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NeMLA 2024: Sonidos y performance en cuerpos racializados en Latinoamérica

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:41am
NeMLA: Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for papers: NeMLA Boston, Massachusetts

March 7-10, 2024

Deadline: 30 de septiembre, 2023

https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20395

¡Hola colegas! Los invito  a participar en el panel qué estoy organizando junto a César Salgado: “Sonidos y performance en cuerpos racializados en Latinoamérica”

CFP: Afrofuturism in Black Literature, Film, Media & Culture

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Coppin State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 25, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

AFROFUTURISM IN BLACK LITERATURE, MEDIA, FILM & CULTURE

Edited by DuEwa M. Frazier

Publisher: Routledge

SEEKING ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS for EDITED VOLUME:

The dynamic tradition of Black literature and storytelling now stands at the crossroads of where historical realities meet with present day - dreams of Afro futures, to re-make, re-mix, re-store, and re-envision an ideal and artful world, from diverse points of view with the goal to inspire and educate current and future generations of scholars and creators.

TOPICS INCLUDED BUT NOT LIMITED TO:

Afrofuturism - Interviews & Reviews

CFP UPDATE Comics Get Medieval 2023: New Work on the Comics Medium in Medieval Studies (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICSM 10/26-28/2023)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:39am
Michael Torregrossa / The Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

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

 

Call for Papers (UPDATED) - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 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

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:38am
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way.  Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.  For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co

ICMS 2024: Medievalisms in Middle Grade and Young Adult Media

updated: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023 - 4:33pm
Amelia Lehosit
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

From Disney films to historical cosplay to young adult fantasy novels to webtoons to viral TikToks, contemporary media continues to shape how younger generations view the medieval world. This panel welcomes papers that discuss contemporary media depictions of the medieval world—whether fictional or historical—aimed at youth audiences and examine ways in which these depictions might shape how younger audiences understand “the medieval.”

Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture: Deadline approaching!

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 12:10pm
Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Helena Wahlström Henriksson (Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

As editors of the Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture, which is under contract and has 15 commissioned chapters, we seek approximately 25 additional chapters (6,500-7,500 words) on topics related to parenthood in popular culture. We aim to foreground Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ+ and non-normative experiences, in contributions that explore popular cultural representations of parental identities from intersectional perspectives, and from diverse cultural and geopolitical locations. Chapters may focus on either mothers/mothering/motherhood or fathers/fathering/fatherhood, or interrogate parents/parenting/parenthood as more comprehensive terms, across genders and in non-binary contexts.

Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia (Panel)

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 1:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Update: Panel for NeMLA 2024. Abstract submission deadline 30th September 2023

Please submit your abstracts for the panel Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia, which will feature at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston.

All abstracts need to be uploaded through the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20560


 

Economies and Poetics of the Forest

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
American Society for 18th Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

“To the uncultivated eye a forest appears simply as uncultivated land—an expanse of woodland and heath which has been left ‘wild’ ... But a forest has its own complex economy.” —E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters

Call for article submissions for New Horizons in English Studies - Literature, Media and Culture Here and Now (open access peer reviewed journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:49am
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

New Horizons in English Studies vol. 9/2024

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND CULTURE HERE AND NOW

New Horizons in English Studies (https://journals.umcs.pl/nh, indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+) invites submissions to the 9/2024 issue, welcoming previously unpublished research papers and reviews in the broadly understood field of literary, media and cultural studies (L, M & C). The scope of subjects includes but is not limited to the following:

Batman… Also Starring: Essays on the Caped Crusader’s Supporting Cast

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:43am
Christopher Maverick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

The editor of Batman… Also Starring is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. Many academic texts focus on Batman as a cultural figure in comics as well as in films, television programs, and video games. However, like all great superheroes, Batman is as much defined by his supporting cast as he is by his costume, abilities or origin. While there is no shortage of scholarship devoted to his most famous sidekicks — such as Nightwing, Batgirl or the many Robins — and his most popular villains — like Joker, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn — little critical attention has been paid to the majority of his cast.

Reality TV in the Social Media Economy Cluster

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:36am
ASAP/J
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 6, 2023

Something has changed about the way we watch reality TV. For example, Selling Sunset, a show about selling luxury homes in the Hollywood Hills area, is the new platonic ideal of reality TV. It presents the glamorous, unattainable Hollywood lifestyle but is grounded by the viewers’ social media engagement with the subjects online. These viewing practices facilitate a novel method of watching reality TV. Engagement is now self-reflexive: drama on many of the shows has its roots in Instagram, TikTok, or Reddit feuds about the show, rather than actual conflicts that unfold on-camera. Other series, such as Vanderpump Rules, Indian Matchmaking, and Too Hot to Handle similarly thrive in this social media economy.

CFP: Stardom and Fandom, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:33am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Proposals for papers and panels will be accepted starting September 1st for the 45th annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. 

The Area Chair for Stardom and Fandom invites paper or panel proposals on any aspect of stardom or fandom. The list of ideas below is limited, so if you have an idea that is not listed, please suggest the new topic. We are an interdisciplinary area and encourage submissions from multiple perspectives and disciplines.

Topics might include:

Black Speculations/Black Futures

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:37pm
MELUS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 17, 2023

Call for Papers, MELUS Themed Issue:

“Black Speculations / Black Futures”

Guested Edited by Justin L. Mann and Samantha Pinto

Deadline for Abstracts: November 17, 2023 

 

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement and the blockbuster cinematic world of

Wakanda, Black futures proliferate—hypervisible in sci-fi casting, in reading lists for liberal

audiences, in political discourses of anti-racism and their backlash. But imagining Black futures

is not, in fact, a new (pre)occupation in Black literature and expressive culture. World-building,

Queer Children's Film and Television

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:17am
Rachel Milne, University of Cambridge; Dr Abigail Jenkins, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

Queer Children’s Film and Television

Online One-Day Symposium, 17th November 2023 

Individual papers are welcomed for ‘Queer Children’s Film and Television,’ an online, one-day symposium to be held on 17th November 2023. The symposium explores depictions of queerness in children’s film and television, and the queerness of children’s films and TV. This symposium precedes an opportunity to contribute to a proposed edited collection, intended as a part of Edinburgh University Press’ new ‘Children’s Film and Television’ book series.

Ongoing CFP for General Issues

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:16am
Popular Culture Review - University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept. of English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Popular Culture Review seeks to publish compelling, well-argued, and well-researched articles on all aspects of popular culture including

 

  • art
  • literature
  • music
  • graphic novels
  • animation and anime
  • video games
  • food culture
  • fashion
  • social media culture
  • fan studies and fandom
  • television and film

 

 

Asian and Asian American Popular Culture

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:16am
Popular Culture Review - University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dept. of English
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

For this special issue, Popular Culture Review is interested in articles related to all aspects of Asian and Asian American popular culture. This includes, but is certainly not limited to, topics including

 

  • art
  • literature
  • music
  • graphic novels
  • animation and anime
  • video games
  • food culture
  • fashion
  • social media culture
  • television and film

 

2024 Supernatural Studies Conference

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:16am
Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Supernatural Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Art, Media, and Culture and the Marist College School of Liberal Arts invite submissions for the 2024 Supernatural Studies Conference, to be held at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY,  on Friday, March 22, 2024. 

The conference welcomes proposals on representations of the supernatural in any form of text or artifact, such as literature (including speculative fiction), film, television, video games, social media, or music. Full panels or roundtable discussions may also be proposed. Submissions regarding pedagogy and supernatural representations will also be considered, as will creative submissions that align with the conference's focus. 

How to Be an Alien in British Cultural Studies

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:13am
The Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (CESIC), The British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC) of the University of Bucharest and New Europe College (NEC)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The Centre of Excellence for the Study of Cultural Identity (CESIC),

The British Cultural Studies Centre (BCSC) of the University of Bucharest

and New Europe College  (NEC)

invite proposals for a conference dedicated to MA students, PhD candidates and young researchers on

How to Be an Alien in British Cultural Studies

to be held at

New Europe College

Queer Literature & LGBTQ+: Intersections, Narratives, and Representations

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:11am
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 25, 2023

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH 

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

9th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2023

On

Queer Literature & LGBTQ+: Intersections, Narratives, and Representations

on

Tuesday, 10 October, 2023

CFP Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Panel) (9/30/2023; NeMLA Boston 3/7-10/2024)

updated: 
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 7:07am
Michael Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Beowulfs Beyond Beowulf: Transformations of Beowulf in Popular Culture (Panel)

 

Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Richard Fahey, Carl Sell, and Benjamin Hoover

 

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

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

updated: 
Thursday, August 17, 2023 - 12:05am
Annika J Lindskog / Lund University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

CFP: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968)One-day symposium, October 27, 2023

NB this symposium will now take place online, via Zoom!

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

updated: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 10:18am
NeMLA 2023
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.

CALL FOR PAPERS: “We’re Going Virtual”: A Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, August 14, 2023 - 10:20am
Kyle Eveleth / Otterbein University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The concept of virtual worlds, while not new, has become a normalized part of 21st-century consciousness. Once a realm reserved for playful escape, “dissolv[ing] the constraints of the anchored world so that we can lift anchor—not to drift aimlessly without point, but to explore anchorage in ever-new places” (Heim, 1993), virtual spaces have taken center stage in our everyday lives. Our meeting places, our workplaces, our places of learning, even the places where we unite to break bread have shifted from the physical realm to the virtual. Children in particular have felt the seismic cultural shift from in-person to virtual interaction, as it has fundamentally changed the way they play, learn, and grow.

NeMLA 2024 panel - Poetry Is Dead? Long Live Spoken Word!

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2023 - 7:26am
Northeast Modern Language Association / Shefali Banerji (University of Vienna)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This is a call for paper for the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) 2024 panel on spoken word poetry. The convention will take place in Boston from 7th to 10th March 2024. The panel invite papers that address the rich form of spoken word poetry in any of its manifestations within the UK and US scenes.

 

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