Career Construction Theory and Life Writing – Special Edition of Life Writing

"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Boundaries, Transgression and Liminality in 21st-Century Scholarship"

Extended call for papers deadline Friday 29th June

UCD Humanities Institute Postgraduate Scholars Conference

Conference date Thursday 27th September 2018

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CFP: Turkish Literature as World Literature

Paranoia in the Americas:

American Anxieties in a Transnational Context

University College Cork

24 November 2018

Hi friends. After getting a very positive response from contributors on the CFP mentioned below, we are thinking of expanding the scope of the anthology. We are open to research papers on the following playwrights. Manoranjan Das, Thoppil Bhasi, BV Karanth, Ratan Thiyam, Gurcharan Das, Balwant Gargi, Bhisma Sahani, Chandrashekhar Kambar, G.P.Deshpande, Asghar Wajahad, Dharamveer Bharati, K V Subbanna, Dina Meheta, Polie Sengupta, Manjula Padmanabhan,
Mahasweta Devi, Bijon Bhattacharya, Utpal Dutt, Manoj Mitra, Arun Mukherjee, Mohit Chattopadhyay.

Please ignore deadlines in the following CFP.
New dates:
Abstract with bio- note - last date 31 May, 2018. Other dates to be notified later.

The AIDS crisis in France and Francophone countries has seen the emergence of a “littérature SIDA,” as well as artistic expressions through various media such as photography or films. On August 23rd 2017, the movie 120 battements par minute (BPM), shed a light on the first years of activism of Act Up-Paris in the early 1990s.  In April 2018, France Culture’s radio show LSD, La série documentaire, dedicated four days to the topic “Quand la création raconte le SIDA.” Despite the medical advances, both the movie and radio show reminded viewers and listeners of a duty to remember the AIDS crisis. This panel will focus on the representations of AIDS and the accompanying activism in literature, cinema and arts from French and Francophone artists.

The Birmingham meeting place of SAMLA 90 and the conference theme, “Fighters from the Margins: Socio-Political Activists and Their Allies,” suggests the extent to which social justice has replaced literary aesthetics as the driving force of literary classroom pedagogy.  While our classrooms may still be filled with analysis of irony, depth, and complexity, it is certainly true that the intersectional barriers to social justice have become an animating force in the analysis of literature.  The questions this panel wants to ask include:

Call for Papers

IJTPS

International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science

https://www.ijtps.com/en/

International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science (IJTPS) is a scholarly journal dedicated to the areas of theology and philosophy. 

This two-day interdisciplinary symposium will look at how American literature was taken up into French culture over a fifty-year period bounded by two defining moments in French-US relations: 1917, when the US entered World War I, and 1967, when NATO troops withdrew from French soil.

The Cine-Files, Issue 14 (Fall 2018)

Special issue on Animals in Cinema

Submission Deadline:  July 30, 2018

The Cine-Files, an online journal of cinema scholarship, is now accepting submissions for its Fall 2018 special issue on animals in the cinema that will be edited by Catherine Grant and Tracy Cox-Stanton. 

We seek submissions for scholarly essays (4000-6000 words) that explore the significance of non-human animals in moving image studies.  These essays will comprise the peer-reviewed, “featured scholarship” portion of issue 14.

INFINITE RUST is Texas Southern University's quarterly online literary arts journal showcasing creative work. We publish short fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and essays, as well as art and photography. The goal of our publication is to assemble a variety of literary and artistic styles and a broad range of voices, perspectives, and life experiences.

The theme of our Fall 2018 issue is “Home.” We are interested in your perspective relating to ideas such as the meaning of home, immigration, marginalization, nationalism, ownership, comfort, security, displacement, boundaries, and identity.

Call for papers – ​Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis​ 1.1 “Practices of Listening”

For the first issue of ​Soapbox​, a graduate journal for cultural analysis, we invite submissions that explore listening as a critical practice. With this topic, we aim to bring together accounts of listening as both a method and object of analysis, including everyday practices and new modes of research that articulate who or what can listen and who or what can be heard.

Call for Papers

The editors invite contributions to Symbolism. An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to pursuing fundamental questions on the forms and functions of the symbolic. Symbolism publishes high-profile research on topics related to the use of figurative language, thought and signification in artistic expression and representation. While maintaining a strong literary focus, the annual also inquires into practices of the symbolic across discourses in media ranging from the cinema and painting to opera, sculpture and other arts.