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Conferences

CfPs for upcoming conferences

IX Congress in Cultural Studies – Activisms and Cultural Changes
Dates: November 13–15, 2024 
Institution: Department of Languages and Cultures (DLC), University of Aveiro, Portugal
Abstract deadline: May 15, 2024
More information: submit abstract

Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City
Dates: December 5–6, 2024
Institution: City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong (5 December), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin (6 December), Hong Kong
Abstract deadline: May 15, 2024
Email: Please send a proposal with a 400-500-word abstract and a one-page CV to urbanmediations24@gmail.com 

Musical Sustainabilities
Dates: November 18–19, 2024
Institution: Seinäjoki Unit of the University of the Arts Helsinki, Seinäjoki, Finland
Abstract deadline: June 10, 2024
Email: Please send an abstract to musicalsustainabilities@gmail.com 

CfPs

Calls for book proposals, papers and book chapters in the field of cultural studies and related fields

Call for Book Proposals: Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory
Editor: Peggy Karpouzou 
Publisher: Brill
Email: please submit the Manuscript Questionnaire as a book proposal, as well as further queries, to Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr) and Erika Mandarino (Erika.Mandarino@brill.com)
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Call for Book Proposals: Queering China: Transnational Genders and Sexualities
Editors: Hongwei Bao and Jamie J. Zhao
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Email: please contact the series coeditors directly for discussing and submitting proposals at hongwei.bao@nottingham.ac.uk and jingjamiezhao@gmail.com
More information: How to propose a book

Call for Proposals for Book Series: Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies
Editors: Jian Xu and Sean Redmond
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Email: please submit 750-word abstract proposals, along with a 2-page research CV, to the book series editors Jian Xu (j.xu@deakin.edu.au) and Sean Redmond (s.redmond@deakin.edu.au)
More information: manuscript length 60,000 to 100,000 words, proposal and selection process is open and ongoing

Call for Book Proposals: Performance Studies & Cultural Discourse in South Asia
Editor: Manujendra Kundu
Publisher: Springer
Email: for queries and submissions, please contact manujendra@gmail.com

Call for Book Proposals: Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures Series
Editors: Peggy Karpouzou and Nikoleta Zampaki
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Email: if you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr), Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr), or Courtney Morales (cmorales@rowman.com)
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Special issue: Critical Plant Theories and Cultures: Exploring Human and More-than-human World Entanglements
Journal: Open Cultural Studies
Abstract deadline: April 30, 2024
Email: questions can be sent to editors Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr) and Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr)
Submit proposal

Special issue: Popular Music, Revival & Renewal: Histories, Cultures, Practices
Journal: Continuum
Abstract deadline: April 30, 2024
Email: please submit an abstract of 200 words along with author biographies of 100 words to Lauren Istvandity (l.istvandity@griffith.edu.au) and Mengyu Luo (m.luo@usst.edu.cn) 

Special issue: The Comic Audience
Journal: Comedy Studies
Abstract deadline: June 7, 2024
Email: Please submit proposals (250-300 words) to Sarah Balkin (sarah.balkin@unimelb.edu.au
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Call for Chapter Abstracts/Proposals: Masculinity Studies in the Irish Context
Editor: Angelos Bollas
Abstract deadline: June 30, 2024
Email: Please, email a 300-word abstract/chapter proposal to angelos.bollas@mu.ie 

Special issue: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene
Journal: Lagoonscapes
Abstract deadline: July 31, 2024
Email: questions can be sent to editors Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr) and Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr)
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Special issue: Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World
Journal: Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Abstract deadline: August 31, 2024
Email: please send abstracts of up to 300 words and further queries to Peggy Karpouzou (pkarpouzou@phil.uoa.gr) and Nikoleta Zampaki (nikzamp@phil.uoa.gr)