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Gatebreak: Sharing=Caring

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 4:22pm
Stony Brook University Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

 

Girlboss, gaslight, gatekeep;

Looking Backward, Working Forward: Contemporary Life Writing and the Queer/Trans Past

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 4:03pm
Megan Paslawski / MLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

What strategies are contemporary life writers using to approach queer/trans pasts that remain unrecognized or unrecognizable? Possible topics may include archival silences, biofiction, LGBTQ childhoods and queer temporality, intergenerational mentorship, HIV/AIDS’ legacy, and more.

This call for papers is for a special session at the Modern Language Association 2023 conference, which means that it is a non-guaranteed panel. Please submit 250-word abstracts and CVs to Megan Paslawski (Queens College, CUNY) to be considered for the panel proposal. 

 

The Sidney Circle

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:58pm
International Sidney Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

27-30 October 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hyatt Regency Hotel)

 

Interdisciplinary Sidneys

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:58pm
International Sidney Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

27-30 October 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hyatt Regency Hotel)

 

Sidneian Fictions

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:57pm
International Sidney Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

27-30 October 2022

Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. (Hyatt Regency Hotel)

 

Spaces and Places

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:56pm
HAS Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 10, 2022

Humans live in places, the positions from which they perceive space as a series of landscapes. While space/time is the context that encompasses life and all of its possibilities and constraints, the perception of space is continuously constructed, and deconstructed, through geopolitical, social, and economic—in a word, cultural—drivers. Notions of nature, ecology, resources, and well-being are fundamental dimensions of such a process.

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature 4/2023

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 3:55pm
Siedlce University,
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The editorial board of Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their articles proposals that comprise with the following profile of the journal:

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The Working Dead: Capitalism, Mortality, and Their Discontents (panel)

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:35pm
Marxist Literary Group - Institute on Culture and Society: Transition
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 13, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic’s disproportionate infection and fatality rates among the working class, coupled with the increasing peril from climate catastrophe, has foregrounded the existential precarity of those on the unfortunate side of the wage relation and empire. This panel considers, however, that in the absence of full human flourishing—in Marx’s word, Gattungswesen—the proletariat is, in a sense, already dead prior to the expiration of their physical bodies.

65th American Studies Association of Texas - Space & Autonomy

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:30pm
American Studies Association of Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 1, 2022

The 65th American Studies Association of Texas (ASAT) Conference will be held November 2-4, 2022, at Collin College-Frisco, Texas. Our conference theme is “Space & Autonomy.” While scholars and researchers in various disciplines have examined the relationship between space and autonomy for centuries, perhaps millennia, our need to negotiate between these two concepts has never been more pressing: we have had to reconsider our personal and public spaces in the face of a pandemic; we have had to reconceive of the geography of our urban spaces and infrastructure to confront climate change; we have had to maneuver around the constantly shifting political climate in a fractious nation; and we have had to negotiate the ever expanding realm of cyberspace.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Emotion: A Response To Our Environment - Graduate Virtual Interdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 10:08am
University of St. Thomas English and Art History Departments
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

The University of St. Thomas Art History, English, Museum Studies, and Creative Writing & Publishing graduate programs will host a virtual and in-person interdisciplinary conference on Friday, April 29, 2022. While papers addressing any aspect of literature, film, art history, architecture, museum studies, new media, and cultural studies will be considered, the graduate programs particularly welcome proposals for papers exploring the conference theme across all time periods, media, and geographical regions. We are also seeking creative writers to read original work related to the conference theme during a lunchtime reading performance. This conference will have both in-person and virtual presentation options.

Call for Abstracts: Trace Journal, Issue 5

updated: 
Thursday, February 10, 2022 - 12:02am
Brandon Murakami / Trace
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Trace, a peer-reviewed, open-access, and interdisciplinary journal seeks proposals of 250-300 words for its upcoming issues thematized around AI. Trace considers the material and ethical impacts of media in all forms with specific interest in scholarship that theorizes the confluences of technology, culture, and life. 

This issue invites proposals for articles that analyze and critique the various and sometimes contested representations of Artificial Intelligence (AI). We especially encourage papers that consider non-Western narratives, as well as relatively recent ones from a range of mediums. Topics can include but are not limited to:

Eat/Play/Tweet: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Storytelling and Identity in Popular Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:26pm
Popular Culture Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2020

PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2020. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you. 

 

The Popular Culture Research Centre (Auckland University of Technology) welcomes papers for its upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of ‘storytelling and identity’ in popular culture. The conference will be held in Auckland on 7-9 July 2020.

Parallel Universes: Remaking Superheroes in Film and Popular Media

updated: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:26pm
Dr Lorna Piatti-Farnell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 7, 2019

PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2019. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you. 

 

[CFP] Gothic Afterlives: The Reincarnation of Horror in Film and Television

updated: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:25pm
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Auckland University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 28, 2017

PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2017. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you. 

 

[EXTENDED] Gothic Journeys: Paths, Crossings, and Intersections

updated: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:25pm
Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 30, 2018

PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2018. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you. 

 

The Gothic Association of New Zealand and Australia (GANZA) welcomes papers for its fourth biennial conference, to be held at the Mantra on View Hotel in Surfers Paradise, Australia, on 22-23 January 2019.

Superheroes: A Companion

updated: 
Wednesday, February 9, 2022 - 4:24pm
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Carl Wilson
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

PLEASE NOTE: This CFP closed in 2021. If you are encountering it any time in 2022 or afterwards, it is due to an error in the system. Thank you. 

 

As media texts show us superheroes from around the world(s), demonstrating extraordinary abilities and living a life shaped by a moral code, how we define their iconic features and cultural impact has been the focus of much scholarly debate.

Studies in Popular Culture Book Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:33pm
Studies in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 30, 2022

The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Clare Douglass Little, at douglac2@erau.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.

Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.

Edited Collection: American Furies: Collective Action and the Politics of Moral Outrage

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:33pm
Myra Mendible/Florida Gulf Coast University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

American Furies: Collective Action and the Politics of Moral Outrage

Myra Mendible, Editor 

 

“Our ability to respond with outrage depends upon a tacit realization that there is a worthy life that has been injured or lost…”

Judith Butler, “Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect”

 

“Outrage has become the signature emotion of American public life.”

Lance Morrow, “America is Addicted to Outrage”

 

Working Conditions in Australasian Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:32pm
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Call for Papers

MLA 2023

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies

San Francisco, California, 5–8 January 2023

Barbara Hoffmann, AAALS Vice President, Session Organizer and Moderator

 

Session Title:

Working Conditions in Australasian Literature

Full CFP:

“Culture Chameleons: Narrative Code-Switching” Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 49 No. 1 | March 2023

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:32pm
CONCENTRIC: LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES NTNU TAIWAN
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

CFP--Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies Vol. 49 No. 1 “Culture Chameleons: Narrative Code-Switching”

Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 49 No. 1 | March 2023

Call for Papers

Culture Chameleons: Narrative Code-Switching

Guest Editors

Earl Jackson, Jr. (Asia University)

Mary Goodwin (National Taiwan Normal University)

Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2022

 

International Conference on European Studies: "Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:32pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

*Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with ISBN.

The conference aims to explore Europe from a variety of perspectives. It will consider its political, social and philosophical dimensions as well as the cultural and intellectual life of Europe. Proposals can demonstrate both national and regional expertise, refer to the past or present, or offer a comparative analysis.

The main objective of the event is to bring together international scholars interested in European Studies and willing to examine intersections between their topic of interest and the broader European context. It will provide an integrated approach to the understanding of the processes within Europe.

Topics include but are not limited to:

Gender Research Workshop “Hollywood and the Subversion of Identity”

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:32pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 23, 2022

In the online session "Hollywood and the Subversion of Identity", Sandra Shevey will discuss raising issues of gender, race, antisemitism and orientation in interviews with megastars. 

Sandra Shevey, age 78, has not only interviewed over 500 major icons from Mick Jagger to Alfred Hitchcock in her career spanning 60 years, she has revised the megastar interview by introducing issues of race, gender, antisemitism and orientation.

Encoding Blackness: Black Digital Literary Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:31pm
African American LLC/ Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH 

Encoding Blackness: Black Digital Literary Practices

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022

Codes and Characters: Building Black Digital Worlds

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:31pm
African American LLC/ Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The MLA's forum on African American Literature invites proposals for two sponsored panels about African American Literature and the digital humanities for the 2023 Modern Language Association convention: https://bit.ly/3uGl1WH Codes and Characters: Building Black Digital Worlds Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15 March 2022 How have Black writers used the virtual realm to build community and stake their claim in the public sphere?

4th Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference: Pragmatism

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:31pm
Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

4th Biennial Philosophy of Communication Conference: Pragmatism

  • Sponsored by the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies and the Communication Ethics Institute at Duquesne University
  • Virtual Conference
  • June 7–9, 2022

The theme for this year’s conference is Pragmatism. The conference centers on the works of Jane Addams, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Charles S. Peirce.

This year’s conference will be conducted in a seminar format with:

  1. A keynote address on each of the three central pragmatic thinkers

    1. Jane Addams will be addressed by Annette Holba, Plymouth State University.

CFP: Representations of Marginal Paris (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:31pm
Aurélie Van de Wiele, Salisbury University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

 

We invite book chapter proposals for the forthcoming scholarly volume In the Shadows of the City of Light: Representations of Marginal Paris, to appear in Brill publisher’s series “Francopolyphonies.” This interdisciplinary edited collection of essays will examine how marginal Paris, including particular populations, spaces and practices, has been represented in literature and other cultural productions from the French-speaking world.

About Suffering: Suffering in Modern Poetry (MLA 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:31pm
Christos Hadjiyiannis / Institute of English Studies, University of London & University of Cyprus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 18, 2022

This MLA 2023 special session invites proposals interested in how modern poetry has used and thematized suffering to talk about love, friendship, parenting, religion, politics, inequality, writing, reading, and nature, among other things.

To respond to this CFP, please send 250-300-word abstracts and 150-word bios to session organiser (Christos Hadjiyiannis at c_hadjiyiannis@yahoo.com). Please include any audiovisual equipment or accessibility needs for your presentation. If you are invited to participate in a 2023 session, you must be an MLA member by 7 April 2022. 

Deadline to submit proposals by email is March 18, 2022. 

 

Summer Institute: NON/HUMANITY (Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities)

updated: 
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 - 3:30pm
Jeremy Chow / Bucknell University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

NON/HUMANITY:

Revisioning the Centrality of the Human in the Humanities

 

Bucknell Summer Institute

June 6-June 17, 2022

(Hybrid: In-person & Virtual Options)

Bucknell Humanities Center

Bucknell University

 

summerInstitute.scholar.bucknell.edu  

 

Application Deadline: April 1, 2022

Decisions by May 2, 2022

 

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