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ReFocus: The Films of Fred Zinnemann
“Something that concerns me very much is human dignity…or the lack of it.” – F.Z.
New Feminisms, Politics, and Pop Culture: An Intertextual Anthology This edited collection is interested in the intersections of feminism, American politics, and popular culture. Right now, as feminism in general is forced to shift back to a focus on reproductive rights, the fourth wave is being splintered into those prioritizing this issue and those still focused on empowerment, intersectionality, and other issues original to the fourth wave. As more and more strains of feminism emerge, how might we understand their origins and place them in conversation with each other? Is feminism finally intersectional? If not, how do we get there?
Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship
In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.
CFP: Heritage Tourism and Race in Early America
Panel for the Society of Early Americanists’ Biennial Conference
University of Notre Dame
June 5-8, 2025
Call for Papers: Art & the Public Sphere
Special Issue: ‘Afterlives of Public Art’
Edited by: Cathryn Klasto, Maddie Leach & Mick Wilson
(University of Gothenburg, Sweden )
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/art-the-public-sphere#call-for-papers
READING NOTHING ACROSS LITERATURES: A HANDBOOK
“No friend is He who to his friend and comrade who comes imploring food, will offer nothing.” (Rig Veda CXVII)
“Did you rise to the crisis? Not a word, you and your birds, your gods – nothing.” (Oedipus the King)
“Nothing will come of Nothing. Speak again.” (King Lear 1.1)
Call for Papers: Short Fiction Theory and Practice
Special Issue: ‘Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives’
Guest edited by Zsuzsanna Lénárt-Muszka, University of Debrecen, Hungary
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice
“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.”
- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Building from a successful summer conference, this edited collection is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. As several papers from the conference have already been selected, we are now calling for additional chapters for the collection generally related to the following topics:
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Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Sen – a Festschrift
Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)
CFP for Vol. X, Issue 1 (January 2025)
Reviewing Diaspora: Dispersal, Dislocation, Diversities
Organizer: Shane Carreon
Co-Organizer: Ayelén Rosario Tissera
Situated at the locus of power relations in and through language, translators and language teachers are entwined by and within complex ideologies, epistemologies, and governing policies. In particular, their identity construction, personal stance, and mediations continually reproduce, redefine, and/or resist in varying ways the hegemony of the English language both as legacy of British and American colonialism and as prime language of globalization.
Humanities Bulletin Journal - Call for papers
Submission Deadline: October 25, 2024
Vol. 7, No. 2 - November, 2024
ISSN 2517-4266
Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts.
This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue between ideas and people with different points of view. Our aim is to bring together different international scholars, in order to promote the dialogue between cultures, ideas and new academic research.
The Journal is hosted by London Academic Publishing, London, UK.
Kritika Kultura, the online peer-reviewed international journal on literary and cultural studies, invites interested scholars to submit manuscripts to a Forum Kritika special section on the theme “Reading Jameson in Asia: Marxism, Literature, and Postmodernism.” It welcomes contributions from a broad range of interdisciplinary and theoretical perspectives, deploying current or innovative methodologies to develop new insights into its theme.
RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA) seeks contributions for its n. 36 issue (September 2025) for both its General and Special Sections.
Full papers for the General Section, on any aspect of American Studies, should be submitted by January 31st, 2025, using our OJS portal, at rsa.aisna.net (which includes full submission and stylesheet details).
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CSA 2024 Call for Papers (20%~30% Papers will be recommended to SCIE or SCOPUS Journal)
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The 16th KCIA International Conference on
Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2024)
Pattaya, Thailand, Dec. 18 - 20, 2024
Springer-LNEE (indexed by SCOPUS and EI)
The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025
50th Anniversary Conference
April 4-6, 2025
Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz
View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf
The Blue Age of Comics Book
Call for Proposals
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025
Edited by Adrienne Resha and Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero
We are seeking essay submissions pertaining to Henry James’s early stories and criticism, to be published by Vernon press. The working title of the collection is Writing as Revenge. We define James’s “early period” as anything he wrote up to The Portrait of a Lady. Please submit an abstract by October 31, 2024.
This panel seeks to explore how Latin American and Latine writers, filmmakers, and artists depict natural elements—such as water, air, landscapes, and weather—as active forces that shape and mediate human emotions, identity, and survival. Through an environmental humanities lens, we will examine how these works go beyond symbolic uses of nature to show how ecological crises become part of the migrant experience. In many Latine / Latin American narratives, migration is influenced not only by social and political pressures but also by environmental changes like drought, floods, deforestation, or pollution. The environment is not just a setting, but a participant in the story, embodying the intimate connections between human and non-human worlds.
NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html
Please consider submitting an abstract to the following CFP:https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21067
This roundtable invites educators to present their revolutionary approaches to language teaching in the post pandemic era, from AI integration, to project-based and task-based learning, to career preparedness. Contributions that address curricular innovations in all languages and learning modalities are welcome.
Call for Papers
Shakespeare in Popular Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Call for Papers
Food and Culture Studies
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
The Thoreau Society invites paper proposals for the following two sessions, to take place at ALA in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference). Please submit abstracts of around 300 words, along with a CV, to Alex Moskowitz (amoskowitz@mtholyoke.edu) by 15 January 2025. And please feel free to reach out with questions or ideas beforehand!
Panel: Thoreau, Protest, and Social Change
Peace and Conflict in the Space Between, May 28-30, 2025
The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945
University of Kansas (KU)
Lawrence, Kansas
Reimagining Early American Fiction: New Voices and Perspectives
CFP – Society of Early Americanists Conference 2025 – Notre Dame, June 5-8, 2025
The Henry Miller in the 21st Century Conference is offering five scholarships for students to help defray the costs of housing, food, and registration fees while attending this event to be held at the Asilomar Conference -Grounds, in Pacific Grove, California, from October 16, 2025 - October 19, 2025.
Eligibility: This scholarship is open to any currently enrolled college student who has Junior, Senior, or Graduate Student level standing as of October 1, 2024.
Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"
Please find the panel and submit to ACLA: Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time | American Comparative Literature Association (acla.org)
Panel proposal for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
July 8-11, 2025
“The Same Air, Water, and Hope”: Environmental Narratives Through the Razor Wire
In his 1989 essay “A Toxic Shock,” imprisoned activist and journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal writes, “Despite the legal illusions erected by the system to divide and separate life, we the caged share the same air, water, and hope with you, the not-yet-caged. We share your same breath.” How can something as violently boundary-setting as razor wire still allow for the circulation of air, water, and hope?
Call for Papers: Fashion, Style & Popular Culture
Special Issue: ‘Dolls, Dolls, Dolls’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/fashion-style-popular-culture#call-for-papers
Guest Editor: Frank New, Massey University, New Zealand