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NeMLA 2025 - The Mind-Game Film

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 12:00pm
Adam Hartman-Whitfield
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

"Mind-Game" is film theorist Thomas Elsaesser's name for the wide variety of films made since the 1990s that present puzzling, complex, and/or impossible narrative devices and structures that play games with spectators' expectations for how traditional narrative films work. For familiar Hollywood examples, think Christopher Nolan (Inception) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), but perhaps more emblematic are the films of David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and cult classics like Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

39th Annual MELUS 2025 Conference: MELUS Outside

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 10:08am
Linda Greenberg/Cal State LA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

 

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

 

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

 

Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2024

 

NeMLA 2025 Future of the American Literary Archive - Deadline 9/30

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 9:09am
NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) / RALS (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.

The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:42am
University of South Africa and GLOCAL at SOAS University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 21, 2024

Call for Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024
(The GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology)(SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed)

 

Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

 

Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

"Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization"
The (SCOPUS/ISI) GLOCAL AFALA 2024, December 4-7, 2024, University of South Africa

CFP for HCIS_special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:42am
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 30, 2024

HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

 

CfP Culture and Dialogue, Special Issue: The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:41am
Culture and Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Culture and Dialogue

Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”

Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait

Call for Submissions: Healing Wounds: Justice, Creativity, and Joy in the Borderlands and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:41am
Lee Bebout, Gionni Ponce, Label Me Latina/o
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In the often-quoted line from her groundbreaking Borderlands/la frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa identifies the US/Mexico borderlands as a site of pain and creation: “The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture” (25). While Anzaldúa uses the geo-political border as a means of illustrating the unnatural divides governments impose on peoples, she also recognizes that we create many borderlands within ourselves and our own communities: psychological, sexual, and spiritual.

CFP for African American Literature and Culture Society Papers and Panels at ALA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:41am
African American Literature and Culture Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:40am
The Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium

Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America

 

May 10th and 11th, 2025

Online via Zoom

 

With keynote addresses by:

Dr Michael P. Bibler

(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])

and

Dr Laura Rattray

Revisiting Spoon River (edited collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:37am
Caroline Gelmi/UMass Dartmouth and Jason Stacy/Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.

Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:08am
Anne Reynes-Delobel, Aix Marseille Université
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025

https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

Workshop:

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.

Book, Film, Media Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:07am
FEMSPEC Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

 

FEMSPEC Journal is looking for writers to join their review team in the areas of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (including dark fantasy or horrort), myth, and utopian/dystopian texts.

Creative and scholarly texts are both covered. Books and films, as well as other media, are all considered.

Opportunities to submit once are available, and regular contributor positions are also open.

Here are several lists of upcoming or recent titles, but reviewers are welcome to suggest titles for approval, also.

MYSTIC GALAXY, 

https://www.mystgalaxy.com/upcoming-sff.

LIBRARY JOURNAL,

British Popular Culture(s) Conference.

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:07am
Kat Flint-Nicol Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

 

We are pleased to announce the launch of the British Popular Culture(s) Network, with an inaugural annual conference taking place at Falmouth University, between 5-7th June 2025.

 

CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:55am
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

Reminder: NeMLA 2025 Roundtable: To (R)evolve or Not to (R)evolve?: Adaptation, Performance, and Pedagogy of Shakespeare Today

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:55am
Northeast Modern Language Association 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.

Conflict Dynamics in Arabic and World Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:55am
Andromeda Publishing- the Journal of Arabic and World Literature (AWL)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“In Paradise, there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” Margaret Atwood

CFP ACLA2025: Interactive Storytelling Seminar and Edited Volume

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
Hudson Moura
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Title: Interactive Narratives: Rethinking Interactivity and Digital Archiving

ACLA Conference Dates: May 29–June 1, 2025, Online

Call for Papers and Book Chapters

CFP: XXIX LAILAC Graduate Students Conference: Cultures of Extermination—War, Repression, and Survival in Ibero-America and the Caribbean

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

For the Twenty-Ninth Graduate Student Conference of the Latin American, Iberian, and Latino Cultures Program at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York, the organizing committee is welcoming researchers in cultural studies, intellectual history, performance studies, linguistics, art history, and related disciplines to submit their work exploring and analyzing cultures of extermination in cultural productions across Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. The conference is scheduled to take place in New York City on April 10-11, 2025.

Food, feeding and feedback

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In humanities, food, feeding, and feedback come together under one umbrella of human nature, culture, and creativity. Within this context fall the ethical, epistemological, phenomenological, and political tropes of food, calling for understanding and interrogation.

Food as a thematic focus in art has acquired a wide range of meanings related to consumption and consumerism, the search for and the loss of identity, localization/globalization, and high/pop culture. In literature, food has also been used as a metaphor for gender roles, human desires, power dynamics, and social status.

Revisiting the Gothic in Literature, Science, Culture and Language

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 3:54am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

This interdisciplinary conference will explore the transformations undergone by the Gothic genre since its inception. It will discuss and analyse the development and mutation of the genre on aesthetic, thematic and linguistic levels. The trajectory of Gothic literature encompasses the dynamics of continuity and discontinuity as two defining features of the genre. In fact, the transition from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, the first Gothic fiction that set the conventions of the genre, to Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein and Dracula, and then to modern and postmodern Gothic genres (poetry, fiction, films) entails the revival and the introduction of new Gothic tropes.

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 10:02pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send electronic submssions in Microsoft Word format and a current CV to hjamesr@creighton.edu.

Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 2:28pm
Dr. Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Dr. Yannis Mazarakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Call for Papers

Editors Evdokia Stefanopoulou and Yannis Mazarakis invite book chapter proposals for a scholarly collection entitled Contemporary Women Filmmakers and Posthumanism. Edinburgh University Press has expressed interest in publishing the book.

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

updated: 
Monday, September 23, 2024 - 1:00am
Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA) 

MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language 

 

June 26-27, 2025 

Ewha Womans University  

 

Keynote Speakers 

  • Rebecca Walkowitz (Barnard College, Columbia University)
  • Janet Poole (University of Toronto)

 

Call for Papers

Before Quanta: A New Literary History of Embodiment (BSECS 2025 PANEL)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 11:56pm
BSECS
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Date: 8th Jan 2025 to 10th Jan 2025

Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford

What does it mean to observe the world from within? How might we account for subjective experience in our conceptions of scientific fact? If we read the world as the “reciprocal reflection of perspectives,” as theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli urges us to do, how will our definitions of objectivity change? This panel invites papers that examine the central questions of quantum mechanics in the context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period when our original empiricist frameworks took emphatic shape. 

Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800 (Graduate Student Conference)

updated: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024 - 9:25pm
University of California, Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025

Call for Papers

Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)

 

“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”

- Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

 

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