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Queer Horror: A Companion

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:59pm
Michael Wheatley
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

“To create a broad analogy, monster is to ‘normality’ as homosexual is to heterosexual” (Benshoff, 1997). This quote, well worn within the pages of academic criticism, speaks to how the connection between queer identity and the horror genre is now so established as to become indivisible. From Frankenstein’s Creature to Dracula, the Babadook to Jennifer Check, in fiction and in film these monstrous queers “live in a world that hates them. They’ve adapted, they’ve learned to conceal themselves. They’ve survived” (Machado, 2020). Kirsty Logan, in the Foreword to It Came From the Closet, suggests that “horror [never] gives us LGBTQIA+ people accurate representation.

Horror Homeroom Special Issue #9: Body Horror

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:59pm
Horror Homeroom
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Though the term was coined in 1986, ‘body horror’ dates back to the beginnings of Gothic literature—Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818); Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)—and extends into contemporary fiction, film, and new media. From seminal works including David Cronenberg’s The Fly (1986) to contemporary zombie films and portrayals of the digital-corporeal connection, as in the Unfriended franchise and Jane Schoenbrun’s recent I Saw the TV Glow, embodiment remains central to the horror genre. Mirroring the porousness of the body itself, the category evades compartmentalization and definition. 

Disability

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:58pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

 Special Issue CFP for TWC: Disability

Robert McRuer writes in Crip Theory that at some point in every person’s life, if they live long enough, they will be disabled. Yet, while disablement is an extremely common experience and ableism a hegemonic form of marginalization, disability is largely understudied across fields (Minich 2016, Ellcessor 2018). Fan studies has neglected to consistently explore disability or acknowledge the presence of ableism, resulting in a dearth of peer-reviewed publications on this intersection and a silencing of crip critique from disabled fans and scholars.

T. S. Eliot at SAMLA 2024

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:58pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 26, 2024

South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, 15-17 November 2024 (Jacksonville, Florida)

Counterfactual Game Design: Past-as-Process

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:58pm
Playful Time Machines/ Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Counterfactuals in games have started to catch the attention of various disciplines, aiming to understand just what pasts are (and are not) reckoned with. The fields of historical game studies, media studies and archeaogaming have begun untangling the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of counterfactual play to focus on player experience. In this two-day workshop held at Leiden University on August 28th and 29th, we aim to approach counterfactuals from the other side of the same coin: the processes at play in counterfactual game design and development.

Bhopal at 40: Remembering and storytelling

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:52pm
South Asian Review
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

'Bhopal at 40: Remembering and storytelling' Special Issue of South Asian Review

Guest editors: Clare Barker (University of Leeds), Antara Chatterjee (IISER Bhopal) and Lynn Wray (University of Leeds)

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PROMISE | UCL Moveable Type Journal Call for Submissions

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:52pm
University College London (UCL) English Department Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Moveable Type is the graduate, peer-reviewed journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Promise'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme.

Call for Papers: Climate Rights and the Role of International Integration Organizations (Journal “Temas de Integração” 2024 – No. 44)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:52pm
Association of European Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 8, 2024

 

Journal “Temas de Integração”

2024 – No. 44 

 

The journal "Temas de Integração" was created almost 30 years ago by the Association of European Studies of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra and has gained particular recognition and impact among audiences in Portuguese-speaking countries.

 

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:50pm
University of Edinburgh: ReFocus series
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie

Deadline for submissions:

September 30th 2024

Editors

Dr Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) and James Shelton (Buckinghamshire New University)

Contact Email

refocusguyritchie@gmail.com

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy Ritchie

Call for papers: a companion to Dennis Wheatley

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:50pm
University of Southern Queensland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 12, 2024

Dennis Wheatley sold around one million books a year at the height of his popularity and over 50  million in total. Britain’s ‘occult uncle’ shaped modern popular understanding of the weirdly esoteric and the darkly satanic in a way without parallel, but his books equally celebrated the luxuries of good wine and cigars, were adapted into successful films by Hammer, taught suspicion of the foreigner, described sex and sexuality in surprisingly frank terms for the era, influenced the Bond stories and the course of the Second World War, and drew on copious research.

 

SAMLA 96 General Call for Abstracts

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:47pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The SAMLA 96 General Call for Abstracts will be used to build programming from abstracts that did not resonate with any of our currently published CFPs. SAMLA will review all submissions internally, and accepted abstracts will either be placed on an extant panel or combined with other General Call abstracts to create new sessions. The General Call is open to any and all disciplines.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee acceptance and placement, though we will work earnestly and diligently to place all abstracts.

Although there is no proscription against submitting multiple abstracts, each participant may present only one traditional paper per SAMLA conference.

Victorians Institute Journal: Submissions for Vol. 52

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:46pm
Victorians Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Victorians Institute Journal is now accepting submissions for volume 52.

In addition to publishing traditional scholarly articles and book reviews, VIJ also features shorter essays on active digital humanities projects (Digital Deliverables) and critical editions of rare and previously unpublished texts (most recently a cache of letters by John Stuart Mill, a rare pamphlet by members of the nascent Indian National Congress seeking to influence England's 1885 general election, and a new English-language translation of a Danish travelogue written by a woman painter born in Poland).

Prosperity Fashion

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:46pm
Università degli Studi di Firenze
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

The fashion system has been questioning for years how to decrease its negative impact on the environment and people, trying to improve individual elements: from natural, organic or recycled materials to zero-waste design methodologies, from slower production processes to socially responsible actions, from development of local supply chains to inclusive communication campaigns, from blockchain traceability of products to more reliable trend forecasts through artificial intelligence, from social engagement to large scale regulation. Thanks to the contribution of researchers, practitioners, and activists, a new awareness in civil society about the finite nature of materials and resources has been achieved, and the

Bad Art (Vol. 2)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
Ian Afflerbach / SAMLA (Jacksonville, 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.”  We are not interested in "bad" as a judgment of quality or technique, but rather "bad" as a judgment of ethics or politics.

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS: IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
IULM
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS:  IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION

Call for papers for an international in-person three-day conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 9-10-11, 2024. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

 Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies.

To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
Glenn Jellenik/University of Central Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The adaptation of short stories goes back to the beginning of cinema and continues today, yet the practice receives relatively little critical attention. While much energy has been spent theorizing film adaptation of the novel, there exists virtually no systematic treatment of the practice of adapting short fiction.[1] Despite this lack, a close look suggests that the adaptation of short fiction represents differences of kind, and not just of degree, from that of the novel, differences that yield fertile ground for the adaptation-critic.

SAMLA 2024 Panel: Visibility and Invisibility in Southern Women’s Literature

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 20, 2024

“Visibility and Invisibility in Southern Women’s Literature,” is an affiliated group session, hosted by the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society.  One of the panel’s goals is to connect to the theme of SAMLA 96: “Seen and Unseen.”  In that spirit, the session coordinator invites papers that address the theme in a wide variety of ways, with the hope that this session will engender a rich and robust discussion of how the writing of Southern women has examined what is either visible or invisible, seen or unseen.  While the EMRS invites papers from all approaches, we are particularly interested in papers that emphasize how the theme is connected to gender or to the South–or both.   

Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:44pm
American Studies Leipzig
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Conference at Leipzig University, Germany
Institute for American Studies

22-23 May 2025

Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert

Open Call for Papers - European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:40pm
European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Open Call for Papers – European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)


 

EJTP currently welcomes submissions for the Essays Section for Issue 8. This issue will feature one of EJTP’s “open” Essays Sections (instead of a “themed” one), which means that authors can submit contributions on a topic of their choice. If interested, send your article by 15 July 2024 to ejtp_editors@eastap.com

Fictional Translators in Literature and Cinema

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:38pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Guest Editor: Dr. Nefise Kahraman (University of Toronto)

From Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, and from Carol Shields's Unless to Sabahattin Ali's Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kürk Mantolu Madonna), translator and interpreter characters populate fictional works both on screen and on the page. The Journal of Literary Studies: Nesir's seventh issue is dedicated to exploring the role of translators and interpreters in contemporary society as represented in literature and films.

Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux

updated: 
Friday, June 21, 2024 - 5:57pm
Industry Program of the Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference:
Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux
November 5-7, 2024
Zagreb, Croatia

 

The 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development, and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with the Industry Program of the Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF).

Keynote lecturer: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna

 

Conference theme:

CFP LAST CALL Extended Deadline: 121st Annual PAMLA Conference (Palm Springs, CA) – November 7-10, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 3:43pm
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars) between Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10, 2024 (yes, you are correct: we have moved the conference back one week from its initially-scheduled weekend).

The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

Strange Bedfellows

updated: 
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 11:16am
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference 2024

Call for Papers: Strange Bedfellows

 

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

          - William Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

Dune — From Herbert’s to Villeneuve’s (PAMLA, roundtable) **LAST CALL**

updated: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 5:27pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, Palm Springs, California / November 6-10, 2024 (entirely in-person), http://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

PAMLA will meet next within a year of the sixtieth anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which appeared in August of 1965. We will also be within a year since the appearance of the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s widely praised adaptation of it, in anticipation of part three of his projected trilogy adapting its sequel Dune Messiah (1969).

The Nuclear Age, Redux: Forms and Modes of Environmental Change Change in Transnational North American Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 4:44am
Lena Pfeifer (University of Würzburg), Annika Schadewaldt (Leipzig University)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the nuclear – as both material reality and cultural phenomenon. On the one hand, the war in Ukraine has evoked memories of the previous nuclear disasters and stoked fears of a continued Cold War. On the other hand, politicians and economists are debating nuclear technology as a sustainable alternative to carbon-intense and fossil-based forms of energy. At the same time, popular texts such as the Oscar-winning movie Oppenheimer (2023) or the miniseries Chernobyl (2019) indicate a renewed fascination with both nuclear capabilities and post-apocalyptic scenarios. Have we entered a new nuclear age, or have we never truly been post-nuclear?

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