Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life, and new growth possible. It is that act of speech, of “talking back” that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of moving from object to subject, that is the liberated voice.’

bell hooks, “Talking Back.” Discourse (1986), p. 128. 

Call for Book Chapters to Complete Collection:

Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections

**A press has already expressed interest but we just need a few more chapters to complete the collection**

The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars) between Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10, 2024 (yes, you are correct: we have moved the conference back one week from its initially-scheduled weekend).

The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)

Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com 

Call for Chapters

Turkey has a long tradition of reading, translating and staging William Shakespeare’s plays as part of the country’s modernisation process. Yet, this long tradition has remained relatively obscure for the majority of both Turkish and non-Turkish academic and non-academic circles.

The Shakespeare session at the RMMLA Conference 2024 is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.

The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) is a non-profit membership organization, established in 1947, that promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture. The Secretariat and Directorate of the RMMLA is hosted by the University of Wyoming and maintains The Rocky Mountain Review, a scholarly journal included in the JSTOR project and ProjectMUSE at Johns Hopkins University.

Tracing its roots to a long history of philosophical discourse, identity stands as one of the most intricate and ubiquitous concepts within the large debates of human and social sciences. It is taken for granted in everyday life and assumed to be an all-inclusive determinant of empirical and virtual entities; yet, obscure when it comes to marking out its essence as a referential determinant and delineating the shaping politics of its concretizations. The ambiguity and paradox of identity stem from the contradictory dimensions it encompasses, entailing at the same time a sense of similitude yet difference, uniqueness yet commonness, and independence yet reliance.

Taking up Jennifer Fay’s call to apprehend film as a “technology of the Anthropocene,” this panel investigates how modernists took advantage of film’s ability to capture motion to envision and to reimagine the limits of life, broadly defined. We invite papers that explore how early twentieth-century film experimented with cinematic form to depict movement and vitality as a phenomenon located beyond or in distinction to the human.

Online Symposium Date:  2nd June 2024.

Sensing Euphoric and Dysphoric Atmospheres

Our annual symposiums are open to all. If you just want to come along to listen to presentations and discussions, we're happy to have you.  If you'd like to present a paper and take part in discussions, make sure to submit your abstract proposal as early as possible.

Symposium Registration here:https://tinyurl.com/mry9a5tv

“Some people think the future means the end of history. Well, we haven't run out of history quite yet.” 

- Captain Kirk, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

This conference is about science fiction media in the 1990s. We are looking for high quality papers that examine science fiction properties and fiction during that decade. There has been interest from a publisher for a potential book.

The title for this conference is taken from the concept “End of History” by Francis Fukuyama. Papers do not need to interface with this theory directly.

The word "opportunity" in today's European languages is rooted in "port" as a coastal city, and "opportune" was first used to describe a wind that would be favorable to the European ships and explorers. As we know, for centuries, ports, seas, and oceans that surrounded Europe were considered as "opportunities" to discover new lands, dominate new populations, and to accumulate wealth.

In his poem "Man and the Sea," Charles Baudelaire, often known as the first modernist poet, addresses "the free man" who embraces the sea, regardless of how wild and indomitable it is, as they both "delight in death and carnage."

ANNE ALOMBERT   FABIENNE BRUGÈRE   RYSZARD KLUSZCZYŃSKI   EDUARDO KAC 

Conference Dates: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 March 2025

Location: Le Mans University, France (https://maps.app.goo.gl/nrrshiTddgof53vB7)

Keywords: W. Somerset Maugham, Popular, Middlebrow and High Culture, Literary Criticism, Colonialism, Travel Studies, Gender Studies, Biography, Adaptations, Translations, Cultural Transfers, Propaganda

Conference Format: In-person, but videoconference will be possible in specific cases

Conference Languages: English; French a possibility for a limited number of papers

Conference Website: https://maugham-le-mans.sciencesconf.org

Proposals are invited for Some Circumstance of the Text, a planned collection of essays to memorialize and celebrate William Proctor Williams (1939–2023), whose more than half-century of scholarship, teaching, mentoring, and reviewing has made a profound and lasting contribution to the fields of early modern English literature and drama, Shakespeare studies, textual criticism, bibliography, and book history.

Proposed essays should draw upon, build upon, or engage with William’s ideas across any of the subjects in which he worked, including but not limited to:

“Reading for Wellness”

Taking inspiration from the in/of that joins Health and Humanities in this year’s conference theme, this panel seeks papers that broadly consider the relationship between the short story form and wellbeing.   

Individual and Collective Wellbeing

Claims made for the humanness of the short story form – its capacity to capture, condense, and convey essential elements if not the Truth of human experience – take on added urgency in an age increasingly characterized as inhuman.   

Submissions to this panel, then, might