CFP: Virtual International Conference C4P - "Comprehending #Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to #ComicStudies in History and the Social Sciences": September 8-9, 2024

 Please submit your proposal by May 1, 2024

Interest in comic studies have generated wide and varied interests from an exploration of visual language and narrative in sequential art to the use of technologies in comics, to considerations current questions in both contemporary society and history. These have led to fruitful research which cross disciplines and produced diverse and complex scholarship. Richard Scully have written extensively on political cartoons and their relationship with imperialism and colonialism. Amy Matthewson’s Cartooning China examined the British popular satirical magazine Punch and situated the series of cartoons of China and Chinese people within their geopolitical frameworks. Sheena Howard and Ronald Jackson’s Black Comics: Politics of Race and Representation brought together a range of critical essays exploring contributions of Black graphic artists. Collections such as Drawing the Past Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2022), edited by Dorian Alexander, Michael Goodrum, and Philip Smith, brought a range of scholars to unite around the broad theme of the historical imagination in American popular media. 

There is still an evolving consensus on which the methodologies that scholars specialized in fields of history and social sciences could use when engaging with comics. Often, research focused on comics-formatted primary sources is pigeonholed into literary study, or in other cases the linguistic framework of describing and analyzing comics fails to translate to a discussion of material culture. As the range of demonstrated methodologies is vast, and as the advancement of comics-based research offers new potential for the study of history and the social sciences, it is a crucial time to reflect and take stock of current practice and possible future directions. 

We are interested in all aspects of comics-format works, comics and graphic novels, and methodologies and themes that might address (but are not limited to) the following:

• Representation in comics
• The challenges of comics-based research studies as applied to the study of history
• Historical aspects of visualities and comics in particular
• The future of comics in research
• Archeology and comics
• Ancient and medieval history in comics
• The effects of digital tools in comic studies
• Comics and the politics of methodology – race, gender, sexuality, class, etc.
• The transnational, transcultural, and/or interdisciplinary nature of comic studies
• Teaching history with or through comics
• Teaching comics-based research methods
• Comics in memory studies
• Tensions and concordances between art history and history of comics and graphic novels

18%

The Routledge Companion to Comics (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

₹4,293.00

Comics Studies: A Guidebook

18%

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

₹3,993.00

Study Hall of Justice (DC Comics: Secret Hero Society #1)

20%

Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing (Studies in Comics and Cartoons)

₹4,125.00

15%

Understanding Genres in Comics (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)

₹5,192.00

Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

15%

Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)

₹5,625.00

Representing Acts of Violence in Comics (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

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Visuality and Identity in Post-millennial Indian Graphic Narratives (Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels)

₹4,688.00

We are now accepting proposals for papers (20 minutes) and panels (of 2 or 3 papers). Graduate students are also invited to submit a poster, which will be displayed online for the duration of the conference. The poster section will enable asynchronous comments, and a presentation session where participants give a short 3-5 minute summary of the poster content. Please submit the following to comprehendingcomics@historyincomics.org or elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz by May 1st 2024:

• abstract of 300 words
• a biography of 50 words including your name, email, affiliation, and gender pronouns

This will be an online conference hosted by the Comics Lab at Palacky University, Czech Republic. Online networking and socializing will be enabled through various platforms. Given the international spread of contributors, participant time zones will be considered when scheduling panels. The conference will take place September 8-9, 2024. 

 

Contact Information

Please submit the following to comprehendingcomics@historyincomics.org or elizabethallyn.woock@upol.cz by May 1st 2024:

• abstract of 300 words
• a biography of 50 words including your name, email, affiliation, and gender pronouns

Contact Email

comprehendingcomics@historyincomics.org

URL

https://www.historyincomics.org/conferences-and-workshops/

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Comprehending Comics C4P

CFA: International Conference on "Linking Latitudes: #Postcolonialism and After"- 3-5 Feb, 2024 #Swami #Vivekananda University Organized in collaboration with #Oxford University #Press, #Cambridge University #Press, #Taylor & #Francis (#Routledge) and #SAGE

This international conference intends to bring together emerging insights from across the humanities and social sciences to highlight how postcolonial studies is being transformed by increasingly influential and radical approaches to nature, matter, subjectivity, human agency,  politics, literature and cultural practice. These include decolonial studies, political ontology, political ecology, indigeneity, posthumanism, transnationalism and so on. It therefore demands new ontological discourses that will reflexively situate our new intellective challenges within the long histories of theoretical narratives. It is time now we had devised and developed interdisciplinary episteme to think  through global, critical, transnational and empirical phenomena that include city spaces and urbanisms in the Global North and South, food politics, colonial land use, cultural and cosmic representation in film, theatre, and poetry, nation building, the Anthropocene, materiality,  pluriversality,  cosmopolitan world views etc  Arif  Dilrik therefore ironically quipped in The Postcolonial Aura: Third World Criticism in the Age of Global Capitalism: “Postcolonial begins …when Third World intellectuals have arrived in First World academe…then perhaps it ends when every department has hired a postcolonialist”.

Already there are multiple critical voices in this direction. There are dramatic suggestions that postcolonialism is over and it has been replaced by new critical discourses. In 2007, PMLA published an Editor’s Column provocatively entitled “The End of Postcolonial Theory”. We may also  refer to certain critical works, such as Hamid Dabashi’s The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism ( ZED Books, London, 2012), Jane Hiddleston’s Writing After Postcolonialism (Bloomsbury, 2017), or Patrick Chabal’s The End of Conceit: Western Rationality after Postcolonialism (ZED Books, London, 2012).

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A Warble of Postcolonial Voices | Short Stories

₹275.00

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The Post-Colonial Studies Reader

₹750.00

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

DOABA'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE

3%

The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

₹695.00

18%

Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics, and Self-Representation: 24 (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)

₹3,693.00

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Mapping Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives : A Reading through Indian Literary Texts

₹320.00

Camb Companion to Postcolonial Literary Studies

Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

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A Critique of Postcolonial Reason – Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Paper) (OIP)

₹5,747.92

This conference will be attended by Prof. Bill Ashcroft, Prof. Paul Sharrad, Prof. Helen Pringle and other experts from the field.

Under the  rubric of new shifting voices, we intend to focus on, though not strictly limited to,  the following areas:

 

• Postcolonialism: Concurrence and Ruptures
• Subalternity and Indigeneity
• Global South and the postcolonial aftermath
• African postcolonial Negotiations
• Nationalism to Transnationalism
• Power, Justice and Ideology
• Disnarration and postcoloniality
• Memory, amnesia and power
• Translation transcription and mimicry
• Postcolonial Environmentalism
• Gender and Postcolonial Studies
• Postcolonialism to posthumanism

 

Abstracts not exceeding 200 words should be sent to by email: icllpa@svu.ac.in

Deadline for submissions:  January 20, 2024

Registration Fees: Faculty Members and others: Rs 3000 (National)

                              Students and Researchers: Rs 2000 (National)

Call For Articles on - #Affect Studies, #BlackStudies, #Critical #Disability Studies, Critical #Race Studies, Digital #Humanities, #Environmental Humanities, #Media Studies, #Medical #Humanities, Sound Studies, #Transgender Studies, #Asian Canadian Studies, #Black Canadian Studies, #Canadian #Literature, Canadian History, Canadian Studies, #Diaspora Studies& #Indigenous Studies. - University of Toronto Quarterly

University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. The journal welcomes articles, in English or French, on art and visual culture, gender and sexuality, history, literature and literary studies, music, philosophy, theory, theatre and performance, religion, and other areas of the humanities not listed here. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field. The editorial board is especially interested, although not exclusively, in research that addresses topics of particular relevance to Canada. UTQ is therefore enthusiastic about submissions in Asian Canadian Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature, Canadian History, Canadian Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Indigenous Studies. The journal, more broadly, embraces research that engages interdisciplinary sites of scholarly inquiry, such as Affect Studies, Black Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Media Studies, Medical Humanities, Sound Studies, Transgender Studies, and emergent fields within the humanities. UTQ is published by the University of Toronto Press.

Submissions should normally be between 7,500 and 12,500 words in length inclusive of footnotes and bibliographic material. Additionally, all submissions should be accompanied by an abstract (150-250 words). UTQ’s house style is based upon the MLA Handbook (7th edition), so please format submissions in accordance with MLA bibliographic guidelines. Substantive or discursive amplification should appear in judiciously selected footnotes. All text, including footnotes and Works Cited, should be double-spaced. Please do not justify right margins.

UTQ does not accept research that has already been published, nor does the journal accept submissions currently under consideration elsewhere. The journal does not publish poetry or fiction.

Please anonymize submissions by removing all self-identifying information from the article, including acknowledgements and self-citations (reference your own scholarship as you would any other scholar). When saving the file, remove all personal information from the file on save.

UTQ commissions external reports to assess the quality of each submission. The journal receives numerous submissions and only submissions that the editorial board deems most appropriate for the journal, and most likely to receive recommendations to publish from experts, are sent out for peer review. The review process is doubly anonymous. Authors should expect to receive a response in the form of an editor’s report that collates relevant and useful information drawn from 2 to 3 external reports alongside the internal comments of the editorial board. Peer review takes approximately three to four months.

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Scott International Men 's Quilted Puffer Jacket - Lightweight, Water Repellant, Elastic Cuffs, Zipped Pockets, Casual Winter Jacket - Stylish Outerwear for Men (SS23-TWRAP-JKT-WH-L, Black, L)

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Boldfit Winter Jacket for Men Quilted Hooded Winter Jackets for Men & Boys Full Sleeve Mens Jacket Monsoon Jackets for Men Jacket for Men Wear Bomber Jacket for Men Jerkin for Men Padded Jacket XL

₹3,999.00

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Ben Martin Men's Bomber Jacket (215-BMW-JKT-FS-18012-BLK_Black_M)

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Ben Martin Men's Regular Fit Full Sleeve Stand Collar Black Nylon Quilted Bomber Jacket Size Extra Large

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₹1,999.00

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Lavozia Women's Winter Jacket Warm Jacket for Girls/Jacket Latest Stylish Solid Color Stylish Jacket Women's Quilted Jacket Regular Fit Jacket Full Sleeves Jacket (Pink, Medium)

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UTQ regularly publishes special issues on the range of subjects listed above. If interested in proposing a special issue and serving as its guest editor, contact the editor, Professor Colin Hill, at colin.hill@utoronto.ca

Please send all submissions and inquiries to utquarterly@gmail.com

Deadline: Jan 14 2024.

For further information concerning our editorial policies, please refer to this document which provides supplemental information about copyright and images.

https://www.utpjournals.press/journals/utq/journal/authors

utquarterly@gmail.com

Call For Applications: # Research #Fellowship Opportunities at the #American #Heritage #Center, #University of Wyoming

 The AHC offers funding opportunities to support research using its collections, which cover a wide range of topics related to Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain West, politics, environment and conservation, mining and petroleum industries, air and rail transportation, journalism, the entertainment industry, military history, and more. 

Alan K. Simpson Fellowship

• $3,000 stipend for scholars at all career levels for 20 days of research at the AHC on western political history.

Bernard L. Majewski Research Fellowship

• $3,000 stipend for scholars at all career levels for 20 days of research at the AHC on economic geology history.

Women in Public Life Fellowship

46%

Chuwi HeroBook Pro 14.1'' Laptop, 8GB RAM 256GB SSD, Windows 11 Laptop, 1TB SSD Expand, Intel Celeron N4020(up to 2.8GHz), FHD IPS Display, Ultra Slim, Mini-HDMI, 5G WiFi, USB3.0, Webcam,TF Card

₹34,990.00

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HP Chromebook 14a,Intel Celeron N4500 14inch(35.6 cm) FHD Touchscreen Laptop (Chrome OS, 4 GB SDRAM/64 GB eMMC/Chrome 64 /Dual Speakers/Google Assistant Built-in/Mineral Silver) 14a- na1004TU

₹30,001.00

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ASUS Vivobook 14, Intel Core i5-1135G7 11th Gen, 14" (35.56 cms) FHD, Thin and Light Laptop (16GB/512GB SSD/Windows 11/Office 2021/Indie Black/1.60 kg), X1400EA-EK543WS

₹60,990.00

44%

Lenovo V15 Intel Core i7 12th Gen 15.6" (39.62 cm) FHD (1920x1080) Antiglare 250 nits Thin and Light Laptop (16GB RAM/512GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/Iron Grey/1Y Onsite/1.7 kg), 82TTA08AIN

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TECNO MEGABOOK T1,Intel Core 11th Gen i7 Processor (16GB RAM/1TB SSD Storage), 15.6-Inch (39.62 CM) Eye Comfort disply, (14.8mm Ultra Slim/ 70 Wh Large Battery/Windows 11/ Space Grey / 1.56 Kg)

₹79,999.00

29%

Dell Inspiron 3530 Laptop, 13th Gen Intel Core i5-1335U Processor/16GB/1TB SSD/15.6" (39.62cm) FHD Display/Backlit Keyboard/Platinum Silver/Win 11 + MSO'21/15 Month McAfee/Thin & Light- 1.66kg

₹92,863.00

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ASUS Vivobook 16, Intel®Core™ i3-1215U 12th Gen, 16" (40.64 cm) FHD+, Thin and Light Laptop (16 GB RAM/512GB SSD/Win11/FingerPrint/Black/1.88kg), X1605ZAB-MB342WS

₹62,990.00

28%

Lenovo V15 Intel Celeron N4500 15.6" (39.62 cm) FHD (1920x1080) Antiglare 250 Nits Thin and Light Laptop (8GB RAM/256GB SSD/Windows 11 Home/Black/1Y Onsite/1.7 kg), 82QYA00MIN

₹31,500.00

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(Refurbished) Lenovo ThinkPad 7th Gen Intel Core i5 Thin & Light HD Laptop (8 GB DDR4 RAM/256 GB SSD/14" (35.6 cm) HD/Windows 11/WiFi/Bluetooth/Webcam/Intel Graphics)

₹49,999.00

30%

Dell Inspiron 3530 Laptop, 13th Gen Intel Core i5-1335U Processor/8GB/1TB SSD/15.6" (39.62cm) FHD/Backlit Keyboard/Silver/Win 11 + MSO'21/15 Month McAfee/Thin & Light-1.66kg

₹87,262.00

• $3,000 stipend for scholars at all career levels for 20 days of research at the AHC on women's history.

Peter K. Simpson Fellowship on the American West

• $8,000 stipend for scholars at all career levels for 20 days of research at the AHC and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West (Cody, WY) on the history of the American West.

Contact Information

AHC Archivist Leslie Waggener

Contact Email

lwaggen2@uwyo.edu

URL

https://www.uwyo.edu/ahc/grants/index.html

Call For Papers: Special Issue – #Queerness as Strength- Journal- University of Warwick

The marginalisation of LGBTIQA+ people remains a purposeful act of successive governments, institutions and individuals. The outcome has been poorer health outcomes, limited political participation, higher incarceration rates, and increased inequality and violence globally.

However, amidst this crisis LGBTIQA+ people have also created and maintained ways and means of survival. While being forced to the margins and away from the centre, queer theories and practices have emerged that challenge not only our own marginalisation but also consistently queery and question why human life is how it is. Whether surviving epidemics, persisting for equality in the law, or resisting assimilation, the power of LGBTIQA+ people is rarely collected in and across higher education disciplines. And, although often erased, a rich and vibrant life lives on in zines, the arts, the development of technologies and medicines, and in the pursuit of joy so each generation lives a life better than the one preceding it. Truly, queerness is a strength of which many should be enviable, and it deserves to be in the highest echelons of knowledge as any other discipline or practice.

This special issue aims to collect experiences, thoughts and approaches that apply queerness as a strength across any and all disciplines of practice. Ultimately, this issue aims to offer answers to the question, ‘how can the power of queers benefit wider society?’ From medicine to mathematics, to community organising and pedagogies, through to technologies and the arts, queer strengths have always improved how people live, work, connect and persist.

Paper themes may include, but are not limited to:

• Queer informed improvements to methods and methodologies
• Queer approaches to strengthen data collection and analysis
• The application of queer perspectives and experiences into and across disciplines traditionally void of queer strengths
• Commentary and ethnographies on lived/living experience of the queer researcher/practitioner/student
• Experiences written from global majority country citizens
• Indigenous and First Peoples perspectives
• Perspectives of those who live or practice an intersectional queer experience
• In/Justice in research, education and/or other institutions
• Survival, pain, trauma, rejection and/or loss

To further the discourse and propagate related knowledge Monash University has partnered with the University of Warwick’s interdisciplinary open-access journal Exchanges (exchanges.warwick.ac.uk) to produce a special issue based around these themes. The issue, anticipated for publication in 2025, aims to contain a range of papers from scholars around the globe.

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₹200.00

Gender and Sexuality Diversity in a Culture of Limitation: Student and Teacher Experiences in Schools (Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education)

8%

Women’s and Gender Studies in India

₹1,495.00

9%

Gender Studies: Terms and Debates

₹4,999.00

Gender Studies

Gender and Governance: Studies from South Asia

13%

Gender and Rights (Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies)

₹995.00

Gender, Sexuality &Society in Northeast India: Contextual studies of tribal communities

2%

Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India (Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics)

₹2,513.00

Gender Studies: Previous Years' MCQs of Tripura University and Answers with short descriptions

Expressions of Interest

Therefore, we invite initial expressions of interest for articles related to these themes. Expressions should contain the following information:Proposed paper title & anticipated format[1]

An outline abstract (50-200 words)

4-6 topic keywords or phrases

Contributors’ names, email addresses & associated institutions

An optional expression of interest form may be downloaded on the journal site.

All submissions of expressions of interest should be sent to Exchanges’ Editor-in-Chief (Dr Gareth J Johnson) (exchangesjournal@warwick.ac.uk) no later than Friday 1st March 2024.

Manuscript Submissions

Following the deadline, we will contact all successful authors with further information on manuscript submissions, including the final deadline, currently anticipated to be Friday 31st May 2024. All submissions should be made via Exchanges’ online submission portal.

Format Guidance

Papers for the special issue may be submitted under any of Exchanges’ article formats which include both peer-reviewed and editorially reviewed articles. Authors are strongly encouraged to review our author guidance relating to formats and their requirements before submitting their expression of interest. A formatted template is available to help authors in shaping their manuscript. Additionally, authors may find reviewing Exchanges’ policies on authorship, rights retention and conduct ahead of their submission useful:

Author Guidance: exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/guidance

Journal Policies: exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/journal-policies

Contact & Further Information

For more information, advice or any questions, please visit our website. Alternatively contact the Editor-in-Chief or special issue lead (Jacob Thomas). We look forward to reading your submissions.

Editor-in-Chief exchangesjournal@warwick.ac.uk

Special Issue Lead jacob.thomas@monash.edu

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Endnotes

[1] For format guidance see: https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/exchanges/guidance#formats

[2] Editorial review includes an initial scoping consideration by the Chief Editor, to ensure general suitability for the issue, along with a later revision dialogue with the author.

https://exchanges.warwick.ac.uk/i

exchangesjournal@warwick.ac.uk