interdisciplinary

Poetic Responses to Prisons and Policing (SAMLA Panel #19707) - DEADLINE EXTENDED 

CALL FOR PAPERS | ACLA 2027 Virtual Seminar

Seminar Title: Comparative Literature and Commodity Worlds of Mainland Southeast Asia
Co-organizers: Nanthanoot Udomlamun (Kasetsart University) & Chi P. Pham (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
Dates: May 15–16, 2027 (Virtual Sessions)
Co-organizers Nanthanoot Udomlamun and Chi P. Pham invite paper proposals for their seminar at the ACLA 2027 Annual Meeting.

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce the call for papers for the Philosophy of Religion unit at the 2027 American Academy of Religion, Western Region conference, which will be held at The Graduate Theological Union & Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, California, March 19-21. We welcome all papers engaging this year’s conference theme, “Moving Beyond Boundaries and Silos Toward Interconnection and Collaboration,” as well as topics of general interest in the Philosophy of Religion.

The CFP is attached, so is the requisite proposal form. For further information see the American Academy of Religion Western Regional’s website.

CR: The New Centennial Review Special Issue CFP 

“Spirituality, Technology, and Artificial Intelligence”

“Culture,” notes Raymond Williams, “is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language” (87). Its etymological root in cultivation—the tending and propagation of life—signals a resistance to being contained. Classroom pedagogy encompasses various elements into it—mythology, rituals, religion, tradition; movies, songs, literature; fashion, food, art—classifying it as ‘a whole way of life.’ Yet, culture outstrips being merely a way of life; it represents a method of understanding life and saturating existence with meaning.

Silences as Resistance in Public Narratives

Silence is generally seen as something to surmount: we break silence; we give voice to silenced stories; we speak out against injustice. But silence can be a powerful mode of expression in its own right. There is a history of silent protest. Silence can reject dominant expectations or refuse to offer up a story for voyeurism, appropriation, or commodification. It can push reader-listeners to listen for something wordless, to play an active role in striving to understand, and simultaneously to recognize the limits of their ability to understand another person’s trauma. Silence is rarely ever singular.

Concept Note

National Seminar on “Gender-Based Violence in South Asia: Literature, Culture and Media”

- Call for Presentations -  Celebrating Possibility and Empathy in Honors Education

36th ANNUAL BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND

POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCE

MARCH 5–6, 2027

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, ARMSTRONG CAMPUS, SAVANNAH GA

CALL FOR PAPERS

The BCPS Conference, inaugurated in 1992, is the oldest and longest-running annual meetings of its kind in the U.S. We call for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

Recent scholarship in autobiography and life writing has expanded beyond traditional literary forms to encompass a wide range of practices through which individuals narrate, perform, and negotiate their identities. As scholars such as Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson have argued, life writing constitutes not merely the representation of a life but a dynamic process through which identities are constructed, mediated, and made visible within specific social and cultural contexts. Consequently, autobiography has evolved into an interdisciplinary field of inquiry encompassing visual art, graphic narratives, performance, body art, digital media, and other forms of self-representation.

This seminar is about wonder. Specifically, we want to explore how wonder might enliven and invigorate our profession in a time of many pressures, if not crises, in higher education. Why wonder? From the ancients, who claimed that philosophy begins in wonder, to contemporary philosophers like William Desmond, who articulates wonder as a primal experience of “astonishment at the too-muchness of being,” wonder has been identified as a starting point from which to think, and therefore—as we might more closely consider—read, write, and teach. 

In literary fiction, the representation of consciousness has often been understood through what might be called the thought of looking: the ways narrative cognition renders a work into a perceptive, embodied, and self-reflexive experience through language. In cinema, by contrast, cognition typically becomes the look of thought: a mental interiority suggested through framing, editing, gesture, movement, and performance. Interactive stories told in videogames complicate this distinction through their intermedial nature. Games must not only represent what characters think, but also account for the player's "will to activity", translating the audience’s intentions into feedback, movement, and action.

Aging & Social Change: Seventeenth Interdisciplinary Conference, University de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 3-5 November 2027

Twentieth Global Studies Conference, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, 15-17 July 2027