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Beyond Trauma Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 1:33pm
An International & Interdisciplinary Conference on Imagining Ways to Move beyond a Traumatic Past
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025



The Beyond Trauma Conference   

For sign-up forms, consult: https://beyondtrauma.yolasite.com/ 

 

The Beyond Trauma Conference (June 9, 10, & 11, 2025; Nice, France) aims to gather an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to share their research (ethnographies, theories, and clinical practice) on post-traumatic states from resistance and resilience to retribution and growth. More specifically, we propose to focus less on trauma and PTSD and more on modes of healing that so often involve the arts for trauma survivors. 

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 12:56am
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 12:46am
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel with a November 2024 release. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives

updated: 
Monday, November 18, 2024 - 5:59am
Dr. Sotiris Petridis, Hellenic Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals

 

Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.

 

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and older adults in Asian societies

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 3:49pm
Bernard Wilson Gakushuin University / Sung-Ae Lee Macquarie University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2025)

Call for abstracts for papers for edited collection on the effects of ageing populations and generational disparities in Asian societies as represented in literature, film, and other forms of media

 

Working Title for Proposed Volume: 

 

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and older adults in Asian societies

 

Editors:

 

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

2025 First Book Institute

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:29pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Announcing 

The 2025 First Book Institute

June 1-7, 2025

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors 

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies

CFP: (Re)Placement

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:29pm
Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Shifting Tides, Anxious Borders (STAB) 2025

Graduate Conference of the Dept. of English, General Literature and Rhetoric

Binghamton University, New York

Conference theme: (Re)Placement

Date: March 29, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naima Mohammadi (University of Pittsburgh)

 

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

 I must listen to the birds

 and in order to hear the birds

 the warplanes must be silent.

– Marwan Makhoul, Palestinian Poet 

 

Theorizing Zombiism 4: Fast Zombies/SLO Zombies

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:29pm
Zombie Studies Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Theorizing Zombiism IV: Fast Zombie/SLO Zombie

 

 

California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly)

Department of English

San Luis Obispo (SLO)

California

 

Provisional Date: 18-19 July, 2025

 

 

New Directions in Carson McCullers Scholarship

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:28pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society
 
American Literature Association Annual Convention 
May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA
 
New Directions in Carson McCullers Scholarship:
 
An open topic roundtable session focused on new scholarship on the works of Carson McCullers
 

Call for Proposals: Board Game Academics conference and journal

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:28pm
Board Game Academics
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

The Board of Board Game Academics (BGA) is pleased to announce our call for papers for the 2025 conference and journal. BGA is dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games.

While these communities are expanding, players, creators, and scholars of tabletop board and role-playing games have traditionally been late to addressing and including diverse representations and perspectives.

For instance, production companies such as Wizards of the Coast (best known for Dungeons & Dragons) have been criticized for their continued celebration of oppressive ideological perspectives, systems, and governments.

"Memory, Forgetting and Creating" 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:28pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Conference online: 23-24 January 2025

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

CFP:

Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:28pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 16, 2024

Soap Opera and Serialized Storytelling

70th Anniversary ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 1:46pm
AILC-International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 7, 2025

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.
You can search for the cfp here:

https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide

I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines: 

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 1:45pm
International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

You can search for the cfp here:

https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide

I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines: 

Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation and (Re)Creation الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

updated: 
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 11:14pm
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Following successful conferences in Seoul (2004), Cape Town (2006), Melbourne (2009), Belfast (2012), Belo Horizonte (2015), Hong Kong (2018) and Barcelona, (2021), IATIS is pleased to announce its call for panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, and artistic initiative proposals for its eighth conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 10 – 13 Dec 2025.
Conference Theme

Literary Druid - Regular Issue January 2024

updated: 
Saturday, November 16, 2024 - 12:15pm
Maheswari Publishers (The publishing unit of PANDIAN EDUCATIONAL TRUST- TN32D0026797)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

2025 Symposium - Rethinking Asian American Diaspora Studies: Relationality, Interconnected Struggles, Shared Histories

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:21pm
Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

2025 Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) Annual Symposium

"Rethinking Asian American Diaspora Studies: Relationality, Interconnected Struggles, Shared Histories"

Feb 28-March 1, 2025 at College Station, Texas A&M University

Submission: Please visit our website at tinyurl.com/taaads for the submission form

Abstract Deadline: Dec 31st, 2024

 

 

Contemporary Indigenous Horror

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:21pm
Naomi Simone Borwein (Western University), Krista Collier-Jarvis (Mi’kmaw/L’nu, Mount Saint Vincent University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

 Contemporary Indigenous Horror

Edited by Dr. Naomi Simone Borwein and Dr. Krista Collier-Jarvis

  

Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:21pm
University of Bialystok
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

PASE 2025/Crossroads 5 Conference
Voices of the Earth: literary and linguistic perspectives in environmental humanities
June 4-6, 2025
University of Białystok, Poland

Suddenly, we became aware that humans could destroy the livability of the planet—whether
intentionally or otherwise. This awareness only increased as we learned about pollution, mass
extinction, and climate change. One half of current precarity is the fate of the earth: what kinds
of human disturbances can we live with? Despite talk of sustainability, how much chance do
we have for passing a habitable environment to our multispecies descendants?
Anna Tsing

Journal of Critical Race Inquiry Open Call for Submissions

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Journal of Critical Race Inquiry
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) is currently soliciting submissions for our 2025 open issue. We invite interdisciplinary work with critical and intersectional approaches to race and racialization. In addition to scholarly essays, JCRI welcomes the submission of visual, literary, digital, and audio art and performance documentation relevant to our mandate, as well as activist roundtables, interviews, and shorter essays.

We publish work that features

Edith Wharton and Democracy

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025
  • Edith Wharton and Democracy

ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Edith Wharton and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

Edith Wharton and Popular Culture
ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Edith Wharton is regularly the question or answer on Jeopardy! these days. She’s also the heroine of a 2024 murder mystery by Mariah Fredericks. The indie band The Magnetic Fields penned a love-letter to the “masterpiece of catastrophic love” that is Wharton’s 1911 Ethan Frome, and a diverse range of voices cite Wharton as an influence or a favorite: Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Beth Nguyen, and Francis Ford Coppola—whose adaptation of The Glimpses of the Moon is currently underway. A novel that, in fact, also inspired Tavi Gevinson’s 2024 audio series.

Roundtable: Neurodivergence in Academia

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Popular Culture Association - Neurodivergent Studies Area
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Speakers are invited to share experiences, insights, and expertise on a roundtable exploring how neurodivergence shapes and intersects with professional academic life. This session will examine the nuanced realities of neurodivergence within academia and related spaces, particularly for faculty, researchers, and academic staff. Speakers will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion. This format is envisioned as an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in a less formal way than traditional research panels. 

 

We welcome presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

CfP: Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / Istanbul University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

(E-ISSN: 2619-9890)

Call for Papers

Issue 53 (2025/1)

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Journal of German Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal founded in 1954 by Istanbul University’s Department of German Language and Literature. It is published biannually (June & December). 

Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Bethune-Cookman University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.

Adolescence in Film and Television (April 16-19, 2025); Proposals due November 30, 2024

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart / Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.

Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.

The Green Fuse - Nature in Fantasy

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:19pm
Dr Kevan Manwaring/British Fantasy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In this special issue we will look at environmental aspects of Fantasy. Since its very earliest manifestations, in taproot texts such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Beowulf, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Fantasy has been entangled with the natural and supernatural world.

‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.’
Dylan Thomas

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