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(Re)shaping Monstrous Addiction in the American Gothic

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:02am
American Nightmares: The Inaugural Symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 27, 2023

From vampires to zombies, uncanny doubles to the demonically possessed, gothic tropes have played a significant role in shaping narratives of addiction in American culture. More recently, news stories have framed the opioid crisis and its impact on homeless populations in cities like Boston and Philadelphia as a “zombie apocalypse.” Such tropes can dehumanize already stigmatized populations, yet the gothic remains a mode uniquely suited for exploring concepts of addiction and the lived experiences of individuals, families, and communities affected by the condition.

Mapping Memory: History, Texts and Cultures

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:02am
Departments of English and History, Loreto College, Kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 16, 2023

MAPPING MEMORY: HISTORY, TEXTS AND CULTURES

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEMORY STUDIES

 (22 & 23 February, 2024)

 

DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY

LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA

 

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Call for Papers: Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 10:59am
Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers: Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature welcomes submissions of new work for 2024, Summer and Winter numbers. 2024 marks the bicentenary of a number of literary, intellectual, and cultural events associated with 1824, including:

Science: Michael Faraday and the Royal Society

Periodicals: founding of Jeremy Bentham’s Westminster Review

Education: Manchester Mechanics’ Institute (preceded by Edinburgh, 1821 and Liverpool, Glasgow, and London in 1823)

Music: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony

Social Reform: Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established 

Civil Rights Act of 1964: Historical Significance, Impact, and Legacy

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 10:46am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Civil Rights Act of 1964: Historical Significance, Impact, and Legacy

International Hybrid Conference
24-25 February 2024
University of Delft, The Netherlands

(In-Person/Physical Presence and Online Presentation sessions: 2 days)
(Virtual platform for pre-recorded presentations: 5 days)

 (More info: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/civil-rights-act-of-1964-historical-significance-impact-and-legacy/ )

Thematic Approach

LAST CALL: Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities, and the Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling (National Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 11:41am
Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

Call for Papers
ICSSR-sponsored National Conference
on
Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities, and Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling
8th – 9th February 2024
Centre for English Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

CFP for edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, for Manchester University Press

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 3:22pm
AHRC Research Network, PI Dr Amy Burge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

We invite proposals for research chapters for a new edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, for Manchester University Press. This page outlines the book and how to submit a chapter proposal.

Description of book

In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to S. A. Chakraborty’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Deena Mohamed – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.

Edited volume | Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 12:03pm
Laura Álvarez Trigo (UVA) and Anna Marta Marini (UAH)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror

Edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá)

 

Deadline Extended: NeMLA 2024: Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia (Women's and Gender Studies Caucus Roundtable)

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 3:21pm
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

“Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia” centers on strategies such as refusal, disruption, and persistence in academia from an intersectional perspective that focusses on gendered racialization.

This roundtable will engage participants about structural change in their local context by sharing strategies from diverse standpoints. This could mean sharing stories about surviving contract work, probation, tenure review, and administrative roles while coping with and negotiating the demands of everyday life. However, participants can also consider refusal, disruption, and persistence with collaboration and community building in the foreground for systemic change, big or small.

CFP ACLA 2024 The Scream: Paralinguistic Expressions in Art

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 3:21pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel aims to explore the possibilities presented in immanent, paralinguistic expressions which evade or function parallel to and beyond the realm of structured grammar and logics of exchange. Edouard Glissant, in Caribbean Discourse, teaches us that in the beginning was not the word, but sound. He writes, “the spoken imposes on the slave its particular syntax. For Caribbean man, the word is First and foremost sound. Noise is essential to speech . . .

2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 3:21pm
Archive/Counter-Archive, Eye Filmmuseum, and the Toronto International Film Festival® (TIFF)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

2024 CONFERENCE THEME: BUILDING ALLIANCES
 

(A)rchival endeavors should not be about documenting the past, nor even about imagining the future…but about building a liberatory now. 

-Michelle Caswell, Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (2021, 13)

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks "The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Vol. 72 (1/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 8:38am
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks

Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)

NEW Submission deadline: March 31, 2024

Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across various media. This special issue aims to delve deep into the intricate relationship between ideas and their portrayal within popular culture.

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