CALL FOR PAPERS

Reading Tolkien in the 21st Century
(7–8 September, 2023 – University of Bonn, Germany)

In his discussion of the socio-ecological crisis of capitalism, Jason Moore dismisses the theoretical tendency to describe ‘twin’ social and environmental crises, arguing that ‘these are in fact a singular process of transformation that today we call a crisis’ (2011: 136). The 2023 Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis conference proposed the notion of ‘territorial bodies’ as an analytical tool for addressing the singular socio-ecological crisis further.

The Irish Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum invites proposals for a guaranteed roundtable at MLA 2024 (4-7 January) in Philadelphia, PA. 

This roundtable considers points of collision, comparison, and friction in the diasporic literary and cultural histories of the Global South and Ireland. How have different legacies of conquest, occupation, and resistance determined understandings of belonging to knowable communities? In turn, how have distinct practices and experiences of diaspora helped to effect specific forms of identity, affiliation, and tendency? And how have literary and cultural works served to articulate these relations into the fraught present? 

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

66th Annual Conference

Saturday, 23 September 2023

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 66th Annual Conference, to be held at the University of San Diego.

CALL FOR PAPERS

How can we harness of the power of Black joy? How have Black thinkers, scholars, and artists turned their attention to forms of Black happiness as a critical and necessary affectual response to the logics of Black death? How can we describe—and make meaningful—the radical potential of Black happiness and joy as antidotes to the overwhelming logics of Black death and destruction? While keeping in view the manifold ways Black life is denigrated, devalued, and destroyed, this panel seeks to explore representations of Black bliss, tenderness, pleasure, jubilation, mirth, and exhilaration.

CFP: edited collection -- Disability and the Vampire

Dr. Brooke Cameron (Queen’s University), Peadar O’Dea (Maynooth University) and Adam Owsinski (Charles Darwin University) invite proposals for chapters that explore the connections between vampires and disability, from history to modern cultural and popular representations.

Project Description:

The English Graduate Student Society's Annual Spring Conference: Recovery

For over a decade, this interdisciplinary conference-proudl hosted by Florida Atlantic University's EGSS- has celebrated creative & scholarly work by graduate students in the South Florida area. We invite grad students to submit a proposal for any work, be it critical or creative, that they might like to present via conference format.

Presentations will be held both in person and on Zoom the weekend of April 20th.

Proposal Cuidelines:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: African American and Indian Dalit Literature

The Review of English and American Literature

Call for Papers

Special Issue: The Plantationocene

Deadline for Submissions: April 10, 2023

Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration

12th to 13th June 2023, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK

EXTENDED DEADLINE: FRIDAY 10TH MARCH 2023
(Please note we have extended the deadline to accommodate requests from colleagues).

Liberalism’s nebulous contours have long animated studies of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. This roundtable seeks to extend these discussions by turning to this tradition’s imprint upon our practices and conceptions of teaching and scholarship. We invite papers that trouble the continued privileging of the “liberal subject,” a term that encompasses ideas of individualism, originality, and progress–values whose peculiar Victorianism has been analyzed by Elaine Hadley, Amanda Anderson, and Lauren Goodlad, among others.

L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of HomeThe L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 16th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island, 19-23 June 2024

“Oh, I’ve got such a lovely home,” breathed Pat, clasping her hands. “It’s such a nice, friendly house.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush (1933)

It’s the home of my heart, this little room—the spot I love, for here I am happiest.
—L.M. Montgomery, 30 April 1903

"Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema"

Links among scientific modeling, visualization, and the literary: literary dimensions of scientific models (climatology, epidemiology, etc.); literary engagements with models and visualization; relationships between scientific and literary representations of and speculations regarding complex systems.

Sponsored by the Science and Literature Forum.

Abstract + brief bio to Rebecca Evans (evansr@southwestern.edu) by March 15, 2023.