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Extended Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Wes Craven

January 12th, 2022 | Posted in call for papers

Call for Proposals Title:                          Theology and Wes Craven   Editor:                        David K. Goodin, McGill University Wesley Earl Craven (1939-2015), popularly known as simply Wes Craven, redefined the horror genre with such landmark and notorious films as The Hills Have Eyes (1977), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The People Under the Stairs (1991), and Scream (1996).  And those are just a […]

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Call for submissions – Religion and Horror Comics

September 12th, 2020 | Posted in call for papers, comics

While many genres offer the potential for theological reflection and exploration of religious issues, the nature of horror provides unique ways to wrestle with these questions. Since the EC Comics of the 1950s, horror comics have performed theological work in ways that are sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle, but frequently surprising and provocative. This volume will […]

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Call for Papers: Jewish Zombies

November 20th, 2019 | Posted in call for papers, Judaism, zombie

Jewish Zombies Call for Papers Workshop at the Jewish Studies Program, Penn State University October 27-28, 2020 The Jewish Studies Program at Penn State University presents an interdisciplinary academic workshop to examine zombies in the context of Jewish history and culture. Throughout history, Jews have often been depicted as monstrous figures, such as demons and […]

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Announcing a new journal and call for papers: The Journal of Gods and Monsters

August 30th, 2019 | Posted in call for papers, gods, Journal of Gods and Monsters, monsters

The Journal of Gods and Monsters Special Issue: The Monstrosity of Displacement  We are pleased to announce the creation of a new double blind, peer-reviewed, open access journal exploring the relationships between religion, monsters, and the monstrous: The Journal of Gods and Monsters. Headed by editors Natasha Mikles, John Morehead, Michael E. Heyes, and Brandon […]

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Monsters: An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Project

January 22nd, 2019 | Posted in call for papers, conference, monsters

Monsters An Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference Saturday 31st August 2019 – Sunday 1st September 2019 Lisbon, Portugal This inclusive interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate and explore the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human culture throughout history. In particular, the project will have a dual focus with the intention of examining specific […]

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Call for Abstracts: Theology and Westworld

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in artificial intelligence, call for papers, robotics, science fiction, theology

Edited by Juli Gittinger and Shayna Sheinfeld The television series Westworld has garnered significant interest from academics as well as from wide audiences. While many of its themes and plot motifs represent longstanding focuses in science fiction, the treatment of them has stood out as especially creative in a number of ways. While the creation […]

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Call for Abstracts: Theology and Horror

November 6th, 2018 | Posted in call for papers, horror, theological reflection, theology

Explorations of the relationship between religion and horror are fairly well established. However, this is not the case for theology and horror. Many times explorations of theology and horror involve simplistic readings in which theological concepts or doctrines are spotted within horror narratives and noted as points of connection. While this approach has its place, […]

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Call for Papers – “Of Gods and Monsters” at Texas State University

August 30th, 2018 | Posted in call for papers, monster theory, monsters

Of God and Monsters April 4th – 6th 2019 Texas State University San Marcos, TX Judith Halberstam famously claimed that monsters are “meaning machines” that can be used to represent a variety of ideas, including morality, gender, race, and nationalism (to name only a few). Monsters are always part of the project of making sense […]

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Call for Papers – Supernatural Cities: Narrated Geographies and Spectral Histories

August 21st, 2017 | Posted in call for papers, supernatural

The Open Graves, Open Minds Project unearthed depictions of the vampire and the undead in literature, art, and other media, before embracing shapeshifting creatures (most recently, the werewolf) and other supernatural beings and their worlds. It opens up questions concerning genre, gender, hybridity, cultural change, and other realms. It extends to all narratives of the […]

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Call for Papers – AI and Apocalypse

June 2nd, 2017 | Posted in apocalypticism, artificial intelligence, call for papers, post-apocalypticism

Call for Papers AI and Apocalypse Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM) April 5 – 6, 2018. Inside the Big Top at the Panacea Charitable Trust gardens, Bedford, United Kingdom CenSAMM Symposia Series 2018 / www.censamm.org Abstracts are due by December 31, 2017. We invite papers from those working across […]

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