Call for Chapter Proposals

The Howard University Graduate English Student Association’s 5th Annual Conference

Forging Identities: Agency, Voice, and Representation in African American Literature and Beyond

Deadline for Submissions: December 2, 2019

Conference Date: March 26 and 27, 2020

Conference Location: The Browsing Room of Founders Library, Howard University

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Keith D. Leonard, Author of Fettered Genius

CFP:

   In our modern world, which some have argued to be disjointed while immersing itself ever deeper in crisis, the turning back towards “the olden days” and the ensuing nostalgia constitute a noticeable phenomenon, both individually (the memory of biography) and collectively (the memory of History). Another important – and seemingly also quite noticeable – phenomenon  is the longing for something vague, indefinite or never existent.

Call for Chapters

I’m considering chapter proposals received by November 1st for MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula.  If interested send a proposal/abstract and abbreviated cv along with any questions about the volume in a reply with the Subject Heading Approaches to Teaching Bram Stoker's Dracula to:

William Thomas McBride
Department of English
Illinois State University
336 Adlai Ewing Stevenson Hall
Campus Box 4240
Normal, Il 61790-4240

44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference

April 2-4, 2020

Orlando, Florida

Deadline: November 1, 2019

Disability in Dramatic Texts and Performance

Papers are sought for a special panel series on the subject of disability in dramatic texts and performance. We invite research utilizing Disability Studies in any dramatic period. Panels will showcase discussions on representation, image, symbolism, societal regulation or construction of disability, casting, and depictions of the disabled in playtexts and dramatic performance.

Seeking abstracts on papers on speculative fictions by writers of color for a panel at MELUS 2020. Please send an abstract (200-300 words) and a short bio to sd3188@nyu.edu and ml973@english.rutgers.edu by October 26th, 2019

Renaissance Conference of Southern California

64th Annual Conference

Saturday, 21 March 2020

The Huntington Library and Gardens

Pasadena, CA

PLENARY ROUNDTABLE

Interdisciplinary Research and the Renaissance: How to Do It 

Amy Buono (Art History, Chapman University)

Katherine Powers (Music, California State University, Fullerton)

Martine van Elk (English, California State University, Long Beach)

Life After the Fall: Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imaginary Department of English Thirteenth Graduate Student Conference University of Ottawa February 28th- March 1st 2020

We are most interested in thinking about how ruins might be figured not only as the ending of something, but also as the beginning of something else.

Hannah McGregor, Julie Rak, & Erin Wunker, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins

And on the Pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works ye Mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”

Call for Papers: Cultural Adaptations

PCA/ACA (2020 National Conference, April 15-18/ Philadelphia, PA) Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association

In his book The Racial Contract (1997), the African American philosopher Charles W. Mills describes how western white supremacy has created a system of unnamed power that carries with it a social and political structure conducive to the full exercise of a racialised State and judicial system, capable of determining, and legislating over, the life and death of the bodies it subjugates. It is in this sense that Whiteness, as an established power system, can determine, in those countries with a history of slavery and colonialism, the hegemony of ‘Whites’ in all spheres of society, in contrast to the imposition of a marginalised and lesser social place upon the racialised bodies of ‘Blacks’, ‘Latinos’ and other non-white minorities.

Southeast Asian Media Studies
Volume 2, Issue 1, April 2020“Critical Mass Media Histories in Southeast Asia”

Editor: Atoy M. Navarro, Thammasat University, Thailand

Deadline: 31 December 2019

OBJECTIVE

This first issue of the second volume of the Southeast Asian Media Studies aims to provide a collection of research articles on Critical Mass Media Histories (CMMHs) in Southeast Asia.

Call for Papers

Cinema and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

International Conference

November 29-30, 2019

University of Palermo, Department of Architecture, viale delle Scienze

Room 1.3 and 1.4, Main Building

Deadline for proposals: November 6, 2019

I am editing the Handbook on Vegan Studies. Handbooks are typically 30-35 chapters, with each chapter being roughly 6000 words. They aim to provide a cutting edge, comprehensive assessment of the field and will be an essential reference title and benchmark publication for the subject. 

I am seeking proposals for chapters for the handbook that reflect knowledge of the field of Vegan Stydies and that build on extant work in the discipline.The proposal has gone through an initial round of posiitive peer review, with all reviewers recommeding publication. At present, the project has 32 committed contributors, and I am seeking absracts for 6 additioanl chapters. These are: