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Here Be Monsters: General Call for Papers for the Monsters & the Monstrous Area (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:52pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

Here Be Monsters: General Call for Papers for the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

 

“From ‘Them’ to Now: Changing Metaphors of the Monstrous Insect” (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:52pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

“From ‘Them’ to Now: Changing Metaphors of the Monstrous Insect” 

Session Organized by Eddie Guimont, Bristol Community College

Co-Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the  Animals and Culture Special Topic of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:51pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse

Session Organized by Kris Larsen, Central Connecticut State University

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

 

The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:51pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century: An International Symposium and Workshop
Hosted by the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (www.global19c.com)

November 5-6, 2022
Mount Saint Mary’s University (Doheny campus), Los Angeles, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts due by September 1

Digital Platforms and Cancel Culture: Television and New Media Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:50pm
Special Issue for Television & New Media
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022

With the advent of social media and platform infrastructures, cancel culture has engendered new means of regulation through digital media platforms which appear to further silence already marginalised communities. Having roots in the Black vernacular tradition, the clear social justice agendas of culturally linked meta-networks of social media practices and community digital infrastructures are argued to have become highjacked by social elites (Clark, 2020). For some commentators this means that the viral nature of social media backlash can claim, to the detriment of democracy, various careers and reputations among well-known celebrities, political figures,

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:50pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send the manuscript in Microsoft Word format.

Send electronic submissions to: hjamesr@creighton.edu

Looking Back on Haiti: Reexploration and Rewriting in a Diasporic Perspective

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.

In the second half of the 20th century, Haitian society has been profoundly impacted by massive waves of exile provoked by the collective trauma of the Duvaliers dictatorships and epitomized by the internationally recognizable image of the "boat people". On the literary scene, the resulting Haitian diaspora, in North America and elsewhere, has found ways to maintain connections with the native land, reminiscing on childhood memories, revisiting Haiti both physically and metaphorically, and engaging with their shared history, myths, and traditions.

Global Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:49pm
Laura Hubner, Abigail Whittall
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 21, 2022

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Global Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media

 

Overview

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume of critical essays on horrific and Gothic representations of nuclear power. Proposals are welcome from both new and established scholars. Interest in the volume has been expressed by Palgrave Macmillan for their Gothic book series. Edited by Professor Laura Hubner (University of Winchester) and Dr Abigail Whittall (University for the Creative Arts).

Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable, Virtual), ICMS, Kalamzoo, May 11-13, 2023

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:44pm
Alexander L. Kaufman / International Association for Robin Hood Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

CFP: 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–13, 2023

Sponsored Session of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable)

Contact: Alexander L. Kaufman, alkaufman@bsu.edu
Session Modality: Virtual

Disobedient Lives, Disorderly Archives: Social Justice Agency in Archival Spaces and Arts

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:44pm
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Abstract: This roundtable will bring together scholars interested in developing and studying archives that push the boundaries of what we consider the archive. At the roundtable, through our work, we will consider questions that arise within archival practices and arts, such as: what constitutes or counts as an archive, what kinds of archival delineations should be drawn, pushed back against, or ruptured, and, perhaps most importantly, what is or should be the role of the archive in combating systemic injustice and advancing social justice?

International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction'

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:43pm
CETAPS (Nova University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

As indicated by the number in its title, this conference is the second in a series
focused on travel writing studies.The first one, which took place in 2019,
celebrated the 300th anniversary ofthe publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
and its literarylegacy.This second edition will celebrate the 100th anniversary
of James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses (1922), which chronicles the
itinerary of Leopold Bloom in Dublinin the course of an ordinary day.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies,
Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les
Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:04pm
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within or in communication with continental philosophy and European philosophical traditions. We welcome papers from philosophers, non-philosophers and anti-philosophers working in any discipline, from diverse backgrounds at any stage of their career.

 

Details about the 2022 annual conference:

 

University of Melbourne

 

28 – 30 November

Keynote Speakers:

  • Claire Colebrook (Penn State) 

Managing Milestones: Navigating Grad School’s Hidden Curriculum (GSC Session)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:03pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2023) Graduate Student Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

How does one move from being an undergraduate to a graduate student and then to a professional? How does one prepare for a comprehensive exam? Who would make for the best members of a dissertation committee? What are some milestones to keep track of in the final year before graduation?

Call for Book Chapters:Empowering Women in the Digital Economy

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:03pm
Prof. Richard Boateng, BRIGHT Network and University of Ghana
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Empowering Women in the Digital Economy: A Quest for Meaningful Connectivity and Access in Developing Countries

The Challenge:

Serious Laughter: African American and African Humor

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 7:02pm
Jasleen Singh, Sylvanna Baugh / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Please submit abstracts of 300 words directly through the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) portal here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19891, by 30 September 2022. This is for the NeMLA convention hosted in Niagara Falls, New York from March 23 to March 26, 2023.

When It Changed: Women in SF/F since 1972

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 4:41pm
Science Fiction Foundation / Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, Glasgow University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 8, 2022

To mark the 50th anniversary of Joanna Russ’s landmark short story, ‘When It Changed’, the Science Fiction Foundation and the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at Glasgow University are proposing an online conference (3-4 December 2022) on women’s role in reshaping science fiction.

RSA 23 San Juan: Milton and the Project of Decolonization

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 12:49pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 29, 2022

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a panel that considers how researching and teaching Milton can advance the shared work of decolonizing our curriculum and scholarship. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

RSA 23 San Juan: Milton and the Experience of Loss

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 12:49pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 29, 2022

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

For this panel, the Milton Society of America invites papers that consider how John Milton’s writings handle loss in its many senses—not just bereavement, but also the foreclosure of personal hopes and political aims. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

 

RSA 23 San Juan: New Perspectives on Milton’s Poetics

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 12:48pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 29, 2022

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

The Milton Society of America invites papers on any aspect of John Milton’s poetics. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

 

RSA 23 San Juan: Milton after Political Theology

updated: 
Saturday, July 23, 2022 - 12:48pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 29, 2022

The deadline for submissions has been extended to Friday, July 29.

 

The discourse of political theology recently energized early modern scholarship, but its future trajectory remains uncertain. The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a panel considering how John Milton’s writings might help us recalibrate the way we study the relationships between religion and politics, between early modern and modern formations. To be considered, please send, no later than July 29, a 200-word abstract and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com.

Queer Community in the Middle Ages @ Leeds IMC 2023

updated: 
Friday, July 22, 2022 - 2:11pm
Tim Wingard
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 5, 2022

The notion of an emergent medieval ‘gay subculture’ remains one of the most highly contested claims of John Boswell’s 1981 magnum opus Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. In the decades since its publication, research on medieval queerness has tended to emphasise the individual over the collective whether in terms of identity, experience and as constructed discursive subjects. Despite this, landmark studies such as those by Michael Rocke, Carolyn Dinshaw and Kadin Henningsen have demonstrated some of the ways in which medieval people built networks of companionship and mutual support grounded in a shared experience of living outside of their societies’ norms of gender and sexuality.

Human(ities) Matters: Academia, Community, and Civic Life (Roundtable)

updated: 
Friday, July 22, 2022 - 1:51pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2023) Graduate Student Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

The humanities as an academic field has always been predicated on helping societies harness critical knowledge in improving our understanding of the human condition. Yet, scholars in the humanities continue to have a challenging time bridging their work with the larger preoccupations of the community, continuing to be weighed down by the twin discourses of triviality or the “Ivory Tower”. The rise of public humanities–the work of engaging communities-at-large in the intersections of history, traditions, humanistic culture, and material realities of civic life–is a testament to the value that humanities scholars can bring to the public when they are able to translate their high-level academic skills into transformative prospects outside the university.

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