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“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference which will be held online and in person at Nichols College, MA, October 3 – 5, 2024. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Saturday but will be also be available via Zoom for participation of our many colleagues.
This panel proposes an exploration of how the early 20th-century avant-garde movements, renowned for their radical innovations, drew profound inspiration from esoteric practices such as theosophy, occultism, spiritualism, mysticism, and Kabbalah. The focus will be on examining how these seemingly disparate worlds converged, shaping artistic production across various disciplines.
Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University
Presents
A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode on
Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos
(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)
Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.
Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos
(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)
Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Saturday at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
NEPCA is a conference that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be shared, as well as completed projects.
“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024
This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.
Date:
Venue:
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming, international, in-person conference, "Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives."
The continuation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, political repressions, crackdowns on LGBTQ+, women’s, ethnic and religious communities’ rights, environmental crises, and the ramifications of colonial legacies have marked the past several years in the region of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus. While indispensable academic research is being carried out to investigate various forms of political, social, cultural, and economic oppression and violence, it is crucial to highlight positive alternatives nurtured in these hostile contexts.
Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture
19-20 September 2024
Deadline for submissions: an abstract of 200 to 250 words should be sent by 7 July 2024.
Conference venue: Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Genova, Italy
Concept Note :
Call for Papers
Historical Fictions Research Conference, Manchester, 13th & 14th February 2025
Deadline for proposals: 28th June 2024
30th International Population Conference (UIESP/IUSSP)
13-18 July 2025
Brisbane (Australia)
https://ipc2025.iussp.org/
Thematic Session n°62
Theme: Data and methods
Analyzing fiction in demographic research. What can we learn? What are the specific challenges?
Organisers: Carole Brugeilles (Université Paris Nanterre), Mathieu Arbogast (Cresppa-GTM et CEMS), and Virginie Rozée (INED)
For a special issue of TDR: The Drama Review, a journal of performance studies, co-editor madison moore and consortium editor Rebecca Schneider seek submissions that engage the “knowing how” of queer nightlife. “Knowing” here finds kinship with feeling, glitter on the floor, skin on skin, tactility, sweat, diffraction, dissolution.
We are interested in the many elemental gestures, performances, forms of labor, mess, doing/undoing, imagination, making/unmaking as well as the failures, exhaustions, and obstacles that power or foreclose the rhythms of community, pleasure, and ecstasy at
night.
Conference online: 29-30 July 2024
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Call for Papers | PhD and Early Career Conference
“Popular Culture and Democracy: Opportunities, Challenges, and the Way Forward”
University of Freiburg, Germany | October 24-26, 2024
Deadline for Submission: July 31, 2024
The fashion system has been questioning for years how to decrease its negative impact on the environment and people, trying to improve individual elements: from natural, organic or recycled materials to zero-waste design methodologies, from slower production processes to socially responsible actions, from development of local supply chains to inclusive communication campaigns, from blockchain traceability of products to more reliable trend forecasts through artificial intelligence, from social engagement to large scale regulation. Thanks to the contribution of researchers, practitioners, and activists, a new awareness in civil society about the finite nature of materials and resources has been achieved, and the
Conference at Leipzig University, Germany
Institute for American Studies
22-23 May 2025
Organizers: Katja Kanzler, Ella Ernst, Laura Pröger, Anna Gaidash, Annika Schadewaldt, Stefan Schubert
15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference:
Changing Policies, Transforming Audiences and Work Practices In-flux
November 5-7, 2024
Zagreb, Croatia
The 15th Annual International Small Cinemas Conference is organized by the Department for Culture and Communication, Institute for Development, and International Relations (IRMO), Zagreb, Croatia, in partnership with the Industry Program of the Zagreb Film Festival (ZFF).
Keynote lecturer: Katharine Sarikakis, University of Vienna
Conference theme:
The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars) between Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10, 2024 (yes, you are correct: we have moved the conference back one week from its initially-scheduled weekend).
The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Romance and Popular Romance Fiction Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning via Zoom.
Extended Call for Papers: Sixteenth International Robert Graves Conference (deadline 12 July)
Organised by the Robert Graves Society with St John’s College Oxford, Sheffield Hallam University and the Fundació Robert Graves
Keynote speakers include Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Patrick McGuinness. With poetry readings to include David Harsent and Sean O'Brien.
Plans are becoming advanced for the Sixteenth International Robert Graves Conference, to be held at St John’s College, Oxford, 15-18 September 2024. The theme of the conference will be ‘Robert Graves and the Popular Imagination’.
Call for Journal Articles Now Open Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres (Volume 4) Following our symposium, we invite authors to submit papers for publication consideration.
Our fifth annual online event addressed the theme of ‘sensing euphoric and dysphoric atmospheres’ in festive, celebratory, and ritual cultures. Taking an embodied perspective, we seek journal articles that focus on the role of corporeal perception in making sense of lived experience.
Call for papers
Who/What Counts
“What Matters” is an invitation to rethink the weight of habits, established structures and validated categories. Arguing that someone/something counts goes against economic/budgetary/financial accounting, which is typically the work of a dominant power that keeps precise accounts, compiling or capitalising, trying to contain or control. What matters is an invitation to give an account of what does not seem to count, what is unthought of or invisible (Fricker 2007, Le Blanc 2009).
Although a monster with a head of swarming snakes, Medusa has been firmly embraced as a snake sister by more women. In her 1975 essay “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Hélène Cixous pioneeringly urges women to re-visit their mythological snake sister - Medusa - who has long been (mis)construed as ugly and sinful. Cixous writes, "You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing” (885). In current feminist terms, Medusa is often read sympathetically: “The ugliness she first experienced as an unjust punishment” is transformed into her greatest strength she “learned to use as a weapon” (Zimmerman 3).
The Centre for Creative Technologies, University of Galway
May 22nd and 23rd 2025
Technology and Film Labour: Crafting the Look of the Film
Investigating the impacts of technological change on below the line film labour.
Recent technological developments such as the widespread adoption of virtual production processes and the use of generative AI have had a transformative effect on film production workflows and below the line film craft. The relationships between production departments as well as the roles and functions of cinematography, production design, sound design costume, location and visual effects have all been affected by technological change.
"Framing the Unreal: Exploring Graphic/Visual Science Fiction and Fantasy"
ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative 20th Anniversary Conference
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy - November 11-15, 2024
https://www.comics-studies.com/events/sff2024
Call for Papers
Panel #9: "Nightmares from the Past, Visions of the Future: Alternative Futurism & Comics"
Date and Location: 19-20 June 2025, Paris, France
Keynote Speakers: Claire BOWDITCH, Loughborough University, UK, Elaine HOBBY, Loughborough University, UK, Leah ORR, University of Louisiana, USA
With a new edition of Aphra Behn’s works on the go, and as Canterbury prepares to erect a statue in her honour, the moment seems ideal to re-examine Behn’s place and her work in criticism and in the collective imagination. Challenging the image of Behn as loyal to a conservative Tory imagination, this conference aims to emphasize movement, mobility, decentering, and innovation in her oeuvre.
The 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities will co-locate with EMNLP in Miami, USA!
The proceedings will be published in the ACL anthology. The event will take place on November 15-16 2024.
https://www.nlp4dh.com/nlp4dh-2024
Submission deadline: September 1, 2024
The focus of NLP4DH is on applying natural language processing techniques to digital humanities research. The topics can be anything of digital humanities interest with a natural language processing or generation aspect. A list of suitable NLP4DH topics include but are not limited to:
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Sports Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.
NEW Deadline: Thursday, July 11, 2024 (Pete Murphy's B-Day!)
(Tentative) Conference Date(s): Friday August 16, 2024
Format: Online (via Zoom, PST)
Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: bld45conference@gmail.com
Contact for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com, cc: Rachel Birke @ rbirk001@g.ucla.edu (Subject Line: BLD45 Conference)
"Undead, undead, undead"