What, when & where Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television 16 – 17 September 2020De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speakers: Dr Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton), Professor Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), and others to follow. Unmade films and TV programmes have become a subject of both academic and popular … Read More “31/1/2020 – CFP: “Unmade, Unfinished, Unseen: Shadow Histories of Cinema and Television”” »
Mese: Novembre 2019
What, when & where Norwegian Petroleum Museum, Stavanger, Norway. In petrocultures2020 we will host presentations, exhibits and conversations regarding the transformations needed to influence the transition from our current culture and dependency on oil. Looming over these discussions we recognize the wealth and progress enabled by our exploitation and use of oil. We acknowledge the … Read More “20/1/2020- CFP: “Petrocultures 2020: transformations”” »
What, when & where World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion 21-22 May 2020, University of York, UK Keynote Speakers:Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Penn State University, USADaisy Hildyard, author of The Second Body (2018) How does contemporary culture make sense of weary worlds? Exhaustion can be used to describe both the depletion of planetary resources … Read More “10/1/2020 – CFP: “World Weary: Cultures of Exhaustion”” »
What, when & where Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics The Department of Comparative Literature, Hispanic Studies, and The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University invite abstracts for the 22nd annual Graduate Student Conference on “Camp/camp,” which will be taking place March 26-28, 2020. The ambiguous nature of ‘camp’ … Read More “7/1/2020 – CFP: “Camp/camp: the collision of style and biopolitics”” »
AISNA Graduates sta lavorando alla programmazione 2020. Abbiamo bisogno delle vostre idee e di partecipazione diretta per dare continuità alle nostre iniziative e fare fronte alle nuove sfide. Early stage Americanists, fatevi avanti!
Le posizioni disponibili all’interno del comitato organizzativo sono:
- Responsabili eventi (3 posti)
- Membro dell’advisory board di JAm It! (1 posto)
- Responsabile social networks (2 posti)
- Responsabili recruiting e networking (2 posti)
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The History Graduate Student Organization at Kansas State University is proud to announce that it will be hosting the Flint Hills History Conference in Manhattan, Kansas on Saturday April 18, 2020. This conference serves as an opportunity for graduate students from the Flint Hills region and beyond to gain valuable experience presenting their original research in … Read More “01/02/2020 – CFP: 2020 Vision: Writing Tomorrow’s History Today”” »
In this year of the centennial of women’s suffrage in the US, the Fuller and Alcott Societies invite your participation in the Thoreau Gathering (July 8-12, 2020 in Concord, MA). Our focus will be on gender as part of the Gathering’s larger theme of “Thoreau and Diversity: People, Principles, Politics.” What did Thoreau’s two most famous female contemporaries in the Concord circle have to say to him, to each other, or to their larger worlds about changing the legal and human status of women?
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Call for Papers
Tentative Title: (De)automating the Future Technology, it often seems, is our fate. Not only has capitalism’s fossil fuel-based industrialization led to global warming; for many on both sides of the political spectrum the only solution to climate change and other societal problems, such as world hunger and poverty, appears in the form of further technological “innovation.” The future—if there is to be one— seems to belong to technological systems that delegate collective political responsibility to machines and to a class alliance of capitalists and engineers.