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Modern Hebrew Literature from a Distance - Chapter submissions for co-edited anthology

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:48am
Nancy Berg, Washington University, St. Louis; Yael Dekel and Adia Mendelson Maoz, The Open Univesrity of Isarel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What can quantification, statistics, and algorithms contribute to our understanding of literary works, trends, or history? How can engagement with data be productive, contributing to traditional research strategies by adding more options of interpretation and analysis? We welcome proposals for an edited volume on the possibilities – and limitations – of applying computational methodologies to the study of modern Hebrew literature from the Haskalah to contemporary times, all genres, including translation studies.

 

Please send abstracts by December 1, 2023 (500 words, and preliminary bibliography) in which you define your project: corpus, methodology, innovation, context, and connection to traditional literary study.

 

NeMLA 2024: El archivo del futuro: memes, influencers y otras narrativas de la viralidad

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
Alexandra Mira
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Este panel invita a explorar la cultura de internet del mundo hispanohablante y sus representaciones en producciones artísticas. El meme fue acuñado por el biólogo Richard Dawkins en 1976 para referirse a la difusión de “tunes, ideas, catch- phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or builduing arches” (249) mediante procesos de imitación. Décadas más tarde, el estudio de Patrick Davison (2012) corroboraría que la idea de “meme” había evolucionado gracias a las redes sociales y había pasado a tener el poder de exclusivamente cumplir un objetivo humorístico. Autores como B. E. Wiggins y G. Bret Bowers (2014) argumentan que la circulación del meme es una herramienta conversacional que alienta la participación de la cultura digital.

Post-COVID Composition NeMLA 2024 Roundtable: Digital Natives and their Discontents: The Post-pandemic College Writing Classroom

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 3:33pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In this roundtable session, we intend to prompt a conversation about the prevailing beliefs concerning “digital natives” in the context of the pandemic-era college writing classroom. As most current college writing students have had some experience, typically for the first time, with online learning in high school during the pandemic, we want to foster a discussion about college instructors’ experiences of their students’ abilities, including the associated opportunities and pitfalls, in attempting to navigate these online academic environments.

Reading the World Computer: Assessing Meaning Making and the Tell-Tale Gender of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Any philosophical consideration of the current zeitgeist requires an assessment of the quasi-object ( Latour 1993) constellation of Artificial Intelligence and its affordances without giving in to either knee-jerk optimism or unchanneled pessimism. For if doomsday was indeed near (as social media discourses want us to believe), and human labour progressively redundant to the machinations of human-made artificial intelligence, what is the limit case scenario, which makes such a provocation real, tangible and material beyond fatalistic projections of obsolescence? How does that reconfigure the idea of the Human as both the object and subject of cybernetic capital?

Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 17, 2023 - 2:25pm
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 9, 2023

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:42pm
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

“This shabby piece of equipment”: Modernism and Artificial Intelligence

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on artificial intelligence in the modernist era. Potential subjects include:

 

Podcasting Culture: Re-inventing Audio Storytelling

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:04pm
Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

In a world saturated with images in which audiovisual storytelling has dominated for decades shaping the aesthetics and expectations of the audience, and in which binge-consuming TV series on digital platforms and homemade videos on social media have become the trend of the last few years, it is quite unexpected to witness the reemergence of a storytelling that resists visual representation.  Of course, audio storytelling is not new; Stories voiced for the ear to listen have been with us since early on, for as long as there have been stories to share. What has changed in recent years, whetting our story-listening appetite anew, are the computing technologies ever rapidly developed for audio production, distribution and reception.

LAST CALL: Digital Humanities (PAMLA 2023 - Portland, Oregon)

updated: 
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 1:59am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

Last call! We are looking for one more presenter to round out our panel. If you are interested, please see details below:

Collaborative Scaffolding: Shifting Perspectives and the Future of Digital Humanities

120th session of PAMLA (all in-person - no hybrid or remote presentations)

Oct. 26-29, 2023 - Portland, Oregon

Special Session - CFP

Translation Review, call for submissions

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 5:43pm
Translation Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 4, 2024

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical problems of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimedia translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. 

The 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences: Fostering Global Resilience through Cross-cultural Collaboration

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 12:03pm
ISCAP The Porto Accounting and Business School
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

II International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences: Fostering Global Resilience through Cross-cultural Collaboration

ISCAP Porto Portugal, 27-28 novembre 2023

Deadline: 15 septembre 2023

 

The conference is an opportunity for academics and professionals with cross-disciplinary interests to share the latest research findings and new ideas (theoretical and practical) related to the cross-cultural contributions of HSS in addressing global issues. The main goal is to contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive development model.

The Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Management, Economics, Cultural and Creative Industries:

JITP General Issue 24: Call for Submissions to The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:57pm
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions: Issue 24, due December 1st, 2023
Call for Submissions: Sections of the Journal

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Issue 24: General Issue

Issue Editors:
Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Cen Liu, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sarah Silverman, University of Michigan-Dearborn

CFP 2023 on General Areas & Local Area Development Research

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:47pm
Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Bhatter College Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies

CFP 2023

General Areas & Local Area Development Research

Under the Continuous Publication Model

Editor-in-Chief:
Dr, Pijush Kanti Khatua,
Principal, Bhatter College, Dantan

We are inviting original research papers on any topic under the following broad disciplines throughout the year. Once the review process of the individual article is completed, we will publish the articles throughout the year. As per the volume of contents, the articles will make an issue. At the end of the year, the issues will be printed as a Volume.

General Areas

Broad Disciplines:

The Postdigital Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:45pm
University of Warsaw
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies

University of Warsaw

Thematic Issue 2024:  The Postdigital Cultures, Aesthetics and Politics

Editors: Spencer Jordan

Associate Professor in Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts, University of Nottingham

Bartosz Lutostański

Assistant Professor, Department of British Culture, University of Warsaw

 

Extremely Online: The Internet and Connectivity in the 21st Century Novel

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 10:00am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Though the Internet has been around since the 1980s, the “Internet novel” as a genre has only really emerged in the last decade or so. We can think of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (2021), Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021), and Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing (2021) as notable recent examples. Each of these novels take as their topic the particular and peculiar confines of the digital world we live in. Lockwood has described this sensation as falling through a “long void that never reaches the bottom,” while Brandon Taylor claims that “the Internet Novel captures some of the weird Gothic horror that white people have come, by way of their new digital Calvinism, to accept as being inherent to digital life.”

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:58am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Twenty-second Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

November 1-2, 2023

THEME: THE IMPACT OF AI ON WRITING AND READING

Wednesday, November 1, 2023, Concurrent sessions

Thursday, November 2, 2023, Concurrent sessions

11 AM EST Plenary session speaker: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2021-23, Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA.

*(Participants not residing in the United States may request a virtual option)

New CFP: The AI Revolution

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:50am
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The themed issue on “The AI Revolution” aims to discuss and disseminate the latest research on the impact of artificial intelligence on human life, its representation in art and literature and its academic possibilities. With our declared orientation to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, the issue will look forward to sharing research on how the Goals can be achieved through holistic multidisciplinary approaches.

Authors from any discipline can submit papers. But the journal will not publish papers that belong purely to the disciplines of science and technology, medicine, and business management. We will publish papers that are interdisciplinary in nature engaging in discussion relevant to humanities and social sciences.

Digital and Humanities Practices Across the Language Curriculum

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:42am
NEMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following roundtable at the NeMLA's 56th convention in Boston (March 7-10) by September 30, 2023. Questions on the roundtable can be addressed to Arianna Fognani (afognani@sas.upenn.edu

FORMAT: Roundtable. Participants give brief, informal presentations followed by an open conversation and debate.  

C19 2024: "The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI"

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 12:17pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 28, 2023

[The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 28th, 2023. If you have questions, please contact markgallagher@ucla.edu]

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the seventh biennial conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists taking place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California.

The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI

'AI and Fandom' special issue, Transformative Works and Cultures

updated: 
Monday, August 14, 2023 - 11:14am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Due in part to well-publicised advancements in generative AI technologies such as GPT-4, there has been a recent explosion of interest in – and hype around – Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies. Whether this hype cycle continues to grow or fades away, AI is anticipated to have significant repercussions for fandom (Lamerichs 2018), and is already inspiring polarised reactions. Fan artists have been candid about using creative AI tools like Midjourney and DALL-E to generate fan art, while fanfiction writers have been using ChatGPT to generate stories and share them online (there are 470 works citing the use of these tools on AO3 and 20 on FanFiction.net at the time of writing).

Surplus Data/Surplus Subjects

updated: 
Friday, August 11, 2023 - 8:03am
Northeast Modern Langauge Assocation (NEMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Subtitled “Surplus Data,” the Winter 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry began by proclaiming that, “It is no longer enough to say that data is big. Data is now in a state of surplus” (Halprin et al. 197). As private and state actors rush to generate ever more surplus surveillance data about consumer-citizens and workers across domains of life, literary scholars are compelled to question how this data is made meaningful and by whom. After all, data never speaks for itself; it must be assigned value and transformed into narratives. These surveillance stories often reify “identities of suspicion” (Monahan), marking marginalized people as themselves surplus subjects.

Premodern Digital Ecologies | 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 9-11, 2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 8, 2023 - 2:56pm
Aylin Malcolm & Andrew Richmond (Co-Organizers), along with Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The intersection of the digital and environmental humanities speaks to our current moment: we live amid ecological changes that we seek to understand, mitigate, and publicize through new technologies. Medieval studies has long been at the forefront of the digital humanities, while ecocriticism and environmental history have advanced our understanding of how medieval people conceived of the nonhuman world. Recently, these threads have come together in adapting modern digital tools to study premodern experiences of local and evolving environments. Our panel centers this exciting area of study in anticipation of a forthcoming issue of Digital Philology on the same topic.

Deadline Extended! Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, August 7, 2023 - 1:14pm
SUNY Council on Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

“Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence” 
Join us October 13–14, 2023, for a virtual conference hosted by the SUNY Council on Writing and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University.

Robot Theater

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:16pm
Chapter submissions for co-edited anthology
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

 

Seeking chapter submissions for a co-edited anthology on "Robot Theater" for consideration with Routledge for Fall 2024.

Abstracts (of approx 300 words) and a short author's bio are to be submitted to Eric Mullis (mullise@queens.edu) or Hilary Bergen (hilary.bergen@gmail.com) by Aug. 15, 2023. 

CFP:

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updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:15pm
2024 EALA Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

2024 EALA Annual Conference

 

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Conference Organizers: ROC English and American Literature Association (EALA, Taiwan) and National Tsing Hua University

 

Date: October 19, 2024

 

Venue: National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

 

 

Artifact & Apparatus 3: Teaching Media Archaeology

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:14pm
Artifact & Apparatus: Journal of Media Archaeology
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

As scholars’ engagement with media-archaeological study have increased, so have students’ interest in the field’s approaches, methods, and philosophies. Many courses on media history and theory today include sessions focused on media archaeology.

Robots, AI, and Labor: On the Future of Work

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:14pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

CFP:

Robots, AI, and Labor: On the Future of Work

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Boston, MA

March 7-10, 2024

 

Extremely Online: The Internet and Connectivity in the 21st Century Novel

updated: 
Friday, August 4, 2023 - 2:13pm
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Though the Internet has been around since the 1980s, the “Internet novel” as a genre has only really emerged in the last decade or so. We can think of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (2021), Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021), and Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing (2021) as notable recent examples. Each of these novels take as their topic the particular and peculiar confines of the digital world we live in. Lockwood has described this sensation as falling through a “long void that never reaches the bottom,” while Brandon Taylor claims that “the Internet Novel captures some of the weird Gothic horror that white people have come, by way of their new digital Calvinism, to accept as being inherent to digital life.”

‘Kommissar Rex!’ The Place, Role, and Representation of Animals in Contemporary Media

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:20am
Galactica Media
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Abstract

In this thematic issue, we explore the place and role of animals in media, their representation and influence in the context of new media, advertising, social networks, films, series, and other forms of media content. Animals hold a significant position in popular culture and have become an integral part of our interaction with the media environment. We invite authors to explore various aspects of the presence of animals in new media and examine the ethical and social questions associated with their use and representation.

 

List of issues for discussion

– Animals in social networks: popular trends and their influence on users;

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