fan studies and fandom

Bonkbusters and Soap Operas: Representing Sex, Glamour, and Melodrama on Screen 

Saturday 21st June 2025 

Falmouth University 

This freein-person symposium will be an interdisciplinary and global exploration of Bonkbusters, Soap Operas and Made-for-TV Melodramas. 

The Superhero Project: 9th Global Meeting 

THE MULTIVERSAL SUPERHERO 

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th September 2025 

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Anyone can wear the mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn’t know that before, I hope you do now. Cuz I’m Spider-Man. And I’m not the only one. Not by a long shot”. – Miles Morales, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)  

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

Thursday, November 20 - Sunday, November 23

San Francisco, California  |  InterContinental Hotel San Francisco

Abstracts due May 15, 2025

June 26-28, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://swpaca.org/

Submissions open on March 25, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2025

Ann Radcliffe
Academic Conference
For Academic Researchers across the Horror Genre!

The Seventh Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2025

CALL FOR INITIAL PAPERS

​Conference Date: Friday, June 13, 2025

​Conference Location: Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Center

1 First Stamford Pl

Stamford, CT 06902

​The 2025 StokerCon convention is eager to channel the creative potential of Stamford’s history, culture, and communities.

Across a career spanning over 40 years, French-born filmmaker Leos Carax has firmly established himself as one of the most unique and innovative voices in modern European cinema. After a period writing criticism for Cahiers du Cinéma while he was still a teenager, Carax released his debut film Boy Meets Girl (1984) at age 23 to international acclaim. Carax followed up on this early promise with the futuristic neo-noir Mauvais Sang (1986), the romantic drama Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), and the Herman Melville adaptation Pola X (1999).

The MLA Drama and Performance Forum is currently accepting proposals for the two panels it is sponsoring for the 2026 conference in Toronto: https://www.mla.org/Events/2026-MLA-Convention.

Crowd Work: Audiences in Drama and Performance

How do drama and performance engage audiences as spectators and participants? What work does the audience do and how is it negotiated across local, transnational, economic, generic, or mediatized performance and reception contexts?

Please submit brief bios and 200-word proposals.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 21 March 2025

We live in an age of optimization. Norms of beauty and performance are relentlessly getting harder to achieve without modifying the psychophysiology of human beings. Humans are faced with choices and demands regarding increasing and reducing the size, mass, and weight of different body parts and the modification of the way they function. The normal no longer means the common, it means the optimal. From special diets and extreme workouts to silicon injections and from plastic surgery to brain chips, the human body is transforming into a workshop for different arts and technologies. The cosmetic surgery market, for example, is worth more than 57 billion dollars and is expected to continue to grow very fast.

Call for WrestlePosium VI Proposals

When Worlds Collide:  Business, Culture, Politics, and the Future Professional Wrestling

The President of the PWSA invites submissions for the association’s WrestlePosium VI. This symposium seeks to bring academic scholarship to the Wrestlemania festivities by connecting wrestling scholars around the world to present their research and ideas.

This virtual symposium will happen online on Saturday, April 26th, 2025, a week after WrestleMania.  For more on the WrestlePosium series, visit: 

Special issue of The Canadian Journal of Communication

Edited by Kisha McPherson, Natalie Coulter, and Marion Tempest Grant

While the EAAS’ "West of the Rest" research network will be represented with a total of three panels at the the 28th Biennial Conference of AISNA Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord Americani, we are specifically looking for contributions to our panel dedicated to video games: "Videogame Wests: Playing (at) the Frontier". Since there is the opportunity to have fresh research on video game Wests published as part of this venture, we invite everyone interested to pitch a paper. Please feel free to (re)share the enclosed cfp with interested parties. The panel is coordinated by Michael Fuchs (University of Innsbruck) and Stefan "Steve" Rabitsch (University of Oslo). Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N.

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by May 1, 2025. Chapters will be due by September 15, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Call for Papers: LEARNING FROM FEAR

The University of Memphis English Department will host a graduate student conference, Learning From Fear, on April 25th-26th, 2025, in Memphis, Tennessee. This conference aims to appeal to a variety of disciplines and interests, including rhetoric, communication, film and media studies, creative writing, linguistics, African American literature, museum studies, philosophy, graphic design, pop culture studies, psychology, educational studies, and web development. 

Key Research Questions