Call for Articles (Dis-)covering ciphers: objects, voices, bodies. Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2018 To analyze the ways in which cultural objects acquire meaning can also be understood as looking at the technologies by which those objects have become enciphered. In this issue of Diffractions we aim to look at the concept of the cipher in its myriad… Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS: VIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies
REPLACEMENT AND REPLACEABILITY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE VIII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies 6–7 December 2018 | Universidade Católica Portuguesa – Lisbon Call for Papers We call for papers for the 8th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies. This edition will be on the theme of “Replacement and Replaceability in Contemporary Culture” and takes place in… Read More
Parques de Sintra: call for artists for photography exhibition
Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua, one of the partners of the Lisbon Consortium, will promote a collective photography exhibition between May 5 and June 3, 2018, under the title “Significação. Outras Imagens do Jardim”. Artists are invited to submit their competition proposals, following the regulations that can be found here. In the call for… Read More
“Risk and Crisis Communication in the Digital Age”: Call for papers
“Risk and Crisis Communication in the Digital Age” Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 19 – 21 October 2017 Crisis Communication research emerged as a response to the need of conceiving emergency plans to deal with events that have a negative effect on stakeholders’ perception of organizations. However, researchers soon demonstrated that crisis communication is more than a… Read More
Call for papers: VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture on Global Translations
VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture Global Translations Lisbon, June 26 – July 1, 2017 Deadline for submissions: January 30, 2017 Translation is a concept, and a practice, at the heart of contemporary experience. The legacies of the past, along with modern-day technology and worldviews, have allowed for, indeed have invited, the… Read More