world literatures and indigenous studies

(Un)Earthing: Roots, Relations, and Revelations

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I’ll dig with it.

—Seamus Heaney,“Digging”

As a discipline, the humanities seeks to uncover and explore various cultures, histories, experiences, and truths. The 2019 New Voices Graduate Conference invites submissions that consider concepts of unearthing.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Representing Women and Transnationalism in Francophone West Africa

The peer-reviewed Lingua Romana: A Journal of French, Italian, and Romanian Culture (ISSN: 1551-4730) is soliciting previously unpublished scholarly articles on the subject of literary and artistic representations of womanhood and the female experience within a modernizing/globalizing sub-Saharan West Africa for publication in its Fall 2018 volume (deadline: 31 August 2018).

ASLE 2019: Paradise on Fire

Call for Panels now open, deadline is Sept. 1, 2018

The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment is very pleased to announce that our next Biennial Conference will be held at University of California, Davis, from June 26-30, 2019. We look forward to visiting the Sacramento Valley region, and to the first ASLE biennial conference ever in the state of California. 

Extended Deadline— CFP: Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies Session (PAMLA) The Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) is now accepting proposals for its Asian American Literary and Cultural Studies session(s). The conference will take place Nov 9-11, 2018, at Western Washington University in Bellingham Washington.

Human: International Journal of Literature and Humanities invites submissions for the inaugural issue of the journal, a general issue on “Literature”.

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