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Literary works, video games, comics, TV shows, films, and podcasts that adapt or retell Classical mythology remain popular. Yet, recent attention on these contemporary stories has focused largely on women and women’s perspectives, while Classical queer identities have been decidedly underexplored or even excluded from feminist scholarship. Works such as Xena: Warrior Princess, BBC/Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and Supergiant Games’ Hades and Hades II demonstrate a sustained interest in centering queer bodies and voices within the Classical tradition.
Near the end of Jane Eyre, the title character famously says, “Reader, I married him.” It is a wedding her readers have expected and waited for, yet it comes after a rather inauspicious first meeting.
Fiction is full of first meetings. While a relationship’s apex or culmination might often be most memorable to readers, the initial encounter is also of special interest and significance to the story. Papers for this panel will explore fictional (or nonfictional) first meetings or initial encounters. Presenters may discuss a first meeting in light of the dynamics of the relationship’s development and/or ending, or presenters may choose to do a close reading that does not take into account the relationship’s future.
Christopher Newport University’s College of Arts and Humanities
seeks submissions for the forthcoming
Conference on Women and Gender
to be held in person at Christopher Newport University
March 20-22, 2025
Our theme is:
Telling Women's Stories
This interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender is organized around women’s stories. Our definition of “story” is deliberately vast and inclusive, and may refer to a personal account, historical or contemporary representation, or any form of expression that illustrates the breadth
Sterile, tedious, vulgar: suburban stereotypes abound. H. G. Wells thought “the Modern City looks like something that has burst an intolerable envelope and splashed.” John Ruskin found “no existing terms of language … to describe the forms of filth, and modes of ruin,” of suburban development. Yet these supposedly repulsive spaces were extraordinarily attractive. What do the suburbs offer our understanding of the novel’s social horizons? The nineteenth-century novel's realism has been primarily understood as a metropolitan phenomenon. How does literature from the Victorian era to the present, within and beyond realism and the British tradition, confirm or challenge assumptions about suburban spaces?
“In-betweenness” evades simple categorization, boundedness, and singularity, yet it brings to mind the space and moment of connection, the indeterminacy of transition, the passage between reception and meaning. For this conference, we invite contributions that engage with in-betweenness, articulating movement across boundaries and margins, lingering in liminal experiences related to disorientation, queerness, and representation. We seek papers that challenge and expand media’s historicity, conceptualizations, methodologies, and forms.
At no time has intellectual culture been more committed to the notion of prior “authority” than in the Middle Ages. Yet medieval adaptations of earlier works and media objects, including classical and scriptural writings, are often boldly inventive: a paradox due for serious consideration. Existing contributions to Adaptation Studies nearly always focus on post-medieval adaptation (such as modern adaptations of medieval sources). In contrast, for this session we invite papers that redirect the insights of Adaptation Studies to build a more coherent sense of medieval ideas and practices of adaptation, especially in cases involving radical or unintuitive changes of language, medium, genre, style, context, or audience.
This panel for the McNeil Center for Early American Studies May 2025 “Where is Early America?” conference invites papers on the relationship between poetry and identity, broadly conceived, in the seventeenth-century. Recent work on colonial English poetry has identified both ruptures and continuities between canonical early American English poetry and its metropolitan counterparts, upsetting strict delineation between “English” and “colonial” poetry. Likewise, scholars have identified the ways in which colonial ideology is inflected in such areas as amatory and religious verse written and read on both sides of the Atlantic.
Call for Papers for 5th International e-Conference
Bridging Realms: Exploring Intersections in Humanities and Social Sciences
Conference Dates: 4th October – 05th October, 2024 (Friday & Saturday)
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
in collaboration with
Have you given a talk on drag culture recently? A conference paper on Drag Race that you’d like to publish? A thesis chapter on anything related to drag and/or social and racial justice that can be developed further? We are reopening this CFA for interested scholars to contribute a chapter to this edited collection.
The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale is now taking submissions of articles between 5,000 and 10,000 words on fantastic and speculative literature from about the time of the French Revolution to about the time of World War I. We are interested in works from all parts of the globe.
Articles on early film (until about 1920) are also encouraged.
Studies on neo-victorian works, such as Steam Punk reimaginings of the Victorian era or newer fantastic works set in the nineteenth century are welcome as well. We are interested in not only written literature, but also films, television, video games, and other media.
Justice-oriented pedagogical practices are adapting to the advent of generative AI by prioritizing equity, inclusion, and critical engagement with these technologies. Educators and writing instructors incorporate discussions and activities encouraging students to critically examine generative AI's societal/ethical/pedagogical/citational impact and explore ways to mitigate potential harms (Bao et al., 2022). Students learn about algorithmic bias and the importance of designing fair and equitable AI systems. They also develop critical literacy skills to evaluate AI-generated content and discern misinformation.
Ever since Steven Russell, Wayne Wittanen, and J. M. Graetz, three MIT employees who fantasized about bringing Edward E. Smith’s (1890-1965) Skylark novels (1915-1966) to the big screen, developed Spacewar! (1961), one of the first digital games created and a clear inspiration for games that would be designed in the following decades, the game industry has grown exponentially. As Egenfeldt-Nielson et al. have stated (2024), “[i]n the historical blink of an eye, video games have colonized our minds and invaded our screens” (2).
Nutan Adarsh Arts, Commerce, and Smt. M. H. Wegad Science College, Umred, Dist. Nagpur
Announces
A Call for Papers for an Edited Book with ISBN
On
Indian Knowledge Tradition: Values and Philosophies
Dear Researchers,
Under the guidance of the college’s language department, we are publishing an interdisciplinary edited book with an ISBN number on the theme of "Indian Knowledge Tradition: Life, Values and Philosophy," centred around the Indian knowledge systems in the context of the new educational policy. We request you to submit well-researched papers addressing any of the following sub-themes.
The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience. As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.