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29th SERCIA CONFERENCE
Old and New Science Fiction Imaginaries in English-Speaking
Cinema and Television
La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
September 2-4, 2024
Keynote speakers: Naomi Mandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Pawel Frelik
(University of Warsaw)
As a literary genre and a form of cultural aesthetic cyberpunk narratives depict dark visions of the future in which technology, society, and human existence merge. A major element of this setting is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is often portrayed as a powerful, autonomous entity in cyberpunk universes. In cyberpunk genres, AI typically symbolizes both the zenith of human advancement and a looming existential danger for human beings. The dynamic between humans and AI in these narratives not only raises ethical dilemmas but also highlights the potential conflicts and challenges associated with the development of advanced AI technologies.
Modernist Chicago: Richard Wright and Beyond (Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nov 7-10)
Deadline for Submissions: 12 PM PST, Friday, March 29, 2024
In the spirit of MSA 2024’s location in Chicago, this panel—centered around but not limited to Richard Wright—seeks work that engages the city’s modernist scene, broadly construed, through WWII: in literature (for example, Lawd Today!, Wright’s posthumously published experimental novel about Chicago, tensions and pollinations between realist and modernist aesthetics), sociology (the Chicago School, including Robert Park), blues music, journal culture and other radical politics, etc.
Call for Abstracts!
Black Creators of Legacy and Digital Media
Collection Editors: Joshua K. Wright, Ph.D., Adria Y. Goldman, Ph.D., and Alexa Harris, Ph.D.
Call for papers MLA 2025Special session"Women in the Early History of Comics (1800s-1950s)"
How did women artists or women's magazines contribute to the formation of the medium known today as "comics"? This includes cartoons, comics, and other graphic narratives before the emergence of underground feminist comix. Please send 250-word abstracts and bio to camilagutierrez@uc.cl
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Camila Gutiérrez, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (camilagutierrez@uc.cl )
Call for Papers
https://foucault40.info/
Seminar: Foucault and Postcolonial Governmentalities in South Asia
24-25 May, 2024
https://foucault40.info/kolkata/
Organised by
Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS)
&
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR) Kolkata
Venue: Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR) Kolkata, New Town Campus
This seminar hinges on South Asian governmentalities (Legg and Heath, 2018), as experienced in postcolonial
South Asian nation states. They were erstwhile colonies, liberated through intense anti-colonial struggles
We are excited to invite submissions for our upcoming panel on Professional Writing at the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) conference. This panel seeks to explore the evolving landscape of professional writing, including but not limited to technical writing, business communication, digital rhetoric, and writing pedagogy. We welcome a broad range of submissions that address theoretical, practical, pedagogical, or technological aspects of professional writing.
The 2024 Wooden O Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s annual conference in Cedar City, UT.
We are also pleased to announce our keynote speaker is Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University), author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:
● Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
● Shakespeare and Adaptation
● Shakespeare on Screen
● Shakespeare in Performance
● Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
True crime has always been popular, and with the growing accessibility of alternative forms of on-demand media, including streaming services and podcasts, the popularity of the genre has only grown, strengthened by its appeal to the armchair detective and often the invitation to participate in the solution of the crime itself. As Larke-Walsh (2023) observes, the viewer’s compulsion to close the case—or to contest it—testifies to the text’s ‘potential for positive social impact’.
Thanatic Ethics Conference #4
“Death and migration in times of conflict: a forensic perspective”
Sciences Po, Paris
in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong
and EMMA (Paul Valery University Montpellier 3)
Venue: Sciences Po, Paris
Dates: Oct. 17-19, 2024
Language: English
Deadline for submitting proposals: May 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2024
Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture
This session for the 2025 Modern Language Association conference focuses on collaborations among performers and/or writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Papers on collective artmaking in film, theatre, performance art, music, and literature are welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract to adiazhui@princeton.edu
VIRTUAL GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURROGACY
THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The regular session on African American Literature invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the South Central Modern Language Association, in New Orlean, LA, from Sep. 19-21 (https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/).
We welcome proposals related to any period or aspect of African American literature.
For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio to mchooper@pvamu.edu by March 15, 2024.
Call for papers
The Traveller’s Tale. Emergent Forms and Minority Traditions.
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
November 14 and 15, 2024
University administrators often refer to contingent faculty in nameless, generic terms. This panel invites participants to share stories from contingency (including resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance) to demonstrate the complexity of the people delivering university instruction.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Clark Barwick, Indiana U, Bloomington (mbarwick@indiana.edu )
In 2022, about 60% of the nearly 225,000 employees in the US who engaged in work stoppages were educators, researchers, and other academic professionals. We welcome strategies, stories, and advice from labor activism.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Lindsay Stephens, Black Hills SU (lstephens@olc.edu)
Visible to students but invisible to faculty/administration for governance, pay, and benefits, this panel seeks papers defining issues and/or strategies to increase adjunct visibility providing substantive, long-term, meaningful change.
Send 200-word abstracts to: samo@uwsuper.edu & Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land dispossession and invisibility within the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies, send a 250-word abstract to this panel. All kinds of activist artworks are welcome: films, motion pictures, docuseries, plastic, textile, performance, music, paintings, literature, etc. Papers can be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Timeframe: 19th-21st century. Submit your abstract through the MLA CFP section at: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26535.html
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Cultures of Automobility
University of Konstanz (Germany)
October 10-12, 2024
Keynote speaker: Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbildt University)
with additional speaker to be announced
Transitions and Transformation in South Asian Folklore: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects
JOCPC is pleased to be working with guest editor Jack Anderson who is assembling a special edition of the journal for the Fall 2024 issue focusing on the figure of the child paired with the rich symbolism of water. We have kept the theme open-ended, and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing the relationship between water and childhood. Investigations into the topic may include (but are not limited to):
Subsequent productions (of opera and musical theatre) can reveal and/or challenge the heart and soul of the original texts. This session invites 250-word abstracts regarding cautionary failures, inspiring successes, and intriguing mixtures.
Lyrica (Affiliated Organization of Modern Language Association), Modern Language Association conventioni. January 9-12 in New Orleans.
Announcement: Call-for-Papers
This call is for abstracts for a scholarly, international edited collection entitled, Cultural Depictions of the Stepmother: Literature, Stage, and Screen. Currently I am seeking a number of academics and professionals in the field who might like to send me an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book.
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2024
Call for Papers: Race and Yoga Journal 8.1 (2024) - OPEN ISSUE
The Race and Yoga editorial board is currently seeking articles, personal narratives, interviews, book reviews, and creative works for the eight issue of the journal, to be published by December 31, 2024. Race and Yoga is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international academic journal committed to critical examinations of the history, politics, and practice of yoga. For this issue, the editorial board is particularly interested in submissions that contend with relationships between yoga and contemporary crises.
Possible topics may include yoga in relationship to:
Dr. Shane Thompson and I are inviting contributions to the edited volume The Bible and Film: Dialogues Across Disciplines. This collection is a novel approach to examining the Bible in/and film, bringing together scholars from Biblical Studies and Film Studies.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the Bible as it relates to:
- Animation
- Comedy
- Satire
- Epic
- Documentary
- Educational/Non-Theatrical films
- Propaganda
- Film style
Narratives of nursing during times of war are a reminder that, as Simone de Beauvoir wrote, “the body is not a thing, it is a situation.” Narratives construct these situations through seeing or denying the seeing of them. As Carol Acton and Jane Potter both note, “seeing… [is] an important metaphor for revealing what is hidden, especially what cannot be entirely comprehended or described, and articulating it to the writing self as well as bringing it to the attention of a public audience.” The narrative problems of nursing are those of seeing the situation of bodies and registering that situation at the level of language.
Crossing the Line: Sexuality and James Baldwin's Vision
Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the inaugural one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS).
Submission Deadline: Extended to March 4, 2024
Conference Date and Time: April 4, 2024 from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Call for Book Chapters
Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film
Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Editors’ Introduction