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Film Journal invites submissions for thematic issues to be published in 2026, 2027, 2028. We are looking for thematic issues that offer new perspectives on film history, theory, narrative and aesthetics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Psychology and Popular Culture AREA
2025 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCiATION NATIONAL Conference
New ORLEANS MARRIOT – April 16-19, 2025
https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 NOVEMBER 2024
Inviting English translations of Telugu short stories for an edited anthology of Contemporary Telugu Short Stories (published between 1975-2024) to be published by Antonym Publications, Kolkata. The translated stories need to be between 1000 and 5000 words.Please mail details of the story you plan to translate by the 15th of October 2024.The translated stories need to be mailed in word format (Times New Roman, 12 font, double spaced) to pulunishi@gmail.com within 31st December 2024. Please add a brief bio of both the author and the translator.
Guest editors: Nathan Ashman (University of East Anglia) and Steven Powell (University of Liverpool)
Call for Papers
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Call for Papers
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic))”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
NB! Abstracts have to be submitted through the ACLA webpage. Go to https://www.acla.org/aesthetic-experience-reading-practices-and-literary... and click the link at the top pf the CfP
We invite abstract submissions for contributions to a themed issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (JAS) on "Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship." Co-Edited by Krystal Carter, Tammy Clemons, and Rachel Terman, we especially invite contributions from authors who identify as early-career and/or underrepresented scholars, but submissions from all are welcome.
This creative session invites readings or performances of original work that experiments with, challenges, and/or disturbs received notions of structure and narrative form. Short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, diaries, fragments, literary collages, project-books, graphic commentaries, prose poetry, and other stylized word-beings that purposefully question, expand, and/or play with what narrativity is and can do are welcome here.
In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?
UniNewsletter is a new digital magazine dedicated to sharing higher ed news and research innovations, as well as establishing connections between diverse global educational institutions. We publish general issues quarterly (September; December; February; June) with additional special editions on specific topics. Each issue we engage academic, industry, leadership, student and more voices to foster intercultural dialogue and showcase developments, pedagogies, and campus life at some of the world’s most eminent universities.
The twentieth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Lancaster University, on 10th – 12th April 2025 in person.
The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television) and science (including medicine and technology). The BSLS remains committed to supporting and showcasing work on all aspects of literature and science.
Myth and Fairy Tales
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline:October 31, 2024
2025 will be a milestone year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Maryland Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant.
The AGM theme: Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenelia, & Surviving Letters
Date: Oct. 10-12, 2025
Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore MD
DEADLINE EXTENDED: September 30, 2024
How the World Turns: Scientific Revolutions and Colonization
We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024!
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"
Dates: March 14-16, 2025
Location: Arizona State University
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024
David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on world literature and has been widely expanded upon by scholars. Building on this foundation, Tong King Lee (2024) proposes that in today’s globalized context, circulating literature necessitates not only a mode of reading but also a mode of doing. In this view, a literary work becomes a Barthian Text—an interconnected network of “texts” that manifest in various forms (multilingual, multimodal, or multimedial), shaped by users rather than just readers.
CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies
American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject.
Among other things, authors might:
African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 43) with a focus on “Afrifuturism” and hereby calls for well-researched articles for the volume. One of the more recent genres in African literature is Afrifuturism. It is a relatively new concept introduced by the Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy novelist, Nnedi Okorafor. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the thematic engagement of writers in this field of writing.
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots.
Writing has always been one step in the future. From emojis to slang to song, writing has momentum, and it is up to us - as artists, researchers and educators - to find ways of moving with it. In the light of emerging concerns about technology’s cultural impact, and the changing relevance of traditional writing techniques, how might our practices and pedagogies adapt to this shifting interdisciplinarity? What might this look like in contexts where writing exists alongside other forms of artistic communication, such as classrooms, institutions and interdisciplinary practices? How do preexisting notions of art and writing change as technologies and platforms demand new forms of engagement?
We are pleased to announce that the Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) will take place on Saturday May 3rd, 2025.
Alison McQueen (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address.
We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words on any topic or geographic area so long as it substantively engages with the timeframe. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and they must not yet have a PhD.
Submission deadline: January 10th, 2025 at midnight PST. Accepted speakers will be notified in February 2025.
PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2023
PCA/ACA will be held from April 16-19th, 2025 in New Orleans, LA
Paper jam: Nonhuman Cultures of the Air and Oceans
Looking back from 2014, when ecocriticism discussed “culture as such in the last decade and a half, it has often been in the process of contesting a view of nature as a cultural construction. …In this tired debate, ecocritics, busy refuting an erasure of nature, and other theorists, busy asserting the primacy of culture, both end up affirming the essentialist idea of culture at the core of this binary and the humanities. The persistence of this formulation of culture is the most pressing philosophical problem for ecocriticism and green studies, and critical and cultural theory generally” (Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture).
Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal Janki Devi Memorial College
University of Delhi
eISSN 2583 - 4762
Call For Papers
Issue V: Disability Studies
Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762.
War is hell but can also be funny, whether as a safety valve from pressure or catharsis after tragedy, as subversion, as efforts to build and maintain morale, or as exercises in nostalgia. Cinema early discovered the comedy inherent to conflict including the immensely successful 1920 film Alf’s Button, made just after and set during the First World War and notable as being popular despite (or because of) making comedy about the recent war. Comedy about war has since proliferated and writing and themes continue to respond to and adapt themselves to changing global and political circumstances including comedy responding to the Global War on Terror.
Here come the clowns: critical essays on the circus of popular culture
CFP 35th LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space
Lousiana State University | February 26-28, 2025 | Hybrid Format
It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.—Anne Rice
The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.—Nikola Tesla
AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Date and Location: April 16-18, 2025 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois
Abstracts: 150 word abstracts are due November 1, 2024. Send to Dr. Katherine Ellison at keellis@ilstu.edu
The Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for the 2025 annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2025.
We seek proposals from researchers, academics, graduate students, and independent scholars for scholarly discussions on all aspects and periods of mystery and detective fiction. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged, including cultural studies, visual arts, media studies, audience reception and fan studies.