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 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. 

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

Concept Note:

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).

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

Call for Papers

The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.

Call for Papers(Issue 9, Dec. 2025)

Ex-Centric Narratives:

Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media

Please submit your abstracts by December 31, 2024,

for any of the following two parts

PART I

Theme:

Culture War and/as Myth within and beyond America

Association for Theatre in Higher Education/Association of Asian Performance ATHE/AAP Online Symposium AI Working Group Call for Papers
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Techno-Performative Futures in Asia/Asian Diaspora Studies

Symposium Date: April 4, 2025

Call for paper for a Special issue of ReviewofEducation,Pedagogy,andCulturalStudies

Educatorsin PopularCulture: EducationalSettings asSites ofIntersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

This is a panel CFP for the 2025 Biennial Conference: Collective Atmospheres, to be held July 8-11, 2025, at the University of Maryland.

Literature, Popular Culture, and Bisexuality (edited collection; print)

ed. Ian Kinane (University of Roehampton)

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

The Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Bhilai is excited to announce the second Graduate Research Meet (GRM) on (Re)imagining ‘Progress’. Conventionally the idea of progress is understood as a linear trajectory towards improvement, scientific advancements, and socio-economic and technological developments. Progress, in contemporary times, can be seen as a holistic concept pertaining to not only societal but also individual betterment — more as a cultural, economic and psychological reality.

For a generation, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise was emblematic of heroism, fighting against adversity, and inclusion of outsiders. This is why Rowling’s arguable alignment of herself, in 2020 and since, with transphobic and trans-exclusionary rhetoric felt like such a betrayal to many of her readers, prompting a revaluation of her work and what it means to them now. With the co-edited collection Potions, Powers, and Prejudice: Reassessing Harry Potter, we intend for contributors to explore the matter of what we collectively do with Harry Potter in the wake of its creator’s very public turn. Some readers have favored a careful delineation between author and work; others have regretfully concluded that no such delineation is possible.