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Epic, History, and Philosophy in the Renaissance

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 4:02pm
Renaissance Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Several prominent accounts of the end of epic attribute its demise to modernity. A society riven by contradictions cannot make epic poems. The incoherence of modernity baffles the grand aspirations of epic to tell the “tale of the tribe,” to compass an entire world and way of life in a single grand vision. That is one story of the end of epic in Western literature. The rise of natural philosophy, the disenchantment of the world and banishment of God to the gaps left by naturalistic accounts broke up the enchanted world that created epics, leaving in its wake elegiac mourning for the totality epic represented.

VII International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:41am
FANTAELX
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024

VII INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON FANTASTIC GENRE, AUDIOVISUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

International Congress on Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies is an activity of scientific and academic dissemination that is part of Elche International Fantastic Film Festival – FANTAELX, with the collaboration of Miguel Hernández University, the Arts Research Center (CíA) and the Massiva research group. Its mission is to disseminate research studies within the different thematic lines and discourses of the Fantastic Genre, covering all its possible variants and platforms: cinema, television, theatre, literature, comics, video games, virtual reality, plastic arts, etc.


PARTICIPATION

Panel: Identity in Verse: Poetry in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:41am
Abigail Rawleigh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

This panel for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies May 2025 “Where is Early America?” conference invites papers on the relationship between poetry and identity, broadly conceived, in the seventeenth-century. Recent work on colonial English poetry has identified both ruptures and continuities between canonical early American English poetry and its metropolitan counterparts, upsetting strict delineation between “English” and “colonial” poetry. Likewise, scholars have identified the ways in which colonial ideology is inflected in such areas as amatory and religious verse written and read on both sides of the Atlantic.

International Conference on Victorian and American Myths in Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:41am
CETAPS / NOVA University Lisbon
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created and a clear inspiration for games that would be designed in the following decades, the game industry has grown exponentially. As Egenfeldt-Nielson et al. have stated (2024), “[i]n the historical blink of an eye, video games have colonized our minds and invaded our screens” (2).

Medieval Practices of Adaptation (ICMS 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:40am
Amber Dunai
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

At no time has intellectual culture been more committed to the notion of prior “authority” than in the Middle Ages.  Yet medieval adaptations of earlier works and media objects, including classical and scriptural writings, are often boldly inventive: a paradox due for serious consideration.  Existing contributions to Adaptation Studies nearly always focus on post-medieval adaptation (such as modern adaptations of medieval sources).  In contrast, for this session we invite papers that redirect the insights of Adaptation Studies to build a more coherent sense of medieval ideas and practices of adaptation, especially in cases involving radical or unintuitive changes of language, medium, genre, style, context, or audience.

Vestron Horror Films (Edited Collection). Call for four additional chapters

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:40am
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 9, 2024

The Editors of Vestron Horror Films are looking for four additional chapters about films not taken yet for other contributors. We want to produce a book with analysis on most of Vestron horror’s catalogue and, thus, we need chapters on:

 

-Communion (Philippe Mora, 1989)

-Amsterdamned (Dick Mass, 1989)

-Dolls (Stuart Gordon, 1986)

-Gothic (Ken Russell, 1986)

-Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986)

-The Company of Wolves (Neil Jordan 1984)

-The Gate (Tibor Takács,1987)

-Revenge of the Living Dead Part 3 (Brian Yuzna, 1993), 

-Blue Steel (Kathryn Bigelow, 1990)

“Musical Tale and Children’s Opera in the English-speaking World” (Journal Issue)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:40am
Lisa E-Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

This is a call for paper for LISA e-Journal special issue edited by Marcin Stawiarski (Université de Caen Normandie).

 

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LISA e-Journal seeks contributions on topics related to the musical tale and children’s opera in the English-speaking world. Particular focus will be given to young audiences and musical entertainment in the contemporary world.

 

Mennonite/s Writing: Words at Work and Play

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:39am
Mennonite/s Writing 10: An International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Mennonite/s Writing 10: An International Conferencehosted at Canadian Mennonite University
500 Shaftesbury Boulevard, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3P 2N2 Theme: Words at Work and Play

Call for AAS2025 penalists: From excellence to good-enoughness: On living a good life in everyday China

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 11:39am
Wanqing Iris Zhou/Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

What is a good life? Scholars often attempt to answer this question by examining people’s ideals. Exemplified by Joel Robbins’ call of “the anthropology of the good,” anthropologists are encouraged to make ethnographic inquiries into qualities that are “imaginatively conceived” to be desirable and even “outstripped” the immediate realities (2013, 457). In other words, the scholarly examination of the “good life” has long been domesticated in the realm of thoughts and beliefs, insulated from that of the lived experiences.

Creative Writers / SAMLA 2024: Fragmented Writing in the 21st Century

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 8:03am
Julie Boutwell-Peterson / University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 20, 2024

* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.

Creative Writers/SAMLA 2024: Deciphering the “I” in First-Person Writing

updated: 
Tuesday, July 9, 2024 - 8:03am
Julie Boutwell-Peterson / University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 20, 2024

* Please note: This Creative Writing panel will be part of the SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 15-17, 2024.

Prompt Engineering and the AI Revolution

updated: 
Monday, July 8, 2024 - 4:33pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 20, 2024

 

Call for Papers: Prompt Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution

121st Annual PAMLA Conference (Palm Springs, CA) on Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, Nov. 6-10, 2024

 

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Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions (book series)

updated: 
Monday, July 8, 2024 - 4:20pm
Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures an Religions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religions Series

Series Editor: Heather Ostman

 

The Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series invites book proposals for essay collections or monographs that align with the Series’s intention:

 

ICMS 2025: Exploring Complaint in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period - Traditions and Transformations of Complaint

updated: 
Monday, July 8, 2024 - 4:03pm
Krista Telford (UNC Chapel Hill) & Mounawar Abbouchi (UGA) | International Congress on Medieval Studies 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Complaint is as easy to identify in medieval and early modern literature as it is challenging to define. One need not look far in premodern literature to find a figure railing against Fortune, a forsaken woman grieving her loss, or a character critiquing the injustices of society in mournful, sometimes bitter, tones. A polymorphous literary form, complaint can function as satire, prayer, and elegy; yet it is also a distinct form, sometimes described as a mode or a genre.Though complaint is inextricably linked to grief, the role it plays in grief management has been shown to vary greatly, sometimes working to temper or mobilize a character’s grief and at other times paradoxically multiplying it.

"Postcolonialism, Postcommunism and Postmodernism" 6th International Interdsiciplinary Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 8, 2024 - 5:29am
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Conference online (via Zoom)

 

29-30 July 2024

CFP:

​In our postmodern world there are a lot of questions that should be re-considered and re-defined. What does it mean to fight against colonialism and racism in the world of migration crisis and xenophobic attitudes towards minorities? What does it mean to be a postcommunist country in the face of the common nostalgia for order and rules? How is it possible to have a national identity being aware of the relative character of every national feature?

Call for book chapters on The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America

updated: 
Saturday, July 6, 2024 - 2:18pm
Hamid Masfour/ Dept.English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University,Beni Mellal,Morocco
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Call for Book Chapters 

Title:  The Father in the Diasporic Literatures of America

Editor: Prof. Hamid Masfour

Dept. of English

Research Laboratory in Literature,Language,Culture and Communication(RLLLCC)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities,Sultan Moulay Slimane University

Beni Mellal, Morocco

h.masfour@usms.ma

Deadline for abstract submission: August15,2024

Book Argument

Call for scholarship book reviews | US American Studies

updated: 
Saturday, July 6, 2024 - 9:57am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN: 2695-4168) is an open access interdisciplinary, academic, double blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on the study of the US popular culture manifestations and the representations of the United States in popular culture.

Book reviews must refer to monographs and edited volumes focused on topics fitting with the journal's scope, published in the past three years (or less recent books if put in perspective critically). The length for reviews is ca. 1000–1500 words.

AI in Arts Administration: Pedagogy and Practice

updated: 
Thursday, July 4, 2024 - 5:38pm
Alicia Jay, Indiana State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

AI in Arts Administration: Pedagogy and Practice

Edited by

Alicia Jay, Ph.D., Indiana State University

Youngaah Koh, Ph.D., Miami University

Erin J. Hoppe, Ph.D., Miami University 

Call for Abstracts: Video Game Monsters Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:08am
MultiPlay Network UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 26, 2024

MultiPlay is delighted to announce that we are working on a new edited collection – Video Game Monsters: A Compendium

Monsters have been the foundation of the video game industry. They’ve been the bosses to beat, the enemies to avoid, the NPCs we’ve sometimes forged unlikely bonds with. Monsters are the true avatar of video games, and there has been an increase of work and attention in this area, such as Player v.s Monster (Svelch, 2023). MultiPlay feels the time is right for a special collection examining monsters in all of their video game forms, creating a thorough compendium of the monstrous history of video games. As Martin points out, video games studies has barely began to reckon with monsters (2023, np)

Literature and More-Than-Human Encounters in India: A 2-day workshop on Human-Wildlife Conflict in Indian Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:08am
INDIAN ANIMAL STUDIES COLLECTIVE
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

The increasing prevalence of human-wildlife conflict (HWC) in India has become a critical environmental and social issue. As human populations expand and encroach on natural habitats, interactions between humans and wildlife have escalated, often resulting in tragic outcomes for both. Discourses surrounding HWC are often deeply anthropocentric, framing wildlife primarily as predators and emphasizing human losses, such as crop and livestock damage, typically tied to economic activity. This perspective predominantly highlights negative interactions, with scant attention given to positive encounters or the broader ecological and cultural benefits of coexistence.

Submissions to Adaptation (Oxford University Press)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:07am
Adaptation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Adaptation (OUP) is looking for new contributions or proposals for special issues on topics such as decolonizing adaptation, green adaptation, video game adaptation, franchise adaptations, adaptations of the 60s, 70s, 80s, or 90s and adaptations and war. Please submit proposals for Special Issues to djc@dmu.ac.uk and imelda.whelehan@uwa.edu.au. Article contributions should be submitted to https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/adapt.

 

Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:07am
Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Neoliberal Global Capitalism – Challenges for Postcolonial Studies
Call for Papers
Annual Conference of the German Association for Postcolonial Studies (GAPS)
29-31 May 2025, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2024

The Neutral Graduate Journal - INHERITANCE

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:07am
The Neutral: Graduate Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 19, 2024

The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study.

Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions: A Cultural Coalition

updated: 
Wednesday, July 3, 2024 - 11:07am
Vivekananada Institute of Professional Studies, Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Thinkers, Texts, and Traditions:  A Cultural Coalition

 

A Two-Day Multidisciplinary International Conference

Vivekananda School of English Studies

Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies-TC, Delhi

 

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