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ACLA Virtual Conference 2025: Literature and International Development

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:24pm
Lauren Horst, Columbia University & Susanna Sacks, Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/literature-and-international-development. 

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.

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“Literature, whether handed down by word of mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality…What better preparation can a people desire as they begin their journey into the strange, revolutionary world of modernization?" (Chinua Achebe, “What Has Literature Got to Do With It?”)

 

Mid-Atlantic Review - Volume 33 (2025)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:23pm
College English Association, Mid-Atlantic Group
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Mid-Atlantic Review seeks scholarly articles, position papers, short fiction, poems, and pedagogical reflections for its Special 2025 Issue focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI). In the span of a year or two, generative AI has posed unprecedented challenges to and opportunities for higher education, the humanities, and the arts. Intellectual, pedagogical, and artistic engagement with this emerging technology is vital in our current world and this issue of The Mid-Atlantic Review encourages such engagement. We are also looking for original photographs or artwork related to the Mid-Atlantic region. Ethically produced AI art related to the Mid-Atlantic region would be of particular interest for this issue.

Kristeva's Powers of Horror at 45

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Julia Kristeva’s landmark essay, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (1980), will have its 45th publication anniversary in 2025. In that time, its influence has been wide ranging, whether on women and gender studies broadly, on the fields of feminist, psychoanalytic, queer, horror/gothic, and disability theory, as well as on media studies. For this roundtable session we invite proposals that consider any aspect of the influence of Powers of Horror, past and present.

Book Chapters: Neoliberalism and Affect in Twenty-First Century Culture

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Dr Holly Parker, University of Lincoln and Dr Tommaso Villa, University of Lincoln
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 7, 2024

“We’re people, not parts of people. Even with what little they gave us these are our lives. no one gets to just turn you off” - (Severance, S1.8)

South Central Renaissance Society Conference 2025

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
South Central Renaissance Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

SCRC welcomes 15-20 minute papers on all aspects of Renaissance Studies for its international conference which will be held, for the first time, in coordination with the Saint Louis University 12th Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies June 9-11, 2025.

Submit 300 to 500 word abstracts on the SLU Symposium Site (accessible via the SCRC website, here: https://southcentralrenaissanceconference.org/scrc-2025-st-louis-univers...). Deadline December 31, 2024.

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media". Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:22pm
Woxsen University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 25, 2024

International Conference on "Precarious Wetlands in Anthropocene: Representations in Literature, Cinema and Media"

Conference Date: 12-13 December 2024 (Virtual)

Organised by: School of Liberal Arts and Humanities & CoE-Literature Studies, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, India

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Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Nurturing Curious Minds: Approaches to Assessing and Enhancing Critical Thinking and Writing in Higher Education

13 – 14 June 2025

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

https://blogs.ntu.edu.sg/cts2025/

We invite abstracts for a two-day symposium that aims to gather educators, researchers, and practitioners from all disciplines to share their experiences and contribute to the ongoing dialogue on improving the critical thinking skills of university students. 

Aside from panels, our symposium will feature two keynote speakers.

Revolt or Reinvention?: Citizenship in the Contemporary Literary Imagination [ACLA 2025, Virtual]

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:21pm
Daniel Bergman, University of Toronto
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please submit 200-300 word paper proposals through the online submission portal provided by the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association), which can be accessed through the original listing here: https://www.acla.org/revolt-or-reinvention-citizenship-contemporary-literary-imagination.

Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.

The ACLA conference will take place May 29-June 1, 2025. This conference is virtual.

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Amy Sherman-Palladino - Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
Cristina Perez-Ordoñez/University of Malaga
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

The Works of Amy Sherman-Palladino

Edited by Patricia Prieto-Blanco (Lancaster University, UK) and Cristina Pérez Ordóñez (Universidad de Málaga, Spain)

Book Series: Screen Storytelling, Bloomsbury. Series Editor: Anna Weinstein

(Be)longing; nostalgia and the construction of ideology

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
American Comparative Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In How Societies Remember (1989), Paul Connerton writes that the present “distort[s]” the past, and vice-versa, in our collective memory” (2). These distortions can be instrumentalised by politicians seeking to mobilize people behind a nostalgic vision of the past. Conceiving of nostalgia as a “superimposition” of the past over the present, Svetlana Boym explores how it creates a multi-temporal memory-scape that one longs to recover – but which, paradoxically, has never and can never exist (The Future of Nostalgia, xiv). Similarly, Joseph Roach describes how societies seek replacements for figures from the past via a process he calls “surrogation,” which is virtually always doomed to fail (Cities of the Dead, 2).

Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
Anna Maria Cimitile / University of Naples 'L'Orientale'
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

 Textiles and the texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801): How the craft and its products interacted with philosophy, literature and the visual arts

Joint project: University of Naples L’Orientale - Université de Haute-Alsace, Mulhouse. Two joint conferences will be organized:

1. Conference 1: Textiles: The texture of ideas in early modern Europe (1589-1801). Designs, patterns, craftsmanship and the early modern imagination – Will be Held at Procida Island (University of Naples L’Orientale), 8-14 September 2025.

2. Conference 2: The circulation of textile designs, patterns, skills and representations in early modern Europe – Will be held at Université de Haute Alsace – Mulhouse, June 2026.

Echoes of the Earth: Interplay of Literature and Landscape

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 5:20pm
MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature ISSN 2581-5768 Volume 9, February 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Call For Papers

MEJO: The MELOW Journal of World Literature

ISSN 2581-5768

Volume 9, February 2025 

 

Echoes of the Earth: Interplay of Literature and Landscape

 

 

 

Throughout history, terrestrial landscapes have captivated human curiosity, serving as a significant muse for creative practitioners. Whether it be the enigmatic allure of towering mountains, the mystical charm of dense forests, or the vast expanse of oceans, the natural environment has served as a symbolic platform for portraying human existence, emotive expression, and contemplation of the human condition.

 

Call For Papers: The Films of George A. Romero

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:49am
Sue Matheson
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

A Critical Companion to George A. Romero

 

Part of the Critical Companion to Popular Directors series edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

 

Extended deadline Oct. 15th--NeMLA 2025 roundtable From Medical to Health Humanities: Evolving Interventions

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 11:11am
Natalie Mera Ford / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.

Dialogues with D. H. Lawrence: Connection, Collaboration, and Allusion

updated: 
Monday, October 7, 2024 - 6:40am
Jo Jones (University of Manchester); Laura Ryan (University of Limerick)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

In a 2023 article, the Black British writer Derek Owusu describes the transformative experience of reading D. H. Lawrence’s St Mawr (1925) as simultaneously an awakening to language and to a wider sense of connectedness. ‘I don’t have the words to describe what happened to me while turning the pages of that short story,’ he writes, ‘but I know language became something three-dimensional, and everything around me seemed connected by an unexpressed narrative.’

Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood's Works and Adaptations

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 9:25pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference - Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The “Themes of (R)evolution in Atwood’s Works and Adaptations” panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites proposals for 20-minute papers exploring themes of revolution and evolution in Margaret Atwood’s texts, adaptations, and real-life crossovers. In what ways has Atwood’s works sparked revolutionary change—or not? What role does evolution play in her texts?

Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and a brief bio (<100 words) by September 30th through the NeMLA portal for consideration: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21213. Please reach out to Riley Thomas at riley.thomas@temple.edu with any questions.

PAMLA - Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 4:28am
Aliyah Alsaber/Imam University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 14, 2024

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Migration, Diaspora, and Critical Nostalgia in Modern Arab American Literature

Apply here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19317

 

The complexities of migration, diaspora, and critical nostalgia provide a lens through which to explore identity, belonging, and cultural memory. In the context of Arab American literature, these themes take on added significance, reflecting the multiple experiences and narratives of individuals and communities navigating the intersections of Arab and American senses of un-be-longing.

Potential topics for exploration include, but are not limited to:

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

updated: 
Sunday, October 6, 2024 - 3:33am
Prof Shuchi Sharma and Ms Mitali Bhattacharya
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapters for Edited Volume

 

Performing Crisis: Interdisciplinary Insights on Identity and Existence

 

Deadline for Abstract Submissions has been extended to October 31, 2024

 

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced” (Baldwin 2).

Global childhoods and cosmopolitan identities, call for papers

updated: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024 - 4:19pm
Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 3, 2025

Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (Third Culture: Studies in Global Childhoods and Cosmopolitan Identities (uwi.edu) is a new, open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of cultural and social issues related to complex cosmopolitan identities arising from mobile global childhoods which transcend conventional categories of migrancy and diaspora.

UPDATED CFP (Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:58pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

(Re)Animating the Middle Ages: Adapting the Medieval in Animated Media

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

 

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UPDATE CFP Saving the Day for Medieval Studies (10/15/2024; NeMLA Philadelphia 3/6-9/2025)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:19pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Medieval Comics Project
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Saving the Day for Medieval Studies: Using Comics for Teaching the Middle Ages (Roundtable)

 

Co-organizers Michael A. Torregrossa, Karen Casey Casebier, and Carl B. Sell

Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Call for Papers - Please Submit Proposals by 15 October 2024

56th Annual Convention of Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

Philadelphia Marriott Downtown (Philadelphia, PA)

On-site event: 6-9 March 2025

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Black Genres of Political Theology

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 1:34pm
ACLA 2025 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development … but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for sociological consideration of these concepts. 

–Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922)

 

Narrative Nonfiction in the Creation and Understanding of Identity in Turbulent Times

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 11:58am
Dr. Amy Leshinsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Educators empower students through narrative nonfiction and writing that allows for empathy, candid discussion, and articulation of self. This roundtable will seek to examine how narrative nonfiction literature and writing is used in a variety of contexts and courses to engage students and empower them to embrace facets of their identities and strengthen their ties to our national and international community.

This roundtable seeks collegiate voices that will contribute to a robust conversation on narrative nonfiction literature and writing with a focus on how we use narrative nonfiction and writing to help students navigate conceptions of their identity and negotiate their place in the world. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives (Edited collection)

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 10:09am
W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University; Molly Hand, Florida State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Proposed Volume: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Its Afterlives

 

Co-editors: W. Reginald Rampone, Jr., South Carolina State University (wrampone [at] scsu.edu)

Molly Hand, Florida State University (mhand [at] fsu.edu)

 

Greying the Carnival: Samuel Beckett Inverting / Inverting Samuel Beckett

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 9:36am
Call for Papers for the Samuel Beckett Working Group at IFTR in Cologne, Germany, 9th–13th June 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Samuel Beckett’s drama may not be yet mapped as a site of carnival; nevertheless, the Beckettian dramatic ecosystem is open to a sense of the carnivalesque. In Europe and the northern Americas, the carnival tends to be understood as a secularised Christian tradition, the religious roots of which are enshrined in the epistemology of the word. Originating from the Latin carnem levāre – the removal of the flesh (OED) – the carnival used to be a festive threshold leading into the frugality and modesty of Lent. Yet, such grassroots street performances have thrived beyond this limited cultural, historical and geographical frame.

International Conference on Welsh Studies

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 20, 2025

30th Anniversary International Conference on Welsh Studies

University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH

16-18 July 2025

Call for Papers

Next summer, NAASWCH (North American Association for the Study of Welsh Culture and History) will celebrate 30 years since our inaugural meeting, and our return to action after the disruptions of the COVID pandemic. The 2025 conference returns us to where it all began, at the Madog Center for Welsh Studies, University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College, Rio Grande, OH.

Writing the Midwest: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers, 5/29 - 5/30/2025, East Lansing, MI

updated: 
Friday, October 4, 2024 - 8:50am
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers

The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 29-30, 2025. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

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