CFPs for conferences and edited collections:
1. Haunted Futures Conference: ‘The Future of Folklore’
University College Cork, 29-30 October 2024
Deadline: 24 August 2024
The conference proposes to explore hauntings and ghosts as potent staging grounds for radical social change, which, in their dismantling of hegemonic relationships to time, provide a means of imagining new futures in the late-capitalist Anthropocene, and empowering marginalised and exploited identities, both human and otherwise.
In addition to the above rubric, this year’s conference proposes to explore ‘The Future of Folklore’. We welcome papers which consider folklore beyond the parameters of historicity and preservation but contextualise folklore and folkloric texts as a vital, subversive and dynamic language of resistance to systemic injustice.
2. 2nd International Folklore and Gothic Conference (FOGO)
Morgan State University
Deadline: 1 October 2024
In recent years, gothic and horror narratives produced in peripheries and/or by marginalized communities have begun to garner serious critical attention [. . .] This interest has been fueled by both national and transnational fascinations with dark fantasy, folklore, horror and the Gothic that surpasses the traditional formats of novels and tales, extending to film, video games, music, art and other cultural products. [. . .] This conference seeks to highlight and explore the many ways in which horror is being created and represented across various media, and the implications of such representations.
3. The Blue Humanities book series
The Blue Humanities is a book series about humans and water, in all the forms that both of these assume and create. Re-examining relations between human and watery spaces, the books in this series explore waterscapes in dialogue with landscapes from cultural, social, historical, theoretical, literary, symbolic, aesthetic, and ethical perspectives. These books will engage with the multivalent meanings of salt and freshwaters and the compounded changes that waterscapes are undergoing today. The series will present new research on postmodernist, hydrofeminist, new materialist, posthumanist, postcolonial, and new historiographic approaches to the poetics of water. Since the Blue Humanities is transdisciplinary and methodologically diverse, interacting with marine and freshwater sciences, the series will contribute significantly to the future direction and reorientations of broader discourses in environmental studies. [. . .] We are interested in monographs, collaborative books, and essay collections, including reconceived versions of those traditional forms.
4. Call for papers: a companion to Dennis Wheatley
Deadline: 12 August 2024
Writing across genres, from non-fiction works on history and magic, science fiction, historic fiction, spy and war thrillers to his most familiar black magic novels, Wheatley’s fame and success are apparent but his writing career remains under-interpreted. That is despite his global success and many ways he continues to influence contemporary themes and issues. A writer sensitive to the power of landscapes and national identity, to the role of language in the supernatural, to the way sex and the sacred and profane could intermingle, his works undergird many areas of modern significance from folk horror to Brexit.
This collection intends to be the first sustained scholarly interrogation of this prolific writer’s works and impact.
The proposed volume is intended to be scholarly but accessible in tone and approach.
5. Call for Gramarye submissions
Deadline: 21 September 2024
The Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction seeks articles, book reviews and creative writing relating to literary and historical approaches to fairy tales, fantasy, Gothic, magic realism, science fiction and speculative fiction for Gramarye, its peer-reviewed journal published by the University of Chichester.
