“Evolving Forms”

University of Iowa, 19-21 April 2024

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

The Cybernetic-Psychedelic Returns Across Aesthetic Fields

Special Editor: Thomas Mical [Esoteric Library of the Kangra Valley (Indian Himalayas), New Centre for Research and Practice (US)]

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - Volume 73 (2/2024)

Submission deadline: June 30, 2024

The 15th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

Brown University, April 5 - 6, 2024
“Contested Bodies in Italian Studies”

On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian
Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to
announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference, to be held on 5-6 April 2024, at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Editors:

Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos) 

Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile)

Important dates:

Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024

Editors’ decision: May 2024

Expected publication date: May/June, 2024 

The Graduate Student Conference Committee 

of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs 

& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization 

at Western University 

is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference

«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; 

the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»

Call for Papers: Volume XI

CRITICAL IMPRINTS
THE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA

ISSN: 2319-4774
VOLUME XI 2023: LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
Last Date of Submission of Abstracts: November 30, 2023

Concept Note:

Modernism between Past and Future

The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)

31 May – 2 June 2024

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keynote Speakers:

Jed Esty (The University of Pennsylvania)

 Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)

Roundtable Speakers from Various Locations

CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 13 – Sunday July 14, 2024

University College London

This is the 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Great Writing includes research, teaching and creative writing practice topics. And more! The conference takes place right in the heart of Bloomsbury, close to the British Library, in London’s fabulous ‘Knowledge Quarter’ – https://www.knowledgequarter.london/  - with a great many wonderful accommodation and restaurant options.

***Italian below*** ***Bibliography at the bottom of the page***

Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations

The concept of ‘stigma’, including the many perspectives on stigmatised identities and processes of stigmatisation, is a crucial tool to focus on alternative sexualities and their representation. The issue has been addressed in numerous disciplinary fields, with studies attempting to understand stigma both generally in terms of social dynamics (Goffman 1963 and 1969; Becker 1963; Jones et al. 1984), and in its specific relation to sexuality (Herek 1998; Evans 2002).

We inhabit a moment of accelerated urbanization primarily driven by the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in urban planning and management, most ambitiously articulated in the promises of the ‘smart city’. The ubiquity of digital information infrastructures has reshaped the form, shape, and texture of cities. Contemporary urbanity has come to be defined by ICTs. As the social, experiential and physical spaces in the city are increasingly being experienced with and through data generated by networked digital devices, digital mediations exert profound impact on how urban spaces are being reconfigured, curated and navigated.

“Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.” –bell hooks

Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion