The Concord Museum, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society, and the Massachusetts Historical Society will hold a conference on April 10-11, 2025 on the theme “1775”. The conference will be convened at the Concord Museum and marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord. There will be opportunities for attendees to visit historic sites and view objects and collections significant to the Revolution.

The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. 

The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).

CFP: Occult Detectives

Edited by Michael Goodrum, Kris Mecholsky, and Philip Smith

The field of Cognitive Linguistics has aroused growing interest in discursive and descriptive language studies. Encompassing a variety of approaches that explore the interconnection between language and human cognition, this perspective has been crucial for understanding a range of linguistic phenomena.

In order to promote the exchange of ideas and research in this field, we invite national and international researchers to submit their original and unpublished contributions that address a variety of linguistic phenomena in usage situations, exploring the intersection between discourse, grammar and cognition.

We are particularly interested in articles that fit into the following areas:

The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:

STAGING SILENCE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE

3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge

This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature. Topics may include:

-       mute characters and/or characters who never appear on stage;

-       characters who gain or lose the power of speech (welcoming perspectives e.g. from disability studies);

From the popularity of superhero comics to cult movements around religious leaders, from venerating political figures to idolizing pop-culture celebrities, images and constructions of ‘heroes’ play a significant role in US culture. Simultaneously, there are people and actions outside of the limelight that have been revered as heroic, for example the voluntary work of nurses in homeless shelters and hospitals. While often tied to individuals, heroism occurs not just in these personified forms but can be attached to larger movements, events, or groups in more abstract ways as well. Both the figure of the hero and heroization more generally have equally frequently been weaponized throughout US history or used as a tool for political manipulation.

"Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanitie Text Analysis" Seminar at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). Call for Papers #nemla2025  Submit your abstract https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20988 Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is the Chair of a Seminar "Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanities, Text Analysis" for inclusion in the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). https://www.nemla.org/convention.htmlNeMLA's 56th Annual ConventionHotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Cultural Studies and Media Studies

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NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention, March 06-09 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Eudora Welty Society seeks submissions for its 2024 SAMLA panel, “Mirrors and Magnifications: Eudora Welty and Shifting Perspectives.” In alignment with this year’s SAMLA theme, Seen and Unseen, the panel aims to investigate the methods that Welty uses to mirror, frame, magnify, and even distort the vision of her characters and/or readers. Welty’s work displays a creative use of varying avenues of sight with material, political, and epistemological consequences—some examples from her fiction may be the dimmed lamp that contributes to R.J.

Bodies of Feminist Resistance: Archives and Practices in Spain and Latin America - Panel Discussion at NeMLA 2025, "(R)EVOLUTION"

Host Institution: La Salle University

Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

Dates: March 6-9, 2025

Departing from 'the body' as a terrain of feminist analysis and resistance, this panel seeks to explore the wide range of interventions re-imagining 'the political' in contemporary Spain and Latin America.

CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX

Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney

Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.