WITCHES IN POPULAR CULTURE

For a volume that will be part of Lexington Books' series "Villains and Creatures" that will soon be under consideration by the publisher, we are looking for chapters (6,000 to 7,000 words long) on the representation of witches in popular media such as comics, TV series and videogames. We are particularly interested in the representation of witches in the OZ films and novels as well as in Marvel comics. 

Please send 300 word abstracts to Dr. Antonio Sanna at isonisanna@hotmail.com by the 15th of January 2025. Chapters will be due quite later this year.

For any further question, please do not hesitate to contact me immediately.

Papers (20 minutes) and round-tables are invited for a 1-day conference on Friday 11 July 2025 at Wilton's Music Hall, London.

The conference aims to explore theatre in the 1920s across a spectrum of genres and locations. The focus is on theatre in a broad sense, encompassing a range of performance cultures and demonstrating some of the major ways in which theatre operated within the broader culture and society of the time.

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

The dramatic legacy of WWI

Different genres (e.g. melodramas, thrillers, comedies)

Individual plays

Variety

Avant garde theatre

Grand guignol

American imports

Pageants

Revue

Censorship

Bradford Arts Centre*

Saturday 6 September 2025
 

Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form

CFP: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900: Living Discourse Initiative

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 invites proposals for each of the three features of its new Living Discourse Initiative. In keeping with the journal’s mission to publish readable, high caliber, and field-leading thinking, the Living Discourse Initiative seeks scholars actively working on pressing social, political, and groundbreaking issues germane to English literature 1500–1900. 

Call for Proposals: The Living Discourse Initiative

AI, Art, and Ethics

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics 78 (1/2027)

Editor: Ted Nannicelli (The University of Queensland, Australia)

Call for Submissions for “Ariel’s Corner” (Miranda e-journal)

Submissions for ‘Ariel’s Corner’ section of Miranda e-journal are open.

Miranda is a scholarly e-journal focusing on a wide range of social and cultural practices of the English-speaking world and encouraging the broadest possible spectrum of scholarly approaches. A special section, called ‘Ariel’s Corner,’ is dedicated to the arts in the English-speaking world.

Introduction

The Sleeping Well in the Early Modern Worldteam invites papers for our end-of-project conference on the topic of ‘Bodies and Environments’ in early modernity.

Keynote speakers: Marcy Norton (University of Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (The Warburg Institute)

Papers for an edited volume on how Korean dramas and other forms of Korean popular culture reflect, reproduce, and challenge social inequities. We are particularly interested in South Korea’s use of ethnic and racial others in its media with a particular focus on Blackness, Islam, and immigration as well as class/capitalism, gender, and sexualities. Intersectional approaches appreciated.

CFP: SCALE

Imagined Theatres

Physical Scale - Conceptual Scale - Relational Scale - Collaborative Scale - Cultural Scale - Historical Scale - Performance Scale - Spatial Scale - Durational Scale

Vigils of Absent Time: Essays on Mourning in Literature and the Arts

3rd International Seminar on Literature and Emotions

Call for Papers

Date: April 23–24, 2025

Location: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (in-person and online)

Keynote Speakers: Birgit Neumann (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf); additional speakers to be announced.

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   Meet me in St. Louis for VISAWUS 2025: Gateways

   October 3-5, 2025

   Saint Louis University

   Keynote Speaker: Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University

    

    Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:

   
   

   Boundaries and thresholds

   Railways

   Westward expansion and manifest destiny

   Surveillance

   Travel and travel literature

   Colonial ports and entries

   Institutional admissions and permissions

   Movement or motion

Call for Papers:  “Religion on the Plate: Food and Religion in Critical Perspective” Conference 

Columbia University, Department of Religion 

Conference Date: April 2025 (date TBD)

Submission Deadline: 20th January, 2025  

Across religious traditions, food constantly emerges as an act, agent, practice, process, symbol, object, site, and mechanism through which religious selves, boundaries and communities are made and unmade.