From Golumbia’s The Cultural Logic of Computation (2009): 

I argue that we must also keep in mind the possibility of de-emphasizing computerization, resisting the intrusion of computational paradigms into every part of the social structure, and resisting too strong a focus on computationalism as the solution to our social problems. This study is written in the belief that computationalism aids some of the pernicious effects of institutional power; and that the best solutions to our pressing social problems lie in the social fabric itself and in social action, and less than we may imagine via computational transformation. (5)

From Golumbia’s “‘Communication,’ ‘Critical’” (2013):

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. 

4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment

Paris, France

July 1-4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers

Richard Kopley, Penn State-Dubois: “Tales of a Poe Biographer” 

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University: “Why Read Hawthorne Now?”

Call for Papers:  Special Edition Monsters and the Monstrous

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024

Email Proposals To: MonsterStudiesPCA@gmail.com

Ontological and Epistemological Incommensurability: Western Astronomy, Native Hawaiian Cosmologies, and the Mauna Kea Telescope Controversy

Rajpath: Journal of Creative Arts and English Language invites researchers, scholars, and practitioners to submit their original manuscripts for consideration in our upcoming issues. We welcome contributions that explore the intersection of creative arts and the English language from a diverse range of perspectives and disciplines.

We invite submissions on topics including, but not limited to:

• Creative writing and its impact on language
• Literature and cultural studies
• Language acquisition and pedagogy
• Digital humanities and technology in language studies
• Interdisciplinary approaches to creativity and language

Call for Papers

Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience

Virtual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB)
April 4-5, 2025​

The Society for the Study of Pregnancy and Birth (SSPRB) is pleased to announce its first symposium, Natality: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Birth as Existential Experience, held in collaboration with Dr. Lois Lee of the University of Kent. 

This symposium is a virtual event that will take place online across two half day sessions on April 3rd and April 4th, 2025 (to facilitate participation across time zones).

Call For Papers, Edited Volume

The Intergenerationality of Pentecost: Continuationist Essays

Hello! This is a CFP for the ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference, which will take place July 8-11 in College Park, MD. In accordance with the ASLE 2025 theme (“Collective Atmospheres: Air, Intimacy, and Inequality”), I am soliciting proposals for scholarly presentations that consider the ways in which climate engineering, geoengineering, terraforming (and other related processes) disturb the atmosphere. The panel’s overall purpose is to explore how different representations of and engagements with atmospheric disturbances present opportunities for environmental and climate justice while serving as solutions to potential social and ecological issues like climate change.

Fraught with moral, religious, racial, sexual, and transgressive configurations, the body is a potent site for reflective practices within popular culture. The self-reflexive matrix of popular culture’s representations of human body functions as a site for materializing possibilities of varying forms of living. As a cultural sign, body features in both normative and non-normative debates on identity, selfhood, social relations, power, institutional surveillance and regulation. The practice of its representations, on the other hand, traditionally enables a culture of shared meaning-making which shapes how an individual perceives, thinks, feels, and acts amidst the production and circulation of discourses.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”

https://vernonpress.com/proposal/332/ef93e9a3eab3e230c347e9e0ed30d51b

Call for Papers

Courtesans as Agents of Resistance: Unveiling Marginalized Voices in India (Tentative Title)

STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

The “Critical” in Critical Caste Studies: Possibilities and Challenges