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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.

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.

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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.

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 

ECOLOGIES OF/AND ADAPTATION

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:15am
LITERATURE/FILM ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ECOLOGIES OF/AND ADAPTATION 

LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA, MONTANA

SEPTEMBER 21-23, 2023

Peter Nicholls Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 4, 2023

We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate research students and to all early career researchers (up to five years after the completion of your PhD) who have yet to find a full-time or tenured position. The prize is guaranteed publication in Foundation (summer 2024).

Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

updated: 
Monday, February 13, 2023 - 10:05am
University of Bologna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for papers - Media Mutations 14
Investigating Medical Drama TV series: approaches and perspectives

Bologna, Dipartimento delle Arti – DAMSLab, May 18th-19th, 2023

Organized by Stefania Antonioni (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo) and Marta Rocchi (Università di Bologna).

In collaboration with the research project “Narrative Ecosystem Analysis and Development framework (NEAD framework). A systemic approach to contemporary serial product. The medical drama case”

Confirmed keynote speaker:

Irene Cambra Badii (Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya)

CharlOz--an interdisciplinary festival celebrating Oz

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:31pm
UNC Charlotte
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

At this three-day festival, writers, scholars, collectors, and fans will explore The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Written in 1900, Baum's fairy tale incorporated timeless life lessons, and his stories were ahead of their time.

As Oz magic continues far beyond Baum's lifetime, we benefit from fresh Oz interpretations in visual, performing, and literary art. Works like The Wiz, Wicked, Dorothy Must Die, and Amy Chu and Janet K. Lee's Sea Sirens reflect changes in American culture, while incorporating the non-traditional gender roles and diverse characters that Baum ingrained in Oz.

Proposals accepted February 10, 2023, and November 17, 2023

Strange New World: Philosophy and Science Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 12:41pm
International Society for Philosophy in Film
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

International Society for Philosophy in Film

 

Second Annual Symposium Call for Abstracts

August 24th-26th, 2023

London, England

Mission Statement:

Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 10:49am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

MMLA 2023 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

“Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now"

The General Call opens with an analogy between now-times and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, invoking an approach that is both medieval and modern by looking at how the arts, the academy, and general society should, can, and do interact. In that spirit, the general question for this panel is “what is the value of studying medieval history, culture, art, and/or literature in today’s world?”

Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons

updated: 
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 10:44am
Fortress Press & Lexington Books, Theology, Religion and Pop Culture Series
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Call for Abstracts: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons

Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson

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