The term ‘modernity’ signifies a brand new age, distinguishing human experiences and values as different from the past. From the mid-nineteenth century, ‘modern life’ began to denote transformations in all aspects, such as technology, economics, industry and urbanisation. In the cultural field, modernity is grounded in critical methods for creating new values to promote the progress of humanity.

ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY 

GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ENGLISH | WRITING ACROSS COMMUNITIES PRESENTS

UNEXPECTED ALTERATIONS

SJU ENGLISH GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2023

FRIDAY, MARCH 31st, 2023

ST. JOHN’S UNIVERISTY, QUEENS CAMPUS (IN PERSON)

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: February 3rd, 2023

St. John’s University’s Department of English, in collaboration with Writing Across Communities, invites graduate student scholars and artists to submit proposals for presentations at our annual English Graduate Conference.

2023 Famine Summer School, National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, Ireland. 

June 22-25, 2023

Call for Papers: The 2023 Famine Summer School will take place at the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon, Ireland on June 22-25, 2023. The theme of the 2023 Famine Summer School is “Famine Journeys and Trails: Communities, Diaspora, Memory”. 

The CUNY Games Network of the City University of New York is excited to announce The CUNY Games Conference 9.0 on January 23 & 24th, 2023.

This two-day hybrid conference will have online sessions on Day 1 and in-person sessions on Day 2. Online sessions will have participant-led presentations, less formal idea exchanges held in breakout rooms, and a handful of organizer-led workshops. Our in-person Day 2 will have a short session led by the organizers on modding tabletop games for education, and then presenters will be invited to playtest their own games or playful activities (either completed or in-progress). There will also be time for the free play of published tabletop games.

"20TH-CENTURY WAR-WRITINGS AND FILM: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CRITICAL APPROACHES"

Editor: Pinaki Roy

The proposed anthology of critical writings on 20th-century war-literature and war-movies is likely to be published from an old and reputed university-press located in northern U.K.

The last date for submissions is 15 March 2023.

Special Issue "Religion and the Working Class in Film"

edited by Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra)

Many academic institutions have been evaluating their diversity and inclusion statements. At the department level, several faculty members recognize that their curriculum also needs to be evaluated.  

Watchung Review invites scholarly articles and creative works that consider the following questions for the profession, for the discipline, for our areas of specialization, and for the larger society:

Critical conversations concerned with ecosystems often relate to various geos (-logies, -graphies, etc.), the anthropocene, and the techno-industrial. Yet, as Elizabeth Povinelli astutely questions, “[have] we become so entranced by the image of power working through life [namely biopolitics and its variations] that we haven’t noticed the new problems, figures, strategies and concepts emerging all around us…?” (4). The fluidity of ‘systems’ - whether they be ecological, political, social, etc.

The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting a panel on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.

The conference will take place in Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2023. 

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by Friday, January 6, 2023.

Title: Posthuman Animals in 21st Century Texts

Organizers: 

Monica Sousa

York University

msousa93@yorku.ca

Jerika Sanderson

University of Waterloo

j9sander@uwaterloo.ca

CFP Text:

International Conference

on

Crime and Punishment in Colonial India: History, Literature and Testimony

• The deadline has been extended to 25 November 2022. 

A One-day In Person International Conference on Crime and Punishment in Colonial India

Organised by the Department of English & I. Q.A. C., K. K. Das College, Kolkata

in collaboration with New Alipore College & Maheshtala college, Kolkata

Date: 9 December, 2022

Deadline of Abstract Submission: 20 November, 2022

Artists and writers have long been deconstructing dominant notions of the American West. In 1957, jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins released Way Out West, a record that drew inspiration from California landscapes, TV Westerns, and overlooked Black cowboys. The album cover depicts Rollins outfitted as a gunfighter in desert surrounds, complete with cacti and a sun-bleached cattle skull. Where you might expect to find a big iron on his hip, he cradles his tenor sax. Today, artists like Orville Peck continue to revise, rewrite, and expand the boundaries of what we might consider the story of the West both in sound, style, and location—the South African-born crooner, now based out of Canada, has gained major success on the U.S.

The British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, inaugurated in 1992 — the oldest and longest-running annual meeting of its kind in the United States — calls for presentations situated in colonial and postcolonial histories, literatures, creative and performing arts, politics, economics, and all other aspects of the countries formerly colonized by Britain and other European powers.

In the 32 years of this conference, there has perhaps never been a more urgent time to address the fundamental issues of postcolonial studies: justice, injustice, the imposition of power, and the mechanisms of control.

Guest Editors:

Yalçın Armağan (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)

Zeynep Zengin (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul)