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Disasters and Apocalypses

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Call for Papers - International Journal Special Issue on "Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America"

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:47am
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Papers(Issue 9, Dec. 2025)

 

Ex-Centric Narratives:

Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

 

Please submit your abstracts by December 31, 2024,

for any of the following two parts

 

PART I

Theme:

Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:25am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Concept Note

Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Menghang Wu/Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

Symposium Date: April 4, 2025

Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and open to the public.

CFP: Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for paper for a Special issue of ReviewofEducation,Pedagogy,andCulturalStudies

Educatorsin PopularCulture: EducationalSettings asSites ofIntersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

 

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

EDITED COLLECTION Sciences and Fictions: New Human Models Beyond Boundaries

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London / Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Editors

  • Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
  • Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
  • Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

Presentation

PCA/ACA Memory and Representation area - April 16-19, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2025 National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 16-19, 2025.

 

Memory and Representation: Area Description

 

Auto-: Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Duke University Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

“Auto—”

Duke University Department of English Graduate Conference

February 13 & 14, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Tyrone S. Palmer (Wesleyan University)

Society for Novel Studies Panel - How the Novel Speaks Alternate Media

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Brennan Jones / Joelle Troiano
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

How does the novel give voice to art in other media? What does it take to render as text what has never existed textually? In this panel, we will be responding to this year’s SNS conference theme of “novel languages” by thinking through the ekphrastic act in its broadest sense, asking and answering questions about what it means to “translate” art or experience from one medium to another, what it might mean for representations of other media in the novel to constitute a language of its own.

 

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

(Re)imagining ‘Progress’

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:20am
Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is excited to announce the second Graduate Research Meet (GRM) on (Re)imagining ‘Progress’. Conventionally the idea of progress is understood as a linear trajectory towards improvement, scientific advancements, and socio-economic and technological developments. Progress, in contemporary times, can be seen as a holistic concept pertaining to not only societal but also individual betterment — more as a cultural, economic and psychological reality.

Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:19am
Litwin Books
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

For a generation, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise was emblematic of heroism, fighting against adversity, and inclusion of outsiders. This is why Rowling’s arguable alignment of herself, in 2020 and since, with transphobic and trans-exclusionary rhetoric felt like such a betrayal to many of her readers, prompting a revaluation of her work and what it means to them now. With the co-edited collection Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter, we intend for contributors to explore the matter of what we collectively do with Harry Potter in the wake of its creator’s very public turn. Some readers have favored a careful delineation between author and work; others have regretfully concluded that no such delineation is possible.

CFP: Adaptations and Retellings--PCA/ACA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP: Adaptations and Retellings 2025

https://pcaaca.org/ 

CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA - April 16-19, 2025

Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process. 

Trans/Pater

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
The International Walter Pater Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers

  

The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society:

 

 Trans/Pater 

 

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

 

September  5-7, 2025

 

 

 

Organizers:      Barbara Black, Skidmore College

Celebrating Punch Magazine at 185!

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
Liverpool John Moores University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

Call for Expressions of Interest.

In July of 2026 Punch magazine will be 185 years old!

 

The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team are editing a special commemorative issue of Victorian Periodicals Review to celebrate Punch, both the magazine and the evolution of a clear brand identity that witnessed many imitations and adaptations across the world.

We would like to invite expressions of interest from scholars who are working on Punch, developing and enriching the field, to consider topics such as: global imitators of the magazine; the merchandise; the almanacks; the pocket-books; the reprinted bound volumes and thematic collections; the online digital resources and more.

Fermentation

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
Saint Louis University, Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

 

Fermentation

Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus

April 24th-25th with optional visit to winery or brewery on Saturday the 26th

 

The 1516 German Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) limited the ingredients of beer to barley, hops, and water. Yet, this restriction overlooks the invisible and essential agent behind fermentation: yeast. Only centuries later was yeast recognized as the microorganism that drives fermentation. Prior to its discovery, fermentation was often attributed to divine or spontaneous forces, with no understanding of the microbiological agents at play.

2025 Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
Northern Illinois University Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The 32nd Annual Midwest Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM)

April 5th & 6th 2025

 

Theme: “Trouble” - Confronting Bigotry in Higher Education and Academic Scholarship

 

camp | fire

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:15am
Tisch's Center for Research & Study Grad Student Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Sponsored by the Center for Research & Study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, this graduate student conference is organized by the joint effort of students within the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Department of Performance Studies, and Department of Art & Public Policy. Together, we seek to consider where camps and fires may operate as systems, symbols, and metaphors to allow ways of approaching history and nations as kempt and unkempt by time and space.

2025 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

 

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held on the day before the annual conference. The 2025 annual meeting will be held at Georgetown Law from June 17-18th. The theme of the conference, our call for papers, and submissions guidelines can be found below:

Speech Matters

CFP: Black Performing Arts (PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, April 16-19, 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting.  In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.

On Mothers and Nature: Reassessing Reproduction in the Midst of Crisis (ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Rachael DeWitt / Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

To face climate change is, in part, to grapple with a narrowing range of possible futures. Thus, we find that reproduction itself is up for interrogation, reimagination, and revision. This panel explores precisely these shifts in thought by inviting papers that consider environmental crisis through the lens of sex and gender studies. As invoked by the panel’s title, the trope of Mother Nature exemplifies the powerful role that gender has historically played in environmental cultures. And although Mother Nature has undergone successive waves of critique, human norms of gender and sexuality continue to inflect ecological discourse.

The American West

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

THE AMERICAN WEST

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

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