Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned.   --bell hooks
 
Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain.  --Marcus Garvey
 
It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair.   --Hariette Cole, in Hair Story
 

Extended Submission Deadline (2/1/24): WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

CALL FOR PAPERS - CONFERENCE

Comprehending Comics: Exploring Methodologies and Approaches to Comic Studies in History and the Social Sciences

Dates:  September 8-9, 2024. 

Location: fully remote / online

Deadline: Please submit your proposal by May 1, 2024

The ADE Bulletin is the refereed journal of the Association of Departments of English, published annually by the Modern Language Association. The bulletin is soliciting abstracts for a special issue on advising and mentoring in the undergraduate English major. Publication is scheduled for 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024. Deadline for submission of selected essays: 30 September 2024. Special issue editor: Felicia Jean Steele, associate professor and associate chair of English at The College of New Jersey and Eastern Regent for Sigma Tau Delta.

                                                                                                            Emerging Scholars Organization (ESO)                                                                                   Call for Papers: Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference

June 23-26, 2024

Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront

Gulfport, Mississippi

Theme: “Reconstruction(s)”

2nd Southeast Asian Studies Graduate Conference
Harvard University

Friday, March 29 - Saturday, March 30, 2024

Keynote: Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, University of California, Santa Cruz

https://asiacenter.harvard.edu/harvard-yale-southeast-asia-studies-gradu...

Call for Papers

To kick off this New Year, we at the The CEA Critic—the flagship journal of the College English Association—would like to you to submit your work to us. The CEA as born in 1938, when a group of young professors had in mind when they broke away from the MLA because they wanted to emphasize the importance of teaching in their scholarship.

Call for Participation:

Visual Culture Papers at the 2024 American Studies Association 

November 14-17, 2024 in Baltimore, Maryland

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Literature and Artificial Intelligence

International Review of Literary Studies

Deadline for Submission: February 29, 2024

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The International Review of Literary Studies, an open access with no APC, invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of literature, language, and AI to submit their original contributions for a special issue focused on the intersection of Literature and Artificial Intelligence.

Theme: Literature and AI: Exploring the Nexus of Creativity and Technology

Call for Papers

Goblin Modes: Pleasure, Care, and Disobedience

21st Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference

Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Dates: Friday, March 22nd – Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for Indiana University’s 20th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, hosted by the Department of English. This conference will be held virtually on Friday, March 22nd and Saturday, March 23rd.

15th edition of the Film-Philosophy Conference

Espinho, Portugal

1-3 July 2024 (with welcome event on 30 June 2024)

In person

 
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Catherine Constable (University of Warwick) - ‘The Sublime and Contemporary Science Fiction Film’

João Mário Grilo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) - 'The description of film direction as a philosophical operation: the case of Mizoguchi’s gendai-geki'

Homay King (Bryn Mawr College) - 'Enigma, Opacity: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Image according to Laplanche and Glissant'

TOPICS TO BE ADDRESSED

Right All Along:  Irish Truthtellers

Abstract

“Bird Sonics”

Roundtable Discussion at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the German Association for American Studies on “American Soundscapes” (https://dgfa.de/annual-meeting/); Oldenburg University, May 23-25, 2024 (in person)