Calls for Submission

CALL FOR PAPERS: Approaching Posthumanism and the Posthuman Conference and Doctoral Workshop June 4-6, 2015 – St. Maurice, Switzerland Keynote Speakers: Cary Wolfe, Rice University Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, George Washington University Margrit Shildrick, Linköping University Stefan Herbrechter, Coventry University Organizers: Deborah Madsen, Manuela Rossini, Kimberly Frohreich, and Bryn Skibo-Birney A highly topical and sometimes contentious […]

The forthcoming issue of The Indian Journal of Comparative Literature & Translation Studies (IJCLTS) will seek to decode the politics of stardom in post-1990s India. The informing assumption is that there is no single culture of celebrity and the issue will endeavor to highlight the co-existence of multiple domains of celebrity culture in India. The

CFP: Nodes & Networks in the Humanities: Geometries, Relationships, Processes Digital Humanities Forum 2014 September 12-13, 2014, Lawrence, Kansas Keynote Speakers Isabel Meirelles, Northeastern University, Steven Jones, Loyola University Chicago, Scott Weingart, Indiana University The network has emerged as a powerful model in humanities scholarship in recent years. It is used as a visualization and

Special Issue of Journal of Popular Television Themed Issue: Extreme Reality TV Co-Editors: Julie Anne Taddeo and Ken Dvorak (co-editors of The Tube Has Spoken: Reality TV & History, UPK, 2009). The popular success of reality TV has prompted its producers to seek even more extreme and taboo subject matter, from individuals confessing addictions to

Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival Proposal Submission Deadline: September 15, 2014 Cambridge Scholars Press – Editor: Dr. Phil Rose – York University, Canada Summary of the book – This edited collection will represent a number of perspectives on topics related to confronting ‘the surrender of culture to technology’, what Neil Postman (1992)