category: film and television

Post Olympics Chinese Cinema Symposium

full name / name of organization: 
Bader International Study Centre, Queens University
contact email: 
POCCS@bisc.queensu.ac.uk

Current Trends in Present day Chinese Language Film.

Where:
Bader International Study Centre,
Queens University,
Herstmonceux Castle,
Hailsham, East Sussex, UK

The Emerald Issue, the 10th annual edition of Fairy Tale Review, will feature work inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

full name / name of organization: 
Fairy Tale Review (a publication of Wayne State University Press)
contact email: 
ftreditorial@gmail.com

Call for Submissions
The Emerald Issue, the 10th annual edition of Fairy Tale Review, will feature work inspired by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Disney Culture CFP: PAMLA Conference, Bahia Resort, San Diego, November 1-3, 2013 (May 12 proposal deadline)

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

The "Disney Culture" session for the 2013 PAMLA Conference (Bahia Resort, San Diego, CA, November 1-3, 2013) is looking for paper proposals on various aspects of Disney culture:

Theme Parks

Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions Oct 18-19, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions
contact email: 
imaginingalternatives@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Imagining Alternatives: A Graduate Symposium on Speculative Fictions

October 18-19, 2013

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Submission Deadline: August 23, 2013

UPDATE: Extended CFP Deadline PAMLA Conference (11/1-3, 2013, Bahia Resort, San Diego): Now May 12

full name / name of organization: 
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
contact email: 
svonkin@netzero.net

Forty approved sessions for the November 1-3, 2013 PAMLA Conference (at the Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego, California) have extended their paper proposal deadline until May 12.

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
contact email: 
sdyne1@gsu.edu

IRISH STUDIES at SAMLA- Nov. 8-10, 2013

Writing Ireland: Identity, Memory, and Place

SAMLA Conference 2013 (Nov. 8-10) Atlanta, GA- CFP: SLAVIC LITERATURE

full name / name of organization: 
Karen Rosneck / University of Wisconsin-Madison
contact email: 
krosneck@library.wisc.edu

Papers are welcome on any Slavic language, literature or culture, including film and comparative literature topics.

UPDATE: The Female Hero in Modern Fantasy Edited Collection -- Call for Chapters

full name / name of organization: 
Dr. Lori Campbell/University of Pittsburgh
contact email: 
camenglish@verizon.net

UPDATE: I have received many innovative proposals so far, but several key authors I would like to see included remain unclaimed, such as J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, J.K. Rowling, Madeleine L'Engle, Ursula Le Guin, Terry Pratchett, and Suzanne Collins, among a few others. Also please note that depending on the submissions, I may expand the “Pathfinders” section to include Victorian fantasy (i.e., George MacDonald, William Morris, etc.) as an additional precursor to modern fantasy. There is also a strong possibility I will add a new section for “Fantasy on Film.” If you have an interest in any of these categories, or those below (see full CFP), please contact me at the email address provided.

Playing in Time: Temporality in Performance and Performing Arts. June 22, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
contact email: 
ivaw.groznjan@gmail.com


International Vocal Arts Workshop, Jeunesses Musicales Croatia
Symposium: Grožnjan, Croatia, 22 June 2013

Circling Our Wagons: Reflections on Hip-Hop Landscape(s) Conference April 11-13 2014

full name / name of organization: 
Albany State University Department of English, Modern Languages, and Mass Communication.
contact email: 
andre.johnson@asurams.edu

In Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose argues that, “Hip Hop has become a primary means by which we talk about race in the United States.” Rose’s insight delves into the historical evolution of the genre

Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Aesthetics, Education and the Arts

full name / name of organization: 
University of Liverpool and Bluecoat Gallery
contact email: 
shaun.may@liv.ac.uk

Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Aesthetics, Education and the Arts
21-22 June 2013, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
www.lyceumproject.com

[UPDATE] Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture (New deadline 5/15/13)

full name / name of organization: 
Lisa Dusenberry, Children's Literature Discussion Circle, SAMLA
contact email: 
cldc.samla@gmail.com

Entangled Children: Technology, Media-Enhancement, and Storytelling in Children's Culture

AMERICAN MASCULINITIES - DUE JUNE 1, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
The New York Metro American Studies Association
contact email: 
nymasamasculinities@gmail.com

The New York Metro American Studies Association's Annual Conference provides a dynamic forum for area scholars, while attracting presenters nationally.

BARNOLIPI Interdisciplinary Online Journal

full name / name of organization: 
Reflection Mentoring Services
contact email: 
reflection.edu@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS - Thirteenth Issue of Online Journal BARNOLIPI (http://www.barnolipi.com).

BARNOLIPI is an Interdisciplinary International Research Journal

[UPDATE] PAMLA 2013: Technology and Communication. Extended deadline: May 12

full name / name of organization: 
Bret Noble
contact email: 
bret.noble@wsu.edu

At a time in which social media is alternately praised as a driver of revolution and democracy and feared as a threat to genuine interpersonal communication and expression, this panel invites critical

CFP Collection: The Films of Dario Argento

full name / name of organization: 
Alexia Kannas / RMIT, Australia
contact email: 
alexia.kannas@rmit.edu.au

Cited as an important influence to filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Gaspar Noé, Italian director Dario Argento occupies a curious position in film history.

[UPDATE] New Narratives of Disaster and Crisis: Reflecting on 9/11in the Obama Era -- Proposals Due 5/31/2013

full name / name of organization: 
SAMLA Chairpersons
contact email: 
newessayson911@gmail.com

Chairpersons of the 2012-2014 SAMLA 9/11 and Literature special sessions seek high quality, previously unpublished submissions to supplement a strong collection of essays emerging from the 2012 and 20

Orphans, Disciplines, and the Institutions of Cinema: Placing Orphan Films (September 26, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Nontheatrical Film and Media Scholarly Interest Group
contact email: 
martin.johnson@nyu.edu

Call for Papers

Orphans, Disciplines, and the Institutions of Cinema: Placing Orphan Films
Indiana University Bloomington
September 26, 2013

Representations of the global economic crisis - October 30th 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Journal Culture, Language and Representation, ISSN: 1697-7750
contact email: 
prado@ang.uji.es

Given that representation conditions our responses and interpretations of events, at present, the attempts to control the symbolic space of discourses about the crisis is dominated by the struggle bet

[UPDATE] Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age, 24-26 October, 2013, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, deadline: May 20th, 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
contact email: 
2013.rethinking.intermediality@gmail.com

Conference webpage: http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the...

Call for Papers:

Two- day Seminar on “Literature and Human Rights” on 7th & 8th August 2013

full name / name of organization: 
Department of English, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India
contact email: 
drtmarx@gmail.com

COLLECTION: Shakespeare: Institutional Discourse, Decadence, and Decorum.

full name / name of organization: 
Jeffrey Kahan/University of La Verne
contact email: 
Shakespearecenter@laverne.edu

Whether dealing with Shakespearean chotchkies, comic books, adult films, alte

Adapting Frankenstein: The Monster's Eternal Lives in Popular Culture (proposals due June 30, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dennis R. Perry, Brigham Young University
contact email: 
dperry@byu.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS
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Adapting Frankenstein
The Monster’s Eternal Lives in Popular Culture

Transcultural Identity Constructions in a Changing World (Sweden, 2-4 April 2014; proposals due by 15 September 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Dalarna University, Sweden
contact email: 
transcult@du.se

Globalising processes have led, in recent decades, to critical re-evaluations of the ways in which ‘culture’ has traditionally been understood.

Being Non/Human - abstract deadline: Friday 2nd August

full name / name of organization: 
King's College London
contact email: 
being.non.human@gmail.com

This is a call for papers from postgraduate students and early career researchers for a new interdisciplinary discussion group (starting in the upcoming academic year at King’s College London)

Alternative Visions in Media Conference (November 8-9, 2013; Proposals due July 19, 2013)

full name / name of organization: 
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Dept. of Film, Television and Digital Media, TCU
contact email: 
k.hart@tcu.edu

We invite presentation proposals for the Alternative Visions in Media Conference, to be held at Texas Christian University (Fort Worth, Texas) November 8-9, 2013.

The Phoenix Papers

full name / name of organization: 
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association
contact email: 
FANSConference@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce a CFP for articles and reviews for our online peer-reviewed, open access journal, The Phoenix Papers (ISSN 2325-2316).

[UPDATE] Otaku Studies Area: Midwest Popular Culture Association

full name / name of organization: 
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: 
mpca.otaku@gmail.com

Call for Papers:
OTAKU STUDIES
2013 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2013
St. Louis, MO
St. Louis Union Station Hotel, A Doubletree by Hilton

[UPDATE] Call for Papers for Collection: Captivity / Writing / Unbound

full name / name of organization: 
Pat Cesarini and Becky McLaughlin / University of South Alabama
contact email: 
pcesarini@usouthal.edu and bmclaugh@southalabama.edu

Proposals for papers are invited for a collection entitled Captivity / Writing / Unbound.

[UPDATE] CFP: Assembling Identities Postgraduate Conference

full name / name of organization: 
University of Glasgow
contact email: 
arts-assemblingidentities2013@glasgow.ac.uk

[UPDATE] Doctor Who and Language

full name / name of organization: 
Jason Barr
contact email: 
brbarrj@brcc,edu

Due to interest in expanding the topic of our previously proposed collection, Doctor Who and the Written Word, we have decided to make the collection more inclusive.

[UPDATE]Performing Gender: cultural ideals, expectations, and representations of gender in American

full name / name of organization: 
Colleen Thorndike
contact email: 
cthorndi@kent.edu

During the rise of the middle-class in the 19th century, American writers produced a variety of conduct and advice books to help those moving from the working-class into the middle-class “act proper

Out and About in Time and Space: Traveling Time in Television

full name / name of organization: 
Gillian Leitch and Sherry Ginn
contact email: 
gilliandoctor@gmail.com

Time travel as a plot device has been used frequently in television for a variety of reasons.

Woody Allen Panel. PAMLA Annual Conference. Nov. 1st-3rd, 2013. San Diego.

full name / name of organization: 
Andrea Schmidt/PAMLA
contact email: 
drealein9@gmail.com

Extended Deadline: May 12th.

This panel welcomes papers on all things Woody Allen. Topics may include but are not limited to the following:

1) Allen as Auteur: Artist versus Hollywood

The Other Western

full name / name of organization: 
Transformations
contact email: 
Grayson.Cooke@scu.edu.au; w.mules@bigpond.com

This issue of Transformations seeks submissions from scholars in film and related fields concerning the ‘other’ Western.

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