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ICMS 2024: The Brut: Texts and Traditions (virtual)

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:57am
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The historical texts known as the Brut, based on the legendary history of Britain introduced by Geoffrey of Monmouth, survives in multiple prose and poetic versions.  The English prose Brut, for instance, was the most widely copied and circulated text next to Wycliffe’s Bible in fourteenth-century England.  Many of these texts have been brought to light in the past two decades, through new discoveries and digitalization of known manuscripts, adding to our growing knowledge of the dissemination of the Brut tradition.  This session invites papers that share findings about the Brut manuscripts, including new evidence in individual manuscripts, comparisons of variant texts, and examination of paleographic and codicological

ICMS 2024: The Brut Across Disciplinary, Generic, and Territorial Borders

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:57am
Society for International Brut Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Popularized by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his History of the Kings of Britain (1136), the legendary history of the Britons known as the Brut was read, translated, supplemented, and transformed through many languages, genres, and art media, during the Medieval and Early Modern periods.  The Brut, including the Arthuriad, has accordingly been the subject of a considerable amount of scholarship and criticism, examining its lasting influence on history, poetry, art, and culture of the regions where it circulated.  This session continues the scholarly conversations on the Brut introduced at the 2021 Brut in New Troy conference and welcomes papers that take an interdisciplinary, multilingual, and/or inter-generic approach to the

Theology and Religion in Daredevil

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:54am
Fortress Press & Lexington Books, Theology, Religion and Pop Culture Series
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

Title: Faith, Morality, and the Man without Fear: Theology and Religion in Daredevil

Editors: Taylor Thomas and Regan Hardeman

Abstract, CV, and Proposal due: July 30, 2023

Initial Final Paper due: November 15, 2023

Voices For Liberty: Free Speech, Civil Rights & Social Progress

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:53am
Liberty and Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Snapshot:

Voices for Liberty, an initiative of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School, seeks to examine the ways in which free speech propels civil and social progress. Authors are invited to submit proposals for original articles that will ultimately appear in academic journals and explore the role free speech plays in advancing civil rights movements, especially for marginalized or underrepresented groups.

PRIORITY DEADLINE of August 15th 2023, 5:00 ET for full consideration, with review on a rolling basis through September 8th.

Crime and Scandal in Fact and Fiction Northeast Popular and American Culture Association Fall Conference 2023

updated: 
Thursday, July 13, 2023 - 11:47am
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 12 to October 14, 2023
AREA: Crime And Scandal In Fact And Fiction
Deadline: August 1, 2023

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic ofCrime And Scandal In Fact And Fiction for its annual conference. 

NEPCA’s 2023 fall conference will be held Thursday October 12 – Saturday October 14, 2023. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023. 

Futurisms Now: From European Perspectives to Black, Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurisms

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 3:48pm
Raquel Baker / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

This panel explores and theorizes storytelling strategies used in Black (African and Afro), Indigenous, and Multi-Ethnic Futurist art and social movements, including literature, poetry, film, music, and visual and digital arts. These alternate Futurisms shift the impetus of the creative energy from discarding the past to engaging complex senses of temporality and intertextuality that often center memory, history, folklore, urban legends, and identity.

Gothic Nature, Issue V: Decolonising the EcoGothic

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 10:25am
Gothic Nature Journal: New Directions in Ecohorror and the EcoGothic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

**Call for Papers, Reviews, and Creative Pieces**

Gothic Nature: Decolonising the EcoGothic

Issue V: Themed Issue

Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Aug 15, 2023

 

Guest Editor: Professor Kim D. Hester Williams

Editors-in-Chief: Dr Elizabeth Parker and Dr Harriet Stilley

 

A note from the Editors-in-Chief:

‘EcoGothic from postcolonial societies has long pointed towards the need to reconceptualise the relation between humans and their environment as central to the project of decolonisation.’
—Kerstin Oloff, 2012

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 9:50am
Kieran Foster/Cassie Brummitt
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: EDITED COLLECTION

 

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

Editors: Kieran Foster, University of Nottingham (UK), and Cassie Brummitt, University of Nottingham (UK)

 

CFP for Comparative Cinema 21: Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:40pm
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Cinematographic Pathologies: Representations and Figurations of the Sick Body

Guest Editors: Alan Salvadó, Àngel Quintana and Daniel Pérez-Pamies 

The Covid-19 pandemic has established the sick body as one of the main axes of contemporary thought and 21st-century visual culture. There has been a resurgence in the importance of the body and mental health in media perceptions that has changed political, economic and social life at the global level. 

CFP *Extended deadline*: 2023 Dress and Body Association Conference, 4-5 Nov (Abstracts due: Aug 1)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:40pm
Dress and Body Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

2023 Dress and Body Association Conference

CALL FOR PAPERS
**EXTENDED DEADLINE**

While we have already received a good crop of exciting paper proposals, we have decided to reopen and extend our submission deadline for proposals to AUGUST 1.

If you are still thinking about presenting your work at this year’s conference, or if you were running a little late for the first deadline, this is your chance!

Conference theme: "CLIMATE CHANGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DRESS AND THE BODY"

For English speakers, there are two major definitions of “climate” as a noun:

Theatre in the Digital Age

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:40pm
German Society for Contemporary Drama in English/University of Innsbruck, Austria
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 2, 2023

32nd Annual CDE Conference, Innsbruck (Austria), 2-5 May 2024

 

The German Society for Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English (CDE) is pleased to announce its 32nd annual conference (2-5 May 2024). It is organized by the Department of English at the University of Innsbruck and will be held as a residential conference at ‘Tiroler Bildungsinstitut Grillhof’ in Innsbruck.

 

Theatre in the Digital Age

 

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" - Art, Aesthetics, and Artificial Intelligence Vol. 71 (4/2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:40pm
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

In the winter of 2022, with the launch of ChatGPT and the pursuit of advancing Large Language Models, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning quickly appeared in the mainstream of the social, scientific, and artistic debate. While the use of AI in social and scientific development is widely accepted and advanced in art and creative work, the presence of AI is not so obvious and undisputed. Many artists reach for AI as a tool enabling them to accomplish their artistic intentions. At the same time, AI is not original and has already raised plagiarism and copyright problems within the context of the arts, including visual art.

"Trans(-) Turns in Nineteenth-Century Studies"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:22pm
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 2, 2023

Whether in bridging divides or leaping over them, contesting a binary or dismantling it, “trans(-)” linguistically registers changes of state as well as movements in time and space; it indexes communication or traffic that puts places, persons, and things in new relations to one another and, perhaps, to themselves.

Call for Book Chapters: Memory Studies: An Anthology of Perspectives

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:22pm
Dr. Shashibhusan Nayak
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

Chapter proposals are invited for a volume on contemporary memory and literary studies edited by Dr. D. Sudha Rani ( VNRVJIET ), Dr. Rachel Irdaya Raj ( VNRVJIET ), Dr.Shashibhusan Nayak (GP Nayagarh).

 

The Fantasy and Science Fiction area of Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks papers for presentation at our virtual annual conference this fall from October 12-14, 2023.

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Fantasy and Science Fiction area of Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks papers for presentation at our virtual annual conference this fall from October 12-14, 2023.

Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity Area invites proposals for the Fall virtual conference October 12 – October 14, 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Race and Ethnicity area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, faculty, collectors, writers, and independent researchers of popular culture.  NEPCA’s 2023 fall virtual conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.  

We encourage panel proposals, as well as, individual submissions. 

Papers are generally 15-20 minutes in length.  We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations. The key expectations on presentations are that:

Gender across Media Landscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Aims and Scope of the Publication 

Call for Papers: Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
University of Alcala
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Call for Papers: Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters"

Dates: November 15-17, 2023

Location: University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce the Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters" as part of the "International Comic Book Research Conference: Perspectives from Visual Culture." This symposium aims to delve into the nature of fictional characters, with a specific emphasis on exploring how the identity conditions of characters in visual media, such as comic books, differ from those in written works of fiction.

Diversity.Equality.Unity

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Upasana Ray
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

‘Feminism’ , according to the Oxford Dictionary , is defined as a “belief in and advocacy of
the political , economic and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through
organized activity on behalf of women’s rights and interests”. From the various
spheres of feminism , ‘feminine feminism’ has become a quite attractive topic ,
especially among women . It suggests women not to sacrifice her identity for the
patriarchal society , both physically and mentally , be powerful and strong . Though ,
it is a complex notion as femininity is a feeling and not a concrete thing , but it, at
the same time , also inspires to not to sacrifice the ‘girly’ features thus expected from

Agricultural Imaginaries

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2024

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

"Queering the Family: Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media" | Whatever 7 (Summer 2024), themed section

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

"Queering the Family: Exploring Non-Normative Family Figures in Literature, Arts, and the Media"

 Call for papers, Whatever. A Transdisciplinary Journal of Queer Theories and Studies, 7 (Summer 2024), themed section

Serena Guarracino (Università dell’Aquila), Anna Chiara Corradino (Università di Pisa)

Power and Precarity Ushered in by AI in Rhetoric and Composition

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

The lightning-fast pace of innovation in weak and strong AI, open AI, and natural language processing have jointly given rise to a developing need to reshuffle and refurbish most of our pedagogical and rhetorical practices. The growing use of GPT 3, Chat GPT, LaMDA, DELL E-2, Packback, and other AI-empowered algorithmic tools have pushed the field of rhetoric and composition to transform, giving rise to a grim scenario characterized by pedagogical emasculation, professional anxiety on the part of writing instructors and researchers in rhetoric and composition.

C19 2024: “Endlessness”

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
Thomas W. Howard
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

C19 2024 Panel CFP: “Endlessness”

Call for Queer Trans Speculative Fiction and Art

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:20pm
TDS: The Dogsbody Syndicate
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

When we come together as queer, trans people, as feminist, dalit, adivasi, labour activists, as students collective members, labour union members, climate action group members, or as recluses hiding from the rest, magic happens. Entire worlds of possibilities sit within us, waiting for the thrill of some interaction, a trace of hope to channel them. They materialize in the strategies of our politics, together or alone, in the act that balances what we imagine and what is needed. Too often, it takes a few moments to even allow imagination to run wild – free-range wild, that too, not wild as in wilderness, as in orcas and mushrooms and such. 

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