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Rethinking Institutions

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:17am
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

CFP: The 27th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference

 

“Rethinking Institutions”

The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida

March 27-29, Gainesville, FL 

 

Keynote speakers: Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks

Nicole LaRose Alumni keynote speaker: Wesley Beal  

 

The 2025 Marxist Reading Group Conference invites submissions for “Rethinking Institutions” to explore the manifold issues endured by global institutions and reimagine the former for the present and future. 

CFP: Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 10:23am
Khaoula Chakour and El Habib El Hadari/ Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sultan Moulay Slimane University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Research Laboratory in Literature, Language, Culture and Communication (RLLLCC)

organizes

an International Conference on

Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society

April 22-23, 2025

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities,

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal - Morocco

 

 

Call for Papers

 

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 10:23am
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

TCR 2025 : The Cordillera Review, Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 2025 Volume

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
The Cordillera Review, University of the Philippines Baguio
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

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.

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
Cory Nguyen
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

 

Deadline for submissions: December 2nd, 2024

Conference date/time: February 8th, 2025, UC Berkeley (will be in hybrid format).

Names and affiliations: Paz Regueiro and Cory Nguyen, Department of Comparative Literature

Contact emails: paz_regueiro@berkeley.edu and corytnguyen@berkeley.edu 

“You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song.”

- Charli xcx, 2024. (“Guess”, 17th track on “brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not”.)

 

Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts (Special Issue of Multimodality & Society)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Emilio Amideo (University of Naples Parthenope) and Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 24, 2025

In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

124 – MUSLIM COUNTERPUBLICS IN THE INDIAN NATION-STATE PUBLIC SPHERE

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
ECSAS Heidelberg 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

We welcome papers for our ECSAS panel on Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere which will bring together emerging and advanced scholars of Muslim identity in South Asia in the context of the nation-state public sphere. We wish to explore the deep history and contemporary imaginings of Muslimness from the vantage point of songs, music and sound, literary studies, history, anthropology, dastangoi, oral historiography, and cinema. We aim to shed light on the multiperspectival and pan-national Muslim identification process as it also intersects with ideas of ideological homogenisation, modernity, and religious revivalism.

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
Sacred Journeys
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia

June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.

Call for Papers

Netflix’s The Decameron - TSW Special Issue

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:30am
The So What (Arthuriana's Public Humanities Project)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025.

 

We are interested in critical, pedagogical, and creative pieces that explore the Netflix series from a wide variety of angles and approaches, including: plague studies, the history of medicine and science, premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, adaptation theory, and so on. We particularly welcome pieces that consider how the series helps us think more about our own time, including but not limited to: 

  • How pandemics (re)shape art and the world;

Special Panel on Political Demonology in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Esoterrorism, Occult Conspiracy, and Magical Treason: Political Demonology and Demonic Politics in Popular Culture

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel on the intersections of demonology and politics in popular culture

Call for Chapters: Gothic Modernisms

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Catherine Enwright (Boston College) and Daniel Dougherty (the University of Florida)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

We are seeking a limited number of essays to complete an edited collection exploring the connections between the gothic genre and literary modernism. Inspired by the work of scholars such as Sam Wiseman, Linda Dryden, David Punter, and the late John Paul Riquelme, this collection will consider how and why gothic elements such as dark doubles, the uncanny, the return of the repressed, haunted spaces, etc. enter modernist writing.

The Arts under Constraints

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
University of Liège
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Call for papers

15th CIPA International Conference: “The arts under constraints”

Date: October 8-9, 2025

Place: University of Liège

Organization: UR Traverses/CIPA

 

14th Annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. The conference will be held April 10th-12th, 2025, online and in-person at Háskóli Íslands.

This conference seeks proposals on the theme of “Other Things.”

II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Catherine Barbour
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías

(14-16 May 2025)

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The University of Santiago de Compostela invites proposals of papers or posters for the Second International Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías. The conference, supported by the Instituto de las Mujeres, will take place from May 14-16, 2025 in the Philosophy Department. In order to reflect collectively on humour’s feminist potential, we encourage the following topics:

- Philosophical approaches to humour

- Political Strategies of Humour: Subversion and Power

Minority Identities and Vernacular Visual Culture. Interdisciplinary symposium

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:28am
University of Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Minority groups are often underrepresented in official archives, which has resulted in their continuing marginalization in historiography. Critical archive scholars argue for empowering such groups by developing and investigating archival collections. This symposium intends to expand this approach by demonstrating how the visual practices of underrepresented groups can be studied through underutilized data sources. To this end, the symposium will focus on indigenous, black, and diaspora communities seen through their visual production, with the presumption that the vernacular representations of everyday life can provide substantial insights into evolving minority identities.

Wooden O Symposium

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Southern Utah University-Utah Shakespeare Festival
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

 

 

 

August 4-6, 2025

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

 

The Wooden O Symposium is a cross-disciplinary conference exploring the impact of Shakespeare's plays on culture and history, from his time to the present. This face-to-face conference aims to foster research in the field of Shakespeare Studies and to provide connections between academia and professional theatre productions through our partnership with the Utah Shakespeare Festival. 

We invite paper and panel proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays, including:

Special Panel on Alternate/Parallel Realities in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Special Panel CFP: The Omniversal Occult

Multiverses, Alternate Timelines, and Parallel Realities of Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic in Popular Culture

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites proposals for a special panel or panel series for its conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this February 19-22, 2025:

Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator

Special issue of the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 

Edited by: Dr. Tyson E. Lewis

 

Nancy Fraser - Ethics and Politics - 11th Graduate Conference SciencesPo Paris

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Sciences Po Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

 

Dear colleagues,

 

We are delighted to invite submissions for the 11th Graduate Conference in Political Theory, organised at Sciences Po in Paris, France, which will be held on May 19th-20th, 2025. This year, our theme is “Ethics and Politics”, focusing on the complex intersections between ethical concerns and political frameworks in contemporary societies.

 

We are honoured to welcome Professor Nancy Fraser as our keynote speaker, a leading voice in critical social theory, whose work has significantly influenced debates on justice, democracy, and the ethics of public life.

 

Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture’

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Papers: ‘Before, After and Beyond: Prequels and Sequels in Literature, Arts and Culture’

A Special Issue of Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-adaptation-in-film-performance#call-for-papers

Edited by Annamária Fábián and Márta Minier

Perfect Adaptations. "Perfetti sconosciuti" (2016) Between Remake, Translation, Adaptation and Tradaptation

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:25am
Edited by Gianluca Fantoni (Nottingham Trent University) and Armando Rotondi (Institute of the Arts Barcelona), published by Intellect (Trajectories series)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Call for Book Chapters for an Edited Volume

 

Perfect Adaptations.

Perfetti sconosciuti (2016)Between Remake, Translation, Adaptation and Tradaptation

 

Co-Editors: Gianluca Fantoni and Armando Rotondi

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED – Technology and film labour: crafting the look of the film

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:25am
Conn Holohan, University of Galway
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

 

Technology and film labour: crafting the look of the film

Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour.

DEADLINE EXTENDED – FRIDAY DECEMBER 6TH

 

Call for Papers

The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway

May 22nd and 23rd 2025

 

 

Shakespeare and Popular Cultures

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:25am
German Shakespeare Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Shakespeare-Seminar | CFP Shakespeare-Tage | Weimar 2025
CFP SHAKESPEARE-SEMINAR 2025:
SHAKESPEARE AND POPULAR CULTURES

If you find Hamlet difficult, ask him to tea. He is a highbrow. Ask Ophelia to meet him. She is a lowbrow. Talk to them, as you talk to me, and you will know more about Shakespeare than all the middlebrows in the world can teach you.
Virginia Woolf, Collected Essays II

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