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DEADLINE EXTENDED: The Solarpunk Conference 2023: Imagine, Act, Thrive: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 8:22pm
The Solarpunk Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 8, 2023

Call for Presentations – The Solarpunk Conference 2023: Imagine, Act, Thrive

Solarpunk is a new genre of speculative science fiction art, literature, and media, as well as a growing social movement. Solarpunk portrays a vision of an accessible, equitable world either without systemic barriers, or with those barriers in the process of disassembly, while championing intersectional social and climate justice. Drawing on ideas from permaculture, post- and trans-humanism, social ecology, and anarcho-socialism, while reacting against late stage capitalism, Solarpunk declares that our world is worth saving, and that saving it is possible.

Dramatherapy: International Perspectives, Paradigms and Pedagogies

updated: 
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 12:02pm
Mike Clarke and Anshuma Kshetrapal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 16, 2023

Across the world there are thriving networks of practitioners whose work draws on dramatherapy (or drama therapy) - the intentional use of drama and theatrical practices as a tool for therapeutic change. Conferences, publications, social media campaigns, and more seek to bring together this diverse community, who are united by their belief in the transformational potential of the techniques they use.

Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis

updated: 
Friday, April 28, 2023 - 12:01pm
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

PSA International Newsletter #30 Decolonizing the Ecological Crisis

Smellworlds

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:54am
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 25, 2023

169. Smellworlds

Mathew Arthur, Simon Fraser University;

Call for Contributions: Victorian Reproductions

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:52am
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Victorian Reproductions

 

Call for Contributions

 

Journal for the Study of British Cultures (2/24)

Guest Editors: Sarah Wegener and Wolfgang Funk

 

Speculative Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:38am
SAMLA / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

SAMLA’s 95th annual conference, (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies, will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia this year from November 9-11.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

 

Speculative Fiction Panel

Réalités alternatives contemporaines (WIF roundtable) - PAMLA 2023

updated: 
Thursday, April 27, 2023 - 4:06am
PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Dans cette session de Women in French (WIF), nous invitons des interventions explorant des productions du 21ème siècle par des femmes (romans, films, poésie, bande dessinée) qui prennent le biais d’une autre réalité pour réfléchir sur notre contemporanéité. Fables, contes, récits de science-fiction ou de fantasy sont souvent les reflets de nos désirs et de nos peurs en matière de régime politique, abus des corps et de la technologie, relations entre les humains et les animaux et la planète. La session se veut à la fois formelle et informelle, ancrée dans la recherche des participant.e.s et l’interaction entre les expériences plutôt qu’une présentation formelle.

Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times

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Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 10:59am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

23rd MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

To be held in Chandigarh on

6-8 October 2023

Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times

 

Trans-Futurisms

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Aparajita Nanda/University of California, Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and representation in the here and now, as far as cultural productions are concerned, have been supported and/ or undermined by visions of the future in literature, performative arts, or cinema. Authors and performers have offered to audiences their concerns, hopes, and expectations about possible futures via either utopian or dystopian narratives. In 2007, Ann Brooks was talking about a new modality of acknowledging cultural and ethnic identity from a transcultural and transnational viewpoint. In her words, “[t]hese new cultural and ethnic identities carry with them the need for new conceptions of subjectivity and require the opening-up of new subject positions and new spaces and places from which to speak” (184).

Call for Conference Presentations: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:49pm
University of Southampton, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Call for Papers: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF

 

With the support of the Doctoral College and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton, we are pleased to invite proposals for the ECR-led conference ‘Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts’.

Join Us (any presentation genre) Health & Wellness Session at 120th PAMLA Annual Conference in Portland Oregon Oct 26-29 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:33pm
Marja Mogk/PAMLA Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Join us for the Pacific Modern Language's (PAMLA) 120th Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Portland Hotel, October 26-29, 2023. Seeking presentations/papers in any genre for a session on the theme of health and wellness! 

Submit your proposal using PAMLA's online submission form. Go to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com to login or create an account first. Decisions on proposals will be made directly after the May 31st deadline so that all proposals are considered at the same time.

Session Title: Perspectives on Health & Wellness 

Abstract:

(Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocene

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Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:29pm
Eeva Kuikka/Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies & The University of Oulu
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

(Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocene

A human-animal studies conference at the University of Oulu, 4-6 October 2023

 

The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, and so little has happened that the fourth decade begins with the recent UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) declaration that we are now dealing with an existential crisis. One of the identified root causes of biodiversity loss is said to stem from people’s perceptions of other species – a realm of inquiry addressed widely in human–animal studies and critical animal studies.

 

CFP Call for Conference Papers - Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of Yoobee College of Creative Innovation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 11:41pm
Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Head of Research & Postgraduate Studies, Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, New Zealand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of Yoobee College of Creative Innovation

Event Dates: 25 – 27 October 2023, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023

DIS | ABILITY

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:02am
The Protagonist Press
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

The protagonist Journal opens their next call for papers!

We are looking for submissions for our second issue on the topic of DIS | ABILITY.

Send us your academic articles, reviews, art, and opinion pieces about:

Special Issue: Making Modern Maternity

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:00am
Whitney Wood, Karen Weingarten, Heather Love, and Jerika Sanderson
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

We invite submissions to a special journal issue that we would like to propose to Medical Humanities on the topic “Making Modern Maternity.” Our aim for the special issue will be to explore the ways in which pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal experiences have been constructed as “modern” (or not) at multiple sites and through various forms of media including popular magazines, newspapers, television and film, fiction, “expert” advice, advertisements, and medical records. In terms of temporal and geographic scope, we are soliciting contributions that focus on the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with no geographical restrictions.

PandeVITA Conference: Sustainable collaboration processes in pandemic times

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:56am
Bilkent University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need for efficient and effective communication and collaboration processes between the five systems science/ education, politics, economy, the media-based and culture-based public as well as the natural environment of societies. The SARS-CoV-2 virus assaulted the world suddenly, and the COVID-19 disease became a pandemic within three months after the discovery of the first case in China. As a consequence, the high infection rate had an impact on communication processes between all systems. Especially during the first wave of the pandemic, the information needed in society was extraordinarily high because many people were afraid and scared.

Novel Thinking: Representations of Mind in Literature and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:50am
Melissa Dickson / University of Queensland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Novel Thinking: Representations of Mind in Literature and Culture

A One Day Hybrid Conference at the University of Queensland

Monday, 26th June 2023

 

CFP: Special Issue for the journal Sexualities: Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:28am
Dr. Linda Roland Danil, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

CFP: Special Issue for the journal Sexualities

Dr. Linda Roland Danil

Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge

Email: lindarolandd@gmail.com

 

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 June 2023

Deadline for the submission of manuscripts: 30 September 2023

 

Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED - CFP: Negocieri romano-americane: transferuri culturale și intelectuale / Romanian-American Negotiations: Cultural and Intellectual Transfers

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 4:25am
Gheorghe Sincai Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 20, 2023

 

INSTUTUL DE CERCETĂRI SOCIO-UMANE, FILIALA CLUJ NAPOCA A ACADEMIEI ROMÂNE

TÂRGU MUREȘ

Proiect/Project PN-III-P4-PCE-2021-0688

EDERA The Ethos of Dialogue and Education: Romanian - American Cultural Negotiations (1920-1940) / Etosul educației și dialogului: Negocieri culturale româno-americane (1920-1940)

Unitatea Executivă pentru Finanțarea Învățământului Superior, a Cercetării, Dezvoltării și Inovării – UEFISCDI, Consiliul Național al Cercetării Științifice (CNCS), Ministerul Educației Naționale

 

Logic and Modern Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 3:25am
University of Lausanne
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

We are organising an international conference on Logic and Modern Literature at the University of Lausanne, from September 14-15, 2023, and would be delighted to receive your abstracts by April 16.

 

The conference will address a range of historical, epistemological and interdisciplinary questions about literature and logic from c.1800 to the present. 

 

Keynote speakers:  

Posthumanism: A Study in 21st-century Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, March 31, 2023 - 12:24pm
Pinaki Roy and Tanima Dutta
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

"POSTHUMANISM: A STUDY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY PERSPECTIVES"

JOINT-EDITORS: PINAKI ROY AND TANIMA DUTTA

The world and human civilisation are governed by rapid and gradual changes. In order to perceive and explore these changes - among other disciplines of literature and social sciences - posthumanism was developed very late in the 20th century as a literary-philosophical approach to interpreting these changes.

PAMLA 2023 Panel: Bodies of the Future

updated: 
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 - 11:45am
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.

Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:18am
Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai Campus
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai in collaboration with Asian Journal of Medical Humanities announces the call for a special issue on:

Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct

 

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Manali Karmakar and Dr. Binu Sahayam D.

Contact us: manali.karmakar@gmail.com

Abstract Submission @: gendermedicinespi@gmail.com

 

Concept Note:

Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:14am
Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Call for Papers: International Conference 

Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19

 

Conference Date: 7 September, 2023

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

  

The conference ‘Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19’ revisits the concept of biopolitics by asking how the pandemic has redefined the political field and what new concepts and prospects it can offer for conceptualising our post-pandemic condition. 

Exploring human dominance, gender, and heteronormativity through cyborgs and AI in films

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:11am
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Films have for a very long time been used to form a narrative that may oppose what the heteronormative society believes and that is why probably it is one of the most popular forms of artistic expression. When we think of films like Her or the Japanese anime Ghost in the Shell we see the use of technology in brilliant ways. It shows how easily humans are replaceable emotionally as well as physically. But how well do these films and many others like these refute the social conditioning that often clouds our visions? Is the world of cyborgs too dystopian for humans to survive in? Or just like any ‘other’ cyborgs and AI will just become another way for the powerful in the human world to exert dominance?

Laws and Customs of the Early Modern Sea (Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, 21–23 March 2024, Chicago)

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:10am
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

This panel seeks papers that address any aspect of the laws and customs, broadly defined, of the early modern sea. It aims to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue about such norms, one that transcends geographical, linguistic, and methodological boundaries. Topics may include (but are in no way limited to) maritime law, naval warfare, piracy, cartography, navigation, international trade, the lex mercatoria, ship building, and the political question of open seas. Papers that consider the literary or artistic conventions governing the depiction of ocean space are welcome too.

This panel will be part of the Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting in Chicago (21–23 March 2024).

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