Generic Possibilities: Interrogating the Fusion of Genre-Fiction and Literature - Roundtable for NeMLA Conf. - Hartford 3/17-3/2
full name / name of organization:
Gavin F. Hurley / Lasell College
contact email:
GHurleyLasell@gmail.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63427
As elucidated by Tim Lanzendoerfer, et al. within the forthcoming essay collection _The Contemporary Novel and the Politics of Genre_ (Lexington Press, Winter 2015), contemporary writers have been increasingly blending genre fiction tropes (i.e. from horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, mystery) into literary fiction – and/or blending literary fiction into genre fiction. This technique surfaces in the work of high caliber American authors such as Joyce Carol Oates, Kurt Vonnegut, Bret Easton Ellis, and Cormac McCarthy – as well as more genre focused writers such as William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Gene Wolfe, Anne Rice, among others.
The upsurge of genre integration warrants close examination from literature scholars. This roundtable provides that close examination. The roundtable revolves around three interdependent operations: (1.) defining genre fiction, (2.) establishing distinctions between genre fiction and literary fiction, and (3.) evaluating the successes and limitations of the hybridity. In sum, the roundtable’s purpose is to clarify and more fully assess the curious functionality and aesthetic interplay within contemporary fiction. We hope to arrive at clarifications and evaluations that better inform our disciplinary research in literary studies – moreover, we hope to arrive at insights that will assist our instruction of late-20th and 21st century literature to university students – students who are often quite familiar with genre conventions.
This roundtable invites diverse perspectives about the contemporary understanding and function of American literature and genre. This diversity includes pedagogical, interdisciplinary, and cultural studies: perspectives that can stimulate multifaceted conversation. Critical engagement with genre fiction is certainly welcome as well. Individual presentations will be reasonably short to allow for organic dialogue and robust discussion.
If you are interested in submitting a presentation to this roundtable, please go to the following link and click on "Submit Abstract": http://www.cfplist.com//nemla/Home/S/15794 . Please note that abstracts can only be accepted through this system. Abstracts should be about 200 words.
By web submission at 08/13/2015 - 17:30
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
CFP Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture Area (10/1/2015; PCA/ACA Seattle 3/22-25/2016)
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (10/1/15; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/22/16-3/25/16)
full name / name of organization: Louis H Palmer, III, Gothic Chair Poplar Culture Association
contact email: Louis.palmer@castleton.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63425
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (10/1/15; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/22/16-3/25/16)
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2016 JOINT CONFERENCE
Submissions: All submissions should go through the database:
http://ncp.pcaaca.org
The Conference will be held at the
SHERATON SEATTLE HOTEL
1400 6th Avenue
Seattle WA 98101 United States
Phone:(1)(206) 621-9000
Fax:(1)(206) 621-8441
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2015.
We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, media, performance or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.
You can propose an individual paper or a panel session of three or four presenters. Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit papers or panels.
Individual papers will be grouped into sessions based on historical, thematic, disciplinary or critical affinities. Participants will be asked to serve as session chairs. Sessions are scheduled in one-and-a-half hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per session, so individual papers should be limited to a length of approximately 10-15 minutes.
Submit a one-page (250-500 word) proposal or abstract
(via regular mail, fax, or email) complete with your name, affiliation, address and phone number by October 1, 2015, to:
Louis H. Palmer, III
English Dept.
6 Alumni Drive
Castleton State College
Castleton, VT 05735
Louis.palmer@castleton.edu
w(802) 468-1341
fax (802) 468-6045
h(518) 639-8593
All presenters must be (or become) members of the PCA or ACA and must register for the conference. Membership and registration forms will be sent upon presentation acceptance. Paper acceptance obligates participants to present the paper at the conference, and multiple submissions to different areas are not allowed. Please note that you must be present at the conference to read your own paper. For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to: http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca OR www.pcaaca.org.
By web submission at 08/13/2015 - 13:53
full name / name of organization: Louis H Palmer, III, Gothic Chair Poplar Culture Association
contact email: Louis.palmer@castleton.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63425
CFP: The Gothic in Literature, Film and Culture (10/1/15; National PCA/ACA Conference, 3/22/16-3/25/16)
NATIONAL POPULAR & AMERICAN CULTURE
ASSOCIATIONS 2016 JOINT CONFERENCE
Submissions: All submissions should go through the database:
http://ncp.pcaaca.org
The Conference will be held at the
SHERATON SEATTLE HOTEL
1400 6th Avenue
Seattle WA 98101 United States
Phone:(1)(206) 621-9000
Fax:(1)(206) 621-8441
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2015.
We welcome papers and presentations on any aspect of the Gothic in film, literature, media, performance or other forms of cultural expression. All critical approaches are welcome.
You can propose an individual paper or a panel session of three or four presenters. Graduate students are especially encouraged to submit papers or panels.
Individual papers will be grouped into sessions based on historical, thematic, disciplinary or critical affinities. Participants will be asked to serve as session chairs. Sessions are scheduled in one-and-a-half hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per session, so individual papers should be limited to a length of approximately 10-15 minutes.
Submit a one-page (250-500 word) proposal or abstract
(via regular mail, fax, or email) complete with your name, affiliation, address and phone number by October 1, 2015, to:
Louis H. Palmer, III
English Dept.
6 Alumni Drive
Castleton State College
Castleton, VT 05735
Louis.palmer@castleton.edu
w(802) 468-1341
fax (802) 468-6045
h(518) 639-8593
All presenters must be (or become) members of the PCA or ACA and must register for the conference. Membership and registration forms will be sent upon presentation acceptance. Paper acceptance obligates participants to present the paper at the conference, and multiple submissions to different areas are not allowed. Please note that you must be present at the conference to read your own paper. For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to: http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca OR www.pcaaca.org.
By web submission at 08/13/2015 - 13:53
CFP Pedagogy & Popular Culture Area (11/1/2015; SWPACA Albuquerque 2/10-13/2016)
Pedagogy & Popular Culture - SW Popular & American Culture Association, CFP Deadline: 11/1/15, Conference: 02/10 - 02/13/16
full name / name of organization: Southwest Popular & American Culture Association
contact email: kudepner@nmsu.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63451
We are happy to announce the 37th annual Southwest Popular & American Culture conference in beautiful downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico!
This is a Call for Proposals (CFP) to submit paper presentations and panels on any topic involving successful or innovative approaches for teaching literature, media studies, film, cultural studies, history, television, rhetoric and composition, technical writing, technology, etc. We also welcome proposals that identify and discuss the existence or implication of specific pedagogical problems or issues, whether or not these advance any new methodologies. Proposals regarding using popular culture in the classroom are particularly encouraged.
Teachers from any type of school or curriculum are encouraged to submit proposals. Graduate students with teaching experience are particularly welcome, with award opportunities for the best graduate papers in a variety of categories, including the Phil Heldrich Award for Popular Culture Pedagogy. Please see the following link for more details: http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/. Deadline for Submitting for the Phil Heldrich Award: December 1.
We also welcome submissions for our organization’s new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy http://journaldialogue.org. While we encourage and welcome all topics involving pedagogy and/or curriculum development, some suggestions for possible papers or panels are listed below:
Each paper proposal must include:
1. 100-250 word abstract
2. Brief biographical statement of 50 words or less for each applicant
Please check the Conference Audiovisual Policies page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/audiovideo-policy/ regarding what A/V equipment will be available in the conference rooms. Please submit your proposals to the submission database (http://conference2016.southwestpca.org).
Thank you for submission and we look forward to your participation in the 37th annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference!
Pedagogy and Popular Culture Chair:
Kurt Depner kudepner@nmsu.edu, New Mexico State University - Dona Ana
By web submission at 08/15/2015 - 22:57
full name / name of organization: Southwest Popular & American Culture Association
contact email: kudepner@nmsu.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63451
We are happy to announce the 37th annual Southwest Popular & American Culture conference in beautiful downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico!
This is a Call for Proposals (CFP) to submit paper presentations and panels on any topic involving successful or innovative approaches for teaching literature, media studies, film, cultural studies, history, television, rhetoric and composition, technical writing, technology, etc. We also welcome proposals that identify and discuss the existence or implication of specific pedagogical problems or issues, whether or not these advance any new methodologies. Proposals regarding using popular culture in the classroom are particularly encouraged.
Teachers from any type of school or curriculum are encouraged to submit proposals. Graduate students with teaching experience are particularly welcome, with award opportunities for the best graduate papers in a variety of categories, including the Phil Heldrich Award for Popular Culture Pedagogy. Please see the following link for more details: http://southwestpca.org/conference/graduate-student-awards/. Deadline for Submitting for the Phil Heldrich Award: December 1.
We also welcome submissions for our organization’s new, peer-reviewed journal, Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy http://journaldialogue.org. While we encourage and welcome all topics involving pedagogy and/or curriculum development, some suggestions for possible papers or panels are listed below:
- Combining unusual disciplines in Writing Across the Curriculum courses
- Utilizing new media technologies or Web 2.0 tools
- Multimodal learning
- Discussing the benefits and challenges of online teaching; best practice presentations are gleefully welcome!
- Integrating popular television, films, novels, graphic novels, or music for meaningful classroom lesson planning
- Teaching games and game theory
- Utilizing social networking tools in the classroom
- Using Wikis or Blogs in the classroom
- Teaching with podcasts and videocasts
- Editing family letters and/or journals in student projects
- Promoting active learning by co-opting structures typically associated with webpages
- Integrating service learning with traditional curricula
- Constructing student projects as museum exhibits
- Challenging standard pedagogical assumptions
Each paper proposal must include:
1. 100-250 word abstract
2. Brief biographical statement of 50 words or less for each applicant
Please check the Conference Audiovisual Policies page at http://southwestpca.org/conference/audiovideo-policy/ regarding what A/V equipment will be available in the conference rooms. Please submit your proposals to the submission database (http://conference2016.southwestpca.org).
Thank you for submission and we look forward to your participation in the 37th annual Southwest PCA/ACA Conference!
Pedagogy and Popular Culture Chair:
Kurt Depner kudepner@nmsu.edu, New Mexico State University - Dona Ana
By web submission at 08/15/2015 - 22:57
CFP Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries (10/16/2015; U of Stirling, UK 1/16/2016)
Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries, January 16th, 2016
full name / name of organization: University of Stirling
contact email: m.r.foley@stir.ac.uk
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63435
A one-day symposium
Saturday 16th January 2016
Keynote Event
• During the symposium we will be delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired Patrick McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library.
Keynote Speakers
• Professor Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln – author of Twentieth-Century Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2011)
• Professor Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University – author of Patrick McGrath (University of Wales Press, 2011)
Modern and contemporary Gothic is widely recognised as a literature of madness. Many of the mode’s key writers – including Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk and several notable others – are consistently preoccupied with psychopathology, perversion and the divided self. This first British symposium dedicated to exploring Patrick McGrath’s fiction, writing and life, seeks to capitalise upon a growing recognition that he is one of the leading purveyors of the contemporary tale of psychological terror and horror. An important contribution to English letters as a whole, McGrath’s fiction has been noted as parodic (The Grotesque, 1989), psychologically disturbing (Spider, 1990), and darkly sexual (Asylum, 1996). In her full-length study Patrick McGrath, Sue Zlosnik has suggested that in his fiction an “inclination towards Gothic excess remains in tension with a sceptical and ironic sensibility” (2011, p.5). By disentangling this and many other tensions and intertextual resonances that may be relevant, we seek to both pose and investigate important questions regarding McGrath’s place in the field of contemporary Gothic studies and assess his intricate – yet at times grotesque – stagings of asylums, psychopathology, and trauma.
We invite 20-minute papers from postgraduate, early-career and established scholars on any topic related to McGrath’s life, fiction and his contemporary context. Suggested topics include – but are not limited to – the following:
As part of the day’s programme, we are delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library. Donated by the author himself, the wealth of materials in this emerging collection include novel drafts, notebooks, automatic writing, film scripts and a complete set of first editions of his work.
Proposals of around 250 words for 20-minute papers – or suggestions for three-person panels – should be submitted to Dr Matt Foley on m.r.foley@stir.ac.uk by Friday 16th October 2015. Please also include a brief biography.
By web submission at 08/14/2015 - 09:45
full name / name of organization: University of Stirling
contact email: m.r.foley@stir.ac.uk
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63435
A one-day symposium
Saturday 16th January 2016
Keynote Event
• During the symposium we will be delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired Patrick McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library.
Keynote Speakers
• Professor Lucie Armitt, University of Lincoln – author of Twentieth-Century Gothic (University of Wales Press, 2011)
• Professor Sue Zlosnik, Manchester Metropolitan University – author of Patrick McGrath (University of Wales Press, 2011)
Modern and contemporary Gothic is widely recognised as a literature of madness. Many of the mode’s key writers – including Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk and several notable others – are consistently preoccupied with psychopathology, perversion and the divided self. This first British symposium dedicated to exploring Patrick McGrath’s fiction, writing and life, seeks to capitalise upon a growing recognition that he is one of the leading purveyors of the contemporary tale of psychological terror and horror. An important contribution to English letters as a whole, McGrath’s fiction has been noted as parodic (The Grotesque, 1989), psychologically disturbing (Spider, 1990), and darkly sexual (Asylum, 1996). In her full-length study Patrick McGrath, Sue Zlosnik has suggested that in his fiction an “inclination towards Gothic excess remains in tension with a sceptical and ironic sensibility” (2011, p.5). By disentangling this and many other tensions and intertextual resonances that may be relevant, we seek to both pose and investigate important questions regarding McGrath’s place in the field of contemporary Gothic studies and assess his intricate – yet at times grotesque – stagings of asylums, psychopathology, and trauma.
We invite 20-minute papers from postgraduate, early-career and established scholars on any topic related to McGrath’s life, fiction and his contemporary context. Suggested topics include – but are not limited to – the following:
- Pathologies and madness in McGrath or the contemporary Gothic (for instance, in the novels of Stephen King, Chuck Palahniuk, Ramsey Campbell, Clive Barker, Michel Faber, etc.)
- The asylum as staged in McGrath’s fiction and non-fiction (e.g. the Broadmoor influence) or in the contemporary Gothic more widely
- Theorizing and staging psychopathologies in the Gothic
- The continuing import of McGrath’s edited collection The New Gothic (1991)
- McGrath’s unreliable narrators and his narrative technique
- Gothicized adultery
- Trauma theory and the contemporary Gothic
- The supposed turn from parody to realism in McGrath’s novels
- Gothic metafiction
- Archival research that investigates the production of the contemporary Gothic text
- Adaptations of McGrath’s work
- Notable influences – from Edgar Allan Poe to John Hawkes – upon McGrath’s aesthetic
As part of the day’s programme, we are delighted to invite speakers and attendees to view exhibits from the newly acquired McGrath archive at the University of Stirling’s library. Donated by the author himself, the wealth of materials in this emerging collection include novel drafts, notebooks, automatic writing, film scripts and a complete set of first editions of his work.
Proposals of around 250 words for 20-minute papers – or suggestions for three-person panels – should be submitted to Dr Matt Foley on m.r.foley@stir.ac.uk by Friday 16th October 2015. Please also include a brief biography.
By web submission at 08/14/2015 - 09:45
CFP Mythology In Contemporary Culture (10/1/2015; PCA/ACA Seattle 3/21-25/2016)
Mythology In Contemporary Culture in Seattle March 21-25
full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: earth2k8@mac.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63433
2016 Popular Culture Association (PCA)/American Culture Association (ACA)
Annual National Conference, March 21-25 Sheraton Seattle
Seattle, WA
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
The frequent appearance of mythological figures and motifs in all areas of popular culture speaks to the notion that mythologies, far from being relics of the past, continue to have significance in the contemporary world. Contemporary revisionings and reinterpretations of ancient mythological elements reflect the attitudes of current culture. Movies, television, computer games, comics, graphic novels, traditional literature, visual arts, performing arts, politics, blogs—the list goes on–-contain both explicit and implicit epiphanies of archetypes such as Hermes and Isis and Kali, and of mythological narratives such as those found in classical Greek tragedies or medieval Grail legends, to name only a few examples.
Proposals that pertain to the general theme of Mythology in Contemporary Culture are welcomed. Please note that, for purposes of this area, the term “mythology” refers to traditional narrative mythology and does not include postmodern evaluations or deconstructions of such “mythologies” as capitalistic materialism, colonialism, or structuralism.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words or less directly to http://ncp.pcaaca.org no later than October 1, 2015. General instructions for submitting proposals through the PCA website may be found here: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-.... Proposals submitted after the deadline cannot be considered.
Questions about the Mythology in Contemporary Culture area may be directed to:
Kate Rittenhouse
(604) 836-5396
earth2k8@mac.com
By web submission at 08/14/2015 - 03:14
full name / name of organization:
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
contact email: earth2k8@mac.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63433
2016 Popular Culture Association (PCA)/American Culture Association (ACA)
Annual National Conference, March 21-25 Sheraton Seattle
Seattle, WA
Mythology in Contemporary Culture
The frequent appearance of mythological figures and motifs in all areas of popular culture speaks to the notion that mythologies, far from being relics of the past, continue to have significance in the contemporary world. Contemporary revisionings and reinterpretations of ancient mythological elements reflect the attitudes of current culture. Movies, television, computer games, comics, graphic novels, traditional literature, visual arts, performing arts, politics, blogs—the list goes on–-contain both explicit and implicit epiphanies of archetypes such as Hermes and Isis and Kali, and of mythological narratives such as those found in classical Greek tragedies or medieval Grail legends, to name only a few examples.
Proposals that pertain to the general theme of Mythology in Contemporary Culture are welcomed. Please note that, for purposes of this area, the term “mythology” refers to traditional narrative mythology and does not include postmodern evaluations or deconstructions of such “mythologies” as capitalistic materialism, colonialism, or structuralism.
Please submit an abstract of 250 words or less directly to http://ncp.pcaaca.org no later than October 1, 2015. General instructions for submitting proposals through the PCA website may be found here: http://pcaaca.org/national-conference-2/proposing-a-presentation-at-the-.... Proposals submitted after the deadline cannot be considered.
Questions about the Mythology in Contemporary Culture area may be directed to:
Kate Rittenhouse
(604) 836-5396
earth2k8@mac.com
By web submission at 08/14/2015 - 03:14
CFP Gender and Fantasy (Spec Issue of Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies) (abstracts by 10/15/2015)
CFP: Gender and Fantasy
full name / name of organization:
Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
contact email: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63463
In her seminal Fantasy: A Literature of Subversion, critic Rosemary Jackson calls fantasy "a literature of desire", one that "traces the unsaid and unseen of culture, that which has been silenced, made invisible, covered over and made 'absent'". This issue of gender forum concerns itself with the manifold ways in which the fantasy genre is used to renegotiate these unseen desires, seeking to examine if and how it has moved on from the genre-specific stereotypes of wise wizard, wicked witch, strong hero, and damsel in distress. We are looking for contributions that analyse the role of gender in
Abstracts of 400 words plus a brief biography should be submitted by October 15th, 2015. The deadline for the completed papers (MLA style, numbered paragraphs, 5000-8000 words) is January 7th, 2016.
(Publication date: Early 2016)
For more information please contact:
Editorial Assistance
Laura-Marie von Czarnowsky, MA
Sarah Youssef, MA
Email: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de
Website: http://www.genderforum.org
By web submission at 08/17/2015 - 12:22
full name / name of organization:
Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies
contact email: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63463
In her seminal Fantasy: A Literature of Subversion, critic Rosemary Jackson calls fantasy "a literature of desire", one that "traces the unsaid and unseen of culture, that which has been silenced, made invisible, covered over and made 'absent'". This issue of gender forum concerns itself with the manifold ways in which the fantasy genre is used to renegotiate these unseen desires, seeking to examine if and how it has moved on from the genre-specific stereotypes of wise wizard, wicked witch, strong hero, and damsel in distress. We are looking for contributions that analyse the role of gender in
- high and low fantasy
- the different subgenres (urban fantasy, dark fantasy, etc.)
- the genre’s classic as well as contemporary texts
- fantasy films
- fantasy TV shows
- theatrical representations
- the adaptation process (novel to film or vice versa)
Abstracts of 400 words plus a brief biography should be submitted by October 15th, 2015. The deadline for the completed papers (MLA style, numbered paragraphs, 5000-8000 words) is January 7th, 2016.
(Publication date: Early 2016)
For more information please contact:
Editorial Assistance
Laura-Marie von Czarnowsky, MA
Sarah Youssef, MA
Email: gender-forum@uni-koeln.de
Website: http://www.genderforum.org
By web submission at 08/17/2015 - 12:22
CFP A Critical Companion to Tim Burton (proposals by 9/30/2015)
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A CRITICAL COMPANION TO TIM BURTON (Abstr. by 30 September) [REMINDER]
full name / name of organization:
Prof. Adam Barkam, Dr. Antonio Sanna
contact email:
adam_barkman@hotmail.com isonisanna@hotmail.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63475
A Critical Companion to Tim Burton
Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Tim Burton is certainly one of the most popular directors of contemporary Hollywood. His oeuvre includes blockbuster films such as Batman (1989), Planet of the Apes (2001) and Alice in Wonderland (2010) as well as less profitable– but still highly recognizable - films such as Ed Wood (1994). His work with stop motion, evident in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) and the recent Frankenweenie (2013) has further popularized and updated a technique that has been fundamental in cinema since the silent era. His distinctive and personal touch, a visionary style that is now referred to as “Burtonesque”, and his frequent collaborations with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman (to mention merely a few) has contributed to establish a unique and identifiable brand. All of his achievements have offered (and still offer) an incredibly fertile ground for critical examination, analysis and discussion. Indeed, in recent years the scholarship on Burton has proliferated and a number of distinct theoretical approaches that analyze the director’s visual texts and their philosophical and cultural weight have emerged.
This anthology will explore Burton’s multi-medial oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. This volume seeks previously-unpublished essays that explore the American director’s heterogeneous career, from short films such as Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984) and his direction of commercials and music videos to his drawings, paintings and photographs. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject that can illuminate the diverse facets of the director’s work and his unique visual style. We do not yet have a publisher, but are very confident in finding one soon.
There are several themes worth exploring when analyzing Burton’s works, utilizing any number of theoretical frameworks of your choosing. We request that chapters based on formal analysis cover a maximum of three films to allow for reasonably close readings. Contributions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
The anthology will be organized into thematic sections around these topics and others that emerge from submissions. We are open to works that focus on other topics as well and authors interested in pursuing other related lines of inquiry. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions you may have about the project and please share this announcement with colleagues whose work aligns with the focus of this volume.
Submit a 300-500 word abstract of your proposed chapter contribution, a brief CV and complete contact information to Prof. Adam Barkam (adam_barkman@hotmail.com) and Dr. Antonio Sanna (isonisanna@hotmail.com) by 30 September, 2015. Full chapters of 5000-7000 words would be due by 1 January, 2016. Note: all full chapters submitted will be included subject to review.
By web submission at 08/18/2015 - 00:43
A CRITICAL COMPANION TO TIM BURTON (Abstr. by 30 September) [REMINDER]
full name / name of organization:
Prof. Adam Barkam, Dr. Antonio Sanna
contact email:
adam_barkman@hotmail.com isonisanna@hotmail.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63475
A Critical Companion to Tim Burton
Edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna
Tim Burton is certainly one of the most popular directors of contemporary Hollywood. His oeuvre includes blockbuster films such as Batman (1989), Planet of the Apes (2001) and Alice in Wonderland (2010) as well as less profitable– but still highly recognizable - films such as Ed Wood (1994). His work with stop motion, evident in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) and the recent Frankenweenie (2013) has further popularized and updated a technique that has been fundamental in cinema since the silent era. His distinctive and personal touch, a visionary style that is now referred to as “Burtonesque”, and his frequent collaborations with Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman (to mention merely a few) has contributed to establish a unique and identifiable brand. All of his achievements have offered (and still offer) an incredibly fertile ground for critical examination, analysis and discussion. Indeed, in recent years the scholarship on Burton has proliferated and a number of distinct theoretical approaches that analyze the director’s visual texts and their philosophical and cultural weight have emerged.
This anthology will explore Burton’s multi-medial oeuvre from multidisciplinary perspectives. This volume seeks previously-unpublished essays that explore the American director’s heterogeneous career, from short films such as Vincent (1982) and Frankenweenie (1984) and his direction of commercials and music videos to his drawings, paintings and photographs. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to the subject that can illuminate the diverse facets of the director’s work and his unique visual style. We do not yet have a publisher, but are very confident in finding one soon.
There are several themes worth exploring when analyzing Burton’s works, utilizing any number of theoretical frameworks of your choosing. We request that chapters based on formal analysis cover a maximum of three films to allow for reasonably close readings. Contributions may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
- Burton and philosophy
- Burton and the visual arts
- Humour, Black Humour and the Macabre
- Burton and fairy tales
- Gender and queer readings
- Neo-Victorian art
- Exploration of dreams and the subconscious
- Fascination with machines and ecocriticism
- Mob mentality
- Alienation and misperception, conformity/nonconformity
- Disfigurement, deformity and (dis)ability
- Death and the afterlife
- Intertextuality
- Adaptations, Remakes and Appropriations
- Music and Danny Elfman
- Tim Burton in/and translation
- Evil Clowns
- Fan practice and fan communities
The anthology will be organized into thematic sections around these topics and others that emerge from submissions. We are open to works that focus on other topics as well and authors interested in pursuing other related lines of inquiry. Feel free to contact the editors with any questions you may have about the project and please share this announcement with colleagues whose work aligns with the focus of this volume.
Submit a 300-500 word abstract of your proposed chapter contribution, a brief CV and complete contact information to Prof. Adam Barkam (adam_barkman@hotmail.com) and Dr. Antonio Sanna (isonisanna@hotmail.com) by 30 September, 2015. Full chapters of 5000-7000 words would be due by 1 January, 2016. Note: all full chapters submitted will be included subject to review.
By web submission at 08/18/2015 - 00:43
CFP Association for the Study of Women and Mythology Conference (11/15/2015; Boston, MA 4/1-2/2016)
“Seeking Harbor in Our Histories: Lights in the Darkness, April 1-2, 2016, Boston, Massachusetts”
full name / name of organization:
Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
contact email:
aswmsubmissions@gmail.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63533
Goddess Scholarship draws on historical, ethnographic and folk sources, among others, to document and honor the sacred and mundane stories which animate the traditions and spiritual lives of our global sisters and our foremothers.
In past conferences, the innovative methodologies and scholarship of ASWM participants have served to problematize contemporary perceptions of civilization, “modernization” and “progress.”
Multi¬discipline research methodologies have focused on representing historical, thealogical, philosophical, mythological, symbolic, cultural, linguistic and aesthetic lineages.
This year’s conference theme embraces the heritage of location in the historical City of Boston, a harbor city rich in stories and symbols of First Nations of the Atlantic Northeast and the formation of the United States.
We invite papers and panels including,but not limited to the following topics:
Papers should be 20 minutes; panels with up to four papers on a related topic may be proposed together. Workshop proposals should be organized to provide audience interaction and must clearly address the theme. All sessions and workshops are limited to 90 minutes.
Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM.
Send 250 -word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) in PDF or MSWord to aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by November 15, 2015.
Use “2016 proposal” and last name in subject header. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and email. See www.womenandmyth.org for program updates and registration.
By web submission at 08/19/2015 - 23:00
full name / name of organization:
Association for the Study of Women and Mythology
contact email:
aswmsubmissions@gmail.com
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63533
Goddess Scholarship draws on historical, ethnographic and folk sources, among others, to document and honor the sacred and mundane stories which animate the traditions and spiritual lives of our global sisters and our foremothers.
In past conferences, the innovative methodologies and scholarship of ASWM participants have served to problematize contemporary perceptions of civilization, “modernization” and “progress.”
Multi¬discipline research methodologies have focused on representing historical, thealogical, philosophical, mythological, symbolic, cultural, linguistic and aesthetic lineages.
This year’s conference theme embraces the heritage of location in the historical City of Boston, a harbor city rich in stories and symbols of First Nations of the Atlantic Northeast and the formation of the United States.
We invite papers and panels including,but not limited to the following topics:
- Harbor and hearth as women¬centered metaphors
- Myth and lineage of the spirit of place, especially focus on the larger Boston area
- Indigenous stories, histories, and women’s communities of the Atlantic North East
- Paradigms of rebellion, freedom and independence
- Water, ritual and civilization, stories of aquatic goddesses
- Perspectives on First Nations/First Worlds
- Women’s sense of self, social agency, and their roles as citizens
- The female principle in ethics and ancient wisdom for modern times
- Cultural ecofeminism
- Animal mysteries and myth
- Ancestry, foremothers and methodology
- Changing experiences and definitions of the sacred and the profane
Papers should be 20 minutes; panels with up to four papers on a related topic may be proposed together. Workshop proposals should be organized to provide audience interaction and must clearly address the theme. All sessions and workshops are limited to 90 minutes.
Presenters from all disciplines are welcome, as well as creative artists and practitioners who engage mythic themes in a scholarly manner in their work. Presenters must become members of ASWM.
Send 250 -word abstract (for panels, 200 word abstract plus up to 150 words per paper) in PDF or MSWord to aswmsubmissions@gmail.com by November 15, 2015.
Use “2016 proposal” and last name in subject header. Include bio of up to 70 words for each presenter, as well as contact information including surface address and email. See www.womenandmyth.org for program updates and registration.
By web submission at 08/19/2015 - 23:00
CFP (Re)worlding Jules Verne (proposed seminar) (9/23/2015; ACLA Harvard U 3/17-20/16)
(Re)worlding Jules Verne [Proposed seminar - ACLA Annual Meeting - March 17-20, 2016, Harvard University ]
full name / name of organization:
Etienne Charriere, University of Michigan
contact email:
etiechar@umich.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63489
The global character of Jules Verne’s fiction requires no demonstration. Indeed, the work of the prolific French novelist, author of the immensely successful series of the Voyages extraordinaires, appears to deserve an inclusion into the (hypothetical) canon of world literature on at least two accounts.
First, Verne’s novels – with their recurrent themes of discovery, exploration, and conquest – accompanied and reflected the new conceptions of the global that took shape during the nineteenth century, notably in the wake of European imperial expansion. In parallel, the rapid and wide diffusion of Verne’s works on a world level, through translation, adaptation and appropriation, facilitated his integration into an increasingly globalized repertoire of popular narrative forms. As Mariano Siskind has shown, Verne’s work and its “representation of the discursive conditions of globalization” can therefore function as a fertile ground for a productive study of the “novelization of the globe.”
Yet, scholarship has not exhausted the variety of perspectives from which to look at the intersections of Verne’s work with the global. In particular, there exists ample space for scholarly approaches aiming at a "decentering" of Jules Verne’s œuvre. Efforts to situate the Vernian corpus within an expanded comparative framework could, for instance, shed new light on the agency of global mediators and the autonomy of outlying literary fields vis-a-vis the powerful discourses embodied in Verne’s work. Enacting this re-worlding of Verne’s work by emphasizing its relevance to contemporary discussions around the notion of world literature could allow for the formulation of new theoretical models and new methodologies for the study of literary globalization in the nineteenth century and beyond.
This seminar wishes to bring together scholarship engaging with the global dissemination of Verne’s work across the world literary field. It is particularly interested in contributions highlighting:
1) the complex afterlives of Verne’s fictional output outside of Western Europe, from the late nineteenth-century to the present;
2) the creative reception of Verne’s work across genres and media, including examples of adaptation, rewriting, bowdlerization, citation, parody, commodification, cannibalization, etc.
3) contemporary approaches to Verne’s work within the framework of postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, etc.
Scholars working across disciplinary boundaries and presenting comparative work extending beyond literary studies are particularly welcome.
Abstract can be submitted through the ACLA website between September 1st and September 23rd. Interested parties are invited to contact the seminar organizer at etiechar@umich.edu
Further information about the conference is available at http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
By web submission at 08/19/2015 - 01:17
full name / name of organization:
Etienne Charriere, University of Michigan
contact email:
etiechar@umich.edu
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63489
The global character of Jules Verne’s fiction requires no demonstration. Indeed, the work of the prolific French novelist, author of the immensely successful series of the Voyages extraordinaires, appears to deserve an inclusion into the (hypothetical) canon of world literature on at least two accounts.
First, Verne’s novels – with their recurrent themes of discovery, exploration, and conquest – accompanied and reflected the new conceptions of the global that took shape during the nineteenth century, notably in the wake of European imperial expansion. In parallel, the rapid and wide diffusion of Verne’s works on a world level, through translation, adaptation and appropriation, facilitated his integration into an increasingly globalized repertoire of popular narrative forms. As Mariano Siskind has shown, Verne’s work and its “representation of the discursive conditions of globalization” can therefore function as a fertile ground for a productive study of the “novelization of the globe.”
Yet, scholarship has not exhausted the variety of perspectives from which to look at the intersections of Verne’s work with the global. In particular, there exists ample space for scholarly approaches aiming at a "decentering" of Jules Verne’s œuvre. Efforts to situate the Vernian corpus within an expanded comparative framework could, for instance, shed new light on the agency of global mediators and the autonomy of outlying literary fields vis-a-vis the powerful discourses embodied in Verne’s work. Enacting this re-worlding of Verne’s work by emphasizing its relevance to contemporary discussions around the notion of world literature could allow for the formulation of new theoretical models and new methodologies for the study of literary globalization in the nineteenth century and beyond.
This seminar wishes to bring together scholarship engaging with the global dissemination of Verne’s work across the world literary field. It is particularly interested in contributions highlighting:
1) the complex afterlives of Verne’s fictional output outside of Western Europe, from the late nineteenth-century to the present;
2) the creative reception of Verne’s work across genres and media, including examples of adaptation, rewriting, bowdlerization, citation, parody, commodification, cannibalization, etc.
3) contemporary approaches to Verne’s work within the framework of postcolonial studies, gender and queer studies, animal studies, ecocriticism, posthumanism, etc.
Scholars working across disciplinary boundaries and presenting comparative work extending beyond literary studies are particularly welcome.
Abstract can be submitted through the ACLA website between September 1st and September 23rd. Interested parties are invited to contact the seminar organizer at etiechar@umich.edu
Further information about the conference is available at http://www.acla.org/annual-meeting
By web submission at 08/19/2015 - 01:17
Update on Toy Story at 20 conference (Sunderland, UK
Sounds interesting:
[UPDATE] Toy Story at 20 conference
full name / name of organization:
Toy Story at 20 / University of Sunderland
contact email:
toystory@sunderland.ac.uk
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63570
Registration is now open for Toy Story at 20.
The conference officially begins at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle on the evening of Thursday 12th November, with a special screening of Toy Story followed by Professor Paul Wells’ keynote address. The programme of papers and panels on Friday 13th November will take place at the University of Sunderland’s David Puttnam Media Centre, at St Peter’s Campus on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland. For more information, please visit the conference website:
https://toystoryat20.wordpress.com.
There is an early bird registration rate of £30 for delegates booking before the end of September 2015. The registration fee will then rise to £35 from 1st October until online booking closes on 23rd of that month. The registration fee includes morning/afternoon refreshments as well as a buffet lunch on Friday 13th November and, for those booking before end of September, it guarantees you a ticket for the Toy Story screening & Paul Wells’ keynote on the evening of Thursday 12th November (from 1st October the Tyneside Cinema will open their booking for this event to the general public, so you’re advised to register before then to avoid disappointment).
Booking closes on 23rd October. Places are limited so please visit the University of Sunderland’s online store as soon as possible via the following link:
http://onlinestore.sunderland.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid...
By web submission at 08/22/2015 - 15:40
[UPDATE] Toy Story at 20 conference
full name / name of organization:
Toy Story at 20 / University of Sunderland
contact email:
toystory@sunderland.ac.uk
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63570
Registration is now open for Toy Story at 20.
The conference officially begins at the Tyneside Cinema in Newcastle on the evening of Thursday 12th November, with a special screening of Toy Story followed by Professor Paul Wells’ keynote address. The programme of papers and panels on Friday 13th November will take place at the University of Sunderland’s David Puttnam Media Centre, at St Peter’s Campus on the banks of the River Wear in Sunderland. For more information, please visit the conference website:
https://toystoryat20.wordpress.com.
There is an early bird registration rate of £30 for delegates booking before the end of September 2015. The registration fee will then rise to £35 from 1st October until online booking closes on 23rd of that month. The registration fee includes morning/afternoon refreshments as well as a buffet lunch on Friday 13th November and, for those booking before end of September, it guarantees you a ticket for the Toy Story screening & Paul Wells’ keynote on the evening of Thursday 12th November (from 1st October the Tyneside Cinema will open their booking for this event to the general public, so you’re advised to register before then to avoid disappointment).
Booking closes on 23rd October. Places are limited so please visit the University of Sunderland’s online store as soon as possible via the following link:
http://onlinestore.sunderland.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid...
By web submission at 08/22/2015 - 15:40
CFP The Cultural Landscape of Teenagers Conference (9/15/2015; France 6/15-16/2016)
The Cultural Landscape of Teenagers
full name / name of organization:
University of Maine (Le Mans, France) and University of Akron
contact email:
elphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr ; elisabeth.lamothe@univ-lemans.fr
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63630
The Cultural Landscape of Teenagers
An international and multidisciplinary conference co-organized by Elisabeth Lamothe, Delphine Letort (University of Maine-Le Mans in France, 3L.AM), and Heather Braun (University of Akron, Ohio) with the support of the regional program EnJeu(x).
Université du Mans, June 15th and 16th, 2016
Designated as a new social category in America after the Second World War, “teenagers” represent an age range that can be tapped as a market of consumers. While teenagers are now offered a diversity of cultural products to choose from, professionals train themselves to deal with adolescents and define parenting and schooling strategies that should allow youth to blossom into responsible adulthood. Youth movements express a sense of rebellion against the coercive norms of society, shaping their own teenage counterculture through experiments, sometimes conducted in gangs. Thomas Doherty pinpoints the specificity of “contraculture” in opposition to “counterculture”, opposing the local dimension of the teenagers’ gangs to the 1960s’ national youth movements that questioned mainstream values by adopting alternative lifestyles (Teenagers And Teenpics: The Juvenilization Of American Movies, 38). The author argues that in the West, teenagers possess their own culture, which is defined in response to dominant culture and developed through conflict.
More recently, however, youth culture has gone mainstream and served as a rallying, trans-generational landmark: a generation’s coming-of-age was predicated by the success of the Harry Potter and Twilight sagas, buttressed by popular cinematographic adaptations. Even dystopic literary productions such as The Hunger Games reveal the general public’s interest for adolescent protagonists and their perspectives. The genre of Young Adult literature raises a set of issues that are the subjects of debates among literary scholars: who should (or should not) be reading it? Does the genre make for experimentation and participate in renewing those literary and theoretical conventions analyzed by Nathalie Prince (La Littérature de jeunesse, 2010)? From the emergence of adolescent literature over the past century, including classic works such Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger, 1951) and The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton, 1967) to contemporary Young Adult novels such as The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, 2012) and Eleanor and Park (Rainbow Rowell, 2013), the genre has changed over time, providing particular attention to first-person narrators entering, immersed in, or about to leave their teenage years.
This conference aims to shed light on those cultural artifacts that target not only teenagers but an increasingly wider public – including television series, films, young adult novels, among others – and explore the images of teenagers. Although the adolescent poetic and critical perspective on the world is often idealized, the figure of the teenager also connotes a set of issues to be resolved – drug abuse, risk taking, resistance to authority, behaviour problems. We encourage scholars to question how these subjects are dealt with in contemporary literature, music, films (fictional or nonfiction) and other visual arts such as photography.
Possible avenues of research:
- the type of narrative structure adopted in teen series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Melrose Place, Charmed, Misfits, etc.), teen movies (slasher films, fantasy films, etc.); the values they promote through representation (teen girls, sexualization, consumer values, etc.) and the themes broached (violence, gender divide...) ; the spaces associated with adolescence (the classroom, the street, the home, the suburb or the ghetto, the video, the blogosphere...)
- teenage literature as a developing market (chick lit, bit lit) and the questions the latest trends elicit in academia (Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999; John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 2012 ; S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967; R.J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012, etc.) ; their screen adaptations (Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park, 2007) ; Vadim Perelman, The Life Before her Eyes, 2008) ; Amy Heckerling, Clueless, 1995) ; Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars, 2014)
- the development of girlhood studies and their contribution to the study of Young Adult culture and art.
- the adolescent stars (Justin Bieber, Violetta, etc.) and the models they represent (Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls; Emma Watson in The Bling Ring…); teen stereotypes in TV series (The Wire, The Leftovers…), reality television shows (The Voice) and auteur films (Larry Clark, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, Laurent Cantet, etc.)
- the place and representation of youth in multicultural literature and the issue of biculturality (Anne Mazer, Going Where I’m Coming From: Memoirs of American Youth, 1995; Francisco Jimenez, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, 1997; Lori Carlos, ed., American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults, 1994)
- transnational youth cultures: the differences between North American and European youth literatures(s) and the ways in which they intersect with and influence one another (Christine Beigel, Jean Molla, Stéphanie Benson in France ; Annika Thor, Johanna Thydell, Arne Sungen in Sweden ; Melvin Burgess in Great Britain)
- life-writings (the graphic memoir, the journal, autobiographical fiction, testimony) and the postcolonial, transnational models of resistance they represent (Malala Yousafsai’s I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education, 2013)
- health issues (anorexia, bulimia, cancer, HIV/AIDS) and their inclusion in young adult literature (Janet Bode, Food Fight, 1997; Diana Sharples, Running Lean, 2013; John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012; Courtney Sheinmel, Positively, 2009); sexual violence (Sapphire, Push, 1996)
- the genre of the school story and its transformation across the ages, along with its cinematographic adaptations, from Jane Eyre, David Copperfield and A Separate Peace to Harry Potter, Glee and Beverley Hills 90210.
- the emergence of virtual writing and reading communities via online applications such as Wattpad; does their success compete with or complement printed material? Do they replace traditional journals and diaries? What stylistic and linguistic forms of innovation do they propose?
- the perspective of photographers on the experience of growing up, the transition from childhood to adulthood (i.e. South-African photographer Michelle Sank); photographing young people from different backgrounds and through street photography and collaborative work with youth groups; work on portraits to question much of the public’s perception (or misconception) of young people.
300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers in English or French must be sent to both Delphine Letort (delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr) and Elisabeth Lamothe (elisabeth.lamothe@univ-lemans.fr) by September 15, 2015. Contributors should also send a short biographical note indicating their institutional affiliation.
By web submission at 08/25/2015 - 07:37
full name / name of organization:
University of Maine (Le Mans, France) and University of Akron
contact email:
elphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr ; elisabeth.lamothe@univ-lemans.fr
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/63630
The Cultural Landscape of Teenagers
An international and multidisciplinary conference co-organized by Elisabeth Lamothe, Delphine Letort (University of Maine-Le Mans in France, 3L.AM), and Heather Braun (University of Akron, Ohio) with the support of the regional program EnJeu(x).
Université du Mans, June 15th and 16th, 2016
Designated as a new social category in America after the Second World War, “teenagers” represent an age range that can be tapped as a market of consumers. While teenagers are now offered a diversity of cultural products to choose from, professionals train themselves to deal with adolescents and define parenting and schooling strategies that should allow youth to blossom into responsible adulthood. Youth movements express a sense of rebellion against the coercive norms of society, shaping their own teenage counterculture through experiments, sometimes conducted in gangs. Thomas Doherty pinpoints the specificity of “contraculture” in opposition to “counterculture”, opposing the local dimension of the teenagers’ gangs to the 1960s’ national youth movements that questioned mainstream values by adopting alternative lifestyles (Teenagers And Teenpics: The Juvenilization Of American Movies, 38). The author argues that in the West, teenagers possess their own culture, which is defined in response to dominant culture and developed through conflict.
More recently, however, youth culture has gone mainstream and served as a rallying, trans-generational landmark: a generation’s coming-of-age was predicated by the success of the Harry Potter and Twilight sagas, buttressed by popular cinematographic adaptations. Even dystopic literary productions such as The Hunger Games reveal the general public’s interest for adolescent protagonists and their perspectives. The genre of Young Adult literature raises a set of issues that are the subjects of debates among literary scholars: who should (or should not) be reading it? Does the genre make for experimentation and participate in renewing those literary and theoretical conventions analyzed by Nathalie Prince (La Littérature de jeunesse, 2010)? From the emergence of adolescent literature over the past century, including classic works such Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger, 1951) and The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton, 1967) to contemporary Young Adult novels such as The Fault in Our Stars (John Green, 2012) and Eleanor and Park (Rainbow Rowell, 2013), the genre has changed over time, providing particular attention to first-person narrators entering, immersed in, or about to leave their teenage years.
This conference aims to shed light on those cultural artifacts that target not only teenagers but an increasingly wider public – including television series, films, young adult novels, among others – and explore the images of teenagers. Although the adolescent poetic and critical perspective on the world is often idealized, the figure of the teenager also connotes a set of issues to be resolved – drug abuse, risk taking, resistance to authority, behaviour problems. We encourage scholars to question how these subjects are dealt with in contemporary literature, music, films (fictional or nonfiction) and other visual arts such as photography.
Possible avenues of research:
- the type of narrative structure adopted in teen series (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, Melrose Place, Charmed, Misfits, etc.), teen movies (slasher films, fantasy films, etc.); the values they promote through representation (teen girls, sexualization, consumer values, etc.) and the themes broached (violence, gender divide...) ; the spaces associated with adolescence (the classroom, the street, the home, the suburb or the ghetto, the video, the blogosphere...)
- teenage literature as a developing market (chick lit, bit lit) and the questions the latest trends elicit in academia (Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999; John Green, The Fault in Our Stars 2012 ; S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, 1967; R.J. Palacio, Wonder, 2012, etc.) ; their screen adaptations (Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park, 2007) ; Vadim Perelman, The Life Before her Eyes, 2008) ; Amy Heckerling, Clueless, 1995) ; Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars, 2014)
- the development of girlhood studies and their contribution to the study of Young Adult culture and art.
- the adolescent stars (Justin Bieber, Violetta, etc.) and the models they represent (Lindsay Lohan in Mean Girls; Emma Watson in The Bling Ring…); teen stereotypes in TV series (The Wire, The Leftovers…), reality television shows (The Voice) and auteur films (Larry Clark, Gus Van Sant, Sofia Coppola, Laurent Cantet, etc.)
- the place and representation of youth in multicultural literature and the issue of biculturality (Anne Mazer, Going Where I’m Coming From: Memoirs of American Youth, 1995; Francisco Jimenez, The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child, 1997; Lori Carlos, ed., American Eyes: New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults, 1994)
- transnational youth cultures: the differences between North American and European youth literatures(s) and the ways in which they intersect with and influence one another (Christine Beigel, Jean Molla, Stéphanie Benson in France ; Annika Thor, Johanna Thydell, Arne Sungen in Sweden ; Melvin Burgess in Great Britain)
- life-writings (the graphic memoir, the journal, autobiographical fiction, testimony) and the postcolonial, transnational models of resistance they represent (Malala Yousafsai’s I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education, 2013)
- health issues (anorexia, bulimia, cancer, HIV/AIDS) and their inclusion in young adult literature (Janet Bode, Food Fight, 1997; Diana Sharples, Running Lean, 2013; John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012; Courtney Sheinmel, Positively, 2009); sexual violence (Sapphire, Push, 1996)
- the genre of the school story and its transformation across the ages, along with its cinematographic adaptations, from Jane Eyre, David Copperfield and A Separate Peace to Harry Potter, Glee and Beverley Hills 90210.
- the emergence of virtual writing and reading communities via online applications such as Wattpad; does their success compete with or complement printed material? Do they replace traditional journals and diaries? What stylistic and linguistic forms of innovation do they propose?
- the perspective of photographers on the experience of growing up, the transition from childhood to adulthood (i.e. South-African photographer Michelle Sank); photographing young people from different backgrounds and through street photography and collaborative work with youth groups; work on portraits to question much of the public’s perception (or misconception) of young people.
300-word abstracts for 20-minute papers in English or French must be sent to both Delphine Letort (delphine.letort@univ-lemans.fr) and Elisabeth Lamothe (elisabeth.lamothe@univ-lemans.fr) by September 15, 2015. Contributors should also send a short biographical note indicating their institutional affiliation.
By web submission at 08/25/2015 - 07:37
Sunday, August 30, 2015
CFP Monsters and the Irish Imagination (0/10/2015; NEACIS West Haven, CT 11/20-21/2015)
Monsters and the Irish Imagination
Session Sponsored by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
For the New England ACIS Regional Conference
20-21 November 2015
University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut
Proposals by 10 September 2015
Following a successful session last year devoted to Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its afterlives, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association seeks to continue our association with the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies by organizing a session (or set of sessions) devoted to the larger topic of monsters and the Irish imagination.
We seek proposals of 250 words and short biographical statements (50 words or less) from interested individuals. Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes speaking time.
Please submit required materials by 10 September 2015 to the session organizer, Michael Torregrossa, at nepcafantastic@gmail.com using the subject heading “Monsters and the Irish Imagination”.
The University of New Haven is located in West Haven, Connecticut and is easily accessible from Boston and New York by car and train. Direct inquiries to Chris Dowd, the conference organizer, at cmdowd@newhaven.edu. All conference presenters will be required to be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies (acisweb.org). Additional information on this year’s meeting (including details on registration and accommodations) is available at www.newhaven.edu/4486/academicprograms/undergraduate/english/894500/.
Further information on Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association can be found at nepcafantastic.blogspot.com.
Session Sponsored by the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
For the New England ACIS Regional Conference
20-21 November 2015
University of New Haven
West Haven, Connecticut
Proposals by 10 September 2015
Following a successful session last year devoted to Bram Stoker’s Dracula and its afterlives, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association seeks to continue our association with the New England Region of the American Conference for Irish Studies by organizing a session (or set of sessions) devoted to the larger topic of monsters and the Irish imagination.
We seek proposals of 250 words and short biographical statements (50 words or less) from interested individuals. Presentations will be limited to 15-20 minutes speaking time.
Please submit required materials by 10 September 2015 to the session organizer, Michael Torregrossa, at nepcafantastic@gmail.com using the subject heading “Monsters and the Irish Imagination”.
The University of New Haven is located in West Haven, Connecticut and is easily accessible from Boston and New York by car and train. Direct inquiries to Chris Dowd, the conference organizer, at cmdowd@newhaven.edu. All conference presenters will be required to be members of the American Conference for Irish Studies (acisweb.org). Additional information on this year’s meeting (including details on registration and accommodations) is available at www.newhaven.edu/4486/academicprograms/undergraduate/english/894500/.
Further information on Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Legend Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association can be found at nepcafantastic.blogspot.com.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
CFP Victorian Outliers (10/15/2015; NVSA New Jersey 4/8-10/2016)
CFP: NVSA 2016
Victorian Outliers
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
April 8-10, 2016
The Northeast Victorian Studies Association invites papers for its annual conference; the topic this year is Victorian Outliers.
Victorian Outliers
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
April 8-10, 2016
The Northeast Victorian Studies Association invites papers for its annual conference; the topic this year is Victorian Outliers.
We welcome papers on any individual or type of Victorian Outlier, as well as theorizations of the outlier as a category in aesthetic, geological, historical, imperial, literary, mathematical, musical, natural historical, philosophical, psychological, and other domains.
Full call for papers at https://northeastvictorianstudies.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/cfp-victorian-outliers-final.pdf.
Proposals (no more than 500 words) by Oct. 15, 2015 (email submissions only, in Word format), should be sent to: Jonathan Farina, Chair, NVSA Program Committee: jvfarina@gmail.com
Please note: all submissions to NVSA are evaluated anonymously. Successful proposals will stay within the 500-word limit and make a compelling case for the talk and its relation to the conference topic.
Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on the proposal. Please include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample time for discussion.
To join NVSA, or to renew your membership for 2015-2016, please visit our website at
nvsa.org and click on “Membership.”
Jason Rudy, President, NVSA
English Department
2119 Tawes Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 21212
jrrudy@umd.edu
CFP Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana (9/30/2015; NeMLA 3/17-20/2016)
Sounds like a great idea:
CFP: NeMLA Panel “Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana” (9/30/2015; 3/17-20/2016)
posted by NAVSA on JUL 23, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/07/23/cfp-nemla-panel-neo-victorian-pop-culture-lowbrow-and-genre-victoriana-9302015-317-202016/
CFP: Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association
Hartford, Connecticut
March 17-20, 2016
Deadline: September 30, 2015
In the rapidly expanding field of neo-Victorian studies, the million-dollar question remains: what qualifies as neo-Victorian? For guidance, many scholars have relied on Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn’s definition, which specifies that to be called neo-Victorian, a text “must in some respect be self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and revision concerning Victorians.” The implication is that this is a subgenre for respectable texts, of clear intellectual pedigree.
Yet, just as the Victorian era had its penny dreadfuls, musical halls, and melodramas, so contemporary acts of reengaging the Victorian may come in less elevated packages. Alongside sleek heritage films and postmodern literary novels, Victorian tales and times have been adapted or newly imagined in horror movies, pulp romances, Japanese manga, scripted web series, and a variety of other media. Some are successful and satisfying on their own terms, some less so, but all raise significant questions about how a subgenre is to be defined: by project, content, or some aesthetic standard?
While scholars have addressed many such works individually, this panel invites readings that explore the broader question of whether/how the field of neo-Victorian studies might benefit from considering “lowbrow” or pop culture Victoriana. This panel seeks to shed light on how contemporary culture at large imagines, stereotypes, (mis)remembers, and manipulates the Victorian era, while continuing to celebrate it.
Possible paper topics could include but are not limited to:
Please submit abstracts via NeMLA’s online CFP: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15843. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2015.
CFP: NeMLA Panel “Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana” (9/30/2015; 3/17-20/2016)
posted by NAVSA on JUL 23, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/07/23/cfp-nemla-panel-neo-victorian-pop-culture-lowbrow-and-genre-victoriana-9302015-317-202016/
CFP: Neo-Victorian? Pop Culture, Lowbrow, and Genre Victoriana (Panel)
Northeast Modern Language Association
Hartford, Connecticut
March 17-20, 2016
Deadline: September 30, 2015
In the rapidly expanding field of neo-Victorian studies, the million-dollar question remains: what qualifies as neo-Victorian? For guidance, many scholars have relied on Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn’s definition, which specifies that to be called neo-Victorian, a text “must in some respect be self-consciously engaged with the act of (re)interpretation, (re)discovery and revision concerning Victorians.” The implication is that this is a subgenre for respectable texts, of clear intellectual pedigree.
Yet, just as the Victorian era had its penny dreadfuls, musical halls, and melodramas, so contemporary acts of reengaging the Victorian may come in less elevated packages. Alongside sleek heritage films and postmodern literary novels, Victorian tales and times have been adapted or newly imagined in horror movies, pulp romances, Japanese manga, scripted web series, and a variety of other media. Some are successful and satisfying on their own terms, some less so, but all raise significant questions about how a subgenre is to be defined: by project, content, or some aesthetic standard?
While scholars have addressed many such works individually, this panel invites readings that explore the broader question of whether/how the field of neo-Victorian studies might benefit from considering “lowbrow” or pop culture Victoriana. This panel seeks to shed light on how contemporary culture at large imagines, stereotypes, (mis)remembers, and manipulates the Victorian era, while continuing to celebrate it.
Possible paper topics could include but are not limited to:
- Adaptations of canonical texts in atypical genres
- Adaptations of non-canonical Victorian texts
- Victorian characters in new settings
- Victorian values or aesthetics contemporized
- Depictions of Victorian bodies: eroticized, (dis)abled, racialized, and/or monstrous
- Genre film and television that engages the Victorian
- Children’s and young adult literature
- Comics, graphic novels, or anime
- Romance fiction (category or single-title)
- Fantasy, science fiction, or horror
- New media storytelling
- “Bad” works: ambitious failures and “guilty pleasures”
Please submit abstracts via NeMLA’s online CFP: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15843. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2015.
CFP Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education (Spec Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies) (papers by 10/15/2015)
Been meaning to post this for a while. Of potential interest:
CFP: Neo-Victorian Studies. “Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education” (10/15/2015)
posted by DUSTIN MEYER on APR 12, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/04/12/cfp-neo-victorian-studies-neo-victorianism-discourses-of-education-10152015/
CFP
Neo-Victorian Studies
Deadline: October 15, 2015
“Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education”
Guest Editors:
Frances Kelly
Judith Seaboyer
The nineteenth century saw the beginnings of mass education in Britain and elsewhere, while the more recent millennial turn has seen a range of reforms and ‘revolutions’ within educational systems world-wide, not least the insistent commercialisation of universities and a concomitant move to redefining educators and students as ‘service providers’ and ‘customers’ respectively. A large number of neo-Victorian novels are set in or engage with educational contexts, including universities, libraries, anatomy schools, private tutoring/governessing, ragged schools, and art colleges, mirroring the settings and concerns with Bildung in canonical works by Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and others. Just as significantly, however, are contemporary self-conscious engagements with inherited nineteenth-century ideas regarding the purposes and ethos of education, such as character building, civic identity formation, the connection between personal and societal development, issues of widening access, the inculcation of moral values and national ideologies, and the perception that education systems serve as ‘engines’ of the economy. Then as now, however, prevalent concerns and anxieties about the achievements and failings of education hardly constituted a monolithic uncontested discourse; rather they divided public opinion and provoked continuous political and societal debate, much as these same concerns continue to do today. This special issue will explore how neo-Victorian works contribute to this on-going debate by foregrounding the ‘origins’ of modern-day educational systems and approaches. What particular aspects of nineteenth-century education are highlighted and why? What are the main points of contention? How do today’s politicians appropriate (past) educational discourses for party-specific agendas? To what extent are nineteenth-century educational models proposed as alternatives to present-day problems in education? What nineteenth-century educational aims and ideals are depicted as still unfulfilled and unrealised? Possible topics may include, but need not be limited to the following:
Please address enquiries and expressions of interest to the guest editors:
Frances Kelly at f.kelly@auckland.ac.nz and Judith Seaboyer at j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au.
Completed articles and/or creative pieces will be due by October 15, 2015
and should be sent via email to both guest editors, with a copy to neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk.
Please consult the NVS website ( http://www.neovictorianstudies.com )
(‘Submission Guidelines’) for further guidance.
CFP: Neo-Victorian Studies. “Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education” (10/15/2015)
posted by DUSTIN MEYER on APR 12, 2015
http://navsa.org/2015/04/12/cfp-neo-victorian-studies-neo-victorianism-discourses-of-education-10152015/
CFP
Neo-Victorian Studies
Deadline: October 15, 2015
“Neo-Victorianism & Discourses of Education”
Guest Editors:
Frances Kelly
Judith Seaboyer
The nineteenth century saw the beginnings of mass education in Britain and elsewhere, while the more recent millennial turn has seen a range of reforms and ‘revolutions’ within educational systems world-wide, not least the insistent commercialisation of universities and a concomitant move to redefining educators and students as ‘service providers’ and ‘customers’ respectively. A large number of neo-Victorian novels are set in or engage with educational contexts, including universities, libraries, anatomy schools, private tutoring/governessing, ragged schools, and art colleges, mirroring the settings and concerns with Bildung in canonical works by Victorian writers such as Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, and others. Just as significantly, however, are contemporary self-conscious engagements with inherited nineteenth-century ideas regarding the purposes and ethos of education, such as character building, civic identity formation, the connection between personal and societal development, issues of widening access, the inculcation of moral values and national ideologies, and the perception that education systems serve as ‘engines’ of the economy. Then as now, however, prevalent concerns and anxieties about the achievements and failings of education hardly constituted a monolithic uncontested discourse; rather they divided public opinion and provoked continuous political and societal debate, much as these same concerns continue to do today. This special issue will explore how neo-Victorian works contribute to this on-going debate by foregrounding the ‘origins’ of modern-day educational systems and approaches. What particular aspects of nineteenth-century education are highlighted and why? What are the main points of contention? How do today’s politicians appropriate (past) educational discourses for party-specific agendas? To what extent are nineteenth-century educational models proposed as alternatives to present-day problems in education? What nineteenth-century educational aims and ideals are depicted as still unfulfilled and unrealised? Possible topics may include, but need not be limited to the following:
- the discourse of universal access and the move to ‘mass’ higher education
- education as a means for national progress and economic development
- Gradgrindean echoes of educational utilitarianism and measurable outcomes (performance statistics, league tables, proportional admission targets for economically disadvantaged groups, etc.)
- representations and biofictions of educators and students past and present
- curriculum changes and modifications, including tailoring courses to ‘consumer’ demand, the high proportion of nineteenth-century content (e.g. slavery, the British Empire, the US Civil War), links to conservative political agendas, targeted funding, and the recent valorisation of Science and Technology over the disparaged Arts and Humanities
- higher education, universities, and the growing centrality of research and publication to institutional identities since the nineteenth century
- Bildung and the Bildungsroman tradition (the idea of character formation, education in civic responsibilities, education as nation-building, etc.)
- desired outcomes (the ideal of rational autonomy, personal development, societal prosperity and progress, production of a skilled workforce, national and international competitiveness, graduate attributes, etc.)
- the emergence of disciplines at the nineteenth-century fin-de-siècle vs. more recent moves towards interdisciplinary teaching and research
- the ethos of future pasts: nineteenth-century models, unrealised ambitions, and anticipated trajectories in education systems
- discourses of liberal humanism and neo-liberalism, the impact on education of laissez-faire economics, and the revitalisation of (Smiles’) ‘self-help’ discourse
- education and creativity, including Ruskinean notions of curiosity, mystery and wonder, discursive constructions of creativity, and the harnessing of creativity for capitalism
- education, industry, and the shift to a knowledge-based society in the information age
Please address enquiries and expressions of interest to the guest editors:
Frances Kelly at f.kelly@auckland.ac.nz and Judith Seaboyer at j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au.
Completed articles and/or creative pieces will be due by October 15, 2015
and should be sent via email to both guest editors, with a copy to neovictorianstudies@swansea.ac.uk.
Please consult the NVS website ( http://www.neovictorianstudies.com )
(‘Submission Guidelines’) for further guidance.
CFP Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference (11/15/2015; Boston 3/10-12/2016)
A final post for the night:
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78069/society-study-southern-literature
Announcement published by John Matthews on Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Type: Conference
Date: March 10, 2016 to March 12, 2016
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Geography, Literature
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Conference
Boston, March 10‐12, 2016
The South in the North
SSSL’s meeting in Boston will be the first the organization has held in a location north of the Mason‐Dixon line. Ironically, in many ways this has never mattered less, as Southern literary studies’ formative focus on regional difference and distinctiveness has been retrained to take in a broader view of the South’s reciprocal material and imaginary relations with the US North, other regions, the nation, and transnational permutations of North/South dynamics. As scholars of a regional literature, we have been invigorated by innovative scholarship on the way the imagining of region figures in the imagining of nation, on the construction and consequences of Southern exceptionalism, on the continued expansion of analytical concepts of Southernness (and Northernness) in hemispheric, transatlantic, and global contexts. Now well‐established, the shift from east‐west to north‐south axes in cultural as well as economic, political, and other fields, invites continued exploration of its local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global manifestations.
Some broad issues the conference hopes to explore under the rubric of “The South in the North” include:
* regional fantasies and national imaginary
* continental, Caribbean, hemispheric, transatlantic and global Norths and Souths
* southern and post-southern imaginaries
Please see the full description of the conference topic and detailed cfp on our website:
http://southernlit.org/conference/
We welcome proposals for individual papers and full panels. Pre‐arranged panels are also welcomed. We invite calls for papers for panels, and will post them on the SSSL Facebook and webpage. Feel free to contact us as early as you’d like about preliminary ideas and suggestions. Please direct all correspondence to John Matthews, President, The Society for the Study of Southern Literature and host of the conference at ssslboston2016@gmail.com.
Deadline for proposals is November 15, 2015.
Contact Info:
John Matthews, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, President
Boston University, Department of English
Contact Email:
ssslboston2016@gmail.com
URL:
http://southernlit.org
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78069/society-study-southern-literature
Announcement published by John Matthews on Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Type: Conference
Date: March 10, 2016 to March 12, 2016
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: African American History / Studies, American History / Studies, Geography, Literature
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
Conference
Boston, March 10‐12, 2016
The South in the North
SSSL’s meeting in Boston will be the first the organization has held in a location north of the Mason‐Dixon line. Ironically, in many ways this has never mattered less, as Southern literary studies’ formative focus on regional difference and distinctiveness has been retrained to take in a broader view of the South’s reciprocal material and imaginary relations with the US North, other regions, the nation, and transnational permutations of North/South dynamics. As scholars of a regional literature, we have been invigorated by innovative scholarship on the way the imagining of region figures in the imagining of nation, on the construction and consequences of Southern exceptionalism, on the continued expansion of analytical concepts of Southernness (and Northernness) in hemispheric, transatlantic, and global contexts. Now well‐established, the shift from east‐west to north‐south axes in cultural as well as economic, political, and other fields, invites continued exploration of its local, regional, national, hemispheric, and global manifestations.
Some broad issues the conference hopes to explore under the rubric of “The South in the North” include:
* regional fantasies and national imaginary
* continental, Caribbean, hemispheric, transatlantic and global Norths and Souths
* southern and post-southern imaginaries
Please see the full description of the conference topic and detailed cfp on our website:
http://southernlit.org/conference/
We welcome proposals for individual papers and full panels. Pre‐arranged panels are also welcomed. We invite calls for papers for panels, and will post them on the SSSL Facebook and webpage. Feel free to contact us as early as you’d like about preliminary ideas and suggestions. Please direct all correspondence to John Matthews, President, The Society for the Study of Southern Literature and host of the conference at ssslboston2016@gmail.com.
Deadline for proposals is November 15, 2015.
Contact Info:
John Matthews, Society for the Study of Southern Literature, President
Boston University, Department of English
Contact Email:
ssslboston2016@gmail.com
URL:
http://southernlit.org
CFP C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference (9/1/2015; Penn State 3/17-20/2016)
This is the fourth or fifth conference I've come across for the same weekend:
CFP: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, March 17-20, 2016, Penn State University; proposals due 9/1/15
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77162/cfp-c19-society-nineteenth-century-americanists-conference-march
Announcement published by Hester Blum on Friday, July 31, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 1, 2015
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies
Dear Colleagues,
A reminder: "Unsettling," the fourth biennial conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, will take place March 17-20, 2016, at Penn State University.
Submissions are due September 1, 2015.
For information on the conference and submission guidelines, including a CFP and list of seminars, please visit our conference web site at http://c19conference.org/.
The list of seminar topics can be found here: http://www.c19conference.org/seminars/.
To submit a paper, panel proposal or seminar proposal, please visit the submissions site at http://2016C19.exordo.com.
If you have any questions about the conference, please write to Program Chair Rodrigo Lazo at rlazo@uci.edu.
On behalf of the C19 Executive Committee and Program Committee,
Hester Blum
C19 Vice President and 2016 Conference Coordinator
Penn State University
hester.blum@psu.edu
URL:
http://c19conference.org/
CFP: C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Conference, March 17-20, 2016, Penn State University; proposals due 9/1/15
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77162/cfp-c19-society-nineteenth-century-americanists-conference-march
Announcement published by Hester Blum on Friday, July 31, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 1, 2015
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Cultural History / Studies
Dear Colleagues,
A reminder: "Unsettling," the fourth biennial conference of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, will take place March 17-20, 2016, at Penn State University.
Submissions are due September 1, 2015.
For information on the conference and submission guidelines, including a CFP and list of seminars, please visit our conference web site at http://c19conference.org/.
The list of seminar topics can be found here: http://www.c19conference.org/seminars/.
To submit a paper, panel proposal or seminar proposal, please visit the submissions site at http://2016C19.exordo.com.
If you have any questions about the conference, please write to Program Chair Rodrigo Lazo at rlazo@uci.edu.
On behalf of the C19 Executive Committee and Program Committee,
Hester Blum
C19 Vice President and 2016 Conference Coordinator
Penn State University
hester.blum@psu.edu
URL:
http://c19conference.org/
CFP Game of Thrones versus History (proposals by 10/15/2015)
Game of Thrones versus History
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78681/game-thrones-versus-history
Announcement published by Brian Pavlac on Friday, August 14, 2015
Type: Call for Publications
Date: August 15, 2015 to October 15, 2015
Location: United States
Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Film and Film History, Literature, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies
This is a call for original essays for The Game of Thrones versus History, an academic-trade title to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in April 2017 to coincide with the start of the seventh season of HBO's highly successful series.
The book will comprise a collection of essays by historians who explain the factual roots of George R. R. Martin's book series, A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO television series, Game of Thrones. Similar in vein to the volumes of Wiley's Pop Culture and Philosophy series, GoT v. H would reach out to fans and students who wish to enhance their experience of the fictional story, while deeping their knowledge of history through parallels drawn by contributing history scholars. Writing style would be entertaining as well as informative and thoughtful. Scholarly apparatus would be kept to a minimum, but short bibliographies for further reading would follow each section. In addition the book will comprise a List of Contributors, under which a short bio of each Contributor will appear.
For more information on possible themes and topic, go to http://gameofthronesversushistory.com/.
Interested scholars should submit a 300-word abstract by October 15, 2015. Finished papers of 4,000-5,000 words will be due April 30, 2016. Contributors of accepted essays will recieve an honorarium as well as a copy of the book upon publication, and a chance to have some fun!
Kindly submit proposals by e-mail to Brian A. Pavlac, editor@gameofthronesversushistory.com
Contact Info:
Brian A. Pavlac
Contact Email:
editor@gameofthronesversushistory.com
URL:
http://gameofthronesversushistory.com/
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78681/game-thrones-versus-history
Announcement published by Brian Pavlac on Friday, August 14, 2015
Type: Call for Publications
Date: August 15, 2015 to October 15, 2015
Location: United States
Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Film and Film History, Literature, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies
This is a call for original essays for The Game of Thrones versus History, an academic-trade title to be published by Wiley-Blackwell in April 2017 to coincide with the start of the seventh season of HBO's highly successful series.
The book will comprise a collection of essays by historians who explain the factual roots of George R. R. Martin's book series, A Song of Ice and Fire and the HBO television series, Game of Thrones. Similar in vein to the volumes of Wiley's Pop Culture and Philosophy series, GoT v. H would reach out to fans and students who wish to enhance their experience of the fictional story, while deeping their knowledge of history through parallels drawn by contributing history scholars. Writing style would be entertaining as well as informative and thoughtful. Scholarly apparatus would be kept to a minimum, but short bibliographies for further reading would follow each section. In addition the book will comprise a List of Contributors, under which a short bio of each Contributor will appear.
For more information on possible themes and topic, go to http://gameofthronesversushistory.com/.
Interested scholars should submit a 300-word abstract by October 15, 2015. Finished papers of 4,000-5,000 words will be due April 30, 2016. Contributors of accepted essays will recieve an honorarium as well as a copy of the book upon publication, and a chance to have some fun!
Kindly submit proposals by e-mail to Brian A. Pavlac, editor@gameofthronesversushistory.com
Contact Info:
Brian A. Pavlac
Contact Email:
editor@gameofthronesversushistory.com
URL:
http://gameofthronesversushistory.com/
New Journal & CFP: The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
New Journal: The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/76074/new-journal-bulletin-international-association-robin-hood-studies
Discussion published by Alex Kaufman on Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web: http://robinhoodscholars.blogspot.com/.
Scholars are invited to send original research on any aspect of the Robin Hood tradition. The editors welcome essays in the following areas: formal literary explication, manuscript and early printed book investigations, historical inquiries, new media examinations, and theory / cultural studies approaches.
We are looking for concise essays, 4,000-8,000-words long. Submissions should be formatted following the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions and queries should be directed to both Valerie B. Johnson (valerie.johnson@lmc.gatech.edu) and also Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu).
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/76074/new-journal-bulletin-international-association-robin-hood-studies
Discussion published by Alex Kaufman on Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS) is pleased to announce the creation of a new, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies. The journal will be published bi-annually beginning in Spring 2016 and will be available on the IARHS’ website, Robin Hood Scholars: IARHS on the Web: http://robinhoodscholars.blogspot.com/.
Scholars are invited to send original research on any aspect of the Robin Hood tradition. The editors welcome essays in the following areas: formal literary explication, manuscript and early printed book investigations, historical inquiries, new media examinations, and theory / cultural studies approaches.
We are looking for concise essays, 4,000-8,000-words long. Submissions should be formatted following the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions and queries should be directed to both Valerie B. Johnson (valerie.johnson@lmc.gatech.edu) and also Alexander L. Kaufman (akaufman@aum.edu).
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
CFP Philip K. Dick's Short Fiction (9/30/2015; NeMLA 3/17-20/2016)
Philip K. Dick's Short Fiction (Panel) - Hartford, Connecticut, March 17-20, 2016
full name / name of organization:
Brad Congdon / NeMLA 2016
contact email:
brad.congdon@dal.ca
In an unpublished forward to The Preserving Machine, Philip K. Dick lamented that “As a writer builds up a novel-length piece it slowly begins to imprison him, to take away his freedom.” Dick, who has published five volumes of short fiction, argued that short-story writing allows for freedom, crisis, and action, in contrast to the stultifying process of novel writing. “It is in SF stories,” he claimed, “that SF action occurs.”
Dick occupies a unique position in culture: films based on his works (e.g. Bladerunner, Total Recall) have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide, while scholars have made him one of the most widely analyzed writers of the 20th century. Dick criticism is itself something of a cottage industry, with many of the most influential critics of postmodernism (e.g. Baudrillard, Jameson, McHale) focusing on his work. Taken together, there are hundreds of monographs, articles, book chapters, and dissertations dedicated to Dick. However, despite this surfeit of scholarship, Dick’s short stories have been largely overlooked. This oversight is all the more significant, given that many of the ideas of his novels are first tested in his stories (e.g. “Shell Game,” “The Defenders,” “Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday”) and many have been adapted into films (e.g. “The Minority Report,” “Adjustment Team,” “The Golden Man”).
This session aims to bring new critical perspectives to a neglected facet of Dick’s work. Of particular interest are papers that avoid or challenge the standard lines of Dick criticism (e.g. Marxist, Postmodernist) and instead take novel approaches to the author’s short stories, for example: periodical studies, material culture, history of the book; feminist, queer, and masculinity studies; ecocriticism; psychoanalysis; short story theory; etc. We welcome abstracts for papers of between 15 and 20 minutes’ length on any topic related to Dick’s short fiction.
Paper abstracts of 300 words are to be uploaded only at the following web address:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp
Link to panel:
http://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15820
Deadline: September 30, 2015
cfp categories:
american
popular_culture
twentieth_century_and_beyond
_______________________________________________
SFRA-L mailing list
full name / name of organization:
Brad Congdon / NeMLA 2016
contact email:
brad.congdon@dal.ca
In an unpublished forward to The Preserving Machine, Philip K. Dick lamented that “As a writer builds up a novel-length piece it slowly begins to imprison him, to take away his freedom.” Dick, who has published five volumes of short fiction, argued that short-story writing allows for freedom, crisis, and action, in contrast to the stultifying process of novel writing. “It is in SF stories,” he claimed, “that SF action occurs.”
Dick occupies a unique position in culture: films based on his works (e.g. Bladerunner, Total Recall) have grossed over a billion dollars worldwide, while scholars have made him one of the most widely analyzed writers of the 20th century. Dick criticism is itself something of a cottage industry, with many of the most influential critics of postmodernism (e.g. Baudrillard, Jameson, McHale) focusing on his work. Taken together, there are hundreds of monographs, articles, book chapters, and dissertations dedicated to Dick. However, despite this surfeit of scholarship, Dick’s short stories have been largely overlooked. This oversight is all the more significant, given that many of the ideas of his novels are first tested in his stories (e.g. “Shell Game,” “The Defenders,” “Your Appointment Will Be Yesterday”) and many have been adapted into films (e.g. “The Minority Report,” “Adjustment Team,” “The Golden Man”).
This session aims to bring new critical perspectives to a neglected facet of Dick’s work. Of particular interest are papers that avoid or challenge the standard lines of Dick criticism (e.g. Marxist, Postmodernist) and instead take novel approaches to the author’s short stories, for example: periodical studies, material culture, history of the book; feminist, queer, and masculinity studies; ecocriticism; psychoanalysis; short story theory; etc. We welcome abstracts for papers of between 15 and 20 minutes’ length on any topic related to Dick’s short fiction.
Paper abstracts of 300 words are to be uploaded only at the following web address:
https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/cfp
Link to panel:
http://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15820
Deadline: September 30, 2015
cfp categories:
american
popular_culture
twentieth_century_and_beyond
_______________________________________________
SFRA-L mailing list
CFP Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference (9/10/2015; Riverside, CA 2/12-13/2016)
WSECS 2016 conference Call for Proposals (Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/76863/wsecs-2016-conference-call-proposals-western-society-eighteenth
Announcement published by Linda Tomko on Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 10, 2015
Location: California, United States
Subject Fields: World History / Studies, Social Sciences
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The annual meeting of the
Western Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS)
February 12-13, 2016 • University of California, Riverside
Keynote address by Dr. Paula Radisich, Whittier College
We invite submissions from all disciplines for the 2016 WSECS conference focused on the theme of “Encounter(s).” We invite proposals for papers that address encounters ranging from the political to the intimate and from commerce and migration to literary and artistic productions in the long 18th century (late 17th to early 19th centuries).
Papers should be 15-20 minutes long. The program committee will cluster 3-4 individual papers to a 75-minute panel, including 15 minutes for Q&A following the last paper. Submission of proposals for pre-formed panels should follow this format. We especially welcome submissions by graduate students and independent scholars. All paper topics will be considered.
DEADLINE: September 10, 2015. Please provide a narrative proposal of 250-300 words. Include contact information, name, institutional affiliation, title of your paper, email address, and any audio/visual needs. Proposals for pre-formed panels should include the same info for each presenter, and a cover page with the panel title, topic, and statement of how the papers speak to that topic. Designate one person as the liaison with the program committee.
Send submissions to both Dr. Aurora Wolfgang (aurora@csusb.edu) and Dr. Linda Tomko (lindawsecs@yahoo.com).
The conference program committee members are Aurora Wolfgang, CSU San Bernardino, French; Linda Tomko, UC Riverside, Dance; Ted Ruml, CSU San Bernardino, English; George Haggerty, UC Riverside, English; and Jonathan Eacott, UC Riverside, History.
We will notify presenters of their papers’ acceptance by the end of October 2015. Conference registration and WSECS membership fees are due by December 1, 2015 for those on the conference program.
The keynote address will begin Friday, February 12 at 1:00 PM. Panels will follow with drinks reception 7-8 PM. Saturday, February 13, panels begin at 9 AM; lunch will be hosted by WSECS. Final panels will conclude by 6 PM. Full details about the conference, accommodations and area attractions will be published on the WSECS website: www.wsecs.org.
Contact Info:
Conference co-coordinators are Dr. Aurora Wolfgang (aurora@csusb.edu) and Dr. Linda J. Tomko (lindawsecs@yahoo.com)
Contact Email:
lindawsecs@yahoo.com
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/76863/wsecs-2016-conference-call-proposals-western-society-eighteenth
Announcement published by Linda Tomko on Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 10, 2015
Location: California, United States
Subject Fields: World History / Studies, Social Sciences
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
The annual meeting of the
Western Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (WSECS)
February 12-13, 2016 • University of California, Riverside
Keynote address by Dr. Paula Radisich, Whittier College
We invite submissions from all disciplines for the 2016 WSECS conference focused on the theme of “Encounter(s).” We invite proposals for papers that address encounters ranging from the political to the intimate and from commerce and migration to literary and artistic productions in the long 18th century (late 17th to early 19th centuries).
Papers should be 15-20 minutes long. The program committee will cluster 3-4 individual papers to a 75-minute panel, including 15 minutes for Q&A following the last paper. Submission of proposals for pre-formed panels should follow this format. We especially welcome submissions by graduate students and independent scholars. All paper topics will be considered.
DEADLINE: September 10, 2015. Please provide a narrative proposal of 250-300 words. Include contact information, name, institutional affiliation, title of your paper, email address, and any audio/visual needs. Proposals for pre-formed panels should include the same info for each presenter, and a cover page with the panel title, topic, and statement of how the papers speak to that topic. Designate one person as the liaison with the program committee.
Send submissions to both Dr. Aurora Wolfgang (aurora@csusb.edu) and Dr. Linda Tomko (lindawsecs@yahoo.com).
The conference program committee members are Aurora Wolfgang, CSU San Bernardino, French; Linda Tomko, UC Riverside, Dance; Ted Ruml, CSU San Bernardino, English; George Haggerty, UC Riverside, English; and Jonathan Eacott, UC Riverside, History.
We will notify presenters of their papers’ acceptance by the end of October 2015. Conference registration and WSECS membership fees are due by December 1, 2015 for those on the conference program.
The keynote address will begin Friday, February 12 at 1:00 PM. Panels will follow with drinks reception 7-8 PM. Saturday, February 13, panels begin at 9 AM; lunch will be hosted by WSECS. Final panels will conclude by 6 PM. Full details about the conference, accommodations and area attractions will be published on the WSECS website: www.wsecs.org.
Contact Info:
Conference co-coordinators are Dr. Aurora Wolfgang (aurora@csusb.edu) and Dr. Linda J. Tomko (lindawsecs@yahoo.com)
Contact Email:
lindawsecs@yahoo.com
CFP Legacy of Harryhausen (essay collection) (proposals by 9/11/2015)
Conventional Special Effects & Unconventional Thinking - The Legacy of Harryhausen
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77787/conventional-special-effects-unconventional-thinking-legacy
Announcement published by Karen Zarker on Thursday, August 6, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: August 6, 2015 to October 23, 2015
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Digital Humanities
Deadline for essay pitches: Friday, September 11th
First drafts: Friday October 23rd
Final essay: Friday, November 13th
Submit your pitches to: PopMatters’ editor Dawn Eyestone dawn@popmatters.com; cc: zarker@popmatters.com
Email subject line: Harryhausen SFX Legacy
Although filmmaker and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen officially retired from feature filmmaking in the ‘80s, his legacy continues on the set of B-movie films and Hollywood blockbusters alike. Even filmgoers who’ve never heard of Harryhausen are likely familiar with his film techniques and might recognize one or two of his creations. Without Harryhausen’s creatures in Clash of the Titans, film geeks everywhere would be without the battle cry “Release the Kraken!” Without Harryhausen’s development of stop-motion filming, how would George Lucas have made Luke Skywalker run across a frozen wasteland on the back of a fictitious Tauntaun? Without Harryhausen’s monstrous inspiration, would Spielberg’s Jaws have been as terrifying?
Ray Harryhausen’s contributions to the film industry, especially to conventional special effects development and storytelling in the genre of science fiction and fantasy, are incalculable.
This series of essays seeks to examine and analyze this pioneer (dare we say titan?) of special effects (SFX) in-depth.
Essays for this series could touch on Harryhausen’s career, legacy, and inspiration; or specific films, SFX techniques, and genres. Authors are encouraged to be creative and, like Harryhausen himself, explore unique and interesting perspectives on the subject matter. Possible topics include:
Of special interest to the editors are essays that touch on Harryhausen’s development of special effects in science fiction of the ‘50’s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, which contributed to the genre’s current place in mainstream entertainment; and essays that provide in-depth analyses of the connection between the use of conventional special effects and strong storytelling.
The editors are not looking for essays focused on computer generated effects; however, they will consider essays that discuss CGI as directly related to the use of conventional SFX and/or storytelling.
Essays accepted for this series should target Harryhausen and SF film fans or cultural generalists and will be published on the PopMatters website. Essays should be written in PopMatters style; erudite, engaging and entertaining, but not laden with academic language. Essays length is approximately 1,500 – 2,500 words in MLA format.
Contact Info:
Dawn Eyestone, Editor
Contact Email:
eyestone@popmatters.com
URL:
http://www.popmatters.com/post/196112-call-for-papers-ray-harryhausen/
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77787/conventional-special-effects-unconventional-thinking-legacy
Announcement published by Karen Zarker on Thursday, August 6, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: August 6, 2015 to October 23, 2015
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Digital Humanities
Deadline for essay pitches: Friday, September 11th
First drafts: Friday October 23rd
Final essay: Friday, November 13th
Submit your pitches to: PopMatters’ editor Dawn Eyestone dawn@popmatters.com; cc: zarker@popmatters.com
Email subject line: Harryhausen SFX Legacy
Although filmmaker and special effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen officially retired from feature filmmaking in the ‘80s, his legacy continues on the set of B-movie films and Hollywood blockbusters alike. Even filmgoers who’ve never heard of Harryhausen are likely familiar with his film techniques and might recognize one or two of his creations. Without Harryhausen’s creatures in Clash of the Titans, film geeks everywhere would be without the battle cry “Release the Kraken!” Without Harryhausen’s development of stop-motion filming, how would George Lucas have made Luke Skywalker run across a frozen wasteland on the back of a fictitious Tauntaun? Without Harryhausen’s monstrous inspiration, would Spielberg’s Jaws have been as terrifying?
Ray Harryhausen’s contributions to the film industry, especially to conventional special effects development and storytelling in the genre of science fiction and fantasy, are incalculable.
This series of essays seeks to examine and analyze this pioneer (dare we say titan?) of special effects (SFX) in-depth.
Essays for this series could touch on Harryhausen’s career, legacy, and inspiration; or specific films, SFX techniques, and genres. Authors are encouraged to be creative and, like Harryhausen himself, explore unique and interesting perspectives on the subject matter. Possible topics include:
- SFX as an intrinsic part of good storytelling
- Specific techniques as developed or used by Harryhausen and his contemporaries (e.g., Dynamation, Stop Motion, Rotoscoping)
- Harryhausen’s early career and inspiration, e.g., Willis O’Brien’s King Kong
- Critiques and analyses of feature films and other projects important to SFX development (e.g., Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 20 Million Miles to Earth, Mysterious Island, Clash of the Titans (1983), George Pal’s Puppetoons, WWII Army propaganda films)
- Influences on later entertainment and contemporary pop culture, including connections to films/filmmakers (e.g., Peter Jackson, Steven Spielberg, Star Wars, The Terminator)
- Comparisons between films and their remakes as related to special effects and storytelling (e.g., Clash of the Titans 1981 v. 2010, King Kong 1933 v. 2005) though such essays should be scholarly and thoughtful, focused on filmmaking, genre, technique, and/or storytelling rather than fan arguments about “which was better”.
Of special interest to the editors are essays that touch on Harryhausen’s development of special effects in science fiction of the ‘50’s, ‘60s, and ‘70s, which contributed to the genre’s current place in mainstream entertainment; and essays that provide in-depth analyses of the connection between the use of conventional special effects and strong storytelling.
The editors are not looking for essays focused on computer generated effects; however, they will consider essays that discuss CGI as directly related to the use of conventional SFX and/or storytelling.
Essays accepted for this series should target Harryhausen and SF film fans or cultural generalists and will be published on the PopMatters website. Essays should be written in PopMatters style; erudite, engaging and entertaining, but not laden with academic language. Essays length is approximately 1,500 – 2,500 words in MLA format.
Contact Info:
Dawn Eyestone, Editor
Contact Email:
eyestone@popmatters.com
URL:
http://www.popmatters.com/post/196112-call-for-papers-ray-harryhausen/
CFP collection onOld age and aging in British theatre and drama (proposals by 10/1/2015)
An interesting idea:
Old age and aging in British theatre and drama - An edited collection
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77681/old-age-and-aging-british-theatre-and-drama-edited-collection
Announcement published by Kasia Bronk on Friday, August 7, 2015
Type:
Call for Publications
Date:
October 1, 2015
Subject Fields:
Theatre & Performance History / Studies, British History / Studies
In contrast to the ongoing childhood studies, humanistic gerontology is still largely an unexplored research area, despite more and more attention being paid to old age by historians, sociologists and literary scholars. The latter have taken up the subject of aging and the elderly, trying to create something like an all-encompassing literary ”meta-narrative old age" (Johnson and Thane, eds., Old age from antiquity to post-modernity, 17). Johnson and Thane suggest that this may be a fallacy and that one should rather focus on more contained historical and socio-cultural research areas when studying the processes and meaning of aging. This way, for instance, one can avoid interpretative mistakes attributed to Georges Minois. Thus, to answer Johnson and Thane’s call for strengthening ”our understanding of smaller questions” and consequently to ”produce a better history of old age and ageing” (18) the present volume will aim to investigate the notion of old age, or the "nebulous existence of unpredictable duration” (Von Dorotka Bagnel and Spencer Soper, eds., Perceptions of aging in literature, xix) via a diachronic inquiry into the phenomenon and its representations in visual and interactive artistic mediums – British theatre and drama. The proposed collection of essays on embodied conceptualisations of age and aging is to broaden and go beyond existing studies on old age, aging and Shakespeare whose understanding and presentation of ages of mankind and senescence in, for instance, King Lear, Hamlet and As you like it, have been extensively analysed. Interested authors are invited to explore ALL periods and pieces of British drama in their presentation of old age as a concept, theme as well as performance. Thus, thanks to its diachronic and comparative nature, the volume will hopefully broaden literary and cultural research on the final stages of life and yield new insights to the gaps in this area of humanistic gerontology. We invite abstracts on the following topics (but other notions related to age, the elderly and aging in drama across centuries are likewise encouraged):
• biological, chronological, functional, cultural definitions of old age, senescence and aging in drama but also beyond
• performativity of old age (markers of old age; the old body on stage; etc)
• comic and tragic elderly and their plight
• old age/aging and playwrights/playwriting (dealinh with aging by means of art; do older playwrights write about old age or focus on youth?)
• genderised aging on stage
• actors and actresses and aging
• younger versus older generations in drama (conflicts, struggles, reconciliations, etc)
• positive and negative stereotypes of the elderly
• stock characters (senex, crone, widow, benevolent father, dotard, etc) and their ‘mutations’ across centuries
• the influence of philosophical, religious and medical advice on old age and aging on drama (conduct texts, treatises, medical tracts, etc)
• class/race/gender and dramatised old age
• new perspectives on Shakespeare's conceptualisations of aging, ages of mankind, senescence, etc
• comparative research on dramatising old age and aging (English/British vs French, German, Italian, American, etc)
• the future of humanistic gerontology (and dramatic arts)
Interested authors are kindly asked to send 500-word abstracts by 1st of October 2015 to dr Katarzyna Bronk (kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl and bbronkk@gmail.com). If accepted by the editors, selected abstracts will be collated into a thematic collection and proposed to an international publisher. Upon acceptance by the publisher, the authors will be asked to write full versions of their papers.
Contact Info:
dr Katarzyma Bronk Faculty of English Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/bronk_katarzyna kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl and bbronkk@gmail.com
Contact Email:
kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl
Old age and aging in British theatre and drama - An edited collection
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77681/old-age-and-aging-british-theatre-and-drama-edited-collection
Announcement published by Kasia Bronk on Friday, August 7, 2015
Type:
Call for Publications
Date:
October 1, 2015
Subject Fields:
Theatre & Performance History / Studies, British History / Studies
In contrast to the ongoing childhood studies, humanistic gerontology is still largely an unexplored research area, despite more and more attention being paid to old age by historians, sociologists and literary scholars. The latter have taken up the subject of aging and the elderly, trying to create something like an all-encompassing literary ”meta-narrative old age" (Johnson and Thane, eds., Old age from antiquity to post-modernity, 17). Johnson and Thane suggest that this may be a fallacy and that one should rather focus on more contained historical and socio-cultural research areas when studying the processes and meaning of aging. This way, for instance, one can avoid interpretative mistakes attributed to Georges Minois. Thus, to answer Johnson and Thane’s call for strengthening ”our understanding of smaller questions” and consequently to ”produce a better history of old age and ageing” (18) the present volume will aim to investigate the notion of old age, or the "nebulous existence of unpredictable duration” (Von Dorotka Bagnel and Spencer Soper, eds., Perceptions of aging in literature, xix) via a diachronic inquiry into the phenomenon and its representations in visual and interactive artistic mediums – British theatre and drama. The proposed collection of essays on embodied conceptualisations of age and aging is to broaden and go beyond existing studies on old age, aging and Shakespeare whose understanding and presentation of ages of mankind and senescence in, for instance, King Lear, Hamlet and As you like it, have been extensively analysed. Interested authors are invited to explore ALL periods and pieces of British drama in their presentation of old age as a concept, theme as well as performance. Thus, thanks to its diachronic and comparative nature, the volume will hopefully broaden literary and cultural research on the final stages of life and yield new insights to the gaps in this area of humanistic gerontology. We invite abstracts on the following topics (but other notions related to age, the elderly and aging in drama across centuries are likewise encouraged):
• biological, chronological, functional, cultural definitions of old age, senescence and aging in drama but also beyond
• performativity of old age (markers of old age; the old body on stage; etc)
• comic and tragic elderly and their plight
• old age/aging and playwrights/playwriting (dealinh with aging by means of art; do older playwrights write about old age or focus on youth?)
• genderised aging on stage
• actors and actresses and aging
• younger versus older generations in drama (conflicts, struggles, reconciliations, etc)
• positive and negative stereotypes of the elderly
• stock characters (senex, crone, widow, benevolent father, dotard, etc) and their ‘mutations’ across centuries
• the influence of philosophical, religious and medical advice on old age and aging on drama (conduct texts, treatises, medical tracts, etc)
• class/race/gender and dramatised old age
• new perspectives on Shakespeare's conceptualisations of aging, ages of mankind, senescence, etc
• comparative research on dramatising old age and aging (English/British vs French, German, Italian, American, etc)
• the future of humanistic gerontology (and dramatic arts)
Interested authors are kindly asked to send 500-word abstracts by 1st of October 2015 to dr Katarzyna Bronk (kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl and bbronkk@gmail.com). If accepted by the editors, selected abstracts will be collated into a thematic collection and proposed to an international publisher. Upon acceptance by the publisher, the authors will be asked to write full versions of their papers.
Contact Info:
dr Katarzyma Bronk Faculty of English Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/bronk_katarzyna kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl and bbronkk@gmail.com
Contact Email:
kbronk@wa.amu.edu.pl
CFP Adolescence in Film and Television Area (10/1/2015; PCA/ACA Seattle 3/21-25/2016)
Still cleaning my inbox:
Adolescence in Film and Television (March 21-25, 2016; Proposals due October 1, 2015)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77876/adolescence-film-and-television-march-21-25-2016-proposals-due
Announcement published by Kylo-Patrick Hart on Monday, August 10, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: October 1, 2015
Location: Washington, United States
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies
The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, to be held March 21-25, 2016 in Seattle, Washington.
Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and students at all levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Given adequate participant interest and high-quality submissions, the Adolescence in Film and Television Area chair is hoping to publish selected papers (with author’s permission) presented in this area in March 2016 in a special essay collection. Submission instructions will be provided in the weeks following the October 1, 2015 submission deadline.
Possible topics of relevance include, but are certainly not limited to, advertising images and appeals, coming-of-age narratives, drug use, HIV/AIDS, juvenile delinquency, nerd culture, non-heterosexuality, otherness, premarital sex, product placement, queerness (broadly defined), violence and social aggression, and (losing one’s) virginity.
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words (including presentation title) by October 1, 2015.
Submit your abstract online at http://ncp.pcaaca.org (and be certain to select the “Adolescence in Film and Television” subject area from the drop-down menu when doing so).
Decisions pertaining to the status of submitted abstracts will be communicated within approximately two weeks of receipt. For questions prior to submitting an abstract, please contact area chair Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (k.hart@tcu.edu).
Contact Info:
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Ph.D.
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
Texas Christian University
Contact Email:
k.hart@tcu.edu
Adolescence in Film and Television (March 21-25, 2016; Proposals due October 1, 2015)
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77876/adolescence-film-and-television-march-21-25-2016-proposals-due
Announcement published by Kylo-Patrick Hart on Monday, August 10, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: October 1, 2015
Location: Washington, United States
Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies
The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, to be held March 21-25, 2016 in Seattle, Washington.
Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and students at all levels.
PLEASE NOTE: Given adequate participant interest and high-quality submissions, the Adolescence in Film and Television Area chair is hoping to publish selected papers (with author’s permission) presented in this area in March 2016 in a special essay collection. Submission instructions will be provided in the weeks following the October 1, 2015 submission deadline.
Possible topics of relevance include, but are certainly not limited to, advertising images and appeals, coming-of-age narratives, drug use, HIV/AIDS, juvenile delinquency, nerd culture, non-heterosexuality, otherness, premarital sex, product placement, queerness (broadly defined), violence and social aggression, and (losing one’s) virginity.
Interested individuals are asked to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words (including presentation title) by October 1, 2015.
Submit your abstract online at http://ncp.pcaaca.org (and be certain to select the “Adolescence in Film and Television” subject area from the drop-down menu when doing so).
Decisions pertaining to the status of submitted abstracts will be communicated within approximately two weeks of receipt. For questions prior to submitting an abstract, please contact area chair Kylo-Patrick R. Hart (k.hart@tcu.edu).
Contact Info:
Kylo-Patrick R. Hart, Ph.D.
Department of Film, Television and Digital Media
Texas Christian University
Contact Email:
k.hart@tcu.edu
Labeling Calls for Papers
I realized recently that the Calls for Papers and Conferences of Interest labels for posts were getting a bit muddled. As of today, I have added new labels to denote calls devoted to Conference Sessions. For ease of reference, I also added labels for Essay Collections and Journal Issues. All can still be found under the Calls for Papers label.
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor/Area Chair
Michael Torregrossa
Blog Editor/Area Chair
CFP Vehicle Culture Area (10/1/2015; PCA/ACA Seattle 3/22-26/2016)
Popular Culture Association - Vehicle Culture Area
Discussion published by Elton McGoun on Monday, August 17, 2015 0 Replies
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https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79115/popular-culture-association-vehicle-culture-area
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 22, 2016 to March 25, 2016
Location: Washington, United States
Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Environmental History / Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS - Popular Culture Association Vehicle Culture Area
Humanity has always been on the move, and humans have always been attached to their means of transportation. There is virtually no part of life that has not been shaped by the contemporary vehicles, public or private, by which people have gotten around. Where we live and work and how and with whom we spend our leisure time would not be the same without our vehicles. Our landscape has been reshaped and our built environment configured to accommodate them. Poetry, literature, music, film, television, photography, and other arts have featured them. Sometimes they have been celebrated and sometimes reviled, but we have never been indifferent to their importance. Our vehicles have made—or are believed to have made—powerful statements about race, gender, ethnicity, wealth, politics, social class, and personality. Vehicle culture—about planes, trains, automobiles, and whatever else has moved us—concerns how all of this has been, and is, happening.
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites abstracts for papers and panel proposals that explore the diverse intersections between vehicles, vehicular transportation, and culture. PCA/ACA is committed to serious academic scholarship while also encouraging the exploration of new subjects or new approaches to more familiar ones. The national conference is an exciting gathering of a diverse group of scholars that is always a fascinating source of interesting ideas.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less via the PCA Submission Site by October 1, 2015
Contact Info:
Elton (Skip) McGoun
School of Management Bucknell University
Contact Email: mcgoun@bucknell.edu
URL: http://ncp.pcaaca.org
Discussion published by Elton McGoun on Monday, August 17, 2015 0 Replies
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https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79115/popular-culture-association-vehicle-culture-area
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 22, 2016 to March 25, 2016
Location: Washington, United States
Subject Fields: Cultural History / Studies, Popular Culture Studies, Environmental History / Studies
CALL FOR PAPERS - Popular Culture Association Vehicle Culture Area
Humanity has always been on the move, and humans have always been attached to their means of transportation. There is virtually no part of life that has not been shaped by the contemporary vehicles, public or private, by which people have gotten around. Where we live and work and how and with whom we spend our leisure time would not be the same without our vehicles. Our landscape has been reshaped and our built environment configured to accommodate them. Poetry, literature, music, film, television, photography, and other arts have featured them. Sometimes they have been celebrated and sometimes reviled, but we have never been indifferent to their importance. Our vehicles have made—or are believed to have made—powerful statements about race, gender, ethnicity, wealth, politics, social class, and personality. Vehicle culture—about planes, trains, automobiles, and whatever else has moved us—concerns how all of this has been, and is, happening.
The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association invites abstracts for papers and panel proposals that explore the diverse intersections between vehicles, vehicular transportation, and culture. PCA/ACA is committed to serious academic scholarship while also encouraging the exploration of new subjects or new approaches to more familiar ones. The national conference is an exciting gathering of a diverse group of scholars that is always a fascinating source of interesting ideas.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less via the PCA Submission Site by October 1, 2015
Contact Info:
Elton (Skip) McGoun
School of Management Bucknell University
Contact Email: mcgoun@bucknell.edu
URL: http://ncp.pcaaca.org
CFP Edited collection on college movies (proposals by 11/1/2015)
Also of potential interest:
Edited collection on college movies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79113/edited-collection-college-movies
Discussion published by Randy Laist on Monday, August 17, 2015
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type: Call for Papers
Date: November 1, 2015
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies
Movies about college have been a staple of American cinema since the silent era. Films like Harold Lloyd's The Freshman and Buster Keaton's College engaged popular ideas about the culture of campus life as it evolved throughout the 1920s, while also setting precedents for future cinematic representations of the college experience. Benchmark films of the genre such as The Paper Chase, Animal House, and The Social Network provide insight into the ways that college has been variously imagined as a middle class rite of passage, a landscape of hedonistic fantasy, a microcosm of societal hypocrisy, a repressive system of deindividuation, and a carnivalesque holiday from "real life," to name just a few of the most conspicuous themes. At the same time, even the most jejune examples of the college movie genre reveal ideological assumptions and communicate influential messages about the role of knowledge, learning, and intellectualism in society.
We are currently accepting chapter proposals for an edited volume devoted to the representation of college and campus life in movies. While we hope to include a wide range of perspectives in the book, we are particularly interested in scholarship that examines the relationship between the cinematic representations of campus life and the lived experience of real college students. To what extent do these cinematic representations inform the expectations, perceptions, and attitudes of students, faculty, and the general public? Overviews of prevailing trends as well as close analyses of individual films are both welcome, as are examinations of the manner in which college films have addressed issues such as race, class, gender, technology, sexuality, disability, and cultural difference.
Please submit 300-word chapter proposals to Randy Laist at rlaist@goodwin.edu and Kip Kline at klinech@lewisu.edu by November 1, 2015.
Contact Info:
Randy Laist at rlaist@goodwin.edu and Kip Kline at klinech@lewisu.edu
Contact Email: rlaist@goodwin.edu
Edited collection on college movies
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79113/edited-collection-college-movies
Discussion published by Randy Laist on Monday, August 17, 2015
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type: Call for Papers
Date: November 1, 2015
Subject Fields: American History / Studies, Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies
Movies about college have been a staple of American cinema since the silent era. Films like Harold Lloyd's The Freshman and Buster Keaton's College engaged popular ideas about the culture of campus life as it evolved throughout the 1920s, while also setting precedents for future cinematic representations of the college experience. Benchmark films of the genre such as The Paper Chase, Animal House, and The Social Network provide insight into the ways that college has been variously imagined as a middle class rite of passage, a landscape of hedonistic fantasy, a microcosm of societal hypocrisy, a repressive system of deindividuation, and a carnivalesque holiday from "real life," to name just a few of the most conspicuous themes. At the same time, even the most jejune examples of the college movie genre reveal ideological assumptions and communicate influential messages about the role of knowledge, learning, and intellectualism in society.
We are currently accepting chapter proposals for an edited volume devoted to the representation of college and campus life in movies. While we hope to include a wide range of perspectives in the book, we are particularly interested in scholarship that examines the relationship between the cinematic representations of campus life and the lived experience of real college students. To what extent do these cinematic representations inform the expectations, perceptions, and attitudes of students, faculty, and the general public? Overviews of prevailing trends as well as close analyses of individual films are both welcome, as are examinations of the manner in which college films have addressed issues such as race, class, gender, technology, sexuality, disability, and cultural difference.
Please submit 300-word chapter proposals to Randy Laist at rlaist@goodwin.edu and Kip Kline at klinech@lewisu.edu by November 1, 2015.
Contact Info:
Randy Laist at rlaist@goodwin.edu and Kip Kline at klinech@lewisu.edu
Contact Email: rlaist@goodwin.edu
CFP Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling (proposals by 12/31/2015)
Of potential interest:
Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79109/wrestling-identity-nation-race-and-culture-professional-wrestling
Discussion published by Aaron Horton on Monday, August 17, 2015
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type: Call for Publications
Date: December 31, 2015
Subject Fields: Nationalism History / Studies, Race Studies, Cultural History / Studies
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Professional Wrestling (Tentative Title: Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling)
We are seeking contributors to our project, an edited volume of essays examining various aspects of professional wrestling and its relationship to other themes (nationalism, gender, race, etc.). The scope is broad and open, and authors are welcome to write about any individual, period, or location. For our purposes, professional wrestling is broadly defined as grappling contests for pay, regardless of whether the outcomes are predetermined – hence, this could include “shoot” contests from the late-nineteenth century to the current televised “sports-entertainment” product, or even mixed martial arts, popularized in the last two decades by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and other promotions. Both of the editors are trained as historians, but we welcome submissions from practitioners of all humanities and social science disciplines.
Examples of possible thematic topics include:
-Race in wrestling (example: "Nazis, Japs, and Pearl Harbor Attacks: German and Japanese Stereotypes in American Professional Wrestling")
-Gender in wrestling
-Pro wrestling and national or regional identity/culture
-Fan culture
-Mixed Martial Arts and (or even "as") pro wrestling
-Economic aspects of the business
-Profiles of particular individuals (example: "Rikidozan: Korean Icon of Japanese Nationality")
-Treatments of wrestling in other media (example: “Race and Villainy in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity”)
Possible periods and locations for study include:
-The origins of pro wrestling in camp and carnival contests (1850s-1900)
-The early television era (1950s)
-The territorial era (1950s-1980s)
-Specific territories (examples: Mid-Atlantic in the Carolinas, WCCW in Dallas, AWA in Minnesota, Mid-South in Oklahoma, WWWF in the Northeast, etc.)
-Vince K. McMahon's drive toward monopoly (1980s)
-The "Attitude" Era (late 1990s) (example: “’Something strange has been happening…I don’t think there are good guys anymore, people seem to be sick of good guys’: National Identity, Authority, and the Hero in Professional Wrestling, 1996-1998”)
-Wrestling in Mexico, Japan, Europe, or elsewhere
Proposals should be no more than 1-2 pages, and should include a brief bio of the author. Interested individuals should email their proposals to Aaron Horton (Assistant Professor of History, Alabama State University) at ahorton@alasu.edu, or Zach Bates (M.A., history, Georgia State University, history PhD candidate, University of Calgary) at zachary.bates@ucalgary.ca. We hope to receive all chapter proposals by December 31, 2015 in order to move forward with the project in a timely manner.
Contact Email: ahorton@alasu.edu
Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/discussions/79109/wrestling-identity-nation-race-and-culture-professional-wrestling
Discussion published by Aaron Horton on Monday, August 17, 2015
Your network editor has reposted this from H-Announce. The byline reflects the original authorship.
Type: Call for Publications
Date: December 31, 2015
Subject Fields: Nationalism History / Studies, Race Studies, Cultural History / Studies
Call for Chapters: Edited Volume on Professional Wrestling (Tentative Title: Wrestling with Identity: Nation, Race, and Culture in Professional Wrestling)
We are seeking contributors to our project, an edited volume of essays examining various aspects of professional wrestling and its relationship to other themes (nationalism, gender, race, etc.). The scope is broad and open, and authors are welcome to write about any individual, period, or location. For our purposes, professional wrestling is broadly defined as grappling contests for pay, regardless of whether the outcomes are predetermined – hence, this could include “shoot” contests from the late-nineteenth century to the current televised “sports-entertainment” product, or even mixed martial arts, popularized in the last two decades by the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and other promotions. Both of the editors are trained as historians, but we welcome submissions from practitioners of all humanities and social science disciplines.
Examples of possible thematic topics include:
-Race in wrestling (example: "Nazis, Japs, and Pearl Harbor Attacks: German and Japanese Stereotypes in American Professional Wrestling")
-Gender in wrestling
-Pro wrestling and national or regional identity/culture
-Fan culture
-Mixed Martial Arts and (or even "as") pro wrestling
-Economic aspects of the business
-Profiles of particular individuals (example: "Rikidozan: Korean Icon of Japanese Nationality")
-Treatments of wrestling in other media (example: “Race and Villainy in The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity”)
Possible periods and locations for study include:
-The origins of pro wrestling in camp and carnival contests (1850s-1900)
-The early television era (1950s)
-The territorial era (1950s-1980s)
-Specific territories (examples: Mid-Atlantic in the Carolinas, WCCW in Dallas, AWA in Minnesota, Mid-South in Oklahoma, WWWF in the Northeast, etc.)
-Vince K. McMahon's drive toward monopoly (1980s)
-The "Attitude" Era (late 1990s) (example: “’Something strange has been happening…I don’t think there are good guys anymore, people seem to be sick of good guys’: National Identity, Authority, and the Hero in Professional Wrestling, 1996-1998”)
-Wrestling in Mexico, Japan, Europe, or elsewhere
Proposals should be no more than 1-2 pages, and should include a brief bio of the author. Interested individuals should email their proposals to Aaron Horton (Assistant Professor of History, Alabama State University) at ahorton@alasu.edu, or Zach Bates (M.A., history, Georgia State University, history PhD candidate, University of Calgary) at zachary.bates@ucalgary.ca. We hope to receive all chapter proposals by December 31, 2015 in order to move forward with the project in a timely manner.
Contact Email: ahorton@alasu.edu
CFP Sea Literature, History & Culture Area (10/1/015; PCA Seattle 3/22-25/2015)
Of potential interest:
Call for Proposals, Session, and Panels on SEA LITERATURE, HISTORY & CULTURE
Announcement published by Stephen Curley on Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 22, 2016 to March 25, 2016
Location: Washington, United States
For the joint national conference (22-25 March 2016 in Seattle, WA) of the Popular Culture & American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA), we invite proposals of individual papers or special panels.
Presentations related to fresh-water or sea-water may include topics like
Literature, comics, art, music, television & movies
History, politics, war & peace
Culture, anthropology & ecology
Folklore, mythology, legends & hoaxes
Ships, boats, etc.
Aquatic life
Recreation, travel, tourism & festivals
DEADLINE: 1 Oct. 2015 to submit your 100-250 word proposal or abstract online to http://ncp.pcaaca.org
Contact Info:
Stephen Curley, Area Chair
Sea Literature, History & Culture
Dept. of General Academics
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Galveston, TX 77553-1675
(409) 740-4501
Contact Email:
curleys@tamug.edu
URL:
http://pcaaca.org
Call for Proposals, Session, and Panels on SEA LITERATURE, HISTORY & CULTURE
Announcement published by Stephen Curley on Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: March 22, 2016 to March 25, 2016
Location: Washington, United States
For the joint national conference (22-25 March 2016 in Seattle, WA) of the Popular Culture & American Culture Associations (PCA/ACA), we invite proposals of individual papers or special panels.
Presentations related to fresh-water or sea-water may include topics like
Literature, comics, art, music, television & movies
History, politics, war & peace
Culture, anthropology & ecology
Folklore, mythology, legends & hoaxes
Ships, boats, etc.
Aquatic life
Recreation, travel, tourism & festivals
DEADLINE: 1 Oct. 2015 to submit your 100-250 word proposal or abstract online to http://ncp.pcaaca.org
Contact Info:
Stephen Curley, Area Chair
Sea Literature, History & Culture
Dept. of General Academics
Texas A&M University at Galveston
Galveston, TX 77553-1675
(409) 740-4501
Contact Email:
curleys@tamug.edu
URL:
http://pcaaca.org
CFP Essay on Steven Spielberg's Hook (proposal s by 9/6/2015)
CFP: Steven Spielberg's Hook
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/79022/cfp-steven-spielbergs-hook
Announcement published by debbie olson on Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 6, 2015
Collection title: Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
Editors: Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson
Children are an almost essential feature of the landscape in the films of Steven Spielberg: from the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), to the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun (1987), the lost mecha child David in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), and the eponymous boy hero of The Adventures of Tintin (2011). There are many other instances across Spielberg’s oeuvre. And contrary to his reputation as a purveyor of innocuous ‘popcorn’ entertainment, Spielberg’s vision of children/childhood is not all sweetness and light. Indeed, more discerning critics have noted the darker underpinnings of this vision, often fraught with tensions, conflicts and anxieties. While childhood is Spielberg’s principal source of inspiration, his ‘subject matter,’ this has never been the focus of a collection. We therefore seek an original article addressing both the ‘light’ and ‘dark’ aspects of childhood, or the interplay between childhood/adulthood in Spielberg's Hook. Our collection currently contains an impressive range of articles, but we feel an article on Hook would be an important addition to our collection.
We seek full essays or near complete essays that can be ready for submission to the publisher by end of September 2015. Deadline for submission is September 6th, 2015. Send essay as a word doc to Adrian Schober, beatles9@optusnet.com.au or Debbie Olson, dolson@uta.edu
This collection to be published by Lexington Books in the "Children and Youth in Popular Culture" series.
Contact Info:
Adrian Schober, Monash University; Debbie Olson, University of Texas at Arlington
Contact Email:
beatles9@optusnet.com.au
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/79022/cfp-steven-spielbergs-hook
Announcement published by debbie olson on Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Type: Call for Papers
Date: September 6, 2015
Collection title: Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg
Editors: Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson
Children are an almost essential feature of the landscape in the films of Steven Spielberg: from the alien-abducted Barry in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Elliott and his unearthly alter-ego in E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), to the war-damaged Jim in Empire of the Sun (1987), the lost mecha child David in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), and the eponymous boy hero of The Adventures of Tintin (2011). There are many other instances across Spielberg’s oeuvre. And contrary to his reputation as a purveyor of innocuous ‘popcorn’ entertainment, Spielberg’s vision of children/childhood is not all sweetness and light. Indeed, more discerning critics have noted the darker underpinnings of this vision, often fraught with tensions, conflicts and anxieties. While childhood is Spielberg’s principal source of inspiration, his ‘subject matter,’ this has never been the focus of a collection. We therefore seek an original article addressing both the ‘light’ and ‘dark’ aspects of childhood, or the interplay between childhood/adulthood in Spielberg's Hook. Our collection currently contains an impressive range of articles, but we feel an article on Hook would be an important addition to our collection.
We seek full essays or near complete essays that can be ready for submission to the publisher by end of September 2015. Deadline for submission is September 6th, 2015. Send essay as a word doc to Adrian Schober, beatles9@optusnet.com.au or Debbie Olson, dolson@uta.edu
This collection to be published by Lexington Books in the "Children and Youth in Popular Culture" series.
Contact Info:
Adrian Schober, Monash University; Debbie Olson, University of Texas at Arlington
Contact Email:
beatles9@optusnet.com.au
CFP Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic (Spec Issue of Fastitocalon) (proposals by 10/31/2015)
Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78764/fantastic-animals-animals-fantastic
Announcement published by Thomas Honegger on Friday, August 14, 2015
Type: Call for Publications
Date: October 31, 2015
Location: Germany
Subject Fields: Anthropology, Cultural History / Studies, Literature
Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic
Animals have played an important role in literature long before the ‘animal turn’. The functions of the animal protagonists are most often a reflection of the animal-human relationship found in our everyday world. J.R.R. Tolkien once said that the desire “to hold communion with other living things” [which explicitly includes animals] (OFS) makes humans transgress the boundaries of the primary world. The realm of the fantastic, insofar as it partakes in the ‘real’, contains likewise animals that often belong to the ‘primary world’ and to the realm of Faëry – as in Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter where we have unicorns crossing at dawn from Faëry into our world – and foxes from our world into Faëry, where they are considered ‘otherworldly’ animals.
Fastitocalon invites contributions that investigate the role of animals (real or imaginary) in texts of the fantastic. Possible topics to be covered are the function of animals, the discussion of the anthropological point of view as well as more specifically literary and cultural studies approaches. Thus contributions could discuss the question whether animals function as exemplary representatives of a fantastic world or whether they remain rooted in the primary world and are merely adapted to their new literary environment. The anthropological approach would explore animal characteristics and features that go beyond the limits of the human nature and look at the motivation for transgressing the human-animal divide (e.g. in form of transformations and metamorphoses). This interplay between human culture in general and the use of animals in specific (con-)texts, such as myths and fables would be one possible approach within a cultural-literary framework.
Contributions may focus on individual works, discuss specific developments and transformations, or explore theoretical aspects connected with the topic. Even though the language of the publication is English, we encourage the inclusion and discussion of works in other languages.
Abstracts ca. (300 words) accompanied by a brief biographical note (100-150 words) should be sent in to the editors electronically by 31 October 2015 to:
Tm.honegger@uni-jena.de
Essays accepted for inclusion in the volume must range between 6000 and 8000 words and will be due on March 31, 2016. Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts and/or full papers submitted will be reviewed by the editors and members of the advisory board.
The volume-editors: Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger & Frank Weinreich
Contact Info:
The volume-editors: Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger & Frank Weinreich
Contact Email:
Tm.honegger@uni-jena.de
URL:
http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/78764/fantastic-animals-animals-fantastic
Announcement published by Thomas Honegger on Friday, August 14, 2015
Type: Call for Publications
Date: October 31, 2015
Location: Germany
Subject Fields: Anthropology, Cultural History / Studies, Literature
Fantastic Animals, Animals in the Fantastic
Animals have played an important role in literature long before the ‘animal turn’. The functions of the animal protagonists are most often a reflection of the animal-human relationship found in our everyday world. J.R.R. Tolkien once said that the desire “to hold communion with other living things” [which explicitly includes animals] (OFS) makes humans transgress the boundaries of the primary world. The realm of the fantastic, insofar as it partakes in the ‘real’, contains likewise animals that often belong to the ‘primary world’ and to the realm of Faëry – as in Lord Dunsany’s The King of Elfland’s Daughter where we have unicorns crossing at dawn from Faëry into our world – and foxes from our world into Faëry, where they are considered ‘otherworldly’ animals.
Fastitocalon invites contributions that investigate the role of animals (real or imaginary) in texts of the fantastic. Possible topics to be covered are the function of animals, the discussion of the anthropological point of view as well as more specifically literary and cultural studies approaches. Thus contributions could discuss the question whether animals function as exemplary representatives of a fantastic world or whether they remain rooted in the primary world and are merely adapted to their new literary environment. The anthropological approach would explore animal characteristics and features that go beyond the limits of the human nature and look at the motivation for transgressing the human-animal divide (e.g. in form of transformations and metamorphoses). This interplay between human culture in general and the use of animals in specific (con-)texts, such as myths and fables would be one possible approach within a cultural-literary framework.
Contributions may focus on individual works, discuss specific developments and transformations, or explore theoretical aspects connected with the topic. Even though the language of the publication is English, we encourage the inclusion and discussion of works in other languages.
Abstracts ca. (300 words) accompanied by a brief biographical note (100-150 words) should be sent in to the editors electronically by 31 October 2015 to:
Tm.honegger@uni-jena.de
Essays accepted for inclusion in the volume must range between 6000 and 8000 words and will be due on March 31, 2016. Fastitocalon: Studies in Fantasticism Ancient to Modern is a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts and/or full papers submitted will be reviewed by the editors and members of the advisory board.
The volume-editors: Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger & Frank Weinreich
Contact Info:
The volume-editors: Oliver Bidlo, Thomas Honegger & Frank Weinreich
Contact Email:
Tm.honegger@uni-jena.de
URL:
http://fastitocalon.kolbitar.de
CFP Rethinking Marilyn Monroe (8/31/2015; Western Association of Women Historians 5/12-14/2016)
Of potential interest:
CFP Rethinking Marilyn Monroe
https://networks.h-net.org/node/14467/discussions/78893/cfp-rethinking-marilyn-monroe
Discussion published by Carrie Pitzulo on Sunday, August 16, 2015
Call for Panelists: Western Association of Women Historians
Denver, CO, May 12-14, 2016
Panel: “Rethinking Marilyn Monroe”
This panel will reexamine Marilyn Monroe as a major historical and pop cultural figure. Papers should explore Monroe from new perspectives, challenging common assumptions and making us question what we think we know about this emblem of mid-century womanhood and sexuality. Topics might include resituating Monroe’s films in historical context; reconsidering her status as a postwar icon; exploring her challenges to the Hollywood system; reassessing the meaning of her image in American culture over the decades; others.
Please submit a 200-250 word proposal and an updated c.v. to cpitzulo@westga.edu by August 31, 2015.
-Carrie Pitzulo, Ph.D.
University System of Georgia
CFP Rethinking Marilyn Monroe
https://networks.h-net.org/node/14467/discussions/78893/cfp-rethinking-marilyn-monroe
Discussion published by Carrie Pitzulo on Sunday, August 16, 2015
Call for Panelists: Western Association of Women Historians
Denver, CO, May 12-14, 2016
Panel: “Rethinking Marilyn Monroe”
This panel will reexamine Marilyn Monroe as a major historical and pop cultural figure. Papers should explore Monroe from new perspectives, challenging common assumptions and making us question what we think we know about this emblem of mid-century womanhood and sexuality. Topics might include resituating Monroe’s films in historical context; reconsidering her status as a postwar icon; exploring her challenges to the Hollywood system; reassessing the meaning of her image in American culture over the decades; others.
Please submit a 200-250 word proposal and an updated c.v. to cpitzulo@westga.edu by August 31, 2015.
-Carrie Pitzulo, Ph.D.
University System of Georgia
CFP Impact of War on Science Fiction or Fantasy Literature (9/25/2015; NeMLA 3/17-20/2016)
Also posted initially on SFRA-L:
CFP
Panel: The Impact of War on Science Fiction or Fantasy Literature
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 17-20, 2016
Hartford, CT
Paper Proposal/ Abstract deadline: September 25, 2015
Various wars have had a profound impact on many utopian, dystopian and apocalyptic science fiction and fantasy writers. For example, the repercussions of the Civil War were one of the factors of late nineteenth century society in America reflected in the "non-combative" revolution of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward: 2000-1887. In addition, war or the aftermath of war figures strongly in various novels and stories of Philip Dick, Marge Piercy, and Ursula Le Guin, among others. It seems that world events, many tumultuous, are reflected in some of their dystopian tales. Discussing the effect of war and the possibility of annihilation on literature, including early writers such as Lord [George Gordon] Byron who wrote the poem "Darkness" reflecting the end of the world after total annihilating warfare implies the need to perhaps use writing as a catharsis. The focus of this panel is to indicate the effect of war on literature at various periods in history.
Please e-mail your 200-250 word paper proposal/ abstract, subject line: War-SciFi Panel before 9/25/15. Please send your proposal as an attached MS Word, doc or docx. In the body of your message, please include your proposal title, your name, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail address and send to: Annette Magid <a_magid@yahoo.com>.
Proposers need not be members of NeMLA to submit, but panelists must be members in order to present.
CFP Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions Conference (4/15/2016; UK 7/8-10/2016)
A cool idea for a conference. Heads-up courtesy the SFRA-L:
Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions
8-10 July 2016
H. G. Wells Conference Centre, Woking, UK
Organised by the H. G. Wells Society
H. G. Wells was a novelist, social commentator and utopianist, and is regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction. His early scientific romances featured time travel, mad scientists, alien invasion, space travel, invisibility, utopia, future war and histories of the future: his mappings of the shape of things to come was an overture to over a century of science fiction.
We wish to mark the 150th and 70th anniversaries of Wells’s birth and death respectively by exploring his science fiction, his precursors and successors and his lasting influence upon the genre in print, on film, on television, on radio, online and elsewhere. This is especially appropriate because the event will be held at the H. G. Wells Conference centre in Woking, the town where Wells wrote The War of the Worlds. Many of his ideas on politics, science, sociology and the direction in which he feared humanity was going were contained in his early science fiction and ran through his later influential work.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
specific individual or groups of novels/stories;
the connections between Wells’s fiction and nonfiction, including his political, utopian and scientific writings;
utopia/dystopia;
histories of the future;
precursors to Wells’s sf;
sf writers influenced by Wells;
sequels by other hands;
adaptations into other media.
Please send a brief biography and an abstract of 400 words for a twenty minute paper by 15 April 2016 to anticipations2016@gmail.com.
Further details will be available from anticipations2016.wordpress.com.
Anticipations: H. G. Wells, Science Fiction and Radical Visions
8-10 July 2016
H. G. Wells Conference Centre, Woking, UK
Organised by the H. G. Wells Society
H. G. Wells was a novelist, social commentator and utopianist, and is regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction. His early scientific romances featured time travel, mad scientists, alien invasion, space travel, invisibility, utopia, future war and histories of the future: his mappings of the shape of things to come was an overture to over a century of science fiction.
We wish to mark the 150th and 70th anniversaries of Wells’s birth and death respectively by exploring his science fiction, his precursors and successors and his lasting influence upon the genre in print, on film, on television, on radio, online and elsewhere. This is especially appropriate because the event will be held at the H. G. Wells Conference centre in Woking, the town where Wells wrote The War of the Worlds. Many of his ideas on politics, science, sociology and the direction in which he feared humanity was going were contained in his early science fiction and ran through his later influential work.
Topics might include, but are not limited to:
specific individual or groups of novels/stories;
the connections between Wells’s fiction and nonfiction, including his political, utopian and scientific writings;
utopia/dystopia;
histories of the future;
precursors to Wells’s sf;
sf writers influenced by Wells;
sequels by other hands;
adaptations into other media.
Please send a brief biography and an abstract of 400 words for a twenty minute paper by 15 April 2016 to anticipations2016@gmail.com.
Further details will be available from anticipations2016.wordpress.com.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
CFP Society of American Culture Studies Conference (9/1/2015; Moscow 12/4-11/2015)
Heads up from the SFRA website:
Society of American Culture Studies
DATE: December 4-11, 2015
LOCATION: Lomonosov Moscow State University
http://www.sfra.org/node/78
Dear Colleagues,
The XLIst International conference of the Russian Society of American Culture Studies will be held December 4-11, 2015 at Lomonosov Moscow State University Journalism Department. Its theme – “Imagining and Building Peace in American Culture”.
Sections: Journalism, American Culture of the 17-19th Centuries, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Drama, Ethnic Contribution, Gender, Fantastic in the Arts, Canadian perspectives. Besides a traditional Round Table discussion: Imprints – Image of America and Image of Russia will be held and two more – Arthur Miller’s Centennial (coordinator Dr. Maya Koreneva) and Herman Melville’s Literary Legacy (coordinator Dr. Luisa Bashmakova 888lpb@gmail.com).
Suggestions for additional sections and panel discussions are welcome with 300 words description and at least two other panelists’ names suggested until September 1st, 2015.
Official languages of the conference are English and Russian. All participants will understand papers given in English and will provide an English resume of their talk, if given in Russian.
Deadline for abstracts - September 10, 2015 (half a page). Please send them to all to larmih@gmail.com
On the basis of delivered and discussed papers an annual bilingual collection is published.
Conference fee $ 100 US, payable upon arrival, includes also an excursion to Kremlin and a farewell party.
Information about visa support: As it is a lengthy process – please send the needed materials [copy of two first pages of passport and info on place of birth (city and country), affiliation and position, office address, phone and fax numbers, place of visa application, dates of arrival and departure] to the address larmih@gmail.com no later than September 10, 2015.
See you at our conference!
Larisa Mikhaylova
Society of American Culture Studies
DATE: December 4-11, 2015
LOCATION: Lomonosov Moscow State University
http://www.sfra.org/node/78
Dear Colleagues,
The XLIst International conference of the Russian Society of American Culture Studies will be held December 4-11, 2015 at Lomonosov Moscow State University Journalism Department. Its theme – “Imagining and Building Peace in American Culture”.
Sections: Journalism, American Culture of the 17-19th Centuries, Contemporary Literature and Culture, Drama, Ethnic Contribution, Gender, Fantastic in the Arts, Canadian perspectives. Besides a traditional Round Table discussion: Imprints – Image of America and Image of Russia will be held and two more – Arthur Miller’s Centennial (coordinator Dr. Maya Koreneva) and Herman Melville’s Literary Legacy (coordinator Dr. Luisa Bashmakova 888lpb@gmail.com).
Suggestions for additional sections and panel discussions are welcome with 300 words description and at least two other panelists’ names suggested until September 1st, 2015.
Official languages of the conference are English and Russian. All participants will understand papers given in English and will provide an English resume of their talk, if given in Russian.
Deadline for abstracts - September 10, 2015 (half a page). Please send them to all to larmih@gmail.com
On the basis of delivered and discussed papers an annual bilingual collection is published.
Conference fee $ 100 US, payable upon arrival, includes also an excursion to Kremlin and a farewell party.
Information about visa support: As it is a lengthy process – please send the needed materials [copy of two first pages of passport and info on place of birth (city and country), affiliation and position, office address, phone and fax numbers, place of visa application, dates of arrival and departure] to the address larmih@gmail.com no later than September 10, 2015.
See you at our conference!
Larisa Mikhaylova
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