I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Fiction

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons in fiction will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville                                                                                                                          

Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. 

The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:

Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.

IFTR 2025: Cologne, Germany. 9 – 13 June 2025.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 January 2025

Deadline for bursary applications: 22 November 2024 (https://iftr.org/conference/bursaries)

In line with this working group’s established practice, we have identified three loose strands that reflect the recent work of scholars in the wider field of political performances, and that also align with the 2025 conference theme: Performing Carnival!

Editors: Rebecca Fasselt and Joya Uraizee

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

Calling the Devil:

Preternatural Projections, Diabolical Conceptions, and the Arcane Adversary                                             

Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics

The impact of the pandemic and the threat that it poses to future human experiences has been well-documented. However, now that non-human animals are possible carriers and becoming infected, their experiences, while often overlooked, are nevertheless integrated into the worldwide pandemic.

Thus, this collection seeks to balance essays about non-human animals during real-world pandemics, such as the COVID-19 one, with those of their experiences during literary or cinematic ones. The scope of this call for papers is broad and can include topics such as:

--Animals as victims of contagions

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)

This year marks the centenary of the publication of the surrealist manifesto. The surrealist movement, itself derived from Dada, has since experienced internationalization and rebirths. In recent years, the movement has benefited from new insights while literary and artistic criticisms have sought to highlight figures and aspects hitherto neglected: the essential place of women in movement, its international dimension, its Relations with negritude and the criticism of colonialism, its intermediality, the multiplicity of its artistic practices.

Call for Papers

The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

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