The “Collecting and Collectibles Area” of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on “AI in Collecting” for the National PCA/ACA Conference to be held April 16-19, 2025 in New Orleans, USA. We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “AI in Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles and their galleries/museums respond to the recent digital shifts and the tectonic evolution of AI technologies.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

“Approaching Dystopia”

Call for Papers

Graduate Students in English Interdisciplinary Conference 2025

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, April 5 - 6, 2025

Conference online: 10-11 October 2024

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland

Professor Paulo Endo – University of São Paulo, Brazil

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The 12th International Conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)

                                            31 October- 1 November 2024

(hybrid format)

Panel on Affective Tonalities and Aesthetic Moods

In academia, what has come to be called “the affective turn” of the 1990s—surfacing in the wake of a “performative turn” that arguably originated in the 1940s and 1950s— was first used in the works of feminist scholars such as Patricia Clough and Lauren Berlant. Indeed, the affective turn has sparked generative debates, consonances, dissonances, and intense exchanges of views on a broad range of issues such as (post)critique, (non)intentionality, rational actor theory, and agency across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Surrealism and Arts-Based Research
Bridging the Imagination and Reality Divide
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/06/surrealism2024/

Conference Dates: September 30-October 1, 2024
Location: Online

Proposal Deadline: September 7, 2024
Conference fee: 90 GBP

Call for Papers

André Breton, one of the founding figures of Surrealism, emphasizes the transformative and disruptive power of Surrealist art and thought in his famous quote:

Call for Papers for 5th International e-Conference

Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences

Conference Dates: 4th October – 05th October, 2024 (Friday & Saturday)

To be Organized by

New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

in collaboration with

Our proposed collection, Unsettling the Lyric, invites interdisciplinary perspectives on the possibilities, as well as the problems, of the lyric as an essential site for reexamining the histories of Indigenous-settler relations and how we express them in the present. As Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) argues, “poetry is a particularly compelling literary form for confronting the ruptures of history and the fragmenting effects of settler colonialism.” And the lyric especially  remains as ubiquitous as it is contested.

Otherness in crime novel. From Agatha Christie to contemporary British and American authors crime novel use Otherness in characters to both distract and create social and political commentary. This panel will discuss those characters and their impact and encourages papers embracing a wide definition of otherness.

This panel discussion encourages papers exploring otherness in its many forms.

Session Chair: John Coffey, SUNY Binghamton

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60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8-10, 2025.

ICMS, May 8-10, 2025 - Global Petrarch(s) and Petrarchism(s) – *in person session*

4th International Poe and Hawthorne Conference: Dis/embodiment

Paris, France

July 1-4, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers

Richard Kopley, Penn State-Dubois: “Tales of a Poe Biographer” 

Joel Pfister, Wesleyan University: “Why Read Hawthorne Now?”

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville Campus

October 17 10:00 – 4:00 CDT

October 18 10:00 – 4:00 CDT

Hybrid Conference – In Presence and Online

CFP SUBMISSIONS DUE September 15, 2024 by 11:59pm PST

Sex,Lies & Embodiment

'Phrases I would like to strike from the English language: “speaking my truth” and “my journey.”'

—Katya Zamolodchikova, in conversation with Trixie Mattel, I Like to Watch (2019)

'If gender attributes and acts, the various ways in which a body shows or produces its cultural signification, are performative, then there is no preexisting identity by which an act or attribute might be measured; there would be no true or false, real or distorted acts of gender, and the postulation of a true gender identity would be revealed as a regulatory fiction.'

—Judith Butler, Gender Trouble (London: Routledge, 1999 [1990]), p. 180.