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New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 8:38pm
David Polanski (Independent Scholar) & Robert Reginio (Alfred University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A World Unknown: New Perspectives on Bob Dylan and the Blues (Edited Volume)

Deadline for abstract submission: September 15 2024

2024 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 7:11pm
Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

2024 Harry Potter Academic Conference (HPAC) at Chestnut Hill College

Friday and Saturday, October 18–19, 2024

St. Joseph Hall, Chestnut Hill College, 9601 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19118

EXTENDED Deadline for conference submission proposals (academics & community members): September 13, 2024

Deadline for conference submission proposals (high school students): September 20, 2024

Early Bird Registration Deadline: October 1, 2024

Retheorizing Theory: Claiming Space for the African/ African Diaspora Woman Writer as Theorist

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:58am
Renee Schatteman/ Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

This panel proposes to examine the works of women writers from Africa and the African diaspora who have extensive oeuvres, which include creative work (often of multiple genres) as well as analytical writing (in forms such as essay, interviews, speeches, and other occasional pieces), to posit the argument that the creative work they produce performs theoretical work  in exploring the complexities, contradictions, and dilemmas facing the ever-changing postcolonial environment.

PCA: Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:58am
Christopher Maverick / Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Erotica, Sexuality, Pornography, & Kink Area (formerly Eros & Pornography) of the National Popular Culture Association (PCA) invites scholars to participate in the PCA’s annual conference. Details of the conference can be found at https://pcaaca.org. You may apply to the conference at https://sites.google.com/view/2025pcaconference/call-for-papers

The Diasporic Eighteenth-Century (sponsored by the Graduate Student and Early Career Scholars Caucus (GECC

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:57am
American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

This panel addresses the emerging diasporic consciousness that accompanied the movement of people and changes in ecologies in the eighteenth century. Extending last year’s two-part roundtable “Eighteenth Century in Motion” to the question of Diaspora, participants are invited to consider questions including but not limited to:

While the ‘diasporic eighteenth century’ offers proliferating instances of movement, what are some ways to simultaneously consider communities and people subjected to increased physical, discursive, and representational confinement?

What are some circumatlantic relations that the diasporic eighteenth century allows us to consider?

4th Annual Humanities Podcast Network Symposium

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:57am
Humanities Podcast Network Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2024

For our fourth iteration of the HPN Symposium, we find ourselves interrogating, engaging with, and pushing the boundaries of the concept of  “best practices” and how it relates to humanities podcasting. Our initial inquiry was born out of a discussion about the need to counteract worker invisibility and exploitation on university campus podcast teams. But this raised a larger, thornier debate: Are there other agreed-upon principles of podcast-making and audio creation?  If so, have they emanated from particular forebears and models, or sprung up out of habitual creation like unwritten, but widely understood, common laws? Are there contexts peculiar to podcasting that deserve their own careful ethical treatment or understanding?

CFP Expanding Our View of Sherwood: Exploring the Matter of the Greenwood in Comics (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:57am
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Expanding Our View of Sherwood: Exploring the Matter of the Greenwood in Comics (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project and International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Carl B. Sell

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

 

Session Information

CFP More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

 

Call for Papers Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Pearl-Poet Society

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Amber Dunai

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Special Issue on W.E.B. Du Bois

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
American Literary History
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

American Literary History invites submissions for a Spring 2026 special issue focused on the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois. All aspects of Du Bois’s literary, historical, and political thought are welcome, as well as his engagement with other key thinkers and with social and political movements. Papers may focus on questions of Marxism, nationalism, and Pan-Africanism; gender, sexuality, and queerness; print culture and reading networks; political theory and sociology; aesthetics and cultural forms. Deadline: July 1, 2025.

CEA Annual Conference, Special Topics: War Literature and Trauma

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers, Special Topics: War Literature and Trauma at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, War Literature and Trauma at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on War Literature and Trauma for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Latinx Joy: The Pleasure of Latinx Literature

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
Dr. Leigh Johnson and Dr. Erin Murrah-Mandril
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for Genealogies of Joy: The Pleasure of Latinx Literature. This edited collection aims to explore the diverse representations of joy within Latinx literary traditions, emphasizing how joy manifests as a form of resistance, resilience, and cultural affirmation from the earliest writings to contemporary moments. How do readers and scholars experience the jouissance of literary recovery, new methodologies, texts, and pedagogies? 

 

Political Ecology in Romantic and Victorian Textual Material

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:56am
Dewey W. Hall/Northeast MLA (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Population and production are two terms used to characterize the nineteenth century in Great Britain. For example, the population in England more than doubled by the end of the century due to improving hygiene (i.e., hygeia), increasing birth rate, declining mortality rate (e.g., medical advances), and prosperity. Public health led to a greater commonwealth. The rise of the Industrial Revolution through factories, transportation (e.g., railway), and the synchronization of time stoked the great migration from agrarian to industrial centers. Would the population outstrip production? How could production evolve to keep up with the rising population?

TSQ Special Issue: Trans Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century Americas

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:55am
Jesse Alemán, Ren Heintz, Bernadine Marie Hernández
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Trans Studies in the long Nineteenth Century Americas 

 

Co-editors:

Jesse Alemán (University of New Mexico)

Ren Heintz (California State University, Los Angeles)

Bernadine Marie Hernández (University of New Mexico)

 

"Redefining Expansion and Exploration: Black Diasporic Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies" - 83rd CLA Convention (April 23-26, 2025 in Vancouver, Washington)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:55am
College Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

"Redefining Expansion and Exploration: Black Diasporic Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies"

 

Call for Abstracts for the 83rd Annual College Language Association Convention

 

Accepting Submissions at www.clascholars.org until October 1st!

 

APRIL 23 - 26, 2025

Hosted by Washington State University

Vancouver, Washington

Hilton Vancouver Washington

 

David. Bowie. Is.

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:53am
Samuel Gladden and James Rovira, eds.
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

David. Bowie. Is.

A call for papers for an edited collection of scholarly articles

Samuel Gladden and James Rovira, editors

2024

 

Call for Papers: Professional/Technical Writing at CEA 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:53am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Call for Papers, Professional/Technical Writing at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Professional/Technical Writing for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

 

Call for Papers: Composition & Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:53am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Call for Papers, Composition & Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

 

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition & Rhetoric: Practice for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

The Revolutionary Possibilities of Singlehood

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:52am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Singles have been and continue to be regarded as anomalies and threats to the social order in the United States and elsewhere (Moran). Within the humanities, the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies builds on scholarship in queer theory and gender and women’s studies to highlight the evolution of relationships that fall outside the structure of traditional marriage and the nuclear family to include singlehood and other types of intimate relationships that do not revolve around these conventional models. As more people opt toward relationship models and orientations that do not involve marriage, it is important that scholarship in the humanities reflect this revolutionary thinking.

Disability Studies, Dramatic Text, and Performance

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:52am
Dr. Mary Lutze
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

 

47th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: July 9-11, 2025

Location: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art - London, England 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 15, 2025

 

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

10th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:52am
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 21, 2024

10th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

University of Michigan

March 14-15, 2025


 

Submission deadline: October 21, 2024

Call for Papers:

The departments of American Culture, Communication and Media, Digital Studies, and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are thrilled to host the 1oth annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 14-15, 2025.

The Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Northumbria University at Newcastle Upon Tyne / UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.

 

AGEING, PROGRESS, and DECLINE in the Victorian Period

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
James Aaron Green / DACH Victorianists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

6 December 2024, Online

 

Keynote Speaker: Jacob Jewusiak (Newcastle University, UK)

 

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.

 

Edited Volume on Periodization

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Lee Bebout
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Periodization

Periodization, the act of chunking up time to make units of study, is a fraught practice undertaken by scholars, educators, media professionals, and everyday people. Although largely arbitrary, the ending and beginning dates of a period do much to influence how people outside of the historical profession think about topics such as progression, regression, and the present’s current location in a larger human narrative.

Medievalism and Game Studies Panel @ Kzoo 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:50am
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Critical Game Studies Initiative - UNC Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919

 

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games

 

Organizer: Antonia DiNardo

 

Delivery Mode: In-Person

 

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

 

“Of Paradise Terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:49am
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024

 “Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.

 

Potential topics include:

 

Call for Chapters: Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:49am
Margie Judd/University of Nevada, Reno
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era explores the complex relationship between the rise of frontier mythology and the acceptance of social inequality in America. This interdisciplinary collection under considertion by Vernon Press explores how western mythology, spread through popular media, may have eclipsed late 19th-century movements for equity, such as the Knights of Labor's efforts to promote racial and gender equality, alongside workers' rights.

Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:36am
Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Call for Papers – Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025
Doha, State of Qatar
7-8 February, 2025
 
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
 

Celtic Flaneur: The Humanities in Irish Street Life (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Presentations are invited on any subject concerning the intersection of Irish culture and the humanities, provided its source is located outdoors and it functions as a free, democratic, inclusive space. Possible topics include the Irish busker tradition, street art, outdoor sculptures, walking tours, parks and greenspaces, cemeteries, memorials – even the recent Dublin-New York Portal. 

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