MultiPlay is delighted to announce that we are working on a new edited collection – Video Game Monsters: A Compendium

Monsters have been the foundation of the video game industry. They’ve been the bosses to beat, the enemies to avoid, the NPCs we’ve sometimes forged unlikely bonds with. Monsters are the true avatar of video games, and there has been an increase of work and attention in this area, such as Player v.s Monster (Svelch, 2023). MultiPlay feels the time is right for a special collection examining monsters in all of their video game forms, creating a thorough compendium of the monstrous history of video games. As Martin points out, video games studies has barely began to reckon with monsters (2023, np)

Adaptation (OUP) is looking for new contributions or proposals for special issues on topics such as decolonizing adaptation, green adaptation, video game adaptation, franchise adaptations, adaptations of the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s and adaptations and war. Please submit proposals for Special Issues to djc@dmu.ac.uk and imelda.whelehan@uwa.edu.au. Article contributions should be submitted to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/adapt.

The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study.

Dear Colleagues,

The Southeastern Renaissance Conference cordially invites you to the 2024 Conference to be held at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina from Friday, September 20-Saturday, September 21.

The conference theme this year is open to any topic related to the Renaissance/ Early Modern period.

The plenary speaker will be Steven May of Emory University.

How to Submit

Please submit your full essay (20-minute reading time maximum, or no more than 2,500 words) to the submission module on the SCRC website, southeasternrenaissance.org, including your email somewhere on the document so we may contact you with our decision.

OVERTONES EGE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES

CALL FOR PAPERS

            Annual deadline: September 15

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

Robin Hood and Other Social Bandits in Folk and Popular Culture

HYBRID

15th Biennial Conference of

the International Association for Robin Hood Studies

26-27 June 2025

The Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)

(and ONLINE),

co-organized by the University of Silesia

Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings

Exile is “the signature and permanent mark of the modern age,” M. Nourbese Philip wrote in 1992: “we cutting we teeth on exile— exile in the very air we breathing.” In this waning quarter of the 21st century, more than 281 million or 3.6% of the global population are migrants, a number that, by all accounts, will only rise. Displacement, whether due to economic instabilities, climate change, war, political oppression, or just the “maddest Joy” of desire, alters not only those it subjectifies, but the conditions of belonging that inform their trajectories.

This annual scholarly journal is published by the Comparative World Literature program at California State University, Long Beach.

Genre is dedicated to publishing creative and scholarly work in the Humanities as well as essays related to the annual Comparative Literature conference. Reviews of current works of literary criticism, literature and local Southern California art exhibitions are also featured.

Call for PapersGenre will be accepting papers and creative work along the theme of the CWL 2024 conference: Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Volume 40: Writers of Extreme Situations (2024) .

Call for Papers: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices

CALL FOR PAPERS

2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):

“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”

CALL FOR PAPERS

Trans-Analytics: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and History

Special Issue of Psychoanalysis and History

Editor: Carolyn Laubender (University of Essex)

Editorial Advisory Board: Matt ffytche, Dagmar Herzog, Camille Robcis, Dany Nobus, and Hannah Zeavin

Context and Aims:

After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.” Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy (books that are often, and importantly, still being read and revered outside the academy).