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The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 7:24pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2023 ***

The response to our earlier CFP was so strong that we are expanding our edited volume into The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, and we welcome additional chapters examining science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. 

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than October 1, 2023.

Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:58pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis
• Phytosemiotics and plant communication
• Plant sensation and consciousness
• Vegetal agency

Caribbean Carnival Space and New Media

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:40am
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Alison McLetchie, Natalie Wall
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL SPACE AND NEW MEDIA

Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Call for Papers

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:47am
College English Association Special Topics Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture We are organizing a panel (or panels) on the topic of "Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture" for the 53rd Annual CEA Conference in Atlanta, GA, from March 21-23. We are looking for papers that discuss how popular culture can be used to teach important concepts or skill sets in a way that engages students in the learning process. Some potential topics include, but are not limited to, critical thinking skills, empathy, composition styles, and rhetorical analysis. There is a possibility that panel presenters may be asked if they want to participate in an edited essay collection on this topic. Please note that presenters must be members of CEA to present at the conference.

NeMLA 2024 - The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ‘Radiant City’, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis were a
modernist, utopian vision of urban renewal. However, they quickly slid into disrepair and in 1972 were
partially demolished in a nationwide, televised spectacle. The failure of Pruitt-Igoe shows us that the
dystopia is always necessarily contained within the utopia: despite the intentions of its architect Minoru
Yamasaki, in planning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, it was always destined to be a vision of 'functional'
racial segregation by its federal ideators. Although the edict of racial segregation was thrown out by the

Flash Call for Papers: Dystopias

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:44am
ContactZone - Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

ContactZone, Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic (AISFF), is accepting abstract submissions for a special issue dedicated to dystopias.

The opposite of utopia, dystopia presents a negative vision of the future, often apocalyptic. This special issue wants to juxtapose different dystopian horizons, tackling the construction of the future from different perspectives along the trajectories of gender, class, ecology, religion and so forth.

Contributions can feature any literature (including graphic novels) or media production (film, TV series, games) from any nation or culture.

Abstract submission:

NeMLA 2024: El archivo del futuro: memes, influencers y otras narrativas de la viralidad

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
Alexandra Mira
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Este panel invita a explorar la cultura de internet del mundo hispanohablante y sus representaciones en producciones artísticas. El meme fue acuñado por el biólogo Richard Dawkins en 1976 para referirse a la difusión de “tunes, ideas, catch- phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or builduing arches” (249) mediante procesos de imitación. Décadas más tarde, el estudio de Patrick Davison (2012) corroboraría que la idea de “meme” había evolucionado gracias a las redes sociales y había pasado a tener el poder de exclusivamente cumplir un objetivo humorístico. Autores como B. E. Wiggins y G. Bret Bowers (2014) argumentan que la circulación del meme es una herramienta conversacional que alienta la participación de la cultura digital.

ACLA 2024 seminar "Rethinking Advertisements in Cross-Genre Media"

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
ACLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

We are seeking paper proposals for the following conference seminar:

CFP: "Rethinking Advertisements in Cross-Genre Media"

American Comparative Literature Association

Montreal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE Call for articles | (Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination (issue 2)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 12:28pm
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Special dossier | to be published in vol 5 no 2 (May 2024)

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This special dossier, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:48am
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

This new edited volume ( a companion to WOKE SHAKESPEARE) aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics and social justice. In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new audiences and learners? How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape? Is it still possible to have a civilized conversation about Shakespearean scholarship, pedagogy and performance?

Shakespeare’s plays have never been far from political and cultural controversy. Today, Shakespeare still sits at the centre of the cultural establishment. However, this canonical status is under renewed attack from critics and detractors.

Pin-Ups: Animals, Fashion, and Femininity in Material Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 2:19pm
Insects and Material Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

We would like to invite proposals for chapters for a forthcoming edited collection on animals, fashion, and colonialism. Our project investigates the way that colonialism was inscribed on the female body through animal fashions in the long nineteenth century and beyond. Contributions are welcome from a wide variety of fields, with interdisciplinary approaches preferred. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:  

Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 9:03am
Johanna Hoorenman & Tom Grant, Utrecht University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Extended deadline

CFP: Edited volume on Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media  

Vikings — their history, traditions, mythology and material culture — have taken contemporary media by storm. Popular culture is awash with Viking tropes and themes which have generated explosive interest in cinema, television, video games, music, literature, genre fiction and comics. This volume aims to provide a ground-breaking and innovative understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first century Vikingism. We are inviting scholars with relevant expertise to contribute essays which address any of the following questions:

DEADLINE APPROACHING for NeMLA 2024 - Witch Stories: An Examination of Revisionist History and Legacy

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 7:43am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Building on conversations and topic connections from the 2023 Convention, this panel invokes the 2024 conference theme surplus in regards to witches and depictions of the occult. All too often, witches were history’s unwanted women, defying cultural and social norms in ways that were determined to be in excess of what was conventional. What does it mean that these narratives of witches, both real and fictional, have been told and retold such that the witch is now a near constant presence in popular culture, literature, museums, and local histories? Does this exposure enhance what we know about witches in society and their histories or futures, or does this exposure complicate and possibly dilute their historical, social, or gendered power?

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 - Creative Labor and Precarity

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 5:29pm
Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

 

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 (to be published Fall 2024)

 UPDATE NEW DEADLINE: 10/1/2023

Creative Labor and Precarity

 

Special Issue Theme

Hip-hop Pedagogy in Post-secondary Classrooms (A Higher Ed Remix)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 3:28pm
Prasad Bidaye, Humber College ITAL, NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

As hip-hop turns 50 in 2023, there is much to celebrate and reflect on, including its impact on higher education. This session is engaged with questions about the latter: what is hip-hop doing in our classrooms and conversely, what are we doing with it in our teaching practice?

CFP Animation Studies 2.0 - Animation and Transport Vehicles

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:27pm
Animation Studies 2.0
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 6, 2023

CFP Animation and Transport Vehicles

Deadline: October 6th 2023

Cinema arrived with a train approaching the platform with such speed that the audience jumped off their seats. So it goes in film history, as Martin Loiperdinger points out in "Cinema's Founding Myth" (2004), with the account of the public screening of the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat from 1896. And with the introduction of psychoanalysis and structural linguistics in film theory by for example Raymond Bellour in The Analysis of Film (1979: 182), so the train metaphor for sex in film lives on.

Psychology and Popular Culture - 2024 Popular Culture Association National Conference

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Psychology and Popular Culture

Call for Papers for 2024 Conference

The Psychology and Popular Culture area concerns itself with the ways in which popular culture both reflects and shapes the nature of our psychology.

 

The Psychology and Popular Culture area invites all interested persons to present papers on a broad array of topics inclusive of psychology and popular culture, such as:

Happiness and Culture

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Call for Papers

Special Topic: Happiness and Culture

National Conference 

of the Popular Culture Association (PCA) 

Chicago, IL

March 27-30, 2024

 

We are seeking paper proposals for the 2024 PCA conference in Chicago. The papers may focus on any aspect of the relationship between happiness (tentatively understood as subjective well-being) and broadly defined popular culture.

Mystery and Detective Fiction

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for our annual conference to be held March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous CFP

Do you do monster scholarship? If so, we encourage you to consider submitting a paper to the new Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the Popular Culture Association for the PCA National Conference in Chicago, March 27-30, 2024. https://pcaaca.org/page/nationalconference

The humanitarian Crisis in the 21st century: challenges of liberal democracies to deal with the humanitarian crisis

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:10pm
Maximiliano Korstanje - University of Palermo, Argentina
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 14, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS. The humanitarian Crisis in the 21st century: challenges of liberal democracies to deal with the humanitarian crisis 

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Maximiliano E. Korstanje- University of Palermo, Argentina

Christina Akrivopoulou – Hellenic Open University, Greece – Editor in Chief of Int. Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies.

 

Call for Papers: ‘Animating Change: Women and Genderqueer Animators’

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 12:16pm
Animation Practice, Process & Production
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Call for Papers: Animation Practice, Process & Production

 

Special Issue: ‘Animating Change: Women and Genderqueer Animators’

 

Guest editors: Tania de León Yong and María Lorenzo Hernández

 

View the full CFP here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/animation-practice-process-production#call-for-papers

Humour across Victoriana

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 12:16pm
Mou-Lan Wong / National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Humour across Victoriana

To be published as part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023-2025).

This volume will attempt to explore the prevalence and function of humour across all levels of Victorian society by focusing on how humour is expressed, encountered, and experienced in all forms of media and expression.

Vampire Studies (PCA/ACA National Conference) March 27-30 2024

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:18am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

PCA CONFERENCE 27-30 March 2024, CHICAGO, IL

The Vampire Studies Area of the PCA welcomes papers, presentations, panels, and roundtable discussions that cover all aspects of the vampire as it appears throughout global culture.

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:15am
Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

 

March 21st – 23rd, 2024

Salem, Massachusetts

 

Conference director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

With the kind support of the American Literature Association

 

 

Proposals for individual papers, 3- or 4-person paper sessions, and 5-person roundtable sessions are solicited for AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: the inaugural symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.

 

ACLA 2024 (Montreal) Panel: Mirror/Mirror

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:37am
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

We're accepting paper proposals for the following seminar at the ACLA annual meeting, which will be held in Montreal, March 14–17, 2024. Papers should be submitted online through the ACLA portal. Feel free to email with any questions.
 

Mirror / Mirror

Organizers: Hilary Bergen (The New School), Sandra Huber (Concordia University)

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 10:18am
46th Annual Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023

46th Annual Comparative Drama Conference 

Conference Dates: April 4 - 6, 2024

Location: Orlando, Florida 

Deadline for Abstract Submission: October 1, 2023

 

Disability Studies in Dramatic Texts and Performance 

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability studies in dramatic texts and performance. We invite research on representation, imagery, symbolism, societal regulation, social impact, or the construction of disability as it pertains to casting and depictions of those with disabilities in playtexts and dramatic performance. 

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