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Gothic Panel

updated: 
Tuesday, April 5, 2022 - 1:02am
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

The Gothic Panel with SCMLA's 79th Annual Hybrid Conference held in Memphis, Tennessee from October 13-15, 2022 is accepting proposals/abstracts for the Fall 2022 Conference. The virtual conference offers options for both In Person and Virtual presentations. (no longer accepting proposals) Location: Sheraton Downtown Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee

Days: October 13-15, 2022

URL: https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/

Contact: Professor Julie Garza-Horne, Gothic Panel Secretary, julieanngarza@gmail.com

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) Third Volume

updated: 
Monday, April 4, 2022 - 10:27am
Journal of Anime and Manga Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 2, 2022

Volume to be Published in November of 2022

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is eager to announce a Call for Papers for our third volume.

The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies is a double-blind peer reviewed, open-access journal published by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. JAMS is dedicated to publishing scholarly works concerning anime, manga, cosplay, and the fandom surrounding these areas. As an open-access journal, JAMS aims to reach an audience of scholars both inside and outside the academe, encouraging public engagement through the digital humanities.

Totalitarianism in Literature and Film

updated: 
Sunday, April 3, 2022 - 10:37pm
University of Economics and Humanities, Bielsko-Biala, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 30, 2022

Totalitarianism & other radical ideologies as social phenomena have always been a scourge of societies big and small. The present time demands from academics and intellectuals to engage in a detailed analysis of what happens in the rhetoric of radical approaches, and in the deconstruction of its influence on the content and form in which it is delivered.

Feminist Design Rhetorics: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies for Building Equity and Collective Justice

updated: 
Sunday, April 3, 2022 - 2:34pm
Rachael Sullivan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 10, 2022

EXTENDED DEADLINE: APRIL 10!

Kristin Prins, Kristin Ravel, and I are seeking chapters for an edited collection tentatively titled Feminist Design Rhetorics: Theories, Practices, and Pedagogies for Building Equity and Collective Justice.  We hope authors will explore questions such as: What are the roles of design, technologies, and rhetoric in furthering intersectional feminist activism? What impacts do intersectional approaches to design bring to our rhetorical theory, practice, and pedagogy? And how might we use a feminist design lens to make rhetorical choices that center accountability, equity, and social justice?

CFP Animals in the American Popular Imagination | Virtual conference (updated)

updated: 
Sunday, April 3, 2022 - 5:20am
PopMeC and AACCP
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Animals in the American Popular Imagination

Virtual conference 12-16 September 2022

Currently confirmed keynotes: Brett Mills, Christy Tidwell. Thematic roundtables on cryptozoology (moderated by Margo DeMello), animals in games and digital spaces, more TBA.

MMLA 2022 Popular Culture Permanent Session CFP: Where do we go from Here? Utopian and Dystopian Possibilities in Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, April 2, 2022 - 8:33pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

The MMLA 2022 conference call for papers states that “we invite our members to a collective discussion of the role of humanities post-now in an emphatic call for immediate changes to allow a fundamentally different future.” The popular culture panel will address this call by investigating both the dystopian and utopian potential of our new reality as expressed in media and other forms of popular culture.

The Art of Drag (Racing): Reading The Fast and the Furious

updated: 
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 12:05pm
Contemporaries at Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

Call for Papers

Contemporaries at Post45 

The Art of Drag (Racing): Reading The Fast and the Furious

Despite its outsized popular impact – which spans 20 years, 9 films, a chart-topping song and several viral memes – The Fast Saga remains under-studied. This call for papers invites sustained inquiry into these films for a collection in Post45’s Contemporaries forum, seeking to understand the implications of this series in and on the cultural imagination, especially given the questions posed by its notable divergence from the action film genre.

Ghostbusters – A Companion

updated: 
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 11:44am
Simon Bacon, series editor; Cathleen Allyn Conway, collection editor; Peter Lang, Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Call for Papers: Ghostbusters – A Companion

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Flannery O'Connor Allied Session at South Central Modern Language Association

updated: 
Friday, April 1, 2022 - 11:11am
Flannery O'Connor Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 25, 2022

 

The Flannery O'Connor Society seeks abstracts for our virtual Allied Session at the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Conference. More information regarding the conference can be found here.

This year, we are particularly interested in projects that intersect with SCMLA's theme of movements, described below:

South Central MLA War, Literature, and the Arts Panel

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 3:07pm
South Central MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

The South Central Modern Language Association War, Literature, and the Arts Panel is currently seeking conference papers that discuss how literature and other artforms depict aspects of war. Papers on any related topic will be considered for the session taking place during SCMLA's 79th Annual Conference in Memphis, TN and online from October 13-15, 2022.

Please send an abstract of up to 200 words on any topic related to this panel to alana.king@austincc.edu.

Science and Culture: Medicine, Ecology, Technology, and Human Expression

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 1:33pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Papers are sought from any period, any cultural form/genre, and from any critical perspective that investigate the way that science and culture have influenced, informed, and challenged one another, either within society more broadly or even within higher education. Projects from the medical humanities, environmental humanities, and/or digital humanities are relevant to this panel, as are other interdisciplinary fields at the intersections of science and the humanities. We are looking for papers that consider science and culture as lived human experiences, rather than speculative science fiction per se.

MLA Options for Teaching Series: Science Writing

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:23am
MLA Options for Teaching Series: Science Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

As fans of the genre can attest, popular science writing belies the notion of “science” and “literature” as separate domains.  Bestselling science writers borrow freely from the techniques of fiction writers to craft compelling narratives, memorable examples, and evocative re-presentations of technical information.  Of course, scholars have long recognized the literariness of science writing: as pioneering work by Gillian Beer, George Levine, Devin Griffiths, Donna Haraway, and others attests, it is difficult to overestimate the historical traffic between science and literature.  Since the early modern era (if not earlier), writers and scientists have routinely traded metaphors, images, and conceptual frameworks.

ASLE Panel at Midwest MLA

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:23am
MMLA / ASLE
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

This year’s Midwest Modern Language Association Convention will be held in Minneapolis, MN November 16th-21st.  Please see the conference website for details: http://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/.

In response to the MMLA 2022 theme “Post-Now” this panel seeks papers that deal with environmental futures.  Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Naturing Cultures/ Culturing Natures: Humans and the Environment in Cultural Practices

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:23am
Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies, Institute of Literary Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2022

The word is made flesh in mortal naturecultures (Donna Haraway, 2003)

The climate crisis is also a crisis of culture, and thus of the imagination (Amitav Ghosh, 2016)

Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising the Future of Education and Schooling in Uncertain Times

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:22am
Dr Jessie Bustillos Morales - Oxford Brookes University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising the Future of Education and Schooling in Uncertain Times - https://www.drjessiebustillos.com/post/call-for-chapters-questioning-gen...

Extended abstracts may be related to, but not necessarily limited to the following themes: Please get in touch (jbustillos-morales@brookes.ac.uk) if you'd like to discuss your contribution prior to abstract submission. 

Call for Papers - "Suspension"

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:22am
liquid blackness
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

CFP – “Suspension”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 7, no. 2, Fall 2023

The Materials of Screen Media

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:22am
The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aoteaora New Zealand (SSAAANZ)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 30, 2022

The Screen Studies Association of Australia and Aoteaora New Zealand (SSAAANZ), in association with Massey University, present:

The Materials of Screen Media

30 November - 2 December 2022

Call for papers: Ecologies of decay: Modern ruination in the global (post)socialist peripheries

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:21am
Dimitra Gkitsa / University College London
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 7, 2022

The post-socialist reality in East Europe profoundly changed the rural and urban settlements. Abandoned factories, vacant villages, unfinished housing projects, decline and abandonment are some common threads that appear in post-socialist rural and urban landscapes. De-industrialisation and the post-1990s capitalist rules left small towns and villages empty and decayed. In the former socialist countries of Africa, Latin America, and south-east Asia rural and urban decline has also been linked with the history of colonial expansion, the destruction of nature, and racial violence. While some communities have embraced spatial regeneration trends, others remain ruined, marginalised, and declined.

“Human and Non-Human Animals in 19th century English Literature.”

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:20am
MIDWEST MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

“Human and Non-Human Animals in 19th century English Literature.”

According to John Berger in his famous essay, “Why Look at Animals?” (1977), there was a fundamental shift in the ways in which Europeans imagined and interacted with non-human animals (domesticated and wild) in the 19th century. The nature of this shift, Berger argues, was a symptomatic consequence of the social, cultural, and demographic transformations brought about by industrialization, urbanization, and capitalism. 

Black Lives Matter: Lessons from a Global Movement

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:20am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Black Lives Matter: Lessons from a Global Movement

International Conference
( Zoom sessions:2 days-Virtual platform:6 days)

Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship and the Greenwood African American Studies Center (GAASC) wish to explore  the phenomenon of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Disability Studies Session

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 10:59am
PAMLA / Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

119th Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association Conference

Friday, November 11, 2022-Sunday, November 13, 2022
UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel in Los Angeles, CA (Hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles)

The Geography of Gender: Place, Space and Contexts

updated: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 8:53am
postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

Extended Deadline: 15 April 2022 for CFP on ‘The Geography of Gender: Place, Space and Contexts’ for July 2022 issue (Vol VII  No ii) of postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies (online, open access, peer-reviewed, DOAJ indexed) ISSN: 2456-7507. Detailed CFP available at https://postscriptum.co.in/cfp/.

 

The Geography of Gender: Place, Space and Contexts

 

Call for Papers (CFP)

for Volume VII Number ii (July 2022 issue)

 

Literary Monsters

updated: 
Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 11:26am
Speculative Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

In today's culture, it's almost impossible to avoid "monsters."  Straight from mythology and legend, these fantastic creatures traipse across our television screens and the pages of our books.  Over centuries and across cultures, the inhuman have represented numerous cultural fears and, in more recent times, desires. They are Other. They are Us. This panel will explore monsters--whether they be mythological, extraterrestrial, or man-made--that populate fiction and film, delving into the cultural, psychological and/or theoretical implications.

 

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Literary Works and Social Media

updated: 
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 9:15pm
Moussa Pourya Asl, Ph.D., Universiti Sains Malaysia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 11, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Applications in Literary Works and Social Media

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 11, 2022

Full Chapters Due: Jul 24, 2022

Publisher: IGI Global (Tier-1), 2023

Submission page: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/5872

 

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CfP Victorian Contagion - Deadline Extended!

updated: 
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 7:02pm
Victorian Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Call for papers: Victorian Contagion

Victorian Network is an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best work across the broad field of Victorian Studies by postgraduate students and early career academics. We are delighted to announce that our fifteenth issue (2022) will be on the theme of “Victorian Contagion” and will be guest edited by Kari Nixon (Whitworth University).

The Object in/of Psychoanalysis

updated: 
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 2:10pm
Cornell University Psychoanalysis Reading Group Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The Object in/of PsychoanalysisCornell University Psychoanalysis Reading Group Conference September  23-24, 2022 (in person) 
Keynote Address: Joan Copjec (Brown University)  Deadline for Paper Submissions: June 1, 2022 (300 words abstract)e-mail: conferenceparg@gmail.com 

 

Muslims in America

updated: 
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 - 2:08pm
SAMLA / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 29, 2022

 

Muslims in America

The SAMLA 94 Change will be held at Jacksonville, FL, from November 11-13, 2022.

 

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, performers, filmmakers, and visual artists. We welcome submissions that examine the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities as depicted in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

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