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American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Friday, October 25, 2024 - 10:57am
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Reminder: Taylor Swift and Swiftie Studies at SWPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 7:09pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

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

 

Young Researches' Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:53am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Young Researchers’ Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences-2024

Conference Date: 09.12.2024—13.12.2024
Location:
Department of Humanities and Social sciences, IIEST, Shibpur
Abstract Submission Deadline:
12.11.2024
Notification of Acceptance: 19.11.2024

Submission of Full Paper: 01.12.2024

Last Date for Registration: 26.11.2024
Email Id for submission of Abstract:
yrc2024.iiests@gmail.com

CfP: FOOD FEST, FEASTS & GATHERINGS

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:16am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Call for Submissions: The Lamp Literary Journal

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
The Lamp Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2025 issue (Volume 15)! 

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 12 January 2025. Please follow our submission guidelines below. 

Submission Guidelines:

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

 

‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration

Call for book chapters on Orientalism after 9/11

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:08am
O.P. Jindal Global Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

This is a call for book chapters for Orientalism after 9/11 to be published by a major publisher

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly: The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:07am
Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn), Antonia Purk (Erfurt)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly

“The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”

Guest Editors: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
and Antonia Purk (University of Erfurt)

Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarDurban University of Technology, South Africa

Mythology In Contemporary Culture

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Popular Culture Assocation
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Mythology in Contemporary Culture 

at the 

Annual Conference of the 

 Popular Culture Association

 New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024 

Call for Papers

 

International Solidarity, Global Crises

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Richard Douglass-Chin/University of Windsor
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2025).

For our third publication (2025), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment,  racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:

Image/Text: Interplay, Contexts, Methods (Visual Culture) (PCA 2025)

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Ivy Roberts / Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for papers: Visual Culture, Popular Culure Association 2025

An inherently interdisciplinary field, visual culture studies investigates images, media, and art in the contexts of sharing, producing, consuming, saving, and communicating. What defines visual culture, perhaps, is its resistance to definition. WJT MItchell’s (2002) landmark essay summed it up coherently when we proposed 8 “counter-theses,” two of which read as follows:

“Visual culture encourages reflection on the differences between art and non-art, visual and verbal signs, and rations between different sensory and semiotic modes.

PCA/ACA 2025 - SPECIAL TOPICS - NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

                “To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

Old

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Imagining the Impossible: international journal for the fantastic in contemporary media
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary MediaCFP for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)Theme: Old

 

This international, peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media, including film, literature, television, games, comic books, animated films, theme parks, and online forums. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed and has 1-2 issues per year.

 

Volume 4, Issue 1: Old (Fall 2025)

 

After Postcolonialism: Global Theory, Local Transformations

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Humanities Research Centre, at the University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

*This is a hybrid interdisciplinary conference funded by the Humanities Research Centre at the University of Warwick, accompanied by potential publication opportunities.*

 

In A Dying Colonialism (1959), Frantz Fanon, one of the most significant thinkers on decolonisation, writes firmly:

‘There is not occupation of territory, on the one hand, and independence of persons on the other. It is the country as a whole, its history, its daily pulsation that are contested, disfigured, in the hope of a final destruction’ (p. 65).

Webs of Wonder

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 10:55pm
Stony Brook English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Webs of Wonder
37th Annual English Graduate Conference
February 28, 2025

Nineteenth-century Gender Studies accepting submissions

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 10:55pm
Nineteenth-century Gender Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 31, 2026

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies (NCGS) is published three times a year—spring, fall and a specially-themed summer issue—and accepts both scholarly articles and book reviews year-round. We welcome articles of 5,000-8,000 words on gender studies and British literature, art, and culture during the long nineteenth century. Submissions should conform to the most recent MLA Handbook and must include a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. Submissions must not have been previously published, in whole or in part, either in print or online.

Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 10:55pm
Popular Culture Association National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Divination, Witchcraft & the Occult *SPECIAL TOPIC*

Popular Culture Association Conference

16-19 April 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana, US

 

The broad interest in divination, witchcraft, and the occult has been part of popular culture for centuries. Scholars’ discomfort with the topic is often palpable: they tend to focus on intersections that feel more legitimate, e.g. legal ramifications (laws against occult practice, witch trials etc), or archival documents, or simply sticking to fictional accounts.

ASLE Panel on "Plant Humanities" at ALA 2025 - American Literature Association Annual Conference (Boston)

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 10:55pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

ASLE Panel Topic: “Plant Humanities”

This is a call for papers for the ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Panel at the American Literature Association Conference: May 21-24, 2025, The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA (in person - Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend).

“Plant Humanities” will investigate how plants shape American literary and environmental landscapes, cultural narratives, and material  of plants in literature, film, & popular culture

Plants in narratology / storytelling / oral traditions

Plant poetics & politics

Plants & ethics of care / kinship / reciprocity / veganism

Spaces and Contexts for Teaching African Literature

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:28pm
Anne Gulick and Chichi Ayalogu / African Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Spaces and Contexts for Teaching African Literature

A Roundtable for the African Literature Association Annual conference

Nairobi, June 25-28, 2025

UP NEXT | AU SUIVANT

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:28pm
Brown University, French and Francophone Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

UP NEXT | AU SUIVANT

 

April 11-12, 2025

Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Marie W. Larose

Assistant Professor, Dept. of French & Italian, Dartmouth College

 

Call for Papers on "Literature and the Posthuman" for the journal, Research and Criticism

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:28pm
The Department of English, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The Department of English at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, invites submissions for the upcoming issue on Literature and the Posthuman of its journal, Research and Criticism. 

Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada 3rd Annual Conference

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:27pm
Punk Scholars Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada 3rd Annual Conference

Call for Papers

March 2 & 3, 2025

The Punk Rock Museum – Las Vegas, Nevada

Theme: Punk on Display

Following the success of our second in-person conference in August 2024, we are excited to announce our third in-person conference sponsored by PSN Canada and PSN USA. This year, the conference will be held on March 2 and 3 at The Punk Rock Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) Call for Proposals

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:27pm
Conference for Young Adult Literature - Louisiana (CYALL)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

The Conference for Young Adult Literature Louisiana (CYALL) is accepting proposals for papers, slide presentations, lightning talks, and 20x20 sessions. The conference is a forum to discuss, demonstrate, and champion learning strategies in teaching young adult literature. College faculty, graduate students, librarians, authors, K-12 educators, and scholars are invited to submit proposals for papers and presentations on all aspects of YA literature and media.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is February 15, 2025 

The conference will be held on April 11, 2025 and will be onsite.

CFP: 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:26pm
NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

The 32nd Annual NINE Spring Training Conference (March 5-8, 2025) invites original unpublished papers that study all aspects of baseball, with particular emphasis on history, literature, and social policy implications. Abstracts only, not to exceed 300 words, should be submitted by November 11, 2024, to co-directors Willie Steele (wdsteele@lipscomb.edu) and David Pegram (david.pegram@paradisevalley.edu) for the abstract committee’s consideration. Following the submission deadline, authors will be notified as quickly as possible whether their papers have been accepted.

Call for Abstracts: The Effects of Community on Game Play and Design

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:13pm
MultiPlay Network UK
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Communities and the discourses they foster play a crucial role in shaping how games are both designed and experienced. Salen and Zimmerman (2004) describe how games are cultural artefacts engaged with dynamic exchanges of meaning with their surrounding cultural contexts. These open cultural contexts influence can transform both games and their environments. Consalvo (2007) expands this understanding by discussing how videogame paratexts, such as guides and fan-created content, serve as vital pedagogical tools that shape how players approach and engage with games.

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