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CFP, Platform symposium: 'On Criticism'

Symposium: ‘On Criticism.’ Friday 23 November 2018, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Hosted by Royal Holloway-based Platform Journal. The cry of criticism in crisis from about ten years ago has recently gained a new momentum. In the early 2000s, writers like Noël Carroll, Rónán McDonals and James Elkins attempted to capture the climate of literary criticism. In his book What Happened to Art Criticism (2003) the critic and art historian Elkins wrote about the tension that operates between a mode of descriptive reviewing, on the one hand, and of critical evaluation on the other. He proactively claimed that ‘descriptive criticism begs the question of what criticism is by making it appear that there is no question’ (p. 42). He made this statement before the mushrooming of online publishing began to democratise the field of art criticism, while simultaneously expanding it due to the increasing numbers of art writing finding a way to being (self)published. Yet, these developments might only have...

CFP: Journal of Communication and Language | Issue 55

Journal of Communication and Language, 2021

This number seeks to collect contributions on: * “habitual new media” cultural mediations, focusing on the individual or the small collective, which relate to this perspective of digital intimacy in the contemporary; * macro perspectives within the scope of Media Theories, on the relationship between progress and obsolescence of cultural technologies, or reflections on digital networks and their impact on the reproduction of control systems or the creation of resistance and solidarity movements; * critical perspectives on the impact of the current pandemic context on cultural media and mediations, within the scope of Cultural Analytics. (Manovich, 2020). *analysis of these themes in different segments and communities, particularly in minorities or vulnerable groups, and digital projects to overcome this context; *historical perspectives on cultural media and their relationship with the concept of “habit” and progress, such as photography, cinema, sound technologies or others, and moments of tension “between medias”; * artistic and creative practices that address these contexts, in visual arts, cinema but also sonic, multimedia or web art expressions; digital ethnographies under these themes, focusing online experiences. * recent perspectives of the different digital social movements of 2011, their mediations and their impacts, but also of recent digital social movements, anchored online, such as #metoo or #BLM, or #XR (Extinction Rebellion) and their digital practices or artivist expressions.

FCT 2020 CfP Time FESTIVAL OF PHILOSOPHY

Time - Call for Papers 2020, 2020

Call for papers After the intensive debate on God mounted in 2019, the festival will continue its research activities by focusing-for the sixth edition-on "Time". The concept will be analysed under the perspective of the ethical relation between humans and the ecosystem as a whole. Time is a unity of measure, a paradigm for the relationship that defines the beginning and the end of happenings. Or rather, it is an existential measure of human feeling from which the entirety of life seems to gain meaning, providing a distinctly humanistic concept of unity that can be named the event: minutes, hours, years and centuries are all just the units of an imaginary or symbolic dimension, close or distant, on which our existence can be traced, from conception to death. "Further", "past", "present" and "future" represent categories that set our actions in a specific order. When biological life is seen under these categories, it becomes recognizable in terms of existence, history and evolution. When experienced as the unfolding of becoming, existence transforms itself into a temporal unity whose dimensions shape our actions and our choices, serving to appease the despair of the ones who live only in the present, becoming superficial; the ones who only live in the past, becoming nostalgic; and of the ones who live in the future, becoming anxious. In time, our bodies-seen as an organic, objective matter-also develop, modifying themselves and showing the flow of time through the signs of transformation, through the changing of the organic

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1st International Conference on Religion, Culture & Technology Dear all, Greeting! This is a quick note to announce that ‘the 1st International Conference on Religion, Culture & Technology’ will be held in Tehran and Qom, Iran, by Baqir al-Olum University, at April 24th 2018 to April 26th 2018. Every year we are going to hold this conference to discuss different aspects of the relationship between religion, culture and technology. -Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts: 21 January 2018 -Abstract Review Results: 20 February 2018 -Deadline for Article Submission: March 11th 2018 -Article Review Results: April 14th 2018 Further details would be accessible at http://icrct.ir/en/ Please direct your inquiries to: icrct.bou.ac.ir@gmail.com Sincerely yours, Javad Taheri Administrator

CFP: THE ART PRESS TODAY: TOWARDS A RECONFIGURATION OF A MEDIA GENRE

This conference also intends to encourage exchanges between researchers and actors from the media and artistic fields, in order to allow for discussions at the intersection of practical and theoretical viewpoints. Scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and approaches (history, media and communication studies, art history, literature, sociology, etc.) are welcome to submit abstracts for papers dealing critically with one or several of the following topics.