DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Texas Tech University’s 40th Women’s & Gender Studies annual spring conference, to be held on April 11, 2024, invites submissions on the theme Gender and The Public Sphere. Organizers seek proposals for individual papers or panels on topics related to gendered public discourses, the representations of gender in public life and popular culture, and all the nuanced meanings of Jurgen Habermas’s twentieth-century concept of the “public sphere” as it relates to emerging research on gender and sexuality. The conference seeks to explore questions such as:

Reclaiming Legacy: From Foundations to Futures in Coalitions & Communities

This year’s conference theme encourages papers, presentations, and original creative works that explore topics concerned with the intersecting of generational work and identities; what do we build our studies on and what do we leave for the next generation of our identified coalitions and communities?

Submit proposals that speak to the representation and/or involvement of these communities in literature, media, art, games, technology, politics, etc.

Victorian Network: Call for Book Reviews

2024 Issue Theme: Victorian Pedagogies

Victorian Network, an open-access, MLA-indexed, peer-reviewed journal, is thrilled to announce its sixteenth issue on the theme of “Victorian Pedagogy,” guest edited by Kevin A. Morrison. 

As a platform committed to showcasing the finest work in Victorian studies by postgraduate students and early career academics, we invite proposals for insightful and critical book reviews that explore the theme of Victorian Pedagogy. 

For this seminar as part of the ESSE conference 2024 in Lausanne, 26-30 August 2024, we invite abstracts on the topic/narrative structures/media conditions of the scandalous (in the 19th-21st centuries) through the lens of  in_visibilisation. Scandals – in the context of sex, money or power – tend to involve obfuscation, an audience that is in the dark, but willing to see, agents who have an interest either in disclosure or in concealment. These interests are shot through with power that can be gendered, often contains a class-imbalance, is sometimes racialized, and not infrequently centres on non-normative desires. One area in which these dynamics of scandalization become particularly obvious are the cultural practices of fame and celebrity.