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Call for Chapters for Toyetic Television: A Companion

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:13pm
Sophia Staite
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

From G. I. Joe workout routines and Sailor Moon wedding gowns to Bratz doll make-unders and Ferby modding, toyetic, merchandise-driven television from past decades has proved remarkably resilient. Toyetic television clearly holds a far greater and more enduring cultural significance than definitions such as “glorified half-hour commercials” (Hilton-Morrow & McMahan 2003, p. 78) might suggest. It is meaningful to individual viewers, it becomes “social lubricants facilitating communication between one child and another” (Steinberg 2012, p. 90), and it can connect generations through shared viewing and playing pleasures.

Fellowship for California Black Women Creative Writers

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:13pm
Muses & Melanin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 5, 2024

The Muses & Melanin Fellowship is a supportive, virtual, fully funded eight-month cohort-based professional development program for 30 talented California African American, Afro Latina, and multiracial women creative writers of the African diaspora who aspire to become professional authors. The fellowship is designed for women who do not yet have a lengthy list of publishing credits, are not under a publishing contract, do not have literary agent representation, and do not have a doctoral degree in English, Creative Writing, or Literature (a Master's degree in these subjects is fine, such as an MFA or MA). A Bachelor's degree is required.

ASAT's 67th Annual Conference: “Harmony & Discord”

updated: 
Saturday, August 3, 2024 - 11:43am
American Studies Association of Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

 

Call for Papers

ASAT's 67th Annual Conference

“Harmony & Discord”

 

Now Open: Submissions of abstracts for presentations and panels are now open for the 2024 ASAT conference, which will take place from November 14 - 16 on the campus of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. 

 

Special Issue - Breaking Convention: Genre Fiction in a Global Frame

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:12pm
Lucinda Newns, Bishop Grosseteste University (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Special Issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly the Journal of Commonwealth Literature)

Deadline for abstract proposals: 15 July 2024

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.

Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:11pm
Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP: Panel exploring the representations of motherhood in Canada for the in-person conference “Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives” (University of Debrecen, Hungary, October 24-25, 2024)

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: SAMLA 96 Special Session

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:10pm
Octavia E. Butler Literary Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Teaching Octavia E. Butler: Call for Papers SAMLA 96

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association

November 15-17, 2024
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
Jacksonville, FL

We invite proposals from educators, graduate students, independent scholars, and anyone passionate about incorporating Butler’s works into their teaching and learning environments.

Panelists are encouraged to share specific lesson plans, classroom activities, and resources that effectively engage students with Butler’s texts. Discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching Butler in diverse educational settings are also welcome.

Dalloway Day Mini-Conference

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:10pm
Charlotte Fiehn/Center at West Park
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 21, 2024

The Center at West Park (CWP) is hosting Dalloway Day - a celebration of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway - on June 21st. The event, beginning at 5pm, will feature a mini-conference session (approximately 2-hours) and a film screening.

We would like to invite interested parties - established and emerging scholars, students, and general readers - to submit proposals (200 to 300 words) for 15 to 20 minute papers on the novel or aspects of Woolf’s work.

Please send proposals to charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu.

If you’re interested in attending the event without presenting, we’d also love to add you to the mailing list for the event. 

Reading Taylor Swiftly

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Post-45 Contemporaries
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

“Reading Taylor Swiftly”CFP for Post-45 Contemporaries

Co-editors:

Stephanie Burt, Donald and Catherine Loker Professor of English, Harvard University

Gabriel Hankins, Associate Professor of English, Clemson University

 

Queering Arcadia: the early modern pastoral across gender and genre (RSA Boston 2025)

updated: 
Monday, June 3, 2024 - 6:26am
Johann Paccou, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris), for Epistémè
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024

In Richard Barnfield’s The Affectionate Shepheard (1594), the identity of the aptly-named Ganymede, who is gendered as a “boy,” appears to be labile in the eye of the poetic persona: “If thou wilt be my Boy, or else my Bride.” Such indefiniteness surrounding gender identity is typical of early modern English pastoral, which relies on classical precedents to idealise the life of enamoured shepherds in idyllic landscapes. Indefiniteness is also noticeable in the figure of the “amorous girl-boy” Ganymede in Thomas Lodge’s romance Rosalynde (1592), as well as in that of their Shakespearean counterpart in the pastoral comedy As You Like It (c. 1599).

Knowing India: Academic Social Responsibility and the Humanities

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University and Humanities in India Partnership Programme, University of East Anglia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Knowing India: Academic Social Responsibility and the Humanities

Offered by Centre for Translation of Indian Literatures (CENTIL), Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

under

SPARC Project (Scheme for the Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration) in association with the Humanities in India Partnership Programme, University of East Anglia.

Comparative Literature and Translation: Mapping Milestones, Tracing Trajectories

updated: 
Sunday, June 2, 2024 - 7:04pm
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University in collaboration with the Comparative Literature Association of India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Comparative Literature and Translation:

Mapping Milestones, Tracing Trajectories

 

Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University

in collaboration with the

Comparative Literature Association of India

(23rd – 25th July 2024)

Three-Day International Online Conference in Memory of

 Dr. Chandra Mohan,

former General Secretary of CLAI

 

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