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Title: Mediated Cultures, Political Discourses, and the Celebrity: Perspectives from India
Edited by Swapna Gopinath, Ramna Walia, and Rutuja Deshmukh
Email: celebritypoliticscfp@gmail.com
JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory
Special Issue: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature
Guest editor: Professor Haifeng Hui, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
What is resilience for people with disabilities? What is recovery?
Narratives of illness, trauma and disability are often framed to emphasize recovery. Reflecting on resiliency, constructed ideas of normalcy, and “crip time,” Ellen Samuels writes: “Disability and illness have the power to extract us from linear, progressive time with its normative life stages and cast us into a wormhole of backward and forward acceleration, jerky stops and starts, tedious intervals and abrupt endings” (2017).
In working with disabled performers, disability scholar and artist Petra Kuppers notes the connection between the material oppression experienced by people with disabilities and the performance space. She writes:
The (Post)Medieval Imaginary
58th International Congress on Medieval Studies
May 11-13, 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS
This virtual ICMS session encourages participants to consider constructions of the medieval past in the Middle Ages and after, particularly as manifested in the interactions between the medieval(ist) literature, historiography, and/or material culture of postmedieval periods. Juxtaposing papers that engage with one or more historical periods, this session will reopen debates about the problems and possibilities of periodization while illuminating how medievalists and postmedieval scholars can productively collaborate across period boundaries.
Call for Panel Proposals
Renaissance Conference of Southern California (RCSC)-Sponsored Panels for RSA San Juan
Renaissance Society of America Conference
San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023
CFP Deadline: August 15, 2022
As an Associate Organization of the Renaissance Society of America, RCSC will be sponsoring up to two sessions at next year’s RSA conference in San Juan. We seek proposals for complete panels on any subject of the Renaissance world. Please see the details below about what is expected to propose a panel, or consult the RSA conference website.
CFP Panel Visualizing Home and Homeland in Pan-Asian Film and Dramas
Association for Asian Studies, 2023 Annual Conference Boston, MA and virtual
Virtual Format, February 17-18, 2023
AUGUST 5, 2022
Send a 250-word abstract and a 150-word bio by AUGUST 5, 2022 to jean_amato@fitnyc.edu
Panel Organizers:
Jean Amato, Associate Professor; Comparative Literature; Fashion Institute of Technology
Kyunghee Pyun, Associate Professor; Art History; Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
After a hiatus in which new technologies have enabled us stay in contact and learn how to overcome isolation, the Société Rencesvals, American-Canadian Branch invites scholars and practitioners from diverse fields to participate in a conversation on the intersection of the epic and technological applications.
In his influential Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree, Gérard Genette proposed terms to refer to the relationship among texts: intertextuality, paratextuality, metatextuality, architextuality, and hypertextuality. Connections among texts are not new to medieval scholars, as is evident on volumes about sources and analogues; yet, textual networks might be more productively explored against trade routes, religious and political invasions, and ideological impositions. How are textual transpositions, which Genette defines as “serious transformation[s]” (212), anchored in cultural clashes and exchanges?
As twenty-first century scholars have continued the work of identifying, editing, and giving historical context to writings by early modern women, they have turned increasingly to larger questions of reading and interpreting these works—questions that have recently gained particular attention in Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd's edited collection, Renaissance Formalism and Early Modern Women's Writings.
This roundtable, geared towards graduate students, independent scholars and early-career academics, seeks diverse voices to speak about the tension of interdisciplinarity and collaboration in the modern university. How do multimodal practices complicate the disciplines? What is multidisciplinarity vs. interdisciplinarity? What does it mean to be “undisciplined”? Contributions may include, but are not limited to: essays, graphic scholarship, pedagogical models, poetry and art.
Florida Atlantic University Honors College
Jupiter, United States
Details
Video games are more popular than ever, and gaming is an increasingly common hobby. However, gaming raises a number of complex ethical issues. Perhaps the most familiar is the question of whether violent video games are morally appropriate or not. But beyond questions about the morality of gaming and what is appropriate content we might wonder what the overall value of gaming is. Gamers are quite passionate about their hobby, and with concerns about gaming-disorder on the rise, it is reasonable to ask what redeeming value video games have. What role, if any, can video games have in the good life?
Multiculturalism is arguably a fundamental aspect of contemporary western society that has garnered diverse reception. It has been the source of diversity (positive) and social disunity (negative). Multiculturalism stands as the most recent development of race relations in ethnic studies; therefore, to study the contemporary theory of race, it is vital to consider cultural diversity as a constitutive aspect of that theory. Multiculturalism is not only a descriptive or even normative concept; instead, it is more appropriate to consider it as a pragmatic concept.
CFPVolume 28, Issue 3 - On the Mundane
Deadline: 5 September 2022
https://www.performance-research.org/editorial-callsforsubmissions.php
Issue Editors:
Sozita Goudouna, Goldsmiths, University of London
Eleni Kolliopoulou, University of Peloponnese
Eero Laine, State University of New York at Buffalo
Kristen Lewis, Osgoode Hall Law School and Gull Cry Dance
Rumen Rachev, Auckland University of Technology
De-Westernizing Horror: Reframing the Genre Cinemas of Asia
King’s College London
Monday 31st October – Tuesday 01st November, 2022
Keynote Speaker: Meheli Sen (Rutgers University)
In 2012, Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee published their necessary and urgent intervention, De-Westernizing Film Studies. The principle aim of their collection was to “consider what forms a challenge to the enduring vision of film as a medium – and film studies as a discipline – modelled on ‘Western’ ideologies, theoretical and historical frameworks, critical perspectives as well as institutional and artistic practices, might take today” (2012: 1).
I am putting together a panel to present at next year's African Futures Conference in Cologne, Germany (May 31 - June 3 2022) on the subject of neoliberalism and alternative temporalities on contemporary African fiction. More information on the conference can be found here https://ecasconference.org/2023/ and a short description and abstract for the panel can be found below. To be considered for inclusion in this panel, please send me your CV and a 250 word paper abstract at mwalonen@saintpeters.edu.
Neoliberalism and Alternative Temporalities in Contemporary African Fiction
The Call for Papers for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 11–May 13, 2023) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, is sponsoring the following session: Ursula K. Le Guin's Marvelous MedievalismContact: Kristine A. SwankModality: In person (in Kalamazoo, MI) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) left an unparalleled legacy of masterworks in science fiction and fantasy. Several of her imagined worlds were founded upon or enriched by global medieval influences from Europe, Asia, North & South America.
The Call for Papers for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 11–May 13, 2023) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, is sponsoring the following session: Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable)Contact: Mariana Rios MaldonadoModality: Virtual The construction of race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth narratives, legendarium, and their adaptations represents even now a gap within Tolkien scholarship.
Call For Papers submitted July 20, 2022
by Lauren Hehmeyer (co-editor of The Forgotten Alcott: The Literary Life and Artistic Legacy of May Alcott Nieriker) and Monika Elbert (co-editor of American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic) for a proposed edited collection:
Expanding the Canon: Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott (working title)
Deadline for abstract submission: November 1, 2022. Please limit your abstract to 350 words.
Northeast Modern Language Association 2023 roundtable: "Teaching 20th-century African American Women's Writing"
Given the ongoing cultural assault on the history of race in the United States, now is the perfect time to discuss how we teach African American Women’s writing. This roundtable will focus on twentieth-century literature (broadly defined) and invite conversation about approaches for introducing African American Women’s writing to students and for emphasizing its vastness and power to help us understand our past, present, and future.
Roundtable participants will have between 5-10 minutes to introduce a topic, and conversation will follow.
Northeast Modern Language Association 2023 Panel: "Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in the 21st Century"
Praised by generations of writers and thinkers, Ralph Ellison’s canonical novel Invisible Man remains deeply relevant. As we approach the thirtieth anniversary of Ellison’s passing, this panel will assess how Ellison’s landmark novel continues to be discussed, represented, and taught in the 21st Century.
How has Invisible Man taken on new meanings in the age of post-Obama, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, COVID-19, and ongoing climate change?
What influence has Ellison’s work had on later generations of writers?
How do we situate Ellison’s opus in his corpus and/or the canon of American letters?
This is a call for chapters for an edited collection of essays on religion and Shakespeare. Papers may explore various powerful aspects of religion in the plays but should combine close analysis with historical documentation, originality with rigor.
This session invites mentors and/or mentees to share their experiences in beginning, cultivating, sustaining, or–in other meaningful ways–interacting with mentoring relationships in the various pursuits of academia. The organizers are interested in the widest possible variety of mentoring relationships in both informal and formal settings: graduate student/faculty, peer or group mentorships, junior/senior faculty, as well as mentoring across disciplines, departments and even institutions.
UK Undergraduate PPE Conference is a global non-profit undergraduate conference. It welcomes submissions of student research from all areas of the humanities and social sciences—with a specific focus on issues pertaining to politics, economics, and philosophy.
Guest edited by James Aaron Green (University of Vienna) and João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto)
The 2023 NeMLA conference theme is RESILIENCE, an anchor term for critical and creative work that explores how we bear up under trauma, counter ableism, redress social and racial marginalization, environmental destruction, and how we celebrate bodily, cognitive, and neurological difference, access silenced voices, recover from the pandemic, and struggle to save the humanities, and humanity itself from the maw of neoliberalism.
Call for Papers for an Edited Volume of Essays on
Shakespeare and Indian Cinema
Call for papers for the journal, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific
Special Issue Editors:
Goutam Karmakar, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Spandan Bhattacharya, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus, India
Masculinity and Post Liberalization Indian Cinema
Rethinking hospitality through the culture, literature, and thought of contemporary US women of color
New Directions in Brut Studies
Four Hundred Years of the Brut