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Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture
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
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 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
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, 2024.
All topics about dragons in film and television will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge / Taylor and Francis) seeks articles and creative work for publication in Volume 22 (4 Issues, 2025). Any length. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rmnw20/about-this-journal#aims-and-scope Submissions are internationally peer reviewed and the journal is widely published, and made available in both paper and online versions. 4 issu
HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE
At Middle Tennessee State University
March 6-7, 2025
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Conservative Camp
Edited by Darin DeWitt and Nicole Seymour
We invite contributions for an edited volume titled Conservative Camp, on which we are working with the University of Minnesota Press’ Humanities Editor Leah Pennywark. This volume seeks to explain how camp aesthetics, long associated with the progressive Left and with queer communities in particular, have recently been appropriated by conservative movements, particularly by homophobic and transphobic figures on the Right.
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!
You Are the Killer: The Giallo Tradition of Romance, Violence, Hedonism and Bad Taste
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:
Chiasmi
The 16th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies
Harvard University, April 4-5, 2025
Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses
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.
Global Transmedial Modernism
Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)
Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
CALL FOR PAPERS
https://food-studies.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers
Place: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa + Online
Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.
Dates: 8-10 October 2025
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SPECIAL FOCUS: Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures
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!
Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.
Editors: Rebecca Fasselt and Joya Uraizee
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: NOVEMBER 14, 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14
Calling the Devil:
Preternatural Projections, Diabolical Conceptions, and the Arcane Adversary
DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14
The Paranoid Realities of David Cronenberg: The Occult Body Techno-politic as Magical Medium
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the paranoid realities of David Cronenberg to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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
This call for papers seeks two specific chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapters needed include one on Ancient Drama and another on Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in May 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
Concept Note:
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:
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).
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.
Popular Culture Association
2025 National Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable
Baldwin Again and Again
Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.
Call for Papers -- Play in the Long Nineteenth Century
17th January 2025
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
While the long nineteenth century is not immediately associated with playfulness, scholars recognise it as a period that revolutionised play, whether as an end (Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens 1944) or a reimaging (Matthew Kaiser, The World in Play, 2011). Games were ubiquitous throughout the period, hundreds of dedicated recreational spaces (museums, playgrounds, parks) were established, and a new cult of leisure took root that reshaped both public and private life.