modernist studies

South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference, 15-17 November 2024 (Jacksonville, Florida)

Guest Editor: Dr. Nefise Kahraman (University of Toronto)

From Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs to Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, and from Carol Shields's Unless to Sabahattin Ali's Madonna in a Fur Coat (Kürk Mantolu Madonna), translator and interpreter characters populate fictional works both on screen and on the page. The Journal of Literary Studies: Nesir's seventh issue is dedicated to exploring the role of translators and interpreters in contemporary society as represented in literature and films.

The seminar, "Modernisms," is accepting abstract proposals (until June 16) for the 2024 PAMLA conference in Palm Springs, CA in November! 

If you have a new project on anything related to modernism that you wish to discuss in a low stakes, generative seminar group, please apply at the link below. 

The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society

20-22 September 2024

St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Call for Papers

This session will explore various representations of neurodivergence (autism, ADHD, personality disorders, anxiety, and depression, etc.) in literature, film, and rhetorical narratives. We are interested in proposals where depictions of neurodivergence are demystified, challenged, or elaborated upon: these discussions can explore uplifting, renewed, and positive depictions of neurodivergence, as well as discourses on problematized and stereotypical depictions. We ask that you highlight the strengths, setbacks, and possibilities associated with neurodivergence as depicted in literature, film, and other media.

Some examples of topics of interest include:

· Ableism and discrimination

The Center at West Park (CWP) is hosting Dalloway Day - a celebration of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway - on June 21st. The event, beginning at 5pm, will feature a mini-conference session (approximately 2-hours) and a film screening.

We would like to invite interested parties - established and emerging scholars, students, and general readers - to submit proposals (200 to 300 words) for 15 to 20 minute papers on the novel or aspects of Woolf’s work.

Please send proposals to charlotte.fiehn@yu.edu.

If you’re interested in attending the event without presenting, we’d also love to add you to the mailing list for the event. 

Sophia Lucid invites academic research papers from teachers and researchers across universities, colleges and research institutes in India. The fourth issue (Volume IV, Issue I) on “Artificial Intelligence, Technology and Society” invites scholars to rethink the existing paradigms, perspectives and compendium of knowledge on this broad area, through the disciplines of humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. An interdisciplinary discussion of ideas and concerns is highly recommended. Moreover, paper submissions must be original, contemporary and relevant, in providing a quality contribution to the existing body of knowledge. A list of suggestive areas is given below.

Sub themes:

In the last few decades, scholars in the Humanities have found it necessary to examine the fundamental underpinnings upon which their disciplines are built. One of the primary questions that animated this re-examination has been regarding the very terms of our engagement with countries and communities that inhabit radically  different  social  and moral life-worlds, living as they do outside the orbit of European Enlightenment values that still regulate both organization and practice within and outside the academy, across the world.

In order to contribute to the duty of remembrance for the eightieth anniversary of France’s Liberation, FoReLLIS, MIMMOC, and Criham, research centres at the University of Poitiers, are organising, in partnership with Archives Départementales de la Vienne, CultureLLe, VRID-le Musée, M&V, Espace Mendès-France and Maison de la Poésie, a week of events around the Second World War from 7 to 11 October 2024. An international, multidisciplinary conference will be held from October 10 to October 11.

DEADLINE EXTENDED:  JUNE 16, 2024

PAMLA 2024:  Palm Springs, November 7-10, 2024 "Translation in Action"

Translation as an Art of Failure

CFP for PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Thursday November 7 through Sunday November 10, Palm Springs, California (Margaritaville Resort) 

Session Title: The Concept of Visual Translation, Johanna Drucker, Chair 

Abstract: The translation of texts is a familiar, if fraught, act that is the subject of considerable thoughtful examination. But is there an equivalent for visual works? This panel looks at examples of cross-cultural or temporal reworkings of images to challenge certain assumptions about self-evident nature of images and even of vision itself. 

CFP: The Atmospheres and Ambiences of Modernist Literature

Université Paris Nanterre (CREA)

10-11 April 2025

Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024

Keynote Speakers:

Bruce Bégout (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)

Birgit Breidenbach (University of East Anglia)

Abstract

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

American Working-Class Art and Literature Now

Friday, April 19, 2024, Noon—1:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom

 Register here

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9UMcE5aFRHqzqZZfW6VL6w

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

                   Indian Network for Memory Studies (INMS) International Conference 2024

                         In association with Centre for Memory Studies (CMS) IIT Madras

                                               Memory, Security, and Sustainability

                                                16-18 September 2024 IIT Madras