How do issues of class, race, ethnicity, nationality, and gender affect the production and consumption of American humor? Please send 250-word abstracts and a brief bio by March 12th to Sam Chesters at samantha.chesters@gmail.com.

Call for articles for the peer-reviewed academic blog of the PopMeC Association for US Popular Culture Studies (popmec.hypotheses.org ISSN 2660-8839). We accept, process, and publish articles on a rolling basis.

The Origins of Global Shakespeare Studies

The guest editor of a special issue of Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation and Performance invites submissions on the topic of “The Origins of Global Shakespeare Studies”

The Centre for Intercultural Studies (CEI) of ISCAP-P.PORTO is preparing the 10th issue of E-REI – E-Journal of Intercultural Studies (ISSN 2182-6439), to be published on-line in May 2022. 

Editors: Wits Centre for Diversity Studies  and Convivial Thinking Editorial Collective

The Oxfam Inequality Report is a yearly reminder of the pervasiveness and depth of embedded injustices and inequalities in our daily lives. Colonial trajectories continue to shape contemporary tendencies to universalise the constitutive elements of a ‘good life’, encapsulated in global goals such as the SDGs. The resultant erasure denies other social and political imaginaries, other ways of knowing and understanding the world; as the Zapatista say, ‘a world of many worlds’, wherein we collectively create pluriversal spaces to flourish.

Call for Papers – British Identities Medialised

Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of British Cultures

University of Salzburg, 17 to 19 November 2022

CFP: Annual University of Florida Marxist Reading Group Conference

“Marxism and Neoliberalism Today”

(EXTENDED DEADLINE) 

Marxist Reading Group, University of Florida

April 8-10, Gainesville, FL

Keynotes: Rachel Greenwald Smith (St. Louis University), Mitch Murray (Emory University), Patricia Ventura (Spelman College)

Studies in Popular Culture (SiPC), a journal of the Popular Culture Association in the South (PCAS), publishes articles on popular culture however mediated through film, literature, radio, television, music, graphics, print, practices, associations, events--any of the material or conceptual conditions of life.

A multidisciplinary journal, SiPC gives preference to submissions that demonstrate familiarity with the body of scholarly work on popular culture but avoid the jargon associated with certain single-discipline studies. SiPC accepts submissions on all forms of popular culture (American or international) studied from the perspective of any discipline. 

Over the past few decades we have seen a sharp rise in the number of central female characters in TV series, offering a wide palette of complex female identities, characters following very diverse narrative journeys. Whether we have in mind the genius and tortured nature of the heroine of Homeland (Showtime, 2011 - 2020) and Killing Eve (BBC One, 2018 -). Or the whole gallery of characters in Orange is the New Black (Netflix, 2013 - 2019) or the different seasons of This is England (Channel 4, 2006 – 2015),the importance of central female figures is well established and even conveyed and measured by monitoring centres of the audio-visual sector.

Online settings foster mediated social actions that take place at the intersection of technologies, relationships, and cultures. This panel welcomes investigations & considerations of translingual, transmodal iterations of global English in online interactions.

Please send an abstart of 250 words to (CMigliaccio@mec.cuny.edu).

This is a guaranteed MLA 2023 panel organized by LSL (Language Studies and Linguistics) Global English forum. 

Submission Deadline: Friday, 18 March 2022

MMLA: November 16-21, 2022, Hyatt Regency Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN.

 The Prescience of Margaret Atwood’s Works: Lessons from the Past to Illuminate the Post-Now

The Art of Subsidy / The Subsidy of Art

Performance Paradigm 18 (2023) — Call for Papers

Online Conference April 2nd, 2022 (EST)
Call for Critical and Creative Proposals:
“Not all of us can say, with any degree of certainty, that we have always been human, or that we are only that.”
--Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (2013)

Seriality, literarity and popular culture in picturebook studies

International call for papers

adapted with the help of Sophie Heywood (Associate Professor in French, University of Reading) in collaboration with Dominique Perrin, from the call for papers « Critiquer l’album sériel. Vers un décloisonnement des corpus légitimes et populaires dans les études sur l’album »)

Deadline for proposals (between 2000 and 3000 characters, spaces and bibliography included) plus a short biography and bibliography : 17 April 2022 to be sent to strenae@revues.org