[Discussion] calls for papers

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I. Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies

CALL FOR PAPERS

Special Issue: Convergence and Divergence in the Media

With the advent of cable and satellite, digital television, the Internet and home cinema, claims by manufacturers and critics that new disparate media are integrating or converging are gathering momentum. However, recent scenes from reality television series The Osbournes, in which Ozzy Osbourne is shown pummelling his universal remote control in frustration, indicate that consumer relationships with these converging media are anything but straightforward. In fact, equal claims can be made for increasing levels of divergence among these media, with numbers of media and products attempting to create and delineate new markets for themselves. This special issue of Scope is intended to investigate the relationships between the media and their producers and consumers in order to better understand the points at which these media are undergoing processes of convergence and divergence.

Attempts to create such new markets for media and their hardware often centre on the presence of film. Film forms the basis for the premiere channels on satellite and cable television, it provides the locus for DVD and video and it has been central to the development of home cinema. Film as content therefore provides a link between the development of even the most disparate media technologies be they soft- or hardware in form. Equally these new media have the power to shift the meanings of film in popular culture. The Editors would like to encourage submissions that account for local, national, transnational and global approaches to these new media. We therefore also strongly encourage submissions from a wide range perspectives including political economy, cultural policy, marketing and mediation, reception and aesthetics.

Submissions on, but not limited to, the following topics are welcomed:

Digital television: changing the cultural meanings of TV
Interactivity in the new media
Marketing and retailing home cinema
"Lifestyle" cinema: the design of home cinema
Dolby and THX in the home and in cinemas
Consumers of home cinema and digital technologies
The digital TV revolution (?): Freeview and the BBC
TiVo and Sky et al: consumer freedom or spying on consumers?
Cable and satellite film channels
Film and/on the Internet
Film and the music video
New media and film piracy/regulation
Quality and the impact of home cinema technologies (including surround sound, flat screens, plasma screens etc.)
Film and/in DVD technologies
Competing spaces of exhibition: domestic and public
Going out/Staying in: audiences and the different cultural uses of film
Computers and entertainment: films, games and interactivity
Hierarchies of viewing: film across the media
The family and film
Nationality and film on satellite and cable TV

Due date for submissions: 1st September 2004

Editors: Mark Jancovich, Gianluca Sergi and Rayna Denison

Submissions to the Journal should contain a short 200 word abstract, be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length, double-spaced and should follow the Scope Submission Guidelines (to be found at http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/submiss.htm). Any queries about submissions for the special issue are welcome. To submit a paper or query please contact Rayna Denison at arxrld@nottingham.ac.uk. The closing date for submissions is 1st September, 2004. In accordance with the Submission Guidelines 2 full copies of papers and a floppy disk can also be sent by post to:

Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies
C/o School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD

Scope is an entirely free online journal of film studies edited by staff and students within the Institute of Film Studies at the University of Nottingham. As our title suggests, we provide a forum for discussion of all aspects of film history, theory and criticism. It is our belief that an electronic publication such as Scope can best serve its readers interests by promoting as wide a range of approaches and critical methodologies as possible.

As a fully refereed journal, Scope is dedicated to publishing material of the highest scholarly quality and interest, and to this end we have assembled a distinguished international advisory board of professional academics and critics. While we welcome contributions from established writers, we are also keen to act as a supportive environment within which those new to the field of film studies can publish their first work.
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II. SOCIAL TEXT

The Social Text Collective is pleased to accept papers for a forthcoming
special dossier on the work of Edward Said.=20

Deadline: September 30, 2004

The editors of Social Text invite contributors to pay tribute to Edward
Said, an admired colleague and friend. In its first issue Social Text
published Edward Said=92s essay, =93Zionism from the Standpoint of Its
Victims=94 (1979), a chapter in the then forthcoming book, The Question of
Palestine, and, almost a decade later, the journal dedicated a special
issue to =93Colonial Discourse,=94 featuring an interview with Said, along
with essays dialoguing with his work.=20

As a way of remembering Edward Said, Social Text announces a special
issue edited by Gyan Prakash and Ella Shohat. This issue hopes to
reflect on themes central to Said=92s work, highlighting his interventions
in the politics of knowledge, and his impact on a number of fields. In
the spirit of Said=92s writings, we invite contributions that cross
geographical and disciplinary boundaries, while also reflecting on his
life and work in relation to the major transformations, shifts and
contradictions in our intellectual and political landscape.=20

Papers should be submitted by e-mail if possible, as an attachment saved
in Microsoft Word. The text should be double-spaced, no more than 8,000
words, with numbered endnotes. For style, please follow the Chicago
Manual of Style, 15th edition. The author=92s name, affiliation, address
and telephone number should be listed on the front page of each copy.
For further information, please contact the managing editor at
misharon@rci.rutgers.edu. Hard copies may be sent to:=20

Managing Editor
Social Text=20
8 Bishop Place=20
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

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Thank you for your consideration and attention. =20

Best wishes,=20
Michele=20

--
Michele Sharon
Social Text
(325) 949-8195

On the web:
www.dukeupress.edu
muse.jhu.edu/journals/social_text

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III. The University of Victoria's 5th Annual Interdisciplinary English Graduate
Students Conference invites proposals for papers for this year's conference
entitled "Incorporations."

"Incorporations: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Discourses Of/Against
Incorporation and Corporealization" will occur on March 12 and 13th, 2004
University of Victoria,
Victoria, BC Canada

We live within bodies -- corporate bodies, institutional bodies, physical
bodies
and textual bodies. Incorporation connotes the body in all its metaphorical
senses and can be discursive as well as political and economic. This
conference will explore ideas of incorporation and corporealization as they
relate to the university as an economic and political institution and to the
study of texts and literature. How is a body -- an institution, an individual,
a body of knowledge, and/or a textual body -- created, defined, limited, and
possibly transcended? This conference seeks papers exploring discourses of
incorporations and corporeality pertaining to the university as an institution
and to the study of literature. Proposals for 20-minute papers
and panels focusing on literary or theory-based discussions can include, but
are not limited to:

- Discourses of embodiment and/or disembodiment; the politics of formation
- Corporatization and privatization of the university and/or literature
- Commodification of education, intellectual property, words and language
- The "student body" versus the institutional body
- Theories of the body: postcolonial, carnivalesque, grotesque, gendered, etc.
- Mind/Body binary: the body as "other"; Other bodies, other selves
- Senses and sensibilities; the five senses, emotions, "other senses" and the
literary, "other" senses in pedagogy etc.
- The corporeal as metaphor
- A body of work; the canon as corporealization
- Limitations of "the body of text"?
- The aesthetics of the body
- The Incorporation and/or commodification of culture, nature, resistance and
dissent

We will have two keynote speakers this year. Dr. Masao Miyoshi, Hajime Mori
Professor of Japanese, English and Comparative Literature from the University
of California, San Diego will be presenting a paper entitled: "Discipline,
Department and Profession." Dr. Miyoshi's recent writing has been on academe,
humanities and the corporate thrust in universities. Our other keynote
speaker will be Charles Altieri, Professor of English & Director,
Consortium for the Arts, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

The conference will also include a panel entitled In the Name the Humanities:
Research, Academic Capitalism, Technology. In its 1999 meeting, the Canadian
Conference of Deans of Arts expressed consensus [that] the humanities are
under siege both from within their institutions . . . [and] from government
forces. "In the Name the Humanities" will be a panel discussion designed to
address the impact of recent research and market-driven policies, the pressure
to apply for external funding, and performance indicators on Humanists today.
The panel will be lead by Dr. Masao Miyoshi, Hajime Mori Professor of
Literature, University of California, San Diego, and also include Dr. Arthur
Kroker, Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory at the
University of Victoria. Dr. Charles Altieri, Professor of English & Director,
Consortium for the Arts, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA will act as first
respondent to the panel.

Proposal length is 300-500 words. Please send a separate cover letter with
name, address, telephone number, email address and affiliated institution.
Deadline for proposals is January 16, 2004. Please send abstracts to JanaLee
Cherneski, Conference Manager: janaleec@uvic.ca or to the Department of
English as listed at the end of this posting.

Address (Courier)
Department of English
University of Victoria
Clearihue Building, Room C343
Victoria, BC V8W 3W1
Canada

Address (Mail)
Department of English
University of Victoria
PO Box 3070 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 3W1
Canada

Stephen Ross,
Assistant Professor of English,
University of Victoria,
P.O. Box 3070 STN CSC,
Victoria, BC V8W 3W1

Phone: 250-721-7260
Email: saross@uvic.ca>saross@uvic.ca
URL: <http://web.uvic.ca/~saross>http://web.uvic.ca/~saross /> 
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