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Nonhuman Cultures of the Air and Oceans at ASLE 2025

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, College Park, MD, July 8-11 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Paper jam: Nonhuman Cultures of the Air and Oceans

 

Looking back from 2014, when ecocriticism discussed “culture as such in the last decade and a half, it has often been in the process of contesting a view of nature as a cultural construction. …In this tired debate, ecocritics, busy refuting an erasure of nature, and other theorists, busy asserting the primacy of culture, both end up affirming the essentialist idea of culture at the core of this binary and the humanities. The persistence of this formulation of culture is the most pressing philosophical problem for ecocriticism and green studies, and critical and cultural theory generally” (Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture).

Perspectives JDMC Issue V - Disability Studies

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal Janki Devi Memorial College

University of Delhi

eISSN 2583 - 4762

 

Call For Papers

Issue V: Disability Studies

 

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762.

 

Critical Essays on Laughter in War

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Marcus Harmes
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 4, 2024

War is hell but can also be funny, whether as a safety valve from pressure or catharsis after tragedy, as subversion, as efforts to build and maintain morale, or as exercises in nostalgia. Cinema early discovered the comedy inherent to conflict including the immensely successful 1920 film Alf’s Button, made just after and set during the First World War and notable as being popular despite (or because of) making comedy about the recent war. Comedy about war has since proliferated and writing and themes continue to respond to and adapt themselves to changing global and political circumstances including comedy responding to the Global War on Terror.

 

35th Annual LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Tatiana Servin De Maio/Louisiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

CFP 35th LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space

Lousiana State University | February 26-28, 2025 | Hybrid Format

It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.—Anne Rice

The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.—Nikola Tesla

AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Katherine Ellison/Illinois State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium

Date and Location: April 16-18, 2025 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois

Abstracts: 150 word abstracts are due November 1, 2024. Send to Dr. Katherine Ellison at keellis@ilstu.edu

MYSTERY & DETECTIVE FICTION AREA

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference, April 16-19, 2025, New Orleans, LA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for the 2025 annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2025.

We seek proposals from researchers, academics, graduate students, and independent scholars for scholarly discussions on all aspects and periods of mystery and detective fiction. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged, including cultural studies, visual arts, media studies, audience reception and fan studies.

Happiness and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Popular Culture

 

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

New Orleans

April 16-19, 2025

 

Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:03am
Yu Min Rodan/ DLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and the elderly in Asian societies

updated: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024 - 10:50pm
Bernard Wilson Gakushuin University / Sung-Ae Lee Macquarie University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2025)

Call for abstracts for papers for edited collection on the effects of ageing populations and generational disparities in Asian societies as represented in literature, film, and other forms of media

 

Working Title for Proposed Volume: 

 

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and the elderly in Asian societies

 

Editors:

 

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Dr. Sung-Ae Lee

Leeds IMC 2025 Call for Papers (Hybrid) - Learning, Knowledge and Awareness

updated: 
Thursday, September 12, 2024 - 10:58am
CERÆ: AN AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.

“Radical Futures and Decolonization: Law, Marxism, and World Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:26am
North Eastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Description:

This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.

Abstract:

The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Edited by A. Robert Lee and Chad Weidner
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Introduction and Scope:

The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.

Medievalisms Area, SWPACA 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference: "Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa"

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
Department of English, University of Zululand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 11, 2024

                                                                              UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
                                                                2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
                                                Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa

                                                         Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU

Digital (R)evolution and Cyber Censorship in South Asia

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.

The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:25am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

Holocaust Studies Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 11:24am
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

The Fifteenth Biennial

HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE

At Middle Tennessee State University

 

March 6-7, 2025

Murfreesboro, Tennessee

 

Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

                                                                                                                                                                             

Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Society for Queer and Trans Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."

 

Henri Nouwen Academic Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:23am
Henri Nouwen Society; Oblate School of Theology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.

 

Love and Death in Dostoevsky's novels and Beyond, NeMLA March 6-9, 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.

CFP - Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Gender and Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).

Political Speeches in Film

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:22am
Université de Lorraine, France
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Dear colleagues, 

Please find below the links to the call for papers of the international conference "Political Speeches in Film" which will take place at the Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France on March 17, 18, 2025:

https://idea.univ-lorraine.fr/sites/default/files/2024-04/CFP%20-%20Political%20Speeches%20in%20Film%20-%20EN-1_0.pdf (English version) 

NeMLA 2025- ChatGPT and teaching persuasive communication: Friend, foe, or frenemy?

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This is a call for participation in a roundtable on ChatGPT and teaching persuasive communication at the 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention in Philadelphia, PA, USA on March 6-9, 2025

 

This roundtable will examine practical strategies for integrating ChatGPT (or any GenAI bot/software) into rhetoric/persuasive communication classes (i.e., writing and/or speaking persuasively). We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that demonstrate how colleagues implement any of the following strategies:

Game Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans. The deadline for proposals is November 30th.

 

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome. Please see our Facebook group for our mission announcement.

 

New Metal Worlds. Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:20am
The International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

New Metal Worlds. Building Bridges and Mending Broken Backs

The International Society for Metal Music Studies (ISMMS) and Metal Music Studies-Spain, in collaboration with the University of Seville, the Complutense University of Madrid, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Granada, the University of Córdoba, the University of Jaén, the University of Oviedo, and the University of La Laguna, invites applications in response to the Call for Proposals 2025 for ISMMS’ 7th Biennial International Research Conference. The event will be held in Seville, Spain, 3-6 June, 2025 (and virtually) under the theme:

 

 NEW METAL WORLDS 

BUILDING BRIDGES AND MENDING BROKEN BACKS

Comparative Drama Conference - Now Accepting Abstracts and Panel Proposals!

updated: 
Wednesday, September 11, 2024 - 9:19am
47th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

47th Comparative Drama Conference

July 9-11, 2025

London, England

 

Dear Colleagues, 

 

We are pleased to announce that the Comparative Drama Conference 2025 will be hosted by the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and will be held in Europe for the first time in its near 50-year history. 

 

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