Re:Humanities - An Undergraduate Symposium On New Media full name / name of organization:
Tri-College Consortium
contact email: ldeocadiz@brynmawr.edu
Re:Humanities 2013 explores various aspects of multimodal storytelling and argument. We seek undergraduates who are exploring cross-platform approaches to course projects, digital scholarship, and student collaborations. Our keynote speakers for 2013 will be Tara McPherson, Ph.D., and David Angel Nieves, Ph.D., Topics might include, but are not limited to, interdisciplinary approaches to the following:
+ Gaming and Narrative
+ Transmedia Storytelling
+ Infographics and Informatics
+ Cultural Criticism Through the Lens of New Media Platforms Digital
+ Forms of Argumentation Visual Models of Record and Witness Oral and
+ Auditory Experimentations
We encourage submissions on these or related topics and invite you to contact us with any questions.
We invite submission of criticism and projects at all stages of development, with the understanding that the work will have reached a level of completion to present at the conference, April 4-5, 2013.
Support: Selected students will receive a small award to defray travel costs. Lodging will be arranged at no cost to participants.
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Monstrous Spaces in Literature and Pedagogy -- March 9, 2013 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephen Sicari
St. John's University Graduate English Conference contact email: STJ.EnglishConference.2013@gmail.com
We welcome papers concentrating on 'spaces' that could be considered 'monstrous' or are in some way capable of creating 'monstrosity.' Spaces may be real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, psychological or material. Literal places may include sites of trauma, genocide, or biological experimentation; dystopias; colonized regions; mythical lands; etc. Psychological spaces may include memory, neurosis, philosophy, etc. Monstrosity may be perceived as depravity; social or sexual taboos; hegemonic power in the form of racism, classism, sexism; etc. Papers may challenge, call to light, or reinforce perceptions of monstrosity.
Fields of study may include, but are not limited to:
Literature
Composition and rhetoric
Pedagogy
Film theory and technique
Theory
Creative writing
Cultural Studies
New media and digital culture
Multimedia will be available for Power Point presentations, music, or video. Abstracts (250 words or less) are due by January 11, 2013 to Melissa at STJ.EnglishConference.2013@gmail.com. Please include your contact information and affiliation in your email and attach your abstract as a PDF or MS Word attachment. If submitting a panel, please include contact information for all panelists in the email, and attach an abstract for each individual paper as well as an abstract and title for the panel itself. You will receive notice via email by February 1, 2013. Please feel free to forward this to any other possibly interested parties.
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Northern Illinois University is proud to host the 21st annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. We invite proposals for fifteen-minute papers from scholars at all stages of their careers. MCLLM encourages individual or panel papers on any aspect of literature, language, media, or culture as well as creative writing and pedagogical approaches. Proposals might address intersections between visual and print mediums; visual developments in linguistics; work in and with "new media," including film studies; and other treatments of the theme.
Please submit your one-page proposal to mcllm@niu.edu by January 30, 2013.
This conference theme is inspired by the work of our keynote speaker, Hilary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and Faculty Fellow at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Author of Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics and associate editor of Art Spiegelman's MetaMaus, Chute is a critical authority on graphic narrative. She identifies her specific interest "in the relationships between word and image, fiction and nonfiction that we see in contemporary comic."
Dr. Chute will deliver her keynote address on the evening of March 22 following a dinner reception. Reception tickets may be purchased at time of registration.
You may register online at www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm. If you have any questions, please contact us at mcllm@niu.edu or 815-753-1456.
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The Society for Cinema and Media Studies is proud to announce its support for a new venture, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference. Previously conducted under the title of the Midwest Undergraduate Film and Television Conference and held only at the University of Notre Dame, this new incarnation will rotate across multiple universities on an annual basis, so as to enable wider access to students across North America. It will carry the SCMS imprimatur to reflect the organization's strong support for undergraduate education in cinema and media studies.
We ask that you tell your best undergraduate students about the First Annual Society for Cinema and Media Studies Undergraduate Conference. It will be once again held at the University of Notre Dame on April 11-12, 2013. Next year it will move to the University of Oklahoma.
Undergraduate students are invited to propose papers appropriate for a 20-minute presentation on any aspect of cinema and media history, criticism, or theory. Interested students must submit a proposal form, which can be found here: LINK.
Completed proposals should be sent by email to JoAnn.Norris.9@nd.edu at the University of Notre Dame. Please write "SCMS Undergrad Conference 2013" in the subject heading.
The deadline for proposals is Midnight EST on Monday, February 4, 2013. Questions about the conference should be directed to Christine Becker at cbecker1@nd.edu.
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