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<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Please see below the CFP for the third "episode" of the Realizing Resistance conference series. While this is a pop culture event broadly, we are particularly interested in comics studies proposals! </div><div><br></div><div><b>Realizing Resistance III: The Expanding Universe</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Alegreya Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,58,66)">Since the advent of the Disney era, the <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> universe has expanded rapidly, manifesting in new comics, games, and animated and live-action series. Although <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Rise of Skywalker</em> was billed as the end of the Skywalker saga, streaming series like <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Book of Boba Fett </em>and <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Obi-Wan Kenobi </em>have ensured that older <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> media also remain relevant for contemporary aca-fans. Thus, as with <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://dcsco-op.org/past-events/resistance/__;!!KGKeukY!yO06_wBlKZsJL1f-E8C9QOkYmdzi6bRUBd88TcGhfvCmGv62F-lHxjf2vc16M0Ti03NjM2bUC8d5PiRwi1bQUR0JRc006WPdVaUOFDuj$" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,111,134);box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none">our previous event</a>, this conference aims to bring together scholars from across disciplines to examine the nearly half century span of <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> media as cultural texts. We invite scholarly and creative interventions with an explicit focus on themes of resistance and justice. How do these films and other media objects contribute to, reflect on, or depart from broader contemporary cultural practices and social discourses?</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Alegreya Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,58,66)">The themes of resistance and justice remain central to our event not only because of their prevalence in the <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars </em>universe, but also because of shifts in the social and political contexts in which these media are made. The sustained dangers presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, the worsening climate crisis, ongoing debates (and their deadly consequences) concerning guns, rising anti-trans sentiment and legislation, and attacks on civil rights in the U.S. have exacerbated inequities and dulled social progress. <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em>, as a cultural phenomenon, has also been embroiled in controversies and transitions relating to intolerance, belonging, and unjustifiable violence. Actress Gina Carano’s fervent anti-vaccine diatribes and anti-trans bigotry, for instance, sparked debates about the political and ethical obligations of media producers and their employees. The reappearance of actor Hayden Christensen on <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> sets forced audiences and critics to acknowledge the unexamined cruelty that kept the actor away from the industry for so long. And misogynoirist reactions to Moses Ingram’s performance in <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Obi-Wan</em> suggest that racist ideals of authenticity and entitlement still dominate amongst certain demographics of fans. We encourage presentations that reflect on these contexts to offer new perspectives and innovative methodological and disciplinary approaches to <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars </em>scholarship. </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Alegreya Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,58,66)">The Digital Cultural Studies Co-operative invites proposals of individual papers, panels, academic posters and infographics, media objects (critical making, comics, video, Twine, or performance), and methodology or other workshops. Topics may include but are by no means limited to:</p><table style="box-sizing:inherit;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;background-color:transparent;max-width:100%;width:635.609px"><tbody style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="font-family:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:8px;vertical-align:top;line-height:1.42857">Resistant narratives<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Childhood Studies<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Trauma Studies<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Animal Studies<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Autoethnography<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Media archeology<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Fan Studies<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Comics Studies<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Material culture<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Transmedia Studies: games, podcasts, fanfic, cosplay, etc.<br style="box-sizing:inherit"><em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> & Digital Humanities</td><td style="font-family:inherit;box-sizing:inherit;border:1px solid rgb(221,221,221);font-style:inherit;outline:0px;padding:8px;vertical-align:top;line-height:1.42857">Queering <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Galactic Indigeneity <br style="box-sizing:inherit">Human/AI relationships in <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Family & community in <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Law, justice, and authority in <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Class, economics, and the gig economy in <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Art & fashion in the <em style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Star Wars</em> universe<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Recycling/reviving/retconning stories & characters<br style="box-sizing:inherit">Resisting “The Hero’s Journey”<br style="box-sizing:inherit"></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Alegreya Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,58,66)">Submit 250-word abstracts via this <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfuFGwHZYvk8GpTUojQz5lj_d8BqACAs4mj1XznrHk_sFoPQg/viewform?usp=sf_link__;!!KGKeukY!yO06_wBlKZsJL1f-E8C9QOkYmdzi6bRUBd88TcGhfvCmGv62F-lHxjf2vc16M0Ti03NjM2bUC8d5PiRwi1bQUR0JRc006WPdVW7ig6LH$" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,111,134);box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration-line:none">Google Form</a> no later than midnight Central Time (US) on December 13, 2022.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;border:0px;font-family:"Alegreya Sans",sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 1.8em;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,58,66)">All submissions will undergo transparent peer review. Every effort will be made to accommodate international and early career and student scholars to facilitate their participation. 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