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Eco-Futures: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 2:54am
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

Replacement Chapter for Collection in contract: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 10:07pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025. 

Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).

The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

Thank you considering this important project--my very best,

~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY

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AI in Collecting

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 7:47pm
Popular Cultural Asscociation PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 8, 2024

The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:36pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:36pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:14pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:13pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 11:53am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.

Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

East Asian National Memories As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 7:17am
Volume: East Asian Popular Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Deadline: Monday, Dec 2, 2024, midnight PST

Notification: Wednesday, Dec 4, 2024

Contact: EastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com

 

Dear East Asian Studies Scholars,

We are seeking a few more chapters to round out our in-progress volume's Table of Contents. Please email with any questions on a chapter concept.

Although chapter abstracts will be considered, we’re seeking FULL-chapter submissions (6-8,000 words, including references) for a volume titled: 

East Asian National Memories

As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics

Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:23am
Cornell English Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Cornell EGSO Conference 2025: Sound—Systems

Deadline for Submissions: January 15th

Conference: March 14-15, 2025

Call for Academic and Creative Proposals

 

EGSS 2025 Conference: Identity and Identification

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:23am
Florida Atlantic University: English Graduate Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

 

 

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grnnd Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union on February 3rd, 2025.

 

Landscapes of Language and Literature (IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization // Rachel Martin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference 

Landscapes of Language and Literature 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format. 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming Climate

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Comparative World Literature, CSULB
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

 CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.

Robert Lowell Session at American Literature Association, 21–24 May '25, in Boston

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
American Literature Association / Robert Lowell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston

The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).

We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies. 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
August Wilon Society (Biennial Colloquium)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Call for Proposals

August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium

 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression 

 

April 2-5, 2025

The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

 

The Problem of Social Justice: Global Perspectives and Personal Narratives

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.

–             The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA

FINAL DEADLINE - 11/30 - NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES - PCA 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

Richard Wright Society at the American Literature Association 2025 Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Richard Wright Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

American Literature Association

May 21-24, 2025

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

 

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at

the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

 

Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies

In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells

the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in

Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference "Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media" (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).

THE PRISM OF FESTIVALS IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES. Open Historiographic Issues

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Theatre Festivals between Local and Global: Rethinking Theatre and Performance in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s,
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.

Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Open University - Falmouth University - Northwestern University Qatar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)

Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)

In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)

 

The 13th International Conference on Future Prospects in the Education and Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs in Light of AI Applications

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Faculty of Education for Early Childhood-Cairo University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025

#CFP: The 13th International Conference on Future Prospects in the Education and Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs in Light of AI Applications
Conference Dates: Sunday, February 16, 2025
Conference Venue: Faculty of Education for Early Childhood Cairo University Cairo, Egypt and Online Relevant Dates:
• Abstract Submission for Review: December 15, 2024

Full Paper Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025
Conference Themes: The conference will feature the following parallel working sessions:

Session 1: "Using AI Applications to Improve the Quality of Life for Children with Special Needs"

Session 2: "Modern Trends in Educating and Rehabilitating Children with Special Needs Using AI"

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