Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives

This is a proposal for a collaborative session, jointly organized by the Forum Executive Committees ofComics and Graphic Narratives and 20th and 21st Century Spanish and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

Call for Papers for Special Focus Section (January 2025)

Refugee Voices in Contemporary Literature

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Call for Book Chapter
Oikography: Homemaking through Photography

Challenged, Banned, Censored: Curtailing Comics

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a non-guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

Registration for “The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium” is now live! The symposium will be held virtually on March 29-31, 2023. This event is free to attend, but registration is required. You can register on our website: www.girlhoodstudiescollective.com/

German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) & King’s College London 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image

King’s College London 

Thursday, 22 and Friday, 23 June 2023 

Deadline for Proposals:31 March 2023  

(Re)Imagining Tomorrow: Agency and Possibility in Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for Submission: 25 March 2023 

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference - Accepting virtual and in-person presentations

University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 23 June - Saturday 24 June 2023 

The central  theme of the forthcoming 40th issue of our interdisciplinary journal "Świat i Słowo" [“World and Word”] is "Literature from a local and regional perspective." In the era of progressive globalization and universalization of culture, sometimes imposed  by the media and the so-called opinion-forming centers of the dominant civilization model, in which the world is perceived as a "global village" inhabited by a consumer society that is supposedly subject to inevitable changes forced by technological progress (with the revolution of artificial intelligence at the forefront), we want to turn to what we perceive as primal and natural, i.e. sources of literature, culture and art in our local and regional spaces and communities.

ABOUT CHACHITRA DARPAN (translates to Cinematic Review)

Chalchitra Darpan is an undergraduate film journal by Celluloid, the Film Society of Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. The inaugural edition (2019-20), which was Delhi University’s first ever undergraduate journal, was introduced with the vision of building a student community of future film scholars around it. The journal aims to provide an academic space for undergraduates interested in film and media, who wish to explore and engage in film academia.

3rd EDITION THEME: CINEMA IN CRISIS

Community is at the heart of solidarity. To build community is to be willing to both critique its very essence and collaborate with others to strengthen the bonds. This conference seeks to explore and highlight interactions and connections by examining solidarities, tensions, and community building among the Black diaspora throughout the Americas and beyond.

Presentations that highlight the successes and joy of Black/Afro-descendant communities, resistance, activism, and cultural production as well as interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. ALARA is a multidisciplinary organization and welcomes presentations from all fields (humanities, social sciences, health sciences, etc.).

Visuality and Lyric Form How and why do poems ask to be looked at as well as read? How do poets leverage iconicity, intermediality, and visual design to enliven lyric form and interrogate its boundaries? 200-250 word abstract and brief bio by March 15.

ReFocus: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis

Calum Waddell (University of Aberdeen) and Chenyu Lin (University of Cardiff) are seeking to put together an edited collection Jackie Chan with the ReFocus series at Edinburgh University Press. This is a Call for Papers for a book on the work of Jackie Chan as filmmaker (NOT actor).

From Thoreau’s description of “vast, Titanic, inhuman nature” to Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects, scale has long been an epistemological tool for theorizing the relationship between nature and humanity. This tool has taken on special significance in the age of global anthropogenic climate change as artists and scholars struggle to give form to such enormous, widely dispersed upheaval as it slowly but persistently creeps into view. In the light of drowning major cities and intensifying weather events, we are left with the evergreen question: “what is to be done?” What role, if any, can literature play in the comprehension of and adaptation to such a brave new world? What interdisciplinary connections can be adopted to make art a more transformative force?