Université de Lille 3, UFR LEA, France, 12 octobre 2018

Over the last thirty odd-years, a growing number of film and TV productions have left the confines of Hollywood studios, either to benefit from interesting tax incentives or to find new scenery that can visually surprise audiences.

The popular success of some of those ‘runaway’ films or TV series then prompted many fans to walk in the footsteps of Luke Skywalker in Tunisia (Star Wars), of Frodo in New Zealand (Lord of the Rings), of Harry Potter and his friends in Great Britain, of Katniss Everdeen in North Carolina (Hunger Games), of Daenerys or Jon Snow in Ireland or Malta (Game of Thrones), thus significantly increasing the number of visitors to those places and countries.

Some of those tourists strongly wish to re-live on site what they saw on screen while others are simply curious to visit the filming locations.

Film-tourism is therefore a multi-layered experience as demonstrated by the many visitors at Warner Bros. studios. Leavesden (home to the Harry Potter franchise), the tourists taking part in the Da Vinci Code tours in Paris, the Game of Thrones packages launched by travel agencies, or the guided tours organized in Dunkirk in the aftermath of the shooting and release of Dunkirk (C. Nolan, 2017).

This day symposium therefore intends to study the relationship between tourism and location shooting, whether it be as the mere result of that shooting or as part of a growing number of local or national policies designed to attract productions (American or European) so as to benefit from them.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to the following:

• Tourism and films/film franchises
• Tourism and television series
• Tourism, soft power and local/national film location incentives
• Tourism, films, series and remembrance (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler’s List, War Horse, Band of Brothers, etc.)

Please send an abstract (about 400 words), 3 key-words and a short bio before April 30, 2018 to both following addresses:

nathalie.dupont@univ-littoral.fr and raphael.eppreh-butet@univ-lille3.fr.

Organizing committee: Nathalie Dupont, Raphael Eppreh-Butet and Laëtitia Garcia

Transatlantic Studies Association
17th Annual Conference
University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA
9-11 July 2018

Call for Papers

The TSA is coming to America. For the time since it was established in 2002, the TSA is holding its annual conference on the other side of the Atlantic. TSA is a broad network of scholars who use the ‘transatlantic’ as a frame of reference for their work in political, economic, cultural, historical, environmental, literary, and IR/security studies. All transatlantic-themed paper and panel proposals from these and related disciplines are welcome.
This conference thus welcomes papers in the following areas:

*History
*International Relations and Security Studies
*Literature, Film, and Culture
*Planning and the Environment
*Economics

• Proposals that investigate the ‘transatlantic’ and explore it through frames of reference such as ideology, empire, race, religion, migration, political mobilisation, or social movements
  *Proposals that incorporate perspectives that involve north-south and south-south transatlantic connections, as well as north-north

  Both panel proposals and individual papers are welcome. Panel proposals are encouraged to include a discussant. New members and junior scholars are especially welcome.

Please send individual paper proposals (a 300 word abstract + brief CV) and complete panel proposals (300 word overview + 300 word abstracts for the papers + brief CVs) to the conference email: tsaung2018@gmail.com

Extended Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 26 March 2018

Conference proposals should be directed to the conference address:
tsaung2018@gmail.com

For further information or enquiries please contact the following:

Chair of TSA / Local Organiser: Christopher Jespersen: christopher.jespersen@ung.edu
Further details can be found on the Association’s website: www.transatlanticstudies.com

Deadline Extended – Friday 16th March 2018.

EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference
Hosted by the Early Doctoral Exchange Network (EDEN) at NUI Galway.
‘2018: Borders and Bodies – Current Perspectives on Irish Research
National University of Ireland, Galway
Dates: 27th-28th April

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:
Prof. Margaret Kelleher (UCD, Dublin);
Prof. Dan Rebellato (Royal Holloway, University of London).

EDEN: All Island Interdisciplinary Conference invites postgraduate and early doctoral researchers to explore the theme Borders and Bodies. This interdisciplinary research day will provide an exciting opportunity for postgraduates from across the humanities to share their unique responses to this topic. In bringing together a diverse selection of voices – and bodies – the conference will offer a unique space to disseminate and discuss your ideas. We welcome submissions from those studying in the Republic and Northern Ireland, as well as those more broadly interested in Irishness.

The Borders and Bodies theme invites a range of approaches including those related to politics, identity, the body, canonicity, subjectivity, language, human rights, geography, and law, as well as pedagogical, practice based, and dramatic interpretation. The conference welcomes submissions for academic papers, short performance pieces, and practice based explorations.

2018, in Ireland, marks the 20 years success of the Good Friday Agreement and the stain of Direct Provision, it also marks a century of female suffrage and remembers the April 23rd General Strike in opposition to conscription of Irish men to the British military. The global political environment has witnessed the reinforcement of borderlines and the entrenchment of a cultural capital of fear and xenophobia.

This conference asks how as researchers we engage with the Body and Borders, ideologically, academically, socially, and practically. Does the political environment inflect or affect our own research boundaries or the academy in which we sit? How do we, as new researchers, play a role? In which direction are the arts headed during this time? How do we — as academics, as writers, as makers, as doers — respond to our current moment and look towards what is ahead of us?

Proposals for papers (20 minutes) are now welcome on any new research by postgraduate researchers on topics including (but not limited to):

 

*Print, propaganda, and public opinion

*Embodiment, the body, bodies

*Territories or mapping of social identity

*Performance as knowledge

*Practitioning bodies

*Bodies of knowledge: legal, medical, academic, political

*Revolting Histories

*Writing (and rewriting) the past

*Public engagement, heritage, and modern Ireland

*Ethnicity and identity

*Mobility, migration

*Digital media and Irish life

*Minority Languages

*Minor Literatures

*Deterritorialization/reterritorialization

Postgraduates, postdoctoral scholars, early-career researchers and independent researchers from across the humanities are invited to submit proposals for consideration. Proposals that include an interdisciplinary element are strongly encouraged.

The call for papers will close on Friday 16th March 2018.

Abstracts of 250 words and short biographies (approx 100 words) can be submitted to: eden.nuigalway@gmail.com
Note: All technical requirements should be communicated to the conference committee with the abstract submission.

For more information on the Early Doctoral Exchange Network please see our website: https://edenconf.wordpress.com/

For more information on EDEN, please email us at: eden.nuigalway@gmail.com.
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Follow the conference planning and event at #EDEN2018

Deadline for submissions: March 15, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Adam Meehan / Palomar College
Contact email: ameehan@palomar.edu

Special Session panel for 2019 MLA Convention (Chicago, IL, January 3-6, 2019):

How has the Trump Era (re)shaped the ways we read/teach American literature? How has it affected American literary production?

Send 250-word abstract and brief bio/CV by 15 March 2018 to Adam Meehan (ameehan@palomar.edu).

Deadline for submissions: April 3, 2018
Full name/name of organization: Modernist Studies Association (MSA) 2018
Contact email: charlessumner@hotmail.com

The idea of a “lost generation” still has a hold on the popular imagination over ninety years after it was popularized via the epigraph of The Sun Also Rises. For literary scholars and historians, though, that idea is critically worn-out if not simply useless. This panel seeks to understand anew this old idea. Questions to be addressed include but are not limited to:

How has the idea of the lost generation been critically and historically misunderstood and/or abused?

Hemingway and Fitzgerald are the two figures we most closely associate with the lost generation trope, but of course there are many others whose work has contributed to it. Which authors have been neglected when it comes to understanding the lost generation as a literary critical and historical trope?

The lost generation concept has traditionally been noted in modernist fiction? How does it inform modernist poetry?

What purchase does this concept have on the twenty-first century literary critical imagination?

How can new ways of understanding this concept alter accepted understandings of modernism more broadly?

If interested, please submit a 300-word abstract by April 3, 2018 to charlessumner@hotmail.com.

Deadline for submissions: April 13, 2018
Full name / name of organization: De Montfort University
Contact email: cath.postgrad@gmail.com

Call for Papers

‘It Is True, We Shall Be Monsters’: New Perspectives on Horror, Science Fiction and the Monstrous Onscreen.

Wednesday 13th of June 2018

Postgraduate Conference

Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Dr Laura Mee and Dr Johnny Walker

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its seventh annual postgraduate conference.

2018 marks the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley’s seminal novel Frankenstein, sojoin us in celebrating all things monstrous as we re-consider, interrogate and offer new approaches to the genres of Horror and Science-Fiction on screen. In light of the recent burgeoning of these genres in mainstream film and television, such as the Duffer Brother’s Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-), Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror (2011-), and Oscar winners The Shape of Water (Del Toro, 2017)and Get Out (Peele, 2016), Horror and Sci-Fi are gaining new audiences across multiple platforms. Therefore, it seems a pertinent time to interrogate the tensions and emergent trends in these two persevering and continually developing genres onscreen.

Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

• Female directors and women in horror
• Screening violence (exploitation and slasher films)
• Social/political/cultural representations of fear in the Horror/ Sci-Fi film
• Texts – remakes, paratexts, and adaptations
• Relationships between human and machine, technology replacing the monster
• Monstrous representations of gender and the body
• Unmade Horror and Sci-Fi
• Representations of disability in Sci-Fi and Horror
• Fandom and audiences
• Transnational production contexts of Sci-Fi and Horror cinema
• Use of special effects and prosthetics in Sci-Fi and Horror
• New Readings of classic Horror and Sci-Fi cinema
• Nostalgia in Horror and Sci-Fi
• Depictions of race in Sci-Fi and Horror

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations should include the title of the presentation, a 250-word abstract, and a brief biographical statement. Proposals should be submitted to cath.postgrad@gmail.com by Friday 13th April 2017. Applicants will receive a response by late April.

Keynote Speaker Information:

Dr Laura Mee is a Lecturer in Film and Television at the University of Hertfordshire. Laura’s research interests are in horror media and adaptation. She has produced a number of journal articles and chapters on these topics, and is the author of Devil’s Advocates: The Shining (2017), as well as is in preparation for her new monograph Reanimated: The Contemporary American Horror Remake (2019).

Dr Johnny Walker is a Senior Lecturer in Media at Northumbria University, he has published widely on horror and exploitation cinema, and is co-editor of the Global Exploitation Cinema book series. He is also the writer of Contemporary British Horror Cinema: Industry, Genre and Society (2015) and co-editor of Snuff: Real Death and Screen Media (2016).