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Psychoanalysis and Decolonization

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:16am
MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In recent years there have been calls as well to decolonize psychoanalysis and/or resurrect psychoanalysis for the people, the collective, the subaltern, and those without economic or social advantages for accessing the clinic.

XIII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture FUTURE/FUTURES

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 6:37am
The Lisbon Consortium
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

For centuries thinking about the future was basically an optimist and progress driven endeavor, aimed at advancing towards the best of possible worlds through the improvement of science and technology.  

River Fiction of India: Intersectional Flows of Narratives, Geographies and Histories

updated: 
Friday, February 24, 2023 - 10:23am
Subhadeep Ray
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Papers

River Fiction of India: Intersectional Flows of Narratives, Geographies and Histories

Edited by Subhadeep Ray

Proposed Book Project to be submitted for consideration to

Routledge South Asian Literature in Focus book series

Climate Futures and Cities of the Global South

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 12:40pm
Rituparna Mitra/ Emerson College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Guaranteed Panel for Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conference, January 4-7, 2024, in Philadelphia, PA, USA

This panel welcomes literary, visual, embodied, and multi-genre approaches to Global South cities in transformation due to climate change. How are spaces and relationships being reorganized and reimagined to ensure liveability? Please submit 250-word abstract and short bio to rituparna_mitra@emerson.edu.

If your proposal is accepted, you must become an MLA member by 7 April 2023.

No, This Is America: Interrogating Bad Faith Narratives, Epistemologies of Ignorance, Grammars of Violence, and Selective Racial Memories in a Post-Truth, Post-Shame, and Post-Accountable United States

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:38am
Professing Education Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

Where is that place where what should not ‘happen to nobody’ happens every day? Why is it that, in so many places found in every corner of the global space, so many human beings face that which ‘no one deserves’?

—Ferreira da Silva (2009, p. 212) 

You better understand White people’s fantasies because tomorrow they’ll be legislation

—Jared Sexton, invoked by Frank Wilderson (2020)

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (2013, p. 153) 

This is America. Don’t catch you slippin’ now.

—Childish Gambino, This is America (2018)

Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:29am
Lucinda Newns / King's College London
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre

A one-day workshop

16 May 2023, King’s College London

Deadline for abstracts: 22 Feb 2023

Travel Writing

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:13am
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Proposals for presentations on travel writing in English from any period or part of the world. Please submit a 200-word abstract by April 1, 2023. The RMMLA conference will be held in Denver, CO, from Oct. 11-14, 2023. 

Narrative ethics and character in the representation of the past in Contemporary fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:11am
Dr Christine Berberich / University of Portsmouth, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

CFP “Narrative ethics and character in the representation of the past in Contemporary fiction”

Event 2:  Friday 16th and Saturday 17th June 2023, University of Portsmouth UK

 

Guest speaker: Novelist Patricia Duncker

 

FORUM Postgraduate Journal Call for Papers: Trans-

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:11am
FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

Trans- is powerful: attaching itself to concepts, it challenges supposedly settled knowledge about the world we live in. In FORUM’s 34th issue, this destabilisation becomes central. We draw attention to the importance the prefix ‘trans-’ has acquired in recent decades as an index of movement, crossing, and shifting – and we are interested in your approaches to all that trans- has to offer, as both description and method: transnationality, translation, transdisciplinary, transgender…

1st International Conference on English Language and Literature, Loneliness and Isolation in Literature (DIDE2023)

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:09am
Doğuş University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

We are pleased to announce to you that Doğuş University, Department of English Language and Literature will be holding the 1st International English Language and Literature Conference between 12 - 14 May 2023. By sharing your valuable works in meetings and presentations throughout the conference, we are fully confident that we will achieve our symposium goals and achieve significant successes, thanks to the interactive discussion environment that will emerge. Abstracts (about 250 words), with the name of the author, institutional affiliation, contact address (e-mail), and a brief bio-note should be sent to the conference organizers by 10 April 2023 at the following address:

dide2023@dogus.edu.tr

Decolonizing Cartographies - Graduate Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 - 11:07am
Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 27, 2023

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on 20th and 21st of April, 2023. This conference is a space for graduate scholars, activists, artists, and others to think through and confront colonial systems.

Our conference this year is interested in “Decolonizing Cartographies” – or, stated broadly, how do we challenge colonial regimes of knowledge and the ways they divide the world.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: In Living Color: Exploring the Complexities of Colorism within the U.S. and Around the World in the 21st-Century

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 5:09pm
The Journal of Colorism Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 6, 2023

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line, the question as to how far differences of race-which show themselves chiefly in the color of the skin and the texture of the hair-will hereafter be made the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.

—W.E.B. Du Bois (1900)

 

Are there multiple forms or species of racism or simply variations of a fundamental structure?

—Jared Sexton (2012)

 

I have only one solution: to rise above this absurd drama that others have staged around me

—Fanon (1952)

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 4:44pm
Journal of Amazigh Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

 

Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. Indeed, although Imazighen have one of the oldest writing systems in North Africa, known as Tifinagh, the latter is not associated with a body of written literature, an Amazigh literary canon. On the other hand, the Amazigh peoples have an extensive and rich oral literature that includes poetry, myths, fables, songs, proverbs, sacred rituals, and tales, which are excluded from a simple textualist notion of culture and communal identity. 

Sindiwe Magona 2023:Celebrating Contemporary African Women Writers

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:28am
Renee Schatteman/Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Sidniwe Magona 2023 conference is a hybrid conference (April 12-14) intended to honor Sindiwe Magona on her 80th year. We are accepting paper proposals on Magona's work or on the work of other contemporary African women writers of fiction, peotry, drama, non-fiction. Our aim is to create discourse about creative work that can be brought into conversation with this formidable South Africa writer who writes about women's lives and women's rights, about the impact of colonialism/ apartheid and the need for decolonization, and about the challenges facing African children and families in the contemporary moment.

Pedagogies of Hope Workshop Series

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:28am
Pedagogies of Hope, McMaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Pedagogies of Hope Workshop Series 

May 11 & 12, 2023 at McMaster University and Centre[3] in Ohròn:wakon (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).


 

Gaslighting in Global Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:20am
Diana Bellonby
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023

The term “gaslighting” has reentered the popular lexicon with a vengeance in recent years, appearing in countless news stories and opinion pieces on the subjects of sex, race, politics, medicine, and emotional abuse. It refers to “the experience of having your reality repeatedly challenged by someone who holds more power than you do,” as one Washington Postcolumn recently articulated it. Such pieces often note that the term is drawn from a specific twentieth-century source text: George Cukor’s 1944 film Gaslight, based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play of the same name, which tells the story of a sadistic husband actively working to make his wife believe she is losing her mind.

Journal of Critical Global Issues - May roundtable

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:16am
Journal of Critical Global Issues
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The School for International Training (SIT) invites proposals from researchers and scholars to contribute to a roundtable discussion focused on the following areas:climate and the environment; development and inequality; education and social change; geopolitics and power; global health and well-being; identity and human resilience; and peace and justice. Roundtable presenters will have the opportunity to publish work related to their roundtable presentation in the inaugural issue of SIT’s flagship journal, Journal of Critical Global Issues.

Otherworlds

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:13am
Stanford-Berkeley English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 5, 2023

“There is another world, and it is this one.” - Paul Éluard
“There is another world, in this one.” - Octavio Paz
“There is no other world, not even this one.” - Emil Cioran

Otherworlds

The Stanford-Berkeley English Graduate Conference seeks proposals for 20-minute papers that
address any aspect of worldmaking in the context of otherness, alterity, subaltern studies, and
literal other worlds, from any period, for a one-day conference, “Otherworlds,” to be held on
April 22nd, 2023, in Stanford, CA, at Stanford University.

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 2: “Migration, Identity, and Diasporas at the Intersection of Japan Studies and Global Asias”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 23, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Call for Applicants: Global Asias and Japan Studies Cyber Chat 1: “Challenges and Opportunities for Global Asias Approaches to Japan Studies”

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:12am
Global Asias Initiative
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

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In early 2023, the Global Asias Initiative (GAI) is kicking off a three-year collaboration with Japan Foundation New York (JFNY) aimed at creating a network of junior scholars between the United States and Japan. The collaboration will involve a Cyber Chats series in spring 2023, a year-long early career networking project designed to cultivate substantial engagement between scholars in the US and Japan, participation in the Global Asias 7 conference (spring 2025), and eventually a publication in Verge: Studies in Global Asias.

Archiving Black Women's Joys and Sorrows

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:10am
MLA 2024 Special Session
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The relationship between Black women and the archive has long been fraught. We invite 250-word proposals for papers that probe Black women writers' literary and/or theoretical negotiations with these realities.

 

Please submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio by March 15th, 2023, to N. Morris Johnson at nmmorris@buffalo.edu. For more information about the MLA conference, please visit https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024/Presidential-Theme-for-the-2024-Convention

Refugee Literature and/in Digital Spaces (MLA 2024, Philadelphia)

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 9:07am
William Arighi, Springfield College
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Digital technology and internet access have expanded the ways of making meaning and of building and accessing audiences across the globe. Though unevenly available to refugees (UNHCR, Space and imagination: rethinking refugees’ digital access, 2020), digital technology has nonetheless offered previously unknown platforms for refugees to speak directly to global audiences.

EXTENDED DEADLINE Post-Otherness in Literature, Culture, and Language. New Strategies for the Validation of Identity

updated: 
Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 6:58am
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Starting from the assumption that identity (seen as a relationship with one's self) and individuality (seen as a relationship of the self with the group) are both discursive constructs, we presume that it is the uniqueness of these constructs that confers authenticity and validation to a particular person/community/society. This issue is a subject already widely researched and problematized in theories of otherness from the perspective of dealing with diversity or even with social distancing and alienation.

Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:28pm
Hunter College Language Works Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

 

Hunter College's 3rd Annual Language Works Conference

 

Title: Translation, Interpreting, and the Platform Economy
Date: Friday, April 28th, 2023 | Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
695 Park Ave. HW Faculty Dining Hall.

Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:25pm
AMODERN
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

AMODERN 12: Alternative Print Technologies and Revolution

Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney and Andrew Amstutz
300-word proposals due: 31 March 2023
Drafts of 4000-8000 words due: 1 June 2023

Whose South Asia?

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 12:24pm
Aparajita De/University of the District of Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

This MLA panel invites critical and ethical interrogations that underpin the urgency to look beyond the single-issue strategies of reading and creating South Asia in critical discourse. Incidentally, the scholarly trajectory of issues on South Asia has flattened the diversity of the geopolitically, culturally rich discursive space and its experiences to increasingly refer to India-centric discussions.

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