Here’s a roundup of some recent calls for academic papers:
- Beyond Afrofuturism
- Journal of Science Fiction special issue on Afrofuturism
- Foundation Essay Prize 2018 (for students and ECRs)
- JG Ballard and the Sciences
- Shakespeare and Science Fiction
- 200 Years of the Fantastic: Celebrating Mary Shelley and Frankenstein
- Embodiment in Science Fiction and Fantasy Interdisciplinary Conference
- Teaching Anime and Manga
- Feminism, Gender, and Temporal Belongings in Contemporary US Culture, including feminist imaginaries of time (science fiction, historical fiction)
- “New Ways of Doing Things”: SF, Identity, and World-Making
- Bodies in Transit: Exploring Borderlands in Hispanic Science Fiction Worlds at NeMLA
- Hello Traveler: Essays on 12 Monkeys
- Queer Tolkien Studies at the 2018 Popular Culture Association Conference
- Make America Hate Again: Trump-Era Horror and the Politics of Fear
- Positive Representations of Disability in Postcyberpunk
- Legacies and Lifespans (edited collection on contemporary women’s writing)