Fantasy as Subversion in South Asian Literature, Film and Media
Special Issue of Critical South Asian Studies
Guest Editor: Binayak Roy

“We learn when we take risks. We learn when we do something we have not done before…otherwise we are not learning.” – Dr. David Docterman, “Developing Academic Mindsets for Literacy,” 2016.

Between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements

Langston Hughes's long career spanned these two movements, with his first collection, The Weary Blues, appearing in 1926, and his final collection, The Panther and the Lash, appearing two months after his death in 1967. The Langston Hughes Society invites papers related to the decades between the New Negro and Black Arts Movements, or to artists who are not typically associated with those movements.

In a world saturated with images in which audiovisual storytelling has dominated for decades shaping the aesthetics and expectations of the audience, and in which binge-consuming TV series on digital platforms and homemade videos on social media have become the trend of the last few years, it is quite unexpected to witness the reemergence of a storytelling that resists visual representation.  Of course, audio storytelling is not new; Stories voiced for the ear to listen have been with us since early on, for as long as there have been stories to share. What has changed in recent years, whetting our story-listening appetite anew, are the computing technologies ever rapidly developed for audio production, distribution and reception.

https://www.acla.org/poetic-language-now

Organizer: Rebecca Kosick

Co-Organizer: Nathan Taylor

Poetry has exploded off the page in recent decades, making a prominent home for itself in new semiotic and material environments. Poems circulate on subway systems, through platforms and apps, on placards at protests, in art museums, and the built environment. These poems, in turn, are composed in a variety of human and nonhuman languages, from Spanglish to mathematics, code to GPT-language models. 

• Conference theme: Connections
• Date and location of conference: Friday, October 27, 2023 at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma 
• Length of conference sessions: 45 minutes 
• Length of session proposals: 100 - 150 words
• Session proposal deadline: EXTENDED to October 1, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST
• To submit session proposals, CLICK HERE 
• Conference registration deadline: October 20, 2023 at 11:59 PM CST

What is the potential, liberatory or otherwise, of excess as a figure, motif, scene, or problem? Blake’s “road of excess” offers a counterpoint to an industrial-capitalistic ethos of productivity, frugality, and reason. Moreover, Bataille speaks of “excess” as a form of unproductive expenditure of energy under modernity. If “animatedness” (Ngai) operates as a racialized iteration of exaggerated affect, how does one read the overdetermined sentimentality of the lyric “I”? Lyric excess, then, invites an engagement with scenes of excess, or in other words exuberance, surplus, or waste, to rethink lyric poetry’s non-utilitarian possibilities in form and content.

Call for Papers

Literature-General

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on September 1, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023

Call for Papers  

International conference

6-7 June 2024

Reading, Readings… and Loving Bukowski: an invitation to a subjective interpretation

Université Bordeaux Montaigne

- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 29 SEPTEMBER -

This international conference will be held in Cannes, France, on June 6 and 7, 2024.

Organisation : Karine Hildenbrand (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur), Nicolas Labarre (PU, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) et Isabelle Licari-Guillaume (MCF, Université Côte d’Azur).

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the winter 2023-2024 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

24-25 November 2023, University of Bucharest

The Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures

Last call! We are looking for one more presenter to round out our panel. If you are interested, please see details below:

Collaborative Scaffolding: Shifting Perspectives and the Future of Digital Humanities

120th session of PAMLA (all in-person - no hybrid or remote presentations)

Oct. 26-29, 2023 - Portland, Oregon

Special Session - CFP