*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 16 ***  
 

PAMLA Annual Conference  

Palm Springs, California 

November 6-10, 2024 

 "Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)    

Call for Contributions

Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures

Eds. Ariane de Waal and Anja Hartl

SUNY Press

We invite additional contributions to an edited collection on Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures, which is under contract for publication in the series Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (series editor: Pamela Gilbert) at SUNY Press.

As part of the forthcoming Shakespeare and Race Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe, we are delighted to announce a two-day symposium to be held in London on 25-26 October 2024.  

Our festival theme is ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?’ and aims to examine the contested space that Shakespeare occupies in the world of theatre, academia and the public sphere.

We are inviting paper submissions for individual 45-minute sessions, which includes time for audience Q&A, engaging with the conference theme: ‘Who Owns Shakespeare?: Adaptation, Appropriation, Authority’.

Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: 

Adaptation, appropriation, translation

Early modern and modern-day performance 

Special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1964)

https://www.sol.lu.se/engelska/innc

We are planning a peer-reviewed special issue of American Studies in Scandinavia focused on the topics of individuality and community in mid-century American culture (1945-1964), inviting explorations of the literature, film, art, and thought of the period. We seek 8,000-word articles that focus either on individual writers/artists/thinkers in the period or engage with the topic more broadly.

In 1971, when the Cuban government launched the Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution Crime Fiction award, local literary critics were acutely aware of the genre’s roots in a capitalist setting. Yet, José Antonio Portuondo considered that crime fiction could serve a purpose within a Communist framework of life, provided it underwent adaptation to suit the new context. Over the following years, Cuban journals published numerous programmatic texts aimed at guiding writers willing to produce what would be termed Revolutionary crime fiction. Similar adjustments took place in other Soviet bloc countries, albeit with varying degrees of success and popularity.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Sports Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held online October 3 – 5, 2024, and in person at Nichols College, MA. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning with broadcast via Zoom.