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Overflow Hotel

Hello Everyone! As you may or may not be aware, the Orlando Airport Marriott Lakeside Hotel is completely booked. The good news is that we have secured an overflow hotel at an excellent group rate! The overflow hotel is the Sheraton[...]

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ICFA REGISTRATION

Dear ICFA Participants: REDUCED PRICE REGISTRATION ENDS JAN. 14. after which it goes up from $110 to $135 ($165 after Jan. 31)–see prices and cutoff dates attached. HOTEL: Last year, the reduced-price hotel rooms were sold out by Feb.1–given our[...]

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IAFA Election for IAFA President and 1st Vice President Open

Voting for the next IAFA President and 1st Vice President is now open.  Please click the following link to read the candidate’s statements and place your vote.  Elections will close on January 10, 2016 and the winners will be announced[...]

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CfP: Palgrave Studies in Science and Popular Culture Call for Proposals

SERIES EDITOR: Sherryl Vint (Professor, University of California, Riverside) Science is at the centre of daily experience in twenty-first century life. Fusion of science and the cultural imagination define moments of intense technological change, such as the Space Race of[...]

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CfP: The Female Fantastic, 1860-1930: On the Gendered Supernatural in Texts by Women

Where realism was the signature feature of earlier Victorian fiction, mid-to-late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century writers increasingly embraced fantastic modes. Rosemary Jackson, in her 1981 Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion, inaugurated the now-ubiquitous truism of literary studies that late Victorian[...]

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The Ravenclaw Conference 2016 (Theme: Sociology of Harry Potter)

  6th Annual Ravenclaw Conference 2016 Sept 19-23 (during our 6th annual Edinboro Potterfest) Edinboro University   We invite submissions from faculty and students on the wide range of USA societal issues raised in the Harry Potter saga.  Paper topics[...]

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Call for Papers: The Weird & the Southern Imaginary

General Eds.: Travis Rozier & Bob Hodges   Deadline extension: Our first round netted some excellent submissions, but we are extending the deadline for proposals to January 18, 2016.   Keynote: The Weird & the Southern Imaginary will introduce the[...]

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CfP: IAFA GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD

The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts presents an annual award and stipend to the graduate student submitting the most outstanding paper at the Association’s conference. The award, and a check for $250, will be presented to the winner at[...]

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Call for Nominations – IAFA President and 1st VP by October 30th

Call for Nominations – IAFA President and 1st VP by October 30th Download this call as a file from Dropbox here. The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts announces a Call for Nominations for the elected Executive Board positions[...]

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CfP: Words and worlds

Words and worlds. Poetry  Dear all it’s time to think of offering a fantastic/scifi/horror poetry reading at the conference ! As usual,  we have two sessions, this time both at  1’1/2 hours so aim to be able to have a[...]

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