Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies

Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025

Call for Papers

Reorienting Singapore Literature

Guest Editors

Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)

Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University)

Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024

SAMLA 96: CFP for “Teaching Writing in College” Session

November 15–17, 2024

Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL

Please consider submitting a proposal to our panel "Teaching Against the Anthropocene," to take place at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in Palm Springs California (Nov. 7-10, 2024), and please share the cfp with colleagues who might also be interested!

Submit your proposal at this link before April 30th: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19097

"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like the Anthropocene. 

Announcing the 47th Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference

October 24-26, 2024

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Conference theme: “Shakespeare and the Mind”

Building on the conference theme “Translation in Action,” this panel invites discussion on how Asia is represented and “translated” in modern and contemporary literature, literary criticism, and popular media, including, but not limited to, film, video games, visual novels, music, and fashion. Panelists are encouraged to engage with the following questions:

1. How is Asia and Asian-ness aesthetically and ideologically represented and “translated” by non-Asian authors and producers, e.g., Historia universal de la infamia (1935) by Jorge Luis Borges, La Chinoise (1967) by Jean-Luc Godard, Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) by Rob Marshall, and Civilization VI (2016) by Sid Meister and Firaxis Games?

“Seen and Unseen,” the theme of SAMLA 96, which will meet from 15 through 17 November in Jacksonville, Florida, focuses on the tasks of discovering, uncovering, and recovering material that may have escaped earlier notice. The study of adaptation sharpens this duality further. Cinematic and theatrical adaptations famously present visuals that audiences for literary texts have previously had to visualize for themselves. Adaptations that censor the texts they adapt seek to replace old ways of seeing with new by concealing matters they think better unseen. Reparative adaptations seek to heal cultural traumas by shining new light on old assumptions about power and status.

The eighth annual Brandeis Novel Symposium (BNS), which will take place on October 25, 2024, invites proposals for papers on Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (2018). The Brandeis Novel Symposium is a one-day conference that chooses a single novel as a point of focus for salient theoretical, historical, political, and narratological questions about the novel as a genre.

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.

Call for Papers ∣ The 10th Deleuze and Guattari Studies in Asia Conference & Camp ∣ Technology and Life

“TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE”

SEPTEMBER 26 - 29, 2024

NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY

​TAIPEI, TAIWAN

Call for Papers

‘In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean’ 

19-20 September 2024 

The University of Warwick 

Keynote Speakers 

Dr. Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow) 

Dr. Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) 

Living in Languages

    traversing borders, disciplines, and mediums.

Inviting Submissions to Living in Languages Journal [ISSN: 2835-8074]

The editors of a scholarly journal, Living in Languages, are pleased to invite you to submit your work, investigations, or studies of translation for the upcoming issue. Living in Languages is an online open source, peer-reviewed graduate journal devoted to translation studies published and archived at the University at Albany. We are a multilingual and interdisciplinary publication, with editors from across the humanities and social sciences.

9th Biennial New Perspectives in Flamenco History and Research Symposium

In conjunction with the National Institute of Flamenco and

the University of New Mexico Department of Theatre and Dance

Albuquerque, New Mexico

CONFERENCE DATES: October 2-4, 2024

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Deadline for Proposals: May 17, 2024 at 11:59 pm MST

The Center for the Advancement of Women at Mount Saint Mary’s University in Los Angeles

Collectif Research and Writing Anthology

2024 Call for Papers

Do you want to forge community and ignite your scholarship? Connect with scholars, activists, artists, and others passionate about the advancement of women? Impact a wider audience? By publishing in Collectif, you’ll reach50,000 potential readers. To celebrate the issue’s release, the Center will host a salon, where contributors can share their work and connect with the Center for the Advancement of Women community.

“Jean Seberg: From Actress to Activist” call for chapters

Editors: Alisia Chase and Richard Ness 

We are seeking chapters of approximately 5000-6000 words for a scholarly anthology on actress Jean Seberg. This collection will expand upon a successful 2020 SCMS conference panel titled, A bout Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon, as well as the award-winning documentary by Fourth Wall Films on Seberg’s life titled Jean Seberg: Actress, Activist, Icon (2023).