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A one-day symposium to be held on Monday, November 25, 2024 at Maison de la Recherche, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France and Online.
Televisual Dissidence in an Era of Information Warfare: Separatism, Terrorism and the Screen Media in Africa
Editors: Dr. Floribert Patrick C. Endong, University of Dschang, Cameroon
Dr. Augustus Onchari Nyakundi, Chuka University, Kenya
Concept Notes
Voice, Tone, and Affect in US Literature and (Popular) Culture
Special Issue in the European Journal of American Studies
Editors: Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert, Ulla Stackmann
Special issue of Extrapolation (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/extr)
Call for Proposals: “Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art”
Due November 1, 2024
Please send abstracts and inquiries to both guest editors:
Guest Editors:
Emiliano Guaraldo, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: emiliano.guaraldo@unisg.ch
Alison Sperling, Florida State University, USA: asperling@fsu.edu
The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women, immigrants, and people of color were paid low wages and treated as expendable. However, amidst these challenges, the pandemic also catalyzed the expansion of alternative labor forms and care networks, beyond capitalist economies and social relations.
Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025)
This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes, across diverse cultural contexts. These multimodal media not only capture societal perspectives and moods but also play a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions. They can serve as catalysts for reflection on academic practice and societal discourse, fostering a deeper understanding of cultural imprints and trends, highlighting differences and similarities across cultures, raising critical awareness, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity.
"American Dreams, American Nightmares, American Fantasies"
University of Alicante (Spain)
8-10 April, 2025
It has been two years since AI was introduced into daily life, and it has been applied in academia, pedagogy, classrooms, and beyond. As we discover both the potential benefits and harms of AI, we are also recovering from the initial panic, uncertainty, or excitement. We are beginning to recognize that it will lead to an "inevitable" integrated fusion of human and machine intelligence (Kurzweil), and we are entering a phase of adaptation. We have seen a range of AI use guides, policies, and reflections. However, compared to the initial reaction, we cannot ignore where we will or want to go with AI in the composition classroom. As AI continues to evolve, how do we recreate our classrooms in light of this new technology?
Proposed submissions are requested for an edited collection of chapters, tentatively titled Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature.
Special Issue: Bio-adaptations (Adaptation, Oxford University Press)
In the present era marked by a pressing need for sustainable coexistence with the natural world, the centrality of human beings has taken a back seat to make way for integral ontological inquiries into nature, its components and inhabitants and the manifold relationship between them. The “self-organizing powers of non-human processes” have been emphasized in academia and the dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics have been explored.
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Detective Fiction
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Barbenheimer
(Version française ci-bas)
In her 2020 article entitled “Communities of care,” Talia Schaffer reminds readers that even when participants “did not share a geographic space,” the communities of those “virtual groups…cobbled together in coronavirus time” were, to all of us, of invaluable importance and “realness,” nevertheless. Thus, this roundtable hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually encourage communications and collaborations between students with related research interests within the same, as well as different, institutional settings.
Possible topics for discussion might be related to:
In the age of technological revolution, the changes brought by AI are reshaping various facets of society, including how we approach education in the Humanities. In the context of college composition, communication, English literature and other humanities subject classes, AI is revolutionizing writing pedagogy and practice. AI-assisted writing tools and large language models (LLMs) present new challenges and opportunities, creating what Sundvall describes as a “technological problematic” in the composition classroom, which revolutionizes some traditional writing processes and practices we’ve been using for a long time.
While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.
Old age and aging are biological as well as sociocultural constructs and processes; they cannot be completely separated, but rather they influence each other and get interrelated with the passing of time. As sociocultural constructs, old age, aging and their definition are not immovable concepts and, in fact, vary depending on the different historical, social and cultural contexts. Likewise, the definition and organization of each of the population groups by age are not fixed. For example, for decades, 65+ has been agreed upon by the UN and the WHO, among others, as the beginning of old age; however, market studies propose 50+ and establish two groups: 50+ seniors and 75+ seniors.
“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA) Recent scholarly approaches in antebellum American literature emphasizes the role of secrets and secrecy, as in Dominick Mastroianni’s Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (2022); essays on secrecy in Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Jeffrey Simons, Paul Scott Derrick, 2011); and the secret lives of nineteenth-century literature (Harper, Dickinson, Melville, 2022) in digital media, as Kayla Shipp has argued. This panel explores the way that unstated ideas, points, or secrets are exchanged in antebellum American literature.
Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games
A MultiPlay Network Conference, October 28th, 2024
Abstracts due: 30 August 2024
As is tradition for MultiPlay, we have a special horror related conference for the end of October. This time we are focusing on the monstrous (and liberational!) possibilities of body augmentation through video games. We welcome abstracts from utopian and dystopian perspectives, on the real life hardware capabilities or upon representations of augmentation within games.
In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?
https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/20978
This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.
Anticipated Publication: Volume 5, November 2025
Guest Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Hannah Steele
Purpose: Articles that explore the intersection of queer studies and professional wrestling studies to address a scholarship gap on the application of queer theory to explore professional wrestling individuals, texts, practices, and fandoms.
Submissions: Seeking empirical articles aligned with the special issue’s purpose that may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:
NEW DEADLINE! Rolling until 8/15.
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
7-10 November 2024, Palm Springs, CA
Submissions should be sent through the link below. You may need to create an account if you have not already presented with PAMLA. Undergraduates are invited to share their research following the guidelines below:
Call for Papers - Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2024
Posted on 2024-03-15
Deadline Extended to Aug. 20, 2024
Linguaculture Thematic issue: Pop Culture and Audience Reception in a Transnational Context
“Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”
Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,
Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2024
Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024
Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University),
Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott,
Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo
International online conference (free of charge)
September 12, 2024
Organizers:
Faculty of Public Administration, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Economics
AAB College, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo
in partnership with:
University of Southeast Europe, North Macedonia
University of Vlora "Ismail Qemali", Albania
Keynote Speaker:
Call for Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film
CFP CLOSED! - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series
Editors’ Introduction
SAMLA 96 Convention, "Seen and Unseen," will be held Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL
Unreal Prisonscapes (panel--in-person)
2027 would mark 80 years of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent of 1947. For South Asia, independence from over two centuries of British rule in 1947 was accompanied by a violent and bloody partition - a territorial division of two provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal - on the basis of religious majority, which led to a million people dead in bloody communal riots and fifteen million people uprooted and displaced across the newly-formed borders.