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DEADLINE APPROACHING for 'AI and Fandom' special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 11:42am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Due in part to well-publicised advancements in generative AI technologies such as GPT-4, there has been a recent explosion of interest in – and hype around – Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether this hype cycle continues to grow or fades away, AI is anticipated to have significant repercussions for fandom (Lamerichs 2018), and is already inspiring polarised reactions. Fan artists have been candid about using creative AI tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to generate fan art, while fanfiction writers have been using ChatGPT to generate stories and share them online (there are 470 works citing the use of these tools on AO3 and 20 on FanFiction.net at the time of writing).

PRISMATIC JOYCE 1-2 Feb, 2024 - The XVI James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference in Rome

updated: 
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 9:58am
The James Joyce Italian Foundation Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Conference dates: Feb 1-2, 2024

Keynote speakers:

  • Sun-Chieh Liang, National Taiwan Normal University
  • Patrick Hersant, Université Paris 8
  • Fritz Senn, Zurich James Joyce Foundation

Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

 

The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 143th birthday.

 

[CFP] SPACES OF PRECARITY: Migration, Spatiality and the Refugee Graphic Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 5:07am
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Call for papers - Special Issue

 of Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Spaces of Precarity:

Migration, Spatiality and the Refugee Graphic Narrative

 

Edited by

Markus Arnold (University of Cape Town) & Bidisha Banerjee (Education University of Hong Kong)

EDITED BOOK: Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis

updated: 
Monday, October 23, 2023 - 6:22am
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Book Chapters to the forthcoming edited volume, Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India. The publisher of the edited volume is Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

Concept:

Call for Chapters | Decolonizing Universal Design for Learning –Innovations, Promising Practices, and Calls for Change from the Global South and Indigenous Communities

updated: 
Sunday, October 22, 2023 - 1:04am
Educational Innovations Series
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Decolonizing Universal Design for Learning –Innovations, Promising Practices, and Calls for Change from the Global South and Indigenous Communities

The book is part of the Educational Innovations Series and seeks to include quality works putting light on the contemporary advances in the fields of theory and practice of educational pedagogies.

EDITOR

Dr. Frederic Fovet, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Thompson Rivers University, Canada

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

New Chapters for Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginners Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World

updated: 
Friday, October 20, 2023 - 9:29pm
Stephanie Hedge University of Illinois Springfield, for Kendall Hunt Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

We are looking for new chapters for our first year composition textbook Digitally Mediated Composing and You: A Beginners Guide to Understanding Rhetoric and Writing in an Interconnected World 

We are looking for writers to contribute four new chapters in Digitally Mediated Composing and You. Because these chapters are filling gaps in an existing text, the topic and direction of each chapter is predetermined, as is the format, but each chapter should be written in the unique voice of the author, and there is a lot of room for experimentation and play within the format! 

Therefore I Am: AI’s Impacts on Writing, Research, and Pedagogy

updated: 
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 3:20pm
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

Generative AI is changing how we conceptualize writing and thus thinking and creation. As scholars of literature and writing, we are uniquely positioned to reflect on these changes. To this end, this panel aims to spark interdisciplinary conversations about AI and its relation to writing, the writing process, and writing instruction. We hope to encourage an inclusive forum for exchanging perspectives, experiences and practices.

RISE: Creative Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Production, Then and Now

updated: 
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 12:22pm
The Gregory J. Hampton Graduate English Student Association of Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 18, 2024

RISE: Creative Theoretical Approaches to Cultural Production, Then and Now Call for Papers

Howard University's Graduate English Student Association

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 18, 2024

 

In “The Race for Theory,” Barbara Christian writes: 

LAST CALL: Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities, and the Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling (National Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 11:41am
Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

Call for Papers
ICSSR-sponsored National Conference
on
Narrative Matters: Materialities, Modalities, and Ethical Dimensions of Storytelling
8th – 9th February 2024
Centre for English Studies,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

“Genre Studies” ICGS - 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 3:22pm
Government Arts and Science College Affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India. Nagalapuram, Tamil Nadu, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
We are pleased to announce the upcoming one-
day International conference entitled "Genre
Studies” to the academic community. This
conference aims to explore and celebrate the diverse
genres, themes, and forms of popular literature and
culture and their significant impact on society. The
conference will bring together scholars, researchers,
professionals, and enthusiasts from various
disciplines such as literature, cultural studies,
sociology, anthropology, and psychology. It will
provide a platform for sharing ideas, insights, and
research findings related to popular literature and
culture, while promoting interdisciplinary exchange

6th Global Conference on Women’s Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
Acavent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 14, 2024

Embrace Empowerment at WOMENSCONF2024: Join the Global Movement

 

Are you ready to be part of a transformative experience that is shaping the future of women's studies? Look no further than the 6th Global Conference on Women's Studies (WOMENSCONF2024), coming to Zurich, Switzerland, from 5th to 7th July 2024. Let us take you on a journey of knowledge sharing, global networking and empowerment like never before.

 

Benefits of WOMENSCONF2024:

 

Special issue: Complicit Testimonies

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
Journal of Perpetrator Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Journal of Perpetrator Research Special Issue: Complicit Testimonies

 

The Journal of Perpetrator Research is seeking submissions for a special issue on the theme of Complicit Testimonies, scheduled for publication in Spring 2025, and guest-edited by Ivan Stacy (Beijing Normal University).

 

Introduction

Call for Papers for Poltergeist: A Journal of Literary and Critical Studies: "Failings"

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
The School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

We find ourselves in a landscape of failure. We have failed to reach every climate goal we have set, and there is no returning to an unpolluted world. Institutions have failed their workers, resulting in a resurgence of industrial action and defiance. On the international stage, governments have failed migrants and refugees, leading to unprecedented levels of displacement. 

 

Can something productive be drawn from failing? How have past failures – of revolution, of technology, of selfhood – been put to constructive ends? And how might failure be mobilised as a new site of resistance?

 

Jordan Peele's Generic Renovations

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
ACCUTE, Congress 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

With 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele burst out of the confines of sketch comedy and announced himself as one of the most original voices in contemporary cinema. Part and parcel of Peele’s success was his undeniable mastery of–and facility with–generic conventions. Get Out has been ascribed a range of genre labels, from psychological thriller to political horror, black comedy to sci-fi, zombie movie to horror verité. Peele himself has added fuel to the fire by musing that his film is a “social thriller” and a “documentary” that “subverts the idea of all genres.” Since the success of his first film, Peele has released a pair of even more generically ambitious and ambiguous films: Us (2019) and Nope (2022). 

Men and Men's Studies Area

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:33pm
National Popular Culture/American Culture Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Proposals on any aspect of men, men’s studies, and/or masculinities are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

THE POSTCOLONIAL PRESENT: DIS/ENABLING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES?

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:32pm
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

As countries of the Global North continue to reshape their immigration policies to tighten the

legal/illegal movement of Global Southerners into and through their borders, globalization

announces itself as doubly edged, having positive economic benefits and undesirable

consequences on both sides of the global divide. Yet, with the twentieth-century surge in

migration, a noticeable trend in African migrant fiction like Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were and

Indian diasporic novels, such as Sahota’s The Year of the Runaways, including films like Amata’s

Black November, is that while much of global migration remains north-directed, with the Global

Extended CFP: The E.T. Book - New Perspectives on the Classic 1980s Blockbuster

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:32pm
Kingston University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Dear Friends

I am extending the CFP for 'The E.T Book: New Perspectives on the Classic 1980s Blockbuster' till the end of November.

We have several abstracts on Childhood, merchandising, the video game, as well as on John Williams Score, unmade ET, cinematography etc

I would love to have some abstracts which focus on aspects of the film itself (textual, narrative, thematic) and its production contexts.

Please do feel free to send me any ideas you have

Dr Matt Melia
Kingston University

The ET Book: New Perspectives on The Classic 1980s Blockbuster

Editor: Dr Matthew Melia (Kingston University)

Publisher: Bloomsbury

VPFA Book Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:32pm
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

We are delighted to announce two new Book Prize Awards, under the auspices of the UK-based Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA): the VPFA First Book Prize and the VPFA Second Book Prize awards. These book prizes will be awarded in alternate years, beginning in 2023 with the First Book Prize, followed in 2024 by the Second Book Prize. The VPFA First Book Prize is intended for the first book of an early-career scholar; the VPFA Second Book Prize is for a second book by scholars at any career stage.

Submissions for the 2023 VPFA First Book Prize are now open, with a deadline of 31 December 2023. The winner will be announced in the spring of 2024.

Adulting with WAC: Adult Learners in the Composition Classroom

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:30pm
Macy Dunklin & The WAC Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

The WAC Journal seeks scholarly work at the intersection of writing with teaching, curriculum,

learning, and research focusing on our special issue topic of how WAC pedagogies (dis)engage adult and returning learners. Our review board welcomes inquiries, proposals, and articles from 3,000 to 6,000 words.

 

Call for Applications: PhD in Theatre and Performance

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

The PhD in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center CUNY is calling for doctoral applicants for our Fall 2024 cohort. Located in the heart of New York, with longstanding ties to public service and the city itself, we are thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary, practice-based, and passionate applicants this year. Our Admissions deadline is January 1 2024.  

To that end, we warmly invite you to our open house (in hybrid form), which takes place on November 2, 2023, from 5-7pm. RSVP to Alexandra Rego (arego@gc.cuny.edu) or Patricia Goodson (pgoodson@gc.cuny.edu). 

Extended Deadline - Leveling Up the Classroom

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
University of Kentucky UKFCU Esports Lounge
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 19, 2023

The last few years has given education a great insight into its own practices. Between online classrooms during the pandemic and the rapid emergence of more and more powerful technologies, we educators have seen a growing need to reevaluate our classrooms, as well as work with new tech to enhance these learning environments.

Deadline Extension for Comparative Drama Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

46th Comparative Drama Conference

April 4-6, 2024

Orlando, Florida

 

NEW DUE DATE: OCT. 20

 

Due to numerous requests for an extension to the abstract due date, the new abstract due date is October 20th.

 

We look forward to receiving your abstract.

 

 

 

SUBMISSION INFORMATION            

 

Reminder: Forms and Feelings of Kinship in the Contemporary World

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:24pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Date: 27th April 2024

Location: University of Warwick (in-person)

Keynote speaker: Professor Janet Carsten (University of Edinburgh)

Submission deadline: 30th November 2023

SINGULARITIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FANTASY

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:24pm
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT, KERALA, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

Fantasy, a genre that has captivated the hearts and minds of countless individuals throughout history, invites us to embark on extraordinary adventures beyond the realm of the ordinary. A space where magic, mythical creatures and epic quests reign supreme, Fantasy offers a respite from reality and inviting us to explore realms beyond the boundaries of our imagination.

Black radical thought and praxis in Montreal (ENG/FR)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:24pm
black symposium noir
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023

***La version française suit plus bas***

 

black symposium noir

Black radical thought and praxis in Montreal 

March 15-16, 2024 || Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges

 

The black symposium noir is a bilingual community gathering and independently organized by graduate students and post-graduates with the support of the Uptown Institute and Chalet Kent, a community-rooted non-profit organization and youth centre in Côte-des-Neiges.

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