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Call for Papers ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 2:21am
ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 12, 2023

Call for Papers

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies

ETKI: Journal of Literature, Theatre and Culture Studies invites submissions for the fourth issue of the journal - a general issue on literature, theatre and culture studies.

ALTA46: The Place of Translation

updated: 
Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 4:50pm
American Literary Translators Association (ALTA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

What is the translator’s place within a body of literature, and how do we, as translators, navigate our place? How do translators share space with authors, editors, and audiences? Place is not only static, but dynamic: just as languages do not remain fixed in place, the place of translation is also constantly shifting and evolving. How does translation sit within and move across visible boundaries and invisible barriers? In what ways are we as translators grounded and supported, and in what ways are we trying to break free from what is deemed to be our place?

Interplay of Community, Textuality and Orality: Comparative Perspectives on History, Culture and Society (20-22 November, 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, March 26, 2023 - 8:00am
Comparative Literature Association of India and Department of English, Sikkim University, India
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Literary theory has contributed towards the recovery of marginalised narratives and discourses in literature during the last three decades. The word, ‘minor’ has acquired a resonance of its own in the context of ‘national’ literature which tends to be part of a ‘great tradition’. Against such a background, the recovery of diverse indigenous traditions has become an important task of comparative studies of literature. Nations emerged as ‘imagined’ communities. However, nation-states were not ‘imagined’ in the crucible of prolonged struggles of anti-colonial resistance in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but were born of the political exigencies of imperial powers.

IN THE WORKS. Makings and Unmakings of the Video Essay

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:35am
Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 20, 2023

One of the first academic conferences devoted to videographic research was held at the Frankfurt Filmmuseum and Goethe University in Germany in 2013. Titled "The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory," the conference emphasized practice in the presentation-based discussions. As the first speaker of the conference, Catherine Grant described the challenges of this then new scholarly format as "unknown, infinite, or variable" in terms of the experimentation of video production and the reception of this format in academia. 

 

"Infiltration Visuality," ASAP/14 Panel Proposal

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:13am
Scott Volz, University of California, Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

We are seeking contributions for a panel entitled “Infiltration Visuality” for the 2023 meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Please email a 250-300 word abstract and short bio to srvolz@uci.edu by March 30 to apply.  

Call for Papers

 “Infiltration Visuality”

 

Panel proposal for ASAP-14, Seattle and Bothell, WA, October 4-7, 2023

 

Panel Organizer: Scott Volz, University of California, Irvine

 srvolz@uci.edu

 

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context Handbook Series

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:13am
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context Handbook Series

Call for additional papers for the following two volumes under the series:

-  The Routledge Handbook of the sociopolitical context of language learning

-  The Routledge Handbook of the Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages

Series editors: Chris Shei, Weixiao Wei, Der-lin Chao, James Schnell

DEADLINE EXTENSION re- and de-: Prefixes and Paradigms to Reconstruct and Deconstruct the United States Within and Without Borders

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:09am
Serena Fusco on behalf of Iperstoria: Journal of American and English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Iperstoria Call for Papers Fall 2023

re- and de-: Prefixes and Paradigms to Reconstruct and Deconstruct the United States Within and Without Borders

 

Editors 

Enrico Botta, University of Verona

Serena Fusco, University of Naples “L’Orientale”

 

The International Emerging Young Scholars Online Conference. "Politics and Poetics of Difference: Approaches in Anglophone Literature, Culture and Linguistics"

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 9:09am
Academic Association for Doctoral Students of English & Student Feminist Society at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 28, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Academic Association for Doctoral Students of English

Student Feminist Society

Department of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Comparative Studies

Institute of Literary Studies

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń  

are pleased to announce

 

International Emerging Young Scholars Online Conference

CFP: "Communal practices of joy and sorrow in Africa and the diaspora."

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:57am
Olabode Ibironke
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Panel Sponsored by the African Languages, Literatures, and Cultures since 1990 Forum:

Modern Language Association Conference 2024 (Philadelphia)

We invite papers on shared experiences of catharsis and purgation; dance and participatory art as tropes of identity, homecoming, and healing; Truth and Reconciliation; digital culture and affective communities, etc., 

Send 250-word abstracts and CV to Bode Ibironke <oi26@rutgers.edu> by March 22. 

American Literature 1870-Present

updated: 
Friday, March 24, 2023 - 8:53am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for its in-person panel at the 2023 meeting of the Midwestern Modern Language Association conference (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, particulary those that gesture toward the conference theme of democracy.

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 20th, 2023.

 

SUBMISSION WINDOW CLOSED - Time and Its Influences - IUP EGO Spring Conference 2023

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 9:21am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

While we sometimes feel like life is moving around us rather than with us, it is essential to take a moment and consider how we got where we are. Over time, attitudes, opinions, and feelings have shifted along with what we choose to carry with us. To avoid leaving important things behind or risk forgetting them altogether, it is time to ask ourselves why we leave certain things behind and what it means when we do.

Doris Lessing and Contemporary African Critiques of Colonialism/Neocolonialism

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for our 2024 MLA Convention session examining Lessing’s critiques of colonialism and/or neocolonialism, especially in conversation with post-colonial African women writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo, and Mbue. 250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

The Griot in Doris Lessing and African/Postcolonial Diaspora Writers

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for an MLA 2024 session exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, songmakers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. This topic has been designed to fit in with the MLA's 2024 Presidential Theme, "Celebration: Joy and Sorrow." For more details on the theme, see: <https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/Presidential-Theme-for-th....
250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:10pm
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Insecure Ecologies: Resource Exploitation in Postcolonial Ecospheres

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:02pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The climate crisis posits a major threat to the anthropocene regardless of geopolitical boundaries. However, Eurocentric discourses seldom acknowledge the resource exploitation that fuels climate change. This panel seeks to explore works of literature that highlight such instances of resource exploitation in the postcolony vis-à-vis the ideas of security and insecurity in the times of an emergent climate crisis. With a special focus on the specters of neocolonialism that threaten the security of postcolonial ecospheres, this panel seeks to decolonize the discourses of climate change that refuse to address the role played by Western ideology and capital in the rendering insecure of ecologies in the postcolony.  

 

MLA 2024 panel: Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:47pm
Dr. Sagnika Chanda/ Georgia Institute of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Please send in your abstracts for a special panel proposed by me for MLA 2024: "Speculative Fiction and Work: Histories, Futures and Resilience" This panel examines speculative/sci-fi re-imaginings of the exploitation of laboring, vulnerable bodies to serve an extractive society and their resistances. How to envision a socially just future shaped for and by precarious labor? Please submit 250-word abstracts by 25 March, 2023 to schanda32@gatech.edu  Full description: This panel traces the interconnected histories and future of labor, vulnerable populations, and their resilience. In a post-pandemic era the definition of work has undergone a sea change with the constant threat of automation.

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 2:24am
Indraprastha: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Indraprasth: An International Journal of Culture and Communication Studies 

invites original and unpublished papers for its 2023 edition on the theme: 

Migration In and Out of Africa: A Cultural Perspective

 

Concept Note

2nd annual Sturgeon Symposium

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:43pm
Gunn Center for the Study of SF, University of Kansas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 17, 2023

The J. Wayne and Elsie M. Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction is excited to announce our 2nd Annual Sturgeon Symposium (Wed. 9/28 – Fri. 9/30/2023), celebrating the 30th anniversary of Octavia Butler's groundbreaking novel, The Parable of the Sower. As KU's choice for the 2023 Common Book program, this novel is a powerful inspiration for our Symposium's theme, "Fantastic Worlds, Fraught Futures."   

MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:42pm
University of Birmingham (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023

MUSLIM WOMEN’S POPULAR FICTION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – 5-9 SEPTEMBER 2023

Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network International Conference

Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023

Free to attend for all speakers and attendees.

Keynote speakers

Professor Claire Chambers

Dr Rehana Ahmed

In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to G. Willow Wilson’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.

Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film: New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:33pm
Department of World Languages and Literature, Simon Fraser University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

 

Progression, Regression, and Transgression in Gothic World Literature & Film:

New Approaches to the Ethics of Difference

 A Gothic-Without-Borders Conference

September 29th to October 2, 2023,  fully online,  hosted by the Department of World Languages and Literatures (WLL) at Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada, coordinated by the SFU Center for Educational Excellence (CEE), and co-sponsored by the International Gothic Association (IGA)

Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2023

Addressing Colonial Insecurities Through Radical Forms

updated: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023 - 3:25pm
SAMLA - South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

The South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Annual Conference "(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies" will take place from November 9-11, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. For conference information, check out SAMLA's website (https://samla.memberclicks.net/)

Addressing Colonial Insecurities Through Radical Forms:

Proposed Special Sessions Panel

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