Deadline for submissions: September 1, 2017
Full name/name of organisation: McFarland and Company
Contact email: david@davidkrell.com
McFarland and Company invites baseball writers to contribute abstracts for an essay collection presently titled The New York Yankees and Popular Culture.

Writers are encouraged to submit their own topics for consideration. Possible topics include:

• Yankees in Advertising
• History of WPIX
• The fight between Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson on the Game of the Week
• Buster Keaton’s film The Cameraman featuring a sequence at Yankee Stadium
• Yankees and Seinfeld
• McFarland is a leading publisher of books and journals in sports history, including Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game and Black Ball: A Negro League Journal.

The deadline for abstracts is May 10th. Abstracts can be no longer than 500 words. A paper’s length should be 6,000–9,000 words. Deadline for papers is September 1st. Abstracts and inquiries should be sent to David Krell at his email address david@davidkrell.com. He is the author of the 2015 McFarland book Our Bums: The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture.

More information on McFarland can be found at the web site mcfarlandpub.com.

Deadline for submissions: May 21, 2017
Full name/name of organization: Emily Butler-Probst/ Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
Contact email: emily.butlerprobst@colorado.edu
This session welcomes papers that explore the nature of sight and touch as sources of knowledge in American literature. Papers analyzing the use of touch as a means of resolving doubts about visual knowledge or the different implications of gathering knowledge through sight as opposed to touch are particularly encouraged.

This session will focus on American works that explore the range and limitations of knowledge gained by sight in contrast to the knowledge gained through tactile contact. Ellen Spolsky notes in Satisfying Skepticism that individuals seek to overcome gaps in existing knowledge by incorporating the information gained through other senses, adding sight to hearsay and touch to visual knowledge when sight does not satisfy existing doubts. While multiple forms of sense input may potentially bridge the gaps in knowledge, these differing forms of knowledge are also profoundly different and may themselves create different, conflicting forms of knowledge. As Lisa Ann Robertson explains in “‘Universal Thump’: The Redemptive Epistemology of Touch in Moby-Dick,” Ishmael’s knowledge gained through sight causes him to analyze and dissect Queequeg’s cultural otherness as opposed to the knowledge he gains through physical contact with Queequeg that enables him to embrace Queequeg’s culture. Because different forms of sense input can offer differing knowledges, this panel would welcome any essays that explore the knowledge gained through sight and touch individually as well as projects on the discrepancies or doubts that arise when the knowledge gained through touch is incompatible with preexisting knowledge gained through sight.

This panel is part of the 115th annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language (PAMLA) conference which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from Friday, November 10th until Sunday, November 12th. To submit a proposal for this session, please go to https://www.pamla.org/2017/topics/epistemologies-sight-and-touch-america…. Once you have created an account you will be able to use the online submission system to submit a proposal.

Deadline for submissions: May 11, 2017
Full name/name of organization: Documenting the Media Revolution through Fake News
Contact email: willmelikyancfp@gmail.com
Given the current developments in our society, Glendale Community College has decided to host their very first Call for Papers in a discussion of fake news. There is a prompt provided below, but you are not limited to the provided discussion points. This conference serves not only as a presentation of facts, but also a platform to express opinions and beliefs on the possible solutions to recognizing and avoiding fake news. Please submit a brief one paragraph summary of your essay describing the topics you will cover as well as an additional bit of background information about yourself. If your presentation requires any technological accommodations, please make note of it in your background information. If you have any questions, feel free to email willmelikyancfp@gmail.com for further assistance.

FAKE NEWS

1) In 2016, deliberately untrue news articles became a cause for concern. What are some examples of fake news articles, and what damage are they believed to have done?

2) Do fake news articles have First Amendment protection? Is there, legally speaking, any difference between fake news and satire?

3) What are large internet companies, government, and other major institutions doing to lessen or eliminate fake news?

4) What can you do to make sure that the news articles you read are grounded in fact?

Deadline for submissions: June 29, 2017
Full name/name of organization: MAPACA / Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, War Studies Area
Contact email: redmanx999@gmail.com
2017 Conference of Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAP/ACA)

MAPACA War Studies Area

Thursday, November 8 — Saturday, November 11, 2017
Sonesta Philadelphia Downtown
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposals due to http://www.mapaca.net by June 29, 2017

War has been one of the few constants in human history, waged by nations, tribes, and other factions for numerous reasons—some valid and noble, some questionable. This area will feature papers that explore the ways that wars—declared and undeclared, just and unjust, sacred and profane, fictional and “real”—have impacted the social, economic, technological, ideological, and other aspects of culture.
Special Panel for the 2017 Conference

War Games: Exploring How and Why We Play At War

This panel will feature papers on how and why Americans are fascinated with war-themed “gaming,” considered broadly: from board games, strategy games, role-playing games and paintball / Airsoft to first-person shooter videogames Call of Duty and Overwatch. We invite papers from diverse perspectives to examine “war games” and their complex cultural implications.
The War Studies Area also welcomes general proposals including, but not limited to, the following topics for the 2017 conference:

War on television
War in prose fiction, poetry, or drama
Documentaries and war
Technology and war
War and gender
Aspects of journalistic coverage of war
The “War on Terror” and popular culture
War and popular music
Cultural productions of protest / anti-war movements
War and race
War and ethnicity
War in minority discourses
Marxist approaches to war
War and psychoanalysis
Trauma and war
Language and war
Oral histories of war experiences (both “combat” and “home front”)
War in science fiction or fantasy
Queer approaches to war
Visual art and war (including historical approaches)
War in video or role-playing games
Blogging / Social Networking / New Media and war
War as metaphor
War and museums
War memorials

Please submit 300 word proposals online at http://www.mapaca.net and select “War Studies” as the Area for consideration.

Proposals must be received by June 29, 2017 to be considered for the conference.

Information on the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAP/ACA) is available at http://www.mapaca.net; information on the 2017 Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association is available at http://www.mapaca.net/conference.

Deadline for submissions: May 1, 2017
Full name/name of organization: American Literature Association
Contact email: leticia.p.alonso@jsums.edu
This panel explores the sense of place as part of the indigenous language of American artistic production of Modernism in the context of the European avant-garde. Though U.S. poets and artists were influenced by the formal techniques of Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism, Dadaism and Surrealism, they were also determined to search for the essence of an expressive language that defined its authenticity as opposed to European foreignness. One of their avenues of research was the exploration of the distinctive features of the American soil as a means of contributing novel aspects to modern aesthetics. The genuine character of the environment is closely linked to the strong attachment to rural or urban spaces and the value they acquire for the observer. In this regard, the American Modernists engaged in the project of unearthing the specificity of their native land as a means of defining their national identity. This is noticeable in the group of the Precisionists led by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler, who helped poets to see the sense of place and transcribe it in their own words. For instance, William Carlos Williams and Hart Crane took the cityscape painting of Charles Sheeler and Joseph Stella to record urban architecture as part of U.S. culture. In this same vein, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens and Robert Frost promoted natural spaces in their poetry, just as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley and Georgia O’Keeffe gave visibility to regional settings in their artistic production. Abstracts for papers that examine the sense of place underlying the American poetic and visual art are welcome to participate in this session. Topics might include, but are not limited to the following:

—The impact of European experimental language on the rise of an American artistic expression rooted in the autochthonous soil of the U.S.

—The role of twentieth-century print culture and the press to promote the “Americanness” of Modernism.

—The creation of coteries and galleries that raised awareness of the necessity of developing a consciousness for the native land.

—Representations of the natural and technical sublime in the U.S.

—Ethnicity and the sense of place in the Harlem Renaissance.

—The regional poetry of Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens.

—Sherwood Anderson’s poetry and the place of an American Indian past.

—Urban architecture and industrial landscapes in Precisionist art and the poetry of Williams Carlos Williams.

—The local painting of Arthur Dove and Marsden Hartley.

—The import of women poets and artists such as Marianne Moore and Georgia O’Keeffe in marketing the American soil.

By May 1st, 2017, please submit a 300-word abstract along with a short biography to Leticia Pérez Alonso, Jackson State University, at leticia.p.alonso@jsums.edu.

For further information about the conference “Regionalism and Place in American Literature,” see the following link: http://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-symposia/regionalism-and-place-in-american-literature/

Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2017
Full name/name of organization: National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine
Contact email: npf.paideuma@gmail.com
The Editorial Collective of the National Poetry Foundation invites paper and panel proposals for the last in our sequence of “decade” conferences, to be devoted to the Poetry and Poetics of the 1990s, American and international, and to be held from Wednesday to Sunday, June 28 – July 1, 2017, on the flagship campus of the University of Maine System in Orono, Maine.

The NPF welcomes paper and panel proposals on any and all aspects of poetic practice in the decade of the 1990s. What emerged? What changed? What happened just out of frame? What connections brought poetry into dialog with other fields? What social and political contexts mattered most? What of the present can be traced back to that moment? What poets, poetic formations, tendencies in poetics warrant our continued attention? What accidents of reception might we now revisit and perhaps repair?

Prospective participants are encouraged to draw on the full range of archival resources in conceiving their projects, including the digital audio, digital video, and digital facsimile holdings now widely available on-line. Panels and papers that foreground the diversity of poetry practices and communities in the 1990s are especially welcome.

As with previous NPF conferences, the scholarly presentations and panels will be amply supplemented by a variety of poetry readings, including plenary readings by notable figures associated with the decade being explored. Small-press publishers are also invited to take part in the conference-related bookfair.

Paper proposals consisting of a title and a brief (approx. 300 words) abstract should be directed to the NPF Editorial Collective at npf.paideuma@gmail.com.

Panel proposals should include a brief rationale for the envisioned grouping. Proposals for alternative forms of intellectual practice/presentation, such as roundtables or seminars, will be read with interest.

The extended (and firm) deadline for proposals is April 15, 2017.

For more information visit https://nationalpoetryfoundation.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/cfp-the-poetry…