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Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel with a November 2024 release. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Medusa: Essays on Different Media

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:14pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

This call for papers seeks two specific chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapters needed include one on Ancient Drama and another on Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in May 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:54pm
Edited volume on Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

 

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Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:01pm
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Wayward Studies and Methods

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:24am
MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

Conference on Voices and Visions in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 6:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).

National Cinemas of Agriculture (Panel at ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:58pm
Stacey Baran / University of California, Davis
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that attend to the complications of invoking the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:49am
Maxime Philippe / Sun Yat-Sen University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)

 

This year marks the centenary of the publication of the surrealist manifesto. The surrealist movement, itself derived from Dada, has since experienced internationalization and rebirths. In recent years, the movement has benefited from new insights while literary and artistic criticisms have sought to highlight figures and aspects hitherto neglected: the essential place of women in movement, its international dimension, its Relations with negritude and the criticism of colonialism, its intermediality, the multiplicity of its artistic practices.

Baldwin Again and Again

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Popular Culture Association

2025 National Conference

April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable

 

Baldwin Again and Again

 

Athletes Breaking Bad Too

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Book chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.

Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Romance, Revolution and Reform: The Journal of the Southampton Centre for Nineteenth-Century Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 18, 2024

Call for Papers -- Play in the Long Nineteenth Century

17th January 2025

University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play, whether as an end (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens 1944) or a reimaging (Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play, 2011). Games were ubiquitous throughout the period, hundreds of dedicated recreational spaces (museums, playgrounds, parks) were established, and a new cult of leisure took root that reshaped both public and private life.

Disasters and Apocalypses

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Call for Papers - International Journal Special Issue on "Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America"

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:47am
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Papers(Issue 9, Dec. 2025)

 

Ex-Centric Narratives:

Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

 

Please submit your abstracts by December 31, 2024,

for any of the following two parts

 

PART I

Theme:

Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:25am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Menghang Wu/Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

Symposium Date: April 4, 2025

Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and open to the public.

CFP: Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for paper for a Special issue of ReviewofEducation,Pedagogy,andCulturalStudies

Educatorsin PopularCulture: EducationalSettings asSites ofIntersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

 

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

EDITED COLLECTION Sciences and Fictions: New Human Models Beyond Boundaries

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London / Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Editors

  • Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
  • Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Presentation

PCA/ACA Memory and Representation area - April 16-19, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2025 National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 16-19, 2025.

 

Memory and Representation: Area Description

 

Auto-: Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Duke University Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

“Auto—”

Duke University Department of English Graduate Conference

February 13 & 14, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan University)

Society for Novel Studies Panel - How the Novel Speaks Alternate Media

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Brennan Jones / Joelle Troiano
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

How does the novel give voice to art in other media? What does it take to render as text what has never existed textually? In this panel, we will be responding to this year’s SNS conference theme of “novel languages” by thinking through the ekphrastic act in its broadest sense, asking and answering questions about what it means to “translate” art or experience from one medium to another, what it might mean for representations of other media in the novel to constitute a language of its own.

 

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

(Re)imagining ‘Progress’

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:20am
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is excited to announce the second Graduate Research Meet (GRM) on (Re)imagining ‘Progress’. Conventionally the idea of progress is understood as a linear trajectory towards improvement, scientific advancements, and socio-economic and technological developments. Progress, in contemporary times, can be seen as a holistic concept pertaining to not only societal but also individual betterment — more as a cultural, economic and psychological reality.

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