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CfA: On_Culture #19 "Disruption" (Autumn 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Disruption

Guest Editors: Justus Grebe, Farouk El Maarouf, Anastasiia Marsheva 

H(a)unted

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:40pm
Georgetown University English Graduate Student Association (EGSA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 8, 2024

H(a)unted

October 25, 2024 

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“O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted.”

-         William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“If he looked into her face, he would see those haunted, loving eyes.”

-         Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism.”

-         Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto

 

CFP: Medieval Intermedialities (ICMS 2025 Virtual Session)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Grace Catherine Greiner & Jennifer Rabedeau
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CFP: Medieval Intermedialities (Session ID: 6064)
International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, MI
May 8-10, 2025

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Early Popular Visual Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Call For Papers for Special Issue of Early Popular Visual Culture

Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880

Before virtual reality, peeping has long been a widespread media practice. Since the 18th century, the world has been presented in lensed and boxed apparatuses that aroused wonder and seduced audiences. Our contemporary culture of immersion was initially launched by peepshows and cosmoramas: one of the earliest media systems in Europe that produced and distributed views.

 

Creative Approaches to Epistemic Violence

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for papers for a Creative Session

56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). 

“Creative Approaches to Epistemic Violence”

SCMS 2025: Sensing the Surround

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
SCMS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 23, 2024

Where does sensing occur: within the sensory organ, the perceived object, or somewhere in between? This panel draws on insights from environmental media to explore the history of sensations. We examine how the environment not only shapes our sensory reality but has also been used historically to define, measure, and standardize the senses.

Making Madnesses in Early Modern England (RSA Boston, March 20-22, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference, Boston, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 12, 2024

In John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628), the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments, including Dotage, Phrenitis, Hypochondria, St. Vitus’ Dance, Hydrophobia (rabies), and Lycanthropia (the delusion that you’ve transformed into a wolf) – in order to shake his afflicted clients out of their melancholic funk. Pulling from Robert Burton’s massive tome, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Ford’s play showcases the sheer variety of madnesses – even within a subgenre such as “melancholy” – that were active, endemic, and of great dramatic interest in early modern England.

(Re)Thinking Feminist Movements: Where is the #MeToo Today?

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

An article in the New York Times states that on April 25, 2024, Harvey Weinstein’s New York conviction was overturned in a 4-3 decision on the basis that the disgraced Hollywood producer did not receive a “fair trial.” In an interview, the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, argues that some progress has been made with the conviction of men like Weinstein.

Spill Your Guts! A Graduate Student Work In Progress Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 16, 2024

Calling all graduate students working in Horror Studies! This year, the SCMS Horror SIG will be convening a graduate student symposium, and we invite proposals from graduate students outlining their primary research topic.

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:15pm
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

26-27 May 2025

University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark

 

Abstract deadline: 1 November 2024

Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.

CFP: Calligraphy Studies volume

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:13pm
Roland Buckingham-Hsiao and Joanna Homrighausen
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

The art of calligraphy, with its elegance, precision and expressive power holds a celebrated place among the arts of China, Japan and the Middle East, and is much studied as a result. Western calligraphy using the Roman-script, by contrast, is relatively neglected within academia.

However, given current interest in both drawing research and grapho-linguistics – the study of writing systems – the time is ripe to explore the fascinating intersection of visual art and written language with a scholarly volume on Western calligraphy studies, broadly defined.

Symposium on the 19th Century Press, Nov. 7-9, 2024 (at Augusta University or on Zoom)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:12pm
Society of Nineteenth Century Historians
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

The Society of Nineteenth Century Historians, in partnership with the Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Augusta University, presents the 32nd Annual Symposium on the 19th Century Press.

The Society invites panel and paper submissions dealing with media, broadly defined in the nineteenth century. Recent topics have included the Civil War of fiction and history, slavery and abolition, coverage of presidents and legislatures, the minority and foreign language press, the illustrated press, sensationalism, reporting on the arts, and spiritualism and the supernatural.

SUBMISSION: Full Paper, Panel Proposal or **Abstract** 

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:08pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CFP for NEMLA, Philadelphia, March 6-9

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

 

In a roundtable format, “Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy” will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

 

Archiving Alterity: Documenting Violence Against South Asian Women

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:06pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel will explore the afterlives of women’s memories and experiences in South Asian archival practices their narratives of violence in South Asia.

LONELINESS - 6th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:06pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Conference online: 26-27 September 2024\

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

Cultural AI: Special Issue of Modern Fiction Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:05pm
Modern Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP: Special issue of Modern Fiction Studies on “Cultural AI”

Edited by Richard Jean So and Aarthi Vadde

 

Deadline for proposals: November 30, 2024

 

2025 Windhover Writers' Festivval CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:05pm
Toby Coley/ University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Dear Fellow Writers and Thinkers,

We are thrilled to announce the return of the Windhover Writers' Festival, taking place February 19-21, 2025, after a five-year hiatus. This year's festival promises to be a vibrant gathering that explores the profound intersection of faith and creativity, with a central theme of The Vocation of Christian Literary Arts.

The Windhover Writers' Festival has long been a cherished space for writers, scholars, and readers to connect, share their work, and delve into the power of words. We invite you to be a part of this exciting event by submitting a proposal for an individual or a panel discussion.

Proposals:

CFP: Vol.7, NO.1-January 2025 Issue

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:49am
THE TEXT (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,unpublished research papers for January 2025 issue.

Indexed in: 

  1. ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

  2. IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)

  3. Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)

  4. DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

Teaching the Middle Ages at the K-12 Level

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:48am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Deadline for Proposals: October 1
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) November 22, online via Zoom

Medieval topics tend to intrigue elementary, middle-school, and high-school students. In a teaching environment where time is precious, how do teachers approach the Middle Ages? This session seeks papers addressing issues, opportunities, and innovations in the K-12 classroom to inform the larger community of K-12 teachers and post-secondary educators about how the topic is approached at the K-12 level.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than October 1, 2024.

Teaching the Middle Ages: Issues, Opportunities, and Innovations

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:48am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Deadline for Proposals: September 11
Session: 2:00 pm (Central) October 18

In the last few decades, courses on the Middle Ages and medieval studies programs have been either cut or severely restricted in the United States. In fact, recently a variety of humanities programs have been on the chopping block, forcing and providing an opportunity for specialists in medieval studies to integrate our specialties into other courses. This year’s Illinois Medieval Association Symposium seeks to explore issues incorporating medieval studies into our curricula. We seek papers that deal with problems/solutions, opportunities, and innovations. Single papers (20-minute length) and, especially, full sessions are encouraged.

CFP - HyperCultura - 13/2024

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:47am
HyperCultura - Hyperion University, Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to submit articles for our next issue, due April 2025. We receive papers on Literature (not that of ancient Greece or Rome), Media Studies, Film Studies, Visual and Performative Arts, and Teaching (Language and Literature). Papers in said areas need to focus on the following themes: Nationalism/Post-nationalism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism/Decolonization, Race, Gender Studies, Ethnicity, and Identity.

We are: CEEOL, Ulrichsweb, MLA Directory of Periodicals, DOAJ, EBSCO, ERIH PLUS, SCOPUS. We also archive our journal in the Internet Archive. 

Novel Languages

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 11:46am
Society of Novel Studies Biennial Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

“NOVEL LANGUAGES” The Biennial Conference of the Society for Novel Studies

Hosted by Duke University (Organizers: Aarthi Vadde and Sarah Quesada)

Location: Durham Convention Center in beautiful Downtown Durham, North Carolina!

Dates: May 29-June 1, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Abstracts due November 15, 2024 to the conference website https://sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfpsubmissions/

JOYCE AND US

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 5:10am
THE JAMES JOYCE ITALIAN FOUNDATION
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024

Keynote speakers:

▪    Laura Pelaschiar, Università di Trieste

▪    Paul Fagan, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München

▪    Fritz Senn, Zürich James Joyce Foundation

 

Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

 

 

The James Joyce Italian Foundation invites proposals for the Sixteenth Annual Conference in Rome to celebrate Joyce’s 144th birthday.

 

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