CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Annual Conference

Race & Ethnicity Studies

Deadline: April 30, 2023

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

Call for East Asia Popular Culture Full Essays! 7-8000 words, including all citations in Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date)

We have a publishing project in development with Cambridge Scholars Publishing and need a few supplementary chapters to round out our volume.

Deadline: Monday, March 27th

Contact: Vivienne Tailor vivienne.tailor@cgu.edu

*Topics should focus on East Asian Popular Culture media and social phenomena from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Call for Abstracts for Edited Volume - New Religious Movements in Romantic and Victorian Print Culture

Type: Call for Papers

Deadline for Submissions: May 1, 2023

Subject Fields: History of the Book / History of Literature and Culture / Print Culture / Religious Studies/ Gender Studies / Transatlanticism / Romanticism / Victorian Studies

New Religious Movements in Romantic and Victorian Print Culture

(Edited by Abby Clayton and Colby Townsend)

Forms of (More Than) Human Relationality - Call for Papers

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes of the previous successful conferences, Celebrating Crime Fiction will consider and reflect upon the growing interest in Crime Fiction scholarship over the past decade. We are particularly interested in examining the changes in the landscape of crime fiction study through the years of our Captivating Criminality conferences. The study of crime fiction has now emerged as a vital thread with the capacity to transform interdisciplinary academic discourse.

What is the translator’s place within a body of literature, and how do we, as translators, navigate our place? How do translators share space with authors, editors, and audiences? Place is not only static, but dynamic: just as languages do not remain fixed in place, the place of translation is also constantly shifting and evolving. How does translation sit within and move across visible boundaries and invisible barriers? In what ways are we as translators grounded and supported, and in what ways are we trying to break free from what is deemed to be our place?

International conference

November 27-28, 2023

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid ES

The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities. As Lee Bebout (2016) has highlighted discussing the US–Mexico border, representations of frontiers, the “other side,” and the people inhabiting these regions have been historically deployed to construct a dominant national identity—often exploiting, invisiblizing, or neglecting local identities in the process.

Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media
Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Keynote Speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz
Date: September 23-24

The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce “Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media,” its twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference, which will be held virtually on September 23–24, 2023. 

Categorically Resistant: Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body at 50

The priority deadline for abstract proposals is April 1

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, 50th Anniversary Convening

November 1-4, 2023 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.

Please see: www.jsums.edu/philliswheatley/

In On Being Female, Black, and Free, Margaret Walker astutely acknowledges the impact of Black women writers and their unfortunate invisibility in the canon. Owing to an unwillingness to see their blackness and their womanness as anything other than a hindrance, the mainstream attempts to erase their contributions.

The UCL English Graduate Conference will take place in person at UCL on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. This year’s conference theme is ‘The Unexpected’. Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to theunexpected.conference@gmail.com by April 17, 2023, along with a short biography.

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future...which refers to someone whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future.That which is totally unpredictable.”

–Derrida in Derrida (2002)

UW Seattle
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, October 4th — Friday, October 6th, 2023

UW Bothell
Bothell, WA 

Saturday, October 7, 2023

ΤΕΚΜΗΡΙΑ, 1 

Greeks in the Archaic Age: Institutions, Interactions, Traditions

On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

With the sixteenth issue of On_Culture, we want to explore various approaches to reading cultural artifacts and events in an attempt to answer the question: What are the affordances of particular forms of reading and what do they bring forth? While the ability to decipher words and distinguish individual characters is perceived as a key skill and taught from an early age, philosophical traditions introduce us to critical approaches to interpreting broader cultural phenomena.