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Family Fictions: Generations and Genealogies in European Culture

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:12pm
KU Leuven
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Family Fictions
Generations and Genealogies in European Culture

15- 17. 05. 2025, KU Leuven

Keynotes:
Prof. Stefan Willer (Humboldt University)
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele University)
Dr. Jennie Bristow (Canterbury Christ Church University)

Extended CFP: Serial Killers: Fact into fiction

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:12pm
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

There is no denying that contemporary audiences have an insatiable appetite for killers: myth, legend, and reality. The soaring success, and continued demand, for fictions and nonfictions that document the dealings of serial killers and murders provide ample evidence for this. We are fascinated by their narratives and by their psychologies, and it is perhaps this need or want to understand the killer’s thinking that, in part, makes them so attractive to read and view. However, delineation between fiction and nonfiction continues to be a greyscale area. There are no longer certainties in crime fiction, nor in true crime writing, when it comes to the factual and the fictive.

The Reception of the Book of Job in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:11pm
Terminus. Journal of Early Modern Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

The Reception of the Book of Job in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

The open-access journal “Terminus” invites submissions for a special issue on the reception of the Book of Job in medieval and early modern literature. We welcome contributions from scholars in literature, theology, history, and related disciplines.

Important Information

  • Access policy: open access
  • Languages of publication: English, Polish
  • Peer review policy: double-blind peer review process
  • Article processing charges: free of charge 

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(Re)conciliation?

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:11pm
Columbia University's French Department
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Columbia University’s French Graduate Student Association (FGSA) invites graduate students from all disciplines to submit abstracts for our upcoming conference on the theme of (Re)conciliation?  The conference will take place January 30-31, 2025, at Columbia’s Maison Française in New York City, with a keynote address from French-Moroccan author and scholar Kaoutar Harchi

Call for Papers – PCA – Folklore Area 2025

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:11pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Folklore Area of the Popular Culture Association is considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers related to Folklore Studies for the 2025 Popular Culture Association Conference by November 30, 2024. The conference will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana (April 16-19).

Sessions are typically scheduled in 1½ hour slots, with four papers per standard session. Presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. As always, proposals addressing any topic related to folklore or folklore studies are welcome, including but not limited to the following:

The New Ray Bradbury Review

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:11pm
Dr Phil Nichols
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

CALL FOR ARTICLES: The New Ray Bradbury Review, Issue 9

For the next issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review (NRBR), we invite articles which shine new light on any aspect of the works and life of Ray Bradbury.

Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:07pm
Aloke N Prabhu
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Call for Chapters in Edited Book

Dr. Prabhu Aloke N (O P Jindal Global University)

Dr. Lisa Thomas (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)

Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights

In the recent past, the study of ethics has diversified into emerging branches with interdisciplinary areas of studies. While such studies require specialization in different disciplines, they also demand application of theoretical and empirical knowledge. In a quest to broaden the understanding of ethics to its sub- field of bioethics, this book proposal seeks to collate works that center on narrative ethics within the discourse of bioethics.

Mutations and Permutations of Care

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:07pm
University of Iowa
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

Mutations and Permutations of Care

 

Graduate Student Conference

Hybrid modality

Hosted By: Graduate students of French and Francophone World Studies

Department of French & Italian, The University of Iowa

Conference Dates: Friday, April 4 through Saturday, April 5, 2025

Location: University of Iowa campus (Iowa City, Iowa) and on Zoom

Abstracts Due: Sunday, December 15, 2024

 

ASLE 2025 CFP: Playing Games in Climate and Energy Studies

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:07pm
Debby Rosenthal, John Carroll U and Jason Molesky. St. Louis U
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Panel at Collective Atmospheres, ASLE 2025 Biennial Conference July 8-11, 2025 University of Maryland, College Park

Terrifier 2025

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:07pm
University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

Terrifier 3 (in cinemas at the time of sharing this call) has defied all expectations, attracting widespread commercial and critical success, and becoming the number one film in the USA. Since the creation of Art the Clown in the short film The 9th Circle in 2008, the Terrifier franchise has gone from strength to strength, challenging some of the fundamental assumptions underpinning Hollywood filmmaking over this period. Damien Leone’s films, boasting low budgets, a grindhouse aesthetic and an impressive level of envelope-pushing gore (bolstered explicitly by practical effects), have turned Art and Sienna into modern horror icons and continued to unashamedly appeal to genre fans.

 

Literary vs. Legal Language

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:05pm
Bhavya and N.K.Agarwal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 7, 2024

**Call for Papers*
*Literary vs. Legal Language*

Call for proposals for Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) Events

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:05pm
Bibliographical Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is currently inviting proposals for events that will take place between February 2025 and May 2025. The deadline for applications is November 1.

 

The BSA can offer financial and logistical support for a variety of events, including lectures, panel presentations, hands-on workshops, conference sessions, or other online or in-person events.  Examples of past and upcoming events can be found here. Please reach out to the Events Committee if you have questions about event formats, financial support, or topics.

 

Writing in a World on Fire: Perspectives on War and Climate Change

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 1:04pm
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

AICED-26

THE 26th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

29-31 May 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Writing in a World on Fire:

Perspectives on War and Climate Change

University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

7-13 Pitar Moș St., Bucharest, Romania

 

 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann

updated: 
Friday, October 18, 2024 - 7:54pm
John M. Price, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

Call for Papers 

ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann 

“Something that concerns me very much is human dignity…or the lack of it.” – F.Z.

UWP Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy Conference 2025— “Writing at the Center”

updated: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 3:37pm
University of Florida's University Writing Program
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 30, 2025

 UWP Pedagogy, Practice, and Philosophy 2025— “Writing at the Center”

****KEYNOTE ANNOUCNEMENT: Dr. Frankie Condon, Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo, Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), and recipient of the International Writing Centers Association 2023 Outstanding Book Award for Counterstories from the Writing Center will talk about how composition instructors can center anti-racist pedagogy in writing centers and in our classrooms.****

UPDATED CFP for edited collection: New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology

updated: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 9:25am
Melissa Sande and Christine Battista
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there?

ROUTLEDGE BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus

updated: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024 - 9:13am
ROUTLEDGE, Taylor & Francis, Informa, Informa UK Limited
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children's Literature in An Era of Heightened Censorship

updated: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 11:46am
Danielle Russell, Glendon College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship

In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?

‘A Rebel with a Cause’: The Real Subversive Potential of Transgressive Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024 - 6:26pm
Rebecca Warshofsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.

Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America--SEA biennial conference

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:49pm
Cathy Rex, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 27, 2024

CFP: Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America

Panel for the Society of Early Americanists’ Biennial Conference

University of Notre Dame

June 5-8, 2025

 

Reading Nothing Across Literatures: A Handbook

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:49pm
Vernon Press (Tentative)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK

“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)

“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)

Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)

EDITED COLLECTION: Science Fiction at the End of History

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:48pm
Dr Chris Gerrard / Dr River Seager / Bath Spa University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.” 

Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

Building from a successful summer conference, this edited collection is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. As several papers from the conference have already been selected, we are now calling for additional chapters for the collection generally related to the following topics:

(Un)Easy Entanglements: Agency, Alliances, and Affinities of Translators and Language Teachers

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:47pm
Shane Carreon and Ayelen Rosario Tissera
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Organizer: Shane Carreon

Co-Organizer: Ayelén Rosario Tissera

 

Situated at the locus of power relations in and through language, translators and language teachers are entwined by and within complex ideologies, epistemologies, and governing policies. In particular, their identity construction, personal stance, and mediations continually reproduce, redefine, and/or resist in varying ways the hegemony of the English language both as legacy of British and American colonialism and as prime language of globalization. 

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