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2024 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts
November 6-8, 2024
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX
“Justice”
MultiPlay is delighted to announce that we are working on a new edited collection – Video Game Monsters: A Compendium
Monsters have been the foundation of the video game industry. They’ve been the bosses to beat, the enemies to avoid, the NPCs we’ve sometimes forged unlikely bonds with. Monsters are the true avatar of video games, and there has been an increase of work and attention in this area, such as Player v.s Monster (Svelch, 2023). MultiPlay feels the time is right for a special collection examining monsters in all of their video game forms, creating a thorough compendium of the monstrous history of video games. As Martin points out, video games studies has barely began to reckon with monsters (2023, np)
The increasing prevalence of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in India has become a critical environmental and social issue. As human populations expand and encroach on natural habitats, interactions between humans and wildlife have escalated, often resulting in tragic outcomes for both. Discourses surrounding HWC are often deeply anthropocentric, framing wildlife primarily as predators and emphasizing human losses, such as crop and livestock damage, typically tied to economic activity. This perspective predominantly highlights negative interactions, with scant attention given to positive encounters or the broader ecological and cultural benefits of coexistence.
Adaptation (OUP) is looking for new contributions or proposals for special issues on topics such as decolonizing adaptation, green adaptation, video game adaptation, franchise adaptations, adaptations of the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s and adaptations and war. Please submit proposals for Special Issues to djc@dmu.ac.uk and imelda.whelehan@uwa.edu.au. Article contributions should be submitted to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/adapt.
Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
29-31 May 2025, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2024
The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study.
Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions: A Cultural Coalition
A Two-Day Multidisciplinary International Conference
Vivekananda School of English Studies
Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-TC, Delhi
Dear Colleagues,
Call For Papers: Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms
Co-edited by Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar) and Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University)
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024
Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com
The Southeastern Renaissance Conference cordially invites you to the 2024 Conference to be held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina from Friday, September 20-Saturday, September 21.
The conference theme this year is open to any topic related to the Renaissance/ Early Modern period.
The plenary speaker will be Steven May of Emory University.
How to Submit
Please submit your full essay (20-minute reading time maximum, or no more than 2,500 words) to the submission module on the SCRC website, southeasternrenaissance.org, including your email somewhere on the document so we may contact you with our decision.
In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’
Expanding Perspectives on Hoccleve and Gender
A Session of Papers at the 2025 International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, sponsored by the International Hoccleve Society
In his notoriously laddish introduction to The Minor Poems,Frederick Furnivall wishes that Thomas Hoccleve had been “a manlier fellow.” Furnivall’s judgment reflects straitened Victorian gender norms that have little to do with medieval reality. But Hoccleve’s relationship to masculinity, femininity, and the gender politics of his own era remains an open question in criticism.
OVERTONES EGE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual deadline: September 15
FASHION’S FIBRES AS PLANETARY FLOWSFashion Highlight journal, call for papers- issue 4
Guest Editors: Alice Payne and Anneke Smelik
Fibre, the basis of fashion’s materiality, is experiencing rising demand year on year, reflecting the insatiable desire for ‘more’ that defines the dominant fashion system. With an annual consumption of 116 million tonnes in 2022, close to a doubling in 20 years (Textile Exchange 2023), humanity’s appetite for fibre has never been more voracious.
The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.
Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Summer 2025 (Vol. 15) publication. This issue will focus on the theme “Gender and Sexuality in African and African Diaspora Children’s and Young Adult Literature.”
Robin Hood and Other Social Bandits in Folk and Popular Culture
HYBRID
15th Biennial Conference of
the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
26-27 June 2025
The Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
(and ONLINE),
co-organized by the University of Silesia
The anthology, Compton: Reflections on Art and the City, aims to analyze the intellectual and creative contributions of Compton artists and their works and explore the city of Compton as an important site of artistic and historical production. We seek essays and criticism that interpret and evaluate recognized and underrecognized Compton artists and their individual or collective bodies of work within the contexts of larger artistic movements, artistic and cultural impact, and intersections of art, place, and culture.
Call for Anthology Submissions
Compton: Reflections on Art and the City
Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings
Exile is “the signature and permanent mark of the modern age,” M. Nourbese Philip wrote in 1992: “we cutting we teeth on exile— exile in the very air we breathing.” In this waning quarter of the 21st century, more than 281 million or 3.6% of the global population are migrants, a number that, by all accounts, will only rise. Displacement, whether due to economic instabilities, climate change, war, political oppression, or just the “maddest Joy” of desire, alters not only those it subjectifies, but the conditions of belonging that inform their trajectories.
The Cinematic Codes Review is seeking reviewers to submit regular tri-annual sets of or single-item reviews of any time of visual content that is of individual interest. Ideas can range from standard reviews with screen shots of recent releases, as well as scholarly reviews of classics. You can review fine art gallery shows, theatrical dramas, or minor films shown at festivals. Reviews can be short (a few hundred words) or very long essays (up to 8,000 words). You can submit a single review, or commit to submitting regular reviews three times per year. The deadlines for the issues are: August 1, December 1, and May 1. Work that arrives after the deadline will be considered for the next issue.
This annual scholarly journal is published by the Comparative World Literature program at California State University, Long Beach.
Genre is dedicated to publishing creative and scholarly work in the Humanities as well as essays related to the annual Comparative Literature conference. Reviews of current works of literary criticism, literature and local Southern California art exhibitions are also featured.
Call for PapersGenre will be accepting papers and creative work along the theme of the CWL 2024 conference: Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Volume 40: Writers of Extreme Situations (2024) .
The Matter of the Humanities
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressors.”
Paolo Freire
“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson
Call for Papers: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices
RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (rsa.aisna.net), is issuing the following calls relating to proposals for its #36 issue (publication date: September 2025): 1.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):
“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”
Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Co-Editors: Riché Richardson, Philathia Rufaro Bolton
300-word abstracts due:
September 15, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Trans-Analytics: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and History
Special Issue of Psychoanalysis and History
Editor: Carolyn Laubender (University of Essex)
Editorial Advisory Board: Matt ffytche, Dagmar Herzog, Camille Robcis, Dany Nobus, and Hannah Zeavin
Context and Aims:
Dates: November 7th-9th, 2024.
Mode: Mixed mode: In-person, hybrid, and online.
Venue: 7th- In person at Yale University, 8th Hybrid, 9th online only.
Hosts: Council on African Studies at Yale University & the University of South Africa (UNISA).
The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies & Arabic at the University of South Africa (UNISA), jointly invite presentations for the second African Epistemologies for the 21st Century conference. This year’s theme is “Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa.”
After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.” Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy (books that are often, and importantly, still being read and revered outside the academy).