From the popularity of superhero comics to cult movements around religious leaders, from venerating political figures to idolizing pop-culture celebrities, images and constructions of ‘heroes’ play a significant role in US culture. Simultaneously, there are people and actions outside of the limelight that have been revered as heroic, for example the voluntary work of nurses in homeless shelters and hospitals. While often tied to individuals, heroism occurs not just in these personified forms but can be attached to larger movements, events, or groups in more abstract ways as well. Both the figure of the hero and heroization more generally have equally frequently been weaponized throughout US history or used as a tool for political manipulation.

"Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanitie Text Analysis" Seminar at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). Call for Papers #nemla2025  Submit your abstract https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20988 Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is the Chair of a Seminar "Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanities, Text Analysis" for inclusion in the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). https://www.nemla.org/convention.htmlNeMLA's 56th Annual ConventionHotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Cultural Studies and Media Studies

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NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention, March 06-09 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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The Eudora Welty Society seeks submissions for its 2024 SAMLA panel, “Mirrors and Magnifications: Eudora Welty and Shifting Perspectives.” In alignment with this year’s SAMLA theme, Seen and Unseen, the panel aims to investigate the methods that Welty uses to mirror, frame, magnify, and even distort the vision of her characters and/or readers. Welty’s work displays a creative use of varying avenues of sight with material, political, and epistemological consequences—some examples from her fiction may be the dimmed lamp that contributes to R.J.

Bodies of Feminist Resistance: Archives and Practices in Spain and Latin America - Panel Discussion at NeMLA 2025, "(R)EVOLUTION"

Host Institution: La Salle University

Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown

Dates: March 6-9, 2025

Departing from 'the body' as a terrain of feminist analysis and resistance, this panel seeks to explore the wide range of interventions re-imagining 'the political' in contemporary Spain and Latin America.

CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX

Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney

Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.

Call for Papers

New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures

An International Conference, 28 and 29 March 2025

Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany

EXTENDED DEADLINE

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for Alizés 45 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments, has been extended to September 1, 2024.

Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments

Deadline for abstracts (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words):: Sptembre 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2024
Submission of full draft papers: January 31, 2025

Submission of final papers: June 15, 2025 

Languages: English, French

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley). 

Infrastructure and Abstraction

“The immaterial has become… immaterial.” 

– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

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We seek proposals for the 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge). This reader contains upwards of 50 relatively short, tightly-written, good-quality research reports. We're looking for the same wide range of content as in prior editions, preferably focusing on contemporary media content.  

Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled. As former colonies across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean fought for and gained independence, new national agendas navigated the competing pressures of the Cold War and resisted a dichotomous world order. This conference will explore transnational artistic exchanges and cultural diplomacy in the years 1947-1989, especially across regions in the Global South. We hope to foster new conversations about the confluence of art and politics in larger cultural imaginaries. 

How are Asian American and Pacific Islander bodies figured across different media—in contemporary novels, poetry, and visual arts? How do the transits and residues of US empire across the Pacific inform these representations? This panel investigates texts that center AAPI bodies and their varying materialities, wherein racialized bodies take on other-than-human forms (i.e., paper, digital, textual, watery, earthy, animal, etc.). The panel aims to explore how these embodiments are shaped by the residual and ongoing violences of US empire and/or war in the Pacific.