{"id":623,"date":"2015-04-01T02:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2015-04-01T02:18:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:18:03","slug":"cfp-texts-in-times-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Texts in Times of Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BARS members might be interested in this year&#8217;s postgraduate conference at De Montfort University, Texts in Times of Conflict.\u00a0 The Call for Papers is below and the organisers are actively seeking to include scholars with a wide range of interests and specialisms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8211; &#8212; &#8212; &#8212; &#8211;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Texts in Times of Conflict (8 September 2015)<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Keynote speakers: Dr Natasha Alden (Aberystwyth University) and Prof. Ian Gadd (Bath Spa University).<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Reflecting on the seismic cultural and political shifts of his own time, Francis Bacon pinpointed &#8216;printing, gunpowder, and the compass&#8217; as the technological drivers which had &#8216;changed the appearance and state of the whole world&#8217;. Bacon&#8217;s identification of communicative (print), violent (gunpowder) and technological (compass) forms of cultural expression and exchange as world-shaping continues to resonate, shaping the production and interpretation of texts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We welcome papers of between 15 and 20 minutes&#8217; length on topics including but not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Textual and visual representations, interpretations of and responses to conflict<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Adaptations which respond to past and\/or present conflicts (including conflicts within academic disciplines)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Conflictual relationships between artistic, critical and intellectual movements<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Processes and agents shaping the design, production, dissemination and consumption of texts<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Theoretical and bibliographical methodologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Intellectual conflicts surrounding the emergence of new media and technologies<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Competing or contradictory representations of conflict through identical or different expressive forms<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">State involvement in the production, dissemination and consumption of texts in times of conflict<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">The evolution of media forms and their impact on conflict-based studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Proposals of up to 250 words should be submitted online at <a href=\"https:\/\/gradcats.wordpress.com\/call-for-papers\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gradcats.wordpress.com\/call-for-papers\/<\/a> by Friday 5 June. Alternatively, email them to <a href=\"mailto:gradcats@outlook.com\" target=\"_blank\">gradcats@outlook.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bursaries are available. See <a href=\"https:\/\/gradcats.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/gradcats.wordpress.com\/<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>This conference is jointly hosted by De Montfort&#8217;s Centre for Textual Studies and Centre for Adaptations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARS members might be interested in this year&#8217;s postgraduate conference at De Montfort University, Texts in Times of Conflict.\u00a0 The Call for Papers is below and the organisers are actively&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=623\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}