CFP

Three CFP

1.      Heroes in Popular Culture

Papers can explore any topic relating to heroes and/or prevailing notions of heroism as they present themselves in popular culture. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

-Superheroes and action stars as heroic icons
-Video games and the experience of vicarious/learned heroism
-Connections between violence and heroism
-The gendering of heroism
-Heroines in young adult fiction
-Anti-heroes in media
-Pop culture heroes and religion/mythology
-Hero worship
-Real world heroes in the news and biographies

2.      The Value of Survival

In this panel, we aim at enquiring the ground and role of the value of survival among a plurality of philosophical perspectives.

We encourage abstracts that cover or relate to one or more of the following strands:

•What is the meaning of survival? Is survival a value?
•What is the normative ground of survival?
•Is survival the grounding value of politics? And if so, should it be?
•What is its place among other values? Should it override other moral and political values?
•What is the relation – if any – between individual survival and the survival of the political institution?
•How does the question of survival vary among different traditions in the history of political thought? Can it be considered a modern invention?

3.      Premier Issue: The Politics of Home

For our premier issue, we seek engagements with the home(s)/homelessness in literature spanning all eras.

Topics may include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Representing home/trauma as an illusion
• The discourse of home
• Home as Memory
• The personal and political home
• Colonization/colonialism and the home
• Conflict, identity crisis, and forgiveness within the frame of the home
• Spatial divides within and without the home: Public vs. domestic
• Masculinity and home
• Gender performance/demonstrations of subverting the heteronormative via home

Five Texts/Subjects

1.    X: How to Train Your Dragon 2

Y: Hiccup as a hero; victory in the war; Hiccup’s relationship with his family

2.    X: The Legend of 1900

Y: Danny’s attitude towards 1900; people who leaves the ship; piano

3.    X: The Truman Show

Y: Truman’s escape; the fake world; Laura Linny

4.    X: The Masque of the Red Death

Y: the castle; the Prince Prospero; the clock

5.    X: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Y: Harry Potter; the owl; Quidditch