As Russia began its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, we saw a massive outpouring of
support and statements of solidarity from different corners of the globe. This news brought
conflict to the fore of white, US- and Euro-centric consciousness in a way that Palestine,
Kashmir, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Armenia had failed to do. This impulse to
selectively engage and empathize invites a careful consideration of which conflicts find space
and articulation in particular discourses and, perhaps more importantly, which do not. We invite
you to think with us on conflict - excavate the ways in which it challenges or reinforces

Empathy and the Teaching of Writing

The 26th Annual Summer Conference of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

of the National Council of Teachers of English

YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO, June 15-18, 2023

“If we see each other in each other’s eyes…the walls of Jericho can come tumbling down!” 

--Barack Obama

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2023)

Working Title for Proposed Volume:  The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Traditions, Traversals, and Trajectories

Editor:

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Statement of Aims

For an upcoming special issue of MFS on "Women Thinking in Public," we seek essays that illuminate the way that fiction itself can serve as a mode of public intellectualism, as both depiction and enactment of women thinking, attending to the connections between gendered expression, the forms of thought, and the forms of fiction. For the full CFP, please visit:

https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/publications/mfs/call/cfp-women-...

Call for Papers:
“Disembodied Communications: Vulnerable Identities and Caring Connections in Literary Texts”
York EGSA Conference 2023 - May 12th, 2023

Deadline: February 3rd, 2023, 11:59 pm EST

Work in Displacement Studies lies at the intersection of numerous interdisciplinary fields, such as migration studies, refugee studies, border studies, Indigenous studies, Africana studies, Food Studies, coastal studies, human rights, urban studies, data studies and Latinx studies. Building on that body of literature and the NEH/SSRC working group on “Converging Displacements” at Virginia Tech, this reader takes a critical approach to displacement studies. Critical displacement studies is a methodology examining disruptions of displacement where community access and contribution is essential. An increasingly common experience, being uprooted from place occurs across a range of geographic and temporal scales.

I. From Oppression to Love: Remembering bell hooks

FREE Zoom memorial, December 16th, 2022, 3-4:30 Eastern

Libby Jones, Berea College colleague and friend of bell's; organizer of the 2006 AEPL/Berea conference "Writing for Reconciliation" that bell keynoted: "The Rapturous Writer"

Paige Billman, Berea graduate and bell's personal assistant: “bell and Beloved Community”

Shadee Makalou, Director, bell hooks Center at Berea College

RSVP by sending an email to aeplconf2023@gmail.com for the link to the event.

The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our February 17 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.

The Department of Languages and Literature at Northeastern State University is organizing a special session for the Illinois Medieval Association’s spring symposium series focused on the role of space or place as broadly defined in the medieval understanding of education and learning. The focus of individual essays is largely open within the theme of the session, with preference given to those touching on broadly Catholic concerns. Papers should be limited to twenty minutes to allow for ample presentation time and sufficient time for Q&A. The session is slated for 3 p.m. Central time on 10 February 2023 (the feast of St.

Call for Papers

“Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of COVID-19: 

Rethinking ‘Social Distancing’”

Organized by Tatiana Konrad, Savannah Schaufler, and Chantelle Mitchell

Dates: 

July 13-15, 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline:

January 15, 2023

Venue:

Online via Zoom

Subject Fields: 

In his travelogue Filibusters in Barbary(1932), the modernist painter and writer Wyndham Lewis evoked the fantasy of being ‘thoroughly unanchored’ from London, from controversy, from recognizability: from his life as he lived it at the time, in effect. The fantasy compels not only because it’s a typically contrarian move made by an unapologetic contrarian, but also because it invites reflection on the very Lewisian problem of autonomy itself.

Where Is Academic Work?

In-person Conference

Friday May 5th, 2023

The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY

You know what work is—if you’re

old enough to read this you know what

work is, although you may not do it.

–  Philip Levine, “What Work Is”

The room changes but the work continues. This conference seeks contributions to a day-long process of consensus-building and new ideas around the subject of location in intellectual work in all of its many contexts.

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Long T. Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California at Irvine 

Dr. Patricia Pelley, Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University

Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin

Special Guest Speaker

Ms. Callie Wright, Education Director, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

Overwhelming Nature: Confronting Catastrophe and the Sublime in the Arts and Humanities

Mahindra Humanities Center Graduate Student Conference

Harvard University | 25–26 March 2023

Conference Coordinators: Elaine Chen & Therese Shire

The present conference seeks scholarly contributions across disciplinary and national borders that explore accounts of the experience of facing natural catastrophes. The conference will consider the potential and limits of understanding catastrophic experiences through the concept of sublimity.