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What is the Every Day? - MLA 2024

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:54pm
Molly Young and Noa Nikolsky / University of Pennsylvania
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Literary, theoretical, and philosophical engagements with “the everyday” have a broad, transhistorical scope—from stoic philosophy to canonical hours, or medieval books of precepts; from Locke and Kant in the eighteenth century to Wittgenstein, Austin, and the ordinary language philosophy of the early twentieth century; from Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau to Toril Moi and Stanley Cavell; from considerations of the realist novel of the nineteenth century to the modernist novel of the twentieth (and beyond). 

Call for Conversion-Therapy Narratives/Chapters

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:53pm
Lucas F. W. Wilson
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 15, 2023

CALLING ALL CONVERSION-THERAPY SURVIVORS

Are you a conversion-therapy survivor and want to share your experience so that this debunked and dangerous practice doesn’t happen in the future? Individual stories are powerful and have much potential to personalize the often-misunderstood practice of conversion therapy.

Whether or not you have formal training in writing or storytelling, I want to hear from you! I am putting together an edited volume of stories about conversion therapy as told by survivors themselves.

“Putting Our Faith in Institutions”: Religion and Literature Permanent Section

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:52pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

This year, MMLA’s general call questions what the academy “owe[s] democracy,” namely how academics engage with shared truths. In keeping with the general call, the Religion and Literature permanent section invites proposals that examine how authors interrogate institutionalized systems of belief. 

 

Those aspiring to be on the panel should feel empowered to offer proposals that interpret the concept of religion rather loosely by potentially including the academy as an institution of belief. Maintaining a broad interpretation of religion to include all intersections of faith, folklore, belief, and literature, expressions of belief may include creeds, mottos, mission statements, the constitution, charters, manifestos, doctrines, etc. 

Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:52pm
University of Augsburg
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

Call for Papers - International Workshop: Relationality and More-Than-Human Storytelling

July 13-15, 2023, University of Augsburg, Germany

Comics on the Couch: Graphic Medicine and Psychoanalysis

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:50pm
Vera Camden
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The field of narrative medicine recognizes that stories articulate the language of the body. Rita Charon, the founder of the field of narrative medicine, brought both patient and practitioner to a fuller recognition of stories as a source of medical insight and intervention: stories that may take shape in words but originate through bodily drives. Drawing lessons from psychoanalysis about “attention, drives, and relationships,” she reminded us that the nineteenth-century photographs of hysteria captured images of bodies telling stories not yet spoken.

In Passage: The International Journal of Writing and Mobility 6

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:49pm
University of Boumerdes
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 28, 2023

In Passage : The International Journal of Writing and Mobility, the journal of the Department of English of the University of Boumerdes (Algeria), seeks essays in English or French for its sixth issue, to be released in December 2023. 
 
 All the contributions should either be written in English or discuss questions that relate to the English-speaking world. They should fit within the broad scope of texts and mobility and their interconnectedness in the fields of literature, linguistics, and translation, among others.

Suggested topics:

 

- Travel literature and intercultural contact.

- Nomadism.

- Exile in literature

-  Literary genres and movements

Apocryphal Technologies (Edited Collection)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:28pm
Jamie Allen and Anthony Enns (Editors)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

Apocryphal Technologies: An Archeology of Spurious and Nefarious Techniques, Devices, Practices, and Beliefs (edited collection; proposal deadline: May 15, 2023)

Reading Tolkien in the 21st Century

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:28pm
University of Bonn
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

Reading Tolkien in the 21st Century
(7–8 September, 2023 – University of Bonn, Germany)

CFP: 39th International Conference on Psychology and the Arts

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:28pm
The PsyArt Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 5, 2023

we are excited to announce that this year’s conference will be held at Il Fuligno – Montedomini in Florence, Italy, June 21-24, 2023. There will be an optional post-conference excursion to Siena, San Gimignano, and Chianti in Tuscany on June 25. The event is sponsored by The PsyArt Foundation. Visit our 

Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:26pm
Charlotte Spear and Maddie Sinclair, University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 26, 2023

In his discussion of the socio-ecological crisis of capitalism, Jason Moore dismisses the theoretical tendency to describe ‘twin’ social and environmental crises, arguing that ‘these are in fact a singular process of transformation that today we call a crisis’ (2011: 136). The 2023 Territorial Bodies: World Culture in Crisis conference proposed the notion of ‘territorial bodies’ as an analytical tool for addressing the singular socio-ecological crisis further.

CfP: Poster Session (3/8/23; WiG, Nov.2-5, 2023)

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:25pm
Coalition of Women in German Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Coalition of Women in German Annual ConferenceNovember 2-5, 2023 in Portland, OregonPoster Session  The poster session allows scholars to employ audiovisual forms to initiate conversations about intersectional feminist issues in their research, teaching, and activism. Submissions have taken the form of traditional posters, PowerPoint presentations, short films, websites, dioramas, installations, interactive experiences, etc. “Posters” can address a variety of topics, such as pedagogy, literature, film, cultural studies, history, and politics. Be creative, discover a new approach to your work, and gain valuable feedback in real time.

MLA 2024: The Global South and Ireland

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:24pm
MLA Irish Languages, Literatures and Cultures Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

The Irish Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Forum invites proposals for a guaranteed roundtable at MLA 2024 (4-7 January) in Philadelphia, PA. 

This roundtable considers points of collision, comparison, and friction in the diasporic literary and cultural histories of the Global South and Ireland. How have different legacies of conquest, occupation, and resistance determined understandings of belonging to knowable communities? In turn, how have distinct practices and experiences of diaspora helped to effect specific forms of identity, affiliation, and tendency? And how have literary and cultural works served to articulate these relations into the fraught present? 

50th anniversary of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:24pm
Signum University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 1, 2023

Signum University Press is pleased to announce a call for papers in honor of the 50th anniversary of William Goldman’s The Princess Bride, to be released in 2024 and edited by Faith Acker and Maggie Parke. We welcome papers by experienced and renowned or young and emerging scholars, of all nationalities, genders, identities, and colors. Interested contributors may submit a 500-word abstract in English by 1 April 2023 to press@signumu.org. Full drafts of maximum 10,000 words will be due by 1 October 2023.

Renaissance Conference of Southern California 2023

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 4:23pm
Renaissance Conference of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

66th Annual Conference

Saturday, 23 September 2023

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for our 66th Annual Conference, to be held at the University of San Diego.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Rebellious Affects: Black Joy, Pleasure, and Happiness as Counterabjection

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 2:52pm
Joanna Davis-McElligatt, University of North Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

How can we harness of the power of Black joy? How have Black thinkers, scholars, and artists turned their attention to forms of Black happiness as a critical and necessary affectual response to the logics of Black death? How can we describe—and make meaningful—the radical potential of Black happiness and joy as antidotes to the overwhelming logics of Black death and destruction? While keeping in view the manifold ways Black life is denigrated, devalued, and destroyed, this panel seeks to explore representations of Black bliss, tenderness, pleasure, jubilation, mirth, and exhilaration.

CALL FOR PAPERS: SEXINESS/ SEXISM

updated: 
Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 1:40am
National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of Foreign Languages and Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Sexiness/ Sexism

What is your first thought when hearing someone is “sexy”? What images spring to your mind? Why and how? Do you relate it to bodies, desires, genders, or sex? Do you think “sexiness” is a kind of “sexism”? Or are you trying to deconstruct this association and find more possibilities to open our senses?

We’re soliciting work in three categories:

-Literary analysis using Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
e.g. Reading Chang Xiao-Hung’s Fashioning Modernity

- Reviews of mass media, films, literature, etc.
e.g. The representation of sexiness in K-pop music
e.g. Voguing category: sex siren

-Creative Writing
e.g. short stories reconceiving sexiness

Edited Collection -- Disability and the Vampire

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 8:26pm
Brooke Cameron / Queen's University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

CFP: edited collection -- Disability and the Vampire

Dr. Brooke Cameron (Queen’s University), Peadar O’Dea (Maynooth University) and Adam Owsinski (Charles Darwin University) invite proposals for chapters that explore the connections between vampires and disability, from history to modern cultural and popular representations.

Project Description:

Craft Critique Culture Conference: Emerald-Colored Glasses: An Environmental Vision

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 6:34pm
The University of Iowa English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Deadline ending soon! Proposals due March 3rd.

 

Craft Critique Culture Conference: Emerald-Colored Glasses: An Environmental Vision

Call for Papers

The University of Iowa English Department invites proposals for its 2023 Annual Conference, Craft Critique Culture, to be held in person in Iowa City, IA. 

Event Dates: April 20-22, 2023

 

CRAFT CRITIQUE CULTURE is an interdisciplinary conference focusing on the intersections of critical and creative approaches to writing both within and beyond the academy.

 

2023 Annual Spring Conference: Recovery

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 2:21pm
Florida Atlantic University / The English Graduate Student Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The English Graduate Student Society's Annual Spring Conference: Recovery

For over a decade, this interdisciplinary conference-proudl hosted by Florida Atlantic University's EGSS- has celebrated creative & scholarly work by graduate students in the South Florida area. We invite grad students to submit a proposal for any work, be it critical or creative, that they might like to present via conference format.

Presentations will be held both in person and on Zoom the weekend of April 20th.

Proposal Cuidelines:

Liberal Education in the Era of Migration, Refugee Crises, and Decolonization - May 4-5, 2023

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 11:59am
University of Lethbridge, Medicine Hat College, Mount Royal University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

The present realities of decolonization, immigration, and refugee migration require critical enquiries into the provision of liberal studies in higher education. The aims and methods of liberal education as a pedagogical exercise and a cultural practice need to be examined within the dynamic intellectual, social, economic, and political contexts created by today’s unprecedented movement of peoples and intersections of cultures. Variously seen as forced migration, exile, dislocation, statelessness and even environmentally induced displacement, the Global refugee crises present multilocational and multilayered challenges.

Otherness - A One-Day Postgraduate Colloquium

updated: 
Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 5:19am
School of English, University of Sheffield
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 5, 2023

We are delighted to announce a one-day colloquium on the topic of Otherness. The event will take place on Friday, the 26th of May 2023 at the University of Sheffield.

Our Keynote Speaker is Dr Maisha Wester.

Topics could include (but are not limited to):

Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration

updated: 
Tuesday, February 28, 2023 - 4:35am
James Fenwick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 10, 2023

Heritage, Community, Archives: Methods, Case Studies, Collaboration

12th to 13th June 2023, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK

EXTENDED DEADLINE: FRIDAY 10TH MARCH 2023
(Please note we have extended the deadline to accommodate requests from colleagues).

No Longer for Kids: Children’s Literature and Higher Education

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 9:04pm
Noah Mullens / University of Florida
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Call for Papers: MLA 2024

Co-sponsored by the Children’s Literature Association and MLA Libraries and Research Forum (non-guaranteed)

Deadline Extended: March 15th

Liberal Subjects, Then and Now

updated: 
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 1:02pm
NAVSA 2023 Roundtable
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 12, 2023

Liberalism’s nebulous contours have long animated studies of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. This roundtable seeks to extend these discussions by turning to this tradition’s imprint upon our practices and conceptions of teaching and scholarship. We invite papers that trouble the continued privileging of the “liberal subject,” a term that encompasses ideas of individualism, originality, and progress–values whose peculiar Victorianism has been analyzed by Elaine Hadley, Amanda Anderson, and Lauren Goodlad, among others.

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