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Deadline Extended: All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)

updated: 
Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 5:54pm
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th thru November 2, 2025. This year’s conference “I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance” centers “the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present.” Water “serves as a prompt for urgent questions about landscapes and ecologies as well as diasporic ruptures, spiritual practices, labors of many kinds, fugitivity and resistance” (ASWAD CFP). 

Teaching the Black Diaspora in German Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 7:07pm
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CfP: Teaching the Black Diaspora in German Studies (Panel) 

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6 - 9, 2025

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 through NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21158

 

Meta+Physics of Black Artmaking

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:33am
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP – “META+PHYSICS OF BLACK ARTMAKING”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 1, Spring 2026

Fair Use

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

CFP – “FAIR USE”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9, no. 2, Fall 2025

LOOKING FOR PODCAST GUEST(S): 90s SWING DANCE REVIVAL

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
THE NOSTALGIA TEST PODCAST
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024

CALLING ALL POP-CULTURE SCHOLARS!!!! 

I'm one half of the pop-culture podcast The Nostalgia Test Podcast. We are a comedy podcast that revists pop-culture from our childhood to see if it's still good, just nostalgic, or terrible! 

We have a series we do called Nostalgia 101 where we have professionals, industry people, directors, innovators, and scholars come on to teach us about a specific pop-culture topic. 

We recently decided we would LOVE to have on one or more (a small panel of scholars, like up to 3 would be cool) scholars to come on and teach us/talk about the 90s revival of swing dance and swing music. 

We usually record for about an hour, though we love to let the conversation build if it's going well. 

SCMS 2025 roundtable CFP: De-centering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

This roundtable titled Monster on the Hill: Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror is interested in questions facing the Horror Genre in its new contemporary era. In the wake of “Black Horror” being deemed “America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre” by the New York Times, and the success of auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Nia Dacosta, Iris K. Shim, and more, we seek to think through what are the most important questions facing those reinventing the horror genre in ways that de-center a white western lens? How might we conceptualize horror as a genre that demands both solidarity and betrayal from its viewers, while unifying marginalized populations across the global south and north?

JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy): General CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in italy is now accepting contributions for the general section of its #11 issue (publication date: May 2025).

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2024.

 

Essay proposals should not exceed 8.000 words (including footnotes and reference list).

 

Submit proposals online at https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/about/submissions 

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Nov. 7-9, 2024 (at Augusta University or on Zoom)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:12pm
Society of Nineteenth Century Historians
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 32nd Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press.

The Society invites panel and paper submissions dealing with media, broadly defined in the nineteenth century. Recent topics have included the Civil War of fiction and history, slavery and abolition, coverage of presidents and legislatures, the minority and foreign language press, the illustrated press, sensationalism, reporting on the arts, and spiritualism and the supernatural.

SUBMISSION: Full Paper, Panel Proposal or **Abstract** 

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:08pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CFP for NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 6-9

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

 

In a roundtable format, “Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy” will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

 

CFP - HyperCultura - 13/2024

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:47am
HyperCultura - Hyperion University, Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles for our next issue, due April 2025. We receive papers on Literature (not that of ancient Greece or Rome), Media Studies, Film Studies, Visual and Performative Arts, and Teaching (Language and Literature). Papers in said areas need to focus on the following themes: Nationalism/Post-nationalism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Decolonization, Race, Gender Studies, Ethnicity, and Identity.

We are: CEEOL, Ulrichsweb, MLA Directory of Periodicals, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, SCOPUS. We also archive our journal in the Internet Archive. 

Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 7:00am
Bandung: Journal of the Global South (BRILL)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

 

Special Issue Call for Papers 

Bandung: Journal of the Global South  

Link to download the CFP: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37598_BJGS_CfP_2024.pdf 

Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South

 

 

Goutam Karmakar (lead guest editor)

Honorary Research Associate

Faculty of Arts and Design

Durban University of Technology

Women in the Black Fantastic

updated: 
Friday, August 2, 2024 - 6:44pm
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 2, 2024

Following the success of our conference in 2022, the SFF will be organising a further two-day online event in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University on 7-8 December 2024.

The theme of the conference will be Women in the Black Fantastic and will mark the 40th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler winning both the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.

Keynote Speakers: Nyasha Mugavazi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

"Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era"

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:40am
Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

                        Call for Papers: "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Era"

Hosted by the Department of English, Howard University

The Department of English at Howard University invites scholars, researchers, and educators to submit abstracts for our forthcoming virtual conference on "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era." This second annual conference will explore contemporary approaches to the study of Womanism and Afrofuturism during this transformative period in American history.

Conference Themes:

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  1. Literary Works and Authors:

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Brandon Hutchinson/Southern CT State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Abstract

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

In a roundtable format, "Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy" will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

SCMS 2025 Panel CFP: Emotional Horror

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:32pm
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

In her seminal essay on body genres, Linda Williams characterizes embodied responses to film genres, citing shudders and screams as the products of horror and tears as the product of melodrama. Yet a great deal of horror scholarship has investigated the intimate allegorical relations between horror’s monsters and marginalized subject positions, as in canonical works such as Monsters in the Closet (Harry M. Benshoff) and Horror Noire (Robin R. Means Coleman). Studies have further explored how horror media function cathartically as relatively safe encounters with terror for those experiencing cultural prejudice, as seen in Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s Recreational Terror and Heather Petrocelli’s Queer for Fear.

Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
Alison Bertolini
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Proposed submissions are requested for an edited collection of chapters, tentatively titled Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature.

*Deadline extended* Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 10:11am
McMcMaster Universty (Hamilton, Canada) and Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada).
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”

Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2024

Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024

 

Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University), 

 

Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, 

Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo

 

Security, Peace, and Sustainable Development in a Troubled World

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 7:55am
AAB College, Kosovo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

International online conference (free of charge)

September 12, 2024

Organizers:

Faculty of Public Administration, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Economics
AAB College, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo

in partnership with:

University of Southeast Europe, North Macedonia
University of  Vlora "Ismail Qemali", Albania

Keynote Speaker: 

: "My Dungeon Shook": A Century of James Baldwin

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:42pm
Morgan State University-Department of English and Language Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Call for Papers: 7th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: "My Dungeon Shook":  A Century of James Baldwin

Date: October 24-26, 2024

Venue: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024

 

SEEKING: 1 chapter on race/postcolonialism -- Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:38pm
Monica Sousa (York University), Jerika Sanderson (University of Waterloo)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 9, 2024

We are seeking one (1) chapter contribution to Altered Animals: Posthumanism and Technology in 20th and 21st Century Discourse and Narratives (tentatively titled) to be published with Routledge as a part of their series "Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture." Specifically, we seek a chapter that addresses topics of race/postcolonialism in connection with the book's main scope. 

Abstract proposals of 300-500 words are due on August 9th. Please also include a biographical note including institutional affiliation (if any) of 150-200 words, and a bibliography with a minimum of 5 sources.

Women's Progress in African Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:30pm
Thomas Jay Lynn / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in transcending traditional norms as well as modern forms of objectification and exploitation. Even though these novels gesture to the need for better physical and societal realities for women, we may not find in the early novels a plan or vision of what exactly is needed for women to surmount various cultural hurdles and to fully actualize their potential in the modern realm.

Call for Submissions: "Telling Women's Stories"

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:54pm
Conference on Women and Gender / Christopher Newport University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Christopher Newport University’s College of Arts and Humanities 

seeks submissions for the forthcoming 

Conference on Women and Gender 

to be held in person at Christopher Newport University 

March 20-22, 2025 

Our theme is: 

Telling Women's Stories 

This interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender is organized around women’s stories. Our definition of “story” is deliberately vast and inclusive, and may refer to a personal account, historical or contemporary representation, or any form of expression that illustrates the breadth 

C19 Podcast: Call for Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:51pm
C19 Podcast
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

Call for Contributors - Forgotten Spaces: Ecocriticism, Social Justice, and the U.S. South

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:47pm
Katie Simon (Georgia College) and Catherine Bowlin (Elon University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The U.S. South is often a forgotten space within ecocritical discussions, yet it provides fruitful ground for thinking about environmental issues. In 2019, in the first edited collection of essays on the topic, Zachary Vernon notes that focusing attention on this bioregion might help “provide a way out of the limitations of thinking too locally or too globally,” and it might inspire a group of stakeholders to come to the table as well (7). One problem with ecocritical approaches is the long history of representing the U.S. South as an “internal other in the national imagination: colonized, subordinate, primitive, developmentally arrested, or even regressive” (Watson 254).

Sankofa: Call for Submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:03am
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Summer 2025 (Vol. 15) publication. This issue will focus on the theme “Gender and Sexuality in African and African Diaspora Children’s and Young Adult Literature.”

Compton: Reflections on Art and the City

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:03am
Jenise Miller / The Compton Arts Project
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 23, 2024

The anthology, Compton: Reflections on Art and the City, aims to analyze the intellectual and creative contributions of Compton artists and their works and explore the city of Compton as an important site of artistic and historical production. We seek essays and criticism that interpret and evaluate recognized and underrecognized Compton artists and their individual or collective bodies of work within the contexts of larger artistic movements, artistic and cultural impact, and intersections of art, place, and culture.

 

 

Call for Anthology Submissions

Compton: Reflections on Art and the City

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