The Indian River Review is currently soliciting submissions for its sixth issue scheduled for publication in late spring 2019. The theme for this issue is “passion.” Of course, this word immediately proposes romantic passion, and while the editors are not against submissions that go in that direction, submitters should be careful. Think Wuthering Heights or even When Harry Met Sally, not Fifty Shades of Grey, specifically no erotica.

Proposals focusing on print culture, politics and power in South-Asia, including but not limited to Anglophone cultural production and transnational circulation of ideas. 250 word proposals by 5th March to ubhattacharya@uga.edu; gaura.narayan@purchase.edu

CALL FOR PAPERS “Memory and Performance in African-Atlantic Futures” Three-day International Conference31 August - 2 September 2018 – University of Leeds At a time when new dynamics are emerging around the issues of justice (transitional, reparative, etc.), mourning and commemoration in Africa and its diaspora, the conference “Memory and Performance in African-Atlantic Futures” seeks to consider the current historical conjuncture and the extent to which it reveals new questions about memory in the historical, temporal and social contexts of slavery and imperialism. For example, h

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San Francisco State University Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies

Presents its Inaugural International Conference

Forty Years and More: Research in the Emerging Field of Iranian Diaspora Studies, March 28-30, 2019, Seven Hills Conference Center, San Francisco State University

Special Issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, edited by Emily Rutter and Laura Engel

Conference

Saturday 3 November 2018
Corpus Christi College, Oxford

The Rhetoric of Prayer

Call for Papers

Prayers in the literary context are the subject of the CLSG day conference. The full form of the Call for Papers is at http://www.clsg.org/html/conference.html  from where there is a link to a bibliography. The CLSG’s interest is in Exploring Christian and Biblical Themes in Literature.

The conference page will be progressively updated in the period before the conference.

 “Nature is not natural and can never be naturalized” (Graham Harman, Guerilla Metaphysics).

Aporetic Press invites the submission of abstracts for a collection of essays on Arctic and Antarctic Gothic.

Food media have become exponentially popular throughout the 21st century, with growth in the production and consumption of digital ‘food porn,’ cookbooks and content in the food blog- and vlogospheres. Across these diverse formats, food media have long been recognized as artifacts that reference culturally- and historically-specific ideals of gender at the same time that they offer instructional food pedagogies. For instance, scholars have pointed out the links between food preparation rituals and the performance of gender from the hypermasculinization of barbeque to the feminized daintiness of baking desserts, and from ideas about the gendered organization of food labor to the embodied pleasures of food porn.  

CFP for Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies (ISSN: 2324-4895) for Volume 4.2 (June 2018).

Deadline for submissions: March 5th, 2018.

www.aeternumjournal.com

Sweet Home Chicago? Rethinking Blues Literature

MLA 2019

Chicago, IL   3 January – 6 January 2019

What is the current state of Blues Literature? It has been well over thirty years since Houston Baker Jr.’s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1984) put blues back on the critical map. Much has changed since then. Even with innovative interventions in the field (Davis, Bolden, Gussow, McGinley), blues literature has fallen out of vogue within academic circles. This panel seeks to rethink blues literature's critical value.

A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS

“Sports as Art, as Resistance”

Callaloo invites complete submissions for a special issue devoted to the interdisciplinary examination of sports guest edited by Eric Henderson (Stratagem Entertainment), Miya Knights (Middleton-On-Sea, UK), John McCluskey, Jr. (Indiana University), and Pellom McDaniels III (Emory University).

Project Description

Textual Transactions IN NETHERLANDIC LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

3–6 January 2019, Chicago

Session organized by the MLA Dutch Forum

The Modern Language Association is the oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to the study of language and literature in America. For the 2019 convention of the Modern Language Association, the MLA Dutch Forum is organizing a session on the 2019 Presidential theme ‘Textual Transactions’. The convention will be held from 3–6 January, in Chicago.

Anne Gere, the 2018–19 president of the MLA, has chosen Textual Transactions as the presidential theme for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. This is described as follows:

We are seeking chapter submissions for an edited volume that interrogates representations of children and youth’s agency in science fiction and fantasy.  Our collection will explore child and youth agency in the context of “beyond the known.”  Often, children’s agency is viewed as imaginary, given the heightened structures foisted upon them by adults/parents, peers/friends, and institutions/organizations in the real world.  Insomuch as science fiction and fantasy represent liminal spaces with unbounded potential, our book may unearth that child and youth agency is accepted as more real in the unreal, more possible in the impossible.  

Panelists are inviteed to submit thier abstracts in the panel "Print in India" in the 

C P A R A C S I S

Center for Performance Research and Cultural Studies in South Asia

Print Modernities: An International Conference

30, 31August&1September 2018, Thrissur, Kerala, India.