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“Exploring the Anthropocene in Literature”

updated: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 - 10:47pm
SCS AUTONOMOUS COLLEGE, PURI, ODISHA, INDIA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

The Anthropocene refers to a proposed epoch that recognizes the significant and lasting impact of human activities on the Earth's geology and ecosystems. This concept has gained prominence in discussions about environmental change and serves as a framework for understanding the profound alterations humans have made to the planet. Postcolonial perspectives often highlight the role of colonial powers in exploiting natural resources from colonized territories. The Anthropocene can be seen as an extension of this historical exploitation, with the environmental consequences affecting not only the colonized regions but the entire planet.

"Seen and Read Everywhere": The Saturday Evening Post (edited volume)

updated: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 3:49pm
Adam McKible, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Patrick Collier, Ball State University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

In 1949, James Playstead Wood described the Saturday Evening Post as “seen and read everywhere. People came to know it as they knew their own names. Its influence was pervasive and immeasurable, spreading simultaneously in many directions. . . . The Post became both a powerful and continuing social force and almost a sign and symbol of the country itself.” Under the editorship of George Horace Lorimer, and for many decades after, the Post was the most widely read U.S. magazine of its era. And yet the Post has been all but invisible in contemporary scholarship on print culture.

The Future of Theology

updated: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 3:48pm
Cairn Theology Project Ireland
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 4, 2024

The Future of Theology

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new eJournal dedicated to exploring ‘live’ issues in theology. This platform aims to foster intellectual discourse and provide a space for theologians of various stripes in Ireland to share their insights and perspectives on the evolving landscape of theological studies. Theology has always been a dynamic field, constantly adapting to the challenges and questions posed by society and culture.

Making Style Work

updated: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 3:47pm
Yale University Labor and Film Working Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

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

THE 8TH ANNUAL GLOBAL SOUTHS CONFERENCE

updated: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 3:47pm
Department of English, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 2, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

CONFERENCE THEME: STEAM-Powered Community

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

updated: 
Monday, December 18, 2023 - 3:47pm
Sabrina Evans and Yolanda Mackey
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

 “‘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

"Impossible!": Politics, Possibilities and Celebration

updated: 
Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 12:57pm
Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 22, 2023

15th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students’ Seminar
(Celebrating the spirit of Abol Tabol on its centenary year)
6-7 February 2024
Department of Comparative Literature
Jadavpur University
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Impossible!": Politics, Possibilities and Celebration
The year 2023, among other occurrences, marks the first roving vehicle landing softly on
the lunar south pole, generative AI threatening to replace humans, and almost on a summative
note, Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol (1923) reaching a hundred years of celebrating

Romanticism and Malevolence (Panel Proposal for NASSR 2024)

updated: 
Sunday, December 17, 2023 - 12:22pm
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

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.

International Conference on Endangered Folk Literarture and Culture of Jetor and other Indian Indigenous Communities: Documentation, Digitalization, and Translation in the Global Context

updated: 
Saturday, December 16, 2023 - 12:13pm
Department of English, Vidyasagar University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

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.

Hollywood cinema and videogames in the 1990s

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:19pm
Angela Ndalianis / Swinburne University of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 22, 2024

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

[CALL EXTENDED] “Consilience”: Exploring History Across the Disciplines

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:18pm
Dalhousie Graduate History Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

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.

The Global Music(al) Novel: Call for Papers

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:17pm
Barry Faulk and Chris Okonkwo / Florida State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

The Global Music(al) Novel: Call for Papers

 

Culture and Conflict: Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference 2024

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:17pm
University of Washington, Seattle
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

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

      

Call for Papers - Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:12pm
University of Minnesota, Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

he Sixth World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Social Inequality will be hosted by University of Minnesota, Roy Wilkins Center in Cape Town, South Africa, on September 3-5, 2024 at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville Campus.

Linda Hall Library, 2024-25 Fellowships

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:12pm
Linda Hall Library
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 19, 2024

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2024-25 fellowship program. These fellowships provide graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars in the history of science and related humanities fields with financial support to explore the Library’s outstanding science and engineering collections. Fellows also participate in a dynamic intellectual community alongside in-house experts and scholars from other Kansas City cultural and educational institutions.

On Bothering

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:11pm
Canadian Association of American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

“On Bothering” is an interdisciplinary American Studies conference, hosted by Concordia University and the Canadian Association for American Studies (CAAS). It will take place at Concordia University in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke from October 4th-6th, 2024.

Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Annual Conference 2024

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:10pm
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities / Société canadienne des humanités numériques
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

CSDH/SCHN Congress 2024: Sustaining Shared Futures
16–19 June 2024
McGill University, Montreal

CFP URLs
English: https://csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-congress-2024-sustaining-shared-futures/
Français: https://csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-congres-2024/

CFP Deadline: 12 January 2024 (https://www.conftool.net/csdh-schn-2024/)

(Appel en français ci-dessous.)

'Fuck the Patriarchy': A Taylor Swift Conference

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:10pm
University of Kent, UK & Online. Friday 31st May 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 16, 2024

Named Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year’ and Spotify’s ‘Artist of 2023,’ Taylor Swift has dominated the music scene with re-recordings, a global tour and billions of streams. Singer, songwriter, performer and film director, Swift has excelled across genres, categories and artistic mediums. Bringing together academics, students and ‘Swifties,’ this conference will consider Taylor Swift as a major feminist voice and performer in the 21st century. Coinciding with the European leg of ‘The Eras Tour,’ the conference will offer a space to explore Swift’s feminist Reputation.

Topics under consideration might explore (but are not limited to): 

Midwest Winter Workshop

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:09pm
RSA UW-Madison Student Chapter
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Calling All Rhetoricians! 

For the 14th Annual Midwest Winter Workshop 

The University of Wisconsin-Madison departments of Communication Arts and English, in coordination with our RSA student chapter, are thrilled to be hosting the 14th annual Midwest Winter Workshop on February 17, 2024. We cordially invite graduate students interested in any rhetoric, rhetoric-adjacent, or rhetoric-ish topics to participate! 

A Queer Presence: Queer Ghostlore in Folk and Popular Cultures (edited collection)

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:09pm
Editors: Jessica Armendarez, Harold Bosstick, Mystery Harwood, Sarah Meador, and Shelley Ingram
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

In an essay for the New Yorker, author Nell Stevens writes that, growing up as a reader of ghost stories, the “spectral presences, by being seen and not seen, by exerting energy where none was anticipated, spoke to the queerness I felt within me and didn’t understand. At that time in my life, I experienced my queerness as an unknowable force” (2022). With the advent of media like the YouTube series Queer Ghost Hunters (2016), Mike Flanagan’s The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix 2020), and Kristen Stewart’s long-awaited queer ghost hunting show Living for the Dead (Hulu 2023), queer ghosts have begun to make themselves visible in the broader landscape of paranormal media.

The Future of Masculinities: Theory and Praxis

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:09pm
Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 10, 2024

CFP: THE FUTURE OF MASCULINITIES: THEORY & PRAXIS
Deadline for proposals: February 10, 2024

Exploring the Scandalous

updated: 
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 12:08pm
ESSE Conference 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

For this seminar as part of the ESSE conference 2024 in Lausanne, 26-30 August 2024, we invite abstracts on the topic/narrative structures/media conditions of the scandalous (in the 19th-21st centuries) through the lens of  in_visibilisation. Scandals – in the context of sex, money or power – tend to involve obfuscation, an audience that is in the dark, but willing to see, agents who have an interest either in disclosure or in concealment. These interests are shot through with power that can be gendered, often contains a class-imbalance, is sometimes racialized, and not infrequently centres on non-normative desires. One area in which these dynamics of scandalization become particularly obvious are the cultural practices of fame and celebrity.

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