Calls for Submissions

The International Society for Folk Narrative Research (ISFNR) Committee on Charms, Charmers and Charming invites submissions for its 2022 conference from September 6-9, 2022 in Riga, Latvia. Submissions are due by February 25, 2022.

You are invited to submit an abstract for an upcoming edited collection, Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture. The edited collection volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the

KU Leuven in Belgium is issuing a call for papers on the topic of contested heritage in Eastern Europe for an upcoming workshop. Abstracts are due by February 14, 2022.

Guest editors Dawn Keetley, Professor of English and Film, Lehigh University, and Jeffrey A. Tolbert, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Folklore, Pennsylvania State University – Harrisburg, invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Horror Studies on the topic of folk horror. Essays of 6-7,000 words are due by October 3, 2022.

The editors of the online peer-reviewed journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century invite proposals for a collection of essays on the ways in which contemporary art and heritage practices have been engaging with forms of nineteenth-century immersive spectacle. Proposals are due by March 1, 2022.

The Centre for the History of Childhood at Oxford University is inviting proposals for a one-day colloquium on July 1, 2022. Submissions are due by February 28, 2022.

Queen’s University Belfast’s American Studies Association (ASA) is seeking submissions for “Theirstory”: An Online Conference on American LGBTQIA+ Scholarship and Activism, on Monday February 28, 2022. Submissions are due by February 7, 2022 at 5pm. The month of February has long been