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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)

 

epistemologies of brown/ness(es): racialization, sexuality, and empires

updated: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023 - 9:40am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Feeling brown, being down. Feeling down, being brown. As we understand it, brown indexes operations of law, affect, sexuality, relation, empire(s), capital. Brown can function as an accusation or a convenience. Brown can name shades and fantasy. This proposed seminar considers when brown as an analytic becomes useful and may be used to do the work of relation, inquiry, theory—and when brown does not work.

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE Call for articles | (Super)Heroes in the 21st-Century American Imagination (issue 2)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 12:28pm
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Special dossier | to be published in vol 5 no 2 (May 2024)

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This special dossier, edited by Marica Orrù, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations. 

 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Shakespeare: New Voices

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:48am
Dr Ian McCormick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

This new edited volume ( a companion to WOKE SHAKESPEARE) aims to explore some of the most recent conversations about teaching and performing Shakespeare in the age of woke cultural politics and social justice. In the context of media hostility and panic, what are the challenges faced by new audiences and learners? How should Shakespeare be positioned in the twenty-first century cultural landscape? Is it still possible to have a civilized conversation about Shakespearean scholarship, pedagogy and performance?

Shakespeare’s plays have never been far from political and cultural controversy. Today, Shakespeare still sits at the centre of the cultural establishment. However, this canonical status is under renewed attack from critics and detractors.

Narratives of Coercive Control: An International Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 11:19am
University of York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

Call for Papers: Narratives of Coercive Control

University of York, 19-20 April 2024

Bringing together literary critics, legal historians, and creative practitioners, this conference will provide the first in-depth analysis of literary representations of coercive control. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or creative submissions that draw out ways in which coercive control has been identified and interrogated by writers from the 1800s to the present day. 

Call for Book Chapter Proposals - Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

updated: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 - 2:39am
Dr. Animesh Roy and Srija Sanyal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

REVISED - Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Editors: Dr. Animesh Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of English St. Xavier's College (Ranchi University), Ranchi, India

              Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institute for Independent Research, NJ, USA

 

Women and Literature in India: A Critical Perspective (Working Title)

“precision which makes movement”: E. E. Cummings’ Affective, Kinetic Modernism (deadline 9/30/23; Louisville, 2/22-24/24)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 9:31pm
The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 51st annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2024, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).

Post-COVID Composition NeMLA 2024 Roundtable: Digital Natives and their Discontents: The Post-pandemic College Writing Classroom

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 3:33pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

In this roundtable session, we intend to prompt a conversation about the prevailing beliefs concerning “digital natives” in the context of the pandemic-era college writing classroom. As most current college writing students have had some experience, typically for the first time, with online learning in high school during the pandemic, we want to foster a discussion about college instructors’ experiences of their students’ abilities, including the associated opportunities and pitfalls, in attempting to navigate these online academic environments.

Pin-Ups: Animals, Fashion, and Femininity in Material Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 2:19pm
Insects and Material Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

We would like to invite proposals for chapters for a forthcoming edited collection on animals, fashion, and colonialism. Our project investigates the way that colonialism was inscribed on the female body through animal fashions in the long nineteenth century and beyond. Contributions are welcome from a wide variety of fields, with interdisciplinary approaches preferred. 

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:  

Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 9:03am
Johanna Hoorenman & Tom Grant, Utrecht University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Extended deadline

CFP: Edited volume on Vikingism: Viking-Age Scandinavians in Modern British and North American Media  

Vikings — their history, traditions, mythology and material culture — have taken contemporary media by storm. Popular culture is awash with Viking tropes and themes which have generated explosive interest in cinema, television, video games, music, literature, genre fiction and comics. This volume aims to provide a ground-breaking and innovative understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first century Vikingism. We are inviting scholars with relevant expertise to contribute essays which address any of the following questions:

DEADLINE APPROACHING for NeMLA 2024 - Witch Stories: An Examination of Revisionist History and Legacy

updated: 
Tuesday, September 19, 2023 - 7:43am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Building on conversations and topic connections from the 2023 Convention, this panel invokes the 2024 conference theme surplus in regards to witches and depictions of the occult. All too often, witches were history’s unwanted women, defying cultural and social norms in ways that were determined to be in excess of what was conventional. What does it mean that these narratives of witches, both real and fictional, have been told and retold such that the witch is now a near constant presence in popular culture, literature, museums, and local histories? Does this exposure enhance what we know about witches in society and their histories or futures, or does this exposure complicate and possibly dilute their historical, social, or gendered power?

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 - Creative Labor and Precarity

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 5:29pm
Velvet Light Trap
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

 

The Velvet Light Trap, Issue 94 (to be published Fall 2024)

 UPDATE NEW DEADLINE: 10/1/2023

Creative Labor and Precarity

 

Special Issue Theme

ACLA Montreal 2024: Between Deleuze and Literature: Imagining Literature’s Images of Thought

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 3:52pm
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Deleuze notes in Negotiations that he did not have the chance to write “the book [he’d] like to have done about literature” (143) as he had done for other artforms like cinema and painting. Following Deleuze and Guattari’s definition of great thinkers who “lay out a new plane of immanence” and “draw up a new image of thought” to “change how we think” (What Is Philosophy 51), this seminar takes up Deleuze’s desire for new images of thought focused explicitly on literature. This seminar invites participants to consider the relation between Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and commentary on art (e.g., painting, cinema, and literature) and a variety of literary writers to establish new ways of thinking and navigating within literature.

Hip-hop Pedagogy in Post-secondary Classrooms (A Higher Ed Remix)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 3:28pm
Prasad Bidaye, Humber College ITAL, NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

As hip-hop turns 50 in 2023, there is much to celebrate and reflect on, including its impact on higher education. This session is engaged with questions about the latter: what is hip-hop doing in our classrooms and conversely, what are we doing with it in our teaching practice?

Trauma and Westernization: Embodied Exclusion in Korean/Korean American Women’s Literature(NeMLA Panel)

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:28pm
Jina Lee (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site--a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to embody fidelity, disloyalty, and/or negotiate multiple affiliations and the movement between allegiances.

As such, this panel asks:

How is the Korean female figure situated between Westernization/Americanization and Asian alliances?

Call for Book Chapter Proposals for: From World Literature to National Literature: Re-telling and Adaptation of Myths in Turkish Literature

updated: 
Monday, September 18, 2023 - 1:28pm
Dr. Volkan KILIÇ / Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Hatay/Turkey
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Title of the Book: From World Literature to National Literature: Re-telling and Adaptation of Myths in Turkish Literature

Editor: Dr. Volkan KILIÇ

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Overview:

Pages