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Call for Abstracts: Git Gud’ and Other Stories: The Influence of Open Culture on Game Experiences

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:59am
MultiPlay Network UK
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

This volume will explore the outsized influence of community discourses on how games are experienced. Cultures and discourses surrounding games significantly impact player experiences. Salen and Zimmerman (2004) describe open cultural contexts where "the exchange of meaning between a game and its surrounding cultural context can change and transform both the game and its environment”. Consalvo (2007) discusses how videogame paratexts, including guides and wikis, serve crucial functions in understanding approaches to gameplay. Similarly, Mukherjee (2015) views games as multifaceted “assemblages” that are deeply informed by surrounding cultures and communities.

Ethics of Attraction: Serial killers on the screen and why we’re sexually attracted to them

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:59am
University of Worcester
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

When Zac Efron was cast as Ted Bundy in Netflix’s 2019 production, Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, this decision received a mixed reception. Some argued that Efron was too much of a ‘queasily parodic hottie’ for the role (Bradshaw 2019). Meanwhile, there was a counter argument to state that Efron’s starring role was in fact clever mimicry of Bundy’s alleged sex appeal and charisma, two defining qualities that enabled him to become such a prolific violent offender. Significantly though, Efron is far from the only conventionally attractive and high-profile actor to be cast in the role of a violent criminal.

Religious Encounters: Tradition, Text, and Travel (Edited Volume, proposed to be published by Bloomsbury)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:59am
University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Title: Religious Encounters: Text, Travel, and Tradition

As Michael Pasquier rightly suggests, the concept of 'religion' is relatively modern, emerging predominantly through political and scientific innovations. However, this does not imply that notions of the 'sacred' or 'spiritual' were absent in earlier times. From the dawn of human existence, individuals have sought to create meaning around themselves and their place in the world. This quest to explain the origin of life and the universe has led to the creation of sacred histories, narratives, oral mythological traditions, texts, symbols, and sites.

‘Local habitation’ in Shakespeare

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:06am
Société Française Shakespeare
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The poet’s eye, in fine frenzy rolling, 

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; 

And as imagination bodies forth 

The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen 

Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing

local habitation and a name (5.1.17). 

Max Stirner, Egoism & Anarcho-Egoism

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:06am
The Creative Nothing Zine
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

We are a brand-new INDEPENDENT zine focused on Max Stirner/Egoism/Anarcho-Egoism related work. 

 

Have a look at the information here: 

https://creative-nothing-zine.com/about

Submission Guidelines: 

 

For the annual print zine we are looking for various contributions!!!

So if you enjoy Max Stirner and his work and you are an academic (political & social science, humanities, media studies, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy), artist, writer, blogger or content creator, please feel free to submit.

 

Submissions can include: 

  1. Essays

  2. Photo Essays

Mutamenti - Alien Perspectives (Hopkins-Yale Graduate Symposium)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 10:06am
Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Graduate Symposium Johns Hopkins-Yale

Mutamenti

Alien Perspectives

October 25-26, 2024


The Italian programs at Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities welcome submissions for the second edition of the graduate symposium to be held in person on October 25-26, 2024 at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Astrology-themed Fiction Anthology

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 3:11pm
kith books
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Anthology Call for Submissions - UPDATED DEADLINE 8/1/24 For this astrology-themed anthology, we are looking for 12 stories—one for each Zodiac sign. Writers should submit a short story that aligns with their sign. (So, for example, a Virgo writer would submit a story that has Virgo vibes, Virgo characters, or embodies Virgo-ness in some way. Feel free to get creative with the connection!)

Open to literary fiction, experimental fiction, and genre fiction.

Novels and Book History at MAPACA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 10:11am
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Novels and Book History, an area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, is currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Atlantic City, NJ to be held November 7-9, 2024. 

This area welcomes all explorations of the novel and/or the history of the book as they interact with American and/or popular culture. Subjects include genre fiction, authors and authorship, literary time periods, cultures, settings, reading, publishing, media studies, bookishness, and representations of books/reading in other media. 

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:42am
H. G. Wells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 10, 2024

The H. G. Wells Society Annual Conference

H. G. Wells and the Anthropocene: Time, Earth, and Us

Saturday 21 September 2024 (hybrid: online and at The Art Workers’ Guild, London, UK)

Keynote speaker: Dr David Shackleton, author of British Modernism and the Anthropocene: Experiments with Time, University of Cardiff.

Acta Ludologica (Vol. 7, No. 2, 2024) - EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Tuesday, July 2, 2024 - 5:13am
Acta Ludologica
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 7, No. 2, scheduled to be published in December 2024. The deadline for submissions has been extended to July 31, 2024.

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 15 AUGUST 2024. Demeter collection on Trans Parenting edited by Charlotte Beyer, Liana Cusmano, and Allie Robbins

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 5:57pm
Demeter
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT BY 15 AUGUST 2024

 

We are looking for a few more contributions to our collection on trans parenting:

 

This anthology explores trans parenting and raising trans/non binary children from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. We welcome submissions that explore various dimensions of trans parenting in literary, cultural, artistic, political, historical, social, and economic contexts.

Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference (deadline extended)

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 3:17pm
Chungbuk National University, Korea
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Multi-ConTEXT: Interdisciplinary Conference

 

Institute for Humanities Research 

& BK21 Multi-ConTEXT Team

Department of English Language and Literature

Chungbuk National University

Cheongju, The Republic of Korea

October 11~12, 2024

 

Proposal deadline: July 15, 2024 (extended)

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dennis Yi Tenen (Columbia University)

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 10:17am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2024

 

November 7-9, 2024

Atlantic City, NJ

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

Muslim Counterpublics in the Indian Nation-state Public Sphere

updated: 
Monday, July 1, 2024 - 7:15am
Shahwar Kibria Maqhfi, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

This panel will explore the unfurling of the Muslim public in the Indian nation-state. We wish to discuss how the Muslim counter-publics narrativize dissent, distress, identity, and a sense of belonging and pride. It connects with notions of the Muslim as an ethical citizen, subject, witness, victim, and the other / outsider. Furthermore, is it possible to imagine a Muslim counter-public full of potential creativity in certain situations of loss and lacunae? We invite papers that explore the deep history and / or the contemporary imaginings of these entanglements from the vantage point of songs, music, literature, poetry, dastangoi, oral historiography, text, and cinema.

Call for Replacement Chapter on Race: The (New) Routledge Companion to Toni Morrison

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 8:42pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Call for a Replacement Chapter on Race:

 

The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison

Editor: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, CUNY

 

This is a call for chapter proposals for The Routledge Research Companion to Toni Morrison. This companion text is intended for a scholarly audience and as support for newer Morrison scholars as they approach their research.

 

Each chapter of the book is to have a dual function: 1) to review the Morrison scholarship in whatever general terrain the chapter falls within, and 2) to offer a new reading of Morrison in that area.

 

Replacement Chapter for Collection in contract: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 8:40pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 20, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out late 2024 / early 2025. 

Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).

The full chapter is needed by July 20 2024. I will respond right away to any and all inquiries. Please email me to let me know of your interest and that you plan to submit a chapter: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

Thank you considering this important project--my very best,

Travel and Tourism (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 7:42pm
MAPACA (Mid-Atlantic Popular/American Culture Assn)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Conference will be held November 7-9, 2024, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:-
- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism
- virtual travel and tourism: How has COVID affected travel around the globe?

Deadline Extended! A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 2:57pm
Laura Nicosia for Salem/Grey House Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 6, 2024

For Critical Insights volume under contract:

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JULY 6 

Rewriting and Resisting Response (RRR)

updated: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024 - 12:26pm
Lotfi Salhi, assistant professor of English Literature.
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024

 

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 “Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)

April 2024

Call for Papers

J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 8:17pm
Children's Literature Association Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CFP: J.R.R. Tolkien & Children’s Lit 

A Special Issue of Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 

Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., Guest Editor 

San Diego State University 

 

The deadline for submissions to this special issue is September 15, 2024. 

SAMLA Conference: Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities

updated: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024 - 3:09pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities

This year's South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference will be held November 15-17 in Jacksonville, Florida. Please share the following Queer Studies CFP with colleagues, grad students, and others who may be interested in participating:

New Deadline CFP – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2

updated: 
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 6:14pm
In Vivo Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

[for French and Spanish, see below]

Call for Contributions – IN VIVO ARTS – Issue No. 2

THEME: UNKNOWN(s)

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, June 28, 2024 - 12:14am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.

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