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GLOBAL ANTHROPO-SCENE:
RETHINKING SUSTAINABILITY AND CULTURAL PRESERVATIONS
30-31 January 2024
A Two-Day International Conference
Department of English
Jadavpur University
Sex in Translation - International Conference, London, 4-5 July 2024
2024 Situations International Conference
Call for Papers
Korean Cultural Centre, UK
1~3 February 2024
Minor Diasporas in Asia and Beyond
Call for Abstracts!
Back to the Future and Philosophy: This is Heavy!
Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene
Jonathan Bayliss Society
Call for Papers: 2024 American Literature Association Conference
The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 23, 2024.
Jonathan Bayliss Society
Call for Papers: 2024 American Literature Association Conference
The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 23, 2024.
Rhetoric After Identification
Edited by David R. Gruber (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) & Jason Kalin (DePaul University)
Rhetorical identification seeks a common ground of existence in which divided individuals can mediate their differences. Perhaps, for this reason, either explicitly or implicitly, identification has become a commonplace of rhetorical theory and criticism. As Diane Davis (2010) writes, “Identification is not simply rhetoric’s most fundamental aim; it’s also and therefore rhetorical theory’s most fundamental problem” (p. 33). Any rhetoric, it seems, must pass through rhetorical identification.
The 71st Annual South Central Renaissance Conference will take place in Savannah, Georgia, 4-6 April 2024. This year, the SCRC will collaborate with the annual New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies for this event, co-sponsored by Georgia Southern University.
The conference will have three key lectures:
William B. Hunter Lecture by Kathryn A. Edwards, University of South Carolina
Louis L. Martz Lecture by Daniel Bornstein, Washington University in St. Louis
Conference Keynote Lecture by Jemma Field, Yale Center for British Art
Contextual Confluence: Media, Text and Traditions
deadline for abstract and full paper submission:
*November 30, 2023.*
Call for Book Chapters
contact email:
editor.literature@yahoo.com
Master's in English Regional Conference
4th annual MERC
- Feburary 10th, 2024 -
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers seeks essays devoted to the study of women's writing by, for, and about members of the nineteenth-century Spiritualist movement. Spiritualism was a wildly popular religious practice that burst onto the American scene in 1848 when two young girls in Hydesville, New York, claimed to be communicating with the dead.
Love in/and/for Games
Mobile Locative Media: Hybrid, Narrative, and Game Spaces
for Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Literature, Culture and Media (Issue 8, Dec. 2024)
The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
The University of Calgary English Department Graduate Association invites both creative and critical proposals for our 2024 Free Exchange graduate conference.
The Adolescence in Film and Television Area invites paper proposals for presentation at the annual Popular Culture Association Conference, to be held March 27-30, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. The official deadline for online submission of presentation abstracts (see below for additional information) is November 30, 2023.
Submissions that explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations, and themes pertaining to the portrayal of adolescence/adolescents in film and television, during any historical era, are desired from scholars, educators, and graduate students.
The UBC Journal for Climate Justice (JCJ) is an emerging digital platform featuring climate justice research and insights at the intersections of art, advocacy, and academics.
The New England American Studies Association is currently seeking submissions for our Summer 2024 conference “Revisiting Region: Locating the “Where” in American Studies” to be held at Harvard University, June 21-22, 2024.
In a moment of political polarization, environmental crisis, and educational censorship, the serious study of region as a cultural, social, and academic tool is of pivotal importance for building and disrupting ideas of identity and collectivity. We seek submissions that explore the role of region(s) within the national project, within our field of study, and within the popular imagination. Put simply, we invite you to join us as we revisit region.
***We welcome submissions from all graduate students and faculty or independent scholars.*** ***A French version of the CFP can be found at our website, here.*** CALL FOR PAPERS SYNOPTIQUE ISSUE 11.1 “TEACHING MEDIA ARCHIVES”
Call for papers for a Special Cluster in a/b: Autobiography Studies
Spaniards across the Americas after the Spanish Civil War: “I am from the Country Called Exile” / Españoles en las Américas después de la Guerra Civil: “Soy del país del exilio”
Call for Papers, Transatlantic Literature at CEA 2024
March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Transatlantic Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Transatlantic Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.
Call for Papers, Post-Colonial Literature at CEA 2024
March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Post-Colonial Literature for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Post-Colonial Literature seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.
Call for Papers, Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST at CEA 2024
March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Women’s Connection/Women‘s Lit/WGST for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Our conference theme in 2024 is Transformations, and studies related to Women’s Connection/Women ‘s Lit/WGST seem especially concerned with transformations of all kinds. Please refer to the general Call for Papers for more information.
Call for Papers
Poetry & Poetics (Critical)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: November 14, 2023
Poems Invited for Dec. 2023 Issue of Taj Mahal Review 44th Issue
The Caribbean region is a vibrant and culturally diverse space where languages, literatures, and identities have long intertwined. In the digital age, these intersections are increasingly complex, opening up exciting avenues for interdisciplinary exploration. This call for papers invites graduate students to examine how digital technologies are reshaping Caribbean languages and literatures, while also influencing the construction of identities in multifaceted ways.
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Devils and Justified Sinners
An online conference on 24th and 25th August 2024 to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The conference is entirely online and is open to scholars and experts from around the world.
The Collecting and Collectibles Area of the Popular Culture Association invites papers on
“The Future Imaginary in Collecting” for the 2024 National PCA/ACA Conference to be held on March 27-30 in Chicago USA
We would especially like to encourage submissions that contribute new directions and calls to the existing scholarship on “Collecting” and particularly address how collections/collectibles imagine the future.
Possible topics for presentations include but are not limited to:
From natural to synthetic, from accidental to administered, poison is entangled with our human history, and its presence has a lot to say about not only our customs and laws, but also our ways of storytelling. Poison likes to adapt itself to situation: the definition of what poison even ‘is’ changes according to time and place, and to the cultural groups and sub-groups that are being consulted. Poison is malleable, mutating, and culturally slippery. In its ability to conquer the imagination, poison is a crafty narrative weaver. From Shakespeare’s plays to Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Eco’s The Name of the Rose, from iconic cinematic examples such The Princess Bride to global phenomena such as J.K.