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A Critical Companion to George A. Romero
Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.
In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’
The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?
Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.
Women Filmmakers: Genre and Gender in French, British and US Cinema and TV Series
3-4 July 2025
University of Le Mans, France
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Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature
Apply here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19317
The complexities of migration, diaspora, and critical nostalgia provide a lens through which to explore identity, belonging, and cultural memory. In the context of Arab American literature, these themes take on added significance, reflecting the multiple experiences and narratives of individuals and communities navigating the intersections of Arab and American senses of un-be-longing.
Potential topics for exploration include, but are not limited to:
Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume
Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence
Deadline for Abstract Submissions has been extended to October 31, 2024
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025
Rationale
Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025
Rationale
All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development … but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for sociological consideration of these concepts.
–Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922)
Educators empower students through narrative nonfiction and writing that allows for empathy, candid discussion, and articulation of self. This roundtable will seek to examine how narrative nonfiction literature and writing is used in a variety of contexts and courses to engage students and empower them to embrace facets of their identities and strengthen their ties to our national and international community.
This roundtable seeks collegiate voices that will contribute to a robust conversation on narrative nonfiction literature and writing with a focus on how we use narrative nonfiction and writing to help students navigate conceptions of their identity and negotiate their place in the world. Topics can include, but are not limited to:
Call for Papers for Proposed Volume: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives
Co-editors: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University (wrampone [at] scsu.edu)
Molly Hand, Florida State University (mhand [at] fsu.edu)
Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious roots of which are enshrined in the epistemology of the word. Originating from the Latin carnem levāre – the removal of the flesh (OED) – the carnival used to be a festive threshold leading into the frugality and modesty of Lent. Yet, such grassroots street performances have thrived beyond this limited cultural, historical and geographical frame.
ACLA: GROWING UP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: CHILDREN AGENCY AND WORLD-MAKING IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE
30th Anniversary International Conference on Welsh Studies
University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH
16-18 July 2025
Call for Papers
Next summer, NAASWCH (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) will celebrate 30 years since our inaugural meeting, and our return to action after the disruptions of the COVID pandemic. The 2025 conference returns us to where it all began, at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH.
WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study.
Translation Futures
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025)
Submissions are accepted via the portal till October 14, 2024
Submit here: https://www.acla.org/node/47723
Subject: Call for Papers: Technical and Professional Communication at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Technical/Professional Communication for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Subject: Call for Papers: Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025
Call for Papers, Grammar/Linguistics at CEA 2025
March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Grammar and Linguistics for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org
Call for Papers: Journal of Popular Music Education
Special Issue: 'Breaking Down Barriers'
To be published summer 2026
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-popular-music-education#call-for-papers
Guest Editors:
Call for Papers
Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics
SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues
Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.
Cinematic Crossroads and Digital Frontiers
At a time when over two-thirds of the global population has access to the internet, the paradigms of media dissemination have
undergone a profound transformation. The dynamics between producers and content consumers have been redefined, thanks to
the proliferation of accessible technologies. This democratisation of media has empowered both amateur and professional creators to
express their artistic visions through the cinematic medium.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles
‘Re-Imagining Fashion Retailing and Marketing in the Epoch of Sustainability and Digitalization’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers
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**** International School on Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Technologies 2024 ****
10-13th December, 2024 in Naples, Italy.
*** DEADLINE for the application: 30th September 2024 ***
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We are pleased to announce that the International School on Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Technologies (ISACT 2024) will be held from the 10th to the 13th of December, in the beautiful and historic city of Naples, in the south of Italy.
2025 ACIS-BCPS CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 23-26, 2025 | DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, GA
The Program Committee for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) and the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS) cordially invites the electronic submission of proposals for papers, panels, and other relevant presentations.
In her 2017 debut novel Conversations with Friends, Sally Rooney writes, “You can love more than one person” (Rooney 141). A statement so obvious, it’s not even worth stating. However, a simple edit—you can be in love with more than one person—suddenly becomes a much more controversial statement.
The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.
Deceptive and unethical rhetorical strategies are increasingly prevalent in politics, media, digital spaces, and everyday conversations. Whether the result of a changing discursive landscape (McIntyre, 2018; Nichols, 2017), our enmeshment in digital environments (Bolter, 2019; Pigg, 2020; Gurri, 2018), or a reflection of long-standing rhetorical trends (Fuller, 2018; Roberts-Miller, 2019) that have simply accelerated in the digital age, the question of how to address these disingenuous rhetorics is a challenge for both scholars of rhetorical theory and researchers from across the disciplines.