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CFP CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE: APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:04am
Academic Association for Doctoral Students of English Philology, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 29, 2024

Call for Papers

 

CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE:
APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS

 

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth issue of CURRENTS: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review. CURRENTS is an open access, peer-reviewed, yearly interdisciplinary journal, based in Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University), addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies.

 

Global Modernism and Simultaneity

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:04am
The University of Tokyo
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Global Modernism and Simultaneity

The University of Tokyo

September 14-15

 

Keynotes

 

Josephine Park (UPenn)

Christopher Bush (Northwestern)

 

With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)

 

The History of Sport in the Arab World

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:03am
The International Journal of the History of Sport
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

The International Journal of the History of Sport – Special Issue Call for Papers

The History of Sport in the Arab World

Verge 12.1 CfP

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:02am
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1

Special Issue: Trade in Humans

Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel

Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024

A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.

Verge 11.2 CfP

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:02am
Verge: Studies in Global Asias
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 11.2

Special Issue: The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media

Edited by Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen

Deadlines | Essays: May 1, 2024

What is the Asian Century? Are we living in it? Do its recent invocations—by writers and readers, politicians and pundits, journalists and academics—mark a return to earlier eras of relative Asian centrality on the world stage or announce a future we have yet to inhabit? Is it a paranoid, U.S.-centered discourse of Western decline or a triumphant announcement of Asian economic-semiotic arrival? Is the Asian Century an aspiration or a threat—and to whom?

Resisting Extraction in the Age of Global Climate Change

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 10:02am
Critical Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Fall 2024 Issue of Critical Humanities examines narrative innovations and new scholarly approaches in representations of contemporary and/or day-to-day struggles against climate change and extraction. How do narratives from the Global South ― in literature, print, film and media ― understand the impacts of climate change and industrial extraction on minority communities? In what ways do representations of climate change highlight its intersections with colonial, neo-colonial and postcolonial forms of extraction? What are the new and innovative methods for us to theorize responses, struggles, and resistance efforts against the hostile conditions of extraction in the context of climate change?

 

 

Teaching Alcott’s Writings/ Teaching in Alcott’s Writings

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:53am
Alcott Society/ American Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Teaching Alcott’s Writings/ Teaching in Alcott’s Writings (Deadline Extended)

 ALA 2024/ Chicago

The Review of English and American Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:53am
The English and American Literature Association (EALA), Taiwan
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

The Review of English and American Literature

 

Call for Papers

 

 

Sapienza Summer School - The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:52am
Sapienza Università di Roma
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The School explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

2nd UTAD Conference Existence, Tradition and Future (5-7 September 2024, İstanbul, Türkiye)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:51am
Turkish Society for Theatre Research and Bahçeşehir University Conservatory
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

2nd UTAD Conference Existence, Tradition and Future (5-7 September 2024, İstanbul, Türkiye)

Turkish Society for Theatre Research and Bahçeşehir University Conservatory

Call for Papers and/or Applied Workshop

 

Algorithmic Spenser - Spenser Review Summer/Fall 2024

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:50am
Bethany Dubow, University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 9, 2024

THE SPENSER REVIEW Summer/Fall 2024 Issue CFP

Contacts: Michael Ullyot, ullyot@ucalgary.ca; Bethany Dubow, bethany.dubow@new.ox.ac.uk

 

Call for Papers: ALGORITHMIC SPENSER

The Spenser Review invites submissions for its 2024 Summer/Fall Issue on the subject of ‘Algorithmic Spenser’ – an issue about patterns, procedures, and problem-solving. What premodern precedents are there for modern algorithms of making and interpreting literary texts and worlds?

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS 'THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE: AI AND THE CHANGING WORLD'

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:50am
Interactions Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

'THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE: AI AND THE CHANGING WORLD'

If we are to believe the entertainment media, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is destined to go rogue and take over the world, destroying humanity as we know it. In reality, the growing accessibility of AI is seeing its use normalised and it is becoming a useful tool to improve and alter society. Artificial Intelligence has been an area of research since the 1950s and hinges on machine functions that learn from humans or independently. Despite its long history,

Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:50am
University of Thessaly
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 10, 2024

                                                                         Call for Papers
                                                  Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures
                                                                 International Conference
                                                               University of Thessaly, Volos
                                                                          7-8 June 2024
                                 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University

 

Neobaroque (in) Word and Image – call for the contributions to the edited volume

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:49am
Dominika Bugno-Narecka, Catholic University of Lublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Studies by scholars including Greg Lambert, William Egginton, Omar Calabrese, David Castillo, Helen Hills, Monika Kaup and Lois Parkinson Zamora indicate that the Baroque is more than merely a period in art of and around the 17th century that derives its name from an irregular and odd-shaped pearl and refers to something strange, bizarre, irregular and disproportionate, hence, imperfect. Neobaroque stems from the baroque tradition and accommodates the baroque as a historical period with its complexity and proliferation. It is appropriate for the instances of reproduction and/or transformation of the ideas and the strategies of the Baroque in contemporary culture.

33rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:47am
J. Ashley Foster, International Conference on Virginia Woolf
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 fresnostate.edu/woolf2024

“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf,  Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.

--- Redux: ---

“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI

C21 LITERATURE SPECIAL ISSUE: THE CENTURY AT 25

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:46am
C21 Literature: Journal of Twenty-First-Century Writings
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.

The State of the Nation in film and television

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:46am
London Metropolitan University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 26, 2024

Call for papers: The State of the Nation in film and television, London Metropolitan University, online conference, 3rd July 2024. 

THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERHERO

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:45am
The Superhero Project: 8th Global Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 11, 2024

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

The Superhero Project: 8th Global Meeting

“THE TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERHERO”

Friday 13th to Sunday 15th September, 2024.

The View Hotel, Eastbourne, East Sussex, United Kingdom

“Where does he get those wonderful toys…?” – Batman (1989)

Final Reminder: First Book Institute Applications Due 2/12 (Hard Deadline)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:45am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, February 12, 2024

Announcing

The 2024 First Book Institute

June 2-8, 2024

Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies (CALS) at Pennsylvania State University

Co-Directors

Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English, Duke University, and Co-Editor of American Literature

Sean X. Goudie, Director of the Center for American Literary Studies and Past Winner of the MLA Prize for a First Book

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation Conference

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:44am
Falmouth University, 2-4 July 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is an interdisciplinary and global exploration of the role and impact of the sensational, the scandalous, and the sexual in literature, film, television, gaming, and other forms of cultural production.

Dead or Alive: The Future of Zombie Studies Edited Collection

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:43am
Tim Lanzendörfer and Marlon Lieber
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Call for Papers for an Edited Collection

Dead or Alive: The Futures of Zombie Studies

Edited by Marlon Lieber and Tim Lanzendörfer

Ecological Grief and Mourning in the Literature and the Arts in the Anglophone World (18th – 21st c.)

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:43am
Université Paris Cité, LARCA & Catholic University of Paris
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

CFP: Ecological Grief and Mourning in the Literature and the Arts in the Anglophone World (18th – 21st c.)

Université Paris Cité, LARCA & Catholic University of Paris

Paris

3-4 April 2025

Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024

 

Abstract

The Grounds from Which We Speak: Identity, Knowledge Production, and the Academy

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:43am
Smaran Dayal and Alexandria Ramos
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Adrienne Rich has written that her feminist politics entails “locating the grounds from which to speak with authority,” beginning “not with a continent or a house, but with the geography closest in–the body.”  Taking inspiration from Rich and foundational women of color feminists, this panel invites papers exploring the politics of position within the academy and scholars' embodiment in relation to our work.

University of Washington Cinema&Media Studies Grad Conference *Extended Deadline*

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:42am
Department of Cinema & Media Studies, University of Washington
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Mediating Experiences, Experiencing Mediation

University of Washington Cinema & Media Studies Graduate Conference May 4, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Weihong Bao, UC Berkeley
Call for Proposals


*Travel funding will be available upon request

Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:41am
Daniel Villegas Vélez / matralab - Concordia University Montreal
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities Concordia University, Montreal. May 3–5, 2024Deadline: February 15, 2024

“May you live in interesting times!” 

Apocryphal Chinese Curse

From Body Hacking to Body Activism: Redefining Bodies in Digital Media

updated: 
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 9:40am
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Digital media has dramatically changed our understanding, knowledge, and experience of bodies. Body tracking apps and smart watches allow for new and intense practices of self-surveillance; social media platforms such as Insta and Tiktok present the constant work of body optimization as reasonable and desirable; selfie culture commonly serves to demonstrate willing compliance with new unachievable beauty standards. Filters, editing, lighting, and angling suggest that everybody can be brought into normative shape. Bodies are highly commodified when influencers link their accounts to LTK or amazon storefronts where products are being sold that suggest that youth, fitness, health, thinness, and beauty can be bought.

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