gender studies and sexuality

For nearly two decades, the “antisocial thesis” has enthralled queer theoretical thought, permeating a variety of debates surrounding relationality, sexuality, gender, race, psychoanalysis, and temporality. Christened by Robert L. Caserio during an infamous 2005 MLA panel, the antisocial thesis, Caserio elaborates, described a “decade of explorations of queer unbelonging” positioned against an intensifying “gay rage for normalizing sociability.” As Robyn Wiegman warns, however, the antisocial thesis “is not ‘a’ thesis.

 CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES: THE GLOBAL PREMODERN CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS April 20-22, 2023

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 14, 2022

Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Featuring Keynote Speakers: Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University and Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge 

Jonathan Hsy will be speaking on “Crafty Mobilities: Disabled Travel Writing and a Global Middle Ages”

Ulinka Rublack will be speaking on "The Triumph of Fashion in the Early Modern World"

Call for Papers

Postsocialist Affectivity and Intersectional Feminism

Volume 68 (1/2023)

Submission deadline: October 31, 2022

Editors:

Jana Kukaine (Art Academy of Latvia)

Natalia Anna Michna (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)

Call for Abstracts for Issue 15 (Autumn 2023)

Present Futures

The present is great with the future.

—Gottfried Leibniz, 1703

In times when the present seems to be facing an imminent – and immanent – crisis, we want to take a step forward and investigate how various concepts and imaginaries of the future can be made fruitful for the present. The 15th issue of On_Culture seeks to explore forms of present futures – futures that manifest in the present and a/effect it – to provide new approaches and critical perspectives to thinking about the future in the study of culture. 

Join us this April in San Antonio for the 2023 Popular Culture Association Conference! Here is the Beer Culture Call for Proposals: https://lnkd.in/gVJxaH-k

Please feel free to message Katie Schwind, the Beer Culture Area chair, if you have any questions or want to chat about your ideas. Proposals are due by December 20th. Due to the interdisciplinary and applied nature of this field of study, we are accepting proposals from academics and industry professionals.

I am editing the Companion to Sexuality of the Medieval West with Jenny Bledsoe for Arc Humanities. The projected publication date is early 2024. This volume is intended to be an update of the classical Bullough and Brundage volume, with a more inclusive approach.

We are looking someone to write on North Africa. The deadline for submission can be somewhat negotiable, but May 2023 would be ideal. The essay should 6,000-6,500 words, and use a broad approach rather than a specific argument (e.g., handbook style). Chicago style citations as appropriate. Use of images possible as well. All essays peer reviewed.

Please contact me for further details and/or with questions.

Signs was founded in 1975 as part of an emergent tradition of feminist scholarship and has been publishing continuously ever since, establishing itself as a preeminent journal in the field of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. At the time of the journal’s conception, Signs’s founding editorial staff sought not only to raise consciousness and develop theories around women’s oppression but also to challenge the taken-for-granted and to strive for theoretical nuance and interdisciplinarity. To honor half a century of publication, our fiftieth anniversary issue aims to generate new questions and critical discussion around “Big Feminism,” around the role and power of feminist theory, today and into the future.

 Uppity Medieval Women Across the Globe 

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness is seeking contributions for a special issue entitled “Black Motion: Looking Our Way Back to Black.” This issue will examine how contemporary black people of both Africa and the African diaspora reinvent and reimagine their identities in terms that celebrate or draw attention to the body. These ways of imagining, representing the body and its various parts have historically played important roles in the lives of both Africans and peoples of African descent. Yet scholars have often neglected to study such representations and their significance in the day-to-day existence, lifestyles, hobbies, performances, and imaginations of blacks living in both the United States and abroad.

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Norman Mailer Society Conference

Norman Mailer at 100

 Austin, TX

April 20-22, 2023 

The Norman Mailer Society invites paper proposals for its 20th annual conference, which will celebrate Norman Mailer’s centenary. The conference events will be held at the AT&T Hotel and Conference Center and the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX, from April 20-22, 2023.

**Deadline Extended**

**Since these are electronic publications, we have been offered the opportunity to expand our content. Likewise, we recognize that the lessening of covid restrictions has allowed for more research travel. The expected deadlines for delivery of final papers remains the same [1 February 2023], but all abstracts should be submitted by September 16th, 2022. Please note for both journals: all abstracts we select and papers put forward for peer review will have their submission fees waived.** 

Special Issue Information:

Dear Colleagues,

Decolonizing Visuality: Looks, Minds, Ways of Thinking and Acting

Editors : Teresa Mendes Flores (Université Nova de Lisbonne et ULHT), Filipa Duarte de Almeida (Université Omar Bongo) and Joseph Tonda (Université Omar Bongo)

As we figure out what new social configurations look like, and whether or not we want to be a part of them, it seems we are at a point in queer and feminist theory where the futurity of our current conceptions of the social is also being called into question.