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East Asian Popular Culture: Call for Completed Chapters to Publish in Cambridge Scholars Volume

updated: 
Monday, March 27, 2023 - 6:55am
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 27, 2023

Call for East Asia Popular Culture Full Essays! 7-8000 words, including all citations in Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date)

We have a publishing project in development with Cambridge Scholars Publishing and need a few supplementary chapters to round out our volume.

Deadline: Monday, March 27th

Contact: Vivienne Tailor vivienne.tailor@cgu.edu

*Topics should focus on East Asian Popular Culture media and social phenomena from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.

Race & Ethnicity Studies: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 2:13pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Annual Conference

Race & Ethnicity Studies

 

Deadline: April 30, 2023

 

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

East Asian Popular Culture Studies: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 2:13pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Conference

East Asian Studies

 

Deadline: April 30, 2023

 

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

PAMLA 2023 Panel: Bodies of the Future

updated: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 8:23pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This panel aims to explore the role of futuristic bodies as spaces for addressing contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, climate change, and income inequality. Science fiction and speculative fiction confront us with the uncanny, asking us to question the boundaries between our reality and fictional-yet-possible futures. Centering the body, often porous and precarious, in these texts positions us to imagine the future of humanity, and encourages us to think critically about perspective shifts we must make today to enable a better tomorrow. As Michel Foucault (1980) states, “the body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse.

Connections, Interconnections and Disconnections in Festive and Celebratory Culture

updated: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023 - 9:51am
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Online Conference Date: TBA

Registration is free to attend.

Call for papers

In our fourth annual event, we will examine the theme of 'connections, interconnections, and disconnections' in festive and celebratory culture.

Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:36am
International Crime Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes of the previous successful conferences, Celebrating Crime Fiction will consider and reflect upon the growing interest in Crime Fiction scholarship over the past decade. We are particularly interested in examining the changes in the landscape of crime fiction study through the years of our Captivating Criminality conferences. The study of crime fiction has now emerged as a vital thread with the capacity to transform interdisciplinary academic discourse.

Frontiers and Wastelands: Redefining the Nation in US Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:29am
PopMeC / UAH / SDU
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

International conference

November 27-28, 2023

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid ES

 

The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities. As Lee Bebout (2016) has highlighted discussing the US–Mexico border, representations of frontiers, the “other side,” and the people inhabiting these regions have been historically deployed to construct a dominant national identity—often exploiting, invisiblizing, or neglecting local identities in the process.

InVisible Culture 36: "The Matter of Whiteness"

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:27am
InVisible Culture — A Journal for Visual Culture / University of Rochester
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

InVisible Culture — A Journal for Visual Culture 

Call For Papers 

Issue 36: “The Matter of Whiteness” 

James Bond Studies Conference, June 30th-July 1st 2023

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:23am
International Journal of James Bond Studies, University of Roehampton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Call for Papers: James Bond Studies Conference

30th June – 1st July 2023

University of Roehampton, London

 

In association with the Centre for Literature and Inclusion and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, the International Journal of James Bond Studies will host a 2-day international conference on the University’s beautiful parkland campus in South West London.

ASAP/14: Arts of Fugitivity

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:17am
Association of the Study of the Arts of the Present
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

UW Seattle
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, October 4th — Friday, October 6th, 2023

UW Bothell
Bothell, WA 

Saturday, October 7, 2023

La literatura de crimen y sus avatares contemporáneos || Crime Fiction and Its Contemporary Avatars

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:16am
Nuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

[English below]

 

La literatura de crimen y sus avatares contemporáneos

Editora invitada: Dra. Ainhoa Vásquez Mejías (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

 

Revista: Nuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada

Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Sitio web: http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/nuevaspoligrafias

 

CfA On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:14am
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

With the sixteenth issue of On_Culture, we want to explore various approaches to reading cultural artifacts and events in an attempt to answer the question: What are the affordances of particular forms of reading and what do they bring forth? While the ability to decipher words and distinguish individual characters is perceived as a key skill and taught from an early age, philosophical traditions introduce us to critical approaches to interpreting broader cultural phenomena. 

Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968)

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:11am
Annika J Lindskog / Lund University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CFP: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968)One-day symposium, October 27, 2023Lund University, Sweden Mid-century US culture tends to be described in both simplified and paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it is thought of as a period of ‘containment’ culture, ‘Red-Scare’ rhetoric, and McCarthyism: a time when norms were strong, and it was difficult to be different. On the other hand, it is a period romanticized as the great era of American exceptionalism and industry.

Cozy Games and Coziness in Digital Games

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:10am
Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Replay. The Polish Journal of Game Studies invites all scholars to submit articles concerning cozy games and coziness in games.

Medievalisms Area at SWPACA Summer Salon

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:06am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

Medievalisms Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

 

CFP: "Horror," SWPACA Summer Conference, June 8-9, 2023

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:06am
SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

“HORROR”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

 

Abortion in International Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:06am
Brenda Boudreau
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Abortion in International Popular Culture--Soliciting Abstracts

Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon, June 8-9, 2023

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:04am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2023 SWPACA Summer Salon

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:00am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

 

The Mysterious Mrs Christie: Evidence, Elusion, Afterlives

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:58am
University of Exeter
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

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

 

Panel for UW-Madison Conference on South Asia, 2023 (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 11:32pm
Paulomi Sharma
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

VIOLENCE OF MEMORIES: RECLAIMING SPACES AND LOST VOICES IN SOUTH ASIA

 Seeking abstracts for proposing a panel at UW-Madison Conference on South Asia, 2023. 

Panel Abstract: 

Transmedia Monsters and Villains

updated: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023 - 6:06pm
Dr. Antonio Sanna
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

TRANSMEDIA MONSTERS AND VILLAINS

Rereading Elden Ring

updated: 
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 - 7:31pm
The University of Virginia Department of English Speakers’ Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

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.

Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 3:20pm
academic anthology edited by Samantha Baugus and Ayanni Cooper
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 21, 2023

Call for Papers - Creature Redux: Considering the Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Chimera in Fiction and Popular Culture
Extended Deadline: April 21st, 2021 (4/21/23)

Animals are the quotidian absolute Other. They are not inherently horrifying, dangerous, or invasive; nor do they have designs to usurp or subjugate humanity. In his lecture-turned-book The Animal That Therefore I Am, Derrida critiques the use of the word “animal” to describe an almost limitless array of creatures. “Animal” becomes a catch-all term for everything that is otherwise than human–and not the biological entity, but a specific, constructed hegemonic entity. 

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

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 10:27am
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Special dossier | edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic

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 two-part dossier, co-edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic, 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. 

 

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