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Call for Session Proposals -- ELA Pedagogy Conference

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023
  • Conference theme: Connections
  • Date and location of conference: Friday, October 27, 2023 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma 
  • Length of conference sessions: 45 minutes 
  • Length of session proposals: 100 - 150 words
  • Session proposal deadline: EXTENDED to October 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST
  • To submit session proposals, CLICK HERE 
  • Conference registration deadline: October 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST

Lyric Excess: Capital, Nature, Life (NeMLA 2024, Boston)

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 1:52pm
Fiana Kawane / Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What is the potential, liberatory or otherwise, of excess as a figure, motif, scene, or problem? Blake’s “road of excess” offers a counterpoint to an industrial-capitalistic ethos of productivity, frugality, and reason. Moreover, Bataille speaks of “excess” as a form of unproductive expenditure of energy under modernity. If “animatedness” (Ngai) operates as a racialized iteration of exaggerated affect, how does one read the overdetermined sentimentality of the lyric “I”? Lyric excess, then, invites an engagement with scenes of excess, or in other words exuberance, surplus, or waste, to rethink lyric poetry’s non-utilitarian possibilities in form and content.

Woman Scream Call for Poets and Visual Artists 2023

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 1:52pm
Woman Scream Festival
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Word and Visual Artists over eighteen and from anywhere in the world, are invited to send a proposal of visual art or poetry, to the Woman Scream (Grito de Mujer) cause, in its thirteenth anniversary and to raise awareness about women violence as part of its social mission.

The work submitted might become part of our next international anthology in tribute to women and their rights to a life free from violence. Submissions must meet the following requirements:

 

 

-Poetry:

 

Literature-General

updated: 
Thursday, September 14, 2023 - 12:59pm
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Papers

Literature-General

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

 

EXTENDED DEADLINE: MWASECS 2023 Annual Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 11:42am
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 24, 2023

The deadline for paper and panel proposals for the MWASECS conference has been extended to SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.

MWASECS 2023 Conference, Nov. 16-18

Charles Bukowski Conference 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 - 9:28am
University Bordeaux Montaigne
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Call for Papers  

International conference

6-7 June 2024

Reading, Readings… and Loving Bukowski: an invitation to a subjective interpretation

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

 

Dying of Laughter: Horror Spoofs and Parody

updated: 
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 - 6:40am
Reece Goodall, University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29 SEPTEMBER -

Failures in print and audiovisual culture

updated: 
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 9:55am
EUR CREATES / EUR ODYSSEE, Université de Nice
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 6, 2023

This international conference will be held in Cannes, France, on June 6 and 7, 2024.

Organisation : Karine Hildenbrand (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur), Nicolas Labarre (PU, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) et Isabelle Licari-Guillaume (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur).

 

DEADLINE APPROACHING: Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Lesser-Known Witches

updated: 
Monday, September 11, 2023 - 7:02am
Editors: Mariaelena DiBenigno, Ph.D. and Aíne Norris
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

Chapter proposals are invited from interdisciplinary scholars for a collection tentatively titled Recasting the Bygone Witch.

From Sabrina to Supreme, there are plentiful modern representations of the witch in popular culture, each exuding singular or group-sourced power borne from traditions of centuries-past, as manifested in literature, television, film, or local lore.

Call for Book Reviews on Free Speech and Censorship

updated: 
Sunday, September 10, 2023 - 12:41am
Randy Robertson / Susquehanna University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the winter 2023-2024 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “NOT DISABLED, JUST DIFFERENTLY-ABLED”

updated: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 11:14pm
Faculty of Letters of “Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 30, 2023

 

“NOT DISABLED, JUST DIFFERENTLY-ABLED” is the motto-title of this WORKSHOP as it is intended to raise awareness and help us change perspective not only of the way we perceive people with additional needs but of the way it may be faced with exclusion because of the lack of knowledge. As luck would have it, over the years, there has been a shift in the way society views people with special needs from "disabled" rather to "differently-abled". This is a comprehensive phrase that is used to promote a more inclusive and respectful approach to disability, highlighting the unique skills and refreshing perspectives that individuals withspecial needs bring to society.

Critical Approaches to Food and Drinks in Literature

updated: 
Saturday, September 9, 2023 - 2:51am
University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

24-25 November 2023, University of Bucharest

The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

 

Cached in the Hills: Critical Essays on Ozarks Literature (new proposal deadline: 10/15/23) (Seeking additional chapters)

updated: 
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 8:07pm
John J. Han & C. Clark Triplett / Missouri Baptist University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023
  • New deadline for proposal submissions (250 words): October 15, 2023
  • New deadline for completed essays (15-20 pages double spaced): January 15, 2024

The editors have accepted ten chapters and would like to add 5-7 more.  Possible topics might include but are not limited to:

LAST CALL: Digital Humanities (PAMLA 2023 - Portland, Oregon)

updated: 
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 1:59am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

Last call! We are looking for one more presenter to round out our panel. If you are interested, please see details below:

Collaborative Scaffolding: Shifting Perspectives and the Future of Digital Humanities

120th session of PAMLA (all in-person - no hybrid or remote presentations)

Oct. 26-29, 2023 - Portland, Oregon

Special Session - CFP

[DDL extended] Navigating the security in the future of digital writing among technological transformation

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 11:01pm
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2023

Navigating the security in the future of digital writing among technological transformation Living in this post-pandemic age, the insecurity from fear, suffering, and spacial constraint is now extended by technology to a new setting: academia, particularly the writing classroom. The latest technological transformation, like AI-powered writing assistants and tools, are challenging traditional writing pedagogy and practice, challenging us to work with such a “technological problematic” (Sundvall 5). In the past, technological transformations, such as personal computing and the advent of the internet, have established the field of digital writing.

Translation Review, call for submissions

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 5:43pm
Translation Review
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 4, 2024

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical problems of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimedia translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. 

Spring Academy: Interdisciplinary Ph.D Conference in American Studies, March 18-22, 2024

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:20am
Heidelberg Center for American Studies, University of Heidelberg
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Heidelberg Center for American Studies

Annual Spring Academy Conference

 

Heidelberg, Germany, March 18-22, 2024

 


 

Call for Papers

 

The Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) invites applications for its annual Spring Academy on American Culture, Economics, Geography, History, Literature, Politics, and Religion to be held from March 18-22, 2024.

The HCA Spring Academy provides 20 international Ph.D. students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects.

Dewdrops on Embers: Deconstructing the Chequered Tropes of Existential Agonies in the Contemporary Arab American Poetry

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:19am
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Greetings!
It gives me great pleasure to announce my proposed CFP for the upcoming ACLA American Comparative Literature Association conference to be held from 14th - 17th March 2024. Interested presenters may send in their papers latest by 30th September 2023 by visiting the ACLA webpage
https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting/seminars/paper-add

The Call for Papers for proposed seminar:-

Dewdrops on Embers : Deconstructing the Chequered Tropes of Existential Agonies in Contemporary Arab American Poetry “

..Now we walk out into the tunnel of days And a million memories rustle..”
- Lisa Suhair Majaj, Geographies of Light

CFP How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2023; ICMS 5/9-11/2024)

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 10:19am
Michael Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

How Interdisciplinary Can We Be? (Re)Conceiving the Scope of Medieval Studies Today (A Roundtable) (virtual)

 

Sponsoring Organization: Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa

 

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2023

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 9 May, through Saturday, 11 May, 2024

 

Session Rationale

 

Poetic Movements

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 12:46am
ACLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The poetic term “strophe” carries a long-standing implication of movement. It refers to the first part of an ode and is defined as a unit of movement with a song performed in Ancient Greek Tragedy by the chorus as it turned one way (strophe), then another (antistrophe) and then stood in its track (epode). In subsequent definitions, it came to be associated with the song of troubadours and became known for its flexibility in discussing poetic performance with music, dance, gesture and breath. Apart from strophe, movement is also implied in the description of other poetic terms.

NeMLA 2024: Extending Jouissance: The Excessive and The Transgressive in Contemporary Texts (in Boston, MA)

updated: 
Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 12:28am
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Jouissance, the iconic Lacanian concept, means “surplus enjoyment,” where excessive pleasure converts into unpleasure and even pain after going beyond the subject’s affective or sensory capacity. Inherited from Freudian psychoanalysis, combined with Bataille’s eroticism, Marx’s surplus-value and adapted to feminism and socio-political theory by Cixous and Žižek, the connotations of jouissance have often been revised and reconfigured. 

Alan Garner and the Work of Time

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:57pm
York St John University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 28, 2023

We are seeking chapters for an edited book on the work of Alan Garner.

Described by Philip Pullman as ‘the most important British writer of fantasy since Tolkien’, Garner's importance and popularity deserve focussed critical attention.

JITP General Issue 24: Call for Submissions to The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:57pm
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Call for Submissions

Call for Submissions: Issue 24, due December 1st, 2023
Call for Submissions: Sections of the Journal

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Issue 24: General Issue

Issue Editors:
Elizabeth Alsop, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Cen Liu, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Sarah Silverman, University of Michigan-Dearborn

Reimagining Premodern Disability: Excess, Surplus, Gain

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:48pm
NEMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel puts forward premodern disability as enhancement, surplus, or even reward, drawing from the concept of “disability gain,” coined by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Fox, Krings, Vierke, 2019), to reformulate disability as gain, instead of loss, or as a resource. The concept is based on H-Dirksen Bauman and Joseph Murray’s concept of “Deaf gain,” which approaches Deafness as a benefit that expands social, cultural, intellectual, and creative fields (2014). While this concept has yet to be applied to premodern disability, reading disability in premodern texts through the lens of “disability gain” may allow the modern scholar to reframe and discuss the premodern body outside of ethnocentric systems.

Unexpected Excesses: Nonviolence in Contemporary Transgressive Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:48pm
Rebecca Warshofsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

To transgress is to exceed, violate, or infringe upon a law, rule, or convention. When transgression occurs, it often manifests as violence — crime, terrorism, bodily mutilation, etc. — because these are obvious signifiers that a significant legal, social, or moral boundary has been crossed. But the mechanism of transgression, which is always present in society and always necessary for its evolution, can also take subtler forms, manifesting as disgust or abjection (Julia Kristeva), sexuality or eroticism (Georges Bataille), laughter or carnival (Mikhail Bakhtin), etc.

Stanley Kubrick and Conspiracy culture: Call for Chapters

updated: 
Wednesday, September 6, 2023 - 11:48pm
James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University) Matthew Melia (Kingston University)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Stanley Kubrick and Conspiracy Culture: Call for book chapters

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