Victorians Journal announces a special topics CFP on Victorian Hospitality for our Winter 2023 number, guest edited by Kristen Pond.

 Victorians Journal CFP Winter Issue 2023

CFP The Afterlife in Popular Culture (special issue of the The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture)

Due to the great interest in the Depicting the Afterlife edited collection, we have arranged to co-edit a special issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture set for publication in early 2024.

The theme remains the same:

Scholars of Diaspora Studies and related interdisciplinary fields are invited to contribute abstracts for a special issue of the Journal of Global Postcolonial Studies on Diaspora Connections. Abstracts/proposals should be of no more than 500 words (due by April 15, 2023), and complete articles of no more than 5,000 words (due by June 15, 2023). The essays should be double-spaced in 12-point Times New Roman font and follow the latest edition MLA referencing style. The special issue is projected for publication in Spring 2024.

Please send any inquiries and submit abstracts and complete papers to:

Dr. Pushpa Parekh

Director, African Diaspora and the World (ADW) Program,

Who Was that Masked Woman: Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

The Annual Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Graduate Student Workshop will be held on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at the University of Toronto School of Law in Toronto, Canada (the day before the 

The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities invites submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities.

Applicants eligible for the 2023 award must have defended their dissertations successfully between March 2022 and March 2023.

The Association will cover the Mezey Prize winner’s travel and lodging costs to the annual meeting.

Applications for the 2023 award must be received on or before April 14, 2023.

Each applicant must submit the following:

MAST (The Journal of Media Art Study and Theory) invites art-based research submissions for its upcoming issue. Submissions are open to artists and researchers in the field who can present original research based on at least one media artwork or creative practice that engages with media and technology.

Society for the Study of Southern Literature MLA 2024 Call for Papers

Given the presidential theme Celebration: Joy and Sorrow, this panel will explore the topic of “Black South Joy.”

So much of the popular discourse about the South, and about the experience of Blackness in the South particularly, revolves around narratives of white supremacist violence. As scholars of southern literature, we spend much of our time encountering Saidiya Hartman’s “scenes of subjection” in the works of both white and Black authors alike. And yet, even in the darkest moments, Black folks in the South have created rituals of celebration, not only as acts of resistance, but as reflections of the simple fact of their humanity.

Rocky Mountain 

Modern Language Association

Seventy-sixth annual convention
English Nineteenth-Century Panel

October 11-14, 2023

Denver, Colorado

Abstract Deadline: April 1, 2023

This panel seeks papers exploring women’s experiences of and perspectives on combat, diplomacy, sexual violence, displacement, and/or reconciliation in political conflicts in the Global South. Intersectional feminist approaches, attentive to cultural contexts, are welcome.

 Please submit a 250-word abstract and CV to slal@lsu.edu by March 20, 2023. 

Call for Papers: William James Studies

Hi,I am soliciting submissions for the special panel at the 2024 MLA conference. This panel focuses on love, desire and extractivism in the global south. How do flatness and fragility intersect with aspirationality and regional vectors to contest/corroborate the logic of neoliberal capitalism? 350-500 abstracts by 20th March to ajd7145@psu.edu

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 20 March 2023

PostgreSQL Conference Nepal 2023 will be held on May 11-12 in Kathmandu University, Dhulikhel, Nepal. It will cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors, as well as decision and policy makers. We are now accepting proposals for talks in English. Each session will last 50 minutes, and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL.

Suggested topic areas include but are not limited to:

Call for Papers: Bollywood Film Remakes

Co-editors: Rashna Wadia Richards (Rhodes College) and Lucia Krämer (University of Passau)