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General Issue 3.1 (Spring 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 9, 2023 - 7:35pm
Journal of Consent-Based Performance
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

The Journal of Consent-Based Performance invites artists, educators, and scholars to interrogate our existing practices and propose new ideas in pursuit of increasingly more equitable, ethical, anti-oppressive, and effective consent-based practices within the fields of theatre and performance. We encourage authors to submit essays that do the work of:

  • Analyzing or interrogating current or past understandings of and approaches to intimacy and consent—in theory or in performance practice, modeling continuous adjustment of artistic praxis

  • Introducing or investigating theories related to consent and power imbalances in other fields, contextualizing these theories’ potential impact upon the performance industry

CFP They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition (9/30/2023; NeMLA Boston 3/7-10/2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 3:05pm
Michael Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition

 

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

 

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023

55th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association

Sheraton Boston Hotel (Boston, MA)

On-site event: 7-10 March 2024

 

See the shared Google Doc for the full call with a list of bibliographic resources on the topic: https://tinyurl.com/They-Live-NeMLA-2024.  

 

CFP Villainous Science: Cloning, Experimentation, and Hybridization in Transmedia Cultures and Storytelling (8/14/2023, NEPCA online 10/12-14/2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 3:05pm
Michael Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area, Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 14, 2023

Villainous Science: Cloning, Experimentation, and Hybridization in Transmedia Cultures and Storytelling

Conference Information

The 2023 Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k,a. NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 12-Saturday, October 14. Thursday’s session will be held in the late afternoon-evening (EST), Friday’s session will be held mid-afternoon into the evening (EST), and Saturday’s session will be from morning until midday (EST).

 

Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual) (8/15/2023; ICSM 10/26-28/2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 3:02pm
Michael Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)

 

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 August 2023

The Medieval in Cyberspace: 2023 International Conference for the Study of Medievalism

The UNICORN Castle (https://unicorn-castle.org/)

Online event: Thursday, 26 October, through Saturday, 28 October, 2023

 

Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual)

 

Sponsoring Organization: Medieval Comics Project

Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Scott Nokes, and Carl Sell

Extended Call: Theology, Philosophy, and Religion in Daredevil

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 2:57pm
Fortress Press & Lexington Books, Theology, Religion and Pop Culture Series
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Title: Faith, Morality, and the Man without Fear: Theology and Religion in Daredevil

Editors: Taylor Thomas and Regan Hardeman

Abstract, CV, and Proposal due: September 30, 2023

Initial Final Paper due: February 28, 2024

Cyberpunk Science Fiction as a Cultural Formation of (Cyber)Space and Time - NeMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 2:57pm
Samuel Santiago / Syracuse University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

At its core, cyberpunk contrasts fantastic technological developments with dystopian society, emphasizing the persistence of extreme social, economic, and political inequalities despite evident surpluses in capital and resources that should enable higher standards of living within these imagined futures. Caroline Alphin's Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction contends that cyberpunk simultaneously impugns and maintains neoliberal cultural mentalities, anxiously illustrating dystopian futures while also indulging in individualistic fantasies of empowerment.

Shirley Jackson Studies Vol. 2, Issue 1: Queer(ing) Jackson

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 2:57pm
Shirley Jackson Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Shirley Jackson Studies, Vol. 2, Issue #1: Queer(ing) Jackson

In his now canonical work Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film, Harry M. Benshoff describes queerness as that which “opposes the binary definitions and proscriptions of a patriarchal heterosexism." For Benshoff, “Queer can be a narrative moment, or a performance or stance which negates the oppressive binarisms of the dominant hegemony.” Queer, then, has the capacity to embody a multitude of challenging or oppositional stances, playing with or subverting gender binaries, heteropatriarchal orders, political hegemonies, and ingrained systems of meaning. Queer can be playful, daring, and defiant.

Dark Reflections: Edited Collection

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:15pm
Stuart Joy/Solent University, Southampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.

Robots, AI, and Labor: On the Future of Work

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:14pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

CFP:

Robots, AI, and Labor: On the Future of Work

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

 

Screening Social and Economic Transformations in East-Central Europe: Film and Television as Writers and Rewriters of post-1989 History

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:14pm
Babes-Bolyai University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Screening Social and Economic Transformations in East-Central Europe: Film and
Television as Writers and Rewriters of post-1989 History

Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, November 10-11, 2023

Abstracts submission deadline: August 15, 2023
Conference dates: November 10-11, 2023

Early Modern England on Film: Appropriation, Adaptation, and Translation

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:14pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In the field of Shakespearean studies, attempts to make Shakespeare more accessible to new audiences often include the work of appropriation, adaptation, and translation.

NeMLA 2024. K-what? Contemporary K-rhetoric and new directions in Korean Studies

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:13pm
Alison Cotti-Lowell, New England Conservatory
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

 

We invite proposals for a panel at the next NeMLA annual conference, to be held in Boston MA, March 7-10th 2024

 

Title:  K-what? Contemporary K-rhetoric and new directions in Korean Studies

 

Extremely Online: The Internet and Connectivity in the 21st Century Novel

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:13pm
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Though the Internet has been around since the 1980s, the “Internet novel” as a genre has only really emerged in the last decade or so. We can think of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (2021), Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021), and Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing (2021) as notable recent examples. Each of these novels take as their topic the particular and peculiar confines of the digital world we live in. Lockwood has described this sensation as falling through a “long void that never reaches the bottom,” while Brandon Taylor claims that “the Internet Novel captures some of the weird Gothic horror that white people have come, by way of their new digital Calvinism, to accept as being inherent to digital life.”

Personhood, Spirit, and the Afterlife

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:10pm
English Language Notes
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Call for papers for Special Issue of English Language Notes

 Personhood, Spirit, and the Afterlife

62.2 (October 2024)

Nan Goodman, Editor in Chief
Ruth Ellen Kocher and KP Kaszubowski, Guest Editors

University of Colorado Boulder and Duke University Press

 

SCOPE:

ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton

updated: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023 - 8:29pm
Daniel Dufournaud
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 27, 2023

Call for Papers

 

ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton

 

Editor: Daniel Dufournaud

 

Call for Book Chapters on 'Filth, Dirt, Im/Purity and Feminine Care'

updated: 
Friday, July 28, 2023 - 2:06pm
Vernon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Call for Book Chapters: Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume on the topic of " Filth, Dirt, Im/Purity and Feminine Care "

 

Editor: Madhurima Guha (Arizona State University)

Horses in Film: 4 Volumes by Decade

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 1:04pm
University of Southern Mississippi
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

These edited collections are part of the upcoming series Equine Creations: Imagining Horses in Literature and Film.

The scope of the present call is broad. All topics regarding the themes and impact of horses in film will be considered. 

1) Horses in Film Through the 1950s

2) Horses in Film in the 1960s and 1970s

3) Horses in Film in the 1980s and 1990s

4) Horses in Film since 2000

 

Deadline for proposals: August 31, 2023

First Draft deadline: December 10, 2023

How to submit your proposal

Russell Crowe: His Films and Pop Cultural Impact

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 1:03pm
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Russell Crowe’s talents were globally recognized in the early 2000s after he appeared in a slate of well-received films – L.A. Confidential, Gladiator, and A Beautiful Mind, among others – that earned him critical acclaim. Nevertheless, in the years following these productions, he has continued to be a part of numerous projects with international and creative appeal. Alongside his films are his associations with Roman soccer teams – established in Spera’s (2023) chapter in my recent volume on Gladiator (https://vernonpress.com/book/1213) – his social media presence, and his musical performances.

PAMLA 2023 Panel: Young Adult Literature and Culture (in-Person panel)

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 11:48am
Melanie A. Marotta / Pacific and Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2023 Conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 7, 2023

This session is open to all papers that explore some aspect of Young Adult literature and/or culture. The panel is particularly interested in papers attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Shifting Perspectives.” How do changing perspectives on adolescence and young adults impact YA literature and/or culture? As the conference occurs in Portland, in an environmentally aware space, presentations about YA and environmental impact are important. Further, presentations that examine diverse voices (ie. LGBT2S, BIPOC, disability studies, etc.) in media are encouraged. This panel welcomes submissions about young adult literature, film, television, gaming, etc. Feel free to submit an abstract pertaining to the conference theme or otherwise.

"Ephron on three": Masculinit(ies) in Ted Lasso

updated: 
Thursday, July 27, 2023 - 5:56am
Anthony Dotterman/SAMLA 95: Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 9-11
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 30, 2023

In Season 3, Episode 11 of Apple TV’s Ted Lasso, Mae–the show’s matrimonial barkeeper– softly recited Philip Larkin’s “This be the Verse,” a poem about the emotional scars parents leave their children. Coming as it does near the end of the series run, the poem references the trauma(s) the main character has inherited from his parents, and ties together many of the themes of the series, namely how “hurt people hurt people.” In keeping with the tone of the series, however, the pub owner’s reading of Larkin’s poem does not serve as a moral repudiation of Ted’s parents or their generation.

ABSTRACT DEADLINE APPROACHING -- Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise (edited volume)

updated: 
Wednesday, July 26, 2023 - 4:07pm
Deanna P. Koretsky, Spelman College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Demystifying Mystic Falls: Race and Racism in The Vampire Diaries Franchise

From the time it premiered on The CW in 2009, The Vampire Diaries was duly castigated in the media for uncritically tiptoeing around Civil War “lost cause” mythology and overtly tokenizing its Black characters. As the public later learned, minoritized actors were also treated poorly behind the scenes. Still, the series became a cultural juggernaut, boasting two successful spin-offs (The Originals and Legacies), reviving the book series on which the show was based, and inspiring a cottage industry of franchise-related institutions and conventions that, as of 2023, is just beginning to take off.

Neural Networks and Technology: Media, Social Impact and the Future of Human Interaction

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Galactica Media
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Annotation

In this thematic issue, we explore the role of neural networks and technologies in media and social life. Considering the rapid development of information technology and artificial intelligence, our society is undergoing fundamental changes in the ways of interaction and communication. We invite authors to consider the deep and all-encompassing influence of neural networks on the formation and perception of media, their role in social interaction, and the changes that neural networks and technology bring to our daily lives.

 

List of issues for discussion

– Neural networks and technologies in media: media analytics, automation and content generation;

CFP-The Text-Vol.6 No.1-January 2024 Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
The Text (ISSN: 2581-9526)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for January 2024 issue.

Indexed in:
1.      ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.      IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.      Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.      DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

American Folk Horrors (edited collection)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Dawn Keetley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 29, 2023

There has been a veritable outpouring of both popular and academic writing on folk horror in the wake of folk horror’s resurgence in the post-2009 period. The last three years, for instance, has seen an excellent and comprehensive documentary film, Kier-La Janisse’s Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021); a special issue of the journal Revenant: Critical and Cultural Studies of the Supernatural (2020) dedicated to folk horror (with a special issue of Horror Studies in the works); and four collections of scholarly essays either just published or forthcoming in 2023 (see Bacon; Bayman and Donnelly; Edgar and Johnson; and Keetley and Heholt).

ICMS 2024: Neomedievalism and New Media (A Roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Alan Perry
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Speaking Opportunity – Open Call

ICMS 2024: Neomedievalism and New Media (A Roundtable)

In-Person at the International Congress on Medieval Studies 2024, Kalamazoo, MI

Deadline: September 15, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Literary Documentary, Scene II

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Behind the Scenes: The Literary Documentary, Scene II (roundtable)

Literary documentaries have become a popular pedagogical tool in higher education. Abstracts are invited from literary, media/film, and legal studies’ professionals to share their experiences, expertise and perspectives on the processes and complexities in creating a literary documentary. 

Reevaluating Disability in Film and Media (Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2024 Conference)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Sarah Delahousse, York College-CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 7, 2023

Physical and mental disability traditionally garners impressions of helplessness, asexuality, and invisibility that certainly extend to popular media. However, these attitudes have been challenged in recent years with the demand for more inclusive representations through diverse lenses. This panel aims to reexamine the representation of disability in film, TV and other media beyond education to consider the theoretical , cultural, aesthetic and historical implications that disability conveys as a site for reconsidering identity and body politics, often through transgression.

 

Some potential topics include but are not limited to:

Disability Questioning Gender Norms

RuPedagogies of Realness 2: The Shequel! Essays on Teaching and Learning Under Attack with RuPaul’s Drag Race

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:19am
Lindsay Bryde & Tommy Mayberry / Empire State University & University of Alberta
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Abstracts - Edited Volume

RuPedagogies of Realness 2: The Shequel!
Essays on Teaching and Learning Under Attack with RuPaul’s Drag Race

Eds. Lindsay Bryde (Empire State University) and Tommy Mayberry (University of Alberta) 

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