The Girlhood Studies Collective, in collaboration with the Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University-Camden, invite proposals for “The Mundanity of Girlhood,” a virtual symposium to be held April 4-6, 2024.

Dossier CFP: Media and ‘Middling’ Cities

Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture

Editors: Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent), Bibi Burger (University of Cape Town), Janina Schupp (University of Oxford) and Sanele KaNtshingana (University of Cape Town)

Call for Papers/Presentations: Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU)

Theme: Speculative Fiction and Society

Felicity A. Nussbaum suggests that we need to formulate new critical framings about the widened eighteenth century as well as a long one. In what ways can we widen the breadth, scale, and scope of eighteenth-century studies from a global and planetary perspective? How might we come up with ways to think about the interconnectivity among ideas, cultures, and texts that “move” beyond the boundaries of the metrapole and the margin, near and distant?

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Semiotics of Animation. From TraditionalForms to Contemporary Innovations
Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 10:1 (2024)
GUEST EDITORS: Maria Ilia Katsaridou & Loukia Kostopoulou
The study of animation as a semiotic system has gained significant scholarly attention
in recent years. From traditional hand-drawn animation to contemporary computergenerated
imagery (CGI) and experimental forms, animation has become a dynamic
field that offers valuable insights into how meaning is constructed and communicated.
Animation as a medium of communication relies on the manipulation of movement

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

AI and the Labor(s) of Writing

Friday, December 8, 2023, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

 Register here

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rlY0Iq8HS_S_eSJxupaJrQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds research group) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our session in the coming CCLA 2024 conference at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference to be held virtually on February 15-16, 2024. Hip Hop Hurston recognizes the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop as well as Hurston’s celebration of African American vernacular and culture as a precursor to this movement.

You are invited to submit abstracts for individual or panel presentations on Hip-Hop, Zora Neale Hurston, or any of her multidisciplinary interests. Presentations can be scholarly, pedagogical, and/or creative and should not exceed 15 minutes. We are also interested in student panels.

VPFA Study Day: ‘Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction’ 

Online | 8&9 June 2024

Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion

EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 31, 2023

Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places.  His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.

As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.

The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc

National Popular Culture Association Conference Chicago  March 27-30 2024!  Accepting late subissions until December 15th!

https://pcaaca.org/ 

On February 16-17, 2024, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its biennial celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) at the Ohio State University, with ‘Let the Games Begin!: Sports and Pastimes in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.’ As in past years, this event will feature a scholarly conference (with papers, round tables, and keynote lecturesby prominent scholars who will discuss a range of entertainments in their cultural and social contexts) nested within a Renaissance-faire-like carnival (featuring exhibits, gaming, contests, live demonstrations, and activities of all kinds).

The Righteous Gemstones is a dark comedy about a world-famous megachurch pastor; his three children, who assist with the ministry; and various associates, extended family members, and antagonists.  Each season (2019, 2022, 2023) is self-contained and intricately structured, inviting scene by scene and even frame by frame analysis. Typically the family faces two interconnected outside threats; parallel father-son crises featuring patriarch Eli, his eldest son, and his grandchildren; parallel relationship crises involving the other children and their partners; and a disruptive force.

The Research Project “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” organizes its final conference and seeks paper proposals of scholars who are pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition.