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Conference Theme: Leading from the Center
The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 24-28, 2025.
The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their ongoing Ph.D. projects. The conference offers a forum for Ph.D. candidates in which they can present their research candidly and receive valuable feedback
A Fitzgerald Centennial: The Great Gatsby, New York, and New Perspectives
The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference
Hosted by the New School, New York, NY
June 22-28, 2025
As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, we invite scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts to submit proposals for The 17th International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society Conference in New York City.
Editors Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and Lorna Piatti-Farnell solicit proposals for a collection of scholarly essays with the working title Everyone’s an Assassin: John Wick and the Aesthetics of Violence.
Proposals are welcome on all aspects of the John Wick films and paratexts, with particular emphasis on the aestheticization of violence and worldbuilding within the John Wick universe.
Inquiries and 300-word proposals with CVs may be directed by October 31st, 2024 to lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz and Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu. 6000-word essays will then be due in late 2025.
Our CFP in Brief
Title: TBD, but potentials include:
Editors (Collaborators): Elizabeth Sanders, Daniel M. Look
Description / Call for Papers:
We are soliciting chapters/articles for an edited academic book on topics relating to the Transformers franchise and gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.Proposals from academics and independent scholars covering official continuity/properties, fanfiction, the fandom, and content creators will be considered. Proposals should be for new essays, not republications of previous works.
Land, Labor, and Legacy: Black CCC Enrollees in the US South
We invite scholars, community activists, and historians to submit chapters for an upcoming book on the largely unexplored experiences of Black enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Great Depression, with a focus on the American South. This volume seeks to illuminate the labor conditions, social dynamics, and enduring legacies of Black participants in this pivotal New Deal program.
Key Topics for Submission:
CALL FOR PAPERS Rethinking Fables in the Age of the Environmental Crisis May 22-24, 2025International conferenceUniversity of Kent, Canterbury, UK (and online)Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Vinciane Despret and Susan McHughOnce upon a time, not very long ago, many considered fables to be an anthropocentric mode of representing animals, to be avoided (Derrida 2002). It is then remarkable to see the flowering of scholarship on ‘fables’ in recent years.
The Victorians Institute Journal is now accepting submissions for Volume 52. We accept manuscripts between 7k-9k words on any aspect of Victorian and Edwardian literature, art, and culture.
For complete submission instructions and to upload your manuscript for consideration, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at victoriansinstitutejournal@gmail.com
Late submissions being accepted until 15 December 2024.
Call for Paper for the Monsters, Monstrosities, & the Monstrous area of the PCA for the 2025 PCA Conference in New Orleans
Focusing on the intersection of theory and practice, this panel calls for contemporary discussions of “theory in the flesh,” i.e., theory considering the material conditions of existence. While the panel is particularly interested in women of color writing, other engagements with the place of material reality in academia will be considered.