The issue titled “Decentering the Center in India” aims to probe the Indian public discourse that has become an eco-chamber of polarized opinions on a variety of issues ranging from gender, politics to art.

Call for Papers : Special Issue on Cinema, Architecture and Urban Space in the Balkans

Proposals: 15th of July 2022

Papers due: 1st of November 2022

Call for Proposals: Ecology and Esotericism

Special Issue in Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism

Guest editor: Timothy Grieve-Carlson (Westminster College)

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2023

Call for Papers

Conference Theme: Myths and Mythmaking

San Antonio, Texas, January 26-29, 2023

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians,

performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an

interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

The modern world is redolent with myths, mythologies, and mythmakers in various guises. Myths are

The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of representations of the region across Europe and North America, in media ranging from literary fiction to the illustrated periodical and from visual arts to architecture. The rise of regionalism has often been linked to nationalism and nation-building. As such, the transnational dimensions of regionalism—in its themes as well as publication and circulation—are frequently overlooked. These transnational aspects are the focus of the Dutch Research Council-funded project Redefining the Region at Radboud University, which considers representations of the region in literature and illustrated periodicals during the long nineteenth century.

This edited volume seeks to examine how sexual violence and feminist interventions in South Asia and the Diaspora have been articulated in the context of but, more importantly, in opposition to the #MeToo Movement. We seek to understand how the feminist movement has radically diverged from the assimilationist discourse of the #MeToo Movement and, consequently, the Global North. The #MeToo movement has not made an impact at the grassroots level because it is hinged on the victim-survivor to speak up. In an era where the Global North has been a model for influencing change in the Global South, there has been an inconspicuous absence of recognition and impact of the #MeToo Movement.

The Journal of Basic Writing: Call for AbstractsSpecial Issue: Acceleration, Basic Writing, and Pandemic-Era Pedagogy Guest Editors: Leah Anderst (QCC, CUNY), Cheryl Comeau-Kirschner (BMCC, CUNY), and Jennifer
Maloy (QCC, CUNY) The COVID-19 pandemic brought swift and major changes to higher education in the United States
and internationally. Nearly all college and university courses shifted to remote formats in the spring
semester of 2020 without knowing the duration of that change in modality. For many schools, that
move online persists whereas in some cases, the move back to in-person classes has brought with it

Call For Interest

Chapters on Guerrilla Games Horizon series

Please distribute widely

This call is to assess interest in scholarly contributions for an edited volume on the

Horizon franchise. Released in February 2022 Horizon Forbidden West became an immediate

best-seller and with Zero Dawn is now part of one of PlayStation’s strongest new intellectual

properties.

This call is to assess whether there would be enough scholars interested to doing a chapter for an

edited volume on the franchise. Attention to the games, comics, board game, marketing, and all

Medieval Monstrosities2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium

October 28, 2022

Online and completely free

Submission Deadline: August 1

The Illinois Medieval Association is now accepting proposals for our annual Halloween session: Medieval Monstrosities. This session is part of our annual Symposium, which runs online throughout the year. Topics are open to any work being done on the monstrous, supernatural, strange, and/or bizarre. The session will be free and online, and papers presented at the session are eligible for submission to Essays in Medieval Studies, IMA's annual proceedings volume.

Call For Papers: YA Studies Around the World

Online Conference

31 October - 4 November 2022

"In 2020, the first Young Adult Studies Association conference asked "What does YA studies look like? In 2022, we’re still very interested in knowing that, but we’re also curious to know what’s changed in two years. How has YA Studies grown? Has your approach shifted? In the YASA’s second conference, we’re still interested in how our members are engaging YA. This online conference aims to bring together diverse, international voices across a range of disciplines, offering a variety of synchronous and asynchronous opportunities for presenting and engaging.

CFP: Between fiction and society. Imagination and world building in the aftermath of a global pandemic

Let’s take back the future!

Call for papers for an international conference on speculative fiction, science fiction, and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, on 12-14 October 2022. The conference is organised and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

Fields of interest: Literature, Cinema, Tv Series, Comics, Games/Video games, New Media, Cultural History.

This session will be held at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language's (PAMLA) 119th Annual Convention in Los Angeles at UCLA, November 11th-13th, 2022. 

Paper proposals must be submitted using PAMLA's online submission form. Go to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com to login or create an account first. Decisions on proposals will be made directly after the May 15th deadline so that all proposals are considered at the same time.

Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length, depending upon the number of papers accepted for the session, with additional time for questions and discussion. 

CONFERENCE CALL

MELOW 2022

THE 22nd INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

MELOW (THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE MULTI-ETHNIC LITERATURES OF THE WORLD)

to be held in GOA, INDIA, from 23-25 SEPT 2022

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF T.S. ELIOT’S THE WASTE LAND