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Deadline Approaching 22 March: In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean

updated: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 12:05pm
Jacopo Francesco Mascoli & Silvia Vari
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

‘In Search of Lost Futures: Visual Media Narratives of Economic Migration in the Mediterranean’ 

 

19-20 September 2024 

The University of Warwick 

 

Keynote Speakers 

Dr. Kay Dickinson (University of Glasgow) 

Dr. Barbara Spadaro (University of Liverpool) 

 

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

updated: 
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 1:41am
Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

deadline for submissions: 

March 31, 2024.

Full name/name of organization: 

Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) 

contact email: 

shubhankukochar@outlook.com

Environmental Racism and Environmental Casteism: A Reading of African American and Indian Dalit Literature

--Note:  Springer has shown interest in publishing this book 

American Literature 1870-Present (Permanent Section), MMLA 2024, Chicago, IL

updated: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 9:24pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The permanent section on American Literature 1870-Present invites proposals for the 2024 in-person conference of the Midwest Modern Language Association, in Chicago, IL, from Nov. 14-16 (https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/).

All proposals are welcome, especially those that gesture toward the conference theme of "Health in/of the Humanities".

For consideration, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief bio to: najung@wisc.edu by April 15, 2024.

Skin Deep: On Beauty Cultures and Minoritarian Subjectivities: ASAP /15 (NYC October 17-19, 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 1:57pm
Brenda Wang & Samantha Solis, UCLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 15, 2024

This panel invites submissions exploring beauty as an embodied cultural project in contemporary art and literature, paying particular interest to how such projects inflect minoritarian subject positions. How might complicating commonplace understandings of beauty practices as frivolous or luxurious help us further understand how questions of desire, gender, and racial belonging are adjudicated?

Possible topics to consider include:

  • Beauty communities and influencer cultures online (the drama! the gossip!) 

  • Beauty as minoritized labor

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* MARCH, 24 / CFP - IPCC 2024- Beyond the Public-Private in Communication INTERDISCIPLINARY PhD COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE

updated: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 1:11pm
IPCC - INTERDISCIPLINARY PhD COMMUNICATION CONFERENCE
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 24, 2024

Digital platforms’ ubiquity and pervasive nature have ignited discussions around the boundaries between what is considered private and what is rendered public. Cohen’s (2012) exploration of privacy in the digital age highlights how technological advancements challenge the conventional norms we attribute to personal space and information. Privacy also seems to be a buzzword of any privately deployed enterprise built upon collecting and distributing personal information (Strauß & Nentwich, 2013). While traditional conceptualisations of privacy and its value consider personal information as something to protect or own while focusing on how information is handled, recent accounts take ontological and contextual perspectives (Solove, 2008; Marmor, 2015).

5th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 8:17am
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 13 - 14, 2024

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

We cordially invite researchers, academicians, and scholars to submit their abstracts for the 5th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education, which will take place on May 13 - 14, 2024, in Vienna, Austria. This conference is a premier platform for presenting emerging trends and research in a diverse array of subjects related to arts, humanities, social sciences, and education.

Key Themes and Topics:

SAMLA Conference: Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities

This year's South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference will be held November 15-17 in Jacksonville, Florida. Please share the following Queer Studies CFP with colleagues, grad students, and others who may be interested in participating:

New Orleans and Black Literature (MLA 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
The College Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

 New Orleans and Black Literature The College Language Association invites papers for a proposed panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA) on "New Orleans and Black Literature." Interested scholars are invited to submit 350-word abstracts that explore the influence of New Orleans (emphasizing food, music, history, art, and language) on Black literature and culture, in U.S. and diasporan contexts. 

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 22 March 2024

Janaka Lewis, The College Language Association (janakabowman@gmail.com )

The New Negro at 100 Years (MLA 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
MLA African American Literature Forum / College Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

The African American Literature Forum and the College Language Association, collaboratively, invite papers for a panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA).

 

We invite scholars to submit 250-word abstracts that reflect on the lasting significance of The New Negro: An Interpretation, in recognition of the centennial anniversary of its 1925 publication.

 

Please submit abstracts and brief (250-word) speaker biographies to McKinley E. Melton (mmelton@gettysburg.edu) by Friday, March 22nd for consideration.

 

Crisis and Resilience

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:52pm
Michigan College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 21, 2024

       

https://michigancea.org/

 

Call for Papers:  Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom

Saturday, October 5, 2024

 

Themes:  Crisis and Resilience

 

Featured Speaker: Dawn Burns, fiction writer and memoirist

 

Prospero 29:2024 A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Prospero - A Journal of Foreign Literatures and Cultures, University of Trieste, Italy
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and culturesUniversity of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer-reviewed, printed and entirely open-access journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective.

CfA: On_Culture #18 "Frames" (Spring 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Call for Abstracts for Issue 18 (Spring 2025)

 

Frames

Frames are ever-present. We read, use, and propagate them in our daily, as well as academic life. Their definition is difficult to put into words, just like it boggles the mind to imagine in how many ‘frames’ we are entangled ourselves. Frames serve many functions. They reduce the complexity of the world through the art of selection. Be it four pieces of ornamented wood that surround the canvas, an imaginary line on a map dividing one nation from another, or a set of tools used to present an argument, innumerable frames (‘models’, ‘schemas’, or ‘attitudes’) organize our experience. 

Imperfect Women Writers

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Margaret Fuller Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

  “Imperfect Women Writers” sponsored by the Margaret Fuller SocietyModern Language Association 2025 | January 9–12, 2025, New Orleans In Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, the editors cite an anonymous correspondent of Fuller’s, who writes, “Margaret was one of the few persons who looked upon life as an art, and every person not merely as an artist, but as a work of art. She looked upon herself as a living statue, which should always stand on a polished pedestal, with right accessories, and under the most fitting lights. She would have been glad to have everybody so live and act. She was annoyed when they did not, and when they did not regard her from the point of view which alone did justice to her.

Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Ex-position Feature Topic Call for Papers

Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between

Guest Editors: Carolyn F. Scott, National Cheng Kung University

Laurent Cases, National Taiwan University

Edward Eugene Nolan, National Taiwan University

 

Publication Date: December 2025 (Issue No. 54)

Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025

 

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Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer - 2025 MLA Special Session (New Orleans, LA - Jan. 9-12)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Onur Ayaz & Alessandra Occhiolini
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

This is a Special Session proposal for MLA 2025. We invite papers that broadly explore any aspect of Marilyn Monroe including:

+ Reading Marilyn Monroe reading literature, poetry, etc.

+ Monroe and adaptation in literature, film, and cinema

+ Speculative readings of Monroe in popular culture

+ Her posthumous publications

+ Monroe's reception as writer in mainstream vs. academic circles

See below for the full title, the call, and contact information.

Off The Camera, On The Page: Marilyn Monroe as 20th Century Reader and Writer

Cultural Networks in the U.S.: Past and Present Challenges (Student Conference)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:48pm
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 16, 2024

The American Studies Program at the University of Bucharest

invites proposals for its annual student conference on the topic

 

Cultural Networks in the U.S.: Past and Present Challenges 

to be held at the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission 

(2, Ing. Nicolae Costinescu St, Bucharest)

on Thursday, May 16, 2024.

 

Water in Legend and Tradition

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Folklore Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 7, 2024

Don’t be a wet blanket, come to our two-day conference on Water in Legend and Tradition, to be held on Saturday 31st August and Sunday 1st September as the eighteenth Legendary Weekend of the Folklore Society, in the medieval grandeur of St Peter’s by the Waterfront, College Street, Ipswich IP4 1BF. Whether you’re into holy wells or woe waters, hauntings or hydromancy, we’d like to hear from you. Contributions are welcome on eerie ponds, inland mermaids, canal culture, early spas, baptismal customs, lake monsters, and the lore of fords, falls, fountains, floods and fishpools. Anyone can join us – folklorists, healers, hydrologists, bargees, dowsers and storytellers.

NEPCA 2024 - Storytelling and Narrative

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Kristi Gatto / NEPCA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The 2024 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its annual conference this fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts

MLA 2025 Generative AI: Creativity and Harm (guaranteed panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
MLA's TC Digital Humanities Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 22, 2024

Generative AI promises to revolutionize many facets of social and economic life. The creative power of generative machine learning has been held up as a tool that will transform the work of artists and creators. Yet generative models have also been implicated in the unfair use of intellectual property, the propagation of existing social biases, and the facilitation of a wide range of disruptions to an already precarious labor market.

This guaranteed panel will address the ethical issues of generative AI, focusing on the overlap between creativity and harm. How can the literary humanities help foster an ethics for creativity in the age of generative AI?

 

Visons and Revisions of National Identity [MLA 2025]

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Langston Hughes Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

Visions and Revisions of National Identity

The Langston Hughes Society at MLA 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana

January 9-12, 2025

CFP: 121st Annual PAMLA Conference (Palm Springs, CA) – November 6-10, 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, March 12, 2024 - 3:47pm
Craig Svonkin / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The PAMLA 2024 Conference 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) between Wednesday, November 6 and Sunday, November 10, 2024 (yes, you are correct: we have moved the conference back one week from its initially-scheduled weekend).

The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

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