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Exit Signs: University of Toronto Cinema Studies Graduate Conference

updated: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 12:20pm
University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

2025 Annual Graduate Student Conference

Cinema Studies Institute 

Friday, March 14th to Sunday, March 16th, 2025

Keynote speaker: Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay, York University

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2025 

 

Call for Papers: EXIT SIGNS

"Existence Precedes Essence": (Post)Colonial Reconciliations

updated: 
Friday, December 6, 2024 - 2:50pm
International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) - In-person, Seoul, Korea, 28th July 2025 - 1st August 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

In the Humanities, notions of coloniality and postcoloniality are usually entangled with nation states that are, by nature, multilingual and multicultural. The societies of each of these nations are further stratified based on hierarchies of economic and social-political classifications. In other words, motivated and maintained by and through power and notions of telos, differences of race, sexuality, caste, and religion exist in differing ways. Literatures of these differences then occupy their space(s) under the larger category of ‘postcolonial literature(s)’.

EGSS 2025 Conference: Identity and Identification

updated: 
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 - 10:52am
Florida Atlantic University: English Graduate Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 5, 2025

 

 

Florida Atlantic University’s English Graduate Student Society (EGSS) is pleased to announce the return of our annual academic conference, to be held at the Grand Palm Room located at our Boca Raton Campus's Student Union* on February 3rd, 2025.

*The full address for our Student Union is 1995 Dade Ave #1973, Boca Raton, FL 33431.

Replacement Chapter for Collection in contract: Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 10:07pm
Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Dear Colleagues:

My forthcoming collection, Imperial Debt: Colonial Theft, Postcolonial Reparations, is in contract and due out in 2025. 

Please review the original CFP for the book, copied below, and let me know if you have work that would be appropriate for it and fits within the rubric of the book (see below).

The full chapter is needed by Dec. 31st. Please email to: maureen.fadem@gmail.com

Thank you considering this important project--my very best,

~Maureen Ellen Ruprecht, CUNY

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[ACCUTE 2025 - Extended Deadline] Beyond Trauma (Studies)?

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:18am
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CFP - Graduate Student Conference: Universality Renewed (Cultural Studies & Comp Lit, UMN - Twin Cities)

updated: 
Friday, November 29, 2024 - 11:32am
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature - University of Minnesota (Twin Cities)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

[DEADLINE EXTENDED - Taking Submissions until Nov. 29th] CSCL Graduate Conference - Universality Renewed - March 21st to 22nd, 2025. Minneapolis, MN.

Keynote Speaker: Todd McGowan, University of Vermont 

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities (2–3 May 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 2:28pm
Global Plant Humanities Network
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call For Papers

The 2nd International Conference on Global Plant Humanities

 

Date of Conference: 2–3 May 2025 (Friday-Saturday)

Mode:                         Hybrid

Host:                           Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Partners:                    Nulungu Institute, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Sadhan Chandra Mahavidyalaya (affiliated with the University of Calcutta)

Gifts from the Sentient Forest (project supported by the Kone Foundation, Finland)

Location:                    Kathmandu, Nepal

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 10:26am
Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

 

Virtual issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

 

Failure: Special issue of The Comparatist

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:59am
The Comparatist
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Failure

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

 

Acta Ludologica (Special Issue: Game and Monetisation)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:45am
Acta Ludologica
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for its Special Issue: Games and Monetisation.

Guest editor: assoc. prof. PhDr. Jana Radošinská, PhD.

Worlding Beyond the End of the World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:45am
University of Western Ontario
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

We are pleased to announce the in-person 2025 Theory & Criticism conference at Western University from April 25th-26th. This conference aims to look beyond visions of the future that are confined to the utopian-dystopian binary. To do so, it will feature theoretically rich work from decolonial, queer, trans, and crip-futurism(s) and their intersections. 

Proposals for Kate Chopin panels at 2025 American Literature Association Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:44am
Kate Chopin International Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025
  • The first panel, a roundtable on “Kate Chopin in the Classroom/ Teaching Through Technology,” seeks short (seven- to eight-minute) papers/remarks that address an aspect of or strategy for teaching Chopin’s life or work in the contemporary classroom. How do you teach Chopin in the post-covid classroom? What in-class activities and assignments incorporating technology, multimodality, infographics, podcasts, TikTok videos, AI, etc. are engaging your students as they study Chopin? Proposals should include a title, your name and affiliation, and a paragraph about your proposed remarks.

Call for Chapters - Qualitative Research and Justice Education

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 6:30am
Co-Edited Volume
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

Capacities To: Affect Up Against Facism

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
Imbricate! Press (Society for the Study of Affect)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The world’s steady sloping toward 21st century fascism took an even more precipitous slide with the US electoral victory of Donald Trump in this fall’s election. There is no way to fully capture where different folks are at in their (dis)orientation to this unfolding fascism—physio-psycho- socio-affectio-logically—but feeling grief, rage, numbness, disgust, despair, flattened, scattered, scared, and intermixtures of all these (and many more) are surely in the running as immediate but inadequate visceral descriptors for this moment.

CSSA's 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:19am
Comparative Studies Student Association - Florida Atlantic University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

                                           

                                            Florida Atlantic Univeristy - Comparative Studies Student Association 

                                                            CSSA’s 2025 Intellectual Resistance Conference

Call for Papers

Conference: Status Quo and Besides: The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:40pm
The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Status Quo and Besides

The State of South African Literary and Cultural Studies

8 to 9 May 2025

26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa

 

The Literature Association of South Africa (LASA) invites literary scholars and postgraduate students to submit abstracts for its 2025 conference, to be hosted at 26 Degrees South, Muldersdrift, Gauteng, South Africa, from 8 to 9 May 2025.

 

2025 First Book Institute

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:29pm
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Announcing 

The 2025 First Book Institute

June 1-7, 2025

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors 

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

John Marsh, Professor of English and Director of the Center for American Literary Studies

»Queer Comics«

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Journal of Comics Studies #12 (November 2025)

Thematic Section: »Queer Comics«

Open Call for Submissions

The e-journal CLOSURE will once again provide a platform for all facets of comic studies in its twelfth issue, to be published in Fall 2025. From cultural, visual, and media studies to social and natural sciences, and beyond, CLOSURE invites essays and academic reviews that engage with the »state of the comic«. Whether in-depth analysis, comic theory, or innovative new approaches—for the open topic section, we welcome diverse contributions from the interdisciplinary field of comics research.

Adaptation Machines/Machine Adaptation: Adaptation Studies and Generative AI

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:40am
Adaptation
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Adaptation is the leading international, peer-reviewed journal of adaptation studies. The journal actively contributes to the development and visibility of adaptation studies as a field of academic enquiry and seeks to advance methodological approaches to the process.

Special Issue Editor: Reto Winckler (City University of Hong Kong)

Deadline for Submissions: 31 August 2025

Scope

Special Issue: 'Divest'

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 12:13pm
Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

DIVEST.

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:59am
Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Purdue University Literary, Interdisciplinary, Theory, and Culture Organization Symposium, March 7–8, 2025. 

 

Rediscovery, Reclamation, and Renewal in Literature, Theory, and Culture

[ACCUTE 2025] Beyond Trauma (Studies)?

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 4:39pm
Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 22, 2024

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

Textu(r)alities: Semiotics, Bodies, Texts (Special Issue of Multimodality & Society)

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Emilio Amideo (University of Naples Parthenope) and Rodrigo Borba (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 24, 2025

In the last couple of decades, our embodied actions with others have become increasingly more fluid and disentangled from fixed/static contexts so much so that the materiality of social life has been filtered through texts produced in a variety of semiotic resources that bind people together while keeping them apart. By further blurring online/offline boundaries, the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated the long-lasting mediatization of social life leading to a reconceptualization of phenomena such as corporeality and matter and their relationship with both virtual and physical environments.

The Arts under Constraints

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
University of Liège
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 30, 2025

Call for papers

15th CIPA International Conference: “The arts under constraints”

Date: October 8-9, 2025

Place: University of Liège

Organization: UR Traverses/CIPA

 

Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 5, 2024

Fredric Jameson as Marxist Educator

Special issue of the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 

Edited by: Dr. Tyson E. Lewis

 

Nancy Fraser - Ethics and Politics - 11th Graduate Conference SciencesPo Paris

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:26am
Sciences Po Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 12, 2025

 

Dear colleagues,

 

We are delighted to invite submissions for the 11th Graduate Conference in Political Theory, organised at Sciences Po in Paris, France, which will be held on May 19th-20th, 2025. This year, our theme is “Ethics and Politics”, focusing on the complex intersections between ethical concerns and political frameworks in contemporary societies.

 

We are honoured to welcome Professor Nancy Fraser as our keynote speaker, a leading voice in critical social theory, whose work has significantly influenced debates on justice, democracy, and the ethics of public life.

 

"Isolation/Communication": A CALS Webinar

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Isolation/Communication: A Center for American Literary Studies Webinar

Join the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State for another “Unprecedented” webinar, this one devoted to the theme of “Isolation/Communication.” The webinar will take place Tuesday, November 12 from 12 to 1 pm EST. Register (and attend) here:

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6nCPUmjSR7KA_xhRKN3cEQ

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