Special Issue Call: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”
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Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”
Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies
Special Issue Call: “Meat Narratives”
From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.
The year 2025 will mark the centennial of one of the most powerful voices in twentieth-century American Literature. Author of a reduced fictional production (two novels and three collections of short stories), Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) remains among the most widely praised authors of the United States, to the extent that, shortly after her premature death, claims by, among others, Brainard Cheney, Robert Giroux, and Caroline Gordon were made about the country having lost their next Nobel Laureate for Literature. Alternative history aside, what is true is that the last century of American literature would have lost an enormous amount of its meaning without the existence of Flannery O’Connor’s writing.
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.
Seminar Description:
RT: Gone Too Soon: Sunsetting and Transitioning Digital Projects (sponsored by the Digital Humanities Caucus) [ID 96]
In the Humanities, South Asia is usually understood as a set of plurilingual, multicultural nations. Each constituting nation is internally differentiated or socially stratified according to its economic and sociological power hierarchies. In other words, differences exist in different ways: caste, religion, gender, geopolitics, economics, etc. are a few of the markers. Reciprocal to these markers, different categories of ‘literatures’ are assumed to be the subsets of the broader category of ‘South Asian literature’.
Conference Theme: Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture (In-person/Offline)
Name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
Conference coordinators: Srirupa Chatterjee (Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH) and Anandita Pan (Assistant Professor, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH)
Conference dates: Feb 28 - March 1, 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
ALA Annual Conference (May 21-24, 2025, Boston, MA) — Wallace Stevens’s Essays
"Mind-Game" is film theorist Thomas Elsaesser's name for the wide variety of films made since the 1990s that present puzzling, complex, and/or impossible narrative devices and structures that play games with spectators' expectations for how traditional narrative films work. For familiar Hollywood examples, think Christopher Nolan (Inception) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), but perhaps more emblematic are the films of David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and cult classics like Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Call for Papers
Join us in Los Angeles for the 39th annual MELUS conference!
April 3-6, 2025
Hosted by Cal State LA
Conference Theme: MELUS Outside
Deadline for Abstracts: November 15, 2024
"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.
Call for Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024
(The GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology)(SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed)
Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
"Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization"
The (SCOPUS/ISI) GLOCAL AFALA 2024, December 4-7, 2024, University of South Africa
HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)
(Call for Papers & Published Papers)
Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)
ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park
Impact Factor: 3.9
Culture and Dialogue
Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “Cultural and Ethical Shifts in Digital Parenting”
Guest Editor: Suyasha Singh Isser, Amity University, Noida
Culture and Dialogue
Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”
Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait
New Approaches to Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Spanish-language Texts
The Ever-Evolving Marketing of Language Programs: Searching for Strategies that Fit
In the often-quoted line from her groundbreaking Borderlands/la frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa identifies the US/Mexico borderlands as a site of pain and creation: “The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture” (25). While Anzaldúa uses the geo-political border as a means of illustrating the unnatural divides governments impose on peoples, she also recognizes that we create many borderlands within ourselves and our own communities: psychological, sexual, and spiritual.
Abstracts are due at the link below for our roundtable on "Sanctioned Addictions:"
The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).
The Eighth Faulkner Studies in the UK Colloquium
Under the Red, White, and Blue: Faulkner, Fitzgerald, and America
May 10th and 11th, 2025
Online via Zoom
With keynote addresses by:
Dr Michael P. Bibler
(author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature Southern Plantation, 1936-1968 [University of Virginia Press, 2009])
and
Dr Laura Rattray
We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.
Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,
Call for Papers: What is Asian Cinema?
14th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference 2025 (May 22-24, 2025)
University of Hong Kong
Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques
Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025
https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15
Workshop:
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE
While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.
FEMSPEC Journal is looking for writers to join their review team in the areas of speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy (including dark fantasy or horrort), myth, and utopian/dystopian texts.
Creative and scholarly texts are both covered. Books and films, as well as other media, are all considered.
Opportunities to submit once are available, and regular contributor positions are also open.
Here are several lists of upcoming or recent titles, but reviewers are welcome to suggest titles for approval, also.
MYSTIC GALAXY,
https://www.mystgalaxy.com/upcoming-sff.
LIBRARY JOURNAL,
We are pleased to announce the launch of the British Popular Culture(s) Network, with an inaugural annual conference taking place at Falmouth University, between 5-7th June 2025.
Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.
Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.
“In Paradise, there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.” Margaret Atwood