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Monsters with Minds of Their Own (Edited collection)/two chapters needed (Azimov (Robots and Androids)/Gilgamesh (Humbaba as a Lurking Monster))

updated: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024 - 6:26am
Nizar Zouidi (Ph.D.)/University of Gafsa
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024

Two chapters are needed for an edited collection entitled Monsters with Minds of Their Own in Western and Global Literatures and Media. This collection seeks to contribute to a series on the non-human in literature and culture. It aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence.

East Asian National Memories As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

updated: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024 - 6:15am
Volume: East Asian Pop Culture Studies 2015-Present
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 14, 2024

East Asian National Memories

As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

2015 to the Present

FINAL Extended Deadline! Saturday, Dec 14, 2024, midnight PST

MAs, PhDs in progress, and PhDs are welcome to apply~~

***Although we're open to all East Asian topics, we'd especially appreciate proposals focused on Chinese arts & issues.

ContactEastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com

 

Schedule:

The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Friday, December 13, 2024 - 4:42pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. 

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Friday, December 13, 2024 - 4:08am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH Plus.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Friday, December 13, 2024 - 12:43am
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Friday, December 13, 2024 - 12:42am
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s websitehttps://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

The Magic Kingdom: Exploring Disney’s Impact on Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 11:51pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.

Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictious: Food in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 11:50pm
PopCRN - The Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025

 

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.

Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 11:50pm
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

Book Reviews on Food, Drink, and Foodways

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 5:10pm
Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews in the months ahead. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com

Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 12:41pm
Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi and Cenk Tan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series

-UPDATE on CHAPTERS-

Editors’ Introduction

Exit Signs: University of Toronto Cinema Studies Graduate Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 12:20pm
University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference

Cinema Studies Institute 

Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025

Keynote speaker: Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay, York University

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2025 

 

Call for Papers: EXIT SIGNS

Seeking Medievalist Regular Co-Hosts and Featured Guests for Chaucer/Canterbury Tales Podcast

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 1:21am
Alice Fulmer
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 13, 2025

Update: if you are not interested in being a regular co-host but want to be involve -- maybe wanting to discuss a particualr tale in mind -- please fill out this google form please to be (considered) as a one time guest! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19xOMPnhvKUhm38nMlR1KhIHemiV19FSRapDgAAJ0nKo/edit

 

Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture National PCA Conference Apr. 16-19. 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 8:09pm
Brenda Boudreau
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

This area focuses on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media, music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion.   According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (Abrams).

Call for Book Chapters on "Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India"

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 4:15pm
Thakurdas Jana, Bhatter College, Dantan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Call for Book Chapters

Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India

 

About the Book

Mythic Muse: Writing Poetry with Mythology

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 2:15pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024


Webpage: 
https://labrc.co.uk/mythic-muse/

 

Mythic Muse: Writing Poetry with Mythology
An 8-week poetic inquiry course blending creative writing with research

When: 7 Wednesdays from January 15-March 5 (no class on Feb 19), 2025
19:00-21:00 (London Time)

Where: Online

 

Course Overview:

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 1:38pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 30, 2024

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/

Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members

 

Call for Papers:  

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

The Function of Humour- A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 1:02pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

The Function of Humour
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Date: January 28-30, 2025 
Format: Online Virtual Conference
Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)
15% discount for LABRC Members
Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/humour/

 

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” – Mark Twain

(Also, it’s a pretty good excuse to host an academic conference where people can laugh while learning!)

CFP: Media Fields IX Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 5:57am
Media Fields Editorial Collective, UC Santa Barbara
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Keynote speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington)

Keynote roundtable: Moderated by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara); other roundtable participants from UCSB to be announced

Dates: March. 7-8, 2025

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ReFocus: The Cinema of Dariush Mehrjui

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 3:20am
ReFocus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!

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

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 12:41am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 12:39am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, December 11, 2024 - 12:38am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 - 8:26pm
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarDurban University of Technology, South Africa

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