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(Un)Pretty: Interrogations of Beauty in Literature
Call for Proposals
York University English Graduate Students Association Conference
May 10th, 2024
In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry writes:
CFP: Special Issue on Queer Texts for Youth in The Lion and the Unicorn
Academic workshop at the University of Tübingen, Germany
10-12 June 2024 (in person)
In an increasingly globalized world, where a combination of digital technologies and multiple possibilities for migration, as well as the unfortunate realities of regional conflicts and climate change, people are brought together not just across geographical but also socio-cultural barriers. Race, class, gender, and creed, among other factors, come into collusion and synchrony in the most stunning ways to produce more and more questions about the value and meaning of a human life. In this context, the question of authentic voice and its representation looms paramount and the writing of literature its biggest ally.
We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice. This open-access journal understands money creation as a situated political problem that constitutes societies. It moves away from claims that money is a scarce instrument of barter, an inherent (if necessary) evil, or the infamous commodity-form and toward actualizing money’s unrealized potentials to shape collective life in emancipatory ways.
CALL EXTENDED!!!
Penumbra Journal of Literature and Art at California State University, Stanislaus
Invites Writers and Artists to submit to the following:
The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Interdisciplinary Studies Committee will host a full-day conference, Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning,on Friday, October 18, 2024. This conference invites individual presentations, panel presentations, short talks, and workshop proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following topics as they relate to interdisciplinary exploration of the latest educational strategies, innovations, and practices.
Noted Marxist scholar, Kohei Saito in his book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2018) rightly pointed out that the evolution of society is in close correlation to the trajectory of the progress of technology. Drawing upon the principle of thermodynamics, another notable Marxist scholar, Amy E. Wendling argued in Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation (2009), that purpose of labour had undergone a radical transformation following the progression of technology, allowing for a re-valuation of all material objects. Hence, the use of labour for harnessing natural resources, chiefly for the purpose of sustenance of human life, had been deeply altered by technology.
Willa Cather and the Readerly Imagination
In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters. The conference will be held Thursday, June 6 – Saturday, June 8, 2024, in Red Cloud, Nebraska.
The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.
Women Writing War: Visibility and Representation in South Asian Literary Fiction Abstracts solicited for an MLA 2025 session to explore women's role in writing violence in S Asia. How has the question of visibility and representation affected women's voice and agency? 250-word abstracts, 100-word bios.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Aparajita De, University of the District of Columbia (de.aparajita@gmail.com )
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
The scientific journal Studia Polensia, published by the Department of Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Pula/Pola, Croatia, is seeking articles for the 2024 issue. The journal publishes theoretical, research and methodological articles in Italian, English and Croatian languages in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary research. The journal follows Open Access politics for all of its content. By submitting an article to the journal, the author implicitly accepts its publication under the license Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Authors retain their copyright of the work.
“In a time of destruction, create something”
Maxine Hong Kingston
This year, our theme is “The Resilience of Imagination.” Imagination intrinsically ties into stories and the creative work that creates the world and characters contained within said stories. Imagination does not limit itself just to writers though – anyone who creates or interacts with art relates to imagination. What does imagination mean in a story? How do you use imagination? What does it encompass?
CfP: Decolonizing African Cinema in the Age of Media Streaming: Conference in Honor of Onookome Okome
Date: May 22–24, 2024
Venue: University of Abuja, Nigeria
Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2024
Feedback: April 15, 2024
Registration: May 1 – 21, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sheila Petty, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance,University of Regina, Regina, Canada
First Lead Paper Presenters: Dr. Peter Sylvanus Emaeyak, Department of Music, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Call for Papers: ‘Beyond the messy millennial woman: televising perfection, imperfection and resilience’
Abstracts are sought for a proposed special journal issue, for which strong interest has been secured from a Q1 cultural studies journal.
Special issue editors: Dr Laura Minor (University of Salford) and Dr Claire Perkins (Monash University)
Deadline for abstracts: March 28, 2024.
In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017), James Phelan suggests a transformative approach to narrative theory, shifting the focus from seeing narrative as a mere structural entity to understanding it as a rhetorical act. In this act, the narrator strategically utilizes storytelling tools to achieve specific goals for specific audiences.
The Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta
organises
A Two-Day National Seminar
on
History of Translation of Tribal Literature in India
March 21-22, 2024
Concept Note
State Authoritarianism, Anti-Feminist Movements, and Transnational Feminist Futures
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024
Organizers: Anat Schwartz (California State University) and Iqra Shagufta Cheema (Graceland University)
We invite paper proposals for the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference in Detroit, MI. The papers may focus on any aspect of the transnational relationship between state authoritarianism, anti-feminist movements, and feminist connections.
AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENTS OF TURKEY JOINT GRADUATE/UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
May 16-17, 2024
Online Conference
Digital Games as Cultural and Literary Narratives
Hosted by
Hacettepe University’s American Studies Department
In collaboration with
the American Studies Departments of Ankara University, Atatürk University, Başkent University, Bilkent University, Dokuz Eylül University, Ege University, Haliç University, and İstanbul University
Call for Papers
Cultural Appropriation, Pedagogy and Higher EducationDebates, Dilemmas, and Future Directions Editors: Dr. Taiwo Afolabi and Dr. Marthinus Conradie Call for Papers Based on the article titled, The fear of cultural appropriation is the beginning of wokeness in learning? Reflections from teaching in Canada (Afolabi 2023), this edited volume investigates cultural appropriation within the context of higher education across cultures and disciplines. In this call for chapters, we proceed from three foundational principles.
Beyond Borders: Trends in World Children’s Literature and Children’s Literature in Translation
Call for Paper Proposals
Deadline for Submission: 10th March 2024
A peer-reviewed graduate student conference on children’s literature, media, and culture
University of British Columbia | Unceded traditional territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Vancouver, Canada | Friday 21st June - Saturday 22nd June 2024
Call for translators: ABSINTHE literary magazine
Absinthe: World Literature in Translation invites submissions of original English-language translations of Brazilian literature for its 30th issue, to be published in December 2024.
Absinthe publishes fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Owned and operated by the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Absinthe is edited by graduate students. This issue will be edited by Júlia Irion Martins and Sam McCracken.
The English Editor of Modern Language Review (https://www.mhra.org.uk/series/MLR), the flagship journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (https://www.mhra.org.uk), and one of the oldest in its field, invites original and compelling contributions from emerging and established scholars on any aspect or period of Anglophone literature.
Contributions can take two forms:
Call for Chapters
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for an edited collection entitled:
Mothers, Mothering, and Climate Change
Editors: Carolina Toscano and Sarah Marie Wiebe
Please submit proposals by March 15th, 2024
CFP: Michelle Yeoh - Everything and Everywhere on Global Screens
Edited by: Lisa Funnell, Wayne King Tung Wong, and Dorothy Wai Sim Lau
A Green Blanchot Revisited
Special Issue of the Oxford Literary Review 47.2, December 2025
Ed. Philippe Lynes
Call for Papers: 7th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference
Theme: "My Dungeon Shook": A Century of James Baldwin
Date: October 24-26, 2024
Venue: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024
Cultural Appropriation, Pedagogy and Higher Education
Debates, Dilemmas, and Future Directions
Editors: Dr. Taiwo Afolabi and Dr. Marthinus Conradie
Call for Papers
Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels (including undergraduate/graduate students) as well as all those with an interest in the arts and humanities. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops (150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference e-submission links.
Undergraduate Research Award Prize e-Submissions
Undergraduate students may apply for only one of the two undergraduate prizes.
Panels involving student award applicants will be recorded for judging purposes.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in New Orleans, January 9-12th, 2025. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and sphere of influence is welcome.
Abstract and short bio by 15 March 2024 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk
Call for Papers
Mothers, Mothering and Trauma/Intergenerational Trauma
Edited by Lamees Al Ethari, PhD and Maria D. Lombard, PhD
March 1, 2024: Submission of 250–400-word abstract