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Sapienza Summer School 2025: "The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism", IV Edition.

updated: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 - 5:41am
Alessandra Crotti
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The Summer School The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

ReFocus: The Films of Guru Dutt

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 9:23pm
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Guru Dutt’s films are integral to the golden age of Hindi cinema as they were both critical and commercial successes. In a short career spanning twenty years, Dutt has served as an actor, a director, and a producer. His versatility is testament to a deep understanding of every aspect of filmmaking. Critics contend that contradictory ideas coalesced in his movies. A prominent theme of nationalism is at the heart of Dutt’s oeuvre. While he set out to refashion Indian national identity, Dutt envisioned a utopia for the new nation. Ideologically, Dutt was influenced by Nehruvian socialism, which finds its expression in his selection of subjects and themes. His movies also critiqued the new nation’s failure to afford equal opportunities to every citizen.

CfP New issue: Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)

updated: 
Monday, November 11, 2024 - 3:53pm
Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies (ISSN: 2791-6553)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on Literature and Drama Studies. 

Indexed by MLA and EBSCO databases.

Essence & Critique: Journal of Literature and Drama Studies is an open access peer-reviewed academic journal that serves as a forum for multi- and interdisciplinary discussions across Literature and Drama Studies, providing academicians, scholars, professionals and students with the opportunity to disseminate their research to a diverse audience of peers and professionals.

The second issue aims to cover literary and theatrical works in general.

CFP: Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society (Hybrid Conference)

updated: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024 - 10:23am
Khaoula Chakour and El Habib El Hadari/ Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Sultan Moulay Slimane University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Research Laboratory in Literature, Language, Culture and Communication (RLLLCC)

organizes

an International Conference on

Mobility in Literature, Culture and Society

April 22-23, 2025

 Faculty of Arts and Humanities,

Sultan Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal - Morocco

 

 

Call for Papers

 

TCR 2025 : The Cordillera Review, Journal of Philippine Culture and Society 2025 Volume

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:34am
The Cordillera Review, University of the Philippines Baguio
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Cordillera Review is an open-access internationally refereed electronic journal published biannually by the University of the Philippines through its research arm, the Cordillera Studies Center. It is a multidisciplinary journal devoted to the publication of both local and international studies on Philippine culture and society. Given the geographical location and research thrust of the University of the Philippines Baguio, The Cordillera Review puts an emphasis on research about the Cordillera Region and other parts of Northern Luzon, Philippines.

Reinventing the Western Literary Canon

updated: 
Friday, November 8, 2024 - 4:32am
Postcolonial Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

This new issue takes as its starting point Joy Harjo (Creek Muscogee)’s observation that “‘reinventing’ in the colonizer’s tongue and turning those images around to mirror an image of the colonized to the colonizers as a process of decolonization indicates that something is happening, something is emerging and coming into focus that will politicize as well as transform literary expression” (Harjo et al. 1998, 22). Postcolonial and Indigenous authors often appropriate the Western Literary canon, both in terms of form, language, and cultural elements in order to foreground their epistemologies and histories.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 8:30am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 11:22am
Moussa Pourya Asl (University of Oulu, Finland) and Manju Jaidka (Former Professor and Chair, Panjab University, Chandigarh; President, MELOW)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

Abstract submission deadline:        31 Dec 2024
Full Chapter submission deadline:    30 June 2025
Publisher:                                   Springer
Contact email:                            moussa.pouryaAsl@oulu.fi ;
                                               jaidkamanju24@gmail.com

Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 10:43am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS!!!!--11/10/2024

Call for Papers, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature at CEA 2025 

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square 
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

215.561.7500 

 

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”   

Special Section Call: Narrative Justice Storytelling: From the Margins to the Center

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 4:43am
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Guest Editor Timmia Hearn DeRoy, Editor Aaron C. Thomas

 

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us—the poet —whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.” — Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1985)

Making and Unmaking of Cities

updated: 
Friday, November 1, 2024 - 12:44pm
Calcutta Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Calcutta Research Group (www.mcrg.ac.in) will conduct an online orientation course on the city of our time, under the specific theme “Making and Unmaking of Cities”. This online certificate course will be held from 15 February to 31 March 2025. It will have twelve lectures (two lectures on Saturdays / weekends) encompassing accounts of making and unmaking of cities in South Asia and the world, issues of urban autonomy and sovereignty, struggles for rights and urban justice, as well as dominant stories that cities tell of themselves. Some of the discussions will be anchored in a political-economy perspective throwing light on forms of labour in global South, which include cities of South Asia.

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 1:54pm
Edited volume on Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Climate Fiction: Ecological Dimensions

 

Concept Note:

National Cinemas of Agriculture (Panel at ASLE 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 12:58pm
Stacey Baran / University of California, Davis
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, July 8-11, 2025

University of Maryland, College Park

Panel: National Cinemas of Agriculture

This proposed panel at ASLE 2025 seeks proposals that attend to the complications of invoking the ideal of national cinema in the global landscape, with specific emphasis on the cinematic representations of agriculture, rural life, and their connections to (post)colonial and Indigenous foodways.

US-UK Transatlantic Crossings in the Arts and Literature from 1823 to Today (Nancy, France, 16-17 October 2025)

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
Université de Lorraine (France)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The ongoing interdependence between the United Kingdom and the United States dates back further than the "Special Relationship" popularized by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1946. In the early decades of their independence, the United States maintained strong cultural ties with the United Kingdom (cf.

Society for Novel Studies Panel - How the Novel Speaks Alternate Media

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:21am
Brennan Jones / Joelle Troiano
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 11, 2024

How does the novel give voice to art in other media? What does it take to render as text what has never existed textually? In this panel, we will be responding to this year’s SNS conference theme of “novel languages” by thinking through the ekphrastic act in its broadest sense, asking and answering questions about what it means to “translate” art or experience from one medium to another, what it might mean for representations of other media in the novel to constitute a language of its own.

 

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:11am
Carolina Asia Center
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

Call for Papers

Proposals due Monday, December 2, 2024

Asian Cinemas Encounter the Cold War

Friday, March 28, 2025 – Saturday, March 29, 2025

FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill

 

Modernism Remodelled 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:09am
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

The London Arts-Based Research Centre
Modernism Remodelled 2025
A Transdisciplinary Conference

March 8-10, 2025

Where:
March 8-9: In person participation at Cambridge University & online
March 10: Fully online

Call for Papers
Cost:        185 GBP (in person)
100 GBP (Online)
Abstract: Deadline December 15, 2024
Abstract form on: https://forms.gle/9TWGPbStYzTTqEvD9

**Participants interested in attending the conference without presenting a paper are also welcome.

Translations for Antonym Magazine

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Antonym Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Antonym Magazine invites contributions of English translations from any language for its quarterly print magazine and its online version in the following categories.

  1. Novellas
  2. Short stories
  3. Flash fiction
  4. Poetry
  5. Essays

The magazine also invites critical essays that engage with various aspects of translations and interviews with translators.

In case you have queries please mail for clarifications.

Contributions are invited on a rolling basis. For the February issue, contributions should reach the magazine by the 30th of November 2024. Please mail contributions to submissionmag@antonymcollection.com

Young Researches' Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 11:53am
Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology Shibpur, HSS Department
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Young Researchers’ Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences-2024

Conference Date: 09.12.2024—13.12.2024
Location:
Department of Humanities and Social sciences, IIEST, Shibpur
Abstract Submission Deadline:
12.11.2024
Notification of Acceptance: 19.11.2024

Submission of Full Paper: 01.12.2024

Last Date for Registration: 26.11.2024
Email Id for submission of Abstract:
yrc2024.iiests@gmail.com

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes: Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:09am
University of Kent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Hostile Environments and Hospitable Praxes

Literary and Cultural Responses to Racial and Migratory Politics

University of Kent

23 – 24 June 2025

 

‘Laws try to rationalise the border regime which fundamentally ignores the humanity of those who move. Knowing this, let’s take as our root and starting position the reality that no human is illegal.’ —Leah Cowan, Border Nation: A Story of Migration

Call for book chapters on Orientalism after 9/11

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:08am
O.P. Jindal Global Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

This is a call for book chapters for Orientalism after 9/11 to be published by a major publisher

Call for papers: Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 12:00am
Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Call for Papers for the special issue of Environment, Space, Place (University of Minnesota Press)

Indigenous ecologies and literary responses: Knowledge and rethinking sustainable development

Special issue editor: Goutam KarmakarDurban University of Technology, South Africa

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