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What is Prism?
Garbage, Discarded Governmentalities and the Ecosystem: Tensions and Resistances
Issue Editor: Sayan Dey, Alliance University, Bangalore
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Call for Abstracts: Doğuş University 2nd International Conference on English Language and Literature on 21st Century English Literature
We are pleased to announce the International Conference on 21st Century English Literature, an engaging platform for scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to explore and discuss the dynamic landscape of literature in the contemporary era. As we navigate the complexities of the 21st century, English literature continues to evolve, reflecting the multifaceted nature of our global society.
Conference Theme: "Digital Narratives: Shaping the Future of 21st Century English Literature"
Fantasy and the supernatural, broadly defined, shape many popular narratives and universes—from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones, from World of Warcraft to The Witcher, from classical and medieval tales of monsters and dragons to the worlds of N.K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As a genre, fantasy engages with questions of rhetoric, identity, and power in multiple ways, across media, subgenres, and cultural traditions; the enchantment of fantastic and supernatural narratives casts a persistent and global spell.
Call for Chapters
This panel considers a range of topics related to popular music defined and considered broadly. Though not limited to such inquiries, papers might address questions such as
· How do we see cultural forces at work in the inspiration of popular musical songs, albums, tours, artists, texts, and memes?
· How has popular music influenced, supported, challenged, and otherwise complicated cultural practices, beliefs, and norms?
· Where and how do we see the gravity of popular music extended to the domain of other arts and media?
· How does popular music manifest the intertextual and intersectional realities of (post)modern life?
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for an upcoming edited book entitled “Violence
and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature” to be published in Lexington Books,
Rowman & Littlefield, U.S.A. This edited book aims to explore the intricate intersections of
violence and marginality within the context of South Asian literature.
Postcolonial literature, with its diverse voices and narratives, has been instrumental in
articulating the complex realities of societies grappling with the repercussions of colonialism
and other forms of precarity. In the context of South Asia, a region marked by rich cultural
Announcing: “Notes On…” for the Edith Wharton Review (the official refereed journal of the Edith Wharton Society)
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - "Rhythms of Artwork and Beyond: Humanity, Sociality, and Nature" Vol.
Call For Papers for Somatechnics 16.1
Eco-horror’s Minor Intimacies: Affective Embodiments, Ecological
Desires
Issue editors: Lynn Kozak and Alanna Thain (McGill University) Publication date: Winter 2026
Horror is an affect, genre and epistemology relevant to our current condition, signaled by a resurgent interest in horror media in popular culture and in high art. A re-coding in horror’s language is widely perceptible across media that serve as a site for commentary and intervention
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - "Hybrid Landscapes: Experiencing Things, Mapping Practices, Re-construing Ecologies of Entangled Environments" Vol. 74 (1/2025), edited by Helena Elias (University of Lisbon), Jakub Petri (Jagiellonian University in Krakow), and Natalia Anna Michna (Jagiellonian University in Krakow). Submission deadline: 31 December, 2024 In recent decades, the relationship between discourses and materiality has been at the center of theoretical and practice-based debates, permeating numerous artistic, humanities, and social sciences research endeavors.
LFA 2024: RECOGNITION AND EMPATHY
LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
YORK COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, YORK, PA
SEPTEMBER 26-28, 2024
Film screening and Conversation: Dina Amer, director of You Resemble Me (2021)
Keynote: Elsie Walker, Salisbury University, author of Life 24x A Second: Cinema, Selfhood, and Society (Oxford UP, 2023)
Date: 2–4 October 2024
Location: Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Schloss-Str. 2+4, 82327 Tutzing, Germany Conveners: Lijuan Klassen and Christof Mauch
Keynote Speakers:
Ursula K. Heise (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jennifer Gabrys (University of Cambridge)
Malcom Ferdinand (Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, National Centre for Scientific Research [CNRS])
Call for Papers Hybridity and Women's Writing in Eighteenth-century Britain
Guest Editors: Francesca Blanch-Serrat and Paula Yurss Lasanta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024
This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.
Date:
Venue:
Date: November 9-10, 2024
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Cost: 180 GBP
90 GBP (Online)
Abstract Deadline: August 31, 2024
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/04/21/alchemy/
“Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.” – Paracelsus
Essays are invited for an edited volume exploring the role that race and racism play in the narrative worlds of The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, and Legacies, as well as the real world that consumes them. This volume explores how race intersects with other identity categories (gender, sexuality, disability, class, etc.) in the television and book series; how it structures power and agency in the storyworlds and behind the scenes; how it permeates the fan cultures associated with the franchise; and how ongoing fascination with the franchise reflects the tumultuous years of the Obama and Trump presidencies, the coronavirus pandemic, the racial uprisings of 2020, and beyond.
FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH issue 16 - Spring 2025
Call for issue 16 spring 2025: IMAGINATIVE KIN-MAKING. Narrating alternative forms of kinship in survival literature and fiction. Guest editors: Rossella Ciocca and Marta Cariello.
Deadline for article submission: October 15th, 2024
Deadline for submitting final accepted articles: December 15th, 2024
British Fantasy Society Journal – Call for Submissions for Winter Issue 2024
Deadline: 31st August 2024
The Fantasy Worlds of George MacDonald
Call For Papers
ReFocus: The Films of Rituparno Ghosh
CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Title of the book: Nonfiction in Indian Languages
Concept Note
Alcoholism has ruined many families, individuals and relationships. Its impact has not been restricted to just the physical health of the person but has often caused irrevocable harm to the mental health of the individual as well as those associated with the individual, making it as much a health hazard as a social concern. There are several states in India that ban the sale and use of alcohol and are designated dry states. Hooch tragedies are commonly reported.
When we call something a cliché, we’re typically calling it tired, banal, repetitive, or boring. Whether it’s an art object, a turn of speech, or a pattern of behavior, we’re identifying what it lacks: distinctiveness, originality, creativity, thrill. But in pointing to a cliché, we’re also pointing to a response. Noticing cliché creates a fissure. It elicits a reflexive movement, by which we’re forced to reckon with the repetitiousness of language; the ideological and economic structures that shape the creation of art; the social patterns that guide how we relate and self-present. Pointing to cliché, in other words, opens up the possibility for subversion.
Deadline for Submission: June 15, 2024
Contact e-mail: p.hobbs-penn@snhu.edu
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Disney Studies Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.
Brontë Studies is pleased to invite submissions for the 2024 iteration of the Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize. The prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of Brontë studies, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers, and support the professional development of the next generation of Brontë scholars. The prize was established in honour of Margaret Smith. She remains one of the most important Brontë scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
We invite you to participate in a collaborative writing workshop, “Writing with Thirty Hands,” leading up to and meeting at the PSi conference in London.
CFP for an Edited Volume: Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities
Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin
Project Description:
In this edited volume, we invite scholarly essays that examine the relationship between gender and Muslim identities as it is (re)presented in political spaces, visual cultures, and sociopolitical discourses. Some of the questions this volume seeks to examine are:
How is the idea of gender mobilized to in/de/form Muslim identities, both within and outside Muslim communities?
“Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)
April 2024
Call for Papers