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Gaming Fandom - Transformative Works and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 1:18pm
Hayley McCullough - New Mexico Tech; Ashley P. Jones - Wartburg College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.

ReFcous: The Films of Anurag Kashyap

updated: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2024 - 11:37am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 UPDATE: DEADLINE FOR ABATRACTS EXTENDED TILL 31ST OF DECEMBER.

 

NOTE: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING FOR PROPOSALS RELATING TO "MUKKABAAZ".

EGSS 2025 Conference: Identity and Identification

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 10:52am
Florida Atlantic University: English Graduate Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

 

 

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grand Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union* on February 3rd, 2025.

*The full address for our Student Union is 1995 Dade Ave #1973, Boca Raton, FL 33431.

Eco-Futures: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 2:54am
Lorna Piatti-Farnell and Simon Bacon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Eco-environmental criticism has now become a staple presence in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary landscape, calling for ongoing reflections on the human impact on the environment. A distinct aspect of these conversations has been the growing focus on the concern of ecological destruction for the planet, with all the inevitable consequences that this entails.  Within changing contexts that feel increasingly more precarious, conceptualisations of the ‘eco-futures’ have become central to our cultural discourses,  from film to television series, from literature to comics, from animation and video games to digital narratives, from architecture to design, from socio-ecology to animal studies. 

Replacement Chapter for Collection in contract: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 10:07pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025. 

Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).

The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

Thank you considering this important project--my very best,

~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY

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Dinosaurs in Film, Literature, and the Arts

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:14pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on dinosaurs in film, literature, and the arts. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of dinosaurs in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and dinosaur portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of special effects renderings of dinosaurs

-Artwork with dinosaurs

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Paleontologists in Film, Literature, and Contemporary Media

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 1:13pm
Rachel Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

This collection seeks essays on paleontologists in film, literature, and contemporary media. The Jurassic Park franchise solidified the presence of paleontology in the pop cultural imagination, but there have been other media and portrayals that have captured the public's imagination. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

-Studies of specific films

-Studies of specific novels

-Studies of fictional and/or real-life paleontologists in modern media

Chapters will be due in September 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 11:53am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.

Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

Landscapes of Language and Literature (IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization // Rachel Martin
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

IUP English Graduate Organization 2025 Spring Conference 

Landscapes of Language and Literature 

Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP)’s English Graduate Organization is proud to announce our 2025 E-G-O Spring Conference. The conference will be held on March 21st & 22nd 2025, on campus in Indiana, PA and simultaneously in a hybrid format. 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming Climate

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
Comparative World Literature, CSULB
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

 CFP: 59th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Ecocriticism and Popular Culture: Cool Trends in a Warming ClimateVenue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid Dates: 23-25 April 2025; two days of in-person and one day of Zoom panelsKeynote Speaker: Kaniehtiio Horn.

Robert Lowell Session at American Literature Association, 21–24 May '25, in Boston

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
American Literature Association / Robert Lowell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston

The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).

We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies. 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:22am
August Wilon Society (Biennial Colloquium)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Call for Proposals

August Wilson Society’s Biennial Colloquium

 

Celebrating 20 Years: August Wilson’s Legacy and The Confluence of Voices in Literary and Cultural Expression 

 

April 2-5, 2025

The Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA

 

FINAL DEADLINE - 11/30 - NEURODIVERGENT STUDIES - PCA 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).

Richard Wright Society at the American Literature Association 2025 Conference

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Richard Wright Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

American Literature Association

May 21-24, 2025

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

 

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at

the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

 

Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies

In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells

the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in

Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference "Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media" (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).

THE PRISM OF FESTIVALS IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES. Open Historiographic Issues

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Theatre Festivals between Local and Global: Rethinking Theatre and Performance in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s,
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.

Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Open University - Falmouth University - Northwestern University Qatar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)

Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)

In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)

 

Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:19am
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’

Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 

Guest editors: Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen), Anders Grønlund (Lund University) and Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers

Hospitality and Hostility: Crossings, Boundaries, and Beyond

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:19am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

In a world marked by fluctuating borders, diverse identities, and global interconnectedness, the concepts of hospitality and hostility present complex meanings and challenges. This conference invites scholars and researchers to explore the diverse manifestations of hospitality and hostility across linguistics, literature, culture, social sciences, and political discourse. From acts of welcoming to experiences of exclusion, from cultural exchange to conflict, this theme highlights the delicate balance between openness and resistance, friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion.

 

War & Media Studies 2025 Graduate Student Writing Award Competition

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) War & Media Studies SIG
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD 

The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.  

Call for submissions/Appel à propositions: Sustainable Publishing Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Imaginations/The Goose/Engaged Scholar Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne

Sous la direction de Rachel Webb Jekanowski (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Abigail Fields (The Goose : revue pour les arts, l’environnement, et la culture au Canada); Brent Ryan Bellamy (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Markus Reisenleitner (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image); Margot Mellet (Imaginations: revue d’études interculturelles de l’image), et Lori Bradford (Engaged Scholar Journal : Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning)

Échéance : 10 janvier 2025

[ACCUTE 2025 - Extended Deadline] Beyond Trauma (Studies)?

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

STS 2025: Textual Remediations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Society for Textual Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

STS 2025: Textual Remediations University of Pennsylvania
May 28-30, 2025

It has been a quarter of a century since Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin released Remediation: Understanding New Media. In it, they introduced the term “remediation” as a way of naming the friction generated by material forms as they shape content. Although remediation was originally conceived as “a defining characteristic of new digital media,” the term’s influence has been felt not only in digital studies but across a network of related fields, from book history and textual scholarship to media history and digital humanities. 

Call for Papers - INSAP 2025 Conference --> Less than 1 month until submission deadline!

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
INSAP
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 22, 2024

                                           INSAP 2025 – Celestial Connections Across Time and Space  

Dates: 8-13 June 2025  
Location: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK  

Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Literature, Anthropology, Cartography, Geography

Abstract Deadline: 22 December 2024

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