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Deadline extended -- African American Literature (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

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Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 3:20pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Call for Papers, African American Literature at CEA 2025

 March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square

1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on African American Literature for our 54th annual conference in Philadelphia, March 27-29, 2025.

Conference Theme: Freedom

African Americans and Labor

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

 

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

 

A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of James Baldwin Review

 

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

 

Wayward Studies and Methods

updated: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024 - 10:24am
MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include: 

Baldwin Again and Again

updated: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 3:48am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Popular Culture Association

2025 National Conference

April 16-19, 2025

New Orleans, LA

 

Call for Papers: James Baldwin Review Panel/Roundtable

 

Baldwin Again and Again

 

2025 Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

 

Every year, the Association holds it annual conference, usually a two-day affair, as well as a graduate student workshop, usually held on the day before the annual conference. The 2025 annual meeting will be held at Georgetown Law from June 17-18th. The theme of the conference, our call for papers, and submissions guidelines can be found below:

Speech Matters

CFP: Black Performing Arts (PCA/ACA National Conference, New Orleans, April 16-19, 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:14am
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting.  In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.

CfP: Arendt Center Spring Conference: The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and Black Political Thought

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

In On Revolution, Hannah Arendt celebrated what she called “the revolutionary spirit”: a set of political principles that combines a commitment to invent new institutions with a concern for those institutions’ durability. Arendt believed that all genuine revolutions in the modern world had been inspired by the revolutionary spirit, though “the failure of thought and remembrance” had, time and again, led to its disappearance. Indeed, a focus on the act of collective foundation—and a grave worry about the disappearance of the conditions under which such founding can take place—can be found across Arendt’s oeuvre, from Origins of Totalitarianism to her writings on American politics in the 1970s.

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

updated: 
Tuesday, October 29, 2024 - 5:08am
Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for paper for a Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Educators in Popular Culture: Educational Settings as Sites of Intersectional Struggle

Special Issue Editors: Jennifer Esposito and Tanja Burkhard

Popular culture is an educative space and, as such, we learn about ourselves and others

through our engagement with popular culture forms (Edwards & Esposito, 2020).

Expressions of popular culture that highlight educational settings, specifically schools and

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly: The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment

updated: 
Monday, October 21, 2024 - 10:07am
Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn), Antonia Purk (Erfurt)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Amerikastudien/American Studies. A Quarterly

“The Cultural Politics of 1776: Rethinking an American Moment”

Guest Editors: Alexandra Hartmann (Paderborn University)
and Antonia Purk (University of Erfurt)

Deadline for abstracts: November 20, 2024
Deadline for full papers: March 31, 2025
Publication: 2026

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children's Literature in An Era of Heightened Censorship

updated: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 - 11:46am
Danielle Russell, Glendon College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Land of the Free, Home of the Brave?: American Children’s Literature in an Era of Heightened Censorship

In a country advocating, loudly, the rights of the individual, what about child readers? Are they granted an expansive vision of their world? What rights do children have where books are concerned?

CfP RSAJournal 36 General and Special Section "Reproductive Justice and Its Discontents: Recent Representations in American Popular Culture"

updated: 
Monday, October 14, 2024 - 4:46pm
RSAJournal - Journal of the Italian Association for North-American Studies (AISNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

RSAJournal, the journal of the Italian Association of American Studies (AISNA) seeks contributions for its n. 36 issue (September 2025) for both its General and Special Sections.

Full papers for the General Section, on any aspect of American Studies, should be submitted by January 31st, 2025, using our OJS portal, at rsa.aisna.net (which includes full submission and stylesheet details).

Thoreau Society Panels at ALA 2025

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Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:21pm
The Thoreau Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The Thoreau Society invites paper proposals for the following two sessions, to take place at ALA in Boston, May 21-24, 2025 (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference). Please submit abstracts of around 300 words, along with a CV, to Alex Moskowitz (amoskowitz@mtholyoke.edu) by 15 January 2025. And please feel free to reach out with questions or ideas beforehand!

 

Panel: Thoreau, Protest, and Social Change

The American House

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:20pm
Université Bretagne Sud (Lorient, France)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Call for papers: The American House

April, 3-4 2025 – Université Bretagne-Sud, Lorient.

Christelle Centi (UBO), Nawelle Lechevalier-Bekadar (UBS), Pauline Pilote (UBS)

HCTI (Héritage et Création dans le Texte et l’Image)

 

 

ACLA: Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:18pm
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

The Latin word, ‘Surdus’–used to translate the Arabic mathematical term, ‘asamm’–had referred to irrational numbers, those resisting, or willfully remaining deaf to, ratiocination and thus calculability. Its contemporary counterparts, the mathematical 'surd;' and the linguistic use of ‘surd’ for unvoiced consonants find a link in the Proto-Indo-European ‘*swer-’ which meant to buzz, whisper, or whistle. With the rise of contemporary calculation and the computational society of control which derives its power from bayesian modeling, the mathematical theory of communication, and algorithmic machine learning, the ability to remain inscrutible and deafening to such Capitalist ratiocination continues to be, and is an evermore, important aspect of resistance.

Black Aeromobilities: Engaging Flight in African and Afrodiasporic Cultural Texts

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Our Special Section for Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies seeks articles that are situated at the intersection of Black/ African/ Afrodiasporic aeromobilities and studies in literature and culture. Concentrating on “the study of various complex systems, assemblages and practices of mobility” (Sheller 2014, 45), mobilities research is often associated with the social sciences. Yet the field is also firmly rooted in the humanities (Aguiar et al. 2019, 4–5; Merriman and Pearce 2017, 493–494), and representations of mobilities are increasingly being studied in diverse cultural products.

Speculative Southern Futures at SAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO), an affiliate of the Society of the Study of Southern Literature, invites current students and/or beginning faculty to submit abstracts for an upcoming guaranteed panel on envisioning the future of the South for SAMLA 96 this November 15th-17th in Jacksonville, Florida. This year’s conference theme, “Seen and Unseen,” looks to parts of stories that are untold.

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 3:33am
Prof Shuchi Sharma and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume

 

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

 

Deadline for Abstract Submissions has been extended to October 31, 2024

 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).

Black Genres of Political Theology

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:34pm
ACLA 2025 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development … but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for sociological consideration of these concepts. 

–Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922)

 

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/29 - 5/30/2025, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

ALA Annual conference: "Ecologies of Transition: Spaces and Mobilities in African Literatures and Cultures"

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:30am
African Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

This conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African Literature Association (ALA), explores the ways in which African writers reconceive movement and place. Often, narratives about Africans on the move, particularly migrant Africans, reflect a tension between motion and stasis. Such tensions highlight the often-unsettling narrative transitions that characterize recent poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction from Africa and the diaspora. While narratives like NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names depict the exigencies of forced removal, others, like Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic describe identities and situations in flux.

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