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Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JULY 6
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2024 Annual Conference, November 7-9, 2024 in Atlantic City, NJ
UPDATED: Deadline has been extended to Sunday, July 7th!
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“Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)
April 2024
Call for Papers
CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit
A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor
San Diego State University
The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 15, 2024.
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Call for Contributions – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2
THEME: UNKNOWN(s)
“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.
UPDATED Call for Papers: Preternatural in Popular Culture
Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
2024 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Nichols College (Dudley, MA) and Zoom, 3-5 October 2024
Proposals due by 1 July 2024
The Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) invites submissions under the general theme of the Preternatural in Popular Culture.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference which will be held online and in person at Nichols College, MA, October 3 – 5, 2024. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Saturday but will be also be available via Zoom for participation of our many colleagues.
This panel proposes an exploration of how the early 20th-century avant-garde movements, renowned for their radical innovations, drew profound inspiration from esoteric practices such as theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, mysticism, and Kabbalah. The focus will be on examining how these seemingly disparate worlds converged, shaping artistic production across various disciplines.
Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University
Presents
A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode on
Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos
(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)
Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.
Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos
(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)
Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.
For a special issue on early African American literature and religion, Early American Studies (UPenn) seek article-length contributions on how 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualized religion beyond the telos of the nation-state. The roles of religion and religious thought in early Black culture have often been understood within the dualistic frame of resistance whereby Christianity, the dominant religion of colonial and antebellum American society, is both employed by masters to subjugate the enslaved and employed by the slaved to resist their masters’ subjugation of them.
Note: The Journal of Global South Studies (University of Florida Press) has shown interest in publishing this special issue
Concept Note
We are inviting proposals for 20-minute conference papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s famous 1985 dystopia. The novel was published during Ronald Reagan’s troubled presidency, which witnessed second-wave feminism, anti-pornography, pro-life and pro-legal abortion campaigns, but the first season of the adaptation was likewise released during troubled times, a few months after the controversial election of Donald Trump as the 50th President of the USA, which created an equally tense political scene. Women across the world were protesting for female and human rights, often dressed in the now iconic Handmaid’s costume.
Vernon Press invites book chapter proposals for the forthcoming edited volume “Mary Shelley’s The Last Man and Global Issues”, edited by Reyam Rammahi.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Saturday at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
NEPCA is a conference that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be shared, as well as completed projects.
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Men at the Margins: Decolonising Masculinity and Intersectionality
Edited collection for Routledge - Editors: Sofia Aboim (University of Lisbon), Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (University College Dublin)
Call For Papers
Williams Wells Brown: A Man of Letters
“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024
This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.
Date:
Venue:
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming, international, in-person conference, "Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives."
The continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political repressions, crackdowns on LGBTQ+, women’s, ethnic and religious communities’ rights, environmental crises, and the ramifications of colonial legacies have marked the past several years in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. While indispensable academic research is being carried out to investigate various forms of political, social, cultural, and economic oppression and violence, it is crucial to highlight positive alternatives nurtured in these hostile contexts.
Many of the theoretical fundamentals developed for literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century have become less efficacious. In recent decades, scholars have, indeed, investigated the transformations of storytelling and cultural consumption in the digital age. However, this issue looks to further explore the future of literary and cultural studies from a world-systems perspective with a focus on the alterations of novelistic narratives in the larger context of the supplanting of liberal, humanistic, sense-making mechanisms by computational regimes of meaning.
We are looking for one (maybe two) last Chpaters to complete a critical volume entitled, When American Television Became American Literature.
ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat
Edited by Maryam Ghorbankarimi (University of Lancaster) and Mazyar Mahan (University of Texas at Dallas)
CFP: Renaissance Society of America
Boston, MA
20-22 March 2025
Torquato Tasso
Organizers:
- Francesco Brenna (Towson University)
- Kate Driscoll (Duke University)
- Corrado Confalonieri (Università di Parma)
- Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College)
Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture
19-20 September 2024
Deadline for submissions: an abstract of 200 to 250 words should be sent by 7 July 2024.
Conference venue: Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Genova, Italy
The academic journal, Textures, plans to publish a special issue in hauntology. This project aims at collecting articles in literature and/or history that reflect the multicultural and multilingual approach of the Foreign Literatures and Civilisations (LCE) Research Laboratory at Lumière Lyon 2 University.
https://publications-prairial.fr/textures/
The Foreign Literatures and Civilisations (LCE) Research Laboratory at Lumière Lyon 2 University organises a conference on “Phantoms in Rites, Myths, and Discourse” on February 13-14, 2025. For the purpose of this conference, we invite scholars from various disciplines belonging to human sciences, and from various geographical and cultural areas, to study the figure of the ghost under its variegated forms, appearances, and representations (whether they are anthropological, artistic, political, linguistic, or else), from ghosts that we ourselves fashion to ghosts who fashion who we are.
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.
Call for Papers: Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities (Chiang Mai University)
Theme: Art, Politics, and Society in Asia
The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, Chiang Mai University, is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue which will be published at the end of November 2024 on the theme of "Art, Politics, and Society in Asia".
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.