Call for Paper for MLA 2025 (non-guaranteed session)
Title: African Language, Literature, and Culture Since 1990: Exploring the Dynamic Role of AAVE
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MLA 2025 GS Nonfiction Prose Forum
Outside the Frame: Reframing Ways of Knowing in Nonfiction Prose
MLA 2025, New Orleans (January 9-12)
Deadline for Submission: March 20, 2024
The 16th Annual Louisiana Studies Conference will be held September 14, 2024, at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. The conference committee is now accepting presentation proposals for the upcoming conference. Presentation proposals on any aspect of the 2024 conference theme “Lyrical Louisiana,” as well as creative texts by, about, and/or for Louisiana and Louisianans, are sought for this year’s conference.
How are poets, novelists, filmmakers, and other artists reconfiguring the Western genre? How do 21st century Westerns challenge the genre's enduring exclusions and myths? What do indigenous, queer, feminist, Black, and Asian-American Westerns make visible?
Please send a 200-word proposals and brief bio
The MLA forum on Religion and Literature invites paper proposals for a panel on religion, literature, and climate. How do ancient and contemporary literary texts both represent and engender climate crisis denialism, climate lament, and climate hope as a function of religious imaginations and literary practice? Submit 250-word abstracts and CVs.
The MLA Language Change Forum is seeking papers that analyze any aspect of discourse and/or language change related to the rise of populism from any field or methodological approach, whether in the U.S. context or beyond. Please submit a 300-word abstract for consideration.
Conference Title: Modern Languages Association Annual Conference
Conference Dates: January 9-12, 2025
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Contact Information: Laura Francis, Cornell U (lrf62@cornell.edu)
The MLA Language Change Forum is seeking papers that document changes in the (in)visibility of minoritized speakers. Topics may include but are not limited to issues of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and marginalized linguistic varieties across fields and pedagogies. Please submit a 300 word abstract for consideration.
Conference Dates: January 9-12, 2025
Conference Location: New Orleans, LA
Contact Information: Laura Francis, Cornell U (lrf62@cornell.edu)
CFP: Plants Beyond Borders
Although they are the most abundant life form on earth, plants have received scant attention from ecocritics until recently. As allies in the rethinking of human exceptionalism and the limits of human conceptions of nation, race, sexuality, disability, and invasion, plants challenge us to reimagine our philosophical and material relationship to the beings which enable each breath we take.
This panel investigates “gratuitousness” as a key term for thinking about contemporary culture and aesthetics. To call an artwork gratuitous is to protest against its supposedly needless excesses – yet how does this square with the needlessness that arguably defines the aesthetic realm in the first place? Is the concept of gratuitousness a product of economic austerity? How might a sense of gratuitousness be produced by diminished faculties of attention? Possible lines of inquiry include
Call for Papers for Journal of Chinese Cinemas Special Issue
Hidden Luminaries: Obscure Actresses and Women Filmmakers in Chinese Film History
Guest Editors: David John Boyd (University of Glasgow) and Jessica Siu-yin Yeung (Lingnan University)
Associate Editor: Yiman Wang (University of California, Santa Cruz)
This issue will contribute to the field of Chinese women’s cinema, with studies on individual actresses and women filmmakers who have either faded from cultural or institutional memory, or who are significant in their own region but are under-studied in Anglophone scholarship.
29th SERCIA CONFERENCE
Old and New Science Fiction Imaginaries in English-Speaking
Cinema and Television
La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano
September 2-4, 2024
Keynote speakers: Naomi Mandel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Pawel Frelik
(University of Warsaw)
As a literary genre and a form of cultural aesthetic cyberpunk narratives depict dark visions of the future in which technology, society, and human existence merge. A major element of this setting is Artificial Intelligence (AI), which is often portrayed as a powerful, autonomous entity in cyberpunk universes. In cyberpunk genres, AI typically symbolizes both the zenith of human advancement and a looming existential danger for human beings. The dynamic between humans and AI in these narratives not only raises ethical dilemmas but also highlights the potential conflicts and challenges associated with the development of advanced AI technologies.
Modernist Chicago: Richard Wright and Beyond (Modernist Studies Association Conference, Nov 7-10)
Deadline for Submissions: 12 PM PST, Friday, March 29, 2024
In the spirit of MSA 2024’s location in Chicago, this panel—centered around but not limited to Richard Wright—seeks work that engages the city’s modernist scene, broadly construed, through WWII: in literature (for example, Lawd Today!, Wright’s posthumously published experimental novel about Chicago, tensions and pollinations between realist and modernist aesthetics), sociology (the Chicago School, including Robert Park), blues music, journal culture and other radical politics, etc.
Call for Abstracts!
Black Creators of Legacy and Digital Media
Collection Editors: Joshua K. Wright, Ph.D., Adria Y. Goldman, Ph.D., and Alexa Harris, Ph.D.
Call for papers MLA 2025Special session"Women in the Early History of Comics (1800s-1950s)"
How did women artists or women's magazines contribute to the formation of the medium known today as "comics"? This includes cartoons, comics, and other graphic narratives before the emergence of underground feminist comix. Please send 250-word abstracts and bio to camilagutierrez@uc.cl
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024
Camila Gutiérrez, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (camilagutierrez@uc.cl )
Call for Papers
https://foucault40.info/
Seminar: Foucault and Postcolonial Governmentalities in South Asia
24-25 May, 2024
https://foucault40.info/kolkata/
Organised by
Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS)
&
Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR) Kolkata
Venue: Institute of Language Studies and Research (ILSR) Kolkata, New Town Campus
This seminar hinges on South Asian governmentalities (Legg and Heath, 2018), as experienced in postcolonial
South Asian nation states. They were erstwhile colonies, liberated through intense anti-colonial struggles
We are excited to invite submissions for our upcoming panel on Professional Writing at the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) conference. This panel seeks to explore the evolving landscape of professional writing, including but not limited to technical writing, business communication, digital rhetoric, and writing pedagogy. We welcome a broad range of submissions that address theoretical, practical, pedagogical, or technological aspects of professional writing.
The 2024 Wooden O Symposium will be held in conjunction with the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association’s annual conference in Cedar City, UT.
We are also pleased to announce our keynote speaker is Vanessa I. Corredera (Andrews University), author of Reanimating Shakespeare's Othello in Post-Racial America (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).
The Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:
● Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
● Shakespeare and Adaptation
● Shakespeare on Screen
● Shakespeare in Performance
● Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
True crime has always been popular, and with the growing accessibility of alternative forms of on-demand media, including streaming services and podcasts, the popularity of the genre has only grown, strengthened by its appeal to the armchair detective and often the invitation to participate in the solution of the crime itself. As Larke-Walsh (2023) observes, the viewer’s compulsion to close the case—or to contest it—testifies to the text’s ‘potential for positive social impact’.
Thanatic Ethics Conference #4
“Death and migration in times of conflict: a forensic perspective”
Sciences Po, Paris
in partnership with the Education University of Hong Kong
and EMMA (Paul Valery University Montpellier 3)
Venue: Sciences Po, Paris
Dates: Oct. 17-19, 2024
Language: English
Deadline for submitting proposals: May 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2024
Transformative Scenes: Metamorphosis and Popular Culture
This session for the 2025 Modern Language Association conference focuses on collaborations among performers and/or writers in the 20th and 21st centuries. Papers on collective artmaking in film, theatre, performance art, music, and literature are welcome. Please send a 250-word abstract to adiazhui@princeton.edu
VIRTUAL GLOBAL SYMPOSIUM ON SURROGACY
THE POLITICS OF REPRODUCTION: SURROGACY IN LITERATURE, FILM, VISUAL ART, AND SOCIAL MEDIA
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The regular session on African American Literature invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the South Central Modern Language Association, in New Orlean, LA, from Sep. 19-21 (https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/).
We welcome proposals related to any period or aspect of African American literature.
For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words and a brief bio to mchooper@pvamu.edu by March 15, 2024.
Call for papers
The Traveller’s Tale. Emergent Forms and Minority Traditions.
Université Clermont Auvergne, France
November 14 and 15, 2024
University administrators often refer to contingent faculty in nameless, generic terms. This panel invites participants to share stories from contingency (including resourcefulness, creativity, and perseverance) to demonstrate the complexity of the people delivering university instruction.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Clark Barwick, Indiana U, Bloomington (mbarwick@indiana.edu )
In 2022, about 60% of the nearly 225,000 employees in the US who engaged in work stoppages were educators, researchers, and other academic professionals. We welcome strategies, stories, and advice from labor activism.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 8 March 2024
Lindsay Stephens, Black Hills SU (lstephens@olc.edu)
Visible to students but invisible to faculty/administration for governance, pay, and benefits, this panel seeks papers defining issues and/or strategies to increase adjunct visibility providing substantive, long-term, meaningful change.
Send 200-word abstracts to: samo@uwsuper.edu & Amee.Schmidt@iavalley.edu
Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 5 March 2024
LAMAR JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES
Call for Papers
If you are working on the artistic representation of the socio-cultural and political legacy of land dispossession and invisibility within the theoretical framework of postcolonial studies, send a 250-word abstract to this panel. All kinds of activist artworks are welcome: films, motion pictures, docuseries, plastic, textile, performance, music, paintings, literature, etc. Papers can be in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Timeframe: 19th-21st century. Submit your abstract through the MLA CFP section at: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webprogrampreliminary/Paper26535.html
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 15 March 2024