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CFP: The Journal of Africana Studies- Call for Papers for Special Issue- African-centered Psychology: Places and Spaces We've Been and Future Possibilities
Mediations of Body in Popular Spaces/Culture (Extended Deadline: 31st August, 2024)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Mediations of Body in Popular Spaces/Culture
Fraught with moral, religious, racial, sexual, and transgressive configurations, the body is a potent site for reflective practices within popular culture. The self-reflexive matrix of popular culture’s representations of human body functions as a site for materializing possibilities of varying forms of living. As a cultural sign, body features in both normative and non-normative debates on identity, selfhood, social relations, power, institutional surveillance and regulation. The practice of its representations, on the other hand, traditionally enables a culture of shared meaning-making which shapes how an individual perceives, thinks, feels, and acts amidst the production and circulation of discourses. In rethinking the traditional certainties around human body, the space of popular culture fosters a field of inquiry where heterogenous approaches open new apertures in understanding the complexity of human body.
In times marked by advancement in the fields of science, medicine, and technology, the discourses on human body’s representations within popular culture continue to explore what it means to be an embodied human being. The human body is seen to be undergoing experiments to either ‘unlock’ its latent potentiality in terms of modification and amplification, or, to show its vulnerability, messiness, leakiness, and volatility to draw attention to the existential dimension of this embodied being. The pervasiveness of body within cultural spaces pertinently teases out a range of problematics that are also mirrored in virtual and augmented reality, and extend well beyond the corporeal finitude to generate new modalities of becoming. These emerging representations of digitally mediated bodies, virtual bodies, cyborg, etc., within the cultural spaces bring a novel spin to the discursive formations around human body.
In view of the changing contours of body in twenty-first century, LLIDS invites contributions that engage with the various modalities, entanglements, and contestations of human body in conventional spaces such as literature, cinema, painting, sculpture, and exhibitions, as well as new modes of embodiment such as posthuman/transhuman bodies, social/digital media presence, body in correspondence with AI technologies, among others. LLIDS seeks scholarly contributions which address the above theme and/or go beyond them. Some suggestive thematics are listed below:
- Problematics of ideal representations of body
- Body in non-western representation
- Aesthetics of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’ body
- Religion and the regulation of body
- Body art vis-à-vis tattooing, scarification, cosmetic surgery, bodybuilding
- Body in Performance arts
- E-sports and body
- Military and the discipline of body
- Legal discourse and body
- Economics and labour of body
- Pre-covid and post-covid human body
- Representation of deviant body
- Queer bodies in popular culture
- Body and caste
- Migrant bodies
- Representation of disabled bodies
- Body, brain, and AI
- Metaverse and virtual bodies
Submissions: Only complete papers will be considered for publication. The papers need to be submitted according to the guidelines of the MLA 8th edition. You are welcome to submit full length papers (3,500–10,000 words) along with a 150 words abstract and list of keywords. Please read the submission guidelines before making the submission – http://ellids.com/author-guidelines/submission-guidelines/. Please feel free to email any queries to – edi...@ellids.com.
Please make all submissions via the form: https://forms.gle/W3uJ2SknA5iGxNUN6
Submission deadline: 31st August, 2024
Website: https://ellids.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/journal.llids/
CfP: Black Disability Studies Conference
Call for Papers: Black Disability Studies
University of Virginia (Hybrid)
April 25, 2025
In association with the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies and the University of Virginia, we invite abstracts for a conference on “Black Disability Studies” to be hosted at the Carter G. Woodson Institute on the grounds of the University of Virginia. The event will be fully hybrid. Conference papers have the potential to be published in an edited collection through the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series: Black Studies at Work in the World.
Papers are welcome which explore the lived experiences and representations of Black disabled people across all time periods, in Africa and the Diaspora. Scholars from all disciplines are encouraged to submit papers which approach the topic of Black disability. We also welcome papers considering the relationship between racism and ableism. Ideal papers will point toward new directions in both Black Studies and Disability Studies.
Since Christopher Bell’s incisive indictment of white disability studies in 2006, work on Black Disability Studies has grown steadily, but there are so many stories to be told. Submissions which explore the complexities of disability in Africa are welcomed, as much of the scholarship in this field has thus far centered diasporic experiences. This conference is also particularly interested in work which locates Black disability in the exchanges between the Black diaspora and the continent of Africa.
We seek to make this conference accessible and look forward to meeting the access needs of participants as fully as possible. We value the well-being and safety of all attendees; with the ongoing pandemic, we will center the needs of disabled and ill colleagues as well as others who are particularly vulnerable. All sessions will be hybrid (virtual and in-person) with ASL interpretation. Graduate students, people who are precariously employed, and non-university affiliated scholars are encouraged to participate.
Complete panels are encouraged, but individual paper submissions are also welcome. Panels should include three presenters and one chair/commentator. Submitted abstracts should represent original scholarship not already published or in production and be written in English.
The conference will feature a keynote panel on the state of the field featuring Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy, Keith Mayes, Rezenet Moges-Riedel, Therí Pickens, and Dennis Tyler.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted with a concise bio (150 words) as a Word document or PDF. Panel submissions should include the same for each paper as well as a bio for the chair/commentator and an abstract for the panel. Submissions should submitted by October 18, 2024, Applicants will be notified by January 15th, 2025. Submissions and questions should be sent to conference organizer G. Jasper Conner (gjco...@wm.edu).
G. Jasper Conner
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute
Funding Opportunity: NEH's Dangers and Opportunities of Technology, Deadline Sept 12 [Announcement]
DC
United States
The National Endowment for the Humanities Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities (DOT) grant program is accepting applications for the September 12, 2024 deadline (for US institutions).
We have already funded two rounds of fascinating projects, and we anticipate offering another fall deadline in 2025. We will announce that date early next year.
Recent awards include projects exploring environmental and cultural impacts of large technology centers on American communities, the history of transportation infrastructure, the history of medical life support technologies, and studies of political activity and online harassment on social media platforms. NEH’s DOT program calls for new research that explores the relationship between technology and culture as well as technology’s dramatic impacts on society. “Technology” may be interpreted broadly, and the program encourages research into technologies not only of the modern or digital era but from any time period.
DOT is one of many at NEH welcoming projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies in the areas of equity, privacy, or civil rights. Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence (AI) supports research projects that seek to understand and address AI’s ethical, legal, and societal implications.
A short, recorded presentation is available on DOT’s program resource page detailing the program’s goals, requirements, restrictions, and application process that may be watched at any time. We are not able to read drafts, but our staff can answer questions about your project, such as appropriateness for this grant program.
If you are interested in the program, but don’t think you will be applying this year, we always need peer reviewers.
Please contact us to volunteer as a reviewer or with other questions: o...@neh.gov.
Jennifer Serventi, Office of Digital Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington, DC 20506
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