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Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 5:07am
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024: PLAYING WITH BORDERS

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:22pm
Conference on Child and Teen Consumption
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024

11th Interdisciplinary Conference on Child and Teen Consumption

October 16 -18 2024, York University, Toronto, Canada PLAYING WITH BORDERS

The 2024 edition of the Child and Teen Consumption Conference will be held in Toronto (Canada) and will be hosted by York University, October 16-18, 2024.

Unsettling Territories: Fear in Literature and the Arts. 2nd International Seminar on Literature and Emotions

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:17pm
Centre for Comparative Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, Portugal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Date: April 15, 2024 - Fear in Children's Literature
         April 16, 2024 - Fear in Literature and the Arts
Location: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon and Online
Keynote Speaker: Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck, University of London)

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:15pm
Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 30, 2023

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, a publication of the L.M. Montgomery Institute and the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island, invites submissions (written, visual, or audio-visual) for a special collection on the topic of “Writers and Artists Respond to L.M. Montgomery.” This collection will be published starting in November 2024, as part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of Montgomery’s 1874 birthday.

"Impossible!": Politics, Possibilities and Celebration

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:15pm
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 17, 2023

15th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar
(Celebrating the spirit of Abol Tabol on its centenary year)
6-7 February 2024
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Impossible!": Politics, Possibilities and Celebration
The year 2023, among other occurrences, marks the first roving vehicle landing softly on
the lunar south pole, generative AI threatening to replace humans, and almost on a summative
note, Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol (1923) reaching a hundred years of celebrating

The Status of Myths in New Millennial/post-2000 Cultural Production

updated: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 9:17am
Conference Myths 2024 - website: myths24.fr
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

International Conference in Toulouse (France) - December 6-7, 2024

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.

Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children's Comics [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023 - 8:50am
Graduate Comics Organization at the University of Florida
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 8, 2024

The deadline for submissions to Ink and Imagination has been extended to January 8th, 2024.

The Graduate Comics Organization (GCO) at the University of Florida now invites proposals to our 20th annual conference: "Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children's Comics." The conference will be held April 5-7, 2024. We welcome applicants from all stages of their careers to submit papers addressing any aspect of the conference topic. Independent scholars, as well as creative and community practitioners, are especially encouraged to apply.

Special Section on "Reflecting on ‘The Teen Whisperer’: Twenty Years of John Green"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 1:41pm
International Journal of Young Adult Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Section on "Reflecting on ‘The Teen Whisperer’: Twenty Years of John Green"

Edited by Dr Jennifer Gouck

Hailed by Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker as “the teen whisperer,” John Green has arguably been one of the most influential YA authors of the twenty-first century. Yet Green was not an instant success. His debut novel, Looking for Alaska, sold only a few thousand copies – most of which, Green told Shannon Maughan in an interview for Publishers Weekly, were hand-sold. Despite garnering critical acclaim in the form of the 2006 Printz Award, Alaska did not become a bestseller until seven years after its 2005 publication.

Comics: The End is Here

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:10pm
CLOSURE: Kiel University e-Journal for Comics Studies #11
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Open Section

 

 At the end of autumn 2024, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: issue eleven of CLOSURE will publish essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.  

 

 Thematic Section: »The End is Here«

 

2024 Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA) International Conference Kids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for Everyone

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
TCLRA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 25, 2024

2024 Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA) International ConferenceKids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for EveryoneKeynote Speaker: Kenneth Kidd, University of FloridaSoochow University, Taipei23 November 2024Deadline for abstracts: 25 February 2024

Call for Papers

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Call for Papers: Myth and Fairy Tales

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:54pm
at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Myth and Fairy Tales

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Extended proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023

 

EXTENSION to November 14: CFP Children's/Young Adult Culture at SWPACA

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:51pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

 

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023

 

[EXTENDED] Poison in Popular Culture: Representations, Aesthetics, and Meanings

updated: 
Tuesday, November 7, 2023 - 2:46am
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Auckland University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 12, 2023

From natural to synthetic, from accidental to administered, poison is entangled with our human history, and its presence has a lot to say about not only our customs and laws, but also our ways of storytelling. Poison likes to adapt itself to situation: the definition of what poison even ‘is’ changes according to time and place, and to the cultural groups and sub-groups that are being consulted. Poison is malleable, mutating, and culturally slippery.  In its ability to conquer the imagination, poison is a crafty narrative weaver. From Shakespeare’s plays to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Eco’s The Name of the Rose, from iconic cinematic examples such The Princess Bride to global phenomena such as J.K.

Critical Insights into Science Fiction: Exploring Posthumanism, Alternate Realities, and Cyberculture

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:22pm
Adamas University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

The realm of science fiction serves as a captivating tapestry, weaving together speculative narratives that extend beyond the bounds of conventional reality. Within this expansive genre, three thematic strands emerge as critical foci: Posthumanism, Alternate Realities, and Cyberculture. This exploration aims to unravel the nuanced layers embedded within these themes, offering a critical lens through which to examine the implications for contemporary society, ethical considerations, and the trajectory of human existence.

Crip Kid Lit: Critical Approaches to Disability in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:14pm
University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Crip Kid Lit: 

Critical Approaches to Disability in Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Media

Date: Friday 19 April 2024

Place: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and Online 

 

Deadline for Submissions EXTENDED: 15 November 2023

Confirmed Keynotes:

Prof. Dr. Maren Conrad (University of Cologne, Germany) 

Dr. Ria Cheyne (Liverpool Hope University, United Kingdom)

 

Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:21pm
Lois Burke, Jennifer Duggan & Edel Lamb
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 

The editors would like to invite chapters of 7,000 words for an edited collection, Girls’ and Young Women’s Textual Cultures Across History: Imitation, Adaptation, Transformation, to be submitted to Routledge’s Children’s Literature and Culture Book Series. We aim to publish the collection in 2025.

Deadline Extended: Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:05am
Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Childhood Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood to be held in Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024. This conference invites presentations that consider how different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to) governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged across children’s literature, media, and popular culture?

Young Adult + Series + Romance (proposal deadline Dec. 1)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:41pm
Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

2023 marks the fortieth anniversary of the initial publication of Sweet Valley High. While Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield may rank amongst the best-known teen romance heroines, the texts themselves exist within a much larger pantheon of series books intended for or read by teens, and featuring romance narratives. The Journal of Popular Romance Studies (JPRS) seeks articles for a special issue devoted to young adult series romance. These articles may focus on YA series romance from any historical period or language context, and may derive from any relevant discipline, including interdisciplinary approaches.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Call for Session Proposals -- ELA Pedagogy Conference

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023
  • Conference theme: Connections
  • Date and location of conference: Friday, October 27, 2023 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma 
  • Length of conference sessions: 45 minutes 
  • Length of session proposals: 100 - 150 words
  • Session proposal deadline: EXTENDED to October 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST
  • To submit session proposals, CLICK HERE 
  • Conference registration deadline: October 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST

Failures in print and audiovisual culture

updated: 
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 9:55am
EUR CREATES / EUR ODYSSEE, Université de Nice
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 6, 2023

This international conference will be held in Cannes, France, on June 6 and 7, 2024.

Organisation : Karine Hildenbrand (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur), Nicolas Labarre (PU, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) et Isabelle Licari-Guillaume (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur).

 

Alan Garner and the Work of Time

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:57pm
York St John University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 28, 2023

We are seeking chapters for an edited book on the work of Alan Garner.

Described by Philip Pullman as ‘the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien’, Garner's importance and popularity deserve focussed critical attention.

Children's Literature Association 2024 Conference (Madison, WI; 5/30-6/1)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:41pm
Children's Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Children's Literature Association 2024 Conference

May 30 - June 1, 2024

Madison Concourse Hotel & Governor's Club
Madison, Wisconsin

Theme: Looking Back, Looking Forward:  ChLA at 50

As we approach the 50-year anniversary of the Children’s Literature Association’s founding, we gather to reflect on the past, present, and future of our field. 

CFP: Edited Volume on Studio Ghibli Films as Adaptations (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 3:40pm
Dominic Nardi
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

This edited volume seeks to collect scholarship on how Studio Ghibli has adapted stories from other media to film. Many of the Japanese animation powerhouse’s films have their origins in novels or comics, such as Diana Wynne Jones Howl's Moving Castle. Studio Ghibli cofounder and director Hayao Miyazaki even adapted his own manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, into a feature film. We seek proposals — from a variety of disciplines and perspectives — for essays exploring how Studio Ghibli’s storytellers have approached adaptation, as well as what the study of Studio Ghibli’s filmography can contribute to the broader field of adaptation studies. 

 

Possible / Suggested Topics:

CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

Bending the Clock: Crip Time in Children’s and Young Adult Literature

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Children's Literature Association Accessibility Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Albert Einstein famously told the world that time is relative, and theorists from various fields–including children’s literature and disability studies–continue to grapple with what that means for lived experience. Children’s literature (and childhood studies more broadly) scholars examine how societies believe young people move through time towards adulthood, leading to theories of developmentalism and stages of childhood (like Piaget’s). Conversely, disability scholars explore what has been termed crip time: the kind of time experienced by people whose disabilities mean that they engage with the world at a different pace than normative time.

ICMS 2024: Medievalisms in Middle Grade and Young Adult Media

updated: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 4:33pm
Amelia Lehosit
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

From Disney films to historical cosplay to young adult fantasy novels to webtoons to viral TikToks, contemporary media continues to shape how younger generations view the medieval world. This panel welcomes papers that discuss contemporary media depictions of the medieval world—whether fictional or historical—aimed at youth audiences and examine ways in which these depictions might shape how younger audiences understand “the medieval.”

"Memory": International Committee Guaranteed Panel

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:37pm
Children's Literature Association, International Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for Papers: International Committee Focus Panel

2024 Children’s Literature Association Conference

May 30-June 1, 2024

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

 

“Memory”

 

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