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Special Issue of Literature, Critique, and Empire Today (formerly the Journal of Commonwealth Literature)
Deadline for abstract proposals: 15 July 2024
The Second Plague Pandemic inflicted unimaginable hurt and triggered multiple crises (demographic, spiritual, political, socio-economic), whose impact informed new artistic and literary modes of expression such as the danse macabre or the carnivalesque.
This panel examines how writers and artists processed pandemic experiences, both in terms of actual outbreaks and long-term repercussions (such as peasant revolts or multi-generational trauma). Where do we find traces of ‘long plague’ (analogous to ‘long Covid’), and what form do they take? How do pandemic experiences affect collective memory and shared narratives? And what theoretical frameworks might be helpful for studying (post)pandemic discourse in literature and art?
Edited Volume Call for Papers on Sandeep Kumar Mishra’s Books/stories/writings
Deadline for submissions: December 31, 2024
full name / name of organization: Rukesh Sharma-Editor (Kishlaya Books)
Contact- Rukeshsharma1586@gmail.com
CFP: Edited Volume Call for Papers on Sandeep Kumar Mishra’s Books
Conference: 22-23 August 2024 (online)
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CFP:
CFP: Shoreline Shakespeares:
6th Conference of the Asian Shakespeare Association (Iloilo, 4-6 December 2024)
A shoreline is a dynamic border, being created, erased, and reshaped by the eternal dance of tide and time. It separates yet connects ecosystems, identities, and civilizations. Shorelines set boundaries but also open gateways to different experiences and perspectives. The shoreline serves as a focal point for exploration, transition, and adaptation. “Shoreline Shakespeares” welcomes papers that examine the literal and metaphorical meanings of the shoreline in Shakespeare and his afterlife. Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present > http://www.americanpopularculture.com
We invite you to submit in areas related to American Studies, American history, American popular culture, comics, music, film, politics, sports, fashion, food, fandom, radio, television/streaming, Broadway/popular theater, travel/tourism, etc.
You can visit the guidelines for submission here >
https://americanpopularculture.com/journal/call_for_papers.htm
The U.S. South is often a forgotten space within ecocritical discussions, yet it provides fruitful ground for thinking about environmental issues. In 2019, in the first edited collection of essays on the topic, Zachary Vernon notes that focusing attention on this bioregion might help “provide a way out of the limitations of thinking too locally or too globally,” and it might inspire a group of stakeholders to come to the table as well (7). One problem with ecocritical approaches is the long history of representing the U.S. South as an “internal other in the national imagination: colonized, subordinate, primitive, developmentally arrested, or even regressive” (Watson 254).
CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:
Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025
Keynote Speakers:
Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)
Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)
Organizers:
Call for Papers: Journal of Applied Arts & Health
Special Issue: ‘Creativity, the Arts and the Environment’, Volume 16.2 (Summer 2025)
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-applied-arts-health#call-for-papers
Call for Papers Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.
Journal Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest, and Jenny Stümer
Special Issue editor: Bruna Della Torre
Article length: 8,000 - 9,000 words
Deadline: Year-round – 1 November, 2024 (for our next issue)
Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de
The editorial team of JACLR (Journal of Artistic Creation and Literary Research) would like to inform you that the journal has opened its submission deadline until 1 November 2024 for proposals for volume 12.2.
Unbound Spaces; The Limitless Possibilities of World-building
Critical Worldbuilding
Call for Proposals
Stanford University TDR Consortium Issue
"Critical Worldbuilding" edited by Matthew Smith
Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 September 2024
Submission Email: mwsmith1@stanford.edu
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Special issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, Spring 2025
On the Work of Rinaldo Walcott
Edited by Ronald Cummings (McMaster University) and Nalini Mohabir (Concordia University)
An international biannual print and online publication of the American Studies Association of Turkey, the Journal of American Studies of Turkey operates with a double-blind peer review system and publishes work (in English) on American literature, history, art, music, film, popular culture, institutions, politics, economics, geography and related subjects.
This panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), 6-9 March 2025, will focus what T. S. Eliot can do for the Humanities today and what the Humanities ought to do with T. S. Eliot.
Several prominent accounts of the end of epic attribute its demise to modernity. A society riven by contradictions cannot make epic poems. The incoherence of modernity baffles the grand aspirations of epic to tell the “tale of the tribe,” to compass an entire world and way of life in a single grand vision. That is one story of the end of epic in Western literature. The rise of natural philosophy, the disenchantment of the world and banishment of God to the gaps left by naturalistic accounts broke up the enchanted world that created epics, leaving in its wake elegiac mourning for the totality epic represented.
VII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON FANTASTIC GENRE, AUDIOVISUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES
International Congress on Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies is an activity of scientific and academic dissemination that is part of Elche International Fantastic Film Festival – FANTAELX, with the collaboration of Miguel Hernández University, the Arts Research Center (CíA) and the Massiva research group. Its mission is to disseminate research studies within the different thematic lines and discourses of the Fantastic Genre, covering all its possible variants and platforms: cinema, television, theatre, literature, comics, video games, virtual reality, plastic arts, etc.
PARTICIPATION
This panel for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies May 2025 “Where is Early America?” conference invites papers on the relationship between poetry and identity, broadly conceived, in the seventeenth-century. Recent work on colonial English poetry has identified both ruptures and continuities between canonical early American English poetry and its metropolitan counterparts, upsetting strict delineation between “English” and “colonial” poetry. Likewise, scholars have identified the ways in which colonial ideology is inflected in such areas as amatory and religious verse written and read on both sides of the Atlantic.
Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created and a clear inspiration for games that would be designed in the following decades, the game industry has grown exponentially. As Egenfeldt-Nielson et al. have stated (2024), “[i]n the historical blink of an eye, video games have colonized our minds and invaded our screens” (2).
At no time has intellectual culture been more committed to the notion of prior “authority” than in the Middle Ages. Yet medieval adaptations of earlier works and media objects, including classical and scriptural writings, are often boldly inventive: a paradox due for serious consideration. Existing contributions to Adaptation Studies nearly always focus on post-medieval adaptation (such as modern adaptations of medieval sources). In contrast, for this session we invite papers that redirect the insights of Adaptation Studies to build a more coherent sense of medieval ideas and practices of adaptation, especially in cases involving radical or unintuitive changes of language, medium, genre, style, context, or audience.
The Editors of Vestron Horror Films are looking for four additional chapters about films not taken yet for other contributors. We want to produce a book with analysis on most of Vestron horror’s catalogue and, thus, we need chapters on:
-Communion (Philippe Mora, 1989)
-Amsterdamned (Dick Mass, 1989)
-Dolls (Stuart Gordon, 1986)
-Gothic (Ken Russell, 1986)
-Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986)
-The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan 1984)
-The Gate (Tibor Takács,1987)
-Revenge of the Living Dead Part 3 (Brian Yuzna, 1993),
-Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)
Special Issue Call for Papers: Studies in Costume and Performance
Issue 10.2: ‘Costume and Character in Film and Television’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-costume-performance#call-for-papers
This is a call for paper for LISA e-Journal special issue edited by Marcin Stawiarski (Université de Caen Normandie).
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LISA e-Journal seeks contributions on topics related to the musical tale and children’s opera in the English-speaking world. Particular focus will be given to young audiences and musical entertainment in the contemporary world.
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
The Realm of the Impossible: Planetary Conceptions of Space in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Mennonite/s Writing 10: An International Conferencehosted at Canadian Mennonite University
500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3P 2N2 Theme: Words at Work and Play
What is a good life? Scholars often attempt to answer this question by examining people’s ideals. Exemplified by Joel Robbins’ call of “the anthropology of the good,” anthropologists are encouraged to make ethnographic inquiries into qualities that are “imaginatively conceived” to be desirable and even “outstripped” the immediate realities (2013, 457). In other words, the scholarly examination of the “good life” has long been domesticated in the realm of thoughts and beliefs, insulated from that of the lived experiences.
* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.
* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.