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Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:21am
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers: International Conference "Sounds of a Lifetime: Exploring Life Writing in Audio Media" (29–30 January 2026, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

This conference aims to expand the boundaries of life writing studies by focusing on the often overlooked domain of audio life narratives. As Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson highlight in the preface of Reading Autobiography, “[l]ife narrative studies has become an expansive, transnational, multimedia field” (xi), going far beyond the written word. In the latest edition of this seminal work, they touch upon the concept of mediated voice and the aural qualities of social media messages, indicating the varied manifestations of auto/biographical acts (129).

THE PRISM OF FESTIVALS IN THEATRE AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES. Open Historiographic Issues

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:20am
Theatre Festivals between Local and Global: Rethinking Theatre and Performance in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s,
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.

Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:19am
Journal of Scandinavian Cinema
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 1, 2025

Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’

Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 

Guest editors: Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen), Anders Grønlund (Lund University) and Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers

Hospitality and Hostility: Crossings, Boundaries, and Beyond

updated: 
Monday, December 2, 2024 - 5:19am
English Department of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Sousse, Tunisia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

In a world marked by fluctuating borders, diverse identities, and global interconnectedness, the concepts of hospitality and hostility present complex meanings and challenges. This conference invites scholars and researchers to explore the diverse manifestations of hospitality and hostility across linguistics, literature, culture, social sciences, and political discourse. From acts of welcoming to experiences of exclusion, from cultural exchange to conflict, this theme highlights the delicate balance between openness and resistance, friendship and enmity, inclusion and exclusion.

 

[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.

Science Fiction & Disabilities (deadline extension)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 1:34pm
Stella Incognita Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

 

 

The 13th Stella Incognita Symposium

April 2, 3 and 4, 2025

 

Room Jacques Cartier - Campus Saint Martin d'Hères

Université Grenoble Alpes (France)

 

 

Science Fiction & Disabilities

 

Organizers: Clément Pélissier, Filippo Fonio

 

 

 

Call for Papers

 

 

Extended Deadline: The Marilynne Robinson Society at ALA

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:44am
American Literature Association Conference (ALA); May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 6, 2025

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA).  The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.

The World of Bob Dylan 2025: Call for Papers and Proposals

updated: 
Tuesday, November 26, 2024 - 9:43am
The University of Tulsa's Institute for Bob Dylan Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025 and, in cooperation with the Bob Dylan Center, will celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Dylan going electric at the Newport Folk Festival.  We now seek proposals for papers, panels, roundtables, and creative sessions that will run across the event’s four days.

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions

updated: 
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 9:46pm
The University of Western Australia/ Society for the History of Emotions
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

Emotions in Turmoil: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Painful Emotions 

16th -17th June 2025

The University of Western Australia, Perth

Keynote speakers: 

Daniel M. Gross (University of California Irvine)

Robbert Boddice (Tampere University)  

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

updated: 
Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 9:35am
Texas Studies in Literature and Language
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Proposals for a Special Issue of Texas Studies in Literature and Language (TSLL)

Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2025

Full name / name of organization: Texas Studies in Literature and Language

Prospective publication: September 2026

Contact email: TSLL@austin.utexas.edu

Special Issue Proposals

Stoicism in U.S. Literature and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:21am
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

CFP for Special Session Panel

American Literature Association Conference

May 21-24, 2025

Boston, Massachusetts

 

Interest in the philosophical ideas of the Greek and Roman Stoics has burgeoned over the

past three decades, and Stoicism is experiencing a fascinating resurgence into various

facets of U.S. literature and culture. Although this popularity across diverse groups of

readers seems new, Stoicism has had a long if changeable history in the U.S.—from the

Puritan colonial settlers (who brought Stoic texts with them across the Atlantic) and

Popular Culture Association Conference: British Popular Culture Area, 4/16-4-19, 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 4:16am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Popular Culture Association: British Popular Culture 

Call for Papers

The British Popular Culture area of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 national conference to be held April 16-19, 2025, in New Orleans, LA!

Academics at all stages in their careers, as well as independent scholars, are encouraged to apply. We particularly encourage submissions by graduate students. 

Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 5:17pm
University of Manchester
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 3, 2025

Call for Papers

 

Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces (MADS)

MADS (Methodological Approaches to Digital Spaces) is a FREE interdisciplinary symposium launched under the guidance and funding of NWCDTP to promote methodological and ontological advancements in the studies of digital spaces. MADS aims to explore diverse academic approaches to increasingly complex digital spaces, specifically focused on:

  • new methods for exploring and preserving digital archives

  • novel approaches to the collection and analysis of digital data

Cfp: 28th Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference - University College London

updated: 
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 4:39pm
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 19, 2025

** Call for Proposals **

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 12 – Sunday July 13, 2025

University College London

This is the 28th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Closing Date for Submissions: Sunday January 19, 2025*
Send proposals to: conference@greatwriting.org.uk

The conference will be held in person

New Directions in Carson McCullers Scholarship

updated: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024 - 2:28pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Call for Papers from the Carson McCullers Society
 
American Literature Association Annual Convention 
May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA
 
New Directions in Carson McCullers Scholarship:
 
An open topic roundtable session focused on new scholarship on the works of Carson McCullers
 

CfP: Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

updated: 
Friday, November 15, 2024 - 12:20pm
Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur / Istanbul University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 17, 2025

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur

(E-ISSN: 2619-9890)

Call for Papers

Issue 53 (2025/1)

Alman Dili ve Edebiyatı Dergisi – Studien zur deutschen Sprache und Literatur (Journal of German Language and Literature) is a peer-reviewed international academic journal founded in 1954 by Istanbul University’s Department of German Language and Literature. It is published biannually (June & December). 

Meddling with the Monolith: Tracing Genres of Contact through Expressions of Alterity

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 12:25pm
16th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students' Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 16, 2024

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

UPDATE: Nonhuman Animal Cultures

updated: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024 - 10:16am
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, College Park, MD, July 8-11 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Paper jam: Nonhuman Animal Cultures 

 To what extent have ecocriticism and the environmental humanities taken up the call to consider nonhuman cultures or reconsider the idea of culture itself in light of their existence? Contributions from many disciplines are welcome, including literary studies, cultural histories, animal studies, history, philosophy, anthropology, and more.

 

Please submit an abstract, 250 to 300 words on any example or aspect of the following:

Nonhuman avian culture(s)

Nonhuman oceanic culture(s)

Insect culture(s)

transcultural work of Sue SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH

Nonhuman cultures and PAR (participatory action research)

Werner Herzog, Film Director: A Multidisciplinary Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 - 1:01pm
Jeff Birkenstein & Robert Hauhart/Saint Martin's University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

CFP: Werner Herzog, Film Director:

A Multidisciplinary Collection

Proposals due December 31, 2024

OVERVIEW:

Sapienza Summer School 2025: "The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism", IV Edition.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
Alessandra Crotti
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:53pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:52pm
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fifth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

Call for Special Issues - Revista Hispánica Moderna

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 5:19am
Revista Hispánica Moderna
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Revista Hispánica Moderna is currently seeking special issue proposals. Special issues should explore innovative and significant topics within Hispanic Studies. The journal is particularly interested in proposals that cross temporalities and territories, transversally studying problems that question Modern and Early Modern fields and Iberian, Hispanic and Latin American cultures.

When proposing a Special Issue, please include:

[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.

Special Panel on Artificial Intelligence in Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 19-22, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 11:18am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Occult Artifice, Esoteric Intelligence, and Magical Generation

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic for the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper presentation proposals for a special panel investigating intersections between artifice, intelligence, generation and generativity, and esoteric, occult, and magical practices and worldviews.

Call for Chapters: Gothic Modernisms

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:29am
Catherine Enwright (Boston College) and Daniel Dougherty (the University of Florida)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

We are seeking a limited number of essays to complete an edited collection exploring the connections between the gothic genre and literary modernism. Inspired by the work of scholars such as Sam Wiseman, Linda Dryden, David Punter, and the late John Paul Riquelme, this collection will consider how and why gothic elements such as dark doubles, the uncanny, the return of the repressed, haunted spaces, etc. enter modernist writing.

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

 

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