For a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review, a journal of performance studies, co-editor madison moore and consortium editor Rebecca Schneider seek submissions that engage the “knowing how” of queer nightlife. “Knowing” here finds kinship with feeling, glitter on the floor, skin on skin, tactility, sweat, diffraction, dissolution.

We are interested in the many elemental gestures, performances, forms of labor, mess, doing/undoing, imagination, making/unmaking as well as the failures, exhaustions, and obstacles that power or foreclose the rhythms of community, pleasure, and ecstasy at
night.

Supported by the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human Reproduction Project

In-Person: Thursday 24th October 2024

Online: Monday 28th October 2024

Keynote: Heather Latimer, University of British Columbia

This conference takes place over two days: one day in-person at the University of Lancaster, and one day online. This is to maximize accessibility and international engagement.

This session at the 2024 Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference will explore the tendency of contemporary literary works to portray non-human entities through a racial lens. We invite papers that examine this trend in the context of techno-Orientalism, which often reduces and objectifies the image of Asians to that of the hyper-modern. Submissions may adopt either a theoretical or a literary analysis approach. Please check the details here: View Session (ballastacademic.com).

Here's general information about the conference: 121st Annual Conference (Palm Springs, CA) - Nov. 7-10, 2024 - PAMLA

Seeking panelists for the NeMLA convention in Philadelphia March 6-9, 2025, on Percival Everett's James (2024).

Though the term was coined in 1986, ‘body horror’ dates back to the beginnings of Gothic literature—Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818); Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)—and extends into contemporary fiction, film, and new media. From seminal works including David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) to contemporary zombie films and portrayals of the digital-corporeal connection, as in the Unfriended franchise and Jane Schoenbrun’s recent I Saw the TV Glow, embodiment remains central to the horror genre. Mirroring the porousness of the body itself, the category evades compartmentalization and definition. 

South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, 15-17 November 2024 (Jacksonville, Florida)

Borders in the English-Speaking World: Mapping and Countermapping

Journal: Angles. New Perspectives on the Anglophone World
https://journals.openedition.org/angles/

Guest editors: Gwendolyne Cressman, Timothy A. Heron, Marianne Hillion

Deadline for proposal submissions: September 1st 2024

Call for proposal:

Panel Session:  Early Latinx Literature and the Archive

Journal “Temas de Integração”

2024 – No. 44 

The journal "Temas de Integração" was created almost 30 years ago by the Association of European Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and has gained particular recognition and impact among audiences in Portuguese-speaking countries.

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie

Deadline for submissions:

September 30th 2024

Editors

Dr Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) and James Shelton (Buckinghamshire New University)

Contact Email

refocusguyritchie@gmail.com

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie

The SAMLA 96 General Call for Abstracts will be used to build programming from abstracts that did not resonate with any of our currently published CFPs. SAMLA will review all submissions internally, and accepted abstracts will either be placed on an extant panel or combined with other General Call abstracts to create new sessions. The General Call is open to any and all disciplines.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee acceptance and placement, though we will work earnestly and diligently to place all abstracts.

Although there is no proscription against submitting multiple abstracts, each participant may present only one traditional paper per SAMLA conference.

The fashion system has been questioning for years how to decrease its negative impact on the environment and people, trying to improve individual elements: from natural, organic or recycled materials to zero-waste design methodologies, from slower production processes to socially responsible actions, from development of local supply chains to inclusive communication campaigns, from blockchain traceability of products to more reliable trend forecasts through artificial intelligence, from social engagement to large scale regulation. Thanks to the contribution of researchers, practitioners, and activists, a new awareness in civil society about the finite nature of materials and resources has been achieved, and the

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS:  IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION

Call for papers for an international in-person three-day conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 9-10-11, 2024. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

 Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies.

“Visibility and Invisibility in Southern Women’s Literature,” is an affiliated group session, hosted by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society.  One of the panel’s goals is to connect to the theme of SAMLA 96: “Seen and Unseen.”  In that spirit, the session coordinator invites papers that address the theme in a wide variety of ways, with the hope that this session will engender a rich and robust discussion of how the writing of Southern women has examined what is either visible or invisible, seen or unseen.  While the EMRS invites papers from all approaches, we are particularly interested in papers that emphasize how the theme is connected to gender or to the South–or both.