The eighteenth annual meeting of the Georgia Philological Association (GPA) will be held virtually on May 19-20, 2023. We invite proposals for session topics, panel discussions, and scholarly papers in English on any subjects relating to literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy. Reading times for individual paper presentations are limited to 15 minutes. Presenters may submit longer or more complex versions (8,000 words maximum) to be considered for publication in the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association. All presenters must be members of the GPA. The deadline for receipt of registration fees is April 30, 2023.

The field of popular culture studies is wide open and has drawn a lot of academic attention for several years now. Popular culture and gender interconnect in a myriad of ways, and their interplay can lead to outcomes which can be disabling and/or enabling. Popular culture, as a significant social tool, with mediums such as images, films, TV serials, advertisements, music, literature, comic books, animations, video games, popular news, social media etc., plays an extremely critical role in constructing gendered roles and norms, as also helping deconstruct them.

Call for Chapters: Beyond Arrival: Performing Indianness in the Caribbean

Edited by Christopher L. Ballengee and Darrell Gerohn Baksh

We invite proposals for chapters for the edited volume Beyond Arrival: Performing Indianness in the Caribbean. Proposals should include: 1) an abstract of around 400 words that clearly indicates how the proposed essay relates to one or more themes of the volume, and 2) a current C.V.

Read below for more details about the project and for details regarding submission.
 

International Brecht Society
Call for Papers
German Studies Annual Conference
5-8 October 2023 (Montréal, Quebec)

Of Robbery and Revolution: 100 Years of Im Dickicht der Städte and Trommeln in der Nacht

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

Utpictura18.      Call for papers.           Issue on Shakespeare

https://utpictura18.univ-amu.fr/rubriques

Coordination of the volume by:

Jean-Louis Claret, Aix-Marseille Université, LERMA

Jean-Jacques Chardin, Strasbourg Universioty

Anne-Valérie Dulac, Sorbonne Université, VALE

Estelle Rivier-Arnaud, Université Grenoble-Alpes, ILCEA4

CFP: Queer Comics of Color for Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference

Call for papers for a roundtable session organized by Joanna Davis-McElligatt and Margaret Galvan for the Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference on July 27-29, 2023 at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX (https://comicsstudies.org/2023-cfp/).

FIFTEEN YEARS OF THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

Friday 25th to Sunday 27th August , 2023.

Bader College, Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, UK

“That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it…and it's worked out pretty well so far…” - Iron Man (Favreau, 2008)

CALL FOR PAPERS

4th INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE

Media in America, America in Media

23-24 March 2023

Mind, Body and Earth

In a 2019 piece in The Guardian, Indian writer-activist Arundhati Roy says of the space, created by the literary: “It’s a fragile place in some ways, but an indestructible one. When it’s broken, we rebuild it. Because we need shelter. I very much like the idea of literature that is needed.” This idea of literature as a fragile shelter that needs constant rebuilding throws open the question of the literary communities. What is the nature of this community of readers and writers constructed by the act of literature? How can literature have a purchase on public culture, if at all? With the onset of social media, can we see literature in the 21st century as a communitarian exercise anymore?

This edited volume will explore myriad ways in which colleges/universities have worked with and against their communities, covering such issues as neighborhood gentrification, town-gown conflicts, innovation alliances, local food programs, and the existence (or lack of) access pipelines for local students. This project has been motivated by the recognition that, “From their founding, universities introduced class differences to cities in ways that only intensified as the institutions became key platforms for social and economic

The University at Buffalo Music Graduate Student Association (MuGSA) has announced a call for abstracts for its 2023 Research Symposium. The symposium topic is Music and Language. We invite any 300-word abstracts for papers that fall within this broad sphere of scholarship. Scholars from fields other than music are encouraged to participate in this interdisciplinary symposium.  

The deadline for abstract submission is Sunday, January 15th. We are anticipating notification of acceptance/rejection by no later than Sunday, February 5th. 

If you could circulate the attached poster amongst those in your department who may be interested, we would very much appreciate your help. 

The Jonathan Bayliss Society will sponsor a roundtable panel at the 34th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 25-28, 2023, at the Westin Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston.

Narrative Form in American Fiction

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our March 10 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.