Area Studies

Call for Papers - Radical women: the construction of Latin American women artists through exhibitions (Deadline: 23 July 2019)

Session at the College Art Association CAA2020 annual conference, 12-15 February 2020, Chicago

Chairs: Elize Mazadiego, University of Amsterdam (emazadiego@ucsd.edu) and Eve Kalyva, Independent (e.m.kalyva@gmail.com) 

1.  Original Article

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Dear colleagues,

The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative would like to announce the Call for Papers for the conference on “Exploring the Dimensions of Refugee Inclusion: Social Structures, Institutions and Strategies” which will take place on November 28-29, 2019 in Istanbul.

International Symposium

North and South

2019 Rustgi Undergraduate Conference on South Asia

The panel considers readings of text in terms of race, gender, and class. A review of literary works stems from Stanley Fish’s essay titled “Is there a Text in this Class?” and for this panel the idea of reading considers text as more than text and regard the reader’s thoughts involving textual perception. This panel reviews receptions of literary (i.e.

The edited collection, Familial Influences on Superheroes, will examine the role that the family plays on the development of the superhero as portrayed in radio, comics, graphic novels, television series, and feature films.  Many superheroes have experienced the trauma of losing (a) parent(s), which sets them apart from others.  Thus, the individuals that the superheroes gravitate towards become an integral part of their lives, to the point where they form a necessary and vital “familial network” of connections that would either replace those that were lost or never fully establish

Taking its impetus from the theme “Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures” this panel juxtaposes two types of space: the local and the global as they came together in the conception of the world city. The material embodiments of the function of cities as global nodes are the Expositions, Great Exhibitions, and World’s Fairs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where a world spectacle could be viewed in imperial capitals (Paris and London) and in international capitals (Chicago, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, to name a few) .

Journal ex-aequo, edited by the Portuguese Association of Women's Studies.

Vânia Carvalho Pinto, University of Brasília & Andrea Fleschenberg, Humboldt University (Orgs.)

NEW EXTENDED Deadline: 30 june 2019.

For publication until December 2019.

Submissions are accepted in portuguese, english, spanish and french.