2023 Dress and Body Association Conference 

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s fourth annual conference, which will be held on November 4-5, 2023. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking.

Visit the DBA website—www.dress-body-association.org—to learn more about this organization and consider becoming a member.

Climate Change: Implications for Dress and the Body

Want to present your scholarly work at Anime Expo? Mechademia and the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS), working in collaboration with Anime Expo, are excited to announce the Mechademia/JAMS AX Symposium, July 1-4, 2023 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. While the Mechademia/JAMS Symposium welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers around the theme of isekai.

We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - 'Aesthetics, Environment, and Sustainability', No.

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840­

Consider submitting an abstract to the permanent Italian Cinema session for PAMLA 2023.  Please upload your file (300 words max) directly to the Session CFP linked below. 

CFP Deadline: May 31st, 2023

Session CFP: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18828

Decision Date: June 11th, 2023

Conference Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2023

Location: The Hilton Portland Downtown Hotel

This panel invites papers focusing on various aspects of Italian film history and contemporary film culture. 

Disability Studies is a vibrant field of interdisciplinary academic inquiry that examines the ways disability has been constructed in society, culture, and history. This session invites papers focused on texts from a wide variety of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods whose analyses are informed by disability theory and/or experiences of disability. Papers may address physical and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues surrounding pain, illness, and invisible disabilities.

Call for Chapter Proposals

Barbie in the Media: The Cultural Impact of Mattel’s Celebrity Doll
Edited by Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez and Rebecca C. Hains

Abstracts invited by May 1, 2023

IX Edition: 1 - 24 September

Desire. 

The InSophia Cultural Association, the non-profit creator of the

festival, in collaboration with the Municipality of Ischia, the CRF

- International Center for Philosophical Research, the University

of Toronto (Visual Studies, Mississauga campus) and with the

Liceo “A. Canova” in Treviso, with the patronage of the

Campania Region, the FISP (International Federation of

Philosophical Societies), of the XXV World Congress of

Philosophy Rome 2024, of the “G. Sadoul Circle,” of the Italian

Institute for Philosophical Studies, of the Department of

Humanities of the University of Palermo, of the SFI (Italian

Crossings is an open-access, peer reviewed publication that is inspired by M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossings, which takes as its basis the concept of the Middle Passage, the Crossing, to understand Black transnational feminism’s erosion of boundaries—disciplinary conventions, respectability politics, national borders, and bodies that are gendered, sexualized, and racialized, among others kinds of categories—in relation to empire and postmodernity. 

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents 

Can Sports Save the English Department? 

Friday, April 21, 2023, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom 

 Register
here. 

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ZA0bJrmR7GIDWTvA-pWvA

This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University 

To be held: 13-14, November 2023 

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)

*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.

Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)

Mind the Gap 2023 is a free hybrid conference held on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of July 2023 at King’s College London. With this interdisciplinary conference we want to provide a space to enable the building of bridges between what is written in theory and what is experienced in practice. 

Last year we addressed and explored the gaps between academic research and everyday LGBTQIA+ realities, by combining academic presentations with community speakers. This year we’re going one step further, by thinking about what it means to cross these gaps, and bring seemingly-separate dichotomies together.

Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”

A special issue of Humanities.

EXTENDED DEADLINE

The UCL English Graduate Conference will take place in person at UCL on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. This year’s conference theme is ‘The Unexpected’. Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to theunexpected.conference@gmail.com by May 5, 2023, along with a short biography.

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future...which refers to someone whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future.That which is totally unpredictable.”

–Derrida in Derrida (2002)