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London Foundling Hospital History: An Online Conference

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:01am
Group of Researchers of different Universities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 3, 2023

The Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children was established in 1739.  It was the ‘darling project’ of Thomas Coram who saw the need to care for infants when their parents were unable to.  The Hospital underwent great changes between 1739 when its opening was a watershed event in British child welfare and 1954 when it ended its practice of institutional care.  This conference aims to bring together the global community of Foundling Hospital researchers for the first time to discuss all aspects of the charity’s history, and stimulate new avenues of investigation in the institution’s archives.

Special Issue: Making Modern Maternity

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 11:00am
Whitney Wood, Karen Weingarten, Heather Love, and Jerika Sanderson
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

We invite submissions to a special journal issue that we would like to propose to Medical Humanities on the topic “Making Modern Maternity.” Our aim for the special issue will be to explore the ways in which pregnancy, childbirth, and maternal experiences have been constructed as “modern” (or not) at multiple sites and through various forms of media including popular magazines, newspapers, television and film, fiction, “expert” advice, advertisements, and medical records. In terms of temporal and geographic scope, we are soliciting contributions that focus on the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with no geographical restrictions.

“Emersonian Perspectives “ Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:59am
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

PAMLA 2023 Los Angeles: “Shifting Perspectives”

October 26–29, 2023

 

Panel: "Emersonian Perspectives"

Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

 

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites papers that explore the conference theme “Shifting Perspectives” in the context of Emerson’s work and reception. Contributions may address how perspective informs Emerson’s philosophy, aesthetics, poetics and politics. They may also explore in what ways Emerson’s work teaches us to shift our approaches to reading, thinking, feeling, writing and teaching. Finally, they may also show how other philosophers, poets and artists shift our perspective on Emerson.

 

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Therapeutic Modernisms: Fifth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:59am
Nicholas Manning / Université Grenoble Alpes-IUF
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

CFP: Therapeutic Modernisms

Fifth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies

Université Grenoble Alpes, France

19-21 June 2024

Organizers: Hélène Aji, Nicholas Manning, Benoît Tadié

This Fifth International Conference of the French Society for Modernist Studies will focus on the ties between therapeutic discourses and practices and modernist arts and literature.

CFP: Artifacts of Nostalgia: Variations on the Tangible and Textual

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:59am
University at Albany
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

We are a group of international scholars looking for additionalchapters to complete our anthology on the topic of nostalgia.This anthology will broadly explore the function of nostalgia in culture. Some topics our authors are currently writing on include the relationship between nostalgia and literature;music; object ontology; personal, cultural, and familial identity; sense of longing for place; posthumanism; sexuality; game studies; and the commodification of nostalgia in culture. We welcome proposals on any of these topics or otherwise.Creativity and multimodal projects are also encouraged that appeal to a wide audience. Completed chapters should be approximately 10,000 words.

PandeVITA Conference: Sustainable collaboration processes in pandemic times

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:56am
Bilkent University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the urgent need for efficient and effective communication and collaboration processes between the five systems science/ education, politics, economy, the media-based and culture-based public as well as the natural environment of societies. The SARS-CoV-2 virus assaulted the world suddenly, and the COVID-19 disease became a pandemic within three months after the discovery of the first case in China. As a consequence, the high infection rate had an impact on communication processes between all systems. Especially during the first wave of the pandemic, the information needed in society was extraordinarily high because many people were afraid and scared.

International Conference 'Translation and the Periodical'

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:56am
Ghent University (Belgium)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 20, 2023

The International Conference ‘Translation and the Periodical’ will be hosted from 13-15 September 2023 at Ghent University in Belgium.

It will start with a postgraduate workshop on 13 September, followed by the main conference on 14 and 15 September.

Keynote Speakers
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar (Glendon College York University, Canada/ Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Evanghelia Stead (Versailles Saint-Quentin University, France)

Special Issue "Storytelling, Body, and Disability in Fiction and Popular Culture"

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:54am
Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

The individual body performatively constitutes its gender, experiences desire for other (individual) bodies, undergoes significant changes, and functions as the battlefield for a range of social and political struggles. However, the collective body in groups provides an equally productive basis for the analysis and interpretation of gendered and sexual processes. The human body is never neutral, and many works of fiction give meaning to a disintegrated, disable, diseased, wounded, damaged, mutilated body through the power of language.

Must We? The Discourse of Student Need

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:53am
Wendy Ryden, Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Call for Papers
Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Deadline: August 15, 2023

Must We? The Discourse of Student Need

Writing studies, in its aims to meet “student need,” has always been teleological in its orientation. But should we continue to assume that we know what future we are preparing our students for and maintain confidence in what best serves them? This special issue asks for a critical reappraisal of our reliance on those discourses of goals, needs, and assessments and how they have shaped and continue to shape our fields, especially given emerging transnationalism and globalism in teaching and scholarship.

A24 and Horror Cinema

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:52am
Todd Platts Piedmont Virginia Community College
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Since its formation in 2012, A24 has curated a distinctive horror (and horror adjacent) oeuvre with films like Tusk (2014), The Witch (2016), Green Room (2016), The Monster (2016), The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), A Ghost Story (2017), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Hereditary (2018), Slice (2018), High Life (2019), Midsommmar (2019), The Lighthouse (2019), In Fabric (2019), Saint Maud (2021), False Positive (2021), The Green Knight (2021), Lamb (2021), X (2022), Men (2022), Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022), and Pearl (2022) many of w

Novel Thinking: Representations of Mind in Literature and Culture

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:50am
Melissa Dickson / University of Queensland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Novel Thinking: Representations of Mind in Literature and Culture

A One Day Hybrid Conference at the University of Queensland

Monday, 26th June 2023

 

CFP - Journal of the Wooden O

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:39am
Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain/Journal of the Wooden O
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 13, 2023

The Journal of the Wooden O is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. It is published annually by Southern Utah University Press in connection with the Gerald R. Sherratt Library and the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

 

The editors invite papers on any topic related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

 

Guest Editors for Angles

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:37am
Anne-Valérie Dulac Sorbonne Université
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 14, 2023

ANGLES: Call for Guest Editors

 

 

Angles (https://journals.openedition.org/angles/) is seeking guest editors for the thematic sections of its upcoming issues, due to be published in 2025 and 2026.

 

Angles is an international online peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually by the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur).

It is indexed by MLA, EBSCO, ERIH Plus, etc.

Each thematic issue contains 8–12 articles selected by a guest editor after a double-blind peer-review process.

CFP for The Works and Influences of Charles Portis: A Symposium

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:37am
Kevin Jones/University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 3, 2023

The Department of English, Rhetoric & Writing, and Media Communication and the Department of History, Social Sciences & Philosophy at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

The Works and Influence of Charles Portis: A Symposium

November 2-5,  2023 

A Call for Papers on the Works and Influence of author, veteran, journalist, bureau chief, and Arkansawyer, Charles Portis for a Symposium hosted by the University of Arkansas Fort Smith.  In celebration of the May 2023 publication of the Library of America series, The Collected Works of Charles Portis, edited by Jay Jennings, this symposium explores the writing and cultural influence of Portis.  

Cripping Performing Arts

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:36am
University of Lodz, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Polish open-access journal Didaskalia (https://didaskalia.pl/en) invites submissions that reflect on the actual and potential power of disability to transform performing arts, and theatre and performance studies. We wish to approach this issue from the perspective that sees disability as a generative artistic force and a critical lens. As a creative, academic, and cognitive category, disability has been changing the face of theatre, dance, music, and performance art.

Symposium on the Little Tuskegees

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:33am
Utica Institute Museum - Hinds CC Utica
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

We are pleased to announce a Call for Proposals for the first annual Symposium on the Little Tuskegees, scheduled as a hybrid conference September 28-29, 2023.

September 28-29, 2023
Virtual & Utica, MS
Please see http://uticainstitute.org/symposium

Reclaiming Humanitarianism, Development, and Peace After Crises: Responding Through Disruption and Adapting to the New Normal

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:32am
Dr Serena Clark
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 27, 2023

I am delighted to invite submissions for an edited volume by Dr Serena Clark titled Reclaiming Humanitarianism, Development, and Peace After Crises: Responding Through Disruption and Adapting to the New Normal, with the Helsinki University Press series, The Impact of Pandemics. The proposal has tentatively been approved, and I am now seeking chapter abstracts for a final proposal review.

I welcome submissions from all disciplines and/or theoretical perspectives; I am particularly seeking research by early career and first-generation contributors, and historically underrepresented scholars, such as women of color (e.g., Black and African-American, Asian and Asian-American, Indigenous, and other minority communities), and LGBTQ+.

CFA: Articles for the Journal for the Study of Radicalism

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:30am
Journal for the Study of Radicalism
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

JSR: Journal for the Study of Radicalism—an academic journal published by Michigan State University Press—announces a call for articles and book reviews.

The Post-Pandemic and the digital turn in Higher Education, The Future of Humanities

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:30am
Identity and Difference Research Lab
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Call for Papers

 

“Identity and Difference Research Group”

in collaboration with

“Strategies of Cultural Industries, Communication and Social Research Lab”

 

Is hosting an International conference on:

 

The Post-Pandemic and the digital turn in Higher Education”

 

MOVEMENT|Call for Submissions to Moveable Type Journal (UCL)

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Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:29am
University College London (UCL) English Department Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Moveable Type is the journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Movement'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme. Submissions are welcome from across the arts & humanities and beyond. All submissions should be sent to editors.moveabletype@gmail.com by midnight on 1 May 2023. Please feel free to get in touch to discuss your choice of topic prior to submission. See below for submission guidelines.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

CFP: Special Issue for the journal Sexualities: Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:28am
Dr. Linda Roland Danil, Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

CFP: Special Issue for the journal Sexualities

Dr. Linda Roland Danil

Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge

Email: lindarolandd@gmail.com

 

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 June 2023

Deadline for the submission of manuscripts: 30 September 2023

 

Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology

 

Theories of Affect and the Short Fiction of Jorge Luis Borges

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:25am
Ashley Ecklund / University of Oregon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

This panel will focus on the short fiction of Jorge Luis Borges and Affect Theory broadly construed. Papers analyzing any short story from Borges' many collections (e.g., Ficciones, The Book of Sand, Shakespeare's Memory etc.) along with any affect-focused reading are welcome. With analyses of the often enigmatic, and occasionally cryptic, atmospheres of Borges’ fiction, the aim of this panel is to add to (perhaps even shift!) discourses on the conceptualization of affect.

Saints and Mystics in Legend and Tradition

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:25am
Folklore Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Where is the spring that rose where St. Alban’s blood fell? Who cares for Cuddy Ducks? Can we see Enoch and Elijah? When the Virgin fell in labour, was Romani St. Sarah at her side? How did St. Sebastian become a gay icon? Who were the Twin Saints, the Three Pure Ones, the Four Friends and the Five Major Prophets? What goes into a Dumb Cake for St. Agnes’ Eve? Does a wet St. Swithun’s day really foretell forty days of rain? Do girls still appeal to St. Andrew of the fishermen for a good catch in marriage? Can we still hear Old Clem at the hammer and the thunders of St. Barbara? Whether you weave a cross of reeds for Lá Féile Bríde, wear a daff for Dewi Sant, or bear a rose for St. George, come and join our day or we may have to call on St.

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:23am
CORERISC: the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk, and The Sociability of Sleep
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS

I’ll Sleep When I’m Undead: Sleep in Contemporary Horror Media 

July 2-7, 2023 in Montreal

DEADLINE March 31, 2023

 

Cause for Celebration: Restorative Histories of Liberal Arts Practices

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:23am
Sam O'Hana Grainger, CUNY Graduate Center
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Public understandings of the liberal arts tend to amount to an introductory curriculum of texts in the humanist tradition. This project seeks funding to host a special session at Modern Language Association’s annual convention in Jan 2024, inviting new research intended to broaden, deepen and restore the origins of liberal arts beyond modern European conceptions to include classical, pre-classical, non- European and global findings on the subject. Beyond introductory curricula, the session attempts to revisit the notion of the liberal arts as training for political, legal and professional leadership, in the words of Isocrates’ Antidosis, the “καλῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων”/good achievements that would in turn be a cause for celebration.

Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association 11/9-11/11

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:22am
Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Proposals are welcome on all aspects of popular and American culture for inclusion in the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association (MAPACA) conference in Philadelphia, PA. Single papers, panels, roundtables, and alternative formats are welcome.

 

CFP: The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 10:22am
Universitat de València, Spain (On-site conference Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 2023))
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 26, 2023

The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin

Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 6:40am
NGG: The Dutch Association for the Study of Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Call for Papers

Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging

The biennial conference of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschappen (NGG) - the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion

 

Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 1-3 2023

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE CFP: APRIL 30, 2023

 

Keynote Speakers include Dr. Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven), Dr. Basit Iqbal (McMaster University), Dr. Carly Crouch (Radboud University) and Dr. Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University).

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940

updated: 
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 4:27am
Dr. Sonia D. Andras, Dr. Roxana Mihaly
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 20, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 20 February 2022

Creative Negotiations. Romania – America 1920-1940

Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)and Dr. Roxana Mihaly (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

 

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