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True Stories?: Murder, Memory, and Domestic Media

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:55pm
Jessica Gildersleeve, Kate Cantrell, Susan Hopkins (University of Southern Queensland)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 8, 2024

True crime has always been popular, and with the growing accessibility of alternative forms of on-demand media, including streaming services and podcasts, the popularity of the genre has only grown, strengthened by its appeal to the armchair detective and often the invitation to participate in the solution of the crime itself. As Larke-Walsh (2023) observes, the viewer’s compulsion to close the case—or to contest it—testifies to the text’s ‘potential for positive social impact’.

[CFP] Thanatic Ethics Conference #4: “Death and migration in times of conflict: a forensic perspective”

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:55pm
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Thanatic Ethics Conference #4

“Death and migration in times of conflict: a forensic perspective”

Sciences Po, Paris

in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong 

and EMMA (Paul Valery University Montpellier 3)

Venue: Sciences Po, Paris

Dates:  Oct. 17-19, 2024

Language: English

Deadline for submitting proposals: May 1, 2024

Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2024

 

MLA 2025 Special Session - Collective Performance and Writing Since 1900

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:54pm
Alex Diaz-Hui
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

This session for the 2025 Modern Language Association conference focuses on collaborations among performers and/or writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Papers on collective artmaking in film, theatre, performance art, music, and literature are welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract to adiazhui@princeton.edu

THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

updated: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 3:42pm
Laura Lazzari, The Sasso Corbaro Foundation for the Medical Humanities (Switzerland) and Giulia Po DeLisle UMass Lowell
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

VIRTUAL GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURROGACY

THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Historian and Reproductive Justice Activist Rickie Solinger

Italian Filmmakers Rossella Anitori and Darel Di Gregorio (Surrogacy Underground, 2023)

African American Literature (Regular Session), SCMLA, New Orleans

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:53pm
South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

The regular session on African American Literature invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the South Central Modern Language Association, in New Orlean, LA, from Sep. 19-21 (https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/).

We welcome proposals related to any period or aspect of African American literature.

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio to mchooper@pvamu.edu by March 15, 2024.

The Traveller's Tale. Emergent Forms and Minority Traditions

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:53pm
Université Clermont-Auvergne / CELIS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Call for papers

The Traveller’s Tale. Emergent Forms and Minority Traditions.

 

Université Clermont Auvergne, France

 

 

November 14 and 15, 2024

 

MLA 2025: Adjunct by Any Other Name

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:52pm
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 8, 2024

University administrators often refer to contingent faculty in nameless, generic terms. This panel invites participants to share stories from contingency (including resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance) to demonstrate the complexity of the people delivering university instruction.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024

Clark Barwick, Indiana U, Bloomington (mbarwick@indiana.edu )

MLA 2025: Hot Labor Season

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:52pm
MLA Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 8, 2024

In 2022, about 60% of the nearly 225,000 employees in the US who engaged in work stoppages were educators, researchers, and other academic professionals. We welcome strategies, stories, and advice from labor activism.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024

Lindsay Stephens, Black Hills SU (lstephens@olc.edu)

MLA 2025: (In)Visibility of Adjuncts

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:52pm
MLA Committees on Contigent Labor and Community Colleges
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Visible to students but invisible to faculty/administration for governance, pay, and benefits, this panel seeks papers defining issues and/or strategies to increase adjunct visibility providing substantive, long-term, meaningful change.

Send 200-word abstracts to: samo@uwsuper.edu & Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu

Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Indigenous ARTivism in Latin America

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:52pm
Nicole Bonino / University of Virginia
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land dispossession and invisibility within the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies, send a 250-word abstract to this panel. All kinds of activist artworks are welcome: films, motion pictures, docuseries, plastic, textile, performance, music, paintings, literature, etc. Papers can be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Timeframe: 19th-21st century. Submit your abstract through the MLA CFP section at: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26535.html

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024

Cultures of Automobility

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:51pm
Joel Duncan / Off the Road
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

 Cultures of Automobility

University of Konstanz (Germany)

October 10-12, 2024

 

Keynote speaker: Lutz Koepnick (Vanderbildt University)

with additional speaker to be announced

Water and Childhood

updated: 
Monday, February 26, 2024 - 3:27pm
JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

JOCPC is pleased to be working with guest editor Jack Anderson who is assembling a special edition of the journal for the Fall 2024 issue focusing on the figure of the child paired with the rich symbolism of water. We have kept the theme open-ended, and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are addressing the relationship between water and childhood. Investigations into the topic may include (but are not limited to):