Afterworlds

 Communication and Representation of the Afterlife

Life after death is a fiction. It imagines a world other than our own […] Fiction is also a kind of life after death and, in contemporary culture, the afterlife finds its most pervasive and diverse manifestations in the forms of narrative fiction.

(Bennett 2012, p. 1)

Intersectional reflections on wellbeing and healthcare spaces

An online symposium at the FASS Health Hub

Lancaster University

13 and 14 May 2024

The International Conference on Emerging Technologies in English Language Education in the 21st Century: Addressing the Present and Envisioning the Future aims to bring together researchers, educators, and practitioners from across the globe to delve into the profound impact of technology on English language education. With its focus on addressing present challenges and envisioning the future, this conference serves as an instrumental platform for sharing cutting-edge ideas, innovative approaches, and ground-breaking research findings.

A PDF of this call is available here.

For questions, contact verge@psu.edu.

Deadlines: June 1, 2025 (Convergence proposals)
September 15, 2025 (Essay submissions)

This special issue of English Language Notes invites interdisciplinary perspectives on the poetic and metaphorical possibilities of compilation, a word both ubiquitous and lacking a single, agreed-upon meaning. From Latin compilatio (“a raking together, pillaging, plundering; hence, concr., sportively of a collection of documents, a compilation”), “compilation” can describe poetic composition, physical construction, and the artful orchestration of those domains by means of page-layout, indexing, and comparable readerly aids. Both action and result, compilation figures an object in terms at once material and literary.

CFP: Intersecting Ecologies: Navigating Crises, Traumas, and Movements in Asian Comparative Literature and Film

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 77th Annual Convention

Conference Date: October 10-12, 2024

Location: Las Vegas, Nevada

The “Intersecting Ecologies and Narratives: Navigating Crises, Traumas, and Movements in Asian Comparative Literature and Film” panel welcomes scholars to an interdisciplinary exploration at the intersection of ecological themes, migration and refugee experiences, medical humanities, and the post-COVID era within the context of Asian literature and film.

This roundtable asks for new thinking about modernist collectivity: collectivity in relation to material resources, intellectual support, and aesthetic productivity in the modernist period; and collectivity as principle for sustained scholarly collaboration and resource-sharing now. 

Deadline: March 11, 2024

Guest curator: Eve Benhamou

Seeking papers that explore the relationship between hip hop and the global city. How do urban landscapes inspire, influence, and find representation within the global hip hop movement?

Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short bio to akshara31@tamu.edu by March 24, 2024. The MLA convention will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 9-12, 2025.

This is a guaranteed panel sponsored by the GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature Forum for the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Convention, January 9-12, 2025 in New Orleans, LA. In conjunction with the 2025 presidential theme, ‘Visibility,’ this panel aims to highlight how global hurricane narratives explore storytelling within children’s literature and media as a methodological tool to highlight how ‘personal’ experiences with hurricanes are a sociopolitical reflection of the larger system supporting inequality and injustices.

Energy, Empire, and Extractivism
in the Age of Conrad
 
May 14-15, 2024, Université Paris Cité, France

https://conradparis.weebly.com/
 

The Medieval Today and Tomorrow: Lives that Matter and the Question of Relevance

MLA - New Orleans, LA (Jan. 9-12, 2025)

Filter deadline for submissions: February 29, 2024 full name / name of organization: 2024 EALA Annual Conference contact email: 2024eala@gmail.com  

2024 EALA Annual Conference will be held on October 19, 2024 in National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. The theme for the conference is "Filter." The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2024. 

Please refer to the webpage for detailed information and schedule.

https://eala.org.tw/zh-hant/news/2024322024-eala-annual-conference-cfp 

Call for Abstracts!

Country Music and Philosophy

Edited by Joshua Heter and Brett Coppenger

Abstracts are sought for a collection of essays on any philosophical topic related to country music (which may also include western, folk, bluegrass, etc.) to be published with McFarland & Company Publishers Inc. Potential contributors may want to examine a previously published volume: Punk Rock and Philosophy: Research and Destroy (2022). Abstracts and eventual essays should be written for an educated but non-specialized audience (with an approximate length of 3,000 – 4,000 words). Potential topics include (but are not limited to)...