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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.
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.
The Seen and Unseen in Supernatural Literary Contexts of the Long-Nineteenth Century
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
15-17 November 2024
Jacksonville, Florida, USA
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.
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.
This CFP is part of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, which will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025.
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.
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.
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**
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)
CFP for Vol. X, Issue 1 (January 2025)
Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities
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.
This panel will explore the afterlives of women’s memories and experiences in South Asian archival practices their narratives of violence in South Asia.
Conference online: 26-27 September 2024\
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CFP: Special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI”
Edited by Richard Jean So and Aarthi Vadde
Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2024
Dear Fellow Writers and Thinkers,
We are thrilled to announce the return of the Windhover Writers' Festival, taking place February 19-21, 2025, after a five-year hiatus. This year's festival promises to be a vibrant gathering that explores the profound intersection of faith and creativity, with a central theme of The Vocation of Christian Literary Arts.
The Windhover Writers' Festival has long been a cherished space for writers, scholars, and readers to connect, share their work, and delve into the power of words. We invite you to be a part of this exciting event by submitting a proposal for an individual or a panel discussion.
Proposals:
General Call for Papers: Scene
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/scene#call-for-papers
'Performance Technologies and Transformations: Virtual Production, AI, and Digital Innovation'
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,unpublished research papers for January 2025 issue.
Indexed in:
ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)
Annulet seeks proposals for a Spring 2025 folio: “American Poetry & Poetics, 2008–2025”
Deadline for Proposals: November 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom
The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s).
Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom
Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.
Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.
Deadline for Proposals: September 11
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) October 18
In the last few decades, courses on the Middle Ages and medieval studies programs have been either cut or severely restricted in the United States. In fact, recently a variety of humanities programs have been on the chopping block, forcing and providing an opportunity for specialists in medieval studies to integrate our specialties into other courses. This year’s Illinois Medieval Association Symposium seeks to explore issues incorporating medieval studies into our curricula. We seek papers that deal with problems/solutions, opportunities, and innovations. Single papers (20-minute length) and, especially, full sessions are encouraged.
Dear Colleagues,
We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles for our next issue, due April 2025. We receive papers on Literature (not that of ancient Greece or Rome), Media Studies, Film Studies, Visual and Performative Arts, and Teaching (Language and Literature). Papers in said areas need to focus on the following themes: Nationalism/Post-nationalism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Decolonization, Race, Gender Studies, Ethnicity, and Identity.
We are: CEEOL, Ulrichsweb, MLA Directory of Periodicals, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, SCOPUS. We also archive our journal in the Internet Archive.
“NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies
Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)
Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham, North Carolina!
Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/
Keynote speakers:
▪ Laura Pelaschiar, Università di Trieste
▪ Paul Fagan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
▪ Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation
Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti
The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 144th birthday.
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
The Emily Dickinson International Society, in collaboration with the Wenshan Conference, invites proposals for papers and panels at its international conference “Dickinson and Ecologies,” scheduled to take place at the Department of English, College of Foreign Languages & Literature, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, from Thursday, June 19 to Sunday, June 22, 2025.
Special Issue Call for Papers
Bandung: Journal of the Global South
Link to download the CFP: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37598_BJGS_CfP_2024.pdf
Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South
Goutam Karmakar (lead guest editor)
Honorary Research Associate
Faculty of Arts and Design
Durban University of Technology
ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.
Topics of Interest
“Revolutions are the locomotives of history,” wrote Marx 175 years ago in The Class Struggles in France, where the working and peasant classes were struggling against the capitalist system. Today, not only have the conditions of human beings failed to improve, but the rise of neo-capitalism and its imperial power has led to the rebirth of slavery in countries such as Congo and Libya, the complete destruction of third-world nations like Palasteine and Haiti by neocolonialism, and the further isolation of the working class across the globe.
A special issue of Gothic Studies guest edited by the Internet Ghost Collective (Chera Kee, Erika Kvistad, Line Henriksen, and Megen de Bruin-Molé)