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Fantasy and Science Fiction area of Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:28pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Fantasy and Science Fiction area of Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks papers for presentation at our annual conference this fall which will run as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts. 

Technology and Film Labour: Crafting the Look of the Film

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:28pm
The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024

The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
May 22nd and 23rd 2025

Technology and Film Labour: Crafting the Look of the Film
Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour.

Recent technological developments such as the widespread adoption of virtual production processes and the use of generative AI have had a transformative effect on film production workflows and below the line film craft. The relationships between production departments as well as the roles and functions of cinematography, production design, sound design costume, location and visual effects have all been affected by technological change.

A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
University of Nottingham/Fear2000
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40
Hosted by The University of Nottingham in association with Fear2000
8-9 November 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Dr Bruna Foletto Lucas (Kingston University)

Dr Steve Jones (Northumbria University)

 

Special Guests

Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (screenwriters of Freddy vs Jason)

 

Nightmares from the Past, Visions of the Future: Alternative Futurism & Comics

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

"Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy"

ICLA Research Committee  on Comics Studies  and Graphic Narrative 20th Anniversary Conference

Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - November 11-15, 2024

https://www.comics-studies.com/events/sff2024

 

Call for Papers

Panel #9: "Nightmares from the Past, Visions of the Future: Alternative Futurism & Comics"

Aphra Behn on the Move

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
Sorbonne Université/ Sorbonne Nouvelle/ Université Paris-Cité
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Date and Location: 19-20 June 2025, Paris, France

 

Keynote Speakers: Claire BOWDITCH, Loughborough University, UK, Elaine HOBBY, Loughborough University, UK, Leah ORR, University of Louisiana, USA

 

With a new edition of Aphra Behn’s works on the go, and as Canterbury prepares to erect a statue in her honour, the moment seems ideal to re-examine Behn’s place and her work in criticism and in the collective imagination. Challenging the image of Behn as loyal to a conservative Tory imagination, this conference aims to emphasize movement, mobility, decentering, and innovation in her oeuvre.

 

The Aesthetics of Disaster

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Aesthetics of Disaster

Special Editor: Lucia Morawska (Richmond, The American International University in London)

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 77 (2/2026)

Submission deadline: 30 September 2025

CFP: Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities NLP4DH @ EMNLP 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
Mika Hämäläinen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with EMNLP in Miami, USA!

 

The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on November 15-16 2024.

 

https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024 

 

Submission deadline: September 1, 2024

 

The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to:

Utopian Hawthorne

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

New Perspectives on Hawthorne and Utopia

Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Spring, 2025

Editors: Monika Elbert and Andrew Loman

In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes, “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably found it among their  earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison” (CE 1:47). This famous sentence deploys a number of key terms – the colony, virtue, happiness, projection, necessity, virginity, the cemetery, the prison – all of them interlinked with the sentence’s key term, Utopia.

CfP (Edited Book Volume): Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts [BKCI indexed]

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Kunstuniversität Linz
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts 

Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für unseren geplanten Sammelband über Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts ein. Dieser Band strebt an, eine umfassende Analyse und Diskussion über bedeutende kulturelle Entwicklungen und künstlerische Strömungen Österreichs im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert zu präsentieren. Wir begrüßen Beiträge aus den Bereichen Kulturwissenschaft, Kunsthistorik, Germanistik sowie aus angrenzenden Disziplinen und freuen uns auf Ihre vielfältigen Einsendungen und danken Ihnen im Voraus für Ihr Interesse und Ihre Mitarbeit.

Seen/Unseen: American Mythos of Madness and Consequences of Stigma

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Kelley Walker/ South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Even today in the age of political correctness and amidst cancel culture censures, people with mental disorders are one of the few social groups still to be consistently misrepresented, ostracized, and demeaned. The social consequences of stigmatization should be studied through autobiographical narrative acts to reveal what it means to live with mental illness in America. By utilizing everyday language and literary tropes, mental illness life narratives humanize portrayals of mental disorder; by doing so, they appeal to the sympathies of broader audiences than medical narratives, such as case studies or examples in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Modernisms seminar at PAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:25pm
Sovay Hansen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

The seminar, "Modernisms," is accepting abstract proposals (until June 16) for the 2024 PAMLA conference in Palm Springs, CA in November! 

If you have a new project on anything related to modernism that you wish to discuss in a low stakes, generative seminar group, please apply at the link below. 

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions for Issue 24.2

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:25pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 24.2.

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Sports Area - NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 11:49am
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Sports Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” at 45: A Celebration of Goth Music and Subculture Conference

updated: 
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 11:46pm
Noah Gallego (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona) and Rachel Birke (University of California, Los Angeles)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 11, 2024

NEW Deadline: Thursday, July 11, 2024 (Pete Murphy's B-Day!)

(Tentative) Conference Date(s): Friday August 16, 2024 

Format: Online (via Zoom, PST)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: bld45conference@gmail.com

Contact for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com, cc: Rachel Birke @ rbirk001@g.ucla.edu (Subject Line: BLD45 Conference)

"Undead, undead, undead"

Call for journal article submissions on Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell

updated: 
Monday, June 10, 2024 - 8:48pm
Bishop-Lowell Studies journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 22, 2024

Article submissions of between 20 and 35 pages on lives and work of either Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell are being sought for consideration by the peer reviewed Bishop-Lowell Studies journal published by Penn State UP. Please consult the journal page a thttps://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_BLS.html for further submission information. You can also contact the editor, Ian Copestake, directly o: copers@gmail.com.

Sustainability: Which Way Now?

updated: 
Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 5:24pm
Bhabani Shankar Nayak, London Metropolitan University, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

Sustainability: Which Way Now?

 

Bhabani Shankar Nayak

Dr Samuel O Idowu

Dr Amr Khafagy

Background

CfP: Connections, Interconnections and Disconnections Pt2

updated: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 12:59pm
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Journal Articles Now Open

Every year after our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for consideration for publication. 

We are now inviting submissions for part two of the theme 'connections, interconnections, and disconnections'. To be published in Volume 3 of the Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis by the end of 2024, 

Whether ancient or modern, we continue to examine festival culture around the world. Papers should explore how these connections, interconnections, and disconnections may shape and influence cultural practices, traditions, and norms.

 

The Body in/of Don DeLillo's Plays

updated: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 5:55am
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Announcement: The Body in/of Don DeLillo’s Plays

June 20 – 21, 2024, online

Modern Indian Theatre: Texts and Performances

updated: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 12:55am
Arnab Ray, Sibendu Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

This is a call for papers to be included in the proposed book as chapters. Bloomsbury has shown interest to publish the book. The lists below are indicative and not restrictive. The editors are open to contributions in the field of ‘Modern Indian Theatre’ on playwrights, theatre practitioners, theories, and forms not included in the lists below. Scholars interested to contribute are requested to send their abstracts between 500 and 600 words, with proposed titles, full name/s of contributor/s, and their professional affiliation/s within 15 July 2024. Contributions must be sent to both the editors on their emails.

 

Dr. Arnab Ray : arnabra1@gmail.com

45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 2:42pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 17, 2024

The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society

20-22 September 2024

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Call for Papers

 

Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 1:40pm
Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP for an Edited Volume: Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities

Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin

Submission Deadline Extended to June 30, 2024

Project Description:

In this edited volume, we invite scholarly essays that examine the relationship between gender and Muslim identities as it is (re)presented in political spaces, visual cultures, and sociopolitical discourses. Some of the questions this volume seeks to examine are:

  • How is the idea of gender mobilized to in/de/form Muslim identities, both within and outside Muslim communities?

American Post-1945 panel(s) at PAMLA 2024 [extended due date]

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 12:51pm
Pacific Modern Language Association_American Post-45 Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present to be shared at the Pacific Modern Lanugage Association, held this year from November 7-10 at the Margariaville Resort in Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held completely in person.

Our panel organizers believe in a capacious understanding of post-1945 American Literature. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors or texts about America or American life are welcome. 

The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 10:38am
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields

Special Editor: Thomas Mical [Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas), New Centre for Research and Practice (US)]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - Volume 73 (2/2024)

Submission deadline: June 30, 2024

CfP: Form and Its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 8:06pm
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences (Duke University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Form and its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

 

Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. 

— Georges Bataille, Informe (“Formless”), 1929

 

American women novelists of the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 2:08pm
Godfrey Maotcha
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Calls are being made for entries into a biographical dictionary of American women Novelists of the 21st century for possible publication into a book form. 

  Godfrey Maotcha is a Malawian Journalist and writer whose first ebook '16 American Women Poets From Bradstreet to Dove ' 2023 was self published and distributed by Draft2Digital of Oklahoma.  Although there have been publications on all genres of literature by women, few studies have looked at women novelists. 

British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:33am
Journal for the Study of British Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

Call for Contributions

Journal for the Study of British Cultures 32.2 (2025)

edited by Sebastian Berg & Claus-Ulrich Viol

 

Litinfinite Journal Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:32am
Litinfinite Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Litinfinite JournalJuly 2024(Vol 6 Issue I)

On

Literature, Media, Culture and Censorship

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com

Abstract (150-200 words), Keywords – (5-6), and Final research papers of 4000-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 30th June 2024

(The Bengali research manuscripts should be accompanied by English title, author(s) details, keywords, abstracts, and references)

We also welcome interviews (3-5 pages, with a 100-word bio of the interviewer and the interviewee) and

FRAME 38.1 "Page to Planet"

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:31am
FRAME Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

One of the primary challenges in confronting the climate crisis is effectively representing its magnitude and impact on both the environment and humanity. The quest for a sustainable future cannot be fulfilled without the capacity of imagining one. As Timothy Clark argues in his work on scale framing (Ecocriticism on the Edge, 2015), the act of imagining requires placing concepts within specific temporal and contextual frameworks. Envisioning the complex effects and mechanisms of climate change necessitates grappling with unprecedented and expansive scales. Environmental fiction has emerged as a literary field that attempts to capture these scales and their interplays.

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