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“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf,  Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.

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“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI

Call for papers: The State of the Nation in film and television, London Metropolitan University, online conference, 3rd July 2024. 

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Superhero Project: 8th Global Meeting

“THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERHERO”

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September, 2024.

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Where does he get those wonderful toys…?” – Batman (1989)

Announcing

The 2024 First Book Institute

June 2-8, 2024

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Call for Papers for an Edited Collection

Dead or Alive: The Futures of Zombie Studies

Edited by Marlon Lieber and Tim Lanzendörfer

Adrienne Rich has written that her feminist politics entails “locating the grounds from which to speak with authority,” beginning “not with a continent or a house, but with the geography closest in–the body.”  Taking inspiration from Rich and foundational women of color feminists, this panel invites papers exploring the politics of position within the academy and scholars' embodiment in relation to our work.

Mediating Experiences, Experiencing Mediation

University of Washington Cinema & Media Studies Graduate Conference May 4, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Weihong Bao, UC Berkeley
Call for Proposals

*Travel funding will be available upon request

Digital media has dramatically changed our understanding, knowledge, and experience of bodies. Body tracking apps and smart watches allow for new and intense practices of self-surveillance; social media platforms such as Insta and Tiktok present the constant work of body optimization as reasonable and desirable; selfie culture commonly serves to demonstrate willing compliance with new unachievable beauty standards. Filters, editing, lighting, and angling suggest that everybody can be brought into normative shape. Bodies are highly commodified when influencers link their accounts to LTK or amazon storefronts where products are being sold that suggest that youth, fitness, health, thinness, and beauty can be bought.

https://www.projectpassage.net/call-4

Hotel
Architectures to think with #1 (
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Deadline for proposals (up to 500w): 4th Feb 2024
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The crumbling Hotel Splendid of Marie Redonnet. The room where Lisa Robertson’s Hazel Brown awakens. The autofictional reflections of Joanna Walsh’s experience as a hotel reviewer. And of course, the multilinear, hybrid Hotel Theory of Wayne Koestenbaum.

In the contemporary digital era, there has been a notable transition of Black children's literature towards the audiobook format, facilitated by platforms such as Audible, Overdrive, and Libby. This shift has significantly expanded the accessibility of Black children's literature beyond the traditional confines of physical books (Rubery, 2011). The role of audiobook narrators in this context becomes crucial, as they are instrumental in bringing stories to life, thereby enhancing the listening experience, comprehension, and the overall success of publishing ventures (Burkey, 2007).

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Justice

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

Our Glocal Shakespeare: Intercultural Encounters With The Bard

Conference co-hosted by “Turkish Shakespeares Project” and Istanbul Bilgi University English Language and Literature Department  

19-20 April 2024 

Venue: Santral Campus, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye 

Contact: Murat Öğütcü (murat_ogutcu@yahoo.com) and İnci Bilgin Tekin (inci.bilgin@bilgi.edu.tr) 

Deadline for abstracts and bios: 20.02.2024 

We are seeking paper abstracts for a panel proposal provisionally titled "Ecocritical Adaptations in Animations and Experimental Films." The conference of FMSAC will take place at McGill University in Montreal, June 14–16, 2024 (https://www.filmstudies.ca/conference/fmsac2024)

Co-organizers : Fei Shi and Sylvie Bissonnette (sylvie_bis at hotmail.com) 

Deadline: January 20, 2024 

CFP Special Issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

Drawing Conclusions: The Rise of Research Comics

Submission deadline: April 1 2024

This special issue of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (Taylor & Francis) explores practice-based approaches to comics-based-research and the various methodologies of communicating academic research through the comics format. In recent years the continued growth of comics-based research has been enriched by the increased visibility of research-based comics in academic journals, scholarly presses, and other platforms.