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ACLA: Present When I'm Absent, Speaking When I'm Not There (Uh): The Surd and Immanent Expression in the Radical Black Aesthetic

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:18pm
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

The Latin word, ‘Surdus’–used to translate the Arabic mathematical term, ‘asamm’–had referred to irrational numbers, those resisting, or willfully remaining deaf to, ratiocination and thus calculability. Its contemporary counterparts, the mathematical 'surd;' and the linguistic use of ‘surd’ for unvoiced consonants find a link in the Proto-Indo-European ‘*swer-’ which meant to buzz, whisper, or whistle. With the rise of contemporary calculation and the computational society of control which derives its power from bayesian modeling, the mathematical theory of communication, and algorithmic machine learning, the ability to remain inscrutible and deafening to such Capitalist ratiocination continues to be, and is an evermore, important aspect of resistance.

CFP for the November issue of The Korean Society for Eighteenth-Century English Literature Journal

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:17pm
The Korean Society for Eighteenth-Century English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers: The Korean Society for Eighteenth-Century English Literature
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming issue of Eighteenth-Century Literature Journal, a peer-reviewed academic publication (KCI: Korean Citation Index) dedicated to exploring the diverse literary landscape of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830). We welcome submissions that offer fresh insights into the literature, culture, and intellectual life of this period.

Submission Guidelines

1 II International Conference of Humanities UAb. The Challenges of Digital Transformation

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:17pm
Universidade Aberta
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Will digital transformation allow for a reinvention of the articulation of art, culture, science and
technology?

What interactions can be established between the Humanities and digital transformation?
What is the long-term impact of digital transformation on the teaching-learning process
within the Humanities?

Quintessential figures of the Renaissance, such as Leonardo da Vinci, articulated art, culture, science and
technology. In the 21st century, we are once again living in an era of civilizational paradigm shift, as digital
transformation imposes transformative possibilities and challenges.

Developing Inclusive Physical Education Programs in the 21st Century, Call For Book Chapters

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:17pm
Micah J. Dobson, North Carolina State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Developing Inclusive Physical Education Programs in the 21st Century will examine the diverse functions of PE in promoting social justice, inclusivity, and active participation. Postgraduate researchers, early career academics, graduate students, and educators dedicated to enhancing diversity, inclusivity, and engagement in physical education teaching and learning are invited to submit abstracts for review.

Hemingway Society at ALA 2025

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
The Hemingway Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Hemingway Society welcomes proposals for papers to be delivered at the 36th American Literature Association conference to be held May 21-24, 2025 in Boston.

Infrastructural Poetics

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
College Literature (Special Issue)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

College LiteratureSpecial Issue: Infrastructural Poetics

Co-editors: Marty Cain, Claire Farley, and Michael Martin Shea

Call for Papers:

[The Profession] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: The Profession at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, The Profession at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on the Profession for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

[Visual and Material Culture] (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 11, 2024 - 6:16pm
College English Association (CEA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Subject: Call for Papers: Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2025

 

Call for Papers, Visual and Material Culture at CEA 2025

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Visual and Material Culture for our 54th annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

ACLA: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time

updated: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 1:21pm
Defense Language Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"

Please find the panel and submit to ACLA: Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film Across Time | American Comparative Literature Association (acla.org)

SEXTANT - student-centred journal seeking submissions

updated: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024 - 6:23am
SEXTANT: masculinities, sexualities & decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked. 

SEXTANT features the work of students, activists, artists, and researchers, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.

Now accepting submissions for Volume 2, Issue 2. 

Peer Reviewed with Widening Scope

updated: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 10:05am
Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion continues to publish scholarship on a wide range of time periods, traditions, and perspectives. While welcoming essays on our longstanding concerns such as T S Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Graham Greene, we call attention to our recent interventions into contemporary writers like Marilynne Robinson and Carolyn Forché, into Dante studies and Shakespeare studies, and into non-Western areas of inquiry.

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Ghost Figures in World Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, October 9, 2024 - 8:23am
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

A ghost, Avery Gordon writes, “has a real presence and demands its due, your attention” (2008, Ghostly Matters). To answer this demand, our seminar invites submissions that turn their attention to literary and artistic ghosts. After all, ghosts are profoundly literary figures; like poetics, they are defined by their repetitions and returns, and constantly referring to something else, though failing to fully represent it. However, ghosts are not any literary figures. They are haunting, and although they have a strong presence they come into life in place of something absent. Moreover, in their haunting presence, they are signalling “repressed or unresolved social violence” (Gordon, 2008).

 

Black Aeromobilities: Engaging Flight in African and Afrodiasporic Cultural Texts

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Our Special Section for Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies seeks articles that are situated at the intersection of Black/ African/ Afrodiasporic aeromobilities and studies in literature and culture. Concentrating on “the study of various complex systems, assemblages and practices of mobility” (Sheller 2014, 45), mobilities research is often associated with the social sciences. Yet the field is also firmly rooted in the humanities (Aguiar et al. 2019, 4–5; Merriman and Pearce 2017, 493–494), and representations of mobilities are increasingly being studied in diverse cultural products.

Call for Book Chapters on Creative Disruption: Impact of AI on English Language and Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Dr. Abhijeet Pralhadrao Dawle
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Dear Scholars and Researchers

We are delighted to announce a Call for Book Chapters for an upcoming edited book titled “Creative Disruption: Impact of AI on English Language and Literature Studies.” This volume aims to explore the transformative influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the study, interpretation, and teaching of English Language and literature Studies. We invite contributions from scholars, researchers, and educators who are interested in examining how AI is reshaping the literary landscape, from literary analysis and criticism to pedagogy and linguistic studies.

Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic (Re-)Turn (ACLA 2025, online)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Nidesh Lawtoo & Mathijs Peters
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods, haunted by the myth of originality. Yet, in recent years, scholars across the humanities, social sciences, and even the neurosciences, have returned to the ancient, yet strikingly contemporary, realization that humans are an imitative species, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu).

Speculative Southern Futures at SAMLA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:31am
Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

The Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO), an affiliate of the Society of the Study of Southern Literature, invites current students and/or beginning faculty to submit abstracts for an upcoming guaranteed panel on envisioning the future of the South for SAMLA 96 this November 15th-17th in Jacksonville, Florida. This year’s conference theme, “Seen and Unseen,” looks to parts of stories that are untold.

International Conference on Fostering Multimodal Literacy Through English Language Education

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 11:09am
CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Location: Bangalore, India 

Subject Fields: English Language Teaching/ English Literature/Linguistics/Computer Science/Education 

Venue: CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bannerghatta Road Campus, Bangalore, India 

Mode: Offline and Online (Only for Presenters) 

Date: 20 January 2025 (Tentative date. Final date to be announced soon) 

Time: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm 

Infrastructure(s) & Storytelling: Rethinking Contexts, Connections, & Erasures [ACLA 2025; virtual; May 29–June 1, 2025]

updated: 
Tuesday, October 8, 2024 - 1:25am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Infrastructures, both visible and invisible, are all around us and they permeate our lives in various ways. Larkin defines infrastructures as “built networks that facilitate the flow of goods, people, or ideas and allow for their exchange over space” (327). Though most commonly associated with its physical manifestations, the term infrastructurealso encompasses intangible elements that play a crucial role in society. Thus, infrastructures are not merely "limited to pipes, roads, and wires" but should, instead, be understood as “interdependent networks of materials, people, and nature that enable the functioning of modern life” (Lockrem 529).

NeMLA 2025- Uncanny Families: The Trauma Revolution

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Rachel McKinley, University of Alaska Fairbanks
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The family can be a place of hidden and haunted spaces, and in these spaces they bring to mind the uncanny, often moving deftly from the ordinary to the extraordinary or supernatural. Families are also notorious receptacles for trauma and are frequently explored in writing from Isabel Allende’s La casa de los espíritus/House of the Spirits to Tara Westover’s Educated.

NeMLA 2025-Fringe Benefits: Leveraging Revolutionary Teaching Models to Transform Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

After working in alternative or hybrid spaces throughout the pandemic, the return of educators and students to the “traditional” classroom has brought its own unique challenges and frustrations both for students and instructors. Learners who previously participated in fully remote classes are expected to integrate smoothly into synchronous in-person courses with little guidance or preparation. Instructors are offered little guidance in easing the transition for students and are often already stretched thin themselves. In light of these circumstances, educators must reevaluate what teaching methods and structures might best serve students and instructors in a technological and AI-driven era.

College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:35pm
Dr. Heidi M. Williams
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 29, 2024

Call for Proposals (CFP): College Professors Who Homeschool: Expertise, Theory, and Practice

Deadline for Submission: Nov. 29, 2024

As the homeschooling movement continues to grow, with close to 4 million documented homeschoolers in America (NHERI), college professors who choose to educate their own children at home bring a unique and valuable perspective to this educational approach. We invite college professors from various disciplines to contribute chapters to an upcoming collection on "College Professors and Homeschooling: Bridging Academic Scholarship and Home Education."

Irresistible Decay: Discourses of Death in Life from the 18th Century to Today

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 6:30pm
Airelle Amédro; Enrica Leydi - University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024
  • Conference date and location: 07 March 2025 at the University of Warwick  
  • Confirmed keynote speakers:Professor Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter) and Professor Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, University of London)

According to Julia Kristeva, decay is a ‘privileged site of mingling, of the contamination of life by death, of begetting and ending’ (1982). As a cyclic organic process where life and death inexorably meet, decay is an irresistible metaphor in social, artistic, medical, and political investigations. Since the 18th century, its malleable imagery has lent itself to both the most emancipatory and the most oppressive ideas.   

“To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
ESRA - European Shakespeare Research Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 2, 2024

ESRA conference, Porto, July 9-12, 2025 (https://esra2025.com

Seminar 2: “To be or not to be”: Trauma, Crisis, and Shakespearean Fragments

Organizers: Richard Ashby, King’s College London, UK (richard.ashby@kcl.ac.uk), Natalia Khomenko, York University, Canada  (khomenko@yorku.ca), and Georgina Lucas, Edinburgh Napier University, UK (g.lucas@napier.ac.uk).

2nd Call Synergies in Communication International Conference

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:29pm
Bucharest University of Economic Studies/Dept. of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
The 12th International Conference
Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)
31 October- 1 November 2024
(hybrid format)

Narratives of Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:28pm
Lauren Horst
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

In his seminal work, Encountering Development, Arturo Escobar traces a history of development that begins with the Truman Doctrine and unfolds as a western plot to control and contain the so-called “Third World.” Here, development is something undertaken by western financial institutions and imposed on the economies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. It is counter-revolutionary, intended to curtail the radical economic visions that emerged with decolonization and the formal end of empire.

Teaching Medievalism

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Teaching Medievalism

Deadline for Submissions: December 1

Session: February 28, 2:00 pm (Central)

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Illinois Medieval Association Symposium
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Using Contemporary Theory to Teach the Middle Ages

Submission Deadline: December 1

Session February 7, 2:00 (Central)

ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Literature and International Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Lauren Horst, Columbia University & Susanna Sacks, Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/literature-and-international-development. 

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.

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“Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange, revolutionary world of modernization?" (Chinua Achebe, “What Has Literature Got to Do With It?”)

 

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