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- COIL Conference 2018 – Global Learning For All
- Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
- Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities
- Post-Truth and the Moving Image Alternative Memories, Disputed Spaces, and Contradictory Narratives
- Participations: International Journal of Audience Research
COIL Conference 2018 – Global Learning For All
The Annual COIL Conference presents best practices and new horizons in collaborative online international learning (COIL). Highlights this year are student voices about impacts of international learning and action labs for the hands-on building of resources for teaching and learning.
COIL promotes 21st Century student competencies by connecting classes in different countries through online interactions, developing applied learning environments, and bringing cross-cultural communication into the classroom.
SUNY invites faculty and lecturers, instructional technologists and designers, IT professionals, international education and study abroad leaders, teaching and learning specialists, and anyone interested in innovation in higher education to attend. The COIL Conference is the premier event in this growing movement and SUNY welcomes participants from diverse backgrounds, professions, and institutions to share their work toward making Global Learning for All a reality.
Conference themes include:
- Innovative Pedagogy and Practice in COIL Courses
- Student Voices: Perspectives on International Learning through COIL
- Tools and Technologies for COIL
- Connecting Research, Policy and Practice
- Assessing the Impact of COIL
- Student Mobility through COIL
- Evolving COIL: Next Steps and New Horizons
The SUNY COIL Center promotes collaborative international learning by connecting classes between US institutions and universities around the world, bringing international engagement into the curriculum.
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
Urban development. Access to information technologies. Voting districts. Drone warfare. The asymmetrical identifies a lack of equivalence that is increasingly characteristic of contemporary economic, material, political, and visual relations. Asymmetry is often at the surface of history: where sustained and repeated practices of inequality manifest as image. The asymmetrical is also an aesthetic that registers imbalance and refuses a call to order. The 2018 Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC) asks how asymmetry and the asymmetrical can be used to interpret sites of conflict and complicate traditional ideas of equivalence, balance, and organization.
Knowing where images come from and how they come to exist matters. As Lisa Parks contends, equality is deeply entangled with the materiality of media systems. Her rich interdisciplinary work on televisual infrastructures and drone surveillance suggests that media systems configure cultural imaginaries of the global, the immaterial, and the biopolitical̶ imaginaries that often carry uneven distributions of value, sensation, and equivalence. However, while media systems may be centrally owned by nation-states or corporations, at their uneven edges they are “imagined, arranged, and adopted in different ways by people or ‘end-users’” (Signal Traffic, 11). The uneven and the local are often the sites where media and infrastructure are felt as matter and matter most.
We invite emerging scholars in the humanities, arts, and humanistic sciences to present work that broadens our current understanding of asymmetry and how it engages with culture, theory, and society. What are critical examples of asymmetrical development? How does the asymmetrical work in literature, the visual arts, and performance? What theoretical frameworks inform our understandings of the asymmetrical? How does asymmetry draw attention to patterns of inequality? When should we strive for asymmetry?
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Studies of infrastructure and public development
- The aesthetics and politics of drone use
- Race and ethnicity in American politics
- Geography and geographic information systems
- Contemporary wealth distribution
- Valuations of affective labor
- Imperfect and experimental cinema
- Postmodern literature
- Dadaism in the 21st century
- Militarization of daily life
- Studies in political activism and community organizing
- Representation of LGBTQ+ communities
- Environmental regulations and climate change
- Asymmetry and philosophy
Please use the form below to submit all submissions by December 1, 2016. In your submission, please include a title, institutional affiliation, department, and whether you are a MA or PhD student. All submissions will be reviewed anonymously by a committee of UWM graduate student organizers.
Questions can be directed to themigc@gmail.com.
The thirteenth annual Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference is supported by the Center for 21st Century Studies, the College of Letters and Sciences, the Graduate School, the Office of Research, Student Affairs, and the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.
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CfP: Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities
[DUE: 8 Dec]
Reformatting the World: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Technology and the Humanities
February 23 – 24, 2018
The Graduate Program in Humanities and the Humanities Graduate Student Association (HuGSA) at York University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference interrogating the critical role of technology, both past and present, in shaping human culture and society. Technology, in the broadest sense, has enriched our lives by opening up new vistas of knowledge about ourselves (or our selves) and the natural world. Digital technologies, for example, have made possible new, highly-advanced forms of social organization. They have also revolutionized almost every aspect of our lives, from travel, communication, entertainment, culture and the arts to food, medicine, education, politics, and science.
However, technology is also associated with the rise of technical rationality and a cold, calculating approach to the creation and application of technological innovation. From the industrial revolution to the development of the atomic bomb, politics in alliance with private interests have wreaked havoc on the environment, peoples and communities across the world, and threatens to alter or destroy the things we value the most. Where, for instance, is the place for privacy, freedom, spirituality, and other aspects of the human experience as we move forward in increasingly technologically administered bodies and societies? Are we destined to become slaves to our own creations, the “sex organs of the machine world,” as Marshall McLuhan predicted? Can humanism and morality withstand—or even make use of—technology for the genuine betterment of humankind?
Or, perhaps it is technology itself that must be rethought. What changes if we conceive of a technology as anything instrumental (a material, tool, text, medium, digital platform, etc.) and/or social (writing, discourse, institution, etc.) that exerts its own subtle pressure, penetrating deeply into in human experience or culture? What happens when our discourses of social/political/cultural technological “progress” are supplemented with that of “affordances” and “constraints?” In other words, can we attend to the stakes of technicity itself as an increasingly prominent (and often assumed) conceptual framework? How can such interdisciplinary approaches trace the real and imagined effects of a given technology across past and present human societies, and where do discourses and practices of technology and the humanities converge?
Panel themes and topics might include (but are not limited to):
• Digital Humanities: collaboration, new perspectives and communicative technology
• Technology and the Arts: literature, fine arts, music, film, theatre, sound, fashion, etc.
• Human–Machine Interaction: cyborgs, the social and the technological,
• Biotechnology and Biopolitics: policies, ethics and technologies of living organisms
• Epistemologies: disciplines, divides and the production of knowledge
• Media Studies: communication and culture, social impact of media
• History and Philosophy of Technology: past and present perspectives
• Profit and loss: Potentials of new technologies and what is made antiquated in turn
• Prophets and the lost: how varieties of spirituality have adapted with/to technology
We welcome submissions from graduate students of any level, as well as early career researchers, from a wide cross-section of disciplines, fields and critical approaches, including (but not limited to) anthropology, art history, classics, communications and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, cultural memory, digital humanities, education, film studies, fine arts, futurism, historicism, history of science and technology, media studies, medical humanities, medicine, philosophy, popular cultural studies, religious studies, representation studies, sociology, translation studies, and women’s studies.
Submissions may take the form of 20-minute papers, or 12–15 minute roundtable papers in either English or French. Those wishing to participate are invited to submit a 250-word abstract to humaconference@gmail.com by 8 December, 2017.
Submissions must be accompanied by:
• the presenter’s name
• institutional affiliation, program and level of study
• e-mail address
• tentative title
• a short (150-word) bio
• as well as an indication of whether any computing or electronic equipment (e.g., laptop, projector) is needed
We are also very pleased to welcome practitioners of digital technologies who wish to present their work. We are offering access to the Digital Media Studio in the York University School of the Arts, Media, and Performance & Design building in the evenings for post-panel workshops. This room is equipped with Oculus Rift and Vive virtual reality hardware and Unreal virtual reality software. For those wishing to organize such a session, please contact us with technology requirements. Other submissions, in the form of poster sessions, visual art, or performance, will also be considered.
CALL FOR PAPERS: Post-Truth and the Moving Image Alternative Memories, Disputed Spaces, and Contradictory Narratives
The Twelfth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies
Tel Aviv, Israel, 4-6 June 2018
CFP deadline: 1 January 2018
Call for papers
Film, television, and new media theory has long challenged accepted notions and distinctions having to do with truth, fiction, realism, and documentary. It has taught us that our reality is mediated and constructed and that the memories we inherit, the places we inhabit, and the identities we assume are permeated by incongruous histories and meanings. Can the study of moving images now help us navigate and act in spaces where there is no agreement on the state of things or things stated and the labels “truth” and “fake” seem to have little to do with correspondence to facts or coherence?
The Twelfth Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies at the Steve Tisch School of Film and Television is devoted to exploring the moving image and its history in relation to “fake news,” “alternative facts,” blatant fallacies, demonstrable lies, and siloed information feeds.
Presentations may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Challenging, frustrating, encouraging, or embracing the passion for telling lies, revealing truths, unmasking falsehoods, being authentic, or flaunting affectation in and through moving images
- The truth and post-truth of cinematic space: archeological layers of myth, memory, counter-memory, and history; the place and its image; unlikely cities and states; disorientation and the any-space-whatever; impossible maps
- The temporality and history of post-truth; Orwellian motion pictures; the moving image in totalitarian regimes and in illiberal democracies; post-truth as continuing—and as a reaction to—cultural studies; reactionary post-modernism and identity politics
- Moving images that embrace contradiction and the unattainability of a single truth; puzzle texts and complex narratives that exceed comprehension; paradoxical stories
- Constructions of identity that are ambiguous and implausible; monstrous amalgamations; perverse subjectivities; heterogeneity posing as unity; noble lies
- Art and creativity as misreading and as distortion; reality imitating art, fantasy, and satire; #NotTheOnion; Deleuze’s and Nietzsche’s powers of the false; virtuous counterfeiters, colluding investigators, insincere journalists, and manipulative historians and memoirists; cruel honesty; anti-Platonism
- Theorizations of fiction, being and seeming, relativism and perspectivism, skepticism, orders of simulacra, realism, the index, ideology, “the creative treatment of actuality,” and authenticity
All sessions will be held in English.
Please submit an abstract (up to 300 words) and 3—5 bibliographical sources as well as a short CV to the colloquium program committee at cineconf@post.tau.ac.il by 1 January 2018.
The Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema and Television Studies traditionally offers an opportunity for scholars from around the world to meet and discuss timely themes from a variety of theoretical approaches. Selected colloquia papers have been published in academic journals and books.
For additional information please contact us at: cineconf@post.tau.ac.il.
Call for Papers: Participations: International Journal of Audience Research
Themed Section: Reading, Readers and Digital Media
Co-edited by Danielle Fuller (University of Birmingham, UK) and DeNel Rehberg Sedo (Mount Saint Vincent U, Canada)
This themed section of approximately 8 articles will focus on recent and current work investigating the various ways that individual and groups of readers (who may be readers of books or magazines or other formally print genres and/or born-digital material) use or engage with digital media. ‘Digital media’ here is intended in its broadest sense, to encompass medium, texts, platforms etc.
While we invite scholars working on readings studies and reception from all disciplines and from all parts of the world, we particularly seek articles from work investigating readers in Asia, Africa, continental Europe, Latin and South America. We seek articles which tackle problems of method or methodology as well as those which are case-study based. Suggested topics might include:
- New media, new challenges, new methods?
- The ethics of investigating readers and reading spaces online
- Intersectionality, reading reception and digital media
- Reading and digital media as a form of social justice/as political engagement
- Algorithms, economics, and the commercialisation of readers’ responses and audiences of readers
- The uses and/or abuses of reading devices (mobile and/or static)
- The politics of access to digital media and reading
- Fan readers and reading fandoms
- Publishers’ relationships with readers online
- Readers and transmedia texts
Articles will be published in English. The editors of Participations are happy to publish an additional abstract in another language, where this will be of assistance to authors and expected audiences. We recognise that writing in English can be a challenge for authors who are not native English speakers. Editors will help, where they can, with details of English expression, but we retain the right either to copy-edit submissions for language issues before confirming acceptance of a submission, or to ask authors to arrange for this to be done by a native speaker through their own connections.
Submissions to the Journal may be of any length. As an online journal, we are pleased to be able to work without the restrictions inevitably imposed on print journals. We are willing to entertain submissions which go beyond the usual 6-8,000 limit that other journals have to impose – providing that the additional space is used to make accessible such things as: the contexts within the research is set; the methodologies used (and their limits); the evidential base; and the implications for other related bodies of work/fields.
Expressions of interest for the ‘Reading, Readers and Digital Media’ themed section consisting of a 200-word abstract, article title and 1 page CV including relevant publications should be emailed to: BeyondTheBookInfo@gmail.com by 30 November 2017. Full articles will be due: 1 May 2018. Participations employs an open peer-review process. The publication date for this themed section is May 2019.