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Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Palgrave
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
Palgrave Handbook of Disability in Comics and Graphic Narratives

We invite abstracts for articles to be published in a collection showcasing scholarly research related to disability in comics and graphic narratives. This edited volume will highlight insights from both disability studies as well as comics studies.

Centering a disability justice ethos, we especially welcome: submissions by disabled authors/creators; collaborative submissions; work that engages with disability life writing and/or disclosure; work that addresses accommodations and accessibility as they relate to comics pedagogy, form, and/or readership.

REMINDER Call for Papers: LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Faculty of Foreign Languages Alfa BK University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Faculty of Foreign Languages would like to remind you that the 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

Journal of Ethnic American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
JEAL
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY, ESPECIALLY WITH PROMISING GRADUATE STUDENTS & YOUNGER SCHOLARS DOING WORK IN ETHNIC AMERICAN LITERARY STUDIES: Journal of Ethnic American Literature, a refereed scholarly annual dedicated to new research and criticism in American literature and culture, seeks scholarly articles (5000 to 7000 words saved in Word) that use the MLA Style. JEAL also plans to develop a "Poetic Notes" section. An interested contributor can select a good but less discussed poem by an American poet and submit an explication of up to 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions can be emailed to journaljeal@yahoo.com, and the subject line should contain JEAL, Sub, your name, and the date. The deadline is August 1.

Milton and Visibility (MLA 2025 New Orleans)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:11pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals considering visibility, broadly conceived, in Milton’s writings. Potential topics include disability, visual art, race, labor. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.

 

Milton and Love (MLA 2025 New Orleans)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:10pm
Milton Society of America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

The Milton Society of America invites proposals offering new considerations—theoretical, historical, philosophical, or literary—of love in Milton’s writings. Send 150-word abstract and brief cv to MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com no later than February 23.

 

New England Medieval Consortium conference Nov 9: Books and Transgressions

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:10pm
New England Medieval Consortium
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

This conference will provide an opportunity for medievalists working across a range of disciplines and geographic areas to join in conversation about premodern cultures of the book, boundary- crossing, and the law and other normative cultural expressions. Given this year’s conference location at a Jesuit, Catholic university, and our keynote speakers, we particularly (but not exclusively) invite submissions focused on regions other than England, including the Middle East; language traditions other than English; and religious cultures.

Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
Current Research in Speculative Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Current Research in Speculative Fiction 2024

14th Annual Conference

3 – 5th July 2024, University of Liverpool, Offline and Online, https://crsfhome.home.blog/

 

I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.(Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower)

 

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics / Manisa Celal Bayar U.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 26, 2024

The 4th International Conference on the Philosophy of Language, Literature, and Linguistics, to be held by 9-11 May, 2024 in Manisa, Turkiye, as did its predecessors, aims to bring together academics of language studies in sharing their scholarly work. Any academic event of this kind promises to provide a space for academic and interdisciplinary discussions revolving around the philosophy of language and literature. The submitted papers should be about but not limited to:

 

Linguistics

Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, Université Paris Cité
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

International conference

“Material Realisms in Contemporary British Literature”

 

The Future of the Lumpenproletariat: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:09pm
University of California, Santa Barbara
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Theme: The Future of the Lumpenproletariat

Subtitle: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

Type: Interdisciplinary Conference

Institution: University of California, Santa Barbara

Location: Santa Barbara, CA (USA)

Conference date: May 24-25, 2024

Submission deadline: March 15, 2024

Open issue

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:08pm
[sic] - a journal of literature, culture and literary translation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation
University of Zadar
Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br 2
23000 Zadar
www.sic-journal.org

 

Call for Papers
(Open, Non-Thematic Issue)

[sic] – a journal of literature, culture and literary translation invites submissions for the upcoming 30th issue. We accept:

 

  • original research papers: 5,000 to 7,000 words including references and footnotes

  • reviews: up to 2,000 words

Black Psychoanlayses?

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:08pm
MLA Executive Forum: Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 23, 2024

Since the “discovery” of psychoanalysis, thinkers of race (creative, intellectual, political, and clinical) have contemplated whether psychoanalytic discourses can contemplate—let alone contend—with the question of Blackness. The range of figures includes thinkers who were focused on the clinical imperative, such as Frantz Fanon, to those who more implicitly yet just as critically have inquired about the psychic life of anti-Black racism (Richard Wright, Patricia Williams, Toni Morrison, etc.). This panel seeks to outline this intellectual history of critical black thought that brings into sharp focus the tensions between psychoanalyses and race while also remarking on current interventions in the state of the field.

MLA 2025 CFP Australian Literature at the Crossroads

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:08pm
American Association of Australasian Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 12, 2024

Call for Papers 

MLA 2025 New Orleans, LA, 9–12 January

American Association of Australasian Literary Studies 

An Allied Organization of MLA – Guaranteed Session

 

Australasian Literature at the Crossroads 

 

Official MLA 35-word CFP: 

Consideration of any aspect of the literature, film, and/or culture of Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, including Indigenous writing, particularly changes to the field, content, and milieu of literary studies. Full CFP aaals.org. 250-word abstracts.

 

Full CFP: 

the Black Theatre Review Vol. 3.1 - Nurturing

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:07pm
the Black Theatre Review
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

the Black Theatre Review (tBTR) is now accepting submissions for our fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published in July 2024. “They didn’t bring the hum; they didn’t bring the leader-call, they didn’t bring the field hollers, because they didn’t know them…. the hum, the holler, the leader-call are women things.”  
Nikki Giovanni, Black Women Writers at Work

tBTR is pleased to accept submissions for its fifth publication, Vol. 3 No. 1, to be published July 2024 online. We invite authors to reflect on the theme of nurturing.

Book Chapter for Memory Studies in Turkey and Beyond: A Handbook by BRILL

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:07pm
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim, Kadir Has University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Turkey with geographical, historical, social, and cultural attributes stands as a unique laboratory for memory studies. Memory studies in turn can serve as an antidote for grappling with Turkey’s past, present, and the looming issues, challenges and crisis within and beyond its borderlands. Despite such mutual benefits, there remains a notable lack of development in memory studies within Turkish academia, and a shortage of collaborative research on the Turkish memory culture in transcultural memory studies. The underrepresentation of memory studies in the Turkish context inevitably underscores the need for research initiatives that contribute to bridging this gap through comprehensive academic resources.

Golden Age Detection Goes to War

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 1:06pm
J.C. Bernthal and Rebecca Mills
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Chapters: Golden Age Detection Goes to War

 

Editors: Dr J.C. Bernthal (Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Suffolk) and Dr Rebecca Mills (Senior Lecturer in Communication and English, Bournemouth University). 

 

Resurgence of Epistemologies of Gender in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 11:17am
Sophie Larue / Université Laval
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Call for Proposals
ACQL's 2024 annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from June 14 to 16. 

 

Resurgence of Epistemologies of Gender in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
Panel organized by Isabella Huberman (UBC), Marie-Eve Bradette (U. Laval) and Sophie Larue (U. Laval)

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks "The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Vol. 72 (1/2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 8:38am
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks

Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)

"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)

NEW Submission deadline: March 31, 2024

Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across various media. This special issue aims to delve deep into the intricate relationship between ideas and their portrayal within popular culture.

DEADLINE EXTENDED Modern and Contemporary Regional Writers (ALA 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 7:28am
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Jonathan Bayliss Society

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, IL. 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 or info@jonathanbayliss.org by January 29, 2024.

The California Ideology Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 - 12:38am
California Ideology Project (UCHRI); History of Consciousness, UCSC
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

CFP: The California Ideology Conference 

Submission Deadline (updated): February 1st, 2024, by midnight PST.

Speakers: Alberto Toscano, Banu Bargu; Massimiliano Tomba

The California Ideology Project (UCHRI) welcomes submissions for an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of “The California Ideology” at UC Santa Cruz on April 6-7, 2024. 

Crossroads VII: Comparative Indigeneities

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:45pm
University of Massachusetts Amherst
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

In the seventh edition of the Crossroads Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, we aim to foreground indigeneity as a key theoretical framework for investigating and challenging systems of oppression and as an invaluable component of studies in literature, film, and other media. Indigeneity unsettles colonial mechanisms and intervenes in such contentious discourses as subjectivity, domination, and environmental collapse. By looking at indigeneities comparatively, the conference seeks to underline the intrinsic pluralism and inclusivity of such modes of thinking, to consider indigeneity as a series of non-systems rather than a monolith, and to bring to the forefront the possibility of vibrant solidarity.

#Maud150: Back to the Future

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:45pm
Journal of L.M. Montgomery Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

30 November 2024 will mark 150 years since the birth of internationally celebrated writer L.M. Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables, twenty other novels, short stories, poetry, diaries, memoir, journalism, textiles, photography, and collage.

Health, Well-being, & Illness in Lusophone & Hispanophone Contexts

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:45pm
AATSP
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

Description: As the AATSP’s guaranteed session at the MLA Convention, this session seeks to explore representations of health, well-being, and illness in Lusophone and Hispanophonecontexts from a variety of perspectives that include social justice, pedagogy, cultural production, linguistics, and cultural analysis across places and through time. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Mirrors, Shadows, Simulations, and Other Uncanny Doubles

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 1:44pm
Anita Duneer
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Call for Proposals

Mirrors, Shadows, Simulations, and Other Uncanny Doubles

Editors: Pamela Bedore and Anita Duneer

 

In our cultural moment, we are constantly faced with questions about the very nature of reality. How can we grapple with rapid developments in the power of AI to impersonate, simulate, and replicate personal identities and virtual images? How can we teach our students to identify originals from their copies and to create a sense of their own unique identities?

 

Unruly Borders: March 1-3 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 - 10:34am
Department of English 17th Annual Graduate Student Conference, University of Ottawa
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Call for Papers

Unruly Borders 

“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.” Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera 

The English Graduate Students Association of the University of Ottawa is excited to review your submissions for our 2024 Conference 

EXTENDED DEADLINE - Call for Book Chapters - Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media and Culture

updated: 
Monday, January 22, 2024 - 3:12pm
Replaying Communism Project (AHRC)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

After a successful symposium that took place on 1 December 2023, the co-founders of the multi-disciplinary ‘Replaying Communism’ project (which received funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council) are looking for contributors to an edited collection entitled: Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media and Culture

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