The Hulu series Castle Rock (2018 – 2019) occupies a unique textual space that both builds upon and transcends traditional notions of adaptation in its approach to Stephen King’s canon, engaging with the significance of place, intersecting narratives, and multiple worlds. As stated in the opening credits, Castle Rock is ‘based on characters and settings by Stephen King’, but it uses those established elements to create something original, telling new stories, building on iconic characters and creating compelling tales for new ones, situated within one of King’s signature Maine towns.

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has impacted the globe for more than a year. This development sparked renewed interest in the historical, sociocultural, political, and economic aspects of epidemics and pandemics, currently evidenced by an outpouring of scholarship on the consequences of the current pandemic on the world’s population  as well as social and economic structures. This symposium provides a forum specifically for the study of the sociocultural developments that lead to “Othering” in situations of a perceived crisis.

The Critical Poetics International Summer School

Critical Poetics: Care Of... 

Online, 25 June – 3 July 2021

Raymond Antrobus

Maya Chowdhury

Marion Coutts

Eva Haifa Giraud

Seán Hewitt

Bhanu Kapil

Astrida Neimanis

Maggie Nelson

Craig Santos Perez

Nat Raha

Laura Salisbury

Mama D Ujuaje

(Further speakers to be confirmed)

Film Education Journal - Special Issue - Decolonising Film Education (to be published June 2022) 

Guest Editors: Professor Jyoti Mistry (HDK-Valand Academy) and Dr Lizelle Bisschoff (University of Glasgow) 

An Online Symposium

Date: May 20  

Extended deadline for proposals: April 9 2021

This symposium is entirely FREE to present at and attend as it will be held online. Stay tuned keynote speaker names and presentation titles.

CALL FOR PAPERS

OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society, 11(2)

ISSN: 2093-5498 (Print) / 2671-969X (Online)

We are currently accepting manuscripts for OMNES: The Journal of Multicultural Society Vol.11 No.2 that will be published on July 31, 2021. To be considered for the upcoming issue, OMNES 11(2), please submit your manuscript by April 30, 2021.

About the Journal

General Call for Papers

Our next general issue will come out in March of 2022.  Our most recent issue is available here https://popularculturereview.wordpress.com/. 

Many Regimes of Capital in the Postdigital Age

We are delighted to announce the return of the Technology and Socialization conference series. 

Due to Covid-19 situation we decided that the conference Many Regimes of Capital in the Postdigital Age will be held fully online. New date for the conference is 21-22 October 2021, with abstracts due May 31 2021.

We are also glad to inform you that new keynote speakers confirmed their attendance in our conference. All details and the full Call for Papers can be found below.

We are waiting for your submissions and hope to see you again soon!

CALL FOR PAPERS

A small number of entries for London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia (under contract, McFarland; ed. Kevin A. Morrison) remain unassigned in the "Literature" category. A list appears below. Entries for this category should range from 50-350 words. Established scholars, early career researchers, and advanced graduate students—those who, in a US context, have passed their qualifying exams—are welcome. Interested individuals may contact the volume's managing editor to have one or more entries assigned to them and request a style guide. 

All Hands

All Our Yesterdays

Analogies and metaphors (East End)

Barren Metal

The Big Bow Mystery 

Last Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror

Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University),

Ananya Saha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

http://artes.filo.uba.ar/pagnoni-berns-gabriel

We, the editors, are looking for four additional chapters for our book on Japanese horror. The deadline for the full manuscript to Lexington Press is May 10, 2021, so potential contributors must have in mind the process will be quickly as possible. Below, our original CFP.

CALL for PAPERS

Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled:

Care(ful) Relationships Between Mothers and the Caregivers They Hire

Editors: Katie B. Garner, PhD and Andrea O’Reilly, PhD

Deadline for Abstracts: June 1, 2021

Twenty years since its publication, this roundtable celebrates the impact, enduring relevance, and potentials of Karen Shimakawa's monograph National Abjection for the interdisciplinary humanities in the US and beyond. Please submit 300-word abstracts for consideration.

The MLA Annual Convention will be in Washington, DC, 6–9 January 2022.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, 20 March 2021

Rustem Ertug Altinay, Kadir Has Univ (rea270@nyu.edu)

Vivian Huang, Williams College (vlh1@williams.edu)

Teaching Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century US Short Fiction

Edited by Jeehyun Lim and John K. Young

Contemporary Latinx writers, visual artists, dancers, and performance artists enact, embody, cross, and defy multiple borders –  those of nation, gender, race, language, climate, species, among others – in their work. In doing so they often draw on indigenous and other inherited forms of cultural expression, reclaiming and resignifying them in the process. The tension between the desire to belong to a rooted community and the longing to break away from a prescriptive collective is a hallmark of Latinx expression on various borders – ranging from the Chihuahuan desert to the Massacre River.