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Liminal Prospects

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:39am
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Date: May 23 - 25, 2025
Call for Papers | Liminal Prospects
Location: Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario & Online Submissions due: January 8, 2025

The Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature (QGCL) seeks academic abstracts and creative pieces for its 2025 conference on the theme of “Liminal Prospects.”

ReFocus: The Films of Guru Dutt

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:23pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

Undead Souths at 10: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 6:54pm
American Literature Association Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

American Literature Association / Boston / May 21-24, 2025

This roundtable celebrates the ten-year anniversary of the edited collection Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture. Panelists are invited to reflect on the book's impact and/or to explore the presence and pervasiveness of "undead souths" beyond what the book discusses.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:53pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:52pm
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Call for Book Chapters on Shakespeare Biofiction

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:03pm
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota) and Edel Semple (University College Cork)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters: 

 

Special Issue: 'Divest'

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 12:13pm
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

DIVEST.

IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 11:20am
International Psychohistorical Association (IPhA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOHISTORICAL ASSOCIATION’S 48th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 MAY 23-25, 2025, VIRTUALLY ON ZOOM

THEME: IMAGINING BRIGHTER FUTURES FOR OUR DIVIDED WORLD: WHAT PSYCHOHISTORY CAN CONTRIBUTE

SUBTHEMES: Psychohistorical Insights On

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:59am
Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, March 7–8, 2025. 

 

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

Last Call: Refocus: The Films of Gregg Araki

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:26am
Arnau Roig-Mora / Universitat Pompeu Fabra
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Producer, director, and screenwriter Gregg Araki is a pivotal figure in independent film, known for his distinctive style and contributions to New Queer Cinema. Despite his inclusion in such cinematic movement thanks to The Living End (1992), and his rise to fame with the Teen Apocalypse Trilogy (1993-1997), Araki's explorations of a more mainstream style and his incursions in television directing have garnered little critical and academic attention, except for his 2004 adaptation of the novel Mysterious Skin and his win of the first ever Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm in 2010 for his film Kaboom.

Convocatoria permanente de artículos para la Revista Liminal

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:25am
Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo Ugarte Chamorro” (ENSAD)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 13, 2024

La Escuela Nacional Superior de Arte Dramático “Guillermo garte Chamorro” (ENSAD), hoy Universidad de Arte Escénico (UNAE), invita a la comunidad académica dedicada a la crítica y estudio de las artes escénicas a presentar sus artículos de investigación (en castellano y en inglés) para su publicación en la revista Liminal. Los artículos de investigación deben cumplir los estándares y requisitos de publicación de la revista: http://revistas.ensad.edu.pe/index.php/liminal/directrices

Si necesita mayor información puede escribirnos al siguiente correo electrónico: revistas@ensad.edu.pe

Call for Special Issues - Revista Hispánica Moderna

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:19am
Revista Hispánica Moderna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

[ACCUTE 2025] Beyond Trauma (Studies)?

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 4:39pm
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

Reproductive Justice in Popular Culture National PCA Conference Apr. 16-19. 2025

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Brenda Boudreau
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

This area focuses on reproductive justice issues as they appear in popular culture (film, television, social media, music, literature, etc.). Reproductive justice is a term that goes beyond the term reproductive rights, something that typically focuses on contraception and abortion.   According to the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, “it’s ‘the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities” (Abrams).

Special Panel on Artificial Intelligence in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Occult Artifice, Esoteric Intelligence, and Magical Generation

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper presentation proposals for a special panel investigating intersections between artifice, intelligence, generation and generativity, and esoteric, occult, and magical practices and worldviews.

Special Panel on Psychogeography at Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Psychogeography: Liminal Loci and Haunted Haunts

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the subject of psychogeography to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Special Panel on Magical Places and Spaces in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Set and Setting: Magical Spaces and Places

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals regarding the role that location plays in operative esoteric, occult, and magical practice. This panel will be included in Area events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Skenographia: Rethinking Design

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Yale University Department of Comparative Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Skenographia: Rethinking Design

 

Yale University Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Conference

March 28th, 2025

Keynote Speaker: Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)

 

What sets a scene apart from a mere place or setting? Etymologically, the term resists simplification to a physical location or continuous action. It encompasses both the material apparatus of the stage and the events unfolding upon it. This oscillation— between object and subject, exterior and interior, self and world—forms a conceptual framework that this conference seeks to apply to the study of design.

BWWC 2025: 2025 Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:17am
British Women Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference

BWWC 2025

TRANSFORMATIONS

Sioux Falls, South Dakota

May 15–17, 2025

Hosted by South Dakota State University and The University of South Dakota

Deadline for submission of proposals: December 15, 2024

"Walt Whitman and Visual Culture" panel, American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025 in Boston

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:17am
Walt Whitman Studies Association (Stephanie Blalock)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

Walt Whitman and Visual Culture
A special issue of The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review (Fall/Winter 1986-1987) first brought together nearly all the known photographs of Whitman, laying the foundation for the Walt Whitman Archive’s Gallery of Images. Whitman wrote about and sat for sculptors and painters, and he has been the inspiration for many art and film projects. In light of this and the recent publication of several illustrated editions of Whitman’s writings, the Whitman Studies Association invites proposals focused on Whitman and any aspect of visual culture. We seek presentations that explore and analyze Whitman and/or his writings in relation to:

Rethinking Institutions

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:17am
The University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

CFP: The 27th Annual University of Florida Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG Conference

 

“Rethinking Institutions”

The Critical Theory Reading Group/MRG, University of Florida

March 27-29, Gainesville, FL 

 

Keynote speakers: Michael Hardt and Kathi Weeks

Nicole LaRose Alumni keynote speaker: Wesley Beal  

 

The 2025 Marxist Reading Group Conference invites submissions for “Rethinking Institutions” to explore the manifold issues endured by global institutions and reimagine the former for the present and future. 

CFP: Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 10:23am
Khaoula Chakour and El Habib El Hadari/ Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sultan Moulay Slimane University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Research Laboratory in Literature, Language, Culture and Communication (RLLLCC)

organizes

an International Conference on

Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society

April 22-23, 2025

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities,

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal - Morocco

 

 

Call for Papers

 

TCR 2025 : The Cordillera Review, Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 2025 Volume

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
The Cordillera Review, University of the Philippines Baguio
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
Cory Nguyen
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

brat and it’s a conference but it’s still brat

 

Deadline for submissions: December 2nd, 2024

Conference date/time: February 8th, 2025, UC Berkeley (will be in hybrid format).

Names and affiliations: Paz Regueiro and Cory Nguyen, Department of Comparative Literature

Contact emails: paz_regueiro@berkeley.edu and corytnguyen@berkeley.edu 

“You wanna guess if I'm serious about this song.”

- Charli xcx, 2024. (“Guess”, 17th track on “brat and it's the same but there's three more songs so it's not”.)

 

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