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ICMS 2025: The Other(ed) Kings: A Roundtable on Arthurian Kings (not Arthur) and Otherness

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 11:10am
IAS-NAB
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

We invite papers for "The Other(ed) Kings: A Roundtable on Arthurian Kings (not Arthur) & Otherness” focusing on lesser-known kings, such as Mark or Pellinore. This session aims to broaden our understanding of Arthurian literature by examining these overlooked figures and their relationship to otherness. We seek contributions that explore their narratives, political dynamics, and roles within the mythos and cycle of Arthuriana. This discussion addresses a scholarly gap and aligns with important questions of inclusivity. We are hoping for new perspectives that are intersectional and even interdisciplinary in nature. 

 

CFP Animation Studies 2.0 - Dance and Animation

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 11:10am
Animation Studies 2.0
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

Deadline: September 2, 2024

The depiction of dancing has been a part of animated image’s history since the beginnings of cinema with e.g. Eadweard Muybridge’s zoopraxiscope glass disks from 1893 with one of them showing “a couple waltzing”. In 1929, Walt Disney created The Skeleton Dance as part of the company's Silly Symphonies series. More experimental approaches to dance and animation resulted in Norman McLaren and Grant Munro’s playful animated short Two Bagatelles (1952), as well as the expressive images of Denis Poulin and Martine Époque’s CODA (2014). Not to forget “The Dancing Baby” from the very early days of the internet in 1996 by Michael Girard, Robert Lurye and John Chadwick.

CFP NEMLA 2025: Italian Food as (R)Evolution

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 11:09am
Irene Hatzopoulos
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NEMLA 2025------PHILADELPHIA, PA------MARCH 6-9, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Continuing last year’s conversation, this panel proposes to focus on representations of food in Italian and Italian American Cinema, Literature and Media. Taking this year’s theme, (R)evolution, into consideration it seems only fitting to discuss food. The idea of food or food-ways as the subject of evolution or revolution leads us to consider the transformation of culinary history, identity, production, and consumption within or between the Italian and Italian-American (or Italo-Australian, Italo-Canadian, Italo-British, Italo-Hispanic) contexts.

CFP NEMLA 2025: Reimagining Italian Identity: Postcolonial Perspectives in Contemporary Lit & Media

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 11:09am
Martina Giuliano & Irene Hatzopoulos
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NEMLA 2025------PHILADELPHIA, PA------MARCH 6-9, 2025

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In recent years, the landscape of Italian postcolonial literature has been profoundly shaped by prominent authors whose works illuminate a reality that diverges from traditional representations of Italian identity. These narratives offer a groundbreaking re-examination of Italy's colonial past from the perspective of the oppressed, highlighting the enduring socio-economic and cultural repercussions on former colonies and their inhabitants.

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 10:33am
Nazan Yıldız Çiçekçi and Cenk Tan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film

 “Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series

-UPDATE-

Editors’ Introduction

CfP: FOOD FEST, FEASTS & GATHERINGS

updated: 
Monday, August 19, 2024 - 8:57am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Celebrating 215 years of Edgar Allan Poe

updated: 
Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 4:10pm
Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

Deadline: September 13, 2024

Conference Date: October 5, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, PST)

Abstract: 200 words + short biographical statement + timezone

Submit to: eap215conference@gmail.com 

 

This Magick Moment: Revolutionary Witchcraft and Cultural Change (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 10:57am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

About the Conference

56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

Primary Area / Secondary Area
Cultural Studies and Media Studies / Interdisciplinary Humanities

Chair(s)
Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University)
Kara McCabe (Tufts University)

Intersectionality in Literature, Linguistics and Translation

updated: 
Sunday, August 18, 2024 - 6:13am
Ain Shams University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

In an age marked with conflict and strife, humanity is still searching for solutions to oppression and marginalization. In order to better understand the factors leading to these problems, Kimberlé Crenshaw first introduced the term “intersectionality” in 1989 to explain how a person’s intersecting identities such as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, age, ability, nationality and religion affect their access to opportunities and privileges. In literary and linguistic studies, intersectionality is used as a framework of analysis that helps scholars examine how these factors fuel various issues, ranging from health inequity to climate change and how they are expressed, negotiated and at times resolved through texts.

Deadline Extended: All US Come Cross the Water: Diasporic Ecological Practices & Intergenerational Relations (ASWAD 2025)

updated: 
Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 5:54pm
Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

This panel seeks papers for the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora’s (ASWAD) 12th Biennial and 25th Anniversary Conference that will be held in Saint Louis, Missouri at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel from October 29th thru November 2, 2025. This year’s conference “I’ve known rivers”: The Ecologies of Black Life and Resistance” centers “the river, and waterways, as an analytical framework for Black lives past and present.” Water “serves as a prompt for urgent questions about landscapes and ecologies as well as diasporic ruptures, spiritual practices, labors of many kinds, fugitivity and resistance” (ASWAD CFP). 

(New Deadline) CFP: Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives

updated: 
Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 1:40pm
Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Plí: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its upcoming special issue on “Continental Philosophy and Global South Perspectives”. As an esteemed platform for rigorous philosophical discourse, Plí encourages contributions that explore the intersections between Continental philosophy and diverse perspectives emanating from the Global South.

 

Scope and Topics of Interest:

Call for Papers: Collection on Concepts of Identity and Belonging

updated: 
Saturday, August 17, 2024 - 12:41pm
Dr. Najah Mahmi & Dr. Abdelhak Jebbar. Research Laboratory in Literature, Language, Culture and Communication (RLLLCC). Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sultan Moulay Slimane University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Tracing its roots to a long history of philosophical discourse, identity stands as one of the most intricate and ubiquitous concepts within the large debates of human and social sciences. It is taken for granted in everyday life and assumed to be an all-inclusive determinant of empirical and virtual entities; yet, obscure when it comes to marking out its essence as a referential determinant and delineating the shaping politics of its concretizations. The ambiguity and paradox of identity stem from the contradictory dimensions it encompasses, entailing at the same time a sense of similitude yet difference, uniqueness yet commonness, and independence yet reliance.

Teaching the Black Diaspora in German Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 7:07pm
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CfP: Teaching the Black Diaspora in German Studies (Panel) 

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6 - 9, 2025

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 through NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21158

 

The Politics of Weird and the Weirdness of Politics

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:03am
"Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Politics of Weird and the Weirdness of Politics

Online Conference

November 2, 2024

           The vibe shift among the Democratic base since President Biden announced he would not seek reelection has been remarkable: apathy and anxiety have morphed into enthusiasm and a newfound pugnacious spirit. Stumping for Vice-President Kamala Harris, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, Harris’ vice-presidential pick, launched the verbal missile which has revitalized the campaign’s messaging and sought to define Republicans in succinct, yet devastating terms: they’re weird.

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:03am
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:02am
Prof Shuchi Sharma and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume

 

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

 

Deadline for Abstract Submissions: September 30, 2024

 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).

Critical Thinking and Writing

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:01am
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Double Helix invites submissions of research articles, reports from the field, experimental essays, scholarly notes, and book reviews on critical thinking and writing pedagogy. October 15 is the recommended deadline for work to be considered for Volume 12 (2024).

For more information, please visit the journal website at Colorado State University's WAC Clearinghouse: https://wac.colostate.edu/double-helix/.

Caring, Taking care

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
University of Palermo, Cultures and Societies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

What do ‘caring’ and ‘taking care of’ mean? To what extent are ‘caring’ and ‘taking care of’ similar or different from a theoretical and practical point of view? In which contexts are they situated and to what extent do they depend on other contexts? In this conference, we will consider questions about ‘caring’ and ‘taking caring of’ – possibly connecting or differentiating them – in a broad sense, by opening a dialogue about their definitions in different disciplines and subjects, on their roles in various contexts with both humans and non-human actors, and on the way in which ‘caring’ and ‘taking caring of’ establish relationships with other features that define existence, the ordinary and the extraordinary facts of living.

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
Dr Peter Adkins (Uni. of Edinburgh) & Dr Malcolm Cook (Uni. of Southampton)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2024

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

Online Symposium Friday 24th January 2025

Keynote Speaker: Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Oil is a cultural as well as material product. It is now pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, farming, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.

Reconstructing the Electronic Superhighway: Radical Media Art and Techno-Community at the Margins of the Global Village

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
CAA 2025 Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 29, 2024

“Whose global village?” asks Ramesh Srinivasan of the inequalities characteristic of “ubiquitous” computing in his eponymous 2017 book. The scholar reconstitutes Marshall McLuhan’s famed notion of a global village forged by telecommunications media in the shadow of the digital divide. Srinivasan’s question of how peoples othered by an infrastructure built for wealthy Western consumers might otherwise forge techno-community is only more urgent in the wake of a global pandemic; communications blackouts; and heavy reliance on conflict minerals. Yet, it is a question that artists have sought to answer since at least the mid-20th century.

Meta+Physics of Black Artmaking

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:33am
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP – “META+PHYSICS OF BLACK ARTMAKING”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 1, Spring 2026

Sustainable Publishing Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:33am
The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne

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The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:32am
Routledge South Asian Literature Series
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

deadline for submissions: 

August 25, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Assistant Professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow at Jadavpur University)

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

 

International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:32am
Karen Wang/GLECC2025 organising committee
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The first International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) is going to be held 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2025/)

The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.

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