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Book Chapter: Algorithmic Authors:Computational Creativity in Literature

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:06pm
International Digital Humanities Research Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In recent years, the intersection of computational creativity and literature has gained significant attention. "Algorithmic Authors: Computational Creativity in Literature" aims to explore how algorithms and artificial intelligence are transforming the creation, analysis, and understanding of literary texts. This volume will investigate the roles of machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational techniques in generating and analyzing literary works, as well as their implications for the future of literature and authorship.

IMC 2025: 'Emotions and Devotions: Cultivating and Experiencing Feelings in Mystical and Devotional Texts'

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:06pm
Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford) and Amanda Langley (QMUL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of affective expression in medieval mystical and devotional texts. These papers will compose a series of panels to run at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10, 2025.

Potential themes could include – but are not limited to – the following:

  • Experiencing divine grace/consolation

  • Longing for God

  • Compassionating Christ’s Passion

  • Mystical ecstasies and affective transports

  • External perceptions of mystics’ emotionality

CAA 2025: Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:05pm
Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford) and Yizhuo Li (Universität Wien)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Please submit via the official CAA portal here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

College Art Association Annual Conference 2025

12-15 February 2025, New York City

 

"Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art"

Chairs: Yizhuo Li (Universität Wien) and Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford)

The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference March 6-9, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023), Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series (2021-), and Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club series (2021-), but it is a growing trend that cannot be accounted for simply by demographics.

CALL FOR PAPERS for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal Essays and Studies Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal 

Essays and Studies

 

Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change 

 

Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Jeanne Marie Rose / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025. The roundtable "Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of (R)EVOLUTION:

"Dante and Ovid" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for an in-person panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

This panel invites new perspectives on the relationship between Dante and Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:

"Global Ovids" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for a virtual panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

Given the global turn in medieval studies, it is important to reconsider the place of ancient authors beyond the sphere of European reception.

This panel invites global perspectives on the medieval reception of Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:

Studies in Popular Culture Book Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Studies in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the broad field of pop culture studies. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor at sipceditor.gmail.com. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.

Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.

Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSRoundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025  In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2).

Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others.

Red Reading the Premodern

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Red Reading the Premodern” (hybrid)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 This panel takes up Cherokee scholar Scott Andrews’ 2018 challenge to interpret (non-Indigenous) literature from Indigenous perspectives, an approach that he labels a 'Red Reading,’ and extends it to premodern texts. Red Reading allows us to reconsider premodern texts, divorcing them from engrained approaches towards a plurality of perspectives.

Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:59pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Book Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026

Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)

Director: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

 

(Spanish version below)

Book Chapter:Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:59pm
Rajpath Publisher
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

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

The Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:49pm
Marek Paryz / University of Warsaw
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

The discussion of the Western as a global genre enables the exploration of the multi-directional and multi-layered transnational contexts in which this genre has functioned in the course of its history. The Western circulates across arts and media, encountering narratives that have emerged in diverse geographies and that may appear under different names. Contemporary Westerns dislodge exceptionalist readings of the genre related to Frederick Jackson Turner’s classical “frontier thesis,” focusing on the changing identity of the U.S. West in contexts that transcend clearly defined borders.

Science Fiction - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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.  

Historical Fiction - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Genre and Video Games - Historical Fiction: Global Histories 

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 “Historical Fiction” category of the collection.  

Fantasy - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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.  

Romance - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Genre and Video Games - Romance

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 “romance” category of the collection. 

Gothic and Horror - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

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. 

Performing Latinidad (NeMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Alex Diaz-Hui
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel examines how the dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and class of Latinidad become negotiated by the performing arts. We consider Latine and Latin American performance not as a singular category, but as artistic acts specific to medium and lived experience. We intend to have a global and hemispheric perspective that focus on what performers do, be it live in front of an audience or for a recorded form. 

Fifty years of Stephen King: American Horror, Gothicism, and Progressive Parables

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
John P. Wargacki / Seton hall University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

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:

Creative Writing in Crisis?

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Creative Writing Studies Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Creative Writing Studies Conference

Call for Papers/Presentations

November 15-17, 2024

Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA

Submit: https://forms.gle/rEppuokrzkfRaKiH7

 

CALL: Creative Writing in Crisis?

SCMS 2025: Hot Wings & Closet Picks: Celebrity, Promotion, & The New Internet Press Tour

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Cory Barker, Penn State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 16, 2024

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.

Chapter Abstracts Sought for Book on G.I. Joe, Ethics, and Theology

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:43pm
Peter Admirand, Dublin City University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 21, 2024

Call for papers----Looking for ethical and theological chapter abstracts for an upcoming book in Bloomsbury's Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series....book title: G.I. Joe, Theology, and Co-bra: Knowing (and Believing) Are Half the Battle.  Possible chapter ideas and themes available here. Abstracts due 21 October 2024.

Reading Kenneth White: Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the earth and the living / À la lecture de Kenneth White : démarche anthropo(ï)étique, expérience de la terre et du vivant

updated: 
Monday, July 29, 2024 - 5:21pm
Peggy Pacini / CY Cergy Paris Université
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

Reading Kenneth White. Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the  earth and the living

| November 21-22, 2024, Maison SHS (CY Cergy Paris Université, France) / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie

Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Anne-Marie Petitjean(CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages) and Gérald Peloux (INALCO, IFRAE / CRCAO)

"Memory, Melancholy and Nostalgia" - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 29, 2024 - 5:03pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

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

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