(For possible inclusion as part of the Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies series)

As Garrett (2015) contends, popular cultural representations of the afterlife are a means of imaginatively and creatively grappling with the unknown. These representations can offer explanations about life after death or the in-between, to rationalize the existential, support and challenge religious doctrines, and entertain and educate so that society might live life to the fullest or feel assured that there is something more. 

Owing to numerous requests, the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (www.global19c.com) is delighted to extend the cfp deadline for panel proposals to be considered for its world congress, "Comparative Empire: Conflict, Competition, and Cooperation, 1750-1914," in Singapore, 19-22 June 2023. The extended deadline is 15 August 2022. (Individual paper proposals are due 1 October.) 

Call For Papers: A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor

Deadline (abstract): 31 August 2022

Deadline (full manuscript): 1 December 2022

An important note: This project was originally announced in recent years under a previous editor. This project is now underway with a new editor. Any authors who previously submitted chapters (proposals or completed) to this project should contact Matthew Hodge at rmhodge@peace.edu.

CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022

Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols

Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

Introduction

In 2019, renowned American literary critic and Black feminist scholar Hortense Spillers donated her papers to the Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive in the name of the Black Feminist Theory Project, and in April 2022, the Pembroke Center opened the exhibit “Hortense Spillers: A Life Recorded.” In celebration of both the collection and exhibit, we are soliciting papers for a Fall 2022 symposium on Spillers’s contributions to intellectual and pedagogical practices in the fields of Black feminist criticism, literary studies, and cultural studies, among others. 

In Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs meditatively interrogates the language of the natural sciences and its attendant racialized, gender-essentialized assumptions, and provides a model for identifying similar logics in Medieval Studies. Recent attention on the integration of Women of Color Feminisms in Medieval Studies has illuminated how these logics make the "circumstances" of such integration "unbreathable" (Gumbs 3). In this roundtable, we will engage with the possibility of Women of Color Feminisms' ability to breathe in such circumstances.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Body and Sexuality: Beyond Cultural Binaries

JOYS IN TRANSITION

Conference Dates: 2-3 February 2023

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 13, 2022

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY DECEMBER 4, 2022

Keynote speakers:

• Valérie Benejam, Nantes Université
• John McCourt, Università di Macerata
• Fritz Senn, Zurich James Joyce Foundation

Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

REMINDER: UPCOMING DEADLINE -- AUGUST 31 2022

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2022, open to all, on the subject of

Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 15 (2023), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

LIT Special Issue CFP: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century

Deadline extended for submissions: August 31, 2022

Full name / name of organization: LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

Contact email: litjourn@yahoo.com

The Networks of Romance I: Transnational and Global - (In-Person Format)

Increased social mobility and technological advances in modern society, as well as the advent of postcolonial studies, have spurred scholars to investigate the ‘interconnectedness’ of the global Middle Ages, and to challenge Western-centrism. This session is open to papers that apply these critical approaches to romance texts. We welcome scholars who consider the textual representations of cross-culturalism, and of networks that transcend regional and national boundaries. Also invited are papers that examine depictions of networks from outside the medieval West. We particularly encourage participants who use decolonising methodologies.

Several examples of literature produced from the late Victorian age narrate great concerns about the future and the destiny of humanity, concerns that would be significantly exacerbated in the twentieth century by the First World War, soon followed by the Second, the unspeakable savagery of Nazis, the nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, last but not least, by the terror of a nuclear apocalypse during the long Cold War. Modernism appears thus as a cultural movement that, as Vincent Sherry maintains, “works most indicatively within an imaginative concept of time interrupted”, of a time that presents itself basically as provisional and utterly deprived of a future.

The Lyric Now: A one-day conference

Hosted by the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film – The University of Adelaide (Australia)

& The J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

14 October 2022

Featuring: Hoa Nguyen, prize-winning author of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure and Co-Chair, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts MFA Program, Bard College

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory

Special Issue: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature

Guest editor: Professor Haifeng Hui, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China