The Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise announces the Thirty-Sixth Medieval-Renaissance Conference, September 21-23, 2023

Keynote Address

 Matthew Gabriele

Virginia Tech University

 Oathbreakers: The Long Shadow of Fontenoy (841 CE)

in the European Middle Ages

Community is at the heart of solidarity. To build community is to be willing to both critique its very essence and collaborate with others to strengthen the bonds. This conference seeks to explore and highlight interactions and connections by examining solidarities, tensions, and community building among the Black diaspora throughout the Americas and beyond.

Presentations that highlight the successes and joy of Black/Afro-descendant communities, resistance, activism, and cultural production as well as interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome. ALARA is a multidisciplinary organization and welcomes presentations from all fields (humanities, social sciences, health sciences, etc.).

Visuality and Lyric Form How and why do poems ask to be looked at as well as read? How do poets leverage iconicity, intermediality, and visual design to enliven lyric form and interrogate its boundaries? 200-250 word abstract and brief bio by March 15.

ReFocus: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis

Calum Waddell (University of Aberdeen) and Chenyu Lin (University of Cardiff) are seeking to put together an edited collection Jackie Chan with the ReFocus series at Edinburgh University Press. This is a Call for Papers for a book on the work of Jackie Chan as filmmaker (NOT actor).

From Thoreau’s description of “vast, Titanic, inhuman nature” to Timothy Morton’s hyperobjects, scale has long been an epistemological tool for theorizing the relationship between nature and humanity. This tool has taken on special significance in the age of global anthropogenic climate change as artists and scholars struggle to give form to such enormous, widely dispersed upheaval as it slowly but persistently creeps into view. In the light of drowning major cities and intensifying weather events, we are left with the evergreen question: “what is to be done?” What role, if any, can literature play in the comprehension of and adaptation to such a brave new world? What interdisciplinary connections can be adopted to make art a more transformative force?

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR AN EDITED BOOK

Volume Two

Modernity and the Global South: Decolonial and Postcolonial Hubs

Subject Fields: Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Literary Studies, Sociology, Media    Studies, Political Philosophy, Decoloniality

 CLAS lab invites chapter proposals on the theme of ‘‘Modernity, Decolonial, and Postcolonial Discourses” for the second volume of our book series.

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Call For Papers

Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies

Special Issue: 21st century Fiction and the City

Guest editor: Prof. Mavis Tseng

Call for Papers: Collection of Essays on 21st-Century Fiction and the City

James Baldwin at 100: A Roundtable(MLA 2024 Convention, Jan 4-7; Philadelphia, PA)

Commemorating the centennial of Baldwin's birth, this roundtable examines his autobiographical writings, as well as his impact on Black / queer / transnational life writing. Email 250-word abstracts and bio to McKinley Melton (mmelton@gettysburg.edu) by 3/20/2023. (Panel co-sponsored by the MLA African American Literature Forum, the MLA Life Writing Forum, and the College Language Association) 

Collectives, Community, and Literary Production Seeking papers for a proposed special session examining the role of collectives--formal or informal, dispersed or localized--in 20th/21st-century and literary production. How do these communities operate? What do they make? How does it feel? 250 word abstract, 200 word bio.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 17 March 2023

Kathleen Naughton, U at Buffalo, SUNY (kenaught@buffalo.edu )Proposed special session (not guaranteed) for MLA 2024 (Philadelphia, January 4-7, 2024)

RSVP Field Development Grant

The RSVP Field Development Grant was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The grant is intended to support one or a team of researchers in creating resources that will facilitate the work of other scholars in their studies of 19th-century British newspapers and periodicals.

Australia from the Heart:

Envisioning Affective, Environmental,

and Material Reparations

University of the Balearic Islands (Palma, Spain)

6 – 8 September 2023

Conference: 20-21 April 2023, online (via Zoom)

Scientific Committee:

Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

 CFP:

NEW LITERARIA invites the submission of articles, shorter essays, interviews, and book reviews offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to literature and related fields for its Volume 4 Issue 2.

Submissions should be emailed to newliteraria@gmail.com by no later than 30th May 2023. All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author's full mailing address, email address, telephone numbers, and professional or academic affiliation.

Articles should be between 3,500 and 8,000 words long (including bibliography and footnotes). Book reviews should be between 750 and 1,500 words.