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Crossing Over: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Death and Morbidity

updated: 
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:20am
York University Humanities Graduate Student Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 5, 2016

The Humanities Graduate Student Association (HuGSA) and the Graduate Program in Humanities at York University are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference interrogating the enduring human fascination with death, dying, and the dead— in senses both figurative and literal—encompassing the many cultural moments of the human experience. Despite the prevalence of morbidity and representations of death as a part of everyday experience, the study of death remains overshadowed by research frameworks which are primarily sociological or medical, or which centre on policy and law—the practical concerns of dealing with death and dying as part of all societies.

Special TWC Issue CFP: Romance/Fans: Sexual Fantasy, Love, & Genre in Fandom (12/31/17; 3/15/19)

updated: 
Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - 7:17pm
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Romance is one of the most beloved genres of media around the world. Catherine Roach describes fans of romance fiction as ‘ludic readers... who read for play and pleasure’ (2016, 32). According to Roach, romance fandom is both ‘intensely private, as the reading experience can be, but also powerfully communitarian’ (32). Despite the popularity of romance media, romance fandoms remain relatively unaddressed within fan studies. Traditionally, the relationship between “shipping” and romance has been cast as either oppositional or ambivalent. Catherine Driscoll argues that romance “generally appears as a mute field” in studies of fan fiction (2006, 82). Romance is framed as a force that sexually explicit fan fiction responds to or acts against.

Haunting, Horrible Hunger: Food for Fright

updated: 
Friday, October 21, 2016 - 10:21am
Parlour: A Journal of Literary Criticism and Analysis
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 13, 2017

“[A]nd so I left my fairy godmother, with both her hands on her crutch stick, standing in the midst of the dimly lighted room beside the rotten bride-cake that was hidden in cobwebs” (Great Expectations, 158).

The upcoming issue of Parlour will concentrate on food and consumption culture with an emphasis on the displeasing aspects of appetites: hunger, starvation, gluttony, and pica to name a few. We invite submissions that explore a wide range of approaches to the issue’s theme and the various ways consumption or depravation becomes a “haunting” and “horrible” aspect of humanity.

Final Call for Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference 2017

updated: 
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:24am
(Extra)ordinary China: Practices of the Everyday
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2016

University of Oxford China Humanities Graduate Conference 2017 CFP

(Extra)ordinary China: Practices of the Everyday

 

Wednesday 11th January to Thursday 12th January 2017, Dickson Poon China Centre Building, University of Oxford

http://extraordinarychina.wixsite.com/extraordinarychina/call-for-papers

 

Emily Dickinson International Society: ALA 2017

updated: 
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:24am
Emily Dickinson International Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Calls for Papers

Emily Dickinson International Society: ALA 2017

 

 

The Emily Dickinson International Society will sponsor two sessions at the 2017 American Literature Association Annual Conference. ALA conference will be held in Boston, May 25-28, 2017. Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV to Michelle Kohler (mkohler@tulane.edu) and Renee Bergland (renee.bergland@simmons.edu) by January 4, 2017.

 

Panel 1: Dickinson and Violence

REMINDER: Iron Man, Superman, Batman, and beyond: Gender and Super Heroes

updated: 
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:24am
Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Since the first Iron Man film in 2008, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has continually branched out to cover more and more ground. Building on the original comics’ popularity, film makers are bringing new renditions of beloved characters to both the big and small screen. Even though film critics and news outlets have begun to wonder when ‘super hero fatigue’ will strike what can be seen as an oversaturated market, the box office of recent films such as Captain America: Civil War (2016) indicates no such waning of audience interest. This issue of gender forum concerns itself with the representation of super heroes in both film and television.

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AS VIEWED BY FIRST TIME VOTERS AND ITS IMPACT IN CHOOSING A CANDIDATE

updated: 
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 10:24am
Mindanao University of Science and Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2016

This study determined the presidential candidates as viewed by first time voters and its impact in choosing a candidate.  Specifically it aimed to determine the profile of the respondents in terms of  age  and gender; 2)  the respondents’ view of candidates in terms of popularity and political literacy; 3) ranking of candidates by the respondents; and impact in choosing a candidate for presidency.  This study uesd descriptive research,purposive sampling method, and inferential statistics.  The results show that majority of the respondents belong to ages 18-19, mostly male, most candidates are perceived as more popular and literate, however RodrigoDuterte ranked as first.