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Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

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

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Metamorphosis, Transformation, and Transmutation

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:25pm
Cerae Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Shifting – or transforming – between states of being is a feature of human and animal societies as well as of the wider living world and the cosmos. This act of shifting is experienced through both natural and unnatural processes and can be seen in all areas of life, from the reproductive cycles of organisms, to epochal changes undergone by entire societies, and everything in between. But transformations can also refer to distortions of reality, both deliberate and accidental, magical or real, as much as they can reflect genuine changes to an individual, an institution, a landscape, or even a society.

Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:21pm
Monica Sousa (York University), Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

CFP: Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

According to Descartes’ views of animals, animals are to be perceived as “automata” and “void of reason” (Discourse on the Method). As he explains, “were there such machines exactly resembling organs and outward form an ape or any other irrational animal, we could have no means of knowing that they were in any respect of a different nature from these animals” (Discourse on the Method). Contemporary animal studies scholars have moved past this outdated approach, instead accepting that animals exhibit cognition, sentience, emotion, and a myriad of demonstrations of intelligence.

Greening the Medical Humanities: the Environment and the Body in Conversation

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:19pm
The PJMH: The Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 8, 2024

Call for Papers 2024:

Greening the Medical Humanities: the Environment and the Body in Conversation

The PJMH: ThePostgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities, based at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History is accepting submissions for articles and book reviews for its seventh edition ‘Greening the Medical Humanities: the Environment and the Body in Conversation’. We welcome creative pieces, original articles and book reviews that engage with any aspect and interpretation of this theme.

Blurred Boundaries: Composition, Culture, and Literary Studies in the Visual-Digital Age

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:16pm
Red River Graduate Student Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Join us for the upcoming 2024 Red River Valley Graduate Student Conference, May 16-17, 2024 on the beautiful NDSU Campus in Fargo, ND. The conference will explore writing, rhetoric, literary theory, and culture in digital spaces, building from questions posed by our keynote speaker, Dr. Ratan Kumar Roy of Brac University, Bangladesh:

 

“Our exposure to the digital world has redefined the ways of seeing, thinking, and doing in everyday life. Digital visibility has appeared as a new form of visual cultures that plays a key role in defining the culture of contemporary times. How does one examine, explore, make sense, and write about culture in this new world order?”

47th Annual Williamson Lectureship at ENMU

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:11pm
Annual Williamson Lectureship on Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers/Presentations: Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU)

Theme: Speculative Fiction and Society

Call for Chapters - Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:15am
Stuart Joy/Solent University, Southampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.

Ray Bradbury: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 8:48pm
Kevin Wetmore / Peter Lang Publishers
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion

EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 31, 2023

 

Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places.  His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.

As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.

The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc

Call for Chapters: The Mummy Edited Collection - Due 12/15/23

updated: 
Sunday, December 3, 2023 - 11:15am
Michele Brittany and Sean Woodard
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023

Chapter Drafts Deadline: June 15, 2024

Essays sought for an edited collection focused on Universal Pictures’ The Mummy franchise.

ECOLOGY AND INTEGRATIVE DISCOURSE: A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS

updated: 
Friday, December 1, 2023 - 3:42pm
DR. MEETU BHATIA KAPUR/ VIVEKANANDA INSTITUTE OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES, NEW DELHI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

                                         ECOLOGY AND INTEGRATIVE DISCOURSE: A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS

CONCEPT NOTE

 

The word eco comes from the Greek word oikos, which etymologically implies household or earth and logy from logos implies rational discourse. Together they mean criticism of the house- the earth as represented in writing.  It is therefore defined in general, as the study of literature and the physical environment put together. However, in larger context, it incorporates numerous variants of human life.  

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

Happiness and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 11:07pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Culture

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

Chicago, IL

March 27-30, 2024

(Please note: the deadline has been extended. Proposals are now due by December 15, 2023) 

(Deadline Extended) Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 11:26pm
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:31pm
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields

Special Editor: Thomas Mical [Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas), New Centre for Research and Practice (US)]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - Volume 73 (2/2024)

Submission deadline: June 30, 2024

TerrAIforming -- Special Issue on Earth and AI

updated: 
Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:29am
Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

In July 2023, a tech startup called “Simulation Inc” released an AI technology that the company claims will make it possible to generate entire t.v. episodes—including dialogue, voice acting, animation, and editing—from nothing more than a two-sentence prompt. Somewhat oddly—and provoking suspicion that the project might be a hoax or internet prank—Simulation Inc’s website lists a fake address under their contact info: 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA. 

Reproductive Justice and the Humanities in Times of Crisis: Hybrid Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:44pm
University of York, UK and online
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.

The Brontës and the Wild

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:53pm
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

No promised heaven, these wild desires

Could all, or half fulfil;

– Emily Brontë, “The Philosopher”

 

Bronte Studies invites new and original essays of no more than 7,500 words responding to the theme of “The Brontes and the Wild,” which inspired the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s 2023 programme of events and activities and the Bronte Society’s conference.

ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:52pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"University of North Florida
May 16-19, 2024

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

CFP : Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape

updated: 
Saturday, November 4, 2023 - 7:27am
LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Call for Online Book Chapters

 

Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2023

Editors: Prof. Eduardo CAMILO & Prof. Karima BOUZIANE

Publisher and copyright: LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,

Universidade da Beira Interior,

Rua Marquês D’Ávila e Bolama,

6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.

Rationale

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.

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:05pm
Sapienza University of Rome, University of Silesia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 24, 2023

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics (Rome, 10th and 11th June 2024)

Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 (37th Cycle of the PhD Programme in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation)

CFP -- FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:02pm
Laura Hartmann-Villalta // Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES

CCAM Fall 2023 Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:23pm
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 13, 2023

Call for Papers

In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”

Published in his article in Mind when he was 38 years old, Turing’s question emerged from a life of relentless imagination. By then, Turing had applied his brilliance to help the allies win World War II and revolutionized computing—creating the foundation for much later developments in AI technologies and machine learning. His intrepidness included living as a gay man in a society that would criminalize and cause him irreparable harm for it.

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