CFP:Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities- Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities,October 25-27, 2018. Georgia, United States

                                                                   

CALL FOR PAPERS 

The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University of West Georgia (UWG) invite you to celebrate the 33^rd Annual Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities, October 25-27, 2018. 

We welcome submissions from across the Humanities, Fine Arts, and the Social and Natural Sciences, dealing with INTERSECTIONALITIES/INTERCONNECTIONS/LIMINALITIES and the many relations and intersections between them. Papers, exhibits, performances and screenings may be submitted by scholars, graduate students, writers, artists, and performers.  

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

Professor Juanamaría Cordones-Cook is the University of Missouri Curators’ Distinguished Professor, the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of Romance Languages and a member of the Academy of Letters of Uruguay. Her scholarship includes contemporary Spanish American literature, theater, and visual arts with a focus on Afro-Hispanic writers and artists. Along with an extensive publication record of journal articles and award-winning books, Cordones-Cook’s research also incorporates image, sound, and movement, having produced and directed oral histories and documentaries. An Emmy nominated filmmaker, Professor Cordones-Cook has built a panoramic compendium and archive of Havana’s Black Renaissance with over twenty documentaries on artists and writers of the African Diaspora with emphasis on Cuba.

                                                                    

We encourage presentations about Intersectionalities/Interconnections/Liminalities on topics including, but not limited to:

• Africana and Indigenous Studies
• Literary studies of all periods, places, and times
• African, Maghrib and Saharan Studies
• Haitian studies
• Filmography
• Afro-Hispanic Studies
• Opposing concepts such as: war/peace; love/hate; local/global; citizens/immigrants; etc.
• Gender and Sexuality Studies
• Imperialism and the Natural Sciences
• Cultural studies
• Migration, immigration and globalization
• Feminism, queer and postcolonial theory
• Linguistics, language and bilingualism
• Eco-criticism
• Memory, memorials, and commemoration
• Study abroad
• Anthropology
• Geography and cartography
• History, historiography, and historical revisions
• The visual arts, including film studies, photography and graphic design
• Environmental Studies and Urban Studies
• Health and travel concerns     
• Theatre, scenes and landscapes
• Philosophy
• Myths and mythology
• Music, including musical history and theory
• Economics, including commerce, marketing and trade

We especially welcome presentations about Haitian Studies to honor Dr. Flore Zephir. Dr. Albert Valdman, Director of the IU Creole Institute, will participate in this important recognition.

For individual proposals please submit a one-page, double-spaced abstract to Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle at azapata@westga.edu.  Include the presenter’s name, institution, email address, phone number, and any audio-visual or technical requirements for the presentation on a separate page. Papers in French, German and Spanish are welcomed as part of a pre-organized panel.

Submissions for panels of 3-4 presenters are especially welcome.  For panel proposals please submit the panel title, abstracts, and contact information for all speakers and for the panel moderator.  Proposals are due by May 15th, 2018.

Organizing committee:

Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle (University of West Georgia)

Dr. Tomaz Cunningham (Jackson State University)

Dr. Kyle Lawton (University of West Georgia)

2018 registration fees:

• All UWG faculty and All graduate students: $65
• Faculty, scholars, and other participants:  $110

Contact Info: 

Dr. Ana Zapata-Calle

Contact Email: azapata@westga.edu

URL:https://networks.h-net.org/University%20of%20West%20Georgia

CFP: Anxiety and Authority in South Asia- 6th-7th April 2018-Princeton South Asia Conference. New Jersey, United States

Concept Note:

From fears of an imminent environmental crisis to pervasive concerns about security, we seem to be living in an age in which anxiety has permeated public discourse on an unprecedented scale.  While the intensity and scope of many contemporary fears might be new, recent scholarship has shown that anxiety -- broadly understood as fear without a definite object -- has been a longstanding feature of political life. No longer regarded as a purely private experience, anxiety has come to be recognized as an affective state that has shaped not only state policies but political subjectivities themselves.  Through their focus on anxiety, recent studies in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences have revealed the inadequacy of accounts that have viewed politics and the state purely through the prism of reason and rationality. In the context of South Asia, such studies have shown the extent to which the rule of the colonial and post colonial states has been marked by apprehensions emanating from epistemic and ontological uncertainties that have contributed to frequent slippages between the ordinary and extraordinary powers of the state. At a time when a politics of anxiety appears to have led to a surge in populism across the world, this conference invites applicants to probe anxiety as a public phenomenon in South Asia in both historical and contemporary contexts.

The seventh annual Princeton South Asia Conference will bring together early career scholars (advanced graduate students and junior faculty) across disciplines that engage with South Asia. In keeping with the theme of the conference, we invite papers that engage with South Asia in a broad sense, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tibet, Nepal, the Maldives, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Myanmar or Burma, India, and transnational and diasporic spaces.

Papers may engage, but need not limit themselves to, any of the following topics related to the conference theme:

• Empire and Colonial Difference
• Movement and Migration
• Gender, Caste and Social Hierarchies
• Tradition and Modernity
• Propaganda and Mass Media
• The environmental crisis
• Finance and Speculation
• Identity and Culture
• Science and Development
• Infrastructure and Urban Crisis

The event will be held on April 6-7, 2018 in Princeton, NJ. For more details please visit https://southasiaworkshop.wordpress.com. 

Questions can be directed to princeton.sas2018@gmail.com.

Please submit proposals at https://goo.gl/G48oEG by January 5, 2018. Proposals should include a title, a 250-word abstract, institutional affiliation, and contact information. 

Contact Email: princeton.sas2018@gmail.com

URL: https://southasiaworkshop.wordpress.com

Fake News and Weaponized Defamation: Global Perspectives(with Travel Grants), California, United States,January 26, 2018

Concept Note:

The notion of "fake news" has gained great currency in global popular culture in the wake of contentious social-media imbued elections in the United States and Europe. Although often associated with the rise of extremist voices in political discourse and, specifically, an agenda to "deconstruct" the power of government, institutional media, and the scientific establishment, fake new is "new wine in old bottles," a phenomenon that has long historical roots in government propaganda, jingoistic newspapers, and business-controlled public relations. In some countries, dissemination of "false news" is a crime that is used to stifle dissent. This broad conception of fake news not only acts to repress evidence-based inquiry of government, scientists, and the press; but it also diminishes the power of populations to seek informed consensus on policies such as climate change, healthcare, race and gender equality, religious tolerance, national security, drug abuse, poverty, homophobia, and government corruption, among others.

"Weaponized defamation" refers to the increasing invocation, and increasing use, of defamation and privacy torts by people in power to threaten press investigations, despite laws protecting responsible or non-reckless reporting. In the United States, for example, some politicians, including the current president, invoke defamation as both a sword and a shield. Armed with legal power that individuals- and most news organizations - cannot match, politicians and celebrities, wealthy or backed by the wealth of others, can threaten press watchdogs with resource-sapping litigation; at the same time, some leaders appear to leverage their "lawyered-up" legal teams to make knowingly false attacks - or recklessly repeat the false attacks of others - with impunity.

Abstract Deadline: September 25, 2017
Completed Paper Deadline: January 5, 2018
CONFERENCE Date: January 26, 2018

Papers should have an international or comparative focus that engages historical, contemporary, or emerging issues relating to face news or "weaponized defamation." All papers submitted will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referee comments must be considered.

Accepted papers will be peer-reviewed and distributed during the conference to all attendees. 

Authors are given an opportunity to briefly present their papers at the conference. 

Accepted papers will be published in the Journal of International Media and Entertainment Law, the Southwestern Law Review, or the Southwestern Journal of International Law. 

Authors whose papers are accepted for publication will be provided with round-trip domestic or international travel (subject to caps) to Los Angeles, California, hotel accommodations, and complimentary conference registration. 

Publication:

The Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law is a faculty-edited journal published by the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School, in cooperation with the American Bar Association’s Forum on Communications Law, and the ABA’s Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries.

​The Southwestern Law Review and the Southwestern Journal of International Law are honors publications edited by students at Southwestern Law School.

Contact Info: 

Dr. Michael M. Epstein, Supervising Editor, Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law - Southwestern Law School

Contact Email: Jimel@SWLaw.edu

URL: 

http://www.swlaw.edu/curriculum/honors-programs/law-review-journals/journal-international-media-entertainment-law

Conference on Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018 - 7-9 March 2018, New Jersey, United States

Call for Papers

Technologies of Frankenstein: 1818-2018 

7-9 March 2018, Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey USA)

Co-sponsors: Stevens Institute of Technology and IEEE History Center

The 200th anniversary year of the first edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus has drawn worldwide interest in revisiting the novel’s themes. What were those themes and what is their value to us in the early twenty-first century? Mary Shelley was rather vague as to how Victor, a young medical student, managed to reanimate a person cobbled together from parts of corpses. The imagination of the novel’s readership outfitted Victor’s laboratory with the chemical and electrical technologies that brought the creature to life. Subsequent theatrical and cinematic versions of Frankenstein have been, like the creature, patched together from the novel and from contemporary popular press as well as public demonstrations of medical, chemical, and electrical research. Mary Shelley’s contemporaries arguably exploited her novel to their own purposes, including George Canning (leader of the British House of Commons in 1824) who drew an analogy between the prospect of freeing West Indian slaves and Victor’s “monster” who is left in the world with no master to curtail his criminal instincts. Some of Mary Shelley’s biographers characterize the story of Victor Frankenstein’s reanimation experiment as a cautionary tale against techno-science run amok while others emphasize Victor’s irresponsible behavior toward his subject. In what ways might our tools of science and communication serve as an “elixir of life” since the age of Frankenstein? Topic areas include and are not limited to items on the list below. For more information about the conference and to register please visit http://frankenstein2018.org.

Themes 

• Branding “Frankenstein” (Food, Comics, Gaming, Music, Theater, Film)
• Computational and Naval Technology (Mapping, Navigation, The Idea of the Journey)
• Digital Humanities and GeoHumanities (Applications, Pedagogy, Library/Information Technology)
• Engineering Technologies: Past/Present/Future (Chemical, Electrical, Biomedical)
• Future Technologies and Labor Concerns
• How might industrialized nations develop low-cost solutions to provide maternal and pediatric care in regions with limited medical facilities?
• How are our ideas of the “Monstrous” or “Other” changing since the publication of Frankenstein?
• Is the pharmaceutical industry using human consumers as experiments for profit?
• What ethical and legal issues will emerge in the age of advanced or “aware” artificial intelligence?
• What does it mean to be human?
• What is the responsibility of government in world-wide health care?
• Who is responsible for the outcomes of techno-science?
• Who should have access to advanced human enhancement technologies and why?

Deadline: 

Submit inquires and/or abstracts of 300 words with brief cv by 15 October 2017 to Michael Geselowitz (m.geselowitz@ieee.org) and Robin Hammerman (rhammerm@stevens.edu).

We are dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone.

Contact Info: 

Michael Geselowitz (IEEE History Center) and Robin Hammerman (Stevens Institute of Technology, College of Arts and Letters)

Contact Email: 

rhammerm@stevens.edu

URL: http://frankenstein2018.org

CFP  NeMLA 2018: "Globalizing English: Translation and the Production of World Literature"

New York, United States

Call For Papers

Primary Area / Secondary Area: World Literatures (non-European Languages) / Comparative Literature.

Abstract :

Translation makes contemporary global spaces possible. As J.W. Goethe says: “Whatever one may say of the inadequacy of translation, this activity nonetheless remains one of the most essential tasks and one of the worthiest of esteem in the universal market of world trade [emphasis added].” But how does translation create global literary spaces? What is the role of translation in world literature courses? Goethe tells us to admire the translator--do we?

Scholars like Pascale Casanova and Gayatri Spivak have engaged forcefully with translation, arguing for recognition of the “untranslatable” and warning against replicating Anglo worldviews. Partially as a result of this intense conversation, translation has become more important in the typically “parochial” United States. More than ever, texts are translated into English, thereby bringing the world to us while encouraging the extreme proliferation of world literature, both as academic discipline and pedagogical endeavor. And yet, translation has also diminished--consider the fact that many world literature scholars and/or instructors cannot tell you the names or qualifications of the translators involved in creating world literature texts, let alone explain how translation affects readers’ perceptions of what they read and, consequently, their understanding of the world.

Participants are encouraged to review their experience in translating texts and/or teaching translated texts, in discussing translation with students, or to share findings in translation studies, particularly as related to works routinely found in world literature classrooms. Participants may focus on texts from any genre--poetry, prose, and drama, fictional or nonfictional, in order to best represent the variety of texts found in common anthologies like the Norton Anthology of World Literature or the Longman Anthology of World Literature. 

This is a CFP for a roundtable panel on translation and the production of world literature, which will be held at the 2018 NeMLA conference in Pittsburgh, PA. Translators, world literature professors and instructors, translation scholars, and comparative literature scholars, etc. are invited to participate in this roundtable panel. Please contact genewaite@gmail.com for further information or to submit an abstract proposal by September 15, 2017. Here is the official CFP link on the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743.

Contact Info: 

Genevieve Waite, Ph.D. Candidate in French Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY

Contact Email:  genewaite@gmail.com

URL: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16743