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Creative Writing Studies Conference
Call for Papers/Presentations
November 15-17, 2024
Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA
Submit: https://forms.gle/rEppuokrzkfRaKiH7
CALL: Creative Writing in Crisis?
As audience interest in late-night talk shows and glossy print magazines dwindles, a group of internet-based series now provides celebrities the platform to promote their newest project and allegedly “reveal” more of themselves. These series use different techniques to produce revelatory moments tailor-made for social media circulation. First We Feast/Complex’s Hot Ones and Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date maximize cringe, whether by the guest’s physical pain generated by spicy wings or their interpersonal torment produced by Dimoldenberg’s awkward questioning.
Call for papers----Looking for ethical and theological chapter abstracts for an upcoming book in Bloomsbury's Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series....book title: G.I. Joe, Theology, and Co-bra: Knowing (and Believing) Are Half the Battle. Possible chapter ideas and themes available here. Abstracts due 21 October 2024.
Conference 5-6- December 2024: in-person (Gdansk, Poland) and online (via Zoom)
Scientific Committee:
Reading Kenneth White. Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the earth and the living
| November 21-22, 2024, Maison SHS (CY Cergy Paris Université, France) / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie
Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Anne-Marie Petitjean(CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages) and Gérald Peloux (INALCO, IFRAE / CRCAO)
Conference 5-6 December 2024: in-person (Gdansk, Poland) and online (via Zoom) Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS:
In our modern world, which some have argued to be disjointed while immersing itself ever deeper in crisis, the turning back towards “the olden days” and the ensuing nostalgia constitute a noticeable phenomenon, both individually (the memory of biogra
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit abstracts by AUGUST 10, 2024***
International Conference on
The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture
November 15-16, 2024
Organized by the Department of English and Humanities
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
If Horatio’s famous quote “Ut pictura poiesis” seems incontrovertible when we look at William Blake’s illuminated books, “Ut musica poiesis” could be the next unquestionable truth when one comes across the thousands of musical renderings inspired by Blake’s verses.
April 2–10, 2025
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
Deadline for applications: October 1, 2024
With keynote lectures, workshops, and readings by
Mia Bay, Mehita Iqani, Angelika Linke, Anna Ripatti, Mithu Sanyal, Ashley Shew, Anne Schult, Ori Schwarz, and Robin Smith as well as Gabriele Schabacher and other members of our CRC.
Focusing on the role of differentiation and its significance for lived experience, the Collaborative Research Center 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” [Humandifferenzierung] invites you to apply for a spring school at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany in April 2025.
Messengers from the Stars is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, offering academic articles, reviews, and providing an outlet for a wide range of creative work inspired by Science fiction and Fantasy. The 2025 issue will be dedicated to the following theme:
‘Getting Medieval’: Fantasy and the Middle Ages
[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 31st issue. We accept:
About the Journal:
The Journal of Languages & Translation is a distinguished, peer-reviewed, open-access, and biannual journal committed to publishing high quality and original research in English, Arabic, French, and Spanish. Covering the latest developments in linguistics, Didactics, and translation. The journal serves as a platform for scholarly exploration and advancement.
Publication Opportunity:
Call for Papers
Volume 1, Issue 2
[The Apollonian is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that is published bi-annually.]
The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks submissions for its sophomore issue (since its revival). The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within 5000 words), Short Essays (within 1500 words) and Book Reviews (within 2000 words). For the forthcoming issue, the submissions can be interdisciplinary, but must fall within the broader definition of humanities (and this also includes areas such as STEM and medical humanities, new media, visual cultures etc).
Book Reviews:
Call for Papers
ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann
“Something that concerns me very much is human dignity…or the lack of it.” – F.Z.
Virginia Woolf famously announced her cosmopolitan aspirations as a rejection of exclusionary patriarchal patriotism by declaring in Three Guineas (1938), “as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world” (TG 229). In this statement Woolf echoed the classical etymology of cosmopolitanism coined by the Cynic Diogenes, according to whom a cosmopolitan is defined as “a citizen of the world” (Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitan Tradition 1–2). But how does the classical philosophical notion of cosmopolitanism evolve in late-Victorian and modernist literature in the context of colonialism, capitalism, industrialism, and ever-increasing transnational mobility during the period?
In her seminal essay on body genres, Linda Williams characterizes embodied responses to film genres, citing shudders and screams as the products of horror and tears as the product of melodrama. Yet a great deal of horror scholarship has investigated the intimate allegorical relations between horror’s monsters and marginalized subject positions, as in canonical works such as Monsters in the Closet (Harry M. Benshoff) and Horror Noire (Robin R. Means Coleman). Studies have further explored how horror media function cathartically as relatively safe encounters with terror for those experiencing cultural prejudice, as seen in Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s Recreational Terror and Heather Petrocelli’s Queer for Fear.
Teaching Class: Pedagogical Approaches to Working-Class Literature in English
How does medieval art define queerness and transness, and how do gendered performances of bodies and images shape one another? How do medieval sexualities and genders, fluid and porous, explicate and trouble modern ones? We invite papers that explore queer methodologies and medieval art, including visual cultures of animals, the humoral body, and the non-human. After the success of 2024’s Queer(ing) Medieval Art panels, this new panel seeks to expand our scope: we especially encourage papers examining secular, Jewish, or Islamic perspectives, architecture, non-elite archives, and/or queer intersections with race, religion, and ethnicity as visual/material expressions.
Call for papers “Nationalisms: Languages and Identities”
This issue, edited by Irene Arbusti and Armando Francesconi, aims at exploring critical perspectives on the relationship between identities, nationalisms and territories, including theories, methodologies, practices and tools for understanding this complex interaction. Articles, both theoretical and empirical, may analyse both European and non-European contexts and should adhere to the following themes:
— languages, aesthetics and modes of expression of nationalisms;
— methods of analysis of contemporary nationalism;
— social movements and relations with local identities;
— the role of space, place and belonging in the formation of identities.
'Doctor Virtualis' 20 - Critical Thinking and the Middle Ages
The next issue of DV intends to investigate, in full coherence with the history of the journal and the tradition to which it has always been linked, the relationship between the Middle Ages, understood as an object of enquiry, but also as the subject of significant philosophical paths, and critical thought.
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.