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VPFA Study Day: ‘Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction’
Online | 8&9 June 2024
Accepting Late Submissions: December 15, 2023
The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on
“The Future Imaginary in Collecting” for the 2024 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held on March 27-30 in Chicago USA
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles imagine the future.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion
EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 31, 2023
Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places. His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.
As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.
The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc
This is a call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India [Deadline Extended]
Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World
Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024
Mode of the conference: Online
National Popular Culture Association Conference Chicago March 27-30 2024! Accepting late subissions until December 15th!
Master's in English Regional Conference
4th annual MERC
- Feburary 10th, 2024 -
On February 16-17, 2024, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its biennial celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) at the Ohio State University, with ‘Let the Games Begin!: Sports and Pastimes in the Medieval and Renaissance Worlds.’ As in past years, this event will feature a scholarly conference (with papers, round tables, and keynote lecturesby prominent scholars who will discuss a range of entertainments in their cultural and social contexts) nested within a Renaissance-faire-like carnival (featuring exhibits, gaming, contests, live demonstrations, and activities of all kinds).
Editors: Somasree Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal) and Agnibha Maity (Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal)
Concept Note
The Righteous Gemstones is a dark comedy about a world-famous megachurch pastor; his three children, who assist with the ministry; and various associates, extended family members, and antagonists. Each season (2019, 2022, 2023) is self-contained and intricately structured, inviting scene by scene and even frame by frame analysis. Typically the family faces two interconnected outside threats; parallel father-son crises featuring patriarch Eli, his eldest son, and his grandchildren; parallel relationship crises involving the other children and their partners; and a disruptive force.
MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE
International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
(Address: EE 9 & 10, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091)
The Research Project “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” organizes its final conference and seeks paper proposals of scholars who are pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition.
ECOLOGY AND INTEGRATIVE DISCOURSE: A REFLECTIVE ANALYSIS
CONCEPT NOTE
The word eco comes from the Greek word oikos, which etymologically implies household or earth and logy from logos implies rational discourse. Together they mean criticism of the house- the earth as represented in writing. It is therefore defined in general, as the study of literature and the physical environment put together. However, in larger context, it incorporates numerous variants of human life.
PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: *UPDATED*: Submissions will be accepted through December 15th, 2023!
PCA/ACA will be held from March 27-30th, 2024 in Chicago, IL
Inflationary Modernities: Literature and Economy after 1789
*deadline extended*
Call for papers for edited collection
Editors: Kieran Brown (Oxford University) and Wayne Stables (University of South Africa)
Call for the Participants for an Academic association for African literary studies in India
Making Style Work Conference
Call for Proposals
Co-sponsored by the Yale University Labor and Film Working Group, Yale Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale Film and Media Studies Department
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Humanities Quadrangle 136
Yale University
Submission Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023 by midnight
The deadline for submissions to Ink and Imagination has been extended to January 8th, 2024.
The Graduate Comics Organization (GCO) at the University of Florida now invites proposals to our 20th annual conference: "Ink and Imagination: Exploring Children's Comics." The conference will be held April 5-7, 2024. We welcome applicants from all stages of their careers to submit papers addressing any aspect of the conference topic. Independent scholars, as well as creative and community practitioners, are especially encouraged to apply.
International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024
CFP: “Intelligence,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA), Spring 2024
The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Spring 2024 special issue on the theme of “Intelligence.”
In 2021, as a consequence of the pandemic, schools and colleges across the country placed a temporary freeze on standardized testing, reinforcing doubts regarding the necessity and efficacy of such tests to assess intellectual potential. Soon thereafter, the November 30th 2022 launch of ChatGPT-3 elicited responses ranging from the apocalyptic (the software is a huge step toward artificial general intelligence) to the skeptical (the software is not and cannot be intelligent).
Call for Papers - Victorian Pedagogy
Victorian Network is an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best work across the broad field of Victorian Studies by postgraduate students and early career academics. We are delighted to announce that our sixteenth issue (2024) will be on the theme of “Victorian Pedagogy” guest edited by Kevin A. Morrison.
Pedagogy is an exciting topic within Victorian scholarship that has attracted new critical focus in recent years. This issue seeks to include themes relating to the history and depiction of education in the nineteenth century, but also the ways in which Victorian Studies are being taught to students today.
To promote excellence in Collaborative T&I research, the “International Center for Research on Collaborative Translation” rewards MA theses and PhD dissertations in English, French and Italian that make a significant professional/practical or academic contribution to the field of Collaborative Translation.
The call is open to any student from any country.
The winner will receive an honorarium of € 300 and a “Merit Diploma”. The Awards Ceremony to announce the winner will be celebrated in spring 2024 (the date of the Ceremony will be communicated).
Evaluation
Dickinson and Ecologies
Emily Dickinson International Society + Wenshan Conference (Hybrid)
Department of English, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan
19-22 June 2025
(1 Day Critical Institute + 3-Day International Conference)
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 September 2024
Comhfhios Boston College
February 17, 2024
Connolly House, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program, are pleased to host the seventh annual Comhfhios Boston College conference. Comhfhios (pronounced “co-is”) meaning “knowledge together,” or “open to all knowledge,” invites emerging scholars in all Irish Studies fields to gather in Boston.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Submission Deadline extended to December 15th
The CUNY Games Network of the City University of New York is excited to announce The CUNY Games Conference 10.0, to be held online January 22 and in-person January 23 at the Borough of Manhattan Community College in New York City.
Languages for Specific and Academic Purposes
Special Issue 4/2024
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
Guest editors
Professor Ken Hyland, University of East Anglia, UK K.Hyland@uea.ac.uk
Dr. Octavia Raluca Zglobiu-Sandu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania octavia.zglobiu@ubbcluj.ro
Dr. Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania andrada.pintilescu@ubbcluj.ro
The next issue of Diffractions explores immateriality in artistic and cultural practices as a form of both expression and resistance. For centuries, the histories of artistic practices (as well as historiographies and historicities) have been anchored to materiality and the production of objects. As Michel Claura argues, “[t]he history of art is the history of the technique of art” (1969, 83). Indeed, curatorship as we know it today initially developed around objects and their need of care.
Call for Papers: Special Section on "Reflecting on ‘The Teen Whisperer’: Twenty Years of John Green"
Edited by Dr Jennifer Gouck
Hailed by Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker as “the teen whisperer,” John Green has arguably been one of the most influential YA authors of the twenty-first century. Yet Green was not an instant success. His debut novel, Looking for Alaska, sold only a few thousand copies – most of which, Green told Shannon Maughan in an interview for Publishers Weekly, were hand-sold. Despite garnering critical acclaim in the form of the 2006 Printz Award, Alaska did not become a bestseller until seven years after its 2005 publication.
European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
26-30 August, 2024
Convenors:
Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de
Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva, Spain) villegas@uhu.es
Online seminar proposal:
28. TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES: EUROPEAN WOMEN’S FICTION IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture | postcollapse.art
OPEN CALL Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989
We are pleased to invite artists, writers, and scholars to submit work for inclusion in Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989, an anthology that seeks to explore contemporary art and visual culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.
RSVP's Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeThe Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press. The winner receives a monetary award of up to $2,000 and is invited to speak at the following year’s RSVP conference.