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Caring, Taking care

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
University of Palermo, Cultures and Societies Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

What do ‘caring’ and ‘taking care of’ mean? To what extent are ‘caring’ and ‘taking care of’ similar or different from a theoretical and practical point of view? In which contexts are they situated and to what extent do they depend on other contexts? In this conference, we will consider questions about ‘caring’ and ‘taking caring of’ – possibly connecting or differentiating them – in a broad sense, by opening a dialogue about their definitions in different disciplines and subjects, on their roles in various contexts with both humans and non-human actors, and on the way in which ‘caring’ and ‘taking caring of’ establish relationships with other features that define existence, the ordinary and the extraordinary facts of living.

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
Dr Peter Adkins (Uni. of Edinburgh) & Dr Malcolm Cook (Uni. of Southampton)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2024

Call for Proposals for Online Symposium: Crude Representations: BP and the Cultural Imagination of Oil

Online Symposium Friday 24th January 2025

Keynote Speaker: Mona Damluji, Assistant Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Oil is a cultural as well as material product. It is now pervasive in every aspect of modern life: transport, energy, communications and media, pharmaceuticals, farming, food ingredients and packaging, homes. As many scholars in the energy and environmental humanities have demonstrated, to understand our current dependence on oil and enact decarbonisation we need to contend with its cultural dimensions.

Reconstructing the Electronic Superhighway: Radical Media Art and Techno-Community at the Margins of the Global Village

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 10:00am
CAA 2025 Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 29, 2024

“Whose global village?” asks Ramesh Srinivasan of the inequalities characteristic of “ubiquitous” computing in his eponymous 2017 book. The scholar reconstitutes Marshall McLuhan’s famed notion of a global village forged by telecommunications media in the shadow of the digital divide. Srinivasan’s question of how peoples othered by an infrastructure built for wealthy Western consumers might otherwise forge techno-community is only more urgent in the wake of a global pandemic; communications blackouts; and heavy reliance on conflict minerals. Yet, it is a question that artists have sought to answer since at least the mid-20th century.

Meta+Physics of Black Artmaking

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:33am
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP – “META+PHYSICS OF BLACK ARTMAKING”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 1, Spring 2026

Sustainable Publishing Special Issue

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:33am
The Goose: A Journal of Arts, Environment, and Culture in Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne

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The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:32am
Routledge South Asian Literature Series
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

deadline for submissions: 

August 25, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Assistant Professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow at Jadavpur University)

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

 

International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:32am
Karen Wang/GLECC2025 organising committee
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

The first International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) is going to be held 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2025/)

The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.

Fair Use

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

CFP – “FAIR USE”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9, no. 2, Fall 2025

LOOKING FOR PODCAST GUEST(S): 90s SWING DANCE REVIVAL

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
THE NOSTALGIA TEST PODCAST
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024

CALLING ALL POP-CULTURE SCHOLARS!!!! 

I'm one half of the pop-culture podcast The Nostalgia Test Podcast. We are a comedy podcast that revists pop-culture from our childhood to see if it's still good, just nostalgic, or terrible! 

We have a series we do called Nostalgia 101 where we have professionals, industry people, directors, innovators, and scholars come on to teach us about a specific pop-culture topic. 

We recently decided we would LOVE to have on one or more (a small panel of scholars, like up to 3 would be cool) scholars to come on and teach us/talk about the 90s revival of swing dance and swing music. 

We usually record for about an hour, though we love to let the conversation build if it's going well. 

Victorian Energies: Special Journal Issue CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
Victorian Review
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century"Victorian Review Special Issue 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Blackface Performances in Latin America and the Caribbean

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:29am
2025 NeMLA Panel Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel, organized by Chisu Teresa Ko (Ursinus College) and Danielle Roper (University of Chicago), invites papers that further the study and theorization of blackface and racial impersonation in Latin America and the Caribbean across various historical periods, genres and forms. As both a racial archive and racial project, blackface performance is the instrument through which people make sense of changes around them— advancements and reversals in racial equality, demographic and political shifts, and (re-) imaginations of national identity.

Twenty-third Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:29am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Call for Papers

 

 

Twenty-third Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

October 22-23, 2024

THEME: BORDERS AND MIGRATIONS

Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Concurrent sessions

 

11 AM EST Keynote address: “Passport Power: Time, borders, and migrations”

                   Noora A. Lori, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Relations,

                   Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

Let’s Talk about the ‘Hidden Curriculum’: Graduate Student Q&A

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:28am
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CfP: Let’s Talk about the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ (Roundtable) 

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6 - 9, 2025

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 through NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21038

 

Subtle Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirabilis at NeMLA

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Dr. Galen Bunting (Northeastern University) and Dr. Jared Young (SUNY Orange Community College) / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"Suble Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirablis" invites abstract submissions for our panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia). A centennial has passed since 1925, a watershed year of subtle Modernist revolution. If we look to 1925 as a year of subtle Modernist revolution, where Modernist literature found its footing as a revolutionary art movement, what symbols, patterns, or commentaries emerge through the exercise of Modernist techniques? Moreover, where has this revolutionary movement engendered revolutions–the cycling and recycling of certain formal interventions? What writing practices still echo through contemporary literature today and what are their implications?

NeMLA 2025 Seminar CfP: Research Colloquium for Graduate Students in German Studies (Philadelphia, PA)

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Veronica Williamson / University of Michigan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for Papers:

Writing both shorter (forum posts, book reviews, and seminar papers) and longer pieces (dissertations and book-length manuscripts) is an integral part of any graduate program in the Humanities. Yet many candidates find themselves completing these pursuits as an end point, rather than as part of a larger journey. Some, for example, may find the process too focused on traditional methods of publishing, while others may find themselves yearning to submit selected works to academic journals. As a result, researching and writing do not look or feel the same for everyone, and no single mentor can fulfill every need of any single candidate or scholar.

Narrative: Identity, Temporality, and Interdisciplinarity

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
56th NeMLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Scholars of postmodern philosophy have developed a notion that “narration constitutes an act of forming identity further and suggests that a human being needs a life story in order to develop fully as a person” (Meyers 2018). Postmodern literature challenges traditional narrative conventions by embracing a more fragmented, non-linear, and self-referential narrative style (Zaidi & Khurram (2020). This shift can be viewed as a revolutionary dissent against modernism's emphasis on coherence and narrative closure or evolving narrative forms to reflect changing temporal experiences.

Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Anna Dini, UC Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies sponsored by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo. The deadline for submissions is September 15, and the conference will take place from May 8-10, 2025 on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Please note that this panel is a traditional in-person session.

Session #5940

Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean

Organizers: Catherine Bloomer and Anna Dini

CFP Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Michael A Torregrossa /Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

 

Session Information

The Arthurian story is one of rise, fall, and promised return. 

 

SCMS 2025 roundtable CFP: De-centering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

This roundtable titled Monster on the Hill: Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror is interested in questions facing the Horror Genre in its new contemporary era. In the wake of “Black Horror” being deemed “America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre” by the New York Times, and the success of auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Nia Dacosta, Iris K. Shim, and more, we seek to think through what are the most important questions facing those reinventing the horror genre in ways that de-center a white western lens? How might we conceptualize horror as a genre that demands both solidarity and betrayal from its viewers, while unifying marginalized populations across the global south and north?

Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 (Pacific Time)

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

“London Calling”: The British Capital in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:02am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.

London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

“Love Conquers All”: Exploring the Popular Culture Phenomenon of Bridgerton

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual conference exploring all things Bridgerton to be held online on Thursday 30th January 2025.

From a popular book series to the Netflix phenomenon, Bridgerton has captured the public imagination, courted scandal and dazzled readers and audiences with a glittering reimagining of regency London.

We welcome papers from researchers across the academic spectrum and encourage papers from postgraduate researchers and early career researchers. We welcome individual papers, panels and round table submissions. Papers from this conference will have the opportunity to be in our sister journal The International Journal of Popular Culture Studies.

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

“Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh Discourse”

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 6:24am
Sikh Formations Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Special Forum on “Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh and South Asian Discourse”

Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory

 

Edited by Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine and 

Rishi Ramesh Gune, Doctoral Student in Culture and Theory, UC Irvine 

Submissions Due: October 1st, 2024

Publication: Rolling Basis 

 

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 12:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:41pm
Brooke Cameron and Noah Gallego
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

 

Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024

Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com

Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)

“What about It?”: Science, Nature, Self, and Cummings' Modernist Aesthetics  (9/5/16; Louisville, 2/23-25/17)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:13pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 5, 2016

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.

“living said”: Modernist Rhythm, Visual Form, and Cummings' Cultural Aesthetics

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2017

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 46th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2018, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).  Taking up what Cummings means by “my specialty is living said,” this session explores Cummings’ various modernist/avant-gardist experiments with rhythm and sound that came to shape his new art and new poetry.

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