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American Literature 1870-Present (Permanent Section), MMLA 2024, Chicago, IL

updated: 
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 - 9:35pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.

IMPOST: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:27am
English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Impost: A Journal of Creative and Critical Work, a peer-reviewed journal published by the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities, welcomes submissions of creative writing (poetry, fiction, nonfiction, short dramatic pieces, and literary journalism), as well as scholarly essays in all fields of English studies.

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference, 2025: Oceanic Melville

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
The Melville Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers

 

Fourteenth International Melville Society Conference

University of Connecticut (maritime campus), Avery Point, Connecticut, USA

Dates: June 16-19, 2025

 

Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2024

 

Conference Theme: Oceanic Melville

 

Meditation and water are wedded forever.

Moby-Dick, Chapter 1

 

The oceans cover two thirds of our planet’s surface and are responsible

for over half of our oxygen and one fifth of our nutrition. They are in trouble.

"Making Nature: The Labor of Natural History," June 6–7, 2024

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:28am
American Philosophical Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Inspired by the APS Museum’s upcoming exhibition Sketching Splendor: Natural History in America, 1750-1850 the American Philosophical Society is organizing a daylong conference that will explore the ways humans have imagined, depicted, and constructed representations and knowledge about the natural world over time. The conference aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists, naturalists, and collection professionals, as well as artists, filmmakers, climate activists, and others to consider the different forms of labor and expertise that have contributed to shaping past, present, and future understandings of nature as well as the place of humans within it.

Fans of Color Research Prize

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:29am
Transformative Works and Cultures
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Transformative Works and Cultures is now seeking submissions for the 2024 Fans of Color Research Prize. The award recognizes the best peer-reviewed article about fans and/or fandoms of color published in TWC in the preceding 3 years (for 2024, no earlier than 2021) and furthers the journal’s goal to support scholars whose work fills critical gaps in fan studies literature about racially marginalized and/or non-western fans. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize.

Submission details:

Renaissance Drama Session--SCMLA in New Orleans

updated: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 11:29am
South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

***This was posted back in February, and we have decided to extend the deadline to May 1st.

We are presently accepting abstract submissions for the Renaissance Drama session(s) at the 81st meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association conference.

The conference will be held September 19-21, 2024, in New Orleans, LA at Hotel Monteleone.

Call for Presentations: “Science Fiction and the Aesthetic Experience of Otherness”

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:28am
Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference “Borders/Freedom/Civility” Gettysburg, PA, June 12-15, 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

We are seeking speakers to fill up a panel at the APL Conference “Borders/Freedom/Civility” at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, June 12-15, 2024, on the question of how science fiction aesthetics, the experience of science fiction, and the experience of otherness in science fiction relate. Science Fiction is one of the foremost genres exploring the relation between the alien other as a way of thinking through interhuman relations across borders, but, as a liminally “high” literary form, it is often excluded from discussions of the aesthetic experience of literature as a driving force of intellectual engagement.

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:29am
Pei-Wen Clio Kao/National Ilan University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers

CONRAD IN THE FAR EAST, Editor: Pei-Wen Clio Kao (National Ilan University)

Vol. 36 of CONRAD: EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES, Editor: Wiesław Krajka

The Maria Curie-Skłodowska University – Columbia University Press Conrad Project

Lublin: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University Press; New York: Columbia University Press, to be published in 2027.                                                                  

 

Call for Papers – Colour Turn: Interdisciplinary Journal of Colour Research

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
Colour Turn: Interdisciplinary Journal of Colour Research
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 8, 2024

Colour Turn invites abstracts on all areas of colour research and colour science. This includes research in the humanities and natural sciences. Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary papers are also welcome.

Please send a 250-word abstract to submission[at]colourturn.net by Monday, April 8.
Please be sure to include your name, contact details and the title of the paper in your abstract.

For more information on the concept of the journal and our submission guidelines, please visit our website at colourturn.net.

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Call for Papers on South Asian Studies

updated: 
Friday, February 2, 2024 - 10:26am
Journal of South Asian Exchanges
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

ies and Social Sciences

Menu Call for Papers on South Asian Studies 

The Journal of South Asian Exchanges invites original research papers, theoretical studies, book reviews, and review articles on a wide range of topics related to South Asia. The journal is open to scholars, academics, and practitioners who are interested in discussing and deliberating on the path to South Asia in 2024 and the potential futures of South Asia. The journal will cover a wide range of themes, including but not limited to: