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Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies invites all scholars to submit articles concerning cozy games and coziness in games.
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
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.
Editors: Josefine Smith, Shippensburg University, jmsmith@ship.edu; and Kathleen Kollman, Miami University, kollmak@miamioh.edu
Edited Volume—Podcasting and Vodcasting in Africa: Context, Cultures and Consumption
Admire Mare, Stanley Tsarwe (Editors)
Publisher: Routledge
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
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.
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.
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
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:
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
20 – 25 March 2023
A national conference organized by the Department of English, St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore
Call for Papers/Posters
Updated Call for Chapter contributions to proposed book on The Who’s Tommy:
See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me: Tommy, Rock Opera and Twentieth Century Britain
Edited by Keith Gildart, Christopher Weedman and Benjamin Halligan
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: ECOLOGIES OF/AND ADAPTATION
LITERATURE / FILM ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE
UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA, MISSOULA, MONTANA
SEPTEMBER 21-23, 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).
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)
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
International Society for Philosophy in Film
Second Annual Symposium Call for Abstracts
August 24th-26th, 2023
London, England
Mission Statement:
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?”
Call for Abstracts: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons
Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson
GRADUATE COMICS ORGANIZATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS 2023
Comics in Conflict
University of Florida
April 14-16th, 2023 (Gainesville, FL)
Deadline for submissions: February 24, 2023
Keynote:
Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University
"Funny Girls: The Forgotten History of Feisty Young Female Characters in Classic American Comics"