CALL FOR PAPERS - ELO 2018

Mind the Gap!

Thinking Electronic Literature in a Digital Culture:

Explorations and Interventions

• Gaps in the field
• Translation gaps: code, natural language, media
• Narrative theory, temporal gaps and the imaginative space of the in-between
• Understanding e-lit: towards digital methodologies and/or pedagogies
• Mobile technologies’ effect on writing and reading habits
• Perceptual gaps: AR, VR, and Linking Structures
• Politics of e-lit: gaps between reception communities
• Gaps and Bridges between e-lit and digital humanities
• Gender gaps in e-lit
• Spoken screens: the gap between performance and presence
• Linguistic and cultural specificities to E-lit
• Electronic literature and urban culture
• Mind the gap! E-lit and humour
• Gaps between datasets and interfaces
• Archiving differences between libraries and museums
• Exhibition differences: ephemeral and permanent installations
• What is different about e-lit for children?

• Paper (15 min - a presentation of a single paper by one or more authors - 500 word abstract).
• Lightning talk (5 min - a short paper for a focused presentation - 250 word abstract).
• Poster (1 page poster). n.b. A poster can be combined with a lightning talk.
• Panel (90 min - a proposal for a complete panel including 3 or 4 separate papers on the same general topic - 250 word overview plus 500 word individual abstracts).
• Pre-conference Workshop (Action sessions, focused on hands-on group work on a given project or topic - 500 word abstract).

• Performance and screening (10 min - readings, actions, interventions - 250 word abstract; provide links to images, videos, etc.)
• Gallery exhibit (provide description of installation, as well as technical needs)

Call for Papers:

Towson University Communication Studies Symposium: Showing Up, Making Space, and the Political Imagination of Diversity - April 27, 2018

Sara Ahmed’s 2012 On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life offers a reflexive look at the slow calcification of diversity within higher education where diversity becomes a non-performative: as long as you say you are working towards diversity you don’t have to really do anything else. Since publication, her framing of diversity and the rhetoric of tolerance is more salient than ever. At Towson University in 2015, #OccupyTowson students pushed diversity to praxis and staged a sit-in to demand action on key issues for marginalized students. Towson, along with universities across the country, are seeing students move diversity from a contained professional “institutional commitment” to a demand for real change in the lived experiences of students. Statements without action are not enough.

On the occasion of these vital conversations and movements, the 2018 Communication Studies Symposium convenes Towson University, and the surrounding Towson and Baltimore community to engage in a day-long event which confronts themes of diversity, inclusion, and social justice. The symposium aims to engage and mobilize these themes within the context of action and praxis. What does it mean to embody social justice praxis? Are some embodiments burdens? What challenges does “diversity work” face? Does diversity lose its activist roots when institutionalized? How do our bodies respond to institutional exclusions? What does the labor of inclusion look like? Who ought to show up? Shut up? Where do praxis and identity intersect? What are the contours of intersectional social justice?

The Communication Studies major at Towson University invites faculty, students, activists, and community members to join us for a day of productive difficult dialogues at the intersection of identity- formation, embodiment, and social justice. Through foregrounding the activist work of scholar Dr. Amber Johnson (the symposium’s keynote address), the symposium aims to ignite discussions about our socially unjust world in which “we experience moments that require small and large acts of repair.” Part of that repair process is showing up, making space, and engaging in wound and wonder alike.

We invite you to show up and make space with paper presentations, performances, and creative work during morning and afternoon break-out sessions. The symposium seeks active dialogue from participants within the context of (but not limited to) the following points of departure:

• Postracial rhetoric and racism
• (Trans)gender/Racial/Sexual Justice
• Rhetorics of toleranceMicro/Macro aggressions and institutional life
• Political coalition-building and collaboration
• The problem(s) of diversity
• Invisible power of whiteness
• Art activism and identity
• Embodiment, affect, and agency
  

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words to CommStudiesSymposium@towson.edu . Be sure to include your name, title, and affiliation. Feel free to email with questions. Deadline: Jan 1, 2018.
 

Annual Conference
2018 Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Conference
Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Cultural Studies Association (USA)
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
May 31-June 2, 2018
This Year's Theme: Interventions

"Looking Back To Move Forward"

Towson University 21st Multicultural Conference

• Colorism: Prejudice Within Communities of Color
• Cultural artwork, short films, and performances
• Representation in Media
• Moving Beyond Tolerance
• Womanism Across Borders
• Policing Our Communities/ Respecting Our Communities
• Know Your Rights
• Islamophobia
• Immigration Reform
• Health and Wellness in Diverse Communities
• Gender Equity

Proposals can be submitted here: https://goo.gl/forms/QAF9bv5PdJkOCIum2

Proposals are due by Monday, March 30, 2016. Presentations should be approximately 1 hour in length, including 15 minutes for discussion/questions. You will be notified regarding your proposal in Mid-March.  If you have any questions, please contact Co-Chairs Joshua White and Aaliyah Perez at towsoncdso@gmail.com

• Pleasure, joy, jouissance, delight, splendour, enchantment, empathy, and kindness
• Love, passion, and amour fou
• Middlebrow pleasure
• Living the queer life, and queer(ing) happiness
• Eudaimonia, mindfulness, and wellbeing
• Eudaimonic reading, and the eudaimonic turn in cultural and literary studies
• The hermeneutics of suspicion, paranoid and reparative reading, and their aftermath
• Ethical criticism, the ethics of hope, and hopelessness
• The body as site of happiness, joy, pleasure, etc.
• Affect, the theories and/or histories of positive emotions
• Celebration, and celebration as protest
• Burlesque, clowning, circus, carnivals, and the carnivalesque
• Kitsch, camp, and drag
• Sex and play, sex lives, fun
• Vitality, verve, vigour, and liveliness
• Biological life, bios, zoe, survival, sur-vivre [living-on], affirmation
• The utopian tendencies of gender studies and queer theory
• The (queer) future, queer futurity, and happy endings

Gender studies and queer theory are located across and between disciplines, and so we welcome submissions from across (and outside of, against and up against) the full cross-/inter/-trans-disciplinary spectrum, and from inside and outside of conventional academia.

Do not be limited. Be brave. Play with form, style, and genre. Invent, demolish, reimagine.

The deadline for submissions is 29 May 2017.

Written submissions, whether critical or creative, should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words in length, and should adhere strictly to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.

All submissions—critical, creative, and those falling in between; no matter the format or medium—will be subject to a process of double-blind peer review.

For more information, please contact our guest editor, Dr Juliane Roemhild: J.Roemhild@latrobe.edu.au

2017 MASC-SLL Call for Papers

Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

• Computational models of human language processing
• Computational phonology and morphology
• Discourse and pragmatics
• Evaluation
• Information retrieval and question answering
• Knowledge base population and machine reading
• Language acquisition
• Language disorders
• Language generation and summarization
• Language resources and annotation
• Lexical semantics and ontologies
• Machine learning
• Machine translation and multilingual processing
• NLP for the Web and social media
• Semantics
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
• Speaker variability
• Speech recognition and synthesis
• Syntax and parsing
• Text and document classification
• Text mining and information extraction

Important Dates

• Submission deadline (abstracts): March 31
• Decisions announced: April 10
• Registration opens: April 10
• Program schedule released: April 15
• Registration closes: May 1
• Colloquium: May 6

For more information
If you have questions or need more information, you can send email to the 2017 MASC-SLL organizers at organizers@mascsll.org.