deadline: august 28
DIGITAL FRINGE seeks submissions of digital visual material to be a part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival Sept. 27-Oct.15. Digital Fringe is a web-based digital arts festival that connects to Melbourne via numerous screens throughout the city. From the grand screen at Federation Square to hidden screens in venues and retail outlets, from screens in public spaces, in taxis, on mobile 3G handsets to bedrooms at home and projections on buildings. Digital Fringe artworks will be streamed live to all participating screens. All content will be also be available for live streaming from the Digital Fringe website. We are calling for (1) digital art works to display on all screens, (2) interactive art pieces that will play at Federation Square, (3) guest programmers to curate and operate the MPU (mobile projection unit), and (4) people to help fill a number of curatorial, technical and administrative roles. If any of this interests you drop us a line. For more detailed information on the festival and submission process check out our website.
deadline: august 31
SAVE AS ...: DIGITAL MEMORIES (collection). Ed. Anna Reading (London South Bank University), Joanne Garde-Hansen (University of Gloucestershire), and Andrew Hoskins (Swansea University). This co-edited book aims to address how digital media are changing the languages, forms, and practices of memory. The book explores how digital media technologies such as the World Wide Web, mobile video phone, personal computer, digital archives, and video games may be rearticulating discourses of memory, memory prosthetics, and the practices associated with commemorating, recalling and memorialising the past. Articles in the book will include original, trans-cultural, and international research and may critically synthesize and seek to extend theoretical material from the disciplines of anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, holocaust studies, psychology, philosophy, sociology, media studies, museum studies, and psychoanalysis. Send 200-word abstract and short bio to Anna Reading for the following sections: (1) DIGITAL MEMORY DISCOURSES (section ed. Andrew Hoskins); (2) DIGITAL MEMORY FORMS (section ed. Anna Reading); or (3) DIGITAL MEMORY PRACTICES (section ed. Joanne Garde-Hansen). We strongly encourage submissions from non-UK scholars or on non-UK themes.
palm springs international festival of short films, august 24-30
burning man festival, august 28-september 4
bean blossom blues festival, september 7-10
New York Underground Comedy Festival, september 8-16
deadline: september 1
LITERATURE AND/AS DRAMA ON FILM. For a special issue of Comparative Drama, abstracts are invited that consider film adaptations of literary texts. All perspectives are invited, although essays that offer close readings are especially welcome. Please submit 300-word abstracts to Prof. Robert C. Evans, English Department, Auburn University Montgomery.
deadline: september 15
2007 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES (ASECS). The ASECS Gay and Lesbian Caucus has two panels accepted for the 2007 conference in Atlanta: (1) "Building Community in Queer Eighteenth-Century Studies" (Roundtable). This session aims to encourage creative connections between queer/LGBT studies and eighteenth-century studies. We thus invite scholarly papers that address the challenges, successes, and possible future directions of queer eighteenth-century scholars as they stake out new sites for study (and revisit old territory). (2) "Aesthetics and Eroticism." While the aesthetics of the late eighteenth century often eschewed erotic expression, artists of the earlier part of the century allowed, even cultivated, a space for eroticism in aesthetic contemplation. This panel seeks to explore the intersections and divergences of aesthetics and eroticism in their various articulations throughout the eighteenth century and across media and national borders. Send proposals to both panel organizers: Derrick Miller and Aurora Wolfgang. All participants must be members in good standing of ASECS or a constituent society of ISECS. Membership must be current as of December 1 in order to receive pre-registration materials. Those members of constituent societies of ISECS MUST furnish a snail mail address to asecs@wfu.edu to receive pre-registration materials.
TAKING MODERNITY FROM BEHIND. The theme for this year's conference (Reconstructing Histories, 1550-1850) is intended to foster discussions about the ways in which perceptions of literary, cultural, social, and economic history have changed during the last decades. We invite papers, panels, discussion groups, and workshops that examine both early modern engagements with the making and unmaking of these histories and those that explore our contemporary understandings of our disciplinary narratives. In defining these historical and metacritical questions broadly, GEMCS provides a forum for innovative inquiries into all aspects of early modern culture and we encourage proposals on all aspects of early modern cultural studies. Using this description as an organizing impetus, we invite submissions for a proposed 2007 GEMCS (Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies) panel on approaching theories of modernity from behind, i.e. from texts retroactively designated as "early modern." Email abstracts for complete panels (500 words) or individual papers (250 words) to ecti@uiuc.edu.
albuquerque international balloon fiesta, october 6-15
exotic erotic ball, october 27-28
kona coffee cultural festival, november 3-12
white party, november 22-27
pirates in paradise festival, november 30-december 3
deadline: november 15
GENDER STUDIES. Attend the SW/Texas Regional of the Popular Culture / American Culture Association conference in beautiful Albuquerque in February. This year the Gender Studies area will be trying to cross list with Science Fiction on at least one panel. Send a 200-word abstract and contact information to Gypsey Teague, Branch Head, Gunnin Architecture Library, Clemson University.
deadline: november 30
TELLING BODIES: PRACTICES, DISCOURSES, LOOKS (Spain). First International Conference on Body and Textuality, 26-30 March 2007 at Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona. The body is in the 21st century everything but a certainty, a condition which raises an infinite number of questions. How do we inhabit the body that we are/have? How does the body present itself and represent us, and to what extent? How does it become legible and intelligible? What does the body say? What can it say, what can't it say? About who or what? How may I influence what the body I am/have says or represents? Does my body belong to me, or do I belong to it? Is this a relationship of belonging, or rather of participation without belonging? What power does my body have? Which are the categories that make it visible? What is the body? These questions invite us to consider both the relationship of our bodies with the discourses that constitute them and the texts that articulate the body's social and political potential. This Conference intends thus to be an interdisciplinary meeting point for the discussion of the body as a central cultural construction.
Send a 150- to 300-word abstract, keywords in English and Spanish, and contact information to Dr. Meri Torras, Conference Coordinator. The official languages of the Conference are Catalan, Spanish and English. Contributions in Galician, Portuguese, French, and Italian are also welcome.
