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Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--EXTENDED!

updated: 
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 10:34am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

Deadline Extended---Alfred Hitchcock Call for Papers

updated: 
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 7:17pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Deadline Extended!

Call for Papers

ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

 

CFP EXTENDED DEADLINE: "Horror," SWPACA, Albuquerque, Feb. 19-22, 2025

updated: 
Saturday, November 2, 2024 - 6:38am
Steffen Hantke/SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

“Horror (Literary & Cinematic)”

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Extended proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

 

Call for Film/TV/Video Game Reviewers (Extended Deadline)

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 4:45pm
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

 

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. 

Dragons and Ecocriticism

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

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, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

The Landscapes of Dragons

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Working Title: From Desolation to Idyllic Habitations: Exploring the Landscapes of Dragons in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture

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, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragon Games and Online Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Dragons in Gaming and Online Culture

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, 2025.

All topics about dragons will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons, Posthumanism, and Animality

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

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, 2025.

All topics will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Fiction

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

Dragons in Fiction

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, 2025.

All topics about dragons in fiction will be considered.

Please send abstracts and a brief bio to Rachel Carazo at rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

Dragons in Film and Television

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 1:15pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

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

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Nicole Seymour and Darin DeWitt
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2024

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. 

Tolkien at UVM Conference

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
The Tolkien at the Univrsity of Vermont Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Tolkien and War!  is the theme of the 21st annual Tolkien at the University of Vermont conference on April 5th. This is a hybrid event!!

We are excited to have John Garth as our keynote speaker, and we are encouraging all abstracts but will give priority to those on the theme. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

War in Europe

War in Middle-earth

War and Tolkien's poetry 

Heroic battle poetry

War and Tolkien's English

War in the films/Tv shows

Gender/Sexuality and War

Psychology and War

Religion and War

 

Please submit 200 word abstracts to cvaccaro@uvm.edu by Sunday February 2nd!

Reviews for Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Alissa Burger / Reviews Editor, Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

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! Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:03am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Deadline Extended! Special Devil Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:02am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED to NOVEMBER 14

Calling the Devil:

Preternatural Projections, Diabolical Conceptions, and the Arcane Adversary                                             

Deadline Extended! Special Cronenberg Panel in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 3:01am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

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

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:16pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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

Medusa: Essays on Different Media

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 11:14pm
Rachel L. Carazo
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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.

Baldwin Again and Again

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

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

 

Athletes Breaking Bad Too

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Book chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Call for Chapter ProposalsAthletes Breaking Bad Tooan edited collection of scholarly analyses In sports, the action on the field is only part of the story. Beyond scores and stats, we find powerful narratives that make athletes into icons, rebels, or even villains. Every era sees certain athletes defy social norms, ruffle feathers, and challenge the status quo—figures often branded as "bad boys/girls." This label is more than just a headline; it’s a reflection of shifting cultural values as it speaks to what a sport and society deem acceptable—or unforgivable.

Disasters and Apocalypses

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Popular Culture Association (PCA) National Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC) Sponsored Workshop on Precarity and Human Life: Reflections of Artificial Intelligence in Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:25am
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, In association with University of Toronto, Canada; University of Northampton UK; Aarhus University, Denmark; University of York, England
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Concept Note

Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Speculative Fiction & Cultures of Science at UC Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Conference Date: April 4-5, 2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AVXufNHQQFN00hrpVBOOsl2jMpv5-_ss/view

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars to participate in the Eaton Conference on Speculative Fiction, which will be held in-person at the University of California, Riverside from April 4-5, 2025. All scholars, especially graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for a two-day conference on speculative fiction and the archive to share and engage in conversation about their work, foster community and collegiality, and gain conference experience. This event will be free and open to the public.

CFP: Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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).

PCA/ACA Memory and Representation area - April 16-19, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:22am
Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

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

 

Comics Arts Conference WonderCon

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Comics Arts Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

The Comics Arts Conference is now accepting 100- to 200-word abstracts for papers, presentations, and panels taking a critical or historical perspective on comics (juxtaposed images in sequence) for a meeting of scholars and professionals at WonderCon, in Anaheim, CA, March 28–30, 2025.  We seek proposals from a broad range of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives and welcome the participation of academic and independent scholars.  We also encourage the involvement of professionals from all areas of the comics industry, including creators, editors, publishers, retailers, distributors, and journalists.  The CAC at WonderCon does not accept virtual submissions.  The CAC is designed to bring together comics scholars, professionals, critics, and historian

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