We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'

Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.

Violence in elections is a critical issue that threatens the very fabric of democracy. To address this challenge, we are compiling a comprehensive book titled "Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections." This book aims to explore various strategies, approaches, and techniques that can promote peaceful and harmonious elections, ultimately leading to stronger democracies.

We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field to contribute chapters to this important publication. The book will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, electoral stakeholders, academics, and anyone interested in fostering democratic harmony and ensuring violence-free elections.

Sub-Themes

Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.  

Genre and Video Games - Fantasy

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “fantasy” category of the collection.  

Genre and Video Games - Gothic and Horror

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Gothic and Horror Fiction” category of the collection. 

This year’s 50th anniversary of the publication of Stephen King’s first novel, Carrie, led to a celebration of the writer’s half century of popularity, along with his garnering ever-increasing attention and acclaim from literary circles. Margaret Atwood’s essay in The New York Times this March spoke of the book’s prescient themes, while underscoring how King’s nearly 80 texts continue to be ahead of the curve in terms of their all-inclusive progressive themes, stating:

As audience interest in late-night talk shows and glossy print magazines dwindles, a group of internet-based series now provides celebrities the platform to promote their newest project and allegedly “reveal” more of themselves. These series use different techniques to produce revelatory moments tailor-made for social media circulation. First We Feast/Complex’s Hot Ones and Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date maximize cringe, whether by the guest’s physical pain generated by spicy wings or their interpersonal torment produced by Dimoldenberg’s awkward questioning.

Conference 5-6- December 2024: in-person (Gdansk, Poland) and online (via Zoom)  

Scientific Committee:

Conference 5-6 December 2024: in-person (Gdansk, Poland) and online (via Zoom)  Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology


CALL FOR PAPERS:

In our modern world, which some have argued to be disjointed while immersing itself ever deeper in crisis, the turning back towards “the olden days” and the ensuing nostalgia constitute a noticeable phenomenon, both individually (the memory of biogra

If Horatio’s famous quote “Ut pictura poiesis” seems incontrovertible when we look at William Blake’s illuminated books, “Ut musica poiesis” could be the next unquestionable truth when one comes across the thousands of musical renderings inspired by Blake’s verses.

‘Half-hour nothings, every fourth one a dud.’ That’s how Steve Pemberton, playing a fictionalised version of himself, describes Inside No. 9 (IN9)to Reece Shearsmith (also playing himself) in ‘Plodding On’, the closing episode of the ninth series of the BBC anthology series.

[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 31st issue. We accept:

• original research papers: 5,000 to 7,000 words including references and footnotes
• reviews: up to 2,000 words
• translations of literary texts: 5,000 to 7,000 words

Call for Papers

Volume 1, Issue 2

[The Apollonian is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that is published bi-annually.]

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks submissions for its sophomore issue (since its revival). The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within 5000 words), Short Essays (within 1500 words) and Book Reviews (within 2000 words). For the forthcoming issue, the submissions can be interdisciplinary, but must fall within the broader definition of humanities (and this also includes areas such as STEM and medical humanities, new media, visual cultures etc).

Book Reviews: 

Virginia Woolf famously announced her cosmopolitan aspirations as a rejection of exclusionary patriarchal patriotism by declaring in Three Guineas (1938), “as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world” (TG 229). In this statement Woolf echoed the classical etymology of cosmopolitanism coined by the Cynic Diogenes, according to whom a cosmopolitan is defined as “a citizen of the world” (Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitan Tradition 1–2). But how does the classical philosophical notion of cosmopolitanism evolve in late-Victorian and modernist literature in the context of colonialism, capitalism, industrialism, and ever-increasing transnational mobility during the period?