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The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 7:24pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 1, 2023 ***

The response to our earlier CFP was so strong that we are expanding our edited volume into The Handbook of Transgender Science Fiction, and we welcome additional chapters examining science fiction novels, short stories, YA literature, graphic novels, comics, films, television, games, material culture, and other media. 

Interested authors should submit a 300-word abstract, a 200-word biography, and a sample of a previously published chapter or article to the Dropbox folder at https://bit.ly/Transgender_Science_Fiction no later than October 1, 2023.

CALL FOR CHAPTERS - The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 4:05pm
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Brooklyn College, CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora

 

Submission Deadline – December 15th, 2023

Notification of selection – January 15th, 2023

Full Chapters Due – May 30th, 2024

 

Editor

Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)

 

SEEKING CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR EDITED VOLUME-

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Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:58pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis
• Phytosemiotics and plant communication
• Plant sensation and consciousness
• Vegetal agency

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 3:18pm
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA EA 370) - Université Clermont Auvergne (IHRIM-UMR 5317)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

                                               Call for papers 

“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”

(Scroll down for the French version, scientific committee and selected bibliography)

A one-day preparatory seminar will take place on April, 5th 2024 (as a hybrid event) to enable scholars to present their research. The conference will then take place at Université Paris Nanterre on April 3-4, 2025

Caribbean Carnival Space and New Media

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 11:40am
Hanna Klien-Thomas, Alison McLetchie, Natalie Wall
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL SPACE AND NEW MEDIA

Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Call for Papers

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? 

 

BCPS Conference - February 12-13, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:50am
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

After three years of virtual conferences, we're excited to welcome you back to Savannah. As we reboot our in-person conference, we're also bringing back one of our most popular Keynote speakers. Please join us at the DeSoto Hotel in the beautiful Historic District this coming February for the critical engagement, friendly community, and vibrant network that the BCPS Conference has been known for for over three decades.

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.

 

CFP: How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:47am
Seol Ha & Surbhi Malik / Creighton University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 25, 2023

Call for Papers

 

2024 AAAS Annual Conference

April 25-27, 2024

Seattle, WA

 

Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities

 

 

Panel Title

How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities

 

Type: Paper Presentation (3-4 presenters)

 

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.

“American Afterlives”

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
51st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

*CFP Deadline Extended*

“American Afterlives” - 51st Annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture

February 19-20, 2024 (virtual) and February 22-24, 2024 (in person)

Dear Colleagues:

NeMLA 2024 - The Slow Cancellation of Futurism: Utopia, Dystopia, and the Imagined City

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:46am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Influenced by Le Corbusier’s ‘Radiant City’, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects in St. Louis were a
modernist, utopian vision of urban renewal. However, they quickly slid into disrepair and in 1972 were
partially demolished in a nationwide, televised spectacle. The failure of Pruitt-Igoe shows us that the
dystopia is always necessarily contained within the utopia: despite the intentions of its architect Minoru
Yamasaki, in planning the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects, it was always destined to be a vision of 'functional'
racial segregation by its federal ideators. Although the edict of racial segregation was thrown out by the

“‘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)

Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in the Post-9/11 World

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:43am
O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi- NCR, India
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

 

This is a call for papers for a virtual conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India

 Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Conference Organizers: Priyadarshini Gupta (priyadarshini@jgu.edu.in) and Mosarrap Hossain Khan (mhkhan@jgu.edu.in)

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)

 

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