Category Archives: call for papers

Transcultural Undeadness: Histories and Incarnations of Multiethnic Hauntings and Horror

May 31st, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, horror, undead

TRANSCULTURAL UNDEADNESS: HISTORIES AND INCARNATIONS OF MULTIETHNIC HAUNTINGS AND HORROR The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Unites States (MELUS) contact email: eandersd@gmu.edu, bussecj@mcmaster.ca MELUS 2013 March 14-17, 2013 Downtown Pittsburgh Deadline: October 20, 2012 Panel co-organizers: Eric Gary Anderson and Cassel Busse. One point of departure for this session is […]

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Call for Abstracts: A “Supernatural” History of Central Europe, 1870-Present

April 26th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, folklore, monsters, paranormal, Witchcraft

Call for Abstracts: “A ‘Supernatural’ History of Central Europe, 1870-present” Editors: Eric Kurlander (Stetson U.) and Monica Black (U. of Tenn., Knoxville) Deadline: August 1, 2012 Despite the ostensible “disenchantment of the world” proclaimed by Max Weber at the beginning of the twentieth century, Central Europe has a rich modern history of occultism, folklore, paganism, […]

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Call for Papers: Fairy Tales

April 6th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, fairy tales

The list for the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association recently shared a call for papers on fairy tales: The new millennium has born witness to a multitude of reinventions. Various mythological creatures have been reinvented, vampires, werewolves, and zombies to name but a few. Fairy tales also have been recreated in an ever […]

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Call for Papers: The Walking Dead and the Problem of Meaning in the New Millennium of the Dead

March 31st, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, The Walking Dead, zombie

Dawn Keetley of Lehigh University has issued a call for papers through Popular Culture and American Culture Associations. It is for an anthology volume titled “Dead Inside: The Walking Dead and the Problem of Meaning in the New Millennium of the Dead.” Keetley is seeking essays for a scholarly collection that will explore the complexities […]

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Incognitum Hactenus – Open Call for Submission – Living On: Zombies

March 12th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, zombie

OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSION Living On: Zombies Incognitum Hactenus is re-thinking the zombie. The release of George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968 solidified our cultural awareness of what a zombie was and marked the beginning of the zombie film as a staple of Hollywood storytelling. Now a (regenerative) genre unto itself, […]

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Call for Papers: 5th Annual Comics & Popular Arts Conference at Dragon*Con

March 2nd, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, comics, Dragon*Con

Call for Participation / Call for Abstracts Institute for Comics Studies Comic Book Convention Conference Series 5th ANNUAL COMICS & POPULAR ARTS CONFERENCE at DRAGON*CON Atlanta, Georgia August 31-September 3, 2012 The Institute for Comic Studies and Dragon*Con present the fifth annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts. The conference […]

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Call for Papers – “Science-Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space”

March 2nd, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, science fiction

CALL FOR PAPERS “Science-Fiction Myths: Travels through Time and Space” An area of multiple panels for the Film & History Conference on “Film and Myth” September 26-30, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA www.filmandhistory.org Deadline: June 1, 2012 Films that depict travel through time and space captivate us with tales of the past, the future, the distant, […]

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Call for Papers: Science Fiction Across Media: Alternative Histories, Alien Futures

February 22nd, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, science fiction

Science Fiction Across Media: Alternative Histories, Alien Futures Umeå University, Sweden April 23-24, 2012 Science fiction is becoming a mainstream and increasingly popular genre in fiction and film, as demonstrated by recent novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Michel Houellebecq, Junot Diaz and William Gibson as well as the global success of James Cameron’s Avatar. Yet science […]

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Nova Religio Call for Papers: Paranormal, Religion, and Culture

February 20th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, paranormal

Joseph Laycock has recently been given the privilege of guest editing a special issue of Nova Religio on the paranormal. In the last few years, several good books have appeared that consider so-called “paranormal” beliefs, discourses, and experiences as an object of inquiry for religion scholars. Like the category “religion,” the category “paranormal” is poorly […]

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Call for Papers – Religion and Dr. Who: Time, Space, and Faith

January 18th, 2012 | Posted in call for papers, Dr. Who, science fiction

Doctor Who is a cultural phenomenon in both the UK and the United States, continuing to go from strength-to-strength as it approaches its 50th anniversary in 2013. Over the show’s long history on television—and in various spin-off TV shows, audio adventures, novels and comic books—religion and religious themes have consistently been a subject of interest. […]

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