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Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 3:07pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, April 1–3, 2022.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual fo

EXTENDED DEADLINE: "War & Culture" at SWPACA in Albuquerque, Feb. 23-26, 2022

updated: 
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 3:07pm
Steffen Hantke, Sogang University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!

“War & Culture”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: "Horror" at SWPACA in Albuquerque, Feb.23-26, 2022

updated: 
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 3:07pm
Steffen Hantke, Sogang University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!

“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021

 

The Association for Philosophy and Literature 2022 Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 5, 2021 - 3:06pm
Association for Philosophy and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

When, in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), William Wordsworth insisted that an “overbalance of pleasure” entails the “circumstance of meter,” he confirmed a philosophical assumption far older than Kant’s theory of the sublime. The pervasive assumption—which, today, can be tracked in an on-going “affective turn” (necessarily entangled in matters of form and style)—is that the artificial makes possible an understanding of the natural.

Graduate Conference, Such Sweet Thunder: Ellington Plays Shakespeare--Love and Power in Adaptation

updated: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 4:27pm
Columbia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Call for Papers: Graduate Conference

SUCH SWEET THUNDER 

ELLINGTON PLAYS SHAKESPEARE—LOVE AND POWER IN ADAPTATION

Columbia University 

Center for Jazz Studies, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Core Curriculum

Date: March 25, 2022

A Critical Companion to David Lynch

updated: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 3:03pm
Andrew Winters
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 8, 2022

Second CFP: A Critical Companion to David Lynch

Edited by Andrew M. Winters

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

Extended Deadline, 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference and Critical Institute

updated: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 3:03pm
Jefferey Simons
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Extended Deadline

 

The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and the Dickinson Critical Institute in Seville

 

The Emily Dickinson International Society is extending its deadline until November 20 for proposal submission to its international conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and to its Critical Institute, both to take place at the College of Philology, University of Seville, Spain. The conference will go from Tuesday, July 12, to Thursday, July 14. The Critical Institute will be on Monday, July 11.

Transitions / UF’s English Graduate Organization Conference 2022

updated: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 11:59am
English Graduate Organization at the University of Florida
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Transitions

The University of Florida’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites proposals for our eighteenth annual conference: “Transitions.”

Encoding and Decoding Digital Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021 - 10:32am
New Academia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 30, 2022

We are pleased to announce this call for paper for the proposed anthology in this emerging field of Digital Humanities.  We are seeking academics and professionals in the field who might like to send us a scholarly abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book. The aim of this scholarly collection is to bring forth how digital humanities has shaped humanities studies and our culture.

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Myth and Fairy Tales at SWPACA 2022- Extended Deadline!

updated: 
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 1:54pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Myth and Fairy Tales

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021

 

Dickens Symposium 2022. Our Dickens: Dickens and his Publics

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 2:49pm
The Dickens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 29, 2021

EXTENDED DEADLINE -  The 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium


Our Dickens: Dickens and His Publics

July 8-10, 2022

London, UK

Hosted by City, University of London

Members of the Programme Committee:

Chris Louttit, Michaela Mahlberg, David McAllister, Claire Wood

Disability Studies Area, SWPACA--Deadline Extended!

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 1:44pm
Southwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Disability Studies Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021

Mystery/Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--Deadline Extended!

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 1:44pm
Southwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Mystery/Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022

Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021

Being Undocumented and Belonging in US Ethnic Literature

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 1:44pm
Sherry Johnson/Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 14, 2022

Understandings of what it means to be undocumented remain a part of critical discussions in the US -- whether about immigration status or a citizen’s sex designation or voter eligibility on official documents, for example. MELUS invites individual paper proposals that explore what it means to be undocumented -- legally, culturally or otherwise -- in fiction, memoir, or poetry by ethnic American writers. Specifically, we are interested in papers that consider how authors (re)imagine what it means to be undocumented -- and how intersections of identities of historically excluded populations function to further understanding of being undocumented in such works.

Virginia Woolf: Critical Insights on Her Life and Works

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 11:24am
Laura Nicosia/Montclair State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 9, 2021

For Critical Insights volume under contract: 

CFP on the life and works of Virginia Woolf

 

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: February 9, 2022

 

Seeking submissions for a Critical Insights volume on Virginia Woolf under contract with Salem/Grey House Publishers. We seek essays that showcase Woolf’s life, essays, and fiction. Essays that explore her transatlantic influence on women writers around the globe are also of interest, as are essays that explore Woolf’s ethics, narrative constructions, uncertainty, modernism, and (anti)sentimentalism.

 

Measuring Pluralism / Open Call for Data Scientists

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:58am
Plural / Pluriel
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Pluralism is a very central but elusive contemporary value. Pluralism is the belief that diversity is beneficial to society. Most of us would agree, but what does diversity exactly mean? How to measure it and tell whether a society is more or less diverse?

Cultural pluralism, political pluralism and value pluralism all have slightly different meanings, but they all share the belief that coexistence of diverse opinions, ways of life and value systems is enriching for all members of a society.

DREADNESS The Mystic Power, Philosophy and Performance of Shadow 1941-2021

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:57am
Groundation Foundation and the University of the West Indies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 21, 2022

In celebration of the Mighty Shadow’s 80th birthday, The Groundation Foundation and The University of the West Indies will host a one day virtual symposium to honour his body of work to be held on Friday March 4th 2022.

 

Popular Culture and the Deep Past, 2022: The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:56am
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Ohio State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 19, 2021

On February 11-12, 2022, the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies will host its biennial celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP) at the Ohio State University, with "The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food."

Call for papers: Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:56am
Catherine Baker, University of Hull
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Call for papers: Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans

Edited by Catherine Baker

This companion or handbook seeks to provide a comprehensive introduction to the vibrant and interdisciplinary field of research into popular music and politics in the Balkans, explaining the state of key questions and debates which have shaped the field so far while also signalling the many new developments and directions that have emerged in response to recent political, socio-economic and cultural dislocations.

Women and the East: Gendered Narratives of Encounter in Victorian Popular Writing

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:54am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 21, 2022

10th & 11th June 2022
G. d’Annunzio University, Chieti-Pescara, Italy (Host institution)
in collaboration with Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK.

Conference venue:
Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne,
G. d’Annunzio University, Pescara, Italy

Organisers:
Claudia Capancioni (Bishop Grosseteste University),
Mariaconcetta Costantini (G. d’Annunzio University),
Mara Mattoscio (G. d’Annunzio University)

Keynote Speaker: Professor Julia Kuehn (The University of Hong Kong)

“The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food.”

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:54am
The Ohio State University Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 19, 2021

The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) of The Ohio State University invites paper abstracts for our biennial celebration of Popular Culture and the Deep Past (PCDP), which will take place on February 11-12, 2022. The theme is “The Experimental Archaeology of Medieval and Renaissance Food.” Papers of approximately 20 minutes can be given in person or via Zoom.

Topics might include recipe books as literary texts, cooking and eating as social practices, and the pleasures and perils of recreating historic dishes. Speakers may also propose small-scale cooking demonstrations.

M.A. funding for Cather Studies graduate student, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:53am
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Dept of English
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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­Are you interested in earning an M.A. in English? Are you interested in Willa Cather or closely related areas, such as early twentieth century women’s writing, LGBTQ literature, or Western American literature? Do you have a developed interested in d­­igital humanities, or are you interested in acquiring skills in DH? Then apply for an M.A. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), designating your interest in the Research Assistantship in Willa Cather Studies! Applications are due December 1, 2021.

 

Rethinking Social Exclusion: Issues and Perspectives

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:53am
Sikkim University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 3, 2021

A Three-Day National Level Interdisciplinary Conference Organised by the Department of English, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim-737102

 

 Concept Note

 

The "Geo" turn in Translation Studies

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:53am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 31, 2021

Space and spatiality have been significant coordinates in the study of translation in the West. The concept has long been included in humanities and social sciences too by scholars like Edward Soja (1989); Warf & Arias (2009). This panel aims to question how the concept of “geo” features in translation and analyse translation as a point of intersection and relationality that redefines our concepts of spatial axis and territorial coordinates. This panel will try to bring in disciplines of geometry and geography to the terrain of translation studies and thus include alternative models to expand the field.

Communication, Conflict and Peace

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:52am
Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

Online International Conference organized by the Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park Campus, 27th June 2022

Global transformations fostered by the decentralization of communications from mainstream media and governance institutions to a plural range of socioeconomic actors and stakeholders have shaken the foundations of social consensus, truth and objectivity in the construction of public spheres. Such transformation has posed unprecedented challenges to conflict management and peacebuilding, multiplying risks of instability and war, but also the spaces for the construction of collective meanings and the voices shaping them.   

Representing Girlhood in Popular Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 1, 2021 - 8:52am
Carmel Cedro / Auckland University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 17, 2021

Representing Girlhood in Popular Culture

Call for Chapter Abstracts for Edited Collection, to be part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series.

Contemporary popular culture texts increasingly showcase representations of girls and young women in a myriad of ways. There are common tropes that we as audiences have come to expect in stories of girlhood, which usually concern navigating friendships, self-discovery, familial drama, teenage discontent, etc., packaged in familiar frames about suburban school experiences, or in fantastical and bold tales in fantasy and science fiction.

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