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The Mundanity of Girlhood: Pleasure, Play, and the Everyday

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:12pm
The Girlhood Studies Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 4, 2024

The Girlhood Studies Collective, in collaboration with the Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University-Camden, invite proposals for “The Mundanity of Girlhood,” a virtual symposium to be held April 4-6, 2024.

 

Post-Soul Humor MLA Panel

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:12pm
Jasleen Singh and Alex C. Valin
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

This panel invites researchers to consider how African American writers deploy humor within what critics have termed the “post-soul,” “post-Black,” “Black post-Blackness,” and “New Black Aesthetic” movements. Derek C. Maus, in Post-Soul Satire (2014), notes that the propensity for Black satirists to turn their critiques inward at the Black community rather than outwardly toward white institutions marks a key shift from ‘soul’ to ‘post-soul’ aesthetics.

CFP MEDIAPOLIS Dossier on "Media and ‘Middling’ Cities"

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:12pm
Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent), Bibi Burger (University of Cape Town), Janina Schupp (University of Oxford) and Sanele KaNtshingana (University of Cape Town)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Dossier CFP: Media and ‘Middling’ Cities

Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture

Editors: Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent), Bibi Burger (University of Cape Town), Janina Schupp (University of Oxford) and Sanele KaNtshingana (University of Cape Town)

International Conference on Endangered Folk Literarture and Culture of Jetor and other Indian Indigenous Communities: Documentation, Digitalization, and Translation in the Global Context

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:11pm
Department of English, Vidyasagar University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Every community craves a sense of identity in this world, and continuity with the cultural past. This is more so with the communities whose language, literature and culture are on the verge of extinction on account of multiple factors. Literature and culture can offer indigenous communities a sense of belonging and promote social cohesion, respect for diversity, human creativity as well as help people connect with each other. Hence, the call to preserve endangered folk cultural heritage of communities such as the Jetor, an indigenous nomadic community of Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram settled on the edges of Kangsabati and Subarnarekha. UNESCO has declared 2022-2032 as the decade of indigenous languages.

International Conference on Climate Change and Cultural Representations: Australian and Indian Perspectives

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:11pm
Centre for Australian Studies, The University of Burdwan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

International Conference

on

Climate Change and Cultural Representations: Australian and Indian Perspectives

to be organised by

Centre for Australian Studies,

The University of Burdwan

in association with

Australian Consulate-General, Kolkata

on

10-11January 2024

at

The Dept of English and Culture Studies, The University of Burdwan, Golapbag, Burdwan

 

 

47th Annual Williamson Lectureship at ENMU

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:11pm
Annual Williamson Lectureship on Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Papers/Presentations: Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU)

Theme: Speculative Fiction and Society

The Global Eighteenth Century: Bodies, Texts, and Ideas in Motion

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:01pm
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 2, 2024

Felicity A. Nussbaum suggests that we need to formulate new critical framings about the widened eighteenth century as well as a long one. In what ways can we widen the breadth, scale, and scope of eighteenth-century studies from a global and planetary perspective? How might we come up with ways to think about the interconnectivity among ideas, cultures, and texts that “move” beyond the boundaries of the metrapole and the margin, near and distant?

 

Consilience 2024

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:01pm
Dalhousie Graduate History Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Abstract due date: December 11, 2023 via email (dalconsilience@gmail.com); Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a conference to foster critical thinking and meaningful discussion on the discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark discussion on the importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction.

Call for Papers: Choreographic Practices 15.2

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:00pm
Choreographic Practices
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Call for Papers: Choreographic Practices Volume 15 Issue 2, November 2024

 

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/choreographic-practices#call-for-papers

 

This is an open call for Volume 15.2 of Choreographic Practices to be published in the northern autumn of 2024. We welcome submissions from around the world in which the author(s) focus on the nature and/or experience of choreographic practices, and in which these practices are clearer located in relationship with other similar or overlapping practices. 

 

Call for Articles - The Semiotics of Animation. From Traditional Forms to Contemporary Innovations

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:00pm
Punctum International Journal of Semiotics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 10, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Semiotics of Animation. From TraditionalForms to Contemporary Innovations
Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 10:1 (2024)
GUEST EDITORS: Maria Ilia Katsaridou & Loukia Kostopoulou
The study of animation as a semiotic system has gained significant scholarly attention
in recent years. From traditional hand-drawn animation to contemporary computergenerated
imagery (CGI) and experimental forms, animation has become a dynamic
field that offers valuable insights into how meaning is constructed and communicated.
Animation as a medium of communication relies on the manipulation of movement

Routes beyond Roots: Indian Performing Arts and Virtual Culture(s)

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:00pm
School of Music, University College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Over the last number of years, Indian classical dance traditions have seen major shifts in terms of practice, pedagogy, and performance, both ‘at home’ in India and in diaspora contexts. These changes have been intensified most recently by two primary and co-related phenomena; the global adoption of specific algorithmic social media and streaming platforms, and lockdown restrictions imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. What happens to the embodied physical presence on virtual platforms? How has the format of the art form been modified to fit in digital spaces? What do these transformations mean for the future of the dance forms? How are socio-political issues embedded and addressed in such spaces? 

CFP FOR FANTASTICAL CONSTELLATIONS AFTER MAGICAL REALISM session at CCLA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 3:58pm
Canadian Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds research group) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our session in the coming CCLA 2024 conference at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Rethinking the Global in English Studies

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 5:50am
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

December 12–14, 2024

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kandice Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Ato Quayson, Stanford University, USA

Hye-Joon Yoon, Yonsei University, Korea

 

Call for Chapters - Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:15am
Stuart Joy/Solent University, Southampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.

Bridge Between Japanese Popular Culture and Language Teaching

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 4:06am
Katsuya Izumi / Trinity College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

It has been challenging to maintain healthy enrollments in Japanese language courses at all college levels in the U.S. Although this problem is more serious in small liberal-arts colleges, state universities also have the same problem especially in their advanced Japanese courses. If we think about the prevalence of Japanese popular cultural products such as anime, manga, music, games, V-tubers, and traditional artifacts among college students in the United States, we cannot easily understand why the number of students who learn Japanese has been decreasing in many institutions.

Literature, Activism, Human Values: Then and Now

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 3:52am
Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa (Taylor & Francis, Routledge)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Themed issue of Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2024)

Link to the CFP: https://bit.ly/_RCWR

Issue Editor

Goutam Karmakar, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, GermanyUniversity of the Western Cape, South Africa
goutamkrmkr@gmail.com

 

Environmental activism, decoloniality and literature of the Global South

updated: 
Thursday, December 7, 2023 - 3:51am
Goutam Karmakar and Sule Emmanuel Egya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Environmental activism, decoloniality and literature of the Global South

 

Volume editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Sule Emmanuel Egya,  Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria

Hip Hop Hurston

updated: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 7:52pm
Bethune-Cookman University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference to be held virtually on February 15-16, 2024. Hip Hop Hurston recognizes the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop as well as Hurston’s celebration of African American vernacular and culture as a precursor to this movement.

You are invited to submit abstracts for individual or panel presentations on Hip-Hop, Zora Neale Hurston, or any of her multidisciplinary interests. Presentations can be scholarly, pedagogical, and/or creative and should not exceed 15 minutes. We are also interested in student panels.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals for: From World Literature to National Literature: Re-telling and Adaptation of Myths in Turkish Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 1:55pm
Dr. Volkan KILIÇ / Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay/Turkey
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Title of the Book: From World Literature to National Literature: Re-telling and Adaptation of Myths in Turkish Literature

Editor: Dr. Volkan KILIÇ

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Overview:

The Status of Myths in New Millennial/post-2000 Cultural Production

updated: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 9:17am
Conference Myths 2024 - website: myths24.fr
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

International Conference in Toulouse (France) - December 6-7, 2024

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.

Call for Papers: Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies: A VPFA Study Day

updated: 
Wednesday, December 6, 2023 - 5:23am
Victorian Popular Fiction Association/ Rebecca Hamilton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 22, 2024

VPFA Study Day: ‘Silenced Voices and Erased Agencies in Victorian Life and Victorian Popular Fiction’ 

 

Online | 8&9 June 2024

 

 

“The Future Imaginary in Collecting”

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 10:39pm
Popular Culture Association PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Accepting Late Submissions: December 15, 2023

 

The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on

“The Future Imaginary in Collecting” for the 2024 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held on March 27-30 in Chicago USA 

 

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles imagine the future.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

     

Ray Bradbury: A Companion

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 8:48pm
Kevin Wetmore / Peter Lang Publishers
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion

EXTENDED DEADLINE: December 31, 2023

 

Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places.  His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.

As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.

The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc

Artifact & Apparatus 3: Teaching Media Archaeology

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 1:09pm
Artifact & Apparatus: Journal of Media Archaeology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

As scholars’ engagement with media-archaeological study have increased, so have students’ interest in the field’s approaches, methods, and philosophies. Many courses on media history and theory today include sessions focused on media archaeology.

Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 11:38am
Cenk Tan & Mikail Boz
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Call for Book Chapters

Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in the Post-9/11 World [Deadline Extended]

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 9:20am
O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi- NCR, India
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

   

 

This is a call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India [Deadline Extended]

 Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Mode of the conference: Online

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