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Oceans, Seas and Shorelines volume of interdisciplinary essays for Routledge series

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Vivienne Westbrook, University of Western Australia
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Oceans, Seas and Shorelines: a natural and cultural environmental history

A volume of multi-disciplinary essays

(Under contract with Routledge)

Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 

15th November 2023

full name / name of organization: 

Mark Nicholls, St. John’s College, Cambridge

Vivienne Westbrook, University of Western Australia

contact email: 

viv.westbrook@uwa.edu.au

amn1000@cam.ac.uk

 

ACLA 2024 Seminar: Literary Criticism as Environmental Thinking?

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Aleksandr Prigozhin (Utrecht University) and Adrienne Ghaly (UVA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Is the 20 c. inheritance of literary criticism in its various modes of strong, ‘suspicious’, deep reading woefully inadequate for reckoning with the current and impending environmental crises, as many have claimed?

Critics declare that these crises demand entirely new concepts and ways of doing things, for example borrowing from the sciences and social sciences. But the practice of criticism, as opposed to its programmatic statements, remains remarkably consistent. This observation leads us to ask what kinds of environmental thinking established practices of criticism already perform. In other words, which concepts and methods that are not explicitly environmental are good for thinking environmentally?

Journal of International Women’s Studies Special Issue: Reproductive Justice across Disciplines and Demographics

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Journal of International Women’s Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Reproductive Justice across Disciplines and Demographics

 

Issues of procreation are the most troubling, disconcerting, confounding, divisive--and (therefore) interesting ones confronting feminism.

                                                                                    Barbara Katz Rothman, 1997

 

Anne Lister Society: Third Meeting, April 2024 in Halifax UK

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:17am
The Anne Lister Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 25, 2023

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE THIRD ANNE LISTER SOCIETY MEETING in Spring 2024!

Following on our inaugural meeting in April 2022 and our second in 2023, we are thrilled to announce that the Anne Lister Society will reconvene for its third conference, 5-6 April 2024, in Halifax, U.K., during the events of Anne Lister Birthday Week.

Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention (Roundtable -- NeMLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:16am
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

NeMLA 2024 Roundtable: Mindfulness in the Academy: Multitasking and Attention

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on mindfulness' ability to assist instructors and students alike in juggling their many tasks, roles, responsibilities, and deadlines.

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 11:15am
Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: THE INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC

 

March 21st – 23rd, 2024

Salem, Massachusetts

 

Conference director: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University

With the kind support of the American Literature Association

 

 

Proposals for individual papers, 3- or 4-person paper sessions, and 5-person roundtable sessions are solicited for AMERICAN NIGHTMARES: the inaugural symposium of the Society for the Study of the American Gothic.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS – Home/Bodies: NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference, April 5-7, 2024

updated: 
Friday, December 8, 2023 - 2:00pm
University of Tennessee, Knoxville English department
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Gaston Bachelard asserts that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." How does one define "home"? Is it a materially constructed shelter, or a psychological space that holds one's memories, imaginations, and, essentially, a space that "protects the daydreamer" (The Poetics of Space, 5)? Furthermore, what does it mean to exist in a "body"? And what does it feel like to be "at home" in a body? How does one traverse these inhabited spaces, both in public and in private? Or, how are spatial boundaries reinstated when the home and the body is misaligned?

ACLA 2024 (Montreal) Panel: Mirror/Mirror

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:37am
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

We're accepting paper proposals for the following seminar at the ACLA annual meeting, which will be held in Montreal, March 14–17, 2024. Papers should be submitted online through the ACLA portal. Feel free to email with any questions.
 

Mirror / Mirror

Organizers: Hilary Bergen (The New School), Sandra Huber (Concordia University)

Ecological (In)hospitality in the 20th and 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:32am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Ambiguous and paradoxical, the concept of hospitality has been extensively explored in its social, political, and ethical dimensions. In his cycle of seminars on hospitality (1995-97), Jacques Derrida reconstructs hospitality’s conceptual history, highlights its complexities and contradictions, and underlines the imbrication between hospitality and hostility. Building on Derrida’s reflections, works such as Rosello’s Postcolonial Hospitality: The Immigrant as Guest (2001), McNulty’s The Hostess: Hospitality, Femininity, and the Expropriation of Identity (2006), and Baker’s Hospitality and World Politics (2013) have considered the global, transnational, and gender aspects of hospitality.

“Narrative Prosthesis” Today: A Critical Reassessment (ACLA 2024, Montreal)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:31am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

It has been nearly twenty five years since the publication of David Mitchell and Sharon Snyder’s Narrative Prosthesis. This seminar considers the status of its eponymous central concept.

Michael Bérubé has stressed the significance of “narrative prosthesis,” describing it, in The Secret Life of Stories, as “the single most influential account of narrative in disability studies” (41). This concept has become so important that, according to Bérubé, “any subsequent account of disability and narrative cannot fail to address” it (41).

International Conference on Cross-Religious Exchanges in Eastern Indian Cultural and Literary Traditions

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 10:31am
School of Language & Literature, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology-Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, India
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

KIIT School of Language & Literature (KSLL) invites papers for the international conference on the topic of “Cross-Religious Exchanges in Eastern Indian Cultural and Literary Traditions” to be held on February 15-17, 2024 in the hybrid mode at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology-Deemed to be University. The conference aims to explore the interactions among religion, philosophy, and literary and cultural texts from the Eastern and North Eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.

Modelling Change: ALCA 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 4:44pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

“Things change,” no doubt, and for many decades now changes in literature and the visual arts have often been conceptualized in two interconnected ways. First, artifactual change is taken as a sign of or proxy for deeper, systemic modifications (from old-fashioned “periods” to master changes like “rationalism,” “capitalism,” and “modernity”). To “historicize,” as Frederic Jameson enjoined us to do, means to imagine artifacts as registering the complex conditions that made them possible in the first place. Second, this brand of change is thought through the trope of rupture, since the various systems that relay one another — call them paradigms, epistemes, horizons or regimes — are held to be incommensurable, despite possible surface similarities.

“The Future Imaginary in Collecting”

updated: 
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 10:39pm
Popular Culture Association PCA/ACA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Accepting Late Submissions: December 15, 2023

 

The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on

“The Future Imaginary in Collecting” for the 2024 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held on March 27-30 in Chicago USA 

 

We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles imagine the future.

Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:

     

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