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Call for Panelists: Feminist and Queer Themes in Television (NCA 2016)

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Panelists are sought for a proposed paper session for the National Communication Association Annual Convention in Philadelphia on November 10-13, 2016. Popular television plays a key role in shaping social norms and interpreting movements for political change. Traditionally, depictions of gender and sexuality have been constrained by network conventions and advertiser interests. However, the recent

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CFP: Reconceptualizing Cultures of Remote Warfare: Special Issue of The Journal of War and Culture Studies

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We are now into the second century in which aerial warfare is commonplace in a range of forms, and the second decade in which drone warfare is routinized. As paradigm, strategy, and tactic, violence-at-a-distance has become a predominant model of military engagement.  Even a partial list of its manifestations reveals its reach and diversification: the

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Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration, Yale University

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The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University invites applications for a one-year Postdoctoral Associate position beginning on July 1, 2016.  The candidate will be expected to be in full-time residence and to teach one course in academic year 2016-2017 related to the field of Asian American Studies, Latina/o

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CFP: Comedy and the Constitution: The Legacy of Lenny Bruce

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The American Studies Program and the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department at Brandeis University are pleased to announce a conference scheduled for October 27-28, 2016, to evaluate the legacy of comedian Lenny Bruce. His corrosive and transgressive satire as well as his boldness in pushing the envelope of the laws of

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CFP: Global Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities

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Global Asia: Critical Aesthetics and Alternative Globalities June 27-28, 2016 – Nanyang Technological University, Singapore In the inaugural issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Tina Chen and Eric Hayot posit that “ ‘Asia’ has been ‘global’ since long before the diasporas of the nineteenth century; the question is how, and why, and what kinds

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