Call for Papers: Soapbox 6.0 – On the Uses of Absence

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We are inviting extended proposals by June 10th, 2024
Can we speak of a turn to absence? Across the contemporary academic conjuncture, theory is reapproaching the absent in all its varying fleshly and rhetorical forms, revalorizing ‘absence’ itself as a critical matter. Enduring scholarly investments in re-presenting and re-presencing the absented body (from the archive and media, from power and institutions, from theory and writing) have become supplemented in current critical work by an affirmative interest in staying with absence as such.

Vacancy: Open post-doc position at Umeå University on political uses of the past

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Application deadline: 7 May 2024 Position start: 1 September 2024 DIGSUM (https://digsum.org) at Umeå University, Sweden is offering a fully funded post-doc position for two years.. The project (PastForward, https://www.umu.se/en/research/projects/pastforward/) is about political uses of the past in digital discourses about Nordic futures. It will study the use of the past in the digital campaign material and […]

‘Staging Witchcraft Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials’ – Lecture by Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)

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24 May 2024 | Leiden University
This talk explores a set of extraordinary episodes during early modern witch trials: those moments when judges, accusers, victims, or the alleged witches themselves staged or performed witchcraft as evidence of the crime. In courtrooms, examination chambers, prisons, and town squares, participants ordered the accused to conjure the devil, create hailstorms, or turn themselves into wolves.

CFP for Re/Presenting Europe’s Special Issue in the TMG – Journal for Media History

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Deadline for abstract: to be submitted by 30 April 2024
This special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History examines how historical practices of racialisation structure representations of Europe, Europeanness and belonging in the domain of popular culture. Mainstream media, by which we mean state-sponsored and dominant commercial and publicly accessible radio and television, and widespread print media genres such as newspapers and magazines, have produced and circulated dominant representations of who is European and has a rightful place in Europe.