SIICFGS2019

Call for Papers

We seek to encourage theoretical, political, historical, and generally critical engagement with a variety of texts, ranging from television shows, advertisements, journalism, social media, film, literature, graphic fiction, photography, and live performance and to promote active discussion of them at the conference itself. To accomplish these goals, we invite short (8-12 minute) papers that might include but are not limited to analyses of the following themes and topics:

• The redeployment of mythological figures.
• Cultures of censorship.
• The value and limits of performative theories.
• Gender, genre and form in a digital age
• Representations of minorities, marginalised, indigenous and others
• The politics of comedy and humour
• New understandings of sexualities
• Uses and abuses of traditions, rituals, and beliefs
• Feminist resistance and empowerment
• Intersectionality, resistance and media

Important Dates:

• Last date for sending abstract: August 30, 2018
• Notification for selected paper-presenters: September 30, 2018
• Opening of Early Bird Registration: October 1, 2018
• Closing of Early Bird registration: November 15, 2018
• Opening and Closing of Late Registration: November 16– December 30, 2018
• Conference dates: 21-24 February, 2019