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NEWS OF POTENTIAL INTEREST

Lecturer

Department of Communication

(Digital Media and Emerging Technologies)

The Department of Communication at Christopher Newport University invites applications for a full-time, non-tenure-track faculty position in social media.  This position is effective August 19, 2013.  The successful candidate will teach a combination of the following courses: Social Media, Media Audiences, Media and Society, as well as contribute to the major core with courses such as Public Speaking or Communication Theory.  We are interested in adding a faculty member who will strengthen our Department in the areas of digital media literacy, emerging technologies, and/or political economy of digital media. 

The position is a one-year appointment, with potential for renewal depending upon the incumbent’s performance and University need.  The teaching load is 4-4.  A hired candidate with a Ph.D. can anticipate an initial appointment of Lecturer. A hired candidate with a Ph.D. nearly completed can anticipate an initial appointment of Instructor.

The Department of Communication has increased the number of majors significantly over the last two years, placing it in the top decile of majors.  This position in a growing, collaborative department has a great deal to offer to a person committed to a life of the mind and excellence in teaching.  An increasing number of the departments’ students attend conferences, move on to graduate school, and win national awards.  Our chapter of LPH has won top awards twice in the last four years.  Research and teaching for the department are interdisciplinary, emphasizing the production and reproduction of systems of meaning, knowledge, culture, and behavior.

Located between historic Colonial Williamsburg and the ocean resort of Virginia Beach, CNU is committed to outstanding teaching and learning, undergraduate education, and the liberal studies core; the University is seeking to shelter a Phi Beta Kappa chapter. The Fall 2012 freshman class of approximately 1,375 students was selected from over 7,000 applicants with a middle 50% SAT range: 1100-1240 (Critical Reading and Math). Capital improvements (approaching $1 billion) on the beautiful, 260-acre campus integrate the University’s liberal arts vision, nurturing mind, body, and spirit. These include the state-of-the-art Trible Library, home to the most comprehensive maritime research collections in the world; three new academic buildings including a newly opened integrated science building; the Freeman Center athletic complex; and the I.M. Pei-designed Ferguson Center for the Arts, which brings to Virginia the finest performing artists in the world. 

Our faculty enjoy an atmosphere of collegiality and mutual respect that rewards outstanding teaching and fosters active intellectual and creative engagement. CNU faculty are productive scholars and researchers, supported by professional development funds. Faculty and administrators regularly consult and collaborate as the University works to sustain a culture of scholarly inquiry, informed debate, and civic action that enriches students, faculty, and the surrounding community. The result is a supportive and cohesive academic setting in which the University cultivates and carries forward its mission. Competitive salary with excellent health and retirement benefits and a well-designed family leave policy further enhance the CNU workplace. For further information on CNU, please visit our website at http://www.cnu.edu.

To apply, submit a letter of application, vita, graduate transcripts (photocopies acceptable for initial screening), a statement of teaching philosophy, a sample of scholarly work, a sample syllabus for a course you typically teach, and four letters of reference to:

Director of Equal Opportunity and Faculty Recruitment

Communication (Digital Media/Emerging Technologies) Faculty Search

Search #8371

Christopher Newport University

1 Avenue of the Arts

Newport News, VA 23606-3072

Or mlmoody@cnu.edu

Review of applications will begin on April 22, 2013.

Applications received after April 22, 2013, will be accepted but considered only if needed.

Search finalists are required to complete a CNU sponsored background check.

Christopher Newport University, an EO Employer, is fully committed to Access and Opportunity.

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Dear Popular Communication division members,

Happy new year from your incoming editors! Popular Communication now receives all manuscript submissions electronically via ScholarOne. Manuscripts should be submitted at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/popcomm. ScholarOne Manuscripts allows for rapid submission of original and revised manuscripts, and facilitates the review process and internal communication between authors, editors, and reviewers via a web-based platform. ScholarOne technical support can be accessed at http://scholarone.com/services/support. To email us, please use popularcommunication@kau.se.

Sincerely,
Patrick Burkart, Miyase Christensen, Mehdi Semati, and Nabeel Zuberi

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Dynamics of Global Cinema: Peripheries, Infrastructure, Circulation
at the U of Navarra, Pamplona (Spain)
10-11 May 2013
Co-organised by Dina Irdonavoda (Center for Film Studies, U of St Andrews, UK) and Alejandro Pardo (Department of Film, TV & Digital Media, U of Navarra, Spain).

Conditioned by digital innovation and wider possibilities for the global circulation of film, people experience cinema in new ways. The ‘digital disruption' brings about more intense trans-border flows of niche and previously little-seen cinematic content.

Traditional distribution – where studios control box office revenues by releasing films for coordinated showing in a system of theatres and then direct them through an inflexible succession of hierarchically ordered windows of exhibition and formats – is radically undermined by new technologies and migratory patterns. Various dissemination intermediaries that controlled and shaped distribution until recently, are gradually disappearing, and previously lesser-acknowledged nodes gain in importance. Film distribution as we know it is increasingly turning into a fraction of the multiple ways in which film travels around the globe.

New business and circulation models force a rethink of issues of intellectual property, trigger mutations in the film festival landscape, and give growth to a new type of cosmopolitan cinéphilia. The result is a new landscape of transnational film infrastructure, an intricate plethora of circuits and revenue streams that accelerate and take over previously known patterns of film circulation and, perhaps, lay the groundwork for a new mode of address. Due to the vitality of growing alternative channels of dissemination, previously rarely seen cinematic material can now be seen and appreciated.

In the context of the planned symposium, we hope to address a range of issues that touch on matters of cinematic transnationalism, the national, the supra- and sub-national, composite film cultures, infrastructure (including production base, financing, capital, markets, co-production, policy), circulation (including distribution, diasporic channels, on-line channels, film festivals, but also migrations and resources), mode of address (format mutations, language, supranational aesthetics and narratives, but also identity and talent).

Confirmed participants:
•Prof. Tim Bergfelder, U of Southampton (UK)
•Prof. Chris Berry, King's College London (UK)
•Prof. Efrén Cuevas, U of Navarra (Spain)
•Prof. Alberto Elena, U Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
•Prof. Dina Iordanova, U of St. Andrews (UK)
•Prof. Onookome Okome, Alberta (Canada)
•Dr. Dorota Ostrowska, Birkbeck College (London, UK)
•Prof. Alejandro Pardo, U of Navarra (Spain)
•Prof. Rob Stone, U of Birmingham (UK)
•Prof. Cindy Wong, CUNY (USA)

Programme and abstracts are available at:
http://www.unav.edu/web/facultad-de-comunicacion/dynamics-of-global-cinema/programme

Regitration:
http://www.unav.edu/web/facultad-de-comunicacion/dynamics-of-global-cinema/registration

Travel and accommodation:
http://www.unav.edu/web/facultad-de-comunicacion/dynamics-of-global-cinema/travel-accommodation

For further information, please contact:
Dr. Stefanie Van de Peer: sevdp@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof. Dina Iordanova: di1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Prof. Alejandro Pardo: alexpardo@unav.es 

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
(edited collection on Contemporary Uses of Fairy Tales)

I invite submissions for an edited collection of essays on contemporary uses of fairy tales in popular culture. The collection will focus on recent reinterpretations and reboots of classical fairy tales, ways the contemporary texts address the original tales and narratological implications of the repetitions and adjustments of these stories.  In essays that explore the functions and consequences of fairy tale reboots, remakes and updates, authors will consider the ways fairy tale generic conventions have been revised over time, representations of race, gender, class and sexual identity, the roles of archetypes, mythic tropes and patterns and the emergence of self-referential and meta-tales within these texts.

Essays may also address fan culture influence on contemporary tales, opportunities for interactivity and the roles of stars in fairy tale reboots.

Text focus could include television series, feature-length films, comic books and graphic novels, games and animation.  

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

•Fables (Bill Willingham/Vertigo, 2002-present)
•The Red Shoes (Kim Yong-gyun, 2005)
•Lost Girls (Alan Moore/Top Shelf, 2006)
•Hansel and Gretel (Yim Pil-Sung, 2007)
•Sydney White (Joe Nussbaum, 2007)
•Bluebeard (Catherine Breillat, 2009)
•The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat, 2010)
•Red Riding Hood (Catherine Hardwicke, 2011)
•Hanna (Joe Wright, 2011)
•Beastly (Daniel Barnz, 2011)
•Once Upon a Time (ABC, 2011-present)
•Grimm (NBC, 2011-present)
•Snow White and the Huntsman (Rupert Sanders, 2012)
•Mirror, Mirror (Tarsem Singh, 2012)
•Hansel and Gretel (Anthony Ferrante, 2013)
•Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (Tommy Wirkola, 2013)
•Jack the Giant Slayer (Bryan Singer, 2013)

Submit a two-page proposals by the deadline of 19 June 2013 to Dr. Melissa Lenos at melissalenos@gmail.com; questions may be addressed to the same. Please also include a short bio. If your proposal is selected, the final essay (5000-8000 words) will be due on 1 December 2013. 

The Comics Grid http://www.comicsgrid.com/ is a collaborative, open peer-reviewed online academic journal dedicated to comics scholarship. Its purpose is to make original contributions to the field of comics scholarship and to advance the appreciation of comic art within academia and the general cultural mediascape. (ISSN 2048-0792).

This is The Comics Grid’s second anniversary and they are moving to Ubiquity Press http://www.ubiquitypress.com/. They will be an Open Access journal officially, but will retain the collaborative WordPress-based editorial characteristics they have had for the last two years, as detailed here: http://www.comicsgrid.com/cfp/

Reviews for Transnational Cinemas

We are currently seeking reviews for the next issue of the Intellect journal, Transnational Cinemas.
Reviews need to be between 600-900 words and engage with the concerns of the journal.

Information can be found here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=183/

The following publication is available for review:
A Social History of Iranian Cinema: Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, 1984-2010 (2012) by Hamid Naficy. 

Please contact me with proposals for any other recent publications or films fitting within the Transnational Cinemas remit. 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The John C Hench Division of Animation and Digital Arts
The University of Southern California and the School of Cinematic Arts is proud to host

REDEFINING ANIMATION
*The 25th Annual Conference for the Society for Animation Studies 2013*

23-27 June 2013, Los Angeles California
http://anim.usc.edu/sas2013.html

In the ever evolving field of animation and digital arts, creative and technical innovation continues to expand the meaning of the art form and establish new ways to perceive, understand and express the world around us.

Animation* is* the core language of twenty-first century digital art practice. From Hollywood Motion Pictures to trans-media networks, to gallery artists and cutting edge scientific research, nearly every field is finding that animation can contribute and enhance communication and research across industry, academia and the arts.

Unique in its ability to visually communicate complex ideas and unseen worlds, animation is ubiquitous in creative and information rich fields.

How does animation penetrate these fields? What is the future of animation?

Redefining Animation invites scholars, researchers and artists to present, address and critique the expanding art form across disparate media and to contribute their papers, ideas and observations engaging the variety of topics below.

*Conference Schedule:*

Sunday, June 23 -- Book Signing and Cocktail Reception
Monday, June 24 -- PAPERS and MICRO-TALKS
Tuesday, June 25 -- PAPERS and SAS Annual General Meeting
Wednesday, June 26 -- PAPERS and MICRO-TALKS
Thursday, JUNE 27-- (optional event with additional fee) Dream Works Studio/Warner Bros. Archive tours

(NOTE: Poster sessions will be on-going for selected papers)

*Accommodations:*
The Conference hotel rates and campus housing options will be sent in another email soon.

CALL FOR PAPERS

EUPOP 2013
31 July - 2 August 2013
U of Turku, Finland
International Institute for Popular Culture (IIPC)

Call for papers deadline: Friday 29 March 2013

Individual paper and panel contributions are invited for the second yearly international conference of the European Popular Culture Association (EPCA), organised with the Popular Culture Association Finland (PCA-Finland) and IIPC.

EUPOP 2013 will explore European popular culture in all its different forms.

This could include European Film (past and present),Television, Music, Celebrity, The Body, Fashion, New Media, Comics, Popular Literature, Sport, Heritage and Curation. The special streams will include themes such as Sport, Obesity, Violence, Spirituality, Technology and Transatlantic Cultural Interaction in the popular culture context.

There will be opportunities for networking, publishing and developing caucus groups within the EPCA. Presenters at EUPOP 2013 will be encouraged to develop their papers for publication in a number Intellect journals, including the Journal of European Popular Culture, the journal of the EPCA. Journal editors will be working closely with strand convenors – a full list of Intellect journals is available at: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/index/.

Papers and complete panels for all strands should be submitted to the email contact below. Paper/panel submissions will be subject to peer review.

Submit paper or panel proposals to: kakallio@utu.fi (the same address should be used for general administrative queries).

Keynote speakers to be confirmed.

People attending to PCA/ACA 2013 International Conference in Warsaw, please notice that there are direct flights from Gdansk, Poland, to Turku: http://wizzair.com/en-GB/Search. 

The European Popular Culture Association (EPCA) promotes the study of popular culture from, in, and about Europe. Popular culture involves a wide range of activities, outcomes and audiences.

EPCA aims to examine and discuss these different activities as they relate both to Europe, and to Europeans across the globe, whether contemporary or historical.

The Journal of European Television History and Culture

(http://journal.euscreen.eu) welcomes paper proposals for its third issue dedicated to 'European TV Memories' and guest-edited by Jérôme Bourdon (Tel Aviv Univeristy) and Berber Hagedoorn (Utrecht University).

The journal is the first peer-reviewed multi-media e-journal in the field of television studies. Offering an international platform for outstanding academic research on television, the journal has an interdisciplinary profile and acts both as a platform for critical reflection on the cultural, social and political role of television in Europe's past and present as well as a multi-media platform for the circulation and use of digitized audiovisual material.

The journal's main aim is to function as a showcase for a creative and innovative use of digitized television material in scholarly work, and to inspire a fruitful discussion between audiovisual heritage institutions (especially television archives) and a broader community of television experts and amateurs. In offering a unique technical infrastructure for a multi-media presentation of critical reflections on European television, the journal aims at stimulating innovative narrative forms of online storytelling, making use of the digitized audiovisual collections of television archives around Europe.

The theme of third issue of the journal, due for publication in April 2013, is European TV Memories. The editors welcome two kinds of
contributions:
-scholarly articles (historical, sociological or anthropological with a European focus) of 4,000 words
-discoveries: journalistic essays (2,500 words) which include audiovisual sources as a central component and reflect on the practical challenges of doing television research in an archival or academic environment (e.g. case studies, new collections, news from archives, audio/video interviews).

European TV Memories

The phrase "European TV Memories" can be understood in many ways, of which we can suggest three:
     * Memories as remembering: memory as content actually remembered and shared (especially in contexts and events triggered by the researcher (focus groups, life stories).
     * Memories as policy: as the way the institutions of European television have tried to engineer, generate, support, and disseminate specific memories (at least, potentially, collective memories, considering the reach of the medium).
     * Memories as text: as they can be inferred from the close analysis of text as vectors of memory.

Although there is no strict correlation, different disciplines have generally focused on different understandings of memory. "Memory as text" is frequent among historians and philosophers, "memory as remembering" is analyzed by social psychologists and sociologists, while "memory as institution" is connected to a more political perspective (political sciences, but history as well).

We invite contributions across disciplines and across different conceptions of memories. Similarly, we would appreciate contributions, which study television memories beyond the genres usually emphasized in the study of memory (news and current affairs and historical programmes). TV series, advertisements, entertainment, can be considered as well.

Finally, three aspects cannot always be limited strictly to the medium of television, which interact with other medium, either "old" or "new".
The memories of news events, for a given viewer/citizen, cannot be isolated from a news culture, which includes the press, once the newsreels, today online news. The memory of cinema is built, to a large extent, through television. This is why we will invite contributors to include other media, especially new and digital media, in their analysis, although the focus should be on television.

Proposals are invited on (but not limited to) the following suggested
topics:

Television as an institution of memory
- the po