In the four hundred years since its invention in Renaissance Florence, opera has become synonymous with the grandiose, the excessive, and the melodramatic, yet it has only gained a foothold in the academy as an object of serious academic study within the past fifty years. Since then, however, an abundance of scholarship has yielded everything from formal musicological readings of operatic works to theoretical inquiries inspired by psychoanalysis into voice and performance. And topics like the relationship between opera and sovereignty in seventeenth century Italy and the appropriation of Wagner by the Third Reich underscore how opera has never been far from the political sphere in the Western world.

This panel is part of NeMLA 2025, which features the theme of (R)EVOLUTION.

Description:

Call for Papers: NeMLA’s 56th annual Convention

Dates: March 6-9, 2024

Location: La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 16th, 2024

Panel Title: Literature of Impact- Literary (R)evolutions of the Oppressed

Panel Description: 

JOURNAL OF BODIES, SEXUALITIES, AND MASCULINITIES 
Call for Papers: Global Debates around Circumcision and Anti-Circumcision 

This Special Issue of JBSM is guest edited by: 
Atilla Barutçu, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Türkiye 
Lauren Sardi, Quinnipiac University, CT, USA 
Jonathan A. Allan, Brandon University, MB, Canada 

From Aura’s surreal rabbit to rather unsettling Birds in the Mouth, animals have surfaced as important figures throughout Latin American literature, serving as powerful symbols, metaphors, and subjects of moral consideration. They have been depicted as divine beings, companions, victims, and agents of resistance, often challenging anthropocentric worldviews and inviting us to reconsider our place in the more-than-human world. This panel aims to explore the aesthetic, ethical, and political dimensions of animal representations in Latin American thought and culture.

We invite papers that engage with the philosophical and literary treatment of animals in Latin America. Topics may include:

Crossed Borders, Changed Lives: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Immigrant & Refugee Literature seeks scholarly articles by scholars and advanced PhD candidates for publication in a collection on depictions of images of immigrants and refugees by:

• American authors
• Young Adult (YA) novels
• published after 2001 (9/11).

 CONTENT & CONTRIBUTERS:

The collection will address themes such as inclusion / exclusion (racism), equity/ inequity, identity construction, transnationalism / emotional transnationalism, social justice, and empathy.

Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.

Christopher Newport University’s College of Arts and Humanities 

seeks submissions for the forthcoming 

Conference on Women and Gender 

to be held in person at Christopher Newport University 

March 20-22, 2025 

Our theme is: 

Telling Women's Stories 

This interdisciplinary conference on Women and Gender is organized around women’s stories. Our definition of “story” is deliberately vast and inclusive, and may refer to a personal account, historical or contemporary representation, or any form of expression that illustrates the breadth 

“In-betweenness” evades simple categorization, boundedness, and singularity, yet it brings to mind the space and moment of connection, the indeterminacy of transition, the passage between reception and meaning. For this conference, we invite contributions that engage with in-betweenness, articulating movement across boundaries and margins, lingering in liminal experiences related to disorientation, queerness, and representation. We seek papers that challenge and expand media’s historicity, conceptualizations, methodologies, and forms.

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale is now taking submissions of articles between 5,000 and 10,000 words on fantastic and speculative literature from about the time of the French Revolution to about the time of World War I. We are interested in works from all parts of the globe.

Articles on early film (until about 1920) are also encouraged.

Studies on neo-victorian works, such as Steam Punk reimaginings of the Victorian era or newer fantastic works set in the nineteenth century are welcome as well. We are interested in not only written literature, but also films, television, video games, and other media. 

The C19 Podcast invites proposals from individuals and collaborators of all ranks for single podcast episodes that offer creative, story-driven analysis of topical events that spark connections to nineteenth-century America. We are especially interested in episodes that help make both the nineteenth-century and the specific disciplinary knowledge of our scholarly community legible and exciting to a wide audience.  As our podcast grows, we seek to expand its potential to engage diverse publics in the civic and cultural life of the past.

To honor the work of Elizabeth J. Bryan on Lawman and the English prose Brut, this session focuses on the collaborative nature of Brut texts.  By examining both literal collaborations between scribes, illuminators, and compilers, and collaboration broadly conceived, as between readers of Brut texts or between texts and editors to derive meaning, for instance, papers in the session will offer insight into the intricacies of the production and reception of Brut manuscripts.  Papers will advance conversations that, in Professor Bryan’s words, “make room in our critical model for the multiple participants of a manuscript text” (Collaborative Meaningxiv).

The Signum Collaboratory and Signum Press Present A Call for Papers

Creative Philology: Studies in Speculative Fiction, A Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien

The Second Plague Pandemic inflicted unimaginable hurt and triggered multiple crises (demographic, spiritual, political, socio-economic), whose impact informed new artistic and literary modes of expression such as the danse macabre or the carnivalesque. 

This panel examines how writers and artists processed pandemic experiences, both in terms of actual outbreaks and long-term repercussions (such as peasant revolts or multi-generational trauma). Where do we find traces of ‘long plague’ (analogous to ‘long Covid’), and what form do they take? How do pandemic experiences affect collective memory and shared narratives? And what theoretical frameworks might be helpful for studying (post)pandemic discourse in literature and art?