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SCMS 2025 Panel CFP: Emotional Horror

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:32pm
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

In her seminal essay on body genres, Linda Williams characterizes embodied responses to film genres, citing shudders and screams as the products of horror and tears as the product of melodrama. Yet a great deal of horror scholarship has investigated the intimate allegorical relations between horror’s monsters and marginalized subject positions, as in canonical works such as Monsters in the Closet (Harry M. Benshoff) and Horror Noire (Robin R. Means Coleman). Studies have further explored how horror media function cathartically as relatively safe encounters with terror for those experiencing cultural prejudice, as seen in Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s Recreational Terror and Heather Petrocelli’s Queer for Fear.

Queer(ing) Medieval Art: New Horizons

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:31pm
Christopher T. Richards
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

How does medieval art define queerness and transness, and how do gendered performances of bodies and images shape one another? How do medieval sexualities and genders, fluid and porous, explicate and trouble modern ones? We invite papers that explore queer methodologies and medieval art, including visual cultures of animals, the humoral body, and the non-human. After the success of 2024’s Queer(ing) Medieval Art panels, this new panel seeks to expand our scope: we especially encourage papers examining secular, Jewish, or Islamic perspectives, architecture, non-elite archives, and/or queer intersections with race, religion, and ethnicity as visual/material expressions.

Nationalisms: Languages and Identities - Heterogolossia #20 (2024)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:29pm
Valerio Massimo De Angelis
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Call for papers “Nationalisms: Languages and Identities”
This issue, edited by Irene Arbusti and Armando Francesconi, aims at exploring critical perspectives on the relationship between identities, nationalisms and territories, including theories, methodologies, practices and tools for understanding this complex interaction. Articles, both theoretical and empirical, may analyse both European and non-European contexts and should adhere to the following themes:
— languages, aesthetics and modes of expression of nationalisms;
— methods of analysis of contemporary nationalism;
— social movements and relations with local identities;
— the role of space, place and belonging in the formation of identities.

Critical Thinking and the Middle Ages

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:29pm
Doctor Virtualis. Journal of Medieval Philosophy - University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

'Doctor Virtualis' 20 - Critical Thinking and the Middle Ages

 

The next issue of DV intends to investigate, in full coherence with the history of the journal and the tradition to which it has always been linked, the relationship between the Middle Ages, understood as an object of enquiry, but also as the subject of significant philosophical paths, and critical thought.

Televisual Dissidence in an Era of Information Warfare: Separatism, Terrorism and the Screen Media in Africa

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:28pm
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Televisual Dissidence in an Era of Information Warfare: Separatism, Terrorism and the Screen Media in Africa

Editors: Dr. Floribert Patrick C. Endong, University of Dschang, Cameroon 

               Dr. Augustus Onchari Nyakundi, Chuka University, Kenya

 

Concept Notes

Special Issue of Extrapolation: Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:26pm
Extrapolation, Liverpool University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Special issue of Extrapolation (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/extr)

 Call for Proposals: “Science Fictional Ecologies in Contemporary Art”

 

Due November 1, 2024

Please send abstracts and inquiries to both guest editors:

Guest Editors:

Emiliano Guaraldo, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland: emiliano.guaraldo@unisg.ch

Alison Sperling, Florida State University, USA: asperling@fsu.edu

 

Bodies in (R)Evolution: Labor, Embodiment, and Resistance

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:25pm
NEMLA 2024-2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The covid-19 pandemic not only sparked conversations on the gendered division of household chores and care but also brought to light the paradox of the “essential-worker.” Despite being deemed “essential” to society, these workers-often women, immigrants, and people of color were paid low wages and treated as expendable. However, amidst these challenges, the pandemic also catalyzed the expansion of alternative labor forms and care networks, beyond capitalist economies and social relations.

Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:24pm
University of Passau
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2024

Academia on Screen: The World of Higher Education in Film and TV Series Across Cultures (March 20 & 21, 2025)

This conference aims to explore the multifaceted portrayals of academia and academics in films and TV series, in both fictional and documentary modes, across diverse cultural contexts. These multimodal media not only capture societal perspectives and moods but also play a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions. They can serve as catalysts for reflection on academic practice and societal discourse, fostering a deeper understanding of cultural imprints and trends, highlighting differences and similarities across cultures, raising critical awareness, challenging stereotypes, and promoting inclusivity.

Adapting to AI: Integrating Artificial Intelligence in the Composition Classroom

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:24pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

It has been two years since AI was introduced into daily life, and it has been applied in academia, pedagogy, classrooms, and beyond. As we discover both the potential benefits and harms of AI, we are also recovering from the initial panic, uncertainty, or excitement. We are beginning to recognize that it will lead to an "inevitable" integrated fusion of human and machine intelligence (Kurzweil), and we are entering a phase of adaptation. We have seen a range of AI use guides, policies, and reflections. However, compared to the initial reaction, we cannot ignore where we will or want to go with AI in the composition classroom. As AI continues to evolve, how do we recreate our classrooms in light of this new technology?

Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
Alison Bertolini
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Proposed submissions are requested for an edited collection of chapters, tentatively titled Illness and Dis/ability in Southern Women’s Literature.

4th Young Graduate Meet 2024: "Interdisciplinary Approaches to South Asian Ecology"

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

In the present era marked by a pressing need for sustainable coexistence with the natural world, the centrality of human beings has taken a back seat to make way for integral ontological inquiries into nature, its components and inhabitants and the manifold relationship between them. The “self-organizing powers of non-human processes” have been emphasized in academia and the dissonant relations between those processes and cultural practices, rethinking sources of ethics have been explored.

Special Issue on Barbenheimer

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:23pm
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Canadian Journal of Film Studies 
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Barbenheimer

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Revelation-izing Scholarly Collaborations & Graduate Student Community

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

In her 2020 article entitled “Communities of care,” Talia Schaffer reminds readers that even when participants “did not share a geographic space,” the communities of those “virtual groups…cobbled together in coronavirus time” were, to all of us, of invaluable importance and “realness,” nevertheless. Thus, this roundtable hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually encourage communications and collaborations between students with related research interests within the same, as well as different, institutional settings.

Possible topics for discussion might be related to:

Revolutionary AI in GTA Teaching

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

In the age of technological revolution, the changes brought by AI are reshaping various facets of society, including how we approach education in the Humanities. In the context of college composition, communication, English literature and other humanities subject classes, AI is revolutionizing writing pedagogy and practice. AI-assisted writing tools and large language models (LLMs) present new challenges and opportunities, creating what Sundvall describes as a “technological problematic” in the composition classroom, which revolutionizes some traditional writing processes and practices we’ve been using for a long time.

EDI-tation: Rethinking and Revolutionizing the Graduate Student Experience

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:20pm
Northeast Modern Language Association(NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

While graduate school has long been a space for cultivating generations of academics, researchers, and intellectuals, it has never been exempt from the dynamics of power that underlie the workings of the University. Recent strides at improving equity, diversity, and inclusion in graduate school—for example in the form of the rise in number of sociopolitically- and culturally-cognizant programs, the push towards increasing international student populations, and the rise of grassroots movements such as labour unions to improve representation—belie the reality that universities remain set up according to ideological lines that facilitate the success of some graduate students while (re)producing the inequities experienced by others.

 

Call for Papers. Aging in Advertising. Reflections on the representation of the elderly in campaigns and on age in the advertising industry

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:14pm
Revista Internacional de Comunicación Audiovisual, Publicidad y Estudios Culturales
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Old age and aging are biological as well as sociocultural constructs and processes; they cannot be completely separated, but rather they influence each other and get interrelated with the passing of time. As sociocultural constructs, old age, aging and their definition are not immovable concepts and, in fact, vary depending on the different historical, social and cultural contexts.   Likewise, the definition and organization of each of the population groups by age are not fixed. For example, for decades, 65+ has been agreed upon by the UN and the WHO, among others, as the beginning of old age; however, market studies propose 50+ and establish two groups: 50+ seniors and 75+ seniors.

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:13pm
Michael S. Martin/SAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

“Invisible Secrets in Pre-1865 American Literature” (SAMLA) Recent scholarly approaches in antebellum American literature emphasizes the role of secrets and secrecy, as in Dominick Mastroianni’s Politics and Skepticism in Antebellum American Literature (2022); essays on secrecy in Emily Dickinson’s poetry (Jeffrey Simons, Paul Scott Derrick, 2011); and the secret lives of nineteenth-century literature (Harper, Dickinson, Melville, 2022) in digital media, as Kayla Shipp has argued. This panel explores the way that unstated ideas, points, or secrets are exchanged in antebellum American literature.

Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:13pm
MultiPlay Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Body Augmentation: Possibilities of Identities and Technology in/of Video Games

A MultiPlay Network Conference, October 28th, 2024

Abstracts due: 30 August 2024

As is tradition for MultiPlay, we have a special horror related conference for the end of October. This time we are focusing on the monstrous (and liberational!) possibilities of body augmentation through video games. We welcome abstracts from utopian and dystopian perspectives, on the real life hardware capabilities or upon representations of augmentation within games.

The Right to Read/The Right to Speak and Academic Freedom in the Classroom NeMLA (20978)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?

https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/20978

 

Mindfulness and the Humanities (Roundtable -- Nemla 2025)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.

Special Issue: Queer Studies and Professional Wrestling

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Professional Wrestling Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Anticipated Publication: Volume 5, November 2025

Guest Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Hannah Steele

 

Purpose: Articles that explore the intersection of queer studies and professional wrestling studies to address a scholarship gap on the application of queer theory to explore professional wrestling individuals, texts, practices, and fandoms.

 

Submissions: Seeking empirical articles aligned with the special issue’s purpose that may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Sunday, July 21, 2024 - 12:07pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

NEW DEADLINE! Rolling until 8/15.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

7-10 November 2024, Palm Springs, CA

Submissions should be sent through the link below. You may need to create an account if you have not already presented with PAMLA. Undergraduates are invited to share their research following the guidelines below:

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 1:44pm
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

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