Call for Papers: Mediapolis Special Issue on “Playable Cities”

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Abstracts (300 words) are due 15 October 2024
In parallel to this year’s ASCA Cities Seminar, Carolyn Birdsall, Linda Kopitz and Alex Gekker are co-editing a special issue on “Playable Cities” for Mediapolis – A Journal of Cities and Culture. Taking the recurring metaphor of ‘cities as playgrounds’ as a starting point, this special issue – to be published in September 2025 – aims to explore what playability means in the context of the urban environment. We invite contributions from diverse fields, including, but not limited to, urban studies, film/television studies, game and gaming studies, sociology, geography, gender studies, political studies, philosophy, new media theory, disconnection studies, history, and so on. We are especially interested in contributions exploring ‘Playable Cities’ from a global and interdisciplinary perspective including artistic research and architectural practice.

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Book publication: Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention

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The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, particularly in the humanities and social sciences. Universities are redirecting academic focus towards greater societal engagement. This book argues that academia has much to gain by moving beyond its institutional walls, in our case, by doing data work with stakeholders and civil society. This collaborative work benefits citizens in our democratic, open societies and advances our knowledge economies.

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GDS Mini-symposium: Van een open blik naar een dieper begrip van digitale bookish platforms

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20 november 2024 | Universiteit Utrecht
Dit mini-symposium brengt een diverse groep van jongeren, bookfluencers, leerkrachten, leesbevorderaars, onderzoekers en beleidsmakers samen om vanuit verschillende perspectieven en ervaringen tot een dieper begrip te komen van digitale bookish platforms, de lezersgemeenschappen die zich hierop manifesteren en eventuele mogelijkheden om (kenmerken van) deze digitale bookish platforms in te zetten in het voortgezet literatuuronderwijs.

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Streaming Production Cultures: How Netflix & Co. Impact Screen Media Work(ers) in Europe

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11 September 2024 | Utrecht University
This interactive panel session explores how local European screen media production cultures have been transformed by the growing influence of SVOD platforms. In three presentations, media industry scholars from the Netherlands, Poland, and the UK will present their findings on the impact of these platforms on labor conditions, business models, data analytics, and evolving creative and organizational practices. The audience will join the panelists in addressing crucial questions regarding the challenges and opportunities presented by streaming production cultures.

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Call for Papers: Moving Humanities Conference

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Abstract submission deadline: August 12th, 2024 (extended deadline) Conference dates: October 31st and November 1st 2024 The Moving Humanities Conference, organized by Radboud University and Groningen University, will take place on October 31st and November 1st, 2024. This year’s theme is Resistance taken in its broadest sense, both within our subjects of research and the humanities itself. Resistance can be to […]

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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.

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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.

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Call for Papers: “Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability”

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2–4 October 2024 | Evangelische Akademie Tutzing
In this workshop, we aim to gather scholars from around the world who conduct research in the environmental humanities, philosophy, history, anthropology, science and technology studies, eco-criticism, health humanities, political ecology, and related fields. Participants are encouraged to critically engage with the concepts of planetary health and planetary well-being through themes including—but not limited to—care, justice, and habitability.

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