This is a Call for Contributions for an EXHIBITION and a BOOK. The EXHIBITION is so far virtual (hosted on www.familylineups.com). All projects will initially be published on our website and will take BOOK form when we have secured a sufficient number of high-quality images.

The title of this project is FAMILY LINE-UPS. Trans-generational Encounters in Family Photography. It is part of a wider research project currently examining the role of family photography in the process of the inter-generational transmission of memory, with a focus on the manner in which exile acted on the structure of the family and the coherence of its genealogy.

CFP for a Special Issue of Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities

“Imagining Alternatives”

 From Afrofuturism to dystopian, apocalyptic fiction to alternate history to ecofeminism and cli-fi, authors of speculative fictions have been interrogating alternative worlds in literature, film, television, comic books, and video games. These visions give us access to alien planets as well as alternative perspectives on our own pasts, presents, and possible futures. They reflect our hopes and fears; they offer new narratives of race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality; they suggest the magic and the horror embedded in our own realities.

Following the theme of this year’s Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this panel seeks to explore what the forthcoming years of scholarship might hold for early modern studies. The two papers in this panel examine topics of renewed interest that promise to have a renaissance of their own in future years. Grace Ioppolo’s forthcoming collected works of Thomas Heywood promises to usher in a renewed interest in the playwright, and the Map of Early Modern London project’s goal to produce the first complete anthology of the mayoral shows will make these texts accessible to scholars and students in an open access digital format.

Gothic Feminism presents:

Women-in-Peril or Final Girls? Representing Women in Gothic and Horror Cinema

25th – 26th May 2017

University of Kent

Keynote speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes (Manchester Metropolitan University)

CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

Book History & Print Culture Student Colloquium: 11 March, 2017 University of Toronto

so many blinding bright lights,
splashing all over the pages
in a million bits and pieces
all of which were words, words, words
From Dylan Thomas, “Notes on the Art of Poetry”

Form, Function, Intent: Materiality and the Codification of Knowledge

29 March 2017

This one-day event seeks to explore how the self is represented, reimagined and reconfigured in a range of practices across the arts, humanities and social sciences. We seek to engage academics, writers and artists as researchers of their own and/or others’ practices in ideas related to narratives of the self. We also welcome contributions that explore the articulation of self in relation to teaching and research in Higher Education. 

Call for Papers

Circus Space: The Big Top on the Big Screen

We are currently accepting proposals for chapters to be included in an edited volume under contract with McFarland.

Freaks. Carny. MirrorMask. Water for Elephants. The Unknown. Trapeze. The Clown. Freakshow. Circus World.