Weeks after the death of Nobel Prize-winning author Alice Munro this year, her daughter Andrea Skinner disclosed the longstanding sexual abuse she'd suffered as a child at the hands of her stepfather, Munro’s husband, Gerald Fremlin—abuse about which Munro had known and stayed silent. The disclosure is but the latest revelation to throw into question the legacy of a revered cultural icon. Neil Gaiman, Louis CK, Jean Vanier, and Avital Ronell are only a few public figures to be reassessed in recent years in the wake of accounts of sexual abuse.

Call for Papers: Journal of Contemporary Painting

Special Issue: ‘The Curatorial and Painting’, Issue 12.1

Journal of Contemporary Painting invites submissions for issue 12.1 (to be published in April 2026) on the theme ‘The Curatorial and Painting’.

For the issue of JCP ‘The Curatorial and Painting’, we want to explore the contexts made for painting to be shown and painting’s impact on those contexts. We are interested in two ways of understanding an exchange between painting and the curatorial: through spatial/durational dimensions and through social practices.

Potential themes include:

The roundtable addresses the field of 18th-century-centered digital humanities and digitization projects through the lens of labor, service, and alt-ac career prospects. Extending out of previous ASECS panels on Transkribus-a-thons, challenges in digitization, and collaborative work in DH, this roundtable proposes to focus more closely on these issues in specifically graduate and early career contexts, to ask questions such as “What are the skills required for digitization projects?” and “Do networking/alt-ac skills building opportunities in digitization outweigh the labor demands?

Firebrand Burns On!

Conference to Celebrate Firebrand Books

Ithaca College

April 18-19, 2025

From 1984 to 2000 editor Nancy Bereano working out of a tiny office in Ithaca, New York published 104 books, including some of the most influential LGBTQIA+ titles ever produced.  This two-day conference celebrates the achievements and legacy of Firebrand Books.  For a complete overview of Firebrand publications see https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM07670.html. We invite papers on a variety of topics:

Discussions of the work of Firebrand authors, including:

This panel seeks proposals to approach Romanticism as a (r)evolutionary mode of thinking. We invite abstracts to revolutionize and de-border the conventional Eurocentric Romantic boundaries in genres, forms, styles, themes, cultural legacies, and critical methods. Proposals are invited to transcend Romanticism of the Romantic Era to a new timeless global Romanticism of both historicity and modernity that contributes to ideological diversity. From the old pan-European Romanticism to a new international Romanticism, reading Romantic Literature as World Literature, this panel welcomes new creative approaches to interpret works by the Romantics.

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2025 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

Call for themed submissions: the "freak" issue (creative writing only - we do not accept academic writing) Puerto del Sol is seeking work which engages with the theme of freak. Freaking, to freak, to be freaked. A freaky thing. Freak has a past: a rotten one. Freak as a scorn, as a label tied around necks by hierarchy, ableism, transphobia, racism. Freak as pushback. Freak getting freaked the freak up. The grotesque growing despite. Revel in it. Leather-clad tunnel vision. Maximalism. That house in the woods we all want to see. Who is brave enough to look? And let me see your browser history. What are you hiding? What is it that lives behind those walls, under the skin, in the darkest corner of the attic?

Please submit an abstract and bio on the ACLA Portal link by October 14, 2024 https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper?destination=/interdisciplinary-study-homemaking-mapping-places-routines-memories-and-locales-we-call-home&seminar=47603  We welcome papers that reflect on the diverse, layered, and fluid representations of homemaking for a seminar focused on three key thematic units: Homemaking: Spaces, Architecture, and Urban Geographies; Mapping the Everyday: Visual Arts, Objects, and Media; Gendered Spatial Configurations.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Psychology and Popular Culture AREA

 2025 POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCiATION NATIONAL Conference

New ORLEANS MARRIOT – April 16-19, 2025

https://pcaaca.org/page/submissionguidelines

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 NOVEMBER 2024

Guest editors: Nathan Ashman (University of East Anglia) and Steven Powell (University of Liverpool)

We invite abstract submissions for contributions to a themed issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (JAS) on "Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship." Co-Edited by Krystal Carter, Tammy Clemons, and Rachel Terman, we especially invite contributions from authors who identify as early-career and/or underrepresented scholars, but submissions from all are welcome.

In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?

The twentieth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Lancaster University, on 10th – 12th April 2025 in person.

The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television) and science (including medicine and technology). The BSLS remains committed to supporting and showcasing work on all aspects of literature and science.

2025 will be a milestone year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Maryland Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant.

The AGM theme: Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenelia, & Surviving Letters

Date: Oct. 10-12, 2025

Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore MD