Contemporary popular culture texts increasingly showcase representations of girls and young women in a myriad of ways. There are common tropes that we as audiences have come to expect in stories of girlhood, which usually concern navigating friendships, self-discovery, familial drama, teenage
Calls for Submissions
The Department of English, Philosophy, and World Languages at Arkansas State University opens a call for papers and presentations for the twenty-seventh annual Delta Symposium April 13-16, 2022. The Delta Symposium features a wide variety of scholarship and creative work that focuses
The Mythology in Contemporary Culture area is dedicated to exploring mythological stories, figures and themes from all cultures and historical periods in all areas of popular culture. The frequent appearance of mythological motifs in popular culture speaks to the notion that mythologies,
The 9th dgv Conference of the Section “Digitisation in Everyday Life”, taking place at the Institute of Anthropological Studies in Culture and History at the University of Hamburg on 15-16 September 2022 (tbc), is now open for submissions. The conference theme is
Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Camden is collaborating with The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) in hosting a four day conference “ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER: Black Germany and Beyond”on February 17-20, 2022. The conference will be the culmination of our year
Members of the Special Topic on Happiness and Culture of the Popular Culture Association seek paper proposals for the 2022 PCA conference in Seattle. The papers may focus on any aspect of the relationship between happiness (tentatively understood as subjective well-being) and
Editors Michelle May-Curry and Daniel Fisher-Livne are calling for contributors to a new edited volume on theories and practices of the publicly engaged humanities to be published in 2023 by Routledge. Proposal materials are due by December 1, 2021. Authors will be
The AFS Archives & Libraries Section Prize Committee has announced the 2021 Polly Grimshaw Prize. Offered in honor of the late Polly Grimshaw, curator of the folklore collection at Indiana University Libraries, the prize consists of a stipend of up to $750.
The Goethe Society of India is calling for submissions for its virtual conference titled, "Rethinking Society for a Post-Pandemic World," which will take place from November 30 – December 2, 2021. Abstracts are due by October 30, 2021.
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) is calling for papers for a special issue of its journal Water, "Sustainable Water Futures: Climate, Community and Circular Economy." The deadline for manuscript submissions is March 30, 2022.