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Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 1:38pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 1:37pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 11:22am
Moussa Pourya Asl (University of Oulu, Finland) and Manju Jaidka (Former Professor and Chair, Panjab University, Chandigarh; President, MELOW)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

Abstract submission deadline:        31 Dec 2024
Full Chapter submission deadline:    30 June 2025
Publisher:                                   Springer
Contact email:                            moussa.pouryaAsl@oulu.fi ;
                                               jaidkamanju24@gmail.com

Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 10:43am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS!!!!--11/10/2024

Call for Papers, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature at CEA 2025 

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square 
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

215.561.7500 

 

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”   

Jamesian Beginnings

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:07am
Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The appeal of teleological thinking often shapes our readings of James, whether of individual works or of his career as a whole. But rather than let a sense of the ending determine our interpretation of what came before, how might James look different if we focused instead on beginnings? How does he typically begin a tale or novel—and how, if at all, do his strategies differ from those of other short story writers or novelists? How, where, or when doesn’t he begin? How is beginning thematized within the fictions, as in Isabel Archer’s practice of “beginning afresh a great many times” or Madame Merle’s wish that she could “begin again”? How did James himself begin as a writer?

Master's of English Regional Conference (MERC) 2025

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Salem State University & Bridgewater State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Please Join Salem State University and Bridgewater State University for the 5th annual Master's in English Regional Conference: New England (MERC)

The conference will take place on March 1, 2025 in person at Bridgewater State University. Directions will be uploaded on our website in the coming weeks. Accepting works in literary studies, critical theory, English education & teaching, creative writing, professional writing, communication, TESOL & Linguistics, as well as rhetoric & composition

First Person, Third Person, First/Third Person? Challenging Vision and Perspective in Narrative

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
International Society for the Study of Narrative 2025 conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

First Person, Third Person, First/Third Person? Challenging Vision and Perspective in Narrative

A panel to be pitched for inclusion in the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Miami, April 2–6, 2025.

Organizer: Joe McLaughlin, University of Toronto

Call for Book Chapters on Shakespeare Biofiction

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota) and Edel Semple (University College Cork)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters: 

 

Six Days' ICSSR sponsored Skill Development Workshop titled, "Threads of Silver: Craft Making of Rūpa Tārakasi [Silver Filigree]"

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (SSCTIS), and the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (SSCTIS), and the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha, in association with Sikshasandhan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, are going to organise a Six Days' ICSSR sponsored Skill Development Workshop titled, "Threads of Silver:  Craft Making of Rūpa Tārakasi [Silver Filigree]" as part of the ICSSR Vision VikshitBharat@2047 research project on Documenting Rūpa Tārakasi. The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format, encompassing both online and offline participants, and the duration of the workshop is six days, from 7th to 12th November 2024.

Meddling with the Monolith: Tracing Genres of Contact through Expressions of Alterity

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
16th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students' Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

EXTENSION: CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

 

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
James Baldwin Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

James Baldwin and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism

 

A Call for Papers for a Special Issue of James Baldwin Review

 

Social domination, as exerted and felt through the categories of race, class, sex, and gender, finds itself expressed in and through James Baldwin’s work, often unevenly, subject to the peculiarities of his historical moments. Both Baldwin and his interpreters can be seen to elevate one vector of domination in racial capitalist modernity over the others, or forget one at the others’ expense, obscuring our vision of such domination and our capacities for struggling against it. 

 

Evelyn Scott Society -- American Literature Association -- Deadline January 10, 2025

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 4:52am
Evelyn Scott Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Evelyn Scott Society invites abstracts of 1-2 pages on the American writer Evelyn Scott (1893-1963).

Papers may focus on any of her works (novels, memoirs, poetry, young adult literature) and take any contemporary critical approach. We are especially interested in papers investigating the canonicity process, the literary networks to which Scott belonged, or the role of disability in her career, but all topics will be considered. Scott participated in various and major literary currents during her writing life, including Imagism, naturalism, and modernism, and she had a variety of literary mentors, including Lola Ridge, Theodore Dreiser, Waldo Frank, William Carlos Williams, Emma Goldman, and Jean Rhys, among others. 

Special Section Call: Narrative Justice Storytelling: From the Margins to the Center

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 4:43am
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Guest Editor Timmia Hearn DeRoy, Editor Aaron C. Thomas

 

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us—the poet —whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.” — Audre Lorde, “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1985)

ReFocus: The Cinema of Dariush Mehrjui

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 4:33am
ReFocus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!!!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

After the City Symphony

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 3:47am
Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

The conference will take place at Université Toulouse II - Jean Jaurès on 13 May 2025. Please send your proposals, along with a summary of up to 300 words and a brief bio-bibliographical note, by January 31, 2025 to anita.jorge@univ-tlse2.fr, Zachary.baque@univ-tlse2.fr and Vincent.souladie@univ-tlse2.fr. In 1932, referring to the scripts submitted to him by young members of the British documentary school, John Grierson wrote: “Berlin [Walter Ruttmann, 1927] still excites the mind of the young, and the symphony form is still their most popular persuasion.

[Byron Society of America: Byron and Freedom] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 7:21pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: Byron Society of America at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, Byron and Freedom at CEA 2025

March 27–29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar–teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Byron and Freedom for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.

Disability Studies Area, SWPACA--EXTENDED!

updated: 
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 10:36am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Disability Studies Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area, SWPACA--EXTENDED!

updated: 
Sunday, November 3, 2024 - 10:34am
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Mystery / Detective Fiction Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2024

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