Note: Springer has shown interest in publishing this book.

Concept Note:

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Environmental activism, decoloniality and literature of the Global South

Volume editors

Goutam Karmakar, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Sule Emmanuel Egya,  Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, Nigeria

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

--Note:  Springer has shown interest in publishing this book 

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Abstract Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023

Chapter Drafts Deadline: June 15, 2024

Essays sought for an edited collection focused on Universal Pictures’ The Mummy franchise.

MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE

International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
(Address: EE 9 & 10, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091)

BOOK SERIES: South Asian Literature in Focus (Routledge, Global Edition) 

Series Editors: Goutam Karmakar, Puspa Damai, Payel Pal, and Deimantas Valančiūnas

Call For Papers: Narrative Matters

“Spaces can be real and imagined.  Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories.  Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice.”

~bell hooks

PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2024

Abstract Submission Deadline: *UPDATED*: Submissions will be accepted through December 15th, 2023!

PCA/ACA will be held from March 27-30th, 2024 in Chicago, IL

Inflationary Modernities: Literature and Economy after 1789

*deadline extended*

Call for papers for edited collection

Editors: Kieran Brown (Oxford University) and Wayne Stables (University of South Africa)

Making Style Work Conference 

Call for Proposals

Co-sponsored by the Yale University Labor and Film Working Group, Yale Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale Film and Media Studies Department

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Humanities Quadrangle 136

Yale University

Submission Deadline: Friday, December 15, 2023 by midnight

International Conference of Three Societies on Literature and Science
University of Birmingham, 10-12 April 2024

CFP: “Intelligence,” Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (JMMLA), Spring 2024

The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for a Spring 2024 special issue on the theme of “Intelligence.”

In 2021, as a consequence of the pandemic, schools and colleges across the country placed a temporary freeze on standardized testing, reinforcing doubts regarding the necessity and efficacy of such tests to assess intellectual potential. Soon thereafter, the November 30th 2022 launch of ChatGPT-3 elicited responses ranging from the apocalyptic (the software is a huge step toward artificial general intelligence) to the skeptical (the software is not and cannot be intelligent).