Interdisciplinary

Cityscapes of the Future: Urban Spaces in Science Fiction

The city has played a pivotal role in science fiction narratives since the earliest days of the genre. Towering megastructures, dystopian urbanity and the otherworldly configurations of alien cities have contributed greatly to representations of imagined futures.

Our project aims to take a broad view of the science-fictional cityscape, in any medium (television, film, novels, comics/graphic novels, anime, video games ...

in:flux

1845-1945: A Century in Motion

University of Birmingham, 27th June 2013

Keynote speaker – Dr Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London

Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference – call for papers

How did the rapid period of industrialisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries help to shape societies and lifestyles in the West? What types of social changes, movements and developments ...

This is a call for papers, for a new anthology tentatively titled Enola’s Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb. The anthology’s aim is to shed light on all genres of Japanese Cinema – commercial, anime, pink, underground – and its portrayal of how the atomic bombings have been depicted.

I'm particularly interested in receiving papers on how Japanese cinema has portrayed the effects of the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagaskai in its films, such as Godzilla and ...

Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the 19th Century to Now

University of Durham, International Women’s Day, 8th March 2014

Key Note Speakers:

Pulitzer Prize winning author, Jane Smiley

Professor Jo Phoenix, University of Durham

Dr Kate MacDonald, University of Ghent

Through history women’s bodies have been the subject of artistic presentation, ostensibly to celebrate ...

At a time when Western values and Italianness are increasingly challenged by the forces of globalization, it is necessary to reconsider former epistemologies of space and ontologies of identity that now seem to be obsolete. In this context, the Mediterranean paradigm is (re)-emerging as a crucial framework through which Italy can re-examine its cultural traditions, while charting future paths based on the transnational exchanges with other cultures from the Mediterranean basin. Italian ...

Twelfth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities
Location: Madrid, Spain
Date: 11-13 June 2014
Conference Focus: The Humanities Conference is held annually in different locations around the world. Over the past nine years, the Humanities Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for new ideas and new practices in humanities research and teaching. The conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that ...

David Simon’s police procedural, The Wire, has generated an abundance of critical acclaim as well as a significant body of scholarly attention. There are some outstanding critical explorations of the programme’s serial format and aesthetic qualities, and dissections of the way the programme both responds to urban racial politics and critiques American institutions and power structures. However, there has not been a concentrated study of the way it broadly represents the era of ...

The Jefferson Journal of Science and Culture is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Jefferson Scholars Foundation of the University of Virginia. We invite submissions for our fourth issue on the theme of ‘Collaboration’. We also accept general submissions on interdisciplinary topics on an ongoing basis.

Please visit our website for submission guidelines (www.jeffersonjournal.org)
Email jeffersonjournaluva@gmail.com with ...

Riots, No Diets: Construction of Oppositional Identity in Feminist Activist Art

Olga Kopenkina, New York University; and Corina L. Apostol, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Email: ok12@nyu.edu and corina.lucia.apostol@gmail.com

“Riots, No Diets” refers to the 1990s popular feminist slogan that was associated with Riot Grrrl, a movement that emerged inside the US underground music and art scene. The 2012 trial of the Russian ...

Come and join us in sunny San Diego to discuss affect and embodiment. From the bloody birth in Hemingway's "Indian Camp" and Rosasharn Joad's breast milk to Douglass' "cold sweat of death" and Albee's incontinent, old woman A, bodily fluids are liminal markers of transitions in life. This panel invites papers on the affective dimension of bodily fluids in literature and popular culture. Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

- Liminal fluids and transgression
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