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?

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.

Editors:

Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos) 

Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile)

Important dates:

Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024

Editors’ decision: May 2024

Expected publication date: May/June, 2024 

The Graduate Student Conference Committee 

of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs 

& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization 

at Western University 

is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference

«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; 

the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»

Call for Papers: Volume XI

CRITICAL IMPRINTS
THE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA

ISSN: 2319-4774
VOLUME XI 2023: LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
Last Date of Submission of Abstracts: November 30, 2023

Concept Note:

Modernism between Past and Future

The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)

31 May – 2 June 2024

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keynote Speakers:

Jed Esty (The University of Pennsylvania)

 Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)

Roundtable Speakers from Various Locations

CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.

Peripheral Modernisms in Theory

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster

Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2024
Editor: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech University
Contact email: pavel.andrade@ttu.edu

The Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel addressing intersections of witchcraft and sexuality in practice and representation through tradition and cultural media, to be held in the forthcoming annual conference this February 21-24 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites presentation proposals for this special panel addressing the relationship of esotericism, occultism, and magic to art, particularly in the context of art history.  A brief panel description is below, but any related proposals will be considered.  Even if your proposal is not selected for this special panel, the Area welcomes any proposals relating to esotericism, occultism, magic, and associated areas of culture.  For further details or to inquire about sending an abstract for this special panel, please contact the Area Chair, Dr.

Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion

Sequestered Places, Heaving Seas: The Life and Works of M. R. James

A One-Day Symposium, Tuesday 30 April 2024

Centre for Culture and Heritage, University of Suffolk

Keynote Speakers

Simon Loxley – M. R. James and the Suffolk Landscape

Professor Matt Hills – M. R. James and Adaptation

Title: From Home to Horizon: Women Writers of Indian Diaspora

Editors:

•             Dr. Bijender Singh

•             Dr. Protibha Sahukar

•             Dr. SK Sao

•             Dr. Anurag Ambasta

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023

Concept Note:

What: Pearl Kibre Medieval Study 18th Annual Conference
Where: Hybrid, hosted through The Graduate Center, CUNY
When: Friday 3 May 2024