CFP: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Mar; 10-14 Nov)

This is drivable!

Sex and Love in Asian Contexts: Film & History Conference: Representations
of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Extended Deadline: March 1, 2009


AREA: Sex and Love in Asian Contexts,

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial exchange
in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious, political, and artistic
traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and love often are bound up in
complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor codes, pieties, and spiritual
allegiances. How do Asians themselves see or represent love? How do
non-Asians see or represent love in Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of, Asian
contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for full panels
should include the individual proposals for 3-4 presenters. Possible topics:

* traditional and customary practices--loved or hated--treatments of
historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

* love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity,
cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

* love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

* modern international influences (American and European)

* stinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

* new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

* nsw developments in the films of Islamic cultures

* adaptations


Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302

Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)


Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film & History
website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

@UIUC: Patrick Drazen talk: "Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?" (22 Oct, 4-5:30pm; Noyes Lab 163)

"Gay, Kind-of Gay and Pseudo-Gay in Anime and Manga: What's the Point?"

a public lecture by Patrick Drazen

Thursday, 22 October 2009
4:00-5:30
Noyes Lab 163

From the cross-dressing of Osamu Tezuka's Princess Sapphire in Princess Knight (Ribon no kishi, orig. 1953-56) and Ryoko Ikeda's Oscar de Jarjayes in The Rose of Versailles (Berusaiyu no bara, 1972-73) to the fake twincest of the Ouran High School Host Club (Ouran Koukou hosuto-bu, 2003-), Japanese pop culture has not been shy about playing a variety of sexual games with its consumers. However, given the essential conservatism of pop culture's message despite cutting edge story-telling techniques, there is far more teasing going on than actual same-sex romance. In this presentation, using clips from various anime, Drazen will show that the point of most works is to nudge the consumer toward the conventional rather than away from it.



Patrick Drazen is the author of the Anime Explosion: The What? Why? and Wow! of Japanese Animation (2003). He has given presentations at the Cherry Blossom Festival Anime Marathon at the Freer Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution (2006), Schoolgirls and Mobilesuits (2004), Yaoi-Con (2002), and, for the past several years, Anime Central in his hometown of Chicago. He also participated in a panel discussion with Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino as part of the Chicago International Film Festival (2006). Drazen has written on anime and manga for the magazines Animation, SFX, and Time Out New York, and sits on the editorial board of and has contributed to the manga and anime studies journal Mechademia. He is currently working on his second book.

This talk is sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, the School for Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center, the Department of Comparative and World Literatures, and the Gender and Women's Studies Program.

CFP: Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century (3 Nov; 29 Apr-1 May; Yale)

Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century

An Academic Conference sponsored by the Visualizing Cultures Project and the Center for East Asian Studies, Yale University Yale University, New Haven, April 29 May 1, 2010
Coordinators Peter C. Perdue [Yale] and John W. Dower [MIT]

The Visualizing Cultures project
[http://visualizingcultures.mit.edu] and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University [http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies]
invite contributions to an academic conference focused on the relationship between visual imagery and social change in modern Asia. We will assemble scholars of history, art history, history of photography, and history of technology specializing in China, Korea, Japan, United States, Europe and the Philippines to discuss how to integrate visual and textual media in research and teaching, using to the fullest the opportunities presented by the Internet.

This will be one of the first academic conferences devoted to image- driven scholarship and teaching about Asia in the modern world. The topic is "Visualizing Global Asia at the Turn of the 20th Century". Images presented must be available for online publication.

John Dower, professor of Japanese history at MIT, and Shigeru Miyagawa, professor of linguistics and foreign languages and literatures at MIT, founded the Visualizing Cultures project to investigate the impact of visual media on cross-cultural interaction between Asia and the West. This project has expanded the scope of traditional historical study beyond written texts, creating truly visual narratives that integrate large numbers of graphics, including popular and commercial images with scholarly commentary. The Visualizing Cultures platform allows educators to download and use freely all content, for non-commercial purposes. The Visualizing Cultures team has worked with scholars to create truly innovative and elegant online publications.

So far, the project has produced units on subjects like the Perry mission to Japan, Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, the Yokohama treaty port, Felice Beato's pioneer photographs of Japan, consumer culture and the Shiseido cosmetics firm, and the Canton trade system in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. New units in production include John Thomson's standard-setting photography of China, the Opium War, the histories of Beijing and Shanghai, interwar Tokyo, and the U.S.-Philippines relationship from 1898 through World War Two. Visualizing Cultures uses rare publications as well as archival materials from a variety of museums and art collections, including the Smithsonian Institutions Freer and Sackler Galleries, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Peabody Essex Museum, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Yales Beinecke Library, Shiseido archive in Japan, Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth, and Smith College Museum of Art.

We invite interested researchers to submit contributions for presentation at the conference at Yale in Spring 2010. These presentations should integrate visual and textual content. We especially encourage contributions that use rare materials from archives and museum collections. Many of the contributions may become the basis for new units on the Visualizing Cultures website. Please contact the organizers for further information.

Contact emails: peter.c.perdue at yale dot edu; Visualizing Cultures c/o Director Scott Shunk: shunk at mit dot edu

CFP: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts” area @ 2010 Film & History Conference (Milwaukee; 1 Nov 2009; 10-14 Nov, 2010)

(It's been a while since I've posted a CFP, mainly because there's been very little I've seen that would be of interest to more than one EALC grad. Please share CFPs that you think others of us might be interested in. You can email them directly to the EALC grads list or to me. Keep in mind that this particular conf is in a very driveable location.)

2010 Film & History Conference: Representations of Love in Film and Television

November 10-14, 2010

Hyatt Regency Milwaukee

www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

Second-Round Deadline: November 1, 2009


AREA: “Sex and Love in Asian Contexts”

Asia has, perhaps, the richest history of cultural and commercial
exchange in the world, resulting in deeply layered religious,
political, and artistic traditions. In cinema, for example, sex and
love often are bound up in complex rites, taboos, negotiations, honor
codes, pieties, and spiritual allegiances. How do Asians themselves
see or represent love? How do non-Asians see or represent love in
Asian contexts?

This area, comprising multiple panels, welcomes papers treating the
representations of love and sex within, or from the perspective of,
Asian contexts (East, West, Central, South, Southeast). Proposals for
full panels should include the individual proposals for 3-4
presenters. Possible topics:

• traditional and customary practices—loved or hated

• treatments of historical and modern extra-marital sex and sex workers

• love and sex--including homosexuality--as indexes of modernity, cosmopolitanism, or the status of women

• love and sex in pre-modern inter-Asian narrative

• modern international influences (American and European)

• distinctively indigenous traditions (Bollywood, Japanese studios, etc.)

• new developments in contemporary pan-Asian cinema

• new developments in the films of Islamic cultures

• adaptations

Please send your 200-word proposal by e-mail to the area chair:

S.A. Thornton
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Email: Sybil.Thornton at asu dot edu (email submissions preferred)

Panel proposals for up to four presenters are also welcome, but each
presenter must submit his or her own paper proposal. For updates and
registration information about the upcoming meeting, see the Film &
History website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory).

CFP: Copy That!: Reproduction and Pedagogy/Graduate Student Symposium (30 Nov; 28 Mar; Princeton, New Jersey)

Copy That!: Reproduction and Pedagogy
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Keynote speaker: Amy Powell, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Irvine

Six years before Walter Benjamin wrote the first version of "Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility," Erwin Panofsky published "Original und Faksimile Reproduktion," (Der Kreis, 1930), a letter addressing the possibilities and problems of using photographic reproductions and plaster casts as objects in museum exhibitions and as pedagogical tools. While both authors attended to questions of authenticity, simulacra, aesthetic experience, and function, Panofsky, unlike Benjamin, insisted that the reproduction could function autonomously as an aesthetic object independent of the original.

From Johann Winckelmann's famous refusal to travel to Greece and see original works of art to today's reliance on digital images and "virtual museums," art history is a discipline grounded in the study of reproductions. The W旦lfflin two-slide comparison has given way to the power point presentation, in which a lecture may shift among a seemingly infinite number of images, text, video, and websites. This time of shifting pedagogical paradigms within the discipline calls for an examination of the two trajectories mapped out by Benjamin and Panofsky and a re-assessment of the possibilities and limitations of learning from reproduction.

With these ideas in mind, this conference seeks to explore the intersection of the discipline of art history, pedagogy, and reproduction. How have different historical understandings of pedagogy shaped the relationship between the copy and the original, reshaped technologies of copying, and changed the reception of the copy?

Topics could include but are not limited to:
-artistic workshop practice (medieval model books, Renaissance drawing books, Japanese master-pupil, "the Factory")
-dissemination and changing conceptions of original artworks through the mediums of printmaking and photography
-the birth of the artists' monograph
-the copy and the lost original
-copy, deception, piracy
-appropriation art and its aftereffects
-the intersection of aesthetic experience and learning
-artistic practices and copy (drawing from plaster casts, painting from photographs)
-the relationship between technology and pedagogical models
-changing concepts of authenticity
-uses of image archives

Submissions from all areas of art history as well as related disciplines are welcome. Email abstract and CV in the body of an email to Caroline Fowler and Amanda Bock at gradsymp at princeton.edu by November 30, 2008. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words and final papers should not exceed 20 minutes in length. Selected speakers will be notified by December 20, 2008.

Email: gradsymp at princeton.edu

Program: Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture in Tokyo (16 Feb; 18 May-29 June)

For the sixth consecutive year, an exciting six-week Summer Program on Japanese Visual Culture will take place at the Tokyo Campus of Temple University Japan (TUJ), May 18 – June 29, 2009 (tentative dates). This program consists of two coordinated courses: the first focuses on approaches to studying the richness and complexity of visual culture in Japan; the second allows students to develop modest visual projects (digital still, video or web) on selective topics immediately relevant to visual culture. Instruction is in English. All course work will be supplemented with an active program of cultural events, trips and lectures in and around Tokyo. Students live in Temple dormitories alongside Japanese students studying English at TUJ. This program grants course credits to both undergraduate and graduate students.

For additional information, details, and application forms see:
http://www.temple.edu/studyabroad/programs/summer/japan/visual-anthro.html

Application deadline: February 16, 2009.

R. Chalfen and L. Powell

CFP: Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (2 Jan; 20-21 Mar; Dekalb, Illinois))

The 17th annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) will be held March 20-21, 2009 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.
MCLLM invites papers on all areas of literary, language, and media studies, especially proposals that interrogate identity and its representation through the prism of literature, language, or media in all their diverse contexts.

Deadline for submission: January 2, 2009.
Please include a cover page with your name, affiliation, mailing address, and e-mail address.
Accepted contributions will be notified via e-mail by January 19, 2009.
Please submit your 250 word (one page) abstract as an attachment to mcllm2009@gmail.com

Proposals are being solicited for fifteen minute papers from scholars at all career stages, from beginning graduate students to established and senior scholars.

Individual or panel proposals are welcome.

Contact Conference Co-Chairs: Alisa Smith-Riel, Ellen Stuart, and Paul Petrovic
Graduate Department of English
Northern Illinois University
Email: mcllm2009 at gmail com
Visit the website at http://www.engl.niu.edu/mcllm/

CFP: "Rethinking Visual Narratives from Asia: Intercultural and Comparative Perspectives" (5 Sept; 8-9 June; Hong Kong)

The Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong will host an nternational conference on Rethinking Visual Narratives from 8-9 June 2009. The conference will bring together approximately fifteen scholars presenting new and original research to discuss how visual narratives function in different cultures and exploring connections and interactions between the arts of Asia and that of Asia and the West. The papers and discussion will consolidate academic understanding of visual narrative theories and augment them through analysis of their potential as a tool for exploring inter-cultural interactions and questioning cross-cultural assumptions. The focus will be on the visual with a cross-cultural dimension and dating to any time period within a broadly defined art historical discipline and material culture studies.

Possible panel topics include, but are not limited to –
The place of narrative: architecture and the disposition of imagery Theories of narration
Word and image: illustration and interpretation
Printed texts and images: semiotic dialogue
The social embeddedness of narrative
Narratology
The role of non-narrative or anti-narrative elements in imagery

Papers will be hosted on the conference website by the end of April 2009. It is expected that a conference proceedings will be published.

Abstracts due on 5 September 2008 by email to -

Dr. Alexandra Green
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Fine Arts, University of Hong Kong
Email: greenar_ _hkucc.hku.hk

CFP: The Media and Human Rights in Asia (25 Jan; 22-23 Feb; Michigan)

The Asian Studies Center at Michigan State University, in cooperation with MSU's Department of Journalism, is hosting a one day conference on "The Media and Human Rights in Asia" on Feb. 23, 2008. The evening before, Feb 22, will feature a talk and film showing by Ellen Bruno, film-maker who has produced controversial films on human rights issues in Asia. We are seeking paper proposals from graduate students, faculty and practicing journalists who deal with Asia and human rights issues. Please send all proposals to Marilyn McCullough (email is fine) by January 25. In addition to an invited keynote speaker we will feature panels for graduate students, faculty and, journalists.


Marilyn McCullough
Assistant Director
Asian Studies Center
301 International Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI, 48824
phone: 517-353-1680
Fax: 517-432-2659
Email: mccull67@msu.edu

$$$: Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) (8 Feb; 29 May-1 June, or 11-14 Sept)

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF)
The Social Science Research Council, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides fellowships up to $5000 to humanities and social science students to support predissertation research. In addition to receiving funding, fellows participate in two four-day workshops organized around the research fields and that bracket the summer research. Workshop exercises prepare fellows in formulating doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a resonable time frame, and competitive in future dissertation research fellowship competitions. Workshops will be held May 29 - June 1 in Saint Louis and September 11 - 14 in Milwaukee. Travel, lodging and meals for the two workshops are provided by the SSRC

DPDF is open to early-stage graduate students in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities who are currently enrolled full time in PhD programs at accredited universities in the United States and whose predissertation research fits into one of the five research fields. Students pursuing relevant dissertation topics may apply to one of the following fields:

Animal Studies
Harriet Ritvo (History, MIT)
Janet Browne (History of Science, Harvard)

Critical Studies of Science and Technology Policy
Sheila Jasanoff (Science and Technology Studies, Harvard)
Clark Miller (Science and Technology Policy, Arizona State University)

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Brent Yarnal (Geography, Pennsylvania State University)
Tom Evans (Geography, Indiana University - Bloomington)

Muslim Modernities
Charles Kurzman (Sociology, North Carolina - Chapel Hill)
Bruce Lawrence (Religion and Islamic Studies, Duke University)

Urban Visual Studies
Edward Dimendberg (Film & Media Studies/Visual Studies, UC Irvine)
M. Christine Boyer (Architecture and City Planning, Princeton)

Contact Details
For full descriptions of the research fields, eligibility and application requirements, and the DPDF program, visit our Web site http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf.

All inquires must be directed to the SSRC DPDF program staff at dpdf@ssrc.org.

Applications
Deadline for submission is February 8, 2008 by 9:00 p.m. EST Applications are available on SSRC's appilcation portal:
http://applications.ssrc.org

CFP: Book Reviews--Postmodern Culture (e-journal; no deadline noted)

Note: There are a few Asia-related books on the list as well as books related to some interests of those in EALC. The CFP doesn't say but it's very possible that the journal will be able to send a review copy--write and ask. Assuming you're qualified to review a given title, book reviews can be a great way to get free books!


The online journal Postmodern Culture solicits reviews for the following books. We also welcome proposals for reviews on any aspect of postmodern culture and theory. Please send either reviews of 2000-3500 words or proposals for a review, along with a short professional bio, to: Ellen McCallum, Reviews Editor, PMC, email: emc@msu.edu. Word attachment files are best.


Anderson, Perry. Extra Time: World Politics Since 1989. Verso, December 2006.

Armstrong, Nancy How Novels Think. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Becker, Ron. Gay TV and Straight America. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Birchall, Claire. Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to
Gossip. Berg, 2006.

Bloom, Lisa. Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American
Feminist Art. Routledge Press, 2006.

Butler, Judith. Giving an Account of Oneself. Fordham UP 2005.

Camus, Albert and Levi Valensi, Jacqueline. Camus at "Combat".
Princeton University Press, 2006.

Cixous, Helen. Reveries of the Wild Woman. Northwester University Press, 2006.

Coles, Nicholas, and Zandy, Janet. Working-Class Literature of the
United States. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Collins, Alan. Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape.
Routledge Press, 2006.

Collins, Lisa Gail, and Crawford, Margo Natalie. New Thoughts on the
Black Arts Movement. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Collins, Patricia Hill. From Black Power to Hip Hop. Temple
University Press, 2006.

Conboy, Martin. Tabloid Britain; Constructing a Community Through
Language. Routledge, 2006.

Derrida, Jacques. Sovereignties in Question. Fordham UP, 2005.

Easterling, Keller. Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its
Political Masquerades. MIT Press, 2005.

Funkhouser, C.T. Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms
1059-1995. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gass, William H. A Temple of Texts. Alfred A Knopf: Random House Press, 2006.

Geis, Deborah, ed. Considering Maus: Approaches to Art Spiegelman's
"Survivor's Tale" of the Holocaust. U Alabama P, 2006.

Gillespie, Joanie Farley and Jayne Gackenach, eds. Cyber Rules: What
you Really Need to Know about the Internet: the Essential Guide for
Clinicians, Educators, and Parents. WW Norton, 2007.

Gordon, W. Terrance. Marshall McLuhan. Gingko Press, 2006.

Gray, Jonathan. Watching with the Simpsons. Routledge Press, 2006.

Hawkesworth, Mary E. Feminist Inquiry. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Horsfield, Kate, and Hilderbrand, Lucas. Feedback. Temple University
Press, 2006

Jantzen, Grace M. Forever Fluid : A Reading of Luce Irigaray's
Elemental Passions. Manchester University Press, 2006.

Katrak, Ketu H. Politics of the Female Body. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Kristeva, Julie. Murder in Byzantium. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Kritzman, Lawrence D. The Columbia History of Twentieth Century
French Thought. Columbia University Press, 2006.

Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin, Gamber, John Blair, and Sohn, Stephen Hong.
Transnational Asian American Literature. Temple University Press,
2006.

MacDonald, Scott. Art in Cinema. Temple University Press, 2006.

Maingard, Jacqueline. South African National Cinema. Routledge Press, 2006.

Marchetti, Gina. From Tian'anmen to Times Square. Temple University
Press, 2006.

McGann, Jerome. The Point is to Change it: Poetry and Criticism in
the Continuing Present. U Alabama P, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental
Aesthetics. Harvard UP, 2007.

Nancy, Jean-Luc. The Ground of the Image. Fordham UP 2005.

Nunes, Mark. Cyberspaces of Everyday Life. U Minnesota P, 2006.

Pettman, Dominic. Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for
the Information Age. Fordham UP, 2006.

Petrescu, Doina. Altering Feminine Practices. Routledge, 2006.

Robinson, Hilary. Reading Art, Reading Irigaray. I. B. Tauris Press, 2006.

Roeper, Richard. Schlock Value. Hyperion Press, February 2006.

Said, Edward W. On Late Style. Pantheon Press, 2006.

Sleigh, Tom. Interview with a Ghost. Graywolf Press, 2006.

Spivak, Gaytri Chakravorty. Other Asias. Blackwell Publishers Press, 2006.

Stam, Robert. Francois Truffaut and Friends. Rutgers University Press, 2006.

Stewart, Charles, ed. Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory.
Left Coast Press, 2007.

Sussman, Henry. The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy,
Religion. Fordham UP, 2006.

Tabbi, Joseph and Rone Shavers, eds. Paper Empire: William Gaddis
and the World System. U Alabama P, 2006.

VanBuskirk, Jim, and Shank, Will. Celluloid San Francisco. Chicago
Review Press, 2006.

Weber, Samuel. Targets of Opportunity. Fordham UP, 2005.

White, Edmund. My Lives. Ecco Press, 2006.

Wright, Melissa. Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global
Capitalism. Routledge, 2006.

Wyschogrod, Edith. Crossover Queries: Dwelling with Negatives,
Embodying Philosophy's Others. Fordham UP, 2006.

Xie, Yu, and Shauman, Kimberlee A. Women in Science. Harvard
University Press, 2006.

CFP: Mediascape (e-journal @ UCLA) (1 Jan.)

UCLA's film, television, and digital media e-journal, Mediascape, is
now accepting submissions for the Features, Reviews, Columns and Meta
sections of its next issue. This journal, a place for articles
pertaining to visual culture, is peer-reviewed and published on an
annual table. The deadline for the next issue is the 1st of January,
2007.

Features: Taking into account the increasingly blurry line between the
many different components of the modern media landscape, the features
section takes an inter-disciplinary and inter-media approach to
scholarly discourse on the three main facets of contemporary visual
culture: film, television and digital media. As such, the section seeks
contributions from all areas within media studies, from film theory to
moving image archiving, and welcomes contributions from other academic
fields, such as history, literature, music, economics, political
science, etc., as well as from media practitioners outside of academia
altogether. The guiding principle uniting these contributions will be
the perspectives, however disparate, that they offer on the mediascape
that is common to all of us as media scholars, practitioners and
consumers.

Submissions for the features section need not address the larger issues
described above, so long as they offer a unique perspective on film,
television, digital media, or any other aspect of moving image culture,
preferably encompassing more than one. Though articles should be of a
high level of scholarly rigor, the journal will not be read exclusively
by media scholars. Writing should therefore be readable enough to be
enjoyed by those outside of the field of media studies and indeed
outside of the academy altogether.

To submit a feature article, please email a short bio and a copy of
your manuscript in Word format to erinhill@ucla.edu. For the purposes
of confidentiality during the double blind peer review, please include
both your bio and your personal contact information in the accompanying
email only, rather than in the word document. Feature submissions
should range from between 15 to 25 manuscript pages. Rarely, exceptions
will be made with regard to length in either direction; however, it is
strongly recommended that the author stay within the 15-25 page range.

Reviews: Mainstream film, television and digital media reviewing
tends to be constrained by an industry model that requires writers to
gain access to the objects of their review through publicity agents,
press kits and press screenings, leading to a homogeneity of
perspectives, and limiting reviews to objects that are newly available
for purchase--in effect reducing these reviews to simple announcements
of the latest releases. This model also limits reviews to the
film/TV/digital media text, which essentially gives industrial and
business factors a free pass. For these reasons, Mediascape's reviews
section calls for reviews written outside of the industry model
described above, and examining not only film, television and digital
media texts, but also the institutions and apparatuses that shape the
way we as consumers, fans, and academics make meaning of them, such as
festivals, books, award shows, restorations, fan magazines,
conferences, DVDs, press kits, movie theaters, peer-to-peer
technologies, soundtracks, televisions, advertising, reviews, websites,
retailers, or any combination of the above.

The reviews section also seeks to become a forum for the international
exchange of ideas and perspectives, in order to break from the local or
national centrism of conventional review journalism. However, there is
no pretension of possessing a "global" viewpoint. Instead, contributors
should bring to the forum their own cultural locatedness in hopes of
contributing to a larger, international exchange of ideas. In pursuit
of a more complete comprehension of global film circulation and
reception, Mediascape's review section is also interested in publishing
foreign language reviews in English and vice versa. Please direct
reviews section questions, proposals, and submissions to
brianhu@ucla.edu.

Reviews should be a minimum of 2,500 words, although exceptions may be
granted. There is no maximum word limit, provided work is readable,
structured, and visually appealing in the online format.

Columns: This issue's columns section is seeking for short papers
(800-1500 words) on the dividing and converging nature of the
hardware/software split. This can be on anything from the relationship
between Microsoft and Intel, to the solid state memory of the Rosetta
Stone, to the DVR and the iTV, to the tower of Babel, to the emergence
of cloudware. All perspectives welcome, as long as they are current,
timeless, and exuberant. Non-traditional New Media-esque "essays" are
also welcome and will be greatly appreciated. Please submit columns and
inquiries to (beatnikd@ucla.edu) by January 1, 2007.

Meta: Recent scholarship in media studies acknowledges a change in the
objects of our study with the digital revolution: a convergence of
media at both the formal and industrial organizational levels. As
films are more often screened on television sets--whether through cable
television, VHS, DVD, or On Demand services--than exhibited in theaters,
and as both films and television shows are increasingly viewed
streaming through computer monitors or mobile accessories of varying
sizes and capacities, how do the theoretical tools and terms of media
studies apply or simply fail to apply to these new exhibition venues
and the industrial strategies developed to cater to them?

While our contemporary object of study may have arguably converged, the
theoretical bodies and borders within our discipline do not yet seem as
porous. Is it necessary to conceive of the study of digital media
forms, despite technologically-specific concerns, as a trajectory
continuing and morphing, rather than breaking, from the media
scholarship that has come before it? How do we integrate, rather than
antagonize, the insights various schools of thought within cinema,
television, and digital media studies individually bring to the media
studies table? Rather than reiterate the call for new terms and
concepts specific to digital media, this edition of the meta section
seeks to challenge scholars to rethink and refurbish important terms
and concepts from "media studies past" to put today's mediascape in
perspective. Hopefully this will challenge us to think beyond a model
of scholarship built solely on notions of "progress" ("that was then,
this is now"), and perhaps inspire us to further converge theories to
suit a converged object of study.

Please write a brief position paper (2000-3500 words) responding to the
questions posed above and engaging in the following experiment:
Re-appropriate one term or concept from media studies scholarship
produced prior to 1990. Determine how and if this term or concept is
viable or useful when used to describe digital media. Feel free to
suggest how a rearticulation or retrofitting of the term or concept
would be necessary. Please submit Meta papers to Candace Moore
(candacem@ucla.edu) by January 1, 2007.

General Guidelines:
All submissions should follow MLA Style guidelines and should employ
the parenthetical, in-text method of source citation and comply with
the following formatting requirements:
1.) No cover page, with title instead centered at the top of the first
page of the article
2.) Language of document set to English
3.) Double spaced paragraphs in 12 point font
4.) Margins: top 1" left 1" right 1" bottom 1.25" to accommodate footer
5.) Endnotes rather than footnotes
6.) Images correctly sized outside of word (sizing them in word slows
web editing process) and then placed within the word document's layout
where they should appear at publication

Because of the peer review and editorial processes of the journal's
different sections, it may take as long as eight weeks for decisions on
submissions to reach the writers.

General email inquiries can also be sent to erinhill@ucla.edu.