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PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2017. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you.
PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2018. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you.
The Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) welcomes papers for its fourth biennial conference, to be held at the Mantra on View Hotel in Surfers Paradise, Australia, on 22-23 January 2019.
PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2021. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you.
As media texts show us superheroes from around the world(s), demonstrating extraordinary abilities and living a life shaped by a moral code, how we define their iconic features and cultural impact has been the focus of much scholarly debate.
Thanatic Ethics Fieldwork Travel Grant: Call for applications
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Clare Douglass Little, at douglac2@erau.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
American Furies: Collective Action and the Politics of Moral Outrage
Myra Mendible, Editor
“Our ability to respond with outrage depends upon a tacit realization that there is a worthy life that has been injured or lost…”
Judith Butler, “Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect”
“Outrage has become the signature emotion of American public life.”
Lance Morrow, “America is Addicted to Outrage”
Call for Papers
MLA 2023
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
San Francisco, California, 5–8 January 2023
Barbara Hoffmann, AAALS Vice President, Session Organizer and Moderator
Session Title:
Working Conditions in Australasian Literature
Full CFP:
CFP--Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 49 No. 1 “Culture Chameleons: Narrative Code-Switching”
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 49 No. 1 | March 2023
Call for Papers
Culture Chameleons: Narrative Code-Switching
Guest Editors
Earl Jackson, Jr. (Asia University)
Mary Goodwin (National Taiwan Normal University)
Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2022
*Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with ISBN.
The conference aims to explore Europe from a variety of perspectives. It will consider its political, social and philosophical dimensions as well as the cultural and intellectual life of Europe. Proposals can demonstrate both national and regional expertise, refer to the past or present, or offer a comparative analysis.
The main objective of the event is to bring together international scholars interested in European Studies and willing to examine intersections between their topic of interest and the broader European context. It will provide an integrated approach to the understanding of the processes within Europe.
Topics include but are not limited to:
In the online session "Hollywood and the Subversion of Identity", Sandra Shevey will discuss raising issues of gender, race, antisemitism and orientation in interviews with megastars.
Sandra Shevey, age 78, has not only interviewed over 500 major icons from Mick Jagger to Alfred Hitchcock in her career spanning 60 years, she has revised the megastar interview by introducing issues of race, gender, antisemitism and orientation.
The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH
Encoding Blackness: Black Digital Literary Practices
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH Codes and Characters: Building Black Digital Worlds Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022 How have Black writers used the virtual realm to build community and stake their claim in the public sphere?
Hello Colleagues,
4th Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference: Pragmatism
The theme for this year’s conference is Pragmatism. The conference centers on the works of Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Charles S. Peirce.
This year’s conference will be conducted in a seminar format with:
A keynote address on each of the three central pragmatic thinkers
Jane Addams will be addressed by Annette Holba, Plymouth State University.
We invite book chapter proposals for the forthcoming scholarly volume In the Shadows of the City of Light: Representations of Marginal Paris, to appear in Brill publisher’s series “Francopolyphonies.” This interdisciplinary edited collection of essays will examine how marginal Paris, including particular populations, spaces and practices, has been represented in literature and other cultural productions from the French-speaking world.
This MLA 2023 special session invites proposals interested in how modern poetry has used and thematized suffering to talk about love, friendship, parenting, religion, politics, inequality, writing, reading, and nature, among other things.
To respond to this CFP, please send 250-300-word abstracts and 150-word bios to session organiser (Christos Hadjiyiannis at c_hadjiyiannis@yahoo.com). Please include any audiovisual equipment or accessibility needs for your presentation. If you are invited to participate in a 2023 session, you must be an MLA member by 7 April 2022.
Deadline to submit proposals by email is March 18, 2022.
NON/HUMANITY:
Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities
Bucknell Summer Institute
June 6-June 17, 2022
(Hybrid: In-person & Virtual Options)
Bucknell Humanities Center
Bucknell University
summerInstitute.scholar.bucknell.edu
Application Deadline: April 1, 2022
Decisions by May 2, 2022
Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin and Department of American Literature and Culture at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin are pleased to announce the third ExRe(y) conference. A two-day international conference “EXπRE: Going Off in Post-Millennial North-American Literature and Culture” will be held online on December 1-2, 2022.
We invite proposals for papers and panels that focus on the topic of the (broadly understood) expiration and waning in American and Canadian literature and culture of the last two decades.
Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
Call for Papers
“Who am I?- Constructing identity from culture and belief”
What is identity, and how is it constructed? What cultural scripts do we draw upon when developing our notion of self, and how do these beliefs translate into wider rights and social obligations?
In and Out of the Closet : New Perspectives on Early Modern Closet Drama
International Conference
Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris
25-26 November 2022
This two-day conference seeks to offer fresh perspectives on early modern closet drama by interrogating its cultural and historical specificities as well as its inscription within the theatrical productions of early modern Europe as a whole.
Advanced Oral History TrainingMastering the Interview:Techniques and Methods International Workshop20 March 2022
To facilitate scholars from various timezones, there will be two groups (same workshop, different time).
Group 1: 11:oo am Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia
Group 2: 19.00 pm Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
Find your timezone here
Course Facilitator: Konstantinos D. Karatzas, Ph.D
Mastering Oral History:A Concise Guide
International Workshop
19 March 2022
There will be two groups (same workshop, different time)
Group 1: 11:oo am Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from Europe, Africa, Asia & Australia
Group 2: 19.00 pm Amsterdam time (+UTC 2) for participants from the American continent
Find your timezone here
Course Facilitator: Konstantinos D. Karatzas, Ph.D
Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022).
Deadline for submissions: Friday, March 11, 2022.
For our second issue (Spring/Summer 2022), we invite academic and creative pieces about racism, racialization, decolonization, Blackness, Indigeneity, and racial empowerment in any field. We welcome submissions from faculty, staff, students of all levels (undergraduate and graduate), and community members. We are particularly interested in explorations of:
CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW
Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.
The Henry James Society
Modern Language Association Convention
San Francisco
5-8 January 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Henry James Society invites proposals for the following panel.
Work in James
MFS is currently looking for potential book reviewers. Below is a list of some of our current books received. If you are interested in writing a review for us, please send an email containing the title of the book you would like to review and a short CV to mfs@purdue.edu. We will consider requests from doctoral students who are ABD. Also, please explain any personal or professional relationship you have with the author of the book.
Current List of Books Received
Lindsay Thomas, Training for Catastrophe: Fictions of National Security after 9/11 (Minnesota 2021)
Al Filreis, 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern (Columbia 2021)
Research on the premodern intersection of race, gender, and sexuality has steadily increased as a result of the efforts of a diverse group of scholars working across traditional periodization and geographic limits. Nevertheless, a great deal of work remains to be done to understand the many varieties of ways such aspects of identities intersected and were mobilized or challenged in the marking of difference.
Thanatic Ethics Fieldwork Travel Grant: Call for applications
Conference Dates: April 21st-April 22nd, 2022
Overview
**REMINDER: Abstracts for the Hallyu Project are due by March 1, 2022.**
CFP website: https://thehallyuproject-p45.com/
Post45 Contemporaries website: https://post45.org/contemporaries/
THE HALLYU PROJECT: A Post45 Contemporaries Cluster