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CFP: CULTURE-BOUND SYNDROMES IN POPULAR CULTURE (ROUTLEDGE EDITED COLLECTION)


Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture

(Routledge edited collection)

February 3, 2022 to April 15, 2022


You are invited to submit an abstract for the upcoming edited collection Culture-bound syndromes in Popular Culture. The edited collection volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, covering movies, television, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels.

What does a culture-bound syndrome mean? The concept has come to define a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups.

“Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” takes its readers on a journey across (popular) cultures and introduces them to an entirely new subfield of studies, at the conjunction of medical anthropology and popular culture, focusing on folk illnesses.

Thus, this book covers a broad range of case studies, subjects, texts, and cultural practices that lie at the intersection of folk illnesses and cultural studies and include national, transnational, and international media representations, with an accent on the reception and interpretation of the phenomenon from the perspective of its original space.

We warmly invite established and emerging scholars specializing in all areas of media and cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, social/cultural geography, and other relevant research fields to propose a book chapter on an individual culture-bound syndrome and its representations in popular culture. Both single and multiple-authored works will be considered. All work should be original and previously unpublished.

We are also very interested in hearing open proposals for possible chapters about other cultural syndromes if the Table of Contents strikes you as improvable in any way.


Chapters might explore but are not limited to:

SECTION 1 East Asia and India
  • Zou huo ru mo (China)
  • Dhat syndrome (India)
  • Hikikomori (Japan) Already taken!
  • Taijin Kyofusho (Japan) Already taken!
  • Hwabyeong (South Korea)
  • Pa-leng (Taiwan)
SECTION 2 Southeast Asia
  • Lanti (Philippines)
  • Latah (Indonesia, Malaysia)
  • Amok (Malaysia)
  • Koro (Singapore)
SECTION 3 Latin America and Native American culture
  • Locura
  • Mal de pelea
  • Nervios
  • Susto
  • Saladera (Peruvian Amazon)
  • Windigo Psychosis (Native American)
SECTION 4 Africa and the Middle East
  • Zar (Israel, Ethiopia)
  • Ufufuyane, Saka (Kenya)
  • Voodoo death (Haiti, Africa, Australia)
Routledge has expressed keen interest in the volume for their Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series.


Key dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 15 April 2022

Notification of acceptance: 30 April 2022

Full chapter submission (max 8000 words): 1 November 2022

Publication: January 2023


Please send in a working title, abstracts of max 500 words, and a brief biographical note of 150 words to: prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

Please feel free to contact the volume’s editor (Irina Pelea) with any questions or queries. I look forward to receiving your abstracts.


Contact Info:

Professor Irina Pelea, Titu Maiorescu University, Bucharest, Romania.

Contact Email:

prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

CFP: COMMON THREADS: BLACK AND ASIAN BRITISH WOMEN'S WRITING INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE


Common Threads:

Black and Asian British Women’s Writing International Conference



Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bernardine Evaristo

Dates: 21st-23rd July 2022

Following the inaugural conference of the Black British Women’s Writing Network (BBWWN) at the University of Brighton in 2014, we are pleased to announce the second international conference on Black and Asian British Women’s Writing. This conference celebrates the fact that so many Black and Asian women writers have emerged in the last two decades and acknowledges the significant impact their writing has made on publishing and the media since 2015. Black and Asian women’s writing has transformed Britain’s cultural landscape and provoked urgent conversations about nation and identity, home and belonging. Their work challenges the control white, British canonical writers have asserted over what qualifies as literary, where meaning is located in literary culture, and whose voices are privileged. The last couple of years have been particularly exciting for Black and Asian British women writers with Bernardine Evaristo winning the Booker Prize in 2019, the first Black British woman to do so, and several debut authors such as Reni Eddo-Lodge topping the UK’s fiction and nonfiction paperback charts in 2020-21, and receiving substantial attention and recognition. The recent publication of The Cambridge Companion to Black British and Asian Writing (edited by Deirdre Osborne), and The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing (edited by Susheila Nasta and Mark Stein) bring together over 400 years of Black and Asian British writing. 2022 also marks the 21st anniversary of the landmark ‘Write Black, Write British’ conference at the Barbican (organised by Kadija George), and of the publication of the anthology Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry. Common Threads aims to celebrate this rich cultural heritage while at the same time exploring how Black and Asian British Women’s Writing enables us to re-imagine the nation otherwise in the context of the unsettling, hostile environment of post-Brexit Britain.

The organisers welcome submissions from academics, postgraduate and early career researchers, teachers, publishers and literary activists. We welcome individual papers and panel proposals on any genre and topic related to writing by Black and Asian British women and queer people of colour. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
  • Intersections and Common Threads: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing in the era of Black Lives Matter and post-Brexit Britain
  • Teaching Transformation: Black and Asian British Women’s Writing and Decolonising the Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Life Writing, Screenwriting, Journalism, Popular fiction, Radio drama, Short fiction/flash fiction, Non-fiction
  • Black and Asian British Women’s Poetry and Spoken Word Performances
  • Speculative Fiction
  • Drama and Performance
  • Critically neglected writers/new writers
  • Black and Asian Women’s Writing and the School Curriculum
  • Black and Asian British Children’s Literature and storytelling
  • Black and Asian British Queer Writing
  • The 2018 Windrush Scandal
  • The matter of bodies, politics, place and diaspora
  • Making Space/Reconfiguring space: real and imaginary spaces, online, publishing and other spaces, worlds turned upside down
  • Regional and rural writing
Please send an abstract of 300 words maximum and brief bio by 31st January 2022 to commonthreads2022@gmail.com. The notification of acceptance will be sent by March 1, 2022. Online presentations/panels welcome. More details will be provided once notifications have been sent. Common Threads is an in-person event, but a limited number of online presentations can be accommodated.

The conference organizers will be working toward the publication of presented papers in a journal Special Issue in 2023.


Organisers: 



commonthreads2022@gmail.com

CFP: FILM STUDIES IN NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST ASIA AND EAST ASIA




 Film Studies in Northeast, Southeast Asia and East Asia

Rising Asia Journal


The Rising Asia Journal invites academic articles  on  Film Studies focusing on the North East of India, South East Asia, China, the Koreas, Taiwan, and Japan within the following fields:

  • History, 
  • Literature, 
  • Postcolonial Studies, 
  • Literary Theory, 
  • Film Theory, 
  • Culture, 
  • Cultural Studies,
  • and International Relations and War & Society.

The papers must provide a new perspective and a fresh interpretation.They must  be original, supported with scholarly research, and the must not have been published or under consideration for publication in any media in print or online .

Authors should submit Abstracts of  250 to 300 words along with the details of the author(s), (title, affiliation/position(s), address, and e-mail. The Journal is currently accepting Abstracts, and this Call for Papers is open until September 30, 2020. 

On acceptance of abstracts, full articles of about 4,000 words (excluding footnotes in Chicago format) should be submitted. All submitted articles would go through peer review. 


Please email abstracts to: Dr. Harish C. Mehta, harish.mehta@utoronto.ca, and to Ms. Raka Mukherjee, rakamukherjeeofficial@gmail.com


For more details click here

CFP: ZOMBIES OF THE FUTURE: THE UNDEAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND BEYOND


Zombies of the Future:

The Undead in the 21st Century and Beyond. 


Zombies seemed to have shambled into something of a literal “dead end.” With something of an eternal return to similar tropes and similar readings on their way to inevitable apocalypse. But this collection wants to “breath” new life into old undead bodies and focus solely on texts from the past 10 years or those that have used the zombie in unusual and previously unconsidered ways. Consequently this collection will be focused on 4 specific areas:

  • The zombie beyond the zombie (post-zombie zombies)
  • Zombies and new media, e.g. Tik Tok, streaming, gaming etc.
  • Cross cultural zombies—Indigenous, Aboriginal, Indian, African, South Korea etc.
  • Futuristic zombies—zombie bodies in fantasy, sci-fi and visions of what’s to come.

This concerns popular culture in its widest interpretation books, films, games, comics, music, theatre, ballet, performance, art, fashion, etc.

Send 300 words abstracts or expressions of interest to Simon Bacon (baconetti@googlemail.com) by February 28th 2021, with final essays of 6-7,000 words required mid-2023. Bloomsbury Academic has expressed interest in the collection.

CFP: THE JOURNAL OF INDIAN AND ASIAN STUDIES JANUARY 2021



Call for Papers:
The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies (JIAS) 
January 2021 Issue

The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies (JIAS) invites scholars, researchers, and academics from all over the world to submit their unpublished, original work of research articles and book reviews for publication in its January 2021 issue. The journal is an academic, biannual, open-access, double-blind, peer-reviewed international journal, published jointly by the Institute of Indian Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) and the World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

JIAS aims to promote theoretically and empirically rich interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies that contribute to the understanding of issues in India and Asia at local, national, and international levels. In particular, the journal encourages studies that integrate ‘theories of transition’ from the broad spectrum of social sciences and humanities. Besides, the journal is committed to providing a much-needed platform to promote studies that add new perspectives on Indian and Asian studies beyond the usual circuits of European and North-American scholarship. JIAS warmly invites all interested young, early-career researchers, including graduate students to submit their manuscripts.

The journal, in its special section, also invites non-English articles, translated into English, which may have already been published in other academic journals. Such types of articles, however, must meet the aims and scope of the journal.

Notice: All manuscripts must be prepared according to the ‘Submission Guidelines’ which can be found on the Journal website. Only those articles that are recommended by the reviewers will be published in the journal. 

Deadline of Submission: October 15th, 2020

Submission Process: Manuscripts can be submitted to the website or via email at jiaseditor@gmail.com.


Contact:
For any query about the submissions, status of the paper, and other general information, you can contact at jiaseditor@gmail.com.

CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE - THE GLOBAL SOUTH AND/IN THE PLANTATIONOCENE (SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE PLANTATIONOCENE)


Special issue of The Global South:
“The Global South and/in the Plantationocene”


According to the United Nations’ environmental risk index, a by-country report on the effects of global climate change, the inhabitants, locales, and economies of global south nations will be disproportionally affected as global warming intensifies. Many of these nations are projected to be hit by a triple whammy: rising populations, combined with already-vulnerable economies and spikes in severe weather events will result in massive disruptions to livelihoods and cultural practices, as well as mass migrations as environmental refugees flee to more habitable areas. The plantationocene, defined by Donna Haraway as a way of drawing attention to the planetary effects of extractive practices, monoculture development, and coercive labor structures that have undergirded modernity and climate change since at least the 1600s, can provide a useful rubric for thinking through human-agented ecological change, especially as these changes unevenly affect different populations and regions. Furthermore, the plantationocene calls attention to the indelible ecological and economic legacies of imperialism including patriarchal and race-based hierarchies, and inequities among diverse peoples based on race, gender, class, and sexual orientation.  This special issue of The Global South examines the productive tensions created by the operative phrase “and/in” when thinking, writing, and living through climate change from the perspective of the global south and/in the plantationocene.


Possible topics include:
  • Theoretical and hermeneutical discussions of the plantation and/or the plantationocene;
  • Examinations of the effects and the rise of natural disasters in the global south through the lens of the plantationocene;
  • Feminist-, queer-, decolonial-, and critical race studies-based resistances to the legacies, structures, hierarchies, and effects of the plantationocene;
  • Afro-, Arab, Asian, and Latinx futurisms in film, literature, and visual art which intersect with or document the (potential) effects of the plantationocene;
  • Analyses of the plantationocene, its legacies, its imaginaries, and its contemporary neo-isms (such as border factories, globalized trade, non-government organization assistance programs, privatized detention and incarceration, and plantation tourism) as these relate to the global south;
  • Empire-, refugee-, and military-studies discussions of plantationocene construction or deconstruction/resistance;
  • The global south plantationocene and/in the global north;
  • Interdisciplinary and comparative analyses of the plantationocene;
  • Architectural legacies of monoculture crops and their profits;
  • Ecological, animal studies, disability, medical studies, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies approaches to this topic; and
  • Investigations of the erasures of indigenous peoples through the plantationocene.

This issue is slated for publication in Spring 2023, so contributors will have a calendar year to draft their complete 7,000-10,000-word essays. Please send abstracts of up to 500 words (in MLA style) and a 100-word biographical statement to guest editors Isadora Wagner and Natalie Aikens, at isadora.wagner@westpoint.edu and nmaikens1@gmail.com, by August 21, 2020.

isadora.wagner@westpoint.edu

CFP: MYTHOLOGICAL EQUINES IN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE


Call for Book Chapters on
Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature


Vernon Press invites chapter proposals on the theme: Mythological Equines in Children’s Literature for an edited collection of the same name in the series Equine Creations: Imagining Horses in Literature and Film, edited by Rachel L. Carazo (Northwestern State University).

All areas of study, with a common goal of representing the cultural, social, philosophical, and material impacts of mythological equines in children’s literature are invited to participate.

Francisco LaRubia-Prado recently edited a collection about horses in film and literature. There are also several single essays and general books about horse-themed works. Nevertheless, there have been no other collections on specific themes regarding the cultural, social, material, and philosophical impacts of mythological equines in literature. Thus, even though this particular collection regards mythological equines in children’s literature, other themes will be considered in studies about horses that will follow the completion of this collection.

CFP: LITERATURE AND EVENT: REFORMULATIONS OF THE LITERARY IN THE 21ST CENTURY


Literature and Event: Reformulations of the Literary in the 21st Century
One-day Interdisciplinary Conference
Saturday 15th February 2020


Keynote: Prof. Derek Attridge (York); Prof. Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)

What is an event? From a theoretical perspective, events are irregular occurrences, moments of great change or interruptions that can potentially alter the already existing course of history, politics and thought. These changes also simultaneously remould, or at least aim to, human perception and language, which makes them an indispensable part of literature and literary thinking. While literature has referred to these calamitous changes directly, by way of description or through diegetic context, on numerous occasions literature has, for various reasons, failed to come to terms with these events or has actively resisted or undercut them. The literary has also been defined, particularly after the post-structuralist interventions, as an event in its own right, with its own strategy and ambitions to affect change. At the same time this relationship has also been entirely dismissed in readings where literature has been thought of as registering the non-events or the micro-events (madeleine cakes for Proust) that would otherwise pass unnoticed in a political or a historical discourse. This conference is addressed to all such relations between literature and its events, but more eagerly to the event that literature itself becomes and the non-event that it said to sometimes emerge from.
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