modernist studies

There’s Jove’s “mythy mind” in “Sunday Morning,” Penelope’s meditative compositions in “The World as Meditation,” “Aeneas” bearing his father “from / The ruins of the past” in the uncollected “Tradition,” and a call-out to “Classical mythology” in general as “The greatest piece of fiction” toward the end of Adagia. Stevens invokes “Plato’s ghost” and “Aristotle’s skeleton” in “Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit”; he proposes and describes a “platonic person” in “The Pure Good of Theory”; he points to Plato and cites Socrates throughout his essays and letters. We find him freely, knowingly referring to Callimachus, Democritus, Parmenides, Sappho, Xenophon; to Catullus, Cicero, Horace, Lucretius, Ovid.

Explorations: A Journal of Language and Literature is a peer-refereed online journal published by the University of Opole, Poland (for more information and the current issue see http://www.explorations.uni.opole.pl).

For the next issue of the journal, to be published in December 2024 we invite articles addressing language and literature related topics in an original and innovative way. We welcome interdisciplinary approaches ranging across linguistics, critical theory, literary studies, cultural studies and translation studies (theoretical or applied).

The Kay Boyle Society (https://kbs.hypotheses.org/) invites proposals for papers to be presented at the 2024 American Literature Association in Chicago, IL, 23-26 May 2024.

The Kay Boyle Society invites proposals for papers examining any aspect of Kay Boyle’s life and work that provide fresh insights.

Inflationary Modernities: Literature and Economy after 1789

*deadline extended*

Call for papers for edited collection

Editors: Kieran Brown (Oxford University) and Wayne Stables (University of South Africa)

The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

UPDATE: Deadline extensions.

Modernism between Past and Future

The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)

31 May – 2 June 2024

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keynote Speakers:

Jed Esty (The University of Pennsylvania)

 Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)

Roundtable Speakers from Various Locations

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites presentation proposals for this special panel addressing the relationship of esotericism, occultism, and magic to art, particularly in the context of art history.  A brief panel description is below, but any related proposals will be considered.  Even if your proposal is not selected for this special panel, the Area welcomes any proposals relating to esotericism, occultism, magic, and associated areas of culture.  For further details or to inquire about sending an abstract for this special panel, please contact the Area Chair, Dr.

100 Years of Hemingway's Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923) and in our time (1924)

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Chicago, May 23-26. This year, the Society is interested in abstracts that examine the later periods of Black Mountain Poetry. After the closure of Black Mountain College, the liquidation of the property in 1957, and the folding of the Black Mountain Review in the same year, poets like Olson, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, Ed Dorn, and Larry Eigner had to find new centers of community where they could continue the advances of their experimental poetics. Gloucester, Buffalo, San Francisco, New York, Boston, and New Mexico – different locales became important for fostering exchange for these poets.

The (neo-)historical in British literature and visual arts (20th-21st centuries)

SEAC International Conference

Université de Caen Normandie, 17-18 October 2024

Special guest: Lucy Caldwell, winner of the 2023 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.

Confirmed keynote speakers: Jerome de Groot (University of Manchester) and Diana Wallace (University of South Wales).

CALL FOR PAPERS

vol. 5/2024

Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature is an international multidisciplinary periodical that welcomes for review any innovative and challenging research article encroaching upon the fields of literature, linguistics, philosophy and cultural studies.

The editorial board encourages researchers and young scholars to submit their article proposals that  comprise with the profile of the journal. The proposals can be sent in English, German, French, Spanish, Catalan and Polish. The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished. It should not have been simultaneously submitted for review in any other journal.

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics (Rome, 10th and 11th June 2024)

Sapienza-Silesia Graduate Forum 2024 (37th Cycle of the PhD Programme in Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation)