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NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES - PCA 2025 SPECIAL TOPICS AREA

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association 2025 Conference
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).

American Humor Studies Association at ALA 2025

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston

The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.

One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.

This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.

The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.

THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF FANTASY LITERATURE STUDIES MAGIC FARE: GASTRONOMIC DIMENSIONS OF FANTASY WORLDBUILDING

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Centre for Fantasy Literature Studies Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

hosted online on 15–16 January 2025, at 11 am (+2 GMT)

 

Anyone, then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs.

Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

 

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC)

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Committee on BIPOC Game Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC)

September 12-14, 2025

Strong Museum of Play

Rochester, NY


 

The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC) is a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of gaming culture, technology, and the experiences of BIPOC communities worldwide. Our aim is to provide a space for scholars, game developers, industry professionals, and enthusiasts to engage in critical discussions, share research findings, and foster collaboration in the field. The conference is Sept 12-14, 2025 at the Strong Museum of Play .

Games in the Zeitgeist

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:29am
Multiplay Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Hi all,

There is just two days left to submit your abstract for MultiPlay's conference, Games in the Zeitgeist, taking place online 28th January 2025, 6pm GMT.

The Lives and Afterlives of Cookie Mueller: Tales, Kinships, Persistence

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Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 6:28am
Special Issue "ANGLES: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World"
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

CFP SPECIAL ISSUE OF ANGLES - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD

PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2027

 

THE LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF COOKIE MUELLER: TALES, KINSHIPS, PERSISTENCE

 

HBO’s Oz at 30 – Call for Expressions of Interest

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 5:41pm
Abel F. Fenwick (University of Arkansas)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Critical hegemony tracing the start of the Second Golden Age of Television to the release of HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999 means that several properties released before that time have flown under the academic radar. Oz (1997-2003), the first serial drama ever produced by HBO, contains all the tightly plotted storytelling and enhanced aesthetics Alexis Pichard defines as key features of Golden Age television, and achieved the required level of popular success with both audiences and critics.

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 11:16am
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures an Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

 

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

 

Call for Chapters - Qualitative Research and Justice Education

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 6:30am
Co-Edited Volume
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

Stoicism in U.S. Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP for Special Session Panel

American Literature Association Conference

May 21-24, 2025

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the

past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various

facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of

readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the

Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and

Updated-39th Annual MELUS 2025 Conference: MELUS Outside

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Linda Greenberg/Cal State LA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

 

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

 

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

 

Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024

 

Conference Seminars

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

The theme of the 2025 MVSA conference is "Genealogies." The conference dates are April 3-6, 2025, and the location is Fort Wayne, IN. Please see the conference page here.

MVSA Conference Seminars are small, with eight to ten participants each. Participants exchange work to read ahead of the 2025 conference and meet in a closed, collaborative session to discuss overlaps in their papers, refine their ideas, and think about how to move their work forward.

Geneologies

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Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Midwest Victorian Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Inspired by Fort Wayne’s proximity to the Allen County Library, with its large genealogical center, MVSA 2025 takes the theme of “Genealogies.” We encourage participants to think about origins and descent broadly speaking and across disciplines. Genealogies were powerful scientific tools or narrative red herrings, and they were also sources of anxiety for Victorians. Of course, people have genealogies, but so do ideas, artistic forms, and texts, including scholarly concepts and methods themselves. MVSA invites proposals for papers that present, interrogate, explore, celebrate, and puncture material and textual genealogies.

Papers Might Take up Issues Including, but not Limited to:

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Facism

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Imbricate! Press (Society for the Study of Affect)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are at in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism—physio-psycho- socio-affectio-logically—but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment.

CSSA's 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
Comparative Studies Student Association - Florida Atlantic University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

                                           

                                            Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association 

                                                            CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference

Call for Papers

Freedom: 2025 CEA-MAG Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025

College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
67th Annual Conference – 14 March 2025 – Call for Papers

Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

Transmission, Adaptation, and Variation in Early Medieval English Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
Renee R. Trilling / University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The literature of early medieval England, both Old English and Anglo-Latin, is often characterized either by a derivative devotion to an authoritative past, or by unorthodox innovation. While this dichotomy between tradition and innovation has much merit, many textual examples defy this categorization. In some cases, innovative texts and authors actually conform closely to their discursive models, while other texts that seem to adhere to tradition in fact create significant developments and variations. Untangling the complex relationships between texts and their sources reveals much about composition, genre, form, and language – the very foundations of textual practice.

«There is nothing that is major or revolutionary except the minor» The notions of “minor” , “minority”, and “minority group” in literature, linguistics, philology, and translation studies

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for papers - Doctoral conference
Pescara (Italy), 29-30 May 2025

Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

New Book Series: TV Matters (Intellect)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
Sabrina Mittermeier
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series,
analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and
audience reception. (All three of these aspects need to be touched upon!) The focus is on shows that both have critical acclaim (as reflected by awards, media reviews), but more importantly, are genuinely “popular”. That means they have
had a robust viewership and ideally an active fandom (watercooler discussions on- and offline,
as well as fan production such as fic, art, vids etc), and/or an unusual reception history (cases
of bans, censorship or similar).

Caring beyond cure in the narratives from Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
7th Transforming Care Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Care can be understood as a situation-based variable with multitudes of meanings. With its initial theoretical footing in western feminist thought, care pervades defined epistemic boundaries; it is fundamentally relational, philosophical, and practical at the same time. We care for things, we care for people, we care for the tangible and intangible. It can be a necessity, a commodity, or even an imposition and yet the limited understanding of care relegates it as a form of dependency. This leads us to a series of structuring questions: Do we care about care itself? Is ethics of care different from caring itself? If yes, why are we not talking about it? More importantly, who decides what and how much to care about something?

Dragons in Fairy Tales

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:18am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Internet Memes

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:18am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragon Riders and Dragons with Riders

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:18am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Popular Culture Association Conference: British Popular Culture Area, 4/16-4-19, 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:16am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

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