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SCMS 2025 roundtable CFP: De-centering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

This roundtable titled Monster on the Hill: Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror is interested in questions facing the Horror Genre in its new contemporary era. In the wake of “Black Horror” being deemed “America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre” by the New York Times, and the success of auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Nia Dacosta, Iris K. Shim, and more, we seek to think through what are the most important questions facing those reinventing the horror genre in ways that de-center a white western lens? How might we conceptualize horror as a genre that demands both solidarity and betrayal from its viewers, while unifying marginalized populations across the global south and north?

Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 (Pacific Time)

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

“London Calling”: The British Capital in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:02am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.

London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

“Love Conquers All”: Exploring the Popular Culture Phenomenon of Bridgerton

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual conference exploring all things Bridgerton to be held online on Thursday 30th January 2025.

From a popular book series to the Netflix phenomenon, Bridgerton has captured the public imagination, courted scandal and dazzled readers and audiences with a glittering reimagining of regency London.

We welcome papers from researchers across the academic spectrum and encourage papers from postgraduate researchers and early career researchers. We welcome individual papers, panels and round table submissions. Papers from this conference will have the opportunity to be in our sister journal The International Journal of Popular Culture Studies.

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

“Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh Discourse”

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 6:24am
Sikh Formations Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Special Forum on “Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh and South Asian Discourse”

Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory

 

Edited by Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine and 

Rishi Ramesh Gune, Doctoral Student in Culture and Theory, UC Irvine 

Submissions Due: October 1st, 2024

Publication: Rolling Basis 

 

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 12:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:41pm
Brooke Cameron and Noah Gallego
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

 

Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024

Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com

Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)

“What about It?”: Science, Nature, Self, and Cummings' Modernist Aesthetics  (9/5/16; Louisville, 2/23-25/17)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:13pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 5, 2016

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.

“living said”: Modernist Rhythm, Visual Form, and Cummings' Cultural Aesthetics

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2017

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 46th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2018, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).  Taking up what Cummings means by “my specialty is living said,” this session explores Cummings’ various modernist/avant-gardist experiments with rhythm and sound that came to shape his new art and new poetry.

“)one’s eye / / perceives”: New Approaches to E. E. Cummings (deadline extended)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.

“(i salute thee”: Receptions and Translations of E. E. Cummings (deadline 10/8/22; Louisville, 2/23-25/23)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 9, 2022

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 50th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2023, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). 

“precision which makes movement”: E. E. Cummings’ Affective, Kinetic Modernism (deadline 9/30/23; Louisville, 2/22-24/24)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 51st annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2024, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).

Special issue of Theatre Journal on the Transnational Erotic

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:08pm
Laura Edmondson/Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

This special issue, “The Transnational Erotic,” aims to challenge and refuse Western-centric understandings of sexuality, gender, and desire in the context of theatre, dance, and performance studies. Theatre Journal has cultivated a distinguished tradition of making theoretical and historiographical interventions vis-à-vis gender, sexuality, and performance; this issue aims to expand upon and complicate that tradition through an emphasis on diaspora, decolonization, and the Global South.

Special issue of Theatre Journal on Magic

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:07pm
Laura Edmondson/Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

For this special issue on “Magic,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that consider magic as concept and practice, broadly construed, with a particular interest in how magic aligns with other terms like alchemy, transformation, trickery, prophecy, conjuring, and ceremony. Magical practices, phenomena, practitioners, and events are not often at the forefront of theatre, performance, and dance studies’ scholarship. Through categorization as, on the one hand, popular entertainment, and, on the other hand, a component of spiritual or ritual practice, magic has seemed beyond the scope of the concert and/or avant-garde traditions that have tended to dominate Eurocentric theatre history and theory.

Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:27am
Chongshin Univ, Korea National Open Univ, Seoul National Univ
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Shakespeare first travelled to the Korean peninsula at the turn of the twentieth century and has since enjoyed enduring popularity in classrooms, on the stage, and far beyond. The playwright's work has provided and continues to provide fertile ground for performance, from direct Korean-language stagings to hybrid productions which marry the Shakespearean text to Korean cultural forms such as operatic changgeuk and the traditional musical storytelling medium of pansori. Our proposed collection of essays, Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations, aims to explore the rich tradition of Shakespeare in Korea from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day in all its various forms and manifestations.

CFP Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 12:00pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

 

Session Information

 

(Deadline Extended) Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 10:33am
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

The 10th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature

updated: 
Friday, August 9, 2024 - 10:51am
PAH
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

The 10th International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature is organized by different universities and research centers.

The conference will be dedicated to current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation.

All are cordially invited to present their research regarding current issues of linguistics, languages, dialects, literature and translation in English, Arabic or Persian.

Georgia and Carolinas College English Association Fall Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Georgia and Carolinas College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Please join the Georgia and Carolinas College English Association for a hybrid conference, co-hosted with the Michigan College English Association! The conference themes are “Crisis and Resilience.”

This exciting event will take place over two days. On Friday, Oct. 4, we will gather at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, GA, in-person. In the afternoon, you are invited to join a tour of Andalusia, essayist and short story writer Flannery O’Connor’s Milledgeville home.

Inclusive Stories, Writing for Change

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
English Association of PA State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Inclusive Stories, Writing for Change

“We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” – Toni Morrison

The English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU) invites proposals from the fields of literature, writing studies/rhetoric, linguistics, English education, film studies, cultural studies, creative writing, and digital humanities.  Undergraduate students, graduate students, and higher education faculty may share analytical or creative projects that explore themes of writing, social justice, narratives, voices, inclusion, and diversity. 

EAPSU invites proposals for:

• Panel proposals of 3-4 presenters

• Individual papers

• Posters

JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy): General CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

JAm It! Journal of American Studies in italy is now accepting contributions for the general section of its #11 issue (publication date: May 2025).

The deadline for submission is September 30, 2024.

 

Essay proposals should not exceed 8.000 words (including footnotes and reference list).

 

Submit proposals online at https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/about/submissions 

Reimagining Disability through “Disability Gain”

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
RSA / Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Please find below the abstract for a RMMRA-sponsored panel at RSA 2025 (March 20-22)

 

Fourth Hawaii International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Francisco P. Dumanig/University of Hawaii at Hilo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Hawaiʻi International Conference on English Language and Literature Studies (HICELLS 2025) hosted by A'Sharqiyah University will be held at A'Sharkiya University Campus in Ibra, Oman on February 26 - 27, 2025. This year's conference theme is "Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning in English Language and Literature Studies," aims to explore the cutting-edge methodologies and transformative practices in education. 

CFP: Creative Technologies in Art and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities invites submissions on Creative Technologies in Art and Literature and the General Areas. This issue aims to explore the intersection of technology and creativity and examine how technological advancements are reshaping artistic practices, cultural production, and human expression.

The Theme

Trans* Play: Queering Medieval Drama, Performance, and Adaptation

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 8 - 10, 2025)

More than 25 years ago, Robert LA Clark and Claire Sponsler argued in "Queer Play: the Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama" that "transgender and transstatus representations cannot be reduced to one simple meaning but rather perform a variety of...cultural work." We seek contributions to explore, expand and complicate the idea of transgender identities, trans bodies, transgressive practices, or other kinds of transformations or translations in medieval drama and performance. In 2025, how do we understand the shapeshifting nature of "trans"? What are the emerging questions and where do they lead us?

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