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Teaching Critical Race Theory

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:02am
Celia Carlson / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

This panel queries the notion of “critical race theory” and how to teach racial issues whether or not one is specifically a “critical race theorist.” This topic is especially urgent during a time of right-wing “anti-‘woke’” agendas that seek to erase the very concept of race from public education and to attack as “divisive” any effort to offer a historically informed and rigorous accounting for ongoing inequality and racism in American society. Race is perversely both denied and invoked as that topic which is too disturbing to teach and yet absolutely necessary for the maintenance of normative political structures.

This is Fine: Existentialism, Performance, Apocalypse

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 7:02am
Free Exchange Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The University of Calgary English Department’s Free Exchange Conference committee is excited to announce our annual conference will be taking place in person on August 25 and 26th, 2023! We invite applications from any graduate student to speak to this year’s theme, “This is Fine: Existentialism, Performance, Apocalypse.”

We invite applications that seek to engage with the theme in whatever sense feels appropriate to you. What does the future look like? What will happen to the earth? How do we make sense of our time? What does art do for us? How do we make meaningful art? How does climate change affect our art-making? How do we perform apocalypse? How do we perform care?

"Rhetorical Theory" Panel (PAMLA 2023) [Extended Deadline]

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:55am
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE

 

“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description

Due Date Extended! (6/15) CFP: Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks JITP Themed Issue

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:54am
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy

Themed Issue 23: 

The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt

 

Issue Editors:

Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida

Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University

Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education

Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland

 

Superman's Cleveland Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:54am
Ursuline College/Cleveland Public Library
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Superman’s Cleveland Conference: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Cultural Icon!

Call for Presentations
Conference Location: Cleveland Public Library at 325 E. Superior Ave Cleveland, OH 44114
Conference Date: October 14, 2023

In honor of the 85th anniversary of the creation of Superman in Cleveland, Ohio, Ursuline College and the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library are organizing a conference dedicated to exploring the first superhero’s connections to the city of Cleveland, his relationship to the broader cultural environment, and Superman’s legacy within the medium of comics itself.

Thinking about Intersectionality: Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:51am
université Bretagne Sud, France
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

                                                              Thinking about Intersectionality:

                                              Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States

 

International conference

April 11-12, 2024

Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient

 

2024 Veterans in Society Conference: Tidal Changes in the Sea of Goodwill

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:51am
Veterans in Society / Veterans Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

On August 30, 2021, the United States withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan, marking the end of the longest war in American history. During the twenty years of the Global War on Terror, between two and three million American service members engaged in post 9-11 war operations. American support for veterans and their families during this period was remarkably high. Beginning in 2010, Admiral Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, referred to American public and private support for veterans as a “Sea of Goodwill.”

 

Extended deadline: (Un)Common Worlds III Human-Animal Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:50am
Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies & University of Oulu
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 10, 2023

Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the call for papers of the (Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes Human-Animal Studies Conference until the 10th of June

Submit your abstract (max. 250 words) to uncommonworlds3@ykes.org (preferably as a word doc or a pdf file with the word “abstract” in the subject field of the e-mail). Remember to add a title for your presentation as well as your name and affiliation and contact information. Add to the abstract if the paper will be presented in-person or online.

LGBTQ Studies at MAPACA

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:50am
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The LGBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.

Research in this area uses interdisciplinary ways of thinking to understand the development and construction of sexual identity and the diversity of sexuality in society. We seek papers from contemporary, critical, or historical perspectives.

Topics of interest include:

• Apps and dating in the digital age

• “Bury your gays,” queerbaiting, and television representation

• Drag culture and performance

• Femininities, masculinities, intersections of gender and sexuality

• Gaymers

• Globalization, tourism, and queer migration

• LGBTQ Cinema

26th Generative Art international Conference

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:41am
Argenia Assocition, Rome, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

GENERATIVE ART 2023
C A L L - F O R - P A P E R / P O S T E R / A R T W O R K S / P E R F O R M A N C E

120th Annual PAMLA Conference: Shakespeare Panel

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:41am
Amanda Riggle / University of California, Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

We are seeking proposals focusing on Shakespeare and his time, Shakespeare and/or his peers, the influence of Shakespeare on later works of literature, including adaptations, translations, and productions of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare and critical race theory, feminism, post-colonial or science studies, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare and related topics. As a standing session we welcome paper proposals on a wide variety of topics; however, papers that address the conference theme of "Shifting Perspectives" in relation to Shakespeare are particularly welcome.

Proposals should be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health”

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:40am
Savannah Schaufler
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Workshop for Early Career Researchers

“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health

Organized by Savannah Schaufler

 

Type: 

Workshop

Dates: 

November 28-29, 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline:

August 1, 2023

Venue:

Online via Zoom

Subject Fields: 

Environmental Humanities; Health Humanities; Discard Studies; Human Ecology; Anthropology; Sociology; Human Behavior; Art and Visual Studies; Race Studies

 

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Friday, June 9, 2023 - 6:31am
Critical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence

Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities

Abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2023

In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”

“Let me walk to the edge of the genre ” Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations June 28 - July 1 2023 Paris, France

updated: 
Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 7:06am
Cergy Paris/ Université de Paris Cité / University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

 

 

E X T E N D E D  D E A D L I N E ! 

 “Let me walk to the edge of the genre[1]

     Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations

June 28  - July 1 2023

Paris, France

 

https://benlernerparisconference2023.weebly.com/ 

 

Fraker Graduate Conference (University of Michigan, Oct. 6-7, 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - 11:15am
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

We are very excited to share our Call for Papers for the 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. This year’s conference will be titled, "Dis/continuities: Unsettling Memory and Time" and will take place on October 6 and 7, 2023.

Replaying Communism: Cultural Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media

updated: 
Sunday, June 4, 2023 - 12:01pm
Replaying Communism project, University of Reading
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Replaying Communism: Cultural Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media

Online symposium: 1 December 2023

University of Reading, United Kingdom 

Keynote Speakers: Anikó Imre, Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California; second keynote tbc.

 

Submission form: https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/symposium/submit-a-prop...


 

Extended Deadline: Indigenous Speculative Fiction (PAMLA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, June 4, 2023 - 4:54am
Carlos Tkacz / University of Nevada, Las Vegas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.

 

Poetry Now: Who Reads It? How Do We Read? Why? [DEADLINE EXTENDED]

updated: 
Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 12:12am
Jan Maramot / PAMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 Special Session

October 26-29, 2023

This panel is and isn’t about poetry. At its core, it is a panel about our reading habits surrounding poetry, the ways in which the definition of poetry has shifted in its capaciousness, about how we recognize a poem, what has happened to poetry’s public in the wake of Amanda Gorman’s powerful reading of "The Hill We Climb" in Joseph Biden’s presidential inauguration, and what poetry might become in a heavily digitized, perhaps even metaversal future. The specter that haunts this panel is Stanley Fish’s “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One,” but his essay is really just one starting point in how critics have been fervently trying to recognize our reading habits on poetry.

"Rhetorical Theory" Panel (PAMLA 2023)

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 11:49pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL

CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE

 

“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th

Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)

Abstract

This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.

Description

CFC: A Classroom Guide to Writing in Theatre and Performance Studies

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 6:20pm
Samuel Yates / Pennsylvania State University; Jeanmarie Higgins / University of Texas at Arlington
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

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ditors are seeking additional chapters for A Classroom Guide to Writing in Theatre and Performance Studies, a collection whose proposal is currently under review with Palgrave Macmillan. Contributions will be pedagogy-centered essays of 5000-6000 words. Proposal abstracts of approximately 500 words and a short bio are due to both editors by June 15 (extended from June 1).

Artificial Intelligence, Pornography, and Sex Work (Journal special issue)

updated: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 4:00am
Porn Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 4, 2023

We invite proposals for a special issue of the journal Porn Studies focused on the impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) on pornography and sex work. The rapid advancement of AI technology and its increasing influence on these sectors present pressing ethical and societal issues that require further examination.

Imaginary Beings

updated: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023 - 6:40am
Imagining the Impossible: international journal for the fantastic in contemporary media
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

“We do not know what the dragon means, just as we do not know the meaning of the universe, but there is something in the image of the dragon that is congenial to man’s imagination… It is, one might say, a necessary monster” – Jorge Luis Borges.

 

Deadline Extended: 17th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education (GDE) Conference: Kinship-in-action: Relationality and the Spaces We Occupy in Time of Ecological Precarity

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 2:56pm
Washington State University College of Education
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 12, 2023

17th Annual Globalization, Diversity, and Education (GDE) Conference

Kinship-in-action: 

Relationality and the Spaces We Occupy in Time of Ecological Precarity

September 14-16, 2023

Airway Heights, WA

 

Proposals have been extended until June 12th, 2023. Please submit a proposal if you are interested.

PAMLA 2023: Critical Approaches and Responses to AI: Roundtable

updated: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023 - 12:48pm
Grant Palmer/ University of California, Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR

Critical Approaches and Responses to AI: Roundtable

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