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Thursday, 10 October 2013
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013
2nd Global Conference: Teenagers and Contemporary Visual Culture
| 2nd Global Conference: Teenagers and Contemporary Visual Culture Saturday 10th May - Monday 12th May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Call For Presentations: The practices, sensibilities, issues and events that define the teen experience may vary across time and place, but collectively they inspire the development of a visual culture whose richness and diversity speaks volumes about the relationship between teens and their world. The Teens and Contemporary Visual Culture Project aims to facilitate a better understanding of how visual culture functions as a means of creative expression for teens, a bell-weather for teen perspectives and tastes, an historical benchmark of teen experiences and a potent tool for teaching and learning (whether in the classroom or through the didacticism of storytelling). The project Steering Group invites proposals for presentations, performances, interactive workshops, readings, screenings, installations, reports on research, and pre-constituted, theme-driven panels. We are particularly interested in breaking the pattern of academic conferences by welcoming non-academic participants and by encouraging non-traditional approaches to presentations. The project will explore themes that include, but are not limited to: Representation: - Portrayals of teenage life and teen cultures (mainstream, sub-cultures, counter-cultures) - Identity issues concerning race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality - Impact of "big" events (death and mortality, pregnancy, addiction, marriage, mental illness, disability, etc.) on teens Storytelling and Aesthetics: - Studies of particular series, films, etc. - Historical perspectives on teen visual culture - Responding to/setting trends in teen fashion, music and pop culture - Narrative studies - Adapting stories between media and across cultures - Making and breaking generic conventions - Impact of star persona/celebrity - Factors in the phenomenon: why some teen programming goes viral and others fail - Assessments of the messages, meanings and cultural significance of specific texts, storylines and characters Production: - Teens as producers (e.g teens in writers' rooms and creative teams; teens as producers of fan fiction, videos and art; teens as campaigners/correspondents seeking to influence storylines, etc.) - Technologies of production, distribution and marketing (e.g. the impact of multiplatform experiences and social media) Reception: - Teen audiences and patterns of consumption - Cross-cultural reception studies - Fan communities - Teens and celebrities - Teens as celebrities - Controversies and moral panics - Regulation and censorship - The appeal of teen visual culture for adults, and its implications Uses and Implications: - Why teen visual cultures matter - Visual culture as a teaching tool - Research methods and strategies for studying teens and visual culture do Presentations will also be considered on any related theme. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between two and possibly all three groups - and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between Teenagers, visual culture, and/or urban popcultures, subcultures and/or storytelling. What to send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 8th December 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 14th March 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: TCVC2 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). Please note that a Book of Abstracts is planned for the end of the year. All accepted abstracts will be included in this publication. We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Ann-Marie Cook: annmariecook75@gmail.com Dr Rob Fisher: tcvc2@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Critical Issues series of research projects. The aim of the conference is to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/skins/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence. |
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Friday, 4 October 2013
4th Global Conference: Femininities and Masculinites
| 4th Global Conference: Femininities and Masculinites Friday 2nd May - Sunday 4th May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Call For Presentations: Gender studies is an interdisciplinary field of academic study on the issues of gender in its social and cultural contexts. Since its emergence from feminism, gender studies have become one of the most deliberated disciplines. The following project aims at an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and perspectives on the issues of femininities and masculinities in the 21st century. It invites ground-breaking research on a plethora of topics connected with gender, to propose an interdisciplinary view of the frontiers and to stake out new territories in the study of femininities and masculinities. Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are invited on issues related to any of the following themes: 1. Representations of Femininities and Masculinities - Femininities and masculinities in history and the history of gender - The representation of gender in culture, art, film, literature - The representation of gender in popular culture and media - Gender in the relation to politics, law and social studies 2. Gender Borders and Transgressions - Performativity of gender - Female masculinities/male femininities - Androgyny - Transgender issues - The body and its transgressions 3. New Directions in Feminisms and Masculinity Studies - New perspectives in masculinity and boyhood studies - Men in feminisms - Third wave feminism, womanism - Postfeminism, post-feminism and postfemininity - Lesbian feminism - Eco-feminism - Cyberfeminism - Individual feminism - Feminist disability studies 4. Global and Regional Perspectives on Gender - Gender and race - Gender and nationality - Gender and (post)colonialism - Case studies of gender issues in local/regional/national perspectives - Global masculinities/ femininities - Gender across borders 5. Investigating the diffusion of feminism and feminist theory in non-West contexts - Teasing out the tensions between competing feminisms - The politics of representation: examining the "white woman's burden" to voice/uplift her sisters of colour - De-centring the onus of western feminism 'as' feminism proper - Postulating masculinities in changing world-order - Negotiating the back-story: the history of homosociality in pan-Asian societies 6. Gender in Relationships - Motherhood/fatherhood - Gender and family - Matriarchy/ patriarchy - Sororophobia and matrophobia - Misogyny and misandry - Female genealogy - Gender and maturity 7. Gender in Experience - gender in visual and performance arts - gender in advertisement - gender mainstreaming - gender in psychotherapy - gender, health and illness - gender and the ethics of bodies and embodiment - gender and education - gender, education and equity - gender in religion - gender and NGOs We welcome not only academic research presentations, but also case studies and creative proposals (creative writing, drama, visual art, performance, etc.) In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between two and possibly all three groups â€" and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between evil, women, femininity and/or violence and/or femininities and masculinities. What to Send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 8th December 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 14th March 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: FM4 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Barbara Braid and Malwina Degórska: barbara.braid@gmail.com Rob Fisher: fm4@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the At the Interface programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/femininity-and-masculinity/call-for-papers/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence. |
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Wednesday, 2 October 2013
1st Global Conference: Sexuality and Disability
| 1st Global Conference: Sexuality and Disability Tuesday 6th May - Thursday 8th May 2014 Lisbon, Portugal Call For Presentations: "Sexuality is an integral part of the personality of everyone: man, woman and child; it is a basic need and aspect of being human that cannot be separated from other aspects life." (World Health Organisation) Statistics suggest that over 50 percent of disabled people do not have a sex life, which is not surprising given the fact that disabled people are too often considered as non-sexual or asexual. Recent television programmes shown in the UK have attempted to document the sex and love lives of the disabled, The Undateables and Sex on Wheels (both Channel 4 TV). While such programmes can be seen as progressive in terms of acknowledging that disabled people want and/or have sex lives, moving away from the popular perception of disabled people as asexual, they also perpetuate the medical model of disability in which disability is constructed in sympathetic terms and portrayed in a voyeuristic fashion: disability as object of festishistic scopophilia. While social issue cinema continues to evoke sympathy rather than challenge conventions, horror cinema constructs disability not only as sexualised but often as monstrous abnormality linked with criminality. Images of disability may aim at evoking disgust through the construction of the discourse of abjection. In addition, the sex lives of the disabled are too often ignored within the arena of disability politics itself. This conference seeks to challenge popular conceptions and perceptions of sexuality and disability. In addition to academic papers, we are particularly interested in opening up a space for the discussion of personal experiences of disability and sexuality and the role of sex workers, community programs and the work of sex educators. Inter-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary perspectives are sought on sexuality and disability, including cross-cultural and transcultural perspectives. Non-traditional presentations are encouraged including workshops, performances and round table discussions. Papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are also invited on any of the following themes: Representations of Disability and Sexuality - Visual images â€" painting, photography, advertising - Moving images â€" television, film, video, theatre, performance art - Music and disability â€" music videos, groups, artists - Narratives of disability â€" poetry, biography, autobiography, fiction and non-fiction Desire and Disability - The fetishization of disability - Normative/Non-normative desires - Voyeurism and disability - Eroticism and disability - Disability and the politics of disgust - Dating and disability Gender and Disability - Feminism and disability politics - Femininity and Masculinity and disability - Gender, class and disability - Body image and disability Sexualities of Disability - queer, trans, and other non-normative sexualities - disabilities and sexualities - aging and sexuality - appropriate versus inappropriate expressions of sexuality Difference and Disability - Visible/invisible disabilities - Intellectual disabilities - Mental health issues including depression - Ethnicity, sexuality and disability Sex Work and Disability - Sex educators - Sex workers - Community programs - State run programs Law, Ethics, the State and Disability - Eugenics and state stationed sterilisation - Legislation, disability and sexuality - Ethics, desire and disability - Cultural conceptions of disability and sexuality - Sexual abuse and disability Presentations will also be considered on any related theme. In order to support and encourage interdisciplinarity engagement, it is our intention to create the possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running during this conference. Delegates are welcome to attend up to two sessions in each of the concurrent conferences. We also propose to produce cross-over sessions between two and possibly all three groups - and we welcome proposals which deal with the relationship between the experience of prison, and/or responsible and ethical living and/or disability and sexuality. What to send: 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 6th December 2013 If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 14th March 2014. 300 word abstracts should be submitted simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats with the following information and in this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) up to 10 keywords. E-mails should be entitled: SD1 Abstract Submission. Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs Colette Balmain: cb@inter-disciplinary.net Rob Fisher: sd1@inter-disciplinary.net The conference is part of the Gender and Sexuality programme of research projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested delegates from the conference. For further details of the conference, please visit: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/gender-and-sexuality/sexuality-and-disability/call-for-presentations/ Please note: Inter-Disciplinary.Net is a not-for-profit network and we are not in a position to be able to assist with conference travel or subsistence. |
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