Call For Papers – Little Horrors: Representations of the Monstrous Child
Gone is the Victorian innocence of childhood. We have entered the age of the monstrous child, the little horror. Each historical period can be seen to have prioritised a different facet of the child, the Victorian era idolised the innocence of the pre-pubescent child, the twentieth century the disaffected teenager, whilst the early twenty-first seems […]
CFP – Larger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office
CALL FOR PAPERS Larger Than Life: Superheroes at the Box Office An area of multiple panels for the 2013 Film & History Conference on Making Movie$: The Figure of Money On and Off the Screen November 20-24, 2013 Madison Concourse Hotel (Madison, WI) www.filmandhistory.org/The2013FilmHistoryConference.php DEADLINE for abstracts: July 1, 2013 AREA: “Larger Than Life: Superheroes […]
Call for Proposals: Comics & Popular Arts Conference at Dragon*Con
Comics & Popular Arts Conference The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media, comic books, manga, graphic novels, anime, gaming, etc. CPAC presentations are peer reviewed. 6th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, […]
Call for Papers: Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference
Current Research in Speculative Fiction (CRSF) Conference Monday 17th June 2013 at the University of Liverpool Keynote Lectures from: Pat Cadigan (Double Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Author) and Dr. Peter Wright (Edge Hill University) Now in its third year, CRSF is a one day postgraduate conference designed to promote the research of speculative fictions, including […]
Science Fiction and the Bible Workshop
From the European Association of Biblical Studies, an announcement and call for papers on science fiction and the Bible. Thanks to James McGrath of Exploring Our Matrix for making me aware of this. This workshop invites papers which engage with the possibilities of discussing the Bible informed by Science Fiction (SF). Proposals for papers are […]
CFP – Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: Fantastika and the Classical World
Call for Papers – Swords, Sorcery, Sandals and Space: Fantastika and the Classical World A Science Fiction Foundation Conference 29 June – 1 July 2013 The Foresight Centre, University of Liverpool The culture of the Classical world continues to shape that of the modern West. Those studying the FanÂtastika (science fiction, fantasy and horror) know […]
Call for Papers: Mystery Science Theater and the Culture of Riffing
Call for Papers: Mystery Science Theater and the Culture of Riffing and the mash-up in popular culture Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association http://conference2013.swtxpca.org The Area chair seeks papers/presentations on Mystery Science Theater and the culture of riffing and Mash-up. Due on November 16, 2012. In the fall of 1988 on a small public […]
Call for Papers: Northeast Modern Language Association
Calls for papers: Comic books and graphic novels 44th Annual Convention Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) March 21 to 24, 2013 Boston, Massachusetts Hosted by Tufts University “Panels and Pedagogy: Teaching the Graphic Novel” This panel works towards understanding and adding to emerging pedagogies of the graphic novel and other forms of illustrated works. What […]
Call for Papers and Presentations: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture
Call for Papers and Presentations: Graphic Novels, Comics and Popular Culture 2013 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association http://www.swtxpca.org Please make plans to attend our 34th Annual Conference February 13-16, 2013, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico Hyatt Regency Albuquerque The area chair seeks papers/presentations on Graphic Novels […]
Call for Papers – The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture
Call for Proposals: The Age of Lovecraft: Cosmic Horror, Posthumanism, and Popular Culture Editors: Carl Sederholm (csederholm@byu.edu) and Jeffrey Weinstock (Jeffrey.Weinstock@cmich.edu) 250 word proposals are sought for chapter contributions to an edited scholarly collection on H. P. Lovecraft and his place in 21st century literature, film, media, and popular culture. This collection will consider the […]
