When: June 10-12, 2024 (Monday-Wednesday)

What: The 49th Annual St. Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies (In-Person Only)

Where: St. Louis University at St. Louis, Missouri

Conference Website: https://www.smrs-slu.org/

Up for a challenge? An Open Call to all Old English Scholars—

Join us in June at “The Odd Words in Beowulf” Roundtable in St. Louis at the “Symposium on Medieval Studies.” The ivory halls will heat up with a groundbreaking discussion that fundamentally will change our current understanding of Beowulf.

Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

***DEADLINE EXTENDED***

Ethics of Representation, Forms of Resistance, and Narratives of Discomfort

23rd Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online Conference

Saturday-Sunday, 6-7 April 2024

(Executive Committee Meeting on Friday, 5 April)

It has been challenging to maintain healthy enrollments in Japanese language courses at all college levels in the U.S. Although this problem is more serious in small liberal-arts colleges, state universities also have the same problem especially in their advanced Japanese courses. If we think about the prevalence of Japanese popular cultural products such as anime, manga, music, games, V-tubers, and traditional artifacts among college students in the United States, we cannot easily understand why the number of students who learn Japanese has been decreasing in many institutions.

One month left to submit!

Call for Papers and Artistic Contributions: Journal of Arts and Communities

Special Issue: ‘Trans-disciplinarity in Disability, Art and Design’

View the full call here>>

 https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arts-communities#call-for-papers

Making Style Work Conference *Extended Deadline*

Call for Proposals

Co-sponsored by the Yale University Labor and Film Working Group, Yale Whitney Humanities Center, the Yale Film and Media Studies Department

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Humanities Quadrangle 136

Yale University

Submission Deadline: Friday, December 22, 2023 by midnight

 “‘Lifting as We Climb’”: The Leadership and Intellectual Thought of Black Clubwomen at the Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century

CFP for the African American Literature and Culture Society (AALCS):

CALL FOR PAPERS 

for the

35th Annual ALA Conference

May 23–26, 2024 

The Palmer House Hilton

17 East Monroe Street

Chicago, IL 60603

In Literature and Evil, Bataille argues for a close connection between literature and "Evil" as a sovereign and productive value, which is defined against an oppressive use of reason that "flattens" all knowledge into a reductive uniformity. Bataille finds in Blake's A Marriage of Heaven and Hell "agitations", "poetic violence" and "lacerations" that occur in Blake’s drive towards human totality and death. At the same time, Bataille observes that this violence and Evil also "raise us to glory" in Blake's attribution to Evil of "the wisdom of Hell that heralds ... truth” --albeit a truth irreducible to representation, priority of the logos, and assimilation by reason.

Every community craves a sense of identity in this world, and continuity with the cultural past. This is more so with the communities whose language, literature and culture are on the verge of extinction on account of multiple factors. Literature and culture can offer indigenous communities a sense of belonging and promote social cohesion, respect for diversity, human creativity as well as help people connect with each other. Hence, the call to preserve endangered folk cultural heritage of communities such as the Jetor, an indigenous nomadic community of Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram settled on the edges of Kangsabati and Subarnarekha. UNESCO has declared 2022-2032 as the decade of indigenous languages.

Call for papers. We are inviting submissions for a special themed issue of Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 

Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a conference to foster critical thinking and meaningful discussion on the discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark discussion on the importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction. In this case, the more we know, the more we grow, and this year’s conference intends to highlight how interdisciplinary approaches to history should be celebrated, providing a sense of unity in knowledge. The 25th annual conference will be a hybrid event in Halifax at Dalhousie University. Consilience will consider graduate-level papers in any area of study featuring an overlap with history.

Culture and Conflict

“In the struggle between tradition and innovation, which is the basic theme of internal cultural development in historical societies, innovation always wins. But cultural innovation is generated by nothing other than the total historical movement—a movement which, in becoming conscious of itself as a whole, tends to go beyond its own cultural presuppositions and toward the suppression of all separations.”

Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle