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Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) 2024 Hybrid Conference
Call for Papers: Race and Ethnicity in Popular Culture
Current Chair: Indya Jackson, Ramapo College of New Jersey, ijackso2@ramapo.edu
Dates: Thursday, October 3, 2024 - Saturday, October 5, 2024.
Location: Nichols College in Dudley, MA and Online*
As a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Riverside, George Haggerty was a prolific scholar internationally recognized for his work across Restoration and eighteenth-century studies; British and American gothic; the history of gender and sexuality; lesbian, gay, and queer studies; Horace Walpole; and most recently, friendship.
George was also a phenomenal teacher of undergraduates, an engaged mentor to graduate students and junior scholars, and a key figure in establishing the Queer and Trans Caucus at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Call for Papers: Short Fiction in Theory & Practice
Special Issue: ‘Materiality in the Short Fiction of Alice Munro’
Guest edited by Corinne Bigot, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès, and Christine Lorre, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/short-fiction-in-theory-practice#call-for-papers
‘People’s lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable—deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.’
(Munro, Lives of Girls and Women, 1971)
CALL FOR PAPERS
Imagining the Ordinary City:
Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives
28-29 October 2024
Centre for African Studies Gallery, University of Cape Town
Confirmed keynotes:
Professor Jennifer Robinson (University College London)
Dr Thembinkosi Goniwe (Rhodes University)
Professor Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University)
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2024 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2024
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Call for Papers: Prompt Engineering and the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Revolution
121st Annual PAMLA Conference (Palm Springs, CA) on Rhetoric, Composition, and Writing Studies, Nov. 6-10, 2024
Abstract
‘Genre and Nation: British and Australian cinema, 1960 – now’ Conference
5-7 September 2024
Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, UK
Despite the brutal, colonial origins of Australian settlement, and the ongoing consequences for Indigenous people, an enduring connection between Britain and Australia remains. As Rolfe (2022) argues, until the 1960s, Australians incorporated a dual identity as both Australians and Britons, and although American influence has grown since then– the British/Australian relationship persists and has been widely explored in screen media.
Philophantast: A Speculative Fiction and Philosophy Conference CFP
A free hybrid conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers to be held June 05 and 06 2024 at the University of Glasgow, supported by Glasgow’s Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic.
Deadline for Submissions: April 19 2024
Contact Email: philophantast@gmail.com
Call for Papers:
The standing Poetry and Poetics session seeks abstract submissions exploring any aspect of poetry and poetics. Please bring us paper topics that encompass a wide range of subgenres; bring us specific time periods; bring us unique critical approaches.
Special issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
CFP: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century
In November 2022, the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies held a two-day international symposium on “The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century.” Intentionally broad in scope, the symposium sought to cross-map nineteenth-century studies with key currents of the blue humanities, the Black and circum-Atlantic, Indian Ocean studies, oceanic ecologies, post- and decolonialism, maritime globalization, and beyond.
The South Central Modern Language Association's Southern Literature Panel is currently seeking abstracts for conference papers that discuss literature and/or authors from the American South. This includes literature written by Southern writers or literature set in the South. Papers on any related topic will be considered for the session taking place during SCMLA's 81st Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA on September 19-21, 2024.
Please send an abstract of up to 200 words on any topic related to this panel to alana.king@austincc.edu.
Special issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
CFP: Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914
By the time the First World War erupted in 1914, most inhabitants of the globe resided within an empire, either as citizens of a colonizing power or as subjects of colonial rule. The preceding “long nineteenth century” had witnessed the rise of various empires with significant overseas colonial possessions—such as Britain, France, the Dutch Republic (subsequently the Kingdom of the Netherlands), and Meiji Japan—to coexist alongside imperial powers contained within contiguous land masses, including the Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empires.
“Out of the Box: Rethinking Southeast Asia through Comics” (MLA 2025)
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 21 2024
We invite paper proposals for a non-guaranteed session organized by the Southeast Asian and Southeast Asian Diasporic Forum for the January 2025 Modern Language Association conference in New Orleans. We seek papers about comics and graphic narratives by authors from Southeast Asia and its diasporas. Given Southeast Asia’s linguistic diversity, we welcome papers about comics in languages other than English.
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2024 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 25, 2024
Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Call for Papers
Disability and musicals have a complicated relationship. Usually comprised of athletic, triple-threat actors, the musical theatre genre is preoccupied with health and wellness–often figuring disability as a stumbling block to a musical’s slickly choreographed world. At the heart of musicals like Side Show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and The Light in the Piazza, a disabled character’s non-normative status is of narrative consequence. However, these inclusions of disabled characters with diegetic disabilities are often only remarkable because of their societally defined excessive existence.
Crime Fiction in the Multilingual Classroom (Teaching Forum, Clues: A Journal of Detection)
Organizer: Barbara Pezzotti
Crime fiction sheds a light on different cultures and societies, as well as challenges assumptions about gender, class, race, and ethnicity. By luring students into thinking that popular fiction is an easy read, an increasing number of language teachers have used crime fiction to teach both foreign languages and cultures. At the same time, crime fiction instructors have expanded their syllabi to include texts in translation that tackle important issues such as gender violence, environmental concerns, and racism. This Clues Teaching Forum invites short essays that address the following questions:
Call for Abstracts -- Fandom | Cultures | Research, Issue 1/25
Note: This CFP is posted at CLCWeb's website, at https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb_cfp/2/ .
This special issue of CLCWeb is about how theorists and analysts of culture are approaching formal questions in the context of technologies of machine learning and generative AI, and, also, conversely, about how to theorize AI’s forms.
SSA'S 2024 CONFERENCE
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Affiliated Panel
Back to No Future: Seeing Behind and Beyond Reproductive (Climate) Futurism
The editors of this special issue of the Global South are seeking contributors whose work engages with questions of incarceration and movements for resistance and abolition. As many major works regarding the development of mass incarceration in the United States draw explicit links between the development of the prison and the legacies of U.S. slavery and Jim Crow practices, this issue is, rather (or also), interested in examining the development of the prison-industrial complex through a global south perspective. In 2001, Angela Y.
The Religion and Literature permanent section invites proposals for the 2024 Midwest Modern Language Association convention in Chicago. Those aspiring to be on the panel should feel empowered to offer proposals that interpret the concept of religion rather loosely by potentially including the humanities and health as faith driven institutions. Maintaining a broad interpretation of religion to include all intersections of faith, folklore, belief, and literature; expressions of belief may include creeds, mottos, mission statements, charters, manifestos, doctrines, etc.
(In)visibility of Romanian Writers in English as a Second Language
Making Climate Change Issues Visible in East European Culture, Media and Politics
Responses to climate change, ecosystem destruction, deforestation, pollution, urban and rural ecological movements and environmental policies in ROmanian and Eastern Europe.
- literature
- film
-popular culture
- social media
Submit 250 word proposal to opopescusa@usi.edu
JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
Call for Proposals for Special Issues
The "Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics" is accepting proposals for Guest-Edited Special Issues.
Individual or joint guest editors are invited to submit proposals in the form of a concept note for the proposed topic, which will be used as a call for submissions.
The proposed topic is expected to be of current critical interest and should contribute significantly to comparative literature, aesthetics, philosophy, intellectual history, art history, criticism of the arts, or the history of ideas.
We are seeking additional chapters for our volume. Proposals for chapters discussing cities of Southeast Asia and Latin America are invited. Proposals for essays within 500 words and a short bio are to be submitted by April 30, 2024, with complete articles within 8,000 words (excluding works cited and endnotes), expected by June 15, 2024. We are using the MLA Handbook 8th Edition in this book. Submissions of abstracts, completed essays, and queries will be directed to citiesglobalsouth@gmail.com. For details regarding the scope of the volume, please refer to the original CFP below.
Original CFP below:
Dear Colleagues,
We are delighted to announce a call for papers for the inaugural issue of a forthcoming journal dedicated to exploring the lyrical and poetic dimensions of Taylor Swift's music. This special issue, titled "Taylor Swift: Poetess," aims to delve into the intricate narratives, themes, and stylistic devices that characterize Swift's songwriting, inviting a scholarly examination of her work as a form of contemporary poetry.
The Great Pittsburgh Fire occurred on April 10, 1845, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The fire destroyed over a thousand buildings and caused significant damage to the city's commercial district, including the destruction of warehouses, businesses, and homes. The disaster left thousands of people homeless and caused millions of dollars in property damage.