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2 September 2024
Deadline Extension for Special Collection: Graphic Biographical Fiction to 31st October 2024
Posted by The Editors
To allow for more submissions and considering everybody's hectic summer schedule the special issue editors extend the deadline to 31st of October.  We hope this way potential authors feel encouraged to submit their work. If submitting to the collection, please don't forget to mention your submissio…
25 July 2024
CFP - Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley
Posted by The Journal of Flann O'Brien Studies
Brave New Worlds: Brian O’Nolan and Aldous Huxley  7–8 February 2025, Aldous Huxley Centre, Zürich Keynote speakers Dr. Maebh Long (University of Waikato)Editor of The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien and author of Assembling Flann O’Brien Professor Dana Sawyer (Maine College of Art & Desi…
11 March 2024
Call for Comics Studies Book Reviews (Spring 2024)
Posted by The Editors
Thank you for your interest; we'll be contacting those who submitted an expression of interest soon- we have closed this call now. [13 June 2024].   The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship is seeking contributions to its book reviews section.         The journal se…
2 June 2023
Call for Book Reviews 2023
Posted by The Editors
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…
2 February 2023
The Lower Decks: A Symposium on Janeway and Open Access Publishing
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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…
20 September 2022
Deadline Extended for the Conjuring a New Normal Special Collection [15th January 2023]
Posted by Ernesto Priego
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…
4 August 2022
2022 Deadline Reminders!
Posted by The Editors
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 …
23 May 2022
Call for Special Collections!
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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-…
7 April 2022
Call for Papers – Dandelion Special Issue on Creativity as Reparation
Posted by Dr Caroline Edwards
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…
17 December 2021
CFP: The Working-Class Avant-Garde / Deadline: 29 April, 2022.
Posted by Dr Paula Clemente Vega
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 …
11 December 2021
Call for Papers for 6th International Flann O'Brien Conference at Boston College (April 2022)
Posted by Paul Fagan
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…
24 November 2021
Open Submissions Closed Until 1st July 2022
Posted by Ernesto Priego
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…