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A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 2:16pm
Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

 

Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos

(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)

Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.

 

Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 11:17am
Special Issue of Early American Studies (UPenn)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

For a special issue on early African American literature and religion, Early American Studies (UPenn) seek article-length contributions on how 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualized religion beyond the telos of the nation-state. The roles of religion and religious thought in early Black culture have often been understood within the dualistic frame of resistance whereby Christianity, the dominant religion of colonial and antebellum American society, is both employed by masters to subjugate the enslaved and employed by the slaved to resist their masters’ subjugation of them.

Extended Deadline ‘A word after a word after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2024): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium.

updated: 
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 - 8:36am
Northumbria University/Newcastle Upon Tyne
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute conference papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s famous 1985 dystopia. The novel was published during Ronald Reagan’s troubled presidency, which witnessed second-wave feminism, anti-pornography, pro-life and pro-legal abortion campaigns, but the first season of the adaptation was likewise released during troubled times, a few months after the controversial election of Donald Trump as the 50th President of the USA, which created an equally tense political scene. Women across the world were protesting for female and human rights, often dressed in the now iconic Handmaid’s costume.

Deadline Extended - Call for Papers - The Northeast Popular Culture Association - Hybrid Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 7:04pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Saturday at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts

NEPCA is a conference that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be shared, as well as completed projects.

Call for chapters: Men at the Margins: Decolonising Masculinity and Intersectionality (Edited collection for Routledge)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 - 9:16am
Sofia Aboim, University of Lisbon; Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: Men at the Margins: Decolonising Masculinity and Intersectionality 
Edited collection for Routledge - Editors: Sofia Aboim (University of Lisbon), Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila (University College Dublin) 

REMINDER: Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives CONFERENCE (Debrecen University Symposium, 2024)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:13pm
Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024

 

 

This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.

Date:

  • October 24-25, 2024

Venue:

  • Debrecen, Hungary, Main Building of the University of Debrecen

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming, international, in-person conference, "Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives." 

Call for Papers: SSEES Postgraduate Conference 20

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:12pm
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political repressions, crackdowns on LGBTQ+, women’s, ethnic and religious communities’ rights, environmental crises, and the ramifications of colonial legacies have marked the past several years in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. While indispensable academic research is being carried out to investigate various forms of political, social, cultural, and economic oppression and violence, it is crucial to highlight positive alternatives nurtured in these hostile contexts.

Post-novel/Post-semiotic/Post-dispositif in Contemporary Literature. A World-Systems Perspective

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:12pm
Special Issue 3/2025 Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

Many of the theoretical fundamentals developed for literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century have become less efficacious. In recent decades, scholars have, indeed, investigated the transformations of storytelling and cultural consumption in the digital age. However, this issue looks to further explore the future of literary and cultural studies from a world-systems perspective with a focus on the alterations of novelistic narratives in the larger context of the supplanting of liberal, humanistic, sense-making mechanisms by computational regimes of meaning.

Call for Chapters: ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:11pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

 

ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat

Edited by Maryam Ghorbankarimi (University of Lancaster) and Mazyar Mahan (University of Texas at Dallas) 

 

Torquato Tasso - Renaissance Society of America 2025

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:11pm
Francesco Brenna - Towson University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

CFP: Renaissance Society of America
Boston, MA
20-22 March 2025

Torquato Tasso

Organizers:
- Francesco Brenna (Towson University)
- Kate Driscoll (Duke University)
- Corrado Confalonieri (Università di Parma)
- Luca Zipoli (Bryn Mawr College)

Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:10pm
Università di Genova
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture

19-20 September 2024

Deadline for submissions: an abstract of 200 to 250 words should be sent by 7 July 2024.

Conference venue: Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Genova, Italy

 

"Phantoms in Rites, Myths, and Discourse"

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:10pm
"Textures" (LCE, Lumière Lyon 2 University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The academic journal, Textures, plans to publish a special issue in hauntology. This project aims at collecting articles in literature and/or history that reflect the multicultural and multilingual approach of the Foreign Literatures and Civilisations (LCE) Research Laboratory at Lumière Lyon 2 University.

https://publications-prairial.fr/textures/

 

"Phantoms in Rites, Myths, and Discourse"

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:10pm
LCE Research Laboratory, Lumière Lyon 2 University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The Foreign Literatures and Civilisations (LCE) Research Laboratory at Lumière Lyon 2 University organises a conference on “Phantoms in Rites, Myths, and Discourse” on February 13-14, 2025. For the purpose of this conference, we invite scholars from various disciplines belonging to human sciences, and from various geographical and cultural areas, to study the figure of the ghost under its variegated forms, appearances, and representations (whether they are anthropological, artistic, political, linguistic, or else), from ghosts that we ourselves fashion to ghosts who fashion who we are.

Additional Chapters Sought for Edited Collection on Horror-Comedy Films

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:10pm
Thomas Britt, editor
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

I am accepting proposals for an edited collection with a working title of Case Studies in Horror-Comedy Films. This edited collection is under contract with a university press, with an anticipated publication date in late 2025. The existing group of contributions well illustrates the focus and structure of the collection, which corresponds to comic takes on horrors of the body, mind, and society. The motivation for this call for additional chapters is to expand the attention to national cinemas beyond North America.

CFP: "Art, Politics, and Society in Asia"

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:10pm
Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, Chiang Mai University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities (Chiang Mai University)

Theme: Art, Politics, and Society in Asia

The Journal of Integrative and Innovative Humanities, Chiang Mai University, is pleased to announce a call for papers for its upcoming issue which will be published at the end of November 2024 on the theme of "Art, Politics, and Society in Asia". 

CULTURE AND DIALOGUE JOURNAL: PHILOSOPHY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:09pm
Culture and Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Culture and Dialogue provides a forum for researchers from philosophy as well as other disciplines who study cultural formations dialogically, through comparative analysis, or within the tradition of hermeneutics. The journal publishes one volume of two issues each year. One issue welcomes manuscripts that consider the broad theme of “culture and dialogue” in all its forms, from all perspectives, and through all methods. The other issue is thematic and seeks to bring manuscripts together with a common denominator such as “Philosophy and the Dialogue,” “Art in Conversation,” “Comparing Cultures,” or “Dialogical Ethics.” The theme of the thematic issue is announced through dedicated calls for papers.


 

Reimagining Crises. Turning Points in Language Studies and Literary Narratives

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:08pm
Università Ca' Foscari Venezia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 8, 2024

8th INTERNATIONAL PhD CONFERENCE

Reimagining Crises

Turning Points in Language Studies and Literary Narratives

Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies

04-05 November 2024, Sala B, Ca’ Bernardo, Venice

Call for papers

Special Issue on "Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture"

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:08pm
ÉTUDES MÉDIÉVALES ANGLAISES
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for a special issue of EMA (Etudes Médiévales Anglaises) on the theme
"Borders / Crossing in medieval English literature, language, and culture." 

The notions of borders and crossing, and the articulation between them, can be conceived in many ways. Borders, whether natural or arbitrary, sealed or porous, fixed or mobile, as limits or confines, spatial or temporal, can be seen as an obstacle or a wall. They are also a challenge to be taken up and overcome (expansion, threshold to a new era), hence the notion of crossing (movement, transfer, transformation). As delimitations, borders help to constitute an identity which refers to the outside as otherness. 

Unveiling the Mask: Exploring the Angry Black Woman Steroretype

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:08pm
Dr. Sonia Mae Brown/Philander Smith University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve as pivotal cultural and educational institutions, fostering academic excellence and community engagement. However, within the HBCU workplace, Black women often navigate complex dynamics shaped by pervasive stereotypes and societal expectations.

Serial Killers: Fact into fiction

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:07pm
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CFP: Serial Killers: Fact into fiction

Analyzing fiction in demographic research. What can we learn? What are the specific challenges?

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:05pm
IUSSP International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

30th International Population Conference (UIESP/IUSSP)
13-18 July 2025
Brisbane (Australia)
https://ipc2025.iussp.org/

 

 

Thematic Session n°62

Theme: Data and methods

Analyzing fiction in demographic research. What can we learn? What are the specific challenges?

Organisers: Carole Brugeilles (Université Paris Nanterre), Mathieu Arbogast (Cresppa-GTM et CEMS), and Virginie Rozée (INED)

CFP: QUEER NIGHTLIFE

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:05pm
TDR: A Journal of Performance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

For a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review, a journal of performance studies, co-editor madison moore and consortium editor Rebecca Schneider seek submissions that engage the “knowing how” of queer nightlife. “Knowing” here finds kinship with feeling, glitter on the floor, skin on skin, tactility, sweat, diffraction, dissolution.

We are interested in the many elemental gestures, performances, forms of labor, mess, doing/undoing, imagination, making/unmaking as well as the failures, exhaustions, and obstacles that power or foreclose the rhythms of community, pleasure, and ecstasy at
night.

Popular Music and Politics in the UK

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:05pm
Ian Peddie
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Call for Chapters

Popular Music and Politics in the UK

 

Reproduction and Speculative Cultures Conference, University of Lancaster

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 2:00pm
Anna McFarlane, University of Lancaster
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 9, 2024

Supported by the Wellcome Trust-funded Future of Human Reproduction Project

In-Person: Thursday 24th October 2024

Online: Monday 28th October 2024

Keynote: Heather Latimer, University of British Columbia

This conference takes place over two days: one day in-person at the University of Lancaster, and one day online. This is to maximize accessibility and international engagement.

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