This roundtable will be held in-person at the 2023 PAMLA conference in Portland, Oregon. The exact day and time is TBD. The conference dates, however, are Oct 26-29, 2023.

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/User/ViewProposals/0

Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume

Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art

Editor: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, PhD (Binghamton University)

Email: mazeem1@binghamton.edu

Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2023

We are seeking proposals focusing on Shakespeare and his time, Shakespeare and/or his peers, the influence of Shakespeare on later works of literature, including adaptations, translations, and productions of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare and critical race theory, feminism, post-colonial or science studies, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare and related topics. As a standing session we welcome paper proposals on a wide variety of topics; however, papers that address the conference theme of "Shifting Perspectives" in relation to Shakespeare are particularly welcome.

Proposals should be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities

Abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2023

In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”

We are very excited to share our Call for Papers for the 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. This year’s conference will be titled, "Dis/continuities: Unsettling Memory and Time" and will take place on October 6 and 7, 2023.

Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.

PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE

“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description

We invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Porn Studies focused on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on pornography and sex work. The rapid advancement of AI technology and its increasing influence on these sectors present pressing ethical and societal issues that require further examination.

17th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education (GDE) Conference

Kinship-in-action: 

Relationality and the Spaces We Occupy in Time of Ecological Precarity

September 14-16, 2023

Airway Heights, WA

Proposals have been extended until June 12th, 2023. Please submit a proposal if you are interested.

Guest Editors: Caroline Nepton Hotte and Marie-Eve Bradette

« Il y a longtemps, fort longtemps, le monde tel que nous le connaissons aujourd’hui n’était qu’un vaste océan. Il était peu habité, sauf par quelques animaux aquatiques. À cette époque, les ancêtres des Wendat vivaient plutôt au-dessus, dans un autre monde : le Monde-Ciel. »

Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, La femme venue du ciel. Mythe wendat de la création

Call for Papers for "Journalism, Media and Mind-Altering Drugs," a special issue of Journalism and Media

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/journalmedia/special_issues/R7688H61I6

In the past decade, an increasing number of colleges and universities have added elements of intercultural and global awareness to their discipline, degree, and course outcomes. Whether titled “intercultural awareness” or “global citizenship,” “intercultural competence” or “global awareness,” these new focal points center on a more international, cross-cultural understanding of the world and its interactions. The American Association of Colleges and Universities, for example, has generated a “Global and Social Responsibility Initiative” that articulates three main outcomes for students in the 21st century:

1.) Become informed, open-minded, and responsible people who are attentive to diversity across the spectrum of differences.