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Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers
Harmony and Chaos: The Dialectics of Order and Disorder
Publication Date: December 2024 (Issue No. 52)
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2024
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In the field of Shakespearean studies, attempts to make Shakespeare more accessible to new audiences often include the work of appropriation, adaptation, and translation.
For hundreds of artists who died of AIDS-related causes, only scant traces of their work—if any at all—exist in institutional archival repositories. Therefore, art-historical work revolving around the ongoing HIV/AIDS pandemic has often called for inventive archival methods that blend traditional forms of research with community work and emotional labor. Over the last fifteen years, scholars and activists have contended with the gaps and erasures in such archives as well as the geographic, racial, and gender biases that have characterized many historical projects. In so doing, many have necessarily drawn on and even created community-based repositories, personal collections, and oral history initiatives.
It is often said that well-behaved women seldom make history. Yet, simply because they are not the subject of multivolume biographies does not mean that “well-behaved” women did not have agency in their daily lives. This panel seeks to highlight the agentic force of the medieval women who did not subvert the patriarchal norms of their time. How did medieval women make use of patriarchal norms to their own advantage? Specifically, how did religious women, lay or monastic, live their own lives, create their own spaces, and make their own choices within the medieval patriarchal hegemony?
We invite proposals for a panel at the next NeMLA annual conference, to be held in Boston MA, March 7-10th 2024
Title: K-what? Contemporary K-rhetoric and new directions in Korean Studies
Though the Internet has been around since the 1980s, the “Internet novel” as a genre has only really emerged in the last decade or so. We can think of Lauren Oyler’s Fake Accounts (2021), Patricia Lockwood’s No One Is Talking About This (2021), and Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing (2021) as notable recent examples. Each of these novels take as their topic the particular and peculiar confines of the digital world we live in. Lockwood has described this sensation as falling through a “long void that never reaches the bottom,” while Brandon Taylor claims that “the Internet Novel captures some of the weird Gothic horror that white people have come, by way of their new digital Calvinism, to accept as being inherent to digital life.”
The Margaret Fuller Society invites proposals for the following panel at the C19 Conference to be held in Pasadena, CA (14–16 March 2024). Please feel free to reach out with any questions.
"Refusing Foreclosures and Endings: 19C Women Writers' Defiance, Persistence, and Resilience"
The Margaret Fuller Society seeks to form a panel for the March 2024 C19 conference in Pasadena, CA. We invite abstracts of no more than 250 words that engage with Fuller and/or other 19C women writers (American and otherwise) as well as the conference theme—"The End." Papers might consider the following topics, among numerous possibilities:
Call for Papers
Historical Fictions Research Network Conference
(23 to 24 February 2024, University of Malmö, Sweden)
Conference Organisers: Cecilia Trenter (University of Malmö), Kristina Fjelkestam (University of Stockholm) and Claudia Lindén (University of Södertörn)
Deadline Extended: ALL WORK, NO PLAY
Please send proposals by August 14 2023
This is a symposium on pedagogy and the pedagogical imaginary presented by the English and Theatre Studies Program at The University of Melbourne and generously supported by the Shakespeare 400 Trust and the ETS program.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Hansen, The Australian National University
Date: Tuesday 28th of November 2023
Attendance: in-person on the Parkville Campus and virtually via Zoom
CALL FOR PAPERS - 4th HELAAS Young Scholar SymposiumDEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1
"(E-co)nnections: The Humanities in a Time of Climate Change"
The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens cordially invite you to the 4th Young Scholar Symposium, a hybrid-format event which will take place on March 2, 2024 at the Library Amphitheatre of the School of Philosophy (Athens).
Vulnerability Studies is a multidisciplinary field of research that examines the complex interplay between individuals, communities, and systems in the face of various risks and challenges. This area of study delves into the conditions, processes, and consequences of vulnerability, aiming to understand and address the underlying factors that contribute to the exposure and susceptibility of individuals and groups to harm or disadvantage. Scholars engaging in Vulnerability Studies draw from diverse disciplines such as sociology, psychology, geography, economics, and public health to investigate a wide range of contexts, including social inequalities, environmental degradation, economic crises, political conflicts, and public health emergencies.
The International Mad Studies Journal Special Issue CFP
Title: Maddening The Academy
Guest Editors:
Meaghan Krazinski (she/they), Syracuse University
Jersey Cosantino (they/them), Syracuse University
Jennifer Poole (she/her), Toronto Metropolitan University
May Friedman (she/her), Toronto Metropolitan University
Call For Papers:
Call for papers for Special Issue of English Language Notes
Personhood, Spirit, and the Afterlife
62.2 (October 2024)
Nan Goodman, Editor in Chief
Ruth Ellen Kocher and KP Kaszubowski, Guest Editors
University of Colorado Boulder and Duke University Press
SCOPE:
Vernon Press invites book chapters for the forthcoming edited volume titled The Liminal Beings: Vulnerability and Resilience, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English at Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India.
Concept:
DEADLINE EXTENDED The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Folklore, Belief and Religion Area welcomes paper submissions for NEPCA’s 2023 fall virtual conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 14, 2023.
Discussion of the presence of the medieval in a postmedieval world is often subtly suggestive of peril, with the medieval figuratively positioned in relation to potential crisis. The term adaptation alone may conjure up associations with evolution, (re)production, and – by association – death and extinction. More generally, the term suggests the need to respond to changing contexts, concerns, and audiences, carrying with it the implication that a lack of action will lead to decline. Talk of medieval afterlives goes even further: here, texts are imagined as already dead, sustaining a (perhaps ghostly or uncanny) presence past a natural lifetime.
First published in 1601, Love’s Martyr is usually read in parts. One part in particular, William Shakespeare’s poem on the phoenix and the turtle-dove, has won the book its lasting reputation – but at the cost of consigning the rest of it to obscurity. Only over recent decades, with the revival of interest in Shakespeare’s poetry, have scholars found more to say about the collection as a whole. Thanks to them, Shakespeare’s untitled poem – usually known as ‘The Phoenix and Turtle’ – has increasingly been read in the context of the volume’s ‘Poeticall Essaies’, where Shakespeare features alongside John Marston, Ben Jonson, and George Chapman.
CFP: Imagination Today: Between Theory and Practice of Phantasia
Call for Papers
ReFocus: The Films of John Singleton
Editor: Daniel Dufournaud
Workshop for Early Career Researchers (Deadline Extended)
“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health”
Organized by Savannah Schaufler
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
November 28-29, 2023
Abstract Submission Deadline:
September 1, 2023
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Subject Fields:
Environmental Humanities; Health Humanities; Discard Studies; Human Ecology; Anthropology; Sociology; Human Behavior; Art and Visual Studies; Race Studies
CFP
59th ICMS, Kalamazoo (May 9-11, 2024)
Manuscript Manifestations: Post-Medieval Perceptions of Medieval Material Culture (I &II)
Sponsored by Stanford Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Displacement
This is a funded, weeklong workshop hosted by the Department of English, University of Hyderabad and Co-Sponsored by the South-South Forum at Dartmouth College.
Description:
Diasporas are formed by either gradual accretion of immigrants, or sudden expulsion of huge masses. While the former is often viewed as a voluntary movement, the latter results from forced dispersal. One of the defining characteristics of migration – voluntary or forced – is that of displacement.
Deadline Extended: ALL WORK, NO PLAY
Please send proposals by August 14 2023
This is a symposium on pedagogy and the pedagogical imaginary presented by the English and Theatre Studies Program at The University of Melbourne and generously supported by the Shakespeare 400 Trust and the ETS program.
Keynote Speaker: Dr Claire Hansen, The Australian National University
Date: Tuesday 28th of November 2023
Attendance: in-person on the Parkville Campus and virtually via Zoom
*** FINAL CALL ****
*** Contributors are asked to provide an Abstract of their proposed contribution (250 words) and a short Author bio (100 words) by 31 July 2023. ***
This call for chapters is open to academic and non-academic contributors and we especially welcome early career scholars and practitioners. There is also an opportunity for additional co-editor roles and membership of the Editorial Board.
Call for Book Chapters: Vernon Press invites book chapters for an edited volume on the topic of " Filth, Dirt, Im/Purity and Feminine Care "
Editor: Madhurima Guha (Arizona State University)
The Charles Olson Society will host panels at the upcoming Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, February 22nd – 24th. When Charles Olson stated in “The Gate and the Center” that “the poet is the only pedagogue left, to be trusted,” his experiences at Black Mountain College, Buffalo, and the University of Connecticut as a poet-teacher were still on the horizon.
The act of translation and interpretation shapes meaning, reception, and significance across borders, time, and culture, but recognizing the changes made to a work, especially a premodern one, can be difficult.
Roundtable at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association<https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html>, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston, MA. We invite paper proposals. Abstract deadline is September 30, 2023.
To submit, visit the NeMLA CFP portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20429
Roundtable description: Surplus Violence and Feminist Resistance, panel 20429
Commemorating Corelli: A Centenary Conference
4 May 2024, Mason Croft, Stratford upon Avon
We are delighted to announce a one-day conference dedicated to exploring the life, works, and lasting impact of the enigmatic and prolific author, Marie Corelli, to be held in 2024, a century after her death. This event - to be held at Corellli's former home, Mason Croft in Stratford upon Avon - seeks to bring together scholars and enthusiasts to shed new light on the literary contributions and enduring legacy of one of the most successful writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Sidney at Kalamazoo, May 9-11, 2024 (in person, not virtual)
59th International Congress on Medieval Studies