A Conferência Internacional de Estudos da Linguagem (CIELIN 2017) acontece nos dias 16 a 20 de outubro de 2017 em Brasília. O evento,organizado pela Universidade de Brasília (UNB) e Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI), articula-se a partir das esferas da Educação (Linguística), Multiletramentos e Identidades. Os investigadores interessados em colaborar com trabalhos têm até 30 de setembro.

Eixo Temático

A ciência pensa a vida e, como tal, pensar sobre a vida não elimina pensar em vida. É um engodo criar um espaço estratosférico para a vida da ciência, pois sem o oxigênio vital que nos cerca podemos parar de respirar e de nos alimentar da vida (aliás, não é este o objeto maior da ciência?). Pensar sobre indica distanciamento; pensar em indica o mergulho. No entanto, ambas as posições comungam no pensar: não há como excluir ramos de uma mesma teia (Rajagopalan, 2003, p. 13).

Iniciamos a apresentação da 1ª Conferência Internacional de Estudos da Linguagem com a fala de Kanavillil Rajagopalan, ilustre estudioso cujas contribuições, em âmbito nacional e internacional aos estudos da linguagem, são deveras relevantes.

A essência do evento coaduna com o estudioso no que tange à sensatez em atrelar o conhecimento científico às questões da vida e da sociedade. Pontuamos aqui o maior objetivo da CIELIN: reunir as reflexões de estudiosos e pesquisadores conscientes de suas posições como agentes da convergência entre a experiência e o pensar, a teoria e a prática, o conhecimento científico e as relações sociais.

Dessa forma, a CIELIN  articula-se a partir do trinômio que empresta o título ao evento: Educação (Linguística), Multiletramentos e Identidades. Espera-se que a CIELIN reúna debates, discussões e trocas epistemológicas entre graduandos e pós-graduandos nos estudos da linguagem e áreas afins, professores de educação básica da rede pública e privada, além de pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais. Todos estes terão a oportunidade de aderir suas reflexões a uma, ou mais, das seguintes temáticas:

• (Multi)Letramentos;
• Tecnologia e Linguagem;
• Educação (Inter)cultural;
• Plurilinguismo;
• Ensino-Aprendizagem de Língua(s);
• Educação Docente;
• Linguagem, Discurso e Sociedade;
• Identidade(s) e Subjetividades;
• Ética; Estudos dos Gêneros;
• Tradução;
• Materiais Didáticos;
• Multimodalidade;
• Sociolinguística e Políticas Linguísticas.

O resultado das atividades realizadas no evento, e os trabalhos (com)partilhados, serão divulgados através de uma publicação visando ao benefício de toda a comunidade académica. Portanto, estendemos o convite a todos aqueles que se interessam pelas temáticas propostas para juntar-se a nós nesta ocasião que será, indubitavelmente, profícua e propulsora de novos intercâmbios académico-científicos.

Mais informações na página do CIELIN 2017.

One need not look far to see the ways that oil and its infrastructures mediate contemporary cultural and material experience. Highways, along with the vehicles that populate them, proliferate among rural and urban landscapes. Newsmedia, both online and off, overflow with headlines discussing the global economics and geopolitics of oil on the one hand, and oil spills and other ecological consequences of the production and consumption of oil on the other. And, no matter how much we may collectively desire otherwise, we continue to remain within the confines of a society primarily organized around the production and consumption of oil and other fossil fuels–within the confines of what has come to be understood as petroculture (LeMenager 2014). Yet, for all its ubiquity, thinking through the nuanced (and, of course, much less nuanced) ways in which oil mediates contemporary life is a daunting task. Previously left largely to the economists, engineers, and political scientists, the study of oil has only very recently been opened up as a space of inquiry for cultural critics, despite its mediating role in contemporary life and its ubiquitous presence in visible and less visible ways.

With an increasingly accelerated pace, work that examines oil from a social and cultural vantage-point has carved a path for confronting the ways in which oil shapes. 2012 saw the publication of a special issue of the Journal of American Studies on oil cultures, edited by Ross Barrett and Daniel Worden as well as a special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, “Sighting Oil,” edited by Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis. These issues examine oil’s social and cultural life, positioning it as a social relation rather than an exclusively technical or technological one by examining oil’s material and cultural presences and residues in, for instance, documentaries (Szeman 2012), film (Worden 2012), and photography (Truscello 2012). And work that traces the material relationship between energy and digital media, including Jussi Parikka’s A Geology of Media (2015) and Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack (2016), are beginning to map our simultaneously petroleum-fueled, cloud-based present.

Oil and its infrastructures, then, are both mediating and mediated. This special issue of Media Tropes aims to contribute the burgeoning field of the energy humanities by providing accounts of the ways in which oil (and its infrastructures)mediatesand is mediated.

What ways can or is oil typically represented as a mediating presence or as an object that is mediated? How is oil (trans)formed in media within an increasingly interconnected and globalized Western society? How have various forms of media mediated the cultural construction of oil and oil-related events in the Western social imaginary? How has the emergence and development of social media altered the promotion of oil and/ or its counter-discourses? If we consider media itself as a kind of language, what does oil look like through a particular media’s “language” or what political, social, and/or cultural language is created with the combination of oil and media? How do feminist perspectives alter our understanding of energy in the media? In what ways can or does media and/or investigating media trends impact the cultural, social and political production of energy in the future? What different ways do various forms of media currently envision the future of energy?

We invite contributions from scholars studying oil and energy in diverse fields including but not limited to cultural studies, mobility studies, gender and sexuality studies, energy humanities, technoculture studies, petroculture studies, and environmental studies. We are interested in original work in a variety of formats including scholarly articles, creative works, book reviews, and multimedia works in English or French. Possible topics include media in relation to oil and/or the mediation of oil in one or more of the following areas:

Infrastructures
Landscape
Automobility
Environment/ecology
Gender and sexuality and/or feminist perspectives
Indigenous and/or colonial politics of oil
Political economy
Film, art, photography, or other visual rhetoric
Labour relations
Social media
Advertising and promotional media
Spills, spectacle, and/or slow and fast violence
Mainstream media
Counter-discourses
Climate change
Real or imagined constructions of oil
History of oil or other forms of energy
Envisioning change
Energy futures

MediaTropes, http://mediatropes.com, is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary Open Access journal addressing the figures of culture, technology, and media/mediation, broadly construed. We are a non-commercial journal run by volunteers and copyright belongs to the author, your work is yours. Our most recent special issue is titled, “War and Intelligence,” and we invite you to explore it; our forthcoming issue is titled, “Indigenous Matters: Cultures, Technologies, Mediations.” We are indexed widely and receive some 30,000 hits per month globally. Finally, MediaTropes is one of three Open Access journals honoured “for their mission of fostering positive, democratic change around the world” by the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy.

Proposals, due on August 31, 2017, should be between 300 and 500 words. All proposals, and any further inquiries, should be sent by email to Jordan Kinder (jkinder@ualberta.ca <mailto:jkinder@ualberta.ca>) and/or Lucie Stepanik (lstepani@ualberta.ca <mailto:lstepani@ualberta.ca>).

Please note we have *extended the deadline for abstracts *for the conference MEDIATING THE REAL 2: MEDIATIONS IN A POST-TRUTH ERA featuring keynoted from *Kim Toffoletti* and *Laurie J. Ouellette*. Please submit an abstract for consideration by 1^st August 2017. Also note we have *postgraduate bursaries *available and encourage PhD and MA students to contribute their ideas and work.
A conference at the University of Otago 22nd – 24th November 2017

Presented by The Performance of the Real Research Theme and the Department of Media, Film and Communication

Keynote speakers:
Dr Kim Toffoletti (Deakin University) & Dr Laurie J. Ouellette (University of Minnesota)

‘Post-truth’ has become a buzzword in the last year generating think-pieces and SNS chatter lamenting ‘truth’ as a lost object that has enabled and / or smuggled in events like Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. With this discussion, comes a broader demonstration of anxiety that a true ‘real’ (world, political sphere, social …) has been either lost or obscured. The responsibility for this loss or obscurance has fallen firmly at the feet of ‘the media’ (as well as the so-called postmodernists).

This conference asks and unpacks the interactions of (post) truth, the ‘real’ and contemporary media.

Building on and following from the success of Mediating the Real ‘1’, we encourage critically informed approaches – particularly drawing from the work of Lacan. However, this time too, we invite scholars engaged with Jean Baudrillard’s prolific engagement in these matters.

Papers might ask but are not limited to:

* What does post-truth mean in the contemporary media saturated context?
* A consideration of the increasingly banal use of ‘post-truth’ (as OED word of the year 2016) in news chatter and the implications of  this for understandings of ‘truthful’ media
* Where is the real located in this context? This might be through considerations of the Lacanian real and the possibilities for
subjectivity and sociality – particularly in terms of the potential to build social bonds within the ‘discourse of capitalism’
* What does the anguished / anxious response to ‘post truth’, particularly in popular and social media, tell us about contemporary
subjectivity and sociality?
* What do Baudrillard’s critical interventions tell us about the contemporary production of reality?

Postgraduate bursary:
A number of travel and registration bursaries will be available for postgraduate students. These will be allocated on the basis of the merit of submitted abstracts. We *highly encourage *postgraduate researchers to submit their work for consideration.

Key information:
Organisers and contacts:*Dr Brett Nicholls (brett.nicholls@otago.ac.nz) and Dr Rosemary Overell (rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz) <mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz)>
Abstract information: *please email rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz <mailto:rosemary.overell@otago.ac.nz> a 250-500 word abstract and 150 word biography by *1^st August 2017*.

Registration: *$95 (casual / sessional workers and postgraduates) and $225 (academic and waged workers) – includes cocktail function, lunches and teas
Dinner: * $60
Venue: *Richardson, 6^th floor, Room 4 North

More info:
http://www.otago.ac.nz/performance-of-the-real/index.html
http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/index.html
https://www.facebook.com/performanceofthereal
https://www.facebook.com/mediafilmcomms/

Rosemary Overell
Lecturer
Media, Film and Communication
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand

http://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.htm

Nos dias 27 e 28 de outubro de 2017, tem lugar, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Conferência Internacional Género na Arte de Países Lusófonos: Corpo, Sexualidade, Identidade, Resistência. Esta conferência tem como objetivo principal debater, de um modo transdisciplinar, as questões de género no panorama artístico de países lusófonos contemporâneo (século XXI), desafiando os modelos tradicionais de produção de conhecimento do Norte Global.
O período para apresentação de propostas de trabalhos termina a 1 de agosto.

+ inf: http://www.generonaarte.uevora.pt/index.html

O IV Congresso Internacional em Estudos de Género, que será dedicado à temática «O Feminino no Contexto Italiano e Lusófono», e é organizado pelo CLEPUL – Centro de Literaturas e Culturas Lusófonas e Europeias da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL / ULisboa), DISTU – Dipartimento di Studi Linguistico-Letterari e Storico-Filosofici e Giuridici / Università della Tuscia di Viterbo, UNIFESSPA – Universidade Federal do Sul e Sudeste do Pará, CIEG – Centro Interdisciplinar Estudos de Género – ISCSP – Universidade de Lisboa, IECCPMA – Instituto Europeu de Ciências da Cultura – Padre Manuel Antunes e o Instytut Komunikacji Specjalistycznej i Interkulturowej (Dipartimento di Comunicazione Specialistica e Interculturale ) – Uniwersytet Warszawski / Universidade de Varsóvia, decorre nos próximos dias 23, 24 e 25 de novembro de 2017, na Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, em Itália. A chamada de trabalhos está aberta até ao próximo dia 20 de julho.

Toda a informação, aqui
http://www.clepul.eu/Ptg/ViewDocument/874