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CFP: British Association for Victorian Studies - Annual Conference
1-3 September 2022, University of Birmingham
Who are the unsung heroes of fantastical literature? Who deserves to be recognised for their significant contribution to contemporary Anglophone Fantastika literature but are pushed out of the limelight? This edited companion to fantastical literature hopes to address gaps in research by bringing together considerations of important but underexamined authors and artists. Depending on the number of abstracts received, the collection may be further divided into separate sections – or even individual volumes – taking into consideration different media:
In 1931, Langston Hughes embarked on a tour of the southern United States, reading his poetry mostly at HBCUs in the age of Jim Crow. His goal was two-fold: he was both answering Mary McLeod Bethune’s suggestion that “people need poetry” and developing a formula for “making poetry pay.” As the Great Depression dragged on and the Scottsboro case lay heavy on his mind, Hughes understood the importance of art and the artist in providing perspective and spiritual strength to the community, but he also labored under hostile conditions that complicated every aspect of his journey.
This is a reminder that the College English Association is soliciting abstracts from its members for a panel entitled “Teaching at Minority-Serving Institutions of Higher Education” at the 2023 Modern Language Conference from January 5-8 in San Francisco, CA.
The editors of Tinakori: Critical Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society are seeking scholarly essays for publication in the sixth volume of the journal. Essays that address any aspect of Mansfield and her writing will be considered. Tinakori is committed to publishing innovative and rigorous research into one of the most significant women authors of the early twentieth century. It is an official online series recognised by the British Library with its own ISSN number: ISSN 2514-6106.
Call for Papers
Creaturely Fear: Animality and Horror Cinema
Sheffield Animal Studies Research Centre (ShARC), 21–22 July 2022 (Online)
Keynote speaker: Dr Christy Tidwell, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature invites papers on the South and science fiction for a panel at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 94th Annual Conference from November 11-13, 2022 in Jacksonville, FL. Papers may discuss any of the subgenres of science fiction, especially afrofuturism, post-apocalyptic, or alternate history, and may focus on any medium including video games, novels, movies, television, comics, etc. as long as the South or “Southern-ness” is a concern within the chosen text. We welcome presentations that offer to 'expand' the canon of southern literature and science fiction itself, especially papers that focus on works by BIPOC, AAPI, or LGBTQ+ writers.
Environmental justice illuminates various crises of knowing: overreliance on universalizing western scientific epistemologies; suppression of marginalized (including Indigenous/Black/Asian/Latinx/feminist/queer/crip) epistemologies; uncertainty, skepticism, doubt.
Please send 250-word proposals on the making/unmaking of knowledge in relation to environmental justice, broadly conceived, as well as a CV and/or brief bio, by midnight Pacific on March 20, 2022.
Speculative fiction covers a broad range of narrative styles and genres. The cohesive element that pulls works together under the category is that there is some “unrealistic” element, whether it’s magical, supernatural, or a futuristic/technological development: works that fall into the category stray from conventional realism in some way. For this reason, speculative fiction can be quite broad, including everything from fantasy and magical realism to horror and science fiction—from China Miéville to Margaret Atwood to Philip K. Dick. This panel aims to explore those unrealistic elements and all their varied implications about society, politics, economics, and more.
We have seen a rise in awareness campaigns and charities for mental health in the last decade: Calm, Let’s Get Men Talking, NHS’s recent ‘Help!’. Each speaks to the need to chip away at the stigma of being open about mental health. In particular, there has been a notable rise in campaigns approaching men’s mental health. Male suicide rates still account for three-quarters of the suicides in the UK. This one-day symposium seeks to engage with a range of interdisciplinary discussions on the link between gender, culture, and suicide. It aims to explore the ideas around gendered approaches to suicide, and how cultural frameworks and representations shape them.
Sponsored by the MLA's Digital Humanities forum, this guaranteed panel invites papers that merge frameworks drawn from the environmental and the digital humanities. Of special interest are papers addressing the global impact of computing technologies and attendant issues of environmental justice.
Please send abstracts up to 300 words, along with a brief professional bio to:
Avery Slater (avery.slater@utoronto.ca)
For information on the 2023 MLA convention (Jan 5 - Jan 8, in San Francisco), see
https://alastriapress.wordpress.com/mpca-maca/
CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS in CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference
Friday-Sunday, 14-16 October 2022
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue
Open Educational Resources
with a Forum of General Articles
Issue Editors:
Jojo Karlin, NYU Libraries
Krystyna Michael, Hostos Community College, CUNY
Inés Vaño García, Saint Anselm College
Associate Issue Editor:
Chanta Shenell Palmer, Lehman College, CUNY
TCAF 2022 Academic Symposium Call for Papers
Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Agadir, Morocco
Laboratory Values, Society, and Development(LVSD)
Group on Ethics, Representation and Politics in Literature and Culture (EREPLIC)
Organizes
An International Conference on:
ImmUnity and CommUnity
2-3 November, 2022
Call for Papers
Charles Reznikoff: Inscriptions (1894-1976)
International Conference
Université Paris Nanterre, France
June 1st-3rd, 2023
Keynote speakers: Norman Finkelstein, Michael Heller.
Call for Submissions: The RAACES Review, Volume 2, Issue 1 (2022).
New Deadline for submissions: Monday April 4, 2022
For our second issue (Spring/Summer 2022), we invite academic and creative pieces about racism, racialization, decolonization, Blackness, Indigeneity, and racial empowerment in any field. We welcome submissions from faculty, staff, students of all levels (undergraduate and graduate), and community members. We are particularly interested in explorations of:
Contribute a chapter to the Open Access book "Social Aspects of Ageing - Selected Challenges, Analyses, and Solutions"
Register here to participate:
About the Book:
The call for papers has ended for this handbook but we are now recruiting up to ten editorial members who will each review 3-5 papers and give feedback to help enhance the quality of the paper. Their names will be shown on the title page as members of the editorial board for this prestigious handbook, and each will receive a hardcopy of the book when published.
To incite qualified academic reviewers to join this prestigious project, here is the current structure of the handbook:
Routledge Handbook of Language and Mind Engineering
Edited by Chris Shei and James Schnell
I. State-led mind engineering
CALL FOR PAPERS
‘The Unconscious and Everyday Life’ PPS Postgraduate Conference 2022 on:
Boundaries and Borders of the Unknown
To be held on the University of Essex Colchester campus and on Zoom Friday 27 and Monday 30 May 2022
Open to all current Postgraduate Research and Professional Doctorate students
Graduate Student Teaching Demonstration Sessions
The Graduate Student and Pedagogy Subcommittees of the ATHE Professional Development Committee invites submissions for a Graduate Student Teaching Demonstration Sessions at ATHE 2022. In these sessions, graduate students will have an opportunity to demonstrate an example of their teaching, so that they can receive feedback on their pedagogical skills and areas for improvement from our faculty panelists. These respondents will be chosen based on the focus of the graduate students’ teaching demonstrations. Audience members can also learn tips and tricks for teaching by watching the demos and participating in the feedback portion.
2022 Call for Proposals
Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association
The Vocation of the Peacemaker
University of Mount Union, Alliance, OH
October 13 – 16, 2022
“Vocation is one’s response to a call from beyond oneself to use one’s strengths and gifts to make the world a better place through service, creativity, and leadership. To speak of vocation or calling is to suggest that my life is a response to something beyond myself.”
-Roger Ebertz, University of Dubuque [1]
CALL FOR PAPERS
MONSTERS & MONSTROUS BODIES IN AMERICAN CULTURE AND SOCIETY
SPONSORED BY THE MONSTERS & THE MONSTROUS AREA OF THE NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE/AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION
PROPOSALS BY 13 MARCH 2022
CFP: Classics Illustrated: Adaptation and Appropriation in the Comics and Other Graphic Narratives
A collection organized to further the goals of Saving the Day: Accessing Comics in the Twenty-first Century, a joint outreach effort of the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture. (More information at https://accessing-comics-in-the-21st-century.blogspot.com/.)
Organizers: Nick Katsiadas, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Carl Sell, Lock Haven University; and Michael Torregrossa, Independent Scholar
CFP Fair Unknowns: Extending the Corpus of Arthurian Texts
Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
Collection edited by Carl Sell, Lock Haven University, and Michael A. Torregrossa, Independent Scholar.
Proposals due by 1 June 2022
CFP: Articles for the Victorian Jewish Writers Project
What: CFP for ASU Graduate Student Southwest Humanities Symposium
When: April 9 & 10, 2022
Where: Zoom (this is a virtual conference)
UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: March 28, 2022
The International David Foster Wallace Society invites you to attend DFW 2022 in Austin, Texas. Special events at the Harry Ransom Center (home to Wallace’s archive), social events, and other presentations will be included, in addition to a wide variety of panels of Wallace criticism and commentary.
Panels will be held at the University of Texas Glickman Conference Center. The keynote address by Pulitzer winner Jennifer Egan will be held at Jessen Auditorium in Homer Rainey Hall on Thursday, June 2. The keynote, sponsored by the Harry Ransom Center, is free and open to the public.
Call for Papers: Willa Cather’s Letters/Willa Cather and Letters
As the Complete Letters of Willa Cather is nearing completion, Cather's letters are available and accessible to scholars and researchers in an unprecedented way. To mark this moment in Cather scholarship, Cather Studies will devote a volume to essays that engage with Cather's letters in new and deeper ways that may have been previously unavailable to scholars. Melissa J. Homestead, editor of Cather Studies and co-editor of the Complete Letters, will edit the volume.
A variety of approaches and topics are welcome, and essays may focus exclusively on Cather or Cather in relation to other figures.
This traditional session welcomes submissions on any representation of nonhuman animals or animality in southern literature from the last century. With the development of posthumanism and human-animal studies over the last few decades, nonhuman animals in literature invite readers to no longer consider them as only symbols of human experience, but instead as literary agents of cultural change for both human and nonhuman worlds. Particularly, this panel seeks to explore how those nonhuman animals are active in southern literature. Panelists may be interested in examining nonhuman animals or animality in a single southern text, a southern author’s oeuvre, or an entire southern genre.