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Call for Papers: Women and Leadership in the Creative Industries
An interdisciplinary symposium at Bournemouth University, UK. 12th-13th September 2024
Call for Papers
Litinfinite Journal
December 2023
(Vol 5 Issue II)
On
Literature and Cultural Studies
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Final papers of 4500-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 5th December 2023.
Dr. Nick Walker (2021) activates “neuroqueering” in her book Neuroqueer Heresies as “intentional noncompliance with the demands of normative performance” (p. 3). Inherently, the verb of neuroqueer resists the classification of neurotypical and heteronormative classification within our binary and colonized society. Queer, decolonization and story as verbs demand active participation in declassifying Euro-American definitions of what is normal and expected of us, our fields and our participation and compliance with(in) them. Hence, it is urgent that we not only discuss, but make intentional action of declassifying the borders and boundaries between identity, nation and embodiment.
The field of David Foster Wallace studies is now approaching two decades of scholarly and academic development. Stephen J. Burn’s guide to Infinite Jest appeared in 2003 and the first conference dedicated to Wallace Studies was organized by David Hering in Liverpool in 2009. In the ensuing years, hundreds of devoted scholars and readers have enriched and benefited from the field of work. Our annual conference is the showcase of this work—and the valuable opportunity to meet others in the field. For the 2024 conference in Austin, home of the Harry Ransom Center and Wallace’s archive, we invite papers commenting on any aspect of Wallace’s work, thought, influence, or context.
I am currently putting together the 2024 programme (January – June) of online talks for Romancing the Gothic: an online programme of talks on subjects related to horror, folklore, the supernatural, and more. We welcome talks from all disciplines and are particularly interested in showcasing the work of international scholars from around the world.
We hold talks every week at the weekend and run each talk twice (time zones permitting!) to make sure as many people from as many time-zones as possible can join us. You can find examples of previous talks here - https://romancingthegothic.com/class-schedules/
CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW
Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.
MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.
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
The Lonely Londoners (1956); Things Fall Apart (1958); Wide Sargasso Sea (1967); Midnight’s Children (1981); A Small Place (1988); The God of Small Things (1997); Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)...
Chiasma
A Site for Thought
CALL FOR PAPERS
Volume 9: Philosophy / Fascism / State
Theme and Scope:
The English Department at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in Sousse (TUNISIA)
The Research Laboratory Ecole et Littératures “The School and Literatures Laboratory”
Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse (LAD)
organise an international conference on
Pain and PleasureDate: April 25- 26, 2024Conference Venue: Conference Room
Consent-Based Theatre Pedagogy: Anti-Oppressive Practices for Youth Performance
Consent-based performance practices have been widely discussed in recent years–specifically those practices related to the staging of intimacy in live performance and in film. While scholarship dedicated to the practices, theories, and politics of consent in theatrical and cinematic labor continues to accumulate, the use of consent-based practices in theatrical settings to impact the artistic and social-emotional learning of youth remains largely underexplored.
The Comparative Literature Graduate Student Organization at Binghamton University invites proposals for papers discussing popular genres for our graduate conferencescheduled for April 12-13, 2024.
There has been a heightened academic interest in popular genres within the last decade. Scholars have approached these texts from a variety of lenses, and—with our graduate conference—we hope to make space for further research through various forms of critical engagement. In addition to welcoming essays regarding individual texts and specific genres, we are also interested in examining the state of popular genres in the academy, and especially encourage submissions engaged with non-Western texts and theory.
Call for Papers: UCD Humanities Institute PhD Conference, 1 March 2024
Cannibal Consumption: Culture, Capitalism, Critique
Keynote Speaker: Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes
Reproductive justice was developed as an international human-rights framework by activists and scholars in the 1990s and has become a cornerstone of intersectional feminist theory and practice within social sciences. Yet, it is only recently that researchers in arts and humanities have begun to tap the rich interdisciplinary potential this framework offers for bringing together reproductive rights, social justice, and cultural representation. In a contemporary moment shaken by ecological and economic crises, rises in far-right nationalisms across the globe, and the rolling back of hard-fought sexual rights in the USA, attention to questions of reproductive justice across the disciplinary spectrum is more urgent than ever.
Themed Issue on Indigenous Performance Ecologies and Ecological Power in the Global South
Rupkatha Journal On Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
Volume 16 Number 1, 2024
Editor: Stephen Ogheneruro Okpadah
University of Warwick, UK
Please do consider joining an especially collegial group of scholars next spring in Atlanta: we would love to have you with us.
The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.
By popular demand, PopCRN will be hosting a conference about Barbie, the popular culture phenomenon. The free, online event will be held on Wednesday 27th and Thursday 28th of March 2024.
Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 16th Annual Hybrid Conference
‘Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture’
15-17th July, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University
Hosted in person and online with Zoom
Call for Papers
If ‘space’ is understood as an area that can be objectively measured or at least conceptualised, the construction of ‘place’ depends on a range of affective and cultural meanings at any given moment.
Discontinuous Compositions: Reading Fragments
Date: April 5 and 6
Format: In person
Submission and contact:ctl-conference@jhu.edu
Submission deadline: January 29th
Location: Johns Hopkins University
CFP: The Global South (Journal): “Toxic Ecologies of the Global South”—Deadline December 31st, 2023
Shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging more migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs (less developed countries)? … I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to that… I’ve always thought that under-populated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. (Lawrence Summers, chief economic advisor to the IMF, 1991).
Call For Papers Mardi Gras Conference 2024: Legacies of Power and the Power of Legacies
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, February 1-3, 2024.
Call for Papers: ‘Drama Therapy and the Climate Crisis’
Drama Therapy Review Special Issue 11.1
Submission deadline: 1 August 2024
Editors: Nisha Sajnani, Alida Gersie and Jessica Bleuer
View the full CFP here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/drama-therapy-review#call-for-papers
The 4th POM ConferenceRWTH Aachen University
KäteHamburger Kolleg:
LGBTIQ+ Representations and Media in US Popular Culture: Exploring New Directions, Challenges, and Queer Heritage
Editor: J. Javier Torres-Fernández (University of Almería)
F[R]ICTION
Conference date: April 26, 2024 | Abstracts due: December 17, 2023
In Anna Tsing’s ethnography Friction (2005), Tsing offers “friction” as a metaphor for thinking about global connection: “A wheel turns because of its encounter with the road; spinning in the air it goes nowhere. Rubbing two sticks together produces heat and light; one stick alone is just a stick. As a metaphorical image, friction reminds us that heterogenous and unequal encounters can lead to new arrangements of culture and power.”
CFP: 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference
Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid
Dates: Tuesday, April 16 (Zoom presentations only), Wednesday and Thursday, April 17-18, 2024 (in person presentations only with Zoom projections)
Plenary Speaker: Christopher Goffard, author and senior staff writer, Los Angeles Times
Cinephile 18.1 – (Un)recovering Lost Futures
The late cultural theorist Mark Fisher asks, “how long can a culture persist without the new?” For Fisher, the postmodern future under capitalist realism, “harbours only reiteration and re-permutation” (6-7). In capitalism’s inability to look beyond itself, media culture has become excessively nostalgic and “incapable of generating any authentic novelty” (63). Accordingly, one can observe a certain malaise surrounding media’s inability to imagine new and alternative futures.
CFP for the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference 2024: ‘Signs and Scripts’
The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is excited to announce that the theme for the 2024 conference is: ‘Signs and Scripts.’
The conference will be held in person on the 8th and 9th of April, 2024. We are delighted to announce this call for papers and invite proposals relating to all aspects of the broad topic ‘signs and scripts’ in the medieval world. Submissions are welcome from all disciplinary perspectives, whether historical, literary, archaeological, linguistic, interdisciplinary, or anything else. There are no limitations on geographical focus or time period, so long as the topic pertains to the medieval period.
Panel: A William Dean Howells Retrospective
Conference: WRITING THE MIDWEST: A Symposium of Scholars and Creative Writers
The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML)
May 28-30, 2024. Kellogg Hotel and Convention Center, East Lansing, Michigan
Call for Creative Submission | Writing with the Bots | AI Literature Submission
Using neural networks, the AI literature tools produce human-like pieces of literature that are, in most cases, marked by twisted imitations of the masterpieces both in language and content. The ‘Artificial’ is repetitive and selected from the vast body of literature available on the web or from the classics, a particular language model is fed with. With this caveat, we venture into experimenting with writing with the Bots.
Rupkatha Journal is inviting submissions of AI literature following the instructions below:
