For our fourth iteration of the HPN Symposium, we find ourselves interrogating, engaging with, and pushing the boundaries of the concept of  “best practices” and how it relates to humanities podcasting. Our initial inquiry was born out of a discussion about the need to counteract worker invisibility and exploitation on university campus podcast teams. But this raised a larger, thornier debate: Are there other agreed-upon principles of podcast-making and audio creation?  If so, have they emanated from particular forebears and models, or sprung up out of habitual creation like unwritten, but widely understood, common laws? Are there contexts peculiar to podcasting that deserve their own careful ethical treatment or understanding?

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

Call for Papers Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Pearl-Poet Society

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Amber Dunai

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Subject: Call for Papers, Special Topics: War Literature and Trauma at CEA 2025

Call for Papers, War Literature and Trauma at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on War Literature and Trauma for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Population and production are two terms used to characterize the nineteenth century in Great Britain. For example, the population in England more than doubled by the end of the century due to improving hygiene (i.e., hygeia), increasing birth rate, declining mortality rate (e.g., medical advances), and prosperity. Public health led to a greater commonwealth. The rise of the Industrial Revolution through factories, transportation (e.g., railway), and the synchronization of time stoked the great migration from agrarian to industrial centers. Would the population outstrip production? How could production evolve to keep up with the rising population?

"Redefining Expansion and Exploration: Black Diasporic Literatures, Cultures, and Pedagogies"

Call for Abstracts for the 83rd Annual College Language Association Convention

Accepting Submissions at www.clascholars.org until October 1st!

APRIL 23 - 26, 2025

Hosted by Washington State University

Vancouver, Washington

Hilton Vancouver Washington

Call for Papers, Professional/Technical Writing at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Professional/Technical Writing for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

Singles have been and continue to be regarded as anomalies and threats to the social order in the United States and elsewhere (Moran). Within the humanities, the growing interdisciplinary field of Singles Studies builds on scholarship in queer theory and gender and women’s studies to highlight the evolution of relationships that fall outside the structure of traditional marriage and the nuclear family to include singlehood and other types of intimate relationships that do not revolve around these conventional models. As more people opt toward relationship models and orientations that do not involve marriage, it is important that scholarship in the humanities reflect this revolutionary thinking.

10th Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

University of Michigan

March 14-15, 2025

Submission deadline: October 21, 2024

Call for Papers:

The departments of American Culture, Communication and Media, Digital Studies, and English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor are thrilled to host the 1oth annual Post45 Graduate Symposium on March 14-15, 2025.

The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.

Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games

Organizer: Antonia DiNardo

Delivery Mode: In-Person

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era explores the complex relationship between the rise of frontier mythology and the acceptance of social inequality in America. This interdisciplinary collection under considertion by Vernon Press explores how western mythology, spread through popular media, may have eclipsed late 19th-century movements for equity, such as the Knights of Labor's efforts to promote racial and gender equality, alongside workers' rights.

Presentations are invited on any subject concerning the intersection of Irish culture and the humanities, provided its source is located outdoors and it functions as a free, democratic, inclusive space. Possible topics include the Irish busker tradition, street art, outdoor sculptures, walking tours, parks and greenspaces, cemeteries, memorials – even the recent Dublin-New York Portal. 

Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)

Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024

To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)