From the Feeds [08-15-2017]

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CFPs of interest in this month’s feeds

Beyond Law and Order: SVU, Representations of Sexual Assault in Film and Television
Panel for SCMS 2018, Mar 14-18, 2018 in Toronto, Canada
https://www.warandmediastudies.org/?p=60129
Garofalo will present on sexual violence in military films, and welcomes matching papers, or more general explorations of sexual violence in media
Deadline for submissions: August 28, 2017; Contact: John Garofalo at  jjgarofolo@aol.com

“Media, Resistance and Justice” Union for Democratic Communications Conference
Loyola University Chicago, May 10-13, 2018 in Chicago, IL
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/07/20/media-resistance-and-justice-union-for-democratic-communications-conference-may-10-13
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2017; Contact: udc.steering@gmail.com

The Human Body and World War II: Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Oxford, March 23-24, 2018 in Oxford, UK
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/07/17/the-human-body-and-world-war-ii-interdisciplinary-conference-university-of-oxford-23
Deadline for submissions: October 1, 2017; Contact: humanbody2018@gmail.com

Citizenship and Surveillance: The Camera as Witness Conference
Center of Documentary Research at Queen’s University, Belfast, November 9, 2017 in Belfast, UK
http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CentreforDocumentaryResearchandPractice/
Deadline for submissions: September 3, 2017; Contact: filmstudies@qub.ac.uk

 


Articles of interest

Blaylock, Sara. “Bringing the War Home to the United States and East Germany: In the Year of the Pig and Pilots in Pajamas.” Cinema Journal 56.4 (Summer 2017).

Busch, Peter. “Television Through the Eyes of Ordinary Soldiers? The BBC’s Great War and Eyewitness Testimony.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. Published online: August 1, 2017. 1-20.

Loukinas, Panagiotis. “Surveillance and Drones at Greek Borderlands: Challenging Human Rights and Democracy.Surveillance & Society 15.3-4 (2017). Published online: August 9, 2017. 439-446.

Van Dopperen, Ron and Graham, Cooper. “First to Film: Leon H. Caverly and the US Marine Corps in WWI.” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. Published online: August 4, 2017. 1-27.