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Global Modernism and Simultaneity
The University of Tokyo
September 14-15
Keynotes
Josephine Park (UPenn)
Christopher Bush (Northwestern)
With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)
Call for Book Chapters
The Afterlives of British Drama and Performance:
Adaptation and Appropriation in 21st Century
2nd UTAD Conference Existence, Tradition and Future (5-7 September 2024, İstanbul, Türkiye)
Turkish Society for Theatre Research and Bahçeşehir University Conservatory
Call for Papers and/or Applied Workshop
Chapter submissions are invited for an edited collection, Marlowe X Theory.
The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.
Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities Concordia University, Montreal. May 3–5, 2024Deadline: February 15, 2024
“May you live in interesting times!”
Apocryphal Chinese Curse
https://www.projectpassage.net/call-4
Hotel
Architectures to think with #1 (
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Deadline for proposals (up to 500w): 4th Feb 2024
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The crumbling Hotel Splendid of Marie Redonnet. The room where Lisa Robertson’s Hazel Brown awakens. The autofictional reflections of Joanna Walsh’s experience as a hotel reviewer. And of course, the multilinear, hybrid Hotel Theory of Wayne Koestenbaum.
The deadline for submissions for Volume 9 of Chiasma: A Site for Thought has been extended until March 31st.
Please see the call for papers for more information.
Previous submission, here.
Briefly:
Chiasma: A Site for Thought, the International Journal of Theory and Philosophy at Western University’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism is soliciting papers on the relationship between philosophy and Fascism (broadly understood).
Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist
Topic: Justice
General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)
Call for Participation:
Visual Culture Papers at the 2024 American Studies Association
November 14-17, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland
15th edition of the Film-Philosophy Conference
Espinho, Portugal
1-3 July 2024 (with welcome event on 30 June 2024)
In person
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Catherine Constable (University of Warwick) - ‘The Sublime and Contemporary Science Fiction Film’
João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - 'The description of film direction as a philosophical operation: the case of Mizoguchi’s gendai-geki'
Homay King (Bryn Mawr College) - 'Enigma, Opacity: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Image according to Laplanche and Glissant'
TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED
cfp: puppetry in the novel – novels in puppetry, workshop at the University of Erfurt in collaboration with the Waidspeicher Theatre as part of the Synergura 2024 festival. date: 9 June 2024
Is the ‘culture war’ a distraction from ‘real’ issues? Conventionally, ‘culture-warring’ has been conceptualised as a cynical political technique to divide people according to mere ‘cultural’ differences rather than material interests. Yet, as Judith Butler once remarked in a 1998 essay, this framing of certain issues as part of a ‘culture war’ presumes that “the distinction between material and cultural life is a stable one.” Other writers, such as Amardeep Singh Dillion, have also challenged this common-sense distinction between ‘culture wars’ and ‘class struggle.’ In the field of cultural studies, scholars have repeatedly stressed that the realm of culture is central to the political and material life of post-industrial societies.
In Germany, drag is a hot topic ... again. Through the spread and visualization of diverse, subcultural manifestations that long ago left rigid binaries such as king and queen behind, e.g. during the international festival go drag! in Berlin in October 2022, and through its entry into pop culture, not least thanks to the first broadcast of Drag Race Germany in fall 2023, drag is experiencing an upswing in Germany.
17th ESSE Conference
26-30 August 2024 in Lausanne, Switzerland
Seminar 33
Convenors:
Sibel Izmir (Atilim University, Turkey)
sibeleceizmir@gmail.com / sibel.izmir@atilim.edu.tr
Claus-Peter Neumann (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
Liminality and Border-Crossing in Contemporary English-Speaking Theatre [in person]
In Literature and Evil, Bataille argues for a close connection between literature and "Evil" as a sovereign and productive value, which is defined against an oppressive use of reason that "flattens" all knowledge into a reductive uniformity. Bataille finds in Blake's A Marriage of Heaven and Hell "agitations", "poetic violence" and "lacerations" that occur in Blake’s drive towards human totality and death. At the same time, Bataille observes that this violence and Evil also "raise us to glory" in Blake's attribution to Evil of "the wisdom of Hell that heralds
This is a second call for chapter manuscripts for the edited volume called “Human Rights and Indian Literary Communities”.
While most submissions are in, there is scope for more chapters ONLY in the areas given below.
This collection undertakes various explorations about the role of literary (and related cultural) communities in the acknowledgement and understanding of human rights bearing subjects. Can literary texts highlight and empathise with those on the social margins as legal subjects possessing rights? Do texts also recognise and challenge the contours of human rights? Can literary communities help imagine and reimagine the outlines of those deemed human and therefore capable of being human rights bearing citizens?
In Literature and Evil, Bataille argues for a close connection between literature and "Evil" as a sovereign and productive value, which is defined against an oppressive use of reason that "flattens" all knowledge into a reductive uniformity. Bataille finds in Blake's A Marriage of Heaven and Hell "agitations", "poetic violence" and "lacerations" that occur in Blake’s drive towards human totality and death. At the same time, Bataille observes that this violence and Evil also "raise us to glory" in Blake's attribution to Evil of "the wisdom of Hell that heralds ... truth” --albeit a truth irreducible to representation, priority of the logos, and assimilation by reason.
CFP: THE FUTURE OF MASCULINITIES: THEORY & PRAXIS
Deadline for proposals: February 10, 2024
F[R]ICTION
Conference date: April 26, 2024 | Abstracts due: January 10, 2024 (*extended deadline*)
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Amber Jamilla Musser, Professor of English (CUNY Graduate Center)
In Anna Tsing’s ethnography Friction (2005), Tsing offers “friction” as a metaphor for thinking about global connection: “A wheel turns because of its encounter with the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. As a metaphorical image, friction reminds us that heterogenous and unequal encounters can lead to new arrangements of culture and power.”
This panel and roundtable seek to investigate the value of close reading in early modern studies. Since the sunset of New Criticism’s zenith in literary studies, close reading has assumed a primarily pedagogical role. But what of its theoretical and historicist payoff? What position can close reading play in the 2024 scholarly landscape?
Papers proposed for the panel may address any aspect of close reading, from its utility for approaching particular Renaissance texts (broadly conceived), to its role amid other methodologies now in vogue, to attendant questions of early modern textual transmission and translation. Case studies are welcome, as are comparative and interdisciplinary approaches.
XIV Annual Graduate Student Conference Hispanic Studies Graduate Student Association Department of Hispanic Studies University of California, Riverside. Within and Beyond the Impasse: Call for Proposals
Call for Cooperators
Academic Forms: Thinking the Ways We* Do Our Work
(*Where “We” Names, Specifically, Humanities Scholars)
Preliminaries Towards Some Academic Product
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2024:
“Value/Values”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 26-27, 2024
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Agnes Callard,
Associate Professor of Philosophy,
University of Chicago
Author of Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming
Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (CSLC) Annual Symposium
Dreaming Archives: Materiality, Spectrality, and Transcultural Memory
University of Southern California
February 22nd and 23rd, 2023
Keynote Speaker:
The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.
Editors: Somasree Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal) and Agnibha Maity (Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal)
Concept Note
The Research Project “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” organizes its final conference and seeks paper proposals of scholars who are pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition.
Inflationary Modernities: Literature and Economy after 1789
*deadline extended*
Call for papers for edited collection
Editors: Kieran Brown (Oxford University) and Wayne Stables (University of South Africa)
