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Wednesday, 29 September 2004
Could we do something as a group for the Camera Obscura - seems like too good an opportunity to miss?
Thursday, 23 September 2004
Again, another cfp relevant to our concerns, and with a deadline in only a few weeks. Another one of those things that makes me think of joint authorship.
Camera Obscura
Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS:
A Camera Obscura “Archive for the Future”
The editors of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies invite the journal’s readers to contribute statements of 500–1000 words that consider, contemplate, entertain, and/or imagine the future of “feminism, culture, and media studies.” Selected contributions will be published in a special issue to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the journal. What lines of inquiry and approaches to these terms and to this nexus do you find most engaging? What lines do you expect to find most productive in the future? How do you see the conjuncture of “feminism, culture, and media studies” as intersecting with other discourses, disciplines, and practices? How does your sense of the future of this conjuncture reflect your understanding of its history? How would you characterize the changes in feminist culture and media studies, and how do you see those changes as related (or removed from) the changes within the media and cultural practices themselves? What theories, methodologies, objects, texts, and/or practices would you want to revive or re-energize at this point? What would you want to eulogize or mourn? In sum, what would you submit to a Camera Obscura “archive for the future,” and why?
Please send three copies of your statement, including complete contact information, to:
Camera Obscura
Department of Film Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4010.
Deadline: 15 October 2004.
Friday, 17 September 2004
I've just received this call for contributions to the Journal of Gender Studies. I wonder whether some of us might want to consider writing a piece together?
Call for Papers
The Journal of Gender Studies intends to publish a Special Issue entitled
The Future of Fiction: The Future of Feminism
In recent years fictional and narrative forms have had an impact across the disciplines. They have moved out of their traditional homes in literature and psychoanalysis and into cultural studies, media studies, the social sciences and history. In so doing, new aesthetic practices have evolved, the potential of fiction has been explored through new technologies and the demarcations between disciplines have come under question. The Editors welcome papers that address this explosion in fiction (in all its forms) and that consider the political dimension of this development. What do these changes mean for the future of feminism? What does feminism want from fiction? What does fiction offer feminism? How can each speak to the other? In exploring these questions, not only ‘fiction’ comes under scrutiny but ‘feminism’ too, its diverse forms and its relation to gender, race, class and sexuality.
All papers should be submitted by September 2005.
Papers accepted will be published in Volume 15:2 of the Journal, July 2006.
Papers should be between 5000 and 7000 words and should follow the guidelines set out in the ‘Notes for Contributors’. Detailed copies of this are available from the Journal office or on the website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/09589236.html
Tuesday, 14 September 2004
One other conference that might interest one or two of you, and a journal: Feminism in the Arts in Contemporary Britain: Conference at York St. John College, A College of the University of Leeds, U.K. Saturday 2 July 2005. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 1st November 2004.
Conference date: Saturday 2 July 2005.
See http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Gender-Studies/0347.html
Also:The International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics (MCP) is a new serial publication to begin in 2005. The journal is committed to analyzing the politics of communications and cultural processes. It addresses cultural politics in their local, international and global dimensions, recognizing equally the importance of issues defined by their specific cultural geography and those which run across cultures and nations. The content focus will be critical, in-depth analysis and engaged research of the intersections of sociology, politics, cultural studies and media studies with the aim of keeping academic analysis in dialogue with the practical world of communications, culture and politics. MCP is now inviting articles (6,000-8,000 words), short commentaries(2,500–3,000), and short polemics (1,000–2,500) on media and cultural politics topics, and in particular on these five themes.
• Infantilizing culture: the collapse of media content?
• The death of the intellectual
• 'In here and out there' – the media, the centre and the regions
• Getting past 'post-feminism'
• The media and the end of history – a view from several continents
I couldn't find a deadline for this call, so I guess its still open.
Michelle
Monday, 13 September 2004
The deadline for proposals for the SCMS conference is this Wednesday 15th September. After much discussion regarding the possibility of proposing a preconstituted 'Regenerations' panel, it looks as though we should instead submit proposals for papers independently (given the organisers' intructions against panels from single instituions). I'd like to look at ways of developing the concept of regenerations from our initial proposals a year or so ago to include recent awayday discussions, and to think of ways of reframing and/or renaming it. If my memory serves me correctly, 'Regenerations' is now the concept driving the School's proposed conference series.
Anyway, for those wanting to propose a paper to SCMS, you can email the proposal to office@cmstudies.org, but need to visit the SCMS website and download their standard abstract form. They require a 50 word abstract in addition to a 300-400 word proposal.
Hi GAC people. Just testing out this new fangled technology and letting you know I am signed up.
Friday, 10 September 2004
Just to let you all know, theres a call for papers for "The Media Gendering of War and Conflict": Feminist Media Studies (9/15/04; journal issue) It's posted at
http://cfp.english.upenn.edu/archive/Gender-Studies/0357.html
Deadline for abstracts is 15th September, so it's very tight! - Michelle
It looks as though most of you agree that I should take over as chair of the group this year - great. Can I then suggest as our first meeting of the year Wednesday 6th October at 2pm.
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