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Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 8 & 9, 2023
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 18, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023
JOCPC is now accepting article submissions for the Fall 2023 issue focusing on the broad theme of the mechanized child. We have kept the theme open-ended and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are exploring representations of the intersection between the child figure, childhood and mechanization. This may include robotics, automatons, cyborgs, AI, VR, and other emerging technologies, both historical and future forward, real and fictional, and how these are used by, to, on and for children. Born alongside new and emerging technologies, children have an innate fluency with new technologies that often leave their adult counterparts behind, reinforcing the notion of children as symbols of futurity.
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. I19 interprets “the nineteenth century” broadly, using the dates of “The Long Nineteenth Century”—roughly, from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of World War I—but even these dates are just notable historical markers as they approximately coincide with Romanticism and Modernism, respectively.
This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University
To be held: 13-14, November 2023
Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.
Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)
(Re)Imagining Tomorrow: Agency and Possibility in Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: 25 March 2023
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference - Accepting virtual and in-person presentations
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 23 June - Saturday 24 June 2023
NEW LITERARIA invites the submission of articles, shorter essays, interviews, and book reviews offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to literature and related fields for its Volume 4 Issue 2.
Submissions should be emailed to newliteraria@gmail.com by no later than 30th May 2023. All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author's full mailing address, email address, telephone numbers, and professional or academic affiliation.
Articles should be between 3,500 and 8,000 words long (including bibliography and footnotes). Book reviews should be between 750 and 1,500 words.
The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us that the nineteenth-century photographs of hysteria captured images of bodies telling stories not yet spoken.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Reading Tolkien in the 21st Century
(7–8 September, 2023 – University of Bonn, Germany)
Call for Papers: MLA 2024
Co-sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association and MLA Libraries and Research Forum (non-guaranteed)
Deadline Extended: March 15th
L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of HomeThe L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 16th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island, 19-23 June 2024
“Oh, I’ve got such a lovely home,” breathed Pat, clasping her hands. “It’s such a nice, friendly house.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
It’s the home of my heart, this little room—the spot I love, for here I am happiest.
—L.M. Montgomery, 30 April 1903
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host an online conference via Zoom on March 31-April 1. The theme is "Beginnings," and we will be exploring how, in many ways, the nineteenth century saw the birth of science fiction and fantasy as we know them, as well as the scholarly study of folk and fairy tales. Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:
This book, edited by KaaVonia Hinton and Karen Chandler, will be published by Routledge.
Beyond Candies and Fairy Tales: Thinking about Children’s Food Culture
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.
Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu
Location: Golden/Denver, CO
Dates: October 11-14, 2023
Costs:
RMMLA membership: $35/year
Conference registration: $85 by April 1
Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)
Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four
CALL FOR PAPERS: RADICAL CHILDREN’S FILM AND TELEVISION EDITED COLLECTION
Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University)
Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023
I am seeking chapter proposals for possible inclusion in a forthcoming volume exploring radical children’s film and television. This edited collection is intended as an inaugural volume in the new ‘Children’s Film and Television’ book series, published by Edinburgh University Press.
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for July 2023 issue.
Indexed in:
1. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
At this three-day festival, writers, scholars, collectors, and fans will explore The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Written in 1900, Baum's fairy tale incorporated timeless life lessons, and his stories were ahead of their time.
As Oz magic continues far beyond Baum's lifetime, we benefit from fresh Oz interpretations in visual, performing, and literary art. Works like The Wiz, Wicked, Dorothy Must Die, and Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee's Sea Sirens reflect changes in American culture, while incorporating the non-traditional gender roles and diverse characters that Baum ingrained in Oz.
Proposals accepted February 10, 2023, and November 17, 2023
Drag Story Hour: Children’s Literature, Right-Wing Hate, and Queer Celebration
Postcolonial Ecospheres: Environmental Principles, Policies, and Politics in South Asia
Edited by
John C. Ryan, Subhadeep Paul & Goutam Majhi
The Rebecca Harding Davis Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 25-28, 2023 in
Boston, MA.
New Directions in Davis Scholarship (2 panels)
We are interested in proposals that engage in any aspect of Davis’s work. We particularly encourage proposals that address some of Davis’s lesser known works, and we also welcome new readings of the canonical “Life in the Iron-Mills.”
Please send a 200-250 word abstract to Aaron Rovan (ajrovan@gmail.com) by January 15, 2023.
CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2023)
Working Title for Proposed Volume: The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Traditions, Traversals, and Trajectories
Editor:
Dr. Bernard Wilson
Department of English Language and Culture,
Department of International Social Sciences,
Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan
Dr. Sharifah Aishah Osman
Department of English
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Universiti Malaya
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Keynote:
Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University
Funny Girls: The Forgotten History of Feisty Young Female Characters in Classic American Comics
Keynote:
Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University
"Funny Girls: The Forgotten History of Feisty Young Female Characters in Classic American Comics"
Norm and Transgression in the Fairy-Tale Tradition: (Non)Normative Identities, Forms, and Writings
Brown University, 7-9 June 2023
Conference Organisers: Alessandro Cabiati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Brown University) and Lewis Seifert (Brown University)
Keynote Speakers
Maria Tatar (Harvard University)
Anne E. Duggan (Wayne State University)
Laura Tosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.
MLA 2024 (Philadelphia, PA, January 4-7)
20th-Century BIPOC Writers for Young Adults: Re-casting the History of the Genre
Deadline Extended!
The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) seeks paper presentations and panels for the PCA's annual conference, April 5-8, 2023. We are interested in as wide an array of papers as possible, so please do not hesitate to send a submission on any fairy tale, legend or nursery rhyme related subject. Discussions of fairy tale monsters and shifts from oral to literary to visual (filmic, artistic, etc.) versions of tales are especially welcome. Creative pieces that retell or critique fairy tales or use the tales to comment on some aspect of culture or history will also be considered.
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100 to 200 word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at Comic-Con International, in San Diego, CA, July 20–23, 2022. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC is presently scheduled to take place in person and does not accept virtual presentations. The CAC is designed to bring together
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) seeks paper presentations and panels for the PCA's annual conference, April 5-8, 2023. We are interested in as wide an array of papers as possible, so please do not hesitate to send a submission on any fairy tale, legend or nursery rhyme related subject. Discussions of fairy tale monsters and shifts from oral to literary to visual (filmic, artistic, etc.) versions of tales are especially welcome. Creative pieces that retell or critique fairy tales or use the tales to comment on some aspect of culture or history will also be considered.