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International Pynchon Week 2022 -- deadline extended to 11/30

updated: 
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 6:31pm
International Pynchon Week
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

International Pynchon Week 2022 will be held June 6-10, 2022, in Vancouver BC on the campus of the University of British Columbia.

The deadline for paper and panel proposals has been extended to November 30, 2021.

IPW 2022 will also now feature a limited number of remote/online papers.

For all these details and more, see the cfp (and addendum regarding online papers) at internationalpynchonweek.org.

Silly Media

updated: 
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 6:31pm
The University of Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Silly Media

The 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference, April 22-23, 2022

Department of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago

 

“Well maybe it is stupid, but it’s also dumb!”

— Patrick Star, “The Camping Episode,” SpongeBob SquarePants (2004)

 

Troubling Racism: Subversive Bodies, Subversive Desires

updated: 
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 6:30pm
Nafeesa Tarajee Nichols
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Call for Papers

 

lambda nordica Special Issue:

“Troubling Racism: Subversive Bodies, Subversive Desires”

 

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: November 11, 2021

“Post-Magical Realism in the Post-truth Era.”

updated: 
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 6:29pm
Canadian Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

CCLA  Annual Conference, June 21 – 24, 2022 

Call for Panel Paper Presentation: “Post-Magical Realism in the Post-truth Era.” 

The Canadian Comparative Literature Association invites contributions to the 2022 annual conference on the theme of “Divergence and Convergence in Comparative Literature” within the context of equity, diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism from June 21 to 24, 2022.

The Colonial Anthropocene PhD Summer School

updated: 
Monday, November 15, 2021 - 6:29pm
The Linnaeus University University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Call for Participation: Concurrences and Connections: The Colonial Anthropocene Summer School

This is an invitation for PhD students to apply to the third interdisciplinary Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies PhD summer school. This will take place 15-20 August 2022 on the theme Concurrences and Connections: The Colonial Anthropocene. Participation in the summer school is free of charge for those accepted, and a limited number of travel and accommodation scholarships are available for PhD students from low-income countries. 

AI Imaginaries: Artificial Intelligence in Literature

updated: 
Saturday, November 13, 2021 - 9:29pm
Dr L. Acadia / National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

**The ACLA extended the deadline to Nov 30th!**

ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) 2022 Annual Meeting
June 15-18, 2022, National Taiwan Normal University (probably also online)

Submit a proposal: https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper

“’…Only Connect’: Sites of Inclusion, Seclusion and Transformative Change and Creativity”

updated: 
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 10:42pm
Humanities Education and Research Association [HERA]
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 25, 2022

Virtual Conference March 2-5, 2022

HERA invites research, papers, panels, and presentations embracing inclusivity in all aspects of the human conditions––including, but not limited to, race, class, gender, sexuality, age, veteran status, ability, power, ecology, sustainability. We encourage a wide and extensive representation of disciplines and interdisciplinary projects. Every field in the humanities, liberal & creative arts, and social sciences is appropriate. Our goal is to foster the sharing and expressing of the humanities as an urgently important human enterprise––helping to clarify the crucial immediacy of the humanities and why they should be encouraged, supported, and sustained.

Many Doors to Fantastica: The Neverending Story & the Education of the Imagination

updated: 
Friday, November 12, 2021 - 1:01pm
Sean C. Hadley, Jeremy Scarbrough, Josh Herring / McFarland Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 10, 2021

Many Doors to Fantastica: The Neverending Story & the Education of the Imagination

 

Call for Papers: Edited Collection on The Neverending Story

Edited by Sean C. Hadley, Jeremy Scarbrough, Josh Herring

 

Call for Article Submissions

updated: 
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 4:38pm
Studies in American Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Call for Submissions

Studies in American Culture welcomes the submission of essays on all aspects of American culture, including studies of literature, film, language, visual and performing arts, and history from all scholarly and critical approaches.

 

Queries are encouraged.

 

The Editorial Board welcomes studies of the arts, music, theatre, digital humanities, political science, sociology, literature, history, or any other area related to American Studies. We will consider any essay that explores an interesting dimension of American culture but are particularly eager to see submissions that approach their subjects from an interdisciplinary perspective.

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Greek Mythology & Modern Culture: Reshaping Aesthetic Tastes

updated: 
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 1:12pm
Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 28, 2022

Dear Colleagues,

Much of the Western world has a rising problem with white nationalists. These white supremacists often co-opt fields like Classics, medievalism, and Norse mythology to support their racist ideologies—twisting these disciplines and repressing or ignoring evidence for the multicultural and multiracial realities of the ancient and medieval world. In terms of Classics, these distortions and appropriations have been documented by an emerging generation of scholars like Donna Zuckerberg, Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Curtis Dozier, Sarah Bond, and others. Ancient myth, literature, and symbols continue to pervade modern culture. 

CALL FOR PAPERS: The CEA Critic, Special Issue: “Impediments to Student Success”

updated: 
Thursday, November 11, 2021 - 10:14am
The CEA Critic, Journal of the College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 30, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS: The CEA Critic, Special Issue: “Impediments to Student Success”

For the past year (and more), teachers at all levels, across disciplines, and, indeed, around the globe have been working overtime to ensure their students’ success in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID presented a set of obstacles new to most of us. At the same time, COVID called our attention to obstacles that have interrupted our students’ paths since long before the pandemic. These obstacles, which have only become more obvious, are what we now wish to explore.

Comhfhios Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:49pm
Irish Studies at Boston College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

The Irish Studies Graduate Students of Boston College, in conjunction with the Irish Studies Program, are pleased to be hosting the fifth 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 again in Boston. 

 

Special Panel: The Matrix Revisited

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:49pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

The Matrix Revisited

Fairy Tales at virtual PCA conference (April 13-16, 2022). Abstract deadline: December 5, 2021

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:49pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 5, 2021

The Fairy Tales Area of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) seeks paper presentations and panels for the annual conference, to be held online from April 13-16, 2022. We are looking for projects that think broadly and diversely about fairy tales throughout the world. We particularly seek papers focused on pedagogical uses of fairy tales at all levels and in all fields, discussions of folkloric shifts from oral to literary to visual (filmic, artistic, etc.) versions of tales, and creative pieces that retell or critique fairy tales or use the tales to comment on some aspect of culture or history.

Extended Deadline: Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy (Edited volume)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:48pm
Caroline Gelmi/UMass Dartmouth and Lizzy LeRud/Georgia Tech
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

Call for Proposals: Unsettling Poetry Pedagogy

Editors: Caroline Gelmi, UMass Dartmouth and Lizzy LeRud, Georgia Institute of Technology

EXTENDED Proposal deadline: Wednesday December 1, 2021.

A note from the editors about the deadline extension:

We’re so grateful for the many exciting proposals we’ve received so far. Because we’re now inviting additional contributions in a few targeted areas, we’ve extended the deadline to facilitate these new submissions. We’re still happy to accept proposals on a variety of topics (see the original cfp below for a full list of ideas), but we’re especially interested in the following:

Les géographies imaginaires l'esclavage dans la littérature, les arts et les musées

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:48pm
Le Mans University/ University of Abomey-Calavi
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Colloque international Université du Mans / Université d’Abomey-Calavi 11 - 12 – 13 mai 2022 Lieu du colloque

Université d’Abomey-Calavi & Ouidah 

Bénin

 Appel à communications « Les géographies imaginaires de l’esclavage dans la littérature, les arts et les musées »  

Call for Papers and Multimodal Student Projects for ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:48pm
ImageTexT: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies, a peer-reviewed journal published quarterly,is seeking submissions of articles and multimodal student projects for its thirteenth volume. This open-access, online journal advances the academic study of an emerging and diverse canon of imagetexts, including—but not limited to—comic books and strips, graphic novels, animations, illustrated fiction, picture books, zines, and other media that blend images and texts in complex ecologies.

The Twenty-Fifth International Hardy Conference and Festival

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:48pm
The Thomas Hardy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 14, 2022

Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Fifth International Hardy Conference and Festival, to be held in Dorchester, Dorset, UK, from July 25th-29th, 2022. Several significant Hardy anniversaries occur in 2022: the 70th anniversary of the book publication of Our Exploits at West Poley, the centenary of Late Lyrics and Earlier, the 120th anniversary of Poems of the Past and the Present, the 125th anniversary of The Well-Beloved, the 140th anniversary of Two on a Tower, and the 150th anniversary of Under the Greenwood Tree. Proposals for papers on the poetry are especially welcome.

Gender Fluidity in Japanese Arts and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:46pm
Dean Conrad, PhD and Sayuri Hirano / 平野早百合, MA.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 31, 2022

Brief

Abstract proposals are being sought from Japanese and non-Japanese scholars writing in English for a book exploring androgyny, ‘cross-dressing’, drag culture, trans-gender issues, sexual identities and other forms of gender fluidity that feature in Japanese arts and culture – past and present.

Special Panel: Mysteries of Dune: Esotericism, Occultism, and the Magic of Melange

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 7:43pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

In recognition of the mainstream attention brought to Dune by Villeneuve's adaptation, the Area for Esotericism, Occultism and Magic at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites the proposal of papers to this special panel intended to investigate and examine esoteric, occult. and magical inspirations, parallels, and reciprocals influences on the "Duniverse."  

AESTHETICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN POETRY

updated: 
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 1:46am
ANZAMEMS 2022 CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION AND EMOTION
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 7, 2022

ANZAMEMS 2022 CONFERENCE ON RECEPTION AND EMOTION

CFP - PANEL ON AESTHETICS IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN POETRY

UPDATED - ONLINE PRESENTATIONS NOW ACCEPTED AND DEADLINE EXTENDED.

We invite scholarly proposals for papers on aesthetics in medieval and early modern poetry (c. 400 to 1800), as part of a panel or panels being established at ANZAMEMS 2022. The link to the main website and call for papers is here: https://www.anzamems2021.com/

Call for Submissions & Articles: P45 Contemporaries — FEEL YOUR FANTASY, the Drag Race Cluster

updated: 
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 7:57pm
Tyler Tennant and Dr. Monica Huerta, Post45 Contemporaries
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 10, 2022

CFP Submission Link and Website: https://dragrace-p45cfp.com/ 

Post45 Contemporaries Site: https://post45.org/contemporaries/

 

Guess who’s back in the house
Heels click-clackin’ about
Fine, fresh, feminine, style to eleven
I’m divine, so heavenly
Gentlemen sweatin’
It’s dimes across the board with no doubt
Body like wow

— RuPaul, “Call Me Mother”

 

ACLA 2022: The Novel from Land to Sea [deadline extended!]

updated: 
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 2:50pm
Victoria Baena, Kathleen DeGuzman
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

In this seminar, we hope to rethink long-held associations between novel and nation-state in light of recent insights from oceanic studies, archipelagic studies, as well as transatlantic, transpacific, and Indian Ocean contexts. What kinds of genres and narrative frameworks unfold from a maritime, as opposed to land-based, perspective? How do novelists negotiate these commitments across multiple scales—and what ways of reading emerge by centering islands, coasts, ports, and other liminal spaces?

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