Yellowstone (2018, Paramount Network), Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western television series that premiered in 2018, has grown into a cultural phenomenon. Not only has the show itself been enormously popular (as measured by its ratings and fan following within the United States and South Africa, for example), but its characters, and the Dutton family that are central to the story, have since been incorporated into a shared story universe covering a period from 1881 to the present day. This story is centred around the fictional Yellowstone ranch in Montana, which is both the main setting and metaphorical heart of the show.

As editors of the Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture, which is under contract and has 15 commissioned chapters, we seek approximately 25 additional chapters (6,500-7,500 words) on topics related to parenthood in popular culture. We aim to foreground Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ+ and non-normative experiences, in contributions that explore popular cultural representations of parental identities from intersectional perspectives, and from diverse cultural and geopolitical locations. Chapters may focus on either mothers/mothering/motherhood or fathers/fathering/fatherhood, or interrogate parents/parenting/parenthood as more comprehensive terms, across genders and in non-binary contexts.

Call for Book Chapters

British Theatre and Young People: Theory and Performance in 21st Century

The intersection of narrative and science has become a major area of theoretical and practical interest in communication studies, journalism, literary studies, education, evidence-based policymaking and, of course, science itself.

Considerable attention has been paid to narrative as a tool that can facilitate the communication, reach, persuasiveness and comprehension of scientific information (e.g., Dahlstrom 2021; Olmos 2020; ElShafie 2018; Suzuki et al 2018). While we are interested in this topic, it already enjoys ample theoretical, empirical and pedagogical attention. We are therefore most interested in other ways of thinking about the nexus of narrative studies and public science.

Update: Panel for NeMLA 2024. Abstract submission deadline 30th September 2023

Please submit your abstracts for the panel Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia, which will feature at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston.

All abstracts need to be uploaded through the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20560

This panel will analyze autofiction and autotheory as contemporary literary genres still on the rise, with particular interest in putting the two in conversation with each other. 

Autofiction and autotheory continue to grow in popularity as forms of contemporary life writing. Despite their differences, these two genres share a concern in representations of selfhood and subjective experience that explicitly engage and are shaped by other literary and philosophical texts. Moreover, by emphasizing the intertextuality of lived experience, they both challenge (1) the perceived conventionality of more established life writing genres, such as memoir, and (2) everyday assumptions of unmediated, individual self-expression. 

Call for Papers

Transcending Boundaries – Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

TPSN Hybrid Conference

February 9-10, 2024 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and Online

Terisa Siagatonu knows a thing or two about not being afraid to rile up her audience. The Samoan American poet and Pacific Islander activist pushes listeners to reflect on what it means to come from a region of the world that is often misunderstood, if not altogether ignored. In “Atlas” (2018) she memorably writes:

If you open up any atlas

Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal

Janki Devi Memorial College 

University of Delhi 

eISSN 2583 - 4762 

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762. 

Call for Book Chapters to the forthcoming edited volume, Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India. The publisher of the edited volume is Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

Concept:

Call for papers:

Conference in education, linguistics, and digital technology

Possibility for Scopus indexed publication.

Venue: Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi- Georgia ( also on-line session)

Date: 22 September 2023

https://emf.euinstitute.net/

 emails: contact@eujournal.org Subject: EMF 2023

The editor of Batman… Also Starring is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. Many academic texts focus on Batman as a cultural figure in comics as well as in films, television programs, and video games. However, like all great superheroes, Batman is as much defined by his supporting cast as he is by his costume, abilities or origin. While there is no shortage of scholarship devoted to his most famous sidekicks — such as Nightwing, Batgirl or the many Robins — and his most popular villains — like Joker, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn — little critical attention has been paid to the majority of his cast.

During a roundtable discussion (now published in Journal18), scholars pointed out that visual culture emerged as a distinct methodology. Visual culture aims to problematize the Eurocentric, colonialist, racist, heteronormative, and patriarchal assumptions that enforced and continue to enforce the art historical discipline. This panel continues and expands these crucial conversations by exploring the relationship between art history and visual culture during the long eighteenth-century.

Awash in Digital Imagery: what next for traditional art and museums?
In this panel, we explore provocative questions related to the inevitable shifts that art makes in order to survive and thrive in the digital era. We consider the changes to our perceptions of art this shift enacts. We look for answers to the question of where art history finds itself as a discipline when some argue that art may have lost its Heideggerian thinginess?

Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion

Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places.  His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.

As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.

The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc

We are looking for proposals for 25-30 essays of 2500-3000 words (all inclusive) for the volume.