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After the Catastrophe. Contemporary postapocalyptic narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:12am
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Since ancient times, narratives about the end of the world have given voice to the anxieties and crises of the societies that have produced them. The forms of the apocalypse are thematically and diachronically broad and diverse (Pharr, Clark and Firestone 2016; De Cristofaro 2020). Already at the dawn of the nineteenth century, in her The Last Man (1826), Mary Shelley, the brilliant inventor of this genre, reflected on the condition of the single survivor of a lethal virus. While, for obvious chronological reasons, the anguish for a wasted environment is still absent in Shelley, many twentieth-century narratives reflect on the annihilating potential of humans’ actions on ecosystems.

The Animal In The Anthropocene: Narratives Of Non-Human Survival

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:12am
The Animal In The Anthropocene: Narratives Of Non-Human Survival
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

Within Cli-Fi, Anthropocene Literature, Speculative Futurism, and visual cultures of the Anthropocene, increasing attention and sympathy have been given to the non-humans in narratives of climate crisis. From films like 20th Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes reboot to texts such as Ted Chaing’s Parrots of The Great SilenceThe Strange Bird of Jeff VanderMeer’s same-named Novella, and the Elk-Headed Woman of Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians, to visual works like Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s The Substitute, Animal perspectives have never been more prevalent in narratives of human-driven climate catastrophe.

The Oswald Review

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Douglas Higbee/University of South Carolina, Aiken
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The Oswald Review is an international, refereed journal of undergraduate criticism and research in the discipline of English. Published annually, The Oswald Review accepts submissions from undergraduates in this country and abroad (with a professor’s endorsement).

Masculinities and Men's Studies Area

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
2025 National Popular Culture Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Proposals

Masculinities and Men’s Studies

(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)

National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference

 April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:

The Saul Bellow Society - ALA Annual Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
The Saul Bellow Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Saul Bellow Society will host one session at the American Literature Association Annual Conference in Boston, on May 21-24, 2025. Proposals are welcome for paper presentations of 15-20 minutes in length concerning any aspect of Saul Bellow's work or life, including comparisons with other authors.  We welcome proposals from graduate students, newer scholars, independent scholars, and established scholars alike.

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
The University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 6, 2024

The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas

Call For Papers: RAW 2025

BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement

in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture

 

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Carolina Asia Center
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Call for Papers

Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025

FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

 

“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Eudora Welty Society International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

“That’s for the future to say”: Eudora Welty in the 21st Century

Eudora Welty Society International Conference

 

Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, April 9-13, 2025

The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:10am
University of Augsburg
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Call for Papers

 

The Good Life beyond Optimism and Pessimism: 

Philosophy –– Ideology –– Affective Materialities

 

International Conference 

University of Augsburg, 9-11 October 2025

 

 

 

Confirmed keynote speakers:

 

Joshua Foa Dienstag (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Katrin Röder (TU Dortmund)

 

 

Deadline Extended: Media Fields Journal Issue 19, "Archival Elements"

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:10am
Media Fields Editorial Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”

Submit Your Proposals for #IFM2025 Resonances Conference – Deadline Nov 25, 2024!

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

#IFM2025 Resonances Conference

June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom

 

The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:

  • Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?

Modernism Remodelled 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline December 15, 2024
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9

**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.

Crossroads of Literary Creation: Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Crossroads of Literary Creation:
Fact, Fiction, and Everything In-between
A Transdisciplinary Conference
Online, February 5-6, 2025

Fees: 100 GBP
15% discount for LABRC members

 

Call for Papers:  

“Fiction is the truth inside the lie” – Stephen King

“There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” – Doris Lessing

The Function of Humour- A Transdisciplinary Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

The Function of Humour
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Date: January 28-30, 2025 
Format: Online Virtual Conference
Fees: £100 for non-members (excluding Eventbrite fees)
15% discount for LABRC Members
Proposal deadline: 5 December 2024

 

“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.” – Mark Twain

(Also, it’s a pretty good excuse to host an academic conference where people can laugh while learning!)

CfP: Arendt Center Spring Conference: The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others

through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and

Translations for Antonym Magazine

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Antonym Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.

  1. Novellas
  2. Short stories
  3. Flash fiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Essays

The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.

In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.

Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com

American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Friday, October 25, 2024 - 10:57am
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Reminder: Taylor Swift and Swiftie Studies at SWPACA

updated: 
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 - 7:09pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

Young Researches' Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:53am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Young Researchers’ Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences-2024

Conference Date: 09.12.2024—13.12.2024
Location:
Department of Humanities and Social sciences, IIEST, Shibpur
Abstract Submission Deadline:
12.11.2024
Notification of Acceptance: 19.11.2024

Submission of Full Paper: 01.12.2024

Last Date for Registration: 26.11.2024
Email Id for submission of Abstract:
yrc2024.iiests@gmail.com

CfP: FOOD FEST, FEASTS & GATHERINGS

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:16am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Food fests, feasts, and gatherings address the role of food in events, gatherings, celebrations, and ceremonies. Exploring how people incorporate ideas about food into festival culture, including history, heritage, tradition, creativity, and social and political factors. 

In addition, it examines festivals in which food is not the main focus, yet contributes significantly to the atmosphere, memory, and tradition. It also looks at people's fascination with taste. In addition to examining these notions, we will also examine trends in the consumption and production of food.

Call for Submissions: The Lamp Literary Journal

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
The Lamp Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2025 issue (Volume 15)! 

The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Sunday, 12 January 2025. Please follow our submission guidelines below. 

Submission Guidelines:

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

 

‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration

Call for book chapters on Orientalism after 9/11

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:08am
O.P. Jindal Global Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

This is a call for book chapters for Orientalism after 9/11 to be published by a major publisher

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly: The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:07am
Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn), Antonia Purk (Erfurt)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly

“The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”

Guest Editors: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
and Antonia Purk (University of Erfurt)

Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarDurban University of Technology, South Africa

Mythology In Contemporary Culture

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Popular Culture Assocation
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Mythology in Contemporary Culture 

at the 

Annual Conference of the 

 Popular Culture Association

 New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024 

Call for Papers

 

International Solidarity, Global Crises

updated: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024 - 11:17pm
Richard Douglass-Chin/University of Windsor
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 (2025).

For our third publication (2025), our focus is international solidarity and we invite academic and creative pieces about racial empowerment,  racism, racialization, Indigeneity, and anticolonial practice in any field. We welcome submissions from students (undergraduate and graduate) -- especially international students; staff; faculty of all levels; and community members. We are particularly interested in:

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