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SPRING 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Curse

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:25pm
Mychal Reiff-Shanks/In Media Res
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

SPRING 2024 CALL FOR PAPERS: The Curse

Theme week coordinator: Mychal Reiff-Shanks (Georgia State University)

Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie's fiction television show The Curse (Showtime, 2024) is a vibrant text for only one season. The show follows Whitney and Asher Siegel as they begin filming their first season of an HGTV show. The show takes a surreal and fantastical approach to reality television issues, race, gender dynamics, and gentrification. In Media Res is looking for thought-provoking short pieces about The Curse.

Possible topics could include but are not limited to:

American Fiction--Upending Race in Fiction and Film: BOOK

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:24pm
Kennesaw State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Structurally, the book will be divided into themes that correspond to the most relevant aspects of the movie and the flexibility of our contributions. Following a “mixtape” model, this edited collection may present sections on episodes, keywords, geography, and intertextuality. Potential contributors are invited to consider their distinct vantage point on American Fiction  in a granular (episodic) or holistic (style) approach. Our model is supported by other book-length projects on television series highlighting that our interdisciplinary approach is valuable. 

 

Post-Pandemic Imaginaries : Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:24pm
Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Post-Pandemic Imaginaries : Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

 

A two day conference on the 5th and 6th September 2024

Organised by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK

 

Keynote speakers to be announced.

 

CfP - Talking Back Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:17pm
Nottingham Trent Univeristy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life, and new growth possible. It is that act of speech, of “talking back” that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of moving from object to subject, that is the liberated voice.’

bell hooks, “Talking Back.” Discourse (1986), p. 128. 

 

Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:17pm
Sarah Wadsworth / Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The Henry James Society is organizing a panel for the Modern Language Assocation Convention in New Orleans in January 2025! 

 

The topic is "Seeing Things: Perception and Palpability in Henry James." How is sight in James tied to the physical body, material world, and felt relations? How do language and style play with sensation, cognition, and embodiment? Proposals on Alice and William are welcome. 

 

Please submit 300-word abstract + short bio to tkill@unc.edu and sarah.wadsworth@marquette.edu by 3/14/2024. 

 

“Roe v. Wade to La marea verde in Speculative Fiction” (NWSA, Nov 14-17, 2024, Detroit MI)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 4:58pm
2024 National Women's Studies Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

We invite abstracts for a proposed panel session for the upcoming National Women’s Studies Annual Conference, taking place in Detroit, MI, November 14-17, 2024. Following the theme, “The Journey Not Only the Arrival, Critical Connections Not Only Critical Mass: (Re)Thinking Feminist Movements,” we solicit submissions that consider the critical connections between reproductive justice movements in the Americas, with a specific focus on how these movements are represented in the ever-fruitful field of speculative fiction.

 

Roe v. Wade to La marea verde: Reproductive Legislation and Activism in Speculative Fiction

Dismantling FX's Atlanta: BOOK

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 2:58pm
Kennesaw State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

The intention of this book is to connect scholars, readers, and fans of FX’s Atlanta from inside and outside of academia. Between 2016 and 2023, Atlanta was a zeitgeist that inspired think pieces and water cooler conversations. As one example of its complexity, Atlanta often features re-imagined but true local news events that were so outrageous that audiences unaware of the original stories assumed they were fiction. We hope our book project bridges the gap between “everybody already knows this” to “why or how do we know this”? Or even more, “why don’t you know this?” There is a cultural knowledge about Atlanta that sings in the FX show – from lemon-pepper-wet wings to the parking madness of Atlantic Station –  that screams IYKYK.

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 7:10am
NYU Paris, CY Cergy Paris, École Normale Supérieure
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Modernist Long Poem and Its Discontents

19-20 September 2024

Venue: École Normale Supérieure & NYU Paris

 

Keynote Speaker: Virginia Jackson (University of California, Irvine)

                    Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Temple University)

 

Organizers: Richard Aldersley (NYU), Mantra Mukim (CYU Paris/CNRS), Samantha Lemeunier  (ENS)

 

[New deadline] *Essay Collection* New Faces of William Gaddis: Reconsiderations for his Second Century

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 7:54pm
Crystal Alberts, Ali Chetwynd, Michael Sanders
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

December 2022 marked William Gaddis’s (1922-1998) centenary. Reputed during his lifetime for—in his characters’ words—being “difficult as I can make it,” or writing “for a very small audience,” the years since his death have nonetheless seen his work republished in increasingly wide-reaching editions and discussed in numerous online reading groups, with his unpublished archive increasingly studied and brought to public attention.

The present edited collection of academic essays seeks contributions that will challenge, update, expand, or surpass the extant understandings of Gaddis’s work, clarifying what it can offer readers more than a century after his birth.

Call for Chapter Proposals - Apocalyptic Ecolinguistics: Language, Landscape, and Ecoanxiety in the Age of Climate Crisis

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 2:04pm
Editors: Emil Tangham Hazelhurst & Declan Lloyd, Lancaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Apocalyptic Ecolinguistics: Language, Landscape, and Ecoanxiety in the Age of Climate Crisis

(For submission to Bloomsbury’s “Advances in Ecolinguistics” series: see https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/bloomsbury-advances-in-ecolinguistics/ )

UW Madison South Asia Conference 2024: "Multispecies South Asia" Panel

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 1:00pm
Sreyashi Ray, University of Minnesota
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Multispecies South Asia

A wide range of other-than-human subjects—animals, plants, microbes, among others—animate contemporary South Asian lived experiences. Relationships formed across species boundaries— whether brief or long-lasting, utilitarian or altruistic— are imbricated in  the intersectional operations of race, caste, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and indigeneity. From quotidian instances of touching, witnessing, and other forms of interacting with other-than-human subjects to exceptional, contextually specific use of them to bolster anthropocentric concerns, the ubiquity of multispecies coexistence is uncontested. 

Abstracts Wanted for Edited Collection about Early Modern Cultural Trauma

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 10:41am
Devori Kimbro
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Currently soliciting abstracts (approximately 250-300 words with additional 100 words of author bio) for an edited collection discussing the role of cultural trauma in early modern English society. I am interested in essays focusing on Shakespeare/early modern theater as well as other realms of early modern life – political, religious, etc. Of particular interest are projects focusing on the role of race/racism in making traumatic meanings on the early modern stage. Abstracts should specifically reference topic's connection to cultural trauma. Final drafts should be 5000 – 7000 words inclusive of notes/bibliography. Please send questions/abstracts to Devori Kimbro at devori-kimbro@utc.edu.

American Literature 1870-Present (Permanent Section), MMLA 2024, Chicago, IL

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 10:32am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.

Indian Migration During The British Empire: A Literary Scrutiny

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 9:55am
Kochar and Khan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Note: Springer has shown interest in publishing this book.  We are short of just 3 Chapters - One in Category 3 and two chapters in Category 4

Concept Note:

Contemporary Cultural Responses to a Neoliberal World

updated: 
Friday, March 22, 2024 - 6:10am
University of Northampton
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

EXTENDED DEADLINE: 26 MARCH 2024

Keynote Speaker: Professor Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at The University of Edinburgh.

The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies (CCLS) invites proposals for a one-day, in-person symposium to be held on 13 June 2024 at Waterside Campus, University of Northampton, UK.

Code as Conversation: Transmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies

updated: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 7:41pm
Cambridge Digital Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

Code as ConversationTransmedia Dialogues Around Critical Code Studies 

University of Cambridge, Saturday 1 June, 2024

‘Hello World!’ is how all computer programmers begin, and it’s how Mark C. Marino opens his manifesto for critical code studies. This elementary exercise in coding, accompanied by the instruction PRINT, demonstrates that “code exists not for machines but for humans who need to communicate with the machine and with other humans.” The code we write enables us to interface with the machine, sitting somewhere between human language and the calculations performed by the computer. 

Articles on American Literary Archives / Bibliography (Deadline Extended)

updated: 
Thursday, March 21, 2024 - 12:15pm
Resources for American Literary Study (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2024 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis. 

Call for Applications for Editorial Positions: Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities

updated: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 10:51pm
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Rupkatha Journal seeks dynamic Section Editors, Board Members and Advisory Board Members. Please apply by following the link via Google Form: Rupkatha-Application - Google Forms Working with the journal is voluntary and no remuneration is paid. The information collected here will be kept confidential. 

The scope of publication can be found at https://rupkatha.com/about.php. We are looking for editors in the following areas:

5th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 10:04pm
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 13 - 14, 2024

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

We cordially invite researchers, academicians, and scholars to submit their abstracts for the 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, which will take place on May 13 - 14, 2024, in Vienna, Austria. This conference is a premier platform for presenting emerging trends and research in a diverse array of subjects related to arts, humanities, social sciences, and education.

Key Themes and Topics:

Erasure, Resistance, and Innovation: Two-Day International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics

updated: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024 - 2:36am
University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Faculty of Languages and Literature (FoLL), University of Central Punjab (UCP), Lahore, Pakistan is organizing a Two-day International Conference on Language, Literature, and Linguistics on the theme of Erasure, Resistance, and Innovation on June 6 - 7, 2024,(Online and In-person).  Political erasure of unwanted individuals, communities, cultures, identities, languages, and knowledge through forced and orchestrated collective amnesia has been endemic in human history. Power has always openly and surreptitiously been involved in deciding whose knowledge matters. Which language and meaning matter to be sensible? Who matters as a human? Whose sufferings matter as grievable?

“East” or “Middle East” in Doris Lessing

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:29pm
Doris Lessing Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Inviting proposals on the “East” or the “Middle East,” broadly construed, in Lessing’s oeuvre, exploring politics, sources, representation, or questions of definition. We welcome comparative approaches with other 20th-century writers. Send 250-word abstract and bio.

Confinement and Freedom in Doris Lessing and Other 20th-Century World Writers

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:29pm
Doris Lessing Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Inviting proposals on confinement and freedom, prisons visible and invisible, in works by Lessing or in conversation with another 20th-C world writer. Papers may adopt various perspectives—theoretical, philosophical, political, allegorical. Send 250-word abstract and bio.

Request for Papers: The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture - NEPCA Hybrid Fall Conference 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 6:59pm
Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conferenceto be held online and in person at Nichols College, MA, October 3 – 5, 2024. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom. In-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning and will be broadcast to conference registrants via Zoom. Time zones are US Eastern Standard Time.

Extension of deadline: The Representation of Famines in Indian Literatures

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:55pm
ROUTLEDGE
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

deadline for submissions: 

March 30, 2024

full name / name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow)

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures

 

The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”

 

Environmental Futures – Advancing Mutual Human-Nature Relationship — World Futures Review Special Issue

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 1:03pm
Dr. Manjana Milkoreit, University of Oslo; Prof. Bethany Wiggin, University of Pennsylvania Allie E.S. Wist, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Ludwig Weh, Fraunhofer IMW; Dr. Kasper Kok, Wageningen University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

World Futures Review – Special Issue

Title: Environmental Futures – Advancing Images of Mutual Human-Nature Relationships

 

Guest Editors:

Ludwig Weh

Fraunhofer IMW Center for International Management and Knowledge Economics

ludwig.weh@imw.fraunhofer.de

 

Allie E.S. Wist

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute & New York University

wista@rpi.edu

 

Dr. Kasper Kok

Wageningen University

 

Dr. Manjana Milkoreit

University of Oslo

 

Prof. Bethany Wiggin

EXTENDED DEADLINE (3/23/24) - Nabokov and Musicality - MLA 2025 (New Orleans)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 10:02am
International Vladimir Nabokov Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans 

 

The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following theme for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):  

 

Nabokov and Musicality 

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

updated: 
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 8:01am
Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

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

deadline for submissions: 

March 31, 2024.

Full name/name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) 

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

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

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

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