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CFP: Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024
deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2023
full name / name of organization:
College English Association
contact email:
Call for Papers, Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2024
March 21-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
We invite submissions for an online conference that focuses on queerness in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction or other mythopoeic work. This can be queer representation within the work or engaging with mythopoeia through queer theory. “Queerness” is an intentionally ambiguous term, demonstrating the diversity of queer experiences, and the necessity of situating queerness as a liminal, complex paradigm. Queer theory is wider than the study of gender identity or sexuality, extending to taking positions against normativity and dominant modes of thought, and engaging with the indefinite.
Aspects of this topic might include but are certainly not limited to any of the following:
The Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden seeks proposals for a multidisciplinary conference on Visions of Racial Justice and Childhood to be held in Camden, NJ, USA, on June 6 to June 8, 2024. This conference invites presentations that consider how different social actors and entities, including (but not limited to) governments, corporations, non- governmental organizations, and activist groups, have envisioned racial justice in relation to childhood and youth. What visions of racial justice are sustained, contested, and otherwise engaged across children’s literature, media, and popular culture?
Tolkien at UVM 2024!
The Psychologies of Middle-earth
Saturday, April 13, 2024 (8:30-5:30)
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05401
(Hybrid Conference: In-person and virtual/ TEAMS)
This is our 20th annual conference. The theme is The Psychologies of Middle-earth. We are excited to have Dr Sara Brown as our keynote!
Abstracts can cover various applications of psychology including myth, religion, art, sexuality, world building, race and ethnicity, feminism,
queer theory, class consciousness, ideology, PTSD, trauma, desire, disability, and much more.
Dear all, Please find below a call for proposals for the international interdisciplinary conference: "What are your pronouns? And why does it matter?", to be held at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, France, 17th-18th October 2024. Please note that the language of the conference is English. Comparative approaches are welcome, as long as the focus is on English. Proposals of around 300 words to be sent to whypronounsmatter2024@gmail.com before 15th February 2024 All the best,Ann Coady and Sandrine Sorlin.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Time and again, Shakespeare demonstrates the frailty and contingency of the many historical and “imagined” communities (Anderson) that feature in his works. Many of his plays revolve around the conflict between individuals and society, depicting the bonds between friends, lovers, family members or even whole nations being put to the test by desire, jealousy, and ambition. If Shakespeare’s communities are unstable to begin with, then discussions of diversity bring to light that very instability even further. His works have been both hailed for showcasing the universality of human nature and critiqued for implicitly reinforcing a Western, Eurocentric world view.
We recently launched a blog series on medical and health humanities with an emphasis on the Global South. The blog series aims to bring together the multitude of discussions and expressive models of health and illness in order to explore interdisciplinary encounters and contestations related to agency, discourse, and power structures. We seek critical engagements within the framework of medical humanities for a more inclusive conception of health care and well-being that opens up a space for personal accounts of medicalized subjects on the margins of the medical establishment. The series emphasizes that embodiedness of health and illness belongs to the realm of narrativity both as personal experience and as part of medical epistemology.
CALL FOR PAPERS
FLUID ENCOUNTERS | RENCONTRES FLUIDES
April 19-20, 2024
Brown University | Providence, Rhode Island
In Sylvie Germain's 1985 novel, Le Livre des Nuits, bodily fluids serve as potent metaphors for the transmission of trauma from parent to child. Tears, milk, and blood become powerful symbols of familial relations. The exchange of bodily fluids has long represented human relationships, where substances like breastmilk, saliva, and sexual fluids metonymically represent the bodies they originate from and the relationships they form and sustain.
International Conference
(19th, 20th, 21st December, 2023) on
Mapping the Marvelous
Mythopoeia, Multiverse &Fantasy across Literature (S), Films and Media
Organised By
Department of English University of Rajasthan Jaipur
International Conference
(19th, 20th, 21stDecember, 2023) Mapping the Marvelous
Mythopoeia, Multiverse & Fantasy across Literature (s), Films & Media
Beyond the bounds of reason lies a realm where imagination weaves marvels without surrendering its proximity to reality.
Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta
March 21–23, 2024
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on BRITISH LITERATURE OF THE 20th AND 21st CENTURY for our 53rd annual conference.
"Change was incessant, and change perhaps would never cease." –Virginia Woolf
We are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to the conference theme of TRANSFORMATIONS, but we will consider all proposals.
Call for Papers, CEA 2024: Atlanta
March 21–23, 2024
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on IRISH, SCOTTISH, AND WELSH LITERATURE for our 53rd annual conference.
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
W. B. Yeats
We are especially interested in presentations that incorporate topics related to the conference theme of TRANSFORMATIONS, but we will consider all proposals.
From vampires to zombies, uncanny doubles to the demonically possessed, gothic tropes have played a significant role in shaping narratives of addiction in American culture. More recently, news stories have framed the opioid crisis and its impact on homeless populations in cities like Boston and Philadelphia as a “zombie apocalypse.” Such tropes can dehumanize already stigmatized populations, yet the gothic remains a mode uniquely suited for exploring concepts of addiction and the lived experiences of individuals, families, and communities affected by the condition.
A Critical Companion to Clint Eastwood
Deadline for submission of abstracts:
November 1, 2023
Prof. Ian Bekker & Dr. Philip van der Merwe
North-West University, South Africa
Contact e-mail: ian.bekker@nwu.ac.za & Philip.vandermerwe@nwu.ac.za
Edited by Ian Bekker and Philip van der Merwe
MAPPING MEMORY: HISTORY, TEXTS AND CULTURES
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEMORY STUDIES
(22 & 23 February, 2024)
DEPARTMENTS OF ENGLISH AND HISTORY
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA
CONCEPT NOTE:
Call for Papers: Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature welcomes submissions of new work for 2024, Summer and Winter numbers. 2024 marks the bicentenary of a number of literary, intellectual, and cultural events associated with 1824, including:
Science: Michael Faraday and the Royal Society
Periodicals: founding of Jeremy Bentham’s Westminster Review
Education: Manchester Mechanics’ Institute (preceded by Edinburgh, 1821 and Liverpool, Glasgow, and London in 1823)
Music: Beethoven’s 9th Symphony
Social Reform: Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established
Civil Rights Act of 1964: Historical Significance, Impact, and Legacy
International Hybrid Conference
24-25 February 2024
University of Delft, The Netherlands
(In-Person/Physical Presence and Online Presentation sessions: 2 days)
(Virtual platform for pre-recorded presentations: 5 days)
(More info: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/civil-rights-act-of-1964-historical-significance-impact-and-legacy/ )
Thematic Approach
Subtitled “Surplus Data,” the Winter 2022 issue of Critical Inquiry began by proclaiming that, “It is no longer enough to say that data is big. Data is now in a state of surplus” (Halprin et al. 197). As private and state actors rush to generate ever more surplus surveillance data about consumer-citizens and workers across domains of life, literary scholars are compelled to question how this data is made meaningful and by whom. After all, data never speaks for itself; it must be assigned value and transformed into narratives. These surveillance stories often reify “identities of suspicion” (Monahan), marking marginalized people as themselves surplus subjects.
Crossing Boundaries: Literary and Linguistic Intersections in Modernist Studies
Roma Tre University
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Sala Ignazio Ambrogio
Via del Valco di San Paolo, 19 – Rome
22-23-24 May 2024
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Václav Paris (City University of New York)
Enrico Terrinoni (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)
Call for Papers
The city images reveal the stratification of shared cultural meanings of the urban space over time. This space is an expression and reflection of local identity formation and dynamics. The intricate network of the actions of cities’ inhabitants is constantly conditioned by the cultural and spatial constraints of urban limits. However, in the contemporary world, the concept of “urban limit” should be seriously questioned. The boundaries of cities today have faded, and the urban frontiers are areas of opacity, constantly mobile, and undefined. The very notion of the city, as a completed organism, is continually questioned, to the extent that it can be argued that cities do not exist: there are only different forms of urban life.
African American literature has always been under assault and faced threat of erasure. Yet, we are experiencing a heightened moment of attack, when political activists are using legislative action to attempt to eradicate Blackness, intersecting identities, DEI initiatives, and the history of race in America from public education and consciousness. Therefore, this is an important time for us to proactively discuss how we teach African American writing and its expressive power to help us understand our pasts, presents, and futures.
With the success of two panel sessions at the 2023 NeMLA Convention, we are happy to propose a “sequel” session on the theme of “Tolkien’s Medievalism in Ruins” in 2024. For all that may be said about the 2023 panels, one thing is certain: The panelists highlighted the important roles of relics and ruins within Tolkien’s essay “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics,” The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings.
We invite proposals for research chapters for a new edited book, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction, for Manchester University Press. This page outlines the book and how to submit a chapter proposal.
Description of book
In the twenty-first century, readers, publishers, and booksellers have noted a surge in popularity of genre works written by Muslim women, particularly in the Anglosphere. From the detective novels of Ausma Zehanat Khan to S. A. Chakraborty’s fantasy fiction, Ayisha Malik’s romantic fiction to graphic novels by Deena Mohamed – Muslim women authors are embracing popular fiction forms and genres.
“Refusal, Disruption, and Persistence in Academia” centers on strategies such as refusal, disruption, and persistence in academia from an intersectional perspective that focusses on gendered racialization.
This roundtable will engage participants about structural change in their local context by sharing strategies from diverse standpoints. This could mean sharing stories about surviving contract work, probation, tenure review, and administrative roles while coping with and negotiating the demands of everyday life. However, participants can also consider refusal, disruption, and persistence with collaboration and community building in the foreground for systemic change, big or small.
This panel aims to explore the possibilities presented in immanent, paralinguistic expressions which evade or function parallel to and beyond the realm of structured grammar and logics of exchange. Edouard Glissant, in Caribbean Discourse, teaches us that in the beginning was not the word, but sound. He writes, “the spoken imposes on the slave its particular syntax. For Caribbean man, the word is First and foremost sound. Noise is essential to speech . . .
Special Issue Call for Papers: Studies in South Asian Film & Media
‘Marathi Cinema and Media’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/studies-in-south-asian-film-media#call-for-papers
2024 CONFERENCE THEME: BUILDING ALLIANCES
(A)rchival endeavors should not be about documenting the past, nor even about imagining the future…but about building a liberatory now.
-Michelle Caswell, Urgent Archives: Enacting Liberatory Memory Work (2021, 13)
CFP: JEWISH STUDIES UNIT
Jewish Interfaith, Intercultural, and Intersectional Engagements
Unit Chairs: Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada
Alexander Marcus, University of Pennsylvania
Northeast Modern Language Association 55th Annual Convention (March 7-10, 2024)
Enhancing Language Learning through AI: Practical Strategies for Teachers in the Age of ChatGPT (Roundtable)
(If interested, please submit your abstract here through the NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20556)
Call for Papers
Contemporary Pagans in Public Interaction:
Constructing Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
We are seeking papers for a peer-reviewed edited volume, to be published by Bloomsbury Press with the editor Eglė Aleknaitė, Vytautas Magnus University (egle.aleknaite@vdu.lt).
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on 19th-century American literature for our 53rd annual conference in Atlanta, March 21-23, 2024.
For this area, we are particularly interested in proposals that relate 19th-century American literature to the conference theme of “Transformations” from academics from a wide range of areas across literary studies, creative writing, rhetoric, composition, technical communication, linguistics, and film.