This 3-day conference at The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, comes out of the ERC-funded Rural Imaginations project, which looks at how the rural is imagined in contemporary film, television and literature in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, China and South Africa.
Calls for Submissions
The African and Diasporic Religious Studies Association (ADRSA) is proud to present its tenth conference on the theme “I Put A Spell On You”: Magic, Mystery & Mystique in Africana Religions as a virtual event.
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.
Cornell University’s 2021-2022 Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Fellows will host the fifth annual Reppy Institute graduate student conference, to be held on Saturday, April 23, 2022. Submissions are due by February 20, 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.
Jared L. Schmidt is the new editor of the AFS New Directions in Folklore Section’s online, peer-reviewed journal, New Directions in Folklore. The section and the journal are dedicated to pushing the envelope of scholarship in the exploration of contemporary culture.