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CFP: Historical Perspectives on Fan Culture
(SCMS: April 1-5 2020, Denver)
Editors - Dr Joshua Gulam (Liverpool Hope University), Dr Sarah Feinstein (University of Leeds), and Dr Fraser Elliott (University of Salford)
We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on the culture, commerce, and ideology of The Fast and the Furious films.
Queer Media and the Digital
Digital technology has altered all aspects of media cultures, including questions of identity that can affect everything from the production of texts, their content, their distribution, their reception, and more. At the same time, popular and academic understandings of queerness have evolved to incorporate expanding ideas of gender, sexuality, race, disability, ethnicity, and other identity categories. Not only has digital technology altered the ways in which queerness can be articulated, but queer media has also shaped the form and reception of digital texts. Understanding queerness in the digital age requires us to account for the changes in both queer studies and digital studies.
Call for Papers
Special Edition of Celebrity Studies, edited by Renee Middlemost and Sarah Thomas
**Keanu Reeves**
The Yale Department of English Medieval Colloquium & Scriptorium working group are pleased to present two panels and a roundtable that have grown out of our conversations with speakers and faculty over the previous year (please see our other CFPs for the additional panels). For panels, we invite papers of 15 to 20 minutes and for the roundtable we invite 5-7 minute remarks on the topic. If you are uncertain as to your proposed paper’s fit for the panels, please contact us. While our colloquium represents the Department of English at Yale, we are interdisciplinary in outlook and composition and welcome papers from all medieval-interested disciplines and that cover topics beyond texts in Anglo-Saxon and Middle English.
This is a CFP for a panel proposal called “Non-binary Gender Approaches to Cult and Fan Media” to SCMS 2020 (Society for the Cinema and Media Studies conference) in Denver, April 1-5, 2020.
Since its debut three years ago, NBC’s high-concept comedy-fantasy series The Good Place (2016- ) has racked up numerous critical accolades and industry awards in recognition of its narrative complexity, thematic depth, and groundbreaking audaciousness as a televisual text unlike any other.
Contributions are invited for a collection of original essays that explore race and blackness in American comic books, comic strips, and editorial cartoons from the turn of the twentieth century through the industry’s Golden Age in the 1940s and 1950s. The historical perception of black people in comic art has long been tied to caricatured images of indecipherable minstrels, witch doctors, and brutal savages, yet archives reveal a more racially complex narrative and aesthetic landscape, one that was enriched by the debates among comics artists, writers, editors, and readers about how blackness could be expressed on the page.
CINEPHILE 14.1 | AUDIENCES AND PARATEXTS | CFP
Deadline for draft submissions: September 15th, 2019
The Fourth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon UK
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31, 2019
The Fourth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon UK
Conference Dates: April 16-19, 2020
Conference Hotel: The Royal and The Grand Hotels, Scarborough, UK
78-88: Prince, The First Decade: An Interdisciplinary Conference.
A two-day international conference hosted by The School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, United Kingdom and the Department of Recording Industry, Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
June 3 & 4, 2020, The Robert E. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center, University of Minnesota, 2001 Plymouth Ave. N., Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Organising Committee:
Dr Mike Alleyne, Dept. of Recording Industry, College of Media & Entertainment, Middle Tennessee State University.
Dr Kirsty Fairclough, School of Arts and Media, University of Salford, UK.
CFP: Queer Slashers
SCMS – Denver, Colorado
April 1-5, 2020
Call for Papers for Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twentieth-First Century (A Roundtable)
51st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association
Boston Marriott Copley Place, in Boston, Massachusetts, from 5-8 March 2020
Paper abstracts are due by 30 September 2019
Session organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, The Medieval Comics Project, and Carl B. Sell, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
Film and Media Studies Graduate Conference CFP
Limits of Cinema / Cinema Limited?
September 27-28, 2019
Keynote: Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University)
The Seventh International Symposium
on the Poetics of Science Fiction
At the Crossroads:
Hybridity in Science Fiction
Hosted by the Department of English and American Studies
and the Porter School of Cultural Studies,
Tel-Aviv University
16-17 March 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS (First-Come, First-Served Extended Deadline Period)
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Thursday, November 14, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, California
Inaugural Issue to be Published in Early 2020
The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies (JAMS) is excited to announce a CFP for its inaugural issue! JAMS is an open-access journal dedicated to providing an ethical, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary space for academics, students, and independent researchers examining the field of anime, manga, cosplay, and fandom studies to share their research with others. JAMS is peer reviewed by scholars with experience in anime and manga studies.
Hosted by the USC School of Law and Criminology
University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Drawing the Human: Law, Comics, Justice, seeks to examine the role of comics, graphic novels and graphic art in constituting as well as critiquing law, rights and justice as they relate to and extend beyond the human.
Conference, University of Southern Denmark, May 28–29, 2020
Utopia & Dystopia
Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment
Venue and date: University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, May 28–29, 2020
Proposal Deadline: December 10, 2019
Call for Presentations
Panel Call International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts 2020: Expanding the Archive
CFP: Isn’t It Ironic?: Receivership and Responsibility in Popular Culture (edited collection)
Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker (eds.)
Backward Glances 2019: REBOOT
The Screen Cultures Graduate Student ConferenceDepartment of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
September 27 & 28, 2019
Keynote Speakers: Professors Susan Murray and Reem Hilu
Submission Deadline: July 1, 2019
Call for Papers
Videogames have grown into a global socio-cultural phenomenon and are now a primary concern of Literary and Cultural Studies as well as the Social Sciences. In a medium that sweeps across geographies (including virtual ones), however, the discourse usually privileges a certain section when it comes to the representation of identity. In a medium, where roleplaying and playing in character is of prime importance, such an ignoring of the marginal and the diverse is indeed problematic.
This roundtable will be looking holistically at perspectives on the first 22 films in the MCU. This arc will be brought to completion with Avenger’s Endgame. Now would be a good time to look back and assess which gambles have worked and/or failed now that a narrative arc has been completed. Participants are encouraged to consider the MCU both as a whole as well as specific franchises under the overall banner.
The conference is through the Northeast Modern Language Association and will take place March 5-8th, 2020 in Boston, MA
Submissions are due: September 30, 2019
CALL FOR PAPERS
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Thursday, November 14, 2019 to Sunday, November 17, 2019, Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel, San Diego, California
Conference Theme "Send in the Clowns"
No one escapes Marvel’s Endgame: the economic and cultural impact of the past few decades’ boom in superhero movies, and more broadly superhero narratives, is evident well beyond the boundaries of the United States. In fact, the presence and influence of American comic-book superheroes abroad started shortly after the debut of DC's Superman in 1938, and has been growing ever since.
This area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Conference (MAPACA), November 7-9 2019, includes all novel genres, authors, time periods, cultures, and settings. Consider it a safety net for novels that don’t fit neatly into a specific genre or that cross genres. For example, consider the many sub-genres of Romance with a capital “R”—western, thriller, paranormal, religious, romance (with a small “r”), detective, urban fantasy, etc. From Pearl S. Buck to Lee Child, from Laurie King to Tony Hillerman, from Julia Spencer-Fleming to Emilie Richards—all are welcome.
San Francisco State University's 21st Annual Graduate School Cinema Conference:
Reimagining Genre in Cinema
October 17-18, 2019
Keynote Speaker: Damon Young, Associate Professor of French and Film & Media at UC Berkeley
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Sherry Ginn and Michael Cornelius, editors of the forthcoming Serializing the Apocalypse: Essays on the Never-Ending End of the World, announce their intent to publish a new collection of essays about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
The International Journal of James Bond Studies is now accepting submissions for Volume 3.