We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.

Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,

Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025

https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

Workshop:

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the British Popular Culture(s) Network, with an inaugural annual conference taking place at Falmouth University, between 5-7th June 2025.

Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.

Title: Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

ACLA Conference Dates: May 29–June 1, 2025, Online

Call for Papers and Book Chapters

In humanities, food, feeding, and feedback come together under one umbrella of human nature, culture, and creativity. Within this context fall the ethical, epistemological, phenomenological, and political tropes of food, calling for understanding and interrogation.

Food as a thematic focus in art has acquired a wide range of meanings related to consumption and consumerism, the search for and the loss of identity, localization/globalization, and high/pop culture. In literature, food has also been used as a metaphor for gender roles, human desires, power dynamics, and social status.

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

Call for Papers

Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.

Call for Papers

Sports and Popular Culture

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: October 31, 2024

Date: 8th Jan 2025 to 10th Jan 2025

Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford

What does it mean to observe the world from within? How might we account for subjective experience in our conceptions of scientific fact? If we read the world as the “reciprocal reflection of perspectives,” as theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli urges us to do, how will our definitions of objectivity change? This panel invites papers that examine the central questions of quantum mechanics in the context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period when our original empiricist frameworks took emphatic shape. 

Young Scholars Literary SymposiumShenandoah University’s Arts and Humanities Conference

Call for Proposals

The Harlem Renaissance:  Community and Convergence

Saturday, November 9, 2024: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST

Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, Virginia

The SU Young Scholars Literary Symposium is a one-day conference held on SU’s Winchester campus. This event brings together outstanding high school and undergraduate students from the region to share their academic and creative work related to the symposium’s annual theme. 

Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers –  the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text), reviews, conference reports, and a “Method Lab” section with shorter papers and interviews that provide insight into work-in-progress, methodological challenges, as well as best practices.

South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu

Call for Papers

Poetry & Poetics (Critical)

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: October 31, 2024