CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century.

Keynote speakers:
Nicola Abram (University of Reading, UK) Suzanne Scafe (University of Brighton, UK) Josh Toth (MacEwan University, CA)

Venue: Kaaistudio’s, Brussels, Belgium 24-26 April 2024

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Culture

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

Chicago, IL

March 27-30, 2024

(Please note: the deadline has been extended. Proposals are now due by December 15, 2023) 

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Department of English, Jadavpur University and

 The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow present

A One-Day Symposium (funded by Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant)

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

12 December 2023

Venue: Department of English, Jadavpur University

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Renaissance Hybridity

Graduate Early Modern Student Society

Seventh Annual Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2024

UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom

Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of English at Luther College

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 31, 2024

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

UPDATE: Deadline extensions.

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

The 15th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

Brown University, April 5 - 6, 2024
“Contested Bodies in Italian Studies”

On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian
Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to
announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference, to be held on 5-6 April 2024, at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Editors:

Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos) 

Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile)

Important dates:

Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024

Editors’ decision: May 2024

Expected publication date: May/June, 2024 

The Graduate Student Conference Committee 

of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs 

& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization 

at Western University 

is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference

«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; 

the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»