This conference at the University of Zurich, November 3-4, 2022, will investigate how disasters and the expectancy of disasters have changed and are still changing the orders of knowledge, how they are dealt with aesthetically, narrated in literature and how they are fuelled, perpetuated, or overcome by narration.
Calls for Submissions
The conference will explore the implications of AI for human society from the broadest range of perspectives. Proposals for this virtual conference June 6-10, 2022, are due February 25.
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.
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.