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Special Issue of George Sand Studies, vols. 39-40 (2020-2021) : “Romans fantastiques, contes, légendes, fantaisies”
Edited by I. Naginski (Tufts Univ.) and A. Marcoline (Univ. of Houston-Clear Lake)
Call for Articles
The United States, United States / Dis-United States
What makes us happy and content in our life? Some people may point to fabulous fame, fortune, or money. Some may say that the key to happiness are interpersonal relationships. But what if someone is alone? Is loneliness really disastrous? Are there any benefits of loneliness? Can loneliness become an epidemic? In order to answer such questions, during our conference we will have to concentrate on many particular issues. Thus, we are interested in all aspects of loneliness in the past and in the present-day world.
Organizers / Scientific Committee:
InMind Support (Poland)
Professor Wojciech Owczarski - University of Gdańsk (Poland)
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora - Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (Colombia)
CFP: Migration, Adaptation and Memory
How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities, communities, and memories.
Papers on Language and Literature Special Issue
Decentring the Avant-garde: Landscape, Travel and the (Other’s) Gaze in Experimental Film and New Media
This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.
“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.
The John Dos Passos Society invites papers for its Fourth Biennial Conference, to be held October 8-10 at the Instituto Cervantes in New York City. The setting and venue are eminently appropriate, combining as they do two of the most important places in Dos Passos’s personal and artistic life: Spain and New York City.
EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: November 30, 2019
EXTENDED DEADLINE
CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE ON ASIAN SPECULATIVE FICTION
Vol. 57, No. 1, July 2020
Guest Editors: Susan Philip and Surinderpal Kaur
“Re-visions and Re-imaginations in Asian Speculative Fiction”
BRIDGING CULTURAL BOUNDARIES THROUGH LANGUAGE
MIGRATION AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Sapienza Symposium, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies
28th February 2020
Rome, Italy
Esotericism & Occultism
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED TO WED, NOVEMBER 20
Updated Deadline: 11/20/19
Fifth Annual Post45 Graduate Symposium
February 28-29, 2020
New Brunswick, NJ
Co-Hosted by Rutgers and Princeton University
Keynote Speaker: Rebecca Walkowitz
Additional Faculty Participation by Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah Chihaya, Josh Kotin, Jeffrey Lawrence, Kristin Grogan, Paul Nadal, Christina León and others to be announced.
The Medievalism in Popular Culture Area (including Anglo-Saxon, Robin Hood, Arthurian, Chaucer, Norse, and other materials connected to medieval studies) accepts papers on all topics that explore either popular culture during the Middle Ages or transcribe some aspect of the Middle Ages into the popular culture of later periods. These representations can occur in any genre, including film, television, novels, graphic novels, gaming, advertising, art, etc. For this year’s conference, I would like to encourage submissions on some of the following topics:
UPDATE: DEADLINE EXTENDED - Submissions now due January 10, 2020.
Studies in the Novel is currently seeking submissions for a special issue on “The Postcolonial Novel, Post-9/11,” which will be guest edited by Gaurav Desai (University of Michigan) and published in Winter 2020.
This CFP is for a forthcoming book about enacting transnational pedagogical practice in freshman composition courses. Researchers and teachers are encouraged to email a 500 word abstract to William.Ordeman@unt.edu by December 17, 2019.
William Ordeman is currently a lecturer at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX. He has studied and taught in universities along the US and Mexico border. His research is transnational pedagogy and digital rhetorics. The book will feature several authors each contributing one chapter of about 6,000 words. Please direct questions to the above email address.
Below is the prompt:
American Literature Association
San Diego, CA May 21-24
Religion and Utopia in American Literature
Recent scholarship excavates the politics of religions in American literature but has largely left untreated the utopian quality of religion. In many literary texts, religion provides bases for imagining new social relations. Reading religion as utopian invites us to look anew at the multivalent relations between religion and politics in American literature.
2020 Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize
The journal of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford University Press) is delighted to announce the launch of the 2020 Essay Prize. The Contemporary Women’s Writing Essay Prize aims to encourage new scholarship in the field of contemporary women’s writing, recognise and reward outstanding achievement by new researchers and support the professional development of next generation scholars.
The Bulletin of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies is seeking essays for an issue devoted to examining the recent film Robin Hood (2018), directed by Otto Bathurst and starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, and Jamie Dornan. The journal’s editors are interested in brief, focused, critical essays that explore how the film addresses current issues in medieval studies, including, but not limited to
Call for Papers
Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
41st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2020
Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to November 20th
Call for Abstracts: Representations of Refugee, Migrant, and Displaced Motherhood in a Global Context
Contributions are invited for a scholarly edited collection that aims to explore literary accounts of migrant, refugee, and displaced motherhood in a global context. The collection will look primarily at contemporary writings about migrant motherhood. In a world marked by forced migrations, climate change, and wars, the collection aims to examine writings about the displacement of mothers at the American borders, in the Syrian conflict, and beyond.
CFP for Proposed Volume on Science and Performance
From the Curious to the Quantum: Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance
Editors: Vivian Appler, College of Charleston
Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2020
Deadline for Chapters: December 1, 2020
International Society for Heresy Studies
Fourth Biennial Conference 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
Heresy: Between Choice and Compulsion
CALL FOR PANEL PARTICIPANTS AND PANEL CHAIRS/COMMENTATORS
STREAMS - Transformative Environmental Humanities, Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
5 - 8 August 2020
Nuclear Narratives
The mark of humans may now be read in all earthly things, from the strata of the lithosphere to the upper reaches of the stratosphere. The Anthropocene, as many have proposed we call this too human geological and climatological era, calls for a radical reconsideration of the nonhuman world and humanity’s place within it. Human-induced climate change and the sixth extinction have irreparably harmed nonhuman populations and ecosystems, yet humans must also reckon with the destructive climatic forces for which we are in large part responsible. The nonhuman is at once more vulnerable and more destructive than at any time within human history.
Serial Killers on Screen
(Edited Collection)
Call for Proposed Chapters
In recent years, the media has abounded with stories of serial killers. Esquire magazine notes that 2019 has been a particularly ‘bumper year for [Ted] Bundy’, but numerous other news stories have maintained our perennial fascination with serial murderers. Indeed, the death of Charles Manson (2017), the 2018 arrest and subsequent identification of Joseph James DeAngelo (known as the ‘original night stalker’ and, latterly, the Golden State Killer), and multiple anniversaries, including the Tate-LaBianca murders (50th) and Ted Bundy’s death (30th), have all kept serial killers at the forefront of the public imagination.
This CFP is for a panel proposal titled “Sovereignty at its Limits: Agency and Power in Contemporary Culture ” for CSA 2020 (Cultural Studies Association) in Chicago, May 28-May 30, 2020.
Reading #Instapoetry
University of Glasgow, May 27th, 2020
Deadline for submissions: February 7th, 2020.
Conference organisers: JuEunhae Knox (University of Glasgow) and James Mackay (European University Cyprus)
Call for Papers:
Making Home Away: Displacement, Migration, and Resettlement Symposium
12th June 2020, University of Reading
Call for papers
Making Sense of Violence in the Digital Age
University of Gdańsk (Poland), 24–26 February 2020
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Prof. Jeff Hearn and Dr Nena Močnik
Organizers: Marta Laura Cenedese and Helena Duffy
This two-day interdisciplinary conference is hosted by the AHRC Funded Chronotopic Cartographies project (Lancaster University) in partnership with The British Library. It comes out of primary research into the digital visualisation of space and time for fictional works that have no real-world correspondence. Chronotopic Cartographies develops digital methods and tools that enable the mapping of literary works by generating graphs as “maps” directly out of the coded text.