Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious roots of which are enshrined in the epistemology of the word. Originating from the Latin carnem levāre – the removal of the flesh (OED) – the carnival used to be a festive threshold leading into the frugality and modesty of Lent. Yet, such grassroots street performances have thrived beyond this limited cultural, historical and geographical frame.

30th Anniversary International Conference on Welsh Studies

University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH

16-18 July 2025

Call for Papers

Next summer, NAASWCH (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) will celebrate 30 years since our inaugural meeting, and our return to action after the disruptions of the COVID pandemic. The 2025 conference returns us to where it all began, at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH.

Subject: Call for Papers: Technical and Professional Communication at CEA 2025

Call for Papers, Grammar/Linguistics 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 Technical/Professional Communication for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

The Fall 2024 issue of Waves: an Undergraduate Journal The University of Florida Writing Program's undergraduate journal, 

Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

‘Re-Imagining Fashion Retailing and Marketing in the Epoch of Sustainability and Digitalization’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

2025 ACIS-BCPS CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 23-26, 2025 | DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, GA

The Program Committee for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) and the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS) cordially invites the electronic submission of proposals for papers, panels, and other relevant presentations.

The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.

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.

Although writers like Sappho and Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago, the works they left behind are still vibrantly alive. When we read them, we recognize something fundamental about ourselves. In this roundtable, literature scholars, creative essayists, and poets reflect on deeply personal encounters with “old” books, texts, and images from the pre-Industrial past. Covering a range of topics—Shakespeare and divorce, Dante and gender, Hippocrates and the modern health-care system, St. Agatha and embodiment, studying the Middle Ages while Black—these essays show how conversations with the past continues to animate our twenty-first century lives.

We are especially interested in essays that engage the 17th and 18th centuries.

UPDATED DEADLINE! OCTOBER 15, 2024

This creative session seeks writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who address Philadelphia’s past, present, and future creative evolution, revolution, and devolution in their work. 

ABSTRACT

As one of America’s oldest cities, Philadelphia has experienced drastic changes many times over, often celebrated or maligned by its creative class in music, literature, and performing arts. 

We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'

Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.

Literary works, video games, comics, TV shows, films, and podcasts that adapt or retell Classical mythology remain popular. Yet, recent attention on these contemporary stories has focused largely on women and women’s perspectives, while Classical queer identities have been decidedly underexplored or even excluded from feminist scholarship. Works such as Xena: Warrior Princess, BBC/Netflix’s Troy: Fall of a City, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Steven Sherrill’s The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break, and Supergiant Games’ Hades and Hades II demonstrate a sustained interest in centering queer bodies and voices within the Classical tradition.

56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA |  March 6-9th, 2025

All abstracts must be submitted through NeMLA's CFP portal: View Session (cfplist.com)

This session is sponsored by the Kurt Vonnegut Society and seeks abstracts that engage the conference theme of "(R)EVOLUTION."

We are open to what shape presentations might take, but possibilities might include: