The Lonely Londoners (1956); Things Fall Apart (1958); Wide Sargasso Sea (1967); Midnight’s Children (1981); A Small Place (1988); The God of Small Things (1997); Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)...

The English Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in  Sousse (TUNISIA)

The Research Laboratory Ecole et Littératures “The School and Literatures Laboratory”

Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse (LAD)

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Pain and PleasureDate: April 25- 26, 2024Conference Venue: Conference Room 

The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization at Binghamton University invites proposals for papers discussing popular genres for our graduate conferencescheduled for April 12-13, 2024.

There has been a heightened academic interest in popular genres within the last decade. Scholars have approached these texts from a variety of lenses, and—with our graduate conference—we hope to make space for further research through various forms of critical engagement. In addition to welcoming essays regarding individual texts and specific genres, we are also interested in examining the state of popular genres in the academy, and especially encourage submissions engaged with non-Western texts and theory.

Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.

Please do consider joining an especially collegial group of scholars next spring in Atlanta: we would love to have you with us.

The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom

Call for Papers

If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.

CFP: The Global South (Journal): “Toxic Ecologies of the Global South”—Deadline December 31st, 2023

Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (less developed countries)? … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. (Lawrence Summers, chief economic advisor to the IMF, 1991).

Call for Papers: ‘Drama Therapy and the Climate Crisis’ 

Drama Therapy Review Special Issue 11.1 

Submission deadline: 1 August 2024 

Editors: Nisha Sajnani, Alida Gersie and Jessica Bleuer 

View the full CFP here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review#call-for-papers

LGBTIQ+ Representations and Media in US Popular Culture: Exploring New Directions, Challenges, and Queer Heritage

Editor: J. Javier Torres-Fernández (University of Almería)

CFP: 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference 

Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid

Dates: Tuesday, April 16 (Zoom presentations only), Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18, 2024 (in person presentations only with Zoom projections)

Plenary Speaker: Christopher Goffard, author and senior staff writer, Los Angeles Times

CFP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts’

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts.’

The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.

Call for Creative Submission | Writing with the Bots | AI Literature Submission

Using neural networks, the AI literature tools produce human-like pieces of literature that are, in most cases, marked by twisted imitations of the masterpieces both in language and content. The ‘Artificial’ is repetitive and selected from the vast body of literature available on the web or from the classics, a particular language model is fed with. With this caveat, we venture into experimenting with writing with the Bots.

Rupkatha Journal is inviting submissions of AI literature following the instructions below:

Abstract : 

   Through the stories of Chinese-American immigrant women and their daughters, Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" explores the issue of assimilation and its impact on ethnic identity. This essay explores the characters' struggles to maintain their Chinese cultural identity while assimilating into American society, focusing on important issues such as language, intergenerational relationships, customs, and cultural memory. The story depicts integration as a difficult, intensely personal process in which people must strike a balance between preserving their Chinese ancestry and absorption into American society. 

In 1938, a group of British expatriates led by Albert Stephen Gispert, known as G or "our father G," founded the Hash House Harriers (H3) in Kuala Lumpur.  Other than during WW II, the group has been in continuous existence for almost eighty years; the original Kuala Lumpur group, Mother Hash, still exists. The hash house harriers, "a drinking club with a running problem," is a unique blend of athleticism, sociability, and hedonism.  Hashing has a rich and diverse history spanning the globe, and this anthology seeks to capture its impact on global culture.