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Adaptation's Call to Revolution

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 10:42am
Thomas Leitch / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.

NeMLA 2025: Radical Bodies

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 10:29am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like feminism, anti-racism, anti- and post-colonialism, and ecocriticism have called out the human’s complicated entrenchment in and with other/othered bodies and landscapes. Posthumanist scholars like Rosi Braidotti define the (post)human body as necessarily relational, nomadic, ever-changing with and in response to others. As such, the body becomes a site for radical transformation through which we may interrogate contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, income inequality, and climate change.

NeMLA 2025: Posthumanistic (Im)possibilities: Navigating the (R)evolutions of the Anthropocene

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 10:26am
Sriyanka Basak, Rohini Chakraborty
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

A recent New York Times article, “Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say,” reported on the ongoing debate among scientists about classifying the Anthropocene as an epoch or an event. Regardless of its definitive place on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene is a significant marker of history, signifying humans’ profound impact on the environment and the course of evolution. This raises critical questions about the nature of evolution in the Anthropocene. How do we define evolution in this age? The Anthropocene is characterized by human achievements and significant challenges, including wars and climate destruction. These crises force us to question: what kind of Anthropocene are we striving to preserve?

CFP - Alizés (online journal): Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 9:07am
Université de La Réunion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for Alizés 45 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments, has been extended to September 1, 2024.

Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments

Deadline for abstracts (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words):: Sptembre 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2024
Submission of full draft papers: January 31, 2025

Submission of final papers: June 15, 2025 

Languages: English, French

CFP for The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

updated: 
Saturday, July 13, 2024 - 12:32am
The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open. 

The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).

First Forum 2024 – Infrastructure and Abstraction

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 6:35pm
First Forum – Graduate Student Conference of the University of Southern California, Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 28, 2024

 

FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS 

DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH

This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley). 

Infrastructure and Abstraction

 

“The immaterial has become… immaterial.” 

– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

 

Abortion Narratives and Reproductive Justice Post-Dobbs

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:43pm
Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

Submitted by: 

Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine 

Call for proposals -- Race/Gender/Class/Media: Considering Diversity Across Audiences, Content, and Producers (6th edition)

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:26pm
Routledge / Edited by Rebecca Ann Lind, University of Illinois at Chicago
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2024

With apologies for cross-posting, please consider submitting, and please share widely.

We seek proposals for the 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge). This reader contains upwards of 50 relatively short, tightly-written, good-quality research reports. We're looking for the same wide range of content as in prior editions, preferably focusing on contemporary media content.  

The 1st International Scientific Symposium “The Languages of Contemporary Literature Studies”

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:25pm
The Franciszek Karpinski Institute of Regional Culture and Literary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 25, 2024

   The Franciszek Karpinski Institute of Regional Culture and Literary Research has the pleasure to invite you to

   The First International Scientific Symposium

   T H E   L A N G U A G E S   O F   C O N T E M P O R A R Y   L I T E R A R Y   S T U D I E S

   Date: 26–27th September 2024
   Venue: the Pedagogical Library in Siedlce, 2 Aslanowicz(a) Street, Siedlce (Poland)

   Details are in the attachments below ↓

Bandung to Berlin: Art, Decolonization, and the Cold War

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 3:25pm
Princeton University Department of Art & Archeology
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 12, 2024

Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled. As former colonies across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean fought for and gained independence, new national agendas navigated the competing pressures of the Cold War and resisted a dichotomous world order. This conference will explore transnational artistic exchanges and cultural diplomacy in the years 1947-1989, especially across regions in the Global South. We hope to foster new conversations about the confluence of art and politics in larger cultural imaginaries. 

The First Scientific Conference “Polish & Russian Cinemas”

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 2:50pm
The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

   The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to

   The First Scientific Conference
   P O L I S H   &   R U S S I A N   C I N E M A S

   Date: 25–26th October 2024
   Venue: The Eastern House Show-Window,
   Warsaw (Poland), 6 plac Konstytucji

   Details are in the attachment below ↓

Transpacific Materialities

updated: 
Friday, July 12, 2024 - 2:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2025, March 6-9, Philadelphia)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

How are Asian American and Pacific Islander bodies figured across different media—in contemporary novels, poetry, and visual arts? How do the transits and residues of US empire across the Pacific inform these representations? This panel investigates texts that center AAPI bodies and their varying materialities, wherein racialized bodies take on other-than-human forms (i.e., paper, digital, textual, watery, earthy, animal, etc.). The panel aims to explore how these embodiments are shaped by the residual and ongoing violences of US empire and/or war in the Pacific.

Indian Knowledge Systems: Values and Philosophies

updated: 
Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 7:00pm
Nutan Adarsh College, Umred (Maharashtra), India
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Nutan Adarsh Arts, Commerce, and Smt. M. H. Wegad Science College, Umred, Dist. Nagpur

Announces
A Call for Papers for an Edited Book with ISBN
On

Indian Knowledge Tradition: Values and Philosophies 

 

Dear Researchers,
Under the guidance of the college’s language department, we are publishing an interdisciplinary edited book with an ISBN number on the theme of "Indian Knowledge Tradition: Life, Values and Philosophy," centred around the Indian knowledge systems in the context of the new educational policy. We request you to submit well-researched papers addressing any of the following sub-themes.

Transness in Ireland and Abroad: The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s First Annual Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, July 11, 2024 - 10:40am
Taylor Follett / The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 JULY

Call for Papers – The Trans* Research Association of Ireland’s First Annual Symposium

October 31-November 1
University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin

NEW DEADLINE: 31 JULY

Keynote Speaker: Professor Hil Malatino (Penn State)

NeMLA 2025 - Birth Trauma

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 5:10pm
Laura Lazzari, The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities (Switzerland)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Please consider submitting an abstract for the NeMLA 2025 in Philadelphia.

CfP (July 30, 2024): BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences (London, UK) – NEW SERIES

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:58pm
London Academic Publishing (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

CfP (July 30, 2024): BROLLY. Journal of Social Sciences (London, UK) – NEW SERIES

Vol. 5, No. 2, August 2024 (General Topic)

Submission Deadline: July 30, 2024

 

No processing or publication fees.

#OpenAccess

 

ISSN 2516-869X (Print)

ISSN 2516-8703 (Online)

 

Web: https://www.journals.lapub.co.uk/index.php/Brolly

Email: brolly@journals.lapub.co.uk

 

Cleveland Symposium 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:57pm
Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Moments, Intervals, Epochs: Time in the Visual Arts

50th Annual Cleveland Symposium

Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

Friday and Saturday, November 22-23, 2024

 

Perspectives on Opera and the Operatic

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:57pm
Harry Rose/Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In the four hundred years since its invention in Renaissance Florence, opera has become synonymous with the grandiose, the excessive, and the melodramatic, yet it has only gained a foothold in the academy as an object of serious academic study within the past fifty years. Since then, however, an abundance of scholarship has yielded everything from formal musicological readings of operatic works to theoretical inquiries inspired by psychoanalysis into voice and performance. And topics like the relationship between opera and sovereignty in seventeenth century Italy and the appropriation of Wagner by the Third Reich underscore how opera has never been far from the political sphere in the Western world.

Poetry and Pain (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:57pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference - Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The "Poetry and Pain" panel at the NeMLA Conference in spring 2025 will address how pain is felt, articulated, negotiated, alleviated, withstood, or appreciated through poetry and poetics. Elaine Scarry’s formative work, The Body in Pain (1985), describes physical suffering as an inexpressible, singular force that establishes an interpretive void between sufferer and witness. More recently, scholars of disability studies such as Margaret Price have retheorized pain as shared, structural, creative, or even desirable. This session aims to explore the many ways in which poetry thus contends with pain. Does poetry’s speaker/reader construction mimic or alter the sufferer/witness divide?

Call for Papers: MIRAJ 13.2

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:57pm
MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: MIRAJ 13.2

 

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/miraj-the-moving-image-review-art-journal#call-for-papers

Moving Image Review and Art Journal is currently accepting contributions for inclusion in Issue 13.2 (launching December 2024). The Editorial team is currently interested in receiving scholarly articles and opinion pieces (5000–8000 words), feature articles and interviews (3000–4000 words) from art historians and critics, film and media scholars, curators and, not least, practitioners.

NeMLA 2024: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:57pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Call for Papers: NeMLA’s 56th annual Convention

Dates: March 6-9, 2024

Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 16th, 2024

Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

Panel Description: 

New Forms of Revolution in the Francophone World.

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
Atim Mackin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NeMLA 56th Annual Convention

 

Philadelphia, PA, 6-9 March 2025

Primary Area / Secondary Area:

French and Francophone / Cultural Studies and Media Studies 

Chair:

Atim Mackin (Harvard University)

New Forms of Revolution in the Francophone World

 Revolutions have always been pivotal moments in the history of societies, but the forms they take are constantly evolving. This panel aims to explore the new forms of revolution within French and Francophone contexts. We seek contributions that question, analyze, and discuss the following aspects (among others):

JOURNAL OF BODIES, SEXUALITIES, AND MASCULINITIES Call for Papers: Global Debates around Circumcision and Anti-Circumcision

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
Berghahn Books
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

JOURNAL OF BODIES, SEXUALITIES, AND MASCULINITIES 
Call for Papers: Global Debates around Circumcision and Anti-Circumcision 

This Special Issue of JBSM is guest edited by: 
Atilla Barutçu, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Türkiye 
Lauren Sardi, Quinnipiac University, CT, USA 
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University, MB, Canada 

Fictions of the Pandemic: Extended Deadline

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
Modern Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Special Issue Call for Papers: Fictions of the Pandemic

Guest Editors: Roanne Kantor (Stanford) and Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan (Rice) Extended Deadline for Submissions: 1 August 2024

Creatures of Habit: the Animal in Latin American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
NeMLA Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

From Aura’s surreal rabbit to rather unsettling Birds in the Mouth, animals have surfaced as important figures throughout Latin American literature, serving as powerful symbols, metaphors, and subjects of moral consideration. They have been depicted as divine beings, companions, victims, and agents of resistance, often challenging anthropocentric worldviews and inviting us to reconsider our place in the more-than-human world. This panel aims to explore the aesthetic, ethical, and political dimensions of animal representations in Latin American thought and culture.

 

We invite papers that engage with the philosophical and literary treatment of animals in Latin America. Topics may include:

Genres of the (Post)Human: Representing Evolution in Science/Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:56pm
MacKenzie Patterson Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel is being organized as part of NeMLA 2025, centered around the theme of (R)Evolution.

Description:

In dialogue with theorists of (post)humanism, this panel seeks to examine how science fiction has historically been used to bolster erroneous and destructive "scientific" discourses, such as social Darwinism, and, conversely, how science fiction has been used toward revolutionary ends to imagine alternative formations of (post)humanity that defy socially constructed taxonomies and hierarchies.

Abstract: 

Inclusion and Equity in Children's Lit CFP 7_9_2024 REVISED

updated: 
Wednesday, July 10, 2024 - 3:55pm
Deborah De Rosa @NIU University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Crossed Borders, Changed Lives: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Immigrant & Refugee Literature seeks scholarly articles by scholars and advanced PhD candidates for publication in a collection on depictions of images of immigrants and refugees by:

  • American authors
  • Young Adult (YA) novels
  • published after 2001 (9/11).

 CONTENT & CONTRIBUTERS:

The collection will address themes such as inclusion / exclusion (racism), equity/ inequity, identity construction, transnationalism / emotional transnationalism, social justice, and empathy.

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