MLA 2023 Special Session Proposal • San Francisco, CA • January 5-8

CALL FOR PAPERS

WILLIAM JAMES

IN SEARCH OF THE ESSENCE OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

International Conference

26-27 May, 2022

Cracow, Poland

Issue 62: April 2022: Exploring Motherly Instincts: Representation of Mothers in Indian Cinema [Last date for submission: 30 March, 2022; Date of publication: 1 May, 2022]

Guest-Editor: Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institue, USA.

In this round of Call for Submissions, we are particulalrly seeking audio/visual presentations (in forms of interviews / conversations) of no more than 20 minutes in duration and personal narratives, along with general articles pertaining to the theme. Additonally, articles dealing with films in languages, such as Assamese, Oriya, Marathi, Kannada, Telegu, Bhojpuri, and Konkani are especially welcomed.

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

27 May 2022

Call for Papers | Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within

 The Graduate English Society at Queen’s University seeks abstracts for its virtual 2022 graduate conference, “Escape: Moving Away, Moving Towards, Moving Within.” Because the thematic concern of our conference is “escape,” we are looking for academic papers, as well as creative pieces, that engage with this broad concept in various and imaginative ways.

Abstract

This session deals with American Literature from 1865 to 1945, exploring a wide variety of topics, including race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, decoloniality, spirituality, class and power dynamics, environmental issues, and pedagogical and digital innovations in American literature and culture.

Description

Postcolonial Interventions (ISSN 2455-6564)

Call for Papers

 Vol. VII, Issue 2 (June 2022)

We have an updated deadline, submission portal, and confirmed keynote speakers for this call:

Watersheds
2022 ASLE Symposium
June 24-26, 2022
University of Delaware

Updated submission deadline: March 7, 2022

Submission Link

Call for Proposals

MLA 2023:  Race, Gender, and Consent in the Global Early Modern

Guaranteed roundtable for MLA 2023 (San Francisco) on race, gender, and consent in the prose, poetry, and drama of the 16th and 17th centuries. We invite roundtable presentations from a wide variety of perspectives – cultural, formal, social, legal, historical – and literary traditions. How can the shifting dynamics of consent and coercion help us understand premodern race-making and gender construction? Comparative and transnational perspectives are especially welcome.  

This roundtable is organized by the MLA forum on Renaissance/Early Modern Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies.

Aestheticism: Sensations and Ideas

International Walter Pater Society Conference

Iuav University of Venice-Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 14-16 July 2022

Victorian Resurrections

International Conference, 22nd – 24th September 2022 (University of Vienna)

Deadline for proposals (300 words): 15th May 2022

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Ann Heilmann (University of Cardiff)
Patricia Duncker (University of Manchester)

Call for Papers

Call for panel for the MLA Convention in San Francisco (2023, January 5-9) Gardening in Black literature

This panel explores figurations of the plot, the garden, and gardening in Black literature, examining the otherwise relationalities and possibilities cultivated by this cultural, geographic, and environmental practice. 

Please send a 200-word abstract and brief CV to Dorottya Mozes at dorottya.mozes@gmail.com by March 20. 

Culture, Theory and Critique: 

SPECIAL ISSUE ON MILITARIZATION & PLEASURE

Why study the early modern period? Most academics of earlier periods have encountered this question in one form or another. This question seems especially pressing when it comes to teaching. For many of us, it is our goal to have monographs published by university presses and spend summers conducting research in archives. But the reality is that a large part of our day-to-day impact as scholars is on the undergraduate students we encounter as instructors, usually teens and young adults. This panel is interested in engaging in a conversation about how teaching undergraduate students impacts our scholarship in early modern studies.

We need to rethink the state. No one loves to hate the state more than a humanist. Yet does this critique serve us well? What do we mean by “the” state? Humanities scholars often take for granted a unified and homogenous idea of the state as a basis for critique. The settler colonial state, the necropolitical state, the neoliberal state; or perhaps less negatively, the welfare state, the developmentalist state, the liberal state. As this plethora of familiar models suggests, it should be impossible to talk about “the” state as a singular form, to equate it with one function or to define it by one pattern of experience. And yet such singular imaginaries often underpin humanistic engagement with the state.