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What does it mean to make a book? Fourteenth-century France and beyond

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
International Congress for Medieval Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

In the fourteenth century, book-making became a well-established trade in France. With extensive networks of professionals and readers, streamlined production, and consolidated norms, the French book acquired distinctiveness. We invite papers that explore how the distinctively bookish and reflexive character of French literature of the period may be linked to the practices of book-making. Papers could ask what, exactly, book-making meant, how it was represented (in literature, visual culture, and beyond), and what methods we might best employ to discuss book media holistically. Papers that compare book-making from elsewhere to the French context are encouraged. 

(NeMLA 2024 seminar) Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
NeMLA 2024 (Sarah Beyvers, Jonathan Rose)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Please consider submitting an abstract to our seminar "Spectacle and Empathy: The Role of Excessive (Em)Body(ment) in Narrative" at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston. The deadline for submissions is September 30 2023.

 

Please submit your abstract here: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20454

 

Session abstract:

Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
Dipak Giri
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Call for Paper on “Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation

Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from academics and writers for publication in an edited volume with ISBN. Authors are requested to strictly follow the submission guidelines mentioned herewith in their papers. Only electronic submission via email will be accepted for publication. The proposed title of the volume which is below, may subject to change:

 

Indian Diaspora Literature: A Critical Evaluation

 

Reading Catherine Malabou's Stop Thief! (ACLA 2024, March 14-17)

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
Tyler M. Williams / American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 23, 2023

This seminar focuses on the recent (2022) publication of Catherine Malabou’s Au voleur!, which is slated for publication in English translation as Stop Thief! in January 2024. Contributors are invited to present 20-minute responses to Malabou’s book that consider the interdisciplinary relevance of Stop Thief! to contemporary theoretical discourse.  

Journal Submissions: Indiana English

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
Indiana English / Indiana College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Indiana English, a peer-reviewed journal sponsored by the Indiana College English Association, encourages submissions on the role of English studies in the Midwest but will consider submissions on any topic related to English literature and criticism, linguistics, or pedagogy. We are particularly interested in narratives that explore the recent struggles our colleagues have had with AI. We also publish original creative work (fiction, poetry, creative or literary nonfiction, and photography).

Submission Instructions:

  • Scholarly articles should be between 4,000-10,000 words, include an abstract of no more than 300 words.

AAS 2024: Call for Papers for Verge-sponsored Panels

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 28, 2023

Verge is sponsoring the following Global Asias panel and roundtable for consideration for the upcoming AAS conference:

CfP - Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at UBC Okanagan

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:18am
IGSSS at UBCO
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 11, 2023

Call for Proposals!

Organized by the students in the Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies (IGS) program at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan, our conference mission is to bring together folks who are invested in interdisciplinary work. Our Fall 2023 Conference theme, An Interdisciplinarian’s Toolbox: Emerging Practices and Methodologies for Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries, focuses on the ways in which we engage in interdisciplinary research, further reflecting on how these processes may give rise to new ideas, knowledge, and change.

NeMLA 2024 roundtable: Shaping Poetry in the University Classroom

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:17am
Northeast Modern Language Assosiaction
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

How do contemporary teaching practices shape “poetry” as a genre? In recent years, the new lyric studies has brought to light how Anglo-American university instruction instilled lyric reading as the dominant practice of the 20th century, and in pedagogical terms, the new lyric studies can defamiliarize the protocols of close reading and formalist analysis that promise a standardized poetry classroom. At the same time, critics such as Alan Golding, Natalia Cecire, and Kimberly Quiogue Andrews consider the academic institutional forces at play in the production and reception of difficult, experimental, and avant-garde poetries.

Spy Fiction: Exploring Ian Fleming and 70 Years of James Bond

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:17am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

Spy Fiction: Exploring Ian Fleming and 70 Years of James Bond

International Conference
30 September 2023
(Zoom sessions: 1 day/Virtual platform: 3 days)

(more information: https://www.gires.org/activities/conferences/spy-fiction-exploring-ian-fleming-and-70-years-of-james-bond/ )

Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinarity organizes the conference dedicated to the captivating world of spy fiction, with a particular focus on the works of Ian Fleming and the 70-year anniversary of the first James Bond novel.

VI International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:16am
FANTAELX
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 8, 2023

VI INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON FANTASTIC GENRE, AUDIOVISUALS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES

The International Congress of Fantastic Genre, Audiovisuals and New Technologies is an activity of scientific and academic dissemination that is part of Elche International Fantastic Film Festival – FANTAELX, with the collaboration of Miguel Hernández University. Its mission is to disseminate research studies within the different thematic lines of the Fantastic Genre, covering all its possible variants and platforms: cinema, television, theatre, literature, comics, videogames, virtual reality, plastic arts, etc.

PARTICIPATION

Society, Growth and Sustainability : Contemporary Issues and Approaches

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:16am
Kalipada Ghosh Tarai Mahavidyalaya
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Every society experiences growth as it tries to move from a traditional agrarian one to a more industrialized one. Growth is the only constant in society where it occurs both qualitatively and quantitatively. While population growth, agricultural growth etc. may be considered to be a quantitative growth, urban growth, societal growth etc. may be considered to be qualitative growth. This steady growth also implies that the sustainable development of all societies is crucial. To balance the growth and sustainability in the changing society itself is a complex process and requires a comprehensive study with respect to the growth of population, economic, urban growth and so on.

Teaching World Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, July 25, 2023 - 12:15am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 20, 2023

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

PACIFIC ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATE

(PAMLA October 26-29, 2023)

 

Conference Theme: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES

 

 

 

 

 

Roundtable Session #18948: Teaching World Literature

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

(RSA 2024) Christianity and the Making of Race: A Roundtable

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Medicine and the Making of Race
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 7, 2023

*Seeking participants for a proposed roundtable for RSA 2024* In recent decades, race has been firmly established as a significant category and rich site of analysis in the early modern world. Religion is an essential part of this story. Christian doctrine was the lens through which European explorers, colonizers, and slaveholders understood somatic and cultural difference and, subsequently, the means by which they justified their violent and extractive practices, including the institution of slavery.

2nd Call for papers - Special issue on Genre(s) in Translation

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Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Linguaculture Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Ever since the early days of applied linguistics, LSP studies, and functional approaches, the notion of text genre has been pervasive in translation studies. However, it is only in recent years that generic features and their treatment in translation have gained a more prominent position among the researchers’ interests (e.g. B.J. Woodstein, Translation and Genre, Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Hollywood Before the Code, International Conference, Sorbonne and Nanterre University, Paris

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Claire Dutriaux / Sorbonne University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

International conference:

Hollywood Before the Code (1921-1934)

 

Sorbonne University and Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

June 27-28-29, 2024

 

The implementation of the Production Code in 1934 established a pre- and post-classic Hollywood era. From 1934 onward, the studios submitted their productions to some internal control to ensure the conformity of contents and guarantee their commercial viability at a time when ideological and religious elites were actively trying to enforce the respect of moral principles.

HOLLYWOOD BEFORE THE CODE

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Frances Pheasant-Kelly/ University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

CFP International Conference

Hollywood Before the Code (1921-1934)

Université Paris Nanterre & Sorbonne University, June 27-29th, 2024

Authenticity and Heritage. Conference for doctoral students and young doctors

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:54pm
Research group CLIMAS (Bordeaux Montaigne University, France)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

International Conference for PhD students and young doctors — “Authenticity and Heritage”
 March 7-8, 2024
 Université Bordeaux Montaigne, UR CLIMAS 4196

Graduate Journal aspeers Calls for Papers on "American Conspiracies" by Oct 15, 2023

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:53pm
aspeers: emerging voices in american studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

From the Kennedy assassination to the moon landing hoax and QAnon, the United States have witnessed myriad conspiracy theories throughout their history. While the US is, of course, not alone in its love for conspiracies, conspiratorial rhetoric and conspiracy theories have been a fixture of US culture and politics for over two centuries. But even to this day, conspiracy theories are evoked both seriously and humorously from the political realm to popular culture, shaping public discourse and challenging established narratives.

2023 Creative Writing Studies Conference - At the Nexus: Cross-Disciplinary Connections

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Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:53pm
Creative Writing Studies Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) is now accepting proposals for the 8th Annual Creative Writing Studies Conference (CWSC) – our first in-person conference since 2020! The conference offers an exciting opportunity to rebuild past connections and create new ones. It will be held the weekend of October 20-22, 2023 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

Proposals for papers and workshops will be accepted through August 16, 2023.

We would love to see you in person. However, our world is different now, so with this conference we will continue to offer virtual options for both presenters and attendees to increase access and expand our community.

Call for Abstracts--46th Comparative Drama Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:53pm
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

46th Comparative Drama ConferenceCall for PapersApril 4-6, 2024Orlando, Florida                         Abstract Submission Deadline:  15 October 2023

Papers reporting on original investigations and critical analysis of research and developments in the field of drama and theatre are invited for the 46th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, to be held April 4-6,  2024 . Papers may be comparative across nationalities, periods and disciplines; and may deal with any issue in dramatic literature, criticism, theory, and performance, or any method of historiography, translation, or production.

A Critical Companion to Dario Argento

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:53pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

A Critical Companion to Dario Argento

edited by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

 

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

 

From a Paradise-only State to the Quotidian: Untangling 'Plenty' from 'Surplus'

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:52pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In capitalism’s surplus economy, to “have plenty” frequently appears to have no bounds. The pursuit for plenty at times indistinguishable from the insatiable appetite for excess, it takes on the (ut)optics of capitalism. To have plenty becomes synonymous with the surplus and excess only available to those who wield the most power, hoard the greatest wealth.

“Plenty,” writes Tony Morrison, “in a world of excess and attending greed, which tilts resources to the rich and forces others to envy, is an almost obscene feature of contemporary paradise. This world of outrageous, shameless wealth squatting, hulking, preening before the dispossessed, the very idea of ‘plenty’ as Utopian ought to make us tremble” (xiv).

A Natural Treasure: Ecocriticism and the Epics (Kalamazoo 2024)

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:52pm
Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

For over a century, studies of the medieval epic in romance languages have focused on questions of genesis, transmission, themes, symbols, and motifs, but the contributions from the non-human—but very real—natural world to this literature remains under-represented. These epics bear witness to a profound understanding of the inter-relatedness of all life forms and to the consequences of its denial. This session invites scholars from diverse disciplines to reconsider medieval romance epic traditions that reaffirm the bond between the human and non-human, and that address any human eclipse due to the discounting of the natural world.

Call for Papers: Workshop on Migration and Health – Perspectives from South Asia

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:52pm
University of Washington, Seattle USA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia
October 12 – 13, 2023
Seattle, Washington

Brief description:

Human migration is a defining issue of our time and is increasingly recognized as a global public health priority. Migration has long been linked to the transmission of diseases and health risks, especially in the era of epidemics which do not respect international borders. Scholarship on health and migration has examined the social, political, and economic production of diseases and their interaction with processes of migration, transit, legal status, and migrants’ incorporation into the places to which they migrate, over time – as well as their effects on the places of origin.

Insignificant Notations: Thinking Surplus with the New York School

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:52pm
NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel invites papers that theorize the surplus of a literary object as something accidentally produced by that object. What is the substance and effect of this surplus? How is surplus figured in poetry, especially in poetics in or working in relation to the New York School? Following Stephen Best's assertion that "beauty is a force of erasure," papers might contribute theories of beauty in or as surplus. If art implies a frame but beauty can also erase that frame, papers might theorize framing in poetry and consider poetics that both constitute and move to exceed a frame. What else might constitute or figure surplus in poetry? Do New York School poetics figure a surplus of discourse or perhaps of thought?

NeMLA 2024, in-person panel: "Writing in the 'Alterity Industry': Marginalized Authors and the Politics of Publishing"

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:51pm
Isabelle Chen / Princeton University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In his 2001 book The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan describes book publishing as an “alterity industry” profiting from “the commodification of cultural difference” (12), in which authors of underrepresented backgrounds must balance their authentic stories against the norms and expectations that inherently shape traditionally published work.

Self translation: brokering originality in hybrid cultures

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:51pm
Independant scholars
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 31, 2023

This call for papers aims at bringing efforts geared towards the study of a much-neglected field of translation which is self-translation. Self-translation may look transparent and easy in terms of definition: an author or a writer translates his work into another language. This of course involves a bilingual attempt: an author writes a text in Arabic and then translates it into English or any other language. What are the problematics involved in this attempt is the main theme of this call for paper which will gather contributions in a publishable special issue once the reviews are completed.

Translation Studies, NeMLA, March 7-10, 2024

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:43pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Contemporary translation theory reflects the breakdown in the traditional dichotomy “author” versus “translator,” since it views the translator no longer as a subordinate figure to the author, but as an equal co-creator of the literary work, who rewrites the original text in another language and thus actively participates in the creative process. How does attention to this changing relationship between the author and the translator help with understanding of the creation and interpretation of meaning and the subsequent longevity of the translated work in a new environment?

Dostoevsky's Women and the Image of the Femme Fatale in the European Novel

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:43pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

he proposed session will analyze the complex images of women in Dostoevsky novels, focusing on the archetypal female characters in his major novels vis-a-vis other Russian realist novels, such as the works of Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev, investigating social and cultural gender norms of that period. The papers focusing on the image of femme fatale in the European novels will also be considered.

Music in Literature, NeMLA, March 7-10, 2024

updated: 
Monday, July 24, 2023 - 11:43pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The proposed interdisciplinary panel examines the rich relationship of music and the literary works within various European literatures focusing primarily on the period from mid-nineteenth to the twentieth century, but presentations within a broader time frame will also be considered. We invite a wide range of papers investigating the author’s technique of representing music in literature, examining aesthetic, historical and cultural interactions between music and literature, audience and performers, as well as the relationship between the author and the composer, in real or fictional form

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