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Transformers and SOGIE: Call for Proposals for Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:58am
Daniel M. Look
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Title: TBD, but potentials include:

  • ‘Til All Are One: Gender, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity/Gender Expression (SOGIE) in Transformers

Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look

Description / Call for Papers:

We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.

Call for Papers: Exploring the Untold Stories of Black Enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:57am
Crystal Edwards
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Land, Labor, and Legacy: Black CCC Enrollees in the US South 

We invite scholars, community activists, and historians to submit chapters for an upcoming book on the largely unexplored experiences of Black enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression, with a focus on the American South. This volume seeks to illuminate the labor conditions, social dynamics, and enduring legacies of Black participants in this pivotal New Deal program.

Key Topics for Submission:

Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis (May 22-24, 2025, Canterbury UK)

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:57am
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis May 22-24, 2025International conferenceUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online)Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Vinciane Despret and Susan McHughOnce upon a time, not very long ago, many considered fables to be an anthropocentric mode of representing animals, to be avoided (Derrida 2002). It is then remarkable to see the flowering of scholarship on ‘fables’ in recent years.

CFP: Victorians Institute Journal, Vol 52

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:57am
Victorians Institute Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Victorians Institute Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 52. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.

For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com


 

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous Area of PCA

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:56am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans

Please join us in exploring the themes, influences, and impact of the monster as a cultural and historical touchstone. Across the globe and throughout the centuries, the label of monster has been invoked to separate the “natural” from the “unnatural” and the acceptable from the socially unacceptable. Whether referring to mythological creatures, the Victorian creations that have become standards through Universal film adaptations, or as a shorthand to denigrate othered peoples, the monster has no shortage of applications and, sometimes, reevaluations.

Time is Power: Temporality and Caste

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:49am
Gaurav Pathania and Bonnie Zare, Virginia Tech and Eastern Mennonite U
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

We are bringing out an edited collection of essays with the working title Time is Power: Temporality and Caste. Time is an ontological phenomenon organized around humans’ need for social interaction and collective life, often compelling individuals to be chrono-normative or abide by a rigid clock. Currently little scholarship exists which examines the power of time and temporal agency in an environment organized by systems of caste and other intersecting identities.

CFP Diplomatic History: 1776 In Global Context

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:48am
Diplomatic History
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024

To mark the 2026 Semiquincentennial of the American Revolution, the journal Diplomatic History seeks article proposals that engage with historical aspects related to the international, transnational, transimperial, continental, or global dimensions of the American Revolution, including its origins or aftermath. The articles will be published in a special forum in 2026. 

CFP for conference panel on "Collective Storytelling in the Anthropocene" - International Society for the Study of Narrative, Miami 2-6 April 2025

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:47am
Shannon Lambert / Ghent University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 7, 2024

Call for Papers: Collective Storytelling in the Anthropocene

Panel proposal for the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Miami, April 2-6 2025

Organizer: Shannon Lambert, Ghent University

 

Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies

updated: 
Thursday, September 26, 2024 - 6:47am
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for submissions in all areas of narrative theory and studies

Storyworlds is an interdisciplinary journal of narrative studies. We publish cutting-edge research on storytelling practices across times, cultures, and media. The journal foregrounds research questions that cut across established disciplines and seeks to promote the understanding of narrative and storytelling as worldmaking—and worldbreaking—practices. 

Our general issues support the publication of research in all areas relating to narrative studies, including, but not limited to:

Special Issue Call: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6:09pm
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies

Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”

Special Issue Call: “Meat Narratives”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6:08pm
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies

Special Issue Call: “Meat Narratives”

Rejoinder Call for Submissions -- Dissenting Feminisms

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6:08pm
Rejoinder Journal/Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.

A Hundred Years of Flannery O’Connor: Re-Visiting Her Legacy

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 6:08pm
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 13, 2024

The year 2025 will mark the centennial of one of the most powerful voices in twentieth-century American Literature. Author of a reduced fictional production (two novels and three collections of short stories), Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) remains among the most widely praised authors of the United States, to the extent that, shortly after her premature death, claims by, among others, Brainard Cheney, Robert Giroux, and Caroline Gordon were made about the country having lost their next Nobel Laureate for Literature. Alternative history aside, what is true is that the last century of American literature would have lost an enormous amount of its meaning without the existence of Flannery O’Connor’s writing.

ACLA 2025 (Online): Postcolonial South Asia: Interrogating Identities/Experiences

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 11:21am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In the Humanities, South Asia is usually understood as a set of plurilingual, multicultural nations. Each constituting nation is internally differentiated or socially stratified according to its economic and sociological power hierarchies. In other words, differences exist in different ways: caste, religion, gender, geopolitics, economics, etc. are a few of the markers. Reciprocal to these markers, different categories of ‘literatures’ are assumed to be the subsets of the broader category of ‘South Asian literature’. 

Call for Abstracts: Two-Day In-person/Offline Conference on “Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 1:51am
Department of Liberal Arts. Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India.
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Conference Theme: Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture (In-person/Offline)

Name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Conference coordinators: Srirupa Chatterjee (Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH) and Anandita Pan (Assistant Professor, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH)

 

Conference dates: Feb 28 - March 1, 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

 

ALA 2025: Wallace Stevens’s Essays

updated: 
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 - 12:31am
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 13, 2025

ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays

 

NeMLA 2025 - The Mind-Game Film

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 12:00pm
Adam Hartman-Whitfield
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

"Mind-Game" is film theorist Thomas Elsaesser's name for the wide variety of films made since the 1990s that present puzzling, complex, and/or impossible narrative devices and structures that play games with spectators' expectations for how traditional narrative films work. For familiar Hollywood examples, think Christopher Nolan (Inception) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), but perhaps more emblematic are the films of David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and cult classics like Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

39th Annual MELUS 2025 Conference: MELUS Outside

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 10:08am
Linda Greenberg/Cal State LA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!

 

April 3-6, 2025

Hosted by Cal State LA

 

Conference Theme: MELUS Outside

 

Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2024

 

NeMLA 2025 Future of the American Literary Archive - Deadline 9/30

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 9:09am
NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) / RALS (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.

The (SCOPUS / ISI) SOAS GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:42am
University of South Africa and GLOCAL at SOAS University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 21, 2024

Call for Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024
(The GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology)(SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed)

 

Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

 

Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

"Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization"
The (SCOPUS/ISI) GLOCAL AFALA 2024, December 4-7, 2024, University of South Africa

CFP for HCIS_special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:42am
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 30, 2024

HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

 

CfP Culture and Dialogue, Special Issue: The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic

updated: 
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 - 4:41am
Culture and Dialogue
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Culture and Dialogue

Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”

Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait

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