I am accepting proposals for an edited collection with a working title of Case Studies in Horror-Comedy Films. This edited collection is under contract with a university press, with an anticipated publication date in late 2025. The existing group of contributions well illustrates the focus and structure of the collection, which corresponds to comic takes on horrors of the body, mind, and society. The motivation for this call for additional chapters is to expand the attention to national cinemas beyond North America.

Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. The journal publishes one volume of two issues each year. One issue welcomes manuscripts that consider the broad theme of “culture and dialogue” in all its forms, from all perspectives, and through all methods. The other issue is thematic and seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator such as “Philosophy and the Dialogue,” “Art in Conversation,” “Comparing Cultures,” or “Dialogical Ethics.” The theme of the thematic issue is announced through dedicated calls for papers.

8th INTERNATIONAL PhD CONFERENCE

Reimagining Crises

Turning Points in Language Studies and Literary Narratives

Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies

04-05 November 2024, Sala B, Ca’ Bernardo, Venice

Call for papers

Call for Papers

Historical Fictions Research Conference, Manchester, 13th & 14th February 2025

Deadline for proposals: 28th June 2024

CFP: Serial Killers: Fact into fiction

For a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review, a journal of performance studies, co-editor madison moore and consortium editor Rebecca Schneider seek submissions that engage the “knowing how” of queer nightlife. “Knowing” here finds kinship with feeling, glitter on the floor, skin on skin, tactility, sweat, diffraction, dissolution.

We are interested in the many elemental gestures, performances, forms of labor, mess, doing/undoing, imagination, making/unmaking as well as the failures, exhaustions, and obstacles that power or foreclose the rhythms of community, pleasure, and ecstasy at
night.

Supported by the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human Reproduction Project

In-Person: Thursday 24th October 2024

Online: Monday 28th October 2024

Keynote: Heather Latimer, University of British Columbia

This conference takes place over two days: one day in-person at the University of Lancaster, and one day online. This is to maximize accessibility and international engagement.

This session at the 2024 Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference will explore the tendency of contemporary literary works to portray non-human entities through a racial lens. We invite papers that examine this trend in the context of techno-Orientalism, which often reduces and objectifies the image of Asians to that of the hyper-modern. Submissions may adopt either a theoretical or a literary analysis approach. Please check the details here: View Session (ballastacademic.com).

Here's general information about the conference: 121st Annual Conference (Palm Springs, CA) - Nov. 7-10, 2024 - PAMLA

PAMLA Panel cfp

Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature

Apply here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19317

The complexities of migration, diaspora, and critical nostalgia provide a lens through which to explore identity, belonging, and cultural memory. In the context of Arab American literature, these themes take on added significance, reflecting the multiple experiences and narratives of individuals and communities navigating the intersections of Arab and American senses of un-be-longing.

“To create a broad analogy, monster is to ‘normality’ as homosexual is to heterosexual” (Benshoff, 1997). This quote, well worn within the pages of academic criticism, speaks to how the connection between queer identity and the horror genre is now so established as to become indivisible. From Frankenstein’s Creature to Dracula, the Babadook to Jennifer Check, in fiction and in film these monstrous queers “live in a world that hates them. They’ve adapted, they’ve learned to conceal themselves. They’ve survived” (Machado, 2020). Kirsty Logan, in the Foreword to It Came From the Closet, suggests that “horror [never] gives us LGBTQIA+ people accurate representation.

 Special Issue CFP for TWC: Disability

Robert McRuer writes in Crip Theory that at some point in every person’s life, if they live long enough, they will be disabled. Yet, while disablement is an extremely common experience and ableism a hegemonic form of marginalization, disability is largely understudied across fields (Minich 2016, Ellcessor 2018). Fan studies has neglected to consistently explore disability or acknowledge the presence of ableism, resulting in a dearth of peer-reviewed publications on this intersection and a silencing of crip critique from disabled fans and scholars.

Counterfactuals in games have started to catch the attention of various disciplines, aiming to understand just what pasts are (and are not) reckoned with. The fields of historical game studies, media studies and archeaogaming have begun untangling the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of counterfactual play to focus on player experience. In this two-day workshop held at Leiden University on August 28th and 29th, we aim to approach counterfactuals from the other side of the same coin: the processes at play in counterfactual game design and development.

Conference dates: March 6-9, 2025

Conference location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IN PERSON ONLY!)

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024

Submit through: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21015

Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona) @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

'Bhopal at 40: Remembering and storytelling' Special Issue of South Asian Review

Guest editors: Clare Barker (University of Leeds), Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal) and Lynn Wray (University of Leeds)