Happy birthday, Mr. Faulkner!
We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our next colloquium, celebrating the 90th anniversary of Absalom, Absalom!'s publication.
May 2nd and 3rd, 2026, online via Zoom (more info in the image below).
If you like PKD...get involved...
Book review up for this excellent Academic book about end of the world depictions of America in Science fiction across media. We just had Robert on the PKD hangout. Great stuff.
@bobyeates.bsky.social
Amazing to see this issue published! Co heats to @keeblearin.bsky.social Alice Bennett @melissaschuh.bsky.social & @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social
Upcoming PKD Hangouts...Weekly lectures and hangouts for Philip K. Dick and SF fans. Really cool stuff coming up...
A reminder that Foundation is publishing a special autumn issue on pulp sf to mark the centenary of Amazing Stories. We'd love to have your essays (the deadline is potentially negotiable). call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
The first article in our collection 'Gaming & the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Essays on the Last of Us' is out! Bob Yeates deftly critiques the biopolitics of race in #TLOU. It will be followed by work on objects, muscles, infrastructure, linguistic landscapes, and more! 🧟♀️ Congrats Bob👏🏼
Thanks Kate, can't wait to read the other articles!
Only one so far, but more to come!
Someone said that zombie stories — as opposed to vampire stories — do well when a society is grappling with xenophobia. The other — someone less than human — who poses a danger by just existing in your vicinity. The danger is that they will eat you and spread their contagion.
Call for Posters at CCLS2026
📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026:
Do you have a research idea for a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, a tool demo, or an interesting error analysis or negative results to discuss?
Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference!
jcls.io/site/ccls202...
Very happy to say my article on The Last of Us and race has been published by @openlibhums.org, part of their special collection on Gaming and Humanities edited by @katespowage.bsky.social and Adrienne Mortimer: doi.org/10.16995/olh...
The CFP for #CRSF2026 is now live on our blog crsfhome.home.blog!
The theme for this year's conference is Systems and Entanglement 🪢
We're so excited to see everyone's abstracts and proposals!
New Call for Contributors now posted! “Heredity”: A Special Issue of _American Quarterly_. Abstracts due by December 15th, 2025. See full details at americanliteratureassociation.org/calls/calls-...
Pale orange flyer with red lettering that reads "Confronting Race and Racism in the Post-Apocalyptic American City (pre-print) by Robert Yeates"
Survival after the end of the world: This #ResearchSpotlight faces race, racism, and resilience in the post-apocalyptic cityscape. Explore the new horror emerging from the ruins. 🏙️⚡
works.hcommons.org/records/j8jn...
Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the Systems Novel in the Twenty-First Century
Orbit is a peer-reviewed, digitally preserved, open-access journal with no author-facing charges. Part of @openlibhums.org
orbit.openlibhums.org/news/869/
CFP (please share!): Our digital literary heritage is rapidly being lost, from 1990s hypertext sites to 2010s digital humanities projects. _A Field Guide to Modernisms_ seeks to spread awareness, document at-risk projects, and brainstorm solutions.
Abstracts by February 2:
www.shawnaross.com/cfp/.
Latest cfp - special (autumn 2026) issue of Foundation on pulp sf. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/08/...
Image of 'The Empress' tarot card by Pamela Coleman Smith, depicting a figure with long hair, crown, and sceptre. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK.
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
Today was challenging at work, but then I learned my Broadview Anthology of Science Fiction is on the website & ready for pre-order! You can see the contents!
I really hope people find this useful in the classroom, but also just enjoy exploring the stories—& poems! @broadviewpress.bsky.social #SFF
Editorial consultant and director of the Olaf Stapledon Centre, Will Slocombe, has announced a new call for chapters on sf and social problems. See our newsfeed for more details. www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
CFP: Utopian Studies Special Issue - Video Game Utopianism: Form, Narrative, Representation networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
So on Friday @languageinsociety.bsky.social published my new article, Against the Game! It explores toponymic politics in one of the most successful videogame franchises of all time, asking how Civilization players engage with coloniality & placenames 🧵 #Sociolinguistics #PopCulture buff.ly/PiQVW50
Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
Science Fiction Film and Television | Call for Co-Editors
Deadline: 1st August 2025
Find out more and how to apply: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social @baftss-sff-sig.bsky.social @horrorlex.bsky.social
Would you like to edit one of the most prestigious sf journals? (Deadline: 1 June). www.sf-foundation.org/fresh-about
📢Exciting opportunity: @c21literature.bsky.social is seeking a new editor for a three-year term, to start on 19th May 2025
C21, the journal of BACLS, is dedicated to examining the genres, forms of publication & circulation of 21C writings.
More details on the role: c21.openlibhums.org/news/793/
Call for papers: The 43rd Annual West Indian Literature Conference
The University of Miami, Coral Gables
Department of English & Creative Writing and Hemispheric Caribbean Studies
October 8-11, 2025
More information available in the link: www.jwilonline.org/call-for-pap...
Matthew Leggatt, a senior lecturer in English and American literature @uniwinchester.bsky.social spoke to New York–based news website Business Insider about how the state of world politics explains the success of post-apocalyptic TV shows like Paradise. Read the article here tinyurl.com/2jd3nyvt