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Hoy traigo una convocatoria para un número especial de una revista de crítica y teoría:

CFP – Reading Bodies, Reflecting Theory Special Issue – Submission Date 1 July 2011

Textus: English Studies in Italy No. 3 – 2012: Gothic Frontiers
Editors: Francesca Saggini (Università della Tuscia) and Glennis Byron (University of Stirling)

This issue of Textus aims to showcase and provide further space for debate and discussion to researchers engaged in exploring, testing and redrawing the expansive frontiers of gothic and its multiple, evolving discourses.

While gothic has always resisted easy generic definition, this has become particularly notable over the past few decades as gothic has increasingly begun to merge or connect with such other genres as science fiction, urban fantasy, cyberfiction, crime fiction, westerns and romance as well as multiple non-text-based cultural manifestations. Cultural production and dissemination attest the proliferation of new gothic forms and cultural trends, which contest or redefine our understanding of what was long considered a predominantly literary genre. What new frontiers is the gothic entering in the 21st century?

Fred Botting, for one, has recently suggested a revision of the differences of/in gothic and its voices and bodies, discussing those “figures who, in their very difference, throw off older associates and anxieties, and emerge as harbingers of new forms and relationships” (Botting 2008). Similarly, Clive Bloom has drawn attention to changing concepts of body, “the new architectural space of fear” that signifies “the sense of excess and disturbance that was once attached to buildings” (2010). Furthermore, John Paul Riquelme (2008) has argued for the unearthing of a silenced gothic tradition. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

La revista internacional de estudios sobre Baudrillard abre la convocatoria para el envío de artículos acerca de Baudrillard y la política:

A number of conflicting political epithets have been attached to the name Jean Baudrillard: Maoist, neo-conservative, neo-Marxist, post-Marxist, anarcho-primitivist, postmodernist, ultra-leftist, nouveaux philosophe, situationist, aristocrat, 68er, nihilist, Gnostic, relativist, reactionary romantic, anti-feminst, and so on. This is perhaps symptom of our transpolitical age. However, what might be the relation of Baudrillard’s thought to the political? Is there a Baudrillardian politics? Can his ideas illuminate key cultural and theoretical questions in new and politically productive ways? How might his work question the very assumptions, sanctions, and foundation of emancipatory and progressive politics? The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies invites papers for a special edition that explore, demonstrate, and question, the efficacy of Baudrillard’s ideas for addressing key questions of the political. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Hace unos días un profesor nos recomendó en clase el blog del filósofo Brian Leiter: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/ y curioseándolo he encontrado entre sus enlaces este call for papers:

Philosophy’s Future: Science or Something Else?
Volume 12, Number 2
Issue date: July 2011
Submission deadline: December 31, 2010 Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Un concurso de relatos de ciencia ficción cuyo premio es la publicación del relato en la revista Red CF.

CONVOCATORIA DE LA REVISTA MONOGRÁFICA RED CF. ALIENIGENAS HOSTILES

Con el objeto de fomentar la literatura de ciencia ficción, el terror y la fantasía, la Red de ciencia Ficción anuncia la II Convocatoria de la revista monográfica Red CF. Con el titulo de Alienígenas Hostiles. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Hoy un call for papers de la nueva revista sobre cine en español y portugués Cinevisto:

We are currently soliciting manuscripts for the inaugural issue of Cinevisto: Journal of Hispanic and Lusophone Cinemas, a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on film production in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, as well as films relevant to or produced by members of Hispanic and Lusophone communities in their respective diasporas, such as U.S. Latinos. Cinevisto seeks to place a particular emphasis on films that are widely circulated and consumed in their context of production, looking to move beyond the more exclusivist “art house” cinema that often gets recognized in academic forums. We seek to move out of explored territories and open the discussion to films that have enjoyed success in the Hispanic and Lusophone world, regardless of their international export. Cinevisto further aspires to broaden the historical range of the discussion and encourages submissions dealing with films made from the inception of the medium as a form of entertainment and representation up through the present day, including video and digital transformations of what cinema is and can be, who makes it and who watches it.     Leer el resto de esta entrada »

La revista ASEBL llama al envío de ensayos sobre ética y literatura. Aquí copio el CFP:

ASEBL Journal, http://www.stfranciscollege.edu/academics/Publications/ASEBL , is looking for short, critical, analytical (possibly reflective) essays for upcoming issues.

Mission of ASEBL: To engage in the study, analysis, explanation, and public discussion of ethical behavior, as it is manifested, particularly, in literature. This is a serious but modest, online journal: we are not trying to compete with the major academic journals. To see what has been published, best to go to the website and view past issues. If requested, arrangements can be made to have your submission peer-reviewed. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

La revista Culture and Space Journal: International Journal of Social Spaces solicita trabajos para un número especial acerca de las imágenes de catástrofes y eventos nefastos. Copio la convocatoria.

The Dark Spectacle: Landscapes of Devastation in Film and Photography

In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag writes that “to find beauty in war seems heartless,” but that “the landscape of devastation is still a landscape.” She points out that the “classical operation of the camera” is to beautify, whereas the contrary operation of “uglifying” is a more modern response. Inspired by Sontag’s compelling narrative, this collection of essays addresses the representation of unsettling subject matter (war, political conflict, crime, executions, etc) in a variety of visual media.

Our specific focus in The Dark Spectacle is the important role played by space in the depiction of shocking and horrifying events. This volume raises, but is not limited to, the following questions: Do images of horror generate documents, or do they create works of art? Are those unsettling images allowed to be beautiful? Does their beauty drain “attention from the sobering subject?” Do these images serve as a call to arms? Does their proliferation, in addition to their beauty, make the viewer withdraw?

The Dark Spectacle is intended as a multidisciplinary forum and welcomes submissions (text and images) from scholars and artists working in various fields. Leer el resto de esta entrada »

Ya está habilitada la página de la Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung. Lars Schmeink nos ha dicho vía e-mail que en un par de días estará disponible en la web el programa del congreso que está organizando la asociación alemana para este octubre. Os copio una convocatoria para un número de una revista que he visto en esa web:

Call for papers
Fastitocalon Volume II (2011)
Published by Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier (WVT)

The European Traditions of the Fantastic Leer el resto de esta entrada »