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Tolkien at UVM Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
The Tolkien at the Univrsity of Vermont Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

 

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2025: Rituals and Ceremonies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. 

The conference will be held in person on the 24th and 25th of April, 2025. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Topics could include, but are certainly not limited to:

Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Finlay Darlington-Bell
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Chiasmi

The 16th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

Harvard University, April 4-5, 2025

 

Elementi: Transformations and Metamorphoses 

 

Reviews for Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Alissa Burger / Reviews Editor, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.

Global Transmedial Modernism

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 1, 2026

Global Transmedial Modernism

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of English Language Notes (ELN)

CFP: Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Food Studies Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 8, 2025

Fifteenth International Conference on Food Studies, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

CALL FOR PAPERS

https://food-studies.com/2025-conference/call-for-papers

Place: University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa + Online

Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in person (at scale that’s allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces.

Dates: 8-10 October 2025

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SPECIAL FOCUS: Fed Up: Learning From the Past, Imagining New Futures

Political Performances Working Group at IFTR: Performing Carnival!

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Political Performances Working Group at IFTR
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

IFTR 2025: Cologne, Germany. 9 – 13 June 2025.

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 January 2025

Deadline for bursary applications: 22 November 2024 (https://iftr.org/conference/bursaries)

 

In line with this working group’s established practice, we have identified three loose strands that reflect the recent work of scholars in the wider field of political performances, and that also align with the 2025 conference theme: Performing Carnival!

Making and Unmaking of Cities

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Calcutta Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:03am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Deadline Extended! Special Devil Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:02am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

Calling the Devil:

Preternatural Projections, Diabolical Conceptions, and the Arcane Adversary                                             

Deadline Extended! Special Cronenberg Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:01am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

The Paranoid Realities of David Cronenberg: The Occult Body Techno-politic as Magical Medium 

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the paranoid realities of David Cronenberg to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:16pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics

The impact of the pandemic and the threat that it poses to future human experiences has been well-documented. However, now that non-human animals are possible carriers and becoming infected, their experiences, while often overlooked, are nevertheless integrated into the worldwide pandemic.

Thus, this collection seeks to balance essays about non-human animals during real-world pandemics, such as the COVID-19 one, with those of their experiences during literary or cinematic ones. The scope of this call for papers is broad and can include topics such as:

--Animals as victims of contagions

Gladiator 2 Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The twentieth anniversary of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000) was an important moment in film history, for it not only marked a great film and work of art, but it also reminded audiences how peplum and historical epics still mattered. The edited collection “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays at the Twentieth Anniversary of ‘Gladiator’ (2023) provided insights on the film two decades after its release.

Yet now there is a sequel with a November 2024 release. This CFP therefore serves to build on the work done in the 2023 essays and provide a further avenue of exploration for connections between the two films as well as innovative readings of Gladiator 2 on its own.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Medusa: Essays on Different Media

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:14pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

This call for papers seeks two specific chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.

Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.

The chapters needed include one on Ancient Drama and another on Modern Drama.

Chapters will be due in May 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:54pm
Edited volume on Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

 

Concept Note:

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre *Deadline: 31 January 2025*

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:01pm
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Wayward Studies and Methods

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:24am
MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

8th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:11am
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

Conference on Voices and Visions in the Victorian Periodical Press

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 6:37am
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference in downtown Chicago, July 10-12, 2025. The conference will be an in-person event. RSVP remains committed, however, to making our gatherings accessible to as wide a range of members as possible. The two keynote addresses and Annual General Meeting will be transmitted live and freely available without registration. In addition, we are planning a series of online Digital Events on the conference theme in the weeks leading up to the conference (tentatively June 13, 20, and 27, pending interest).

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 7:15pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024
Conference Dates: December 3-4, 2024
Location: online
Fees: £90 (non-members), £76.5 (LABRC members)
(Fees apply to both presenters and attendees)

 

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/07/unwrapping-christmas/

 

Call for Papers

Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 6:57pm
Dr. Sotiris Petridis, Hellenic Open University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Chapter Proposals

 

Editor Dr. Sotiris Petridis invites chapter proposals for an edited volume titled Animated Diversity: Queer Representations in Children’s Audiovisual Narratives. This book seeks to explore the increasing visibility and significance of queer identities in children’s animation, television, and film. The objective is to evaluate the cultural, educational, and social ramifications of this trend while analyzing the incorporation of LGBTQIA+ characters and themes into children's media.

 

National Cinemas of Agriculture (Panel at ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:58pm
Stacey Baran / University of California, Davis
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that attend to the complications of invoking the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 11:31am
Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. / MICDS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
https://rebrand.ly/cfp-transmedia-k-pop

SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING!!!

I am excited to invite submissions for a new volume titled Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, which is under contract with Lexington Books—an imprint of Bloomsbury Books.

International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:49am
Maxime Philippe / Sun Yat-Sen University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

International conference "‘ Change life ", 100 years later: Surrealism from the origins till now" (December 9 and 10, 2024)

 

This year marks the centenary of the publication of the surrealist manifesto. The surrealist movement, itself derived from Dada, has since experienced internationalization and rebirths. In recent years, the movement has benefited from new insights while literary and artistic criticisms have sought to highlight figures and aspects hitherto neglected: the essential place of women in movement, its international dimension, its Relations with negritude and the criticism of colonialism, its intermediality, the multiplicity of its artistic practices.

Baldwin Again and Again

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Popular Culture Association

2025 National Conference

April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable

 

Baldwin Again and Again

 

Athletes Breaking Bad Too

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Book chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.

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