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Announcing an all-new scholarly book project!
The Comics of Jack Kirby: Critical Perspectives on a Legendary Artist
Edited by Craig Fischer, Charles Hatfield, and Susan Kirtley
Under contract to be published in the University Press of Mississippi’s series Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, edited by David M. Ball
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Blade Runner @40: Origins and Legacies
An academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK
June 20-21, 2022
We’d like to invite humanities scholars to contribute to our edited volume, Humour in Times of Confrontations, 1901 to the Present, to be published in 2022/23 by Routledge in the Humour in Literature and Culture series.
Poetrishy (poetrishy.org) is an ambitious laboratory for radical experiments with poetry, language modelling, and computation. It is a multilingual and multidisciplinary online space where experimental poetry drives new methods, ideas, and approaches in areas such as natural language processing and artificial intelligence.
Beginnings and Endings: Embracing or Rejecting Change
The 2022 Acacia Group Annual Graduate Conference
California State University, Fullerton
March 18-19, 2022
“But for me, it was not over, I mean, over in the sense of beginning and ending, because to me there was no beginning nor ending to anything then.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (175)
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
Watch Words: John Furnival and Text (as) Art
Royal College of Art, London, 25 March 2022.
Submission deadline 31 January 2022 (expressions of interest asap): johnfurnivalsymposium@gmail.com @watchwords22
Supported by the Paul Mellon Foundation
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2022:
“Anti-Racism”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 22-23, 2022
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Professor, African American Studies, Princeton University
2021 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
2021 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient
Author of The Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry
As a sport, basketball follows a certain set of rules and conventions which serve as a framework for players, coaches, and teams to play the sport. By their very nature, these rules are meritocratic which means that all participants are equal on the court, play by the same rules, and the only relevant (read as: game deciding) factors are effort, skill, and fortune. Such a perspective on basketball and sports leads certain fans and observers to statements such as “politics should be kept out of sports”.
Streaming Southeast Asia seeks to map the landscape of streaming platforms in Southeast Asia and to explore the
plurality of its disruptive force. It applies a Southeast Asian lens to address stock questions elicited by the streaming
phenomenon worldwide. Possible topics for contributions include, but are not limited to:
The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, April 1–3, 2022. We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars. We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists. The CAC at WonderCon is presently scheduled to take place in person; however, this may change, and presenters should be prepared to adapt to a virtual fo
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
When, in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), William Wordsworth insisted that an “overbalance of pleasure” entails the “circumstance of meter,” he confirmed a philosophical assumption far older than Kant’s theory of the sublime. The pervasive assumption—which, today, can be tracked in an on-going “affective turn” (necessarily entangled in matters of form and style)—is that the artificial makes possible an understanding of the natural.
NOVEL BEGINNINGS:
TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON EARLY MODERN FICTION
14-16 September, 2022
University of Huelva, Spain
Call for Papers: Graduate Conference
SUCH SWEET THUNDER
ELLINGTON PLAYS SHAKESPEARE—LOVE AND POWER IN ADAPTATION
Columbia University
Center for Jazz Studies, Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Core Curriculum
Date: March 25, 2022
Second CFP: A Critical Companion to David Lynch
Edited by Andrew M. Winters
Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Extended Deadline
The 2022 Emily Dickinson International Society Conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and the Dickinson Critical Institute in Seville
The Emily Dickinson International Society is extending its deadline until November 20 for proposal submission to its international conference, “Dickinson and Foreignhood,” and to its Critical Institute, both to take place at the College of Philology, University of Seville, Spain. The conference will go from Tuesday, July 12, to Thursday, July 14. The Critical Institute will be on Monday, July 11.
Transitions
The University of Florida’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites proposals for our eighteenth annual conference: “Transitions.”
We are pleased to announce this call for paper for the proposed anthology in this emerging field of Digital Humanities. We are seeking academics and professionals in the field who might like to send us a scholarly abstract for consideration for inclusion in the book. The aim of this scholarly collection is to bring forth how digital humanities has shaped humanities studies and our culture.
Concept note:
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 20, 2021:
CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS:
South African Food Studies
Special issue of Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society
The editor of The Ages of Batman: Essays on the Dark Knight is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. The essays should examine the relationships between the DC comic book adventures of Batman and the social era when those comic books were published. Analysis may demonstrate how Batman’s comic books stories and the creators who produced the comics embrace, reflect, or critique aspects of their contemporary culture. This will be a companion volume to existing essay collections in the series that have already focused on Superman, Wonder Woman, the X-Men, the Avengers, Iron Man, Hulk, the Justice League, Flash, and Black Panther.
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Myth and Fairy Tales
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
EXTENDED DEADLINE - The 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
Our Dickens: Dickens and His Publics
July 8-10, 2022
London, UK
Hosted by City, University of London
Members of the Programme Committee:
Chris Louttit, Michaela Mahlberg, David McAllister, Claire Wood
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Disability Studies Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
Call for Papers– DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Mystery/Detective Fiction Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
43rd Annual Conference, February 23-26, 2022
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2021
Understandings of what it means to be undocumented remain a part of critical discussions in the US -- whether about immigration status or a citizen’s sex designation or voter eligibility on official documents, for example. MELUS invites individual paper proposals that explore what it means to be undocumented -- legally, culturally or otherwise -- in fiction, memoir, or poetry by ethnic American writers. Specifically, we are interested in papers that consider how authors (re)imagine what it means to be undocumented -- and how intersections of identities of historically excluded populations function to further understanding of being undocumented in such works.
For Critical Insights volume under contract:
CFP on the life and works of Virginia Woolf
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: February 9, 2022
Seeking submissions for a Critical Insights volume on Virginia Woolf under contract with Salem/Grey House Publishers. We seek essays that showcase Woolf’s life, essays, and fiction. Essays that explore her transatlantic influence on women writers around the globe are also of interest, as are essays that explore Woolf’s ethics, narrative constructions, uncertainty, modernism, and (anti)sentimentalism.
Pluralism is a very central but elusive contemporary value. Pluralism is the belief that diversity is beneficial to society. Most of us would agree, but what does diversity exactly mean? How to measure it and tell whether a society is more or less diverse?
Cultural pluralism, political pluralism and value pluralism all have slightly different meanings, but they all share the belief that coexistence of diverse opinions, ways of life and value systems is enriching for all members of a society.
In celebration of the Mighty Shadow’s 80th birthday, The Groundation Foundation and The University of the West Indies will host a one day virtual symposium to honour his body of work to be held on Friday March 4th 2022.
