Call For Abstracts for 2024 Meeting on Frontiers and Borders in Philosophy and Film
International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF)
Call for Abstracts
Third Annual Meeting
August 29th-31st, 2024
London, England
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International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF)
Call for Abstracts
Third Annual Meeting
August 29th-31st, 2024
London, England
Mission Statement:
The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest
invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic
Cultural Networks in the U.S.: Past and Present Challenges
to be held at the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission
(2, Ing. Nicolae Costinescu St, Bucharest)
on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
Don’t be a wet blanket, come to our two-day conference on Water in Legend and Tradition, to be held on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September as the eighteenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, in the medieval grandeur of St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF. Whether you’re into holy wells or woe waters, hauntings or hydromancy, we’d like to hear from you. Contributions are welcome on eerie ponds, inland mermaids, canal culture, early spas, baptismal customs, lake monsters, and the lore of fords, falls, fountains, floods and fishpools. Anyone can join us – folklorists, healers, hydrologists, bargees, dowsers and storytellers.
The 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
Generative AI promises to revolutionize many facets of social and economic life. The creative power of generative machine learning has been held up as a tool that will transform the work of artists and creators. Yet generative models have also been implicated in the unfair use of intellectual property, the propagation of existing social biases, and the facilitation of a wide range of disruptions to an already precarious labor market.
This guaranteed panel will address the ethical issues of generative AI, focusing on the overlap between creativity and harm. How can the literary humanities help foster an ethics for creativity in the age of generative AI?
Visions and Revisions of National Identity
The Langston Hughes Society at MLA 2025
New Orleans, Louisiana
January 9-12, 2025
With the advent of 2021, there has been a perceptible shift in gothic focus. Viewers have been treated to network hauntings – CBS’ Ghosts (USA) and GhostsUK, cinematic –The Voyage of the Demeter, and streaming – The Fall of the House of Usher. This year marks the 215th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s birth and the 175th anniversary of his death in Baltimore. In February, Dr. Martens released its gothic line of footwear.
Graduate Student Conference, “Porosity”
Oct. 25-26th, 2024
Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES)
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Keynote Addresses
Dr. Jinying Li, Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University
Dr. Reginald Jackson, Associate Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance at the University of Michigan
Call for Papers: Porosity
Indigenous scholar and game developer Jason Edward Lewis has argued that the involvement and agency of Indigenous communities in the video game industry allow Indigenous artists and creatives to “stake out our own territory in a common future” (Lewis, 2014). After Lewis, and in light of the meteoric increase in video games titles and other works of digital media by, about, and for Indigenous communities, this session will explore the intersection of Indigenous cultures and cosmologies, storytelling, and video games.
CALL FOR PAPER
PERFORMANCE STUDIES
This area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association encourages paper submissions that explore the relation of science and technology to popular culture and American culture, with science and technology broadly defined. We are particularly interested in putting science, technology, culture, and the humanities in conversation with one another. How are science and technology represented in popular culture? How do we use popular culture to understand science and technology? And how do we use science and technology to understand narratives, art, and culture?
This session considers the place of literary history in English curricula as departments face staffing, funding, and enrollment challenges, asking whether we should continue to teach literary history and, if so, how. The shrinking pains many departments are experiencing, caused by faculty losses and enrollment declines, are making it difficult for them to retain curricular elements that center literary history, such as historical survey courses and period distribution requirements. Alongside these changes are trends in literary study that deemphasize attention to literary history in favor of other modes and objects of study. Possible speaker topics:
--whither literary history
This panel aims to discuss how contemporary global Anglophone/multilingual writers are dismantling the hegemony of lingua franca and making marginalized tongues visible and unheard stories heard. Topics may address, but not limited to: 1. Multilingual writings of postcolony2. Translation and politics of lingua franca3. Language and trauma4. Linguistic identity in global Anglophone literature.5. Linguistic identity, linguistic attrition.6. Language policies and Anglophone literature of postcolony. Submit 250-300 words abstract and 50-100 words bionote to namratadeyroy@gmail.com
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024
Call for Papers: Women and Crime Fiction
Workshop at the University of Zurich, 7-8 June 2024
Organised by Dr. Alan Mattli and Dr. Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw
Call for Papers: Dramatherapy
Special Issue: ‘Diasporas in Dramatherapy’
Guest Editor: Taylor Mitchell, Independent dramatherapist
taylorrgmitchelldramatherapy@gmail.com
Deadline: 20 July 2024
View the full call here>>
Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Special Issue: ‘Queer Celebrities: Fashion, Style and Influence in Popular Culture’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Critical Perspectives on the Intersection of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity Abstract Proposal
“Insiders and Outsiders”
The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites early-career scholars active in eighteenth-century studies to apply to take part in the ISECS ECS seminar, to be held over one week in central Barcelona. The Seminar, which is held yearly, is known for its role in fostering and consolidating scholarly vocations in eighteenth-century studies, as well as for attracting participants from all around the world. The 2024 seminar, to be chaired jointly by Dr John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona) and Prof Fernando Durán (Universidad de Cádiz), will be sponsored by the Spanish association for eighteenth-century specialists, the Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, responses to the injunction to ‘wear a mask’ reflected tensions over attitudes towards individual freedoms, or lack of, in American culture. For some, masks limited the spread of the virus. They protected the individual and (or over?) others. For some, masks were ineffective medically, and / or an intolerable intrusion into individual rights. Wearing a mask might signify that an individual took the virus seriously and heeded the state (via medical advice, scientific expertise and laws); refusing to wear one might indicate the opposite. Paradoxically, but no less powerfully, for some mask wearing itself presented unexpected freedoms; from the pressure to engage in social norms, to smile for strangers.
The ASAP conference theme “Not a Luxury,” (10/17-10/19 in New York City) borrows Audre Lorde’s assertion that in times of crisis, poetry and creative expression are not extraneous to survive but necessities. Known for her community building and work with Kitchen Table Press, Lorde positioned her sense of self as developing from and within her social and artistic circles. This panel asks what contemporary forms of community building--for example: edited collections, across-campus coalitions, unions, friend groups—are necessary for Black feminist survival and thriving in precarious times.
Call for Proposals to the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s Second Annual Printed Volume
Deadline: March 20, 2024, 11:59pm EST
Apply here!
Application Instructions:
National Institute of Technology Patna, India
in collaboration with
University of California, Davis, USA
May 17-18, 2024
This panel aims to address the question of the representation of disability in world cinema (fiction and documentary), while moving away from a purely historical approach that would primarily focus on the evolution of representation of disability to consider how Disability Studies have enabled us to reconsider the cinematic representations of disability. This panel hinges on the assumption that Disability Studies have given rise to a series of critical and theoretical tools, as well as to a renewed perception of disability that no longer sees it as a hindrance, but rather as a driving force for creation.
Call for Submissions
Movement Beyond Limit(s): CCLPS Postgraduate Conference 2024
“We live in an age of movement. [...] which huge amounts of materials are now in wide circulation around the globe. There are more humans, circulating and consuming more [...] Portions of the planet are literally moving more quickly and more unevenly– around axes of gender, race, and class.” (Thomas Nail, “Forum 1: Migrant Climate in the Kinocene” 2019: 375)
MLA 2025 – New Orleans
Early American Literature LLC
Queer Infrastructures of/in Early America
Special Issue Call for Papers
Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change
Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)
Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2025
Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir
Only 3 more weeks!!! submissions close 31 March 2024.
Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered. (https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/watermark-journal/)
ReFocus: A Series of Film/American Studies Anthologies
Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press
contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com