#Call for Papers

[leonardcohenofficial]

i feel like this particular call for papers might appeal to some folks on here!

For the 2025 Symposium on Music of the Sea, we are seeking proposals for papers in Music, Ethnomusicology, History, Literature, Folklore, or other appropriate disciplines that address any aspect of music or verse of the sea, rivers, or inland waters from the Age of Sail until the present. 

Topics may include: shipboard work songs, songs of maritime or other occupational trades, songs of rivers and lakes, seafaring cultures and cultural change, ethnicity and ethnic influences, ballad and broadside traditions, the use of sea music in literature and in popular culture, including the Internet, and the work of collectors and performers of sea music. We are particularly interested in the maritime musical cultures of the Connecticut River Valley and the Town of Essex (formerly Pettipaug).

The one-day Symposium on Music of the Sea is part of a three-day festival celebrating the lives and work of sailors through concerts and demonstrations in the Town of Essex, CT. The Symposium will be held in the Town Hall’s Auditorium, 29 West Ave, Essex, CT 06426 on FRIDAY JUNE 6, 2025.

Graduate students, practitioners, and independent scholars are encouraged to submit proposals which will be reviewed by a committee of scholars and experts in the field of sea music. Presentations with audiovisual components are welcome.

We plan to hold the Symposium in person; we will also review proposals that would be recorded in advance with presenters participating remotely. The Symposium will be recorded. Each presenter will have 45 minutes: papers should be 30-35 minutes long to allow time for questions.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE is February 1, 2025

Proposals should be 1-2 pages and should include a thesis, an explanation, and a list of sources, plus a short (under 100 words) bio of the presenter(s).

[animefeminist]

Come write for us!

[transformativeworksandcultures]

CFP: Disability

 Special Issue CFP for TWC: Disability

Robert McRuer writes in Crip Theory that at some point in every person’s life, if they live long enough, they will be disabled. Yet, while disablement is an extremely common experience and ableism a hegemonic form of marginalization, disability is largely understudied across fields (Minich 2016, Ellcessor 2018). Fan studies has neglected to consistently explore disability or acknowledge the presence of ableism, resulting in a dearth of peer-reviewed publications on this intersection and a silencing of crip critique from disabled fans and scholars.

Disability studies formed in critique of the medical model of disability, which views disability as a problem to be solved. Most of the field’s critical work historically centers the social model, which frames disability not as a medical condition but as a social process discursively situated in histories of power (Siebers 2008). Contemporary disability scholarship more frequently works from Kafer’s (2013) political-relational model of disability, which clarifies that disability and impairment are both socially constructed, while also making explicit room for material realities of disablement, such as chronic pain and fatigue, and the inextricable mental-physical experiences of the bodymind, such as aging and neurodivergence (Price 2015). Approaching disability across the humanities has produced diverse modes of analyzing disability as identity (Shakespeare 1997), community (Clare 2017), and mediated representation (Garland-Thomson 1997), leading to crip theories exploring disability intersectionality to critique the ideology of ability (Samuels 2003, McRuer 2006). Disability studies especially draws from queer theory, building on the concept of compulsory heterosexuality—the hegemonic framework which renders heterosexuality the only thinkable option—to propose compulsory able-bodiedness, the requirement that disabled bodies perform as able and desire ability, highlighting homophobia and ableism as intersecting oppressions (McRuer 2006, Clare 2017). Further intersectional crip critique comes from Puar (2017) and other postcolonial and antiracist scholars (Schalk 2018), who describe how the violence of ableism is inequitably applied across multiply marginalized populations, illustrating how disability is not only missing from many intersectional theories of identity, but intersectionality has been lacking in disability theories.

We, as the editors of this issue, understand disability within the framework of the intersectional political-relational model, and believe that fan studies is well situated to contribute to discussions of disability. For example, Sterne and Mills (2017) propose “dismediation” as one mode of aligning media and disability studies’ often divergent goals through recognizing disability and media as co-constitutive—media concepts are awash with metaphors of disablement, and disabilities are so often figured against the cultural narratives and technological specifications of media. Further, fan studies’ continued claims to fandom’s transformative capacity and attention to “bodies in space” (Coppa 2014) desperately require the incorporation of disability critique. Fan studies has not entirely neglected disability as a marginalized identity, as fan scholars have begun to explore the accessibility of online fandom (Ellcessor 2018), examine the disability implications of fanfic as care labor (Leetal 2019), and advocate for thinking with disability to become a “default setting” in our field (Howell 2019). However, the disciplinary lacuna between these two fields has made it difficult for these conversations to develop a strong institutional foothold. By centering disability in fan studies’ discussions, this special issue can foster an encouraging environment for emerging dialogue between the fields to develop, as well as a supportive space for marginalized scholars and fans who do not see themselves represented in media, fan communities, or scholarship spaces.

We encourage submissions from scholars writing about disability from a fan studies perspective, as well as disability scholars writing about topics intersecting with fans/audiences/reception practices. We especially welcome intersectional perspectives that engage with disability as it operates in relation to intersecting identities such as race, gender, sexuality, class, and nationality (Bell 2016). Pieces for this special issue may explore questions of disability and fandom from an embodied, textual, or discursive perspective, for instance: What are the experiences of various disabled fans in fandom? What discourses of disability are circulated, perpetuated, and/or critiqued in fan spaces? How do fans negotiate portrayals of disability in their subjects of fandom, from movies to podcasts to celebrities? How has disability accessibility figured in various fandoms and fan spaces? How do rhetorics of disability, illness, and health affect fan communities and discussions? How does disability identity intersect with fan identity, and/or other marginalized identities?

Submissions may involve but are not limited to:

Fans/fandom and…

Dis/ability

Impairment

Neurodivergence

Chronic pain and/or illness

Mental illness and/or Mad perspectives

Bodyminds

Health

Bodily norms/Normativity

Discourses/narratives/representations of any of the above topics

Accessibility, in digital spaces (Tumblr, Dreamwidth, etc.) and/or physical spaces (conventions, industry, etc.)

Fan mediums with particular relationships to disability, such as cosplay or podfic

Submission Guidelines

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is an international peer-reviewed online Diamond Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and promotes dialogue between academic and fan communities. TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms, such as multimedia, that embrace the technical possibilities of the internet and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.

Submit final papers directly to Transformative Works and Cultures by January 1, 2025.

Articles: Peer review. Maximum 8,000 words.

Symposium: Editorial review. Maximum 4,000 words.

Please visit TWC's website (https://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or email the TWC Editor (editor@transformativeworks.org). 

Contact—Contact guest editors Olivia Johnston Riley and Lauren Rouse with any questions before or after the due date DisabilityFandomTWC@gmail.com. 

Works Cited

Bell, Chris. 2016. “Is Disability Studies Actually White Disability Studies?” In The Disability Studies Reader edited by Lennard Davis, 406-425. New York: Routledge.

Clare, Eli. 2017. Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure. Durham: Duke University Press.

Coppa, Francesca. 2014. “Writing Bodies in Space: Media Fan Fiction as Theatrical Performance.” In The Fan Fiction Studies Reader, edited by Karen Hellekson and Kristina Busse, 218-238. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.

Davis, Lennard. 1995. “Introduction: Disability, the Missing Term in the Race, Class, Gender Triad.” In Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the Body, 23-49. London and New York: Verso.

Ellcessor, Elizabeth. 2018. “Accessing Fan Cultures: Disability, Digital Media, and Dreamwidth” in The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom, edited by Melissa A. Click and Suzanne Scott, 202-211. New York: Routledge.

Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie. 1997. Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. New York: Columbia University Press.

Howell, Katherine Anderson. 2019. “Human Activity: Fan Studies, Fandom, Disability and the Classroom.” Journal of Fandom Studies 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1386/jfs.7.1.3_2 

Kafer, Alison. 2013. Feminist, Queer, Crip. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.

Leetal, Dean Barnes. 2019. “Those Crazy Fangirls on the Internet: Activism of Care, Disability and Fan Fiction.” Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 8 (2). https://cjds.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cjds/article/view/491  

McRuer, Robert. 2006. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York and London: New York University Press.

Minich, Julie Avril. 2016. “Enabling Whom? Critical Disability Studies Now.” Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 5.1. https://csalateral.org/issue/5-1/forum-alt-humanities-critical-disability-studies-now-minich/.

Price, Margaret. 2015. "The Bodymind Problem and the Possibilities of Pain." Hypatia 30, no. 1: 268-284.

Puar, Jasbir. 2017. The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Samuels, Ellen. 2003. “My Body, My Closet: Invisible Disability and the Limits of Coming Out Discourse.” GLQ 9, no.1-2: 233-255.

Schalk, Sami. 2018. Bodyminds Reimagined. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Shakespeare, Tom. 1996. “Disability, Identity and Difference.” Exploring the Divide, edited by Colin Barnes and Geof Mercer:  94-113.

Siebers, Tobin. 2008. Disability Theory. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.

Sterne, Jonathan and Mara Mills. 2017. “Dismediation: Three Proposals, Six Tactics.” In Disability Media Studies, edited by Elizabeth Ellcessor and Bill Kirkpatrick. New York: NYU Press.

[victusinveritas]

Hi Folks, those of you (probably few and far between) academically inclined and with departmental backing to send you to Iceland might be interested in this...

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North

  "CALL FOR PAPERS

We are accepting abstract submissions for the fourteenth annual Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North.

The Háskóli Íslands Student Conference on the Medieval North is an interdisciplinary forum for postgraduate students (masters and doctoral level) and early career researchers working in the broad field of medieval northern studies, held every April in Reykjavík, Iceland. Students who have not given papers at an academic conference before are especially encouraged to submit. The conference will be held April 10th-12th, 2025, online and in-person at Háskóli Íslands.

This conference seeks proposals on the theme of “Other Things.”

The Other has been a perennial subject in the study of the medieval north. We ask: what constitutes an Other? What Others have been ignored? How is Otherization expressed across the field’s subdisciplines? We playfully consider the double meaning of “things,” seeking consideration of objects forgotten or buried beneath academic attentions. What critical lenses have been neglected? What Other Things are there left to discover?

We accept abstract submissions on a wide range of topics connected to this theme, including but not limited to art history, archaeology, digital humanities, folklore, gender and queer studies, literary studies, manuscripts and paleography, philology, reception of the medieval period, and religious studies.

We ask that submissions address the theme.

Presenters will have the opportunity to submit their papers for a conference proceedings volume, to be published as an e-book in the autumn of 2025.

Interested student scholars should email an abstract of 250-300 words, along with a brief biography containing name, pronouns, institution, and program of study, to histudentconference@gmail.com by DECEMBER 2nd, 2024. Please indicate whether you intend to attend the conference online or in person. The Committee reserves the right to make selections based on quality of written abstracts, adherence to submission guidelines, and timely submission.

Detailed submission guidelines are here:

The languages of the conference are Icelandic and English. Individual paper presentations will be 20 minutes in length, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. There is also a Poster Session for students to present their material in poster form. Students may apply for either a paper or a poster. The conference committee may offer a poster presentation to some paper applicants. Please direct any further inquiries to the Conference Committee by email.

Áfram!"

[ghnosis]

hey did you know there's an International Society for Metal Music Studies?

well there is, and our 2025 conference will be in Seville, Spain!

call for proposals here ⬇️

[inariedwards]

Anyone interested in the topics of disability and the arts?

The Neurodiversity in the Arts (and art education) symposium has put out a Call For Proposals, and it seems like the even is planned to work for a global group of participants so check that out, maybe submit a proposal, esp. if you are neurodiverse and in art education.

Also there will be this free online webinar Reframed: Disability Aesthetics and Institutional Change in the Visual Arts, which will be at 3 PM UK-time which is 10 AM New York time, which may be less convenient.

[silentlondon]

Women and the Silent Screen XII: Call for papers

Just a short note to share some information about a conference I am looking forward to, so that you can also save the dates, and so that I can pass on the call for papers. The twelfth Women and the Silent Screen conference will take place in Brussels and Antwerp next June. It will be hosted by Université libre de Bruxelles, University of Antwerp, and Cinematek, and will take place 11-14 June…

[cmrosens]

Conference Call for Papers 2024

This is an ENTIRELY ONLINE conference, so anyone can attend across different time zones. CFP is open until end of March. Devils and Justified Sinners – 2024 Conference

[etudiantfantome]

I'm just discovering now that there was a call for paper for a conference on "goblin modes". Another missed opportunity.

[theancientgeekoroman]

A call for papers for postgraduates for the ICS Work in Progress Seminar. Speakers will give a paper of about 45 minutes’ duration, dealing with any subject connected with the ancient world (broadly defined), the reception of antiquity, or classical scholarship. Abstract should be 300 words, a working title for the paper, your preferred term, and your attendance preference (online, in person). We are also accepting panel sessions of two coordinated papers. These sessions consist of two closely related 25-minute papers. Submissions for coordinated panels should include two abstracts of around 200 words each and an overview of the panel of around 100 words. Submissions should be directed to the seminar’s joint chairs at postgradwip@gmail.com.

[crylockchaos]

*In the theme of Mystery Bruise*

Oh-oh-oh Dream CFP

Please let me write on idkhow

How do I make THIS CONNECT?!

[aktivistaverein]

AktivistA 2023: Aufruf für Beiträge/Call for Submissions

Was suchen wir?

Für ein abwechslungsreiches Programm am Samstag sind wir auf der Suche nach Beiträgen. Wir haben Platz für maximal vier Vorträge oder Ähnliches von je höchstens 45 Minuten. „Ähnliches“ kann zum Beispiel ein Workshop, ein Film, oder sonst etwas sein.

Thematisch freuen wir uns über alles, was mit der queeren Community zu tun hat, natürlich gerne mit Bezug oder im Verhältnis zum asexuellen Spektrum. Auch wenn ihr intersektional denkend unterwegs seid, wäre hier eine Gelegenheit, uns einen Blick über den Tellerrand zu erlauben.

Da letztes Jahr ein kurzer Input zu Lithsexualität gut ankam: Hat vielleicht eine Person mit einem sogenannten Mikrolabel Interesse, uns an ihrer Erfahrungswelt teilhaben zu lassen?

Was erwartet euch?

Wir rechnen mit Besuch von 25 bis 40 Menschen verschiedener Altersgruppen und mit sehr unterschiedlicher Vorbildung.

Wie gehabt tragen wir die Fahrtkosten und spendieren euch ein Mittagessen. Ein kleines Honorar abhängig von der Vortragslänge winkt ebenfalls.

Wenn ihr also eine coole Idee habt, wie ihr uns den Samstag bereichern wollt, schreibt uns bitte über das Kontaktformular oder meldet euch über Facebook oder Insta bei uns.

[transformativeworksandcultures]

CFP: Gaming Fandom

The study and analysis of creative fan production (e.g., fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, etc.) is a cornerstone of fandom studies. These practices enable fans to assert a level of authorship over their favorite media – to reimagine, recontextualize, and reconceptualize their canons to better reflect their desires, wants, interests, and demands. They provide voice to individuals who cannot necessarily shape source texts directly (Vinney & Dill-Shackleford, 2018), allowing fans to carve out space for themselves within the pop-culture landscape that celebrates/embraces their identities. This is particularly poignant for marginalized fans. As such, we can understand fan practices as unique and invaluable forms of cultural critique (Jenkins, 2006; McCullough, 2020). 

This active engagement – arguably – is magnified within gaming fandoms and communities because the act of play is inherent to the source texts, whether that play comes in the form of hitting keys on a keyboard, moving joysticks on controllers, rolling dice, etc. Gaming seemingly provides fans an inherent sense of authorship over source texts as the players’ actions, choices, and skill shape the outcomes and narrative progression; thus, gaming fandom presents a strong opportunity to explore the idea of fan creativity as cultural critique and our understanding of authorship, ownership, and identity across the pop-cultural landscape. This strength is only increased by the critical reality of many gaming communities and spaces; criticism leveraged at games, gamers, and gaming communities is commonplace with topics like the lack of representation, the focus on hegemonic masculinity that often takes a turn towards toxicity, and the vitriol directed towards gender and sexual orientation politics being frequent points of discussion both by scholars/researchers, by journalists and reviewers, and by those within these communities. Of course, not all gaming criticism focuses on the cultural and political; some emphasize mechanical, financial, and performance issues.

 This special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures will explore fan creativity as critique in gaming fandoms; while we are construing the term ‘gaming fandom’ broadly, we are primarily interested in analyses and scholarly discussions of and related to fan-made works and productions, including fanfiction, fanart, cosplay, mods, fan-made games and series, etc. We welcome all forms from methodology – quantitative and qualitative, empirical and theoretical, etc. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

Exploration of how fan-made works address and critique gender norms and sexual identities within gaming communities.

Exploration of fanfiction as a means of reclaiming and reshaping game lore and canon.

Analysis of LGBTQ+ representation and narratives in gaming fanfiction and fanart.

Case studies of specific mods (i.e., modifications) that have sparked significant discussion or controversy.

Investigation into how cosplay challenges or reinforces cultural stereotypes and representations.

The role of cosplay in expressing identity and critiquing game character design.

Study of fan-created games that offer alternative perspectives or critique the original game.

Exploration of intersectional critiques in fan-made content.

Investigation into how the act of play influences and enhances fan creativity and critique.

Study of how fan productions are received by broader gaming communities and the original creators.

The impact of fan critique and creativity on game development and industry response.

Examination of the ethical considerations and legal challenges in creating and sharing fan-made works.

Discussion of intellectual property and the boundaries of fan authorship.

Study of how digital platforms (e.g., YouTube, Twitch, Discord) facilitate and shape fan creativity and critique.

The role of social media in disseminating and discussing fan-made works.

Comparative analysis of fan creativity and critique across different gaming franchises or genres.

Examination of regional differences in fan production and cultural critique.

Submission Guidelines

Transformative Works and Cultures (TWC, http://journal.transformativeworks.org/) is an international peer-reviewed online Diamond Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for Transformative Works, copyrighted under a Creative Commons License. TWC aims to provide a publishing outlet that welcomes fan-related topics and promotes dialogue between academic and fan communities. TWC accommodates academic articles of varying scope as well as other forms, such as multimedia, that embrace the technical possibilities of the internet and test the limits of the genre of academic writing.

Submit final papers directly to Transformative Works and Cultures by January 1, 2025.

Articles: Peer review. Maximum 8,000 words.

Symposium: Editorial review. Maximum 4,000 words.

Please visit TWC's website (https://journal.transformativeworks.org/) for complete submission guidelines, or email the TWC Editor (editor@transformativeworks.org). 

Contact—Contact guest editors Hayley McCullough and Ashley P. Jones with any questions before or after the due date at hmccullough.popculture@gmail.com and ashley.jones@wartburg.edu .

Bibliography

Dill-Shackleford, Karen E., Cynthia Vinney, and Kristin Hopper-Losenicky. 2016. “Connecting the Dots between Fantasy and Reality: The Social Psychology of Our Engagement with Fictional Narrative and Its Functional Value.” Social and Personality Psychology Compass 10, no. 11: 634–46.

Goodman, Lesley. 2015. “Disappointing Fans: Fandom, Fictional Theory, and the Death of the Author.” The Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 4: 662–76.

Jenkins, Henry. 2006. Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York: New York University Press.

McCullough, Hayley. 2020. “The Diamonds and the Dross: A Quantitative Exploration of Integrative Complexity in Fanfiction.” Psychology of Popular Media 9, no. 1: 59–68.

Vinney, Cynthia, and Karen E. Dill-Shackleford. 2018. “Fan Fiction as a Vehicle for Meaning-Making: Eudaimonic Appreciation, Hedonic Enjoyment, and Other Perspectives on Fan Engagement with Television.” Psychology of Popular Media Culture 7, no. 1: 18–32.

[fabiansteinhauer]

Call for Papers

1.

Ich habe die Ehre, für Marietta Auer die Projekte zu koordinieren, die mit dem Leibnizpreis verbunden sind. Offizieller Start ist der erste Februar 2023. Bereits jetzt haben eine Gruppe von Kollegen am MPI einen call for papers für eine Tagung veröffentlicht, die das Leibnizprojekt fördern und unterstützen wird.

Erstens freut mich die Bennung einer Tagung als Nachwuchstagung, denn das erinnert so an Wildwuchs, also an immer wieder kommende Stoppeln, Wirbel und Flaum, an im September spriessende Pilze oder an Bäume, die im Mai ausschlagen. Das erinnert an zahlreiche Fruchtfliegen bei der Traubenlese und kleine Robben mit großen Augen auf Bildschirmen, die bei aller Größe dieser Augen noch Platz haben, um Kontonummern mitzuteilen. Nachwuchs erinnert an Geschlüpfte mit dauerhaft aufgerissenem Schnabel. Schließlich erinnert Nachwuchs an einen Witz, den Heiner Müller erzählt haben soll, so kolportiert das Werner Hamacher: Steh' ich morgens vor'm Spiegel. Kenn' ich nich', rasier' ich nich', aber das habe ich ja schon gesagt: Stoppeln, Stöpsel, alles toll, toll wenn man den Zustand des Nachwachsens lange, lange, möglichst halten kann.

2.

Zweitens freut mich die Auswahl des Themas, auch wegen der Beiträge die in den letzten Jahren zu den Jurdismen der Wahrheit, etwa durch die Gruppe forensic architecture oder die Forschungen zu science at the bar die Diskussionen um Wahrheit, ihre Produktion und Reproduktion haben laufen lassen. So please please please, schreibt papers.