Scaffold 2023 Call-For-Papers

Scaffold is a new open access, peer reviewed graduate journal for the Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature, Arts, and Culture at Carleton University. As part of our inaugural issue, we are accepting submissions for essays and exhibition reviews from graduate students across disciplinary boundaries in connection with ICSLAC’s 2023 Graduate Conference theme: 

The Cultural Inbetween: Exploring Distinctions Between

Popular, High, and Low Culture

Arguably, literary scholars have always used the classroom as a living laboratory of ideas, but what exactly are the main questions that frame teaching and learning of literature, at this present time? What is the relationship between research and classroom teaching, in literary studies at this moment? 

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

southwestpca.org/conference/

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023

Want to present your scholarly work at Anime Expo? Mechademia and the Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS), working in collaboration with Anime Expo, are excited to announce the Mechademia/JAMS AX Symposium, July 1-4, 2023 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  This symposium presents an incredible opportunity to connect fans directly to scholars researching and writing about the medium we all love. While the Mechademia/JAMS Symposium welcomes all papers taking a scholarly perspective on anime, manga, cosplay, and their fandoms, we specifically welcome papers around the theme of isekai.

We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - 'Aesthetics, Environment, and Sustainability', No.

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840­

Consider submitting an abstract to the permanent Italian Cinema session for PAMLA 2023.  Please upload your file (300 words max) directly to the Session CFP linked below. 

CFP Deadline: May 31st, 2023

Session CFP: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18828

Decision Date: June 11th, 2023

Conference Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2023

Location: The Hilton Portland Downtown Hotel

This panel invites papers focusing on various aspects of Italian film history and contemporary film culture. 

Dans cette session de Women in French (WIF), nous invitons des interventions explorant des productions du 21ème siècle par des femmes (romans, films, poésie, bande dessinée) qui prennent le biais d’une autre réalité pour réfléchir sur notre contemporanéité. Fables, contes, récits de science-fiction ou de fantasy sont souvent les reflets de nos désirs et de nos peurs en matière de régime politique, abus des corps et de la technologie, relations entre les humains et les animaux et la planète. La session se veut à la fois formelle et informelle, ancrée dans la recherche des participant.e.s et l’interaction entre les expériences plutôt qu’une présentation formelle.

Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.

Call for Chapter Proposals

Barbie in the Media: The Cultural Impact of Mattel’s Celebrity Doll
Edited by Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez and Rebecca C. Hains

Abstracts invited by May 1, 2023

IX Edition: 1 - 24 September

Desire. 

The InSophia Cultural Association, the non-profit creator of the

festival, in collaboration with the Municipality of Ischia, the CRF

- International Center for Philosophical Research, the University

of Toronto (Visual Studies, Mississauga campus) and with the

Liceo “A. Canova” in Treviso, with the patronage of the

Campania Region, the FISP (International Federation of

Philosophical Societies), of the XXV World Congress of

Philosophy Rome 2024, of the “G. Sadoul Circle,” of the Italian

Institute for Philosophical Studies, of the Department of

Humanities of the University of Palermo, of the SFI (Italian

Crossings is an open-access, peer reviewed publication that is inspired by M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossings, which takes as its basis the concept of the Middle Passage, the Crossing, to understand Black transnational feminism’s erosion of boundaries—disciplinary conventions, respectability politics, national borders, and bodies that are gendered, sexualized, and racialized, among others kinds of categories—in relation to empire and postmodernity. 

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents 

Can Sports Save the English Department? 

Friday, April 21, 2023, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom 

 Register
here. 

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ZA0bJrmR7GIDWTvA-pWvA

CALL FOR PAPERS

23rd MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

To be held in Chandigarh on

6-8 October 2023

Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times