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CFP – “META+PHYSICS OF BLACK ARTMAKING”
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies 10, no. 1, Spring 2026
Appel à propositions / Call for Submissions : Numéro spécial pour une édition pérenne
CFP: Avant-Garde and Experimental Horror (Original Deadline Extended)
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
deadline for submissions:
August 25, 2024
full name / name of organization:
Shubhanku Kochar (Assistant Professor at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow at Jadavpur University)
contact email:
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”
The first International Conference on Globalisation in Languages, Education, Culture and Communication (GLECC2025) is going to be held 30-31 July, 2025, Manchester, UK. (https://glecc.org/2025/)
The past two decades have witnessed remarkable advancements in the studies into Education, Second and Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Cultural Studies, and Communication. This growth, evident in both the number of active researchers and the volume of scholarly throughput and outcomes, can be largely attributed to the forces of globalisation. Consequently, adopting the globalisation perspective is timely and provides a natural framework for connecting these diverse yet interlinked disciplines.
CFP – “FAIR USE”
liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9, no. 2, Fall 2025
CALLING ALL POP-CULTURE SCHOLARS!!!!
I'm one half of the pop-culture podcast The Nostalgia Test Podcast. We are a comedy podcast that revists pop-culture from our childhood to see if it's still good, just nostalgic, or terrible!
We have a series we do called Nostalgia 101 where we have professionals, industry people, directors, innovators, and scholars come on to teach us about a specific pop-culture topic.
We recently decided we would LOVE to have on one or more (a small panel of scholars, like up to 3 would be cool) scholars to come on and teach us/talk about the 90s revival of swing dance and swing music.
We usually record for about an hour, though we love to let the conversation build if it's going well.
“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century": Victorian Review Special Issue
Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025
This panel, organized by Chisu Teresa Ko (Ursinus College) and Danielle Roper (University of Chicago), invites papers that further the study and theorization of blackface and racial impersonation in Latin America and the Caribbean across various historical periods, genres and forms. As both a racial archive and racial project, blackface performance is the instrument through which people make sense of changes around them— advancements and reversals in racial equality, demographic and political shifts, and (re-) imaginations of national identity.
Call for Papers
Twenty-third Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *
October 22-23, 2024
THEME: BORDERS AND MIGRATIONS
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Concurrent sessions
11 AM EST Keynote address: “Passport Power: Time, borders, and migrations”
Noora A. Lori, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Relations,
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA
CfP: Let’s Talk about the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ (Roundtable)
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention
Philadelphia, PA
March 6 - 9, 2025
Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 through NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21038
"Suble Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirablis" invites abstract submissions for our panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia). A centennial has passed since 1925, a watershed year of subtle Modernist revolution. If we look to 1925 as a year of subtle Modernist revolution, where Modernist literature found its footing as a revolutionary art movement, what symbols, patterns, or commentaries emerge through the exercise of Modernist techniques? Moreover, where has this revolutionary movement engendered revolutions–the cycling and recycling of certain formal interventions? What writing practices still echo through contemporary literature today and what are their implications?
Call for Papers:
Writing both shorter (forum posts, book reviews, and seminar papers) and longer pieces (dissertations and book-length manuscripts) is an integral part of any graduate program in the Humanities. Yet many candidates find themselves completing these pursuits as an end point, rather than as part of a larger journey. Some, for example, may find the process too focused on traditional methods of publishing, while others may find themselves yearning to submit selected works to academic journals. As a result, researching and writing do not look or feel the same for everyone, and no single mentor can fulfill every need of any single candidate or scholar.
Scholars of postmodern philosophy have developed a notion that “narration constitutes an act of forming identity further and suggests that a human being needs a life story in order to develop fully as a person” (Meyers 2018). Postmodern literature challenges traditional narrative conventions by embracing a more fragmented, non-linear, and self-referential narrative style (Zaidi & Khurram (2020). This shift can be viewed as a revolutionary dissent against modernism's emphasis on coherence and narrative closure or evolving narrative forms to reflect changing temporal experiences.
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies sponsored by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo. The deadline for submissions is September 15, and the conference will take place from May 8-10, 2025 on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Please note that this panel is a traditional in-person session.
Session #5940
Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organizers: Catherine Bloomer and Anna Dini
Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)
Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan
60th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)
Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025
Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024
Session Information
The Arthurian story is one of rise, fall, and promised return.
This roundtable titled Monster on the Hill: Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror is interested in questions facing the Horror Genre in its new contemporary era. In the wake of “Black Horror” being deemed “America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre” by the New York Times, and the success of auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Nia Dacosta, Iris K. Shim, and more, we seek to think through what are the most important questions facing those reinventing the horror genre in ways that de-center a white western lens? How might we conceptualize horror as a genre that demands both solidarity and betrayal from its viewers, while unifying marginalized populations across the global south and north?
Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 (Pacific Time)
Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)
Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.
London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual conference exploring all things Bridgerton to be held online on Thursday 30th January 2025.
From a popular book series to the Netflix phenomenon, Bridgerton has captured the public imagination, courted scandal and dazzled readers and audiences with a glittering reimagining of regency London.
We welcome papers from researchers across the academic spectrum and encourage papers from postgraduate researchers and early career researchers. We welcome individual papers, panels and round table submissions. Papers from this conference will have the opportunity to be in our sister journal The International Journal of Popular Culture Studies.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.
The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.
Special Forum on “Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh and South Asian Discourse”
Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory
Edited by Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine and
Rishi Ramesh Gune, Doctoral Student in Culture and Theory, UC Irvine
Submissions Due: October 1st, 2024
Publication: Rolling Basis
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
Updated
This book is intended to be the Art volume in the series Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: Natural, Cultural Environmental Histories edited by Viv Westbrook & Mark Nicholls, published by Routledge.
As the introduction to the series reads,
Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror
Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024
Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024
Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com
Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 46th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2018, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Taking up what Cummings means by “my specialty is living said,” this session explores Cummings’ various modernist/avant-gardist experiments with rhythm and sound that came to shape his new art and new poetry.
The E. E.
To celebrate Cummings’ 125th birthday, the E. E.
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.