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CALL FOR PAPERS - Planned, Unplanned, and the In-between: Interactions of Architecture, Space, and Experience

Extended Submission deadline: 15th September, 2025
Submission form: forms.gle/m7G1hnQvk8yB...

Please share the CFP among your friends and colleagues.

Open CFPs: ellids.com/announcements/

International Journal of Disney Studies International Journal of Disney Studies; The International Journal of Disney Studies examines the Walt Disney Company, an international media conglomerate that impacts our global culture. This interna...

CFP: Special Issue: 'Mothers of the Magical Kingdom: Disney and Maternal Figures'
The International Journal of Disney Studies

@ijdisneystudies.bsky.social

Deadline 1 May 2026

www.intellectbooks.com/ijds#call-fo...

Advice | 4 Steps to Help Your Students Read Like Scientists How to teach undergraduates to tackle a dense academic paper in a manageable way.

"4 Steps to Help Your Students Read Like Scientists." Practical and concise advice for undergrad teachers from Kristi Rudenga (Notre Dame's Center for Teaching Excellence) over at @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/4-st...

@horrorstudies.bsky.social Something for you folks?

Maybe interesting for some #gamestudies #popculturestudies folks.

#CfP | Workshop "Introducing: Jewish Horror" | University of Hamburg | March 16-17, 2026 | Details: www.jewishstudies.de/de/nachricht...

Deadline: September 1, 2025

CFP: Edited Volume on Star Wars and Politics in the Disney Era https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/28/cfp-edited-volume-on-star-wars-and-politics-in-the-disney-era #acrel

In der #Privatdozentur, dem Stadium nach der #Habilitation, arbeiten viele über Jahre fast komplett unbezahlt. So geht es auch mir. 1/8

Die beiden Bücher Waterwitch (gebunden, grünes Cover mit einer Wassergestalt in einem Seeosenteich) und Songlight (Broschur, schwarzes Cover mit einem türkis-goldenen Emblem in der Mitte) stehen auf einem Tisch und sind von vorn und mit dem Buchrücken zu sehen.

Meine beiden neusten Übersetzungsbabys erscheinen beide am gleichen Tag bei Piper - nämlich am Freitag! Ich mag beide Bücher sehr sehr gern:
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New post, maybe the first of "Playing Thoughts" which may run parallel to the 42 texts. It's about the "poise broken" sound in Elden Ring (and Nightreign) and how I find it oddly satisfying. #gamestudies #eldenring #nightreign
nodiscipline42.substack.com/p/poise-brok...

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

Today's text is about the strange breathability of very different photos. nodiscipline42.substack.com/p/why-some-p... #photography #landscapephotography #negativespace #photosfullofair

Thanks for publishing #arthistory #art #gamestudies #cfp

CFP: Blood and Bile

https://arthist.net/archive/50425

“Working-class people can’t think, but should be allowed to become knowledge workers by using machines to think for them” is about the most “the author of this argument works for Microsoft” version of cosplay progressivism I could possibly imagine.

(The author of this argument works for Microsoft.)

YouTube video by re:publica re:publica 25: Roland Meyer - Generative KI und die Ästhetik des digitalen Faschismus

Mehr als 6000-mal ist mein Vortrag bei der #rp25 @re-publica.com über «Generative KI und digitalen Faschismus» mittlerweile aufgerufen worden – bin überwältigt und freue mich sehr über das grosse Interesse!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpi...

CFP: Potential and Limits of Digital Methods

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-156426

Berlin, 17.07.2025-16.08.2025, Berliner Antike-Kolleg; Zentrum Grundlagenforschung Alte Welt, BBAW; Institut für Computational Ancient Studies, FU Berlin; Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, HU Berlin; …

CFP: Color in Circulation (Geneva, 8-10 Dec 25)

https://arthist.net/archive/50413

CFP: Photographic Objecthood (Leeds, 21 Jan 26)

https://arthist.net/archive/50411

Front cover of forthcoming book The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies. The top and bottom of the cover are red and there are a selection of generic superhero masks on a white framing background.

The Routledge Companion to #SuperheroStudies 🦸, edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell & Carl Wilson, now has a cover & is due out at the end of October!
www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Includes a chapter by me on depiction of Marvel's #Loki as queer antihero. Really keen to get into more #ComicStudies

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Today's post about why even with the 42 texts writing about anything that comes to my mind even remotely related to "negative space", the "academic" pieces feel harder to write: nodiscipline42.substack.com/p/why-academ... #academicchatter #edusky #gamestudies #writing

@arthist-net.bsky.social @horrorstudies.bsky.social #metroidvania @thegamekitchen.com #blasphemous @hsozkult.bsky.social

for another few.

Details here: https://zenodo.org/records/15516402
New deadline: **August 6**

If you have an exciting idea but don't know if you are qualified/researcher/dev enough: Don't think no further, submit!

Hey #gamestudies and #digitalhumanities (maybe even at #dh2025 ?) and #arthistory and #gamedesign and #humanities and #gamedev and #whatever folks, we have extended the deadline for our planned anthology about #Blasphemous . We have exciting unconventional submissions already but still some space

Fragile holding a baby in Death Stranding 2

In Death Stranding 2 gender essentialism is load-bearing. Men are one way, women are another way, and these roles are immutable, writes Maddy Myers.

www.endlessmode.com/video-games/...

“Let us be shattered, both… Mine other self”: Elden Ring’s Alchemical Explorations of Gender | Historical Games Network The world of FromSoftware’s 2022 RPG Elden Ring is not governed by strictly realistic systems. Death has been abducted, the flow of time eddies around levitating islands, and Patches has been inexplic...

New this week on the HGN blog, Marcus Jensen reflects on Elden's Ring's explorations of gender through the ideas of medieval alchemy. Enjoy! www.historicalgames.net/let-us-be-sh...

#gamestudies #historygames

#gamestudies #genderstudies

Niederrheiners! Der Der andere Buchladen Krefeld strauchelt und will deshalb eine flankierende Genossenschaft gründen! Öffnense den Geldbeutel, werdense Unternehmerin und Genossin in einer Person!
Hier mehr zum Thema: www.der-andere-buchladen-krefeld.de/genossenschaft

Today's text is – to my feeling – a rather slow piece about the culture of messaging and acquaintances: nodiscipline42.substack.com/p/the-acquai... #everydayobservations #writing