Category Archives: CFP (Conferences)

CFP: Genre Worlds: Popular Fiction in the 21st Century, State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, 10 November 2017

Posted on 5th April 2017 by William the Bloody

Call for papers for a conference on popular fiction–sadly, too far for us in the UK, but looks great. Deadline is 21 April 2017. Popular fiction is one of the most dynamic cultural and commercial divisions of twenty-first century publishing. … Continue reading →

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CFP: Steampunk: Then, Now, and Then Again, Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln 25-27 August 2017

Posted on 5th April 2017 by William the Bloody

Not much time left to respond to this CFP for a steampunk conference, in conjunction with the Asylum Steampunk Festival–deadline 14 April 2017. Despite the development of both science fiction and Neo-Victorian studies, academia has been slow to engage with … Continue reading →

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CFP Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference

Posted on 27th February 2017 by Sam George

CFP University of Exeter (29th – 30th June 2017) Keynote Speakers Victoria Bates (Bristol) Ina Linge (Cambridge) Hannah Morgan (Lancaster) The by now well established University of Exeter Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference is returning in 2017 for the fourth consecutive … Continue reading →

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CFP: Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic, Trinity College Dublin, 17-18 November 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

CFP for a conference in Dublin, 17-18 November on Gothic Nature: New Directions in Eco-horror and the EcoGothic (deadline 2 April 2017): Gothic and horror fictions have long functioned as vivid reflections of contemporary cultural fears. Wood argues that horror … Continue reading →

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CFP: Space and place in Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture, Lancaster University, 23 June 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

CFP for a conference at Lancaster University, Space and place in Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture (deadline 30 April 2017): This conference responds to the genre of neo-Victorianism from the perspective of space and place. It aims to probe how a … Continue reading →

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CFP: Death and the Maiden, University of Winchester, 21-24 July 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

Call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference exploring the relationship between women and death (deadline 19 May 2017): Death and the Maiden has long been an artistic genre in the West, with its roots in the Dance Macabre tradition. In … Continue reading →

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CFP: The Shelley Conference, Institute for English Studies, London, 15 September 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

Call for papers for a one-day conference on Percy Bysse Shelley and Mary Shelley: This one-day conference, held at the Institute for English Studies in central London, and supported by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, celebrates … Continue reading →

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CFP: Call for Papers: Translation Studies and Children’s Literature, Brussels and Antwerp, 19-20 October 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

A conference in Belgium: Call for Papers: Translation Studies and Children’s Literature – Current Topics and Future Perspectives — deadline 15 March 2017. Since the publication of pioneering works by Göte Klingberg, Riitta Oittinen and Zohar Shavit in the 1970s … Continue reading →

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CFP: Performing Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Lancaster University, April 28-29 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

CFP for Fantastika’s 4th conference, on performing fantistika (deadline 1 March 2017): The 4rd annual Fantastika conference will focus on performative bodies in fantastika. This includes performance in theatrical plays and films, as well as an examination of the body … Continue reading →

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CFP: George MacDonald’s Scotland, University of Aberdeen, 19-21 July 2017

Posted on 25th February 2017 by William the Bloody

Seeking proposals for papers for this conference on the fantastic writing of George MacDonald by 1 March 2017: This three-day conference will be held from Wednesday 19th to Friday 21st of July 2017 in the Old Aberdeen Campus of the … Continue reading →

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