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2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 8:11pm
International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Individual Proposals:

Dear Comparative Literature scholars/students,

Now the 2025 ICLA Congress (https://icla2025-seoul.kr/en) call for individual proposal submission is out.

You can search for the cfp here:

https://www.conftool.pro/icla2025/index.php?page=browseSessions&presentations=hide

I. Individual Proposal Submission Guidelines: 

Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 10:23am
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.

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Saturday, November 9, 2024 - 2:04am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

AI in Collecting

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 9:02pm
Popular Cultural Asscociation PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 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 Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 5:17pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

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

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 5:17pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

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:

ReFocus: The Cinema of Dariush Mehrjui

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:16pm
ReFocus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 3:51pm
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Deadline for submissions: Dec 1, 2024

Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Prospective publication: September 2026

Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu

Special Issue Proposals

Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 9:53am
Dr. Sotiris Petridis, Hellenic Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals

 

Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.

 

TCR 2025 : The Cordillera Review, Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 2025 Volume

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
The Cordillera Review, University of the Philippines Baguio
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
Cory Nguyen
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

 

Deadline for submissions: December 2nd, 2024

Conference date/time: February 8th, 2025, UC Berkeley (will be in hybrid format).

Names and affiliations: Paz Regueiro and Cory Nguyen, Department of Comparative Literature

Contact emails: paz_regueiro@berkeley.edu and corytnguyen@berkeley.edu 

“You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song.”

- Charli xcx, 2024. (“Guess”, 17th track on “brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not”.)

 

Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts (Special Issue of Multimodality & Society)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Emilio Amideo (University of Naples Parthenope) and Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 24, 2025

In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

124 – MUSLIM COUNTERPUBLICS IN THE INDIAN NATION-STATE PUBLIC SPHERE

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
ECSAS Heidelberg 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

We welcome papers for our ECSAS panel on Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere which will bring together emerging and advanced scholars of Muslim identity in South Asia in the context of the nation-state public sphere. We wish to explore the deep history and contemporary imaginings of Muslimness from the vantage point of songs, music and sound, literary studies, history, anthropology, dastangoi, oral historiography, and cinema. We aim to shed light on the multiperspectival and pan-national Muslim identification process as it also intersects with ideas of ideological homogenisation, modernity, and religious revivalism.

SCSECS 2025

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the James Smith Noel Collection invite you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one's bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
Sacred Journeys
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Sacred Journeys 12th Global Conference: Canberra, Australia

June 3-6, 2025. Venue: Australian Center for Christianity and Culture, Ngunnawal Country. Sponsored by the Indiana University Events and Tourism Institute (ETI), in partnership with the Sacred Journeys Project, and Réseau québécois pour les études pèlerines/ Quebec Network for Pilgrimage Studies, Laval University. Hosted by Rev’d Cameron West, Defence Anglicans, Australia.

Call for Papers

What can pictures still do in the 21st century? Figuring reality in visual arts.

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:31am
Helena LAMOULIATTE-SCHMITT (University of Bordeaux and Bordeaux Montaigne University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This conference aims to examine the question of figurative art at the beginning of the 21st century. Nowadays, figurative artistic models are challenged by increasingly sophisticated technologies that reshape our definition of “the real,” and more particularly, of reality. AI-generated images tend to normalize manipulated and distorted representations of the world we live in and can sometimes become indistinguishable from real images (“deepfakes”).

Netflix’s The Decameron - TSW Special Issue

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:30am
The So What (Arthuriana's Public Humanities Project)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces engaging with Netflix’s The Decameron for a special issue of TSW planned for web publication in late 2025.

 

We are interested in critical, pedagogical, and creative pieces that explore the Netflix series from a wide variety of angles and approaches, including: plague studies, the history of medicine and science, premodern critical race studies, gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, adaptation theory, and so on. We particularly welcome pieces that consider how the series helps us think more about our own time, including but not limited to: 

  • How pandemics (re)shape art and the world;

Special Panel on Political Demonology in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Esoterrorism, Occult Conspiracy, and Magical Treason: Political Demonology and Demonic Politics in Popular Culture

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel on the intersections of demonology and politics in popular culture

Call for Chapters: Gothic Modernisms

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Catherine Enwright (Boston College) and Daniel Dougherty (the University of Florida)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

We are seeking a limited number of essays to complete an edited collection exploring the connections between the gothic genre and literary modernism. Inspired by the work of scholars such as Sam Wiseman, Linda Dryden, David Punter, and the late John Paul Riquelme, this collection will consider how and why gothic elements such as dark doubles, the uncanny, the return of the repressed, haunted spaces, etc. enter modernist writing.

The Arts under Constraints

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
University of Liège
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Call for papers

15th CIPA International Conference: “The arts under constraints”

Date: October 8-9, 2025

Place: University of Liège

Organization: UR Traverses/CIPA

 

14th Annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. The conference will be held April 10th-12th, 2025, online and in-person at Háskóli Íslands.

This conference seeks proposals on the theme of “Other Things.”

II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Catherine Barbour
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

II Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías

(14-16 May 2025)

University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

The University of Santiago de Compostela invites proposals of papers or posters for the Second International Conference on Feminisms and Humour: Humour-Sofías. The conference, supported by the Instituto de las Mujeres, will take place from May 14-16, 2025 in the Philosophy Department. In order to reflect collectively on humour’s feminist potential, we encourage the following topics:

- Philosophical approaches to humour

- Political Strategies of Humour: Subversion and Power

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