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Theology Without Walls: An Assessment and Critique

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:56am
SHERM Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

In 1982 Robert Neville wrote, “The encounter of Christianity with the world’s other religions has shaken Christian theology to its foundations.” One recent response to this trauma is the so-called “theology without walls” movement, in which Neville has been an active participant. Unlike another response, namely comparative theology (which remains “confessional” or married to the truth of one’s starting or “home” religion), theology without walls is willing and eager to explore other religions—even non-religious sources—in what Jerry Martin calls “an effort to understand ultimate reality as fully as possible.”

The New Ray Bradbury Review, issue 8 (2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:54am
Ray Bradbury Center, Indiana University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The New Ray Bradbury Review Issue 8 (2024)

For the next issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review (NRBR), we invite articles which examine the theme of space, broadly construed.

DEADLINE EXTENDED--Women in French 11th International Colloquium "Precarious Lives/Vies Précaires"

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am
Women in French
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The deadline for the 2024 Women in French 11th International Colloquium, to be held at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on March 28-30, 2024, has been extended until SEPTEMBER 30, 2023.

Please find the original CFP below.

11TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN FRENCH CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

University of Alabama  

Precarious Lives/Vies précaires

28-30 March 2024  

Call for Proposals: The Films of Bernardo Bertolucci

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:53am
Benjamin Halligan / University of Wolverhampton
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

The work of Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), in its preoccupations, scope and politics, exemplifies that of the post-war generation of radical European auteurs: initial films made in the shadow of Neo-Realism, and under the influence of the French New Wave (The Grim Reaper, Before the Revolution); a full embrace of the events of 1968 (Partner, Agonia); a late modernist art cinema that interrogated the scandal of Italian war-time history and exerted a profound influence on other film-makers – particularly those of New Hollywood (The Conformist, The Spider’s Stratagem); a global “success de scandale” with Last Tango in Paris, which was still in the headlines half a century later, via #MeToo; a particularly 1970s

Panel on Transgenerational Trauma in Theatre and Performance (Comparative Drama Conference, Orlando, April 4-6, 2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
Comparative Drama Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

In Dark Matter (2013),  Andrew Sofer observes that “[s]taging trauma poses a representational conundrum because trauma confounds chronology and eludes comprehension” (118). Yet the theatre has long been a site for exploring the effects of collective trauma from genocide, slavery, war, environmental disaster, and forced displacement. Building on existing trauma studies scholarship and the work of psychologists such as Cathy Caruth and Judith Herman, whose research highlights trauma’s resistance to coherent, chronological narrative and simple representation, we are seeking papers for a special panel focusing on transgenerational trauma as it is expressed in dramatic literature and performance.

M. Butterfly at 35

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
David Henry Hwang Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

 

 

M. Butterfly at 35

Sponsored Panel by the David Henry Hwang Society for the Comparative Drama Conference

2023 marks the 35th anniversary of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly.  We welcome  papers that engage with Hwang's Tony-winning play, the David Cronenberg 1993 film as well as the 2017 rewritten Broadway revival.   We also encourage discussion of various productions of either play.

From cottagecore to solarpunk: the new faces of the pastoral

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:52am
Théo Maligeay / Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Call for papers on the pastoral, cottagecore and solarpunk, regarding an upcoming 1-day symposium, organised by Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (EMMA) in Montpellier, France (Université Paul Valéry). Date : November 17, 2023. 

 

Call for papers :

 

Call for Co-Editors - Journal of Contemporary Poetics

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:51am
International Islamic University, Islamabad
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dear Scholars and Researchers,

We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to contribute to the advancement of scholarly discourse in the field of contemporary poetics. The Journal of Contemporary Poetics is seeking enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join our esteemed editorial team as Co-Editors.

ACLA 2023 - Mediterranean Comparisons: Literature Beyond Borders

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:50am
C. Ceyhun Arslan / Koc Universitesi; Karim Mattar / University of Colorado at Boulder
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 28, 2023

The Mediterranean has often been considered a transitional space—a rite of passage, an interval between borders, a route to conquest.  But what of the Mediterranean as a context and a framework in itself?  How might notions of ‘man,’ ‘nation,’ ‘empire,’ ‘center,’ and ‘periphery’ be reformulated when looked at from the perspective of the sea? What does comparative literature look like when the Mediterranean is viewed not only as a sea in which cultures exist and literatures are produced but also as a context or a framework in which they can be reassessed?

Thomas Merton + Tranformations (CEA 3/21-3/23/2024)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
College English Association + International Thomas Merton Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

International Thomas Merton Society

at the

College English Association

53rdTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 

Westin Buckhead Atlanta

March 21-23,2024

Call for Papers

 

Trans Literatures

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

 

Trans LiteraturesA special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies

 

Call for Proposals 

Co-edited by: Alex Brostoff (Kenyon College) & RL Goldberg (Princeton University, Prison Teaching Initiative)

 

Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2024

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:47am
CEA College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice 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 Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 53rd annual conference.

The special topics chair for Composition & Rhetoric: Practice invites submissions on a range of topics exploring writing pedagogies and practices focused on the conference theme of Transformations. Proposals may address the following topics:

-       What are successful transformations of your curriculum that have supported student success in writing?

American Studies and American History

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

American Studies and American History

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

CFP: Buffy and Beyond (SWPACA Conference; 2/21-24/2024; Due 10/31/23)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers: Buffy and Beyond at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

Annual Conference

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

CFP: Children’s/Young Adult Culture at Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:45am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Children’s/Young Adult Culture

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

 

Celebrating the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance: Legacy, Influence, and Contemporary Perspectives

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:44am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Celebrating the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance: Legacy, Influence, and Contemporary Perspectives

International Hybrid Conference
17-18 February 2024
University of Delft, The Netherlands

(In-Person/Physical Presence and Online Presentation sessions: 2 days)
(Virtual platform for pre-recorded presentations: 5 days)

 

Thematic Approach

GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinarity commemorates the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance and explore the diverse aspects of the movement, highlight its lasting impact, and examine its relevance in contemporary society.

ICMS Kalamazoo (May 9-11, 2024): Session in Honor of V. A. Kolve (1): Laughter and Play

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:44am
Christina Fitzgerald, University of Toledo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) will honor V. A. Kolve (1934-2022) with a panel of topics on medieval drama at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 9-11, 2024. The Play Called Corpus Christi has been especially influential in medieval English drama studies, and its arguments about the significance of laughter, play, game, comic action, and time and space in the English biblical plays continue to shape the critical conversation. The MRDS invites those who have been influenced by Kolve’s work on early drama, or who studied or worked with him, to celebrate his legacy with papers that respond to or converse with Kolve’s contributions to the field.

IMC Leeds 2024 CFP: The Experience of Local Officialdom

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:43am
Charlie Steinman
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2024, 1-4 July 2024 

 

The Experience of Local Officialdom in Europe and the Mediterranean, c.1000-1500: Between Order and Disorder 

 

Medievalism's marginalised makers: Leeds International Medieval Congress July 2024

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:43am
Dr Fran Allfrey / University of York
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

In studies of medievalism, there is a flourishing bibliography analysing the work of artists and scholars of marginalised genders, races, and sexualities, including studies by Candace Barrington, Helen Brookman, Jane Chance, Joshua Davies, Caroline Dinshaw, Denis Ferhatović, Katie Garner, Jonathan Hsy, Clare Lees, Bob Mills, Gillian Overing, Elan J. Pavlinich, Mary Rambaran Olm, Matthew X. Vernon, and Bethany Whalley.

The medieval in museums: Leeds International Medieval Congress July 2024

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:43am
Dr Fran Allfrey / University of York
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

We invite 15-minute papers examining presentations of the medieval in museum and heritage contexts. We invite interrogation of the social, political, historical, and cultural effects of museum and heritage work, including: 

  • practices of acquisition, curation, display, and interpretation; archives, record-keeping, and databases

  • education and community projects

  • digital presences

  • outreach or knowledge exchange activities run by field archaeologists or academics

  • performances or reenactments

Touring Travel Writing III: Between Fact and Fiction International Conference

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:43am
Touring Travel Writing III: Between Fact and Fiction International Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Venue: NOVA FCSH, Colégio Almada Negreiros (Campus de Campolide)

Date: November 9-10 2023

 

 

CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand) once again join efforts and organise this international conference which aims to be a locus of debate on the many facets of travel writing, a research area that has emerged as a relevant topic of study in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the last few decades.

 

 

 

Papers on the following topics are welcome:

 

Anglophone travel writing on the Portuguese-speaking world

Digital and Humanities Practices Across the Language Curriculum

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:42am
NEMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Dear Colleagues,

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following roundtable at the NeMLA's 56th convention in Boston (March 7-10) by September 30, 2023. Questions on the roundtable can be addressed to Arianna Fognani (afognani@sas.upenn.edu

FORMAT: Roundtable. Participants give brief, informal presentations followed by an open conversation and debate.  

NeMLA 2024: Cold War Scarcity

updated: 
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 9:42am
Arnav Adhikari
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

If this year's NeMLA Convention centers around the thematic of "surplus," this panel will consider its corollary in the problem of "scarcity." Situating our inquiry in the Global Cold War, which is shaped by the afterlives of decolonization, this panel asks: how might scarcity inflect our understanding of this period? Does it simply connote a lack or loss of unfulfilled revolutionary promises? Or does it point to a system of material debt that shapes cultural expression? Or, perhaps, scarcity might indicate a purposeful obfuscation of meaning that is consequently withdrawn from instrumentalization by political life, therefore incommensurate with nationalist or neo-imperial projects in the twentieth century.

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