[ecrea] NeMLA 2017 - Call for papers, "Telephones after Telephones. Reshaping the Discourse of Connectivity"

* CFP: NeMLA March 23-26, 2017, in Baltimore, MD

* Cultural and Media Studies; Interdisciplinary Humanities*
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                                      Telephones after Telephones:
         Reshaping the Discourse of Connectivity

In 1991, Avital Ronell’s "The Telephone Book" represented a turning 
point in the philosophical reflection about technology and human beings, 
technology and subjectivity, and the telephone as a revolutionary medium 
that changed modern communication forever. Ronell’s work redefined the 
subjectivity of the receiver and the caller, investigating the nature of 
“the call” from a Heideggerian perspective. We take Ronell’s reflection 
as the starting point in the reconsideration of telephones, focusing on 
the device’s transition and evolution to the 21st century cell phone.
Papers are sought that examine the object of the cell phone and its 
relationship to its predecessor, the telephone, across media, the arts, 
and the sciences as well as across societies and eras. What has changed 
about the way in which we communicate through the device of the cell 
phone in the 21st century? What are the various functions, rules, and 
meanings given to the cell phone?

This interdisciplinary panel welcomes papers from across all academic 
disciplines that take up the use of the cell phone from the earliest 
iteration of the mobile device in 1950 until now. Suggested topics 
include, but are not restricted to:
-The cell phone in film, literature, or art
-Mobile phone photography as an art form
-Changing function from telephone to cell phone
-Gendered communication
-Cell phones and time
-The figure of the Other
-Acts of cultural exchange/appropriation
-Texting/sexting
-The politics of the cell phone/activism
-Mobile aesthetics
-Cellphone-made films
-Connection/disconnection
-Surveillance culture
-Globalized communication
-Mobile devices and the body
-Cell phones and the senses
-The language of cellphones
-Cellphonology
-Cellphenomenology


Please submit a 200-word abstract and a short bio by September 30, 2016 
through the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/16425

For information
Chair: Danielle Cofer (University of Rhode Island): (daniellecofer /at/ uri.edu)
Co-chair: Francesca Borrione (University of Rhode Island): (fborrione /at/ uri.edu)
Francesca Borrione
PhD Teaching Fellow, University of Rhode Island, Dept. of English
60 Upper College Road, Swan Hall 114
Kingston, Rhode Island 02881
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