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Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:30pm
NYC College of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Interdisciplinary Studies Committee will host a full-day conference, Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning, on Friday, October 18, 2024. This conference invites individual presentations, panel presentations, short talks, and workshop proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following topics as they relate to interdisciplinary exploration of the latest educational strategies, innovations, and practices.

HEL and Writing Studies Presentation Thread at SHEL-13 Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Studies in the History of the English Language Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We invite proposals for the second HEL (History of the English Language) and Writing Studies thread at the 13th Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL) conference at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey, October 17-20, 2024.

 

The HEL and Writing Studies thread will explore ways in which the study of language change and variation can contribute to rhetoric and writing studies, and vice versa. When proposing, keep in mind that the history of the English language extends from the origins of the language to very recent history, so proposals that engage contemporary language use through a historical lens are welcome. 

 

1381 After Jan. 6

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Katharine Jager
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

1381 After January 6th

Call for Papers Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2024 Spanish I: Peninsular Literature Before 1700

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Midwest Modern Languages Association-John Giblin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA conference in Chicago (November 14-16, 2024). Proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome. Also, we seek proposals that specifically engage with the MMLA conference theme of “Health in/of the Humanities.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio to John Giblin at john.giblin@uky.edu by April 15th, 2024. Papers may be in Spanish or English. 

 

Critical Essays on Horror Vestron Films

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:27pm
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Critical Essays on Horror Vestron Films

 

Edited by

Matthew Edwards

Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns

 

Neurodiverse Narratives in the 21st Century

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:26pm
Rachel Milne and Shelby Judge
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Dear colleagues,

 

Please see the below CfP for the edited collection:

 

Neurodiverse Narratives in the 21st Century

Rachel Milne and Shelby Judge (eds.)

Framing the Unreal

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:26pm
International Comparative Literature Association Standing Research Committee on Comics Studies & Graphic Narrative.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

We are requesting papers for an international conference organized by the Laboratorio per lo Studio letterario del fumetto at Ca’ Foscari University and the International Comparative Literature Association Standing Research Committee on Comics Studies & Graphic Narrative.

 

The conference will be held at Ca' Foscari University, Venice, ITALY, 13-15 November 2024

 

Gender in Science Fiction Comics and Graphic Novels

 

SPRING 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Curse

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:25pm
Mychal Reiff-Shanks/In Media Res
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

SPRING 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Curse

Theme week coordinator: Mychal Reiff-Shanks (Georgia State University)

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's fiction television show The Curse (Showtime, 2024) is a vibrant text for only one season. The show follows Whitney and Asher Siegel as they begin filming their first season of an HGTV show. The show takes a surreal and fantastical approach to reality television issues, race, gender dynamics, and gentrification. In Media Res is looking for thought-provoking short pieces about The Curse.

Possible topics could include but are not limited to:

American Fiction--Upending Race in Fiction and Film: BOOK

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:24pm
Kennesaw State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Structurally, the book will be divided into themes that correspond to the most relevant aspects of the movie and the flexibility of our contributions. Following a “mixtape” model, this edited collection may present sections on episodes, keywords, geography, and intertextuality. Potential contributors are invited to consider their distinct vantage point on American Fiction  in a granular (episodic) or holistic (style) approach. Our model is supported by other book-length projects on television series highlighting that our interdisciplinary approach is valuable. 

 

Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:17pm
Sarah Wadsworth / Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Henry James Society is organizing a panel for the Modern Language Assocation Convention in New Orleans in January 2025! 

 

The topic is "Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James." How is sight in James tied to the physical body, material world, and felt relations? How do language and style play with sensation, cognition, and embodiment? Proposals on Alice and William are welcome. 

 

Please submit 300-word abstract + short bio to tkill@unc.edu and sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu by 3/14/2024. 

 

“Roe v. Wade to La marea verde in Speculative Fiction” (NWSA, Nov 14-17, 2024, Detroit MI)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 4:58pm
2024 National Women's Studies Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

We invite abstracts for a proposed panel session for the upcoming National Women’s Studies Annual Conference, taking place in Detroit, MI, November 14-17, 2024. Following the theme, “The Journey Not Only the Arrival, Critical Connections Not Only Critical Mass: (Re)Thinking Feminist Movements,” we solicit submissions that consider the critical connections between reproductive justice movements in the Americas, with a specific focus on how these movements are represented in the ever-fruitful field of speculative fiction.

 

Roe v. Wade to La marea verde: Reproductive Legislation and Activism in Speculative Fiction

Dismantling FX's Atlanta: BOOK

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 2:58pm
Kennesaw State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

The intention of this book is to connect scholars, readers, and fans of FX’s Atlanta from inside and outside of academia. Between 2016 and 2023, Atlanta was a zeitgeist that inspired think pieces and water cooler conversations. As one example of its complexity, Atlanta often features re-imagined but true local news events that were so outrageous that audiences unaware of the original stories assumed they were fiction. We hope our book project bridges the gap between “everybody already knows this” to “why or how do we know this”? Or even more, “why don’t you know this?” There is a cultural knowledge about Atlanta that sings in the FX show – from lemon-pepper-wet wings to the parking madness of Atlantic Station –  that screams IYKYK.

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:10am
NYU Paris, CY Cergy Paris, École Normale Supérieure
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

19-20 September 2024

Venue: École Normale Supérieure & NYU Paris

 

Keynote Speaker: Virginia Jackson (University of California, Irvine)

                    Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University)

 

Organizers: Richard Aldersley (NYU), Mantra Mukim (CYU Paris/CNRS), Samantha Lemeunier  (ENS)

 

[New deadline] *Essay Collection* New Faces of William Gaddis: Reconsiderations for his Second Century

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 7:54pm
Crystal Alberts, Ali Chetwynd, Michael Sanders
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

December 2022 marked William Gaddis’s (1922-1998) centenary. Reputed during his lifetime for—in his characters’ words—being “difficult as I can make it,” or writing “for a very small audience,” the years since his death have nonetheless seen his work republished in increasingly wide-reaching editions and discussed in numerous online reading groups, with his unpublished archive increasingly studied and brought to public attention.

The present edited collection of academic essays seeks contributions that will challenge, update, expand, or surpass the extant understandings of Gaddis’s work, clarifying what it can offer readers more than a century after his birth.

UW Madison South Asia Conference 2024: "Multispecies South Asia" Panel

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 1:00pm
Sreyashi Ray, University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Multispecies South Asia

A wide range of other-than-human subjects—animals, plants, microbes, among others—animate contemporary South Asian lived experiences. Relationships formed across species boundaries— whether brief or long-lasting, utilitarian or altruistic— are imbricated in  the intersectional operations of race, caste, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and indigeneity. From quotidian instances of touching, witnessing, and other forms of interacting with other-than-human subjects to exceptional, contextually specific use of them to bolster anthropocentric concerns, the ubiquity of multispecies coexistence is uncontested. 

Abstracts Wanted for Edited Collection about Early Modern Cultural Trauma

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 10:41am
Devori Kimbro
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Currently soliciting abstracts (approximately 250-300 words with additional 100 words of author bio) for an edited collection discussing the role of cultural trauma in early modern English society. I am interested in essays focusing on Shakespeare/early modern theater as well as other realms of early modern life – political, religious, etc. Of particular interest are projects focusing on the role of race/racism in making traumatic meanings on the early modern stage. Abstracts should specifically reference topic's connection to cultural trauma. Final drafts should be 5000 – 7000 words inclusive of notes/bibliography. Please send questions/abstracts to Devori Kimbro at devori-kimbro@utc.edu.

Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies

updated: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 7:41pm
Cambridge Digital Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

Code as ConversationTransmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies 

University of Cambridge, Saturday 1 June, 2024

‘Hello World!’ is how all computer programmers begin, and it’s how Mark C. Marino opens his manifesto for critical code studies. This elementary exercise in coding, accompanied by the instruction PRINT, demonstrates that “code exists not for machines but for humans who need to communicate with the machine and with other humans.” The code we write enables us to interface with the machine, sitting somewhere between human language and the calculations performed by the computer. 

5th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 10:04pm
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 13 - 14, 2024

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

We cordially invite researchers, academicians, and scholars to submit their abstracts for the 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, which will take place on May 13 - 14, 2024, in Vienna, Austria. This conference is a premier platform for presenting emerging trends and research in a diverse array of subjects related to arts, humanities, social sciences, and education.

Key Themes and Topics:

Erasure, Resistance, and Innovation: Two-Day International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics

updated: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 2:36am
University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Faculty of Languages and Literature (FoLL), University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing a Two-day International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics on the theme of Erasure, Resistance, and Innovation on June 6 - 7, 2024,(Online and In-person).  Political erasure of unwanted individuals, communities, cultures, identities, languages, and knowledge through forced and orchestrated collective amnesia has been endemic in human history. Power has always openly and surreptitiously been involved in deciding whose knowledge matters. Which language and meaning matter to be sensible? Who matters as a human? Whose sufferings matter as grievable?

“East” or “Middle East” in Doris Lessing

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:29pm
Doris Lessing Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Inviting proposals on the “East” or the “Middle East,” broadly construed, in Lessing’s oeuvre, exploring politics, sources, representation, or questions of definition. We welcome comparative approaches with other 20th-century writers. Send 250-word abstract and bio.

Confinement and Freedom in Doris Lessing and Other 20th-Century World Writers

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:29pm
Doris Lessing Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Inviting proposals on confinement and freedom, prisons visible and invisible, in works by Lessing or in conversation with another 20th-C world writer. Papers may adopt various perspectives—theoretical, philosophical, political, allegorical. Send 250-word abstract and bio.

Environmental Futures – Advancing Mutual Human-Nature Relationship — World Futures Review Special Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:03pm
Dr. Manjana Milkoreit, University of Oslo; Prof. Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania Allie E.S. Wist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ludwig Weh, Fraunhofer IMW; Dr. Kasper Kok, Wageningen University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

World Futures Review – Special Issue

Title: Environmental Futures – Advancing Images of Mutual Human-Nature Relationships

 

Guest Editors:

Ludwig Weh

Fraunhofer IMW Center for International Management and Knowledge Economics

ludwig.weh@imw.fraunhofer.de

 

Allie E.S. Wist

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute & New York University

wista@rpi.edu

 

Dr. Kasper Kok

Wageningen University

 

Dr. Manjana Milkoreit

University of Oslo

 

Prof. Bethany Wiggin

EXTENDED DEADLINE (3/23/24) - Nabokov and Musicality - MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:02am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans 

 

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following theme for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):  

 

Nabokov and Musicality 

Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 4:28pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature

Special Session MLA25 New Orleans

Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 4:27pm
Joseph Conrad Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024

Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution

Joseph Conrad Society of America (MLA Allied Organization) MLA 2025 New Orleans

[deadline extended] Lawrence & Ecology: Virtual Graduate Conference in Lawrence Studies (May 18, 2024)

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 3:42pm
D.H. Lawrence Society of North America
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to share the CFP for the next Virtual Graduate Conference in D.H. Lawrence Studies. It is scheduled for Saturday, 18 May 2024 and will take place over Zoom. The theme for the event is “Lawrence & Ecology.” Please circulate the poster (attached) and the information below widely. 

REMINDER: Going to the Movies with CS Lewis

updated: 
Monday, March 18, 2024 - 1:51pm
Edited Collection
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis, Call for Chapters

An edited collection tentatively titled “Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis” is seeking chapter submissions.   

Having been born many years after C.S. Lewis died I of course never had the opportunity to watch a movie with the man. However, over the years I feel, as many others probably feel as well, like Lewis accompanies me as I watch movies, read books, attend church services, and make other daily pursuits. Lewis’ works shape my thinking on many theological, educational, and cultural matters like few other authors’ works do.

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