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Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture National PCA Conference Apr. 16-19. 2025

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Brenda Boudreau
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

This area focuses on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media, music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion.   According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (Abrams).

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 10:23am
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 2:04am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 3:51pm
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Deadline for submissions: Dec 1, 2024

Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Prospective publication: September 2026

Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu

Special Issue Proposals

SCSECS 2025

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the James Smith Noel Collection invite you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.

8th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 1:35pm
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

"Isolation/Communication": A CALS Webinar

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Isolation/Communication: A Center for American Literary Studies Webinar

Join the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State for another “Unprecedented” webinar, this one devoted to the theme of “Isolation/Communication.” The webinar will take place Tuesday, November 12 from 12 to 1 pm EST. Register (and attend) here:

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6nCPUmjSR7KA_xhRKN3cEQ

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--EXTENDED!

updated: 
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 10:34am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

Deadline Extended---Alfred Hitchcock Call for Papers

updated: 
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Deadline Extended!

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

 

Call for Chapters on FX Channel Original Documentary and Reality TV Series

updated: 
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 1:11pm
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  This collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

Tolkien at UVM Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
The Tolkien at the Univrsity of Vermont Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

 

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

CFP: Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Food Studies Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS

https://food-studies.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers

Place: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa + Online

Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.

Dates: 8-10 October 2025

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SPECIAL FOCUS: Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures

Conference on Voices and Visions in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 6:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).

Athletes Breaking Bad Too

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Book chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:25am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Concept Note

Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and open to the public.

Auto-: Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Duke University Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

“Auto—”

Duke University Department of English Graduate Conference

February 13 & 14, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan University)

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

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 WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 2025.  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 at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

2025 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

 

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held on the day before the annual conference. The 2025 annual meeting will be held at Georgetown Law from June 17-18th. The theme of the conference, our call for papers, and submissions guidelines can be found below:

Speech Matters

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 52

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which is expected to be published in 2025. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com

Science Fiction & Disabilities

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Stella Incognita Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

 

 

The 13th Stella Incognita Symposium

April 2, 3 and 4, 2025

 

Room Jacques Cartier - Campus Saint Martin d'Hères

Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

 

 

Science Fiction & Disabilities

 

Organizers: Clément Pélissier, Filippo Fonio

 

 

 

Call for Papers

 

 

Call for Applications: The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

Masculinities and Men's Studies Area

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
2025 National Popular Culture Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Proposals

Masculinities and Men’s Studies

(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)

National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference

 April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

Translations for Antonym Magazine

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Antonym Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.

  1. Novellas
  2. Short stories
  3. Flash fiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Essays

The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.

In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.

Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com

CfP: FOOD FEST, FEASTS & GATHERINGS

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:16am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Call for Submissions: The Lamp Literary Journal

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
The Lamp Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2025 issue (Volume 15)! 

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 12 January 2025. Please follow our submission guidelines below. 

Submission Guidelines:

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