Call for Papers

Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

SPECIAL ISSUE – Art and Imagination: Philosophical Issues

Though some have dismissed the imagination as “the junkyard of the mind,” just about all artists will vouch for the fact that the imagination is not just essential but also central to the arts. This is true not only of the creation or production of artworks, it is the case also when it comes to the reception or experience of art.

Call for Papers: International Journal of Sustainable Fashion & Textiles

‘Re-Imagining Fashion Retailing and Marketing in the Epoch of Sustainability and Digitalization’

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-sustainable-fashion-textiles#call-for-papers

2025 ACIS-BCPS CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 23-26, 2025 | DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH, GA

The Program Committee for the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) and the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference (BCPS) cordially invites the electronic submission of proposals for papers, panels, and other relevant presentations.

The current surge of graphic novels in French, from Marjane Satrapi's oft-celebrated Persepolis to Jessica Oublié's lesser-known-yet-prize-winning Péyi An Nou, signifies a shift in priorities for Francophone storytellers. Graphic novels create meaning through the interplay of text and image; they privilege non-linear storytelling and thinking; and they prioritize accessibility over erudition. As a marginalized genre, graphic novels are a welcome home for those writing and illustrating from the margins of society. In a graphic novel, what we see is never the full story; instead, we are constantly challenged into new modes of "seeing" and "reading" that question assumptions about the consumption of literature and art.

This conference, marking the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African Literature Association (ALA), explores the ways in which African writers reconceive movement and place. Often, narratives about Africans on the move, particularly migrant Africans, reflect a tension between motion and stasis. Such tensions highlight the often-unsettling narrative transitions that characterize recent poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fiction from Africa and the diaspora. While narratives like NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names depict the exigencies of forced removal, others, like Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic describe identities and situations in flux.

Although writers like Sappho and Shakespeare died hundreds of years ago, the works they left behind are still vibrantly alive. When we read them, we recognize something fundamental about ourselves. In this roundtable, literature scholars, creative essayists, and poets reflect on deeply personal encounters with “old” books, texts, and images from the pre-Industrial past. Covering a range of topics—Shakespeare and divorce, Dante and gender, Hippocrates and the modern health-care system, St. Agatha and embodiment, studying the Middle Ages while Black—these essays show how conversations with the past continues to animate our twenty-first century lives.

We are especially interested in essays that engage the 17th and 18th centuries.

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024
Conference Dates: December 3-4, 2024
Location: online
Fees: £90 (non-members), £76.5 (LABRC members)
(Fees apply to both presenters and attendees)

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/07/unwrapping-christmas/

Call for Papers

UPDATED DEADLINE! OCTOBER 15, 2024

This creative session seeks writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction who address Philadelphia’s past, present, and future creative evolution, revolution, and devolution in their work. 

ABSTRACT

As one of America’s oldest cities, Philadelphia has experienced drastic changes many times over, often celebrated or maligned by its creative class in music, literature, and performing arts. 

We are seeking chapter proposals for an edited collection on 'Bugs in long-19thC Eco-Literature.'

Essays in this collection will focus on a specific subgenre of eco-literature, ranging from Gothic horror to children’s fantasy.

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2025

50th Anniversary Conference

April 4-6, 2025

Keynote panel with Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz

View the full call here >> https://nvsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/call-for-papers-nvsa-2025-1.pdf

NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025: https://www.nemla.org/convention.html

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following CFP:https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21067

This roundtable invites educators to present their revolutionary approaches to language teaching in the post pandemic era, from AI integration, to project-based and task-based learning, to career preparedness. Contributions that address curricular innovations in all languages and learning modalities are welcome. 

The Arkansas Philological Association invites papers/presentations for its 51st annual conference. The conference will take place Nov. 8-9, 2024, at the University of Arkansas - Fort Smith.

We welcome faculty, graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and independent scholars from a wide range of disciplines to submit proposals of no more than 200 words for 15- to 20-minute presentations on topics related to language(s), literature, theoretical and cultural analysis, creative works, and pedagogical approaches. Papers addressing any aspect of literary and cultural studies are welcome, but we particularly encourage proposals for talks (or panels) on the APA 2024 conference topic of food and culture.

56th NeMLA ConventionPhiladelphia, PA |  March 6-9th, 2025

All submissions must be made through NeMLA's submission portal: View Session (cfplist.com)

Hip hop began in the Bronx, NY, in the early 1970s, but the musical genre and cultural movement build from a rich history of Black American traditions, experience, and epistemology. This session seeks short presentations that will prompt a roundtable discussion about how hip hop has influenced and been influenced by American (r)evolution.
Some might argue that hip hop was and is a cultural (r)evolution for many reasons, including:

Beyond the Capitals of Decadence