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Consider submitting a CFP for the following proposed panel “Action, Inaction, and the Victorian Female” to be held at the 2019 NAVSA (Theme: “Media. Genre. The Generic”) in Columbus, Ohio, 17-19 October.
RUPTURE AND RELATION: A WORKSHOP ON BLACK CRITICAL THOUGHTsponsored by the Buffett Institute for Global StudiesMay 23-25, 2019Northwestern University
Confirmed Speakers:
Dr. Matthieu Chapman (University of Houston)
Dr. Zine Magubane (Boston College)
Dr. John Murillo III (University of California, Irvine)
Dr. Denise Ferreira da Silva (University of British Columbia)
Dr. Selamawit Terrefe (Tulane University)
Dr. Frank B. Wilderson III (University of California, Irvine)
2020 MLA CFP:
“The Valuation of the 73%:
Contingent Faculty Work and Access to Academic Freedom”
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of sponsoring MLA committees: the Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights & Responsibilities (CAFPRR) and the Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession (CCLiP)
2020 ABC MLA CFP:
“Inclusivity, Accessibility, Community:
Teaching Business Communication Online”
Conference: Modern Language Association Convention
Location: Seattle, Washington
Dates: 09–12 January 2020
Full name of organization: Association for Business Communication
Contact email: wbrown@midland.edu
Due date for abstracts: 07 March 2019
Call For Papers for Special Issue of Revenant: Critical and Creative Studies of the Supernatural
REVOLUTION IN THE DEAD: THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE ZOMBIE
Guest Editors Anthony Anderson, Simone Wood, and Colin Younger.
Revenant (www.revenantjournal.com) is now accepting abstracts for articles, creative writing pieces, and book, film, game, or event reviews for a themed issue on zombies, examining the social and cultural evolution of the zombie.
Most of us remember what scared us as children: the bumps in the night, the dark alleys, and the monsters, ghouls, and ghosts brimmed with the potential to terrify. The thrill of dodging the terror that waited in the shadows fuels many horror fanatics to return to the theatres, bookstands, and now podcasts to relive youthful feelings of dread. It should be no surprise, then, that youth horror media is pervasive. From Goosebumps and the upcoming release of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark to Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? and the CBBC’s Creeped Out, there is an abundance of media that introduces children to the horror genre.
Conference Dates: 30 May – 1 June 2019
Conference Venue: Hangzhou, China
Conference Working Languages: English and Chinese
This conference, organized by Zhejiang University of Science & Technology (ZUST), Geneva College, and the magazine of Higher Engineering Education Research, aims to provide opportunities for exchanges on studies related to general education and new engineering talents cultivation.
Paper themes are suggested as, but not limited to, the following:
1. Domestic and foreign experiences and case studies in general education
2. Construction of General Education Curriculum
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF FEMINIST THEORY ON ‘THEORIZING FASHION MEDIA’
Co-editors: Ilya Parkins (UBC) and Lise Shapiro Sanders (Hampshire)
Abstracts are invited for a special issue of Feminist Theory on Fashion Media. This will be a companion to a special issue of the Journal of Modern Periodical Studies on ‘Fashion in the Magazines’.
Memory and Activism
Mnemonics Summer School 2019
Utrecht University, 18 – 20 September 2019
Call for Papers
The annual Mnemonics Summer School serves as an interactive forum in which junior and senior memory scholars meet in an informal and convivial setting to discuss each other’s work and to reflect on new developments in the field of memory studies. The aim is to help PhD students refine their research questions, strengthen the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of their projects, and gain further insight into current trends in memory scholarship.
Call for Papers
The Blacker the Ink Constructions of Blackness in Comics and Sequential Arts
edited by Frances Gateward and John Jennings
Written essays of 6,000 words sought for the revised edition of this anthology, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection, and the Eisner Award. We welcome proposals that address the following issues theoretically or through comparative studies, through the work of individual artists/writers, or through explorations of individual titles or themes.
The question of the origin of the Yoruba race still remains contentious. While diverse accounts of its origin have been appropriated by historians and scholars in cultural studies such as Revd Samuel Johnson in The History of the Yorubas (1921), Saburi Biobaku in The Pattern of Yoruba History (1958), Ade Ajayi in Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century (1964), among others, numerous discourses and counter discourses continue to unfold.
I am currently curating an anthology of personal essay/creative nonfiction by queer writers reflecting on their relationship to horror films.
Call for Submissions—The ART of Infertility: An Anthology of Patient Narrative and Art
Edited by Elizabeth Walker, Maria Novotny, and Robin Silbergleid
Media Literacy and Academic Research is inviting papers for Vol. 2, No. 1 which is scheduled to be published on April 2019.
The journal does not have article processing charges (APCs) and article submission charges. Media Literacy and Academic Research welcomes article submissions and does not charge a publication fee.
The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (https://bulletin.iarhs.org) is seeking submissions for future volumes. The Bulletin is the official journal of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. It is a fully digital, open access, and double-blind peer reviewed journal and is actively indexed in the MLA International Bibliography. In keeping with the Robin Hood tradition, authors retain their rights to their own materials.
Articles are generally 4,000-8,000 words long. Please see the journal's website for additional submission guidelines.
Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on the theme: “A Hero Will Endure”: Essays on the Twentieth Anniversary of Gladiator for an edited collection, edited by Rachel L. Carazo (Northwestern State University).
All areas of study, with a common goal of representing the cultural and material impact of the film since its release in May 2000 are invited to participate.
What is love? Why is it so important in our lives? And why should we think about it? The subject of love is of enormous importance to our daily lives, as love sustains us and gives meaning to existence. Yet, love seems to be a theme that is underdeveloped in contemporary research. Whatever the reason for that is, love remains one of the central concepts in the history of Western thought. Not only does philosophy literally mean “love for wisdom,” but the discussion of the theme of love has been part philosophy’s inheritance since the time of Plato’s Symposium.
Lehigh University is hosting its second annual one-day symposium in advance of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). This year’s priority theme is “Social protection systems, access to public services and sustainable infrastructure for gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls”. Expanding on this theme, we seek to explore how the work of regional community organizations, educational institutions, and individual faculty, staff, and students (undergraduate and graduate) engage with the theme of “Gender and Empowerment, Access, and Infrastructure” in their work, research, advocacy, and lives.
I am looking for one essay to fill an empty spot in an edited collection on the television show Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. This essay should address the critical reception of the show. The final draft of the essay is needed by March 15, 2019.
The collection overall argues that the show participates in quality or post-quality television programming through its generic hybridity and diverse cast and storylines.
If interested, please submit queries and/or a 300-word abstract to akonkle@georgiasouthern.edu by January 31, 2019.
Literary Tattoos:
Lasting Impressions, Cultural Practices and Representations.
We are pleased to announce two one-day conferences on literary tattoos. The first one will take place in Paris, at the Musée d’art et d’histoire de la ville de Saint-Denis, on June 13, 2019. The second one is scheduled for November 2019 at the Université Polytechnique Hauts de France, Valenciennes, France.
We seek interdisciplinary papers for a proposed panel at the 2019 American Studies Association conference (Honolulu, Hawai'i, November 7-10 2019) investigating the overlapping geographies of race and risk. While scholars have primarily emphasized risk as a modality of liberal governance and a technology of rule, our approach considers the Janus-faced character of risk as possible emancipatory performance—a rejection of propriety—and risk as a key technique through which regimes of surveillance (Browne 2015), calculation (McKittrick 2014; Snorton 2017), and security (Masco 2014) operate.
WATERMARK 13 California State University, Long Beach | English Department CALL FOR PAPERS
Watermark, the annual, peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by graduate students in the
English Department at California State University, Long Beach is now seeking submissions for
our twelfth volume. The journal is dedicated to publishing original, critical, and theoretical papers
concerned with literature of all genres and periods, as well as representing current issues in the
field of rhetoric and composition. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for enlarging
Since its creation in the mid-20th century, fantasy sport has become a significant part of international sport and its history. Once an obscure subculture of statistics-obsessed sports fans, fantasy sport now constitutes a cultural phenomenon with 59.3 million North American participants in 2017 and with tens of millions more throughout the world. According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, North American participants alone spend an average of $556 a year on fantasy sport and related materials, amounting to almost $33 billion in annual revenue. With this level of fan interest and earning capacity, fantasy sport is now a major force within the global sport industry.
Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
And cry 'Content' to that which grieves my heart,
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,
And frame my face to all occasions.
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall;
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk;
I'll play the orator as well as Nestor,
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could,
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy.
I can add colours to the chameleon,
Intermountain Graduate Conference: “Making Connections: Within, Between, and Beyond English and the Humanities”
March 8-9, 2019
LOCATION: Salmon River Suites, Student Union Building, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
TIMES: Friday, March 8, 09:00 AM – 06:30 PM; Saturday March 9, 08:30 AM- 06:30 PM
Call for Papers:
Since the turn of the millennium the United States of America has undergone what many have considered to be a series of political, financial, and institutional crises. At the same time, the increasing popularity of the science fiction genre has, in many ways, frequently both dramatized and provided a commentary on the fears and anxieties this period has evoked. The philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin argued that allegory emerges most frequently in periods of crisis and uncertainty, correspondingly it is no coincidence that some of the most powerful films to emerge from American cinema in the last two decades are allegorical texts and many of which have come from the science fiction genre.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Marah Gubar – Associate Professor, MIT School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Paul Ramchandani – LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning, The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Narratives of Culture and Identity Research Group
invites you to participate in its conference
Performativity in Contemporary Culture
on May 24-25, 2019
at the School of English and American Studies, ELTE, Budapest
Recent critical focus on media and technology maps efforts to create a dynamic classroom that at its best enriches the teaching and learning at the university. But the long-standing interest in media as a means to reach students and enhance delivery also points to an absence in current scholarship, which has not been attentive to that same media as content in the humanities classroom.
EXTENDED DEADLINE
Date: 11-12 April 2019
Convener: Univrsity of Lisbon Ceentre for English Studies (ULICES)
Venue: School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon
Keynote Speakers
António Castelbranco (Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Lisbon)
Chris Ewers (College of Humanities, University of Exeter)
Darran Anderson (author of Imaginary Cities)
Call for Papers