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METU BRITISH NOVELISTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
BUCHI EMECHETA AND HER WORK
5-6 December 2024
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
CALL FOR PAPERS
Usually, the narratives around food habits and culinary practices are structured around individual tastes. However, the narratives can be and need to be structured much beyond individual tastes. Historically, it has been observed that individual and collective food habits and culinary practices are driven by various social, cultural, gendered, sexual, racial, caste, geographical, commercial, and political factors. These factors provoke us to go beyond the stereotypical scientific narratives of consumption and unpack the various social dynamics and power structures that are associated with our daily food habits and culinary practices.
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Saudi Arabia announces a call for submission:
Extended Deadline: May 30, 2024
2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship
The University of Chicago Press and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society are pleased to announce the competition for the 2025 Catharine Stimpson Prize for Outstanding Feminist Scholarship. Named in honor of the founding editor of Signs, the Catharine Stimpson Prize is designed to recognize excellence and innovation in the work of emerging feminist scholars.
Abstract:
The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.
Description:
Call for Papers | Appel à communications
Submission deadline | Date limite de soumission: May 31, 2024 | 31 mai 2024
Countervisuality
Stefan Jovanovic (Concordia University) and Tyisha Murphy (Concordia University)
Session type: Paper session
Black British Music: Past, Present and Futures is an interdisciplinary symposium that reflects on the meaning, histories and legacies of Black British music. The symposium forms part of a broader partnership project between the British Library and the University of Westminster’s Black Music Research Unit (BMRU). Culminating in the first major exhibition on Black British Music, Beyond the Bassline: 500 years of Black British Music, the partnership aims to research and curate national collections relating to Black musical experiences in Britain in a way that engages with broader conversations on British popular culture and Black histories.
Call for Papers
"Environment, Health, and Well-being"
(Book Series at Michigan State University Press)
Edited by John Kinsella and Nicholas Birns
Abstract of c. 500 words by the end of May 2024. For publication April 2025. See below for full details.
The issue is concerned with pacifism as both a mode of conceptualising and also interacting with the world. Non-violence is a characteristic of various spiritual and secular modes of both maintaining peace and also enacting conflict resolution, and this issue will have a strong focus on these agencies, but further, pacifism as a system of perceiving and interacting with the world, as a ‘complete’ philosophy will be considered.
~Proposal submission deadline has been extended to May 20th.~
Thanatic Ethics Conference #4
“Death and migration in times of conflict: a forensic perspective”
Sciences Po, Paris
in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong
and EMMA (Paul Valery University Montpellier 3)
Venue: Sciences Po, Paris
Dates: Oct. 17-19, 2024
Language: English
CFP: “Poetry and the Gothic” Edited Volume Call for Papers
Poetry has been an integral part of the Gothic mode since its inception. However, the connection between poetry and the Gothic seems a less explored area of critical inquiry, in comparison to fiction. While the Graveyard Poets and other Anglophone poetry movements are already considered foundational to the Gothic mode, our edited collection seeks to broaden the scope of what can be conceived of as “Gothic poetry” or poetry inspired by the Gothic.
This allied session on work in multi-ethnic literature of the United States (co-sponsored by MELUS) invites papers that explore work as a component of identity formation, especially as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, and citizenship. In the spirit of Moishe Postone’s antiproductivist Marxism, this panel is particularly interested in papers that present a “critique of labor in capitalism” rather than a “critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labor.” While papers that engage with work broadly from the traditional Marxist position are welcome, we are particularly excited about scholarship that theorizes work itself.
Dear colleagues,
Keynote Speaker: Professor Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at The University of Edinburgh.
The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies (CCLS) is hosting a one-day, in-person symposium to be held on 13 June 2024 at Waterside Campus, University of Northampton, UK.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces will not be going ahead as originally planned in June 2024. The conference organisers are exploring the possibility of rescheduling to a later date and will circulate further details if/when they become available.
Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces
IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
June 14th–16th 2024
An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society
_LIT_ Special Issue CFP: “The Booker Prize: Prize Culture and Global Literary Fiction”
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities
For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities
Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for an upcoming edited book entitled “Violence
and Postcolonial Marginalities in South Asian Literature” to be published in Lexington Books,
Rowman & Littlefield, U.S.A. This edited book aims to explore the intricate intersections of
violence and marginality within the context of South Asian literature.
Postcolonial literature, with its diverse voices and narratives, has been instrumental in
articulating the complex realities of societies grappling with the repercussions of colonialism
and other forms of precarity. In the context of South Asia, a region marked by rich cultural
Abstract
Call for Papers Hybridity and Women's Writing in Eighteenth-century Britain
Guest Editors: Francesca Blanch-Serrat and Paula Yurss Lasanta (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Deadline to send an abstract and a mini-biography: June 1, 2024
Deadline to send the full article: July 20, 2024
Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is helpful in understanding how the fetish animates produced commodities to have a mysterious power of their own, in which power is obscured, mystified, and alienated, holding sway over people in the dominion of capitalism. In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, Lorgia García-Peña asserts that “to translate thus presents us with the possibility of seeing the Other. This act of seeing is also an act of recognition that can contradict hegemonic knowledge.” The work of translating the fetish can thus be presented as a means of revealing real relations hidden by the fetish, an antihegemonic project of deconstructing systems of capitalism and oppression.
The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:
-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?
How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?
Performance and Migration in the Nordic and Baltic Regions
A special journal issue of Nordic Theatre Studies
Edited by Rebecca Brinch and Dirk Gindt
Editors-in-chief: Rissa L. Miller, Federico Bossone
Call for Papers | ‘You are What you Eat’: On Food, Culture(s), and Identity
Still Cruising Utopia: A Utopian Studies Special Issue on Queer Utopia and the Legacy of José Esteban Muñoz
EXTENDED Deadline for all manuscripts: May 15, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: Esferas Literarias nº 7 (2024)
Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature
VOICES OF PALESTINIAN LIBERATION
PAMLA Conference
7-10 November 2024 in Palm Springs, California
Session Format: Panel of 3-4 presenters, 15-20 minutes each and a 30-minute group Q&A afterward
This panel centers the literary and artistic expressions of Palestinians by exploring how writers, artists, journalists, historians, and activists navigate themes of abject loss, violence, and trauma; the aim is to offer a multifaceted perspective on the Palestinian experience, one that transcends problematically uncomplicated narratives and foregrounds the power of language and media in shaping identity, fostering solidarity, and demanding justice.
Engaging Global Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions
In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading)
Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)
Special guests include Dr. Iggy Cortez (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Shekhar Deshpande (Arcadia University), and Dr. Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania).