New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.  

POST-MAGICAL REALISM IN / THROUGH TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION

Joint CCLA-ACCUTE roundtable at the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2024, McGill University, June 12-15, 2024

DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2023

Organizers: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University, Glendon College, sanj92@yorku.ca; Jill Planche, Brock University & Toronto Metropolitan University, Chang School, jillplanche@gmail.com

MLA New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

Morris, Religion, and Myth

 This MLA guaranteed session invites proposals exploring Morris’s writings on religion and myth. Topics could come from Morris’s Icelandic writings, his fantasy romance, The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere, The Defence of Guenevere, and A Dream of John Ball.

 Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Friday, 1 March 2024, to jnixon@salemstate.edu

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Transcendentalist Legacies of Resilience" at the Throeau Society Annual Gathering, 2024.

The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.

The Eighteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)

1-2 November 2024

National Taiwan University

CALL FOR PAPERS

Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).  

Inspired by this year’s conference location, Chicago, we encourage the submission of papers and proposals for panels on the topics of Black literary renaissances, movements, and Black literary radicalism. 

Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:

-The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Black clubwomen

CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024

Senses of Law

Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?

CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024

Senses of Law

Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation

Tuesday 2 July 2024 to Thursday 4 July 2024 

Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong

In 2014 Falmouth University hosted the hugely successful Haunted Landscapes conference, which was followed in 2023 by Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments. Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is the third conference in this series. It will, like its predecessors, be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus amidst lush tropical gardens, only a short walk from the picturesque town and its beaches.

Open Section

 At the end of autumn 2024, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: issue eleven of CLOSURE will publish essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.  

 Thematic Section: »The End is Here«

Call for Papers on James Joyce and Emerging Fields of Study

Following a year’s hiatus, Joyce Studies Annual has begun reviewing submissions for future issues. Under the new editorial direction of co-editors Keri Walsh and Christopher GoGwilt, JSA seeks to nurture a diverse range of creative and scholarly work intersecting with Joyce studies.