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Current calls and deadlines:
May 2: The Rhetoric of Rap - SAMLA Panel
May 10: Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences - ALMSD
May 22: The Sound of Silence - Babilónia
May 31: The New Sound - University of New Haven
May 31: Contemporary Musicals on Film, Television and the Internet
June 17: Don Juan: Interdisciplinary Symposium - London
The Rhetoric of Rap (History of Rhetoric Panel) - SAMLA in ATL
Shane Trayersshane.trayers@maconstate.edu
This year’s SAMLA conference’s special focus is “The Power of Poetryin the Modern World,” and in consideration of this, the Rhetoric of Rap asks scholars to consider rap music in any form or of any time and its contributions to rhetoric.
Rap music has changed drastically over the years, both in content and linguistics. Whether the rhyming early rap or the more modern versions, rap music represents issues in race, economics, gender, and is a way to represent history and historical changes. Both controversial and mainstream, rap music is in many ways a powerful poetry in the modern world.
This panel invites all types of papers that integrate rap music or lyrics and the rhetoric attached to it or supported by it.
Abstracts should be 300 words or less and submitted to Shane Trayers (Macon State College) at shane.trayers@maconstate.edu by May 2nd, 2011.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41232
Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences
Between 25-28 April, 2012, ALMSD will be hosting a second International conference, "Symbolism, Its Origins and Its Consequences" with the theme Light and Shade or Light and Obscurity in Symbolism, its origins and its consequences. The organization would like to invite you to submit a proposal which will address the theme of the conference in art, literature and music. The proposal should be about 300 words and should be sent to symbolismabstracts@uis.edu before May 10, 2011. Please include a short version of your CV. If you have questions, please contact Rosina Neginsky at rnegi1@uis.edu.http://www.uis.edu/hosted-orgs/ALMSD/conference.html
The Sound of Silence
Babilónia – Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Traduçãotradutores_interpretes@ulusofona.pt
Babilónia – Revista Lusófona de Línguas, Culturas e Tradução is a journal publication by the School of Communication, Arts and Information Technologies (ECATI) at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (ULHT). It is linked to the 1st cycle study program in Translation and Creative Writing and the postgraduate course in Translation and Intercultural Communication at ULHT. It is also affiliated to the 1st cycle program in Languages and Translation at the Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP). The journal is published semestrially and it centers on three main fields: Linguistic, Cultural and Translation Studies. The Editorial Board invites academics, specialists, writers and translators to contribute to one of the following sections: Dossier, Essays, Interviews, Creative Writing, Reviews and Translations.
Dossier for the upcoming issue (no. 10/11) – The Sound of Silence
Organized by: Zlatka Timenova-Valtcheva
Co-organized by: Luís Cláudio Ribeiro
Western societies, as defined by Greco-Roman philosophy and logocentrism, have traditionally considered fullness and emptiness, absence and presence, sound (in acoustics and verbal expression) and silence as in opposition and therefore mutually exclusive. However, with Judaic-Christian thought emerges the relationship between word and silence through the image of the “Spirit of God,” and after St. Augustine, the human/divine language dichotomy. From another perspective, we should highlight the permanent effort to extract sounds of articulate words from the silence of continuous thought. We can therefore affirm that there is no language without silence and no silence without language, just as in the physical world there is no sound without silence and there can be no silence without sound. Most importantly, however, silence has meaning, silence resonates: silence is eloquent.
The theme for this number’s dossier intends to have the sound of silence heard. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Silence in History: the subaltern voice
- Sound and silence in literature and the arts
- Silence and noise in communication
- Silence in translation
- The new sounds of technology
- Silence and censorship in culture and politics
- The silence of memory
- Autobiography and silence
- Cities and silence
- Silence in psychoanalytic discourse
Paper submission deadline: 22 May 2011
Acceptance notification: 19 June 2011
The papers sent for publication must be original and cannot be submitted to other journals, either national or international. All papers will be submitted to the Editorial Board or specialists in the area, for acceptance. As Babilónia is a peer-reviewed journal and for the blind review process to be effective, each paper should be accompanied by a separate cover page with the following information:
- Title
- Name
- Institutional affiliation
- Abstract in two languages (300 word maximum each)
- Keywords (4 to 6)
- Bio-note (250 word maximum)
- E-mail address
All papers should have a maximum length of 20-25 pages (approximately 6,500 words), including bibliography and footnotes. Papers may be submitted in Portuguese (according to the new orthographic accord), English, French, Spanish and Italian. Babilónia has adopted the MLA guidelines for the bibliography, in-text citations, and footnotes.
Papers should be sent to: tradutores_interpretes@ulusofona.pt
http://babilonia.ulusofona.pt
The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature
University of New Havenunhenglish@gmail.com
The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature publishes short fiction, poetry, essays, drama, art and book reviews. Writers at all stages of their careers are invited to submit. Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit, as each issue will feature undergraduate writing and art. If you are interested in submitting your work for consideration, please refer to the guidelines below.
Reading Period:
The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature will be published in January 2012, and we ask that writers submit no more than once a year. Our inaugural reading period will be from March 15th to May 31st. Manuscripts received from June through August will not be read.
Manuscripts:
Manuscripts must be paginated and clearly labeled with the author’s name on every page. Please limit your submission to no more than 5 poems, 2 short plays, or 7,000 words of prose, either critical or creative. Simultaneous submissions are encouraged, but we ask that you notify us if the work is accepted elsewhere. Do not send the only copy of your work, as we do not accept responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts.
Visual art and design submissions should be submitted in jpg format at 72 dpi and not exceed a file size of 2MB each. Each file should be titled with your name and the number of the submission (ex/ john_doe1.jpg, john_doe2.jpg). A maximum of four works may be submitted each year. Black and White and Color work is encouraged.
Book Reviews:
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited book reviews. If you are interested in reviewing, please write to the editor describing the kind of books you would be interested in reviewing and enclose one or more recent samples of a review.
Response Time:
We try to respond to submissions within 6 months; however, it may occasionally take longer for a manuscript to be read. We ask for your patience, as we do make every effort to read all the submissions we receive. Unfortunately we are unable to respond to status inquiries.
Although The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature is a print journal, we will feature excerpts from each issue on the University of New Haven web site. Thus, please note that if your work is accepted we may ask your permission to include your work on our website as well as in the print journal.
Send submissions to the following email address:
unhenglish@gmail.com
Hard Copies will be accepted as well. Please send to:
The New Sound: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Art & Literature
University of New Haven
English Department
300 Boston Post Road
West Haven, CT 06516-1916
Contemporary Musicals on Film, Television and the Internet
Kenneth Chan and Aviva Dove-Viebahnaviva.doveviebahn@unco.edu and kenneth.chan@unco.edu
The deadline for this call has been extended. We are especially looking for submissions dealing with film, although abstracts discussing television and new media will still be considered.
In recent years, the musical genre has seen a revival on American screens, with television shows like Glee (2009-present) and American Idol (2002-present) and a litany of cinematic adaptations from Chicago (2002) and Dreamgirls (2006) to Fame (2009) and Burlesque (2010). Even before the wild popularity of Glee, myriad television shows, including Buffy: The Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Ally McBeal (1997-2002), Even Stevens (2000-2003), Scrubs (2001-2010), and How I Met Your Mother (2005-present), used musical interludes or aired special musical episodes to garner ratings and entertain fans. Web series and one-off celebrity skits like Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog and “Prop 8: The Musical,” respectively, have also jumped on the musical bandwagon.
This anthology of collected essays aims to explore the revival of the musical on film, television and new media in the last two decades. Essays can explore any aspect of the musical genre in these media, from musical adaptations and original musical episodes or shows to the impact of films, television and media focused on music or musical performances.
Topics of potential essays include, but are not limited to:
* Discussions about what drives this revival
* Considerations of what makes these contemporary musicals differentfrom older screen-based musical adaptations
* The impact of television musicals on film musicals, or vice versa
* Incorporation of pop music in musical score; appropriation/reconfiguration
* Pop stars turn actors; actors turn singers* Raw talent; rise-to-stardom narrative
* From Broadway to screen
* Musicals based on bio-pics of pop stars or composers
* Musical elements in non-musical shows and films
* Hybrid genres – e.g. horror musicals
* Impact of Hollywood and American musicals on global cinema
* Bollywood influences on Hollywood musicals
* Queer deployment and analysis of contemporary musicals
* Questions of gender and race in contemporary screen musicals
* The internet and other new media applications of the musical genre(web series, spoofs, etc.)
* Critical readings of musicals from a range of contemporary theoretical perspectives.
Please send 300-word abstracts and a brief CV (focusing on recent publications, if any) by May 31, 2011, to both Kenneth Chan and Aviva Dove-Viebahn. Complete essays will be due August 1, 2011.
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/41184
Don Juan: Interdisciplinary Symposium
23rd September, 2011, London
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/literature-and-music/news.shtml
The Don Juan story is one of the most enduring of modern cultural myths, with retellings and versions spanning several centuries and occurring in the widest imaginable range of cultural forms and narrative media. This informal study day seeks to explore the diverse manifestations of this myth.The day is open to graduate students, early career and established researchers. We aim to include papers addressing the potential for teaching and researching the rich inheritance of the Don Juan myth, in a wide variety of media. The event is organised by the Literature and Music Research Group of the Open University and will be hosted by the Institutes of Musical Research and English Studies. The convenors are Katia Chornik, Delia da Sousa Correa, Fiona Richards and Robert Samuels.
We warmly welcome proposals for papers on literary, musical and visual versions of the Don Juan story, and on the many cultural manifestations of the Don Juan figure. Graduate students and those with a teaching interest in this topic are especially encouraged to offer papers.
Topics for the day may include, but are not limited to:
- Don Juan in literature, from the Golden Age Spanish Drama to the present day, from Molina’s El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra to Derek Walcott’s The Joker of Seville.
- Operatic and other musical versions of Don Juan from Mozart and Da Ponte to Lloyd Webber.
- Relationships between literary and musical realisations of the Don Juan myth.
- Topics in musical or literary theory and analysis, and topics in inter-medial studies or musico-poetics. Other interdisciplinary Don Juans.
- Don Juan from a psychoanalytical perspective.
- Don Juan in film.
- Romantic and/or pre-Romantic Don Juans, for example, the pre-texts and afterlife of Byron's Don Juan.
- Don Juan as an iconic figure at large within and beyond the Don Juan story.
- Don Juan in contemporary popular culture.
Papers will be a maximum of 15-20 minutes in length, to allow for discussion to be prioritised during the day. Abstracts (max 200 words) should be sent to Katia Chornik, k.m.chornik@open.ac.uk by Friday 17th June.
The event will take place in Room G22/26, Senate House, from 10.30 – 17.00.
Institute of Musical Research and Institute of English Studies
School of Advanced Study
University of London
Senate House, Malet Street
London WC1E 7HU
