Online Conference April 2nd, 2022 (EST)
Call for Critical and Creative Proposals:
“Not all of us can say, with any degree of certainty, that we have always been human, or that we are only that.”
--Rosi Braidotti, The Posthuman (2013)

Seriality, literarity and popular culture in picturebook studies

International call for papers

adapted with the help of Sophie Heywood (Associate Professor in French, University of Reading) in collaboration with Dominique Perrin, from the call for papers « Critiquer l’album sériel. Vers un décloisonnement des corpus légitimes et populaires dans les études sur l’album »)

Deadline for proposals (between 2000 and 3000 characters, spaces and bibliography included) plus a short biography and bibliography : 17 April 2022 to be sent to strenae@revues.org

The 119th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Los Angeles at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center, from Friday, November 11, to Sunday, November 13, 2022.

Cultural History

Submissions are invited from researchers, curators, museum practitioners, artists, and other interested parties for an edited book on the emergent field of Children’s Museology, defined as “the production of museum content and programming not just for or about children, but also by and with children in ways that engage them as valued social actors and knowledge-bearers” (Patterson 2020). 

Deadline for submissions: March 30, 2022

Contact email: childrensmuseologyvolume@gmail.com 

CALL FOR PAPERS: Interdisciplinary Anthologies on Home and Homeland 

Jean Amato, Associate Professor; Comparative Literature; Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor; Art History; Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

Call for Contributions for a Special Issue of Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914  “Victorian Necropolitics” Deadline 15 April 2022

From the elaborate description of the jeweled lamp in José Rizal’s El filibusterismo to the painting that is a focal point of Nick Joaquin’s Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, Philippine literature has a long history of engaging with the arts. Reflections on the visual and acoustic arts that appear in these and other novels, short stories, poems, and plays offer these writers the opportunity to comment on aesthetics, artistic value, and the institutionalization of culture and heritage.

Some possible inquiries to explore:

- How do descriptions of art function in Philippine literature?

- How do such descriptions serve as theories of art?

Two-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover, 22 & 23 September, 2022

‘The Violence of Humour’ 

Call for papers : Summer issue deadline 30th June 2022

LCEKIMEP ISSN: 2709-5010

Contact Adel Aitym at LCEKIMEP@gmail.com

LCEKIMEP is an open access online journal that is published by KIMEP University four times per year. It incorporates the work of international scholars who are engaged in research in the areas of Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy, any aspect of Cultural Studies, Cultural Production and Criticism, and Environmental Humanities.

MLA: 5–8 January, 2023, San Francisco, CA

 Not Quite Human: Crakers, Pigoons, and Other Others in Margaret Atwood’s Works

 Following recent bioengineering marvels and the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant, the Margaret Atwood Society panel welcomes proposals for papers on depictions of the nonhuman in Atwood’s works.

 250-word abstract and bio are due to Lee Frew, leefrew@yorku.ca, March 15, 2022.

FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. It is published twice annually (alternately in the September issue of CCC and the March issue of TETYC) and is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

This MLA Special Session panel invites papers that interrogate the affordances and stakes of mobilizing marginalized affects, or elucidating affects that move between marginalized bodies in contemporary American literature and culture. 

Lauren Berlant characterized affect as the “body’s response to the world, something you’re always catching up to.” And yet critics often overlook the role of material bodies and embodiment in the circulation and impact of affect. How can we put the questions of embodiment and materiality back into the study of affect theory? What can be gained from studying bodily affectations in marginalized lives? 

Other questions/topics to consider:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2023

“Queer Faulkner”

July 23-27, 2023

University of Mississippi

Announcement and Call for Papers

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner

Call for Papers

Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines

University of Mauritius, 2 – 4 August 2022

http://www.archipelagicmemory.wordpress.com 

Confirmed keynote speakers

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King’s College London | Stef Craps, Ghent University | Anwar Janoo, University of Mauritius

George Abungu, Archaeologist and International Heritage Consultant | Ari Gautier, Novelist