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Here you can find offers for jobs, research fellowships and awards as well as calls for papers.<\/p>\n

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CFP: Media | Residues<\/strong> in: Navigationen. Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften (2\/2027), Editors: Franziska Barth, Henriette Gunkel, Felix Hasebrink<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emptying the trash bin is today, above all, a symbolic gesture. It stages a disappearance\u00a0without remainder that is never fully achieved, whether in the analogue or the digital realm.\u00a0When computer files are deleted, they may remain on the storage medium as residue until\u00a0they are overwritten, and can be rendered legible again by forensic means. The same holds\u00a0for what is discarded into physical waste bins, which does not simply vanish. What is\u00a0thrown away is merely shifted out of view: carried off by infrastructures, reprocessed, fed\u00a0into new cycles of value creation, or provisionally deposited elsewhere. The cultural\u00a0practice of discarding thus proves to be an operation that does not simply make things\u00a0disappear, but itself produces residues.<\/p>\n

This special issue invites contributors to pursue these phenomena through concrete case\u00a0studies and to develop the concept of the residue in media-theoretical terms.\u00a0Contributions may orient themselves along three lines of inquiry: 1. Media as Producers of Residues, 2. Residues as Media & 3. Aesthetics of the Residue.<\/p>\n

We welcome proposals with a strong media-theoretical orientation from across\u00a0interdisciplinary fields of research. Please submit substantive abstracts (approx. 300\u00a0words), together with a short biographical note, by 2 October 2026<\/strong> to franziska.barth@kwi-nrw.de<\/a>, henriette.gunkel@ruhr-uni-bochum.de<\/a>, and felix.hasebrink@ruhr-uni-bochum.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Submissions may be made in German or English. The issue will appear in autumn 2027.\u00a0Further information on the journal Navigationen. Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Medien- und\u00a0Kulturwissenschaften is available at https:\/\/www.universi.unisiegen.de\/katalog\/zeitschriften\/navigationen\/?lang=de.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Full Version (English)<\/a><\/p>\n

Vollst\u00e4ndige Version (Deutsch)<\/a><\/p>\n

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CfP: <\/strong>Confessions of Bad Taste: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Guilty Pleasures<\/strong><\/p>\n

Workshop from June 2\u20134, 2027 at the\u00a0Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)<\/p>\n

Organizing team: Dr. Paul Buckermann (KWI), Dr. Morten Paul (RUB), Dr. Roxanne Phillips (KWI)<\/p>\n

Performances of shamelessness and <\/em>mechanisms of shaming define our contemporary world. Yet not so long ago, confessions of supposedly shameful activities were accompanied by a sense of glee. Enjoying rom-coms, reality TV, or fast food was framed as a “guilty pleasure” \u2013 and reflexively dismissed as trivial and self-explanatory. However, closer inspection reveals guilty pleasures to be a complex and contradictory discursive phenomenon. The workshop \u201cConfessions of Bad Taste\u201d sets out to investigate guilty pleasures as a specific speech act. What is at stake in the public performance of guilty pleasures? Where, exactly, does the desire to confess one\u2019s own guilty pleasures come from? And why do we take such delight in doing this?<\/p>\n

Please find the full call here.<\/a><\/p>\n

The workshop is organized as part of the research project “Towards a Genealogy of Guilty Pleasures: Performing Reflexive Consumption”<\/a> based at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen<\/em> (KWI) and the Ruhr University Bochum<\/em> (RUB). It is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung<\/em> under the funding initiative “Open Up \u2013 New Research Spaces for the Humanities and Cultural Studies”. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.<\/p>\n

Format: max. 20-minute presentation + 25-minute discussion<\/p>\n

Language: English<\/p>\n

Submission guidelines: Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a short biography to paul.buckermann@kwi-nrw.de<\/a> by October 15, 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CfP: <\/strong>Arrangements und Politiken des Komischen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jahrestagung des DFG-Netzwerks Comic Literacies \u2013 Kulturtechniken des Komischen <\/em>an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, 10.\u201312. M\u00e4rz 2027<\/p>\n

Organisator:innen: Sandra Fluhrer (Erfurt), Susanne Greilich (Regensburg), Martina Gro\u00df (Hildesheim), Kurt Hahn (Graz), David Roesner (M\u00fcnchen)<\/p>\n

Es ist der, im weiten Sinn politische impact<\/em> komischer Arrangements, zu dessen Erkundung die interdisziplin\u00e4re Tagung des Netzwerks alle (film-, kultur-, literatur-, medien-, musik- und theaterwissenschaftlich, aber auch linguistisch, soziologisch und ethnologisch) Interessierten herzlich einl\u00e4dt. Potentielle Untersuchungsgegenst\u00e4nde und Fragestellungen f\u00fcr Vortr\u00e4ge k\u00f6nnten unter anderem folgende Aspekte aufnehmen:<\/p>\n