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Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors.
East Asian National Memories
As Manifested in Popular Culture Gender Dynamics
2015 to the Present
FINAL Extended Deadline! Saturday, Dec 14, 2024, midnight PST
MAs, PhDs in progress, and PhDs are welcome to apply~~
***Although we're open to all East Asian topics, we'd especially appreciate proposals focused on Chinese arts & issues.
Contact: EastAsianPopCulture2025@gmail.com
Schedule:
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
ISSN : 1832-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
Scope
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 and ERIH Plus.
* 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.
Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment.
Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, 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
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual conference exploring all things Disney, to be held online on Thursday 4th and Friday 5th of September 2025.
Since the Walt Disney was founded his eponymous film studio in 1923, the Disney brand has been a mainstay of popular entertainment. The iconic Micky and Minnie Mouse head the line-up of an impressive array of characters and actors that have become cultural icons. Today Disney is a conglomerate of entertainment businesses, investing in theme parks, sports television, a cruise line, resort destinations, National Geographic Expeditions, clothing, games, and publishing.
Sydney, Australia and Zoom 25-26 September 2025
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free conference in Sydney and online exploring representations of food in popular cultures in history and today, on 25 and 26 September 2025.
Delicious, Nutritious and Fictitious: Food in Popular Culture is asymposium that aims to interrogate the ways that food, recipes, cooking, eating and nutrition are evident in popular culture. This may be representations of food in television, film, literature, art, music, as text, narrative, discourse or any other scholarly form or genre.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (IJHSS)
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHSS/Home.htmlISSN : 2349 - 219N
***December Issue ***
Scope
Food and Foodways is an interdisciplinary journal, and we're expanding our coverage of book reviews in the months ahead. If you are interested in writing a review of an interdisciplinary food studies book published in recent years, we invite you to express interest by contacting our new collective of book review editors at FandFbookreviews@gmail.com
Please include the author and title of the book, its publisher and publication date, and your credentials for writing this review. Additionally, if you would like to suggest a book for consideration, we welcome your recommendations.
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS
Reinventing The Witch: Witchcraft and Sorcery in 21st Century Fiction and Film
“Under Strong Interest” by McFarland’s "Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy" Series
-UPDATE on CHAPTERS-
Editors’ Introduction
2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference
Cinema Studies Institute
Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025
Keynote speaker: Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay, York University
EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2025
Call for Papers: EXIT SIGNS
Two chapters are needed for an edited collection entitled Monsters with Minds of Their Own in Western and Global Literatures and Media. This collection seeks to contribute to a series on the non-human in literature and culture. It aims at examining (the intersections between) the notions of monstrosity and evil in the literary and artistic depictions of non-human and hybrid (or post-human) intelligence in different cultural and historical contexts. It focuses on the representation of monsters and creatures that have cognitive abilities as well as on the demonizing and vilification of artificially or magically enhanced human intelligence.
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies [IJHASS]
****December Issue ****
http://deepublisher.com/Jnl/hass/Home.html
ISSN : 1831-622N 2974-5862 (Print)
Call for papers
Update: if you are not interested in being a regular co-host but want to be involve -- maybe wanting to discuss a particualr tale in mind -- please fill out this google form please to be (considered) as a one time guest! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19xOMPnhvKUhm38nMlR1KhIHemiV19FSRapDgAAJ0nKo/edit
This area focuses on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media, music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion. According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (Abrams).
Call for Book Chapters
Title: Becoming A Human-Animal: Interpretations of the Therianthropes in the Folk Arts of India
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Editor: Thakurdas Jana, Department of English, Bhatter College, Dantan, India
About the Book
Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/mythic-muse/
Mythic Muse: Writing Poetry with Mythology
An 8-week poetic inquiry course blending creative writing with research
When: 7 Wednesdays from January 15-March 5 (no class on Feb 19), 2025
19:00-21:00 (London Time)
Where: Online
Course Overview:
Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/fact-fiction/
Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members
Call for Papers:
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King
“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing
The Function of Humour
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Conference Date: January 28-30, 2025
Format: Online Virtual Conference
Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)
15% discount for LABRC Members
Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/humour/
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” – Mark Twain
(Also, it’s a pretty good excuse to host an academic conference where people can laugh while learning!)
Keynote speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz (Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Washington)
Keynote roundtable: Moderated by Bishnupriya Ghosh (Professor of English and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara); other roundtable participants from UCSB to be announced
Dates: March. 7-8, 2025
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Call for Book Proposals
Peter Lang Book Series
Theatre of the Marginalised: Dalit and Adivasi Performance Traditions in South Asia
***Extended Deadline***
Nothing on Leila (1997) please!
ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.
Topics of Interest
The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes
Social justice is the virtue which guides us in creating those organized human interactions we call institutions. In turn, social institutions, when justly organized, provide us with access to what is good for the person, both individually and in our associations with others. Social justice also imposes on each of us a personal responsibility to work with others to design and continually perfect our institutions as tools for personal and social development.
– The Center for Economic and Social Justice (CESJ), Washington, D.C., USA
Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development
Special issue editor: Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa