Bridges and Borders: The Archive

April 11-12, 2025 | Proposals Due by February 17, 2025

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) and on Zoom 

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Abdulhamit Arvas (University of Pennsylvania) 

Bridges and Borders is an annual, interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference presented by the Carnegie Mellon University Department of English in collaboration with the Department of Languages, Cultures, and Applied Linguistics.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

“The House of the Seven Gables in Ink, Wood, and Stone: A Roundtable Discussion”

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The 23rd Annual UAlbany English Graduate Conference:

Back To the Future: Historical Reflections on Contemporary issues

April 11th, 2025 / 9 am - 4 pm EST 

Official site: https://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html

This conference explores haunted modernities and spectral futures of all sorts. Looking back to the past as a haunted space and forward to the ‘spectres’ of the future, we want ‘Haunted Modernities’ to be indicative of wide open spaces and fruitful intersections in scholarship and practice. Whether work is hyper-local, global, or interstellar we welcome imaginative, creative, ethical, and diverse discussions from all disciplines and subject areas. As well as traditional papers, creative practice work is also invited in whatever form - written, film, audio, performance, exhibitions etc. 

Stories shape the way that we view the world and understand our relationship with it. One of the oldest and most universal kind of story features the hero. The hero is an inspirational and aspirational figure who saves individuals or communities from hostile forces, misfortune, or ruin. Some heroes do this by means of supernatural powers, while others rely on strength, courage, wisdom, or cunning.

2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference Cinema Studies Institute 

Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025

Call for Papers: EXIT SIGNS

Call for Papers

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The Mechademia conference began in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 2001, as a new forum for people hoping to establish the English-language academic study of anime and manga while still keeping ties with the creative energy of the fan cultures that these vibrant media were creating. Since then, Mechademia has taken on many forms, including two academic journal series, conferences in various locales and venues around the world, and a widening network of collaboration between academics, fans, and creators, while pursuing the study of anime, manga, and related media as an interconnected trans-local nexus of cultural practice. 

Nancy Drew and Sookie Stackhouse. The Executioner and Sweet Valley High. Warhammer or Star Wars tie-in novels. Franchise series like these occupy a unique position, inspiring voracious (often young) readers while often complicating traditional scholarly approaches to literature.

We seek 15-minute papers for a prospective panel on franchise fiction, mass market books, and pulp at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025.

Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025 The Harvard Graduate Music Forum invites proposals for individual papers and alternative-format presentations (lecture-recitals, performance demonstrations, etc.) for its 2025 conference, “TRANS∗Media.” We welcome submissions from graduate students, researchers, musicians, sound artists, and practitioners from diverse disciplines to join us in exploring the role of music and sound in relating trans∗ness to experiences of moving across, between, and beyond multiple media forms, technologies, and narratives.

The So What welcomes proposals for short, public-facing pieces — whether critical, pedagogical, or creative — on social media accounts that engage with the medieval period for a special issue of TSW planned for on-line publication in 2025 or early 2026. 

Re-Defining Boundaries: Exploring Writing Program Administration Identities

Editors: Kristi Murray Costello, Old Dominion University, and Jacob Babb, Appalachian State University

This call emerges from our understanding that over the past five years, something has changed about how writing program administrators relate to their work. 

Or maybe we’ve changed. 

Maybe it’s both.

DIFFERENCE, DIASPORA, AND THE NATION: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF MINORITARIAN PERFORMANCE IN 20th AND 21st CENTURY ITALY 

7-8 February 2025 

A two-day hybrid conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Performance and Politics, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan, Italy 

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans.