Humankind has always sought to explain its origins and the mysteries of life to map personal and collective boundaries, and to secure its sense of identity through the power of everyday events and occurrences. Exemplary accounts of imaginary happenings and supernatural creatures from a time beyond history and memory explain the genesis of the universe, the making of a living thing, the formation of an attitude or the inception of an institution. The essence of these traditional narratives reflects a certain system of values and code of self-conduct of a group of individuals bound together by social and cultural ties, and the cardinal virtues and vices of human nature captured in a conventional configuration.

Since ancient times, mirrors have been viewed as place where the dual worlds of soul and self merge. In ancient Mexico, polished obsidian mirrors were viewed as magical portals through which sorcerers traveled to reach the world of the gods. The fictitious mirror of 18th-century author, Oliver Goldsmith, revealed the inner workings of the mind rather than the surface.  In the 21st century, our reflections may obscure rather than uncover the truths we once searched for.  Through technology, we can recreate ourselves and the world around us. We see our altered, perfected reflections in our photos, on our web cams, and in advertising. Images may come to show not necessarily our realities, but visions of the world that we prefer.

Modern Drama Special Issue: Teaching Modern Drama

Call for Papers

Abstracts due 15 June 2021

Guest editor: Jennifer Buckley (jennifer-buckley@uiowa.edu)

CFP: The Undead Child: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved 

Deadline for abstracts: May 15th, 2021

Contact: 

Craig Martin camartin@swin.edu.au

Debbie Olson debbieo@okstate.edu or olsond@moval.edu

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue
Surveillance in Education

Issue Editors:
sava saheli singh (University of Ottawa)
Chris Gilliard (Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Editorial Assistant:
Chanta Palmer (Lehman College, CUNY)

 Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/

Traveling, both as a concept and performativity, has yielded a diverse range of criticalliteratures that probe into the epistemological, ethical and aesthetic dimensions oftravel and mobility. However, much of the critical theories on travel (and, of late,nomadology) draw on the Western canon, while there appears to be a dearth ofproportionate research on and/or documentation of the indigenous analyticalframeworks that engage with travel(ing) theory.

Studies in the Novel seeks submissions for a special issue on “Indigenous Young Adult Novels,” guest-edited by Christopher Pexa (University of Minnesota), Angela Calcaterra (University of North Texas), and Eric Gary Anderson (George Mason University), to be published summer 2022.

Greetings all,

I just wanted to share this CFP for the Northeast Popular Culture Association's 2021 Fall Virtual Conference.  There are lots of different areas that might be relevant to folks on this list (https://nepca.blog/conference/conference-areas/) but in particular, I wanted to highlight the Classrooms, Libraries, and the Academy area to which I am co-chair.  
This section focuses on 

Literary Geographies: Space, Place, and Environments

Biola University

La Mirada, CA

April 7–9, 2022

“All theology is rooted in geography.”

—Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: an Exploration in Vocational Holiness

Indiana College English Association Permanent Section cfp @ Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference November 4-7, 2021 Milwaukee, WI Embracing the Culture of the Digital Classroom

Bilingual, themed issue.

The eruption of anti-racist movements in the public discourse over the past ten years, both in Italy, France, and in a broader context within Western Europe, has incited a re-engagement with the colonial histories of western countriesas well as their current racist and anti- immigration policies. The voices that emerged (with public figures such asAssa Traoré in France, Fabrice Vil in Québec, and Rula Jebréal in Italy) all encourage the general public to reflect onthe ways in which institutions need to be destabilized in order to make progress in terms of racial equality and criminal justice reform. In the wake of heightened social outrage around the globe, we are requesting proposals for papers which address issues of social justice and activism in Franc

The 118th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Las Vegas, from Thursday, November 11, to Sunday, November 14.  Although some components of this conference will be virtual, this CFP involves an in-person panel.

ReFocus: The Films of Claire Denis (EUP, ed. Peter Sloane, University of Lincoln UK)