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The International Journal of Young Adult Literature, Vol. 6 (2025)
Special Section on "Diversity and Inclusion in International Young Adult Sports Fiction"
Edited by Dr Sarah Layzell and Dr Carla Plieth
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference
June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom
Communities | Structures | Entanglements
Proposals Deadline: Monday, December 18th
The VI Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 is thrilled to announce a Call for Proposals focused on the compelling and intricate themes of "Communities | Structures | Entanglements." These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.
After Words: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities
School of English Postgraduate Conference
Trinity College Dublin – Trinity Long Room Hub
Online and-person and event
9th February 2024
Organizers: Ginevra Bianchini and Elena Valli, PhD Researchers TCD English
The way violence is represented always influences its reception and integration within the cultural imaginary. The narration of violence is ingrained in our perception of ourselves and our communities, and those who report traumatic events then carry the responsibility of how they are received and memorialised.
CALL FOR PAPERS
20th Annual University of Oregon Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture
Submissions Due: February 1, 2024
Symposium Date: April 12, 2024
Reminiscence and Creation: Art as Memory Work
What does it mean to make and break memories? Who do memories belong to? How do memories shape us and the field of art history more broadly? Because each of us has a unique relationship with memories, the way they materialize is bound to differ as well. Whereas some memories are collective, shaped by a shared narrative that manifests in numerous ways, others are more intimate, individual.
New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere
Bloomsbury Academic's SCREEN STORYTELLING book series
Edited volume on the works of Sylvester Stallone
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci
This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.
The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.
POST-MAGICAL REALISM IN / THROUGH TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION
Joint CCLA-ACCUTE roundtable at the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2024, McGill University, June 12-15, 2024
DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2023
Organizers: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University, Glendon College, sanj92@yorku.ca; Jill Planche, Brock University & Toronto Metropolitan University, Chang School, jillplanche@gmail.com
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks submissions about translation and haiku in the following three categories:
1. Full-length academic articles: 2,500-10,000 words; any focus on translation and haiku including theoretical approaches, historical overviews, specific challenges, etc. is welcome. Articles should be thesis-driven and situated their claims within the context of existing scholarship about the topic.
2. Personal approaches to translation: 500-1,000 words; for established translators; may focus any aspect of one’s own approach to translating haiku in general or the work of a specific haiku poet or poets; may include discussions of mentors and influences on one’s approach.
MLA New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025
Morris, Religion, and Myth
This MLA guaranteed session invites proposals exploring Morris’s writings on religion and myth. Topics could come from Morris’s Icelandic writings, his fantasy romance, The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere, The Defence of Guenevere, and A Dream of John Ball.
Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Friday, 1 March 2024, to jnixon@salemstate.edu
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Transcendentalist Legacies of Resilience" at the Throeau Society Annual Gathering, 2024.
The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.
The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.
Roundtable
The 2024 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) is now OPEN. Please use the Online Submission Form on the ACCUTE website to submit your proposal. DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 1, 2023: submit via online form with the password LateSub2024 https://accute.ca/accute-2023-2024-online-submission-form
Organizers: Ben Berman Ghan, University of Calgary, Ben.ghan@ucalgary.ca; Margaryta Golovchenko, University of Oregon, Mgolovch@uoregon.edu
Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.
The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:
- New approaches to Cather studies
- Cather and her contemporaries
- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing
- Teaching Cather
- Environmental and ecocritical themes
- Material culture
- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies
- Cather's correspondence
The Eighteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
1-2 November 2024
National Taiwan University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between
DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference
Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.
The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).
Inspired by this year’s conference location, Chicago, we encourage the submission of papers and proposals for panels on the topics of Black literary renaissances, movements, and Black literary radicalism.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
-The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Black clubwomen
The Association of Adaptation Studies 19th Annual Conference
TIME AND SPACE IN ADAPTATION
5-7 June 2024
Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland
The conference will address the themes of temporality and spatiality and their relation to adaptation.
CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024
Senses of Law
Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?
Irish Association for American Studies Annual Conference
University College Dublin
1-3 May 2024
Conference Theme: “Dis/Trust”
Keynote Speakers: Dr Imaobong Umoren (London School of Economics)
Prof. Johannes Voelz (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024
Senses of Law
Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?
Call for Submissions
The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies
The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies. The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium.
What is awarded?
Sex, Scandal, and Sensation
Tuesday 2 July 2024 to Thursday 4 July 2024
Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong
In 2014 Falmouth University hosted the hugely successful Haunted Landscapes conference, which was followed in 2023 by Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments. Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is the third conference in this series. It will, like its predecessors, be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus amidst lush tropical gardens, only a short walk from the picturesque town and its beaches.
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals for the collected work, Moving in with Trauma, edited by Michelle Zheng. This edited volume aims to broach the topic of living with Trauma to ask the question - We have always lived with Trauma, but how do we embrace Trauma into our lives? What does it mean to foster an understanding, or what place does it have in the world we live in?
Open Section
At the end of autumn 2024, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: issue eleven of CLOSURE will publish essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.
Thematic Section: »The End is Here«
Call for Presentations: A Symposium on the Music of the Sea
Friday June 7, 2024