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Deadline Extended: Concealed Identities, Stage Personas, and Masked Singers in Heavy Metal

updated: 
Monday, September 1, 2025 - 7:59pm
Studies in Heavy Metal Music & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 15, 2025

We invite chapters for a multi-disciplinary edited collection exploring heavy metal and rock bands that use concealed identities, stage personas and masks as a substantial part of their performance and aesthetic. Hidden identities are not a new phenomenon in either popular music generally or heavy metal/hard rock music more narrowly, as performers obscuring their identity through face paint, masks, and wigs goes back over half a century and encompasses bands including Kiss, Slipknot, and Gwar. New masked bands, including Sleep Token and Ghost, have recently risen to widespread popularity.

RADIATION: Material Connection Across Distance

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:54am
ENERGY Project University of Dundee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 15, 2025

RADIATION

Material Connection Across Distance 

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference

Dundee, Scotland, 3 – 4 December 2025

 

The Power of Fabulation: Myth-Making, Storytelling and Speculation as Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 9:53am
Benoît Loiseau (NYU)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Rooted in the ancient tradition of fabula, the concept of fabulation (or fonction fabulatrice) was perhaps most explicitly introduced to the modern philosophical lexicon by Henri Bergson, who described it as a “special faculty of voluntary hallucination.” It was later revisited by Gilles Deleuze, both with and without Félix Guattari, as a “speech act, an act of speech” that transgresses the boundary between the personal and the political, producing “collective utterances.”

Graduate Journal aspeers Calls for Papers on "American Spaces of Resistance" by Oct 19, 2025

updated: 
Thursday, July 17, 2025 - 10:53am
aspeers: emerging voices in american studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 19, 2025

The ‘No Kings’ protests on June 14, 2025, incited millions of people across the United States to oppose the policies of Donald Trump’s second presidency, manifesting an outspoken resistance against forms of autocracy. While the fervor and visibility of protesting has wavered throughout US history, sites and moments of resistance (against the government, specific policies, businesses, individuals, etc.) dominate the nation’s collective memory: from the anti-monarchist sentiment linking ‘No Kings’ to the Boston Tea Party, from the abolitionist movement to demonstrations against the Vietnam War, from the Stonewall uprising to Occupy Wall Street or the #MeToo movement.