Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created and a clear inspiration for games that would be designed in the following decades, the game industry has grown exponentially. As Egenfeldt-Nielson et al. have stated (2024), “[i]n the historical blink of an eye, video games have colonized our minds and invaded our screens” (2).

The Editors of Vestron Horror Films are looking for four additional chapters about films not taken yet for other contributors. We want to produce a book with analysis on most of Vestron horror’s catalogue and, thus, we need chapters on:

-Communion (Philippe Mora, 1989)

-Amsterdamned (Dick Mass, 1989)

-Dolls (Stuart Gordon, 1986)

-Gothic (Ken Russell, 1986)

-Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986)

-The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan 1984)

-The Gate (Tibor Takács,1987)

-Revenge of the Living Dead Part 3 (Brian Yuzna, 1993), 

-Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)

This is a call for paper for LISA e-Journal special issue edited by Marcin Stawiarski (Université de Caen Normandie).

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LISA e-Journal seeks contributions on topics related to the musical tale and children’s opera in the English-speaking world. Particular focus will be given to young audiences and musical entertainment in the contemporary world.

The Realm of the Impossible: Planetary Conceptions of Space in Science Fiction and Fantasy

What is a good life? Scholars often attempt to answer this question by examining people’s ideals. Exemplified by Joel Robbins’ call of “the anthropology of the good,” anthropologists are encouraged to make ethnographic inquiries into qualities that are “imaginatively conceived” to be desirable and even “outstripped” the immediate realities (2013, 457). In other words, the scholarly examination of the “good life” has long been domesticated in the realm of thoughts and beliefs, insulated from that of the lived experiences.

* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.

Complaint is as easy to identify in medieval and early modern literature as it is challenging to define. One need not look far in premodern literature to find a figure railing against Fortune, a forsaken woman grieving her loss, or a character critiquing the injustices of society in mournful, sometimes bitter, tones. A polymorphous literary form, complaint can function as satire, prayer, and elegy; yet it is also a distinct form, sometimes described as a mode or a genre.Though complaint is inextricably linked to grief, the role it plays in grief management has been shown to vary greatly, sometimes working to temper or mobilize a character’s grief and at other times paradoxically multiplying it.

Call for Book Chapters 

Title:  The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America

Editor: Prof. Hamid Masfour

Dept. of English

Research Laboratory in Literature,Language,Culture and Communication(RLLLCC)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University

Beni Mellal, Morocco

h.masfour@usms.ma

Deadline for abstract submission: August15,2024

Book Argument

LGBTIQ+ Representations and Media in US Popular Culture: Exploring New Directions, Challenges, and Queer Heritage

Editor: J. Javier Torres-Fernández (University of Almería)

2024 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

November 6-8, 2024
Embassy Suites Austin Central
Austin, TX

“Justice”

The increasing prevalence of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in India has become a critical environmental and social issue. As human populations expand and encroach on natural habitats, interactions between humans and wildlife have escalated, often resulting in tragic outcomes for both. Discourses surrounding HWC are often deeply anthropocentric, framing wildlife primarily as predators and emphasizing human losses, such as crop and livestock damage, typically tied to economic activity. This perspective predominantly highlights negative interactions, with scant attention given to positive encounters or the broader ecological and cultural benefits of coexistence.

Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
29-31 May 2025, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2024

Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions:  A Cultural Coalition

A Two-Day Multidisciplinary International Conference

Vivekananda School of English Studies

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-TC, Delhi

Call For Papers: Global Asexualities and Aromanticisms 

Co-edited by Yo-Ling Chen (Independent Scholar) and Ela Przybyło (Illinois State University)

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024

Contact email: globalacearo(at)gmail(dot)com