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The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 5:04am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024 - 5:04am
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

STaPs-22: The 22nd STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende – ‘Linguistics Conference for Ph.D. students’)

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 2:41pm
STaPs-22
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

 

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)

Extended Deadline EDITED COLLECTION Sciences and Fictions: New Human Models Beyond Boundaries

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 2:35pm
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London / Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 

Editors:

  • Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
  • Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

 contact email:

sciencesandfictions@gmail.com

 Presentation

An Edited Collection- Green Memories

updated: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024 - 1:25pm
Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Call for Papers

Title of the proposed edited collection:

Green Memories: The Temporal and Sensory Landscapes of Plant Life in Cultural Narratives

 

The Function of Humour- A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 6:07pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

The Function of Humour
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Date: January 28-30, 2025 
Format: Online Virtual Conference
Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)
15% discount for LABRC Members
Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/humour/

 

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” – Mark Twain

(Also, it’s a pretty good excuse to host an academic conference where people can laugh while learning!)

Feeling Cultures / Culturing Feelings: Emotions and Affects in Cultural Practices

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 3:16pm
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.

 

 

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CFP - Graduate Student Conference: Universality Renewed (Cultural Studies & Comp Lit, UMN - Twin Cities)

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:32am
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature - University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CSCL Graduate Conference - Universality Renewed - March 21st to 22nd, 2025. Minneapolis, MN.

Keynote Speaker: Todd McGowan, University of Vermont 

Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies 2025 Conference-Toronto

updated: 
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 10:13pm
Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

MÉLANGE 2025: URBAN CONTEMPLATIONS

updated: 
Thursday, November 28, 2024 - 7:46am
CHRIST UNIVERSITY BANGALORE CENTRAL CAMPUS
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Translation Review, call for submissions

updated: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024 - 3:09pm
Translation Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 17, 2025

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (2–3 May 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 2:28pm
Global Plant Humanities Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

 

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

Science Fiction & Disabilities (deadline extension)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 1:34pm
Stella Incognita Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

 

 

The 13th Stella Incognita Symposium

April 2, 3 and 4, 2025

 

Room Jacques Cartier - Campus Saint Martin d'Hères

Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

 

 

Science Fiction & Disabilities

 

Organizers: Clément Pélissier, Filippo Fonio

 

 

 

Call for Papers

 

 

Linda Hall Library, 2025-26 Fellowships

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
Linda Hall Library
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for our 2025-26 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies affiliated to the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

 

Call for Submissions 

The Janovics Center Award for Outstanding Humanities Research in Transnational Film and Theatre Studies 

 

The Janovics Center for Screen and Performing Arts Studies and the Faculty of Theatre and Film at Babes-Bolyai University invite submissions for their annual award for outstanding humanities research in transnational film and theatre studies. The award will be offered to contributions in the fields of film or theatre studies. The award consists of an invitation to give a talk at the Center and an honorarium.  

The 9th Annual Global Souths Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:30am
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Call For Papers
Conference Theme: 
“The World at a Crossroads”
Conference Date: March 27-29, 2025
Location: In-Person, the Student Union at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana
Submissions Due: January 30, 2025

Website: ulglobalsouths.wordpress.com

Dickinson and Ecologies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:29am
Emily Dickinson International Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Dickinson and Ecologies deadline for submissions: November 30, 2024 full name / name of organization: Li-hsin, Hsu / National Chengchi University  contact email: johsu@mail2.nccu.tw 

Dickinson and Ecologies

Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)

Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan

19-22 June 2025

(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)

 

Call for Papers 

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

 

Fantastical Constellations Panel at CCLA's 2025 Conference: “Comparative Literature Off-Kilter,”

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:29am
Canadian Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research  group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our sessions in the upcoming CCLA 2025 Conference taking place June 7-9, 2025 at Trent University, Peterborough/Nogojiwanong, Ontario and online.  

The conference, entitled “Comparative Literature Off-Kilter,” considers “our often off-kilter positionality in (and out of) academia,” and the precarity of the balancing act of comparison. We are asked to conceive the conference “as a playground on which marginal practices, thoughts, works and formats can form revolutionary friendships.”

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:29am
Wheaton College MA English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium

12 April 2025Contact: bevlclarksymposium@gmail.com 

 

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th Annual Beverly Lyon Clark Children’s Literature Symposium, which will be held at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts on April 12th, 2025. 

 

Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:28am
Victoria Baena, Research Fellow, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

We are pleased to invite proposals from UK-based postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge.

In the history of revolutions, 1848 has often stood as a marker of utopian aspirations—but also a symbol of thwarted hopes. More recently, vibrant scholarly debates on the significance of this crucial year have begun to prompt a new reckoning and to revise a longstanding consensus that the revolutions simply ‘failed’, in part by looking beyond the European scene alone.

Seeking Medievalist Co-Hosts for Chaucer/Canterbury Tales Podcast

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:27am
Alice Fulmer
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 13, 2025

I am planning a podcast called "Cunterbury", wherein we the co-hosts go through each of the Canterbury Tales and talk about their plot, characters, references, scholarship, and goof around. I am planning as well as demonstrating the queer/trans potential for Chaucer and teaching his corpus, as well as engaging with premodern race studies, feminism at large, disability studies etc. I want this project to be funny and informative, and probably will take a few years to get through everything -- so we'll go slow! My main point of inspirations would be the Hurly Burly Shakespeare Show starring Whamlet and Weird Studies featuring Phil Ford and JT Martel. 

Reading the Marginal in Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:26am
Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

What can be discovered between spaces?

Liminal spaces, margins, and thresholds offer us exciting opportunities to explore the past and our own perceptions. This conference aims to open discussion on under-represented or under-discussed topics to further analyse what we accept as “truth”. We will focus on the northern parts of the world specifically, as the northern regions were viewed as remote and uninhabitable. Medieval and Early Modern sources suggest that the further north you go, the more monstrous the world becomes. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:26am
Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

 

Virtual issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

 

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