Film Studies paper presentations, SCMLA (South Central Modern Language Association); proposals by 3/30/2024
We are seeking proposals for paper presentations (individual or special session) across all areas of film & media critical studies. Sessions will likely be organized topically and according to SCMLA's traditional Regular Sessions in 'English-language Film' and 'Global Film.' The topic is broadly conceived and open, and approaches may favor criticism, theory, history, or additional approaches.
One or more sessions in film and media studies will be held during the SCMLA annual meeting in New Orleans from 19-21 September 2024. Please see the general CFP for more information -- https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/
Sacred Arts: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Presents:
Sacred Arts: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual
Birkbeck, University of London
May 11-12, 2024
May 11 will be at Birkbeck (for both in-person and online presentations)
May 12 will be held fully online.
COnference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/09/sacred-arts/
MLA 2025: Geographies of the Precarious In-Between: Navigating Spaces of Young Adulthood and the Gothic
Giselle Anatol, in her articulation of the postcolonial Gothic in young people’s fiction, considers the ways in which familiar living spaces become unfamiliar, and how this “represents both the epitome and the deformation—a haunting, in essence—oftraditional notions of home, a place that is supposed to provide safety, security, contentment, and happiness ("Brown Girl Dreaming: A Ghost Story in the Postcolonial Gothic Tradition"411).
Women in the Black Fantastic
Following the success of our conference in 2022, the SFF will be organising a further two-day online event in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University on 7-8 December 2024.
The theme of the conference will be Women in the Black Fantastic and will mark the 40th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler winning both the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.
Science Fiction of the 1870s
To mark the 150th issue of Foundation in spring 2025, we would like to include contributions on the topic of sf from 150 years ago, published during the 1870s. Darko Suvin once proposed 1 May 1871 as the starting-point for sf – the day that Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race was published, George Chesney’s The Battle of Dorking began serialisation, and Samuel Butler submitted Erewhon to his publisher. Jules Verne, however, was already in full swing and he would soon be joined by such contemporaries as Camille Flammarion. Where else can we trace the roots of science fiction in the 1870s? How can we reassess the writers we know and who are the writers we need to rediscover?
Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2025
We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation in 2025.
CFP for Angelaki: Ontological-Existential Exhaustion: Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being: a philosophy of fatigue and exhaustion
Call for papers for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
EXTENDED DEADLINE
Ontological-Existential Exhaustion:
Being-Tired, and Tired-of-Being: a philosophy of fatigue and exhaustion
(preliminary title)
Editor: Marina Christodoulou
Metal and Change: Metal's Role in an Ever-Changing World
Metal and Change: Metal’s Role in an Ever-Changing World
Since its inception Metal music has been in constant flux, whether in the development of new genres and subgenres to the way that it has been perceived in society over time. Metal music and culture, to survive, need to adapt to a world constantly in upheaval, whether through changing attitudes toward the music, changes in society’s structure, or even changes in what Metal music is and how it addresses issues in the world, like COVID. But to stay Metal it must still maintain its own identity.
Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares
This panel discusses rhetorical strategies the new/social media users employ to voice for justice, push propaganda, and create or remix content to amplify visibility in attention economy. Please submit ~250-word abstract and a brief bio.
Call for Papers: Rhetoric in the Digital Town Squares (2025 MLA Annual Convention) (confex.com)
Call for Papers - Explorations E-Journal's Issue 6: In the Grip of Western Rationality
Modern (Western) civilization has always assumed that there are no problems for which solutions cannot be found. Today there is no shortage of technical solutions on offer for the climate crisis, from carbon capture and storage under the North Sea through to giant high altitude aerosols which deflect the sun’s rays back into outer space. These kind of solutions require what Iain McGilchrist terms a left hemisphere worldview.
Literature and Identities in Portuguese
XII Montevideana Conference: Literature and Identities in Portuguese
Montevideo, Uruguay, June 26-28, 2024
The Dpt. of Modern Literatures of the Universidad de la República announces its 12th international conference on literary and cultural relations across languages and hemispheres.
ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique
ENSEIGNER LA LANGUE À TRAVERS LA TRADUCTION
Perspectives franco-italiennes comparées entre Renaissance et Ère numérique
Ferrare, 21-22 novembre 2024
Axes de recherche
MSA 2024: Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism
Gendered Migration in Transnational Modernism
MSA 2024, CHICAGO, NOVEMBER 7-10, 2024
Deadline for abstract submission: March 29, 2024
Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux
15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference:
Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux
November 5-7, 2024
Zagreb, Croatia
The 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development, and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with the Industry Program of the Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF).
Keynote lecturer: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna
Conference theme:
**EXTENDED DEADLINE** 27th Annual Southern Writers/Southern Writing Grad Student Conference
**EXTENDED DEADLINE MARCH 15th**
The 27th Southern Writers/Southern WritingGraduate Student Conference
University of Mississippi
July 26th-27th, 2024
Call for Submissions
“Southern” Legacies in the 21st Century
The Southern Writers/Southern Writing Conference (SW/SW) is an interdisciplinary conference, welcoming graduate students, creative writers, activists, and community members with interest in the U.S. or Global South from all departments and fields of study. The 27th edition of SW/SW will be held at the University of Mississippi from July 26th-27th, 2024.
Black Feminist Excesses
Black Feminist Excesses
(MLA 2025 Proposed Working Group)
This working group aims to theorize excess, desire and unbridled being in Black feminist and womanist studies. How does Black feminism and womanism engage disparate, wayward, or fringe forms of identity, embodiment, materiality, affect and culture? How can concepts like ‘indulgence’ or ‘aspiration’ be considered or troubled among current theoretical frameworks? What do you think is on the horizon for Black feminist and womanist thought in moving beyond the postfeminist moment?
Silicon Valley Beyond the Valley (MLA 2025 Special Session proposal)
Call for PapersSeeking 250-word abstracts on narratives of the tech industry and the digital beyond the Valley itself. How does Silicon Valley the place become a global imaginary in literature, film, television, and public discourse? (include bio+CV)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
BSSH annual Conference 2024
Call For Papers
British Society of Sports History Annual Conference
Bishop Otter Campus, University of Chichester, Chichester, UK
Thursday 22nd August 2024 – Friday 23rd August 2024
This will be an open-themed conference. Submissions based on original research are welcomed by UK and overseas scholars and can relate to any aspect of sport, physical recreation, education and culture, as considered from a historical perspective.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
(Re)thinking Academic Forms: A Conversation (CfP for a Roundtable at the 2025 MLA Convention)
35-Word MLA CfP
This proposed roundtable, based on the work of the Working Group on Academic Forms (https://keyforms.bham.ac.uk), aims for a critical re-evaluation on how established academic forms define the intellectual work we do in the humanities.
Extended CfP
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Essays sought for a survey of 1960s military operations such as: COINTELPRO (US); CHAOS (US); Phoenix (Vietnam); Condor (South America); ORDEN (El Salvador); Jakarta (Indonesia); OBAN (Brazil) and other operations that networked societies prior to the Internet. Focus on how evident or non-evident the communications were that supported these operations; the staffing and hardware; how operations were used; and, how they contributed to social and financial inequality and political polarization, in the populations they monitored.
PAMLA 2024 Special Session: Uncanny Animacies: Gothic Objects and Materialism
Uncanny Animacies: Gothic Objects and Materialism (PAMLA 2024 Special Session)
Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Conference Dates: Thursday-Sunday, November 6-10, 2024
Conference Location: Palm Springs, California
Format: In Person (no virtual option available!!)
Submit abstracts to: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com
Contact for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
The Seventh Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2024
The Seventh Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2024
Conference Date: Friday, May 31, 2024
Conference Location: San Diego Mission Bay Marriott, 8757 Rio San Diego Drive, San Diego, California, USA, 92108 and via Hopin
Conference Website: https://www.stokercon2024.com
From the mysterious lights in the windows of the William Heath Davis House to the footsteps in the seemingly empty rooms of the Old Point Loma Lighthouse, San Diego has long been home to stories of the uncanny. The 2024 StokerCon convention is eager to channel the creative potential of San Diego’s history, culture, and communities.
Unruly Archives: Women Writing South Asian Literary Fiction
Thinking about South A archival practices and women’s fiction, this panel invites papers on SA women’s fictional narratives questioning whose experiences can be preserved, exhibited, remembered in the public spaces (curations, exhibitions, museums). 300-word abstracts.
“Spoiling This Wonderful Falsehood” - Japanese Video Games and Critiques of Western Worlding (MLA 2025)
Japan has been historically situated as uniquely isolated from the broader world. Yet, the Meiji era (1868-1912) of Japan was defined by intentional efforts on the part of the Japanese government to respond to the pressures of global capitalism such that Japanese cultural identity was preserved not against but through a process of modernization and industrialization. The restoration of imperial power in explicit reference to the monarchies of Europe, including the dramatic successes of Queen Victoria in England and Emperor William I of Germany, was part of this project.
The Power of Horror Compels You: Exploring Historic and Modern Iterations of Horror
The Power of Horror Compels You: Exploring Historic and Modern Iterations of Horror
Jack Halberstam argued of Bram Stoker’s seminal horror text that “Dracula is otherness itself.”In doing so, he contextualized the novel’s configuration of the period’s social anxieties towardsexuality, modernity, and antisemitism through the vampire figure. Further, Halberstam suggests that “Dracula is indeed not simply a monster, but a technology of monstrosity,” encompassing a perspective of the horror genre which recognizes its fundamental capacity to express anxieties and fears about the contemporary world.
PJSA2024: "We Are All Connected: Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity"
2024 Call for ProposalsWe Are All Connected:Fostering Intersectionality and Solidarity
The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association
Hosted by The Justice House Program at Niagara University
OCTOBER 24-27, 2024 | Niagara, New York, USA
Proposal Submission Deadline: May 01, 2024
Early Bird Registration: May 1 – July 15, 2024
Draft Schedule Released: June 3, 2024
SHEL-13: Studies in the History of the English Language, Conference Theme: The History of English as a (G)local Language
SHEL-13, Studies in the History of the English Language
Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, October 17-20, 2024 co-hosted by The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Conference Theme: The History of English as a (G)local Language
Artifact & Apparatus 3: Teaching Media Archaeology (final deadline May 15)
As scholars’ engagement with media-archaeological study have increased, so have students’ interest in the field’s approaches, methods, and philosophies. Many courses on media history and theory today include sessions focused on media archaeology.
South Asian Crime Fiction since the 1950s
South Asian Crime Fiction since the 1950s
Editors: Shweta Sachdeva Jha (Associate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House, University of Delhi), Garima Yadav (Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi)