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Children’s Literature Association Quarterly Special Issue Call for Papers
“Questioning the Canon: Rethinking the Golden Age of Children’s Literature”
Guest editor: Jill Coste
What remains in the aftermath the overarching deconstruction theory for the fields of literary criticism and literary practice? Did the humanities find their vocation in the field of (meta)-theory and did literary practice abandon its traditional craft for good? Or does the advent of theory spell out a crisis of the humanities, and the "literature of replenishment" has been replaced by the "literature of exhaustion" (John Barth)? These are some of the questions we will try to address in the third issue of the Romanian online magazine In Spatele Blocului (www.inspateleblocului.ro), together with discerning new ways of configuring the craft of literary practice in general.
This is a call for panelists on an invited panel.
The topic of the panel is Antoine Volodine, and the theme is “the medium is the message.”
Below is a draft of the panel proposal.
The fiction of Antoine Volodine often depicts media traveling across networks and communities. Messages are destroyed after being disseminated, a la Snapchat. The low character counts of the narrats call to mind the brevity of Twitter posts. How does the literature of Volodine, across five decades (the 1980s through the 2020s), depict the rise of new media technologies? What does the treatment of media technologies in the novels of Volodine say about the current era of silos, polarizations, suspicion, censorship, and propaganda?
Medieval and Renaissance Graduate Student Association
The Ohio State University
Call For Papers
Modalities of Premodern Media
October 22 & 23, 2021
Columbus, Ohio
Keynote Speaker: Whitney Trettien, Assistant Professor of English (The University of Pennsylvania) – Delivery Mode: TBD
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Pindar and Pindarics: Translation, Imitation, Transformation
Proceeding from the beginning to the end of time, occurring in a ritual space, and focusing on moments of extraordinary joy, suffering, humor, and election, medieval drama maps worlds of vulnerability and interconnectedness. Its scope has continued to inspire re-enactment and adaptation from Passion Plays and the Mormon Hill Cumorah pageants to Yiimimangaliso, a South African version of the Chester mystery plays stressing truth and reconciliation, and Brandon Jacob-Jenkins’ reworking of the medieval morality play Everyman as Everybody.
We envision this seminar as an opportunity to further reflect on the changes in pedagogy and performance praxis that have germinated from the changes brought about by the global health crisis and social justice movements. As Shakespeareans working across the disciplinary lines of literary and theatre pedagogy and performance, we invite colleagues to present papers critically discussing the experience of reading, teaching, performing, and appreciating Shakespeare in text and in performance.
Badr University in Cairo
School of Linguistics and Translation
Italian Department & The Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo
The 1ST International Conference
on
Dante and the Arab World: 700 Years Later
23rd - 24th, October 2021
INTRODUCTION:
Special Issue: World and Nation: Tropes of Representation in Contemporary Scottish Writing, December 2021
Extended deadline: 15 August 2021
Guest Editor: Petronia Popa-Petrar (Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania), petronia.petrar@ubbcluj.ro
Conference location/date:
Virtual Conference; Friday- Sunday, September 24th-26th
Join the Wayne State University Pop Culture Consortium for #WaynePop2021, our 7th annual Conference on Popular Culture! This conference will be held virtually and includes both asynchronous and synchronous components.
UPDATE - CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
PAMLA Nov 11-14, 2021
https://www.pamla.org/conference/
Virtual (online) panel:
French and Francophone Film and Media in the Classroom
This virtual (online) panel is open to contributions from a broad range of disciplines, including but not limited to French, Modern Languages, Film Studies, History, Humanities, Communication, etc. Papers may focus on teaching strategies, pedagogical innovations, practical tools and resources for teaching film, or discuss curricular challenges and solutions, exploring the place and uses of French and Francophone film and media in the changing Liberal Arts Curriculum. Papers in French or English are welcome.
PAMLA Nov 11-14, 2021
https://www.pamla.org/conference/
Virtual (online) panel:
City Spaces and Beyond in French and Francophone Cinema
This virtual (online) panel welcomes papers exploring the presence and role of cities in French and Francophone cinema.
Questions we may ask are:
Modernities in the Contact Zone: Translating across Unfamiliar Objects
GAPS Postgraduate Forum "Postcolonial Narrations"
October 21-23 2021, Universität Potsdam
https://postcolonial-narrations.net/2021-conference/
Extended deadline: 01.08.2021
DATES EXTENDED to 15th August 2021 for submission of abstract
Reading into Murder: critical essays on the theme of murder in select cult texts.
Translation Review invites submissions of
Guidelines
Please note that all scholarly manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style EB (endnotes and bibliography).
Polish Association for American Studies 32nd Annual Conference
Darkness in Paradise: American Declarations, Disillusions, and Disasters
December 9-11, 2021, University of Rzeszów, Poland
SAMLA 93 Panel Presentation: CFP
Popularizing STEM: Science and Technology in 21st-Century US Popular Culture
15-19 November 2021 (hybrid format conference)
Confirmed keynotes: Gerry Canavan, Charles Adler, Stina Attebery, André Brock, Emily Cox-Palmer-White, J. Jesse Ramírez. [on-site activities will include two keynotes and workshops on biology-related comics, graphic medicine, and science dissemination in drag]
Conference page: https://www.popmec.com/stem-conference/
Issue 63: April 2022: Exploring Motherly Instincts: Representation of Mothers in Indian Cinema [Last date for submission: 28 February, 2022; Date of publication: 1 April, 2022]
Guest-Editor: Srija Sanyal, Research Scholar, Ronin Institue, USA.
Concept Note:
Sìntesis - Revista de filosofia
https://sintesis.uai.cl/index.php/intusfilosofia/announcement/view/1
EXTENDED DEADLINE
International Journal of Information Technology (IJIT)
ISSN : 1834-624N 2974-5962 (Print)
*** July Issue ***
http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJIT/Home.html
Scope
International Journal of Education (IJE)
ISSN : 1839-519N 2974-5962 (Print)
*** July Issue ***
http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJEMS/Home.html
Scope
International Journal of Humanities, Art and Social Studies (IJHAS)
*** July Issue ***
https://flyccs.com/jounals/IJHASS/Home.html
Scope
My colleague Sharanya Dutta and I are proposing a panel for the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)’s annual conference in 2022 (March 10-13, Baltimore) on the work of theory that South Asian novels can do. You will NOT need to pay a registration fee or become a member to apply but you WILL need to make an account to log in. Please submit your abstract through the NeMLA portal in order to be considered. We are pasting the link below. The NeMLA website contains a short description, but the complete panel proposal is:
Can Novels Do Theory: Methods in Modern South Asian Fiction
https://csalateral.org/cfp-cultural-studies-in-the-interregnum/
Abstract proposals due by July 15, 2021 (submission form)
“Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.” – Frantz Fanon1
Two-day international film studies conference organized by the Research Centre for Visual Poetics at the University of Antwerp.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Call For Papers
Practice of comics and the academic history of comics studies are often found Eurocentric. Readers often favour the traditional comics, either American or Franco-Belgian or Japanese Manga. They find the aesthetic flavour in them and most of the unorthodox graphic storytelling are left out. With Charles Hatfield’s Alternative Comics (2005), comics studies include the “other” voices and thereby the untold stories and unforeseen graphic patterns of the colonised and indigenous people are celebrated. The affiliation of comics studies with Auto/biography studies, Feminism, postcolonialism, postmodernism opens an arena for the readers/researchers of comics and graphic narratives to develop a new field of studies.
RHETORIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA 2022 PANEL PROPOSAL
CALL FOR PAPERS
Tentative Panel Title: “Beyond Persuasion: Rhetoric & Response-ability”
Conference Location: Baltimore, Maryland (May 26-29, 2022)
Conference Theme: The Charge for Change
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack, University of Southern California
Human beings, irrespective of their socio-cultural differences, exist in co-dependence with each other as well as in terms of their relationality to the state. This necessitates the formation of different institutions of care: mutual-aids, co-operative societies, care-centres, and NGOs, which are mechanisms of state-power that both define and threaten human being’s relationship to the state. Regulations imposed upon subject-citizens by the state on a daily basis in the form of ideological inflections make the human mind precarious, while the disciplinary machineries of the state expose them to ineffable stages of biological as well as social risks.
Fidelity to the original author, long a subject of debate for viewers of film adaptations of books, encounters a particular challenge when the adapter is also an author, exerting comparable claims to creative and expressive control. This panel explores the rivalry always inherent in such a situation, as well as in film remakes where the original and the copy contend for artistic prestige. Submissions are welcome on all such contentious pairings, as well as papers asserting an implicit authorial claim for studio adaptations or authorial appropriations of narratives of uncertain origin.