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I have several chapters for this collection, but I am looking for four or five more. Please send abstracts or inquiries by December 20, 2024. Chapters will be due by July 15, 2024.
All topics about dragons in film and television will be considered.
Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu
Conservative Camp
Edited by Darin DeWitt and Nicole Seymour
We invite contributions for an edited volume titled Conservative Camp, on which we are working with the University of Minnesota Press’ Humanities Editor Leah Pennywark. This volume seeks to explain how camp aesthetics, long associated with the progressive Left and with queer communities in particular, have recently been appropriated by conservative movements, particularly by homophobic and transphobic figures on the Right.
You Are the Killer: The Giallo Tradition of Romance, Violence, Hedonism and Bad Taste
Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture is seeking reviews for upcoming issues. The journal welcomes reviews of a wide range of queer media and cultural artefacts. Like other academic journals, Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture certainly publishes reviews of recently released books on queer subject matter. Consistent with the journal's overall focus, however, we also strongly encourage the submission and publication of reviews pertaining to significant films, musical recordings, plays, television series, video games, exhibitions, and related cultural artefacts that are of relevance to queerness in its various forms.
DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14
The Paranoid Realities of David Cronenberg: The Occult Body Techno-politic as Magical Medium
The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic invites special panel presentation proposals on the paranoid realities of David Cronenberg to be included in its events at the 46th annual conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, held this February 19-22 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Contagions and Non-Human Animals: (Re)Viewing Disregarded Species in Real and Imagined Pandemics
The impact of the pandemic and the threat that it poses to future human experiences has been well-documented. However, now that non-human animals are possible carriers and becoming infected, their experiences, while often overlooked, are nevertheless integrated into the worldwide pandemic.
Thus, this collection seeks to balance essays about non-human animals during real-world pandemics, such as the COVID-19 one, with those of their experiences during literary or cinematic ones. The scope of this call for papers is broad and can include topics such as:
--Animals as victims of contagions
This call for papers seeks two specific chapters on Medusa for a volume intended for the series, Villains and Creatures.
Each chapter of the volume is intended to be an overview of depictions of Medusa in specific kinds of media; nevertheless, the arguments/theses of each chapter should still be original, using past works and research to develop a current (new) perspective on Medusa.
The chapters needed include one on Ancient Drama and another on Modern Drama.
Chapters will be due in May 2025. Chapters should be approximately 5,000 to 7,000 words, with Chicago-style endnotes and a bibliography page.
Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
Concept Note:
Popular Culture Association
2025 National Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable
Baldwin Again and Again
Call for Papers
The Disasters and Apocalypses area of the Pop Culture Association offers a forum for analysis and critical approaches surrounding the culture of disasters, catastrophes, accidents, and apocalypses in global art, literature, media, film, and popular culture. Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes will address broader disciplinary topics and innovative intersections of humanities, musicology, social science, literature, film, visual art, psychology, game studies, material culture, media studies, ecology, and information technology.
Call for paper for a Special issue of ReviewofEducation,Pedagogy,andCulturalStudies
Educatorsin PopularCulture: EducationalSettings asSites ofIntersectional Struggle
Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard
Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).
The Memory and Representation area of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites submissions on any pertinent topic (see description below) for the 2025 National Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 16-19, 2025.
Memory and Representation: Area Description
Literature, Popular Culture, and Bisexuality (edited collection; print)
ed. Ian Kinane (University of Roehampton)
CFP: Adaptations and Retellings 2025
CONFERENCE IN NEW ORLEANS, LA - April 16-19, 2025
Adaptations and retellings, much like nostalgia, are deeply tied to the past. They confront the challenges of integrating past elements into the present and often engage with each other in this process.
The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.
Call for Papers
THE AMERICAN WEST
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Call for Papers: Film International: Journal of World Cinema
Aims & Scope
Film International is devoted to the study of world cinemas, focusing on films within international and transnational contexts. The Journal offers insights into the broader scope of cinema practices across the globe, both feature length and otherwise, including by way of cultural comparison. It not only encourages attention to underrepresented regions such as the Global South, small-nation and minor cinemas, but also to how aesthetic choices have been made in these contexts.
Adaptation, Restoration, Rebirth
Association of Adaptation Studies Conference
1-4 June 2025, Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Türkiye
Keynotes (CONFIRMED):
Dr. Ahmet Gürata, Department of Cinema and Digital Media, İzmir University of Economics, Türkiye
Dr. Iain Robert Smith, Department of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK
How old are you? How do you feel about getting older? And how will you still be able to carry out your responsibilities as you age? Most people had reservations asking these questions of anyone but their closest friends and family members until the recent Presidential election season in the United States threw them into sharp relief.
Since ancient times, narratives about the end of the world have given voice to the anxieties and crises of the societies that have produced them. The forms of the apocalypse are thematically and diachronically broad and diverse (Pharr, Clark and Firestone 2016; De Cristofaro 2020). Already at the dawn of the nineteenth century, in her The Last Man (1826), Mary Shelley, the brilliant inventor of this genre, reflected on the condition of the single survivor of a lethal virus. While, for obvious chronological reasons, the anguish for a wasted environment is still absent in Shelley, many twentieth-century narratives reflect on the annihilating potential of humans’ actions on ecosystems.
Call for Proposals
Masculinities and Men’s Studies
(formerly known as Men and Men’s Studies)
National Popular/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Conference
April 16-19, 2025
New Orleans, LA
Proposals on any aspect of masculinities and/or men’s studies are welcome; however, the following topics are of particular interest:
The 16th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference
March 1, 2025, University of Texas at Dallas
Call For Papers: RAW 2025
BAIT, PROMPTS, and AID: The Power and Poetics of Engagement
in Art, Technology, History, and Human Nature/Nurture
Call for Papers
Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024
Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War
Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025
FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
In 2008, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) released its 70th anniversary manifesto reaffirming film’s status as the “optimal archival storage” of the moving image. “Don’t throw film away!” they urged, for unlike its digital successors, film elements tangibly embody traces of their own material history alongside a bygone cultural heritage. “No matter what technologies may emerge,” they write, existing film elements “connect us to the certainties of the past.”
#IFM2025 Resonances Conference
June 10-13, 2025, via Zoom
The 7th Interactive Film and Media Annual Conference invites you to engage with the theme "Resonances," exploring how media fosters deep, meaningful connections in our daily lives. This year’s conference delves into how personal and communal experiences shape our interactions and understanding of the world. We encourage submissions that critically engage with the theme and its subtopics, including:
Response: How do we form thoughtful responses to crises in an unstable world?
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle
Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard
Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others
through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).
Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
at the
Annual Conference of the
Popular Culture Association
New Orleans Marriott April 1-19, 2024
Call for Papers
“To be neurodivergent is to reclaim the pathologizing aspects of a long-term cognitive diagnosis and to reclaim one’s neuro-status as a possible position from which to claim resources, representation and recognition” (Stenning and Bertisldottir Rosqvist 1535).
Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary MediaCFP for Volume 4, Issue 1 (2025)Theme: Old
This international, peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of the fantastic in today’s entertainment media, including film, literature, television, games, comic books, animated films, theme parks, and online forums. The journal is double blind peer-reviewed and has 1-2 issues per year.
Volume 4, Issue 1: Old (Fall 2025)