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(NeMLA 2024 seminar) Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
NeMLA 2024 (Sarah Beyvers, Jonathan Rose)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract to our seminar "Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative" at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston. The deadline for submissions is September 30 2023.

 

Please submit your abstract here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20454

 

Session abstract:

VI International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:16am
FANTAELX
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023

VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON FANTASTIC GENRE, AUDIOVISUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies is an activity of scientific and academic dissemination that is part of Elche International Fantastic Film Festival – FANTAELX, with the collaboration of Miguel Hernández University. Its mission is to disseminate research studies within the different thematic lines of the Fantastic Genre, covering all its possible variants and platforms: cinema, television, theatre, literature, comics, videogames, virtual reality, plastic arts, etc.

PARTICIPATION

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

updated: 
Wednesday, July 12, 2023 - 9:50am
Kieran Foster/Cassie Brummitt
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS: EDITED COLLECTION

 

Fright Nights: Live Horror Events

Editors: Kieran Foster, University of Nottingham (UK), and Cassie Brummitt, University of Nottingham (UK)

 

Call for Papers: Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters"

updated: 
Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 4:21pm
University of Alcala
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Call for Papers: Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters"

Dates: November 15-17, 2023

Location: University of Alcala, Madrid, Spain

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce the Symposium on "The Identity of Fictional Characters" as part of the "International Comic Book Research Conference: Perspectives from Visual Culture." This symposium aims to delve into the nature of fictional characters, with a specific emphasis on exploring how the identity conditions of characters in visual media, such as comic books, differ from those in written works of fiction.

Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

updated: 
Friday, June 30, 2023 - 9:37am
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 7, 2023

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* Poetry & Poetry Studies at MAPACA 2023

 

November 9-11, 2023

Philadelphia, PA

 

The Poetry and Poetry Studies area at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA) seeks creative and critical proposals for this year’s annual conference.

 

Sports Fandom

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:31pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Sports Fandom

The story of ‘Once upon a time’: A celebration of 100 years of Disney

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 2:21pm
Amanda Rutherford, Auckland University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 14, 2023

The fairy tales, as part of early oration and text, were created for adults and recited to peers in the literary salons (Zipes, 1989). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, authors such as Basile, Perrault, and d’Aulnoy collected and narrated several of the tales still known today, and from the 1700s, de Villeneuve, the Grimm brothers, Anderson, and others continued to popularise the genre. Over time these tales have been re-written and re-visioned, so that the imaginary worlds depicted, are filled with magic and fantastical beings, while becoming useful vehicles for teaching behaviour, values, and morals.

Edited volume on films and TV series written and created by Jon Favreau

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:27pm
Guy Nicolucci/Montclair State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023


Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection
 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

 

 

deadline for submissions: 

August 15, 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Guy Nicolucci/Montclair State University

contact email: 

guynicolucci@gmail.com

 

DEADLINE APPROACHING -- CFP: Edited collection on Doctor Who and films and TV series created by Steven Moffat

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:26pm
UC Riverside Palm Desert
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

CFP: Edited volume on films and TV series created by Steven Moffat deadline for submissions: June 30, 2023 full name / name of organization: William Rabkin / UC Riverside Palm Desert contact email: wrabkin@aol.com 

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Steven Moffat
Edited by William Rabkin

CfP: Special Issue of The Journal of Popular Television on Ted Lasso (2020-)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:25pm
Sabrina Mittermeier
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Ted Lasso (2020-) is (ostensibly) a half-hour comedy that follows a basic fish-out-of-water plot: its titular American football coach coming to manage fictional English Premier League team A.F.C. Richmond – despite knowing nothing of the sport. But over its (so far) three-season run, the show morphed into a dramedy and eventually, an hour-long ensemble piece rivalling many other “prestige TV” productions. A pandemic sleeper hit, it put streaming service Apple TV+ on the map, winning it many loyal subscribers and countless awards; a curious feat for a show based on a series of humorous ads to promote football (soccer) on NBC Sports.

Fans and Their Fandoms: When Television Becomes Personal (NeMLA 2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2023 - 1:19pm
Kyle Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel seeks to explore various ways fans have influenced the shows they watch through various online platforms, including online communities and social media. Please submit 150-250 word abstracts that clearly show how your proposed topic fits with this session via this link: Submit to NeMLA by September 30. 

NeMLA 2024- Uncharted Horror Media Takeover! How Lesser-known Media Is Influencing the Genre

updated: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 3:08pm
Jiwon Ohm / University at Buffalo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Horror has been analyzed in literature and film endlessly. But in this modern age of surplus, more niche and obscure mediums for horror have been taking the reigns. With so much media at our fingertips and so readily accessible, film and literature are influenced by independent creations. Video games, web Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), music, Internet culture, and international media have led to the development and evolution of American mainstream horror in the past couple of years. More traditional outlets for terror like books and movies have become stale and formulaic due to Capitalism, restricted to producing what is only guaranteed to be profitable, causing the traditional mediums to take note of these newer forms of scary storytelling.

Imaginary Beings

updated: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:40am
Imagining the Impossible: international journal for the fantastic in contemporary media
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

“We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe, but there is something in the image of the dragon that is congenial to man’s imagination… It is, one might say, a necessary monster” – Jorge Luis Borges.

 

Science and Technology in Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:26am
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Science and Technology area of NEPCA encourages proposals for presentations that explore the relation of science and technology (broadly defined) to popular culture and to American culture. We are particularly interested in putting science, technology, culture, and the humanities in conversation with one another. How are science and technology represented in popular culture? How do we use popular culture to understand science and technology? And how do we use science and technology to understand narratives, art, and culture? What do we gain, what do we risk by approaching science and technology from the lens of the humanities, the humanities from the lens of science, by putting these disciplines in conversation with each other? 

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) 2023 conference

updated: 
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 4:25am
Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Call for Participation

Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2023 (virtual)

October 11-15, 2023

 

RE: FANDOM

Fan Studies Network North America 2023

 

The 2023 Conference

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

updated: 
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 7:17am
Christ University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

REOPENED CFP: We are happy to report that the Encyclopedia is now live on the Springer website (see attached link). We are open to accepting a few more articles for the Cultural Studies section: if interested, please send in your proposals by June 1, 2023. Your proposed article may focus on any topic of your choice that examines populism through a Cultural Studies methodology. 

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

As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times, 1-2 December 2023, Sofia University

updated: 
Wednesday, May 24, 2023 - 5:08am
Department of English and American Studies, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times

01 – 02 December 2023

St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

  

A forum dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the

Department of English and American Studies &

the 135th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

 

Keynote Speakers

Fans, Fandoms, and Celebrity Studies - Northeast PCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2023

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:40am
Northeast Popular and American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Fans, Fandoms, and Celebrity Studies Area invites presentation submissions for NEPCA’s hybrid conference to be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 in-person at Nichols College and virtually, via the Zoom platform.

This area encourages submissions that focus on interrogating the ideas and the ideals of fans and fandoms, and why we idolize celebrities. We welcome submissions from all theoretical and philosophical perspectives. We are open to submissions in any area of fan and celebrity studies including but not limited to:

Graphic Horizons: The Future of Comics and Creativity in an Intermedial World

updated: 
Friday, May 19, 2023 - 11:40am
University of Adelaide
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 9, 2023

The futures of comics, graphic narratives, webcomics and related intermedial forms are rapidly transforming. Digital technologies like virtual reality and artificial intelligence are impacting the ways we imagine visuality, storytelling and creativity. Alongside the still- emerging potentials of smart phones, social media and streaming media, there is a shifting, dizzying horizon for the future of creating and consuming graphic/visual narratives.

Monstrous New Orleans

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:58am
Popular Culture Association South
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

New Orleans is known as one of the most haunted cities in the U.S. and as a haven for vampires (thank you, Anne Rice), but there are so many more monsters there than ghosts and vampires. With such a rich tradition of magic and the paranormal, New Orleans dazzles artists and scholars alike, inviting us all into the mysteries. To celebrate the dark depths of the city, PCAS welcomes papers or presentations that explore the monsters and the monstrous that roam the streets and psyches of New Orleans. 

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE--CFP for The Works and Influences of Charles Portis: A Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, May 9, 2023 - 4:53am
Kevin Jones/University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 19, 2023

The Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing, and Media Communication and the Department of History, Social Sciences & Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

The Works and Influence of Charles Portis: A Symposium

November 2-5,  2023 

A Call for Papers on the Works and Influence of author, veteran, journalist, bureau chief, and Arkansawyer, Charles Portis for a Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.  In celebration of the May 2023 publication of the Library of America series, The Collected Works of Charles Portis, edited by Jay Jennings, this symposium explores the writing and cultural influence of Portis.  

[Deadline Extended] Games and Language Conference - Debrecen, Hungary

updated: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023 - 12:25pm
The Institute of English and American Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Debrecen, Hungary
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

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

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference: Adaptations Area

updated: 
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 4:32pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference: Adaptations Area

 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8000

 

Shifting Landscapes: Class and Capitalism in Literature, Film, and Culture

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

The rapidly shifting landscape of capitalism in our current moment requires that we resituate our analyses of texts and sites of cultural production with the intent to question categories of class and overarching capitalist structures. Echoing theorists such as Jonathan Beller whose work attends to novel developments in capitalist economic formation, this seminar seeks to examine the place of texts within a constantly changing capitalist landscape. With this in mind, this seminar responds to the ways in which accumulation, commodification, distribution, and markets become specialized economies, such as the information economy, attention economy, and surveillance capitalism, to name a few.

Essays on Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:53am
Stephanie Hedge
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Essays on Indie Tabletop Roleplaying Games

This edited collection will be a part of McFarland & Company, Inc.’s Studies in Gaming series. It will be peer reviewed.

CFP: DEADLINE EXTENDED Stardom and Fandom, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon Virtual Conference

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:50am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 22, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

STARDOM & FANDOM

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023

 

 

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