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Call for Papers: ChLA Accessibility Committee Guaranteed Session 2025
No ‘Shortcuts’: Creating Spaces for Disability Communities
DEADLINE EXTENDED - Friday 29th November 2024
CFP: Playing Games in the American Environmental Literature classroom
Panel at ALA 2025 in Boston
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
Call for Papers, ALA 2025, Boston
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) plans to offer three panels.
One panel, “New Directions,” will provide an opportunity for innovative thinking on new and old topics.
This first panel will give priority to early career scholars—untenured faculty, newly-minted PhDs, and graduate students writing dissertations.
The second panel will be open-ended, but we will be especially interested in papers focusing on comic artifacts in digital formats, e. g. texts and images produced by generative AI, memes, viral videos, comment threads in social media platforms or websites.
The American Humor Studies Association (AHSA) is putting together a pre-constituted panel for submission to the 2025 Console-ing Passions conference, held at Georgia State University in Atlanta from June 27-29, 2025.
hosted online on 15–16 January 2025, at 11 am (+2 GMT)
Anyone, then, who has tasted fairy fruit walks through life beside other people to a different tune from theirs.
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC)
September 12-14, 2025
Strong Museum of Play
Rochester, NY
The Conference on BIPOC Game Studies (C-BIPOC) is a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of gaming culture, technology, and the experiences of BIPOC communities worldwide. Our aim is to provide a space for scholars, game developers, industry professionals, and enthusiasts to engage in critical discussions, share research findings, and foster collaboration in the field. The conference is Sept 12-14, 2025 at the Strong Museum of Play .
Hi all,
There is just two days left to submit your abstract for MultiPlay's conference, Games in the Zeitgeist, taking place online 28th January 2025, 6pm GMT.
CFP SPECIAL ISSUE OF ANGLES - NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE ANGLOPHONE WORLD
PUBLICATION DATE: APRIL 2027
THE LIVES AND AFTERLIVES OF COOKIE MUELLER: TALES, KINSHIPS, PERSISTENCE
Critical hegemony tracing the start of the Second Golden Age of Television to the release of HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999 means that several properties released before that time have flown under the academic radar. Oz (1997-2003), the first serial drama ever produced by HBO, contains all the tightly plotted storytelling and enhanced aesthetics Alexis Pichard defines as key features of Golden Age television, and achieved the required level of popular success with both audiences and critics.
A Bigger Boat: The Resurgence and Evolution of Sharksploitation Movies in the 21st Century
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series
Series Editor: Heather Ostman
The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:
The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research.
See full CFP at link for further details.
CFP for Special Session Panel
American Literature Association Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, Massachusetts
Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the
past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various
facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of
readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the
Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and
Call for Papers
Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!
April 3-6, 2025
Hosted by Cal State LA
Conference Theme: MELUS Outside
Deadline for Abstracts: December 6, 2024
The theme of the 2025 MVSA conference is "Genealogies." The conference dates are April 3-6, 2025, and the location is Fort Wayne, IN. Please see the conference page here.
MVSA Conference Seminars are small, with eight to ten participants each. Participants exchange work to read ahead of the 2025 conference and meet in a closed, collaborative session to discuss overlaps in their papers, refine their ideas, and think about how to move their work forward.
Inspired by Fort Wayne’s proximity to the Allen County Library, with its large genealogical center, MVSA 2025 takes the theme of “Genealogies.” We encourage participants to think about origins and descent broadly speaking and across disciplines. Genealogies were powerful scientific tools or narrative red herrings, and they were also sources of anxiety for Victorians. Of course, people have genealogies, but so do ideas, artistic forms, and texts, including scholarly concepts and methods themselves. MVSA invites proposals for papers that present, interrogate, explore, celebrate, and puncture material and textual genealogies.
Papers Might Take up Issues Including, but not Limited to:
The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are at in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism—physio-psycho- socio-affectio-logically—but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment.
Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association
CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference
Call for Papers
College English Association - Mid-Atlantic Group
67th Annual Conference – 14 March 2025 – Call for Papers
Conference Location:The University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
The literature of early medieval England, both Old English and Anglo-Latin, is often characterized either by a derivative devotion to an authoritative past, or by unorthodox innovation. While this dichotomy between tradition and innovation has much merit, many textual examples defy this categorization. In some cases, innovative texts and authors actually conform closely to their discursive models, while other texts that seem to adhere to tradition in fact create significant developments and variations. Untangling the complex relationships between texts and their sources reveals much about composition, genre, form, and language – the very foundations of textual practice.
Call for papers - Doctoral conference
Pescara (Italy), 29-30 May 2025
Doctoral Course in Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact - Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
TV Matters is a new series of short monographs (40,000 to 50,000 words) on television series,
analysing their production history, cultural context, main themes, as well as fandom and
audience reception. (All three of these aspects need to be touched upon!) The focus is on shows that both have critical acclaim (as reflected by awards, media reviews), but more importantly, are genuinely “popular”. That means they have
had a robust viewership and ideally an active fandom (watercooler discussions on- and offline,
as well as fan production such as fic, art, vids etc), and/or an unusual reception history (cases
of bans, censorship or similar).
Care can be understood as a situation-based variable with multitudes of meanings. With its initial theoretical footing in western feminist thought, care pervades defined epistemic boundaries; it is fundamentally relational, philosophical, and practical at the same time. We care for things, we care for people, we care for the tangible and intangible. It can be a necessity, a commodity, or even an imposition and yet the limited understanding of care relegates it as a form of dependency. This leads us to a series of structuring questions: Do we care about care itself? Is ethics of care different from caring itself? If yes, why are we not talking about it? More importantly, who decides what and how much to care about something?
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by January 20, 2025. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2025.
All topics about dragons will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Trickster. Traitor. Villain. Variant.
Hero?
Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture
Call for Papers
The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!
Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students.
International Conference – ERC AGRELITA
June 5th & 6th, 2025 at the University of Caen Normandy
Call for communication
ERC Advanced Grant AGRELITA • The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320-1550): how invented memories shaped the identity of European communities[1].
For more information about the ERC AGRELITA, please see: https://agrelita.hypotheses.org/