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CFP Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 12:00pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

 

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

 

(Deadline Extended) Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 10:33am
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

The 10th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature

updated: 
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 10:51am
PAH
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

The 10th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

Georgia and Carolinas College English Association Fall Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Georgia and Carolinas College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Please join the Georgia and Carolinas College English Association for a hybrid conference, co-hosted with the Michigan College English Association! The conference themes are “Crisis and Resilience.”

This exciting event will take place over two days. On Friday, Oct. 4, we will gather at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA, in-person. In the afternoon, you are invited to join a tour of Andalusia, essayist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville home.

Inclusive Stories, Writing for Change

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
English Association of PA State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Inclusive Stories, Writing for Change

“We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison

The English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) invites proposals from the fields of literature, writing studies/rhetoric, linguistics, English education, film studies, cultural studies, creative writing, and digital humanities.  Undergraduate students, graduate students, and higher education faculty may share analytical or creative projects that explore themes of writing, social justice, narratives, voices, inclusion, and diversity. 

EAPSU invites proposals for:

• Panel proposals of 3-4 presenters

• Individual papers

• Posters

JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy): General CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in italy is now accepting contributions for the general section of its #11 issue (publication date: May 2025).

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2024.

 

Essay proposals should not exceed 8.000 words (including footnotes and reference list).

 

Submit proposals online at https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/about/submissions 

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Gain”

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
RSA / Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Please find below the abstract for a RMMRA-sponsored panel at RSA 2025 (March 20-22)

 

Fourth Hawaii International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Francisco P. Dumanig/University of Hawaii at Hilo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2025) hosted by A'Sharqiyah University will be held at A'Sharkiya University Campus in Ibra, Oman on February 26 - 27, 2025. This year's conference theme is "Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in English Language and Literature Studies," aims to explore the cutting-edge methodologies and transformative practices in education. 

CFP: Creative Technologies in Art and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities invites submissions on Creative Technologies in Art and Literature and the General Areas. This issue aims to explore the intersection of technology and creativity and examine how technological advancements are reshaping artistic practices, cultural production, and human expression.

The Theme

Trans* Play: Queering Medieval Drama, Performance, and Adaptation

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8 - 10, 2025)

More than 25 years ago, Robert LA Clark and Claire Sponsler argued in "Queer Play: the Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" that "transgender and transstatus representations cannot be reduced to one simple meaning but rather perform a variety of...cultural work." We seek contributions to explore, expand and complicate the idea of transgender identities, trans bodies, transgressive practices, or other kinds of transformations or translations in medieval drama and performance. In 2025, how do we understand the shapeshifting nature of "trans"? What are the emerging questions and where do they lead us?

CfA: On_Culture #19 "Disruption" (Autumn 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Disruption

Guest Editors: Justus Grebe, Farouk El Maarouf, Anastasiia Marsheva 

H(a)unted

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Georgetown University English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024

H(a)unted

October 25, 2024 

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“O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted.”

-         William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes.”

-         Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.”

-         Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

 

CFP: Medieval Intermedialities (ICMS 2025 Virtual Session)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Grace Catherine Greiner & Jennifer Rabedeau
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CFP: Medieval Intermedialities (Session ID: 6064)
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
May 8-10, 2025

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Early Popular Visual Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Call For Papers for Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

Before virtual reality, peeping has long been a widespread media practice. Since the 18th century, the world has been presented in lensed and boxed apparatuses that aroused wonder and seduced audiences. Our contemporary culture of immersion was initially launched by peepshows and cosmoramas: one of the earliest media systems in Europe that produced and distributed views.

 

Creative Approaches to Epistemic Violence

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for papers for a Creative Session

56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). 

“Creative Approaches to Epistemic Violence”

SCMS 2025: Sensing the Surround

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
SCMS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 23, 2024

Where does sensing occur: within the sensory organ, the perceived object, or somewhere in between? This panel draws on insights from environmental media to explore the history of sensations. We examine how the environment not only shapes our sensory reality but has also been used historically to define, measure, and standardize the senses.

Making Madnesses in Early Modern England (RSA Boston, March 20-22, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference, Boston, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 12, 2024

In John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628), the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments, including Dotage, Phrenitis, Hypochondria, St. Vitus’ Dance, Hydrophobia (rabies), and Lycanthropia (the delusion that you’ve transformed into a wolf) – in order to shake his afflicted clients out of their melancholic funk. Pulling from Robert Burton’s massive tome, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Ford’s play showcases the sheer variety of madnesses – even within a subgenre such as “melancholy” – that were active, endemic, and of great dramatic interest in early modern England.

(Re)Thinking Feminist Movements: Where is the #MeToo Today?

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

An article in the New York Times states that on April 25, 2024, Harvey Weinstein’s New York conviction was overturned in a 4-3 decision on the basis that the disgraced Hollywood producer did not receive a “fair trial.” In an interview, the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, argues that some progress has been made with the conviction of men like Weinstein.

Spill Your Guts! A Graduate Student Work In Progress Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 16, 2024

Calling all graduate students working in Horror Studies! This year, the SCMS Horror SIG will be convening a graduate student symposium, and we invite proposals from graduate students outlining their primary research topic.

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:15pm
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

26-27 May 2025

University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark

 

Abstract deadline: 1 November 2024

Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.

CFP: Calligraphy Studies volume

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:13pm
Roland Buckingham-Hsiao and Joanna Homrighausen
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

The art of calligraphy, with its elegance, precision and expressive power holds a celebrated place among the arts of China, Japan and the Middle East, and is much studied as a result. Western calligraphy using the Roman-script, by contrast, is relatively neglected within academia.

However, given current interest in both drawing research and grapho-linguistics – the study of writing systems – the time is ripe to explore the fascinating intersection of visual art and written language with a scholarly volume on Western calligraphy studies, broadly defined.

CFP Saving the Day for Medieval Studies (9/30/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:12pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)

 

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

Rationale

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Nov. 7-9, 2024 (at Augusta University or on Zoom)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:12pm
Society of Nineteenth Century Historians
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 32nd Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press.

The Society invites panel and paper submissions dealing with media, broadly defined in the nineteenth century. Recent topics have included the Civil War of fiction and history, slavery and abolition, coverage of presidents and legislatures, the minority and foreign language press, the illustrated press, sensationalism, reporting on the arts, and spiritualism and the supernatural.

SUBMISSION: Full Paper, Panel Proposal or **Abstract** 

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:08pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CFP for NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 6-9

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

 

In a roundtable format, “Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy” will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

 

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