• Edith Wharton and Democracy

ALA 2025 May 21-25 Boston

Speakers are invited to share experiences, insights, and expertise on a roundtable exploring how neurodivergence shapes and intersects with professional academic life. This session will examine the nuanced realities of neurodivergence within academia and related spaces, particularly for faculty, researchers, and academic staff. Speakers will give a short presentation (5-10 minutes), followed by a moderated discussion. This format is envisioned as an opportunity to share ideas and experiences in a less formal way than traditional research panels. 

We welcome presentations that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference, which will be held virtually on February 13-14, 2025. Zora Rebooted: AI, Language, and Literature celebrates Hurston in the age of artificial intelligence and acknowledges the parallels between Hurston and AI in challenging and expanding our understanding of human creativity and identity. Noted Hurston scholar, literary critic, and writer Dr. Deborah Plant is the scheduled keynote speaker.

The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2024.

Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.

Murder Media Symposium

Call For Papers:

Liverpool John Moores University, 11th April 2025.

The recent Dahmer: Monster (Netflix, 2022), The Long Shadow (ITV, 2023), No Man of God (Sealey, 2021), and Beyond Reasonable Doubt (BBC Sounds, 2017), stand as some of the latest examples of the long and rich history of true crime content. The Murder Media Symposium will explore approaches to contemporary true crime and murder media texts, and the industrial, production, and fan cultures that surround such material.

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

We are seeking chapters to include in an edited book with the provisional title: Storied Citizenship: Reimagining Civic Encounters Among Children and Youth in the Post-Digital Age. This text will be an interdisciplinary, open access volume that will explore existing and emerging ideas about storied citizenship among children and youth in the post-digital age. Rather than defining citizenship or civic engagement in traditional ways, we see it as a process in which young people participate in arts-based, embodied, lived, and spatialized ways across cultural contexts.

Submissions are invited for the Richard D. Gooder Essay Prize, offered by Cambridge Quarterly, a journal published by Oxford University Press. The Prize is open to doctoral students and those who have submitted their thesis within the last calendar year, and offers a prize of £300 and publication in the journal. 

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary and cultural criticism with a broad remit. Our focus is largely on scholarship on Anglophone literature, but we also welcome work on writing in languages other than English, as well as on film, music, theatre, television, dance, the visual arts and other cultural and artistic forms, singly or in comparison.  

Living With Water:
Agency, Materiality, Narratives
Online seminar series 2025

With the ‘Comics studies having finally arrived’, the young genre no longer has an obligation to justify its existence and significance. The legitimacy of the medium has been endorsed time and again by decades of scholarly works produced and being produced in the domain. Alongside this ongoing legitimation process, we are now witnessing a multifaceted engagement with a plethora of works – including both fiction and non-fiction – produced in the comics medium, leading to the rise of comics as a global literary phenomenon.

 The Arthur Miller SocietyCall for Papers and ProposalsALA 2025Boston, Massachusetts The American Literature Association’s 36th annual conference will meet at the Westin Copley Place in Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2025 (Wednesday through Saturday of Memorial Day weekend). The Arthur Miller Society will have two sessions at this conference. For the first panel, we are inviting papers that consider how Arthur Miller's life and work have been co-opted by contemporary playwrights, film directors, and writers.

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to submit your research to the 1st Workshop on Federated Learning for Unbounded and Intelligent Decentralization (FLUID), which will be held on March 4th, 2025, at AAAI 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW:

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.