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The Fourth Annual Dartmouth Illustration, Comics and Animation Conference. May 26th and 27th, 2018.
Scholars, artists, and researchers at all levels are encouraged to submit a paper related to the following areas:
The deadline for submissions has been extended to Wednesday, November 1, 2017.
The peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal Otherness: Essays and Studies is now accepting submissions for its special issue: Otherness and Transgression in Fan and Celebrity Studies, Autumn 2017.
Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes research articles from and across different scholarly disciplines that critically examine the concepts of otherness and alterity. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary study.
In Search of the Hero(es) within the Genre and Beyond
“A Hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.”
- Joseph Campbell
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties, the less leisure will she have for it even as an accomplishment and a recreation.
--- Robert Southey to Charlotte Brontë, 1837
Invited keynote: (provisional) Professor Alexis Easley, St Thomas University, Minnesota.
Proposals due 21 September. Papers to be presented 28 March to 1 April in Los Angeles, California, USA
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association Science and Technology Studies Area
Call for Papers
The Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for its new Science and Technology Studies Area. This area will examine the interaction between the fields of science and technology and fandom and neomedia, broadly construed, so topics may include but are not limited to:
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association Military Studies Area
Call for Papers
It is our pleasure to announce a Call for Papers for the new Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association Military Studies Area. This area will examine the interplay between the military and media, broadly construed.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
FANS Law and Politics Call for Papers
The Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association, an internationally recognized academic organization, invites article submissions to its Law and Politics Studies Area with this Call for Papers.
Topics in this area include but are not limited to:
Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association Health and Biology Studies Area
Call for Papers
It is our pleasure to announce a Call for Papers for the new Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Association Health and Biology Studies Area. This area will examine the interplay between health, medical, and biology topics and fandom and media studies, broadly construed to include both physical and mental health.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
In a society defined by digital experiences, the online makeup tutorial democratizes the “American dream,” making it accessible to all—all who can find an audience of followers/subscribers, that is. It connects YouTube celebrities who promote makeup-challenge tags and offer advice to their subscribers/followers and helps bring individuals into a larger virtual community. It further promotes what constitutes intimacy in modern society via cross channel communication between “YouTubers” and interactive on-screen dialogue with channel subscribers, who can gain further “intimacy” with their makeup gurus through additional outlets like Snapchat and Twitter.
Portal Fantasies offer a unique way to comment on the current political situation, in their capacity as invented worlds with a permeable gateway to our own. The portal can act as a funhouse mirror, reflecting our own world back to us in grotesque and illuminating ways, or it can offer stark contrasts to our own world which often take the form of escapist, superior alternatives. This session, a direct thematic response to the NeMLA 2018 conference theme of "Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds," invites papers that explore how authors have used the portal fantasy to comment on the politics of our world in various ways.
Announcement of Filmmaking Guest and Extended Call for Papers Deadline:
Cine-Excess XI International Film Festival and Conference
CFP: The Films of John Hughes (Refocus Series)
Series Editors: Gary D Rhodes, Robert Singer
Editors: Timothy Shary, Frances Smith
Title: Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear
Collection Editor: Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University)
Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2017
Contact: v.mccollum@ulster.ac.uk
Publisher: Routledge
Trans Media: The Fixity and Fluidity of Gender in Contemporary Media
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
April 12-15, 2018
From Smallville to Metropolis: Navigating Space and Place in Comics and Their Adaptations
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
April 12-15, 2018
Reboots and Revivals: The Return of Television
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
April 12-15, 2018
Call for Papers
Creative Panel: "Monsters and Monstrosity: A Tribute to Mary Shelley"
Northeast Modern Languages Association
12-15 April 2018
Pittsburgh, PA
Richard Johnston, United States Air Force Academy
Critical Approaches to Twin Peaks: The Return
Edited by Antonio Sanna
CALL FOR PAPERS: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
author.net
a transdisciplinary conference on distributed authorship
UCLA, October 5-7 2018.
Co-Organizers, Francesca Martelli and Sean Gurd
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: January 15, 2018
Studies in American Humor (StAH), a member of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ), has published scholarly critical essays, review essays, and book reviews on all aspects of American humor since 1974. The premier journal for scholarship on humor, StAH addresses a wide spectrum of American humor, past and present. As a service to its audience of scholars and students in the humanities, especially literary, cultural, and media studies, StAH has featured an annual review of current scholarship, “The Year’s Work in American Humor Studies,” since 1999.
Submission Information
We know the four tenets of True Womanhood and understand the Feminine Mystique. But, today, what gender role prescriptions still proliferate concerning domesticity and work, family affairs and public relationships? Anne-Marie Slaughter tells us women still can’t have it all. Barbara Spar shreds the Superwoman myth. But, Ariana Huffington tells us we can THRIVE if we just have the third metric. These three notably professional women have differing views. Can and should women decorate like the Gaines, cook like the Barefoot Contessa, thrive professionally like Huffington, be sexy as Kim Kardashian, not miss kids’ soccer practices, and all the while smiling? Has or can contemporary women break out of the American ideological boundaries?
Lisa Macklem and Dominick Grace seek proposals for a refereed collection of essays on the CW cult horror show Supernatural to be published by McFarland
In the last decades, acts of globalization –a product of the late capitalism in the so called first world– have spread simulacra of wealth and wellness everywhere. As a consequence, people from the peripheries embark on the diaspora to reach a better future, and need to overcome all kinds of struggles. Thus, frontiers, the cornerstone of geopolitics, play a crucial role in the control of migratory movements. In this state of affairs, there is a growing number of writers and artists who embrace the genre of science fiction to articulate experiences of displacement, marginalization or resistance, as well as to interrogate the very nature of borderlands.
Title: Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror & the Politics of Fear
Collection Editor: Dr Victoria McCollum (Ulster University)
Deadline for Abstracts: September 30, 2017
Contact: v.mccollum@ulster.ac.uk
Publisher: Routledge
Open Call for Papers, Issue 3.1 (Spring 2018)
The editor seeks scholarly essays that address some aspect of HBO’s television series The Leftovers (2014-2017) and/or its source text, Tom Perrotta’s novel of the same title (2011). Perrotta co-produced the series with show runner David Lindelof (Lost). Both novel and series are set three years after the “Sudden Departure” of 2% of the world’s population. In ways distinct to each form, The Leftovers serves as a study of the psychological, social, and cultural impact of a large-scale traumatic event. Perrotta’s spare, satirical, character-driven fiction lies in the lineage of modern novels set in the American suburbs.
This is a call for article-length scholarly contributions for inclusion in a proposed collection of essays (to be published by McFarland) broadly focused around the topic of women and video game “modding.”
Potential topics may include:
Call for papers/articles: Bach on Screen
Date: Sunday, February 18, 2018
Venue: Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, Ohio
Submission deadline: October 1, 2017
Baldwin Wallace University is pleased to announce a conference entitled “Bach on Screen,” the proceedings of which will be published in the January 2019 issue of BACH: Journal of the Riemenschneider Bach Institute. This issue will be co-edited by the journal editor, Dr. Christina Fuhrmann, and Dr. Rebecca Fülöp.
Game Studies Area: 2018 PCA/ACA National Conference.
The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held Wednesday, March 28 through Friday, March 31, 2018 at the J.W. Marriott in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The database for proposal submissions opens July 1.
Below, please find:
I. Topics of Interest
II. Suggestions for First Time Submitters
III. Submission Process