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Alluvium Special Issue: “Futurity in Crisis” (Abstracts deadline 8th of March 2021. First Draft Submissions 5th April 2021)
Guest edited by the Contemporary Theoretical Network
In this special issue of Alluvium, the Contemporary Theoretical Network (Ctrl Network) invites submissions on the topic of futurity in crisis.
We invite papers for a proposed session on “Big Data & Social Media in Southeast Asia” for the 2022
Modern Language Association conference (6-9 January). This session is sponsored by the MLA’s
Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia Diasporic forum.
The Television Studies session is open to all paper proposals that explore some aspect of Television Studies. Possible topics for proposals include: the analysis of a particular television show, explorations of the social functions of television, and the relationship between television shows and their audiences. We are also particularly interested in paper proposals that relate to the conference theme "City of God, City of Destruction."
The conference will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada between Thursday, November 11 and Sunday, November 14, at the Sahara Las Vegas Hotel. This session is currently scheduled to be held in-person.
Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History
Edited by Josephine Hoegaerts and Jan Schroeder
RCAS 2021 Symposium Call for Papers
Symposium Theme:
2020: The Good and The Bad
Proposal Submission form: https://forms.gle/w5EymAMv7Sr2kM8X7
The Alabama State University College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences invites proposals for the 2021 Research and Creative Activity Virtual Symposium, 2020: The Good and the Bad. The virtual project format addresses the needs for both safety and community. 2020 impacted us profoundly. Through the topics and the medium, this year’s RCA Virtual Symposium seeks to explore and honor that breadth and depth of our 2020 experience.
We propose a panel for the SSAWW Triennial Conference "American Women Writers: Ecologies, Survival, Change" in Baltimore, Maryland, November 4-7, 2021:
Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT)
Call for Papers for Issue Number 20
https://journals.usj.edu.lb/al-kimiya
The Thematic Section
The theme chosen for issue 20 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT – Faculté de langues et de traduction) of Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ – Université Saint-Joseph) is "Languages, Translation and Society".
MLA 2022 (January 6-9, Washington, DC): "Community-Engaged Pedagogies in the Literature Classroom," an official panel for the Forum on the Teaching of Literature. Panelists discuss teaching literature with community-engaged pedagogies. As they engage with content, students learn about social justice and broaden career paths. Educators discuss balancing experience and content, navigating power differentials, and establishing reciprocal partnerships.
Deadline for submissions: Monday, 15 March 2021
Send 250-word abstracts and a brief CV to Edward Whitley (whitley@lehigh.edu) and Jessica DeSpain (jdespai@siue.edu)
We invite contributions to a collection tentatively titled Getting to the Finish Line: New Directions for the Dissertation Process.
The CLCS Renaissance/Early Modern forum of the MLA invites paper proposals for a guaranteed session at MLA 2022 (Washington, D.C., 6-9 January 2022). We plan a panel on insurrection, tyranny, and resistance in a wide range of early modern contexts. What political theories and literary traditions shape early modern writers’ understandings? How do literary texts themselves respond to contemporary events, imagine alternative futures, and transform current conversations? We particularly welcome comparative and transnational perspectives. Please send 250-word abstracts and brief CVs to Penelope Anderson pea@indiana.edu by 20 March 2021.
Colloquia Humanistica is the interdisciplinary journal of humanities of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Our aim is to introduce a variety of perspectives in discussing contemporary issues. We would like to propose a unique space that allows an intensive intellectual debate and a dynamic exchange of thoughts between researchers of different perspectives in humanities and social sciences. Colloquia Humanistica kindly invites submissions of manuscripts that address the topic:
The sense of an ending and the imagination of the end: apocalypse, disaster and messianic time
This session is open to any proposal that explores the intersection of literature and some other art. However, in accordance with the conference theme "City of God, City of Destruction," we welcome papers that explore the cross-sections between literature and the other arts in connection to issues of the urban, cityscapes, the postmodern, noir, gothic, or religious spaces or architecture, or religious or spiritual painting or sculpture.
To submit a paper proposal, please visit https://pamla.ballastacademic.com, and look for session 18248 Literature and the Other Arts (in person) or 18249 (on line)
Henry James scholarship has hesitated to engage with the challenges and opportunities presented by the rich and proliferating constellation of thought that is Trans Studies. How might the question of transgender revise, reinvigorate or transform our understanding of James’s writing, and / or of James as a biographical subject?
We welcome proposals addressing any aspect of the topic. Possible approaches might include:
- Transgender subjects in James’s fictional worlds and nonfiction texts
- Transgender and subjectless queer critique
- Sex, gender, and narration
- Transgender and sexuality
- Transgender and sibling relationships
The Film Education Journal (FEJ) is the world’s only publication committed to exploring how teachers and other educators work with film, and to involving other participants – policymakers, academics, researchers, cultural agencies and film-makers themselves – in that conversation. The journal publishes a range of article types, aimed at reaching our diverse academic and practitioner audience. FEJ welcomes submissions for its eighth edition (to be published in November 2021). Full submission guidelines and information can be found here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/pages/film-education-journal
Marx and Engels famously use the term lumpenproletariat to describe “that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of old society.” The concept suggests that the most marginal are not part of the revolutionary class but are in fact more likely to function as a “bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.” As Raphael Samuel noted, the word came to function as an “unproblematic term of abuse” in early twentieth-century Communist discourse, suggesting a relation between political unreliability and moral failings. The precarious were not merely represented as a threat to radical movements but as personally contemptible in ways that drew on conservative ideas of the undeserving poor.
The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language, Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526) invites original, unpublished research papers for July 2021 issue.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Women and music in the early modern age
Queluz National Palace
July 2nd - 4th, 2021
Organization:
Divino Sospiro – Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal
Scientific Committee:
Cristina Fernandes, Giuseppina Raggi, Iskrena Yordanova,
Ricardo Bernardes, José Camões, Francesco Cotticelli, Paologiovanni Maione
Our website: https://www.traumanightmare.com/
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Paulo Endo – University of São Paulo, Brazil
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Margaret Fuller SocietyAmerican Literature Association ConferenceBoston, July 7–11, 2021EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals due February 23, 2021
Women in the Nineteenth Century—Traveling, Writing, Speaking
Margaret Fuller SocietyAmerican Literature Association ConferenceBoston, July 7–11, 2021EXTENDED DEADLINE: Proposals due February 23, 2021
Please come join us at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA, from July 7-11, 2021 where the Kurt Vonnegut Society will hold two academic sessions and host a business meeting. The ALA has made accommodations for distant-presentation, so we welcome those who may only appear digitally.
Here’s the Call for Papers. Proposals are due by February 1, 2021. Since the ALA has pushed the conference back to July, we have extended the deadline for proposals to February 20, 2021.
Panel 1: Vonnegut and Religion
CFP
When American Television Became American Literature
**** Please note this is an up-dated posting for a volume originally entitled, The Platinum Age of American Television ****
Title: When American Television Became American Literature
Publisher: Brill Publishers (European Perspectives on the United States series)
Editor: Ben Alexander
Contact: Benalexander@fas.harvard.edu or Benalexa@usc.edu
118th Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas and Online (Thursday, November 11 to Sunday, November 14, 2021)
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
INDIAN DIASPORA: LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY
Sub-themes
E T H N I C I T Y A N D D I A S P O R A P L U R A L I S M A N D D I A S P O R A
M U L T I C U L T U R A L I S M A N D D I A S P O R A G L O B A L I S A T I O N A N D D I A S P O R A
T R A N S N A T I O N A L I S M A N D D I A S P O R A P A R T I T I O N A N D D I A S P O R A
For a special double issue to be published in March, 2022.
Papers addressing the plurality of religious cultures in the nineteenth century, including not only Catholicism, Anglicanism, Protestantism, and Judaism, but also Buddhism, Hermeticism, Native American Religions, Theosophy, Unitarianism, the LDS Church, African-American religion, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Shakerism, etc., competing and overlapping in nineteenth-century contexts. Papers are welcome in all the arts; incuding literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, liturgy, the textile arts, the decorative arts, music, and dance.
Illustrations, both color and black-and-white, are encouraged.
For a special section of Religion and the Arts, a peer-reviewed scholarly journal edited at Boston College.
A call for papers in Buddhism and Literature: any tradition, language or literature or time period from ancient times to the present.
Complete papers of 5,000-10,000 words should be submitted by 15 June 2021, in MLA 7 format with parenthetical documentation.
Illustrations, color or black and white, are welcome.
Call for Papers (CFP) for Volume VI Number ii (July 2021 issue) of postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies ISSN: 2456-7507 postScriptum: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Literary Studies (online, open access, peer-reviewed, DOAJ indexed) ISSN: 2456-7507, invites original, unpublished, scholarly research articles, popular articles, book/film reviews, interviews in English on Literary Studies for its July 2021 issue (Vol VI No ii). There is no focal theme for this issue.
2020 marks the centennial celebration of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, This Side of Paradise. Because a centennial is also a time to look back in order to reevaluate, reassess and then speculate on the future, we invite scholars to explore and analyze not only the lasting significance of Fitzgerald's oeuvre, but also the many possible parallels and/or tensions between his work and that of other writers and artists. Essays that turn to new perspectives and expand upon connections between Fitzgerald’s work and other literary and artistic expressions are also especially welcome.
Topics may include (but are not limited) to:
Poetry in Transatlantic Translation: Encounters Across Languages
June 14th-17th 2022
Bangor University, Wales
Keynotes:
Don Mee Choi
Forrest Gander
I'm seeking abstracts of 250 words due March 7, 2021 for an edited collection under contract with an academic publisher entitled "Women Writing Trauma in Literature." The book considers literary representations of trauma by women writers. Rather than focusing on one time period or nationality, this collection considers a global range of women’s experiences with or depictions of traumatic encounters in literature. In particular, this book examines the relationship between trauma, identity, and literary form. Send abstracts to laura.leigh.alexander@gmail.com. Notification of accepted essays by April 1, 2021. Completed chapters (4000-6000 words) due by July 2021.