, during and after European colonial exploitation. Inadequate and Eurocentric periodizations also prevail, whether for world history (the already much criticized division of the four "Ages") or for the history of Africa (a "pre-colonial period" for millennia of history). UNESCO's commendable efforts were important but insufficient to overcome Africa´s external dependence (mostly from former colonizing countries) in terms of the production of didactic content and means of teaching history, from basic to university level.

It is important to better understand what is happening in different African countries, at the level of the Academy but also in other spaces where social memory and history confront each other, and how political, ideological, economic and linguistic factors interfere in those situations. In the case of the former Portuguese colonies, which will soon celebrate 50 years of independence, there are additional factors, such as the later end of colonial rule and the delay in historiography about Africa that occurred until recent decades, both in Portugal and in Brazil. Despite current progress, most of the bibliography essential for the study of world history, and of the African continent in particular, is not available in Portuguese.

This special issue of Práticas da História is interested in receiving contributions, referring to colonial and post-colonial African contexts, that explore, question and/or reflect on aspects such as:

- The (im)possibility of epistemological autonomy of African Universities: debates and concerns around History Courses, Curricula and Programs.

- The relationship between historical discourse validated by scientific institutions and other forms of social and collective memory, generally ignored in educational institutions, despite their social importance.

- The way in which memory, history and contemporary policies of African national states intersect in spaces of debate and knowledge production, on the continent and beyond.

- The penetration and impact on the historiography of digital humanities - and the possibilities and difficulties, in the African context, of articulating the teaching of History with the world of digital information.

- The place and contribution of historiography and the teaching of History in the construction of memory in Africa, considering the multiple relationships between the constructions of historiographical discourses, public spaces and the public sphere.

- Policies for the construction of archives, public libraries and other infrastructures, as well as the constitution, dissemination and access of funds and collections, a condition for democratic processes in the construction of public memories.

- The relationships between African historiography and Africanist historiography - networks, internationalism, issues of power, publishing markets and their impacts.

- The construction and teaching of "national histories" in the face of the risk of teleological and anachronistic interpretations, projecting current borders into the past.

- The use of the past (known, imagined, manipulated) by different social actors (political parties, unions, churches, groups and social movements, individuals and collectives of citizens or others) as a place of confrontation, contradiction and legitimation.

Proposals (maximum 500 words) must be sent by 31 July to praticashistoria@gmail.com, accompanied by a short biographical note from the author(s). Your acceptance or refusal will be communicated by 10 September. Articles from accepted proposals must be submitted by 15 December. Contributions are accepted in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French.

Contact Email

praticashistoria@gmail.com

URL

https://praticasdahistoria.pt/history-memory-epistemological-reinterpretation-o…

Call for Proposals for Special Issue -Interdisciplinary Humanities -Designing Our Future: Humanities-Centered Teaching, Learning, and Thinking in the 21st Century

2024-04-08T07:04:00.003+05:30

Special Issue Description

What does the future hold for the humanities? Now, perhaps more than ever, the humanities have the opportunity and the urgency to innovate and adapt to the shifting dimensions of the twenty-first century. The humanities provide valuable habits of minds and skills that prepare students for their professional and personal lives. They teach us about the human condition: how we relate to each other; how we understand and work with differing perspectives; how we express ourselves; how we act ethically; and, how we better come to know ourselves. The disciplined university has traditionally organized the humanities within majors, minors, certificates, and general education courses. This structure creates silos where subjects are taught within a particular discipline with an occasional slippage into other disciplines. With the increasing corporatization of the university and the shrinking of higher education, the humanities have become subject to market forces and student demand, positioning academics to continually demonstrate the “value” of their program, degree, or course.

To push against this rigid structure, some colleges and universities are being creative and innovative with the humanities. Some are trying to infuse the humanities in places where traditionally they have been absent, and some are reconceptualizing and repackaging them. For example, how do the humanities give us a roadmap to determine the ethical boundaries of the non-human, cyborgian networks of knowledge generated by artificial intelligence? Or, how does the growing emphasis on incorporating multidisciplinary “real-world” problem-solving in general education courses demonstrate the necessity of humanities thinking?

Thus, this special issue which aims to highlight the strategies and unique ways in which we are adapting and responding to the shifts in higher education. What we note is rather than a focus on disciplinary content, we see an emerging emphasis on humanities thinking and its “real-world” application. We have obstacles to confront and many possibilities before us. For example, the pandemic has shown that higher education can pivot quickly, and with those changes, many of us are seeing the speed of change continue to increase amidst the challenges colleges and universities face. Do we continue to operate within and make small changes to the siloed structures that have defined the American university? Or can we imagine new configurations and ways of thinking about our disciplines, courses, and pedagogies that empower us to design our futures?

Accordingly, we invite scholars to contribute essays that engage with the following questions:

How do we center the humanities in interdisciplinary work through meaningful and productive collaborations?
How do we design humanities courses or programs that generate student interest and demonstrate their value?
How do we survive the shrinking of higher education amidst an unknown future?
In what ways can the humanities be positioned as central to institutions’ strategic priorities?
How can we capitalize on higher education’s emphasis on experiential learning and career preparedness to strengthen our offerings?
How can innovative pedagogies inform new approaches to the humanities?
How can online learning be leveraged to extend the reach of what the humanities tell us how to relate to another?
How does the growth of generative AI impact humanities education in productive, innovative ways?
What are institutions’ creative responses to the obstacles of interdisciplinarity?
How do we prepare graduate students for a higher education landscape that is unlikely to provide them with full-time employment in academia?
How are community colleges drawing connections between the humanities and workforce readiness?

Proposal Submission Guidelines and Process

Submit essay proposals to futureofthehumanities@gmail.com by Friday, April 26, 2024, including the following information:

Proposed essay title
Abstract of 250 words
Name(s) of author(s) and academic affiliation(s)
Brief bio(s) (100 words of less) of author(s)

Essay Guidelines

Essays will meet the following norms:

5,000 to 7,000 words (including notes)
double spaced, 12-points Times New Roman font, 1” fully-justified margins
adheres to latest version of The Chicago Manual of Style
Endnotes only (notes should show full citations followed by shortened citations for the same sources; single-spaced and 10-points Times New Roman font))
no bibliography
quotes over three lines in length need to be in a free-standing block of text with no quotation marks, indented on the left side of the block, and starting the quotation on a new line, with the entire quote indented 1/2 inch from the left margin while maintaining double-spacing;
permissions to reprint images and illustrations, if any, are the responsibility of the author and should be arranged for and paid before submitting the article;
sent electronically in MS Word file to editors

Important Dates and Timeline

Essay proposals deadline: Friday, April 26, 2024
Notification of accepted essay proposals: Friday, May 10, 2024
Completed essay deadline: Friday, September 20, 2024
Anticipated publication: Spring/Summer 2025

Process

Essay proposals will be evaluated on relevance to topic, originality, and clarity. Essay drafts will undergo a double-blind peer review process where reviewers will evaluate originality, clarity, and documentation, and scholarly contribution to decide if the essay is suitable for publication, in need of revision, or not publishable.

About the Journal

We encourage you to take a look at past issues here to familiarize yourself with the journal and the published works. Per HERA’s website, “The Humanities Education and Research Association's Scholarly Journal: Interdisciplinary Humanities is a refereed scholarly journal, published three times a year. The journal accepts articles that deal with ‘any learning activities with content that draws upon human cultural heritage, uses methods that derive from the humanistic disciplines, and has a purpose that is concerned with human values.’ Articles dealing with the interdisciplinary humanities or humanities education at all levels (K-12, college, and adult learning) are welcome, as are creative works of poetry, fiction and non-fiction that reflect the journal's interests and the themes of specific issues.”

Contact Information

Editors:

Katy Hanggi, Chair & Associate Professor, Dept. of Focused Inquiry, Virginia Commonwealth University

Julianna Grabianowski, Assistant Professor of Business, Doane University

Jared List, Associate Professor of Spanish, Doane University

Contact Email

futureofthehumanities@gmail.com

Attachments

cfp-interdisciplinary-humanitiesfinal.pdf

Call for Chapters for Book on Indigenous Women by Indigenous Women

2024-04-03T10:11:00.001+05:30

This is a special call to submit a chapter for our book collection

We seek chapter proposals on the topic of Indigenous Women’s Research. The book positions our voices as central to engagements with Indigenous community life and to dismantling the research paradigms and practices that have not served us as Indigenous women.

We see questions of “voice” as vital issues of political articulation, creatively and wisely expressed in personal, collective and symbolic terms. We write for and with the Indigenous women we work alongside in the diverse fields we occupy. We believe in making our positions and perspectives – across gender, race, ethnicity, class, cultural, social, religious and relational contexts – more nuanced, accessible and expressive to the wider community of Indigenous women in the Global South. We dream of a defining moment when we can speak about who we are in the world for ourselves and with the Indigenous women around the world who inspire, challenge and move us.

This dream and aspiration – to present our voices for ourselves and with each other – sits at the heart of this proposed book collection on Indigenous women researching and reflecting on our most significant milestones and work to date. We embrace the idea of writing for and with each other as a collective voice contributing to the transformational, gendered and decolonising work urgently necessary at this point in history. In doing so, our focus is to flip the script, to forge new pathways for knowledge production and sharing that centre our voices and amplify our authentic narratives.

The way we can afford to do this meaningfully is to do so together through critical reflection, inclusivity and care.

Our book, titled Rematriation: Indigenous Women on Indigenous Women, provides a pragmatic context for our work to be understood across the spheres of the academy, community and everyday life. We write with community women in mind to engage Indigenous struggles, stories and circumstance. This is a call to ground our work as Indigenous women within the modes of engagement, exploration and agency that matter to us as Indigenous women, to oppose, criticise and challenge dominant notions of who we are, how we work and what we want to achieve.

We are interested in chapter proposals that explore how our research opens up the field for other Indigenous women. How does our work create impacts for and with community women? Why should we care and how do we care?

Our goal is to bring new perspectives to understandings of community work from Indigenous worldviews – whether you are part of community, working at the nexus of the academy, activism and community, working at the coalface of land, water, environmental, educational, values- and rights- based or social justice concerns.

The land is life and law. We see spirit in all things. Indigenous wisdom is grounded in a myriad of complex and reciprocal interactions with community, the land, sea and sky. We have much to learn from each other and much to share.

What forms of Indigenous wisdom inspire us? What new work do we bring to the world? What new or old wisdoms do we wish to enshrine, where and how? What do we stand for and how do we stand with and as Indigenous women? Who are we?

This call invites you to respond to such questions just as much as it is an opportunity to pay homage to our ancestral and matrilineal connections. We aspire to build respect and acknowledgement across our communities, disciplines and fields of research as Indigenous women.

Rematriation means returning to the nurturing principles of Mother Earth, honouring the interconnectedness of all life and restoring balance to ecosystems. It involves the revitalisation of Indigenous knowledge systems, languages, and traditions suppressed by ongoing colonial and neocolonial forces. For us, rematriation is both land back and environmental consciousness. This practice offers ways to think outside the border logic of nation-states and reimagine relationships based on ancestral connections and ecology. We are stewards of the earth driven to oppose dominant paradigms of ownership, exploitation and extraction. Rematriation invites us to resee the land and resources beyond commodity fetishism.

We’d love to hear how you are contributing to the conversation on local, national or global issues and what this means for the communities you write about. The book’s thematic focus “on Indigenous women” in our title is about sharing this knowledge with each other through this collection rather than showing how your research is about Indigenous women. Put simply, the book is for us, by Indigenous women for and with Indigenous women.

As editors of this collection, we will be looking to find links between the different chapters submitted so we each speak to one another through strong, interconnected themes.

Possible themes for chapter proposals:

REMATRIATION: How can rematriation serve as a framework for addressing environmental justice issues affecting Indigenous communities, particularly women? How do Indigenous women navigate the complexities of rematriation in the context of ongoing colonial and neocolonial pressures? What are the strategies and initiatives led by Indigenous women to promote rematriation and decolonization within our communities and beyond? How can rematriation initiatives prioritise the voices and leadership of Indigenous women in decision-making processes regarding land, resources, and governance? What are the potential impacts of rematriation on future generations of Indigenous women and our relationships with the land, culture, and community?

KNOWLEDGE: What is Indigenous knowledge and in what ways is it gendered? How does women’s knowledge shape community life? How does our research include new knowledge about Indigenous women’s realities?

VOICE: In what ways are Indigenous women leading the charge on environmental issues? How are Indigenous women’s voices different, enabled, silenced or actualised? How do Indigenous women’s voices influence local, national or global issues? On what issues are we most or least vocal? How are our voices unique, powerful, underrepresented or misheard?

IDENTITY: How does language, religion, gender, class, place or politics shape our identity? What are the differences between our personal, public, academic, historical or community identities?

RELATIONALITIES: How do we work across differences with men, non-Indigenous women and researchers, across generations and cross-culturally? What is the relationship between us as Indigenous women on a local, national or global or an historical scale? In what ways can we talk about a global Indigenous movement of women?

STORY: How does story ground our experience as women? In what ways do we share similar or different stories of Indigenous women’s experience? What are the most moving, uplifting or comical stories by or about Indigenous women?

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: What kind of community research is taking place, for instance on cultural revitalisation, language learning or regeneration or traditional practice, as well as specifically on Indigenous mothers, youth or elders? How is this research innovative, new or transformative?

PLACE-BASED RESEARCH: Where do Indigenous women choose to live and why? Where are the most vulnerable, dangerous, risk-laden or overlooked places? Why does place matter to Indigenous women? How do places shape Indigenous women’s lives, families and/or communities?

KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS: Who are the Indigenous female leaders we want to hold with the highest esteem? How do or have we acknowledge(d) their life experience? How can we learn from their legacy?

DEADLINES:

1 June 2024: Send your 300-word abstract with a brief profile

1 December 2024: Completed chapters due (5000 words)

Email: IndigenousRematriation@gmail.com

Contact Information

Trixie Tangit

Contact Email

IndigenousRematriation@gmail.com

CFP: Call for Additional Chapters--Reiterating #Urbanisms: Staging the City in #Literature and #Media from the Global South

2024-04-02T07:33:00.001+05:30

We are seeking additional chapters for our volume. Proposals for chapters discussing cities of Southeast Asia and Latin America are invited. Proposals for essays within 500 words and a short bio are to be submitted by April 30, 2024, with complete articles within 8,000 words (excluding works cited and endnotes), expected by June 15, 2024. We are using the MLA Handbook 8th Edition in this book. Submissions of abstracts, completed essays, and queries will be directed to citiesglobalsouth@gmail.com. For details regarding the scope of the volume, please refer to the original CFP below.

Original CFP below:

The Global South has become a representative of political, social, economic, and, to some extent, geographical markers of the countries that fall under the scaffolding of the term. However, the Global South is more than the sum of its parts: it has been gradually shaping up to be a cultural denominator that shapes national and cultural imaginaries into producing artefacts of literary and media consumption, sociopolitical/geopolitical commentaries that develop new narratives of and for the geographies that join together and form this Global South or the postcolony. For a term that has historically come to categorise nations with lower levels of industrialisation, lower per capita incomes, and a history of colonialism or dependence on the Global North, stretching across Africa, Latin America, Asia (barring Japan), and the Caribbean, the Global South is the site for massive upscaling in urbanisation as demographies strive to shift from areas of geographical disadvantage to urban centres that offer better amenities and economic prospect. Current urbanisation projections suggest that cities in the Global South, especially in East Asia, South Asia, and Africa, could be at the receiving end of 96% of an over three billion increase in urban population by 2050 (UN-Habitat 2020), while the global projections for net urban demography stand at growing from 55% presently to 68% by 2050. The growth in the urban population in the Global South far outpaces the growth of population, let alone urban demography growth in the Global North, which has started to show a decline in urbanisation over the past couple of decades (Quintero and Restrepo 2019). Starting with the postcolonial epoch beginning towards the end of the long nineteenth century and lasting till the later decades of the twentieth, the Global South has slowly and surely carved out an identity for itself and its population centres, urbanising in its own way, not resorting to the practices laid out by the Global North, but rather adapting the cities to the unique demographies that reside in them, the issues of resources, overpopulation, congestion, residual underdevelopment, disparities, deficits, and marginalisation. Due to the significant affiliation that urbanisation has had with the psyche of the Global South, these urban clusters are an intricate part of their cultural manifestations.

Whether it is the postcolonial city itself (Mumbai, Delhi, Rio De Janeiro, Manila, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Cairo, Lagos, and many others) or the postcolonial subject in a city of the Global North, manoeuvring the politics of the colonial geography with their postcolonial identity, literature, and media from the Global South has interacted heavily with the city. These interactions have also, in turn, produced new historiographies of the city, new hagiographies, geographies, radical politics, social and cultural paradigms, and polarisations, and the affectations of overlapping media, languages, religions, and practices in a boiler pot often found missing in their counterparts from the Global North. Cities are not merely historical or cultural but simultaneously ahistorical and influential characters in these artefacts. As such, it is often difficult to isolate the idea of the urban from the works of literature and visual media that conform to these standards. Whether it is in the fiction, poetry, and theatre of Rushdie or Achebe, Garcia Márquez, Emecheta, Naipaul, Mistry, Anita and Kiran Desai, Ondaatje, Karnad, Davis, Fugard, Suleri, Césaire, Walcott or Adichie, or the cinema of Mrinal Sen, Satyajit Ray, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wong Kar-wai, Ann Hui, Lav Diaz, Tsai Ming-Liang, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Eric Khoo, Fernando Meirelles, Alejandro Amenábar, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuarón, Neill Blomkamp, Garin Nugroho, Moufida Tlatli, Djibril Diop Mambéty, and Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina among several others, the city has been a staple that has either been the staging ground for the narrative, part of the ecology, stood in contrast or as an opposition to the focus of the narrative.

The proposed edited volume seeks to look at this dynamic relationship between cities and their cultural artefacts, the literary and other medial production that emerges out of the interactions between the geography and the writer/director, and acts as a performative agent or actant towards developing a new consciousness for the cultural manifestations of the Global South. We seek essays looking at authors, poets, playwrights, directors, and artists whose works have explored the dynamism between the population and the urban centres, directly or tangentially. Essays could focus on multiple works by the same creator, their entire oeuvre, or individual pieces, or even offer comparative studies between the works of diverse creators, but must seek to unravel the urban ethos contained within these narratives or how the city functions within the narrative paradigms laid out by their creators.

Deadline for Submissions:

April 30, 2024

Full name / Name of organization:

Subashish Bhattacharjee and Indrajit Mukherjee

Contact email:

citiesglobalsouth@gmail.com

Call For Videos: 4th Annual Smartphone Short Film Competition-Talking Films Online (TFO)

2024-03-31T14:33:00.000+05:30

**𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞**:

Talking Films Online (TFO), a forum for discussing cinema since 2020.

**𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐝𝐨**:

Attempt to bridge the gap between those who make films and those who study them

**𝐇𝐨𝐰**:

Bring on the same platform teachers, students, researchers, reviewers, critics, cinephiles, etc. on the one hand and producers, directors, actors, cinematographers, screenplay writers, subtitlers, etc. on the other.

** 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐨, 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐬**:

Their films will be viewed and feedback offered by experts on cinema from all over the world, as well as by those currently in the business of cinema.

**𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧**:

By an independent Jury consisting of top filmmakers and film critics

𝑺𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒅𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔!

CFP: International Conference "Literary transitions / Transitional literatures"

2024-03-30T07:42:00.001+05:30

Vitoria-Gasteiz, Faculty of Arts, UPV/EHU, Spain ,January 15-17, 2025

The concept of transition – characterized as a historical moment with a beginning and an end, encompassing a defined and significant period – awaits systematic reflection, according to Cristina Moreiras-Menor (2011). Although Richard (2001) points out that transition, as a proper noun, represents a temporal rationale, this term is generally understood as the shift between two times, a before and an after, presented linearly and laden with transformations. A transition is an evanescent stage that precedes another that emerges with remarkable power. This evanescent stage feels like an abyss that represents the ruin of a past and the emergence of an unwritten future.

We focus on the historical collapse that the transition entails, the landscape of change from one historical moment to another, and how that change is mirrored in literary and cultural documents. We specifically examine literary documents that contemplate the end of an era and explore the transition towards a new phase that accompanies this end. This transition is often portrayed as either innovative or as the dismantling of the preceding period. This time of transition – of change, uncertainty, and contradiction – is a time to confront the inherited legacy and transform it into something different, into a promise that implies several future directions. As Derrida (1995) suggests, a legacy is never univocal and natural; instead, it challenges interpretation by presenting itself as a secret to unveil. Thus, we are particularly interested in interpreting, deciphering, and reinterpreting that legacy on its emotional, subjective, political and ideological levels.

We understand transitions as a time of change in the historical trajectory – this trajectory can be collective and individual, vital, or literary – and as a stage in which new knowledge, new epistemologies, and new ways of understanding life and society are formulated. This separation between the past and the future opens a space for emerging discourses, new imaginaries, new expressions of experience and new individual and social identities. Besides, it affects all traditions. Precisely for these reasons, the members of the research group “IdeoLit: Literature as a historical document” have organized this conference, which is aimed at all those researchers who study the concept of transition in literature from the classical times to the present day.

Personal/Individual Transitions:
- Growth, coming of age or Bildungsroman
- Gender transition (trans realities)
- Childhood, adolescence, maturity, old age, relationship with death (our own or someone else's death and its effect on the individual
- Change/awareness
Collective transitions:
- Political transition: regime changes and their implications in different fields
- Social transition: revolutions, social movements, and other social transitions.
- Changes in the emotional, family and community sphere
- Ecology: structural changes to face climate disaster, collapse, degrowth or energy transition, among other aspects.
- Transitional process of societies going through collective trauma
- Technological transition: AI, posthumanism
Literary transitions:
- Generic or formal transition: exhaustion or appearance of literary genres, in new forms
- Aesthetic transition: changes in aesthetic currents, ruptures
- Thematic transition: in relation to the historical context, the appearance of new themes that represent that moment of transition
- Comparatist transition: opening of new lines, new perspectives that break with the past

Bibliography:

Derrida, Jacques (1995): Espectros de Marx: el Estado de la deuda, el trabajo del duelo y la nueva internacional, Madrid: Trotta.

Jameson, Fredric (2000): Las semillas del tiempo, Madrid: Trotta.

Moreiras-Menor, Cristina (2011): La estela del tiempo. Imagen e historicidad en el cine español contemporáneo, Madrid-Frankfurt am Main: Iberoamericana-Vervuert.

Rancière, Jacques (2006): Política, policía, democracia, Santiago de Chile: LOM.

Resina, Joan Ramon (ed.) (2000): Disremembering the Dictatorship: The Politics of Memory in the Spanish Transition to Democracy, Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Richard, Nelly y Alberto Moreiras (eds.) (2001): Pensar en la posdictadura, Santiago de Chile: Cuarto Propio.

Ricoeur, Paul (1980): “Narrative Time”, Critical Inquiry 7, 1 (On Narrative), autumn, pp. 169-190.

Subirats, Eduardo (2002): Intransiciones. Crítica de la cultura española, Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva.

Vilarós, Teresa M. (1998): El mono del desencanto. Una crítica cultural de la transición española (1975-1993), Madrid: Siglo XXI.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Proposals must include the following information for ALL authors: name and surname, organization or institution, email, the title of the proposal, a 15-20 line abstract, and biographical information (maximum: 10 lines).

Proposals can be sent to the following email address in Word (or compatible) format until May 31: congresotransicion.ideolit@ehu.es

The organizing committee's decision will be notified by July 15.

Proposals will be accepted in Spanish, Basque, English, French or German. Each speaker will have 20 minutes for their presentation, followed by a brief Q&A session. All presentations must be made in person.

Contact Information

Main Organizers:

M. Carmen Encinas Reguero (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
Garbiñe Iztueta Goizueta (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)
Natalia Vara Ferrero (University of the Basque Country, UPV/EHU)

Contact Email

congresotransicion.ideolit@ehu.es

URL

https://www.ehu.eus/en/web/ideolit-literatura-documento-historico/call-for-pape…

CFP: International #Conference on #Hermeneutics of #Divine Soundscapes: Decoding the #Musical Signatures of Sri #Guru #Granth Sahib -October 2024-#Punjab University, India

2024-03-28T10:13:00.003+05:30

About The Conference

The relationship between spirituality and music is deeply rooted in the sacred verses of Sri Guru Granth Sahib. This conference aims to interpret the divine soundscapes within Sri Guru Granth Sahib and uncover the layers inherent in its musical signatures. By bringing together scholars, musicians, theologians, and practitioners, this conference aims to foster the understanding of the spiritual and interpretative dimensions of Sikh musical traditions. The conference has several objectives, such as investigating the symbolic meanings and semiotic nuances embedded in the musical signatures of Sri Guru Granth Sahib and exploring how they contribute to the overall discourse. The role of music in the spiritual and normative practices associated with Sri Guru Granth Sahib and its impact on the spiritual experience of practitioners is another area that will be explored.

The conference aims to facilitate dialogue on how the various interpretations of divine soundscapes in Sri Guru Granth Sahib resonate with and influence diverse cultural and religious practices and contexts. Finally, it will discuss the contemporary relevance of the divine soundscapes in the context of evolving religious thought and cultural dynamics.

Sub-themes:

• Ragas in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Ghar in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Dhuniyan (melodies) in Sri Guru Granth Sahib • Chhant in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Pauries in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Partaal in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Poetic Signatures in Sri Guru Granth Sahib

• Sikh Musical Traditions (e.g. Gharane)

Guidelines for Abstract and Paper Submission

We invite abstracts between 200-300 words along with a bio-note of not more than 100 words. Full-length papers should be 3000-5000 words long. The Authors can present their papers in Punjabi/English. The abstract can be e-mailed at head_bvsc@pbi.ac.in or nmiannualconference@gmail.com

Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the proceedings published by the Nad Music Institute in a dedicated volume. Lodging and boarding shall be covered for all the conference participants. Full or partial travel grants will be provided to the selected participants. The selected young researchers shall be encouraged with special rewards.

Important Dates:

Submission of Abstracts: 25th April 2024

Intimation of Accepted Abstracts: 30th April 2024

Full Paper Submission: 1st September 2024

Intimation of Acceptance of the complete paper: 15th September 2024

About Bhai Vir Singh Chair

Bhai Vir Singh Chair was formally established in 2013. Padma Bhushan Bhai Vir Singh, an acclaimed figure in the literary world, is widely recognised as the father of modern Punjabi literature. His contribution to Punjabi language and literature has been remarkable, having dedicated 50 years of his life to our traditional heritage through modern scientific idioms. Emulating the tradition of philosophy, knowledge, and experience set forth by Guru Nanak Sahib, Bhai Vir Singh created various forms of literature, including poetry, fiction, rhetoric, editing, interpretation, and research, all of which have played a significant role in shaping modern Punjabi literature.

About Nad Music Institute

Nad Music Institute, a non-profit organization headquartered in Washington (USA), established in 2018, is committed to advancing Sikh music through academic research, collaboration with musicians and musical societies, and the creation of educational resources.

Contact Information

Dr. Jaswinder Singh, In-charge, Bhai Vir Singh Chair, Punjabi University, Patiala

Dr. Manjit Singh, Nad Music Institute, USA

Contact Email: nmiannualconference@gmail.com

URL:http://www.punjabiuniversity.ac.in/

Attachments

cfpbhai-vir-singh-chair-nmi.pdf

CFP: International #Conference: #Comparative #Literature as #Alternative #Humanities #Ethics, #Affect and the Everyday Social-#Delhi #University- September, 2024

2024-03-27T15:15:00.001+05:30

In the last few decades, scholars in the Humanities have found it necessary to examine the fundamental underpinnings upon which their disciplines are built. One of the primary questions that animated this re-examination has been regarding the very terms of our engagement with countries and communities that inhabit radically different social and moral life-worlds, living as they do outside the orbit of European Enlightenment values that still regulate both organisation and practice within and outside the academy, across the world. Instead of accepting difference as a defining feature of the human condition, the grand narratives of the Enlightenment were used as colonial and imperial tools to homogenize the diversity of experience, emotion and expression as the high tide of colonial modernity swept the world. The consequent otherness and alienation that characterised human society have deeply impacted literary and cultural production. We witness a disjunction between the objective, scientific discourse with its claim to truth and the everyday social experience of the human subject which Humanities seek to understand. These asymmetries compel us to rethink the Humanities from alternative positions and perspectives to embody and address the plural orders of reality and the differences between them. How can the collection of disciplines we call the Humanities recover the capacity of self-reflection and self-criticism? Much has been written about how stereotypes invade our imagination to contaminate our experience and knowledge.

Comparative Literature’s commitment to alterity and plurality gives it a foundational interest in

the non-stereotypical, non-canonized, un-heard narratives of “others” that constitute a radical sense of the literary. Such articulations can only emerge from the confluence of different locations, experiences and identities, demonstrating how our vision of “others” projects our own versions of ourselves onto the outside world.

An alternative view of the Humanities will have to come to terms with the ideas of relationality, plurality and cultural mobility as the defining features of all epochs including that of the pre-modern. Texts, ideas, images, metaphors, themes, modes, genres, tales are all human endeavours and like humans themselves these have the capacity to travel across constructed, eternally given or pre-fixed borders, thereby defying the exclusivist, essentialist ideas of culture and literature. The prevailing inclination towards connected sociologies and connected histories, while a step in the right direction, often reflects the dominant discourses which impose homogeneity and hierarchy, evincing a lack of empathy for the precarious endeavour of encountering alterity and a lack of understanding of the transient and the contingent.

Thus, we propose plurality as a conceptual framework to address this eco-system of interconnectedness and relationality in terms of their manifestations in the languages and literatures of all nations, regions and communities, regardless of their location in the hierarchy of political and economic regimes, or of their internal stratifications. We would like to recover the mutuality of interconnections and interdependence between literatures and cultures across the world. The assertion that we live in a post-human world prompts us, as humans to consider our experience in terms of relationality and plurality. These emerge as conceptual tools for recasting our relations with the other - be it humans, animals or the non- living.

Texts are actualised through their immersion in the shared ideological and affective worlds that constitute the everyday world. From orality to print to the visual media, modes of intersubjective engagement are implicated in structures of power relations within society and our response to them. The very practice of Comparative Literature is an acknowledgement of plurality and a willingness to engage with difference. The discipline emphasises upon relationality, heterogeneity, multivocal perspectives, and direct engagement with alterity that translation offers as a process and a product. Built into the discipline is the interaction between literatures in multiple languages both within the nation and in other countries of the world. Furthermore, it takes orality and performance in its ambit. It reaches out to all other disciplines by asking the existential question : can we open ourselves to the location of the other and view the world from the vantage point of difference that we encounter outside ourselves? Can we frame a dialogic mode of interaction that reading teaches us to our relations with the world, to expand our view of the world outside our own limited subjectivity ? Hence, we propose Comparative Literature as an alternate paradigm - and invite reflections upon the possibilities inherent in the conceptual frame structured by the reciprocal, the relational and the plural. It is our hope that it will help to grasp and address the nature of the crisis that afflicts the Humanities today both in intradisciplinary and interdisciplinary framework.

Sub-themes

Some of the sub-themes in the context of the main theme that can be taken up for discussion are as follows:

Interrogating categorial binaries (tradition/modernity, nature/culture, regional/national, east/west etc.)/ Literature after theory/ Shifting paradigms between Literary Studies and Social Sciences/ The Post-human as a paradigm in literary studies.

Worlding literature / Historicising canons/ Global and local as contexts of reading. The idea of the classic in modernity: circulation or creativity ?

Translation and the encounter with difference. Translating “dialects”/ The oral texts/ Archaic texts.

The plural nation: stratification and resistance/ Literary historiography and geopolitics/ Intertextuality and chronotopes.

Polyphony/ Polysemy in literature/ Poetry and cosmopolitanism.

Interrogating “Minor” literature as category/ Identity theories as critiques of the Humanities / Life-writing from the margins.

The performativity of literature/ Screenplay as literature/ Intermediality in literature. South Asian literatures and cultures: relations, reciprocity and ruptures/ Population movements and literature.

Papers are invited from scholars of Comparative Literature,

Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Theatre Studies, Gender Studies, Black Studies, Dalit Studies etc. or on any aspect of literature and culture that will help us understand and practice the Humanities in accordance with the ethical perspectives outlined above.

Abstracts of about 250 words along with a short bio-note of about 100 words may be submitted to clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Upon acceptance, participants will be provided with registration details through email. The Registration Fee will include workshop kit, certificate, lunch, and refreshments during the three days of the conference. Participants would need to become members of CLAI on receiving their acceptance letters in order to present papers, if they are not already members of CLAI.

Important Dates:

Last date of abstract submission: 30th April, 2024

Selected participants will be notified by: 30th May, 2024

Last date of registration: 15th July, 2024

Registration Fee:

Faculty members: Rs.3500/-

Research scholars/students: Rs.2000/-

International participants: US$ 200

For further information please visit: https://www.clai.in/upcoming-event/

clai2024@admin.du.ac.in

Organising Committee, XVII Biennial International Conference

Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024

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The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics is now accepting submissions for its forthcoming regular issue, Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024.

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Comparative_Literature_and_Aest...

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (ISSN: 0252-8169) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, India, since 1977. The Institute was founded by Prof. Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020) on 22 August 1977, coinciding with the birth centenary of renowned philosopher, aesthetician, and historian of Indian art Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) to promote interdisciplinary studies and research in comparative literature, literary theory and criticism, aesthetics, philosophy, art history, criticism of the arts, and history of ideas. (Vishvanatha Kaviraja, most widely known for his masterpiece in aesthetics, Sahityadarpana, or the “Mirror of Composition,” was a prolific 14th-century Indian poet, scholar, aesthetician, and rhetorician.)

The Journal is committed to comparative and cross-cultural issues in literary understanding and interpretation, aesthetic theories, and conceptual analysis of art. It publishes current research papers, review essays, and special issues of critical interest and contemporary relevance.

JCLA is indexed and abstracted in the MLA International Bibliography, Master List of Periodicals (USA), Ulrich’s Directory of Periodicals, ERIH PLUS, The Philosopher’s Index (Philosopher’s Information Center), EBSCO, ProQuest (Arts Premium Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Collection, Arts & Humanities Database, Literature Online – Full Text Journals, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Central Essentials), Abstracts of English Studies, WorldCat Directory, ACLA, India Database, Gale (Cengage Learning), International Directory of Philosophy (PDC), Bibliography History of Art (BHA), ArtBibliographies Modern (ABM), Literature Online (LION), Academic Resource Index, Book Review Index Plus, OCLC, Periodicals Index Online (PIO), Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers, CNKI, PhilPapers, Google Scholar, Expanded Academic ASAP, Indian Documentation Service, Publication Forum (JuFo), Summon, J-Gate, MIAR (Matriz de Información para el Análisis de Revistas), United States Library of Congress, New York Public Library, BL on Demand and the British Library. The journal is also indexed in numerous university (central) libraries, state, and public libraries, and scholarly organizations/ learned societies databases.

The Journal has published the finest of essays by authors of global renown like René Wellek, Harold Osborne, John Hospers, John Fisher, Murray Krieger, Martin Bocco, Remo Ceserani, J.B. Vickery, Menachem Brinker, Milton Snoeyenbos, Mary Wiseman, Ronald Roblin, T.R. Martland, S.C. Sengupta, K.R.S. Iyengar, Charles Altieri, Martin Jay, Jonathan Culler, Richard Shusterman, Robert Kraut, Terry Diffey, T.R. Quigley, R.B. Palmer, Keith Keating, and many others. Celebrated scholars of the time like René Wellek, Harold Osborne, Mircea Eliade, Monroe Beardsley, John Hospers, John Fisher, Meyer Abrams, John Boulton, and many renowned foreign and Indian scholars were Members of the Editorial Board of the journal.

Manuscripts in MS Word (5,000–8,000 words) following the MLA style should be sent to editor@jcla.in by 31 May 2024.

Founding Editor: Ananta Charan Sukla (1942-2020), Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute, India

Email: jclaindia@gmail.com

Website: jcla.in

Call For Articles: Special issue #CFP: #Women’s #Autobiographical #Filmmaking -Alphaville: Journal of #Film and #Screen #Media,

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Call for Papers

Women’s Autobiographical Filmmaking

Special issue of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Summer 2026

Guest editors: Dr Felicia Chan (University of Manchester) and Dr Monika Kukolova (University of Salford)

Autobiographical filmmaking refers to films created by filmmakers that tell stories about their lives, experiences and memories. These may be truthful or partially fictionalised, remembered clearly or misremembered, or a combination of these, usually in ways that also explore how film as a medium itself can do this — a form of practice-as-research, if you like. We are interested in exploring with potential contributors whether there might be a gendered nature to this mode of filmmaking / life-remembering / self-narrating? Do filmmakers who identify as women tell different stories about themselves and their lives from those who identify as men, or do they do so in a different way? How do women filmmakers navigate their simultaneous objecthood and subjecthood in the eye of the camera (Everett, 2007)? Much of the canon in film studies is constituted by works of male auteurs, all in one form or another said to be exploring their lives, their pasts and their selves on screen: think of figures like Federico Fellini, Woody Allen, François Truffaut, Shane Meadows, the list goes on. This structural domination is being continually challenged (Gledhill and Knight, 2015) and moves to rehistoricise women’s filmmaking have seen increased attention on figures from Agnès Varda through to Greta Gerwig though much more remains to be done on women filmmakers in the global majority.

There has been a longer history of scholarship on women’s literary life-writing (Smith and Watson, 1998; Neuman, 2016; Brodzki and Schenck, 2019) but less so on women’s life-writing on/through film as a mode of self-narration. How have women filmmakers had to navigate the industrial structures of filmmaking with all its gatekeeping mechanisms, including access to capital? To what extent are these gatekeeping mechanisms disproportionately discriminatory towards women? 

We are inviting proposals to explore any area of the subject, although we are especially keen to receive proposals from scholars studying the ways women in the global majority use cinema to write themselves and their memories into post/colonial histories. We would also like to invite proposals on alternative publication formats such as the video essay, and shorter provocations, interviews or reports.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Filmmaker case studies
Close readings of individual films
Industry analysis
Autobiographical film as method
Challenges to theoretical orthodoxies, e.g. auteur theory, canon-making, etc.
Decolonial approaches to gender studies and women’s filmmaking

Full-length articles: 5,500-7,000 words, including notes but excluding references

Video essay: Approx. 3-15 mins, plus accompanying text 500-1000 words

Short reports, provocations, reviews, interviews, reflections: 1,500-2,500 words

Full-length articles and video essays will be subject to full peer review. Guidelines here: https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Guidelines.html

Publication Timeline

15 May 2024, abstract due

31 May 2024, notification of editors’ decision

15 January 2025, full video essay / manuscript due

Publication: Summer 2026

If you are interested in contributing to this issue, please send a 300-word abstract along with a brief biography, in the same file, to Dr Monika Kukolova (M.Kukolova@salford.ac.uk)

Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Alphaville is a diamond open-access journal, and it requests no fee from authors or readers. Visit us at https://www.alphavillejournal.com

Contact Information

Dr Felicia Chan, University of Manchester, UK: Felicia.Chan@manchester.ac.uk

Dr Monika Kukolova, University of Salford, UK: M.Kukolova@salford.ac.uk

Contact Email

Felicia.Chan@manchester.ac.uk

URL

https://www.alphavillejournal.com

CFP: First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS 2024)

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The First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies is now accepting proposal submissions until June 15th, 2024! Visit the Call for Proposals page on our website to learn more.

Conference description: Throughout the world, ethnic minorities and Indigenous people have strived to protect their rich heritages and linguistic characteristics against colonial powers, expanding nation-states, as well as the homogenizing forces of globalization. It is increasingly being recognized, exemplified by UNITED NATIONS' “Indigenous Languages Decade” (2022-2032) (https://en.unesco.org/idil2022-2032), that Indigenous languages and the epistemologies embedded in them are fundamental for the perseverance of biological and cultural diversities. The protection and promotion of linguistic diversity help to improve the human potential, agency, and local governance of native speakers of endangered languages, which is especially critical in the face of climate change and environmental degradation.

The First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS 2024) is a multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary event that will bring together national and international scholars, educators, practitioners, students, policy makers, activists, academic institutions, Indigenous organizations, governmental and non-governmental organizations. The participants in this conference will be involved in a local and global dialogue and exchange of ideas, research, and experiences on the themes of the event.

Contact Email : hlsindig@iu.edu

URL : https://indigenous.indiana.edu/conference/

Attachments: CGIS 2024 Call for Proposals PDF

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Call for Papers - Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics Vol. 47, No. 3, Autumn 2024

Call For Articles: Special issue #CFP: #Women’s #Autobiographical #Filmmaking -Alphaville: Journal of #Film and #Screen #Media,

CFP: First Conference on Global Indigenous Studies (CGIS 2024)