The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at: www.theneutraljournal.com

For its fourth issue, The Neutral is soliciting contributions for ‘Inheritance‘.

“writing philosophy is for me finding a language in which I understand philosophy to be inherited, which means telling my autobiography in such a way as to find the conditions of that language.”

Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy

“But as for me, who am I (following)?”

CFP:  Titanic Optimism: Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times

Editors: Craig Dionne, Tim Francisco, and Sharon O’Dair

Seeking essays for an edited collection

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies.

The winner of the VanArsdel Prize receives $500 and publication of their submission in Victorian Periodicals Review. 

Applications open May 1 and are due June 15.

“Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”

Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,

Deadline for abstracts: July 15, 2024

Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024

Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University), 

Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, 

Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo

Organizers:
Faculty of Mass Communication, AAB College, Pristina
Department of Journalism and Communication, FHF, University of Tirana
Communication Institute of Greece

Type: Online (google meet) Scientific Conference for Communication Students and Professionals

Conference Dates - November 7th to 10th 2024

Location - Palm Springs, California U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Conference organizers - Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association

Overview - This Food Studies session aims to bring together a range of perspectives for the sake of examining the roles of food in literary and media texts. We seek abstracts that speak to the following questions: What roles do food and food studies play in our analyses of culture, literature, and media? How does food experience shape our creative expression and daily lives?

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Please visit our journal's CFP page, for the full entry: https://www.refractionsajournalofpostcolonialculturalcriticism.com/curre...

Special Issue Call for Papers 

Bandung: Journal of the Global South  

Link to download the CFP: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37598_BJGS_CfP_2024.pdf 

Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South

Goutam Karmakar (lead guest editor)

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College,

Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University,

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

deadline for submissions: 

May 15, 2024.

Full name/name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) 

Contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

--Note:  Springer has shown interest in publishing this book 

Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2024 Annual Conference, November 7-9, 2024 in Atlantic City, NJ

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Join us in Las Vegas this October, where we will defy the odds and time, and you can learn how to read some of the 418 (and counting) letter runes found in the first third of Beowulf.

This groundbreaking, ninety-minute session is the first of its kind in teaching how one can detect and decipher between two alphabets that use the same letters, with one being just a letter and the other being a letter that represents a word. Unlike Odin, you will not have to give up an eye.

All attendees will receive a letter rune chart.

eTEXTS 14: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. (June 3, 2024)

Since 2014 TEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has been a venue for the examination of various “texts” of English-speaking countries and stimulating scientific debates. Our conferences promote the development and dissemination of original research and critical thinking about various social, cultural, philosophical and historical issues reflected in countless "texts" of English-speaking countries.

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract (150 words) along with a short academic bio. Conference papers (15-minute presentations) should be in English.