all recent posts

Leakage | Inaugural Conference of stsing

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 6:14am
TU Dresden
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

This conference inaugurates stsing e.V., an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of research and acti- vity interested in how science and technology are practically done and socially embedded. The association is informed by international discussions and brings together networks of senior and early career resear- chers. stsing e.V. currently has over 100 members from a broad range of disciplines in German-speaking countries, universities and research institutions, with working groups engaged in inter- and transdiscipli- nary collaboration. Find more information on the stsing e.V. website: www.stsing.org 

"Ephron on three": Masculinit(ies) in Ted Lasso

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 5:56am
Anthony Dotterman/SAMLA 95: Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 9-11
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

In Season 3, Episode 11 of Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, Mae–the show’s matrimonial barkeeper– softly recited Philip Larkin’s “This be the Verse,” a poem about the emotional scars parents leave their children. Coming as it does near the end of the series run, the poem references the trauma(s) the main character has inherited from his parents, and ties together many of the themes of the series, namely how “hurt people hurt people.” In keeping with the tone of the series, however, the pub owner’s reading of Larkin’s poem does not serve as a moral repudiation of Ted’s parents or their generation.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE APPROACHING -- Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise (edited volume)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 4:07pm
Deanna P. Koretsky, Spelman College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Demystifying Mystic Falls: Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise

From the time it premiered on The CW in 2009, The Vampire Diaries was duly castigated in the media for uncritically tiptoeing around Civil War “lost cause” mythology and overtly tokenizing its Black characters. As the public later learned, minoritized actors were also treated poorly behind the scenes. Still, the series became a cultural juggernaut, boasting two successful spin-offs (The Originals and Legacies), reviving the book series on which the show was based, and inspiring a cottage industry of franchise-related institutions and conventions that, as of 2023, is just beginning to take off.

Remembering Nelson Mandela: Legacy of Peace, Equality, and Freedom

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 9:17am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Remembering Nelson Mandela: Legacy of Peace, Equality, and Freedom

International Conference
21-22 October 2023
(Zoom sessions: 2 days/Virtual platform: 5 days)

 

Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicates the conference  to commemorating the 10th anniversary of the passing of Nelson Mandela, the iconic leader and global symbol of peace, justice, and reconciliation. This conference aims to honor Mandela’s remarkable life and legacy, reflect on his contributions to the struggle against apartheid, and explore the relevance of his teachings in today’s world.

The Medieval Translator: Translation, Memory, and Politics in the Medieval World

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 9:16am
University of Lisboa
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

THE XIII CARDIFF CONFERENCE ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
THE MEDIEVAL TRANSLATOR: Translation, Memory, and Politics in the Medieval World

To be hosted by the Universidade de Lisboa - Portugal
17-21 June 2024

Victorian Affects

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 9:16am
DACH Victorianists Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Victorian Affects

Online Workshop DACH Victorianists Network organised by Dr Anja Hartl (Innsbruck) and Dr Tim Sommer (Passau/Oxford)

Friday, 8 December 2023

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference October 12 – October 14, 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 6:27pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

UPDATED The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Philosophy, Belief, and Pop Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conferenceto be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via the Zoom platform. Deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.

 

NeMLA 2024 Panel: Gated Communities of the Post-Apocalypse:Theorizing the Relegation of Surplus Populations to the Periphery

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:34pm
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Speculative Fiction (SF) creators regularly imagine worlds in precipitous decline where the privileged few live in a safe, prosperous, hazard-free enclave from which surplus subaltern populations are excluded. What do these stories of safety for the few while the “surplus” rot outside or join a captive servant class status tell us about our own concepts of borders, citizenship, and expendability? Presenters are invited to engage with one or more texts using cultural studies, postcolonial theory, or other relevant analytic tool to analyze how gated communities function in the SF canon or the real world.

Revisiting Closet Poets

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:25am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Submit proposals to:  https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SessionManage/20330

You do not need to be a NeMLA member to submit a proposal.

When the screen opens, click on "Browse the 2023 Call for Papers." The next screen will ask for AREA, type “creative” and  “Creative Writing, Editing and Publishing” will appear in the box and for KEYWORD type “closet.” The session will appear in a block below those two boxes. Next click on the “Revisiting Closet Poets” block and it will take you to the submit abstract page. Click the green box in the upper right corner to submit your proposal.

ICMS 2024: Crafting the Afterlife: Depictions of Heaven, Hell, and Unearthly Spaces in Medieval Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:24am
Krista Telford & H.M. Cushman
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Depictions of the afterlife abound in medieval texts of every genre and form. From descriptions of heaven, hell, and purgatory to explorations of reincarnation and mythical spaces like Hades and the Elysian fields, medieval thinkers utilized art, music, literature, and theology to imagine different forms of life after death. In turn, such texts shaped what the afterlife looked like, sounded like, and felt like. With every work of writing and art, the afterlives depicted in classical literature and scripture took on slightly or drastically different forms. This session seeks to delve into the medieval construction of the afterlife, examining how life after death was depicted, interpreted, and experienced in medieval culture, both within and beyond Europe.

Call for Chapters: Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:24am
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

 

You are invited to submit a chapter proposal for possible inclusion in the book Critical Perspectives on Resistance in 21st-Century British Literature to be published by the renowned publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing (https://www.cambridgescholars.com/). Cambridge Scholars Publishing is registered in the United Kingdom. Companies House Reg. Number: 4333775.

 

We welcome innovative and insightful chapters that critically analyze and engage with the ways in which resistance is represented, examined, and challenged in 21st-century British literature.

 

NeMLA 2023 Panel: Animals of the Victorian Age: Queer Ecology and the Emphasis on Animal Kinship

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Jacob Crystal / University of Tulsa
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In Animal Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Process (1892), Henry Salt argues that “Oppression and cruelty are invariably founded on a lack of imaginative sympathy,” which purports the notion of the “tyrant or tormentor” from ever having a “true sense of kinship with the victim” (16). In a similar way, Donna Haraway states in When Species Meet (2007), that “we are a knot of species coshaping [sic] one another in layers of reciprocating complexity all the way down” (42). Taking cues from Salt and Haraway, our panel will take up key features of human and animal relations and their intersection with the queerness of imaginative sympathy.

‘Kommissar Rex!’ The Place, Role, and Representation of Animals in Contemporary Media

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Galactica Media
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Abstract

In this thematic issue, we explore the place and role of animals in media, their representation and influence in the context of new media, advertising, social networks, films, series, and other forms of media content. Animals hold a significant position in popular culture and have become an integral part of our interaction with the media environment. We invite authors to explore various aspects of the presence of animals in new media and examine the ethical and social questions associated with their use and representation.

 

List of issues for discussion

– Animals in social networks: popular trends and their influence on users;

Neural Networks and Technology: Media, Social Impact and the Future of Human Interaction

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Galactica Media
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Annotation

In this thematic issue, we explore the role of neural networks and technologies in media and social life. Considering the rapid development of information technology and artificial intelligence, our society is undergoing fundamental changes in the ways of interaction and communication. We invite authors to consider the deep and all-encompassing influence of neural networks on the formation and perception of media, their role in social interaction, and the changes that neural networks and technology bring to our daily lives.

 

List of issues for discussion

– Neural networks and technologies in media: media analytics, automation and content generation;

CFP-The Text-Vol.6 No.1-January 2024 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
The Text (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for January 2024 issue.

Indexed in:
1.      ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.      IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.      Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.      DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

She Said, He Said, They Said: (Un)Reliable Narrators in Literature

by and/ or About Women

Submitted by Annette M. Magid

Annual Northeast Modern Language Association

55th  Annual Convention

Convention Center

Boston, MA     March 7-19, 2024

 

Submit Proposals to: https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SessionManage/20329

 

The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

4 & 5 April 2024, University of Amsterdam | Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2023.

 

Keynote Speaker: 

Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives, Duke University Press, 2017)

 

For this two-day, single-stream, and in-person conference, sponsored by the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Dutch Research Council, scholars are invited to explore how the human and nonhuman forces shaping and emerging from the earth are articulated in art and cultural practice.

American Folk Horrors (edited collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Dawn Keetley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 29, 2023

There has been a veritable outpouring of both popular and academic writing on folk horror in the wake of folk horror’s resurgence in the post-2009 period. The last three years, for instance, has seen an excellent and comprehensive documentary film, Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021); a special issue of the journal Revenant: Critical and Cultural Studies of the Supernatural (2020) dedicated to folk horror (with a special issue of Horror Studies in the works); and four collections of scholarly essays either just published or forthcoming in 2023 (see Bacon; Bayman and Donnelly; Edgar and Johnson; and Keetley and Heholt).

ICMS 2024: Neomedievalism and New Media (A Roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Alan Perry
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Speaking Opportunity – Open Call

ICMS 2024: Neomedievalism and New Media (A Roundtable)

In-Person at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2024, Kalamazoo, MI

Deadline: September 15, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Literary Documentary, Scene II

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Literary Documentary, Scene II (roundtable)

Literary documentaries have become a popular pedagogical tool in higher education. Abstracts are invited from literary, media/film, and legal studies’ professionals to share their experiences, expertise and perspectives on the processes and complexities in creating a literary documentary. 

Reevaluating Disability in Film and Media (Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2024 Conference)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Sarah Delahousse, York College-CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 7, 2023

Physical and mental disability traditionally garners impressions of helplessness, asexuality, and invisibility that certainly extend to popular media. However, these attitudes have been challenged in recent years with the demand for more inclusive representations through diverse lenses. This panel aims to reexamine the representation of disability in film, TV and other media beyond education to consider the theoretical , cultural, aesthetic and historical implications that disability conveys as a site for reconsidering identity and body politics, often through transgression.

 

Some potential topics include but are not limited to:

Disability Questioning Gender Norms

RuPedagogies of Realness 2: The Shequel! Essays on Teaching and Learning Under Attack with RuPaul’s Drag Race

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Lindsay Bryde & Tommy Mayberry / Empire State University & University of Alberta
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Abstracts - Edited Volume

RuPedagogies of Realness 2: The Shequel!
Essays on Teaching and Learning Under Attack with RuPaul’s Drag Race

Eds. Lindsay Bryde (Empire State University) and Tommy Mayberry (University of Alberta) 

Out of Time: An Exploration of Surplus Value in Marginalized Bodies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Megan Harlow & Rachael Nebraska Lynch / George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association

Conference Theme: Surplus

Dates: March 7-10, 2024 in Boston MA

 

Pages