The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.

Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.

Murder Media Symposium

Call For Papers:

Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.

The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures 

 To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:

Nonhuman avian culture(s)

Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)

Insect culture(s)

transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)

Call for papers
Frauds & Fakes in Words and Music
University of Richmond, Virginia, May 29–31, 2025

Humanitarianism and Hunger

2025 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland. 

May 29—June 1, 2025

Call for Papers:The 2025 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on May 29—June 1, 2025. The theme of the 2025 Famine Summer School is “Humanitarianism and Hunger”.

We invite conference proposals for the University of Connecticut First-Year Writing Program’s Conference on the Teaching of Writing, taking place in Storrs on Thursday April 24th and Friday April 25th2025. Proposal submissions are due onFridayJanuary 10th, 2025 and can be submitted through this form.

Living With Water:
Agency, Materiality, Narratives
Online seminar series 2025

With the ‘Comics studies having finally arrived’, the young genre no longer has an obligation to justify its existence and significance. The legitimacy of the medium has been endorsed time and again by decades of scholarly works produced and being produced in the domain. Alongside this ongoing legitimation process, we are now witnessing a multifaceted engagement with a plethora of works – including both fiction and non-fiction – produced in the comics medium, leading to the rise of comics as a global literary phenomenon.

 The Arthur Miller SocietyCall for Papers and ProposalsALA 2025Boston, Massachusetts The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). The Arthur Miller Society will have two sessions at this conference. For the first panel, we are inviting papers that consider how Arthur Miller's life and work have been co-opted by contemporary playwrights, film directors, and writers.

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your research to the 1st Workshop on Federated Learning for Unbounded and Intelligent Decentralization (FLUID), which will be held on March 4th, 2025, at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/modernism-remodelled-2025/

Date: March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline December 15, 2024
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

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