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 “Rewriting and Resisting Response” (RRR)

April 2024

Call for Papers

Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities

This year's South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference will be held November 15-17 in Jacksonville, Florida. Please share the following Queer Studies CFP with colleagues, grad students, and others who may be interested in participating:

“I canna’ change the laws of physics”: Depictions of Science in Popular Culture

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a free virtual symposium exploring science in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 16th and Friday 17th of October 2024.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference which will be held online and in person at Nichols College, MA, October 3 – 5, 2024. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Saturday but will be also be available via Zoom for participation of our many colleagues.

Centre for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University

Presents

A One-Day International Seminar & Panel-Discussion in Blended Mode on

Fluid Identities: Counter-heteronormative Performance and the Posthuman Ethos

(Date of the Event: 31.07.2024; 11AM-5PM IST, Wednesday)

Convener: Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Bankura University and Joint Coordinator, CRP, BKRU.

For a special issue on early African American literature and religion, Early American Studies (UPenn) seek article-length contributions on how 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualized religion beyond the telos of the nation-state. The roles of religion and religious thought in early Black culture have often been understood within the dualistic frame of resistance whereby Christianity, the dominant religion of colonial and antebellum American society, is both employed by masters to subjugate the enslaved and employed by the slaved to resist their masters’ subjugation of them.

We are inviting proposals for 20-minute conference papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood’s famous 1985 dystopia. The novel was published during Ronald Reagan’s troubled presidency, which witnessed second-wave feminism, anti-pornography, pro-life and pro-legal abortion campaigns, but the first season of the adaptation was likewise released during troubled times, a few months after the controversial election of Donald Trump as the 50th President of the USA, which created an equally tense political scene. Women across the world were protesting for female and human rights, often dressed in the now iconic Handmaid’s costume.

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday and Friday via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Saturday at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts. 

NEPCA is a conference that emphasize sharing ideas in a non-competitive and supportive environment. We welcome proposals from graduate students, independent scholars, disciplinary professionals, junior faculty, and senior scholars. NEPCA conferences offer intimate and nurturing sessions in which new ideas and works-in-progress can be shared, as well as completed projects.

Call For Papers

Williams Wells Brown: A Man of Letters

“Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives”
Debrecen University Symposium, 2024

This international, in-person conference is organized by the Canadian Studies Centre of the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, as part of the Debrecen University Symposium series.

Date:

• October 24-25, 2024

Venue:

• Debrecen, Hungary, Main Building of the University of Debrecen

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our upcoming, international, in-person conference, "Looking Back and Ahead: Exploring Uniquely Canadian Cultural Narratives." 

Many of the theoretical fundamentals developed for literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century have become less efficacious. In recent decades, scholars have, indeed, investigated the transformations of storytelling and cultural consumption in the digital age. However, this issue looks to further explore the future of literary and cultural studies from a world-systems perspective with a focus on the alterations of novelistic narratives in the larger context of the supplanting of liberal, humanistic, sense-making mechanisms by computational regimes of meaning.

ReFocus: The Films of Shirin Neshat

Edited by Maryam Ghorbankarimi (University of Lancaster) and Mazyar Mahan (University of Texas at Dallas) 

Posthuman Fictions: Rethinking ‘the Human’ in Contemporary Culture

19-20 September 2024

Deadline for submissions: an abstract of 200 to 250 words should be sent by 7 July 2024.

Conference venue: Scuola di Scienze Umanistiche, Università di Genova, Italy

The Foreign Literatures and Civilisations (LCE) Research Laboratory at Lumière Lyon 2 University organises a conference on “Phantoms in Rites, Myths, and Discourse” on February 13-14, 2025. For the purpose of this conference, we invite scholars from various disciplines belonging to human sciences, and from various geographical and cultural areas, to study the figure of the ghost under its variegated forms, appearances, and representations (whether they are anthropological, artistic, political, linguistic, or else), from ghosts that we ourselves fashion to ghosts who fashion who we are.