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Call for Abstracts for IJCV focus section: Analyzing Urban Conflicts in Light of the “Emotional Turn”
Guest Editors: Jörg Hüttermann and Johannes Ebner
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.
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.
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.
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
A local habitation and a name (5.1.17).
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:
Essays
Photo Essays
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.
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.
International conference celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Genre en séries
https://journals.openedition.org/ges/
France’s #MeToo in Film and Media:
Establishing an academic research subject
East-West Cultural Passage
Special Issue: Representations of Disaster in the Humanities, September 2024
Submission deadline: 1 August 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.
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 (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.
Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity
Alcalá de Henares, Madrid | November 25–26, 2024
Neo/noir and Thriller Imaginaries in US American Culture
Virtual Conference | September 6–7, 2024
Call for Chapter Proposals for an Edited Collection
No Lost Causes: An Anthology of Conservative Writing on Art, Society, and Culture
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
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)
*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.
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 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.
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,
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?
For Critical Insights volume under contract:
Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: JULY 6
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) 2024 Annual Conference, November 7-9, 2024 in Atlantic City, NJ
UPDATED: Deadline has been extended to Sunday, July 7th!
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“Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)
April 2024
Call for Papers
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.
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:
[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
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.