Call for Contributions: Rhetorical Animals: Boundaries of the Human in the Study of Persuasion Editors: Alex C. Parrish (James Madison University) & Kristian Bjørkdahl (Rokkan Centre for Social Studies) In recent years, humanists and social scientists have shown increasing interest in human-animal relations – to the point where many now speak of an ‘animal turn’ […]
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CFP: Film and History Conference, “Journeys, Detours, Breakdowns” The Madison Concourse Hotel and Governor’s Club, Madison, WI (USA) November 5-8, 2015 In Making Things Perfectly Queer, Alexander Doty argues that queerness is a “reception practice that is shared by all sorts of people in varying degrees of consistency and intensity” including those who do not
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The Department of History at Calhoun Community College requests proposals for the 2015 Continuing Education in History Conference. Proposals for individual papers and complete workshops are both welcome. The proposals should address one or more of the conference themes, which are: Innovative teaching methods used to teach history and related subjects at the high school,
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Disasters are not readily contained within neatly drawn territorial boundaries. Both in their immediate impacts and in their compounding cascades, a disaster such as a chemical spill in a river or dangerous air pollution originating from a major metropolitan region can quickly spread across national borders. People displaced by an environmental disaster who are offered
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This special issue seeks to gather new work on and about the creative and cultural industries of, related to, and connected with South Asia, both from across its diasporas and from around the world. The creative and cultural industries can be viewed as bringing together different sectors (for instance arts and crafts; businesses and commerce;
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