“Field of Dreams”: The Popular Culture of Sports

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is celebrating the games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris with a free online conference exploring of the wide world of sports. The conference will be held on Thursday 25th-Friday 26th July 2024.

Call for Papers

PCAoF[1] International Conference

October 9 - 11, 2024

University of La Rochelle

“Climate Emergency:

When Popular Cultures Cry Ecological Awakening.”

The FX Reader

Extended and revised call for chapters on select FX Channel original TV series are sought for an edited book collection.  In a similar vein as The Essential HBO Reader (2008), this scholarly collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series. 

Each chapter is expected to focus on each series’ creation and production history, its overall aesthetics and key performances, core themes, its association with genre conventions, and relevance to the FX Channel.  We still need chapter proposals on the following series:

With the advent of capitalism, always gendered and racialised, as a mode of production, profound changes have taken place in the ways in which various societies, human relations and ecosystems have evolved (Moore, 2016, Kaplan 2009). Technological development has always been integral to the directions and configurations of capitalism, as it has evolved over the last three centuries. Further, the globalisation of capitalism, with the imperialist phase of European expansionism, followed by US-American expansionism as well as later, in the emergence of Chinese state capitalism, has brought technology to the front and centre of social, economic and political relations at every level (Lewis, 2022).

Conference Date: September 27-29 

Conference Fee: $250.00 (includes some meals, snacks, and a reception) 

Location: Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Hosts: Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences (FLAS) and the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) 

Keynote: Suzanne Methot 

Call for Papers - Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2024

Posted on 2024-03-15

Linguaculture Thematic issue: Pop Culture and Audience Reception in a Transnational Context

Special Issue: Blaga the Poet and/or/vs. Blaga the Philosopher, December 2024

Submission Deadline: 1 October 2024

Guest Editor:Michael Jones (Liberty University, USA),msjones2@liberty.edu

2024 University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference 

Film and Media Studies

“Crisis and the Everyday”

Keynote Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Columbia University

Date: September 21-22, 2024 

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Time, Play and Games’

Guest Edited by Federico Alvarez Igarzábal and Chris Hanson (jgvwtime@gmail.com)

Deadline for Submissions: 15 May 2024

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

American Working-Class Art and Literature Now

Friday, April 19, 2024, Noon—1:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom

 Register here

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9UMcE5aFRHqzqZZfW6VL6w

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

TRANSMEDIA VILLAINS AND CREATURES

This new series by Lexington Books aims to cover the fascinating subject of villains and threatening creatures through an interdisciplinary perspective represented by fields as different as literary, film, religious, gender and art studies as much as philosophy and sociological and ecocritical approaches. Each volume will focus on a single figure (or group of figures) and examine it in its multiple incarnations, from their origins in myth, folklore and history as well as in a literary text, to their various adaptations in different media, including comics, graphic novels, cinema, TV, exhibitions, the visual arts, merchandise, fandom and tourist attractions.

We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present to be shared at the Pacific Modern Lanugage Association, held this year from November 7-10 at the Margariaville Resort in Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held completely in person.

Our panel organizers believe in a capacious understanding of post-1945 American Literature. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors or texts about America or American life are welcome.

FSNNA24 Call for ParticipationFan Studies Network North America Conference 2024 (virtual)October 17-20, 2024

*taps microphone*

Coming this October!

The greatest fan studies event of this year, or any other.

An academic event of such magnitude, its like will never be seen again.

Four days of research … discussion … and community building!

Hold onto your webcams and get ready for…

FSNNA PRESENTS:
THE MONSTERS OF FAN STUDIES
WORLD TOUR ’24

Submissions for the 2024 FSNNA Conference

Call for Papers

PAMLA 2024 Conference: November 7-10, at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California, completely in-person

19249. Ecocriticism (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature & Environment) (Panel / In-Person)

Ecocriticism and Science / Historical and Political Studies

Presiding Officer: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Worthington Scranton)