Cormac McCarthy: When the Man Comes Around (2023) is a one-day conference to be held on November 15, 2023 regarding the work of Cormac McCarthy (July 30, 1933 –).

Papers are invited that touch on his characteristic treatment of a variety of subjects within his body of work: masculinity, femininity and Stoicism (analytic and continental), writing, living and dying; the ontology, epistemology and literature of fate and identity; war and peace, film adaptations of his work, politics and sovereignty, science fiction, extreme phenomena (e.g. COVID-19, UFOs/UAPs, Earth’s heating climate, A.I., etc.), art, fiction and narrative, violence, law, power, metaphysics, critical inquiry and so on. 

TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.3:

 Trans* Ecologies

Guest editors: Erin L. Durban and Megan Moore

Eva Hayward (2022) inquires, “Can trans mean anything to ecology? If so, what?” The guest editors of this issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly offer Hayward’s question as an invitation to artists, activists, and scholars to consider the possibilities of combining trans* analytics and undisciplined environmental and ecological thinking. The issue follows the Queer & Trans Ecologies Symposium that took place at the University of Minnesota in spring 2023.

The Illinois Medieval Association invites proposals for individual papers and especially full sessions for the 40th Annual Illinois Medieval Association Symposium, to be held online throughout the academic year. Papers presented at the Symposium are eligible for submission to our peer-reviewed proceedings volume, Essays in Medieval Studies, published annually by the West Virginia University Press and available via Project Muse. The Symposium aims to engage all disciplines and geographical areas of medieval studies.

This session is part of the 36th annual Medieval-Renaissance Conference, sponsored by the Center for Medieval-Renaissance Studies at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, Spetember 14-26, 2023.  It welcomes proposals about all topics related to King Arthur as a figure in literature, history, art, and entertainment.  Interested in interdisciplinary approaches, such as the character of Arthur in romance and history, in art and literature, and in popular media, are especially encouraged.  We also welcome proposals on:

NEASECS 2023 Conference: “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings”
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023

Panel: Translations, Revisions, and Adaptations in the Eighteenth Century

Panel Chair: Lina Jiang (ljiang28@fordham.edu)

This panel queries the notion of “critical race theory” and how to teach racial issues whether or not one is specifically a “critical race theorist.” This topic is especially urgent during a time of right-wing “anti-‘woke’” agendas that seek to erase the very concept of race from public education and to attack as “divisive” any effort to offer a historically informed and rigorous accounting for ongoing inequality and racism in American society. Race is perversely both denied and invoked as that topic which is too disturbing to teach and yet absolutely necessary for the maintenance of normative political structures.

25 May 2023

Unlearning Ableism: What is Superflex: Social Thinking?

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Themed Issue 23: 

The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University

Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

                                                              Thinking about Intersectionality:

                                              Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

International conference

April 11-12, 2024

Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient

Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the call for papers of the (Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes Human-Animal Studies Conference until the 10th of June. 

Submit your abstract (max. 250 words) to uncommonworlds3@ykes.org (preferably as a word doc or a pdf file with the word “abstract” in the subject field of the e-mail). Remember to add a title for your presentation as well as your name and affiliation and contact information. Add to the abstract if the paper will be presented in-person or online.

This roundtable will be held in-person at the 2023 PAMLA conference in Portland, Oregon. The exact day and time is TBD. The conference dates, however, are Oct 26-29, 2023.

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/User/ViewProposals/0

Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Editor: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, PhD (Binghamton University)

Email: mazeem1@binghamton.edu

Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2023

We are seeking proposals focusing on Shakespeare and his time, Shakespeare and/or his peers, the influence of Shakespeare on later works of literature, including adaptations, translations, and productions of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare and critical race theory, feminism, post-colonial or science studies, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare and related topics. As a standing session we welcome paper proposals on a wide variety of topics; however, papers that address the conference theme of "Shifting Perspectives" in relation to Shakespeare are particularly welcome.

Proposals should be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities

Abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2023

In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”