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2024 University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference
Film and Media Studies
“Crisis and the Everyday”
Keynote Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Columbia University
Date: September 21-22, 2024
Surveying the absence on her shelf where Elizabethan women’s writing ought to be, Virginia Woolf (in)famously dismissed the possibility of Shakespeare’s sister ever finding “a room of her own” to develop her voice. Recent decades of literary scholarship have shown the invention with which early modern women built out their own textual “rooms,” finding voice in surprising places and forms (even in silence, as Christina Luckyj heard [2002]), in visions of new political subjectivities (in a radically equal imaginary, as seen by Mihiko Suzuki [2003]), and through networks of overlooked community (in coteries and in letters, as traced by James Daybell [2006]).
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Time, Play and Games’
Guest Edited by Federico Alvarez Igarzábal and Chris Hanson (jgvwtime@gmail.com)
Deadline for Submissions: 15 May 2024
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers
Memory in Exile: 80 Years since the Liberation of the Nazi Camps
Special issue of Word and Text, publication in December 2025
In 2025 there will be 80 years since the Nazi camps were liberated.
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
American Working-Class Art and Literature Now
Friday, April 19, 2024, Noon—1:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9UMcE5aFRHqzqZZfW6VL6w
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors SERIES
TRANSMEDIA VILLAINS AND CREATURES
This new series by Lexington Books aims to cover the fascinating subject of villains and threatening creatures through an interdisciplinary perspective represented by fields as different as literary, film, religious, gender and art studies as much as philosophy and sociological and ecocritical approaches. Each volume will focus on a single figure (or group of figures) and examine it in its multiple incarnations, from their origins in myth, folklore and history as well as in a literary text, to their various adaptations in different media, including comics, graphic novels, cinema, TV, exhibitions, the visual arts, merchandise, fandom and tourist attractions.
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
AICED-25
THE 25th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION
14-16 June 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
The English Department of the University of Bucharest invites proposals for
the Literature and Cultural Studies section of its 25th Annual International Conference:
FSNNA24 Call for ParticipationFan Studies Network North America Conference 2024 (virtual)October 17-20, 2024
*taps microphone*
Coming this October!
The greatest fan studies event of this year, or any other.
An academic event of such magnitude, its like will never be seen again.
Four days of research … discussion … and community building!
Hold onto your webcams and get ready for…
FSNNA PRESENTS:
THE MONSTERS OF FAN STUDIES
WORLD TOUR ’24
Submissions for the 2024 FSNNA Conference
121st PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024
Proposals:
Please use the PAMLA CFP page and submission system, which can be found here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.
Call for Papers
PAMLA 2024 Conference: November 7-10, at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California, completely in-person
19249. Ecocriticism (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature & Environment) (Panel / In-Person)
Ecocriticism and Science / Historical and Political Studies
Presiding Officer: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Worthington Scranton)
Call for Papers
2024 Situations International Conference
22-23 November, 2024
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century:
Transnational Hauntology and Affective Production
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025
Call for Papers
Reorienting Singapore Literature
Guest Editors
Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)
Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024
In accordance with the conference theme, “Translation in Action,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s work was written in French and translations are often offered with notes about the richness of his words and potential loss of meaning. Questions of translation surround and even permeate Bergson philosophy.
SAMLA 96: CFP for “Teaching Writing in College” Session
November 15–17, 2024
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL
CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel
MMLA 2024, November 14–16, Chicago, IL
General Conference Topic: "Health in/of the Humanities"
The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "Health in/of the Humanities" for the 2024 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here:
https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers
Please consider submitting a proposal to our panel "Teaching Against the Anthropocene," to take place at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in Palm Springs California (Nov. 7-10, 2024), and please share the cfp with colleagues who might also be interested!
Submit your proposal at this link before April 30th: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19097
"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like the Anthropocene.
Call for Abstracts
The Pioneers of Trans-American Art: in the footsteps of a Caribbean Diaspora aesthetic
Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
October 24-26, 2024
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind”
The 2024 PAMLA Conference will be held in Palm Springs, CA from November 6-10. We invite abstract submissions to a guaranteed, standing session on comics and graphic narratives; abstracts can be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/
The “African American Literature and Culture” session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of African American literature, media, or culture, but we are particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, “Translation in Action.”
Some topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:
1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?
Generative AI has upended ways of visualizing, reading, and interpreting texts, whether in makerspaces, on publishing platforms, or on college campuses. The use of generative AI raises questions about authorship, copyright, authenticity, originality, and integrity—all critical matters that lie at the heart of Adaptation Studies scholarship.
“Seen and Unseen,” the theme of SAMLA 96, which will meet from 15 through 17 November in Jacksonville, Florida, focuses on the tasks of discovering, uncovering, and recovering material that may have escaped earlier notice. The study of adaptation sharpens this duality further. Cinematic and theatrical adaptations famously present visuals that audiences for literary texts have previously had to visualize for themselves. Adaptations that censor the texts they adapt seek to replace old ways of seeing with new by concealing matters they think better unseen. Reparative adaptations seek to heal cultural traumas by shining new light on old assumptions about power and status.
Negotiations of Taste, Memory and Heritage: Colonial Foodscapes and Beyond
The eighth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on October 25, 2024, invites proposals for papers on Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (2018). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre.
Call for Papers: Journal of Global Diaspora & Media
Special Issue: ‘Global South Diasporic Voices: Rethinking Praxis and Theory in Communication for Development’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-global-diaspora-media#call-for-papers
The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).
All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".
For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.
Call for Papers
The FX Reader
Extended and revised call for chapters on select FX Channel original TV series are sought for an edited book collection. In a similar vein as The Essential HBO Reader (2008), this scholarly collection will serve as a valuable resource for TV scholars and educators on FX’s history and its most critically acclaimed, noteworthy series.
Each chapter is expected to focus on each series’ creation and production history, its overall aesthetics and key performances, core themes, its association with genre conventions, and relevance to the FX Channel. We still need chapter proposals on the following series: