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In this special collection, we aim to explore the generative potential of gaming for the humanities. Since the 1990s, scholarly traditions of videogame analysis have emerged, effectively underwriting ‘games studies’ as a growing discipline in its own right. But what does gaming have to offer the mo…

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures…

Call for Submissions   The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction   Special Collection Editors: Nancy Pedri (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) and Maria Juko (Independent …

The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section. The journal seeks 2,000- to 2,500-word scholarly reviews of academic publications on comics and graphic novels, historical to contemporary, global north to global south, in all comics cultures…

Location: Birkbeck, University of London, & streaming onlineDates: 07/09/2023 – 08/09/2023Cost: FreeSign up to attend: https://thelowerdecks.janeway.systems/signupIn celebration of the ten-year anniversary since the launch of the project of the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), an award-winning…

CALL FOR PAPERS Conjuring a New Normal: Monstrous Routines and Mundane Horrors in Pandemic Lives and Dreamscapes  A Special Collection for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship Deadline extended to 15th January 2023 [full paper…

From summer 2022, we will be publishing two issues per volume:Winter – open submissionsSpring/Summer – special collection articlesThe journal has no deadlines for open submissions.Some special collections may have specific deadlines. You will find those in the calls for papers, which we publish in …

The Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) is currently seeking new Special Collections to join our wide array of published research in the Humanities.  OLHJ has published quality, peer-reviewed research across 40 Special Collections since 2016, with subjects ranging from ‘The Working-…

Call for Papers – Dandelion Special Issue on Creativity as ReparationHanna Segal argued that the unconscious driver behind artistic creation is the need to re-create a once loved and once whole, but now lost and ruined object. Creative practice, then, may be driven by an unconscious desire to recre…

Open Library of Humanities Journal Special Collection: Call for ProposalsThe Working-Class Avant-Garde The idea of a working-class avant-garde may seem a contradiction to some. The avant-garde, so often an elite realm of the arts, has proved to favour those with the requisite social, cultural …

6th Flann O'Brien Society Conference in Boston Announced!Call For Papers OpenFlannagain: In Far AmurikeyVI International Flann O'Brien ConferenceBoston College, 6–10 April 2022Call for Papers Deadline: 28 FebruaryKeynotes: Kevin Barry│Maebh Long│Catherine Flynn│Frank McNally│Fintan O'Tool…

This is an update to our announcement of changes in our submission process from 24 May 2021.The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship remains closed for open submissions for the time being. The journal will reopen on 1 July 2022 to receive submissions for the Conjuring a New Normal: Mon…