Keynote:

Michelle Ann Abate, Ohio State University

 Funny Girls: The Forgotten History of Feisty Young Female Characters in Classic American Comics

In recent years, print culture scholars have injected unprecedented focus on print production and circulation in Black, working-class, indigenous, and Latinx reading communities in the U.S. Once a field with a reputation for patrician pursuits, book history has expanded to include previously ignored communities and print forms such as newspapers and popular magazines. However, studies of anticapitalist and antiracist print cultures have tended to focus on urban, northeastern publishing capitals such as New York and Boston at the expense of literary scenes from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. 

We are excited to announce that 2023’s Keystone DH Conference will be held June 16-17th at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Digital Humanities in Baltimore, MD. Keystone DH is an annual conference and a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic. It is the organizers’ hope that the event will primarily be in-person, with additional online accessibility for those who cannot be present.

Call for Papers:

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.

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, and created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Curran, pioneering researcher and Emerita Professor of English at Colby College. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support one scholar for four full-time months to enable him or her to conduct a research project on the 19th-century British periodical and newspaper press.

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/).

POST-PANDEMIC FUTURES: CULTURAL MEETING POINTS

Hybrid Conference: Maynooth Campus and Zoom

Organized by Loïc Bourdeau (Maynooth University) 

and Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast)

OCTOBER 5-6, 2023

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Eivind Engebretsen, Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Science (University of Oslo)

Lucille Toth, Dance Scholar & Assistant Professor of French (Ohio State University)

This special issue of the ZAA: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture will explore the aesthetics and politics of psychotherapy from the point of view of Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies. In particular, we seek contributions that fall into at least one of the following three strands:

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance  

We are writing about a call for contributors to an exciting new series at Bloomsbury. Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance aims to capture the innovations women have made to the performing arts in their historical, geographical, and disciplinary diversity. This series seeks to broaden, celebrate, and recover historical awareness of these performance-based artmakers and their contributions; as such, it will showcase innovative, intersectional feminist historiographical approaches along with a history of women’s innovation in the field.