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Robin Hood and Other Social Bandits in Folk and Popular Culture
HYBRID
15th Biennial Conference of
the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
26-27 June 2025
The Jagiellonian University, Cracow (Poland)
(and ONLINE),
co-organized by the University of Silesia
The anthology, Compton: Reflections on Art and the City, aims to analyze the intellectual and creative contributions of Compton artists and their works and explore the city of Compton as an important site of artistic and historical production. We seek essays and criticism that interpret and evaluate recognized and underrecognized Compton artists and their individual or collective bodies of work within the contexts of larger artistic movements, artistic and cultural impact, and intersections of art, place, and culture.
Call for Anthology Submissions
Compton: Reflections on Art and the City
Speculating Exile: Literary Estrangements and Fugitive Belongings
Exile is “the signature and permanent mark of the modern age,” M. Nourbese Philip wrote in 1992: “we cutting we teeth on exile— exile in the very air we breathing.” In this waning quarter of the 21st century, more than 281 million or 3.6% of the global population are migrants, a number that, by all accounts, will only rise. Displacement, whether due to economic instabilities, climate change, war, political oppression, or just the “maddest Joy” of desire, alters not only those it subjectifies, but the conditions of belonging that inform their trajectories.
The Cinematic Codes Review is seeking reviewers to submit regular tri-annual sets of or single-item reviews of any time of visual content that is of individual interest. Ideas can range from standard reviews with screen shots of recent releases, as well as scholarly reviews of classics. You can review fine art gallery shows, theatrical dramas, or minor films shown at festivals. Reviews can be short (a few hundred words) or very long essays (up to 8,000 words). You can submit a single review, or commit to submitting regular reviews three times per year. The deadlines for the issues are: August 1, December 1, and May 1. Work that arrives after the deadline will be considered for the next issue.
This annual scholarly journal is published by the Comparative World Literature program at California State University, Long Beach.
Genre is dedicated to publishing creative and scholarly work in the Humanities as well as essays related to the annual Comparative Literature conference. Reviews of current works of literary criticism, literature and local Southern California art exhibitions are also featured.
Call for PapersGenre will be accepting papers and creative work along the theme of the CWL 2024 conference: Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective for Volume 40: Writers of Extreme Situations (2024) .
The Matter of the Humanities
“When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressors.”
Paolo Freire
“The future has arrived, it’s just not evenly distributed yet.”
William Gibson
Call for Papers: Mindfulness, Movement, and Cultural Revitalization: Indigenous Contemplative Theories and Practices
RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (rsa.aisna.net), is issuing the following calls relating to proposals for its #36 issue (publication date: September 2025): 1.
CALL FOR PAPERS
2ND INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE AND GOTHIC CONFERENCE (FOGO):
“LANDSCAPES AND TERRITORIES OF HORROR”
Routledge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Co-Editors: Riché Richardson, Philathia Rufaro Bolton
300-word abstracts due:
September 15, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Trans-Analytics: Psychoanalysis, Gender, and History
Special Issue of Psychoanalysis and History
Editor: Carolyn Laubender (University of Essex)
Editorial Advisory Board: Matt ffytche, Dagmar Herzog, Camille Robcis, Dany Nobus, and Hannah Zeavin
Context and Aims:
Dates: November 7th-9th, 2024.
Mode: Mixed mode: In-person, hybrid, and online.
Venue: 7th- In person at Yale University, 8th Hybrid, 9th online only.
Hosts: Council on African Studies at Yale University & the University of South Africa (UNISA).
The Council on African Studies at the MacMillan Center, Yale University, and the Department of Religious Studies & Arabic at the University of South Africa (UNISA), jointly invite presentations for the second African Epistemologies for the 21st Century conference. This year’s theme is “Genesis Epistemologies: Origins, Syncretism, and Human Evolution in Africa.”
After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.” Scholarship on the politics of literature has, in recent decades, increasingly come to focus on whether texts from the past conform to the values of the present. Some texts are praised for modeling, even anticipating, our own progressive values, while others are subject to critique for the way they ignore, license, or justify forms of inequity, injustice, and subordination. This disciplinary impulse has come to seem not only justified, but natural. Yet it has also resulted in a growing corpus of books being dismissed or maligned within the academy (books that are often, and importantly, still being read and revered outside the academy).
The International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research (ISJASSR) invites scholars, researchers, and academicians to submit their original research papers for a special issue focusing on Current Topical Issues in English Language and Literary Studies.
Journal Background
Established seven years ago, the International Scholar Journal of Arts and Social Science Research is a respected publication that is widely indexed in recognized databases. The journal is committed to promoting excellence in research and scholarship in the fields of arts and social sciences.
Special Issue Focus
What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with the Northeast Modern Language Association’s (NeMLA's) theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.
Note: The Journal of Global South Studies (University of Florida Press) has shown interest in publishing this special issue
Concept Note
Call for Abstracts for IJCV focus section: Analyzing Urban Conflicts in Light of the “Emotional Turn”
Guest Editors: Jörg Hüttermann and Johannes Ebner
This volume will explore the outsized influence of community discourses on how games are experienced. Cultures and discourses surrounding games significantly impact player experiences. Salen and Zimmerman (2004) describe open cultural contexts where "the exchange of meaning between a game and its surrounding cultural context can change and transform both the game and its environment”. Consalvo (2007) discusses how videogame paratexts, including guides and wikis, serve crucial functions in understanding approaches to gameplay. Similarly, Mukherjee (2015) views games as multifaceted “assemblages” that are deeply informed by surrounding cultures and communities.
When Zac Efron was cast as Ted Bundy in Netflix’s 2019 production, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, this decision received a mixed reception. Some argued that Efron was too much of a ‘queasily parodic hottie’ for the role (Bradshaw 2019). Meanwhile, there was a counter argument to state that Efron’s starring role was in fact clever mimicry of Bundy’s alleged sex appeal and charisma, two defining qualities that enabled him to become such a prolific violent offender. Significantly though, Efron is far from the only conventionally attractive and high-profile actor to be cast in the role of a violent criminal.
Title: Religious Encounters: Text, Travel, and Tradition
As Michael Pasquier rightly suggests, the concept of 'religion' is relatively modern, emerging predominantly through political and scientific innovations. However, this does not imply that notions of the 'sacred' or 'spiritual' were absent in earlier times. From the dawn of human existence, individuals have sought to create meaning around themselves and their place in the world. This quest to explain the origin of life and the universe has led to the creation of sacred histories, narratives, oral mythological traditions, texts, symbols, and sites.
The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name (5.1.17).
We are a brand-new INDEPENDENT zine focused on Max Stirner/Egoism/Anarcho-Egoism related work.
Have a look at the information here:
https://creative-nothing-zine.com/about
Submission Guidelines:
For the annual print zine we are looking for various contributions!!!
So if you enjoy Max Stirner and his work and you are an academic (political & social science, humanities, media studies, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy), artist, writer, blogger or content creator, please feel free to submit.
Submissions can include:
Essays
Photo Essays
Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins-Yale
Mutamenti
Alien Perspectives
October 25-26, 2024
The Italian programs at Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities welcome submissions for the second edition of the graduate symposium to be held in person on October 25-26, 2024 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Anthology Call for Submissions - UPDATED DEADLINE 8/1/24 For this astrology-themed anthology, we are looking for 12 stories—one for each Zodiac sign. Writers should submit a short story that aligns with their sign. (So, for example, a Virgo writer would submit a story that has Virgo vibes, Virgo characters, or embodies Virgo-ness in some way. Feel free to get creative with the connection!)
Open to literary fiction, experimental fiction, and genre fiction.
International conference celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Genre en séries
https://journals.openedition.org/ges/
France’s #MeToo in Film and Media:
Establishing an academic research subject
East-West Cultural Passage
Special Issue: Representations of Disaster in the Humanities, September 2024
Submission deadline: 1 August 2024
Novels and Book History, an area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, is currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Atlantic City, NJ to be held November 7-9, 2024.
This area welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading, publishing, media studies, bookishness, and representations of books/reading in other media.
The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference
H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us
Saturday 21 September 2024 (hybrid: online and at The Art Workers’ Guild, London, UK)
Keynote speaker: Dr David Shackleton, author of British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time, University of Cardiff.
Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity
Alcalá de Henares, Madrid | November 25–26, 2024