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

updated: 
Friday, November 3, 2023 - 2:22pm
SEAC International Conference, Université de Caen Normandie (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

 

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).

ALA 2024: Stevens and the Little Magazine

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:28pm
Wallace Stevens Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

American Literature Association 2024 (Chicago, May 23 – 26, 2024): “Stevens and the Little Magazine”

The publication, circulation, and reception of little magazines made modernism happen. They set modernist poetry in motion, rattling and humming. The little magazine was a medial form, a technology, an infrastructure, a format, and a context for reading. Organized by the Wallace Stevens Society, this panel welcomes scholars to consider Stevens’s work in little magazines and to consider little magazines as mediators of, or resonators for, Stevens’s work. We seek abstracts that draw Stevensian poetics and criticism into contact with cultural and textual studies of the little magazine.

Call for Papers for Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature Journal

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:21pm
University of Siedlce
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

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 The manuscript submitted for publication is to be original and unpublished.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.

Ecocriticism, Sustainability, and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:20pm
Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

In today's world, we bear witness to epidemics and pandemics, the global climate change caused by human actions, as well as ecological collapse marked by floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes. These events underscore the risks and challenges of a human-centered way of life. At the same time, they remind us of the need to reconsider our binary and hierarchical divisions between humans and the Earth, humans and animals, mind and body, nature and culture.

After Shock: New Perspectives in Literary Studies and Linguistics

updated: 
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 1:05pm
Sapienza University of Rome, University of Silesia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 24, 2023

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)

Call for Chapters | Decolonizing Universal Design for Learning –Innovations, Promising Practices, and Calls for Change from the Global South and Indigenous Communities

updated: 
Sunday, October 22, 2023 - 1:04am
Educational Innovations Series
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Decolonizing Universal Design for Learning –Innovations, Promising Practices, and Calls for Change from the Global South and Indigenous Communities

The book is part of the Educational Innovations Series and seeks to include quality works putting light on the contemporary advances in the fields of theory and practice of educational pedagogies.

EDITOR

Dr. Frederic Fovet, Assistant Professor, School of Education, Faculty of Education and Social Work, Thompson Rivers University, Canada

Quality unpublished works as chapters are invited to the book. The chapters should strictly be according to the coverage scope of the book.

SCOPE & OBJECTIVES OF THE BOOK

San Sebastian and Bilbao 2024 / EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA

updated: 
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 12:25pm
Dr Verna Kale / The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA

THE HEMINGWAY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JULY 14-20 2024 IN SAN SEBASTIÁN AND BILBAO, SPAIN.

Participants are invited to get to know the people, places, cuisine, and culture of contemporary Euskal Herria—the Basque Country as it is called in the Basque language.

British Theatre and the 1920s: Abstracts

updated: 
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - 8:04am
Andrew Maunder
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 3, 2023

Essay Collection  

Abstracts/Expressions of interest are invited for an essay collection: British Theatre and the 1920s

These new essays will explore British theatre in the 1920s across a spectrum of genres and locations. The book’s focus is on theatre in a broad sense, encompassing a range of performance cultures and demonstrating some of the major ways in which theatre operated within the broader culture and society of the time.

 Topics might include (but are not limited to):

The dramatic legacy of WWI

Political theatre

Melodrama

20th International Hemingway Society Conference / San Sebastian and Bilbao, Spain 2024

updated: 
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 8:27am
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

EH-EH: ERNEST HEMINGWAY AND EUSKAL HERRIA THE HEMINGWAY SOCIETY ANNOUNCES ITS CALL FOR PAPERS FOR THE 20TH INTERNATIONAL HEMINGWAY CONFERENCE TO BE HELD JULY 14-20 2024 IN SAN SEBASTIÁN AND BILBAO, SPAIN.

Participants are invited to get to know the people, places, cuisine, and culture of contemporary Euskal Herria—the Basque Country as it is called in the Basque language. From the colorful depictions of the Navarrese Pyrenees in Hemingway’s first commercial success, The Sun Also Rises, to the characters at the Basque bar in the posthumously published Islands in the Stream, the Basque Country and its people made a lasting mark on Ernest Hemingway’s life and work.  

Integrated Modernisms

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:22pm
Echinox Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERSCaietele Echinox / Echinox JournalBabeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romaniahttp://caieteleechinox.lett.ubbcluj.ro/Volume 47/2024 Integrated Modernisms Editors:Francesca Caraceni (Catholic University of Milan)Anca Chiorean (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)Amalia Cotoi (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca)Anna Dijkstra (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam)Anandita Pan (IISER, Bhopal)Paolo Bugliani (Tor Vergata University of Rome) We, as Moderns, have always been on a quest for novelty: new methods, new literature, new reality, new politics, new history, new technologies, new places, and so on.

Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - 2:21pm
John P. Wargacki
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 12, 2023

NeMLA 2024: 20717. Hart Crane in the 21st Century: Crossing The Bridge and Beyond (Roundtable)American/Diaspora

Chair: John Wargacki (Seton Hall University)

This roundtable discussion addresses Hart Crane’s poetry and legacy in modernism

Please log in to the convention portal for additional details and to submit:  https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html 

NeMLA 2024 - The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City

updated: 
Monday, October 9, 2023 - 3:12am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ‘Radiant City’, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis were a modernist, utopian vision of urban renewal. However, they quickly slid into disrepair and in 1972 were partially demolished in a nationwide, televised spectacle. The failure of Pruitt-Igoe shows us that the dystopia is always necessarily contained within the utopia: despite the intentions of its architect Minoru Yamasaki, in planning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, it was always destined to be a vision of 'functional' racial segregation by its federal ideators. Although the edict of racial segregation was thrown out by the Supreme Court, the dystopian seed had been planted, and serves as an exemplar for what a dystopia truly is: a utopia unraveled.

The A.I. Artificial Intelligence Book: New Perspectives on Spielberg's Robot Fairy-tale

updated: 
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 10:06am
Matthew Melia (Kingston University)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence  (2001) was not a blockbuster in the sense of Jaws, E.T or Jurassic Park (the other films covered in this book series) – it did however make a heavy return on its near $100 million budget and received critical praise in the media. The film is the product of several authors: science fiction writer Brian Aldiss on whose short story ‘Supertoys Last All Summer Long’ (1969) the film was based; Stanley Kubrick, whose project it had been initially before passing it over to Spielberg in the wake of Jurassic park, Spielberg made and released the film two years after Kubrick’s death.

Spiritual Responses to American Literary Modernism--Call for Chapter Proposals

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:06am
Windy Counsell Petrie / Azusa Pacific University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 8, 2024

Spiritual Responses to American Literary Modernism~ Call for Chapter Proposals

 

At the end of 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise, explored the crises of a new generation who had “grown up to find all Gods dead… all faiths in man shaken.” Scholars and theologians concur that American literature, like the culture at large, was undergoing a passage from a spiritual to a secular outlook throughout the 1920s and 30s. This transition was so dramatic and widespread that that the years between 1925-1935 have been termed “the American Religious Depression.” Indeed, many texts from these two decades present their own version of the larger cultural secularization thesis.

British Literature: 20th and 21st Century (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:02am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta

March 21–23, 2024

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BRITISH LITERATURE OF THE 20th AND 21st CENTURY for our 53rd annual conference.

"Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease." –Virginia Woolf

We are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to the conference theme of TRANSFORMATIONS, but we will consider all proposals.

Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 11:02am
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta

March 21–23, 2024

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on IRISH, SCOTTISH, AND WELSH LITERATURE for our 53rd annual conference.

All changed, changed utterly:

A terrible beauty is born.

W. B. Yeats

We are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to the conference theme of TRANSFORMATIONS, but we will consider all proposals.

Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 4:59am
Roma Tre University, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies

 

Roma Tre University

Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures

Sala Ignazio Ambrogio

Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19 – Rome

22-23-24 May 2024

 

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)

 

Call for Papers

NEMLA 2024-The Georgic Mode in Modern and Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 2:05pm
Yifan Zhang / Baylor University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The keyword for the 2024 NeMLA convention is “surplus”—for critical and creative work that, in addition to the commonly associated meanings of profit and value, can be more broadly construed as excess or excessive, as surfeit, or what is leftover, or unwanted. 

Thinking Modern Epic

updated: 
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 3:49pm
Benjamin Paul, Boston College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What can be said about epic today? Although M.M. Bakhtin famously declared the impossibility of epic in a modern, polyphonic world in 1941, the category has remained a dynamic source of artistic and critical interest. The works considered in studies like Franco Moretti’s Modern Epic (1994), Sneharika Roy’s Postcolonial Epic (2018)or Václav Paris’s Evolutions of Modernist Epic (2021) re-evaluate epic as a multifarious category capable of shedding light on the global, postcolonial, and postmodern condition of contemporary literature—either as a site of resistance or as a form of cultural domination. Yet even in its new, polyphonic forms, the idea of epic is rarely severed completely from its classical roots.

The humanitarian Crisis in the 21st century: challenges of liberal democracies to deal with the humanitarian crisis

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:10pm
Maximiliano Korstanje - University of Palermo, Argentina
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 14, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS. The humanitarian Crisis in the 21st century: challenges of liberal democracies to deal with the humanitarian crisis 

Publisher: Nova Science Publishers

Maximiliano E. Korstanje- University of Palermo, Argentina

Christina Akrivopoulou – Hellenic Open University, Greece – Editor in Chief of Int. Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies.

 

Proof — ACLA 2024

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 12:38pm
Sierra Eckert and Moyang (Moya) Li
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Proof  American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Conference in Montreal, March 14-17, 2024

Ecological (In)hospitality in the 20th and 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:32am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Ambiguous and paradoxical, the concept of hospitality has been extensively explored in its social, political, and ethical dimensions. In his cycle of seminars on hospitality (1995-97), Jacques Derrida reconstructs hospitality’s conceptual history, highlights its complexities and contradictions, and underlines the imbrication between hospitality and hostility. Building on Derrida’s reflections, works such as Rosello’s Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest (2001), McNulty’s The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (2006), and Baker’s Hospitality and World Politics (2013) have considered the global, transnational, and gender aspects of hospitality.

“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:

 

Poetic Movements

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 12:46am
ACLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The poetic term “strophe” carries a long-standing implication of movement. It refers to the first part of an ode and is defined as a unit of movement with a song performed in Ancient Greek Tragedy by the chorus as it turned one way (strophe), then another (antistrophe) and then stood in its track (epode). In subsequent definitions, it came to be associated with the song of troubadours and became known for its flexibility in discussing poetic performance with music, dance, gesture and breath. Apart from strophe, movement is also implied in the description of other poetic terms.

(Dis)embodied Forms

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:41pm
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

By all accounts, we are living in a new age of form in literary criticism: the last decade has seen a slew of monographs, articles, and special issues devoted to what Jonathan Kramnick and Anahid Nersessian have called “the millennial reboot of formalism,” (Kramnick and Nersessian 2017, 652) one largely devoted to the political revivification of form. While these projects vary widely, they are united, in some ways, by a major omission: the body.

Magazines of the Air: Radio and the Making of Postcolonial Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:32pm
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Remembering “the magic of the B.B.C. box” long after he had left for London, George Lamming described the event of a Caribbean Voices broadcast: “West Indian writers would meet in the same house and listen to these programmes,” absorbing “the curriculum for a serious all-night argument” and then wrangling “among themselves and against the absent English critic.” With venues for print often vanishingly small, radio assumed an outsized importance for postcolonial writers in the middle of the twentieth century, offering larger audiences, steadier remuneration, and programming with a generative mix of stories, poems, drama, and criticism. How did wireless outlets, and networks, shape literatures emerging from the protracted end of European empires?

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