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SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Taylor (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Western Literature Association Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, October 2-5, 2024
Call for Papers: Deadline for submissions, June 5th, 2024
While this year’s theme is focused on the speculative West and the re-inscription of territory, we also welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels, workshops, posters, performances and other forms of academic engagement on all themes relative to the literary culture of the American West.
Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is helpful in understanding how the fetish animates produced commodities to have a mysterious power of their own, in which power is obscured, mystified, and alienated, holding sway over people in the dominion of capitalism. In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, Lorgia García-Peña asserts that “to translate thus presents us with the possibility of seeing the Other. This act of seeing is also an act of recognition that can contradict hegemonic knowledge.” The work of translating the fetish can thus be presented as a means of revealing real relations hidden by the fetish, an antihegemonic project of deconstructing systems of capitalism and oppression.
In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies, for which a contract has already been signed.
The volume will be a part of the prestigious Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Media-and-Cultural-Studies-Companions/book-series/RMCSC.
Deadline: Submissions due June 30, 2024 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited!
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 15
October 25-27, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina
An annual conference exploring the history and legacy of Black Mountain College
Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) and The University of North Carolina Asheville
Thematic Focus: Black Mountain College / Living with the Land
Call for Papers
Religious Communities in the Virtual Age:
Practices, Values, Technologies, Boundaries
28 October 2024, Manchester, England
Keynote Speaker: Prof Linda Woodhead, King’s College London.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the
digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online
worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social
CFP: The Atmospheres and Ambiences of Modernist Literature
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA)
10-11 April 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024
Keynote Speakers:
Bruce Bégout (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Birgit Breidenbach (University of East Anglia)
Abstract
We’re excited to announce a Call for Contributors to the Handbook of Humanities Podcasting, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan. Contributors will explore how the present-day humanities look different from the perspectives of people who create podcasts and teach podcasting, and what futures for the humanities and its disciplines podcasting can open up. Contributions will consist of a short essay (3000 words) and participation in a podcast recording.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, October 25th – 27th.
The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:
-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?
How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?
The 121th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024) will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars). We will be opening our conference with a welcome event on Thursday, November 7, and continuing the conference through Sunday, November 10, 2024.
The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures.
Conference online: 23-24 May 2024
All details: https://www.inmindsupport.com/racism-conference
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Paulo Endo – University of São Paulo, Brazil
CALL FOR PAPERS
From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.
Performance and Migration in the Nordic and Baltic Regions
A special journal issue of Nordic Theatre Studies
Edited by Rebecca Brinch and Dirk Gindt
Editors-in-chief: Rissa L. Miller, Federico Bossone
Call for Papers | ‘You are What you Eat’: On Food, Culture(s), and Identity
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD
is happy to announce
THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 7)
Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and of the English Department
October 26-27, 2024
The conference will be held ONLINE and is FREE OF CHARGE
Conference topic:
This is a call for co-panelists in the Historical Materialism Conference scheduled to be held in Cluj, Romania, between August 29-31, 2024.
EXTENSION: Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2024 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024
The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of language can inadvertently silence, restrict, and ignore the material and corporeal existence of suffering. This session invites panelists to consider representing and witnessing trauma as acts of translation across the border of un/representability. Although our central question originates in discussions of language and texts, panelists are also encouraged to consider trauma’s appearance across disciplines and forms, such as visual culture, media, and/or performance.
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Consensual Play’
Deadline: 30 April 2024 for long articles; 15 May 2024 for short articles
Wordcount: 5,000–8,000 words for long articles; 3,000–5,000 words for short articles
Contact: Kathleen Morrissey,kmorrissey1@wpi.edu
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers
Call for Papers: ‘The circulation of the Italian cinema in the United States between 1945 and 1975: Distribution, reception, impact’
Guest-editors:
Federico di Chio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università degli Studi di Bologna
Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University
Dress Devolution 2 Conference.
9-11 July 2024
Falmouth University
Conference theme: Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume
Dress Devolution investigates styles, practices and representations around dress and textiles outside of metropolotan contexts. The beach as a liminal space has long been a site of leisured, risque, specialised and defiantly un-urban dress and textile parctices which this conference aims to explore.
Still Cruising Utopia: A Utopian Studies Special Issue on Queer Utopia and the Legacy of José Esteban Muñoz
EXTENDED Deadline for all manuscripts: May 15, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS: Esferas Literarias nº 7 (2024)
Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature
Abstract:
The William James Society (WJS), in conjunction with William James Studies, would like to announce that it will be offering its annual Young Scholar Prize to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought and work of William James.
The prize will include: (1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in March 2025, (2) $750 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) publishing the paper in William James Studies.