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New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere
PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2024
Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2023
PCA/ACA will be held from March 27-30th, 2024 in Chicago, IL
Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature
Date: May 24th and 25th 2024
Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon
Bloomsbury Academic's SCREEN STORYTELLING book series
Edited volume on the works of Sylvester Stallone
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci
This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.
The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms. Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting. In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.
MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE
International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
(Address: EE 9 & 10, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091)
POST-MAGICAL REALISM IN / THROUGH TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION
Joint CCLA-ACCUTE roundtable at the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2024, McGill University, June 12-15, 2024
DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2023
Organizers: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University, Glendon College, sanj92@yorku.ca; Jill Planche, Brock University & Toronto Metropolitan University, Chang School, jillplanche@gmail.com
Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks submissions about translation and haiku in the following three categories:
1. Full-length academic articles: 2,500-10,000 words; any focus on translation and haiku including theoretical approaches, historical overviews, specific challenges, etc. is welcome. Articles should be thesis-driven and situated their claims within the context of existing scholarship about the topic.
2. Personal approaches to translation: 500-1,000 words; for established translators; may focus any aspect of one’s own approach to translating haiku in general or the work of a specific haiku poet or poets; may include discussions of mentors and influences on one’s approach.
MLA New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025
Morris, Religion, and Myth
This MLA guaranteed session invites proposals exploring Morris’s writings on religion and myth. Topics could come from Morris’s Icelandic writings, his fantasy romance, The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere, The Defence of Guenevere, and A Dream of John Ball.
Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Friday, 1 March 2024, to jnixon@salemstate.edu
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
American Literary Naturalism and Religion
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism
The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.
Potential approaches include but are not limited to:
Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Transcendentalist Legacies of Resilience" at the Throeau Society Annual Gathering, 2024.
The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.
The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.
Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.
The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.
Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.
Panel Title: Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference
The Carson McCullers Society, in conjunction with The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University), invites proposals for a panel at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), May 23-26, 2024, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603.
The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.
Roundtable
The 2024 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) is now OPEN. Please use the Online Submission Form on the ACCUTE website to submit your proposal. DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 1, 2023: submit via online form with the password LateSub2024 https://accute.ca/accute-2023-2024-online-submission-form
Organizers: Ben Berman Ghan, University of Calgary, Ben.ghan@ucalgary.ca; Margaryta Golovchenko, University of Oregon, Mgolovch@uoregon.edu
Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.
The Research Project “The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” organizes its final conference and seeks paper proposals of scholars who are pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition.
The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:
- New approaches to Cather studies
- Cather and her contemporaries
- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing
- Teaching Cather
- Environmental and ecocritical themes
- Material culture
- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies
- Cather's correspondence
Cather and the Readerly Imagination
In her own time as in ours, Willa Cather’s books created vibrant and varied communities of readers. Cather’s literary works detail numerous acts of reading, and she herself was an avid reader with an acute awareness of the reading public. The 69th Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference seeks to celebrate and explore both the act of reading Cather and the presence of reading and readers within Cather’s fiction and letters.
The directors invite papers on a variety of topics related to Cather, readers, and reading, including but not limited to the following areas.
Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)
Working languages: French, English
The Eighteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
1-2 November 2024
National Taiwan University
CALL FOR PAPERS
Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between
DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference
Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.
The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than 250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).
Inspired by this year’s conference location, Chicago, we encourage the submission of papers and proposals for panels on the topics of Black literary renaissances, movements, and Black literary radicalism.
Possible paper topics include, but are not limited to:
-The 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and Black clubwomen
The Association of Adaptation Studies 19th Annual Conference
TIME AND SPACE IN ADAPTATION
5-7 June 2024
Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland
The conference will address the themes of temporality and spatiality and their relation to adaptation.
CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024
Senses of Law
Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?