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Shenandoah University Young Scholars Literary Symposium
Call for Proposals: Celebrating Shakespeare! - DEADLINE EXTENDED to SEPTEMBER 29!!!
Saturday, October 28, 2023: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST
Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, Virginia
When students are given the opportunity to use more than one mode in learning, they are taking a multimodal approach to thinking critically. Multimodality, first addressed by Kress and van Leeuwen (1996), is meaning that is made through multiple representations and communications systems. This session allows the presenters to answer the question: “What happens when students use more than one mode to demonstrate understanding of concepts, texts, and/or literature? While multimodal is a more recently coined term, organizations like The National Council of Teachers of English have traditionally proposed such learning as demonstrated in Kist’s 2011 English Journal article “From Queen Mab to Big Boy: A Century of “New” Literacies.”
Yale Africa-China Symposium: Cultural Dimensions Date: 14-15 March 2024
Venue: School of Arts and Communication, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo Mozambique
Call for Papers: “Mixed Race Shakespeares,” a Special Issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook (Routledge)
Special Section Editor: Adele Lee (Emerson College, USA)
General Editor: Alexa Alice Joubin (George Washington University, USA)
This panel seeks papers that explore the relationship between gender and nature in medieval and early modern literature. Papers might explore, for example, how forests, ruins, or waterways are used to mediate queer expression, how bestiaries transgressed or engaged in gender formation, and the role of maternity and the transformation of the natural world. Also welcome are global approaches that discuss gender transformation in ecological contact zones. What role does nature play in the formation of individual gender identity and/or communal gender hierarchies? How has the relationship between gender and nature changed or maintained across medieval and early modern time?
The Shelley Conference 2024
Posthumous Poems, Posthumous Collaborations
Keats House Museum, London, 28-29 June 2024
Two years after the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the summer of 1822, Mary Shelley, after a painstaking editorial process, published Posthumous Poems (1824). The volume contained much of Shelley’s major poetry, including the hitherto unpublished ‘Julian and Maddalo’, together with translations of Goethe and Calderón, and unfinished compositions such as ‘The Triumph of Life’ and ‘Charles the First’.
In the realm of literature, grief and loss have always occupied a profound space, weaving their intricate threads through the narratives of countless tales. From the ancient Greek tragedies to contemporary works, the exploration of human suffering and its aftermath has captivated the imaginations of readers and critics alike. However, delving deeper into the recesses of these literary landscapes, we encounter a concept that extends beyond the boundaries of ordinary grief—a surplus of grief that emerges, often unyielding and overwhelming, in the face of profound loss and trauma.
They Live: Female Monsters and Their Impact on the Frankenstein Tradition
Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa
Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 30 September 2023
55th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association
Sheraton Boston Hotel (Boston, MA)
On-site event: 7-10 March 2024
See the shared Google Doc for the full call with a list of bibliographic resources on the topic: https://tinyurl.com/They-Live-NeMLA-2024.
Go Slow Now, or A Dream Deferred: William Faulkner and Civil Rights
Call for Panel Papers at the 2024 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference “Faulknerian Anniversaries”
July 21-25, 2024
University of Mississippi
Organised by the Faulkner Studies in the UK Research Network
Villainous Science: Cloning, Experimentation, and Hybridization in Transmedia Cultures and Storytelling
Conference Information
The 2023 Northeast Popular Culture Association (a.k,a. NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a virtual conference from Thursday, October 12-Saturday, October 14. Thursday’s session will be held in the late afternoon-evening (EST), Friday’s session will be held mid-afternoon into the evening (EST), and Saturday’s session will be from morning until midday (EST).