The Neutral is a new, peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/theneutral 

For its third issue, The Neutral is soliciting contributions for 'The Unhuman'

Following the online international conference Drawing and Performance: Creating Scenography, organised by the Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance (INET-md), we are calling all who wish to submit their papers for the upcoming peer-reviewed Ebook. 

Saving the Day for Robin Hood Studies: Perspectives and Reflections on Comics Adapted from the Matter of the Greenwood (Roundtable)

Sponsored by The Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture.

For Global Outlaws: The Biennial Conference of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies

Tentative Date: 3-5 December 2021.                                          

Medium: VIRTUAL.

Deadline for Proposals: 11 October 2021.

We are honored to announce the 9th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture and Crossroads III Conference. This combined conference is organized jointly by the University of Białystok (Poland) and Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) on October 14-15, 2021 in Białystok, Poland, and the topical theme of the conference will be “Risk and Safety” in different areas of human sciences. 

Our Keynote Speakers

In today’s global world, we all face unique challenges such as global warming, new strain of viruses and so on. The COVID-19 global pandemic has changed our lives in so many ways. As a result, we have to adapt and fight these global challenges by producing relevant results in different areas of science. This is why all interested authors are kindly encouraged to contribute and to help shape the conference by submitting their research papers. Since this is an interdisciplinary conference, even high quality research contributions that describe original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas are cordially invited for presentation at the conference.

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: Comparative Literature

Contacts: Andrea Gogrof, Western Washington University (agogrof@gmail.com)

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: Classics (Latin)

Contacts: Kyle Khellaf, University of California - Riverside (kyle.khellaf@ucr.edu)

Description: Any paper proposal on Classical Latin literature or culture is welcome, with particular consideration granted to papers that engage with the conference theme of "City of God, City of Destruction."

Conference Note:

“Post-Politics and the Aesthetic Imagination”

CFP for Edited Collection

This Call for Papers seeks abstracts for essays that reflect on the analytical bridges that might exist between post-political theory and the study of aesthetics broadly conceived. The main question the project aims to answer is the following: Decades after everything was declared to be political, what are the affordances, triumphs, and pitfalls of a post-political theory of aesthetics?

Crossing Territories.
Recognition across Time, Space and Textuality in the US and Beyond 

Department of Humanities, L’Aquila, September 23-25, 2021

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Cristina Bacchilega (University of Hawai’i)

Jonathan Bell (University College London)

Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza University, Rome)

Kameelah Martin (College of Charleston)

Call for Papers

Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones

“Making Queer Comics: Foundations and Touchstones” is a proposed volume in the series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists at the University Press of Mississippi (under advance contract).  This volume will survey the work of foundational figures in LGBTQ+ comics art and storytelling from the 1960s to the 1990s.

We are honored to announce the 9th International Conference on Language, Literature & Culture and Crossroads III Conference. This combined conference is organized jointly by the University of Białystok (Poland) and Çankaya University (Ankara, Turkey) on October 14-15, 2021 in Białystok, Poland, and the topical theme of the conference will be “Risk and Safety” in different areas of human sciences. 

Our Keynote Speakers

Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, an open-access and peer-reviewed international journal published by Çankaya University in Ankara, is currently accepting submissions of articles and book reviews for its forthcoming June 2022 issue. The Journal is listed or indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Index Copernicus/ICI Journals Master List, TR Index https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/cankujhss

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: American Literature before 1865

Contacts: Amy Parsons, California State University Maritime Academy (aparsons@csum.edu)

PAMLA 2021 LAS VEGAS: "CITY OF GOD, CITY OF DESTRUCTION" (Thursday, November 11 - Sunday, November 14, 2021 at Sahara Las Vegas Hotel, hosted by University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

Session: British Literature and Culture: To 1700

Contacts: Jennifer Andersen, California State University - San Bernardino (janderse@csusb.edu)