... the science, politics, art and religion of [any society] can be traced back to its [...] way of manufacturing pots...

"the science, politics, art and religion of [any society] can be traced back to its [...] way of manufacturing pots" --Vilem Flusser, The Shape of Things 12.

Women's Studies in Communication, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 3, 2017

Women's Studies in Communication, Volume 40, Issue 2, April 3, 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.


CONVERSATION AND COMMENTARY: REFLECTIONS ON OUR SCHOLARSHIP AFTER THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Introduction: Centering Communication Scholarship in the Wake of Political Turmoil
Lisa A. Flores
Pages: 129-131 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302253

Every Woman Is the Wrong Woman: The Female Presidentiality Paradox
Karrin Vasby Anderson
Pages: 132-135 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302257

Taking Trump Seriously: Persona and Presidential Politics in 2016
Bonnie J. Dow
Pages: 136-139 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302258

The “Morning/Mourning” After: When Becoming President Trumps Being a Sexual Predator
Rachel Alicia Griffin
Pages: 140-144 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302259

Monstrosities in the 2016 Presidential Election and Beyond: Centering Nepantla and Intersectional Feminist Activism
Amanda R. Martinez
Pages: 145-149 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302260

“I Knew America Was Not Ready for a Woman to Be President”: Commentary on the Dominant Structural Intersections Organized around the Presidency and Voting Rights
Angela N. Gist
Pages: 150-154 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1302261

ARTICLES
What’s in the World Is in the Womb: Converging Environmental and Reproductive Justice through Synecdoche
Mollie K. Murphy
Pages: 155-171 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1285839

“Now That I’m a Whore, Nobody Is Holding Me Back!”: Women in Favela Funk and Embodied Politics
Raquel Moreira
Pages: 172-189 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1295121

Television’s “Leftover” Bachelors and Hegemonic Masculinity in Postsocialist China
Wei Luo
Pages: 190-211 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1295295

Beyond the 22%: Gender Inequity in Regional Theatres’ Show Selections
Karen McConarty & Heidi Rose
Pages: 212-228 | DOI: 10.1080/07491409.2017.1295410

Democratic Communiqué Special Issue on Race, Class and Media

Democratic Communiqué

Special Issue on Race, Class and Media

Call for Submissions

The Democratic Communiqué, journal of the Union for Democratic Communications, is accepting full-length research articles (8000 words) and short essays on the special issue topic (between 1000-4000 words).

We are seeking work that addresses the intersection of race and class, broadly considered.

Our current conjuncture has demonstrated that the intersection between race and class is fraught with both political and societal tension as well as new and renewed forms of cultural expression. Social movements such as #NoDAPL, #BlackLivesMatter and #justiciaparaberta, the rise of fascist and white supremacist demonstrations as well as counter protests, the discourse on race and Islam and what it implies about race and class in US foreign policy, the policing of brown and black bodies, and the technical (as well as crude) forms of surveillance and counter-surveillance methods have produced a re-centering of the intersection between race, class, gender and sexuality. We are interested in papers that look at contemporary and historical expressions that intersect race and class in media representations, media activism, social movements, cultural politics, and political economic frameworks.

The discourses and realities of race and class have been approached as objects of analysis, frameworks through which groups mobilize, and theoretical inquiries that develop and give shape to contemporary insights. These theoretical insights have the potential to highlight the tensions, conflicts and mergings of political resistance. We would welcome papers that take up debates about theories, methods, and analyses or make departures that are original to broader research projects.

We are especially interested in critical approaches to the analysis of race and class including (but not limited to):

-       Critical Race Theory

-       Marxism (Frankfurt School approaches, Structural, Neo, and Post-Marxist, and Autonomist Marxist approaches)

-       Critical-Ideological

-       Critical Feminist Theory

-       Critical Queer Theory

-       Foucauldian approaches (Biopolitical/Biopower, Governmentality, New Institutionality, Neovitalism, Thano and Necropolitical approaches)

Although we are an organization that promotes research in the fields of communications and media studies, the Democratic Communiqué is an interdisciplinary journal; thus, the scope of the special issue is interdisciplinary. We welcome contributions from sociology, political science, literature, philosophy and other fields as well. Articles and essays must address the theme of the special issue.

Deadline for Submissions: July 1, 2017

Submissions should be sent to:

communiqueraceandclass@gmail.com

Book Announcement Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance

New Book Announcement

Culture Jamming: Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance, edited by Marilyn DeLaure and Moritz Fink, with a foreword by Mark Dery (NYU Press). The essays, interviews, and creative work assembled in this volume explore the shifting contours of culture jamming by plumbing its history, mapping its transformations, and assessing its efficacy.

Contributors include: Mark Dery, Christine Harold, Marco Deseriis, Mark LeVine, Henry Jenkins, Christof Decker, Evelyn McDonnell, Michael LeVan, Benedikt Feiten, Michael Serazio, Moritz Fink, Tony Perucci, Rebecca Walker, Jack Bratich, Wazhmah Osman, Anna Baranchuk, Kembrew McLeod, Andrew Boyd, The Guerrilla Girls, xtine burrough, The Yes Men, Paolo Cirio, IOCOSE (Paolo Ruffino, Matteo Cremonesi, Filippo Cuttica, and Davide Prati), Reverend Billy and Savitri D.
Table of Contents and Introduction are available here:  https://nyupress.org/books/9781479806201/

Second Call for Francine Merritt Award

The NCA Women’s Caucus is calling for nominations for the 2017 Francine Merritt Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Lives of Women in Communication. The recipient will be notified in summer 2017 and will be honored at a reception at NCA’s 2017 convention in Dallas.

The Women's Caucus mission is “to advocate for women's improved status, voice, and opportunities in the discipline. In doing so, we are committed to exploring the diversity and complexities of women's lives in terms of their academic and professional experiences. In keeping with the spirit of this mission, the Caucus encourages innovative and alternative ways of understanding and investigating women's experiences. We are committed to building alliances with other NCA divisions and caucuses who are interested in creating opportunities for students, recent graduates, and/or scholars who have not previously participated in NCA programming.”

The Women’s Caucus offers the Francine Merritt Award to someone who has made a difference in the field of communication through her/his mentoring, service, advocacy, teaching, and scholarship.  Nomination packages should stress the nominee’s contributions in each of these areas, particularly as they relate to the mission of the Women’s Caucus.

A complete nomination package consists of the following materials:

-Letter of nomination outlining candidate’s contributions

-Nominee’s vita, including current contact information

-No more than 5 letters of support

-A letter from the nominee accepting the nomination and agreeing to attend NCA’s convention in 2017 in Dallas

Nominators from the 2016 call may choose to have their nominee’s materials remain in the pool for a second year. The nominator should send a letter requesting such, and the nominee should send a letter accepting the nomination and agreeing to attend the NCA convention in 2017 in Philadelphia.  The deadline for submissions is May 22, 2017.

Nomination materials should be sent as PDF electronic portfolios to:

Dr. Rachel E. Silverman

Past Chair, Women’s Caucus

rachel.e.silverman@gmail.com

Western Journal of Communication, Volume 81, Issue 3, May-June 2017

Western Journal of Communication, Volume 81, Issue 3, May-June 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Original Articles
Troubling the Functional/Dysfunctional Family Binary Through the Articulation of Functional Family Estrangement
Jordan Allen & Julia Moore
Pages: 281-299 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1250156

Murder, Miscarriage, and Women’s Choice: Prudence in the Colorado Personhood Debate
Calvin R. Coker
Pages: 300-319 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1245439

Discursive Struggles in “Diabetes Management”: A Case Study Using Baxter’s Relational Dialectics 2.0
Laura L. S. O’Hara
Pages: 320-340 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1241425

Testing a Motivational Model of Relationship Maintenance: The Role of Approach and Avoidance Relationship Goals
Daniel J. Weigel, Dana A. Weiser & Camille B. Lalasz
Pages: 341-361 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1240372

Empowered Sexual Objects? The Priming Influence of Self-Sexualization on Thoughts and Beliefs Related to Gender, Sex, and Power
Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, Hilary Gamble & Rachel Hahn
Pages: 362-384 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1257822

A Further Exploration of the Effects of Restoration Postscripts on Reactance
Elena Bessarabova, Claude H. Miller & Jason Russell
Pages: 385-403 | DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2016.1254815

KB Glossary from RSQ: Bureaucratization of the Imaginative

Special Issue on Human Values in the Digital Media Age

Special Issue on Human Values in the Digital Media Age

deadline for submissions:
June 30, 2017
full name / name of organization:
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
contact email:
deepa.linto@sagepub.in
Submit your research to the upcoming special issue of Journal of Human Values

Special Issue on “Human Values in the Digital Media Age” (January 2018)

Guest Editors: Smeeta Mishra, Business Ethics and Communication Group, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and Amani Ismail, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, The American University in Cairo

To not cognize the impact of the digital media age on our very livelihoods would at best be naïve negligence of an inevitable reality, at worst a lost opportunity to understand a critical dimension in shaping who we are.

The scholarly quest to interrogate how technological development has influenced our political, social, cultural and economic values seems particularly pressing now more than ever. From foresight as early as McLuhan’s “the medium is the message,” the imprint of the modern mass media on our identities, functions, and vision of the future has been all but hard to miss. Indeed, we have found ourselves defining our times in terms that pay homage to this very communication leap – the digital media age, among other interchangeable vernacular.

The January 2018 issue of Journal of Human Values invites submissions that speak, broadly or specifically, to the interface between digital media and human values.

General topic areas could encompass but are not limited to: political expression and social media; impact of digital media’s ubiquity on human interaction; structural and/or component changes in relationships against a continually evolving digital media backdrop; dynamics of generational transmission of cultural heritage in consonance/contradiction with contemporary technology; the position of globalization within media evolution discourse; and implications of access to and use of technology for race, gender, national origin, socioeconomic background and other primordial as well as instrumental identity markers.

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: June 30, 2017
Decision of manuscripts: July 29, 2017
Submission of revised manuscripts: August 19, 2017

All submissions in double space should be submitted to jhv_special_issue@iimcal.ac.in by email. The word file attachment should have the title of the paper as the file name. The text of manuscripts should not ordinarily exceed 5,000 words. All articles must be accompanied by an abstract of 150–200 words and up to six keywords. For detailed manuscript submission style, etc, please refer to the JHV website http://journals.sagepub.com/home/jhv

Essential Questions in Faith and Communication Series

Free Webinar, Craig Detweiler, Pepperdine University, "Essential Questions in Faith and Communication" series, Wednesday, April 26, 1-2 pm, EST

Please join the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN) (http://www.theccsn.com), Dr. Mark Fackler (moderator), and Dr. Craig Detweiler, Professor of Communication, Pepperdine University, for the next installment in the "Essential Questions in Faith and Communication" webinar series on Wednesday, April 26, 1-2 pm, EST. This webinar is free and open to the public and a great resource for faculty and students. A full description of the webinar is located here:
http://www.theccsn.com/essential-questions-series-special-guest-dr-craig-detweiler/

You may register here: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/5833056902049097473

Description: this 20th installment in the “Essential Questions in Faith and Communication Series” features Dr. Craig Detweiler, Professor of Communication, Pepperdine University. Join Dr. Detweiler as he answers foundational questions such as: How do we define human communication? Why do we communicate? How do we communicate effectively? What’s wrong with human communication? What communication challenges does the Church face today? How does social media make communication better and worse? This webinar is free and open to the public.

Learn more about Dr. Detweiler here:  https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/academics/faculty/?faculty=craig_detweiler

Previously recorded CCSN webinars by Quentin Schultze, Bill Strom, Kevin Schut, Tim Muehlhoff, Paul Patton, Paul Soukup, Terry Lindvall, Calvin Troup, Bala Musa, Janie Harden Fritz, Diane Proctor-Badzinski, Bill Romanowski, Jen Letherer, Mark Ward, Jenni Sigler, Heidi Campbell, Bob Fortner, Naaman Wood, Stephanie Sandberg, Ken Chase, Gerald Mast, Annalee Ward, Greg Spencer, Dennis Smith, Terje Skjerdal, Mark Williams, Derrick Rosenior, Barbara Spies, Monica Chibita, and Ben Fraser are available for download here:  http://www.theccsn.com/category/webinars/webinars-recorded/

Thanks for your support of the CCSN.

Robert Woods, J.D., Ph.D.

CCSN Network Administrator

administrator@theccsn.com

NYU Book Announcements

The Ways Women Age
Tells the diverse story of four congregations in New York City as they navigated the social and political changes of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries

"Finely tuned, exhaustively researched history deepens our understanding of early American urban interracial worship... This book will fascinate anyone caring about cities, American religion, and major social issues."

—Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Colgate University

Order Today
 Fast-Food Kids
A remarkable history of the powerful and influential social gospel movement

"Evans has done it again. In this finely-crafted study, Evans weaves a story that is at once breathtaking in scope and full of subtle analysis.  Anyone interested in the vital intersection of religion and reform in modern United States history will want to read this book."

—Heath W. Carter, author of Union Made: Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago


Order Today
 Modern Families
A new world of religious satire illuminated through the layers of religion and humor that make up the The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy

"Feltmate wisely focuses on popular television programs that not only overflow with religious references but also often humorously subvert accepted ideas about religious beliefs and practices. Engaging in close readings of over 200 episodes of these shows, Feltmate explores the ways that they satirically question sacred texts, cults, Jesus, sacred sites, and various world religions."

—Publishers Weekly

Order Today
 Modern Families
The untold account of the countless Americans who believe in, or personally experience, paranormal phenomena such as ghosts, Bigfoot, UFOs and psychics

"This is a fun read. Armed with a wealth of stories and a trove of recent surveys, the authors introduce us to those who believe and experience the paranormal.  This is an engaging and eye-opening book that offers an abundance of new insights, dispelling some popular stereotypes and reaffirming others."

—Roger Finke, Pennsylvania State University

RSA anniversary conference call for papers

Dear Friends and Members of RSA,

The 2018 Conference Team is pleased to announce that the 18th Biennial Conference website is now OPEN for submissions. You can submit your individual papers, panels, and special session proposals to: https://ww3.aievolution.com/rsa1801/

Click here for a copy of the conference call. Please share it with interested colleagues. If you would like to refer others to a URL instead, please use the following URLs.

1. General Conference Call: https://files.aievolution.com/rsa1801/docs/Call_for_Papers.pdf

2. 50th Anniversary Conference Call: https://files.aievolution.com/rsa1801/docs/2018_Anniversary_Call.pdf

Bill Keith, Roxanne Mountford, Christa Olson and I look forward to seeing your submissions.

If you have any questions, please forward them to: rsasubmissions@rhetoricsociety.org

Sincerely,

Kirt H. Wilson
President-Elect
2018 Conference Co-Director
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Rhetoricians in Pop Media: Defending science: How the art of rhetoric can help

From: http://theconversation.com/defending-science-how-the-art-of-rhetoric-can-help-68210

"When scientists gather to march for science, I want them to know about this body of research. In addition to carrying signs, they can take up the toolbox of effective communication known as the rhetorical tradition. Rhetoricians will be marching by their side, allies in the battle to protect science from politically motivated attacks on one of the greatest treasures of the nation."

Book Announcement: Information Technologies and Social Orders

A newly revised second edition of Information Technologies and Social Orders by Carl J. Couch has just been released by Transaction Publishers, division of Taylor and Francis. Additions include discussions on books in the digital age, social media, mobile telephones, recordings, participatory culture, and more. Available in hard cover, paperback, and ebook formats:

http://www.transactionpub.com/title/Information-Technologies-and-Social-Orders-978-1-4128-6509-8.html

Call for Papers Rhetoric of Populism

International developments involving the spread and success of populism urgently request academic analysis from a multidisciplinary perspective. We invite paper proposals for an edited volume studying populist discourse from the following perspectives: Argumentation theory, linguistics, literature studies, rhetoric, legal, political and social theory.

The edited volume aims at understanding populist discourse as it manifests itself in various countries in Western Europe and the United States. What are its central claims and how are they presented, by means of which rhetorical means? Why and in which respects does it constitute a challenge to current notions of liberal democracy? And how can populist discourse be countered? The volume consists of three parts which address three questions regarding (i) the content and form of populist discourse, (ii) the critique it engenders within legal, political and social theory, and (iii) the construction of a successful counter-discourse. There will be approx. 15 chapters in the volume – part I: 7, part II: 4 and part III: 4 chapters.

A paper proposal consists of approx. 450 words and can be sent to the editors before the 1st of September. Please send a proposal for the first part to Ingeborg van der Geest: i.m.vandergeest@uu.nl; for the second part to Bart van Klink: b.van.klink@vu.nl; and for the third part to Henrike Jansen: h.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl.

The elaborate Call for Papers is available at:
https://www.researchgate.net/project/CfP-The-Rhetoric-of-Populism-How-to-Give-Voice-to-the-People

Please feel free to forward the Call to colleagues in your field who might be interested.

We are looking forward to your proposal.

Henrike Jansen (Leiden University)
Ingeborg van der Geest (Utrecht University)
Bart van Klink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 14, Issue 3, June 2017

Critical Discourse Studies, Volume 14, Issue 3, June 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Discourse in Transnational Social Fields

This new issue contains the following articles:


Original Articles
Power relations, agency and discourse in transnational social fields
Camelia Beciu, Irina Diana Mădroane, Alexandru I. Cârlan & Mălina Ciocea
Pages: 227-235 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284683

A deadly cocktail? The fusion of Europe and immigration in the UK press
Alex Balch & Ekaterina Balabanova
Pages: 236-255 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284687

Media engagement in the transnational social field: discourses and repositionings on migration in the Romanian public sphere
Camelia Beciu, Irina Diana Mădroane, Mălina Ciocea & Alexandru I. Cârlan
Pages: 256-275 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284682

Shedding an ethnic identity in diaspora: de-Turkification and the transnational discursive struggles of the Kurdish diaspora
Ipek Demir
Pages: 276-291 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284686

Transnationalizing cultural pluralism? The case of migrants from Ukraine and Lebanon in Italy
Djordje Sredanovic
Pages: 292-308 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284685

The place of Palestinians in tourist and Zionist discourses in the ‘City of David’, occupied East Jerusalem
David Landy
Pages: 309-323 | DOI: 10.1080/17405904.2017.1284684

Technical Communication Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 2, April-June 2017

Technical Communication Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 2, April-June 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.



This new issue contains the following articles:


Articles
Optical Solutions: Reception of an NSF-Funded Science Comic Book on the Biology of the Eye
William J. White
Pages: 101-115 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1285962

From Deliberation to Responsibility: Ethics, Invention, and Bonhoeffer in Technical Communication
Matthew Boedy
Pages: 116-126 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1287309

Crowdfunding Science: Exigencies and Strategies in an Emerging Genre of Science Communication
Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher
Pages: 127-144 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1287361

The Role of Ethics, Culture, and Artistry in Scientific Illustration
Derek G. Ross
Pages: 145-172 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1287376

A Systematic Literature Review of Changes in Roles/Skills in Component Content Management Environments and Implications for Education
Tatiana Batova & Rebekka Andersen
Pages: 173-200 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1287958

Perspective
Extralocating Faculty in Technical Communication
Sam Dragga
Pages: 201-208 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1286387

Book Reviews
All Edge: Inside the New Workplace Networks, by Clay Spinuzzi
Nathaniel T. Voeller
Pages: 209-211 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1297071

Bounding Biomedicine: Evidence and Rhetoric in the New Science of Alternative Medicine, by Colleen Derkatch
Kristin M. Bivens
Pages: 212-215 | DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2017.1297133

What communication challenges does the Church face today?

Free Webinar, Tom Carmody, Vanguard University, "Essential Questions in Faith and Communication" series, Friday, April 21, 2:30-3:30 pm, EST

Please join the Christianity and Communication Studies Network (CCSN) (http://www.theccsn.com), Dr. Mark Fackler (moderator), and Dr. Tom Carmody, Professor of Communication, Vanguard University, for the next installment in the "Essential Questions in Faith and Communication" webinar series on Friday, April 21, 2:30-3:30 pm, EST. This webinar is free and open to the public and a great resource for faculty and students. A full description of the webinar is located here:
http://www.theccsn.com/essential-questions-series-special-guest-dr-tom-carmody/

You may register here: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/1216187785654924801

Description: this 19th installment in the “Essential Questions in Faith and Communication Series” features Dr. Carmody, Professor of Communication, Vanguard University. Join Dr. Carmody as he answers foundational questions such as: How do we define human communication? Why do we communicate? How do we communicate effectively? What’s wrong with human communication? What communication challenges does the Church face today? How does social media make communication better and worse? This webinar is free and open to the public.

Learn more about Dr. Carmody here: http://www.vanguard.edu/communication/faculty-and-staff/thomas-carmody-phd/

Previously recorded CCSN webinars by Quentin Schultze, Bill Strom, Kevin Schut, Tim Muehlhoff, Paul Patton, Paul Soukup, Terry Lindvall, Calvin Troup, Bala Musa, Janie Harden Fritz, Diane Proctor-Badzinski, Bill Romanowski, Jen Letherer, Mark Ward, Jenni Sigler, Heidi Campbell, Bob Fortner, Naaman Wood, Stephanie Sandberg, Ken Chase, Gerald Mast, Annalee Ward, Greg Spencer, Dennis Smith, Terje Skjerdal, Mark Williams, Derrick Rosenior, Barbara Spies, Monica Chibita, Ben Fraser, and Craig Detweiler are available for download here:  http://www.theccsn.com/category/webinars/webinars-recorded/

Thanks for your support of the CCSN.
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New Book Announcement: Maintaining Black Marriages

Maintaining Black Marriages: Individual, Interpersonal, and Contextual Dynamics has been published by Marianne Dainton (Professor of Communication at La Salle University) at Lexington Press.

The volume moves beyond the usual demographics in the study of Black marriage to focus on the communication that sustains it. Using original data and secondary research, Dainton provides the story of Black marriage success and the contexts and communication that contribute to that success. A central feature of this book is the inclusion of Black voices; that is, in addition to original quantitative research on the topic, qualitative data draws on the experiences and opinions of a group of married Black women and married Black men in order to augment, explain, challenge, and reflect the scholarly literature.

CFP: Gender’s Influence on Genealogy Narratives

This Special Issue of Genealogy invites essays on the topic, “Gender’s Influence on Genealogy Narratives”. The goal of the issue is to examine the impact of gender on family, immigration, or genealogy narratives. Highlighting the contributions that these narratives can make to an interdisciplinary array of research interests is at the forefront of this issue. [...]

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at: http://www.mdpi.com/si/genealogy/gender_influence_genealogy.

The submission deadline is 1 May 2017. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (genealogy@mdpi.com).

Genealogy is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. No Article Processing Charges (APC) apply for well-prepared manuscripts.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website.
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Performing Bodies: The Construction of the Unconstructed in Gunter von Hagens’ Body Worlds

Looks good... "Body Worlds perpetuates a male fantasy and argues for this fantasy’s genuity."

Performing Bodies: The Construction of the Unconstructed in Gunter von Hagens’ Body
Worlds

Elizabethada Wright
University of Minnesota Duluth, eawright@d.umn.edu
Mary Fitzgerald
unaffiliated, mandatorymary@facebook.com

Volume 9, Issue 1 of Currents in Teaching and Learning.

 The essays and teaching and program reports in this issue include:

·      “Seeking Rapport: Emotion, Feminist Pedagogy, and the Work of Long-Term Substituting in Writing Intensive 
Courses”

— Sara Hillin

·      “Scholars in Training: Moving from Student Engagement to Student Empowerment”

— Todd Olszewski, Danielle Waldron, and Robert Hackey

·      “Using Pedagogical Interventions to Quell Students’ Anxieties about Source-Based Reading”

— Ellen C. Carillo

·      “The Teaching and Learning of Intensive French at Ekiti State University:
A Literacy Based Model for Second Language Acquisition in Nigeria”

— Odey Ebi Veronica and Moruwawon Babatunde Samuel

 Book reviews include:
·      David Wiley’s edited volume, An Open Education Reader

— Kara Larson Maloney

·      Maggie Berg and Barbara K. Seeber’s The Slow Professor

— Vanessa Osborne

·      Benedict Carey’s How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens

—   Geoffrey B. Elliott

There is also a closing poetic note by Matthew Johnsen entitled “Banana Trees and Rooster Calls.”

To view this issue (as well as past issues, including the recent special issue on “Liberal Arts Education in the 21st Century”) and to see the latest call for papers go to the Currents in Teaching and Learning website.  CTL is a peer-reviewed academic journal that seeks to promote innovative theories and practices of teaching and learning, and is a publication of Worcester State University.

Send all inquiries to Editor Martin Fromm or Editorial Assistant Kayla Beman at currents@worcester.edu. For submission guidelines, visit the website indicated above.

Visiting with Shane Borrowman

I just spent a few minutes on the phone with rhetorician and creative non-fiction author Shane Borrowman.  He's a generous soul and a gifted voice.

In rhetoric, he is noted for textbooks:

Editor.  Authenticity.  Southlake, TX: Fountainhead Press, 2013.
Editor.  The Cost of Business.  New York: Longman, 2010.
Co-Editor with Edward M. White.  The Promise of America.  New York: Longman, 2006.
Co-Editor with Lynn Z. Bloom and Edward M. White.  Inquiry.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ:  Prentice Hall, 2003.  

...and edited collections:

Editor. On the Blunt Edge: Technology in Composition’s History and Pedagogy. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2012.
Co-Editor with Marcia Kmetz and Rob Lively. Rhetoric in the Rest of the West. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Cambridge, UK: 2010.
Co-Editor with Stuart C. Brown and Thomas P. Miller. Renewing Rhetoric’s Relations to Composition: Essays in Honor of Theresa Jarnagin Enos. Oxford, UK: Taylor and Francis, 2009.
Co-Editor with Theresa Enos. The Promise and Perils of Writing Program Administration. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor, 2008.
Editor. Trauma and the Teaching of Writing. Albany: State U of New York P, 2005.
Managing Editor with Lynn Z. Bloom, Donald A. Daiker, and Edward M. White. Composition Studies in the New Millennium: Rereading the Past—Rewriting the Future. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003.

...and creative nonfiction:

“Peter Benchley is Dead.”  Fourth Genre 15.2 (2013): 83-89.
“Push.”  Whitefish Review 15.2 (Winter 2011/2012):  94-95.
“Chips.”  Conclave: A Journal of Character (Issue 2, Winter 2009-2010):  114-23.
“Icky Papa Died.”  Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. (May 2009).
“That’s Not What You Saw.”  Paradigm (Spring 2008).  (Reprinted in annual “best of” volume, 12/2008.)
“Of Nails, Nonfiction, and Various Adhesives.” Brevity: The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. (Spring 2007).
“Shoot the Drift.”  Brevity:  The Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction.  (Spring 2006).

He's a gentleman, and I'd like to nod to his work and to him in gratitude.

CFP - InVisible Culture Issue 28: Contending with Crisis

For its twenty-eighth issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the complex and multiple meanings of contending with crisis.

Defined by the global uncertainty of a world afflicted by varied and ambiguously interrelated states of emergency, the present can be seen as a critical historical conjuncture characterized by crisis. In the context of its worldwide occurrence, crisis refers irreducibly to a multitude of circumstances, events, and thematizations: military conflict, debt crises, issues of political representation, the mass migration and displacement of refugees, increasing ecological disruptions. Such ruptures in the social demand constant attention from individuals and communities, constituting a need for committed artistic and scholarly engagements with questions of what it means to be in crisis and how to deal with it.

Following Lauren Berlant’s understanding of crisis as “an emergency in the reproduction of life, a transition that has not found its genres for moving on,” we encourage authors to contemplate the fluidity/liminality of crisis, exploring both its emancipatory and repressive potentials. As an ongoing situation, a conceptual and rhetorical figure, an ideological representation and for many an urgent fact of life, the contemporary condition of crisis evokes a range of responses from those forced to contend with it.

For IVC 28, we invite contributors to explore visual representations and contestations of various states of crisis. How do crises emerge and perform in the visual field? How does the global situation of crisis reconfigure the possibilities of political representation? How do the material conditions of crisis constrain and transform everyday life and social organization? What kind of aesthetic responses and modes of cultural production proliferate in response? What forms of domination surface in times of crisis and how do they become realized in ensuing reorganizations of social orders? What productive potentials emerge or re-emerge in the face of specific and far-reaching crisis conditions?

Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:

Visualizing/representing crisis, the visual politics of crisis
Political representation and subjectivity in/of crisis
Uneven distribution of vulnerabilities along lines of race, gender, and sexuality
Precarity, biopolitics and affective regimes of crisis and austerity
Activism, social movements, visual and performative protest repertoires
Creative responses to states of crisis, new modes of artistic production, aesthetics of resistance
Collaborative aesthetics and the commons
Material landscapes of crisis, crisis and urban space, austerity urbanism
Aesthetics of rupture, ruin, abandonment
Historiographies, afterlives of crises
Crisis genres: crises of dispossession (debt crisis, moral discourse of indebtedness), crises of political representation (Arab Spring, global rise of neo-populist nationalisms, Brexit, 2016 US election), postcolonial crises, military crises (Syria, Ukraine), refugee and humanitarian crisis, ecological crises (climate change, Fukushima, DAPL)
Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu by June 30th, 2017. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.

Creative/Artistic Works

In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting works in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu. For questions or more details concerning  acceptable formats, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact the same address.

Reviews

InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute or contact invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.

Dialogues

The journal also invites submissions to its Dialogues page, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu with the subject heading “Dialogues submission.”

* InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a student-run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

Related date:
June 30, 2017
Categories: CFP (Journal), Announcement
Keywords: InVisible Culture, visual culture, visual and cultural studies, Visual Studies, Crisis, Film and Film History, film and media studies, film, Television and Film, film studies

OSCLG Award Call

Each year, Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender (OSCLG) presents awards at it's annual conference to recognize quality in scholarship, mentorship and creative expression. These include:

Outstanding Thesis Award

Cheris Kramarae Outstanding Dissertation Award

Anita Taylor Outstanding Published Article or Chapter Award

Outstanding Book Award

Creative Expression Award

Outstanding Conference Paper Award

Feminist Teacher/Mentor Award

Outstanding Undergraduate Paper or Creative Project

Nominations for these awards close soon - on May 1. You can get more information on the awards, the award committee chairs, and the nomination process at our website.

http://osclg.org/awards

In Memoriam: Frederick J. Kauffeld

Fred Kauffeld, who died Thursday, April 13, was a towering presence in argumentation studies, in every sense of that word. As a scholar of both communication and philosophy, he served as a bridge between those two fields, transferring clarity in both directions.

A Kansas debater, Fred was coached by Wil Linkugel and partnered with Tom Beisecker for two years. At one Kansas tournament, Fred debated in a library basement where the ceiling was less than 6'6", cramping his style.

Fred received his PHD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, completing his dissertation under the direction of Lloyd Bitzer. The rigorous approach to speech act theory he developed in this early work laid the basis for generalized versions of concepts foundational to debate, including presumption and burden of proof, as well as a concept foundational to communication: persuasive force. These became his toolkit for a series of fine-grained analyses of public addresses from Cicero to civil rights. Fred's work was key in establishing the normative pragmatic program on argumentation, which he shared in keynotes at the Alta Argumentation Conference and at other conferences and workshops internationally. Fred relished travel, meeting new colleagues, and as an open-handed host himself, feasts where the "R word" (rhetoric) would not be mentioned.

A faculty member at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin since 1976, Fred's efforts led to the creation of the college's Communication Studies program. Until his retirement in 2014, his colleagues' and administrators' respect for his practical wisdom drew him into almost every aspect of campus life. Fred served over the years as department chair, Faculty Association convener, and board of trustees' representative, as well as a member of the curriculum, budget, vision, scholarship, faculty affairs, master planning, library, and by-laws committees.

If scholarship produces students, then Fred was a teacher whose influence extended far beyond his college classrooms. Many of us have experienced the benefits of his meticulous writing and the thoughtful, patient instruction of his conversations, not to mention his sharp wit which was as dry as the gin he liked to drink. So we will want to join today in remembering a man whose generosity of spirit was matched only by his immense learning.  He is survived by his wife Christine Beatty.

John Fields, Edgewood College

Jean Goodwin, NC State University

Hans Hansen, University of Windsor

Beth Innocenti, University of Kansas

Christopher Tindale, University of Windsor

Popular Communication, Volume 15, Issue 2, April-June 2017

Popular Communication, Volume 15, Issue 2, April-June 2017 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

Self-(Re)presentation Now

This new issue contains the following articles:


Introduction
Self-(re)presentation now
Nancy Thumim
Pages: 55-61 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2017.1307020

Articles
Verified: Self-presentation, identity management, and selfhood in the age of big data
Alison Hearn
Pages: 62-77 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269909

Symbolic bordering: The self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news
Lilie Chouliaraki
Pages: 78-94 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2017.1281415

Expecting penises in Chatroulette: Race, gender, and sexuality in anonymous online spaces
Jenny Ungbha Korn
Pages: 95-109 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269908

“Sharenting,” parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self
Alicia Blum-Ross & Sonia Livingstone
Pages: 110-125 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1223300

“I will not hate myself because you cannot accept me”: Problematizing empowerment and gender-diverse selfies
Son Vivienne
Pages: 126-140 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269906

Sick bunnies and pocket dumps: “Not-selfies” and the genre of self-representation
Katrin Tiidenberg & Andrew Whelan
Pages: 141-153 | DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2016.1269907

"Five Poems about Life and Death" by Barry S. Brummett

From http://repository.stcloudstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1061&context=survive_thrive

After the memorial service
They spoke many words of beauty, sorrow, grace.
Yes.
But in the end they shook the dry leaves from your tree,
leaves left stirring in the crumbling wind.
Now see your barren branches stark upon the sky,
defenseless against time and chance.
And when at home I brought out your books they told me to take,
they were dusted by a haunting of smoke.

A taste... Check them out...

Call for Book Proposals: Communication for Social Justice Activism

Dr. Patricia S. Parker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Dr. Lawrence R. Frey (University of Colorado Boulder) are pleased to announce, as editors, a new book series on “Communication and Social Justice Activism” to be published by the University of California Press (see http://www.ucpress.edu/go/commsocialjustice).

Communication for social justice activism involves people (including communication researchers, teachers, students, organizational employees, and community members) using communication theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices to work with and for oppressed, marginalized, and underresourced groups and communities, as well as with activist groups and organizations, to intervene into inequitable systems and make their structures and practices more just.

This book series, thus, offers a new, important, and exciting outlet for communication scholarship that promotes social justice activism in teaching communication courses and in conducting communication research. The goal is to weave social justice activism into all levels of the communication curriculum, with books in this series serving as primary and supplementary texts in undergraduate and graduate communication courses, and as indispensable resources for communication scholars engaging in social justice communication activism teaching and research.

Books Sought: The series will publish three types of books:

1. Textbooks: Briefer and less expensive than typical course textbooks, these books offer a general overview of a topic that is taught as an undergraduate communication course, through a communication for social justice activism lens. Hence, in addition to covering traditional theories and principles about the topic explored, these books offer concrete communication competencies, practices, and examples that teach students and others (e.g., organizational members) how to intervene into inequitable systems and structures to promote social justice. Authors, therefore, help students to understand how the communicative behavior and practices examined in the course (e.g., giving public speeches, leading small groups, facilitating public dialogues, and conducting media campaigns) can be used to promote social justice. Textbooks titles might include “Public Speaking Activism for Social Justice” and “Organizational Communication Activism for Social Justice.” These books incl!
 ude pedagogical features associated typically with textbooks (e.g., chapter overviews, chapter goals/topics, summary tables and charts, discussion questions, and suggested readings), and, potentially, will be accompanied by instructor manuals. The goal of these textbooks, thus, is to infuse social justice activism into communication courses.

2. Course Content-focused Books: These books focus on particularly important content that is covered in undergraduate and graduate communication courses, serving as supplemental books for those courses. On one level, these books are intended for educators who use a traditional textbook but want to expose students to a communication for social justice activism perspective. For example, “health communication campaigns” is a significant topic that is covered in an introductory health communication course; consequently, an appropriate book might be titled “Social Justice Health Communication Campaigns.” These books explain what social justice communication activism means with regard to the topic examined and identify concrete communication principles and practices that can be employed by students and others (e.g., health-care professionals) to intervene into inequitable systems and structures to promote social justice (e.g., increasing access to health care by marginaliz!
 ed populations). The books also supplement, or examine directly, critical issues, tensions, and communication entanglement s to explicate how these dynamics influence processes and outcomes of social justice communication activist practices.

3. Case Studies: These books examine specific, extended examples of original communication activism studies, in which researchers intervene, working with others, have used communication theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices to promote social justice. The books describe purposes of the research, the site(s) in which research was conducted, methods employed to document endeavors, outcomes, and lessons learned from the research. For example, a book might document a communication campaign that a researcher conducted, working with social movement groups, to prevent the execution of a person on death row or to overturn an unjust law that discriminates against those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (and/or questioning). These books, thus, are intended for communication scholars (including graduate students) who are interested in conducting social justice activism research.

Submission Process

If you have ideas about books that you want to discuss with the series editors, please contact Patricia Parker (psparker@email.unc.edu) and/or Larry Frey (Larry.Frey@colorado.edu).

If you have a proposal to submit for a book for the series, please send it to: Lyn Uhl, Executive Editor, Communication Studies at luhl@ucpress.edu.
For more information about the submission process, please see the University of California Press website (http://www.ucpress.edu).

COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM SERIES EDITORS

 -Patricia Parker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

- Lawrence R. Frey, University of Colorado Boulder

COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISM SERIES ADVISORY BOARD

 -Kevin Carragee, Suffolk University

 -Mari Castañeda, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 -Lynn Harter, Ohio University

 -Stephen Hartnett, University of Colorado Denver

 -Katherine Grace Hendrix, University of Memphis

 -Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, University of Texas at Austin

Call for Submissions: Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement

The editors of Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement are calling for submissions.

Partnerships recognizes that successful engaged learning depends on effective partnerships between students, faculty, community agencies, administrators, disciplines, and more. The articles in this peer-reviewed journal focus on how theories and practices can inform and improve such partnerships, connections, and collaborations. Studies co-authored by faculty, students, and/or community partners; or examining practices across disciplines or campuses; or exploring international networks, are all encouraged.

Authors are invited to submit research articles, essays, empirical studies, and book reviews related to the varied campus-community relationships that emphasize connections and collaborations in service-learning and community engagement. All manuscripts are forwarded to editorial staff and undergo a blind peer review process. All work submitted should be original material and not under review or published elsewhere.

For more details and to view the Spring 2017 issue, visit: http://libjournal.uncg.edu/prt/index

Table of Contents: Spring 2017 Issue

Introduction: Letter from the editor by Spoma Jovanovic

Creating Intentional Paths to Citizenship: An Analysis of Participation in Student Organizations by Julianne Gassman, Jennifer M. Beck, & Jonathan Klein (pp. 2-15)

Developing Compassionate and Socially Responsible Global Citizens Through Interdisciplinary, International Service-Learning by Sara Fry, Aileen Hale, Kelli Sol, Christopher Bower, & Adiya Jaffari (pp. 16-27)

Bringing Innovation Theory to Practice in a Program Model for Collaborative Knowledge Building: The Curriculum Fellows Program by Laura Barbas-Rhoden, Beat Brunow, & Sydnie Mick (pp. 28-42)

Book review: The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education by Vincent Russell (pp. 43-44)

Book review: Public Participation for 21st Century Democracy by Jeanette Musselwhite (pp. 45-46)

Book review: Engaged Research and Practice: Higher Education and the Pursuit of the Public Good by Kathleen E. Edwards (pp. 47-49)

The Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award

Call for nominations -- 2017 UCF Jane Jacobs Book Award

Urban Communication Foundation

The annual Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award recognizes an outstanding book, published in English, which exhibits excellence in addressing issues of urban communication. It is named in honor of the late social activist and author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. All entries must be published between January 1, 2015 and June 30, 2017. The book award brings with it a $500 prize.

To nominate a book, please send a short letter of nomination or self-nomination (in the form of an email attachment) to Timothy Gibson, co-chair of the Jane Jacobs Book Award review committee, at janejacobsaward2017@gmail.com by July 15, 2017. The letter of nomination should describe the book and explain how it addresses issues central to the field of urban communication. For more information on the field of urban communication, and to determine if your nomination fits the award call, please review the Urban Communication Foundation’s mission statement (at http://urbancomm.org/about-ucf/mission-purpose/).

Review process: We will review all letters of nomination after the July 15, 2017 deadline and choose a short-list of finalists. This short-list of finalists (or their publishers) will then be asked to send four copies of the book to the award committee.

Dr. Timothy Gibson (George Mason University)

Co-chair, Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book Award Committee

Email nomination letters to: janejacobsaward2017@gmail.com

New Issue of Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine

Survive & Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine is dedicated to improving the odds of survival and living well through education. We are committed to engendering and facilitating restorative therapies for the sick and injured, their caretakers, families, and medical professionals. We welcome all who are dedicated to saving lives and the aesthetic experience in healing regardless of the kind of illness or injury.

Visit:

http://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/

Social Studies of Science- Volume: 47, Number: 2 (April 2017)

Table of Contents Alert

Articles

The informational turn in food politics: The US FDA’s nutrition label as information infrastructure
Xaq Frohlich
A material political economy: Automated Trading Desk and price prediction in high-frequency trading
Donald MacKenzie
What can science and technology studies learn from art and design? Reflections on ‘Synthetic Aesthetics’
Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter
The right to a human in the loop: Political constructions of computer automation and personhood
Meg Leta Jones
Search engine imaginary: Visions and values in the co-production of search technology and Europe
Astrid Mager
Controlling new knowledge: Genomic science, governance and the politics of bioinformatics
Brian Salter, Charlotte Salter
Clinical prediction and the idea of a population
David Armstrong
Research Note

It’s not just about speed: Reviewing the recumbent bicycle once more
Bernhard Wieser

Journal of Visual Culture- Volume: 16, Number: 1 (April 2017)

Table of Contents Alert

Introduction: 50 Years of ‘Art and Objecthood’: Traces, Impact, Critique
Alison Green, Joanne Morra
Articles

‘Art and Objecthood’, Philosophy
Stephen Melville
From Black Square to Room Square
Margarita Tupitsyn
Brecht’s Anti-Theatricality? Reflections on Brecht’s Place in Michael Fried’s Conceptual Framework
Phoebe von Held
Failure to Engage: Art Criticism in the Age of Simulacrum
Daniel Rubinstein
On Use: Art Education and Psychoanalysis
Joanne Morra
Fried avec Debord: Theatricality by Default
Victor Tupitsyn
‘A Supreme Fiction’: Michael Fried and Art Criticism
Alison Green
An ‘Automatic Escape’ or a ‘Beautiful Question’? Cinema and Experimental Film after Michael Fried’s ‘Art and Objecthood’
Duncan White
Books

Book Review: Ingrid Hoelzl and Rémi Marie, Softimage: Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image
Dave Colangelo
Book Review: James Elkins, Gustav Frank and Sunil Manghani (eds) Farewell to Visual Studies
Krešimir Purgar

Written Communication- Volume: 34, Number: 2 (April 2017)

Written Communication in the Classroom: Resources for Teaching Methods. Visit http://journals.sagepub.com/page/wcx/collection/classroom/introduction to find out more and access collection.

Awards Announcement

2016 Awards Announcement
Articles

Seeing Academically Marginalized Students’ Multimodal Designs From a Position of Strength
Kate T. Anderson, Olivia G. Stewart, Dani Kachorsky
Creating a Unique Transnational Place: Deterritorialized Discourse and the Blending of Time and Space in Online Social Media
M. Sidury Christiansen
Rewriting a Discursive Practice: Atheist Adaptation of Coming Out Discourse
Doug Cloud
Three Forms of Neurorealism: Explaining the Persistence of the “Uncritically Real” in Popular Neuroscience News
David R. Gruber
Processing Time and Cognitive Effort of Longhand Note Taking When Reading and Summarizing a Structured or Linear Text
Thierry Olive, Marie-Laure Barbier

CFP Transformations Pedagogy

deadline for submissions: 

May 31, 2017

full name / name of organization: 

Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy

contact email: 

transformations@njcu.edu

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR
TRANSFORMATIONS: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy
Deadline: May 31, 2017 All Topics Welcome

Guest Editor: Jason Martinek
Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy opens the gates for this issue to jargon-free pedagogy-related articles on all topics. Transformations is a peer-reviewed journal which invites college teachers to take pedagogy seriously as a topic of scholarly articles. It is an interdisciplinary forum for pedagogical scholarship exploring intersections of identities, power, and social justice.
Submissions should explore strategies for teaching in the classroom and in non-traditional spaces (such as the media and public discourse). We welcome jargon-free essays from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. We seek articles (5,000-10,000 words) and short essays for the "Methods and Texts” section (1500-3000 words).

Transformations is available on JSTOR and Project Muse.

For author instructions and submissions guidelines go to: www.editorialmanager/transformations

Deadline: May 31, 2017

Queries welcome.

Topics for pedagogy-related articles might revisit themes of past Transformations issues, or might include:

• The politics of teaching
• The role of internationalization, globalization, transnationalism in teaching
• The politics of education
• Teaching social justice and/as activism
• Changing relationships between K-12 and the university
• The status of interdisciplinary programs and teaching
• Teaching in historical perspective
• Teaching and gender, sexuality, and race
• Educating communities
• Connections between classrooms and communities
• Reflections on change in literary canons or historical periodization
• How “de-professionalization” affects teaching: reliance on adjunct faculty, student debt, etc.
• Changing relationships between and status of teaching and research
• Technology in teaching
• Teaching controversies
• The statuses of STEM, STEAM, and the humanities
• Changing role of the government in teaching

Past issues of Transformations include: Teaching Community, Teaching Disability, Teaching Popular Culture, Teaching and Religion, Teaching Food, Teaching Feelings, Teaching Digital Media, Teaching Sex, and Teaching Earth. Please familiarize yourself with the journal before submitting. Read articles in previous journals. You can find them online via Project Muse and JSTOR.

Visit our website to order past issues.

To submit an article to Transformations, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/transformations and create an author profile. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article for submission to the editorial office: Please use MLA format (7th edition). If you have an idea for an article, but want advice in advance, please send inquiries to Jacqueline Ellis and Ellen Gruber Garvey, Editors, transformations@njcu.edu.

cfp The Ages of the Flash

deadline for submissions:
June 15, 2017
full name / name of organization:
Joseph J. Darowski
contact email:
agesofsuperheroes@gmail.com
The editor of The Ages of the Flash is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should examine the relationships between stories featuring the Flash or comic book characters closely related to the Flash ks and the social era when those comic books were published. Analysis may demonstrate how the stories found in Flash comic books and the creators who produced the comics embrace, reflect, or critique aspects of their contemporary culture. This will be a companion volume to existing volumes in the series that have already focused on Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, and the Justice League.

Potential chapters include, but are not limited to, the following:

Racing to Save America’s Atomic Advantage: Jay Garrick’s First Adventures
Comedy Comics and the Golden Age: Contextualizing Winky, Blinky, and Noddy
Showcase #4 and the Birth of the Silver Age
Nostalgia and the Golden Age/Silver Age Crossover
Lazy Kids in Gorilla City: Generational Angst as Baby Boomers Age
The Death of Iris Allen and the Flash’s Loss of Innocence
The Trial of Barry Allan and the End of the Silver Age
Cultural Turning Points and Why Barry Allan Had to Die in Crisis on Infinite Earths
“Born to Run” and Reimagining the Past
Establishing a New Identity in the 1990s
Emergency Stop and the Humbling of a Superhero
Geoff Johns and Re-Defining Villainy in the 21st Century
Flashpoint and the New Normal
Essays should focus on stories from Flash comic books or comic book stories that heavily feature the Flash or characters closely associated with the Flash. Issues of the Justice League or DC Comics mini-series such as Crisis on Infinite Earths or Flashpoint would be acceptable topics for analysis. Similarly, essays focusing on characters such as Iris Allen, Kid Flash, or Jesse Quick would all be welcome in this collection. Essays should solely focus on comic book adventures, not media adaptations of the characters. Furthermore, essays should look at a single period of comic book history, rather than drawing comparisons between different publication eras. For example, an essay that analyzed Flash comics from the 1940s and contextualized them with what was happening in American society would be more likely to be accepted than an essay that contrasted Jay Garrick comic books from the 1940s with Wally West comic books from the 1990s. The completed essays should be approximately 15-20 double-spaced pages in MLA format.

Abstracts (100-500 words) and CVs should be submitted by June 15, 2017.

Please submit via email to Joseph Darowski, agesofsuperheroes@gmail.com.

Publisher: McFarland & Company

Public Understanding of Science- Volume: 26, Number: 3 (April 2017)

Articles

The (de)politicisation of nuclear power: The Finnish discussion after Fukushima
Marja Ylönen, Tapio Litmanen, Matti Kojo, Pirita Lindell
Nuclear power debate and public opinion in Belarus: From Chernobyl to Ostrovets
Aliaksandr Novikau
Imaginaries of nuclear energy in the Portuguese parliament: Between promise, risk, and democracy
Tiago Santos Pereira, António Carvalho, Paulo F.C. Fonseca
Nuclear fission technology in Spain: History and social concerns
Ana Aliende Urtasun, Asunción Luquin, Julián J. Garrido
Public perceptions of expert disagreement: Bias and incompetence or a complex and random world?
Nathan F. Dieckmann, Branden B. Johnson, Robin Gregory, Marcus Mayorga, Paul K. J. Han, Paul Slovic
Why (not) disagree? Human values and the readiness to question experts’ views
Salla Ahola
Gendered use of experts in the media: Analysis of the gender gap in Finnish news journalism
Mari K. Niemi, Ville Pitkänen
“It’s natural to look for a source”: A qualitative examination of alternative beliefs about HIV and AIDS in Cape Town, South Africa
Clara Rubincam
Commentary

How to take non-knowledge seriously, or “the unexpected virtue of ignorance”
Kristian H. Nielsen, Mads P. Sørensen
Historical Moments in Public Understanding of Science

Transferring scientific discovery to the public: The intramercurial planet Vulcan in 1860
Hsiang-Fu Huang

Crime, Media, Culture- Volume: 13, Number: 1 (April 2017

Table of Contents Alert

Articles

Urban interventionism as a challenge to aesthetic order: Towards an aesthetic criminology
Andrew Millie
The cosmopolitan subject and the question of cultural identity: The case of Crime and Punishment
Hannah Spector
‘The martyr of dawn’: Femicide in Jordanian media
Ebtihal Mahadeen
The ‘Dunblane massacre’ as a ‘photosensitive plate’
David Wilson, Elizabeth Yardley, Sarah Pemberton
Beyond ghosts, gangs and good sorts: Commercial cannabis cultivation and illicit enterprise in England’s disadvantaged inner cities
Craig Ancrum, James Treadwell
Deviant divas: Lindy Chamberlain and Schapelle Corby and the case for a new category of celebrity for criminally implicated women
Belinda Middleweek
Interview

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes: An interview with film producer and director Brett Story
Brett Story, Michelle Brown, Eamonn Carrabine
Book reviews

Book review: Alistair Fraser, Urban Legends: Gang Identity in the Post-Industrial City
Jonathan Ilan
Book review: Jonathan Ilan, Understanding Street Culture: Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool
Sveinung Sandberg
Book review: Pamela Davies, Peter Francis and Tanya Wyatt (eds), Invisible Crimes and Social Harms
Colin Atkinson
Book review: Triple 9 (2016) Directed by John Hillcoat [film]
Susanna Menis
Book review: Jay MacLeod, Ain’t No Makin’ It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (3rd edn)
Avi Brisman

CFP Women's Studies in Communication

The current editor of Women's Studies in Communication, Dr. Kristen Hoerl, is now accepting submissions for volumes 41 and 42.

Women's Studies in Communication (WSIC) provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions that advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture. Topically and methodologically inclusive, WSIC publishes quantitative, qualitative, and critical communication scholarship drawing from a variety of areas including but not limited to interpersonal, organizational, performance, rhetoric, media, and cultural studies. The editor is committed to promoting the best work that falls within these parameters and also to encouraging the development of new voices and new projects that challenge conventions guiding communication scholarship. Feminist studies concerning queer and transgender politics, masculini!
 ty, dis/ability, gendered labor, transnationalism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory are especially encouraged at this time.

Instructions for authors may be found on the Taylor and Francis website at http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=uwsc20&page=instructions#.VrzOG08YNxU. Manuscripts may be submitted online through WSIC's ScholarOne Manuscript Central at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wsic.

Suggestions or inquiries about forums should be addressed to Conversation and Commentary Editor Dr. Lisa Flores the University of Colorado at Boulder at lisa.flores@colorado.edu and include “WSIC-C&C” in the subject line. Book and Media Review Submissions should be directed to Dr. Rachel Griffin in the Department of Communication Studies at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale via email at rachelag@siu.edu and include “WSIC-BMR” in the subject line.

Further queries about the journal or about article submissions may be addressed to Editorial Assistant Brooks Hosfeld via email at bhosfeld@butler.edu.

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Volume 14, Issue 2, June 2017

is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.

This new issue contains the following articles:


Articles
Drowsing: toward a concept of sleepy screen engagement
Dan Hassoun & James N. Gilmore
Pages: 103-119 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2016.1276611

Economies of reputation: the case of revenge porn
Ganaele Langlois & Andrea Slane
Pages: 120-138 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2016.1273534

Feeding the body politic: metaphors of digestion in Progressive Era US immigration discourse
KC Councilor
Pages: 139-157 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2016.1274044

Deceiving or disrupting the pink aisle? GoldieBlox, corporate narratives, and the gendered toy debate
Kasey Clawson Hudak
Pages: 158-175 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2016.1203966

Forum: Feeling for the Pulse after Orlando
Feeling for the Pulse after Orlando
John M. Sloop & Charles E. Morris III
Pages: 176-176 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293944

A journey to El Mundo Zurdo: queer temporality, queer of color cultural heritages
Robert Gutierrez-Perez
Pages: 177-181 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293947

Other Lips, Whither Kisses?
Charles E. Morris III & John M. Sloop
Pages: 182-186 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293953

Generations
Sara L. McKinnon
Pages: 187-192 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293955

The Orlando shootings as a mobilizing event: against reductionism in social movement studies
Shiv Ganesh
Pages: 193-197 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293956

Brownness, kissing, and US imperialism: contextualizing the Orlando Massacre
Bernadette Marie Calafell
Pages: 198-202 | DOI: 10.1080/14791420.2017.1293957

Lisa Ede Mentoring Award.

Please see below and attached for complete details. Also, since the CFSHRC
website is currently experiencing problems, please hold onto this message
for reference, and write to me (jennfishman.phd@gmail.com) if you have any
questions.


*2017 Lisa Ede Mentoring Award*

*Description*
The CFSHRC Lisa Ede Mentoring Award is presented biennially to an
individual or group with a career-record of mentorship, including formal
and informal advising of students and colleagues; leadership in campus,
professional, and/or local communities; and other activities that align
with the overall mission and goals of the Coalition. The award carries an
honorarium of $200.00 per person or $500.00 for a group of three or more
people and will be announced every other year at the at the Feminisms and
Rhetorics Conference. The inaugural recipient of this award in 2015 was
Cheryl Glenn.

*Eligibility*
This award is open to all colleagues in rhetoric and composition or related
fields with a minimum of 10 years' post-graduate professional experience,
including current and retired faculty, staff, and administrators;
independent scholars; and other academic professionals.

*Review Criteria*
Nominations should include a minimum of three letters from individuals or
co-writers with direct knowledge of the nominee(s). Overall, letters should
be descriptive, offering concrete examples of the nominee's or nominees'
mentoring activities and their impact. Letters should also illuminate the
nominee's or nominees' contribution to rhetoric and composition (and
related fields), feminist academic work (including teaching, research and
scholarship, service, and civic engagement), and the CFSHRC and its members
(as applicable).

Recipients of this award will have a career record of feminist mentorship
in both formal and informal educational settings, including (but not
limited to) academic departments and programs, writing and community
centers, and professional and community organizations. Recipients of this
award will not only embody the spirit of the Coalition's commitment to the
care and collaboration involved in mentoring; they will also enrich and
even expand that definition through their examples.

*Nomination Contact and Procedures*
The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2017. The recipient will be invited
to receive the award at the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference held at the
University of Dayton over the weekend of October 4-7, 2017. Nomination
letters should be sent together (as separate attachments in a single email)
to Jenn Fishman, Immediate Past President (jennfishman.phd@gmail.com).

Call for nominations for the CFSHRC Presidents Dissertation Award.

Please see below and attached for complete details. Also, since the CFSHRC website is currently experiencing problems, please hold onto this message for reference, and write to me (jennfishman.phd@gmail.com<mailto:jennfishman.phd@gmail.com>) if you have any questions.


2016 and 2017 CFSHRC Presidents Dissertation Award

Description
In recognition of the close relationship between scholarly excellence and professional leadership, the CFSHRC Presidents Dissertation Award is given to the author(s) of a recently completed doctoral dissertation that makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of feminist histories, theories, and pedagogies of rhetoric and composition. This annual award is adjudicated every other year, and it is conferred at the biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference.

Eligibility
Any doctoral dissertation that engages feminist histories, theories, and/or pedagogies of rhetoric and composition and is completed within appropriate timeframes (see below) is eligible for this award.

For the 2016 Award: Any PhD dissertation completed between 6/1/2015 and 5/31/2016 is eligible.

For the 2017 Award: Any PhD dissertation completed between 6/1/2016 and 5/31/2017 is eligible.

Review Criteria
The doctoral dissertations that receive this award will not only rigorously engage extant feminist research and scholarship in rhetoric and composition, reflective of the many cultural and intellectual traditions that comprise our field; they will also enhance our understanding of feminist academic work in rhetoric and composition through the methods and methodologies they employ, the critical praxes they model, and the conclusions they draw along with the invitations they offer for subsequent inquiry and exchange.

Nomination Contact and Procedures
The deadline for nominations, including self-nominations, is June 1, 2017. Send Jenn Fishman, Immediate Past President (jennfishman.phd@gmail.com<mailto:jennfishman.phd@gmail.com>), an electronic copy of the completed dissertation in its final form, as it was submitted to the author's (or authors') home institution. Please also provide documentation of completion, including date of submission. The 2016 and 2017 award recipients will be invited to attend the Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference in Dayton, OH, October 4-7, 2017.

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