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Painful Truths and Unspoken Words: Remembering Genocides and Holocausts in different genres and regions of the world.

updated: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021 - 12:40pm
mark malisa
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 3, 2021

nitial world responses to the Holocaust included the declaration “never again” (Gilbert, 2000; Reese, 2017; Herman, 2018; Power, 2013). This Special Issue on “Remembering Genocides and the Holocaust” invites contributions from different fields, such as the film, music, museums, and literature. Contributions may explore specific representations in their own right or the relationship between representations and lived experiences pertaining to genocide/ holocaust. They may focus on how remembrances of Holocausts and Genocides have been transformed over time, including, but not limited to the globalization, nationalization or privatization of such memories.

Dracones in Mundo: Dragons in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture: A Series of Edited Volumes UPDATE/EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 5:01pm
St. Thomas University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Dracones in Mundo: Dragons in Literature, Film, and Pop Culture: A Series of Edited Volumes UPDATE/EXTENDED DEADLINE

deadline for submissions:
July 25, 2021

full name / name of organization:
St. Thomas University

contact email:
rachel.carazo@snhu.edu

I received a great response to the last call for papers regarding the volumes on dragons. As a result, I have been better able to refine and divide results.

Writing as Resistance and Transgression: Gender, Poetics and Activism in Post-War Literature in English

updated: 
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 - 3:00pm
University of Wrocław
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 16, 2021

CFP : “Writing as Resistance and Transgression: Gender, Poetics and Activism in Post-War Literature in English”
Dates: May 27-28, 2021 (via Zoom)
Deadline for Submission: April 16, 2021
Keynote Speakers: Professor Agnieszka Graff (University of Warsaw) and Doctor
Elżbieta Klimek-Dominiak (University of Wrocław)
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Writing as Resistance and Transgression: Gender, Poetics and Activism in Post-War Literature in English
Date: May 27-28, 2021

Literature and Popular Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 5:00pm
Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 1, 2021

The Literature and Popular Culture area for the 2021 Northeast Popular & American Culture Association conference is accepting paper and panel proposals from faculty and graduate students. NEPCA’s 2021 virtual annual conference will be held online from Thursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23, 2021. Abstracts are due by August 1, 2021.

The NEPCA Literature and Popular Culture area welcomes papers that analyze and evaluate the connections between popular culture and literature, understood broadly.  How does popular culture inform and/or react to literature, and what are the implications for that relationship? 

Call for Proposals for Edited Volume: Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia and North Africa

updated: 
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 4:59pm
Intellect Books
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Drs. Anne Marie Butler (Kalamazoo College) and Sascha Crasnow (University of Michigan) invite contributions for consideration to be published in an edited volume on queer visual art from the South West Asia North Africa reigon and its diaspora. The book, tentatively titled Queer Contemporary Art of Southwest Asia and North Africa: Beyond Borders and Binaries, will be published open access in the Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East series from Intellect Books, which is edited by Drs. Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan) and Mohammad Gharipour (Morgan State University). The forward will be contributed by Dr. Gayatri Gopinath (New York University). 

CFP-DEADLINE EXTENSION: Postcolonial Interventions, Vol. VI, Issue II, June 2021

updated: 
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 4:55pm
Postcolonial Interventions: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2021

Postcolonial Interventions invites academic articles for the upcoming June 2021 issue of the Journal which will be an Open Issue.

While the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged the world into similar processes of distress, loss and anxiety, it has also exacerbated authoritarian inclinations in various nation-states, widened socio-economic disparities and hardened competing fundamentalisms. It is hoped that the prospective submissions will take into account these recent upheavals alongside the usual explorations of literary and cultural representations focusing on postcolonial concerns from various corners of the globe.

Theatre and Popular Culture in the English Restoration and 18th Century

updated: 
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 10:26am
Department of English and American Studies, Masaryk University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 10, 2021

The English theatre culture from the early Restoration to the early 18th century witnessed a marked shift towards increased commercialization and popularization of theatre. Gone were the post-1660 close association with the court, royalist productions, and prominently elite (well-off and upper-class) audiences. Instead, the experimentation with new genres, opening of new theatres, and a growing differentiation of the theatre programme into mainpieces, entr’acte entertainments and afterpieces revolutionized the established cultural hierarchies of the period.

4th International Conference on Research in Humanities and Social Sciences (ICRHS)

updated: 
Sunday, April 4, 2021 - 8:53am
Acavent
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 16, 2021

The 4th International Conference on Research in Humanities and Social Sciences, happening on the 7th– 9th May 2021, Milan, Italy is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in education theory and practice.

This conference is a prestigious event, organized to provide an international platform for academicians, researchers, managers, industrial participants, and students to share their research findings with global experts. All full paper/abstract submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research depth, accuracy and relevance to conference theme and topics.

 Sociology and Anthropology 

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* Fluid Constructs: Breaking the Limits of Gendered Spaces

updated: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 3:10pm
The Harbour
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Examining time and space as anything but concrete and singular, Elizabeth Grosz states that they “are in some sense correlated with representations of the subject” (99). Such a conception associates spatio-temporal location with subjectivity, and to some extent, embodiment and corporeality. Space becomes about more than physical conceptualizations—such as land, location, or locality, or more specifically Earth, land, nation, city, or home—and comes to include broader, more metaphorical, notions such as the space within body and mind, as well as narrative space.

Food and Culture in Northeast India: The Culinary Tradition

updated: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 - 10:40am
Dr. Saurav Sengupta/Damdama College, Guwahati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2021

Food, more than a material substance is also a cultural expression handed down from generations to generations. In most societies, the older people pass on their knowledge of food and what constitutes “healthy or good” food to their new members. In this sense, the idea of food also marks a society’s relation with the larger environment- human and biotic. But, food also defines what is “within” from what is “without,” so that culinary skills, inherited through years of practice could be transferred to those who make up the members of a legitimate community.

Ecopoetics, 1960-2020 (Panel / Virtual)

updated: 
Monday, March 29, 2021 - 8:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Literature Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Many of the finest poets in America and abroad have been exposing the destructive relationships between humans and nature and reimagining our place on the planet to help us avoid catastrophe. As environmental writer John Nichols once stated, "To save the world, first we must love it.” This virtual (online) session on ecopoetics aims to inspire and cultivate such a love. We particularly welcome scholars and poets who explore the natural world as a text and the literary achievement of great nature writers as exemplary readers. Works by Adrienne Rich, Gary Snyder, Joy Harjo, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Pablo Neruda, including original poems or translations, such as Merwin’s translations of Jean Follain, are encouraged.

Afro-Asian Solidarity in Motion (panel/online)_2021 PAMLA Annual Conference

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:53am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

We invite proposals for this virtual (online) session exploring any aspect of Afro-Asian coalition-building projects in literary or cultural studies, with interest in engaging across cross-racial, interracial, or interminority studies bridging Black and Asian cultures and values. The tension and conflicts of interminority in the US, especially the Black-Asian conflicts, have been a big issue… but is it really the issue between the two communities only? Afro-Asian solidarity means a lot to both Black and Asian groups as their coalition, connection, allyship, and understanding have been undermined for decades, for many reasons, but here we gather to call out to say the Afro-Asian solidarity is revolutionary. Description After the Russo-Japanese War W. E.

Reading Shakespeare from a Multidisciplinary Approach

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:51am
LITINFINITE JOURNAL
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Call for PapersLitinfinite Journal JULY, 2021(Volume-III, Issue-I)

On

Reading Shakespeare from a Multidisciplinary Approach

E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR

www.litinfinite.com

Last date of submission of manuscripts: 15thMay, 2021

Papers Invited for a Virtual Conference on Queer Ecologies

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:49am
Christ University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Department of English and Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore, India, invites papers for a conference on Queer Ecologies on April 26, 2021.

Concept Note:

Remapping the Boundaries of Identity

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:49am
University of Plymouth
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 7, 2021

Remapping the Boundaries of Identity

 

An Interdisciplinary PGR & ECR Research Conference at the University of Plymouth

 

Saturday 10th July

 

 

Justice and SFF

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:48am
Vector
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

 

Vector and Focus invite proposals for articles that explore science fiction, fantasy, and justice in all its forms, be it social, legal, economic, political, environmental, procedural, distributive, restorative, and/or transformative. We’re especially interested in how SFF communities, including creative professionals, academics, and fans, can explore and promote justice. How should these many overlapping communities discuss, think about, evaluate, strategize, and enact our desires for a just world? 

The Laughter Effect: Satire, Comedy and Humor (Panel/In person

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:48am
Judith Saunders/Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Special SessionPrimary Area / Secondary AreaGenres and Audiences / Historical and Political StudiesPresiding Officer(s)

Judith Saunders (Independent Scholar)
judi@****.com (Log-in to reveal)

A Pedagogy of Letters: LASA Lecture Series

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:47am
Literature Association of South Africa | Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

A Pedagogy of Letters: LASA Lecture Seriesin collaboration with
The Faculty of Education

Deadline Approaching: 44th Annual Comparative Drama Conference Call for Papers

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:45am
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 3, 2021

44th Comparative Drama Conference Call for PapersOctober 14-16, 2021Orlando, Florida

 

2021 Keynote Event   An Evening with Anne WashburnOctober 15, 2021     8 p.m. (followed by a reception)                              Abstract Submission Deadline:  3 April 2021

CFP for 2021 PAMLA - James Baldwin in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and Beyond: Teaching Intersectionality through Literature

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:43am
Michael Pak, UH West Oahu
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 15, 2021

118th PAMLA Conference

Las Vegas, Nevada | November 11-14, 2021

Sahara Las Vegas Hotel and Online

Hosted by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 

PANEL

James Baldwin in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific, and Beyond: Teaching Intersectionality through Literature

 

MODERATOR

Mike Pak, UH West Oahu

pakm@hawaii.edu

 

ABSTRACT

Edited Collection, Broadcasting Beyond Adaptation: Revisiting the Television and Literature Debate

updated: 
Friday, March 26, 2021 - 10:42am
Paul Sheehan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 25, 2021

The editors of a forthcoming collection on literature and television titled Broadcasting Beyond Adaptation: Revisiting the Television and Literature Debate invite abstract proposals for potential chapters on intersections of Māori/te reo television and literature. Aimed at Palgrave’s Adaptation Series, this essay collection argues for the re-examination of scholarly discourses surrounding televisual and literary histories of cultural legitimation.

Call for Contributions: We Won't Look Down Exhibition

updated: 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 - 6:59am
Boston College
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 5, 2021

 

WE WON'T lOOK DOWN 

ONLINE POETRY & ART EXHIBITION

«Angles, margins, edges, lines . . . don’t we often find ourselves exploring some version of “outside?”»[1]

 

Online symposium: In the Wake of Red Power Movements. New Perspectives on Indigenous Intellectual and Narrative Traditions (May 14/15, 2021)

updated: 
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 12:03pm
Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

This symposium explores North American Indigenous intellectual and narrative traditions that were recovered, reclaimed, or (re-)invented in the wake of Red Power movements that emerged in the 1960s in the settler colonial societies of Canada and the USA. It asks: which new perspectives and visions have been developed over the last 50 years within Indigenous studies and related fields when looking at Indigenous land and land rights, Indigenous political and social sovereignty, extractivism and environmental destruction, oppressive sex/gender systems, and for describing the repercussions of settler colonialism in North America, especially in narrative representations?

For Students by Students! An International Conference on Literature, Culture and Foreign Languages

updated: 
Friday, March 19, 2021 - 12:03pm
For Students by Students
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 5, 2021

For Students by Students! 

An International Conference on Literature,  Culture and Foreign Languages 

May 14-16, 2021 – online 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

If you are interested in 19th, 20th Century and Contemporary Literature or Language  and Culture, or if: 

You want to test your presentation skills in a culturally diverse (and accepting)  environment, and 

You can present in English or German, or 

You simply want to listen to presentations from the comfort of your home, and  connect with people on these subjects from all around the world, 

THIS CONFERENCE IS FOR YOU! 

Proposal Requirements: 

London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia [Literature]

updated: 
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 2:27pm
McFarland
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 10, 2021

A small number of entries for London's East End: A Short Encyclopedia (under contract, McFarland; ed. Kevin A. Morrison) remain unassigned in the "Literature" category. A list appears below. Entries for this category should range from 50-350 words. Established scholars, early career researchers, and advanced graduate students—those who, in a US context, have passed their qualifying exams—are welcome. Interested individuals may contact the volume's managing editor to have one or more entries assigned to them and request a style guide. 

 

All Hands

All Our Yesterdays

Analogies and metaphors (East End)

 

Barren Metal

The Big Bow Mystery 

Last Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror

updated: 
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 2:27pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Last Call for Chapters: Japanese Horror

 

Edited by Subashish Bhattacharjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University),

Ananya Saha (Jawaharlal Nehru University) and

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

http://artes.filo.uba.ar/pagnoni-berns-gabriel

 

We, the editors, are looking for four additional chapters for our book on Japanese horror. The deadline for the full manuscript to Lexington Press is May 10, 2021, so potential contributors must have in mind the process will be quickly as possible. Below, our original CFP.

MMLA 2021: Comparative Literature CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 2:24pm
MMLA Comparative Literature Permanent Section
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2021

This year's MMLA conference was originally scheduled to be held last fall. MMLA 2021 will be held at Milwaukee, WI, or in a virtual format if necessary. The conference theme remains the same. 

The Comparative Literature section of the MMLA invites proposals for papers that engage with this year's conference theme, "Cultures of Collectivity." Papers addressing the following suggested MMLA topics from a transnational, cross-cultural, and/or interdisciplinary perspective would be particularly relevant:

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