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Making Madnesses in Early Modern England (RSA Boston, March 20-22, 2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:39pm
Avi Mendelson / RSA Conference, Boston, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 12, 2024

In John Ford’s raucous tragicomedy, The Lover’s Melancholy (1628), the proto-psychiatrist Corax attempts an experimental treatment on his forlorn melancholic patients: he stages a masque – acted by the allegorical figures of psychic ailments, including Dotage, Phrenitis, Hypochondria, St. Vitus’ Dance, Hydrophobia (rabies), and Lycanthropia (the delusion that you’ve transformed into a wolf) – in order to shake his afflicted clients out of their melancholic funk. Pulling from Robert Burton’s massive tome, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Ford’s play showcases the sheer variety of madnesses – even within a subgenre such as “melancholy” – that were active, endemic, and of great dramatic interest in early modern England.

(Re)Thinking Feminist Movements: Where is the #MeToo Today?

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

An article in the New York Times states that on April 25, 2024, Harvey Weinstein’s New York conviction was overturned in a 4-3 decision on the basis that the disgraced Hollywood producer did not receive a “fair trial.” In an interview, the founder of the #MeToo movement, Tarana Burke, argues that some progress has been made with the conviction of men like Weinstein.

Spill Your Guts! A Graduate Student Work In Progress Symposium

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 2:37pm
Horror Studies Scholarly Interest Group (SCMS)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 16, 2024

Calling all graduate students working in Horror Studies! This year, the SCMS Horror SIG will be convening a graduate student symposium, and we invite proposals from graduate students outlining their primary research topic.

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:15pm
University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

The Social Impact of Climate Fiction. A Cross-Disciplinary Conference

26-27 May 2025

University of Southern Denmark (SDU), Odense, Denmark

 

Abstract deadline: 1 November 2024

Overview: This conference seeks to consolidate emergent scholarship and artworks that explore the power of narrative to motivate climate-conscious action. The emphasis in this conference is on climate narratives in practice; in other words, it is concerned with works that apply these narratives in various public-facing contexts.

CFP: Calligraphy Studies volume

updated: 
Thursday, August 8, 2024 - 12:13pm
Roland Buckingham-Hsiao and Joanna Homrighausen
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

The art of calligraphy, with its elegance, precision and expressive power holds a celebrated place among the arts of China, Japan and the Middle East, and is much studied as a result. Western calligraphy using the Roman-script, by contrast, is relatively neglected within academia.

However, given current interest in both drawing research and grapho-linguistics – the study of writing systems – the time is ripe to explore the fascinating intersection of visual art and written language with a scholarly volume on Western calligraphy studies, broadly defined.