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PAMLA 2024: Indigenous Cosmologies in Virtual Realms: Video Games and Multimodal Storytelling

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:45pm
121st Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Indigenous scholar and game developer Jason Edward Lewis has argued that the involvement and agency of Indigenous communities in the video game industry allow Indigenous artists and creatives to “stake out our own territory in a common future” (Lewis, 2014). After Lewis, and in light of the meteoric increase in video games titles and other works of digital media by, about, and for Indigenous communities, this session will explore the intersection of Indigenous cultures and cosmologies, storytelling, and video games.

Science and Technology Area

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:45pm
North Atlantic Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

This area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association encourages paper submissions that explore the relation of science and technology to popular culture and American culture, with science and technology broadly defined. We are particularly interested in putting science, technology, culture, and the humanities in conversation with one another. How are science and technology represented in popular culture? How do we use popular culture to understand science and technology? And how do we use science and technology to understand narratives, art, and culture?

Saving Literary History

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:45pm
Samuel Cohen
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

This session considers the place of literary history in English curricula as departments face staffing, funding, and enrollment challenges, asking whether we should continue to teach literary history and, if so, how. The shrinking pains many departments are experiencing, caused by faculty losses and enrollment declines, are making it difficult for them to retain curricular elements that center literary history, such as historical survey courses and period distribution requirements. Alongside these changes are trends in literary study that deemphasize attention to literary history in favor of other modes and objects of study. Possible speaker topics:

--whither literary history

Invisibility: Languages of the Margin, Stories of the Voiceless

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:44pm
2025 MLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

This panel aims to discuss how contemporary global Anglophone/multilingual writers are dismantling the hegemony of lingua franca and making marginalized tongues visible and unheard stories heard.  Topics may address, but not limited to: 1. Multilingual writings of postcolony2. Translation and politics of lingua franca3. Language and trauma4. Linguistic identity in global Anglophone literature.5. Linguistic identity, linguistic attrition.6. Language policies and Anglophone literature of postcolony.  Submit 250-300 words abstract  and 50-100 words bionote to namratadeyroy@gmail.com  

Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024

 

 

Workshop: Women and Crime Fiction

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:44pm
Alan Mattli & Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw, University of Zurich
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Women and Crime Fiction

Workshop at the University of Zurich, 7-8 June 2024

Organised by Dr. Alan Mattli and Dr. Olivia Tjon-A-Meeuw

Intersections of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:43pm
Wendy Anderson (University of Minnesota)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 12, 2024

Critical Perspectives on the Intersection of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity Abstract Proposal

CFP: ISECS Early Career Scholars’ Seminar Diasporas in the Long Eighteenth Century Universitat de Barcelona, 8-12 July 2024

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:39pm
ISECS
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites early-career scholars active in eighteenth-century studies to apply to take part in the ISECS ECS seminar, to be held over one week in central Barcelona. The Seminar, which is held yearly, is known for its role in fostering and consolidating scholarly vocations in eighteenth-century studies, as well as for attracting participants from all around the world. The 2024 seminar, to be chaired jointly by Dr John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona) and Prof Fernando Durán (Universidad de Cádiz), will be sponsored by the Spanish association for eighteenth-century specialists, the Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII.

Unmasking America: Comparative American Studies Special Issue

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:39pm
Rachael McLennan
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

During the Covid-19 pandemic, responses to the injunction to ‘wear a mask’ reflected tensions over attitudes towards individual freedoms, or lack of, in American culture. For some, masks limited the spread of the virus. They protected the individual and (or over?) others. For some, masks were ineffective medically, and / or an intolerable intrusion into individual rights. Wearing a mask might signify that an individual took the virus seriously and heeded the state (via medical advice, scientific expertise and laws); refusing to wear one might indicate the opposite. Paradoxically, but no less powerfully, for some mask wearing itself presented unexpected freedoms; from the pressure to engage in social norms, to smile for strangers.

ASAP 2024 Conference Panel: "Necessary Community: Black Feminist Friendships and Organizing"

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:38pm
ASAP 2024 Conference: "Not a Luxury"
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 17, 2024

The ASAP conference theme “Not a Luxury,” (10/17-10/19 in New York City) borrows Audre Lorde’s assertion that in times of crisis, poetry and creative expression are not extraneous to survive but necessities. Known for her community building and work with Kitchen Table Press, Lorde positioned her sense of self as developing from and within her social and artistic circles. This panel asks what contemporary  forms of community building--for example: edited collections, across-campus coalitions, unions, friend groups—are necessary for Black feminist survival and thriving in precarious times.

Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:36pm
Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) at Yale
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Call for Proposals to the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s Second Annual Printed Volume

Deadline: March 20, 2024, 11:59pm EST 

Apply here!

Application Instructions:

Disability in World Cinema: Translating Subjectivity

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Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 2:32pm
PAMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

This panel aims to address the question of the representation of disability in world cinema (fiction and documentary), while moving away from a purely historical approach that would primarily focus on the evolution of representation of disability to consider how Disability Studies have enabled us to reconsider the cinematic representations of disability. This panel hinges on the assumption that Disability Studies have given rise to a series of critical and theoretical tools, as well as to a renewed perception of disability that no longer sees it as a hindrance, but rather as a driving force for creation.

Movement Beyond Limit(s): SOAS CCLPS Postgraduate Conference

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 2:27pm
SOAS, University of London Center for Languages, Cultures, and Postcolonial Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

Call for Submissions

Movement Beyond Limit(s): CCLPS Postgraduate Conference 2024

 

“We live in an age of movement. [...] which huge amounts of materials are now in wide circulation around the globe. There are more humans, circulating and consuming more [...] Portions of the planet are literally moving more quickly and more unevenly– around axes of gender, race, and class.” (Thomas Nail, “Forum 1: Migrant Climate in the Kinocene” 2019: 375)

 

Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 2:27pm
Modern Fiction Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Special Issue Call for Papers

Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change

Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)

Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2025

Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 9:02am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir

 

Only 3 more weeks!!! submissions close 31 March 2024.

Watermark Journal

updated: 
Monday, March 11, 2024 - 7:42pm
California State University, Long Beach
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered. (https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/watermark-journal/)

ReFocus:The International Director Series

updated: 
Monday, March 11, 2024 - 11:14am
Edinburgh University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 27, 2028

ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies

Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press

contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com

MLA 2025: “Black Femme Visible Literatures and Histories—Traditions, Lineages, Traces, & Roots”

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Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 12:41pm
Courtney Murray
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Deborah E. McDowell’s 1993 essay, “In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition,” issues a call to “start putting an end to beginnings even those that would put woman in the first place” or a “reformulation or refocusing of genealogy as a concept of analysis” (56-7). This roundtable seeks papers that complicate how and in which ways we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women’s literary and historical production from the eighteenth century forward. Papers can interrogate visibility as a practice or theory of recovery, recentering, and resituating that we also must remain critical of even when establishing “firsts” or origins of Black women’s historical and literary traditions.

Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers

updated: 
Saturday, March 9, 2024 - 9:27am
Robin Throne, PhD
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers

Proposal submissions due date extended to March 31, 2024

Chapters in this collection will present information relevant to new investigators for IRB, Human Research Protections, Data Ethics, and Data Privacy for Human Subjects. As an essential guide for new researchers, the book audience is also appropriate for new investigators such as doctoral students, dissertation mentors, and doctoral research supervisors.

For details and submission link, visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/7175

The Problems of the US Job Market for Humanities International Grad Students

updated: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 10:56am
MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This guaranteed panel of MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH) seeks presentations  on the problems faced by non-STEM graduate students for starting their careers in the US, including visas, mentoring, and job search. How do they handle their 1-year OPT as opposed to the 3-year STEM OPT? 

The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans, LA. 

Please send 250-word abstracts with a short CV to jahidul.alam1@louisiana.edu by Wednesday, 20 March 2024

CFP for EFL topics

updated: 
Thursday, March 7, 2024 - 5:51am
Nagoya JALT Publication
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Nagoya local chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) journal is seeking papers for volume 5(1).

Papers may be one of the following:

English Featured Article (Long: 6,000-10,000 words), English Featured Article (Short: 3,000-5,000 words), Students' Research Papers, Graduation Thesis Summary, Book Reviews, My Share. Papers must be related to teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) contexts. For more information, please email Camilo Villanueva at camilov@nufs.ac.jp. Deadline: March 31, 2024. Submit manuscripts using the Google Form on the publication page below:

(Call for Chapters: Edited Volume) Horror Capital: Class, Material, and Production Analyses of Horror Entertainment

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 9:29pm
William Chavez (Stetson University) and Valeria Dani (Cornell University)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 17, 2024

The cinematic horror genre depends on a system of oppression, domination, and subordination. Although horror is deeply embedded within the politics of representation and social subjugation, we recognize an explicit lack within its scholarship (across disciplines) regarding class and historical materialism. This collected volume, which has emerged after years of collaboration and collective conversations, wishes to remedy this absence: we call for a comprehensive examination of horror as it intersects socio-economic class issues, brutal capitalism, cultural systems of excess, and rugged individualism. 

Next-Generation Research in English: A Graduate Student Showcase

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 3:47pm
Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

Across English and related fields, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-gen scholarship,” this session will feature eight (8) 5-minute lightning round presentations to offer a snapshot of where the field is headed. (Please visit the MLA website for more information on innovative sessions at the MLA annual convention.)

 

Examples include, but are not limited to: 

MLA 2025 — Ecology without Nostalgia: Form and Futurity

updated: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024 - 2:13pm
Sarah-Nelle Jackson
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

Following methodological interventions in ecocriticism's nostalgic appeals to "nature," this session invites formal analyses and other close readings of texts that gesture toward, illuminate, or articulate liberatory socio-environmental futures. Any period, genre, language.

Please send 250-word abstracts to Sarah-Nelle Jackson, sarah-nelle.jackson@ubc.ca, by March 22, 2024. Graduate students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply.

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