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Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Southampton, UK)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
Romance, Revolution & Reform
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

The study of labour in the long nineteenth century has enjoyed a rich critical history, guided by the twentieth century’s New Left focus on class formation and experience, and extended in more recent years by scholarship which has diversified traditional and non-traditional categorisations of ‘labour’. This conference seeks to question the thinking by which we identify forms of labour in the first place: who, both in the nineteenth century and now, is allowed to decide what counts as labour? Which voices of the long nineteenth century emerge if we diversify our definition(s) of labour? And, how can the scholarship of labour – or the labour of scholarship – help us navigate the nature, purpose, and value of labour in a post-Covid era? 

 

Modern Hebrew Literature from a Distance - Chapter submissions for co-edited anthology

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:48am
Nancy Berg, Washington University, St. Louis; Yael Dekel and Adia Mendelson Maoz, The Open Univesrity of Isarel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What can quantification, statistics, and algorithms contribute to our understanding of literary works, trends, or history? How can engagement with data be productive, contributing to traditional research strategies by adding more options of interpretation and analysis? We welcome proposals for an edited volume on the possibilities – and limitations – of applying computational methodologies to the study of modern Hebrew literature from the Haskalah to contemporary times, all genres, including translation studies.

 

Please send abstracts by December 1, 2023 (500 words, and preliminary bibliography) in which you define your project: corpus, methodology, innovation, context, and connection to traditional literary study.

 

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:47am
College English Association Special Topics Panel
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 20, 2023

Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture We are organizing a panel (or panels) on the topic of "Transforming Pedagogy with Popular Culture" for the 53rd Annual CEA Conference in Atlanta, GA, from March 21-23. We are looking for papers that discuss how popular culture can be used to teach important concepts or skill sets in a way that engages students in the learning process. Some potential topics include, but are not limited to, critical thinking skills, empathy, composition styles, and rhetorical analysis. There is a possibility that panel presenters may be asked if they want to participate in an edited essay collection on this topic. Please note that presenters must be members of CEA to present at the conference.

Victorian Realism and Crime

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
Victorian Realism and Crime Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

The definition of literary realism and the key features of Victorian realist novels have long been the subject of debate. However, most would agree that Victorian realist texts have traditionally focused on the lived experience of everyday people, representing the observable world and embracing literal representation of it, and using it to present social commentary prescient to the real world it is designed to reflect.

“‘Without water we are nothing’: Poetics and Politics of Water in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (20th-21st Centuries)”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
Université de Lille, France
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

13- 14 June 2024

“‘Without water we are nothing’: Poetics and Politics of Water in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (20th-21st Centuries)”

Keynote Speaker: Farhana Sultana (Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University)

The international conference “‘Without water we are nothing’: Poetics and Politics of Water in Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures (20th-21st Centuries)” will be organised by the University of Lille (CECILLE) on 13- 14 June 2024 . This interdisciplinary conference invites papers that will address the poetic and political stakes of water in 20th and 21st-Century Anglophone literatures.

Choreographic Practices Special Issue CFP: ‘Differing Bodyminds: Cripping Choreography’

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:45am
Choreographic Practices
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Call for Papers: Choreographic Practices

 

Special Issue: ‘Differing Bodyminds: Cripping Choreography’

 

View the full CFP here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/choreographic-practices#call-for-papers

 

Guest Editors:

 

Leni Van Goidsenhoven (University of Amsterdam)

Carrie Sandahl (University of Illinois)

Call for Papers for the Journal of Contemporary Poetics

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:44am
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

The Journal of Contemporary Poetics is a biannual, open access peer-reviewed journal. Focused on Literature, Linguistics & ELT, it solicits papers that are global and interdisciplinary in scope. It brings together perspectives on a diverse array of issues through well-research papers that engage with pressing contemporary issues that are framing recent debates in the Humanities. We do not seek an application of theory but an engagement with multiple cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary philosophical paradigms that are shaping the contemporary debates in Literature, Linguistics and ELT. We publish articles that touch upon a vast array of topics including

Flash Call for Papers: Dystopias

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:44am
ContactZone - Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

ContactZone, Journal of the Italian Association for the Study of Science Fiction and the Fantastic (AISFF), is accepting abstract submissions for a special issue dedicated to dystopias.

The opposite of utopia, dystopia presents a negative vision of the future, often apocalyptic. This special issue wants to juxtapose different dystopian horizons, tackling the construction of the future from different perspectives along the trajectories of gender, class, ecology, religion and so forth.

Contributions can feature any literature (including graphic novels) or media production (film, TV series, games) from any nation or culture.

Abstract submission:

Innovative Poetic Practice in French in the 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:43am
Nathalie Wourm / CFFCS, Birkbeck, U. of London
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

(English version below)

Les pratiques poétiques novatrices de langue française
 au 21ème siècle

 

19-20 avril 2024Centre for French, Francophone and Comparative Studies (CFFCS)Birkbeck, Université de Londres, Royaume-Uni

 

Conférenciers invités confirmés :
Jeff Barda (Université de Manchester, Royaume Uni)
Justine Huppe (Université de Liège, Belgique)
Emma Wagstaff (Université de Birmingham, Royaume Uni)

Troubling the Urban Institution-- ACLA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:41am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This CFP is for a proposed session for the Annual Meeting of the ACLA in Montreal, March 14-17, 2024. Please submit abstracts to Davy Knittle and Keegan Cook Finberg through the ACLA portal by September 30th. https://www.acla.org/node/42756

 

CFP—Romantic Boundaries (Special issue of Romantic Textualities)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:41am
Romantic Textualities
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ within the context of Romantic-period literature and thought. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘boundary’ as: ‘That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.’ Such a term seems at odds with the spirit of Romanticist thought, which has long been associated with mobility and boundlessness.

Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
Sorbonne University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Call for papers

 

Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health

 

In the wake of the international conference “Exploring the Contours of Wellness and Health”, held at Sorbonne University on the 23st, 24th and 25th of March 2023, the HDEA research team invites article submissions on the conference theme for an edited volume on the history and representation(s) of wellness and/or health.

NeMLA 2024: El archivo del futuro: memes, influencers y otras narrativas de la viralidad

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
Alexandra Mira
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Este panel invita a explorar la cultura de internet del mundo hispanohablante y sus representaciones en producciones artísticas. El meme fue acuñado por el biólogo Richard Dawkins en 1976 para referirse a la difusión de “tunes, ideas, catch- phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or builduing arches” (249) mediante procesos de imitación. Décadas más tarde, el estudio de Patrick Davison (2012) corroboraría que la idea de “meme” había evolucionado gracias a las redes sociales y había pasado a tener el poder de exclusivamente cumplir un objetivo humorístico. Autores como B. E. Wiggins y G. Bret Bowers (2014) argumentan que la circulación del meme es una herramienta conversacional que alienta la participación de la cultura digital.

ACLA 2024 seminar "Rethinking Advertisements in Cross-Genre Media"

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
ACLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

We are seeking paper proposals for the following conference seminar:

CFP: "Rethinking Advertisements in Cross-Genre Media"

American Comparative Literature Association

Montreal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024

 

Surplus and Environmental Justice in Literature and the Arts (NeMLA: ASLE Session)

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

55th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 7-10, 2024

Boston, MA

 

Surplus and Environmental Justice in Literature and the Arts (ASLE Session)

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE)

 

epistemologies of brown/ness(es): racialization, sexuality, and empires

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Feeling brown, being down. Feeling down, being brown. As we understand it, brown indexes operations of law, affect, sexuality, relation, empire(s), capital. Brown can function as an accusation or a convenience. Brown can name shades and fantasy. This proposed seminar considers when brown as an analytic becomes useful and may be used to do the work of relation, inquiry, theory—and when brown does not work.

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE Call for articles | (Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination (issue 2)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 12:28pm
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Special dossier | to be published in vol 5 no 2 (May 2024)

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This special dossier, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:48am
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

This new edited volume ( a companion to WOKE SHAKESPEARE) aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics and social justice. In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new audiences and learners? How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape? Is it still possible to have a civilized conversation about Shakespearean scholarship, pedagogy and performance?

Shakespeare’s plays have never been far from political and cultural controversy. Today, Shakespeare still sits at the centre of the cultural establishment. However, this canonical status is under renewed attack from critics and detractors.

Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 9:03am
Johanna Hoorenman & Tom Grant, Utrecht University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Extended deadline

CFP: Edited volume on Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media  

Vikings — their history, traditions, mythology and material culture — have taken contemporary media by storm. Popular culture is awash with Viking tropes and themes which have generated explosive interest in cinema, television, video games, music, literature, genre fiction and comics. This volume aims to provide a ground-breaking and innovative understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first century Vikingism. We are inviting scholars with relevant expertise to contribute essays which address any of the following questions:

DEADLINE APPROACHING for NeMLA 2024 - Witch Stories: An Examination of Revisionist History and Legacy

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 7:43am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Building on conversations and topic connections from the 2023 Convention, this panel invokes the 2024 conference theme surplus in regards to witches and depictions of the occult. All too often, witches were history’s unwanted women, defying cultural and social norms in ways that were determined to be in excess of what was conventional. What does it mean that these narratives of witches, both real and fictional, have been told and retold such that the witch is now a near constant presence in popular culture, literature, museums, and local histories? Does this exposure enhance what we know about witches in society and their histories or futures, or does this exposure complicate and possibly dilute their historical, social, or gendered power?

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 - Creative Labor and Precarity

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 5:29pm
Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

 

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 (to be published Fall 2024)

 UPDATE NEW DEADLINE: 10/1/2023

Creative Labor and Precarity

 

Special Issue Theme

Trauma and Westernization: Embodied Exclusion in Korean/Korean American Women’s Literature(NeMLA Panel)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:28pm
Jina Lee (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site--a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to embody fidelity, disloyalty, and/or negotiate multiple affiliations and the movement between allegiances.

As such, this panel asks:

How is the Korean female figure situated between Westernization/Americanization and Asian alliances?

Call for Papers for volume 16, n° 1(33)/ 2024: Digital Methods and Fields: Feminist Perspectives

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:27pm
Essachess - Journal for communication Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 10, 2023

Call for Papers for volume 16, n° 1(33)/ 2024: Digital Methods and Fields: Feminist Perspectives

Guest editors:

Audrey BANEYX, Research Engineer, Médialab, Sciences Po, France, audrey.baneyx@sciencespo.fr 

Hélène BOURDELOIE, Associate professor, CIS (CNRS) & LabSIC, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France, Helene.Bourdeloie@univ-Paris13.f

Mélanie LALLET, Associate professor, UCO Nantes, Arènes, CHUS & Irméccen, France, melanie.lallet@yahoo.fr

CFP Animation Studies 2.0 - Animation and Transport Vehicles

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:27pm
Animation Studies 2.0
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 6, 2023

CFP Animation and Transport Vehicles

Deadline: October 6th 2023

Cinema arrived with a train approaching the platform with such speed that the audience jumped off their seats. So it goes in film history, as Martin Loiperdinger points out in "Cinema's Founding Myth" (2004), with the account of the public screening of the Lumiere brothers' The Arrival of the Train at La Ciotat from 1896. And with the introduction of psychoanalysis and structural linguistics in film theory by for example Raymond Bellour in The Analysis of Film (1979: 182), so the train metaphor for sex in film lives on.

Reading the World Computer: Assessing Meaning Making and the Tell-Tale Gender of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Any philosophical consideration of the current zeitgeist requires an assessment of the quasi-object ( Latour 1993) constellation of Artificial Intelligence and its affordances without giving in to either knee-jerk optimism or unchanneled pessimism. For if doomsday was indeed near (as social media discourses want us to believe), and human labour progressively redundant to the machinations of human-made artificial intelligence, what is the limit case scenario, which makes such a provocation real, tangible and material beyond fatalistic projections of obsolescence? How does that reconfigure the idea of the Human as both the object and subject of cybernetic capital?

Psychology and Popular Culture - 2024 Popular Culture Association National Conference

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:26pm
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Psychology and Popular Culture

Call for Papers for 2024 Conference

The Psychology and Popular Culture area concerns itself with the ways in which popular culture both reflects and shapes the nature of our psychology.

 

The Psychology and Popular Culture area invites all interested persons to present papers on a broad array of topics inclusive of psychology and popular culture, such as:

Update: CFP - Re-engaging with the Old Myths: Contemporary Literature, Women, and Classics at NEMLA 2024

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:25pm
Northeast Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Novels and literary works that adapt Classical figures and text continue to be very popular, such as Natalie Haynes’s A Thousand Ships, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls and The Women of Troy, Madeline Miller’s Circe, Ali Smith’s Girl Meets Boy, and others demonstrate. Many of these retellings focus on Classical women, putting these characters at the center of the narratives. These relatively recent works show one way in which the Classical tradition can still be relevant, especially as it adapts to and includes new histories, viewpoints, and situations.

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