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Deadline Extended!
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Chapter Drafts Deadline: December 15, 2025
Essays sought for a peer-reviewed edited collection focused on Brian De Palma’s film, Phantom of the Paradise.
Call for Abstracts!
90s Alternative and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Heart-Shaped Box
Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene
Please note that all papers are accepted on a first come/first served basis so to guarantee the slot you want (subject to the paper being accepted), we recommend applying as early as possible.
I’m opening up the call for the 2025 Romancing the Gothic talk series! Each month has a theme but please interpret it liberally. We want a range of papers from different countries and traditions.
We welcome people from all stages of their academic career and from outside academia.
You can find a list of topics by month. If you don’t know where you’d fit, reach out anyway!
Conference online: 19-20 September 2024
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CFP:
SPECULATIVE DETECTIVES
The biannual journal Studies in the Fantastic invites proposals for an upcoming special issue investigating the popular yet puzzling pairing of detective and speculative genres, guest edited by Christiana Salah and Steven Mollmann.
The intersection of literature and heritage provides a rich tapestry for a nuanced interdisciplinary exploration of cultural narratives, historical contexts, and societal evolution. This symbiotic bond intertwines the text with the material and immaterial facets of the cultural identity. Literature engages in re/negotiating identity and re/imagining heritage in complying with the transformations of community over the ages owing to various factors. These narratives, having fictional or realistic bases, are the spaces that mirror the intricate collective memory of a community, regulating a dynamic reciprocity with the past and the present.
Films that seem to demand more than their “fair share” of their audience’s lives or are deemed not “worth” watching index the complex ways spectatorship, attention, labor, and biopolitics are imbricated in our treatment of moving-image media. This panel examines how exhausting, pointless, and/or somnolent cinema stages experiences of duration and endurance as feats of aesthetic difficulty. We invite papers that consider the relationship(s) between cinematic temporality, modes of diffused attention, and the affective labor of spectatorship. How might we expand beyond interpretations of such media as solely about refusal and negation? What interdisciplinary methodologies might help us approach this “difficult” cinema?
The Southern Humanities Conference, 2025
Call for Papers
Conference Theme: Real, Artificial, and Superficial
Greenville, SC, January 30- February 2, 2025
The Southern Humanities Conference offers an opportunity for scholars, artists, writers, musicians, performers, and humanists of all kinds to share their knowledge, research, work, and experiences in an interdisciplinary, welcoming, and engaging intellectual space.
Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities welcomes contributions for future issues. Ecocene is published by Cappadocia University, Environmental Humanities Center. Each issue has a general section and a section on creative writing (Storying Ecocenes), creative art (Ecocene Arts), and book reviews. The general section can contain 6-8 articles. These articles should be research articles with a length of 5500 words. The word limit for short fiction is 3000, 1500-2000 for book reviews.
The explosion of revolutionary literature in South Asia is traced back to the formation of the All India Writers’ Association in 1936. Within a few years, the Indian People’s Theatre Association was formed in 1943. Operating with a distinct socialist fervor partly inspired by the Bolshevik revolution, these umbrella organizations brought together hundreds of poets, writers, thespians, and musicians working in various languages across the length and breadth of undivided India to consolidate a consensus against colonialism and fascism. Although the 1947 partition soon separated them into India or East/West Pakistan, the polemics of their art could not be stopped from reverberating across borders.
Abstracts (200 words) due: August 30
Final essays (2500-3000 words) due: December 15
My So-Called Life at 30: An Introspective Retrospective
L’Afrique est un continent aux expériences historiques et culturelles diversifiées, aux contextes politiques, économiques et sociaux variés. Ce continent incarne également des disparités culturelles, politiques et économiques, notamment en matière de développement humain et d’égalités de genre. Dans la majorité des pays africains, il est possible de tracer les grandes lignes d’un état des lieux du genre dans sa complexité et ses contradictions.
Call for Papers
Evolving Manhood: Reframing Masculinities in South Asia
(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media
Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell
Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024
56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)
On-site event: 6-9 March 2025
Rationale
This panel seeks to explore and shed light to the multiplicity of voices and accounts that surround issues of memory and exile in Spain in relationship to the Spanish Civil War and its impacts as a reflection of unresolved issues that are portrayed in recent contemporary fiction. The goal is to foster an interdisciplinary discussion about how memory, and exile, that in many cases are intertwined in these narratives, deepen our understanding of how the female experience is portrayed. The intention of giving agency to the unheard women voices and those marginalized by normative discourses is prevalent in these counter discourses that, frequently, have an autobiographical component.