CFP ARCHIVE

This is the archive of past calls for papers and other submissions.

Here you can find information on what kinds of calls have gone out in the past from publications, conferences, etc. for given types of work.

Dec 16, 2020
1 min

CFP: For an edited collection on Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra

Deadline: January 19th, 2021 Contact name: Dr. Francis M. Agnoli Contact email: atla.edited.collection@gmail.com Nickelodeon’s Avatar:...

Dec 16, 2020
3 min

CFP: Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Comics (June 3-4, 2021)

Deadline: Friday, January 1st, 2021 Conference: University of Alberta (virtually), June 2-4, 2021 The Canadian Society for the Study of...

Dec 16, 2020
2 min

CFP: UnDisciplined Graduate Conference (Queen's University, April 24-25, 2021)

Deadline: December 31st, 2020 Conference: Hosted virtually by Queen's University, situated on unceded Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee...

Dec 11, 2020
2 min

CFP: Together Apart: DIY Culture, Alternative Spaces, and Collaborative Place-Making

Deadline: February 1, 2021 Symposium: May 21, 2021, Ryerson University, Toronto. As part of La Station x Long Winter Toronto: the second...

Dec 4, 2020
4 min

CFP: Genoa Unconference 2021

Radical Film Network – Call for Unconference participants, Genoa 21-26 June 2021 After a forced hiatus in 2020, Genoa will host the...

Dec 4, 2020
4 min

CFP: Mise Au Point (n°16): Analysing intersectionality in cinema

Analysing intersectionality in cinema. Circulation of a concept, in France and the United States A concept coined in 1989 in American...

Dec 2, 2020
1 min

CFP: Deadline extended for MIGC 2021!

The Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)'s 16th annual conference deadline for paper submissions has been extended to...

Nov 26, 2020
3 min

CFP: The Witch Institute (Queen's University, August 2021)

Deadline: January 25, 2021. August 16-22, 2021; Virtual Event Queen’s University* Katarokwi/Kingston, Canada *Queen’s University is...

Nov 5, 2020
4 min

CFP: Nouvelle Vues: Issue 22 (Spring 2021): Intercultural Encounters

Deadline: December 1, 2020. In an 2008 essay, Denis Bachand declared that interculturality was one of the two most prevalent tendencies...

Nov 5, 2020
3 min

CFP: MIGC 2021: Catalyst (Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference 2021)

When: February 4-7, 2021. Submission Deadline: December 1, 2020. A catalyst, something that spurs or enhances the speed of a reaction,...

Oct 28, 2020
1 min

Calls for Papers on the New Grad Aperture Site!

Hi Grad Ap Users! Welcome to the new site and the new Calls for papers section, it may look a bit barren now but it'll fill out pretty...

Apr 15, 2019
2 min

CFP: Backward Glances 2019: REBOOT (Northwestern’s Graduate Student Conference)

When: September 27-28, 2019 Submission Deadline: June 15, 2019 Fuller House, Twin Peaks, Spiderman, Roseanne, The Twilight Zone, Tomb...

Apr 2, 2019
4 min

CFP: Media Culture of the (Inter/Anti)Imperial Pacific – DUE APRIL 30

The Media Fields Editorial Collective at the UC Santa Barbara Department of Film & Media Studies is currently accepting submissions...

Mar 19, 2019
2 min

CFP: University of Pittsburgh’s Graduate Film Conference, “Limits of Cinema/Cinema Limit

When: September 27-28, 2019 Keynote: Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University) The cinematic medium has been historically shaped through...

Feb 21, 2019
4 min

Call for Submissions: Animating LGBTQ+ Representations: Queering the Production of Movement

Submissions are now open for the upcoming special issue of Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, “Animating...

Jan 2, 2019
2 min

Call for Papers: Harvard’s Graduate Conference “Bad Romance: The Ethics of Love, Sex, an

Where: Harvard University When: March 29-30, 2019 Proposals Due: January 15, 2019 Keynote Speaker: Nancy Bauer ( Tufts University) Panel...

Oct 17, 2018
2 min

Call for Papers! Queen’s University: Context and Meaning XVIII: Pay Attention

Deadline to Submit: Friday, November 16, 2018 The Graduate Visual Culture Association of Queen’s University are pleased to announce the...

Sep 28, 2018
3 min

CFP: Queer Television: Representations, Forms, Fandom

International Conference Queer Television: Representations, Sensibilities, Forms, and Fandom The international conference Queer...

Sep 20, 2018
2 min

Call For Panels: Expanding the Frame: Ethnographic Film and its Others

CALL FOR PANELS (Deadline September 30, 2019) As part of the 16th RAI Film Festival taking place from the 27-30 March 2019, the Royal...

Sep 10, 2018
1 min

CFP: McGill Queer Research Colloquium

The Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (IGSF) invites proposals for the third annual McGill Queer Research Colloquium...

Sep 3, 2018
3 min

CFP: “From Spectacle to Entertainment” (Deadline Extended to September 16th, 2018)

CALL FOR PAPERS From Spectacle to Entertainment: Cinema, Media and Modes of Engagement from Modernity to the Present XXIV International...

Feb 3, 2018
2 min

CFP: Fandom and Politics (Submissions due: January 1st, 2019)

We have entered an historical moment in which political communication is filled with fandom. Grassroots fan communities mobilize to...

Feb 3, 2018
2 min

CFP: The Postwar Films of Luis Buñuel (Deadline for submissions: February 15, 2018)

CFP: The Postwar Films of Luis Buñuel, for edited volume on Surrealism and Film After 1945 Following World War II a diverse and intense...

Feb 3, 2018
3 min

CFP: “Stars and Screen” (Proposals due June 15, 2018)

CALL FOR PAPERS Film and Media History Conference September 27-29, 2018 Rowan University Glassboro, NJ “Stars and Screen” The “Stars...

Jan 17, 2018
4 min

CFP: Special Issue of Synoptique | “Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological C

Call for Submissions: “Becoming Environmental: Media, Logistics, and Ecological Change” Special Issue of Synoptique: An Online Journal...

Dec 30, 2017
2 min

CFP – Madness, Mental Illness and Mind Doctors in 20th and 21st Century Pop Culture (Proposals

Madness, Mental Illness and Mind Doctors in 20th and 21st Century Pop Culture Interdisciplinary Conference 3rd and 4th May 2018...

Nov 23, 2017
1 min

CFP: Works-in-Progress (WIP) workshop series welcomes applications (Deadline: January 5, 2018)

The Work-In-Progress (WIP) workshop series at the Global Emergent Media (GEM) Lab in the Film department at Concordia now welcomes...

Nov 23, 2017
3 min

CFP for Academic Anthology – Supersex: Essays on Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero (Mar 31 2018)

CFP for Academic Anthology Supersex: Essays on Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero Within the superhero genre, sexuality has often been...

Nov 23, 2017
2 min

CFP: The Art of Passage – Transnational Encounters and the Convergence of Cultures (Deadline:

Currently accepting abstract submission for the 5th Annual Wollesen Memorial Graduate Symposium, hosted by the Department of Art and the...

Nov 23, 2017
1 min

CFP: Found Footage Magazine Issue #5 (Deadline: July 15th, 2018)

Printed film studies journal Found Footage Magazine has just released its 5th issue’s Call for Papers. Found Footage Magazine is a...

Oct 29, 2017
2 min

Special Issue CFP – Feminist Media Histories: Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media (Due Dec.

CALL FOR PAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue: Sex and the Materiality of Adult Media Guest Editor:...

Oct 9, 2017
3 min

CFP: Society for Animation Studies Conference June 2018, Montreal (Deadline: December 15)

SAS @ 30: Then | Now | Next Call for Papers Conference: June 19-21, 2018 Emerging Researchers Seminars & Workshops: June 18, 2018...

Oct 9, 2017
1 min

Call for Proposals: Works-in-Progress Workshop Series (Deadline: October 16)

Works-in-Progress (WIP) workshop series: Call for Proposals Organized by: Patrick Brodie, Viviane Saglier, and Patrick Brian Smith GEM...

May 17, 2017
1 min

CFP: UdeM Arts and Media Symposium – “The consumed image: excess, limits and transformat

5th Annual Arts and Medias Symposium of the University of Montreal November 16-17, 2017 The organisation committee of the Arts and...

May 17, 2017
2 min

CFP: 19th Annual SFSU Cinema Studies Graduate Conference (Deadline: July 25)

Presented by: Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association, San Francisco State University Dates: October 19 + 20, 2017 Keynote Speaker:...

Apr 26, 2017
1 min

Concordia’s Film and Moving Image Studies journal Synoptique launches issue 5.2 “Cinema and Technolo

Concordia doctoral students Jordan Gowanlock and Theo Stojanov are joined by Université de Montréal colleague Philippe Bédard as issue...

Feb 3, 2017
3 min

UPDATED DEADLINE: CFP: “Trauma & Melodrama: Emotions in the Public Sphere” –

13th Annual Graduate Student Conference in the Department of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Chicago April 21-22, 2017 (Deadline...

Jan 24, 2017
1 min

CFP: “Rough Cuts // Short Takes” – Concordia Film Studies and Film Production Mast

The Concordia Graduate Film Studies Student Association invites Masters students of Film Studies and Film Production to participate in...

Jan 24, 2017
1 min

CFP: Concordia Graduate Symposium in the Dep. of Education – “Outside the Box: Educating

The Department of Education cordially invites you to participate in Concordia’s annual Graduate Symposium in the Department of Education,...

Jan 24, 2017
3 min

CFP: Annual Sensorium Grad Student Symposium – York University, Toronto

Frequencies: Patterning Interconnectivity & Networked Temporality In both historical and contemporary contexts, the development of new...

Jan 13, 2017
1 min

CFP: Transgressing the Nation-State: Challenging the Constructs of Canadian Identity

As Canada approaches the 150th anniversary of Confederation, it is important to ask: how are systems of colonialism, racism, sexism, and...

Jan 13, 2017
2 min

Special Topic CFP: Journal of the Reception Study Society – Due 15 Apr 2017

Reception: texts, readers, audiences, history The Journal of the Reception Study Society are pleased to announce that the next...

Dec 13, 2016
2 min

CFP: InVisible Culture no. 27: Speculative Visions

For its twenty-seventh issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works...

Nov 30, 2016
1 min

CFP: Environments and the Ecological Self – 11th Visual and Cultural Studies Grad Conference a

“Environments and the Ecological Self” 11th Visual and Cultural Studies Graduate Conference University of Rochester April 6-7, 2017 The...

Nov 23, 2016
1 min

CFP: Television Forms and Platforms in the Digital Age conference, March 17-18

Television is characterized by instability: it is not the product of a single inventor, nor is it a medium that has come to be considered...

Nov 18, 2016
2 min

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Screening Scarlett Johansson – Gender, Genre, and Celebrity

Monash University’s School of Media, Film and Journalism invite chapter proposals for an edited collection on the intersection of...

Nov 18, 2016
2 min

CFP: Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse – University of Western Brittany – March 8-10, 2017

Imag(in)ing the Apocalypse University of Western Brittany, March 8-10 2017 “When Armageddon takes place, parking is going to be a major...

Nov 18, 2016
2 min

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS: Women Who Kill in English-speaking Cinema and TV

CALL FOR CHAPTERS Women Who Kill in English-speaking Cinema and TV Series of the Postfeminist Era Within the fields of film and...

Nov 18, 2016
1 min

CFP: UCSB Media Fields Conference, RUINS – April 6-7, 2017

Media Fields Journal is happy to announce the CFP for its biennial conference, taking place on April 6 and 7, 2017. This year, the...

Nov 16, 2016
2 min

CFP: 2017 FSAC congress in Toronto, Ontario looks at “From Far and Wide: The Next 150”

CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS FOR FSAC 2017 May 27 – May 29, 2017 Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social...