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Afrofuturism, Special Issue of Studies in American Culture

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Studies in American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

As an aesthetic and cultural movement, Afrofuturism began with Mark Derry’s 1993 essay, “Black to the Future.” Derry poses a difficult question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” The clear answer is a resounding, “YES!” Not only can Black folk imagine possible futures, but they can also write, paint, and sculpt them into being. In this special issue we invite contributors to explore what these possible futures look like. How do Afrofuturist artists reimagine a world where Black folks can be/are free? What is the cost of such freedom? 

 

Black Literature+: African American Literature in Dialogue with the Other Arts

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Brittney Edmonds, Hayley O'Malley
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

African American Review CFP
Black Literature+: African American Literature in Dialogue with the Other Arts
Guest Editors: Brittney Michelle Edmonds (University of Wisconsin) and Hayley O’Malley (Rice University)

In 2004, in a speech about the painter Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison argued that critics must appreciate the “liquidity” between Black art forms, the “resonances, alignments, the connections, the inter-genre sources of African American art... the resounding aesthetic dialogue among artists.” “Locating instances of this liquidity,” Morrison explained, “is vital if African American art is to be understood for the complex work that it is and for the deep meaning it contains.”1

Request for Papers: Science & Technology - 2024 NEPCA Hybrid Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall 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.

Anne for Everyone: Green Gables, Children of Color, and Global Childhoods

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Sarah Park Dahlen
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

 

Call For Papers

ANNE FOR EVERYONE: 

GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS

Edited by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Sarah Park Dahlen
Under contract with the University Press of Mississippi

 

Call for Papers: ‘Casteism Across Borders: Mapping the Diasporic Reproduction of Caste Discrimination and Anti-Caste Struggles’

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers: Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration

Special Issue: ‘Casteism Across Borders: Mapping the Diasporic Reproduction of Caste Discrimination and Anti-Caste Struggles’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration#call-for-papers

Guest editors: Dr Vikrant Kishore, Dr Stephen Goulding, Dr Ratan Lal

Digital Studies in Language and Studies -- Call for Papers

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:50pm
Digital Studies in Language and Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Newly launched by Chongqing University and De Gruyter, Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL, ISSN: 2943-0607) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature.

 

DSLL welcomes all submissions in line with the aims and scope below. Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, so your research will be freely available for all to read and download.

 

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities: The Past, the Present, and the Future

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:49pm
Research Issues in Contemporary Education
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have played a pivotal role in higher education in the United States of America by serving as institutions of excellence and opportunity for African American students and others wishing to obtain an education. HBCUs have a rich history of fostering a culture of academic achievement, leadership development, and empowerment. In recent years, discussions around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have brought a renewed focus on the value that HBCUs bring to higher education and their unique contributions to preparing students for the ever-changing demands of the workforce.

 

Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:49pm
Humboldt University of Berlin
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Call for Papers
Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics

Humboldt University of Berlin, November 28-30, 2024
Submission deadline: June 12, 2024

Acceptance letters in August

27th METU British Novelists Conference: Buchi Emecheta and Her Work

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:49pm
METU British Novelists International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

METU BRITISH NOVELISTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:

BUCHI EMECHETA AND HER WORK

5-6 December 2024

Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for book chapters - Critical Food Cultures from the Global South

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:49pm
Peter Lang
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Usually, the narratives around food habits and culinary practices are structured around individual tastes. However, the narratives can be and need to be structured much beyond individual tastes. Historically, it has been observed that individual and collective food habits and culinary practices are driven by various social, cultural, gendered, sexual, racial, caste, geographical, commercial, and political factors. These factors provoke us to go beyond the stereotypical scientific narratives of consumption and unpack the various social dynamics and power structures that are associated with our daily food habits and culinary practices.

Victorians Institute Journal: Special Call for Rare and Unpublished Texts

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:49pm
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Over the past few years, the Victorians Institute Journal has recommitted to publishing rare and previously unpublished Victorian and Edwardian primary texts. We’re currently seeking submissions of such texts for publication in upcoming volumes of the journal!

For complete submission instructions, please visit  http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

CFP Medieval Comics Team-Up: The Values of Comics for Medieval Studies (6/1/2024; Medieval Academy of America - Cambridge, MA 3/20-22/2025)

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:47pm
Michael A. Torregrossa, Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Medieval Comics Team-Up: The Values of Comics for Medieval Studies

Session proposed for The Medieval Academy at 100: The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, from 20-22 March 2025)

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

Paper Proposals due 1 June 2024

 

Agnès Varda Panel PAMLA 2024 (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Monday, May 20, 2024 - 1:47pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 2024 (Palm Springs, CA)

Conference Theme: Translation in Action 

November 7-10

Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology

updated: 
Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 3:11pm
Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for a forthcoming general issue. We are particularly interested in research on:

  • Cyberfeminism

  • Health Humanities

  • Biomedical Ethics / Bioethics

  • Ethics of AI

Research articles are typically between 6k–9k words. Please see our website for details about the inclusion of artwork/images (www.berghahnjournals.com/submissions).

25th MELOW International Conference at Kathmandu University, NEPAL

updated: 
Friday, May 17, 2024 - 6:18am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Echoes of the Earth: Interplay of Literature and Landscape

Throughout history, terrestrial landscapes have captivated human curiosity, serving as a significant muse for creative practitioners. Whether it be the enigmatic allure of towering mountains, the mystical charm of dense forests, or the vast expanse of oceans, the natural environment has served as a symbolic platform for portraying human existence, emotive expression, and contemplation of the human condition.

CFP: Articles About Mental Illnesses in Reality Television for Book Project

updated: 
Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 7:54pm
Angelica Cabral, San Francisco State University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The pandemic brought a lot of changes to the structure of American society. COVID-19 was a disabling pandemic, leaving many people with severe health issues that they didn’t have pre-pandemic and which now affect their daily life. And when it comes to mental illness, the pandemic threw some of us into the realization that loneliness, depression, anxiety, etc. are more prevalent than we thought. This issue was so prominent in the minds of health officials, that the Surgeon General released a report on this new loneliness epidemic.

Addressing Difficult Aspects of the Medieval

updated: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 3:26pm
Grace O'Duffy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 9, 2024

We are thrilled to invite abstracts for our workshop, ADAM: 'Addressing Difficult Aspects of the Medieval', which is designed for postgraduates and Early Career Researchers and which will take place at St John's College, Oxford from the 23rd-24th September, 2024.

The inaugural ADAM workshop will bring together medievalists of all disciplines to discuss the research and teaching of ‘difficult’ or ‘taboo’ topics. We welcome applications from scholars working in any field that demands sensitivity and resilience from researchers, such as (but not limited to): gender, sexual violence, mental health, disability, and race. 

Metal and Change: Metal's Role in an Ever-Changing World

updated: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 10:39am
University of Dayton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 10, 2024

Metal and Change: Metal’s Role in an Ever-Changing World

Since its inception Metal music has been in constant flux, whether in the development of new genres and subgenres to the way that it has been perceived in society over time. Metal music and culture, to survive, need to adapt to a world constantly in upheaval, whether through changing attitudes toward the music, changes in society’s structure, or even changes in what Metal music is and how it addresses issues in the world, like COVID.  But to stay Metal it must still maintain its own identity.

2nd Call for Papers: Transcultural Encounters 4: Discourses and Regimes of In(ter)dependence

updated: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 8:35am
University of Oulu
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

 

2nd Call for Papers

Transcultural Encounters 4:                                            

 

Discourses and Regimes of In(ter)dependence

 

Conference at the University of Oulu

Monday, August 19 – Tuesday, August 20, 2024

 

Abstracts by e-mail to moussa.pouryaasl@oulu.fi by June 15, 2024.

 

Please check updates on conference program and other information at

Extended and Revised Call for Chapters on FX Channel Original TV Series Edited Collection

updated: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 2:37pm
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette (USA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The FX Reader

Extended and revised call for chapters on select FX Channel original TV series are sought for an edited book collection.  In a similar vein as The Essential HBO Reader (2008), this scholarly collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

Each chapter is expected to focus on each series’ creation and production history, its overall aesthetics and key performances, core themes, its association with genre conventions, and relevance to the FX Channel.  We still need chapter proposals on the following series:

"Food and Memory" - 3rd International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:48pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024

Conference online: 27-28 June 2024

 

ABOUT CONFERENCE: 

​Researchers have long confirmed the importance of studying food-related issues in the past and in the present-day world. During our interdisciplinary conference, we are going to concentrate on the relationships between food and memory. In what sense – and in what circumstances – can food be regarded as an identity-building factor? What role does it play in shaping our individual and collective memories? How can food studies deepen our knowledge on the social and cultural aspects of our lives? Why are food memories so often related to important experiences of individuals and societies?

Marie Corelli centenary publication

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:48pm
Dr Eleanor Dobson (University of Birmingham) and Joanna Turner (Loughborough University)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 8, 2024

Following the success of the commemorative conference of 4 May, we are delighted to announce a Call for Papers for a publication dedicated to the work and cultural influence of Marie Corelli.  The centenary of 2024 offers those working on Corelli and in related research areas the opportunity to consider her anew. We welcome abstracts of 300 words accompanied by a short biography to be submitted to commemoratingcorelli@gmail.com by 8 June.

Extended Deadline: Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:48pm
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship

The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.

Camping Shakespeare Edited Collection

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:48pm
Louise Geddes & Sam Kolodezh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Camping Shakespeare Edited Collection CFP
Eds: Louise Geddes and Sam Kolodezh
Abstract due: August 1, 2024

Paper due: April 1, 2025

Black Futurisms and Other Imaginative Subversions

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:47pm
Raquel Baker, California State University Channel Islands
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 17, 2024

This is a call for cproposal for a panel for the 121st Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference being held Thursday, November 7, through Sunday, November 10, 2024 at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California.

 

War and Trauma Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 13, 2024 - 2:47pm
The Maven: An International Journal of Letters and Scholarly Research in Literature & Humanities (themavenjournal.com)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024

We seek papers/article-length write-ups/essays/commentaries/causeries on war and representations in literature and allied subjects, exploring the trauma of psychological, physiological, socio-emotional, somatic, eco-environmental, financial, fiscal consequences on the subjects, economies. Papers across disciplines, dealing with the trauma/post-trauma in war literature will be undertaken for consideration. The twentieth-century war climate will particularly be the case in point. Articles/papers on novel ideations, unheard dimensions of wars of the past, in the nineteenth century or the troubled or strained nationalities/borders of the current world order, will also be considered.

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