Stories shape the way that we view the world and understand our relationship with it. One of the oldest and most universal kind of story features the hero. The hero is an inspirational and aspirational figure who saves individuals or communities from hostile forces, misfortune, or ruin. Some heroes do this by means of supernatural powers, while others rely on strength, courage, wisdom, or cunning.

2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference Cinema Studies Institute 

Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025

Call for Papers: EXIT SIGNS

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The Mechademia conference began in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2001, as a new forum for people hoping to establish the English-language academic study of anime and manga while still keeping ties with the creative energy of the fan cultures that these vibrant media were creating. Since then, Mechademia has taken on many forms, including two academic journal series, conferences in various locales and venues around the world, and a widening network of collaboration between academics, fans, and creators, while pursuing the study of anime, manga, and related media as an interconnected trans-local nexus of cultural practice. 

Nancy Drew and Sookie Stackhouse. The Executioner and Sweet Valley High. Warhammer or Star Wars tie-in novels. Franchise series like these occupy a unique position, inspiring voracious (often young) readers while often complicating traditional scholarly approaches to literature.

We seek 15-minute papers for a prospective panel on franchise fiction, mass market books, and pulp at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025.

Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025 The Harvard Graduate Music Forum invites proposals for individual papers and alternative-format presentations (lecture-recitals, performance demonstrations, etc.) for its 2025 conference, “TRANS∗Media.” We welcome submissions from graduate students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to join us in exploring the role of music and sound in relating trans∗ness to experiences of moving across, between, and beyond multiple media forms, technologies, and narratives.

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces — whether critical, pedagogical, or creative — on social media accounts that engage with the medieval period for a special issue of TSW planned for on-line publication in 2025 or early 2026. 

Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities

Editors: Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, and Jacob Babb, Appalachian State University

This call emerges from our understanding that over the past five years, something has changed about how writing program administrators relate to their work. 

Or maybe we’ve changed. 

Maybe it’s both.

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY 

7-8 February 2025 

A two-day hybrid conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Italy 

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

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.

CFP Convalescence in 19th- and 20th-century anglophone literature

26-27 June 2025, CRINI, Nantes Université & Daulat Ram College, Delhi University

Organisers: Leslie de Bont, Aude Petit-Marquis, Sanna Melin Schyllert, Deepshikha Mahanta Bortamuly, Violina Borah

The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

Strangeness and Oddity: Embracing the Extraordinary

in Arts-Based Research

A Transdisciplinary Conference

February 25-26, 2025

Online

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2025

Conference Page: https://labrc.co.uk/strangeness-and-oddity/

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