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Death and the Irish Diaspora
Special Issue of Éire-Ireland
Special-Issue Editors:
Chris Cusack, Radboud University
Sophie Cooper, Queen's University Belfast
Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies welcomes submissions for a Spring/Summer 2026 special issue on death and the Irish diaspora.
Although a monster with a head of swarming snakes, Medusa has been firmly embraced as a snake sister by more women. In her 1975 essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Hélène Cixous pioneeringly urges women to re-visit their mythological snake sister - Medusa - who has long been (mis)construed as ugly and sinful. Cixous writes, "You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing” (885). In current feminist terms, Medusa is often read sympathetically: “The ugliness she first experienced as an unjust punishment” is transformed into her greatest strength she “learned to use as a weapon” (Zimmerman 3).
Call for Papers
“Time after Time: On Cruising the Past,” a special issue of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Co-Editors: Adrián Emmanuel Hernández-Acosta (Yale University) and Kris Trujillo (University of Chicago)
Zentrumstage 2024
The Historicities of Security and Peace
Philipps University Marburg (Germany)
October 9-11, 2024
Deadline for paper submission is June 16, 2024
Conference Topic
Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Peitho, Summer 2025:
Girlhood and Menstruation
This volume of essays would like to celebrate the role played by writers and other artists in initiating the kind of intercultural conversations necessary to transcend the political, geographical and cultural borders erected in the name of nationalism. The collection is based on a conference held on the theme in April 2024. I have a contract with a publisher and am looking for a final few essays to complete the collection.
The Fantasy and Science Fiction area of Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) seeks papers for presentation at our annual conference this fall which will run as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
May 22nd and 23rd 2025
Technology and Film Labour: Crafting the Look of the Film
Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour.
Recent technological developments such as the widespread adoption of virtual production processes and the use of generative AI have had a transformative effect on film production workflows and below the line film craft. The relationships between production departments as well as the roles and functions of cinematography, production design, sound design costume, location and visual effects have all been affected by technological change.
One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…
A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40
Hosted by The University of Nottingham in association with Fear2000
8-9 November 2024
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Dr Bruna Foletto Lucas (Kingston University)
Dr Steve Jones (Northumbria University)
Special Guests
Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (screenwriters of Freddy vs Jason)
"Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy"
ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative 20th Anniversary Conference
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - November 11-15, 2024
https://www.comics-studies.com/events/sff2024
Call for Papers
Panel #9: "Nightmares from the Past, Visions of the Future: Alternative Futurism & Comics"
Date and Location: 19-20 June 2025, Paris, France
Keynote Speakers: Claire BOWDITCH, Loughborough University, UK, Elaine HOBBY, Loughborough University, UK, Leah ORR, University of Louisiana, USA
With a new edition of Aphra Behn’s works on the go, and as Canterbury prepares to erect a statue in her honour, the moment seems ideal to re-examine Behn’s place and her work in criticism and in the collective imagination. Challenging the image of Behn as loyal to a conservative Tory imagination, this conference aims to emphasize movement, mobility, decentering, and innovation in her oeuvre.
The Aesthetics of Disaster
Special Editor: Lucia Morawska (Richmond, The American International University in London)
"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 77 (2/2026)
Submission deadline: 30 September 2025
The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with EMNLP in Miami, USA!
The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on November 15-16 2024.
https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024
Submission deadline: September 1, 2024
The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to:
New Perspectives on Hawthorne and Utopia
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Spring, 2025
Editors: Monika Elbert and Andrew Loman
In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes, “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably found it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison” (CE 1:47). This famous sentence deploys a number of key terms – the colony, virtue, happiness, projection, necessity, virginity, the cemetery, the prison – all of them interlinked with the sentence’s key term, Utopia.
Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts
Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für unseren geplanten Sammelband über Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts ein. Dieser Band strebt an, eine umfassende Analyse und Diskussion über bedeutende kulturelle Entwicklungen und künstlerische Strömungen Österreichs im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert zu präsentieren. Wir begrüßen Beiträge aus den Bereichen Kulturwissenschaft, Kunsthistorik, Germanistik sowie aus angrenzenden Disziplinen und freuen uns auf Ihre vielfältigen Einsendungen und danken Ihnen im Voraus für Ihr Interesse und Ihre Mitarbeit.
Even today in the age of political correctness and amidst cancel culture censures, people with mental disorders are one of the few social groups still to be consistently misrepresented, ostracized, and demeaned. The social consequences of stigmatization should be studied through autobiographical narrative acts to reveal what it means to live with mental illness in America. By utilizing everyday language and literary tropes, mental illness life narratives humanize portrayals of mental disorder; by doing so, they appeal to the sympathies of broader audiences than medical narratives, such as case studies or examples in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
The seminar, "Modernisms," is accepting abstract proposals (until June 16) for the 2024 PAMLA conference in Palm Springs, CA in November!
If you have a new project on anything related to modernism that you wish to discuss in a low stakes, generative seminar group, please apply at the link below.
Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 24.2.
Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres. Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.
Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.
To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Sports Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.
NEW Deadline: Thursday, July 11, 2024 (Pete Murphy's B-Day!)
(Tentative) Conference Date(s): Friday August 16, 2024
Format: Online (via Zoom, PST)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: bld45conference@gmail.com
Contact for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com, cc: Rachel Birke @ rbirk001@g.ucla.edu (Subject Line: BLD45 Conference)
"Undead, undead, undead"
Article submissions of between 20 and 35 pages on lives and work of either Elizabeth Bishop or Robert Lowell are being sought for consideration by the peer reviewed Bishop-Lowell Studies journal published by Penn State UP. Please consult the journal page a thttps://www.psupress.org/Journals/jnls_BLS.html for further submission information. You can also contact the editor, Ian Copestake, directly o: copers@gmail.com.
Sustainability: Which Way Now?
Bhabani Shankar Nayak
Dr Samuel O Idowu
Dr Amr Khafagy
Background
Call for Journal Articles Now Open
Every year after our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for consideration for publication.
We are now inviting submissions for part two of the theme 'connections, interconnections, and disconnections'. To be published in Volume 3 of the Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis by the end of 2024,
Whether ancient or modern, we continue to examine festival culture around the world. Papers should explore how these connections, interconnections, and disconnections may shape and influence cultural practices, traditions, and norms.
Announcement: The Body in/of Don DeLillo’s Plays
June 20 – 21, 2024, online
This is a call for papers to be included in the proposed book as chapters. Bloomsbury has shown interest to publish the book. The lists below are indicative and not restrictive. The editors are open to contributions in the field of ‘Modern Indian Theatre’ on playwrights, theatre practitioners, theories, and forms not included in the lists below. Scholars interested to contribute are requested to send their abstracts between 500 and 600 words, with proposed titles, full name/s of contributor/s, and their professional affiliation/s within 15 July 2024. Contributions must be sent to both the editors on their emails.
Dr. Arnab Ray : arnabra1@gmail.com
The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society
20-22 September 2024
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Call for Papers
CFP for an Edited Volume: Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities
Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin
Submission Deadline Extended to June 30, 2024
Project Description:
In this edited volume, we invite scholarly essays that examine the relationship between gender and Muslim identities as it is (re)presented in political spaces, visual cultures, and sociopolitical discourses. Some of the questions this volume seeks to examine are:
How is the idea of gender mobilized to in/de/form Muslim identities, both within and outside Muslim communities?
We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present to be shared at the Pacific Modern Lanugage Association, held this year from November 7-10 at the Margariaville Resort in Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held completely in person.
Our panel organizers believe in a capacious understanding of post-1945 American Literature. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors or texts about America or American life are welcome.
The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields
Special Editor: Thomas Mical [Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas), New Centre for Research and Practice (US)]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - Volume 73 (2/2024)
Submission deadline: June 30, 2024
Call for Papers: Form and its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle
Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm.
— Georges Bataille, Informe (“Formless”), 1929