Thinking with Sexology in South Asia: Science at the Boundary

This panel aims to explore the role of futuristic bodies as spaces for addressing contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, climate change, and income inequality. Science fiction and speculative fiction confront us with the uncanny, asking us to question the boundaries between our reality and fictional-yet-possible futures. Centering the body, often porous and precarious, in these texts positions us to imagine the future of humanity, and encourages us to think critically about perspective shifts we must make today to enable a better tomorrow. As Michel Foucault (1980) states, “the body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse.

The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes of the previous successful conferences, Celebrating Crime Fiction will consider and reflect upon the growing interest in Crime Fiction scholarship over the past decade. We are particularly interested in examining the changes in the landscape of crime fiction study through the years of our Captivating Criminality conferences. The study of crime fiction has now emerged as a vital thread with the capacity to transform interdisciplinary academic discourse.

What is the translator’s place within a body of literature, and how do we, as translators, navigate our place? How do translators share space with authors, editors, and audiences? Place is not only static, but dynamic: just as languages do not remain fixed in place, the place of translation is also constantly shifting and evolving. How does translation sit within and move across visible boundaries and invisible barriers? In what ways are we as translators grounded and supported, and in what ways are we trying to break free from what is deemed to be our place?

International conference

November 27-28, 2023

Alcalá de Henares, Madrid ES

The conference will focus on how the American imagination has shaped—and, in turn, has been shaped by—its frontiers and borderlands, marked by an intrinsic peripheral quality, sociocultural porosity, and a diverse range of experiences and identities. As Lee Bebout (2016) has highlighted discussing the US–Mexico border, representations of frontiers, the “other side,” and the people inhabiting these regions have been historically deployed to construct a dominant national identity—often exploiting, invisiblizing, or neglecting local identities in the process.

Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media
Program in Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh
Keynote Speaker: Diana Flores Ruíz
Date: September 23-24

The University of Pittsburgh Film and Media Studies Program is pleased to announce “Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media,” its twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference, which will be held virtually on September 23–24, 2023. 

Categorically Resistant: Monique Wittig’s The Lesbian Body at 50

The priority deadline for abstract proposals is April 1

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival, 50th Anniversary Convening

November 1-4, 2023 at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi.

Please see: www.jsums.edu/philliswheatley/

In On Being Female, Black, and Free, Margaret Walker astutely acknowledges the impact of Black women writers and their unfortunate invisibility in the canon. Owing to an unwillingness to see their blackness and their womanness as anything other than a hindrance, the mainstream attempts to erase their contributions.

The UCL English Graduate Conference will take place in person at UCL on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. This year’s conference theme is ‘The Unexpected’. Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to theunexpected.conference@gmail.com by April 17, 2023, along with a short biography.

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future...which refers to someone whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future.That which is totally unpredictable.”

–Derrida in Derrida (2002)

UW Seattle
Seattle, WA

Wednesday, October 4th — Friday, October 6th, 2023

UW Bothell
Bothell, WA 

Saturday, October 7, 2023

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Greeks in the Archaic Age: Institutions, Interactions, Traditions

On_Culture Issue 16 (Spring 2024): Ways of Reading

With the sixteenth issue of On_Culture, we want to explore various approaches to reading cultural artifacts and events in an attempt to answer the question: What are the affordances of particular forms of reading and what do they bring forth? While the ability to decipher words and distinguish individual characters is perceived as a key skill and taught from an early age, philosophical traditions introduce us to critical approaches to interpreting broader cultural phenomena. 

The Routledge Handbook of Language Learning in the New Global Context Handbook Series

Call for additional papers for the following two volumes under the series:

-  The Routledge Handbook of the sociopolitical context of language learning

-  The Routledge Handbook of the Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Languages

Series editors: Chris Shei, Weixiao Wei, Der-lin Chao, James Schnell

CFP: Individuality and Community in Mid-Century American Culture (1945-1968)One-day symposium, October 27, 2023Lund University, Sweden Mid-century US culture tends to be described in both simplified and paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it is thought of as a period of ‘containment’ culture, ‘Red-Scare’ rhetoric, and McCarthyism: a time when norms were strong, and it was difficult to be different. On the other hand, it is a period romanticized as the great era of American exceptionalism and industry.