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TerrAIforming -- Special Issue on Earth and AI

updated: 
Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:29am
Alienocene: Journal of the First Outernational
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

In July 2023, a tech startup called “Simulation Inc” released an AI technology that the company claims will make it possible to generate entire t.v. episodes—including dialogue, voice acting, animation, and editing—from nothing more than a two-sentence prompt. Somewhat oddly—and provoking suspicion that the project might be a hoax or internet prank—Simulation Inc’s website lists a fake address under their contact info: 500 Baudrillard Drive, San Francisco, CA. 

Reproductive Justice and the Humanities in Times of Crisis: Hybrid Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:44pm
University of York, UK and online
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.

The Brontës and the Wild

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:53pm
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

No promised heaven, these wild desires

Could all, or half fulfil;

– Emily Brontë, “The Philosopher”

 

Bronte Studies invites new and original essays of no more than 7,500 words responding to the theme of “The Brontes and the Wild,” which inspired the Bronte Parsonage Museum’s 2023 programme of events and activities and the Bronte Society’s conference.

ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"

updated: 
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:52pm
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

ASLE 2024 Symposium "Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction"University of North Florida
May 16-19, 2024

Call for Individual and Pre-formed Panel Proposals

CFP : Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape

updated: 
Saturday, November 4, 2023 - 7:27am
LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Call for Online Book Chapters

 

Title: Transcultural Media Narratives: Mapping the Cross-Cultural Communication Landscape

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 November 2023

Editors: Prof. Eduardo CAMILO & Prof. Karima BOUZIANE

Publisher and copyright: LABCOM, Comunicação e Artes,

Universidade da Beira Interior,

Rua Marquês D’Ávila e Bolama,

6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal.

Rationale

Critical Insights into Science Fiction: Exploring Posthumanism, Alternate Realities, and Cyberculture

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:22pm
Adamas University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

The realm of science fiction serves as a captivating tapestry, weaving together speculative narratives that extend beyond the bounds of conventional reality. Within this expansive genre, three thematic strands emerge as critical foci: Posthumanism, Alternate Realities, and Cyberculture. This exploration aims to unravel the nuanced layers embedded within these themes, offering a critical lens through which to examine the implications for contemporary society, ethical considerations, and the trajectory of human existence.

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:05pm
Sapienza University of Rome, University of Silesia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 24, 2023

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics (Rome, 10th and 11th June 2024)

Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 (37th Cycle of the PhD Programme in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation)

CFP -- FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:02pm
Laura Hartmann-Villalta // Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: FEMINIST HEALTH HUMANITIES

CCAM Fall 2023 Machine as Medium Symposium: Matter and Spirit

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:23pm
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 13, 2023

Call for Papers

In 1950, the pioneering mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing asked the world: “Can machines think?”

Published in his article in Mind when he was 38 years old, Turing’s question emerged from a life of relentless imagination. By then, Turing had applied his brilliance to help the allies win World War II and revolutionized computing—creating the foundation for much later developments in AI technologies and machine learning. His intrepidness included living as a gay man in a society that would criminalize and cause him irreparable harm for it.

Science and Storytelling: An Interdisciplinary Symposium [SASS]

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:22pm
Katherine Rogers-Carpenter / Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies, University of Kentucky
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

Sponsored by the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies

University of Kentucky

Topic: Using storytelling to make science more accessible to lay audiences.

 

Call for Abstracts: ‘Novel Media/Media Novel: Theorising Digital Media Cultures in the Contemporary Novel’ -- Special Issue of C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 1:17pm
Sandro Eich and Dong Xia, School of English, University of St Andrews
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Contemporary novels are marbled with representations of digital media. Despite the notable attention to digital technologies already present in post-war literature, the twenty-first century has witnessed the unprecedented integration of digital media into everyday lives, where digital objects and systems are shaping social and cultural paradigms anew. Contemporary writers, in and through their writing, actively engage with the digital media experience of the twenty-first century.

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:18pm
DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 27, 2023

GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE 2024

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29 – FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF MODERN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

 

Critical Ecologies and Speculative Futures: Conceiving the Environment 

 

Critical theory has questioned the conceptual limits of ideas like the Anthropocene, Capitalocene, and supremacy of human animals over nature. Ongoing global crises, such as climate change, divergent levels of modernization, and the search for bold and expedient solutions to accelerating environmental crises urge new frameworks to analyze an interdependent world.

 

The A.I. Artificial Intelligence Book: New Perspectives on Spielberg's Robot Fairy-tale

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:06am
Matthew Melia (Kingston University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence  (2001) was not a blockbuster in the sense of Jaws, E.T or Jurassic Park (the other films covered in this book series) – it did however make a heavy return on its near $100 million budget and received critical praise in the media. The film is the product of several authors: science fiction writer Brian Aldiss on whose short story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ (1969) the film was based; Stanley Kubrick, whose project it had been initially before passing it over to Spielberg in the wake of Jurassic park, Spielberg made and released the film two years after Kubrick’s death.

[Professional Writing] (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:07am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta

53rd Annual Conference | March 21–23, 2024

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

 

 

 

TRANSFORMATIONS

 

ABSTRACTS DUE: NOVEMBER 1, 2023

 

 

JOIN CEA IN ATLANTA!

 

Narratives of Health and Illness: Care and Power Within, Against and Beyond Medicine

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:05am
Burcu Alkan, Forum Transregionale Studien
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

We recently launched a blog series on medical and health humanities with an emphasis on the Global South. The blog series aims to bring together the multitude of discussions and expressive models of health and illness in order to explore interdisciplinary encounters and contestations related to agency, discourse, and power structures. We seek critical engagements within the framework of medical humanities for a more inclusive conception of health care and well-being that opens up a space for personal accounts of medicalized subjects on the margins of the medical establishment. The series emphasizes that embodiedness of health and illness belongs to the realm of narrativity both as personal experience and as part of medical epistemology.

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

updated: 
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 11:25am
Insects and Material Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 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:  

Call for Papers for volume 16, n° 1(33)/ 2024: Digital Methods and Fields: Feminist Perspectives

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:27pm
Essachess - Journal for communication Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 10, 2023

Call for Papers for volume 16, n° 1(33)/ 2024: Digital Methods and Fields: Feminist Perspectives

Guest editors:

Audrey BANEYX, Research Engineer, Médialab, Sciences Po, France, audrey.baneyx@sciencespo.fr 

Hélène BOURDELOIE, Associate professor, CIS (CNRS) & LabSIC, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France, Helene.Bourdeloie@univ-Paris13.f

Mélanie LALLET, Associate professor, UCO Nantes, Arènes, CHUS & Irméccen, France, melanie.lallet@yahoo.fr

Reading the World Computer: Assessing Meaning Making and the Tell-Tale Gender of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Any philosophical consideration of the current zeitgeist requires an assessment of the quasi-object ( Latour 1993) constellation of Artificial Intelligence and its affordances without giving in to either knee-jerk optimism or unchanneled pessimism. For if doomsday was indeed near (as social media discourses want us to believe), and human labour progressively redundant to the machinations of human-made artificial intelligence, what is the limit case scenario, which makes such a provocation real, tangible and material beyond fatalistic projections of obsolescence? How does that reconfigure the idea of the Human as both the object and subject of cybernetic capital?

Ann Leckie and Speculative Fiction Revolution

updated: 
Friday, September 15, 2023 - 9:57am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Multiple award-winning author Ann Leckie is extremely well-regarded in speculative fiction, but relatively understudied in academia. With a new book out in June 2023 that expands the world of the Imperial Radch trilogy, it is an exciting time to be an Ann Leckie scholar. This session invites essays that address her work broadly.

CFP: Global Perspectives on Surveillance (Jump Cut)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:43pm
Jump Cut
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Global Perspectives on Surveillance

Call for Papers

 

Special Section of Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media (editor-in-chief Julia Lesage)

Section Editor: Gary Kafer (University of Chicago)

 

Description

This special section of Jump Cut seeks original research and review essays that examine the global circuits of surveillance that increasingly mark contemporary social and political life.

 

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on artificial intelligence in the modernist era. Potential subjects include:

 

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