The proposed anthology aims to compile essays from various disciplines in the field of South Asian Studies. The compilation introduces an academic discourse on cultural studies about the region. Cultural Studies is predominantly contemporary in focus in its academic orientation. Contemporaneous is also about how the past appears in its very connections with the present ideas and facts. In the context of the above propositional statements the focus of the book is about the nature of Cultural Studies in South Asia.

For the 2021 Conference, SWPACA is going virtual!  Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 42nd annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. The conference will take place the week of Feburary 22, 2021. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/ 

Archives of Afro-Asia: Excavating the Cultural Politics of the Early Decolonisation Era

Special Issue of Itinerario: Journal of Imperial and Global Interactions (Cambridge University Press)

For the 2021 Conference, SWPACA is going virtual! Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, we will be holding our annual conference completely online this year. We hope you will join us for exciting papers, discussions, and the experience you’ve come to expect from Southwest.

Proposals for papers and panels are now being accepted for the 42nd annual SWPACA conference. One of the nation’s largest interdisciplinary academic conferences, SWPACA offers nearly 70 subject areas, each typically featuring multiple panels. For a full list of subject areas, area descriptions, and Area Chairs, please visit http://southwestpca.org/conference/call-for-papers/

A Handbook of Indian Indie Cinema

Each year, a large number of Indian Indie films are released that suffer from lack of viewership even when it comes to their target audience, not to mention critical assessments: films that are regional, experimental in nature or have fresh, timely interventions. Many among these deserve recognition, not only from general audiences and moviegoers but also from film scholars and the academia. With the onset of streaming sites and OTT platforms, some of these have made it to the limelight, although a systematic handbook that discusses many of these films is currently, absent.

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE MARCH 4-6, 2021

HOW BODIES MATTER

The Politics of Resistance & Subversion in Global Literary and Cultural Tradition Have further questions?

Presented by the Comparative Literature & French Studies Graduate Student Associations of LSU

WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

DR. SAYAK VALENCIA, COLEGIO DE L A FRONTERA NORTE

DR. ANTJE ZIETHEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA 

From Brett Harte’s forbidden 19th century interracial love stories to the homoerotics of Star Trek and other space westerns, from the gender-queer romances in China Miéville’s fantasy western Iron Council to the human-cyborg couplings of West World, from the tight pants and BDSM-inflected camp of The Wild, Wild West to the cross-dressing protagonist in Octavia Butler’s Afrofuturism western Parable of the Sower, as weird westerns weird other genre conventions they also frequently weird sex and sexuality.

Put my black father on the penny

put his smile at me on the silver dime
put my mother on the dollar
for they’ve suffered for more than
three eternities of time …

We find ourselves at an exciting moment as scholars of contemporary Irish writing – Irish literature is, as the Irish Times points out, ‘having a moment’.

As some commentators have noted, both established and emerging female writers are disproportionately represented in the thriving contemporary Irish literary scene. Canonical figures like Anne Enright and Edna O’Brien continue to publish new work. The last two winners of the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award – Danielle McLaughlin and Niamh Campbell – are Irish women, both of them relatively new to writing. In 2018, Anna Burns became the first woman from Northern Ireland to win the Man Booker Prize.

Title: “Suspensions of Concentration: Kimetsu no yaiba and Blockbuster in the Year of the Global Pandemic” 

Date and Time: 15 March 2021 (09:30–17:30 JST)

Place and Format: Online/Webinar

The sixteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will be held in a virtual, safe format on May 20-21, 2021.

The full text of this call is available to download.

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities
CSDH/SCHN Conference 2021

Remote, hosted from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada (May 30- June 4th, 2021)

Événement en ligne accueilli par Edmonton, AB (30 mai - 4 juin 2021)

Deadline / date limite : 15 January 2021

Paper / Panel / Poster / Demo Abstracts: https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2021/

Activities Abstracts: https://bit.ly/CSDHSCHN2021Activity

(Appel en français ci-dessous.)

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 JANUARY 2021

Critical Concepts and Readings: English Literature GCSE.

Editors: Dr Kate Watson and Dr Sally O’Gorman

This original collection invites teachers and academics to contribute a book chapter on a GCSE text, applying a theory and considering a new and innovative aspect of the literary text.