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Graduate conference: "Failing Media"

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
University of Chicago, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for papers: “Failing Media”

Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference

University of Chicago, April 25–26, 2025

Keynote: Nicholas Baer (UC Berkeley)

 

Dragons and Ecocriticism

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

The Landscapes of Dragons

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Working Title: From Desolation to Idyllic Habitations: Exploring the Landscapes of Dragons in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Fiction

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Dragons in Fiction

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons in fiction will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Film and Television

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2024.

All topics about dragons in film and television will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

CFP: Articles, Creative Work - any length - New Writing Journal

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:13pm
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

 New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025).  Any length.  https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made available in both paper and online versions.  4 issu

Holocaust Studies Conference: Deadline Extended

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:53pm
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville                                                                                                                          

Conservative Camp

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Nicole Seymour and Darin DeWitt
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Conservative Camp

Edited by Darin DeWitt and Nicole Seymour

We invite contributions for an edited volume titled Conservative Camp, on which we are working with the University of Minnesota Press’ Humanities Editor Leah Pennywark. This volume seeks to explain how camp aesthetics, long associated with the progressive Left and with queer communities in particular, have recently been appropriated by conservative movements, particularly by homophobic and transphobic figures on the Right. 

Tolkien at UVM Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
The Tolkien at the Univrsity of Vermont Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

 

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025: Rituals and Ceremonies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. 

The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:

Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Finlay Darlington-Bell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Chiasmi

The 16th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

Harvard University, April 4-5, 2025

 

Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses 

 

Reviews for Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Alissa Burger / Reviews Editor, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

CFP: Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Food Studies Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS

https://food-studies.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers

Place: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa + Online

Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.

Dates: 8-10 October 2025

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SPECIAL FOCUS: Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures

Political Performances Working Group at IFTR: Performing Carnival!

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Political Performances Working Group at IFTR
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

IFTR 2025: Cologne, Germany. 9 – 13 June 2025.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 January 2025

Deadline for bursary applications: 22 November 2024 (https://iftr.org/conference/bursaries)

 

In line with this working group’s established practice, we have identified three loose strands that reflect the recent work of scholars in the wider field of political performances, and that also align with the 2025 conference theme: Performing Carnival!

Making and Unmaking of Cities

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Calcutta Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:03am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Deadline Extended! Special Devil Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:02am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

Calling the Devil:

Preternatural Projections, Diabolical Conceptions, and the Arcane Adversary                                             

Deadline Extended! Special Cronenberg Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:01am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

The Paranoid Realities of David Cronenberg: The Occult Body Techno-politic as Magical Medium 

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the paranoid realities of David Cronenberg to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:16pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics

The impact of the pandemic and the threat that it poses to future human experiences has been well-documented. However, now that non-human animals are possible carriers and becoming infected, their experiences, while often overlooked, are nevertheless integrated into the worldwide pandemic.

Thus, this collection seeks to balance essays about non-human animals during real-world pandemics, such as the COVID-19 one, with those of their experiences during literary or cinematic ones. The scope of this call for papers is broad and can include topics such as:

--Animals as victims of contagions

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:15pm
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:

Medusa: Essays on Different Media

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:14pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

This call for papers seeks two specific chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapters needed include one on Ancient Drama and another on Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in May 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:54pm
Edited volume on Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

 

Concept Note:

Wayward Studies and Methods

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:24am
MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

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