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Masks and Masking (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:49pm
IUP English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Masks have been used throughout history for many different purposes. Some use literal masks for entertainment and performance; some use them for cunning and disguise; others use figurative masks to hide their true identities from those around them. As we consider trends—and shifts in those trends—in literature, theory, criticism, and academia, we must analyze the utility of masks to determine why people have needed them and still need them.

 

IUP’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce the 2024 EGO Spring Conference with the theme: Masks and Masking. For this conference, we will be utilizing the hybrid format (both in-person and via Zoom) to accommodate everyone and encourage those from outside of IUP to join us as well.

MLA 2025 Special Session: Visualizing Risk in the 20th & 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:48pm
Elaine Cannell/UW-Madison
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

This MLA 2025 Special Session Panel invites papers that interrogate “risk” as a political, visual, and/or affective concept in contemporary literature, media, and visual culture. Some questions to consider might include:

Face, Form and Modern Fictions

updated: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 2:48pm
_LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory_
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

LIT Special Issue CFP: Face, Form and Modern Fictions

"Alt+F4: Rebooting Community after Gamergate"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 12:41pm
A Public Humanities Symposium Hosted by Lawrence Technological University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

KEYNOTE SPEAKER UPDATE!!!

 

The organizing committee of Alt+F4 is excited to announce our keynote speaker line up:

 

Kishonna L. Gray

Associate Professor in Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies and Africana Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Director, Faculty Learning Community on eSports and Gaming

 

 

Rachel Kowert

Research Psychologist
Founder, Psychgeist
Author

 

Anita Sarkeesian

Media Critic
Creator,  Tropes vs. Women in Video Games

 

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CFP: Special Issue on Literature and AI, vol. 6 (1)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 7:01am
International Review of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Literature and Artificial Intelligence

International Review of Literary Studies

Deadline for Submission: February 29, 2024

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The International Review of Literary Studies, an open access with no APC, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of literature, language, and AI to submit their original contributions for a special issue focused on the intersection of Literature and Artificial Intelligence.

Theme: Literature and AI: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Technology

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024: PLAYING WITH BORDERS (extended deadline)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 6, 2024 - 6:17am
Conference on Child and Teen Consumption
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

CHILD AND TEEN CONSUMPTION 2024 (extended deadline)

11th Interdisciplinary Conference on Child and Teen Consumption

October 16 -18 2024, York University, Toronto, Canada PLAYING WITH BORDERS

The 2024 edition of the Child and Teen Consumption Conference will be held in Toronto (Canada) and will be hosted by York University, October 16-18, 2024.

Marxism and the Digital Public- Deadline Extended

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 10:36pm
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

CFP: The 26th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference- Deadline Extended

“Marxism and the Digital Public”

 

Weekend of April 12-14, 2024

University of Florida

Gainesville, FL

 

Keynotes: M.E. O’Brien (Pinko and Parapraxis) and Jasper Bernes (University of California, Berkeley)

 

Growing Younger: Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 4:18pm
Conference on Christianity and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

“Growing Younger”: Literature and Childlike Faith

Southeast Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature Covenant College
Lookout Mountain, GA
October 10-12, 2024

Keynote Speaker: Malcolm Guite (Poet and President of the George MacDonald Society)

"Trauma and Nightmare" 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 3:40pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 18, 2024

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 

Conference: 14-15 March 2024 (online - via Zoom)

 

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments

updated: 
Monday, February 5, 2024 - 8:50am
Cortland Rankin, Bowling Green State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Call for chapter proposals for edited volume

 

Warscapes: Mediating Militarized Environments

Edited by Cortland Rankin (Bowling Green State University) and Brady Fletcher (University of Rochester)

Creativitas - Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (A Double-blind Peer-reviewed Journal of English Studies)

updated: 
Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 7:16am
Sapientia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Inaugural Issue of Creativitas - Critical Explorations in Literary Studies (A Double-blind Peer-reviewed Journal of English Studies).

https://creativitasjournal.in/

[We are in the midst of registering the journal under ISSN. However, as per guidelines, an issue has to be published prior to acquiring an ISSN. So, the inaugural issue will be published without an ISSN.]

Call for articles: John Dryden, Revolutionary Readings and Readers : New Perspectives on a Restoration Multitasker

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:30am
Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Call for articles: John Dryden, Revolutionary Readings and Readers : New Perspectives on a Restoration Multitasker

 Special Issue 2027, Caliban (an international peer-reviewed journal in Anglophone studies published by Presses Universitaires du Midi : Caliban - French Journal of English Studies (openedition.org))

 Eds. Nathalie Genet-Rouffiac (Service Historique de la Défense), Filip Krajník (Masaryk University) , Nathalie Rivere de Carles (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)

Fans of Color Research Prize

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:29am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Transformative Works and Cultures is now seeking submissions for the 2024 Fans of Color Research Prize. The award recognizes the best peer-reviewed article about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years (for 2024, no earlier than 2021) and furthers the journal’s goal to support scholars whose work fills critical gaps in fan studies literature about racially marginalized and/or non-western fans. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize.

Submission details:

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:29am
Pei-Wen Clio Kao/National Ilan University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST, Editor: Pei-Wen Clio Kao (National Ilan University)

Vol. 36 of CONRAD: EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, Editor: Wiesław Krajka

The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University – Columbia University Press Conrad Project

Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, to be published in 2027.                                                                  

 

Call for Presentations: “Science Fiction and the Aesthetic Experience of Otherness”

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:28am
Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference “Borders/Freedom/Civility” Gettysburg, PA, June 12-15, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

We are seeking speakers to fill up a panel at the APL Conference “Borders/Freedom/Civility” at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 12-15, 2024, on the question of how science fiction aesthetics, the experience of science fiction, and the experience of otherness in science fiction relate. Science Fiction is one of the foremost genres exploring the relation between the alien other as a way of thinking through interhuman relations across borders, but, as a liminally “high” literary form, it is often excluded from discussions of the aesthetic experience of literature as a driving force of intellectual engagement.

"Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History," June 6–7, 2024

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:28am
American Philosophical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it.

IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:27am
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, a peer-reviewed journal published by the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, welcomes submissions of creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short dramatic pieces, and literary journalism), as well as scholarly essays in all fields of English studies.

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference, 2025: Oceanic Melville

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
The Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference

University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA

Dates: June 16-19, 2025

 

Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024

 

Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville

 

Meditation and water are wedded forever.

Moby-Dick, Chapter 1

 

The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible

for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. They are in trouble.

Call for Papers – Colour Turn: Interdisciplinary Journal of Colour Research

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
Colour Turn: Interdisciplinary Journal of Colour Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 8, 2024

Colour Turn invites abstracts on all areas of colour research and colour science. This includes research in the humanities and natural sciences. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary papers are also welcome.

Please send a 250-word abstract to submission[at]colourturn.net by Monday, April 8.
Please be sure to include your name, contact details and the title of the paper in your abstract.

For more information on the concept of the journal and our submission guidelines, please visit our website at colourturn.net.

About Colour Turn

Call for Papers on South Asian Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
Journal of South Asian Exchanges
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

ies and Social Sciences

Menu Call for Papers on South Asian Studies 

The Journal of South Asian Exchanges invites original research papers, theoretical studies, book reviews, and review articles on a wide range of topics related to South Asia. The journal is open to scholars, academics, and practitioners who are interested in discussing and deliberating on the path to South Asia in 2024 and the potential futures of South Asia. The journal will cover a wide range of themes, including but not limited to:

Tales of Resistance and Resilience: Cinemascapes from Contemporary India

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 11:22pm
Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Cinema in contemporary India has been evolving in multifarious ways, technological innovations and the multiplicity of digital platforms significantly altering the experience of film production and reception. Apart from the mainstream Hindi cinema that enjoyed a national viewership till recent times, regional films have also emerged as popular forms of entertainment across the nation. Popular Indian cinema is being redefined and in this new environment, regional content is appreciated, new genres are welcomed, and a new viewing experience is well appreciated. Film production methods have also changed radically, with independent films gaining in popularity especially among the urban audience.

Gender and the Public Sphere

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 4:21pm
Texas Tech Women's & Gender Studies Program
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 4, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Texas Tech University’s 40th Women’s & Gender Studies annual spring conference, to be held on April 11, 2024, invites submissions on the theme Gender and The Public Sphere. Organizers seek proposals for individual papers or panels on topics related to gendered public discourses, the representations of gender in public life and popular culture, and all the nuanced meanings of Jurgen Habermas’s twentieth-century concept of the “public sphere” as it relates to emerging research on gender and sexuality. The conference seeks to explore questions such as:

Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 2:45pm
Pharos University, University of New Mexico, and Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 5, 2024

Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism

Pharos University in Alexandria, Egypt – in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the University of New Mexico, USA–cordially invites you to participate in its international conference titled “Rethinking Marginality: Inclusion and Ableism,” to be held onsite from 1 – 2 March 2024.

Special Issue of Post45, "Race and Animality Reconsidered"

updated: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 1:21pm
Samantha Pergadia and Alex Alston
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

We are proposing a special issue of Post-45 Journal, titled “Race and Animality Reconsidered.” In light of a host of recent interventions and discourses emerging from Black studies, postcolonial studies, environmental studies, and other fields, this special issue seeks to highlight contemporary work on the entanglements of racialization or racialized gendering and animalization, including what this means for the material lives of human and nonhuman animals since WWII.

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