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American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference (Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality)

updated: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 2:47am
American Academy of Religion, Western Region (Religions of Asia Unit)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024

 

The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.

 

Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"

Dates: March 14-16, 2025

Location: Arizona State University

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024

2025 ACLA_virtual meeting_CFP: World literature as a mode of doing and experiencing

updated: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 1:51am
2025 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (online conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on world literature and has been widely expanded upon by scholars. Building on this foundation, Tong King Lee (2024) proposes that in today’s globalized context, circulating literature necessitates not only a mode of reading but also a mode of doing. In this view, a literary work becomes a Barthian Text—an interconnected network of “texts” that manifest in various forms (multilingual, multimodal, or multimedial), shaped by users rather than just readers.

CFP: “Provocations” Essays for American Gothic Studies

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Gothic Studies/Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies

 

American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject.

 

Among other things, authors might:

Afrifuturism

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
African Literature Today
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 43) with a focus on “Afrifuturism” and hereby calls for well-researched articles for the volume. One of the more recent genres in African literature is Afrifuturism. It is a relatively new concept introduced by the Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy novelist, Nnedi Okorafor. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the thematic engagement of writers in this field of writing. 

Expanded Practices: Writing, Pedagogy, and Creative Arts

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Dr. Sandra Huber, Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett / Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2024

Writing has always been one step in the future. From emojis to slang to song, writing has momentum, and it is up to us - as artists, researchers and educators - to find ways of moving with it. In the light of emerging concerns about technology’s cultural impact, and the changing relevance of traditional writing techniques, how might our practices and pedagogies adapt to this shifting interdisciplinarity? What might this look like in contexts where writing exists alongside other forms of artistic communication, such as classrooms, institutions and interdisciplinary practices? How do preexisting notions of art and writing change as technologies and platforms demand new forms of engagement?

Berkeley Graduate Conference in Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800)

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
UC Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

We are pleased to announce that the Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) will take place on Saturday May 3rd, 2025.

Alison McQueen (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address.

We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words on any topic or geographic area so long as it substantively engages with the timeframe. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and they must not yet have a PhD.

Submission deadline: January 10th, 2025 at midnight PST. Accepted speakers will be notified in February 2025.

Perspectives JDMC Issue V - Disability Studies

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal Janki Devi Memorial College

University of Delhi

eISSN 2583 - 4762

 

Call For Papers

Issue V: Disability Studies

 

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762.

 

Critical Essays on Laughter in War

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Marcus Harmes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 4, 2024

War is hell but can also be funny, whether as a safety valve from pressure or catharsis after tragedy, as subversion, as efforts to build and maintain morale, or as exercises in nostalgia. Cinema early discovered the comedy inherent to conflict including the immensely successful 1920 film Alf’s Button, made just after and set during the First World War and notable as being popular despite (or because of) making comedy about the recent war. Comedy about war has since proliferated and writing and themes continue to respond to and adapt themselves to changing global and political circumstances including comedy responding to the Global War on Terror.

 

35th Annual LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Tatiana Servin De Maio/Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

CFP 35th LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space

Lousiana State University | February 26-28, 2025 | Hybrid Format

It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.—Anne Rice

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.—Nikola Tesla

AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Katherine Ellison/Illinois State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Date and Location: April 16-18, 2025 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois

Abstracts: 150 word abstracts are due November 1, 2024. Send to Dr. Katherine Ellison at keellis@ilstu.edu

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE FICTION AREA

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference, April 16-19, 2025, New Orleans, LA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for the 2025 annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2025.

We seek proposals from researchers, academics, graduate students, and independent scholars for scholarly discussions on all aspects and periods of mystery and detective fiction. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged, including cultural studies, visual arts, media studies, audience reception and fan studies.

Happiness and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Popular Culture

 

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

New Orleans

April 16-19, 2025

 

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Yu Min Rodan/ DLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.

Leeds IMC 2025 Call for Papers (Hybrid) - Learning, Knowledge and Awareness

updated: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024 - 10:58am
CERÆ: AN AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.

“Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:26am
North Eastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Description:

This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.

Abstract:

The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Introduction and Scope:

The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

Medievalisms Area, SWPACA 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference: "Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa"

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Department of English, University of Zululand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 11, 2024

                                                                              UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
                                                                2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
                                                Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa

                                                         Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU

Digital (R)evolution and Cyber Censorship in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Holocaust Studies Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:24am
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Fifteenth Biennial

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University

 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

                                                                                                                                                                             

Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Society for Queer and Trans Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

 

Henri Nouwen Academic Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Henri Nouwen Society; Oblate School of Theology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.

 

Love and Death in Dostoevsky's novels and Beyond, NeMLA March 6-9, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.

CFP - Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Gender and Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).

Political Speeches in Film

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Université de Lorraine, France
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Dear colleagues, 

Please find below the links to the call for papers of the international conference "Political Speeches in Film" which will take place at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France on March 17, 18, 2025:

https://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/CFP%20-%20Political%20Speeches%20in%20Film%20-%20EN-1_0.pdf (English version) 

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