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We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,
Call for Papers: What is Asian Cinema?
14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025)
University of Hong Kong
Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques
Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025
https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15
Workshop:
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.
FEMSPEC Journal is looking for writers to join their review team in the areas of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (including dark fantasy or horrort), myth, and utopian/dystopian texts.
Creative and scholarly texts are both covered. Books and films, as well as other media, are all considered.
Opportunities to submit once are available, and regular contributor positions are also open.
Here are several lists of upcoming or recent titles, but reviewers are welcome to suggest titles for approval, also.
MYSTIC GALAXY,
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/upcoming-sff.
LIBRARY JOURNAL,
We are pleased to announce the launch of the British Popular Culture(s) Network, with an inaugural annual conference taking place at Falmouth University, between 5-7th June 2025.
Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.
Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.
“In Paradise, there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” Margaret Atwood
Title: Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving
ACLA Conference Dates: May 29–June 1, 2025, Online
Call for Papers and Book Chapters
For the Twenty-Ninth Graduate Student Conference of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the organizing committee is welcoming researchers in cultural studies, intellectual history, performance studies, linguistics, art history, and related disciplines to submit their work exploring and analyzing cultures of extermination in cultural productions across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. The conference is scheduled to take place in New York City on April 10-11, 2025.
In humanities, food, feeding, and feedback come together under one umbrella of human nature, culture, and creativity. Within this context fall the ethical, epistemological, phenomenological, and political tropes of food, calling for understanding and interrogation.
Food as a thematic focus in art has acquired a wide range of meanings related to consumption and consumerism, the search for and the loss of identity, localization/globalization, and high/pop culture. In literature, food has also been used as a metaphor for gender roles, human desires, power dynamics, and social status.
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the transformations undergone by the Gothic genre since its inception. It will discuss and analyse the development and mutation of the genre on aesthetic, thematic and linguistic levels. The trajectory of Gothic literature encompasses the dynamics of continuity and discontinuity as two defining features of the genre. In fact, the transition from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic fiction that set the conventions of the genre, to Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Dracula, and then to modern and postmodern Gothic genres (poetry, fiction, films) entails the revival and the introduction of new Gothic tropes.
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.
We invite submissions for the fifth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.
* Deadline is the end of January but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.
* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.
Call for Papers
Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.
Call for Papers
Sports and Popular Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
Date: 8th Jan 2025 to 10th Jan 2025
Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford
What does it mean to observe the world from within? How might we account for subjective experience in our conceptions of scientific fact? If we read the world as the “reciprocal reflection of perspectives,” as theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli urges us to do, how will our definitions of objectivity change? This panel invites papers that examine the central questions of quantum mechanics in the context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period when our original empiricist frameworks took emphatic shape.
UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025
Call for Papers
Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800
Keynote speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)
“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”
- Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Young Scholars Literary SymposiumShenandoah University’s Arts and Humanities Conference
Call for Proposals
The Harlem Renaissance: Community and Convergence
Saturday, November 9, 2024: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST
Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, Virginia
The SU Young Scholars Literary Symposium is a one-day conference held on SU’s Winchester campus. This event brings together outstanding high school and undergraduate students from the region to share their academic and creative work related to the symposium’s annual theme.
Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, invites contributions to a special issue on ‘Unseen Shakespeares’, broadly conceived. Topics covered might include (but are not limited to) bedtricks; things that happen off or under the stage; invisibility; ‘ghost’ characters; events which the audience is called upon to imagine; lines or scenes which are frequently cut in performance; and topics, issues or characters which have historically been marginalised or have failed to attract critical attention. Please send abstracts of c.
Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text), reviews, conference reports, and a “Method Lab” section with shorter papers and interviews that provide insight into work-in-progress, methodological challenges, as well as best practices.
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu
The Critical Question of Animal Cultures
Call for Papers
Poetry & Poetics (Critical)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Breathing in the Global South
Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy
Special Issue: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Policy’
Guest-Editors: Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Michael Klontzas, Krisztina Rozgonyi
View the full call here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers
CFP for JWLS 2025
Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact
From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds; what worlds make stories.”
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble.