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Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:21pm
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 29–31, 2024.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:21pm
John P. Wargacki
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 12, 2023

NeMLA 2024: 20717. Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond (Roundtable)American/Diaspora

Chair: John Wargacki (Seton Hall University)

This roundtable discussion addresses Hart Crane’s poetry and legacy in modernism

Please log in to the convention portal for additional details and to submit:  https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html 

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:18pm
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 27, 2023

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

 

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment 

 

Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.

 

Memory and Representation area of PCA/ACA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:17pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2024 National Conference in Chicago, Illinois, March 27-30, 2024.

 

Memory and Representation: Area Description

Reading Black Mirror

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:17pm
Oxford Brookes University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

CFP – Reading Black Mirror

RSAJournal Call for Special Section Proposals

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
RSAJournal - Journal of the Italian Association for North-American Studies (AISNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (https://www.aisna.net/journal/, currently transitioning to OJS), is seeking Special Section proposals for its #35 issue (publication date: September 2024). The Special Section revolves around one "leading edge" topic/concept in the field of American Studies and typically includes 6 journal-length essays by established as well as early career scholars.

Religion in the Global Age: The Irreplicable Human/-ities?

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Religion in the Global Age

The Religion in the Global Age panel at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture seeks papers that address the conference theme of "The Irreplacable Human/-ities?" within the framework of the analytic, scientific, or critical study of religion. In this panel, preference is given to papers focussed on comparative studies or on specific religions in the Global Age not otherwise represented by existing ISRLC panels. 

For Students by Students! An International Online Conference on Literature, Culture and Foreign Languages

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
For Students by Students
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

January 13, 2024. An International Online Conference on Literature, Culture and Foreign Languages

You want to test your presentation skills in a culturally diverse (and accepting) environment, and You can present in English, or You simply want to listen to presentations from the comfort of your home, and connect with people on these subjects from all around the world, If you are interested in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Literature or Language and Culture, or if: THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU!

Filiations and Affiliations: Bonds, Entanglements and Social Networks in African Literatures and Cultures

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
African Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Drawing its inspiration from Edward Said’s discussion of the ways in which texts become ‘worldly’ through a series of filiations and affiliations, the ALA invites papers and panels that address such relations in all their forms. What are the filial structures that a text brings to its readers? What kind of affiliative readings might a critic bring to the text to disrupt the filial ties? What are the stakes in engaging in the traffic between filiative and affiliative readings? Beyond considerations of (a)ffiliated critical practice, how do literary and other cultural texts represent filiations and affiliations and in what ways do they constitute such relations?

Call for Essays for Digital Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:16pm
Luz Elena Ramirez
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Greetings from California State University, San Bernardino. As the editor of the digital edition of the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Facts on File), I'm inviting scholars to contribute essays of approximately 1500-2000 words to this contracted and peer reviewed volume. The volume is scheduled to be published digitally in 2024/2025.  Deadline for proposals is 11/1/23.

Ways to contribute:
1) Research, write and submit for peer review one of the essay topics listed, a biography.
AND/OR
2) Serve as a peer reviewer–reviewers should have expertise/publishing/teaching/editing record in the field of Spanish American and or Latino literature. Each reviewer will read about 50-100 pages.

NeMLA 2024 - The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City

updated: 
Monday, October 9, 2023 - 3:12am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ‘Radiant City’, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis were a modernist, utopian vision of urban renewal. However, they quickly slid into disrepair and in 1972 were partially demolished in a nationwide, televised spectacle. The failure of Pruitt-Igoe shows us that the dystopia is always necessarily contained within the utopia: despite the intentions of its architect Minoru Yamasaki, in planning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, it was always destined to be a vision of 'functional' racial segregation by its federal ideators. Although the edict of racial segregation was thrown out by the Supreme Court, the dystopian seed had been planted, and serves as an exemplar for what a dystopia truly is: a utopia unraveled.

Southern Humanities Conference, Savannah, GA, Feb. 2-4, 2024

updated: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023 - 3:12pm
Southern Humanities Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

The Southern Humanities Conference, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Conference Theme: (Em)Body/Environment

Savannah, GA, February 1-4, 2024

 

The Southern Humanities Conference provides an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.

 

Frame Narratives: Then and Now (Seminar)

updated: 
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 1:12pm
55th Annual NeMLA Convention March 7-10, 2024 in Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Submit 200-300 word abstracts (with a short bio) via the NeMLA Portal | EXTENDED DEADLINE: October 15, 2023.

https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/CFP 

Please contact Ronny Litvack-Katzman (ronny.litvack-katzman@mail.mcgill.ca) or Adam Hill (adam.hill@mcgill.ca) with any questions.

Frame Narratives: Then and Now (Seminar)

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

updated: 
Friday, October 6, 2023 - 7:20am
Indraprastha: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies 

invites original and unpublished papers for its 2023 edition on the theme: 

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

 

Concept Note

Media Archaeology and Art

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:06am
MAST Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

Call For Submissions: MAST Journal Special Issue: Media Archaeology And Art

 

Deadline for full submissions: January 20th, 2024 (for publication in May 2024).

 

 Exploring the Intersections of Media Archaeology and Artistic Practice

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:06am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

Lock Stock..., Sexy Beast and the Contemporary British Gangster Film

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:06am
Matthew Melia and Katerina Flint-Nicol (Kingston and Falmouth Universities)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

Since the late 1990s the British gangster film (whose popularity peaked during the 1970s and again in the early 1980s with films such as Get Carter (1971) and The Long Good Friday (1980)) has undergone a series of re-inventions and re-appraisals. Two films are largely responsible for the cultural renaissance of the genre: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (Ritchie, 1998) which turned 25 in 2023 and Sexy Beast, which turns 25 in 2025.

“London Calling”: The British Capital in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:05am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.

London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression: Who Was that Masked Woman?

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 3:46pm
Gregory Bray/ State University of New York at New Paltz
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 5, 2023

We are looking to round out our collected volume of critical essays in American popular culture from 1865-1940,  that examine how women vigilantes, anti-heroines and outlaws of this era were represented in movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, theater, and pulp fiction.  We are seeking at least one additional chapter. The majority of the book is set, and we are in contract with a peer-review publisher.  We are on a tight deadline, so preference will be given to papers that are already in progress that are a good fit for this collection. 

Ninth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Ninth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium

Concordia University and McGill University

March 22nd-23rd, 2024


Submission deadline: December 1st, 2023

 

Keynote Faculty: Mary Esteve (Concordia) and Alexander Manshel (McGill)

                                                                                                      

Violence - “Cultural Carolina” Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
Languages, Literatures and Cultures’ Graduate Student Association (LLCGSA) Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Violence surrounds us, sometimes visibly (in times of conflict and wars, directly or mediated through images), and sometimes invisibly, as part of a statistic. With the increasingly extremist rhetoric on parts of the US political spectrum, the so-called “culture wars,” violent hate crimes against LBTQ+ people have surged in recent years. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacific-Asians and Asian-Americans were targeted because of xenophobia and conspiracy theories. Similarly, the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 were met with violent responses from authorities. Additionally, mass and school shootings hit an all-time high for two years in a row between 2021 and 2022.

American Literature Association 2024 Cormac McCarthy Sessions

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
Cormac McCarthy Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Call for Papers

Cormac McCarthy Society

 

 

American Literature Association 35th Annual

Conference

May 23-26, 2024

The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL   60603

 

 

The Cormac McCarthy Society welcomes proposals for papers on any topic related to Cormac McCarthy’s works

Due Date: January 1, 2024

Please send abstracts to Steven Frye at sfrye@csub.edu

Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
University of Leuven, Belgium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Authorship in a Global and Transnational Context30-31 May 2024, KU Leuven (Belgium)

[Visual and Material Culture] (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:05am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CFP: Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024

deadline for submissions: 

November 1, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

College English Association

contact email: 

eja12@psu.edu

Call for Papers, Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024

March 21-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia

The Westin Buckhead Atlanta

Deadline Extended: Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:05am
Rutgers University-Camden, Department of Childhood Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood to be held in Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024. This conference invites presentations that consider how different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to) governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged across children’s literature, media, and popular culture?

“WHO’S IN, WHO’S OUT”: COMMUNITY AND DIVERSITY IN SHAKESPEARE

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:05am
Shakespeare Seminar (German Shakespeare Society)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Time and again, Shakespeare demonstrates the frailty and contingency of the many historical and “imagined” communities (Anderson) that feature in his works. Many of his plays revolve around the conflict between individuals and society, depicting the bonds between friends, lovers, family members or even whole nations being put to the test by desire, jealousy, and ambition. If Shakespeare’s communities are unstable to begin with, then discussions of diversity bring to light that very instability even further. His works have been both hailed for showcasing the universality of human nature and critiqued for implicitly reinforcing a Western, Eurocentric world view.

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