CFP Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen (6/27/2018; PAMLA 11/9-11/2018)

I'm doble posting this across our associated blogs. Sounds fun; too bad it is the same week as MAPACA.



Extended deadline: Magic and Witchcraft on Stage and Screen
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2018/06/01/extended-deadline-magic-and-witchcraft-on-stage-and-screen

deadline for submissions: June 27, 2018

full name / name of organization: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

contact email: lgreene@ewu.edu



Deadline extended to June 27, 2018



Proposals are invited for a Special Session of PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association) 2018, which will meet November 9-11, 2018, in Bellingham, Washington. The conference theme is “Acting, Roles, Stages,” and we will be contributing papers on ways in which magic and witchcraft have been represented dramatically over the centuries.



In the 400 years between Macbeth and Harry Potter, the image of the witch has become more appealing and less frightening, more popular culture and less cultural nightmare. Magic has lost its association with conjuring demons and is portrayed as an innate or acquired skill, more mysterious than playing the piano but maybe not essentially different. Witches are not wicked, and magic is not a tool of the devil. This is a huge cultural shift.



This panel invites speakers in the fields of history, anthropology, drama, film, literature, and religious studies, as well as practitioners of magic and witchcraft, to contribute to our understanding of these phenomena and their changing roles in contemporary culture. Topics from film, drama, and literature might include but are not limited to the following:

• Macbeth
• Bell, Book, and Candle
• Bewitched
• Harry Potter
• The Craft
• Practical Magic

Panel participants must join PAMLA BY July 1, 2018, and must register and pay for the conference by October 1, 2018. Please submit proposals through the PAMLA website at www.pamla.org.

CFP Shakespearean [Re]Visions: Adapting the Bard in 21st-Century Visual Culture (9/30/14; NeMLA Toronto 4/30-5/3/14)

NeMLA 2015 - Shakespearean [Re]Visions: Adapting the Bard in 21st-Century Visual Culture - Deadline 9/30/14
full name / name of organization:
Mary Ellen Iatropoulos
contact email:
maryiatrop@gmail.com
Source: http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/57659

Shakespearean [Re]Visions: Adapting the Bard in 21st-Century Visual Culture

Call for proposals for NeMLA 2015 panel

In what ways do twenty-first century adaptations of Shakespeare’s works refashion, reinvent, and comment upon the Bard’s texts? How is Shakespeare transformed through adaptation into visual media? What new insights are revealed about Shakespeare’s works through the art of adaptation in the digital age? This panel seeks proposals that examine interpretations, adaptations, and/or [re]visions of Shakespeare’s works in the twenty first century.

Chair: Mary Ellen Iatropoulos (maryiatrop@gmail.com)
Area: Culture & Media Studies
Cross: Interdisciplinary Humanities

*Abstract Deadline: September 30, 2014*

*Please Note: This year, NeMLA has implemented a user-based system to accept and track abstract submissions. In order to submit an abstract using the button for a CFP entry, you must **sign up* *with NeMLA and **log in* *. Using this new system, you can manage your personal information and review and update your abstract following submission. Signing up is free, and you only have to do it once. *

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable.

NeMLA 2015 46th Annual Convention
Toronto; April 30-May 3, 2015

Host Institution: Ryerson University

Hotel: Fairmont Royal York

The Northeast Modern Language Association will meet in Toronto, Ontario, for its 46th annual convention. Every year, this event affords NeMLA’s principal opportunity to carry on a tradition of lively research and pedagogical exchange in language and literature. This year’s convention will include roundtable and caucus meetings, workshops, literary readings, film screenings, and guest speakers.

Toronto is Canada’s hub of international arts and culture, known for its diverse culinary scene and multicultural urban vitality. NeMLA convention delegates can explore galleries and museums, shop at historic markets, and discover vibrant international villages—all within a short commute of the convention hotel, the famous Fairmont Royal York, in the heart of downtown Toronto.

The call for session proposals is now closed. The Call for Papers will be available online and in NeMLA’s newsletter in June. Abstract proposals for convention 2015 will be due September 30, 2014.


By web submission at 07/18/2014 - 00:04

CFP Shakespeare and the Imaginary, Supernatural, and Divine (9/12/14; Columbus, OH 10/24-25/14)

"Lovers, Madmen and Poets: Shakespeare and the Imaginary, Supernatural, and Divine"
full name / name of organization:
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
contact email:
nunn@akron.edu

The Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference seeks papers and panels relating to all things Shakespearean, especially those focusing on the spectral, the fantastic, the mad, and the fey. We take our cue from Theseus: “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, / Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend / More than cool reason ever comprehends.” The place of the world-beyond-the world, the line between reality and fantasy, and the demarcation of the sane from the mad are ever-present and controversial aspects of Shakespeare’s work and of early modern literature more broadly. As the plays we now call ‘romances’ or ‘dark comedies’ suggest, the transformation of the tragic into the comedic relies, to some extent, on the willing suspension of disbelief, on the capacity to accept what is otherwise contrary to our understanding, expectation, or experience. From Samuel Pepys’ condemnation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to the oblique resonances between Hamlet and Derrida’s Specters of Marx, the relationship between the ‘unreal’ and the ‘real’ is everywhere present and significant in Shakespeare’s works, and centrally a focus of performance history and critical reception from the earliest moments to the present. This conference will especially highlight these aspects of Shakespeare’s oeuvre.

Join us October 24-25, 2014 in Columbus, Ohio. Papers of 20 minutes, roundtable topics, and suggestions for panels on Shakespeare’s work and that of his contemporaries welcome.

The OVSC publishes a volume of selected papers each year and conferees are welcome to submit revised versions of their papers for consideration. Students who present are eligible to compete for the M. Rick Smith Memorial Prize.

Please send abstracts of 250 words to nunn@uakron.edu by September 12, 2014.


By web submission at 04/18/2014 - 13:00

Extrapolation Spring 2013

The latest issue of Extrapolation is now available. Contents can be accessed from the new publisher, Liverpool UP, at http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/p15186u62165/?p=f95244ee51914e20b18b5add454be9b3&pi=0.

Remaking Shakespeare in Discworld

Bardolatry, Fantasy, and Elvish Glamour

PDF (509.1 KB)
Pages	1-20
DOI	10.3828/extr.2013.2
Author	Jennifer Clement

Nationalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Climate Change in the Novels of Kim Stanley Robinson and Michael Crichton

PDF (130.9 KB)
Pages	21-45
DOI	10.3828/extr.2013.3
Author	Jeanne Hamming

Stars in My Pocket

SF, Philip K. Dick, and the Space Age

PDF (133.6 KB)
Pages	47-72
DOI	10.3828/extr.2013.4
Author	Jorge Martins Rosa

"On This I Stake My Salvation"

E. R. Eddison's Easter manifesto

PDF (117.9 KB)
Pages	73-93
DOI	10.3828/extr.2013.5
Author	Joseph Rex Young

Reviews of Books

PDF (159.1 KB)
Category	Book Review
Pages	95-127
DOI	10.3828/extr.2013.6

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