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CFP: “IN LIVING COLOR: EXPLORING THE COMPLEXITIES OF COLORISM WITHIN THE U.S. AND AROUND THE WORLD IN THE 21ST-CENTURY”, THE JOURNAL OF COLORISM STUDIES

“In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and

Around the World in the 21st-Century”, The Journal of Colorism Studies


The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)


Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)


I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)


Wherever you are reading this from, you probably heard this ad nauseam: “We do not see race.” With remarkable ease, this well-intentioned phrase is invoked by media pundits, politicians, and citizenry worldwide as a justified public defense against accusations of racism but also as a political tool for refashioning grand narratives about the declining significance of race and racism. These incredulous claims of nonracialism and post-racialism illuminate the significant social phenomenon and philosophy of color-evasiveness. This race-neutral ideology purports race and racism are nonfactors in shaping people’s life chances (Bonilla-Silva, 2006). Seemingly the social construction of race and racism would disappear if people stopped seeing it. This vapid sentiment is disingenuous because color-coded ethnoracial inequalities shade almost every facet of social life in the United States (and globally) due to the pernicious manifestations of the color line (Du Bois, 1900).

While formal racial classifications and the overarching racial caste system were constructed during the Age of Enlightenment, the valorization of white skin, straight blonde hair, and Eurocentric physical features are rooted in antiquity (Ware, 2013). As such, the denigration of dark-complexioned people–a byproduct of this valorization–is a ubiquitous pathology exported through the European colonization of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, permeating the colonized psyche. Delineating between white/nonwhite and Black/nonBlack, the racial calculus (Hartman, 2008) of the color line stratifies people’s life chances, trajectories, and outcomes, based on their approximate possession of light or dark skin (Monk, 2021). Even as societies stride toward mixed-race futures (Sexton, 2008), the permanence of racial hierarchies will endure in the 21st century because skin tone will continue to serve as a proxy to race. In this racial order of things, color and colorism will employ the same hierarchy governing racism (Ware, 2013) because colorism is the sine qua non to racism.

Race matters (West, 1991), but so does skin color. Colorism is a hidden gatekeeper augmenting life outcomes across many significant social domains, such as education, criminal justice, immigration, healthcare, employment, banking, and marriage (Monk, 2021; Ware, 2013). While scholars have long recognized skin complexion as a determinant of social conditions (Du Bois, 1899, 1903; Frazier, 1957; Johnson, 1934; Davis, Gardner, & Gardner, 1941; Myrdal, 1944; Fanon, 1952; Banks, 2000; Hall, 2008, 2010), it was Alice Walker (1983) who first coined colorism and conceptualized the social construct as the “prejudicial or preferential treatment of same-race people based solely on their color” (p. 3). Several scholars have further conceptualized colorism through various terms such as being color struck (Brown, 1965), the color complex (Russell, Wilson, & Hall, 1992), skin color discrimination (Hall, 2010; Hochschild, 2006; Rondilla & Spickard, 2007), color consciousness (Monroe, 2016), color stratification (Keith & Monroe, 2016), and skin color bias (Hunter, 2016). As a vestige of colonialism, colorism is as injurious as racism (Ware, 2013). While race and color are related conceptually and interchangeably used in history (e.g., colored people, color barrier), they are not synonymous. Colorism is focused on actual skin tone rather than racial or ethnic identity (Hunter, 2007). In this formulation, skin color substitutes race as a social marker for enthoracial categories (Monk, 2021). Light and dark skin serves as a proxy for a superior or inferior race, preserving similar social pathologies and racial quality-of-life outcomes (Hall, 2018). Therefore, as Jones (2009) denoted, “while racism may affect an individual regardless of the person’s color, two individuals belonging to the same ethnoracial category may face differential treatment due to their varying skin tones” (p. 223).

As a hegemonic mainstay within the Black/White racial dichotomy, colorism has deep societal underpinnings in the United States, dating back to chattel slavery (Monk, 2021), as skin color (and kinship) determined an enslaved person’s work assignment (Ware, 2013). Those with darker skin worked in the farm or fields, while those with lighter skin worked in the enslaver’s house because they had direct kinship ties to the enslaver through sexual violence (Monk, 2021). In the afterlife of slavery (Hartman, 2008), color stratification ended no more than racism did, as intra-group colorism and white supremacist political-juridical structures determined the social and occupational status of light- and dark-complexioned Black people (Jones, 2009). This foreclosure on social mobility resulted in intergenerational dis/advantages (Monk, 2021) and negative cognitive biases (Maddox, 2004). Though colorism was rendered a Black-White issue, skin tone stratification is not exclusive to Black people in the United States (Rondilla & Spickard, 2007; Hunter, 2007) because it is a global phenomenon (Hall, 2018). Despite verbal assertions of people not seeing race, there is no shortage of examples showcasing the geographic reach of skin tone stratification, as cases exist in India (Melwani, 2007), Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan (Li, Min, & Beck, 2008); Mexico (Hernandez, 2001), Brazil (Nascimento, 2007), and the Dominican Republic (Roth, 2008). The idealization of light skin as the zenith of humanity highlights that color discrimination is a cultural and political fact worldwide (Hall, 2018).

Despite the evidence of colorism permeating all facets of social life, the attempts to characterize this multifaceted and complex social phenomenon has fallen secondary to social science research due to the primacy and gravity of race. The academic shading of color obscures the analysis of how skin color is relevant to ethnoracial life chances and outcomes. Coupled with the colorism’s media (in)visibility and lack of political recognition, this foreclosure is quite concerning (Monk, 2021). What is to be done about this absurd drama that surrounds us? It is imperative that we theorize in living color to address these enduring and pernicious attitudes surrounding skin tone to mitigate and improve ethnoracial inequalities. As guest editors of this special journal issue in The Journal of Colorism Studies, we invite you to illuminate the continuously unfolding and multifaceted manifestations of skin tone stratification in the U.S. and worldwide. Moreover, we invite you to explicate how skin tone discrimination is situated, operationalized, and machinated by structures of anti-blackness, setter colonization, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, xenophobia, ableism, and classism.

While this special issue may not provide formative solutions, we are interested in perspectives and analysis that will allow us to “rise above” (even temporarily) the absurd drama of colorism. Towards that end, we want to be quite intentional about who this special issue is for and/or about with our three declarations. Our first declaration is that this special issue seeks perspectives on colorism and skin tone stratification within and beyond the mainstream hegemony of the Black/White racial dichotomy. To suspend the damage (Tuck, 2009), our second declaration is that our project is centered on dissonance as a corrective mode of truth-telling (Lozenski, 2016) to illuminate the persistent and multifaceted colonial ideologies that situate color prejudice and color evasion. The third and final declaration is that this political project is not aiming to seek if the U.S. and the global world participate in structural color discrimination but is centered on the how and why motivations of structural color discrimination.

The Guest Editors welcome and encourage submissions from emerging faculty of color, as well as graduate students whose work primarily lies at the intersections of colorism and/or: Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Thought, and Popular Culture.


Specific subtopics may include, but are not limited to:
  • Skin tone as a post-colonial racialized hierarchy and the policing of ethnoracial boundaries
  • ‘‘Blanqueamiento’’ and the globalization of skin whitening (the Bleach Syndrome) as ideology and practice
  • Blood quantum, racial purity, and one-drop rules
  • The psychodynamics of colonialism, color, and desire
  • Skin tone, law, and immigration
  • The complexity of identity within biracial and multiracial people
  • Miscegenation laws, interracial relationships, and the endowment of skin tone
  • Critical Skin Theory (see Hall, 2018)
  • Colorism, sexuality, and gender expression
  • Color Struck, Racial Passings, and “honorary white people”
  • Colorism within popular culture, sports, and social media
  • Colorism, employment, and labor
  • Colorism and criminal justice
  • Skin tone and self-hate racial pathology
  • Race-shifting, Blackfishing, and Pretendians in education and society
  • Anti-Blackness and people-of-colorblindness (see Sexton, 2010) in the tri-racial order (see Bonilla Silva, 2006)

Proposals:

Proposals should be a word document containing the following: (a) tentative manuscript title, (b) author(s)’ names, affiliation(s), and email(s), and (c) a proposal (~500 words) of the planned contribution that includes: a summary of the critical issues regarding skin color stratification or questions the paper will address and its relevance to the special issue. Note: Authors who do not submit a brief proposal by the February 16, 2023 deadline may still submit a full manuscript by the May 26, 2023 deadline (however, we cannot guarantee full consideration of these submissions). Please email your proposal to Amir Gilmore (amir.gilmore@wsu.edu) and Vikki Carpenter (carpenter_v@heritage.edu).


Manuscripts:

Manuscripts should generally be 4,000-7000 words (all inclusive) in length, 12-point Times New Roman, double-spaced, APA-style, with 1-inch margins. Manuscripts should be written for an audience that has a vested interest in colorism studies and cares about the matterings, survivance, and life outcomes of those marginalized by skin tone stratification. The Guest Editors and the editorial team will preliminarily review manuscripts submitted to this special issue. Those deemed suitable for journal publication will be sent anonymously to external peer reviewers.


Tentative Manuscript Timeline:
  • Proposal Submission Deadline: February 17, 2023
  • Special Editor’s Response: February 24, 2023
  • Submission Deadline for Full Manuscripts: May 26, 2023
  • First decisions regarding submitted manuscripts: June 30, 2023
  • Revised manuscript submission deadline: August 4, 2023
  • Publication: Mid August/Early September 2023
If you have any queries or questions about submission, please email the guest editors: Drs. Amir Gilmore (amir.gilmore@wsu.edu) and Vikki Carpenter (carpenter_v@heritage.edu).


Thank you again for your interest, and we look forward to receiving your proposal!

CFP: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO QUATERLY


Call for articles,



University of Toronto Quarterly (UTQ) is currently seeking submissions. Established in 1931, UTQ publishes innovative and exemplary scholarship from all areas in the humanities. The journal welcomes articles, in English or French, on art and visual culture, gender and sexuality, history, literature and literary studies, music, philosophy, theory, theatre and performance, religion, and other areas of the humanities not listed here. As an interdisciplinary journal, UTQ favours articles that appeal to a scholarly readership beyond the specialists of a given discipline or field. The editorial board is especially interested, although not exclusively, in research that addresses topics of particular relevance to Canada. UTQ is therefore enthusiastic about submissions in Asian Canadian Studies, Black Canadian Studies, Canadian Literature, Canadian History, Canadian Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Indigenous Studies. The journal, more broadly, embraces research that engages interdisciplinary sites of scholarly inquiry, such as Affect Studies, Black Studies, Critical Disability Studies, Critical Race Studies, Digital Humanities, Environmental Humanities, Media Studies, Medical Humanities, Sound Studies, Transgender Studies, and emergent fields within the humanities. UTQ is published by the University of Toronto Press.

Submissions should normally be between 7,500 and 12,500 words in length inclusive of footnotes and bibliographic material. Additionally, all submissions should be accompanied by an abstract (150-250 words). UTQ’s house style is based upon the MLA Handbook (7th edition), so please format submissions in accordance with MLA bibliographic guidelines. Substantive or discursive amplification should appear in judiciously selected footnotes. All text, including footnotes and Works Cited, should be double-spaced. Please do not justify right margins.

UTQ does not accept research that has already been published, nor does the journal accept submissions currently under consideration elsewhere. The journal does not publish poetry or fiction.

Please anonymize submissions by removing all self-identifying information from the article, including acknowledgements and self-citations (reference your own scholarship as you would any other scholar). When saving the file, remove all personal information from the file on save.

UTQ commissions external reports to assess the quality of each submission. The journal receives numerous submissions and only submissions that the editorial board deems most appropriate for the journal, and most likely to receive recommendations to publish from experts, are sent out for peer review. The review process is doubly anonymous. Authors should expect to receive a response in the form of an editor’s report that collates relevant and useful information drawn from 2 to 3 external reports alongside the internal comments of the editorial board. Peer review takes approximately three to four months.

UTQ regularly publishes special issues on the range of subjects listed above. If interested in proposing a special issue and serving as its guest editor, contact the editor, Professor Colin Hill, at colin.hill@utoronto.ca

Please send all submissions and inquiries to utquarterly@gmail.com

For further information concerning our editorial policies, please refer to this document which provides supplemental information about copyright and images.


utquarterly@gmail.com

Editorial Assistant

CFP: WOMEN'S STUDIES QUATERLY (WSQ)





Special issue spring 2024 “Pandemonium”


This special issue of Women’s Studies Quarterly invites reflection on the status, health, precarity, and promise of the discipline of women’s, gender, sexuality, and feminist studies in light of our current state of pandemonium.

By “pandemonium,” we point not only to those tragedies, inequalities, and disruptions to the university and higher education stemming directly from the Covid-19 pandemic but also to the crisis-roiled political context fomenting a barrage of assaults on feminist studies as a discipline in the United States and elsewhere that have been accelerating for several years prior to the pandemic and have only intensified since its outbreak.

We seek submissions from a diverse group of feminist- studies scholars, researchers, teachers, administrators, practi- tioners, intellectuals, artists, advocates, and leaders, drawing on their research as well as personal experiences, that reveal and analyze the effects of a kaleidoscopic set of conflicts, crises, and pressures affecting their lives, scholarship, work, teach- ing, careers, institutions, and political organizing, particularly those that are a sign of or hold consequences for the health and survival of the discipline of feminist studies as a whole.

The key elements of “pandemonium” we refer to, beyond those most directly pandemic-related, hinge on decades of neoliberal policy making pushing privatization and commercialization of education. Such policies, in the face of genuine economic crises stemming from the pandemic, as well as “natural” disasters and population dislocations caused by warfare and accelerating climate change, have been used to justify the implementation of so-called austerity measures that have hit nontechnical and especially advocacy fields such as feminist studies the hardest. At the same time, concerted right-wing and authoritarian movements have put feminists as well as women, queer, trans and nonbinary folk, immi- grants, refugees, and people of color in their crosshairs. The United States is seeing unprecedented attacks on liberal demo- cratic institutions, escalating “culture wars,” the dismantling of women’s rights and reproductive justice (e.g., the Dobbs decision), as well as increased anti-trans hysteria and anti-intellectual vitriol specifically targeting feminist and anti-racist educators and scholars. Across the globe—in Afghanistan, Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, France, Haiti, Hungary, Nicara- gua, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Poland, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Turkey, Uganda, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere—emergent anti-feminist, nativist, and white-supremacist political parties as well as established autocratic and authoritarian regimes have instituted blatantly misogynistic, anti-queer, anti-trans, racist, and anti-immi- grant legislation, often accompanied by governmental and extra-governmental policies explicitly intended to marginalize, erase, suppress, or extinguish feminist studies as a legitimate academic discipline and teaching field.

Pandemonium creates space for feminist-studies practi- tioners to consider the tumultuous circumstances we find ourselves in, to document and reflect on recent experiences, and to draw conclusions about the current state—and possible future—of our field. In that spirit, we offer this special issue as a site not only for identifying and assessing existential threats and proliferating crises but also as an opportunity to recognize promising strategies and praxes of resistance that may illuminate new pathways through the pandemonium of our moment, hopefully leading to a stronger future for our discipline.

Submissions should address ways our discipline--its individual practioners and organizational institututions—have been affected by, or have encountered adversity and experienced struggle in the face of:
  • The Global Pandemic and a panoply of consequences flowing from it
  • Right-wing (white supremacist, anti-immigrant, anti- queer/trans, misogynist, etc.) movements
  • Right-wing corporate media and social media
  • Authoritarianism, illiberalism, and threats democratic institutions
  • War, invasion, civil strife, and refugeeism
  • Neoliberalism, corporatism, and commercialization
  • Climate-change disasters, environmental degradation, and climate-change denial
  • Impoverishment and the “austerity” measures and policies arising from the above
We are keenly interested in contributions that document and evaluate the ways that our discipline and its practitioners exer-cise and exhibit resistance, revolutionary praxis, and refusal to the above in the form of:
  • Scholarly, pedagogical, and administrative strategizing
  • Organizational-, institutional- and alliance-building (both inter- as well as intra-disciplinary)
  • Public engagement, political activism, and direct action (both on- and off-campus)
  • Escape hatches, off-ramps, and alternative social- cultural protest forms and modalities
We welcome contributions that recognize and share artistic and creative endeavors, performances, and cultural interventions offering insight and inspiration regarding the core themes of this issue. Especially encouraged to submit are women; people of color; Black; Indigenous; gender-variant, LGBTQIA+; disabled people; and those whose work is located outside the United States or who collaborate cross-nationally.

PRIORITY SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2023
  • Scholarly articles should be submitted to web. Send complete articles, not abstracts. Remove all identifying authorial information from the file uploaded to Submittable. We will give priority consideration to submissions received by March 1, 2023. Scholarly submissions must not exceed 6,000 words (including un-embedded notes and works cited) and must comply with formatting guidelines. For questions, email the guest issue editors at WSQEditorial@gmail.com.
  • Artistic works (whose content relates clearly to the issue theme) such as creative prose (fiction, essay, memoir, and translation submissions between 2,000 and 2,500 words), poetry, and other forms of visual art or documentation of performative artistry should be submitted to web. Before submitting, please review previous issues of WSQ to see what type of creative submissions we prefer. Note that creative submissions may be held for six months or longer. We do not accept work that has been previously published. (Simultaneous submissions are acceptable if the editors are notified immediately of acceptance elsewhere.) For questions related to creative prose submissions, email WSQCreativeProse@gmail.com. For questions related to poetry submissions, email the WSQ’s poetry editor at WSQpoetry@gmail.com. For questions regarding other forms of artistic or creative work, email the visual arts editor at WSQvisualart@gmail.com.

Contact Info:


Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies



Contact Email:

tjboisseau@purdue.edu

CFP: 16TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES; BODIES, GENDER, IDENTITIES


16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies: Bodies, Gender, Identities



The Department of Asian Studies at Palacký University Olomouc is currently accepting proposals for its 16th Annual Conference on Asian Studies to be held on November 25–26, 2022 in Olomouc, Czech Republic and online via the conference (web)app Whova.

The general theme of the conference this year is “Bodies, Gender, Identities”. We welcome contributions that concern any region or culture in Asia and that address an issue related to any of the three sub-themes, such as the variety of experiences of the lived bodies; the governance of life; embodiment and affect; gendered experiences; gender diversity and sexualities; language and body/gender/identity; performance and the construction of identities; gender and naming practices; human life and the environment; social and cultural practices concerning birth and death, food, spirituality, love and intimacy, pain, etc.

We seek both synchronic and diachronic approaches grounded in a range of disciplines, including anthropology, arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literature, philosophy, political science, religion studies, socio-logy, and other fields in humanities and social sciences.

We invite proposals in the following formats: 
  1. individual papers, 
  2. organized panels consisting of 3–4 papers, 
  3. research posters, and 
  4. alternative formats (e.g., roundtable discussion, book presentation, film screening). 
The deadline for abstract submission is July 31, 2022. In addition, there is also an option to submit an open panel seeking more panelists. For details regarding each of the above-mentioned formats, the submission process, as well as the organizer and the venue, please see our website.

Questions can be addressed to acas@upol.cz.

We look forward to your proposals.

The Organizing Team of ACAS 2022


Contact Info:

Halina Zawiszová


Contact Email:

acas@upol.cz

CFP: COMMON THREADS: BLACK AND ASIAN BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Common Threads:

Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo

Dates: 21st-23rd July 2022

Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN) at the University of Brighton in 2014, we are pleased to announce the second international conference on Black and Asian British Women’s Writing. This conference celebrates the fact that so many Black and Asian women writers have emerged in the last two decades and acknowledges the significant impact their writing has made on publishing and the media since 2015. Black and Asian women’s writing has transformed Britain’s cultural landscape and provoked urgent conversations about nation and identity, home and belonging. Their work challenges the control white, British canonical writers have asserted over what qualifies as literary, where meaning is located in literary culture, and whose voices are privileged. The last couple of years have been particularly exciting for Black and Asian British women writers with Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, the first Black British woman to do so, and several debut authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge topping the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts in 2020-21, and receiving substantial attention and recognition. The recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Black British and Asian Writing (edited by Deirdre Osborne), and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein) bring together over 400 years of Black and Asian British writing. 2022 also marks the 21st anniversary of the landmark ‘Write Black, Write British’ conference at the Barbican (organised by Kadija George), and of the publication of the anthology Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry. Common Threads aims to celebrate this rich cultural heritage while at the same time exploring how Black and Asian British Women’s Writing enables us to re-imagine the nation otherwise in the context of the unsettling, hostile environment of post-Brexit Britain.

The organisers welcome submissions from academics, postgraduate and early career researchers, teachers, publishers and literary activists. We welcome individual papers and panel proposals on any genre and topic related to writing by Black and Asian British women and queer people of colour. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Intersections and Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing in the era of Black Lives Matter and post-Brexit Britain
  • Teaching Transformation: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing and Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing, Screenwriting, Journalism, Popular fiction, Radio drama, Short fiction/flash fiction, Non-fiction
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Poetry and Spoken Word Performances
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Drama and Performance
  • Critically neglected writers/new writers
  • Black and Asian Women’s Writing and the School Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Children’s Literature and storytelling
  • Black and Asian British Queer Writing
  • The 2018 Windrush Scandal
  • The matter of bodies, politics, place and diaspora
  • Making Space/Reconfiguring space: real and imaginary spaces, online, publishing and other spaces, worlds turned upside down
  • Regional and rural writing
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and brief bio by 31st January 2022 to commonthreads2022@gmail.com. The notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2022. Online presentations/panels welcome. More details will be provided once notifications have been sent. Common Threads is an in-person event, but a limited number of online presentations can be accommodated.

The conference organizers will be working toward the publication of presented papers in a journal Special Issue in 2023.


Organisers: 



commonthreads2022@gmail.com

CFP: STREAMING AND SCREEN CULTURES IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC


Re-issued Call for papers

Streaming and Screen Cultures in the Asia-Pacific

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)


To the surprise of analyst expectations, at the end of 2019 Netflix recorded a record-high growth in subscribers and revenue outside of the United States, specifically in its Asia-Pacific region. The growth in this region is attributed to the establishment of regional offices and the commissioning of local productions, the success of which travels even further afield in the wealth of pan-Asian content making its way into Netflix’s global catalogue. But while Netflix occupies a dominant, though increasingly threatened position in the West amongst competitors such as Amazon, Disney+ and Hulu, in the Asia-Pacific it faces bigger challenges pitted against an abundance of well-established alternatives, such as Viu (Hong Kong), iflix (Malaysia), Voot (India) and HOOQ (Singapore). While there is an emergent body of work with a focus on streaming and screen cultures in the US and Europe, limited attention has been paid to the Asia-Pacific region. Our collection wishes to address this gap, exploring Asia-Pacific’s expansive services to produce a more comprehensive picture of its contemporary streaming culture. We are therefore inviting scholars to consider the expanding stream culture in Asia-Pacific territories. 

Our collection has already attracted some exciting new work, contributing to our understanding of visual media and its contemporary cultural significance in China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, and Australia. However, we are aware that our collection is incomplete. The aim of this re-circulated CFP is to therefore seek chapters that specifically explore or engage with content, technologies or viewing practices in the Australasia and Southeast Asia region.

In our previous CFP we invited scholars to engage with the following. This is, however, by no way a set list. 

  • Soft power
  • Production, distribution and reception context—nationally and internationally
  • Streaming and pop culture: narratives, forms, aesthetics, themes
  • Identity—national and regional identities
  • Gender, sexuality and sexism in visual streaming culture
  • Internationalisation and decentralisation of local/regional content
  • Media imperialism
  • Markets and audiences: viewing habits (weekly release, binge-watching, live streaming, mobility of screens), accessibility (freemium model, VOD), demographics 
  • New media, new technologies, new platforms
  • Terrestrial vs. cable vs. streaming television
  • Copyright and censorship issues


Please send a biography (no more than 150 words) and a 300 word abstract to our email asiapacificscreencultures@gmail.com by 31 January 2021.


Name of organization: 

Dr Michael Samuel (Warwick) and Dr Louisa Mitchell (Independent Scholar)

CFP: "QUEER FIRE: LIBERATION AND ABOLITION" DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS


“Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition”
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Modes of imprisonment not only pervade historical and contemporary life but, more substantively, structure the grounds of sociality. Calls for justice, then, must have at their fundament abolition, and abolition must be understood as the complete obliteration of modes of imprisonment so as to create a world which would sustain life through forms of justice not conceived through violence. This would entail a radical reorientation to life and living. This reorientation must attend to gender, as gender is one of the chief forms of imprisonment—in the double sense that gender, it can be asserted, is a kind of prison; and the institutions of prisons have at their centers the regulatory (re)production of the gender binary.
 

CFP: GENDERS AND SEXUALITIES IN ASIAN CINEMAS


Genders and Sexualities in Asian Cinemas

The circulation, commodification, and repression of discourses on genders and sexualities within and among Asian countries has been a constant feature of regimes of modernization, from colonial through neocolonial and postcolonial periods. Aptly enough, it is mainly through the modern vehicle of cinema where these discourses play out. Kritika Kultura will be initiating a forum on the filmic representations of issues on genders and sexualities in the Southeast Asian region, in line with its commitment to the pursuit and development of cultural and media studies, slated for the journal’s February 2021 issue. 

CFP: RELIGION IN SOUTH ASIAN FICTIONS


Call for chapters for an edited book
Religion in South Asian Fictions 
to be edited by Sk Sagir Ali, Goutam Karmakar and Nasima Islam

Concept Note:

In today’s polarised world, religion is seen as a primary cause of social division, conflict and war, while others have argued that this is a distortion of the true significance of religion, which when properly followed promotes peace, harmony, goodwill and social cohesion. The rhetoric of the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘clash of civilizations’ has promoted a geopolitical enemy. This has been accompanied by a shift towards a more ‘muscular’ liberalism. Secularization and cultural pluralism have dethroned the sacred. It has also destabilized the ‘structure of power’ with the concept that of the sacred was there to uphold a society rooted in a single source of religiously mandated authority. With the emergence of individualism with religion and culture, identity is now as much a matter of individual ‘feeling’ as it is about collective conceptions of the ‘sacred’, whether secularized or not.

CFP: ASIAN DIASPORIC LITERATURE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE


Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future
29-23 July 2020


We would like to invite you to the 2020 International Conference on Literature: “Asian Diasporic Literature: Past, Present and Future”. The conference is organized by the Postgraduate Students’ Club of the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, and takes place on 29-23 July 2020, in Penang, Malaysia.

In the 2020 conference we want to pay special attention to emerging directions and practices on/in Asian diasporic literature and theory. Since the beginning of the new millennium, the world has witnessed important changes in social, political, cultural and economic landscapes. The shifts have in turn pushed diaspora studies to expand beyond their origins in literary studies and their primary focus on ‘representation’ to an engagement with epistemological, ethical and political questions. Through ICL, we want to respond and contribute to current critical and theoretical debates by moving toward the study of world literatures and global theoretical, aesthetic and cultural practices. The conference also aims to trigger a debate about the future of the discipline, and thus reinvigorate and pioneer certain dimensions of the areas.

ICL seeks to provide a platform for those interested in interdisciplinary and/or cross-cultural approaches to push diaspora studies into new domains to meet, discuss, and to explore contemporary debates, and to revisit the ‘classic’ issues to interrogate them. Topics to be addressed by the papers and sessions at the conference will cover a broad spectrum of research questions, but with a specific emphasis on contemporary and future challenges for Asian diasporic literature and theory. Proposals are encouraged in, but not limited to, the following topics:
  • The Legacy of the Asian Diaspora
  • Contexts, Forms, and Perspectives
  • Shifting Perspectives on Race and Gender
  • New Perspectives on Identity, Space, and Mobility
  • Region, Religion, Politics, and Culture
  • Migration, Diaspora, Hybridity, and Borders
  • Rethinking the Family, Class, and Ethnicity
  • Bioethics, Ecology, Ecocriticism, Health, and Wellness
  • War, Violence and Terror

Or any other aspect of diasporic literary studies.


Submissions:

Participants are invited to submit abstracts on research and findings relevant to the theme of the conference. Abstracts for proposed oral presentation (200-250 words; excluding author names and affiliations) should be submitted via the online submission system. For guidelines on abstract writing, please click here. Selection of oral presentations will take place and speakers and presenters will be informed by December 15, 2019. Authors are expected to submit full papers by 30 April 2020.


Publication opportunity:

Selected high-quality, original submissions will be published as an edited volume in a prestigious publisher or in a well reputed literary journal indexed in Scopus and ESCI (WoS).

Please note that ICL only publishes manuscripts in English. For guidelines on full paper submission, please click here.

The publication outcome of previous ICL (2018) is available here.


Deadline for submissions: July 29, 2020


Contact email: icl@usm.my

CFP: MAGICAL WOMEN, WITCHES & HEALERS, FRAMES CINEMA JOURNAL


Magical Women, Witches & Healers
Issue 16, Winter 2019


Book Review Editor: Patrick Adamson

Almost every culture on earth contains within its history some form of magic and magical women. From the high priestesses of Ancient Egypt to the oracles of Ancient Greece, the brujas of Latina America to the voodoo queens of the Caribbean and New Orleans, the shamanesses of Mongolia to the mudangs of Korea, the medicine women of Native America to the witches of Medieval Europe, female figures with the ability to harness and utilise earthly, cosmic, and spiritual forces have transcended cultures and proved an irresistible topic in history, myth, and folklore.

CFP: BTS (방탄소년단) A GLOBAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE PROJECT.


BTS (방탄소년단) A global interdisciplinary conference project
Kingston University


Korean boy group BTS are the first ever Korean act to perform at Wembley Stadium as part of their Love Yourself: Speak Yourself world tour. Debuting in 2013 under Big Hit Entertainment, BTS initially struggled to gain recognition in Korea as they didn’t come from one of the big three Korean entertainment companies. However, the last few years have seen BTS become the most internationally successful Korean act of all time, amassing not only domestic awards but prestigious US awards including The Best Duo/Group at the 2019 Billboard Music Awards. Their recent sold-out concerts at Wembley clearly delineate BTS as a dominant force in global music and within popular culture. This inclusive inter-and multi-disciplinary conference seeks to examine the success and popularity of BTS from a variety of academic, practice, and fan-based perspectives.
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