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Announcements and Calls for Papers
CFP: Electronic Tribes
A CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS:
ELECTRONIC TRIBES:
INTERPERSONAL, SMALL-GROUP, ORGANIZATIONAL,
AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION ON THE INTERNET
A collection of essays on the human tendency toward online tribalism.
Collected and Edited by, Tyrone L. Adams, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Stephen A. Smith, University of Arkansas
What does it mean to be in a tribe? How does one create a shared identity with a tribe? What are the aspects of tribalism? Furthermore, does online discourse amplify or alter the realities of tribal instinct? Electronic Tribes: Interpersonal, Small-group, Organizational, and Cultural Communication on the Internet is a foray into the psyche of the human mind and how it functions in several online communication contexts. This collection of essays makes the argument that humanity only has the capacity to think and communicate within the parameters of its biological and nurtured tribal instincts.
The co-editors of Electronic Tribes are now in the solicitation stage of abstracts, outlines, or finished essays which relate to the theme of online tribalism. All work must conform to the American Psychological Association‚s style guide (4th Edition), and must be no longer than 25 pages double-spaced, including references. Please place all inquiries and submissions to Tyrone L. Adams (tyadams@louisiana.edu ) at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. To date, no agreement has been reached with a publisher. However, a working prospectus document is in production.
posted 11/20/2004
CFP: Interculture
InterCulture (ISSN: 1552-5910) is an e-journal focused upon the interdisciplinary study of world cultures, the celebration and contemplation of cultural diversity, and exploration of the commonalities of the human condition.
InterCulture exists to publish articles and media written from an interdisciplinary perspective, without any preference for a particular theoretical approach. Creative work, book, film and music reviews are accepted as well.
InterCulture: http://www.fsu.edu/~proghum/interculture/homepage.html
InterCulture publishes material on a rolling basis; please allow 1-3 months for review. Articles should be submitted in MSWord or .RTF format and be between 3-6K words in length; book, film, and music reviews should be between 750-1250 words.
For creative work, video and images should be submitted in commonly utilized formats. (e.g., .SWF, MP3, AVI, Real Media, Windows Media, .JPG, .GIF, .WAV, etc.)
Submissions:
Thomas Philbeck
InterCulture Site Coordinator
tdp0761@fsu.edu
or
Nicholas Ruiz III
Co-editor
nr03@fsu.edu
posted 11/17/2004
CFP: Gendered Visualities [1 February 2005]
Gendered Visualities: A Visual Culture Symposium and Exhibition at George Mason University
March 1, 2005
Gendered Visualities is a one-day symposium featuring panels of speakers/presentations, an exhibition of artwork submitted specifically for the symposium and in relation to its theme, a keynote speaker and reception with performance. The symposium is sponsored by a number of departments and programs at the University – including Art and Visual Technology, Art History, Cultural Studies, Film and Media Studies, English, New Century College, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Women’s Studies - as well as other organizations, including the publication Global Tryst and the Research Institute for Global Cultural Studies.
Submissions from a broad range of disciplinary approaches, periods and mediums are welcome. We are interested in examining how gender is visualized or how visuality is gendered.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words to elgorman@msn.com. The deadline for this call for papers is February 1, 2005.
posted 11/16/2004
CFP: Film and Folklore [30 January 2005]
Western Folklore, the academic journal of the California Folklore Society, is soliciting submissions for a special issue of the journal that will focus on the relationship between Film and Folklore. Submissions on the following or related topics are particularly welcome:
- Folklore representation in film and television; including myth, Märchen, legend, folksong and ballad, belief and custom, etc.
- Film and television texts as folkloristic forms; including issues of variant texts, dissemination of beliefs/narratives, film/television as storytelling, etc.
- Audience ethnographies/fan studies
- Ethnographic (documentary) films
- Children's media and its relationship to folklore
Deadline for 200-word abstracts is January 30, 2005 and completed papers (5000 ˆ 6000 words) submitted by May 1, 2005. Please send attachments in Microsoft Word to Mikel J. Koven, Special Editor, mik@aber.ac.uk, or Sabina Magliocco, Editor sabina.maglioco@csun.edu, or hard copy to: Sabina Magliocco, Editor, Western Folklore; Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge; 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8244.
Submissions should conform to the Social Sciences format, Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.
posted 11/16/2004
CFP: Visible Evidence XII
Visible Evidence XII will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada, August 22 to 25, 2005.
Visible Evidence is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary conference on the role of film, video and other media as witness and voice of social reality, which encompasses a wide range of cultural, political, social, historical, ethnographic and pedagogical questions and perspectives from fields such as film studies, communication studies, anthropology, architecture, art history, ethnic studies, queer studies, history, journalism, law, medicine, political science, sociology, urban studies and women's studies. First held at Duke University in 1993, subsequent editions have been held at the University of Southern California, Harvard, Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Wales (Cardiff), with most recent editions taking place in Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles (2002), and Bristol (December 2003). Returning to the Americas in 2005, the 2006 version is planned for Brazil. There is an associated series of books published by University of Minnesota Press:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/byseries/visibleevidence.html
Visible Evidence, in addition to its interdisciplinarity and intense collegial ambience among academics, students and practitioners, is notable for its "manageable" single-stream program, in which all panels are followed by all conference participants in a cumulative process of dialogue. For 2005, we are also planning one slot of concurrent workshops. The keynote speaker has been confirmed as Anand Patwardhan, veteran Indian documentarist (Mumbai) known for internationally recognized documentary epics from Waves of Revolution (1974) to Bombay our City (1985) to War and Peace (2002). An
accompanying screening series will be organized by the local international documentary festival Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal. Proposals for individual papers and pre-constituted or open-call panels and workshops are solicited from faculty, students and documentary practitioners. Proposals may pertain to any aspect of documentary
aesthetics, history, culture, politics or theory.
For an individual paper, please submit a 150-word abstract, a brief bibliography-filmography, a short biographical statement, and a paper title by e-mail to waugh@vax2.concordia.ca by January 31 2005.
For an open-call panel or workshop which you would like to organize, send a 150-word rationale and your call for papers or "interventions" by email to waugh@vax2.concordia.ca by November 30 2004. The conference organizers will circulate these on the conference website, indicating that submissions to open-call panels or workshops are to be sent to the announced panel or workshop convenor by January 15 2005. iii) For a pre-constituted panel or workshop, send a 150-word rationale and the convenor's short biographical statement, along with abstracts for all participants as per instructions
indicated above.
Panels ideally comprise four papers of twenty minutes duration, followed by comments by a respondent. Workshops ideally comprise up to six "interventions" of no more than ten minutes each, followed by discussion.
Pour la version française de cet appel, veuillez consulter notre site web http://artsandscience.concordia.ca/comm/visibleevidence.html
Visible Evidence XII is hosted by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema and the Department of Communciation Studies of Concordia University
For further information please contact:
Thomas Waugh, Professor and Graduate Program Head, Film Studies Programme in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sexuality
Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema
Waugh@vax2.concordia.ca
Or
Martin Allor Professor Department of Communication Studies
Allor@vax2.concordia.ca
posted 11/16/2004
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