online conferences

18-19 June 2024, University of Szczecin and online

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual symposium exploring the criminal in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd of May 2024.

Crime is one of the most popular genres across the popular culture spectrum. Celebrated detectives, true crime podcasts, police procedurals, the fashion of crime and deviancy, spy, war, political and corporate crimes in film, sport cheats, pickpockets and con artists, glamourous lawyers, innocent victims, and grumpy Judges are just some of the ways crime is represented in popular culture. This conference aims to examine the crime genre in popular culture.

Keynote Speaker

“In a time of destruction, create something”

Maxine Hong Kingston

This year, our theme is “The Resilience of Imagination.” Imagination intrinsically ties into stories and the creative work that creates the world and characters contained within said stories. Imagination does not limit itself just to writers though – anyone who creates or interacts with art relates to imagination. What does imagination mean in a story? How do you use imagination? What does it encompass?

‘Decolonization’ is now a buzzword in academics as well as in contemporary South Asian politics, meaning different things to different people – from decolonizing the mind to literally demolishing colonial monuments: in many cases, the emotion associated with decolonization is grossly misplaced. If decolonization amounts to ethnic cleansing or for that matter, igniting communal animosity through distortion of history, leading to more fractures than harmony in society, that form of aggressive decolonization is certainly not desirable. Therefore, ‘decolonization’ needs to be understood in all its nuances, which are often whitewashed in order to advance divisive political agendas.

Topics included but not limited to the following: 

*The Rhetoric of Racism in AI
The Rhetoric of Sexism in AI
The Rhetoric of Homoohobia in AI
The Politics of AI and Linguistics
Cultivating Effective Teaching and Learning With AI
Ethics With Language Generated Programs For Students’ Writing and Research

International Seminar:

Date: October 30–31, 2024

Universidad Complutense, Madrid

Conference: Tribute to Cid Corman: From Japan to the US and the World, 1924–2004

Our Conference (in a hybrid format, both in person and online) aims at celebrating the life and work of US poet Cid Corman, bringing to light his crucial contribution as a poet, editor and translator of two shores (Japan and the US, also within the European, French and Italian traditions), in his role bridging the gap between cultures in English and in Japanese.

Contributions:

Issues to address are not limited to the following,

NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024

“I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Heavy Childhoods 2025

CFP

Faculty of Foreign Languages would like to remind you that the 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:

Linguistics

CFP: 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid

Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16-17 (in-person presentations only with Zoom projections), Thursday, April 18, 2024 (Zoom presentations only)

Plenary Speaker: Christopher Goffard, author and senior staff writer, Los Angeles Times

In her 2020 publication Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell explores the notion of “glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital.” With this framing, she argues that glitches might “inform the way we see the AFK [Away-From-Keyboard or real] world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greater agency for and by ourselves” (8-9). With her sights set on social systems of gender, race, and sexuality in particular, Russell asks how embodied subjects who defy patriarchal white supremacist cisheterosexist norms are positioned or appear as glitches, as errors, in digital and AFK spaces.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 22–24 May 2024 ONLINE ONLY

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2024 annual meeting. As announced at the 2023 meeting we plan to hold conferences in-person in the spring of odd-numbered years and remotely in the spring of even-numbered years. While we recognize the value of in-person conferences, we are also mindful of the importance of reducing the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy conferences.

For this year’s online conference we invite proposals for individual papers as well as organized panels on any aspect of environmental philosophy.

 CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Papers and Research-Creations

Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference

June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom

Communities Structures Entanglements

New  Deadline: Tuesday, January 16th

The VI Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 is thrilled to announce a Call for Proposals focused on the compelling and intricate themes of "Communities Structures Entanglements." These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.

Themes: