- Technological advancement and evolution of performance art
- Reality, Virtual Reality, and Augmented Reality in performance arts
- Digitalization and its impact on live performance practices
- Immersive experience and audience engagement in art.
- Hybridity and syncretism in digitally created/altered performances
- Copyright and Intellectual Property Rights of artists in the digital era
- Customized ambience in performance arts: Intelligent Sound and Light design
- Technological collaboration in digital restoration of art archives
- The changing landscape of Marketing and Distribution of Art
- Ethical issues in AI assisted performance cultures
- Multimedia transgression in live performance practices
- Personalized digital entertainment and alienation in Society
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Monday, October 9, 2023
ISTR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 8-10 FEBRUARY 2024 Redefining the Stage: Exploring Digital Transformation in Performance Cultures
Saturday, October 7, 2023
#CallForPapers #Publication: Resistant Knowledges: unmasking coloniality through the re-search of local to global communities
The Critical Race Theory collective (CRTc) calls for contributions to a special issue of the international peer-reviewed journal Education for Information (IOS Press Interdisciplinary Journal of Information Studies). Responding authors are being called to respond to the theme of engaging with and generating resistant knowledges with a fully articulated intention of unmasking coloniality. This call welcomes works with discipline specific, interdisciplinary and/or transdisciplinary approaches within (or focused on) “communities” related to library, information and/or education praxes.
THE PREVAILING CONTEXT
In these divisive times of social, cultural, political, informational, and economic retrenchment and crises, those who understand, seek, and participate in racial justice and decolonial work can draw inspiration from a question posed by bell hooks: “What are the actions I will concretely do today in order to bring myself into greater community? With that which is not here?” (2003, p. 163) Being in community (or building community) in both intimate and collective settings offers the opportunity to create space for a local to global range of resistant knowledges. We define resistant knowledges as processes of thinking and acting against the grain of coloniality in order to build collective consciousness and calls to action for racial justice and social change.
Resistant knowledges often occur within community formations and can emerge as “knowing as collective rhythm” (Gago, 2020, p. 164) and modes of epistemic disobedience for the global majority research (narrative) ecosystem (Fuh 2022). These collective rhythms reverberate knowledge along a continuum of communities from those who intimately syncopate their rhythms at the (micro) local level to those communities that aspire to or are already vigorously beating their (praxes) drums to amplify their resistant knowledges with global intentions. Authors are encouraged to explore and ultimately explain their framing of community in their submissions.
Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community. bell hooks –
from: Teaching community: a pedagogy of hope (197)
Valentin-Yevies Mudimbe (1990, p. 14) reminds us that the term ‘colonial’ derives from the latin root colére, meaning to cultivate, design or arrange, and that imperial colonists did this through the violent re-organisation of non-European territories into Europe an constructs of land and knowledge. Coloniality is both an epistemic frame and a lived reality that subsumes language and bodies of knowledge, land, and action; arranging and structuring our societies and institutions into hierarchical research or divisions of knowledge and power. In the words of Frantz Fanon, “the business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much bigger business of plunder”(1963, p.189).
Decoloniality, Avtar Brah argues, “enables us to prioritise and foreground regimes of knowledge that have been sidelined, ignored, forgotten, repressed, even discredited by the forces of modernity, colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism.” (2022, p. 15) As such, this call is interested in re-search (Smith, 2021) which counters colonial narratives in all their forms: theoretical, empirical,or as praxes and manifest on micro (intimate/personal), mezzo, macro (structural/systemic) levels.
Hyphenating “research” into “re-search” is very useful because it reveals what is involved, what it really means, and goes beyond the naive view of “research” as an innocent pursuit of knowledge.
It underscores the fact that “re-searching” involves the activity of undressing other people so as to see them naked. It is also a process of reducing somepeople to the level of micro-organism: putting them under a magnifying glass to peep into their private lives, secrets, taboos, thinking, and their sacred worlds.
We frame (counter) storytelling within the bigger picture of storywork; an interdisciplinary methodology drawn from decolonial, indigenous and black feminist re-search methods, as well as the core CRT tenet/method. (Adebisi, 2023; Degado, 1989; Lee & Evans, 2021; Miller, et.al.,2020; Natarajan, 2021; Smith, 1999; Solórzano & Yosso, 2002)
Foluke Adebisi invokes the story of the British slave ship Zong, which in 1781 threw approximately 130 African captives overboard, to highlight that the telling of such colonial stories from the past are too often temporally or spatially limited and hence reproduce harms rather than repairing them. We must, she argues, “craft better futures for us all and the earth on which we are precariously surviving. To survive at all, we need new ways of thinking, being and doing in the world.” (2023),and, in turn, limit (or optimistically reverse) the effects of colonial epistemicide has on resistant knowledges. (Youngman, 2022; Yeon, 2023)
As Nuu-Chah-nulth Hereditary Chief E. Richard Atelo puts it, “as more communities work toward protecting and revitalizing Indigenous knowledges, they have also chosen to reframe and reposition these incredible sources of knowledge as stories. They do so in order to move away from any misunderstandings about the power and truths that are embedded in the stories.” (2011, p.2) Stories, then, should not be considered merely metaphoric or representational. Whilst it is important to heed Tuck and Yang’s (2012) critique that decolonization is not a metaphor, that does not mean that the topics of coloniality and decoloniality cannot be engaged in ways that counter-narrate the dominant epistemological and institutional frameworks in ways that transcend empirical and abstract binaries (even those that metaphoric).
What local and global stories and counter stories of resistant knowledges and (de)coloniality can you tell from your community sites (the gathering of two or more represents the possibility of community) of knowledge, information and learning?
THE GLOBAL CALL
This is more than a ‘call for papers’; it is call and response, inspired by indigenous storywork practices and counter-storytelling methodologies. We are a community of practice, and we are calling for contributions that are rooted in communities, in order to respond to current contexts of crises and manufactured culture wars that are rooted in the dehumanization and domination of coloniality. Hence the question framing this call: can we unmask coloniality through the re-search of local to global communities? An unmasking that emphasizes authentic self representation of identities; an unmasking that has evolved from Fanon’s original articulation that reflected his time (Fanon,1952). An unmasking which empowers re-search of local to global communities by removing the mask of coloniality (that obscure language) masquerading to provide distraction from the much bigger business of plunder. (Fanon,1965)
We seek contributions within Education for Information’s full editorial scope: thus inviting a broad continuum of theoretical, empirical, and/or praxes based counter storytelling submissions related to but not limited to information and education fields and/or interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary work within the following areas:
- archival science
- critical information literacy;
- data science;
- digital humanities;
- documentation theory and practice;
- education studies;
- ethnic studies;
- gender studies;
- queer studies (queer-crit)
- re-search papers (various forms) including empirical quantitative or qualitative studies as well as reflexive, hermeneutical, historical, and other conceptual approaches;
- technology studies or the philosophy of technology commentaries
- topics of interest to education, pedagogy and learning; and indigenous or Pan-African epistemologies;
- information and health equity;
- information and media;
- information policy and ethics;
- information retrieval;
- information seeking and use;
- professional practices or theoretical approaches within
- galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) as
- well as conservations and debates from scholars and practitioners connected interdisciplinarily/ transdisciplinarily to GLAM;
- critical race theory contexts connected to any of the previous options
- counterstory as re-search method
- dis-crit
- interest convergence discussions
- intersectional analysis
- prácticas de liberación
- racial battle fatigue (RBF)
- racial realism
- whiteness as property discussions
- white supremacy perspectives
- works discussing microaggressions
REFERENCES CITED
THE PUBLISHING CHRONOLOGY
- from 10/15/2023 through 12/15/2023 (prospective) authors can submit an abstract of no more that 750 words (on one occasion) for baseline feedback about their re-search counter narrative applicable to this call. Abstracts can be sent to editorialteam@crtcollective.org
- author’s first drafts due Monday March 4, 2024 by 11:59 EST
- CRTc review of submissions March 5 through May 20
- author’s resubmission (response to CRTc reviews): May 21 through June 30
- CRTc Review of resubmissions July 1- 21
- CRTc delivery of submissions to EFI managing editor: July 22
- managing editor review: July 23 – August 30
- target publishing issue 4, 2024
SUBMISSION (AUTHOR) GUIDELINES
This Special Issue will follow Education for Information’s Author Guidelines.
Most Notably:
- Full-length articles and literature reviews should be between 5000-8000 words of text excluding the references. Commentaries, funded innovative re-search protocols, short communications and book reviews should be between 1000-1500 words of text excluding references.
- Manuscripts must be written in English. Authors whose native language is not English are advised to consult a professional English language editing service or a native English speaker prior to submission.
- Manuscripts should be prepared with wide margins and double spacing throughout, including the abstract, footnotes and references. Every page of the manuscript, including the title page,references, tables, etc., should be numbered. However, in the text no reference should be made to page numbers; if necessary, one may refer to sections. Try to avoid the excessive use of italics and bold face.
- Authors are requested to use the APA (American Psychological Association) citation style and references must be listed alphabetically in APA style.
Authors should submit their contributions for review through the CRTc Call for Papers Submission Form
THE HOST COMMUNITY / EDITORIAL TEAM
CONTACTING THE collective
Author’s are invited to reachout to the CRTc with general or specific inquiries for the special issuethrough email: editorialteam@crtcollective.org.
For those seeking to contact a specific CRTc community member, please visit the collective’s Contact Us page.
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
International E- Conference on Education : Global Leadership and Management in Education: Future Perspectives, -12th January 2024
Saturday, September 30, 2023
Call for Book Chapters: The Displacement of the Human in Digital Media-sphere: Bio-digital Convergences
We invite scholars, researchers, and experts in the fields of media studies, digital humanities, cultural studies, and related disciplines to contribute to an upcoming chapter book that delves into the intriguing and evolving topic of "The Displacement of the Human in Digital Media-sphere: Bio-digital Convergences."
Book Overview:
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has redefined the boundaries of the human experience in the cybersphere. As we navigate a world increasingly entwined with digital media, our understanding of what it means to be human undergoes constant transformation. This chapter book seeks to explore the multifaceted aspects of this transformative process, focusing on the convergence of biological and digital elements that reshape our perceptions, identities, and interactions within the digital media-sphere.
Topics of Interest:
We encourage authors to submit proposals for chapters that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Embodiment and Disembodiment in the Digital Age
- Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality: Redefining Presence
- Human-Machine Interfaces and Cyborg Identities
- Datafication of the Self: Personal Data and Identity
- Ethical and Philosophical Implications of Bio-digital Convergences
- Digital Art and Bio-digital Aesthetics
- Social Media, Identity, and Self-presentation
- Digital Health and the Quantified Self
- Human-AI Interactions and Emotional Bonds
- The Role of Bio-digital Convergences in Media and Entertainment
Submission Guidelines:
Interested authors should submit a 300–500-word abstract outlining the proposed chapter, along with a brief biography, to Inti Yanes-Fernandez, thanasis.gianes@gmail.com, by Dec. 15th, 2023.
The full paper (chapter) length is expected to be 5,000-10,000 words approximately.
The abstract should clearly state the research objectives, methodology, and relevance to the book's theme.
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: Dec. 15th, 2023
Notification of Acceptance: Jan. 10th, 2024
Full Chapter Submission Deadline: Feb. 17th, 2024
Review and Revisions Period: Spring-Summer 2024
Book Publication: Fall 2024 (tentative)
Publication Venue:
The accepted chapters will be published as part of a comprehensive chapter book, which will be made available both in print and digitally through Vernon Press, NY.
For inquiries and submissions, please contact Dr. Inti Yanes-Fernandez
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art
Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume
Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art
Editor: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, PhD (Binghamton University)
Email: mazeem1@binghamton.edu
Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2023
This edited volume titled Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art is under an advanced contract with a major publisher and aims to produce critical, theoretical, and analytical debates on the literary and cultural representations of the weaponized drones. We seek chapters on the intersections between human rights and the representation of drone warfare in post-9/11 visual and graffiti art, film and documentaries, plays and stage performances, and poetry, memoirs and fiction. Within the broader context of war on terror, the chapters may contemplate: how do drones complicate the conceptualization of human rights and war both in national and international discourses? How, and with what consequences, do UAVs bypass juridical procedures and normalize target-killing? What challenges do surveillance drones pose to the notions of privacy and biopolitics? How does drone aesthetics produce a counter-archive against the power and hegemonic control of the Empire? How do cultural artefacts capture and resist the violence from above? A strong engagement with the recent critical and theoretical debates on human rights and literature/art is encouraged.
If interested, please email your abstract (150-200 words) and a brief bio to mazeem1@binghamton.edu by June 15, 2023. You will hear about your abstract by the end of June and polished drafts of the chapters (7000-9000 words) will be due on September 30, 2023.
Sunday, May 21, 2023
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MAHABHARATA EPIC ACROSS ASIA ANCIENT INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM TRANSCENDING SPATIOTEMPORAL BOUNDARIES _EFLU HYDERABAD
INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (ICSSR)
SPONSORED
AZADI KA AMRIT MAHOTSAV
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON
MAHABHARATA EPIC ACROSS ASIA ANCIENT INDIAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM TRANSCENDING SPATIOTEMPORAL BOUNDARIES
ORGANIZED
BY THE
ENGLISH AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
Research Cluster EPICS ACROSS ASIA
The Department of English Literature ON 29, 30, and 31 May 2023
Patrons Prof. E. Suresh Kumar Honourable Vice Chancellor The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
&
Dr. J K Bajaj Chairperson Indian Council of Social Science Research About the University The English and Foreign Languages University.
Call for Papers:
About the Conference The greatest event of our age is the meeting of cultures, meeting of civilizations, meeting of different points of view, making us understand that we should not adhere to any one kind of single faith, but respect diversity of belief. Our attempt should always be to cooperate, to bring together people, to establish friendship and have some kind of a right world in which we can live together in happiness, harmony and friendship. Let us therefore realize that this increasing maturity should express itself in this capacity to understand what other points of view are’? Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. The main aim of this conference is not to establish any truth rather to confirm our perpetual journey to explore truth. This conference will explore Mahābhārata and the intellectualhistorical genres and matters discussed in it in new ways in the light of recent thinking and research on this epic. Mahābhārata has diffused into not only Indian life but also in the life of entire South Asia to such an extent that every aspect of life in this region is influenced by it directly or indirectly. Contrary to popular belief that it is a Hindu religious text, it has been adopted and adapted by almost all cultures, communities and have attracted scholars from all religions and regions. The discussion and analysis of the philosophical and theological texts that form an integral part of Mahābhārata have received a considerable critical attention from the scholars around the world. Furthermore, creative writers from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds across time and space have adapted sometimes just a fragment and sometimes the whole of Mahābhārata for their creative writings that expended the epic and added to its ever-expanding meaning. For instance, Angelika Malinar’s Rājavidyā: Das königliche Wissen um Herrschaft und Verzicht. Studien zur Bhagavadgītā examines many themes and complications of epic philosophy and theology, particularly as refracted through the prism of the Bhagavad Gītā. The Nārāyaṇīya Studien of Peter Schreiner, Angelika Malinar, et al., base their arguments on the doctrines of the Gītā and include the philosophy of Vaiṣṇava Purāṇas, on the other hand Johannes Bronkhorst’s Greater Magadha: Studies in the Culture of Early India analyze texts and explore the historical development usually regarded as anterior to the Mokṣadharmaparvan. These works and some others raise a number of themes and ideas that will help in investigation and interrogation of issues related to philosophy, gender, caste, history, geography, ethics, and many more in the Mahābhārata. Mahābhārata Across South Asia The Mahabharata spread through the sub-continent and in all of South East Asia. In Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Indonesia, the Mahabharata gave birth not only to important literary works, but also to theatrical expressions intimately linked to national cultures. In the Malay version, Hikayat perang Pandawa jaya, the epic remains close to the Panji cycle and serves as support to shadow theatre. The Javanese version of the Mahabharata, called Bharatayudha (The Bharata War), and the Arjunavivaha (Arjuna’s Wedding), is used in live theatre (wayang wong or orang) as well as in puppetry and shadow theatre. In Bali, each episode gives rise to independent performances where we find the same titles of Bharatayudha and Arjunavivaha, etc. In all of these countries, the Mahabharata contributes in creating a communication between different religious ideals and synthesizes cultural values. Mahabharata and stories based on this epic are extremely popular in Muslim-majority Indonesia because the Hindu epics are part of the country’s culture. For centuries, many parts of the Indonesian archipelago were majority-Hindu. By the 7th century CE, Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms dominated both Java and Sumatra — Indonesia’s two most populous islands. References to the epics are everywhere in Java — the language, the street signs, the political commentary. In Jakarta, many buses are painted with lurid advertisements for an energy drink called Kuku Bima, which promises Bhima-like endurance. An enormous statue of Krishna leading Arjun into battle dominates the roundabout in front of the Monas, the country’s main nationalist monument. There is a nationwide charitable foundation for twins named the Nakula and Sadewa Society. And one of the country’s bestselling novels, Amba, uses the story of Bhishma and Shikhandi (a later incarnation of Amba) to talk about Indonesia’s purges of communists in the mid-1960s. Wayang kulit, a form of shadow-puppet theatre that features tales from the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, can draw tens of thousands to performances in rural Java. There are Malay versions of the Mahabharata, some of which probably entered Malay as abbreviated prose renditions of the Old Javanese Bhratayuddha. The earliest, Hikayat Perang Pandawa Jaya, ‘The tale of the war of the victorious Pandawa’, was composed sometime between the late 14th and early 16th century, and is mentioned in the Bustan al-salatin of Nuruddin al-Raniri composed in Aceh in 1638.
Sub themes:
1. Mahābhārata during ancient period
2. Mahābhārata during colonial period
3. Mahābhārata during Mughal period
4. Mahābhārata and Buddhism
5. Mahābhārata and Jainism
6. Mahābhārata and tribal cultures
7. Linguistic study of Mahābhārata
8. Mahābhārata and ethics
9. Mahābhārata and philosophy
10. Mahābhārata outside India
11. Sociological study of Mahābhārata
12. Mahābhārata’s adaptations in other languages
13. Contemporary adaptations of Mahābhārata
14. Mahābhārata in other art forms like drama, painting, puppet shows etc.
15. Mahābhārata and Cinema
16. Mahābhārata in Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma, Malaysia and other countries
17. Philosophy of Gita 18. Different aspects of Gita
Important Information:
Last date to submit Abstract: 25 May 2023
Last Date to Submit Full Paper for Publication: 31 July 2023
Conference Email Id: azadikaamritmahotsaveflu2023@gmail.com All inquiries should be sent to the conference email id or 8897048598 (Dr. Jai Singh)
Submit abstracts through the Google Form Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdt_ttpBFkypWH_7Hwdf5L0mhU-pNVSE5Cp_UpGOvHD6Nd_w/viewform?usp=sf_link
Registration Fee:
Rs 4500 with Accommodation Rs 1500 without Accommodation (Conference Lunch will be provided) Rs 500 for Online Presentation Deposit registration fee online in the following account: Name of account holder: The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad Account number: 62122901303 IFSC Code: SBIN0021106 Name of the Bank: State Bank of India, EFL University Branch, Hyderabad In case of any difficulty in depositing the Registration Fee please contact: 8897048598 (Dr. Jai Singh)
PUBLICATION: Papers will be submitted to Peer Reviewed Journals with ISSN Number, processing charges if any will be paid by the participant directly to the Journal.