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Mythology in Contemporary Culture
at the
Annual Conference of the
Popular Culture Association
New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024
Call for Papers
Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2025).
For our third publication (2025), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment, racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:
Call for papers: Visual Culture, Popular Culure Association 2025
An inherently interdisciplinary field, visual culture studies investigates images, media, and art in the contexts of sharing, producing, consuming, saving, and communicating. What defines visual culture, perhaps, is its resistance to definition. WJT MItchell’s (2002) landmark essay summed it up coherently when we proposed 8 “counter-theses,” two of which read as follows:
“Visual culture encourages reflection on the differences between art and non-art, visual and verbal signs, and rations between different sensory and semiotic modes.
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary MediaCFP for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)Theme: Old
This international, peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media, including film, literature, television, games, comic books, animated films, theme parks, and online forums. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed and has 1-2 issues per year.
Volume 4, Issue 1: Old (Fall 2025)
*This is a hybrid interdisciplinary conference funded by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick, accompanied by potential publication opportunities.*
In A Dying Colonialism (1959), Frantz Fanon, one of the most significant thinkers on decolonisation, writes firmly:
‘There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction’ (p. 65).
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (NCGS) is published three times a year—spring, fall and a specially-themed summer issue—and accepts both scholarly articles and book reviews year-round. We welcome articles of 5,000-8,000 words on gender studies and British literature, art, and culture during the long nineteenth century. Submissions should conform to the most recent MLA Handbook and must include a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. Submissions must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, either in print or online.
Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*
Popular Culture Association Conference
16-19 April 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana, US
The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archival documents, or simply sticking to fictional accounts.
Call For Paper
“History provides numerous examples of people who were convinced that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of it.”
---Christopher Paolini
Chromatic Encounters: Experiencing Colour from Early Modern Literature to Modernism
Place: Sorbonne Université and Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Dates: 26-28/06/2025
Spaces and Contexts for Teaching African Literature
A Roundtable for the African Literature Association Annual conference
Nairobi, June 25-28, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
UP NEXT | AU SUIVANT
April 11-12, 2025
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marie W. Larose
Assistant Professor, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College
Call for Papers
The Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, invites submissions for the upcoming issue on Literature and the Posthuman of its journal, Research and Criticism.
Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada 3rd Annual Conference
Call for Papers
March 2 & 3, 2025
The Punk Rock Museum – Las Vegas, Nevada
Theme: Punk on Display
Following the success of our second in-person conference in August 2024, we are excited to announce our third in-person conference sponsored by PSN Canada and PSN USA. This year, the conference will be held on March 2 and 3 at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) is accepting proposals for papers, slide presentations, lightning talks, and 20x20 sessions. The conference is a forum to discuss, demonstrate, and champion learning strategies in teaching young adult literature. College faculty, graduate students, librarians, authors, K-12 educators, and scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations on all aspects of YA literature and media.
The deadline for submitting a proposal is February 15, 2025
The conference will be held on April 11, 2025 and will be onsite.
The 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 5-8, 2025) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by November 11, 2024, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. Following the submission deadline, authors will be notified as quickly as possible whether their papers have been accepted.
Communities and the discourses they foster play a crucial role in shaping how games are both designed and experienced. Salen and Zimmerman (2004) describe how games are cultural artefacts engaged with dynamic exchanges of meaning with their surrounding cultural contexts. These open cultural contexts influence can transform both games and their environments. Consalvo (2007) expands this understanding by discussing how videogame paratexts, such as guides and fan-created content, serve as vital pedagogical tools that shape how players approach and engage with games.
Family Fictions
Generations and Genealogies in European Culture
15- 17. 05. 2025, KU Leuven
Keynotes:
Prof. Stefan Willer (Humboldt University)
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele University)
Dr. Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)
There is no denying that contemporary audiences have an insatiable appetite for killers: myth, legend, and reality. The soaring success, and continued demand, for fictions and nonfictions that document the dealings of serial killers and murders provide ample evidence for this. We are fascinated by their narratives and by their psychologies, and it is perhaps this need or want to understand the killer’s thinking that, in part, makes them so attractive to read and view. However, delineation between fiction and nonfiction continues to be a greyscale area. There are no longer certainties in crime fiction, nor in true crime writing, when it comes to the factual and the fictive.
The Reception of the Book of Job in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
The open-access journal “Terminus” invites submissions for a special issue on the reception of the Book of Job in medieval and early modern literature. We welcome contributions from scholars in literature, theology, history, and related disciplines.
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Panel at ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment) 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Columbia University’s French Graduate Student Association (FGSA) invites graduate students from all disciplines to submit abstracts for our upcoming conference on the theme of (Re)conciliation? The conference will take place January 30-31, 2025, at Columbia’s Maison Française in New York City, with a keynote address from French-Moroccan author and scholar Kaoutar Harchi.
The Folklore Area of the Popular Culture Association is considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers related to Folklore Studies for the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference by November 30, 2024. The conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 16-19).
Sessions are typically scheduled in 1½ hour slots, with four papers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. As always, proposals addressing any topic related to folklore or folklore studies are welcome, including but not limited to the following:
CALL FOR ARTICLES: The New Ray Bradbury Review, Issue 9
For the next issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review (NRBR), we invite articles which shine new light on any aspect of the works and life of Ray Bradbury.
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Special Issue | Call For Papers
(De)Bordering Aesthetics: 19th-Century German Philosophy and the Migratory Turn
Guest Editor: Gabriele Schimmenti (Roma Tre University, Italy)
**Call for Papers*
*Literary vs. Legal Language*
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between February 2025 and May 2025. The deadline for applications is November 1.
The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events. Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.
AICED-26
THE 26th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION
29-31 May 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS
Writing in a World on Fire:
Perspectives on War and Climate Change
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures
7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania
Call for Papers
ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann
“Something that concerns me very much is human dignity…or the lack of it.” – F.Z.
New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there?