The Circus Historical Society invites proposals from scholars of all levels for presentations on any subject related to circus history for Convention 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-7. Papers/presentations by a single speaker should be limited to 25 minutes including questions. Panel/group presentations should be limited to 45 minutes including questions. All presentations must be delivered in person (no Zoom).

Submission Details

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities

Digital platforms’ ubiquity and pervasive nature have ignited discussions around the boundaries between what is considered private and what is rendered public. Cohen’s (2012) exploration of privacy in the digital age highlights how technological advancements challenge the conventional norms we attribute to personal space and information. Privacy also seems to be a buzzword of any privately deployed enterprise built upon collecting and distributing personal information (Strauß & Nentwich, 2013). While traditional conceptualisations of privacy and its value consider personal information as something to protect or own while focusing on how information is handled, recent accounts take ontological and contextual perspectives (Solove, 2008; Marmor, 2015).

 New Orleans and Black Literature The College Language Association invites papers for a proposed panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA) on "New Orleans and Black Literature." Interested scholars are invited to submit 350-word abstracts that explore the influence of New Orleans (emphasizing food, music, history, art, and language) on Black literature and culture, in U.S. and diasporan contexts. 

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 22 March 2024

Janaka Lewis, The College Language Association (janakabowman@gmail.com )

https://michigancea.org/

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Themes:  Crisis and Resilience

Featured Speaker: Dawn Burns, fiction writer and memoirist

CFP: Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association

Call for Abstracts for Issue 18 (Spring 2025)

Frames

Frames are ever-present. We read, use, and propagate them in our daily, as well as academic life. Their definition is difficult to put into words, just like it boggles the mind to imagine in how many ‘frames’ we are entangled ourselves. Frames serve many functions. They reduce the complexity of the world through the art of selection. Be it four pieces of ornamented wood that surround the canvas, an imaginary line on a map dividing one nation from another, or a set of tools used to present an argument, innumerable frames (‘models’, ‘schemas’, or ‘attitudes’) organize our experience. 

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between

Guest Editors: Carolyn F. Scott, National Cheng Kung University

Laurent Cases, National Taiwan University

Edward Eugene Nolan, National Taiwan University

Publication Date: December 2025 (Issue No. 54)

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

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CFP:

Women Wandering Purposefully:

The Flâneuse in Literature and Popular Culture

(Edited Collection)

“I love walking in London. Really, it’s better than walking in the country.”

—Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF)

Call for Abstracts

Third Annual Meeting

August 29th-31st, 2024

London, England 

Mission Statement:

Don’t be a wet blanket, come to our two-day conference on Water in Legend and Tradition, to be held on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September as the eighteenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, in the medieval grandeur of St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF. Whether you’re into holy wells or woe waters, hauntings or hydromancy, we’d like to hear from you. Contributions are welcome on eerie ponds, inland mermaids, canal culture, early spas, baptismal customs, lake monsters, and the lore of fords, falls, fountains, floods and fishpools. Anyone can join us – folklorists, healers, hydrologists, bargees, dowsers and storytellers.

Generative AI promises to revolutionize many facets of social and economic life. The creative power of generative machine learning has been held up as a tool that will transform the work of artists and creators. Yet generative models have also been implicated in the unfair use of intellectual property, the propagation of existing social biases, and the facilitation of a wide range of disruptions to an already precarious labor market.

This guaranteed panel will address the ethical issues of generative AI, focusing on the overlap between creativity and harm. How can the literary humanities help foster an ethics for creativity in the age of generative AI?

With the advent of 2021, there has been a perceptible shift in gothic focus. Viewers have been treated to network hauntings – CBS’ Ghosts (USA) and GhostsUK, cinematic –The Voyage of the Demeter, and streaming – The Fall of the House of Usher. This year marks the 215th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth and the 175th anniversary of his death in Baltimore. In February, Dr. Martens released its gothic line of footwear.

Indigenous scholar and game developer Jason Edward Lewis has argued that the involvement and agency of Indigenous communities in the video game industry allow Indigenous artists and creatives to “stake out our own territory in a common future” (Lewis, 2014). After Lewis, and in light of the meteoric increase in video games titles and other works of digital media by, about, and for Indigenous communities, this session will explore the intersection of Indigenous cultures and cosmologies, storytelling, and video games.