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Accepted Roundtable for NeMLA 50, March 21 -24, 2019, Washington, DC.
The journal Studies in Popular Culture publishes reviews of books in the field. If you are interested in reviewing a book submitted to the journal or would like to suggest one to review, please contact the Book Reviews Editor, Clare Douglass Little, at douglac2@erau.edu. If you have not already reviewed a book for the journal, please include either a CV or a brief description of your interests and qualifications in the email.
Members of the Popular Culture Association in the South who have published a book are encouraged to inform the Book Reviews Editor of that fact.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the first successful manned Moon landing, we invite articles for a special issue, examining how the Moon has been depicted since 1969 in science fiction. As Marjorie Hope Nicolson showed in her classic study of Voyages to the Moon (1948), fantasies of moon flight have been an integral part of world literature since classical times. Since moon flight became a reality, how have these stories changed? From adventure series such as Space 1999 to films such as Duncan Jones’ Moon and novels such as Ian McDonald’s Luna sequence, Earth’s satellite has remained a source of fascination.
More than Marvel: Representations of Norse Mythology in Contemporary Popular Culture
Sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
54th International Congress on Medieval Studies
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan
9-12 May 2019
Proposals due by 15 September 2018
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts will host a panel at the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 26-30 2019 at the University of California Davis ( https://www.asle.org/conference/biennial-conference/ ).
Papers on any of the following topics are welcome:
(future) science and alternative futures
neurobiology and ecological crisis
multispecies communities in the Annthropocene: cross-cultural currents and global vectors
science and the politics of the Anthropocene
sciences of extinction and/or survival
Call for Submissions: At the Edge Media Fields Journal University of California, Santa Barbara Submission Deadline: September 28, 2018 While researching the Hells Angels in the 1960s, Hunter S.
The Consortium for Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking will host our Sixth Annual conference at Berkeley College in Midtown Manhattan, New York on Friday, October 19, 2018.
The objective of this year’s conference is an investigation of the meaning and framing of the term “critical” as we move from the 20th century into the 21st, an era marked by an eroding valuation of authority, truncated content, and propagation of misinformation.
Society for Utopian Studies
43rd Annual Conference
"Disruption, Displacement, and Disorder"
Berkeley, California
November 1-3, 2018
Panel Title: Neoliberalism: Between Utopia and Dystopia
This panel seeks to examine utopian representations of (neo)liberalism in 20th century literature and culture, emphasizing comparative connections to (neo)liberal political philosophy and economic theory.
Editors:
◉ Tammy Lai-Ming Ho
(Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Baptist University)
◉ Eddie Tay
(Associate Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The International Society of Steinbeck Scholars Announces
An International Conference
Steinbeck and the Twenty-First Century: Identity, Influence, and Impact
May 1-3, 2019
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Library, San José State University