Call for Papers:International conference Interactive Narratives, New Media and SocialEngagement Date:October 24th and 25th, 2014Place:Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada Submissiondeadline: May 1st, 2014Aninterdisciplinary conference for researchers and practitioners.How has the digital screen changed our world ingeneral and narrative and visual arts in particular is the broad focus of the second Department of Spanish andPortuguese at the University of Toronto and BRAFFTV Film and Mediainternational Conference.We are interested, for instance, in the evolution ofnarrative practices from text-based literature to the advent of the digitalrevolution as storytelling moves from literacy to so-called post-literacy.The prevalence of new interactive digital narrativein all areas from games, to literature, to films, to video art has resulted innew forms of storytelling and, accordingly, provoked new practices of readingthat transforms readers/viewers into active collaborators.We are interested in exploring transmedia,intermediality, the role of social media and digital globalization as well asnarratives in games and graphic novels. Also, the impact ofthe digital screen on art and new exhibition practices.Physical public space is increasingly beingsubstituted or augmented by virtual space through digital screens (e.g. video,film, computer). What effect do these new developments have on social space,seen here as encompassing both physical public spaces (streets, hotels, coffeeshops) as well as virtual space (YouTube, Vine, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Orkut, etc.)? How do these novel practices effect previously clearly demarcatedfrontiers between the public and the private?Throughout the world, from Brazil to Turkey toCanada, we have recently witness the influence of social media on politicalparticipation. How have these new platforms engendered innovative forms ofexpression?The Conference aims to bring together researchers, practitioners andtheorists for a two-day conference at Victoria College at the University ofToronto on October 24-25. The presented papers will be evaluated for possibleinclusion in a special issue of a journal on the proceedings.Thefollowing key topics/areas will be emphasized during the conference:1.Intermediality, Transmedia and Remediation2.Expanded Cinema and Digital Screen Aesthetics3.Transnational Cinema and International Co-Productions4.Digital Animation and Games: Narrative and Interactivity5. SnackMedia, Mobile Screens, Micro Movie, and Microblogging6. SocialMedia Engagement and New Technologies7.Hacktivism and Political Engagement8.Digital Art and Literature (eBooks, eReaders)9.Communication and New MediaSUBMITTINGPROPOSALS:Send anAbstract (between 180 and 300 words in length including the researchobjectives, theoretical framework and methodology) and Brief Bio-CV (100 wordsmaximum) by May 1st, 2014 to brafftvconference@gmail.com Eachproposal must include title, name(s), affiliation, institutional address andemail addresses of the author(s).Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by participants. The organizers will, on request, provide the necessary letters for the purposes of issuing visas to foreign visitors. EmailContact: brafftvconference@gmail.comFurtherinformation on our previous conference visit the website: brafftv.com/en/conference.html Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), filosofo frances, vinculado aos denominados movimentos pos-estruturalistas, categorizacoes que o proprio Deleuze questionava pelo que trazem, ainda, da visao e luta pelo identico. Suas teorias acerca da diferenca e da singularidade nos desafiam a pensar em temas como rizoma, ontologia da experiencia, a teoria do que fazemos, a virtualidade e a atualidade. Deleuze, assim como Foucault, foi um dos estudiosos de Kant, mas tem em Bergson, Nietzsche e Espinosa, poderosas interseccoes. Professor da Universidade de Paris VIII, Vincennes, Deleuze atualizou ideias como as de devir, acontecimentos, singularidades, enfim conceitos que nos impelem a transformar a