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Call for Papers
Romantic Regenerations
An International Conference
Date: 6-8 July 2018
Venue: The University of Tokyo (Komaba Campus) & Sophia University (Yotsuya Campus)
Plenary Lecturers:
Prof. Seamus Perry (Oxford University)
Prof. Alan Bewell (Toronto University)
Prof. Tim Barringer (Yale University)
Seeking paper proposals on contemporary texts addressing issues of race, gender, religion, ability, orientation in the context of British working-class life.
300-word abstract and CV to slee168@ucr.edu by 10 March 2018.
Sweet Home Chicago? Rethinking Blues Literature
MLA 2019
Chicago, IL 3 January – 6 January 2019
What is the current state of Blues Literature? It has been well over thirty years since Houston Baker Jr.’s Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature: A Vernacular Theory (1984) put blues back on the critical map. Much has changed since then. Even with innovative interventions in the field (Davis, Bolden, Gussow, McGinley), blues literature has fallen out of vogue within academic circles. This panel seeks to rethink blues literature's critical value.
Call for Papers, Doris Lessing Studies 2018: “Alternative Domesticities in the Works of Doris Lessing.”
Following Jenni Diski’s 2016 memoir, In Gratitude, we invite new readings of Lessing’s portrayals of non-biological families, non-normative modes of affiliation and dependence, and unconventional households and genealogies.
Textual Transactions IN NETHERLANDIC LITERATURE, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
3–6 January 2019, Chicago
Session organized by the MLA Dutch Forum
The Modern Language Association is the oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to the study of language and literature in America. For the 2019 convention of the Modern Language Association, the MLA Dutch Forum is organizing a session on the 2019 Presidential theme ‘Textual Transactions’. The convention will be held from 3–6 January, in Chicago.
Anne Gere, the 2018–19 president of the MLA, has chosen Textual Transactions as the presidential theme for the 2019 MLA Annual Convention in Chicago. This is described as follows:
A CALLALOO CALL FOR PAPERS
Misperformance
Staging Law and Justice in the African Diaspora
Callaloo invites papers for a special issue on “Misperformance: Staging Law and Justice in the African Diaspora” guest edited by Jason Allen-Paisant (University of Leeds, United Kingdom).
Project description:
Of Survival and Struggle: Creative and Critical Responses to Structural and Long-term Violence in the Public Sphere
A Colloquium hosted by the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London
7 June 2018
Keynote speaker: Suvir Kaul, A. M. Rosenthal Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania, author of Of Gardens and Graves: Kashmir, Poetry, Politics (2017)
Feminisms In Motion: Migrations, Upheavals, Relocations
Call for Papers
4-6 October, 2018
CINiBA Katowice, Poland
Imperialism and Class Struggle in the Era of Crisis CapitalSpecial Issue of the Journal of Labor & Society300-word abstracts and short bio to: jmaerhofer@gmail.com
5th July at Liverpool John Moores University
Keynote Speaker: Dr Chris Warnes (St. John's, University of Cambridge)
It has been over twenty years since the publication of Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community (1995), a collection of seminal essays which challenged the perception of magical realism as a form strictly reserved for Latin American writers. The collection instead repositioned magical realism as an international form used by writers from across the globe and to depict a variety of historical contexts. However, Netflix’s critically acclaimed Narcos (2015), a biopic of Pablo Escobar, firmly attributes magical realism to the Latin American context once again, opening with the statement: