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DFW 2024 – David Foster Wallace – Austin, TX – June 6-8, 2024

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Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:26am
International David Foster Wallace Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 26, 2024

The field of David Foster Wallace studies is now approaching two decades of scholarly and academic development. Stephen J. Burn’s guide to Infinite Jest appeared in 2003 and the first conference dedicated to Wallace Studies was organized by David Hering in Liverpool in 2009. In the ensuing years, hundreds of devoted scholars and readers have enriched and benefited from the field of work. Our annual conference is the showcase of this work—and the valuable opportunity to meet others in the field. For the 2024 conference in Austin, home of the Harry Ransom Center and Wallace’s archive, we invite papers commenting on any aspect of Wallace’s work, thought, influence, or context. 

Online Talk Series (see cfp for topic details, all disciplines welcome)

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Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:26am
Romancing the Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

I am currently putting together the 2024 programme (January – June) of online talks for Romancing the Gothic: an online programme of talks on subjects related to horror, folklore, the supernatural, and more. We welcome talks from all disciplines and are particularly interested in showcasing the work of international scholars from around the world.

We hold talks every week at the weekend and run each talk twice (time zones permitting!) to make sure as many people from as many time-zones as possible can join us. You can find examples of previous talks here - https://romancingthegothic.com/class-schedules/

Announcing the 2024 First Book Institute: Call for Applications

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Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:17am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 12, 2024

Announcing

The 2024 First Book Institute

June 2-8, 2024

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Exploring/Expanding/Challenging the Postcolonial Canon

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Friday, November 10, 2023 - 11:16am
Postcolonial Studies Association newsletter
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The Lonely Londoners (1956); Things Fall Apart (1958); Wide Sargasso Sea (1967); Midnight’s Children (1981); A Small Place (1988); The God of Small Things (1997); Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)...

CFP: Chiasma Volume 9: Philosophy / Fascism / State

updated: 
Friday, November 10, 2023 - 10:53am
Chiasma: A Site for Thought — An International Journal of Theory and Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Chiasma
A Site for Thought

CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 9: Philosophy / Fascism / State

 

Theme and Scope:

Pain and Pleasure

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 5:05pm
The English Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Sousse The Research Laboratory Ecole et Littératures “The School and Literatures Laboratory” , University of Sousse Tunisia, Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse (LAD)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 25, 2024

The English Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in  Sousse (TUNISIA)

The Research Laboratory Ecole et Littératures “The School and Literatures Laboratory”

Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse (LAD)

organise an international conference on

                                                                                       



 

 

Pain and PleasureDate: April 25- 26, 2024Conference Venue: Conference Room 

Edited Collection: Call for Chapters Analyzing Consent-Based Theatre Practices as Pedagogy

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:45pm
Consent-Based Theatre Pedagogy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 22, 2024

Consent-Based Theatre Pedagogy: Anti-Oppressive Practices for Youth Performance

Consent-based performance practices have been widely discussed in recent years–specifically those practices related to the staging of intimacy in live performance and in film. While scholarship dedicated to the practices, theories, and politics of consent in theatrical and cinematic labor continues to accumulate, the use of consent-based practices in theatrical settings to impact the artistic and social-emotional learning of youth remains largely underexplored.

Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:45pm
University College Dublin Humanities Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Call for Papers: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference, 1 March 2024

Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique

Keynote Speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes

 

 

Reproductive Justice and the Humanities in Times of Crisis: Hybrid Symposium

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:44pm
University of York, UK and online
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.

Indigenous Performance Ecologies and Ecological Power in the Global South

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:36pm
Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah/ University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Themed Issue on Indigenous Performance Ecologies and Ecological Power in the Global South

Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

Volume 16 Number 1, 2024

Editor: Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah  

University of Warwick, UK

Deadline Extension: Transformations (CEA in Atlanta 3/21-3/23/24)

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:36pm
Lynne M. Simpson / College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 13, 2023

Please do consider joining an especially collegial group of scholars next spring in Atlanta: we would love to have you with us.

The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.

‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:36pm
Victorian Popular Fiction Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom

Call for Papers

If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.

Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:36pm
The Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments 

Date: April 5 and 6

Format: In person

Submission and contact:ctl-conference@jhu.edu

Submission deadline: January 29th

Location: Johns Hopkins University

CFP: The Global South (Journal): “Toxic Ecologies of the Global South”

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:28pm
The Global South Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

CFP: The Global South (Journal): “Toxic Ecologies of the Global South”—Deadline December 31st, 2023

Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (less developed countries)? … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. (Lawrence Summers, chief economic advisor to the IMF, 1991).

Cinephile 18.1 (Un)recovering Lost Futures

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:27pm
The University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Cinephile 18.1 – (Un)recovering Lost Futures

The late cultural theorist Mark Fisher asks, “how long can a culture persist without the new?” For Fisher, the postmodern future under capitalist realism, “harbours only reiteration and re-permutation” (6-7). In capitalism’s inability to look beyond itself, media culture has become excessively nostalgic and “incapable of generating any authentic novelty” (63). Accordingly, one can observe a certain malaise surrounding media’s inability to imagine new and alternative futures.

Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: 'Signs and Scripts'

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:27pm
University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 17, 2023

CFP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts’

 

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts.’

 

The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Panel: A William Dean Howells Retrospective

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:27pm
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Panel: A William Dean Howells Retrospective

 

Conference: WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)

May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

 

Call for Creative Submission | Writing with the Bots | AI Literature Submission

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:27pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 3, 2023

Call for Creative Submission | Writing with the Bots | AI Literature Submission

Using neural networks, the AI literature tools produce human-like pieces of literature that are, in most cases, marked by twisted imitations of the masterpieces both in language and content. The ‘Artificial’ is repetitive and selected from the vast body of literature available on the web or from the classics, a particular language model is fed with. With this caveat, we venture into experimenting with writing with the Bots.

Rupkatha Journal is inviting submissions of AI literature following the instructions below:

Creative Mythic Fiction, Poetry, and Images Solicited for The Mythic Circle#46

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:19pm
The Mythopoeic Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Mythic Circle is the creative writing journal of The Mythopoeic Society, an international association of scholars and fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, the Inklings, and fantasy literature with a mythic bent. The journal has been in continuous publication since 1987; it comes out annually in time for the summer conference of the Mythopoeic Society.

Call for Chapters/ Abstracts: The Hash House Harriers

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:19pm
Monmouth College
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

In 1938, a group of British expatriates led by Albert Stephen Gispert, known as G or "our father G," founded the Hash House Harriers (H3) in Kuala Lumpur.  Other than during WW II, the group has been in continuous existence for almost eighty years; the original Kuala Lumpur group, Mother Hash, still exists. The hash house harriers, "a drinking club with a running problem," is a unique blend of athleticism, sociability, and hedonism.  Hashing has a rich and diverse history spanning the globe, and this anthology seeks to capture its impact on global culture.

New Modalities of Irishness

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
Boston University and University College Dublin's Clinton Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

New Modalities of Irishness: Performance, Race and Inequality

The Modalities of Irishness project co-hosted by University College Dublin’s Clinton Institute and Boston University’s College of Fine Arts is now accepting submissions for its second event, following the successful first symposium in Boston in June 2023. The next symposium in the series will take place at the Clinton Institute on Friday 19th April 2024.

Global Anthropo-scene: Rethinking Sustainability and Cultural Preservations

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
Department of English, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

GLOBAL ANTHROPO-SCENE:

RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL PRESERVATIONS

 

30-31 January 2024

 

A Two-Day International Conference

Department of English

Jadavpur University

Two ALA Sessions: 1. Gothic in Horror, Horror in Gothic and 2. Folk Horror

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

American Literature Association

35th Annual Conference

May 23-26, 2024

The Palmer House Hilton—Chicago

The SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF THE AMERICAN GOTHIC will organize two sessions at the 35th Annual Conference of the ALA.

CFP One: Gothic in Horror, Horror in Gothic

Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT) Call for Papers for Issue Number 24

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT)

Call for Papers for Issue Number 24

The issue 24 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.

Call for Papers: Studies of Biblical Interest

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
Studies of Biblical Interest
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the inaugural issue of Studies of Biblical Interest (SBI) is now inviting submissions. SBI strives to foster an environment of open and pluralistic inquiry through articles related to comparative biblical studies, textual criticism, etymological research, archaeology, anthropology, religion and science, the study of religious and cultural texts worldwide, alternative readings, discussions, critiques, and reviews. We also reserve space in each issue for items that would not traditionally be published in an academic journal, including art, literary fiction, music, opinion pieces, photography, and poetry.

2024 Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA) International Conference Kids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for Everyone

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 3:18pm
TCLRA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 25, 2024

2024 Taiwan Children’s Literature Research Association (TCLRA) International ConferenceKids and Adults Allowed: Children’s Literature for EveryoneKeynote Speaker: Kenneth Kidd, University of FloridaSoochow University, Taipei23 November 2024Deadline for abstracts: 25 February 2024

Call for Papers

DEADLINE EXTENDED! CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 2:55pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Extended proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023

 

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