CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS

Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 December 2022

Fashioning the ‘Little Parises’ of the World. Interlaced National Symbols

Book edited by Dr. Sonia D. Andraş (The “Gheorghe Şincai” Institute for Social Sciences and the Humanities, Târgu-Mureş, Romania)

Introduction

In 2019, renowned American literary critic and Black feminist scholar Hortense Spillers donated her papers to the Pembroke Center’s Feminist Theory Archive in the name of the Black Feminist Theory Project, and in April 2022, the Pembroke Center opened the exhibit “Hortense Spillers: A Life Recorded.” In celebration of both the collection and exhibit, we are soliciting papers for a Fall 2022 symposium on Spillers’s contributions to intellectual and pedagogical practices in the fields of Black feminist criticism, literary studies, and cultural studies, among others. 

In Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs meditatively interrogates the language of the natural sciences and its attendant racialized, gender-essentialized assumptions, and provides a model for identifying similar logics in Medieval Studies. Recent attention on the integration of Women of Color Feminisms in Medieval Studies has illuminated how these logics make the "circumstances" of such integration "unbreathable" (Gumbs 3). In this roundtable, we will engage with the possibility of Women of Color Feminisms' ability to breathe in such circumstances.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Body and Sexuality: Beyond Cultural Binaries

JOYS IN TRANSITION

Conference Dates: 2-3 February 2023

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: November 13, 2022

SUCCESSFUL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY DECEMBER 4, 2022

Keynote speakers:

• Valérie Benejam, Nantes Université
• John McCourt, Università di Macerata
• Fritz Senn, Zurich James Joyce Foundation

Organisers: Franca Ruggieri, Fabio Luppi, Enrico Terrinoni, Serenella Zanotti

REMINDER: UPCOMING DEADLINE -- AUGUST 31 2022

The Katherine Mansfield Society is pleased to announce its annual essay prize competition for 2022, open to all, on the subject of

Katherine Mansfield, Illness and Death

The winner will receive a cash prize of £200 and the winning essay will be considered for publication in Katherine Mansfield Studies, vol. 15 (2023), the peer-reviewed yearbook of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press.

LIT Special Issue CFP: Intersectional Feminism and Barriers to Representation at the Turn of the Century

Deadline extended for submissions: August 31, 2022

Full name / name of organization: LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

Contact email: litjourn@yahoo.com

The Networks of Romance I: Transnational and Global - (In-Person Format)

Increased social mobility and technological advances in modern society, as well as the advent of postcolonial studies, have spurred scholars to investigate the ‘interconnectedness’ of the global Middle Ages, and to challenge Western-centrism. This session is open to papers that apply these critical approaches to romance texts. We welcome scholars who consider the textual representations of cross-culturalism, and of networks that transcend regional and national boundaries. Also invited are papers that examine depictions of networks from outside the medieval West. We particularly encourage participants who use decolonising methodologies.

Several examples of literature produced from the late Victorian age narrate great concerns about the future and the destiny of humanity, concerns that would be significantly exacerbated in the twentieth century by the First World War, soon followed by the Second, the unspeakable savagery of Nazis, the nuclear detonations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, last but not least, by the terror of a nuclear apocalypse during the long Cold War. Modernism appears thus as a cultural movement that, as Vincent Sherry maintains, “works most indicatively within an imaginative concept of time interrupted”, of a time that presents itself basically as provisional and utterly deprived of a future.

The Lyric Now: A one-day conference

Hosted by the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film – The University of Adelaide (Australia)

& The J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

14 October 2022

Featuring: Hoa Nguyen, prize-winning author of A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure and Co-Chair, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts MFA Program, Bard College

JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory

Special Issue: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature

Guest editor: Professor Haifeng Hui, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

The (Post)Medieval Imaginary
58th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 11-13, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

This virtual ICMS session encourages participants to consider constructions of the medieval past in the Middle Ages and after, particularly as manifested in the interactions between the medieval(ist) literature, historiography, and/or material culture of postmedieval periods. Juxtaposing papers that engage with one or more historical periods, this session will reopen debates about the problems and possibilities of periodization while illuminating how medievalists and postmedieval scholars can productively collaborate across period boundaries.

CFP Panel Visualizing Home and Homeland in Pan-Asian Film and Dramas

Association for Asian Studies, 2023 Annual Conference Boston, MA and virtual 

Virtual Format, February 17-18, 2023

AUGUST 5, 2022

Send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio by AUGUST 5, 2022 to jean_amato@fitnyc.edu

Panel Organizers:

Jean Amato, Associate Professor; Comparative Literature; Fashion Institute of Technology

Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor; Art History; Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY

In his influential Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, Gérard Genette proposed terms to refer to the relationship among texts: intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, architextuality, and hypertextuality. Connections among texts are not new to medieval scholars, as is evident on volumes about sources and analogues; yet, textual networks might be more productively explored against trade routes, religious and political invasions, and ideological impositions. How are textual transpositions, which Genette defines as “serious transformation[s]” (212), anchored in cultural clashes and exchanges?