CfP | Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality

Special issue of RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) Deadline: December 30, 2024 Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionality — RIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025) (us.edu.pl) Blackness and the Knowledges of Intersectionalityedited by Nathalie Aghoro and Julia FaisstRIAS Vol. 18, Fall-Winter (2/2025)(Call open until December 30th 2024) As the Black Lives Matter movement has laid bare…

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CfP | “Humanities Bulletin Journal”

Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts Deadline: April 25, 2024 Humanities Bulletin Journal – Call for papersSubmission Deadline: April 25, 2024Vol. 7, No. 1 – May, 2024 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which…

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CfP | “Representations of the New Right in Contemporary European and American Fiction”

Special issue of Comparative Literature Studies, guest edited by Lena Seauve (Freie Universität Berlin) Deadline: March 30, 2024 New Right movements have moved in recent years from society’s outer fringes into the political mainstream. Disciplines like political science and sociology have given extensive attention to the phenomenon of the New Right, but its representation in…

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CfP | The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings

2024 Conference of the Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum | Augsburg, September 6-7, 2024 Deadline: May 19, 2024 Augsburg 2024: The Ruins of Empire: Postcolonial Hauntings 6th & 7th September 2024 The notion of ‘haunting’ connotes windswept houses tormented by ghosts and specters, forging a connection between an unresolved past, the troubled present, and imagined futures.…

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CfP | Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s

Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis), Guest-edited by Irina Rabinovich and Brygida Gasztold Deadline: February 28, 2024 Special issue of Women’s Writing (Taylor & Francis) Unveiling Untold Narratives: Rediscovering the Literary Legacy of Jewish Female Writers and Representations of Jewish Women by Female Writers from the 1700s to the 1920s Guest Edited by Irina Rabinovich and Brygida…

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CfP | From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media

Interdisciplinary Symposium at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, June 6-7, 2024 Deadline: February 1, 2024  Call for Papers Prof. Dr. Heike Steinhoff (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)Prof. Dr. Katharina Vester (American University, Washington DC) From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media Digital media has dramatically changed our understanding, knowledge, and experience of bodies. Body tracking apps and…

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CfP | Orbit: A Journal of American Fiction

Special issue on Indigenous Speculative Fiction Deadline: November 30, 2023 https://orbit.openlibhums.org/news/655/ The various genres under the umbrella of speculative fiction – including but not limited to science fiction, fantasy, horror, and alternate history – have long been popular across diverse reading audiences. More importantly, authors have used these genres to provide thoughtful commentary about and…

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CfP | “LEAKAGE”

Inaugural Conference of stsing hosted by TU Dresden | March 19-22, 2024 Deadline: October 15, 2023 LEAKAGE Inaugural Conference of stsinghosted by TU Dresden | March 19-22, 2024 This conference inaugurates stsing e.V., an association (“Verein”) doing Science and Technology Studies (STS) in and through Germany, established in 2020. STS is an interdisciplinary field of…

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CfP | “1924-2024: The American Immigrant Narrative Revisited”

35th Biennial EAAS Conference | Munich, April 2-7, 2024 Deadline: September 3, 2023 PANEL CFP – the EAAS Digital Studies Network: Immigration, Technology, and American Society: Exploring the Digital Dimensions of Migration The panel on “Immigration, Technology, and American Society” as part of the EAAS Digital Studies Network aims to examine the multifaceted relationship between…

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CfP | The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art

International conference at the University of Strasbourg, March 21-22, 2024 Deadline: September 30, 2023 The Spatial Imagination in Postwar and Contemporary American Literature and Art A two-day international conference at the University of Strasbourg funded by the Institut Universitaire de France Dates: 21-22 March 2024 Venue: University of Strasbourg, France Confirmed keynote speaker: Dawn Raffel…

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Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal

The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection Deadline: September 15, 2023  Call for Submissions: Metropolitan Museum Journal The Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed Metropolitan Museum Journal invites submissions of original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection.   The Journal publishes Articles and Research Notes. All texts must take works of art in…

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CfP | “Network ‘Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft'”

Kick-off event at KWI Essen: November 24-25, 2023 Deadline: August 15, 2023 CFP: Network ‚Comedy as Cultural Studies/Das Komische als Kulturwissenschaft’ Submission of project outlines: 15 August 2023 Kick-off event at KWI Essen: 24-25 November 2023 Satirical poems and humorous prints, comedies and vaudevilles, stand-up, witty adverts and memes: to elicit responses from an audience,…

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CfP: “CEEGS 2023: Meaning and Making of Games – New Challenges at the Intersection of Game Studies and Game Design”

Transdisciplinary conference at Macromedia University Leipzig | October 19-21, 2023 Deadline: May 15, 2023 In the roughly 50-year history of video games (and thousands of years of analogue games) both artistic and scholarly explorations of ludic phenomena have generated productive outcomes. While the practical side of game design gave the medium its life and offered…

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CfP: “Cultures of Denunciation: Defamation and Creative Resistance in Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

Forthcoming publication that will examine the representation and negotiation of “cultures of denunciation” in nineteenth-century American literature Deadline: June 1, 2023 The themes of ostracism, social exclusion, and defamation have become increasingly and globally relevant in contemporary society, with the rise of cancel culture and public condemnation of perceived misdemeanors. We have recently witnessed the…

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CfP: “CAPTIVATING CRIMINALITY 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction”

10th Conference of the Captivating Criminality Network Bath Spa University in Bath, UK | August 31-September 2, 2023 Deadline: May 1, 2023 The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes…

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CfP: “Postcolonial Narrations Forum 2023: Queering Postcolonial Worlds”

University of Bremen | October 6-7, 2023 Deadline: June 30, 2023 In Queer Phenomenology (2006), Sara Ahmed explores racial and sexual orientations in the world, writing “Queer orientations are those that put within reach bodies that have been made unreachable by the lines of conventional genealogy. Queer orientations might be those that don’t line up,…

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CfP: Humanities Bulletin Journal

Vol. 6, No. 1 – May, 2023 Deadline: April 25, 2023 ISSN 2517-4266 Humanities Bulletin is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed Journal which features original studies and reviews in the various branches of Humanities, including History, Literature, Philosophy, Arts. This journal is not allied with any specific school of thinking or cultural tradition; instead, it encourages dialogue…

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CfP: “Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere”

Special issue of the journal AmLit – American Literatures Deadline: May 1, 2023 Living and Dying in the Anthropocene: Responses in Contemporary Literature from the Western Hemisphere A themed volume of AmLit—American Literatures, a journal produced by a consortium of eight European universities and based at the University of Graz, Austria. AmLit is an international…

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CfP: “Poetic Voice and Materiality” in ASAP Journal

Deadline: January 17, 2023 Cluster Call for Papers: Poetic Voice and Materiality The editors Zoe Bursztajn-Illingworth and Julius Greve seek essays for an ASAP/J cluster on “Poetic Voice and Materiality”. We understand this topic to capaciously include new approaches to questions of poetic voice in contemporary American poetry. Experimental responses to questions of voice in poetry are…

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