{"id":91340,"date":"2021-07-27T05:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T09:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=91340"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:54:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:54:49","slug":"new-science-fiction-calls-for-papers-cfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2021\/07\/new-science-fiction-calls-for-papers-cfp.html","title":{"rendered":"New Science Fiction Calls for Papers #CFP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Two new calls for papers that will likely be of interest to some blog readers:<\/p>\n

Imaging Peace: Care-full Non-violence in Contemporary Sci-fi Narratives<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Call for Papers<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 15, 2021\u00a0to September 30, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Maryland, United States<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Film and Film History, Human Rights, Literature, Peace History \/ Studies, Popular Culture Studies<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In literature and popular culture, the non-violent approach is vastly underrepresented as a viable philosophy. This is problematic because the stories we tell shape the imaginary we live out of. Part of the reason the pacifist position seems so untenable is precisely because it remains so unimagined. One thinks of the so-called canon with its repertoire of violent heroes: Homer, Shakespeare, Milton, Arthurian legend. Even today\u2019s popular \u201ccanon\u201d features heroes who consistently solve problems through violence: the Marvel Cinematic Universe, DC Comics\u2019 films, the\u00a0John Wick<\/i>\u00a0series, and the classic, decade-spanning\u00a0Alien\u00a0<\/i>franchise. The myth of redemptive violence continues unabated.<\/p>\n

With the increasing popularity of the science fiction and fantasy genres, the narratives of the future are written in the texts of popular culture today. Already a tradition within some feminist science fiction (think Octavia Butler or Ursula LeGuin), other sci-fi texts also subvert the violence-as-assumed-solution position, as does Douglas Adams\u2019\u00a0Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide<\/i>\u00a0comedic franchise, James White\u2019s character-driven\u00a0Sector General<\/i>\u00a0series, or the BBC\u2019s Good Samaritan\u00a0Dr. Who<\/i>, on the air since 1963.<\/p>\n

We welcome papers that identify, describe, and analyze sci-fi texts that undertake the task of imaging a peaceful future of care instead of domination and conquest or offer modes of non-violent resistance against power. These texts may include graphic novels, films, novels, comics, and sci-fi from different periods and cultures that offer an alternative, non-violent vision of our future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Angelica Maria DeAngelis\u00a0verosis@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Benjamin Crace\u00a0benjamincrace@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Kheiriyeh Ahmadi\u00a0\u00a0kheiriyeh.ahmadi@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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verosis@hotmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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https:\/\/www.cfplist.com\/nemla\/Home\/S\/19315<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

Here is the second one:<\/p>\n

Extrapolation: Special Issue on Speculative Fiction\u2019s Intersections with Posthumanism and New Materialism<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Thursday, July 15, 2021 \u2013 12:22pm<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Extrapolation Journal<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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fc7498@wayne.edu<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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categories (up to 5):<\/div>\n
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ecocriticism and environmental studies<\/a><\/div>\n
film and television<\/a><\/div>\n
gender studies and sexuality<\/a><\/div>\n
popular culture<\/a><\/div>\n
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October 31, 2021<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Extrapolation<\/em><\/strong>: Special Issue on Posthumanism and New Materialism<\/strong><\/p>\n

Extrapolation<\/em>\u00a0invites papers for a special issue investigating how speculative fiction, broadly conceived, dramatizes the\u00a0tensions between the material limitations of the body and efforts to think beyond the human subject in posthumanism and new materialism. Taking our cues from contemporary authors like Jeff VanderMeer, Nalo Hopkinson, Caitl\u00edn Kiernan, Kathe Koja, Ken Liu, and China Mi\u00e9ville, we will examine how experimentation with form serves to articulate human practices for enduring and even flourishing in our extra-human reality. We are particularly invested in the ways speculative texts critique the centrality of the human while remaining attentive to the lived experience of the material body as it responds to ecological, technological, and economic demands that exceed human capacities of understanding.<\/p>\n

Despite its modest aim to investigate thought and life that operates beyond the boundaries of enlightenment humanism, the field of the critical posthumanities often employs a rhetoric of extremes that invites us to abolish, expunge, contort, challenge, and undo the category of the human entirely. Yet, this expansive model of posthuman(ist) thought is often haunted by bodies, environments, and matter that resist being tamed by intellectual abstraction. Concomitantly, the turn to new materialism takes up problems of inter-relation and ecological co-constitution, offering ethical practices for coping with threats posed by the Anthropocene. Aiming to think more expansively than anthropocentrism allows, new materialist discourse disavows the human subject as\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0agent of our world to describe, instead, how agency\u2014or animacy\u2014is distributed\u00a0beyond<\/em>\u00a0the human. While critical posthumanism and new materialism invite us to escape the human subject via discursive abstraction and capacious imaginings, we are still left grappling with the material costs extracted\/exacted upon lives and matter imbricated in systems whose scales outstrip human perception. As an increasing amount of SF reminds us, climate change, ubiquitous computing, and globalized capitalism all operate beyond human apprehension but nonetheless suffuse and subtend what we refer to as human life, leaving us to ask: How might SF help us imagine an ethics beyond the human that maintains space for human agency and accountability? How might it help us critique humanism while refusing to abdicate responsibility for human and nonhuman suffering? How might SF help us cope in a world of ever-increasing complexity, entanglement, and precarity?<\/p>\n

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