WMS Panel Registration, Added Travel Grant, SIG Meeting & More
Dear Colleagues,The year is already racing towards SCMS’s main event: the 2023 Denver Conference!1. WMS’s SPONSORED PANELSUPDATE–>Please go to the following Google doc to register your panel by Tuesday, February 7th. Like all the SIGs, we can sponsor EIGHT panels. So, please fill in the information here ASAP.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRZ3Lk5-O9GrXhE3B-CQ6qI8ckqaKHHCZ0ZZvyKojhM/edit2. In wonderful news, our previous co-chair Karen Ritzenhoff has generously donated $100 to support a THIRD travel grant. She donates this grant in honor of Eileen Rositzka, a founding WMS member. Please follow the link to read about Eileen’s life and thought-provoking text Cinematic Corpographies: Remapping the Body Through Film.https://www.warandmediastudies.org/?p=372165Apply for the WMS travel grant lottery by Friday, February 10 at 5:00 p.m. CT at:https://www.warandmediastudies.org/?page_id=1161113. The WMS SIG meeting is scheduled for: Saturday, Feb. 25, from 2-3 PM MT (4-5 PM EST). We will announce our essay contest winner and plans for the upcoming year!4. Vivienne has found a co-editor and an abundance of contributors for the volume on Trinh T. Minh-ha. So, she has removed that CFP. Thanks for everyone’s interest in this project!5. Please see the following exciting CFP for the “Edited Book: Interrogating the Visual Culture of Trumpism Natalie Phillips and Grant Hamming.”https://www.theasa.net/interrogating-visual-culture-trumpism-edited-book-projectTrumpism—the ideological movement and personality cult attached to former President Donald Trump—has always had a distinctive visual component. From gilded escalators to cartoon frogs, from the “National Garden of American Heroes” to red hats and massive rally stages, Trumpism has unleashed imagery which is plainly appealing to some, but puzzling or frightening to most. After the insurrection and attempted autogolpe at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, much of this imagery took on a new immediacy, informing not just a turbulent political movement and Presidential Administration, but an attempt to overthrow the American government. The still swarming, sprawling MAGA media sphere feels dizzyingly unprecedented on the one hand, and yet also alarmingly, painfully familiar on the other. With Trump’s announcement– shortly after the 2022 midterms–that he would once again seek election to the Presidency, the movement and its imagery is poised to once again dominate American cultural and political life. This book invites reckonings with this challenging and heterogenous body of material. We invite scholarly and artistic investigations of the visual culture of Trumpism and related ideologies. By gathering diverse perspectives on this topic, we hope to increase understanding of how visual production has been shaped by and given shape to the political, social, and cultural goals of Trump’s movement. In particular, we encourage submissions that put Trumpist visual culture in dialogue with contemporary and historical practices, as well as discourses regarding race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and geographic or regional identity. Papers considering the (re-)appropriation of this material for protest or redress are also welcome. The proposed length of each chapter will be 4000-5000 words.Please send your 300-word abstract and a short bio to: Grant Hamming and Natalie Phillips at InterrogatingTrumpism@gmail.comDeadline for abstracts: March 15, 2023Best to all,The WMS SIGCortland, Nathan, and Vivienne