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East Asian Popular Culture Studies: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 7:43am
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Conference

East Asian Studies

 

Deadline: April 30, 2023

 

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

East Asian Popular Culture: Call for Completed Chapters to Publish in Cambridge Scholars Volume

updated: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 7:43am
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 27, 2023

Call for East Asia Popular Culture Full Essays! 7-8000 words, including all citations in Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date)

We have a publishing project in development with Cambridge Scholars Publishing and need a few supplementary chapters to round out our volume.

Deadline: Monday, March 27th

Contact: Vivienne Tailor vivienne.tailor@cgu.edu

*Topics should focus on East Asian Popular Culture media and social phenomena from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

James Bond Studies Conference, June 30th-July 1st 2023

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:23am
International Journal of James Bond Studies, University of Roehampton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Call for Papers: James Bond Studies Conference

30th June – 1st July 2023

University of Roehampton, London

 

In association with the Centre for Literature and Inclusion and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, the International Journal of James Bond Studies will host a 2-day international conference on the University’s beautiful parkland campus in South West London.

Cozy Games and Coziness in Digital Games

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:10am
Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies invites all scholars to submit articles concerning cozy games and coziness in games.

The Mysterious Mrs Christie: Evidence, Elusion, Afterlives

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:58am
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

A 1.5-day international conference at the University of Exeter and Exeter Library (UK)

 

12-13 September 2023

  

 

Keynote Speakers: Dr Mark Aldridge, Solent University and Prof. Michelle M. Kazmer, Florida State University

 

Transmedia Monsters and Villains

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 6:06pm
Dr. Antonio Sanna
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

TRANSMEDIA MONSTERS AND VILLAINS

Rereading Elden Ring

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 7:31pm
The University of Virginia Department of English Speakers’ Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

With its massive world, open-ended quests, and near-limitless options for customization, Elden Ring––the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022––is designed to be replayed. But it is also a text that demands to be reread. Whether we study its environmental storytelling or the lore in item descriptions, the game’s fragmented narrative fuels exegeses that resemble the long history of Biblical interpretation, midcentury criticism of modernist enigmas like Ulysses, and hermeneutic fandoms surrounding popular culture like Twin Peaks. Its spatiotemporally disjunctive universe frustrates efforts to interpret its world “realistically” and prompts one to place it in dialogue with theories of unconventional space and time.

Call for articles | (Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 10:27am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Special dossier | edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This two-part dossier, co-edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

 

Springer Encyclopaedia: New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 4:22am
Christ University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE: We require five more short essays (1,500 words); the deadline is extended until March 22, 2023. A limited amount of space is also still available for long essays (3,000 words). Please inquire at the earliest if interested.

Springer Encyclopaedia of New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:31pm
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

Games and Language Conference - Debrecen, Hungary

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:00am
The Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen, Hungary
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen, Hungary invites you to participate in the conference titled

“Games and Language”

Debrecen, Hungary 20-21 Oct, 2023

ReFocus: The Films of Jackie Chan

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:43pm
Calum Waddell
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 5, 2023

Calum Waddell (University of Aberdeen) and Chenyu Lin (University of Cardiff) are seeking to put together an edited collection Jackie Chan with the ReFocus series at Edinburgh University Press. This is a Call for Papers for a book on the work of Jackie Chan as filmmaker (NOT actor).

The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series

updated: 
Monday, March 6, 2023 - 8:34pm
University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 11, 2023

The Many Manifestations of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Series

Taormina, Sicily

July 10-12, 2023

 

Sponsored by the University of Arkansas and Società cooperativa Taormina immagine

 

MLA 24: Milton's Networks, Transhistorical and Global (EXTENDED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Saturday, March 4, 2023 - 2:46pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

 The Milton Society of America invites papers that locate Milton’s writings in different networks across periods and boundaries. Potential topics include adaptation, influence, and translation. Please send a brief abstract (approximately 200 words) and an abbreviated cv to Eric Song (esong1@swarthmore.edu) no later than March 15, 2023.

Call for Proposals: Board Game Academics conference and journal

updated: 
Friday, March 3, 2023 - 7:46am
Board Game Academics
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Update: The submission deadline for proposals has been extended to March 31, 2023. 

The Board of Board Game Academics (BGA) is pleased to announce that we will hold our first annual academic conference. BGA is a new journal and conference dedicated to the exploration of critical issues within the distinct yet overlapping communities of tabletop board and role-playing games.

While these communities are expanding, players, creators, and scholars of tabletop board and role-playing games have traditionally been late to addressing and including diverse representations and perspectives.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SEXINESS/ SEXISM

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 1:40am
National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Sexiness/ Sexism

What is your first thought when hearing someone is “sexy”? What images spring to your mind? Why and how? Do you relate it to bodies, desires, genders, or sex? Do you think “sexiness” is a kind of “sexism”? Or are you trying to deconstruct this association and find more possibilities to open our senses?

We’re soliciting work in three categories:

-Literary analysis using Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
e.g. Reading Chang Xiao-Hung’s Fashioning Modernity

- Reviews of mass media, films, literature, etc.
e.g. The representation of sexiness in K-pop music
e.g. Voguing category: sex siren

-Creative Writing
e.g. short stories reconceiving sexiness

Edited Collection -- Disability and the Vampire

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 8:26pm
Brooke Cameron / Queen's University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CFP: edited collection -- Disability and the Vampire

Dr. Brooke Cameron (Queen’s University), Peadar O’Dea (Maynooth University) and Adam Owsinski (Charles Darwin University) invite proposals for chapters that explore the connections between vampires and disability, from history to modern cultural and popular representations.

Project Description:

Midwest MPCA/ACA Conference Fan Studies 2023

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:25am
Midwest Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 Deadline for submission proposals: 30 April 2023

 Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels 

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

 Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023

DePaul University

 

Address/Phone:

DePaul Center

1 E. Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 362-8000

 

In Other Worlds/ 9th Annual English Graduate Conference

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:20am
Queens College English MA Program
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 6, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ninth Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference

 

IN OTHER WORLDS

 

Conference Dates: March 29/30, 2023

Submission Deadline: March 6, 2023

 

Multiverse Convention 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:21am
Multiverse Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Multiverse Convention 2023

Event Date & Location: October 20-22, 2023, Westin Atlanta Perimeter North

 

Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2023

 

Name of Organization: Multiverse Convention

 

Organization Website: https://www.multiversecon.org

 

Contact Email: Rhonda Jackson Joseph, Learn@Multiversecon.org

 

CONVENTION THEME:

 

The Sixth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:20am
Horror Writers Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Sixth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2023

Conference Date: Friday, June 16, 2023

Conference Location: Station Square Hotel, 300 W Station Square Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Conference Website: https://www.stokercon.com

The 2023 StokerCon ® convention in Pittsburgh promises to be a banner event. In addition to
celebrating the birthplace of many aspects of modern horror, this year also represents the
bicentenary of Ann Radcliffe’s death, and the publication of the 2nd edition of Frankenstein, the
first to bear Mary Shelley’s name.

Call for Papers (Updated): 9th Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference, 2-4 June, Irving, TX

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:35am
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce a Call for Papers for submissions to the Ninth Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in the Las Colinas area of Irving, TX, 2-4 June 2023.

Fandom for us includes all aspects of being a fan, ranging from being a passive audience member to producing one’s own parafictive or interfictive creations. Neomedia includes both new media as it is customarily defined as well as new ways of using and conceptualizing traditional media.

Original Cast Recordings: art, artefact and analysis

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:30am
AHRC Research Network (University of Portsmouth/National Science and Media Museum, UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: ART, ARTEFACT AND ANALYSIS


 

An international, interdisciplinary, virtual conference organised by the
AHRC-funded ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’ Network

 

Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023

Online platform to be announced

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Laurence Maslon (Tisch, New York University)
Author of Broadway to Main Street: How Showtunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press)

 

RMMLA Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:28am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.

 

Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu

 

Location: Golden/Denver, CO

Dates: October 11-14, 2023

 

Costs:

RMMLA membership: $35/year

Conference registration: $85 by April 1

Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)

Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Sports Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:28am
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The Sports Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historic sports media texts, players, teams, broadcasting personalities and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract at  https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels . The deadline for submission is April 30, 2023.

 

Midwest PCA/ACA Conference Star Trek Studies 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:23am
Midwest Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels 

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

 

Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023

DePaul University

 

Address/Phone:

DePaul Center

1 E. Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 362-8000

 

Writing Worlds, Worlds Writing: New textualities and their online lives

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:18am
St. Joseph's University, Bangalore, India
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 25, 2023

WRITING WORLDS, WORLDS WRITING: NEW TEXTUALITIES AND THEIR ONLINE LIVES 

20 – 25 March 2023 

A national conference organized by  the Department of English, St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore 

Call for Papers/Posters 

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