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Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 10:11am
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Novels and Book History, an area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, is currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Atlantic City, NJ to be held November 7-9, 2024. 

This area welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading, publishing, media studies, bookishness, and representations of books/reading in other media. 

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:42am
H. G. Wells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 10, 2024

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

Saturday 21 September 2024 (hybrid: online and at The Art Workers’ Guild, London, UK)

Keynote speaker: Dr David Shackleton, author of British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time, University of Cardiff.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 15 AUGUST 2024. Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 5:57pm
Demeter
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 15 AUGUST 2024

 

We are looking for a few more contributions to our collection on trans parenting:

 

This anthology explores trans parenting and raising trans/non binary children from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome submissions that explore various dimensions of trans parenting in literary, cultural, artistic, political, historical, social, and economic contexts.

Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference (deadline extended)

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 3:17pm
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference

 

Institute for Humanities Research 

& BK21 Multi-ConTEXT Team

Department of English Language and Literature

Chungbuk National University

Cheongju, The Republic of Korea

October 11~12, 2024

 

Proposal deadline: July 15, 2024 (extended)

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dennis Yi Tenen (Columbia University)

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 10:17am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2024

 

November 7-9, 2024

Atlantic City, NJ

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

Call for Replacement Chapter on Race: The (New) Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 8:42pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Call for a Replacement Chapter on Race:

 

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, CUNY

 

This is a call for chapter proposals for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

 

Each chapter of the book is to have a dual function: 1) to review the Morrison scholarship in whatever general terrain the chapter falls within, and 2) to offer a new reading of Morrison in that area.

 

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 7:42pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Conference will be held November 7-9, 2024, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-
- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- virtual travel and tourism: How has COVID affected travel around the globe?

Deadline Extended! A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 2:57pm
Laura Nicosia for Salem/Grey House Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 6, 2024

For Critical Insights volume under contract:

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JULY 6 

Rewriting and Resisting Response (RRR)

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 12:26pm
Lotfi Salhi, assistant professor of English Literature.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024

 

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 “Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)

April 2024

Call for Papers

J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 8:17pm
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit 

A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor 

San Diego State University 

 

The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 15, 2024. 

New Deadline CFP – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2

updated: 
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 6:14pm
In Vivo Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

[for French and Spanish, see below]

Call for Contributions – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2

THEME: UNKNOWN(s)

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 12:14am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.

UPDATE CFP Preternatural in Popular Culture (7/1/2024; NEPCA Online and Dudley, MA 10/3-5/2024)

updated: 
Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 9:48pm
Michael A. Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

UPDATED Call for Papers: Preternatural in Popular Culture

Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

2024 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association 

Nichols College (Dudley, MA) and Zoom, 3-5 October 2024

 

Proposals due by 1 July 2024

 

The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) invites submissions under the general theme of the Preternatural in Popular Culture.

 

Deadline Extended: Request for Papers: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture - NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024

updated: 
Thursday, June 27, 2024 - 8:03pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference which will be held online and in person at Nichols College, MA, October 3 – 5, 2024. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Saturday but will be also be available via Zoom for participation of our many colleagues.

EXTENSION_From Ritual to Rebellion: The Rise of the Esoteric Avant-Garde

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 2:24pm
SAMLA 96: Seen/Unseen
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

This panel proposes an exploration of how the early 20th-century avant-garde movements, renowned for their radical innovations, drew profound inspiration from esoteric practices such as theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, mysticism, and Kabbalah. The focus will be on examining how these seemingly disparate worlds converged, shaping artistic production across various disciplines.

Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 2:16pm
Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University

Presents

A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode on

Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos

(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)

Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.

 

A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 2:16pm
Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

 

Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos

(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)

Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.

 

Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 11:17am
Special Issue of Early American Studies (UPenn)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

For a special issue on early African American literature and religion, Early American Studies (UPenn) seek article-length contributions on how 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualized religion beyond the telos of the nation-state. The roles of religion and religious thought in early Black culture have often been understood within the dualistic frame of resistance whereby Christianity, the dominant religion of colonial and antebellum American society, is both employed by masters to subjugate the enslaved and employed by the slaved to resist their masters’ subjugation of them.

Extended Deadline ‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2024): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 8:36am
Northumbria University/Newcastle Upon Tyne
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute conference papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s famous 1985 dystopia. The novel was published during Ronald Reagan’s troubled presidency, which witnessed second-wave feminism, anti-pornography, pro-life and pro-legal abortion campaigns, but the first season of the adaptation was likewise released during troubled times, a few months after the controversial election of Donald Trump as the 50th President of the USA, which created an equally tense political scene. Women across the world were protesting for female and human rights, often dressed in the now iconic Handmaid’s costume.

Deadline Extended - Call for Papers - The Northeast Popular Culture Association - Hybrid Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 7:04pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 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 and Friday via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Saturday at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts

NEPCA is a conference that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be shared, as well as completed projects.

Call for chapters: Men at the Margins: Decolonising Masculinity and Intersectionality (Edited collection for Routledge)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 9:16am
Sofia Aboim, University of Lisbon; Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Men at the Margins: Decolonising Masculinity and Intersectionality 
Edited collection for Routledge - Editors: Sofia Aboim (University of Lisbon), Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (University College Dublin) 

REMINDER: Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives CONFERENCE (Debrecen University Symposium, 2024)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:13pm
Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024

 

 

This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.

Date:

  • October 24-25, 2024

Venue:

  • Debrecen, Hungary, Main Building of the University of Debrecen

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming, international, in-person conference, "Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives." 

Call for Papers: SSEES Postgraduate Conference 20

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:12pm
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political repressions, crackdowns on LGBTQ+, women’s, ethnic and religious communities’ rights, environmental crises, and the ramifications of colonial legacies have marked the past several years in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. While indispensable academic research is being carried out to investigate various forms of political, social, cultural, and economic oppression and violence, it is crucial to highlight positive alternatives nurtured in these hostile contexts.

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