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OVERTONES EGE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES
CALL FOR PAPERS
Annual deadline: September 15
“Feeling,” in its multiple forms of meaning, is central to the literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the the cult of sensibility, aesthetic explorations of the sublime, and medical explorations of the nerves; while the nineteenth saw the literary cultivation of sympathy and psychological theories of emotion. Whether emotional, affective, or physical, the push to define and understand “feeling” was frequently attended by anxiety about feeling’s propensity to spill over and overwhelm.
The work of creating a socially just classroom is often one of balancing a pedagogical surplus of initiatives, directions, and possibilities. Expanding the literary canon, pushing back against white supremacist norms of classroom discourse and production, and creating accessible assignments, materials, and activities all involve research, restructuring, and integration that can be labor-intensive and potentially overwhelming. Additionally, instructors often have to balance between the goals of their own classroom and institutional imperatives, ensuring students gain the preparation and cultural capital that will enable them to succeed in classrooms with traditional academic expectations.
The Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research-Creation
Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador, 27-29 Oct, 2023
Deadline for Submissions: 31 August, 2023
This is a call for papers for a panel focusing on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, to be held at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, November 9-11, 2023.
The Soul of Cinema: Essays on Arts & Faith’s Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films
Since 2004, readers and writers at the Art & Faith website have created six lists of “spiritually significant” films, culminating in its 2020 iteration of the group’s Top 100 films. (To see this list visit http://artsandfaith.com) To celebrate the most recent list, the editors will be publishing an anthology of essays through Cambridge Scholars P.
55th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts
Systems of excess: unsettling visions of the unwanted and grotesque, pushing the limits of our collective imaginary. This is the very texture of horror. For the last few years, the NeMLA convention has allowed our growing community of scholars to lay the foundation for a new trajectory of horror criticism —one that focuses on the class politics at play in horror cinema, as well as on potential materialist analyses of the genre and its spectatorship. The 2024 “Surplus” theme aligns with the theoretical landscape we have been exploring, adding a new level of specificity to the academic discourse we wish to collectively build.
55th NeMLA Annual Convention, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association’s Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture area welcomes paper submissions from graduate students, educators, and independent researchers of popular culture. NEPCA’s 2023 fall virtual conference will be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 via Zoom. The deadline for proposals is August 1, 2023.
We encourage panel proposals as well as individual submissions.
Papers are generally 15–20 minutes in length. We also encourage works in progress, and informal presentations.
This area considers the intersection of politics, civic life, and popular culture. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
A one-day Colloquium (Hybrid)
11 August 2023
Dominican University, Ibadan, Nigeria
Democracy Today?
The 2024 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 22–23, 2024
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
New York, NY
Co-sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY
Deadline for submissions: October 15, 2023
Conference Description
Mediated Ruins in Contemporary Landscapes of the Americas
chairs: Paulo Lorca Fuentealba (Cornell University) and Ashley Edlund-Chescheir (Cornell University)
Join us in Boston for NEMLA, March 7th-10th, 2024
Description:
The growing potential of artificial intelligence to generate content undetectable to plagiarism checkers has created a sense of urgency across higher education. What are the pedagogical and curricular implications of artificial intelligence for writing and critical thinking? What are the pedagogical and curricular responses to this rapidly advancing technology that is both widely available and affordable?
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites submissions for a special volume on Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Critical Thinking.
Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2023.
The First International Conference on Critical South Asian Death Studies
18th-20th of April 2024 | University of Münster
csads@uni-muenster.de | https://go.wwu.de/csads
Call for Papers
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Panel: Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value
Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford)
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 20 ***
PAMLA Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon
October 26-29, 2023
“Culture Wars 2.0” (Roundtable / Special Session)
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 20 ***
PAMLA Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon
October 26-29, 2023
"Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)
The proposed Special Issue of Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (web of science indexed; https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/720) aims to examine the everyday existential struggles in societies triggered by the exceptionalism of state-capital nexus. It will analyze the epistemes of violence, structures of rampant coloniality in different manifestations, extraction of lands, bodies, and life that underpin the self-expansionist project of cannibalistic capitalism.
Please consider submitting your proposal to the PAMLA 2023 panel “A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries”.
*CfP still open*
Special Session
Presiding Officer/Panel Chair: Maria Mothes (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Abstract:
The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.
Description:
**DEADLINE EXTENDED to JULY 10*
NEASECS 2023 “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings,”
FINAL CALL
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023
Conference hosted by the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and Challenging Precarity: A Global Network.
University of Wollongong, Sydney Campus, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
29 November – 1 December 2023
Organisation websites:
ROCKING ROMANTICISM
Romanticism and Rock Music
International Conference
Université d’Artois, Arras, France
Textes et Cultures (UR 4028), équipe interne "Translittéraires", en association
avec l’ENS, la SERA, et LOOPThursday 28th-Friday 29th March 2024
Organised by Adrian Grafe (Université d'Artois) and Marc Porée (ENS/PSL)
The Kurt Vonnegut Society is seeking 250-word abstracts for a panel session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024.
Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo
All submissions must be made through the following link: View Session (cfplist.com)
Vonnegut Surplus, Surplus Vonnegut
In line with this year’s convention theme, the Kurt Vonnegut Society seeks abstracts that consider what we might call “Surplus Vonnegut” or “Vonnegut Surplus.”
Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
Seeking 250-word abstracts for a panel session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024.
Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo
All submissions must be made through the following link: View Session (cfplist.com)
Black Rhetorics: Written and Performed
Popular cultural depictions of the 1950s often emphasise an imagined nostalgic aesthetic of excessive conformity and heterogeneity as the foil to a protagonist’s rebellion against the established order. Commonly, the setting is not explicitly stated as the 1950s, but the cultural touchstones provide a receptive allusion for the audience to place the experiences temporally and contextually. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Don’t Worry Darling (2022) and other iterations of the Stepford Wives storyline, and Pleasantville (1998) all invoke an invented 1950s atmosphere of heightened conformity with an understated element of extremism under threat of non-conformity.
We all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order altogether. Lists were just as central to the lives and experiences of medieval people. If anything, the practice of enumeration was even more common in the Middle Ages, when lists fulfilled functions which are now served by other tools sitting at the intersection of written and visual culture, such as maps and databases.
We are seeking a complete essay draft (approx. 5000-7500 words) for possible inclusion as a chapter in New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern Literature, edited by Gail Kern Paster and Nick Moschovakis. This opportunity exists because serious health considerations have recently compelled the late withdrawal of an invited contributor. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge for publication in 2024.
Call for submissions: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections
Submissions are invited for volume 16 of Cather Studies, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be “Willa Cather’s New York Intersections.” Submissions may address New York City as Cather knew it but also the metropolis that was present around her, though perhaps not always visible to her.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: