Counterfactuals in games have started to catch the attention of various disciplines, aiming to understand just what pasts are (and are not) reckoned with. The fields of historical game studies, media studies and archeaogaming have begun untangling the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of counterfactual play to focus on player experience. In this two-day workshop held at Leiden University on August 28th and 29th, we aim to approach counterfactuals from the other side of the same coin: the processes at play in counterfactual game design and development.

'Bhopal at 40: Remembering and storytelling' Special Issue of South Asian Review

Guest editors: Clare Barker (University of Leeds), Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal) and Lynn Wray (University of Leeds)

Moveable Type is the graduate, peer-reviewed journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Promise'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme.

Call for Papers | PhD and Early Career Conference

“Popular Culture and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward”

University of Freiburg, Germany | October 24-26, 2024

Deadline for Submission: July 31, 2024

Dennis Wheatley sold around one million books a year at the height of his popularity and over 50  million in total. Britain’s ‘occult uncle’ shaped modern popular understanding of the weirdly esoteric and the darkly satanic in a way without parallel, but his books equally celebrated the luxuries of good wine and cigars, were adapted into successful films by Hammer, taught suspicion of the foreigner, described sex and sexuality in surprisingly frank terms for the era, influenced the Bond stories and the course of the Second World War, and drew on copious research.

The Victorians Institute Journal is now accepting submissions for volume 52.

In addition to publishing traditional scholarly articles and book reviews, VIJ also features shorter essays on active digital humanities projects (Digital Deliverables) and critical editions of rare and previously unpublished texts (most recently a cache of letters by John Stuart Mill, a rare pamphlet by members of the nascent Indian National Congress seeking to influence England's 1885 general election, and a new English-language translation of a Danish travelogue written by a woman painter born in Poland).

After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.”  We are not interested in "bad" as a judgment of quality or technique, but rather "bad" as a judgment of ethics or politics.

The adaptation of short stories goes back to the beginning of cinema and continues today, yet the practice receives relatively little critical attention. While much energy has been spent theorizing film adaptation of the novel, there exists virtually no systematic treatment of the practice of adapting short fiction.[1] Despite this lack, a close look suggests that the adaptation of short fiction represents differences of kind, and not just of degree, from that of the novel, differences that yield fertile ground for the adaptation-critic.

Conference at Leipzig University, Germany
Institute for American Studies

22-23 May 2025

Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert

Guest Editor: Dr. Nefise Kahraman (University of Toronto)

From Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, and from Carol Shields's Unless to Sabahattin Ali's Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kürk Mantolu Madonna), translator and interpreter characters populate fictional works both on screen and on the page. The Journal of Literary Studies: Nesir's seventh issue is dedicated to exploring the role of translators and interpreters in contemporary society as represented in literature and films.

15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference:
Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux
November 5-7, 2024
Zagreb, Croatia

The 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development, and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with the Industry Program of the Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF).

Keynote lecturer: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna

Conference theme:

Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference 2024

Call for Papers: Strange Bedfellows

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

          - William Shakespeare, The Tempest

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine has evoked memories of the previous nuclear disasters and stoked fears of a continued Cold War. On the other hand, politicians and economists are debating nuclear technology as a sustainable alternative to carbon-intense and fossil-based forms of energy. At the same time, popular texts such as the Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer (2023) or the miniseries Chernobyl (2019) indicate a renewed fascination with both nuclear capabilities and post-apocalyptic scenarios. Have we entered a new nuclear age, or have we never truly been post-nuclear?

Centering belonging, identity, and equity in our hiring practices requires potentially profound changes within the profession and across our institutions. Undoubtedly, departments, service-based offices, and institutions may struggle to identify the kinds of changes that can be made and may meet resistance to these changes. This collection aims to identify key points in Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies’ (RCWS) hiring practices that can be adjusted or revised to enhance the inclusivity and equity of the job market experience for both applicants and hiring committee members.