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SCMS 2025 (Chicago, April 3-6, 2025) | “Unreasonably Long; Unbearably Dull: On Slow and Pointless Cinema”

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:12pm
Brenda Wang and Emma Ridder, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 23, 2024

Films that seem to demand more than their “fair share” of their audience’s lives or are deemed not “worth” watching index the complex ways spectatorship, attention, labor, and biopolitics are imbricated in our treatment of moving-image media. This panel examines how exhausting, pointless, and/or somnolent cinema stages experiences of duration and endurance as feats of aesthetic difficulty. We invite papers that consider the relationship(s) between cinematic temporality, modes of diffused attention, and the affective labor of spectatorship. How might we expand beyond interpretations of such media as solely about refusal and negation? What interdisciplinary methodologies might help us approach this “difficult” cinema?

Southern Humanities Conference 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:11pm
Southern Humanities Council
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: Real, Artificial, and Superficial

Greenville, SC, January 30- February 2, 2025

 

The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Sinan Akilli / Cappadocia University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities welcomes contributions for future issues. Ecocene is published by Cappadocia University, Environmental Humanities Center. Each issue has a general section and a section on creative writing (Storying Ecocenes), creative art (Ecocene Arts), and book reviews. The general section can contain 6-8 articles. These articles should be research articles with a length of 5500 words. The word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1500-2000 for book reviews.

The Past, Present, and Future of the South Asian Revolutionary Cultural Praxis

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:10pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The explosion of revolutionary literature in South Asia is traced back to the formation of the All India Writers’ Association in 1936. Within a few years, the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed in 1943. Operating with a distinct socialist fervor partly inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, these umbrella organizations brought together hundreds of poets, writers, thespians, and musicians working in various languages across the length and breadth of undivided India to consolidate a consensus against colonialism and fascism. Although the 1947 partition soon separated them into India or East/West Pakistan, the polemics of their art could not be stopped from reverberating across borders.

My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Post45 Contemporaries
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Abstracts (200 words) due: August 30

Final essays (2500-3000 words) due: December 15

 

My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective

Genre et dynamiques socio-économiques: Quelles trajectoires en Afrique?

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
56th NeMLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

L’Afrique est un continent aux expériences historiques et culturelles diversifiées, aux contextes politiques, économiques et sociaux variés. Ce continent incarne également des disparités culturelles, politiques et économiques, notamment en matière de développement humain et d’égalités de genre. Dans la majorité des pays africains, il est possible de tracer les grandes lignes d’un état des lieux du genre dans sa complexité et ses contradictions.

NeMLA Conference 2025, CFP: Memory and Exile: The Spanish Civil War in the Light of Female Voices

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Estefania Tocado, PhD (Lafayette College)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel seeks to explore and shed light to the multiplicity of voices and accounts that surround issues of memory and exile in Spain in relationship to the Spanish Civil War and its impacts as a reflection of unresolved issues that are portrayed in recent contemporary fiction. The goal is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about how memory, and exile, that in many cases are intertwined in these narratives, deepen our understanding of how the female experience is portrayed. The intention of giving agency to the unheard women voices and those marginalized by normative discourses is prevalent in these counter discourses that, frequently, have an autobiographical component. 

The Creative (R)Evolution of the Body

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Northeastern Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Can we have a Revolution in how we talk about women’s and femme-identifying bodies and minds? Can we write about disability, mental health, pregnancy, perimenopause and menopause, transitioning, chronic pain, and other health concerns in ways that build us up and unite us?

When Plats Fight Back: Eco-revolutions in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:07pm
Northeastern Modern Language Assocation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

In Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (2013), Michael Marder posits that plants “are agents in the production of meaning” (35), echoing Jane Bennett’s claim that “the concept of agency [is enlarged] once nonhuman things are figured . . . as actors . . . [and] affective bodies forming assemblages” (Vibrant Matters 21-24).

Health Humanities and Narrative Medicine Approaches to Perinatal Loss

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Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:06pm
Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Medical Humanities and Narrative as Medicine https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/survive_thrive/
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

A forthcoming special issue of Survive and Thrive will feature stories written by survivors of perinatal loss, their loved ones, their healthcare providers and other support workers, and scholars from interdisciplinary fields.

Book Chapter: Algorithmic Authors:Computational Creativity in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:06pm
International Digital Humanities Research Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In recent years, the intersection of computational creativity and literature has gained significant attention. "Algorithmic Authors: Computational Creativity in Literature" aims to explore how algorithms and artificial intelligence are transforming the creation, analysis, and understanding of literary texts. This volume will investigate the roles of machine learning, natural language processing, and other computational techniques in generating and analyzing literary works, as well as their implications for the future of literature and authorship.

IMC 2025: 'Emotions and Devotions: Cultivating and Experiencing Feelings in Mystical and Devotional Texts'

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:06pm
Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford) and Amanda Langley (QMUL)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of affective expression in medieval mystical and devotional texts. These papers will compose a series of panels to run at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 7-10, 2025.

Potential themes could include – but are not limited to – the following:

  • Experiencing divine grace/consolation

  • Longing for God

  • Compassionating Christ’s Passion

  • Mystical ecstasies and affective transports

  • External perceptions of mystics’ emotionality

CAA 2025: Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:05pm
Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford) and Yizhuo Li (Universität Wien)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 29, 2024

Please submit via the official CAA portal here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2025/webprogrampreliminary/meeting.html

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

College Art Association Annual Conference 2025

12-15 February 2025, New York City

 

"Art as Shifting Knowledge?: Histories of Science, Medicine, and Sinophone Art"

Chairs: Yizhuo Li (Universität Wien) and Jiaqi Kang (University of Oxford)

The Aging Detective in 21st Century Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference March 6-9, 2025, in Philadelphia, PA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Although some of the most iconic British fictional detectives—Marple, Poirot, and Holmes—are old-age pensioners, the 21st century is witnessing a proliferation of aging detectives in fiction, television, and film. Among recent novels are Jesse Q. Sutanto’s Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023), Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club series (2021-), and Robert Thorogood’s The Marlow Murder Club series (2021-), but it is a growing trend that cannot be accounted for simply by demographics.

CALL FOR PAPERS for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal Essays and Studies Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the forthcoming issue of Jadavpur University Department of English Journal 

Essays and Studies

 

Global South Conversations: Eco-Cosmopolitanism, Ethics of Proximity and Anthropocentric Anxieties in the Time of Climate Change 

 

Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Jeanne Marie Rose / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The next Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention will be held in Philadelphia, PA, from March 6-9, 2025. The roundtable "Storytelling in and about the Humanities: (R)evolving Disciplinary Discourses" is seeking abstracts (200-300 words) consistent with the conference theme of (R)EVOLUTION:

"Dante and Ovid" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for an in-person panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

This panel invites new perspectives on the relationship between Dante and Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:

"Global Ovids" | ICMS 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Societas Ovidiana
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Societas Ovidiana welcomes proposals for a virtual panel to be held at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS) on May 8-10, 2025.

 

Given the global turn in medieval studies, it is important to reconsider the place of ancient authors beyond the sphere of European reception.

This panel invites global perspectives on the medieval reception of Ovid.

Proposals might consider, but are not limited to the topics of:

Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood's Works and Adaptations

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference - Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?

Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.

Studies in Popular Culture Book Reviews

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:01pm
Studies in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the broad field of pop culture studies. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor at sipceditor.gmail.com. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.

Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.

Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSRoundtable: “Slowly Engaging with the Indigenous Turn” (in person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025  In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews, in discussing the recent Indigenous turn in medieval studies, asks medievalists to “slow down” their engagement with Indigenous studies, “to be more deliberate, to be thoughtful, and to consider first the ethics of kinship and reciprocity that we owe Indigenous peoples, places, and communities who have labored to craft Indigenous studies as an academic field” (2).

Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Relational Approaches to the Indigenous Turn” (in-person)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 In 2020, Bitterroot Salish scholar Tarren Andrews coined the term “Indigenous turn” when describing the recent medievalist engagement with Indigenous studies. Recent scholarship (e.g., Akbari 2023; Price 2024) demonstrates the potentials for an Indigenous turn that is relational when combined with other critical approaches such as trans theory, gender and sexuality studies, premodern critical race studies, the Global Middle Ages, and others.

Red Reading the Premodern

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:00pm
ICMS 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSPanel: “Red Reading the Premodern” (hybrid)
60th International Congress on Medieval StudiesKalamazoo, MichiganMay 9-10, 2025 This panel takes up Cherokee scholar Scott Andrews’ 2018 challenge to interpret (non-Indigenous) literature from Indigenous perspectives, an approach that he labels a 'Red Reading,’ and extends it to premodern texts. Red Reading allows us to reconsider premodern texts, divorcing them from engrained approaches towards a plurality of perspectives.

Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:59pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 30, 2025

Call for Proposals of Monographs and Edited Collections for the new Book Horror Series “Terror: Estudios Críticos” for publication in 2026

Universidad de Cádiz (Spain)

Director: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

 

(Spanish version below)

Book Chapter:Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:59pm
Rajpath Publisher
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Violence in elections is a critical issue that threatens the very fabric of democracy. To address this challenge, we are compiling a comprehensive book titled "Democratic Harmony: Techniques for Eliminating Violence in Elections." This book aims to explore various strategies, approaches, and techniques that can promote peaceful and harmonious elections, ultimately leading to stronger democracies.

We invite researchers, scholars, practitioners, and experts in the field to contribute chapters to this important publication. The book will serve as a valuable resource for policymakers, electoral stakeholders, academics, and anyone interested in fostering democratic harmony and ensuring violence-free elections.

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The Routledge Companion to Transnational Westerns

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:49pm
Marek Paryz / University of Warsaw
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

The discussion of the Western as a global genre enables the exploration of the multi-directional and multi-layered transnational contexts in which this genre has functioned in the course of its history. The Western circulates across arts and media, encountering narratives that have emerged in diverse geographies and that may appear under different names. Contemporary Westerns dislodge exceptionalist readings of the genre related to Frederick Jackson Turner’s classical “frontier thesis,” focusing on the changing identity of the U.S. West in contexts that transcend clearly defined borders.

Science Fiction - Genre and Video Games

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 12:44pm
Sabrina Zacharias and Sara Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Genre and Video Games - Science Fiction

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “science fiction” category of the collection.  

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