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UMD GEO Annual Conference: Displacement

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
University of Maryland Graduate English Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

GEO Conference 2023-24 Call for Papers: Displacement

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization invites proposals relating to the theme of “Displacement” for our 17th annual conference, to be held hybrid/in-person on March 8th, 2024.

Displacement can refer to the forced migration and movements of peoples across the globe over centuries. From slavery to the internal displacement of peoples and the contemporary refugee crisis, the term allows us to connect the literary with the cultural and the political in myriad ways.

“Princes, Monsters, Heroes, Saints: Power, Identity, and the Shining Other in Early English Texts.”

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
Sheryll Blaschak
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

This is an ongoing call for chapter abstracts pursuant to a book proposal which I have discussed with an acquisition’s editor at the University of Amsterdam Press.

I am looking for medievalists interested in contributing chapters for an edited volume which will investigate the uses of gold, glittering, and shining imagery in Early English texts.

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
Valentina Romanzi/University of Turin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 11, 2023

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World 

International Conference

University of Turin, Italy

Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures 

March 21-22, 2024 

 

"Book Erased: Print Word Censorship and US National Identity" and General Section RSAJournal no. 35

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:09pm
Valentina Romanzi/RSAJournal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Dear all, We would like to share with you the call for contributions to be published in the Special Section and in the General Section of the 35th issue (Sept 2024) of RSAJournal, the Journal of the Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA). The General Section accepts full contributions on any topic pertaining to American Studies, to be submitted through 

Gaskell Journal Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Gaskell Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

 

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

 

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

 

Contemporary Literary Culture conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
The Research Team on Contemporary Literary Culture at the University of Bielsko-Biała
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024

Our meeting will be devoted to exploring the main problems of contemporary literary culture. Embracing the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and equally foundational, though alternative, suggestions by Janusz Sławiński, we perceive it as an integral part of global social/cultural communication (the roles of writers, models, and the circulation of literature) along with specialized infrastructure (publishing, institutions, magazines/media, the literary market – the so-called literary life). It is also a dynamic system of author-reader relations and a set of dispositions/skills (knowledge, taste, competence) enabling a sense-making engagement with literary texts.

Game Studies Area: 2024 PCA/ACA National Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
Steffi Shook, Area Co-chair, PCA/ACA Games Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, IL.

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:08pm
This event is co-organized by the Erasmus University Rotterdam and DEMOSERIES, a European Research Council project hosted at University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 5, 2024

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century.

 

(Un)Limited: Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 12:08pm
Duke University Department of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

(Un)Limited

Duke University Department of English Graduate Conference

February 16 & 17, 2024

 

Keynote Speaker: Joseph Albernaz (Columbia University)

 

BCPS Conference - February 12-13, 2024 - Extended Deadline

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 9:40am
British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

Expanded Practice: Composition in the Postsecondary Fine Arts Classroom

updated: 
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 9:05am
Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

Call for participation: “Expanded Practices: Composition in the Postsecondary Fine Arts Classroom” 

 

One-day hybrid symposium on March 25, 2024 @ 4th Space, Concordia University

 

Co-organizers: Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett (molly-claire.gillett@concordia.ca) and Dr. Sandra Huber (sandra.huber@concordia.ca) in tandem with the teaching team of FFAR 250 “Keywords: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines”

 

call for short articles | The US representation in popular culture and media

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 12:14pm
PopMeC research blog
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 30, 2021

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

 

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Edited volume | Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 12:03pm
Laura Álvarez Trigo (UVA) and Anna Marta Marini (UAH)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Aural Chills and Sounds of Terror: Podcasting Horror

Edited by Laura Álvarez Trigo (Universidad de Valladolid) and Anna Marta Marini (Universidad de Alcalá)

 

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 9:36am
Department of English, Jadavpur University and The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 20, 2023

Department of English, Jadavpur University and

 The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow present

 

A One-Day Symposium (funded by Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant)

 

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

 

12 December 2023

 

Venue: Department of English, Jadavpur University

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800

updated: 
Wednesday, November 22, 2023 - 2:09am
University of California - Santa Barbara (Early Modern Center)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Sacred Cultures in Politics

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 2:55pm
Eds. Roberta Sabbath, Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Sacred Cultures in Politics, a collection of scholarly articles, seeks to reveal sacred and/or religious rhetoric serving as persuasive tools in the vast arena of political activism. In his Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben challenges religious institutions to use their persuasive powers not for priestly privilege but “to make a new possible” for humanity. In a similar spirit, this collection seeks to make transparent both the rhetorical systems and their use in local, national, regional, or global political arenas.

Renaissance Hybridity

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 11:42am
University of Wisconsin–Madison Graduate Early Modern Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Renaissance Hybridity

Graduate Early Modern Student Society

Seventh Annual Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2024

UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom

Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of English at Luther College

 

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 31, 2024

FRAME 37.1 "Get Lit: A Celebration Issue"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 21, 2023 - 8:53am
FRAME Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 24, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS             FRAME 37.1 “Get Lit: A Celebration Issue”

 

Care as Literature, Care as Praxis

updated: 
Monday, November 20, 2023 - 1:20pm
Brandeis University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

The Global Bard in Asia: Teaching Shakespeare. Special Session for the 2024 ELLAK InternationalConference

updated: 
Monday, November 20, 2023 - 8:39am
English Language and Literature Association of Korea (ELLAK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 2, 2024

The organizing committee of the 2024 ELLAK International Conference invites submissions for the special session titled The Global Bard in Asia: Teaching Shakespeare. The conference will be held at Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, on December 12-14, 2024, under the theme of “Rethinking the Global English Studies.”

Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:14pm
The 15th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference/The University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way.  Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.  For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co

Chiasmi. Contested Bodies in Italian Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
Brown University and Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 

The 15th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

 

Brown University, April 5 - 6, 2024
“Contested Bodies in Italian Studies”

 

On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian
Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to
announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference, to be held on 5-6 April 2024, at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

NYU 2024 Cinema Studies Conference: holding the gaze

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
NYU Tisch Cinema Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.

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