Of late, the study of Comics (Comic strips, Cartoons and Graphic Novels) once relegated to the realm of ‘Low Art” has been attracting a lot of attention from academia all over the world with its production, dissemination and reception being considered as valid and major forms of cultural exchange and signifying processes. C PRACSIS (Centre for performance research and cultural studies in South Asia) Invites from researchers, academicians and practitioners of the art, papers that examine Comics, Cartoons and Graphic Novels (but not restricted to)
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• As cultural and social signifiers
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• The conditions of its production, distribution and reception
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• Status of the Comic artist
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• Comics and its socio-historical context
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• The rise of Graphic Novels
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• Comics and Graphic Novels as personal historiography
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• Comics as learning tool
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• Comics and fandom
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• Comics and Films
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• Asian and Indian comics
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• Evolution and the growth of Comics
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• Comics and Sexuality
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• Web Comics
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for the proposed international conference which will be held on 21st and 22nd of March 2009 at Thrissur, Kerala, India. Internationally acknowledged Comic Artists, Cartoonists, Graphic novelists and academicians will take part in various sessions of the conference. KEY NOTE: Dr John A. Lent (Temple University) Editor, IJOCA. Last date of submission of abstract: December 31, 2008 Last date of submission of completed papers: February 15, 2009
http://www.cpracsis.org/comic.html
Monday, December 29, 2008
Thursday, December 11, 2008
[2/13] Performance Studies Focus Group ATHE
Time: August 8-11, 2009
Emerging Scholars' Panel: Risking Innovation
The Performance Studies Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars' Panel. The theme of the conference is Risking Innovation, and it takes place at the Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, August 8-11, 2009. The ATHE conference this year is held jointly with AATE (American Alliance of Theatre Education).
The PSFG Emerging Scholars' Panel represents an opportunity for researchers to present their work at a major international conference for the first time. Selected Emerging Scholars will be paired with a mentor from the field of Performance Studies who will offer critical feedback on submitted papers in order to help prepare them for presentation at the conference. ATHE PSFG will also provide successful applicants with complimentary registration to the ATHE PSFG Pre-Conference.
Performance Studies locates itself at the boundaries and intersections of scholarly and artistic practice. It embraces aesthetic and academic interdisciplinarity, as well as the challenges, risks, and innovations that are part of such inclusionary practices. Performance also acts as a critical model for theorizing cultural and social action, providing a lens and practice through which technological and cultural innovations can be processed. Having declared itself as variously inter-disciplinary, anti-disciplinary, and post-disciplinary in its earlier years, how do scholars and practitioners within the now more established field of Performance Studies continue to risk innovation? How do performance-based innovations provoke new methods in scholarship? How do new theories give rise to innovation in analyzing and building performance? What can a focus on innovation and risk reveal about disciplinary and aesthetic habits? What does such a focus risk obscuring or leaving out?
Submissions to the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel might engage these disciplinary questions, or a range of others around the conference theme. Papers across performance modes and historical periods are welcomed. Topics might include:
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• contested boundaries between performance, theatre and other artforms
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• emergent technologies in performance
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• the performance of 'risky history'
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• historiographical approaches to performance
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• negotiating/ building identity in performance
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• risk and innovation in the avant-garde (and in its supposed death)
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• performances that put the physical body at risk
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• conflict and confrontation in the performance encounter
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• performativity and theatricality
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• performance, emotion and affect
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• complexity, ambiguity and paradox in performance
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• performance as debate, negotiation, breakdown
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Papers for the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel should be 8-10 pages in length (double-spaced). The deadline for submission is Friday 13 February 2009. Please send completed papers (as attachments in Microsoft Word), with institutional affiliation and contact information, to Elise Morrison at Elise_Morrison@brown.edu. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of March 2009.
Please contact Elise Morrison with any other questions regarding the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel at the email address above.
Emerging Scholars' Panel: Risking Innovation
The Performance Studies Focus Group at the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference invites submissions of papers for its Emerging Scholars' Panel. The theme of the conference is Risking Innovation, and it takes place at the Marriott Marquis, New York, NY, August 8-11, 2009. The ATHE conference this year is held jointly with AATE (American Alliance of Theatre Education).
The PSFG Emerging Scholars' Panel represents an opportunity for researchers to present their work at a major international conference for the first time. Selected Emerging Scholars will be paired with a mentor from the field of Performance Studies who will offer critical feedback on submitted papers in order to help prepare them for presentation at the conference. ATHE PSFG will also provide successful applicants with complimentary registration to the ATHE PSFG Pre-Conference.
Performance Studies locates itself at the boundaries and intersections of scholarly and artistic practice. It embraces aesthetic and academic interdisciplinarity, as well as the challenges, risks, and innovations that are part of such inclusionary practices. Performance also acts as a critical model for theorizing cultural and social action, providing a lens and practice through which technological and cultural innovations can be processed. Having declared itself as variously inter-disciplinary, anti-disciplinary, and post-disciplinary in its earlier years, how do scholars and practitioners within the now more established field of Performance Studies continue to risk innovation? How do performance-based innovations provoke new methods in scholarship? How do new theories give rise to innovation in analyzing and building performance? What can a focus on innovation and risk reveal about disciplinary and aesthetic habits? What does such a focus risk obscuring or leaving out?
Submissions to the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel might engage these disciplinary questions, or a range of others around the conference theme. Papers across performance modes and historical periods are welcomed. Topics might include:
•
• contested boundaries between performance, theatre and other artforms
•
• emergent technologies in performance
•
• the performance of 'risky history'
•
• historiographical approaches to performance
•
• negotiating/ building identity in performance
•
• risk and innovation in the avant-garde (and in its supposed death)
•
• performances that put the physical body at risk
•
• conflict and confrontation in the performance encounter
•
• performativity and theatricality
•
• performance, emotion and affect
•
• complexity, ambiguity and paradox in performance
•
• performance as debate, negotiation, breakdown
•
•
Papers for the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel should be 8-10 pages in length (double-spaced). The deadline for submission is Friday 13 February 2009. Please send completed papers (as attachments in Microsoft Word), with institutional affiliation and contact information, to Elise Morrison at Elise_Morrison@brown.edu. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of March 2009.
Please contact Elise Morrison with any other questions regarding the PSFG Emerging Scholars' panel at the email address above.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
[1/2] Visuality / Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice
Location: The Royal Institute for British Architects, London
Time: 9th - 11th July, 2009
Visuality/Materiality attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The interrogation of image as sign, metaphor, and text has long dominated the realm of visual theory and analysis. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of practices of living and political being, are critical to 21st century grammars of living. The relationship between Visuality/Materiality here is about social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility. This conference is aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a contemporary visual theory and practice can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, the affective, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual critique. The organisers are keen to encourage contributions based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality and visual critique including concern with:
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Paul Frosh, Professor Jane Jacobs
Provisional Speakers Include
Mike Crang (Durham), Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmith’s); Marquard Smith (Westminster); Prof Mimi Sheller (Swarthmore), Ruth Panelli (UCL); Yoke-Sum Wong (Lancaster); Craig Campbell (Alberta); Mathias Broth (Linkoping University), Oskar Juhlin (Interactive Institute); Dean Sully (UCL); Michael Pryke (Ou); Eric Laurier (Edinburgh); Niki Sperou (visual artist, Adelaide); Ruth Fazakerley (Visual Artist, Adelaide) and Agnieszka Golda (Visual Artist, Wollongong)
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Paper Presentations, Visual Art, Film, Visual workshops, Visual Methodologies
To participate in the conference will cost £185 Employed / £120 students (tbc) and send a 200 word abstract by January 2nd 2009 to: Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk
Time: 9th - 11th July, 2009
Visuality/Materiality attends to the relationship between the visual and the material as a way of approaching both the meaning of visual and its other aspects. The interrogation of image as sign, metaphor, and text has long dominated the realm of visual theory and analysis. But the material role of visual praxis in everyday landscapes of seeing has been an emergent area of visual research; visual design, urban visual practice, visual grammars and vocabularies of domestic spaces, including the formation and structuring of practices of living and political being, are critical to 21st century grammars of living. The relationship between Visuality/Materiality here is about social meaning and practice; where identity, power, space, and geometries of seeing are approached here through a grounded approach to material technologies, design and visual research, everyday embodied seeing, labour, ethics and utility. This conference is aimed at providing a dialogic space where the nature and role of a contemporary visual theory and practice can be evaluated, in light of materiality, practice, the affective, performativity; and where the methodological encounter informs our intellectual critique. The organisers are keen to encourage contributions based on research experience and practice into specific aspects of visuality and visual critique including concern with:
- What is the relationship between materiality and the visuality?
- How do we develop new theoretical approaches to new visual practices?
- What can we learn from everyday visualities?
- How can we approach ethical practices through visual practices?
- How are theories of materiality, performance, embodiment employed in research on the visual?
Professor Elizabeth Edwards, Dr Paul Frosh, Professor Jane Jacobs
Provisional Speakers Include
Mike Crang (Durham), Nirmal Puwar (Goldsmith’s); Marquard Smith (Westminster); Prof Mimi Sheller (Swarthmore), Ruth Panelli (UCL); Yoke-Sum Wong (Lancaster); Craig Campbell (Alberta); Mathias Broth (Linkoping University), Oskar Juhlin (Interactive Institute); Dean Sully (UCL); Michael Pryke (Ou); Eric Laurier (Edinburgh); Niki Sperou (visual artist, Adelaide); Ruth Fazakerley (Visual Artist, Adelaide) and Agnieszka Golda (Visual Artist, Wollongong)
Media
Paper Presentations, Visual Art, Film, Visual workshops, Visual Methodologies
To participate in the conference will cost £185 Employed / £120 students (tbc) and send a 200 word abstract by January 2nd 2009 to: Visuality-Materiality-Conference@open.ac.uk
[1/16] Interrogating -isms: Issues of Power from the Streets to Academia
Place Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Time April 16-18, 2009
Submission Deadline January 16, 2009
The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 34th annual Symposium to be held April 16-19, 2008. Our theme, "Interrogating -isms: Issues of Power from the Streets to Academia," intends to frame discussions about the interplay of activism and scholarship within our academic community.
By "activism" we mean deliberate behavior or action intended to effect desired change. Conversations that explore what accounts for change and what activism is involves an examination of the various forms of oppression (racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.) experienced within society and the challenges one faces when confronting power.
"Activism" also calls into question who constitutes the community that speaks, theorizes, and proposes solutions for the change envisioned. In this sense, our symposium hopes to acknowledge a shift within American Studies to cultivate scholarship that bridges the divide between the halls of academe and people, in general, who form the communities in which we live. In particular, we are concerned with knowledge creation that involves the input of those outside of academe and collective efforts to shape consciousness about issues impacting our society.
Organized by graduate students, this year's symposium will take place over the course of three days and focuses specifically on the presentation of graduate student work. The Symposium Committee invites students of all disciplines to submit proposals no longer than one page in length for panels, individual papers, workshops, or performances that examine some issue of power. Proposed work may consider the ways in which power manifests, is recognized, negotiated, and utilized. We are also interested in work that addresses the ways in which power is confronted in order to effect change.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Critical Race Theory
• Transnational Studies
• Labor and Class Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Popular Culture and Media Studies
• Intersectionality Theory
• Literary Studies
• Religious Studies
• Academic Freedom Issues
• Social and Political Movements
• Pedagogy, Politics, and the Classroom
• Hierarchy within Academia
• Politics of Identity and the Field of American Studies
• Performance Studies
• Performance Art (Spoken Work, Poetry, Independent Films, Dramatizations)
Please submit along with your proposal a biography of no more than 250 words and a current CV with contact information (especially your email address).
Submissions may be made electronically to Philathia Bolton at pbolton@purdue.edu or to Michelle Carreon at mcarreon@purdue.edu.
Time April 16-18, 2009
Submission Deadline January 16, 2009
The American Studies Program at Purdue University announces its 34th annual Symposium to be held April 16-19, 2008. Our theme, "Interrogating -isms: Issues of Power from the Streets to Academia," intends to frame discussions about the interplay of activism and scholarship within our academic community.
By "activism" we mean deliberate behavior or action intended to effect desired change. Conversations that explore what accounts for change and what activism is involves an examination of the various forms of oppression (racism, sexism, heterosexism, etc.) experienced within society and the challenges one faces when confronting power.
"Activism" also calls into question who constitutes the community that speaks, theorizes, and proposes solutions for the change envisioned. In this sense, our symposium hopes to acknowledge a shift within American Studies to cultivate scholarship that bridges the divide between the halls of academe and people, in general, who form the communities in which we live. In particular, we are concerned with knowledge creation that involves the input of those outside of academe and collective efforts to shape consciousness about issues impacting our society.
Organized by graduate students, this year's symposium will take place over the course of three days and focuses specifically on the presentation of graduate student work. The Symposium Committee invites students of all disciplines to submit proposals no longer than one page in length for panels, individual papers, workshops, or performances that examine some issue of power. Proposed work may consider the ways in which power manifests, is recognized, negotiated, and utilized. We are also interested in work that addresses the ways in which power is confronted in order to effect change.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
• Critical Race Theory
• Transnational Studies
• Labor and Class Studies
• Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory
• Cultural Studies
• Popular Culture and Media Studies
• Intersectionality Theory
• Literary Studies
• Religious Studies
• Academic Freedom Issues
• Social and Political Movements
• Pedagogy, Politics, and the Classroom
• Hierarchy within Academia
• Politics of Identity and the Field of American Studies
• Performance Studies
• Performance Art (Spoken Work, Poetry, Independent Films, Dramatizations)
Please submit along with your proposal a biography of no more than 250 words and a current CV with contact information (especially your email address).
Submissions may be made electronically to Philathia Bolton at pbolton@purdue.edu or to Michelle Carreon at mcarreon@purdue.edu.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
[12/15] CULTURE UNBOUND: Journal of Current Cultural Research
Special Issue: Signs of the City/City of Signs
What is the nature indissolubly, of the city as reality, as image, and as symbol? (Hubert Damisch)
What kind of meaning is connected to the city and by what kind of mechanisms? (Martin Krampen)
The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it. (Roland Barthes)
The modern city offers us an endless and, some might say, excessive proliferation of signs, symbols, and images. This density of representational practices has provided a rich field of study for scholars working in architecture, environmental psychology, sociology, popular music studies, anthropology, geography, communication, film, cultural and media studies, among others. In many of these studies, the signifying power of cities is seen as vital to the ways in which people make sense of urban contexts in intimate and profound ways. As has also been made clear, the stylization of cities and city life is often embedded in a range of ideological configurations whereby power makes itself both visible and invisible, namely through the material and symbolic environments available in the city. Thus, the notion of the city as a sign is not simply about reading the surface of the city to get at its depth; rather, an interdisciplinary approach to urban contexts offers nuanced considerations of the city as a multi-layered communicative phenomenon.
This volume of Culture Unbound is designed to bring together contemporary research on the city as sign/signs of the city. As this collection intends to make clear, the manner in which meaning circulates, the spaces through which it flows and to which it becomes affixed, provides ample opportunities for robust analyses of the signifying power of the city. In the end, this volume will examine the many textured resonances of urban signs by situating them in relation to a number of interrelated dimensions of city life.
Areas to consider (but not restricted to) can include:
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• The branded city
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• The (post)creative city
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• The mythic city
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• The cinematic city
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• The sonic city
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• The city of culture
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• The mediated city
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• The networked city
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• The built city
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Abstracts and expressions of interest, of no more than 250 words, can be sent to the editor, Geoff Stahl, at geoff.stahl@vuw.ac.nz by December 15th, 2008. Completed articles to be submitted by May 1st, 2009.
CULTURE UNBOUND: JOURNAL OF CURRENT CULTURAL RESEARCH will be launched in 2009 as a new academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, easily accessible for downloading as open access, and a forum with a wider scope than existing journals for cultural studies or other, more specific subfields of cultural research.
Information: www.acsis.liu.se
What is the nature indissolubly, of the city as reality, as image, and as symbol? (Hubert Damisch)
What kind of meaning is connected to the city and by what kind of mechanisms? (Martin Krampen)
The city is a discourse and this discourse is truly a language: the city speaks to its inhabitants, we speak our city, the city where we are, simply by living in it, by wandering through it, by looking at it. (Roland Barthes)
The modern city offers us an endless and, some might say, excessive proliferation of signs, symbols, and images. This density of representational practices has provided a rich field of study for scholars working in architecture, environmental psychology, sociology, popular music studies, anthropology, geography, communication, film, cultural and media studies, among others. In many of these studies, the signifying power of cities is seen as vital to the ways in which people make sense of urban contexts in intimate and profound ways. As has also been made clear, the stylization of cities and city life is often embedded in a range of ideological configurations whereby power makes itself both visible and invisible, namely through the material and symbolic environments available in the city. Thus, the notion of the city as a sign is not simply about reading the surface of the city to get at its depth; rather, an interdisciplinary approach to urban contexts offers nuanced considerations of the city as a multi-layered communicative phenomenon.
This volume of Culture Unbound is designed to bring together contemporary research on the city as sign/signs of the city. As this collection intends to make clear, the manner in which meaning circulates, the spaces through which it flows and to which it becomes affixed, provides ample opportunities for robust analyses of the signifying power of the city. In the end, this volume will examine the many textured resonances of urban signs by situating them in relation to a number of interrelated dimensions of city life.
Areas to consider (but not restricted to) can include:
•
• The branded city
•
• The (post)creative city
•
• The mythic city
•
• The cinematic city
•
• The sonic city
•
• The city of culture
•
• The mediated city
•
• The networked city
•
• The built city
•
•
Abstracts and expressions of interest, of no more than 250 words, can be sent to the editor, Geoff Stahl, at geoff.stahl@vuw.ac.nz by December 15th, 2008. Completed articles to be submitted by May 1st, 2009.
CULTURE UNBOUND: JOURNAL OF CURRENT CULTURAL RESEARCH will be launched in 2009 as a new academic journal for border-crossing cultural research, including cultural studies as well as other interdisciplinary and transnational currents. It is globally open to articles from all areas in this large field, easily accessible for downloading as open access, and a forum with a wider scope than existing journals for cultural studies or other, more specific subfields of cultural research.
Information: www.acsis.liu.se
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