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Call for Chapters on FX Channel Original Documentary and Reality TV Series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 9:04am
David Pierson, University of Southern Maine & Brian Faucette, Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute USA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

This is a call for chapters on the following FX Channel documentary and reality TV series: Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days (2005), New York Times Presents (2020-2023), AKA Jane Roe (2020), Welcome to Wrexham (2022-present), and The Secrets of Hillsong (2023) for an edited book collection (The FX Reader), which is under a two-volume book contract with Syracuse University Press.  This collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
Tim Groenland and Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 3, 2025

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland

17-20 June 2025

Keynote Speakers –    Prof. Sarah Brouillette (Carleton University)

                                 Prof. Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

»Queer Comics«

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)

Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«

Open Call for Submissions

The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Sapienza Summer School 2025: "The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism", IV Edition.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
Alessandra Crotti
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Adaptation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025

Scope

Edited Collection: Henry V in the World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Philip Goldfarb Styrt / St. Ambrose University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

This collection of essays seeks to explore the many new and cutting-edge directions surrounding the scholarship of Henry V, especially related to global, transnational, and other approaches that connect the play to wider contexts than those in which it has been traditionally read. Henry V is a play that has long been read in terms of internal self-fashioning: both England’s and Henry’s own. What happens to the play as we look outwards from it towards the wider world, both early modern and contemporary, with which it engages? This collection looks to explore how we read Henry V now, both as an artifact of the past and as a living work still available for adaptation, interpretation, and re-use.

PHILOSOPHY AND ITS FORM -- Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Duquesne University Graduate Students in Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Philosophy and its Form

Throughout its history, philosophy has appeared in myriad forms: Plato’s dialogues; Montaigne’s Essais; Nietzsche’s aphorisms; Rosa Luxemburg’s Lectures; Simone de Beauvoir’s journalism, travelogs, and novels; Aimé Césaire’s dramas; and Fred Moten’s poetry collections. This is before we recognize the variety of styles employed by philosophers within more traditional essay forms: Benjamin’s critical biographies of Beaudelaire, Deleuze’s Plateaus, and W. E. B. DuBois’ interpolation of musical passages in The Souls of Black Folk.

Call for Completed Chapters - Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Playing Nice: Sincerity and Irony in Television

Edited by Owen Cantrell and Sage Westfall

Deadline for Submission: ASAP

We are urgently looking for at least one more completed essay for this collection under contract with a fast-approaching deadline. Please submit a 300-word abstract for a previously unpublished paper which is already or nearly complete. If accepted, we are looking to review your chapter and edit it within weeks, not months.

Full chapters should be between 6-8K words in length.

Collection details:

Liminal Prospects

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:39am
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Date: May 23 - 25, 2025
Call for Papers | Liminal Prospects
Location: Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario & Online Submissions due: January 8, 2025

The Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature (QGCL) seeks academic abstracts and creative pieces for its 2025 conference on the theme of “Liminal Prospects.”

ReFocus: The Films of Guru Dutt

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:23pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Undead Souths at 10: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 6:54pm
American Literature Association Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

American Literature Association / Boston / May 21-24, 2025

This roundtable celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the edited collection Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Panelists are invited to reflect on the book's impact and/or to explore the presence and pervasiveness of "undead souths" beyond what the book discusses.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:53pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:52pm
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Call for Book Chapters on Shakespeare Biofiction

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:03pm
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota) and Edel Semple (University College Cork)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters: 

 

Special Issue: 'Divest'

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 12:13pm
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

DIVEST.

IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 11:20am
International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 MAY 23-25, 2025, VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM

THEME: IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE

SUBTHEMES: Psychohistorical Insights On

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:59am
Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, March 7–8, 2025. 

 

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

Last Call: Refocus: The Films of Gregg Araki

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:26am
Arnau Roig-Mora / Universitat Pompeu Fabra
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Producer, director, and screenwriter Gregg Araki is a pivotal figure in independent film, known for his distinctive style and contributions to New Queer Cinema. Despite his inclusion in such cinematic movement thanks to The Living End (1992), and his rise to fame with the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993-1997), Araki's explorations of a more mainstream style and his incursions in television directing have garnered little critical and academic attention, except for his 2004 adaptation of the novel Mysterious Skin and his win of the first ever Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm in 2010 for his film Kaboom.

Sustainable Translation in the Age of Knowledge Extraction, Generation and (Re)Creation الترجمة المستدامة في عصر استخلاص المعرفة وتوليدها وإعادة إنتاجها

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:26am
IATIS; Sultan Qaboos University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Following successful conferences in Seoul (2004), Cape Town (2006), Melbourne (2009), Belfast (2012), Belo Horizonte (2015), Hong Kong (2018) and Barcelona, (2021), IATIS is pleased to announce its call for panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, and artistic initiative proposals for its eighth conference to be held at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, 10 – 13 Dec 2025.
Conference Theme

Convocatoria permanente de artículos para la Revista Liminal

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:25am
Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo Ugarte Chamorro” (ENSAD)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 13, 2024

La Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo garte Chamorro” (ENSAD), hoy Universidad de Arte Escénico (UNAE), invita a la comunidad académica dedicada a la crítica y estudio de las artes escénicas a presentar sus artículos de investigación (en castellano y en inglés) para su publicación en la revista Liminal. Los artículos de investigación deben cumplir los estándares y requisitos de publicación de la revista: http://revistas.ensad.edu.pe/index.php/liminal/directrices

Si necesita mayor información puede escribirnos al siguiente correo electrónico: revistas@ensad.edu.pe

Call for Special Issues - Revista Hispánica Moderna

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:19am
Revista Hispánica Moderna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

Astrology in Focus: Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 6:02pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Astrology in Focus:
Navigating Art, Psyche, and Knowledge
A Transdisciplinary Conference
January 12-14, 2025

 

Call for Papers:

Proposal Submission Deadline: December 5, 2024
Proposal Form: https://forms.gle/cJAzkPYfKhJJNbWK7
Format: Online
Plenary Speakers: TBC
Fee: 100 GBP 

“Astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”, Carl Jung

Women who Create 2025: the Feminine and the Arts

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 6:00pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The London Arts-Based Research Centre

Women who Create: the Feminine and the Arts
A Transdisciplinary Conference

March 29-31, 2025

Where:
March 29-30: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 31: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline January 10, 2025

[ACCUTE 2025] Beyond Trauma (Studies)?

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 4:39pm
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

70th Anniversary ICLA Congress-Seoul

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:20am
AILC-International Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 7, 2025

2025 ICLA Congress-Seoul 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: 

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