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JOSF Special Issue on Environmental Studies

updated: 
Sunday, September 8, 2019 - 3:25am
MOSF Journal of Science Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 1, 2020

The MOSF Journal of Science Fiction is accepting submissions for a special issue on environmental studies and science fiction to be released in the summer of 2020. 

Call for abstracts - Edited volume: “Trans Identities in the French media”

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2019 - 3:50pm
Dr Romain Chareyron
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

“Transsexualité, transidentité: un tabou français?” (“Transsexuality, transidentity: a French taboo?[1]): such was the title chosen by the online French news magazine France Infofor an article published in 2015[2]that discussed the lack of visibility trans(gender/sexual) people still experience in French society. Indeed, there has been an increasing visibility of trans individuals in film and TV in recent years.

Antebellum City Texts: Print Culture and Emergent U.S. Metropolitan Spaces

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 5:01pm
Brigitte Bailey / Univ of New Hampshire
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Reminder: Call for Papers, for the next NeMLA conference, in Boston, March 5-8, 2020.

NeMLA’s theme this year will be:"Shaping and Sharing Identities: Spaces, Places, Languages, and Cultures"

This is an accepted session.

Antebellum City Texts: Print Culture and Emergent U.S. Metropolitan Spaces   

The Personal is Academic: Affect and Subjectivity in Research and Pedagogy (ACLA 2020)

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 4:09pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

A recent trend has seen many writers create literary narratives that confront twentieth-century events while inscribing into that past the authors’ contemporary selves (e.g.: Binet 2009; Jablonka 2012; Foenkinos 2014). These biographical meta-narratives seem dictated by the impossibility to construct one’s own subjectivity without facing the very notions of civilization and humanity that our violent pasts have reconfigured.

Call for Translations and Translation Studies Scholarship

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 4:08pm
Translation Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2019

Translation Reviewis a peer-reviewed journal committed to publishing the best new scholarship on all aspects of literary translation studies. Each issue highlights a translator in an interview and features articles and essays on the history, practice, and theory of translation, as well as translations of contemporary international writers into English. 

Please see instructions for authors available at the link:

https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=utrv20&page=instructions

The University We Want ACLA 2020 Seminar (Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, March 19-22, 2020)

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 4:06pm
Ian Butcher (Fanshawe College); Robin Sowards (Chatham University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

The University We Want

This seminar asks when we let ourselves engage in utopian thinking, what do we want the university to be? We recognize that the university needs to change, but what should we change it into? How should teaching and learning happen? Who should make decisions and how? What should these institutions identify as their mandate, and how should they exist within their community? What might radical approaches rooted in ecologically responsible practices or decolonization look like?

ACLA2020: Pierogi and Plum Brandy--Cultures of Consumption in Russian & Eastern European Literature (Chicago, 3/19-3/22)

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 4:05pm
Drago Momcilovic
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

From the restorative wines of Marko Kraljevic to the apple wedges festering in Gregor Samsa's back and the grand feasts peppering the novels of Gogol and Dostoevsky, images of food and drink in the Russian and Eastern European literary imagination are tantalizingly abundant. Collectively, they appear in novels, films, folktales and works of art as consumed objects and metonymic representations of the landscapes and human practices that cultivate and prepare them. However, these images also form a constellation of symbols and metaphors through which we can trace the particularities of identity and social belonging, historical experience, and the engagement of the individual with the local and global environment.

Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:57pm
Vivian Kao
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

Call for contributions to an edited collection

Writing STEAM: Composition, STEM, and a New Humanities

Deadline for Proposal Submissions: September 30, 2019

 

Editors: Dr. Vivian Kao, Assistant Professor of Composition, Department of Humanities, Lawrence Technological University; Dr. Julia Kiernan, Assistant Professor of Communication, Liberal Studies Department, Kettering University

 

Contact email: VKAO@LTU.EDU

 

Contra Imperium Forms of Dissent in England 1300-1700

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:51pm
Insubria University, Como, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Dates: 6-7 April 2020

Venue: University of Insubria, Como, Italy

Call for papers deadline: 24th November 2019

Committee: Paola Baseotto (Insubria University), Omar Khalaf (Insubria University), Marie-Christine Munoz-Levy (Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier 3)

Confirmed keynote speakers: Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex) – Alessandra Petrina (University of Padova)

 

Call for Chapter Proposals: Rhetorics of Reproduction: Rights, Health, Justice

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:45pm
Heather Adams and Nancy Myers, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 10, 2019

A kairotic moment, 2019 marks a surge in US state legislatures establishing laws tied to reproductive rights, health, and justice, some of which are intended to challenge and overturn Roe v. Wade. While Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Utah passed bills that limit abortions, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont have established laws protecting abortion access. At the same time, no policy changes to the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits Medicaid coverage of abortion, are in sight. But abortion is just one issue of reproductive rights, health, and justice—concerns that affect people in local, national, and global contexts.

History and the Time of Speculative Ecology

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:43pm
ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

A decade ago, Dipesh Chakrabarty declared in “The Climate of History: Four Theses” that understanding climate change required a transformation in our concept of history. This seminar poses history as a limit-problem for contemporary literary and critical responses to climate change. How do existing responses, in light of their various theoretical provenances, contend with a phenomenon whose nature is diachronically outside an anthropocentric critical framework and irreducible to the terms and temporalities of human history, economics, and social structuration?  Under the heading “speculative ecology,” our panel aims to bring together literary, theoretical, and historical responses to the ecological crisis of our time.

"Are You Game?", issue n°9 of Angles

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:40pm
SAES
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2019

“Are you game?”

 

 

For an upcoming issue of Angles: New Perspectives on the Anglophone World, a peer-reviewed journal indexed by MLA, ERIH-Plus, EBSCO and others, we welcome proposals on “Are you game?”

This issue will be guest edited by Gilles Bertheau (gilles.bertheau@univ-tours.fr).

 

 

Call for papers

 

Poetry and Painting: Conversations

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:39pm
Faculty of English, University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2019

You know how  

I feel about painters. I sometimes think poetry  

only describes.  

                          Frank O’Hara, ‘John Button Birthday’ (1957)

 

The supposed similarity between poetry and painting was famously characterized in Horace's ‘Ars Poetica’ by the dictum ‘ut pictura poesis’ (‘as is painting, so is poetry’). Yet in 1766, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing influentially argued for the limits that condition these different art forms — how could a visual scream ever be rendered linguistically? 

ICMS Kalamazoo 2020: Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:10pm
Danielle Allor / Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2019

Medieval Virtualities (A Roundtable)

A Sponsored Session from the Program in Medieval Studies, Rutgers Univ.

55th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS Kalamazoo), May 7-10, 2020

IX International Gothic Literature Congress: "Internationalizing the Gothic"

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 3:10pm
International Gothic Literature Congress
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2020

IX International Gothic Literture Congress:

“Internationalizing the Gothic”

 

Objective: To continue the study of the plural presence of the Gothic in various modes of art, as well as time and space contexts. 

Dates: December 2, 3 & 4, 2020 (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday).

Place: School of Modern Languages, University of Costa Rica

 

Call for Papers: We are calling for papers centered upon the idea of the Gothic as a timeless and intertextual mode that surpasses the limits of genre and nation.

 

Decolonial Epistemic Resistances and (Trans)local Practices

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 1:43pm
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

We are inviting scholars and graduate students to participate in our seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2020 annual conference, titled “Decolonial Epistemic Resistances and (Trans)local Practices.” This conference will be held at the Sheraton Grand Hotel in Chicago on March 19-22. Please see our seminar description below or via this link: https://www.acla.org/node/26205. The ACLA portal submission is opened until September 23, 2019. You may find more updates via this link about paper submission: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting.

Renaissance Conference of Southern California, 64th Annual Conference

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 12:47pm
Marlin E. Blaine / California State University, Fullerton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 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)

 

Form and Structure in MS Cotton Nero A.x. (A Roundtable) @ ICMS 2020

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 10:59am
Ashley E. Bartelt / International Pearl-poet Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2019

International Pearl-Poet Society

Call for Papers — ICMS 2020

Form and Structure in the Cotton Nero A.x. Manuscript (Roundtable)

ACLA-Snapshots of the Past: Memory and Photography in Literature and Film (Sheraton Grand Hotel, Chicago, 3/19-3/22, 2020)

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2019 - 4:14am
The American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

 

Following the success of previous ACLA seminars, “The Story of Memory: Remembering, Forgetting, and Unreliable Narrators” and “The Story of Remembrance: The Future of Memory and Memories of the Future” in 2018 & 2019, this seminar invites paper proposals to discuss the relationship between memory and photography and its representation in literature and film.

 

The Sacred in Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 4:34pm
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2019

 

 

L’amore, le armi, le stelle : Basinio da Parma and the Humanists at Sigismondo Malatesta’s Court

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:45pm
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2019

By the middle of the fifteenth century Rimini had become a major center of Italian humanism. The cultural patronage of the famouscondottiereSigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417–1468), attracted numerous artists, writers, and scholars, who came to the city and created works for which Rimini is still widely known today. In spite of recently intensified research on this topic, various questions about the philosophical, literary and artistic output of this circle remain open. In particular, the historiography of Rimini itself leaves considerable room for new exploration, and this despite recent work on the architecture and pictural arts of the quattrocento city.

Agamben and Literature (ACLA 2020)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:44pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

Giorgio Agamben is one of the most compelling contemporary theorists of literature. Yet despite ever intensifying interest in Agamben’s work, his studies of literature and poetics remain a less explored dimension of his corpus. This seminar seeks spirited contributions that engage with Agamben’s reflections on literary texts, as well as those mobilising the concepts and interests of his aesthetics into new readings. Papers addressing the connections between literature and other aspects of Agamben’s thought (such as sovereignty and biopolitics) are welcome, as are explorations of his writing’s intellectual and historical contexts – including its affinities with the work of thinkers such as Benjamin, Blanchot, Foucault, Derrida, de Man and Hamacher.

ACLA Panel - Lost in the Archive: Writing and Self-Effacement in Bureaucratic Subjectivities

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:41pm
Alexandra Irimia / Western University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

Clerks, bureaucrats, copyists, scriveners, archivists, bookkeepers – they are, along with the repositories of written facts they work and sometimes live in, organs of the greater corpus of the archive. This human machinery of archons (Derrida) is hidden in full display, at once peripheral and essential to the archive, managing its material flows, embodying the Law, maintaining and guarding the archive’s very possibility of existence.

Decay Theory

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:24pm
American Comparative Literature Association (March 19-22, 2020)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

"Decay Theory" Scholars have recently turned to processes of decay as a way to theorize what has been excluded or marginalized in totalizing formulations of capital, the Anthropocene, and the global. From within these fissures, explorations of decay emerge to challenge hegemonic political orders, tropes of human’s ecological dominance, and ontological or aesthetic stasis. This seminar will bring together these emergent disciplinary perspectives to begin theorizing how decay might reshape our scholarly methods and archives. Decay, we contend, is especially useful to think with because it spans the symbolic (e.g. Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay) and the material (e.g.

“An Ethics of Gender?”

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2019 - 3:23pm
ACLA/ICLA committees on Comparative Gender Studies and Religion, Ethics, and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 23, 2019

ACLA 2020, Chicago, March 19-22, 2020

“An Ethics of Gender?”

A seminar co-sponsored by the ICLA Committee on Comparative Gender Studies and the ICLA Committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature

Organizers: Kitty Millet and Liedeke Plate

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