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National Popular Culture Association Conference Chicago March 27-30 2024!
Call For Submissions: MAST Journal Special Issue: Media Archaeology And Art
Deadline for full submissions: January 20th, 2024 (for publication in May 2024).
Exploring the Intersections of Media Archaeology and Artistic Practice
Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) was not a blockbuster in the sense of Jaws, E.T or Jurassic Park (the other films covered in this book series) – it did however make a heavy return on its near $100 million budget and received critical praise in the media. The film is the product of several authors: science fiction writer Brian Aldiss on whose short story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ (1969) the film was based; Stanley Kubrick, whose project it had been initially before passing it over to Spielberg in the wake of Jurassic park, Spielberg made and released the film two years after Kubrick’s death.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
Since the late 1990s the British gangster film (whose popularity peaked during the 1970s and again in the early 1980s with films such as Get Carter (1971) and The Long Good Friday (1980)) has undergone a series of re-inventions and re-appraisals. Two films are largely responsible for the cultural renaissance of the genre: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998) which turned 25 in 2023 and Sexy Beast, which turns 25 in 2025.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.
London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.
“Field of Dreams”: The Popular Culture of Sports
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is celebrating the games of the XXXIII Olympiad in Paris with a free online conference exploring of the wide world of sports. The conference will be held on Thursday 25th-Friday 26th July 2024.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual symposium exploring the criminal in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd of May 2024.
Crime is one of the most popular genres across the popular culture spectrum. Celebrated detectives, true crime podcasts, police procedurals, the fashion of crime and deviancy, spy, war, political and corporate crimes in film, sport cheats, pickpockets and con artists, glamourous lawyers, innocent victims, and grumpy Judges are just some of the ways crime is represented in popular culture. This conference aims to examine the crime genre in popular culture.
Keynote Speaker
Dr Lisa J Hackett
Northeast Modern Language Association
Boston MA | 7-10 March 2024
https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html
[Call for Papers]
Panel on “Diasporic Feminist Approaches to U.S. Imperialism”
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20483
How do we make visible violence that is actively hidden and erased?
We are looking to round out our collected volume of critical essays in American popular culture from 1865-1940, that examine how women vigilantes, anti-heroines and outlaws of this era were represented in movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, theater, and pulp fiction. We are seeking at least one additional chapter. The majority of the book is set, and we are in contract with a peer-review publisher. We are on a tight deadline, so preference will be given to papers that are already in progress that are a good fit for this collection.
Haunting Lives, edited collection, call for abstracts
Are you a creative writer who consciously plays with techniques that transgress the borders between fiction and nonfiction? What is it that attracts you to this liminal space between the two, and what new writing territory do you want to form there? Your work might be in auto/bio/fiction, the historical or nonfiction novel, speculative history or a hybrid genre. You might balk at these categories as reductive and antipathetic to this genre-defying writing. Haunting Lives is an edited collection that will illuminate this border country, help readers to navigate or succumb to its strange terrain and examine the spectres that live there.
CFP: Medievalism in Popular Culture
PCA/ACA 2024 National Conference
March 27-30, Chicago, IL (In-Person)
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Early to Later Middle Ages, Robin Hood, Arthurian Legend, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
Issue 37 - Automated Images
*Submissions due November 15, to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu
Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta
53rd Annual Conference | March 21–23, 2024
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
TRANSFORMATIONS
ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2023
JOIN CEA IN ATLANTA!
Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta
53rd Annual Conference | March 21–23, 2024
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
TRANSFORMATIONS
ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2023
JOIN CEA IN ATLANTA!
Ninth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium
Concordia University and McGill University
March 22nd-23rd, 2024
Submission deadline: December 1st, 2023
Keynote Faculty: Mary Esteve (Concordia) and Alexander Manshel (McGill)
New Directions in Quaker Literary History
Violence surrounds us, sometimes visibly (in times of conflict and wars, directly or mediated through images), and sometimes invisibly, as part of a statistic. With the increasingly extremist rhetoric on parts of the US political spectrum, the so-called “culture wars,” violent hate crimes against LBTQ+ people have surged in recent years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific-Asians and Asian-Americans were targeted because of xenophobia and conspiracy theories. Similarly, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were met with violent responses from authorities. Additionally, mass and school shootings hit an all-time high for two years in a row between 2021 and 2022.
Call for Papers
Cormac McCarthy Society
American Literature Association 35th Annual
Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603
The Cormac McCarthy Society welcomes proposals for papers on any topic related to Cormac McCarthy’s works
Due Date: January 1, 2024
Please send abstracts to Steven Frye at sfrye@csub.edu
Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context30-31 May 2024, KU Leuven (Belgium)
Spanish Sapphic Modernity
Edited by Angela Acosta (Davidson College) and Rebecca Haidt (The Ohio State University)
Spiritual Responses to American Literary Modernism~ Call for Chapter Proposals
At the end of 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, explored the crises of a new generation who had “grown up to find all Gods dead… all faiths in man shaken.” Scholars and theologians concur that American literature, like the culture at large, was undergoing a passage from a spiritual to a secular outlook throughout the 1920s and 30s. This transition was so dramatic and widespread that that the years between 1925-1935 have been termed “the American Religious Depression.” Indeed, many texts from these two decades present their own version of the larger cultural secularization thesis.
CFP: The Profession at CEA 2024
deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2023
full name / name of organization:
College English Association
contact email:
Call for Papers, The Profession at CEA 2024
March 21-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on “The Profession” for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Conference online: 26-27 October 2023
CFP:
CFP: Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024
deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2023
full name / name of organization:
College English Association
contact email:
Call for Papers, Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024
March 21-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
We invite submissions for an online conference that focuses on queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction or other mythopoeic work. This can be queer representation within the work or engaging with mythopoeia through queer theory. “Queerness” is an intentionally ambiguous term, demonstrating the diversity of queer experiences, and the necessity of situating queerness as a liminal, complex paradigm. Queer theory is wider than the study of gender identity or sexuality, extending to taking positions against normativity and dominant modes of thought, and engaging with the indefinite.
Aspects of this topic might include but are certainly not limited to any of the following:
The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood to be held in Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024. This conference invites presentations that consider how different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to) governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged across children’s literature, media, and popular culture?
Tolkien at UVM 2024!
The Psychologies of Middle-earth
Saturday, April 13, 2024 (8:30-5:30)
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401
(Hybrid Conference: In-person and virtual/ TEAMS)
This is our 20th annual conference. The theme is The Psychologies of Middle-earth. We are excited to have Dr Sara Brown as our keynote!
Abstracts can cover various applications of psychology including myth, religion, art, sexuality, world building, race and ethnicity, feminism,
queer theory, class consciousness, ideology, PTSD, trauma, desire, disability, and much more.