Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture Edited Collection
Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture
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Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture
This session for the 2025 Modern Language Association conference focuses on collaborations among performers and/or writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Papers on collective artmaking in film, theatre, performance art, music, and literature are welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract to adiazhui@princeton.edu
The regular session on African American Literature invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the South Central Modern Language Association, in New Orlean, LA, from Sep. 19-21 (https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/).
We welcome proposals related to any period or aspect of African American literature.
For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio to mchooper@pvamu.edu by March 15, 2024.
Call for papers
The Traveller’s Tale. Emergent Forms and Minority Traditions.
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
November 14 and 15, 2024
University administrators often refer to contingent faculty in nameless, generic terms. This panel invites participants to share stories from contingency (including resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance) to demonstrate the complexity of the people delivering university instruction.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Clark Barwick, Indiana U, Bloomington (mbarwick@indiana.edu )
In 2022, about 60% of the nearly 225,000 employees in the US who engaged in work stoppages were educators, researchers, and other academic professionals. We welcome strategies, stories, and advice from labor activism.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Lindsay Stephens, Black Hills SU (lstephens@olc.edu)
Visible to students but invisible to faculty/administration for governance, pay, and benefits, this panel seeks papers defining issues and/or strategies to increase adjunct visibility providing substantive, long-term, meaningful change.
Send 200-word abstracts to: samo@uwsuper.edu & Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land dispossession and invisibility within the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies, send a 250-word abstract to this panel. All kinds of activist artworks are welcome: films, motion pictures, docuseries, plastic, textile, performance, music, paintings, literature, etc. Papers can be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Timeframe: 19th-21st century. Submit your abstract through the MLA CFP section at: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26535.html
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Cultures of Automobility
University of Konstanz (Germany)
October 10-12, 2024
Keynote speaker: Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbildt University)
with additional speaker to be announced
Transitions and Transformation in South Asian Folklore: Problems, Perspectives, and Prospects
JOCPC is pleased to be working with guest editor Jack Anderson who is assembling a special edition of the journal for the Fall 2024 issue focusing on the figure of the child paired with the rich symbolism of water. We have kept the theme open-ended, and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing the relationship between water and childhood. Investigations into the topic may include (but are not limited to):
Subsequent productions (of opera and musical theatre) can reveal and/or challenge the heart and soul of the original texts. This session invites 250-word abstracts regarding cautionary failures, inspiring successes, and intriguing mixtures.
Lyrica (Affiliated Organization of Modern Language Association), Modern Language Association conventioni. January 9-12 in New Orleans.
Announcement: Call-for-Papers
This call is for abstracts for a scholarly, international edited collection entitled, Cultural Depictions of the Stepmother: Literature, Stage, and Screen. Currently I am seeking a number of academics and professionals in the field who might like to send me an abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book.
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2024
Call for Papers: Race and Yoga Journal 8.1 (2024) - OPEN ISSUE
The Race and Yoga editorial board is currently seeking articles, personal narratives, interviews, book reviews, and creative works for the eight issue of the journal, to be published by December 31, 2024. Race and Yoga is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and international academic journal committed to critical examinations of the history, politics, and practice of yoga. For this issue, the editorial board is particularly interested in submissions that contend with relationships between yoga and contemporary crises.
Possible topics may include yoga in relationship to:
Dr. Shane Thompson and I are inviting contributions to the edited volume The Bible and Film: Dialogues Across Disciplines. This collection is a novel approach to examining the Bible in/and film, bringing together scholars from Biblical Studies and Film Studies.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to the Bible as it relates to:
- Animation
- Comedy
- Satire
- Epic
- Documentary
- Educational/Non-Theatrical films
- Propaganda
- Film style
Narratives of nursing during times of war are a reminder that, as Simone de Beauvoir wrote, “the body is not a thing, it is a situation.” Narratives construct these situations through seeing or denying the seeing of them. As Carol Acton and Jane Potter both note, “seeing… [is] an important metaphor for revealing what is hidden, especially what cannot be entirely comprehended or described, and articulating it to the writing self as well as bringing it to the attention of a public audience.” The narrative problems of nursing are those of seeing the situation of bodies and registering that situation at the level of language.
Crossing the Line: Sexuality and James Baldwin's Vision
Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the
Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the inaugural one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS).
Submission Deadline: Extended to March 4, 2024
Conference Date and Time: April 4, 2024 from 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Violent Femmes: The Ongoing Popular Relevance
of Psycho-Biddies and Hagsploitation Heroines
Dusty Perez
Jessica McKee
Taylor Joy Mitchell
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
“I write, not for children, but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.”
― George MacDonald
It is often easier for child characters to cross boundaries between reality and fantasy worlds, which frequently go unnoticed by adult characters. In fantasy stories, whether in literature or media for an adult or child audience, it is mainly children who discover portals into fantastic worlds. These child protagonists become redeemer figures and symbols of hope and overcome personal and global crises in those worlds, into which they are lured or called.
Despite being targeted at a younger demographic, children’s literature can teach many valuable things to adults. Reading children’s books can take us back to our childhoods and recapture the feeling of being filled with curiosity and imagination. It can help us to see things from the perspective of a child, and thereby help us to understand how children think. Researching these books and the methods employed by their authors can teach us about how children are viewed by adults, and what adults think is important to teach them through literature. Seeing the kinds of books children respond to and why can test the validity of views held by adults, and give us a sense of what they find valuable and engaging.
Submissions are invited for a special journal issue centred on the film Saltburn (Emerald Fennell, 2023). Since its premiere on Amazon Prime, Emerald Fennell's film has generated an exceptional level of audience engagement within a media context where the increased presence of diversified media platforms and a drop in cinema attendance has effectively dispensed with the 'water cooler' moment of film consumption, with the exception of big budget studio franchises.
Which strands of psychoanalytic thinking might be activated today to both interpret contemporary forms of fascism – seen most readily in far-right movements and authoritarian politics but elsewhere as well – and offer avenues of thought and practice toward non-fascist formations?
This roundtable considers which literatures of psychoanalysis, broadly construed, are most relevant to the social and political circumstances of the present moment, with an emphasis on what recuperations of psychoanalytic thought could further projects of what Michel Foucault called “non-fascist life.”
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 1st 2024
My Impossible Soul: The Metamodern Music of Sufjan Stevens
Edited by Dr Tom Drayton, Greg Dember, Dr Joshua Busman and Dr Maren Haynes Marchesini
Anglo-American Digital/Electronic Literature: Theories, Forms and Practices
Iperstoria - Journal of American and English Studies no. 24 – Call for Papers Fall 2024
Editors:
Andrea Pitozzi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Mario Verdicchio, Università degli Studi di Bergamo
This panel will consider how neoliberalism shifts conceptions of time and temporality, especially in how they relate to aesthetics. We invite papers that engage critically with contemporary works of art and literature to ask how they represent time, and/or how shifting conceptions of time and temporality relate to aesthetic consumption and interpretation.
Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is
LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE
We are also proud to announce two of this year’s four keynote speakers:
M. G. Sanchez, a Gibraltarian author and academic, will deliver a lecture titled “Dialoguing with the Ghosts of the Past: Engaging with Gibraltarian History in the Novels Jonathan Gallardo and Marlboro Man”
What is queer theory's relationship to the "twink"? This panel welcomes submissions that use different theoretical routes to interrogate the figure of the "twink" as a type, as a form, as an aesthetic, as a category of masculinity, and so on.
Conference: The Poetics of Early Modern Scientific Poetry
28―30 November, 2024 – University of Bayreuth, Germany
Inaugural conference of the international AHRC/DFG research consortium,
Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
(University of York; Anglia Ruskin University; University of Marburg; University of Bayreuth)
"Unmasking the Unspoken: Beyond the Edges of Taboos"Guest-edited by Rossana Sebellin and Tommaso Continisio