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Queer and Trans Climate Futures

updated: 
Friday, March 10, 2023 - 5:11am
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Queer and Trans Climate Futures

Special Cluster for Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment (ISLE)

Guest Edited by Davy Knittle and Austin Lillywhite

 

 

MLA 2024: Special Session - Theatrical Performance in Literature

updated: 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 11:14pm
Alexia Mandla Ainsworth / MLA Special Session 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

This special session panel, for the 2024 MLA in Philadelphia, PA, will reflect on how performativity, acting, and theatre appear in writing. When we consider the novel, especially, how does theatre show its impact on authors and how do authors invoke theatrical performance or acting in a non-visual form? For texts with visual components, such as manga or illustrated stories, how do the images interface with the text to create an experience of performance for readers? When we see the theatre itself appear in literature, what is its role? When we see an amateur performance, such as Lovers' Vows in Austen's Mansfield Park, what does that say about how theatre is constructed in Austen's understanding of society?

MLA 2024: The Burden and Privilege of HBCU Graduate Students in the Anti-CRT Era

updated: 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 11:35am
Austin Anderson / Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) serve a vital function within academia, particularly for the predominantly Black student body that these historic institutions serve. There are at least 74 HBCUs that offer degrees in English, Languages, or Literature, including 10 HBCUs that offer Master or Doctoral degrees in these subjects. Some of the leading scholars of our disciplines graduated from HBCUs with at least “9 percent of full-time Black faculty earned their doctorate degrees from HBCUs [with] more than half returning to HBCUs as faculty members” (Perna, 2001).

CFP: Material Pedagogies (MLA 2024 Roundtable)

updated: 
Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 9:49am
Jennifer Rabedeau (Cornell University) and Grace Catherine Greiner (The University of Texas at Austin)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

How can we leverage material texts and archival encounters to reinvigorate the humanities classroom? We invite proposals for a roundtable on such pedagogies and their impact in the classroom and beyond.

Please submit a 250-word abstract and brief bio to the session organizers via email (see below) by March 17, 2023.

Contact the session organizers via email with any questions: Jennifer Rabedeau (jbr263@cornell.edu) and Grace Catherine Greiner (gcg49@cornell.edu).

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 10:41pm
Journals@MTSU, James Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale (I19) seeks to publish the best scholarship on the century that was, in many ways, the time period in which the modern genres of science fiction and fantasy began, and in which the academic study of fairy tale and folklore has its roots. I19 interprets “the nineteenth century” broadly, using the dates of “The Long Nineteenth Century”—roughly, from the beginning of the French Revolution to the end of World War I—but even these dates are just notable historical markers as they approximately coincide with Romanticism and Modernism, respectively.

MLA 2024: Empire at Sea

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 10:24pm
Alexander Sherman
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Special Session at MLA 2024 in Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024

 

How might we better understand colonialism, and ways of being and knowing against or outside of it, by foregrounding the maritime: oceans, sailing, ports, cargo, navigation, crews, shoals, shipwreck, piracy? “Water is the first thing in my imagination,” writes Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return: “I knew that everyone here was unhappy and haunted in some way” that “had something to do with the Door of No Return and the sea.” Following Brand’s method, the gambit of this roundtable is that approaching colonialism via the sea can help us see it better and imagine paths past it.

 

The horizon where the monsters dwell - Word and World special issue EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 10:21am
University of Bielsko-Biała
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

In the Western perception of things, which still preserves the Platonic, or rather Parmenidean image of a stable order in which they exist, the potentiality of monstrousness, emerging from fractures in this world – or, to reach even deeper, from the dark matter of the chōra, the sombre Nurse of all becoming – appears as absurd, and yet at the same time as ecstatic, epiphanic.

CFP: The Mixed-up Politics of Disinformation, Anti-Feminisms, and Misogyny

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:18am
Jessalynn Keller and Michele White, Feminist Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

The Mixed-up Politics of Disinformation, Anti-Feminisms, and Misogyny

Call for short papers for a Feminist Media Studies Commentary and Criticism Section

1500 word papers are due 1 June 2023

Jessalynn Keller, University of Calgary

Michele White, Tulane University

 

Ruptures of In/Justice

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:15am
UCSD Literature Graduate Student Council
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 27, 2023

UCSD Literature Department Graduate Student Conference

University of California, San Diego | Hybrid, May 26th-27th, 2022

Ruptures of In/Justice

South Asian Literature in Translation 

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:12am
Annual Conference on South Asia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

Annual Conference on South Asia

October 18-21, 2023

Panel title: South Asian Literature in Translation 

Spanish and Iberian Comics and Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:12am
William Orchard
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Spanish and Iberian Comics/Graphic Narratives

This is a proposal for a collaborative session, jointly organized by the Forum Executive Committees ofComics and Graphic Narratives and 20th and 21st Century Spanish and Iberian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

CFC/ To Play the Queen: Historical Royal Women on Stage and Screen

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:08am
N/A
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 5, 2023

I am seeking proposals for essays to be included in a proposed volume exploring conceptualizations and representations of Queenship as a dramatic role or performance. In bringing together essays from different disciplinary perspectives, that focus on particular Queen or a group of them, on particular actors or other aspects of performance the volume aims to create a clearer picture of what it has meant to ‘play the part’ of Queen at different times, in different places, and across different media and contexts to shed light on the ways in which the office of Queenship in practice in real historical situations has been culturally understood, interpreted and re-interpreted.

Oikography: Homemaking through Photography

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:07am
Leiden University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Book Chapter
Oikography: 
Homemaking through Photography

[UPDATE] Anger: Special issue of The Comparatist

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:06am
The Comparatist
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist

Topic: Anger

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

 

Challenged, Banned, Censored: Curtailing Comics

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:05am
William Orchard
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Challenged, Banned, Censored: Curtailing Comics

 

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a non-guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

 

The Biopolitics of Comics

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:05am
William Orchard
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

The Forum for Comics and Graphic Narratives seeks proposals for a guaranteed special session at the Modern Language Association annual conference to take place in Philadelphia from January 4-7, 2024.

 

2023 LCH Conference Call For Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:02am
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

We are excited to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the twenty-fifth annual conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (LCH), which will be held in person (with some online components) on June 22-23, 2023 at the University of Toronto School of Law in Toronto, Canada. This year's theme is "Absence, The Present and the Past." Proposals are due March 17, 2023. You can find the complete call for papers on our website (https://lawculturehumanities.com/event/2023-annual-conference).

Please spread the word!  We look forward to the prospect of gathering together again this summer.

Images at Work Conference 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 9:02am
King's College London
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

German Screen Studies Network (GSSN) & King’s College London 

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Images at Work: Labour and the Moving Image

King’s College London 

Thursday, 22 and Friday, 23 June 2023 

Deadline for Proposals:31 March 2023  

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Call for Papers (Re)Imagining Tomorrow: Agency and Possibility in Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 6:08pm
University of British Columbia, Master of Arts in Children's Literature Program
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 25, 2023

(Re)Imagining Tomorrow: Agency and Possibility in Literature and Media for Children and Young Adults

Call for Paper Proposals

Deadline for Submission: 25 March 2023 

A peer-reviewed graduate student conference - Accepting virtual and in-person presentations

University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 23 June - Saturday 24 June 2023 

MLA 2024: Rethinking Animal Comparison

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:52pm
Arthur Wang, University of Pennsylvania and Samantha Pergadia, Southern Methodist University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

MLA 2024

Philadelphia

January 4-7, 2024

What does it mean to be treated “like an animal”?

Literature from a local and regional perspective - World and Word special issue

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:51pm
University of Bielsko-Biała
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

The central  theme of the forthcoming 40th issue of our interdisciplinary journal "Świat i Słowo" [“World and Word”] is "Literature from a local and regional perspective." In the era of progressive globalization and universalization of culture, sometimes imposed  by the media and the so-called opinion-forming centers of the dominant civilization model, in which the world is perceived as a "global village" inhabited by a consumer society that is supposedly subject to inevitable changes forced by technological progress (with the revolution of artificial intelligence at the forefront), we want to turn to what we perceive as primal and natural, i.e. sources of literature, culture and art in our local and regional spaces and communities.

Cinema in Crisis

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:49pm
Chalchitra Darpan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

ABOUT CHACHITRA DARPAN (translates to Cinematic Review)

Chalchitra Darpan is an undergraduate film journal by Celluloid, the Film Society of Miranda House, University of Delhi, India. The inaugural edition (2019-20), which was Delhi University’s first ever undergraduate journal, was introduced with the vision of building a student community of future film scholars around it. The journal aims to provide an academic space for undergraduates interested in film and media, who wish to explore and engage in film academia.

 

3rd EDITION THEME: CINEMA IN CRISIS

 

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:46pm
Sinan Akilli / Cappadocia University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities (ISSN 2717-8943) is a digital, open-access, peer-reviewed, international, and transdisciplinary journal of the Environmental Humanities. It is a biannual journal, publishing a Winter issue in December and a Summer issue in June. It aims to develop new insights and theories about the current material and conceptual challenges in the field.

Hemispheric Connections: Collaboration, Critique, Community and the Black Diaspora in the Americas

updated: 
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 - 4:46pm
Afro-Latin/American Research Association (ALARA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

Community is at the heart of solidarity. To build community is to be willing to both critique its very essence and collaborate with others to strengthen the bonds. This conference seeks to explore and highlight interactions and connections by examining solidarities, tensions, and community building among the Black diaspora throughout the Americas and beyond.

Presentations that highlight the successes and joy of Black/Afro-descendant communities, resistance, activism, and cultural production as well as interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. ALARA is a multidisciplinary organization and welcomes presentations from all fields (humanities, social sciences, health sciences, etc.).

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