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Bad Art (Vol. 2)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
Ian Afflerbach / SAMLA (Jacksonville, 2024)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

After the encouraging success of last year’s panel, we want to continue our discussion on “bad art.”  We are not interested in "bad" as a judgment of quality or technique, but rather "bad" as a judgment of ethics or politics.

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS: IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
IULM
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Electricdreams - Between fiction and society III / CONFLICTS AND MARGINS:  IMAGINING OTHERNESS, ECOCATASTROPHES, PERPETUAL WAR, TECHNOLOGICAL IMBALANCE, AND SYSTEMIC INJUSTICE THROUGH SPECULATIVE FICTION

Call for papers for an international in-person three-day conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 9-10-11, 2024. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

 Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, performative arts, cultural studies.

To Make a Short Story Long: Theories of Adapting Short Fiction

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:45pm
Glenn Jellenik/University of Central Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The adaptation of short stories goes back to the beginning of cinema and continues today, yet the practice receives relatively little critical attention. While much energy has been spent theorizing film adaptation of the novel, there exists virtually no systematic treatment of the practice of adapting short fiction.[1] Despite this lack, a close look suggests that the adaptation of short fiction represents differences of kind, and not just of degree, from that of the novel, differences that yield fertile ground for the adaptation-critic.

Enfreakment in (Transnational) North American Culture

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:44pm
American Studies Leipzig
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 28, 2024

Conference at Leipzig University, Germany
Institute for American Studies

22-23 May 2025

Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert

Open Call for Papers - European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)

updated: 
Monday, June 24, 2024 - 1:40pm
European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Open Call for Papers – European Journal of Theatre and Performance (EJTP)


 

EJTP currently welcomes submissions for the Essays Section for Issue 8. This issue will feature one of EJTP’s “open” Essays Sections (instead of a “themed” one), which means that authors can submit contributions on a topic of their choice. If interested, send your article by 15 July 2024 to ejtp_editors@eastap.com

Strange Bedfellows

updated: 
Thursday, June 20, 2024 - 11:16am
Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference 2024

Call for Papers: Strange Bedfellows

 

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows”

          - William Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

Dune — From Herbert’s to Villeneuve’s (PAMLA, roundtable) **LAST CALL**

updated: 
Wednesday, June 19, 2024 - 5:27pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) (Annual Convention, Palm Springs, California / November 6-10, 2024 (entirely in-person), http://www.pamla.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

PAMLA will meet next within a year of the sixtieth anniversary of Frank Herbert’s Dune, which appeared in August of 1965. We will also be within a year since the appearance of the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s widely praised adaptation of it, in anticipation of part three of his projected trilogy adapting its sequel Dune Messiah (1969).

Call for Reviews

updated: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024 - 9:29am
Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Call for Reviews

 

For 2025 Journal Publication

We are pleased to announce a call for reviews for Volume 4 of our journal to be published in 2025.

 

Indian Literatures and Cultures: New Theories and Reflections:

updated: 
Friday, June 14, 2024 - 10:14pm
Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Indian Literatures and Cultures: New Theories and Reflections:  An International Conference organized by  The Department of English, Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University, Purulia Dates: September 11 and 12, 2024 The evolution of the studying and understanding of Indian Literatures and Cultures has always accompanied the global social, political or aesthetic theories. Starting from assuming nationalist trends in determining the horizons of Indian literature rooted to ancient myths, legends or epics and creating a cultural heritage against the superiority of the colonialist culture, various theories of determining the “Indianness” of the Indian literature and culture have been invoked.

Bible and Contemporary Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 - 11:00am
Postscripts -- Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts, Cultural Histories, and Contemporary Contexts, one of the major global publications exploring the reception history of religious texts, is making plans for a special issue devoted to the Bible and Contemporary Fiction

I will serve as the guest editor.

I hope to feature 4-6 essays (8000 words each, including references) on how biblical patterns, themes, and trajectories surface in works of contemporary fiction, broadly construed, from the non-western as well as western world.

Crossed Borders, Changed Lives: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Immigrant & Refugee Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:37pm
Deborah De Rosa @NIU University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Crossed Borders, Changed Lives: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Immigrant & Refugee Literature seeks scholarly and artistic articles for publication in a collection that focuses on depictions of images of immigrants and refugees in American Young Adult (YA) novels published, preferably after 2001 (9/11).

 

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**Extended Deadline** PAMLA 2024 Panel: Fantasy and the Fantastic

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:33pm
Kristin Noone / Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

**Extended DEadline - June 16**

Fantasy and the supernatural, broadly defined, shape many popular narratives and universes—from Lord of the Rings to Game of Thrones, from World of Warcraft to The Witcher, from classical and medieval tales of monsters and dragons to the worlds of N.K. Jemisin, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, and Ursula K. Le Guin. As a genre, fantasy engages with questions of rhetoric, identity, and power in multiple ways, across media, subgenres, and cultural traditions; the enchantment of fantastic and supernatural narratives casts a persistent and global spell.

The Historicities of Securities and Peace

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:30pm
Centre for Studies of Conflict, Philipps University Marburg (Germany)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

Zentrumstage 2024

The Historicities of Security and Peace

Philipps University Marburg (Germany)

October 9-11, 2024

Deadline for paper submission is June 16, 2024

Conference Topic

Girlhood and Menstruation, Special Issue of Peitho

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:30pm
Jen Almjeld
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Peitho, Summer 2025:

Girlhood and Menstruation            

 

Intercultural Conversations: Collaboration, Exchange and Transformation in Literary and Cultural Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:29pm
Dr Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

This volume of essays would like to celebrate the role played by writers and other artists in initiating the kind of intercultural conversations necessary to transcend the political, geographical and cultural borders erected in the name of nationalism. The collection is based on a conference held on the theme in April 2024. I have a contract with a publisher and am looking for a final few essays to complete the collection.

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
University of Nottingham/Fear2000
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

One, two, Freddy’s coming for you…

A Nightmare on Elm Street @ 40
Hosted by The University of Nottingham in association with Fear2000
8-9 November 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Dr Bruna Foletto Lucas (Kingston University)

Dr Steve Jones (Northumbria University)

 

Special Guests

Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (screenwriters of Freddy vs Jason)

 

The Aesthetics of Disaster

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:27pm
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

The Aesthetics of Disaster

Special Editor: Lucia Morawska (Richmond, The American International University in London)

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 77 (2/2026)

Submission deadline: 30 September 2025

Utopian Hawthorne

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Nathaniel Hawthorne Review
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

New Perspectives on Hawthorne and Utopia

Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, Spring, 2025

Editors: Monika Elbert and Andrew Loman

In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne writes, “The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably found it among their  earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison” (CE 1:47). This famous sentence deploys a number of key terms – the colony, virtue, happiness, projection, necessity, virginity, the cemetery, the prison – all of them interlinked with the sentence’s key term, Utopia.

CfP (Edited Book Volume): Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts [BKCI indexed]

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Kunstuniversität Linz
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts 

Wir laden herzlich zur Einreichung von Beiträgen für unseren geplanten Sammelband über Österreichische Kunst, Kultur und Literatur des 20./21. Jahrhunderts ein. Dieser Band strebt an, eine umfassende Analyse und Diskussion über bedeutende kulturelle Entwicklungen und künstlerische Strömungen Österreichs im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert zu präsentieren. Wir begrüßen Beiträge aus den Bereichen Kulturwissenschaft, Kunsthistorik, Germanistik sowie aus angrenzenden Disziplinen und freuen uns auf Ihre vielfältigen Einsendungen und danken Ihnen im Voraus für Ihr Interesse und Ihre Mitarbeit.

Seen/Unseen: American Mythos of Madness and Consequences of Stigma

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:26pm
Kelley Walker/ South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Even today in the age of political correctness and amidst cancel culture censures, people with mental disorders are one of the few social groups still to be consistently misrepresented, ostracized, and demeaned. The social consequences of stigmatization should be studied through autobiographical narrative acts to reveal what it means to live with mental illness in America. By utilizing everyday language and literary tropes, mental illness life narratives humanize portrayals of mental disorder; by doing so, they appeal to the sympathies of broader audiences than medical narratives, such as case studies or examples in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions for Issue 24.2

updated: 
Tuesday, June 11, 2024 - 3:25pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Femspec seeks both scholarly and creative submissions for its upcoming Issue 24.2.

Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist academic journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.

Creative writing submissions could include short fiction, poetry, or experimental forms.

To submit work for consideration, please review Femspec’s submission guidelines at the following link: SUBMISSION GUIDELINES | Femspec

CfP: Connections, Interconnections and Disconnections Pt2

updated: 
Thursday, June 6, 2024 - 12:59pm
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Journal Articles Now Open

Every year after our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for consideration for publication. 

We are now inviting submissions for part two of the theme 'connections, interconnections, and disconnections'. To be published in Volume 3 of the Journal of Festival Culture Inquiry and Analysis by the end of 2024, 

Whether ancient or modern, we continue to examine festival culture around the world. Papers should explore how these connections, interconnections, and disconnections may shape and influence cultural practices, traditions, and norms.

 

Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities

updated: 
Wednesday, June 5, 2024 - 1:40pm
Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CFP for an Edited Volume: Muslim Who? (Re)Making Gendered Identities

Editors: Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Sabah Firoz Uddin

Submission Deadline Extended to June 30, 2024

Project Description:

In this edited volume, we invite scholarly essays that examine the relationship between gender and Muslim identities as it is (re)presented in political spaces, visual cultures, and sociopolitical discourses. Some of the questions this volume seeks to examine are:

  • How is the idea of gender mobilized to in/de/form Muslim identities, both within and outside Muslim communities?

CfP: Form and Its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 8:06pm
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences (Duke University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Form and its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

 

Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. 

— Georges Bataille, Informe (“Formless”), 1929

 

British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:33am
Journal for the Study of British Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

British Marxism and Cultural Studies Today

Call for Contributions

Journal for the Study of British Cultures 32.2 (2025)

edited by Sebastian Berg & Claus-Ulrich Viol

 

CfP Journal of Historical Fictions

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 11:20am
Journal of Historical Fictions / Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

CfP Journal of Historical Fictions

 

The Journal of Historical Fictions,journal of the international Historical Fictions Research Network, is currently accepting submissions.

 

MMLA Spring 2025 Journal

updated: 
Tuesday, June 4, 2024 - 9:48am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

In the last four years, we have collectively witnessed an increasing number of uprisings, growing social movements, and calls for solidarity. Following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, for example, we saw calls for solidarity in the uprisings against police violence and the systemic, pervasive white supremacy that has structured our social institutions. As COVID-19 eviction moratoriums lifted in 2021, we saw solidarity between tenants and unhoused people in movements for housing rights. In May 2022, the Supreme Court’s reversal of the Roe v.

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