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CFP: Black Performing Arts (PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, April 16-19, 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 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.

On Mothers and Nature: Reassessing Reproduction in the Midst of Crisis (ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Rachael DeWitt / Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

To face climate change is, in part, to grapple with a narrowing range of possible futures. Thus, we find that reproduction itself is up for interrogation, reimagination, and revision. This panel explores precisely these shifts in thought by inviting papers that consider environmental crisis through the lens of sex and gender studies. As invoked by the panel’s title, the trope of Mother Nature exemplifies the powerful role that gender has historically played in environmental cultures. And although Mother Nature has undergone successive waves of critique, human norms of gender and sexuality continue to inflect ecological discourse.

The American West

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

THE AMERICAN WEST

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

 

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 52

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Victorians Institute Journal is still accepting submissions for Volume 52, which is expected to be published in 2025. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com

Call for Papers: Film International

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Film International: Journal of World Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 31, 2025

Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinema

Aims & Scope

Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The Journal offers insights into the broader scope of cinema practices across the globe, both feature length and otherwise, including by way of cultural comparison. It not only encourages attention to underrepresented regions such as the Global South, small-nation and minor cinemas, but also to how aesthetic choices have been made in these contexts.

Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the Twenty-First Century

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
University of Montpellier - Paul Valéry
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Topic:Expressivity, Bodies and Language in the Twenty-First Century

Venue: University of Montpellier – Paul Valéry, France

Date: 20-21 November 2025

Conference organizers: Sandrine Sorlin (University of Montpellier – Paul-Valéry /IUF - EMMA) and Julie Neveux (Sorbonne University - CeLiSo)

Call for Papers: Young Scholars in Writing (Volume 23)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 18, 2025

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce the Call for Papers for Volume 23 of Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric, an international peer-reviewed journal. We invite undergraduates from all majors and academic years to submit research and theoretical articles on topics related to rhetoric, writing, discourse, and language.

This year, we are also accepting multilingual submissions that explore Spanish-English bilingualism, translation studies, and writing across languages. Submissions fall into three categories:

Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth: 20th Annual Association of Adaptation Studies Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Association of Adaptation Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth

Association of Adaptation Studies Conference

1-4 June 2025, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye

 

Keynotes (CONFIRMED):

  • Dr. Ahmet Gürata, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics, Türkiye

  • Dr. Iain Robert Smith, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK

 

Adaptation and Aging

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Literature/Film Association & Association of Adaptation Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

How old are you? How do you feel about getting older? And how will you still be able to carry out your responsibilities as you age? Most people had reservations asking these questions of anyone but their closest friends and family members until the recent Presidential election season in the United States threw them into sharp relief.

Journeying: Movements, Passages, and Horizons

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

 

On his way to the Temple of the Grail Knights, Parsifal says: I move only a little, yet already I seem to have gone far. The all-knowing Gurnemanz replies: You see, my son, here time turns into space. - Wagner’s “Parsifal”

The Department of Religions and Cultures at Concordia University is pleased to announce the 30th Annual Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference (AGIC). In part commemorating AGIC’s 30th year of existence and coinciding with Concordia University’s 50th anniversary, we invite both academic and creative submissions (research papers, short films, visual arts/media, short stories, poems, etc.) that engage with this year’s theme,“Journeying”. 

CFP 24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 9, 2024

Vagantes 2025 Call for Papers 

The 24th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies co-hosted by Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC from April 3-5, 2025. Vagantes is an interdisciplinary community of junior and early career scholars that offers an ideal opportunity for sharing new research from across the disciplines. Please submit abstracts of 300 words, a title, and a 1-page CV including your name and pronouns as a PDF to vagantesboard@gmail.com by December 9th, 2024.

DRESS & FASHION IN BAROQUE SPAIN

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Boca Raton Museum of Art
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

INTERDISCIPLINARY; COMPARATIVE; GRADUATE - PROFESSIONAL DEVLOPMENT

Graduate students are invited to present on Dress and Fashion of Baroque Spain at the Boca Raton Museum of Art on March 27, 2025. The conference will be held in the Museum’s Wolgin Education Center, 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton, FL 33432.

Transitions & Transformation | Fall 2024 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Unearthed
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Calling all artists, essayists, and creative writers!

The editorial board of Unearthed, the environmental art and literary journal published by SUNY College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, is thrilled to announce that we're now accepting submissions.

We invite essayists, creative writers, poets, artists, photographers, and creatives of all kinds to submit to our upcoming issue, exploring the themes of Transition & Transformation. We're excited to publish your work!

Call for Applications: The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:13am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the British periodical and newspaper press of the long nineteenth century. It was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College.

After the Catastrophe. Contemporary postapocalyptic narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:12am
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Since ancient times, narratives about the end of the world have given voice to the anxieties and crises of the societies that have produced them. The forms of the apocalypse are thematically and diachronically broad and diverse (Pharr, Clark and Firestone 2016; De Cristofaro 2020). Already at the dawn of the nineteenth century, in her The Last Man (1826), Mary Shelley, the brilliant inventor of this genre, reflected on the condition of the single survivor of a lethal virus. While, for obvious chronological reasons, the anguish for a wasted environment is still absent in Shelley, many twentieth-century narratives reflect on the annihilating potential of humans’ actions on ecosystems.

The Animal In The Anthropocene: Narratives Of Non-Human Survival

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:12am
The Animal In The Anthropocene: Narratives Of Non-Human Survival
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great SilenceThe Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.

The Oswald Review

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Douglas Higbee/University of South Carolina, Aiken
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Oswald Review is an international, refereed journal of undergraduate criticism and research in the discipline of English. Published annually, The Oswald Review accepts submissions from undergraduates in this country and abroad (with a professor’s endorsement).

Masculinities and Men's Studies Area

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
2025 National Popular Culture Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Proposals

Masculinities and Men’s Studies

(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)

National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference

 April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

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

The Saul Bellow Society - ALA Annual Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
The Saul Bellow Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, on May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome for paper presentations of 15-20 minutes in length concerning any aspect of Saul Bellow's work or life, including comparisons with other authors.  We welcome proposals from graduate students, newer scholars, independent scholars, and established scholars alike.

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
The University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas

Call For Papers: RAW 2025

BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement

in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture

 

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Carolina Asia Center
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Call for Papers

Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025

FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

 

“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Eudora Welty Society International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century

Eudora Welty Society International Conference

 

Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025

The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:10am
University of Augsburg
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: 

Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities

 

International Conference 

University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025

 

 

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

 

Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)

 

 

Deadline Extended: Media Fields Journal Issue 19, "Archival Elements"

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:10am
Media Fields Editorial Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”

Submit Your Proposals for #IFM2025 Resonances Conference – Deadline Nov 25, 2024!

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference

June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom

 

The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:

  • Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?

CfP: Arendt Center Spring Conference: The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others

through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and

Translations for Antonym Magazine

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Antonym Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.

  1. Novellas
  2. Short stories
  3. Flash fiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Essays

The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.

In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.

Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com

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