The Department of English and Humanities at Shawnee State University and the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México invite scholars to submit 500 word abstracts on topics related to the character of the Black Panther in his various permutations in comic books and films for a two-day conference to be held April 19th and 20th, 2019 at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Interested scholars should send their abstract to BlackPantherConference2019@gmail.com by December 1st 2018. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by January 1st 2018.
The abstract of 500 words should be accompanied by:
The conference organizers are also planning a co-edited volume for publication in English and Spanish in 2020 which will include a selection of the best papers presented at the Conference. Toward that end finalized papers of 8,000 words or less in MLA style need to be submitted electronically by May 30th, 2019.
Presentations may approach the subject from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary trajectories including but not limited to: history, post-colonial studies, comparative literature, comics studies, cinema studies and cultural studies which serve to elucidate the myriad ways in which the Black Panther character has influenced popular and scholarly thought over the past half century. V
Aaron Louis Rosenberg, Centro de Estudios de Asia y África, El Colegio de México
DATES: April 11-13, 2019
Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
Call for Papers: At the Boundaries of Ourselves: Masculinities & Decoloniality
Building off of the innovative presentations and lectures given at the American Men’s Studies Association (AMSA) conference in March 2018 in Minneapolis, this conference seeks to push forward the field of Critical Studies of Men & Masculinities further. Last year the theme – ‘Bodies, Sexualities, Masculinities’ – addressed critical gaps in the field related to sex and sexualities and their connection to bodies. Similarly, this year’s conference looks to examine the holes in the field related to issues of space, borders, location, the interface of space and ontologies (urban, rural, remote... hipsters, lumbersexuals, farmers, but also masculinity, mental health and space), masculinity and dis-location (spatial and ephemeral: inclusion/exclusion i.e.), borders and migration, nation building colonial invasion, ontological hybridity and buttressing (whiteness, one-drop politics, mestizos...), colonialism, indigeneity, and the ways that these impact on men and masculinities globally. As part of this, AMSA is hosting its annual conference for the second time outside of the US at Brandon University in Canada.
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2018
See attachment for details.
]]>SYMPOSIUM ON ANALYZING IDEOLOGIES, ATTITUDES, AND POWER IN LANGUAGE CONTACT SETTING
DATE: May 16-17, 2019
VENUE: Stockholm University, Sweden
CONTACT: Marie-Eve Bouchard
E-MAIL: ideologies2019@su.se
Abstract submission deadline: December 1, 2018
Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2019
No registration fees. Talks will consist of a 20-minute presentation and a 10-minute period for questions.
SCIENTIFIC FIELD(S): Sociolinguistics; Linguistic Anthropology; Educational Linguistics; Discourse Analysis
MEETING DESCRIPTION: The aim of this symposium is to bring together scholars who are interested in how language ideologies and attitudes are constructed in multilingual or language contact settings, and how they may create unequal relations of power. We would like to discuss the methodological tools to access and analyze the processes and outcomes of language ideologies and attitudes in multilingual/contact settings. We welcome contributions that deal with any aspect of ideologies, attitudes and power in language contact settings (especially, but not limited to, multilingual settings involving Romance Language varieties).