Dear colleagues,

Imagining the Ordinary City: Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives

Date/Location: 28-29 October 2024, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT

Keynotes: Professor Jennifer Robinson (University College London); Dr Thembinkosi Goniwe (Rhodes University) ; Professor Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University) 

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces will not be going ahead as originally planned in June 2024. The conference organisers are exploring the possibility of rescheduling to a later date and will circulate further details if/when they become available.  

Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces

IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

June 14th–16th 2024

An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society

In a period of tumultuous changes like the ones brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of far-right governments, racism, and international tensions caused by the war in Ukraine and Gaza, a great reckoning is happening in the Western cultural context, especially with regard to the Atlantic and Transatlantic world. No nation has undergone more rapid and sometimes contradictory transformations than the US, showing tensions between its foundational narratives and counternarratives rising from its too often neglected socio-cultural realities. Culturally embedded American ideals have always emphasized a single unifying narrative capable of synthesizing the plurality of voices on US soil.

Call for Papers

“`Do This In Remembrance of Me’: Religion, Memory, and Art”

A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts

Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden

Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize

The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:

CFP for PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Thursday November 7 through Sunday November 10, Palm Springs, California (Margaritaville Resort) 

Session Title: The Concept of Visual Translation, Johanna Drucker, Chair 

Abstract: The translation of texts is a familiar, if fraught, act that is the subject of considerable thoughtful examination. But is there an equivalent for visual works? This panel looks at examples of cross-cultural or temporal reworkings of images to challenge certain assumptions about self-evident nature of images and even of vision itself. 

The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at: www.theneutraljournal.com

For its fourth issue, The Neutral is soliciting contributions for ‘Inheritance‘.

“writing philosophy is for me finding a language in which I understand philosophy to be inherited, which means telling my autobiography in such a way as to find the conditions of that language.”

Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy

“But as for me, who am I (following)?”

The Children's Literature Association is seeking proposals to review for inclusion as a session at MLA 2026.

Each year, ChLA is guaranteed one session at the MLA Convention and can submit proposals for up to two more. If you would like to submit a panel topic, please send the following to jill.coste@gmail.com by May 22, 2024: (1) A short description (300-500 words) of your proposal idea, and, if relevant, (2) the name of another MLA-affiliated entity (forum or allied organization) you plan to seek as a co-sponsor.

Organizers:
Faculty of Mass Communication, AAB College, Pristina
Department of Journalism and Communication, FHF, University of Tirana
Communication Institute of Greece

Type: Online (google meet) Scientific Conference for Communication Students and Professionals

In today’s rapidly changing global landscape, hospitality emerges as a pivotal focus in academic discourse, especially within Western geopolitical contexts. Hospitality, as a mode of conduct, garners both ardent enthusiasm and staunch opposition. As a concept, it presents both notable limitations and diverse modalities. This multidimensional notion encompasses a right, a privilege, an obligation, an act of sympathy, and an expression of charity. It shapes and is shaped by various environments, from tangible spaces and places to non-places and heterotopias (as articulated by Marc Augé). Its expansive research potential warrants a thorough, interdisciplinary exploration.

Call for Papers

ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen

Editors: Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Tom Cunliffe, and Raymond Tsang

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Join us in Las Vegas this October, where we will defy the odds and time, and you can learn how to read some of the 418 (and counting) letter runes found in the first third of Beowulf.

This groundbreaking, ninety-minute session is the first of its kind in teaching how one can detect and decipher between two alphabets that use the same letters, with one being just a letter and the other being a letter that represents a word. Unlike Odin, you will not have to give up an eye.

All attendees will receive a letter rune chart.

Call for Papers

Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities

For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities

Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt)