CfP: Science Fiction and Theatre
Compared to film, TV and the novel, science fiction theatre is not a widely discussed topic. But, whilst there is only one book from the 1990s that lists the history of sf plays, there is a long legacy of staging[...]
read moreCfP: Foundation Essay Prize 2017
Foundation Essay Prize 2017 deadline: November 7, 2016 full name / name of organization: Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction contact email: journaleditor@sf-foundation.org We are pleased to announce our next essay-writing competition. The award is open to all post-graduate[...]
read moreCfP: Welcome to Night Vale
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Proposals related to the podcast Welcome to Night Vale are solicited for chapter contributions to an edited scholarly collection to be published by Palgrave. The editor seeks to include a range of approaches focusing on both form[...]
read moreCfP: LFA “Alternate Worlds” | Literature/Film Conference – October 13-16, 2016
Type: Call for Papers Date: June 20, 2016 Location: New Jersey, United States Subject Fields: Film and Film History, Popular Culture Studies, Literature, Journalism and Media Studies, Cultural History / Studies Film and media adaptations have frequently projected an alternate[...]
read moreCfP: Powering the Future: Energy Resources in Science Fiction and Fantasy
The recent rise of the interdisciplinary subfield of “Energy Humanities” as a prominent critical endeavor has seen an efflorescence of academic and cultural production from around the world focusing on the crucial topic of energy resources. A major spur for[...]
read moreStudent Caucus Election Results
Beginning August 1st, Amanda Rudd will serve as Student Caucus Representative, and Sarah Fish will serve as Student Caucus Vice-Representative. Congratulations, Amanda and Sarah![...]
read moreCfP: 47th Annual Mythopoeic Conference
47th Annual Mythopoeic Conference Omni Colonnade – San Antonio, Texas August 5-8, 2016 Faces of Mythology: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Author Guest of Honor: Midori Snyder Midori Snyder is an American writer of fantasy, mythic fiction, and nonfiction on myth and folklore. She has published[...]
read moreCfP: Aquatic Animals and Monsters of the Northern Seas: Imagination, Knowledge, Exploitation, from Antiquity to 1600 31 May-3 Jun 2017 Cerisy-la-Salle (France)
AQUATIC ANIMALS AND MONSTERS OF THE NORTHERN SEAS: IMAGINATION, KNOWLEDGE, EXPLOITATION, FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1600 The Colloquium is devoted to the history of fish, aquatic monsters and mammals in the northern seas (the English Channel, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Norwegian[...]
read moreCfP: Utopia at the Border, Fourth Symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future Network
Utopia at the Border The fourth symposium of the Imaginaries of the Future Research Network University of Regensburg, 20-22 September 2016 ‘There was a wall. It did not look important…’ – Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed ‘[We seek]…a world without[...]
read moreCfP: Science Fantasy Panel at Escape Velocity, July 1-3, 2016 (deadline May 27, 2016)
Science Fantasy Panel at Escape Velocity, July 1-3, 2016 (deadline May 27, 2016) full name / name of organization: Kris Swank / Signum University, Hollis, NH (http://signumuniversity.org/) contact email: kris.swank@signumu.org CALL FOR PANELISTS-SCIENCE FANTASY: CROSSING THE BRIDGE WITH CLARKE’S[...]
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