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Strange Heading: Post-Critique and the Medieval Book

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:23am
Sherif Abdelkarim / Modern Language Association LLC Middle English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

Recent work like George Edmondson’s The Neighboring Text or Seeta Chaganti’s Strange Footing models close engagement with medieval manuscripts that offers new modes of experiencing literature beyond the historically positivist, empirically material, or hermeneutically suspicious, either by recognizing the limitations of theoretical lenses or by approaching language beyond information. This session asks how looking at the character of the medieval text on the manuscript page–its calligraphy, titles, rubrics, initials, performance cues, polysemy–might allow us to consider anew readers’ encounters, medieval and modern, with that text.

Oceans, Seas and Shorelines in Film (under contract with Routledge)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:23am
JeongWon Bourdais Park, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China Viv Westbrook, KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

We would like to invite humanities and social science scholars to contribute to our edited volume, ‘Oceans Seas and Shorelines in Film’, to be published in 2024/25 by Routledge in the Oceans Seas and Shorelines: a natural and cultural environmental history series.

Film is the most influential of all of the cultural media, combining powerful audio and visual formulas to recreate the world for the purpose of telling a story. It implicitly and explicitly conveys important aspects of real and imagined social change and exchange within a variety of environmental contexts, but the role of the environment and the impact of human agency on the environment has rarely been a focus of critical enquiry. 

MLA 2024: Transtemporal Methodologies in the Study of Late Medieval English Literature

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
MLA Middle English Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

Several recent, celebrated studies of late medieval English literature present their anchoring motivations as including one or more twenty-first century activist concerns – for example, scholarship that considers Chaucer and rape culture, examines the medieval roots or affinities of contemporary white supremacy, thinks ecocritically about the medieval beyond-human, juxtaposes medieval political events with modern ones, etc. Methodologically, such studies have involved explicit interleaving of analysis of late medieval English literary texts with considerations of texts, events, or discourses of the present.

A Cultural Experience: The Role of Theatre at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (an edited volume)

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Khalid Y. Long and DeRon S. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Since their inception dating back to as early as 1829, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have continuously represented the notion of possibility and hope for African Americans. As an initial action, these organizations emphasized the educational improvement of Blacks at the elementary and secondary levels. Since the creation of the first HBCU, these institutions of academic excellence have transformed exclusively into postsecondary institutions, ultimately forming a network where thousands of African descendants could obtain an education that they otherwise could not afford due to years of educational suppression and segregation in higher education.

MLA 2024 Special Session: Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:22am
Robert Reginio/Special Session MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 24, 2023

Bob Dylan's Blues: Blues Poetics and American Memory I am seeking  abstracts between 200-400 words for a panel on Dylan's incorporation, use, and revision of blues music especially in the context of theorists of blues poetics such as Houston Baker, Angela Davis, and Fred Moten. Most existing scholarship on Dylan's use of blues music remains informed by the work of writers and critics such as Sam Charters, Michael Gray, Greil Marcus, and Alan Lomax. This work often favors a conceptualization of the blues as a distant,  pre-modern source of "authentic" soundings.

Di/Con: Writing on the Verge

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:21am
Literature & Writing Studies Graduate Department at CSU, San Marcos
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 19, 2023

 

    What is DiCon?

Diverge: to separate. Converge: to meet. In mathematical terms, the prefix marks the difference between infinity and defined. The Literature and Writing Studies department at California State University, San Marcos seeks papers and creative works that expand, transgress, problematize, and rethink hegemonic boundaries and definitions. 

 

Call for Applications: Reviews Editor Gaskell Journal

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:20am
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 24, 2023

The Gaskell Journal seeks a new Reviews Editor. As well as publishing peer-reviewed articles, this annually produced academic journal features 2-4 book reviews, of works focused on Elizabeth Gaskell but also on Victorian literature and culture more generally. The reviews editor’s role is to identify suitable books for review, contact publishers to request a complimentary review copy, and appoint appropriate reviewers. As well as engaging with our regular reviewers, this also involves making new contacts in relevant scholarly fields. The reviews editor must then keep in contact with the reviewer to ensure that the review is completed in good time, and meets house requirements, before forwarding it to the journal editors.

Gaskell Journal Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:20am
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Film-Philosophy Conference 2023

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:20am
Chapman University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

The next Film-Philosophy Conference will take place physically on campus at Chapman University, California, USA. 

This year’s event will feature a special screening of Marlon Fuentes’s critically acclaimed film Bontoc Eulogy (1995) followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.

20 Years After Katrina: Tracing the Storm’s Impact on American Culture & Society

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:19am
Mary Ruth Stewart and Glenn Jellenik/ University of Central Arkansas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina saw an explosion of texts that processed the storm. Works of fiction (novels, graphic novels, poetry, movies, tv shows) as well as a slew of memoirs, literary non-fiction books, documentaries, and songs surfaced to sift through the emotional rubble left in Katrina’s wake. Our 2015 collection, 10 Years After Katrina, was an attempt to critically process these artistic renderings of the storm’s effect on American culture. In the past ten years, it seems as if the storm of Katrina texts has … abated. Only a smattering of books have surfaced after 2015—a novel, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau (2020), Katrina: a History (2020), a memoir, The Yellow House (2019).

Call for Chapters -- August Wilson in Context

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:18am
Khalid Y. Long and Isaiah M. Wooden
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 20, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTERS

August Wilson in Context

Edited by Khalid Y. Long and Isaiah Matthew Wooden

 

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers -- The Twenty-First Century: The New Contemporary?

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:17am
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

The Twenty-First Century: The New Contemporary?

 

Publication Date: June 2024 (Issue No. 51)

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2023

 

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It’s time we began to talk about the twenty-first century. Period.

 

Periodization is one of those topics to which academics often say there are no well-rounded approaches. We qualify our account, understate the possibility of being spot-on, and even feel apologetic.  

 

"Forging the Medieval" in Institutions: Call for Special Issue Contributions

updated: 
Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:17am
postmedieval / guest editors Rebecca Menmuir and Hannah Armstrong
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: “FORGING THE MEDIEVAL” IN INSTITUTIONS

 

Proposals for short essays (c. 3500-8000 words) are warmly welcomed, on the topic of “forging the medieval” in institutions. In galleries, museums, schools, universities, libraries, archives, or other institutions, how is the medieval past forged? How is it created and curated, presented and (mis)represented, through the institution’s objects and the concept of the institution itself?

 

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Whose South Asia?

updated: 
Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 10:16am
Aparajita De/ University of the District of Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 13, 2023

Concept note:

31st annual Midwestern Conference of Literature, Language, and Media: "Ethnic Images: Between Art and Reality in the United States"

updated: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 2:39pm
Northern Illinois University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Conference Date/Location: March 25 - 26, 2023; DeKalb, IL

Deadline for Proposals: February 28, 2023

*Registration is now Open! https://mcllm7.wixsite.com/mcllm/registration-travel-planning

The 31st annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, is currently accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations from individuals and panels.

No Guardrails: Teaching and Learning in Times of Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 9:04am
Melissa J. Jones
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

This collection seeks essays willing to explore what it means to flounder and flop--to be afraid and uncomfortable--and to get back up to teach (one hopes) another day. For this is the precarious new normal of teaching and learning in post-pandemic America, where primary and secondary educators are fleeing the profession in droves--citing too much pressure, too little pleasure--and murmurs of “quiet quitting” across college campuses suggest that higher ed might not be far behind.

CfP: Transplanetary Ecologies Workshop

updated: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 11:22am
Centre for Outer Space Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Continuous human presence in Low Earth Orbit, increasing expansion of techno-scientific infrastructures beyond Earth, and the extractivist ambitions of the commercial 'New Space' sector call for a reconsideration of the conventional analytical frameworks used to describe emergent (extra)terrestrial political, ecological, and social processes. On these accelerating investments, Vidmar has stated “the interplay between natural and social phenomena in the highly contested yet vastly open-ended Universe gave rise to an ecology of (trans)planetary systems – biological, technological and intellectual” (Vidmar, 2020, EASST.net).

Call for Submissions, 2023 Special Issue: “Laughter”

updated: 
Sunday, February 5, 2023 - 10:54am
The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

American author Mark twain said it best when he wrote, “Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.” With the world ever balancing so much to cry about with so much to laugh about, The AutoEthnographer Literary and Arts Magazine is excited to announce its call for submissions for the 2023 special issue, “Laughter.” Submissions will be accepted in any of our main categories (writing, poetry, multimedia, video, performance, etc.) between June 1, 2022 and June 1, 2023 and may respond to the following prompts:

MLA 2024: Interpreting Italian American Visual Arts and Cultures

updated: 
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 5:09pm
MLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

This panel investigates Italian American transnational and transgenerational depictions of memory and ethnic identity through visual culture. Our goal is to invite scholars to reflect on diverse media and forms of representation, drawing attention to artists, authors, and performers who used visual components to narrate their hybrid identities and relationships to trauma, diaspora, and postmemory. Names like Fasanella, B. Amore, DiSalvo, Stella, and Scanga, come to mind, as artists who gave form to visual tropes of memory narrating their experience as first and second generation Italian Americans. 

"Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts" - York University English Graduate Student Association 2023 Conference - HYBRID (deadline extended)

updated: 
Saturday, February 4, 2023 - 12:50pm
York University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Call for Papers:
“Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts”
York EGSA Conference 2023 - May 12th, 2023

Deadline: EXTENDED -- February 28th, 2023, 11:59 pm EST

CFP: People, Planet and Prosperity for a Sustainable Future Conference

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 10:03pm
Chaminade University of Honolulu
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 30, 2023

Call for Abstracts and Proposals

Abstracts and proposals are called for research presentations, paper presentations, panels and position paper proposals. All abstracts and proposals must be submitted electronically though the chair persons listed. Only a complete submission is eligible for review. A confirmation email will be sent once the abstract or proposal has been received.

VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:57pm
Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

CFP Deadline has been extended to February 28, 2023! 

 

VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media

Samuel R. Delany and the City

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:55pm
Modern Language Association 2024 Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Samuel R. Delany and the City Samuel Delany has strong ties to New York City and Philadelphia. Not surprisingly, many of his major works investigate cities. We seek papers on the city throughout Delany's work. 200 word abstracts; brief bio

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 10 March 2023

Daniel Shank Cruz, Hunter College, CUNY (danielshankcruz@gmail.com)  https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper22607.html 

Modernist Studies Association 2023 Annual Meeting

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:54pm
Erin Kappeler / MSA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

The Modernist Studies Association is thrilled to announce that the submission portal for our upcoming conference in Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29, 2023, is NOW OPEN at 

[CFP] Thanatic Ethics Workshop #4: In search of accountability 

updated: 
Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 3:51pm
International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

 

Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory Spaces

Workshop #4:  In search of accountability

 

A partnership between International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (The Education University of Hong Kong), EMMA (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

and The American College of the Mediterranean (ACM, Aix-en-Provence)

 

Venue: University Paul Valery Montpellier 3, France

Dates: October 5-6, 2023

Language: English

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