The theme of decay and regeneration captures our current global moment of political uncertainty, environmental catastrophe, public health crises, and mass protest. In the past few years, we have witnessed a once-in-a-century pandemic; global protests in response to police brutality; a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season; the largest wildfires in recorded Amazonian, American, and Australian history; the continued resurgence of fascist political ideologies; and the potential collapse of liberal democracy as we know it. 

In the past decades, video games have established themselves as a global entertainment medium enjoying ever-increasing sales and profits. What was once a contested form of entertainment, now benefits from a level of social acceptability comparable to that of more traditional media such as the cinema. The popularity and cultural capital of video games calls for an inquiry into their contribution to the construction of cultural identity. While this avenue of research has begun to gain momentum, as proven by the increasing number of academic publications on gender identity or sexual orientation, less attention has been given to colonialism and colonial subjects in the context of today’s neoliberal postcolonial and postcommunist world.

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NYU CINEMA STUDIES STUDENT CONFERENCE

February 19-20, 2021 

nyuconference2021@gmail.com

Symposium

Researching the Influence of Feminist Film Theory

on 21st Century Films and TV Series

Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès

November 19th, 2021

https://marvell.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2020/10/20/cfp-scrc-2021-virtual-con...

Exploring the Renaissance 2021: An International Conference, March 25-27

The Andrew Marvell Society invites proposals for 15- to 20-minute papers to be presented at the 2021 South Central Renaissance Conference (SCRC) on any aspect of Marvell studies. Proposals are welcomed on all topics.

59nd issue of Anglica Wratislaviensia (University of Wroclaw, Poland)

Deadline for submissions: April 4, 2021

Submissions are now being accepted to the 2021 edition of Anglica Wratislaviensia, an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually in print form as well as online. We welcome work that focuses on a wide spectrum of topics within linguistics, the English language and literature-oriented disciplines, literary and cultural studies, with focus on empirical and well as theoretical approaches.

Research articles are typically between 4,000 to 6,000 words.

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism,and Magic at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special online panel at this year's all-online conference.  This panel will focus on the prominent and pervasive role and significance of esoteric, occult, and magical themes, aesthetics, imagery, conceptions, and content in gaming media.  This is intended to encompass games themselves (board games, table-top/RPG, console/PC, live-action RPG, alternate reality games, simulations, etc.) as well as tie-in media of any type (books, films, television, internet series, etc.).  Of equal interest is the reception and application of games and game-like systems or content within esoteric, occult, and ma

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 20TH, 2021

UPDATED: 

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:

McKenzie Wark - The New School

Tom Gunning - University of Chicago 

Eugenie Brinkema - MIT

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CALL FOR PAPERS

NYU CINEMA STUDIES STUDENT CONFERENCE

February 19-20, 2021

nyuconference2021@gmail.com

The Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies, a peer-reviewed publication of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at the University of Prince Edward Island, invites scholarly articles and creative work (written, visual, or audio-visual) on the topic of “L.M. Montgomery and Mental Health.” Abstracts due 15 February 2021; Submissions due 2 August 2021

For more information go to https://journaloflmmontgomerystudies.ca/mentalhealth_cfp

The (B)end of (Hi)story: beyond postmodern narrative

REMINDER: We are seeking book chapters for an edited scholarly collection on the Chinese web drama Chen Qing Ling (The Untamed)!

We are soliciting book chapters for an edited scholarly collection on Chen Qing Ling/The Untamed, its contexts, and its audiences. This will be a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collection that considers the show's popularity, influences, and effects from a variety of cultural and critical viewpoints.

Call for Papers: Genres of Empire
A Special Issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies

Guest Editors:
Alyssa A. Hunziker, Oklahoma State University
Mitch R. Murray, University of Florida

Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art (ISSN 0257-0254), launched in 1980 and published bimonthly, a most highly recognized peer-reviewed journal in China, publishes original papers in Chinese or English in arts and humanities, especially literary studies. We welcome MLA-style papers of 6000-12000 words in the fields of literary theory, critical theory, aesthetics, philosophy of art, cultural studies, etc.

While the Bright Young Things of England and the flappers of the America remain fixed in cultural memory, their incarnations elsewhere around the world have all but disappeared from history.  Affiliation with a feminized Anglo-European metropole may have contributed to their invisibility in the colonial peripheries, constructed around paradigms of masculine nationhood or anxious to distinguish themselves from Anglo-European mass culture. Despite her iconic status in the interwar period, the stigma associated with this notorious female figure in her own time seems to have carried over into the academy, inhibiting serious critical analysis of her role and function as an image for modernity.