Genre and Video Games - Historical Fiction: Global Histories 

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “Historical Fiction” category of the collection.  

Genre and Video Games - Romance

We are seeking short chapters of approximately 2500-2700 words for an edited collection on literary genres in video games. We invite submissions for the “romance” category of the collection. 

This panel examines how the dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and class of Latinidad become negotiated by the performing arts. We consider Latine and Latin American performance not as a singular category, but as artistic acts specific to medium and lived experience. We intend to have a global and hemispheric perspective that focus on what performers do, be it live in front of an audience or for a recorded form. 

Creative Writing Studies Conference

Call for Papers/Presentations

November 15-17, 2024

Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA

Submit: https://forms.gle/rEppuokrzkfRaKiH7

CALL: Creative Writing in Crisis?

Call for papers----Looking for ethical and theological chapter abstracts for an upcoming book in Bloomsbury's Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series....book title: G.I. Joe, Theology, and Co-bra: Knowing (and Believing) Are Half the Battle.  Possible chapter ideas and themes available here. Abstracts due 21 October 2024.

Reading Kenneth White. Anthropoetry/anthropoiesis, experiencing the  earth and the living

| November 21-22, 2024, Maison SHS (CY Cergy Paris Université, France) / Médiathèque du Patrimoine et de la Photographie

Organizers : Peggy Pacini, Anne-Marie Petitjean(CY Cergy Paris Université, UMR Héritages) and Gérald Peloux (INALCO, IFRAE / CRCAO)

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit abstracts by AUGUST 10, 2024***

• Abstract Submission Link

International Conference on

The Trans- Phenomenon in Language, Literature, and Culture

November 15-16, 2024

Organized by the Department of English and Humanities

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

April 2–10, 2025

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany

Deadline for applications: October 1, 2024

With keynote lectures, workshops, and readings by

Mia Bay, Mehita Iqani, Angelika Linke, Anna Ripatti, Mithu Sanyal, Ashley Shew, Anne Schult, Ori Schwarz, and Robin Smith as well as Gabriele Schabacher and other members of our CRC.

Focusing on the role of differentiation and its significance for lived experience, the Collaborative Research Center 1482 “Studies in Human Differentiation” [Humandifferenzierung] invites you to apply for a spring school at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany in April 2025.

[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 31st issue. We accept:

• original research papers: 5,000 to 7,000 words including references and footnotes
• reviews: up to 2,000 words
• translations of literary texts: 5,000 to 7,000 words

Call for Papers

Volume 1, Issue 2

[The Apollonian is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that is published bi-annually.]

The Apollonian: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies seeks submissions for its sophomore issue (since its revival). The journal welcomes Academic Essays (within 5000 words), Short Essays (within 1500 words) and Book Reviews (within 2000 words). For the forthcoming issue, the submissions can be interdisciplinary, but must fall within the broader definition of humanities (and this also includes areas such as STEM and medical humanities, new media, visual cultures etc).

Book Reviews: 

In her seminal essay on body genres, Linda Williams characterizes embodied responses to film genres, citing shudders and screams as the products of horror and tears as the product of melodrama. Yet a great deal of horror scholarship has investigated the intimate allegorical relations between horror’s monsters and marginalized subject positions, as in canonical works such as Monsters in the Closet (Harry M. Benshoff) and Horror Noire (Robin R. Means Coleman). Studies have further explored how horror media function cathartically as relatively safe encounters with terror for those experiencing cultural prejudice, as seen in Isabel Cristina Pinedo’s Recreational Terror and Heather Petrocelli’s Queer for Fear.

How does medieval art define queerness and transness, and how do gendered performances of bodies and images shape one another? How do medieval sexualities and genders, fluid and porous, explicate and trouble modern ones? We invite papers that explore queer methodologies and medieval art, including visual cultures of animals, the humoral body, and the non-human. After the success of 2024’s Queer(ing) Medieval Art panels, this new panel seeks to expand our scope: we especially encourage papers examining secular, Jewish, or Islamic perspectives, architecture, non-elite archives, and/or queer intersections with race, religion, and ethnicity as visual/material expressions.

'Doctor Virtualis' 20 - Critical Thinking and the Middle Ages

The next issue of DV intends to investigate, in full coherence with the history of the journal and the tradition to which it has always been linked, the relationship between the Middle Ages, understood as an object of enquiry, but also as the subject of significant philosophical paths, and critical thought.

Televisual Dissidence in an Era of Information Warfare: Separatism, Terrorism and the Screen Media in Africa

Editors: Dr. Floribert Patrick C. Endong, University of Dschang, Cameroon 

               Dr. Augustus Onchari Nyakundi, Chuka University, Kenya

Concept Notes