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“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
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“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI
The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.
Call for papers: The State of the Nation in film and television, London Metropolitan University, online conference, 3rd July 2024.
Editors: Sara Crosby, Carter Soles, and Ashley Kniss
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Superhero Project: 8th Global Meeting
“THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERHERO”
Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September, 2024.
The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom
“Where does he get those wonderful toys…?” – Batman (1989)
https://nyctolkienconference.wordpress.com/2024/01/16/call-for-papers-20...
The organizers of the 2024 New York Tolkien Conference are seeking proposals related to the following:
Announcing
The 2024 First Book Institute
June 2-8, 2024
Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University
Co-Directors
Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature
Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book
Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of the sensational, the scandalous, and the sexual in literature, film, television, gaming, and other forms of cultural production.
Call for Papers for an Edited Collection
Dead or Alive: The Futures of Zombie Studies
Edited by Marlon Lieber and Tim Lanzendörfer
CFP: Ecological Grief and Mourning in the Literature and the Arts in the Anglophone World (18th – 21st c.)
Université Paris Cité, LARCA & Catholic University of Paris
Paris
3-4 April 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024
Abstract
Adrienne Rich has written that her feminist politics entails “locating the grounds from which to speak with authority,” beginning “not with a continent or a house, but with the geography closest in–the body.” Taking inspiration from Rich and foundational women of color feminists, this panel invites papers exploring the politics of position within the academy and scholars' embodiment in relation to our work.
Visions of the Gulf
Mediating Experiences, Experiencing Mediation
University of Washington Cinema & Media Studies Graduate Conference May 4, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Weihong Bao, UC Berkeley
Call for Proposals
*Travel funding will be available upon request
Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities Concordia University, Montreal. May 3–5, 2024Deadline: February 15, 2024
“May you live in interesting times!”
Apocryphal Chinese Curse
Digital media has dramatically changed our understanding, knowledge, and experience of bodies. Body tracking apps and smart watches allow for new and intense practices of self-surveillance; social media platforms such as Insta and Tiktok present the constant work of body optimization as reasonable and desirable; selfie culture commonly serves to demonstrate willing compliance with new unachievable beauty standards. Filters, editing, lighting, and angling suggest that everybody can be brought into normative shape. Bodies are highly commodified when influencers link their accounts to LTK or amazon storefronts where products are being sold that suggest that youth, fitness, health, thinness, and beauty can be bought.
In her 2020 publication Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell explores the notion of “glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital.” With this framing, she argues that glitches might “inform the way we see the AFK [Away-From-Keyboard or real] world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greater agency for and by ourselves” (8-9). With her sights set on social systems of gender, race, and sexuality in particular, Russell asks how embodied subjects who defy patriarchal white supremacist cisheterosexist norms are positioned or appear as glitches, as errors, in digital and AFK spaces.
https://www.projectpassage.net/call-4
Hotel
Architectures to think with #1 (
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Deadline for proposals (up to 500w): 4th Feb 2024
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The crumbling Hotel Splendid of Marie Redonnet. The room where Lisa Robertson’s Hazel Brown awakens. The autofictional reflections of Joanna Walsh’s experience as a hotel reviewer. And of course, the multilinear, hybrid Hotel Theory of Wayne Koestenbaum.
Themed Issue: Consent is an Access Issue: Rethinking Disability, Accessibility, and Consent-Based Theatre Practices
Call for Papers Deadline: March 31, 2024
“Disabled people’s liberation cannot be boiled down to logistics.”
–Mia Mingus
In the contemporary digital era, there has been a notable transition of Black children's literature towards the audiobook format, facilitated by platforms such as Audible, Overdrive, and Libby. This shift has significantly expanded the accessibility of Black children's literature beyond the traditional confines of physical books (Rubery, 2011). The role of audiobook narrators in this context becomes crucial, as they are instrumental in bringing stories to life, thereby enhancing the listening experience, comprehension, and the overall success of publishing ventures (Burkey, 2007).
The deadline for submissions for Volume 9 of Chiasma: A Site for Thought has been extended until March 31st.
Please see the call for papers for more information.
Previous submission, here.
Briefly:
Chiasma: A Site for Thought, the International Journal of Theory and Philosophy at Western University’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism is soliciting papers on the relationship between philosophy and Fascism (broadly understood).
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Justice
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume tentatively titled Going Home Again: Revisiting American Literature of Suburbia. We are aiming for a balance of revisionary views of “classic” suburban literature of the post-war decades informed by current critical approaches; explorations of how 21st century American literature has represented and revised ideas about suburbia; and arguments looking comparatively at both. We hope that putting newer and older works of American suburban literature in dialogue may suggest ways in which the genre and its history can be redefined.
Our Glocal Shakespeare: Intercultural Encounters With The Bard
Conference co-hosted by “Turkish Shakespeares Project” and Istanbul Bilgi University English Language and Literature Department
19-20 April 2024
Venue: Santral Campus, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Contact: Murat Öğütcü (murat_ogutcu@yahoo.com) and İnci Bilgin Tekin (inci.bilgin@bilgi.edu.tr)
Deadline for abstracts and bios: 20.02.2024
Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies
Special Issue: ‘Eco-Artivism in Oceania’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers
We are seeking paper abstracts for a panel proposal provisionally titled "Ecocritical Adaptations in Animations and Experimental Films." The conference of FMSAC will take place at McGill University in Montreal, June 14–16, 2024 (https://www.filmstudies.ca/conference/fmsac2024)
Co-organizers : Fei Shi and Sylvie Bissonnette (sylvie_bis at hotmail.com)
Deadline: January 20, 2024
The 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 8-9, 2024, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University.
This year's keynote speakers are Dr. Larissa Lai and Dr. Nicholas Ruddick.
We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:
-studies of individual works and authors;
-comparative studies;
-studies that place works in their literary and/or
cultural contexts.
CFP Special Issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics
Drawing Conclusions: The Rise of Research Comics
Submission deadline: April 1 2024
This special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Taylor & Francis) explores practice-based approaches to comics-based-research and the various methodologies of communicating academic research through the comics format. In recent years the continued growth of comics-based research has been enriched by the increased visibility of research-based comics in academic journals, scholarly presses, and other platforms.
Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned. --bell hooks
Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain. --Marcus Garvey
It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair. --Hariette Cole, in Hair Story
Routledge Resources Online - Chinese Studies (formally the Routledge Research Encyclopedia of Chinese Studies) is now online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/rrocs/?context=rrocs. We continue to solicit papers introducing traditional and innovative topics within the broad field of Chinese Studies. Entries are between 2000 - 5000 words under a topic of your own choice approvable by the section editors. Papers are welcome in the following 14 key areas:
Extended Submission Deadline (2/1/24): WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study.