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Aviation, Entertainment, and Culture
Reflecting on the Past, Projecting into the Future
Editors: Olusola John and Taiwo Afolabi
Call for Papers
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Healing Community: Black Women on The Arts and Liberation Pedagogy
Friday, February 16, 12:00-1:00 PM EST via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nw4RhyRTRluifLP4vjCkJQ
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory seeks theoretically sophisticated essays that examine narrative in a host of critical, interdisciplinary, or cross-cultural contexts. Of particular interest are history and narrative; cultural studies and popular culture; discourses of class, gender, sexuality, race, nationality, subalternity, and ethnicity; film theory, queer theory, and media studies; new historical, poststructural, or global approaches to narrative forms (literary or otherwise); along with essays that span or subvert epistemic and disciplinary boundaries.
The Shared Language of Sex and Violence in Literature
2024 Acacia Group Annual Academic Conference
California State University, Fullerton
March 15-16th, 2023
In the last few years, the Covid-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented experience of the everyday in us. We were all locked up at home somewhere in the world spending time with family or our own selves in isolation. In the absence of the ‘busyness’ of routine public activities, life showed down. In the tremendous fear of whether we would survive the disaster or feel anxiously for our family based elsewhere, we noticed the slow spiralling out of each day, sometimes at the level of the moment, in our lives. Slowness, an awareness of our body and movement, and a deep noticing of our surroundings and our loved ones – in short, a re-cognition of the everyday marked our ‘species’ life.
Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience (sensations, disturbances, intensities, etc) and offers new interdisciplinary methodologies. The study of emotionality interrogates the boundary between human and non-human, with contemporary research in ecological feeling playing with the border between humans and other species, nature and geological formations. This issue is interested in how these contemporary and modern affective debates have impacted, and continue to impact, the ways in which we think about feeling.
We are delighted to announce the EASTAP Annual Conference 2024, hosted by the Institute of the Arts Barcelona (Sitges, Spain), under the theme “Ecosystems of Theatre and Performance”. As host city, Sitges has been a biosphere destination since 2016, and is committed to environmental, economic, and social sustainability.
The conference aims to bring together international scholars, practitioners, and researchers, inviting submissions for papers and presentations that delve into various aspects of this theme and offer fresh insights into the dynamic field of theatre and performance.
Re-imagining and Re-engaging with the Victorians
A virtual undergraduate and graduate conference
Conference on April 18 and Abstracts Due March 5
Hosted by Queen’s University’s ENGL 859
Contact emails: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca & sydney.wildman@queensu.ca
See full CFP below
Keynote:
Jentery Sayers, Associate Professor, University of Victoria
“Victorian Activities and the Play of Genre in Contemporary Video Games"
Organizers:
2024 – Virtual – Call for Proposals – #ELOnline
We invite submissions for presentations, performances, and exhibition pieces at the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), to be hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.
In July 2023, a tech startup called “Simulation Inc” released an AI technology capable of generating entire t.v. episodes—including dialogue, voice acting, animation, and editing—from nothing more than a two-sentence prompt. Somewhat oddly (and provoking suspicion that the project might be a hoax or internet prank), Simulation Inc’s website lists a fake address under their contact info: 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA.
Victorians CFP 2024
Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature is one of the longest running journal publications in the field of Victorian literature. It began in 1952 under the title The Victorian Newsletter, and its transformations over the last 70 years reflects the continued growth and reputation of the journal as a key professional publication that participates in the most recent and important conversations in the discipline of Victorian studies. Victorians is published in partnership with Ohio State University Press / Journals, and is available both in hardcopy and online, hosted by Project Muse.
We are looking for 500-word abstracts for a theme-based special issue of critical essays on the short stories of the queer Canadian writer and performer Ivan Coyote to be published in 2025. The full articles should be approx 7000 words. The deadline for the articles is October 1st, 2024. There will be a peer-review process. Any questions should be sent to anna.fahraeus@hh.se.
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: 12 February 2024
Conference Meeting: 19 April 2024
Host: English Graduate Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington
Location: Arlington, Texas
Conference Website: www.egsaconference.com
In the evolving landscape of social media Hills’ (2017) concept of an “always on” digital space illustrates a transformative shift in behaviour and communication online. These digital environments often exhibit cyclical toxicity that permeates online discourse, which necessitates a focused examination. For instance, Le Clue’s (2023) research demonstrates the concerns surrounding the functioning of online communities and reveals an alarming unchecked spread of toxic rhetoric, intolerance, and hateful speech. The significance of the research conducted for this collection lies in its potential to offer insights into the impact of contemporary communication.
Reconstructing Race, History and Subjectivity after the 1960s
International Seminar:
Date: October 30–31, 2024
Universidad Complutense, Madrid
Conference: Tribute to Cid Corman: From Japan to the US and the World, 1924–2004
Our Conference (in a hybrid format, both in person and online) aims at celebrating the life and work of US poet Cid Corman, bringing to light his crucial contribution as a poet, editor and translator of two shores (Japan and the US, also within the European, French and Italian traditions), in his role bridging the gap between cultures in English and in Japanese.
Contributions:
Issues to address are not limited to the following,
The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the sixth volume of the journal in December 2024.
For this issue, the editors are interested in essays on any aspect of Bowen’s writing – fiction, reviewing and criticism, biography and travel writing, or work discussing Bowen criticism.
Essays should be 6-7,000 words including citations, and use Harvard referencing. Please attach a 150-word abstract and short biography.
Completed essays should be submitted by July 1st 2024.
More information about the journal is available at http://www.bowensociety.com/elizabeth-bowen-review/
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 60 Years of Star Trek: Influence and Impact
Queer Africa: New Directions in Art, Film, and Literature
This special issue of The Thinker sets out to examine the rapidly expanding field of queer artistic production in Africa. The special issue aims to shine light on the rich and dynamic cultural production that explores and subverts conventional narratives and adds to the continuing conversation about queer representation and visibility by highlighting the various ways queer identities are portrayed across the continent. The goal of this special issue is thus to showcase the various ways that African queer voices are redefining and shaping the cultural landscape by looking at how queerness intersects with and is expressed in art, film, and literature.
CFP: Media Values
The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 95 (to be published Spring 2025)
We invite chapter proposals for a new edited book, Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence, to be published by IGI Global. In an era of technological advancements rapidly reshaping industries, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cinema industry marks a climactic transformation. The swift integration of AI technologies has revolutionized filmmaking processes and opened new vistas for creative expression and audience engagement. This book, “Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence," aims to delve into the dynamic intersection of AI and cinema, highlighting how AI is redefining the art and science of filmmaking.
CFP: Chapters for an Edited Collection, Shakespeare and Misogyny
Martineau Society Conference 2024 in Lewes, England 06/24/2024-06/27/2024; deadline 04/19/2024
The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).
Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.
Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
The Department of Letters and Foreign Languages at Tamanghasset University
In collaboration with
The Linguistic and Literary Practices in the Desert of Algeria and Their Extensions in the Sahel Region Research Laboratory and the Interdisciplinary Approaches to English, African (Sub-Saharan) and Algerian Literary Texts PRFU Project
Conference Details
The University of Buckingham is proud to host a two-day conference on 20-21 June 2024 exploring the dynamic between Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to commemorate the bicentenary of Collins’s birth.
The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024
“I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
CALL FOR PAPERS
Nostalgia
A hybrid/virtual student conference hosted by the University at Albany
March 15th, 2024
10 am- to 4 pm EST
Official site: http://egsoalbany.weebly.com/conference.html
“Nostalgia," coined in 1688 by physician Johannes Hofer, originally described a medical condition marked by a painful longing for one's native land. Over time, nostalgia has evolved, encompassing both personal and communal aspects, with debates ranging from its temporal significance to its political and rhetorical dimensions.
Invitation
The University of Exeter’s AHRC-funded “The Art of Fiction” project invites proposals for 15-minute papers on the theme of “patchwork and authorship”.
Greetings, campus!
William and Mary’s Journal of Global Premodern Studies, Noetica, is seeking submissions from you! We emphasize the highest level of erudition in undergraduate scholarship of the premodern past. Our journal is interdisciplinary and welcomes submissions of original research from all of the humanities, including Literature, Religion, Philosophy, Art, and History.