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[EXTENDED] Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Science Fiction

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:56pm
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

[EXTENDED] Call for Papers

 

Focused Issue Theme: 

Newtrospection: Reverse-Engineering Modernity in South Korean Speculative Fiction

 

Focused Issue planned for early 2023

EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: June 30, 2022

Paper submission deadline: August 31, 2022

 

Arab and Muslim Womanhood Between History and Literature

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:55pm
Reyam Rammahi, University of Oxford
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

At times depicted as loquacious and licentious, while most often portrayed as silent or inert harem slaves, the Arab and Muslim women received much attention from writers of different periods. Though considerable scholarly attention was given to discussing such representations and others, there are still forgotten and underrated characters. With the access we have to an abundance of digitized historical literary sources, we can trace these figures and analyze them in more depth.

Call for Contributions: Special Issue on the works of Percival Everett

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:55pm
Martin Paul Eve / Birkbeck, University of London
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Percival Everett is among the most significant and prolific living contemporary American writers. The author of over twenty novels, four short-story collections, five volumes of poetry, and a children’s book, Everett is famed for his versatility and range while retaining a distinctly recognizable style. His prose oeuvre includes masterful satires as well as unconventional takes on genre fiction, profound explorations of personal tragedy as well as playful metafictional experiments, stories of the rural as well as the cosmopolitan, bitter critiques of American injustices past and present as well as absurd tall tales. Everett also, of course, has a distinguished career in the academy as a Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

International Gaming: Laws and Regulations around Games in the Digital Era

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:55pm
Hailey Austin - InGAME International
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2022

Conference Call for Papers:

International Gaming: Laws and Regulations around Games in the Digital Era

Hosted by Durham University and InGame International

In-person Conference to be held in Durham 8-9 September 2022

  Outline

ICEA 2022: 87th Annual Conference

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:55pm
Indiana College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

The theme for the 87th Annual Conference of the Indiana College English Association is "The Impacts of Education." 

 

“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.” – Socrates

30 Years Later: Los Angeles 1992 / Sa-I-Gu / Los quemazones

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:55pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 11, 2022

Panel Abstract: 

Where does public history end and personal narrative begin? Practically everyone in the United States during the 1990s saw the footage of LAPD officers beating Rodney King, a Black motorist. Known by many names, the events that followed the acquittal of the four charged LAPD officers also took over television sets and radio waves far and wide. What the nightly news denounced as “the Riots,” others articulated as part of a resistance by the name of “No Justice, No Peace.”

Filth, Dirt, (Im)Purity, and the Woman

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:54pm
54th Annual NeMLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Women and their bodies share a close connection with (im)purity, filth, and dirt as unavoidable elements in their routines of care and caring. It could be said that the words like filth, dirt are loaded with colonial meanings and can become extremely complicated when understood from the socio-cultural-political lens. Through the postcolonial appropriations, these meanings have subsequently contributed to the patriarchal assumptions and gendered ideas of women’s roles, especially, in handling filth and dirt, in their daily duties of selfless care, nursing, cooking, cleaning, and mothering.

Queer Poetry and Poetics [NeMLA 2023]

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:54pm
Jan Maramot / University of California, Irvine
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

“Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you.

& you means someone who knows that common flavors for ice cream sandwiches in Singapore include red bean, yam, & honeydew.” – Chen Chen, Summer

Call for Journal Article Submissions

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:53pm
The Burney Journal/The Burney Society
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Burney Journal

Call for Submissions

Volume 19

The Burney Journal is now accepting submissions for volume 19, to be published in 2023, and for subsequent issues to be published annually. A peer-reviewed publication of the Burney Society, The Burney Journal is available in print and indexed online by EBSCO Host and MLA International Bibliography.

Searching for Hopeful Outcomes: Optimizing Opportunities within Literature of Despair

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:53pm
Annette M Magid / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Within the genres of science fiction as well as in poetry and drama, scenarios of dystopic presentations are frequently reversed to reveal a more hopeful denouement. The focus of this year’s convention is Resilience which is identified on the NeMLA website as “an anchor term for critical and creative work that explores how we bear up under trauma,” amongst other critical issues in the world. Literature has been utilized as a means of explaining difficult issues and often works through a myriad of complications, revealing resilience as well as offering a glimmer of hope.  How do these writers achieve their encouraging shift from sometimes desolation and seeming hopelessness to a more hopeful viewpoint? Are there parallel constructs?

NeMLA 2023 Roundtable: "What's Next?: Constructing a Pedagogy of Resilience"

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 1:52pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.

As we continue to transition our daily lives “back to normal”—or rather to our understanding of “normal” from a pre-pandemic perspective—how do we negotiate the lessons learned during the pandemic? Quarantine, lockdown, self-isolation, social distancing, and the many other necessary health measures we have taken, currently take, and may continue to take, have forced a reconsideration of how we work and how we teach. What are our key pedagogical takeaways to help build and foster resiliency during these times?

Insurgent Infrastructures

updated: 
Saturday, June 11, 2022 - 6:59am
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 5, 2022

Critique: Studies in Contemporary Literature

Call for Papers for Special Issue: Insurgent Infrastructures

Edited by Gabriella Friedman, Henry Ivry and Harriet Stilley

NeMLA 2023 Panel: Sustainability and Resilience in Early Modern and Enlightenment France

updated: 
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 9:32am
Charlee Bezilla - George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

In concert with the theme of the 2023 NeMLA annual convention, “Resilience,” this panel will consider in what forms sustainability and resilience (broadly conceived) appear in the literature and philosophy of ancien régime France. In the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, France and Europe more broadly faced a variety of social, political, economic, and environmental crises, from the brutal Wars of Religion in the sixteenth century, to the “Little Ice Age” climatic downturn that affected agricultural production, to more international disputes, political uprisings like the Fronde, the 1720 outbreak of plague in Marseille, and the Lisbon earthquake of 1755.

The Cultural Deliberation of Europe

updated: 
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 9:28am
Margriet van der Waal/University of Groningen
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Special issue working title: The Cultural Deliberation of Europe 

Intended journal: Continuum. Journal of Media and Cultural Studies

Editors: Jesse van Amelsvoort (University of Amsterdam, NL), Margriet van der Waal (University of Groningen/University of Amsterdam, NL)

 

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Call for Articles: Digital Dickens (Edited Volume)

updated: 
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 9:28am
Emily Bell, University of Leeds
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2022

CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: DIGITAL DICKENS There has been a growing number of online projects in Dickens studies over the past few years, but discussion of the role Digital Humanities has to play in Dickens scholarship (and vice versa) has been limited so far to conference papers and individual articles.

Updated CFP: Narrative Complexity in Recent Time-Travel Media

updated: 
Friday, June 10, 2022 - 8:46am
Elizabeth Trepanier, Luke Leonard (Eastern Florida State College), and Emory O'Malley (Independent)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

We are seeking contributors for an edited collection of scholarly essays on these recent changes in the complexity of time-travel media (film, television, gaming, or literature). Submissions that are interdisciplinary in theory and method are welcome, especially those in popular culture, science fiction, fantasy, genre studies, critical media studies, narratology, etc. Abstracts and papers discussing recent time-travel media, approximately within the last decade, may include but are not limited to research concerning narrative structure, theme, genre, reception, comprehension, and other relevant topics.

CFP: Tramp Press: Ireland’s Maverick Publisher

updated: 
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 9:48pm
University Press
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Tramp Press (f. 2014) is one of the leading voices in independent publishing, launching well-known writers from Ireland and beyond such as Sara Baume and Emilie Pine, and reissuing impactful past women writers. A globally-minded local press, Tramp’s list queries fixed ideas of “Irish” writing and of what can constitute the contemporary. 

Life Writing as World Literature

updated: 
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 9:47pm
edited collection
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

CALL FOR PAPERS: 

 

LIFE WRITING AS WORLD LITERATURE (book)

 

Deadline for abstracts: July 1, 2022Deadline for final essays: January 1, 2023

 

The series Literatures as World Literature by Bloomsbury Publishing aims to “take a novel approach to world literature by analyzing specific constellations — according to language, nation, form, or theme — of literary texts and authors in their own world-literary dimensions.” https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/literatures-as-world-literature/

 

RACISM, NATIONALISM AND XENOPHOBIA -5th International InterdisciplinaryConference (online)

updated: 
Thursday, June 9, 2022 - 2:54pm
InMind Support
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 25, 2021

ON-LINE CONFERENCE (via Zoom)

11-11 July 2022

CFP:

It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.

   

The Nature of Things: Ecology, Philosophy, and Poetics

updated: 
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - 11:10am
Alexander Sorenson/NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

What does it mean to write and think about nature? Do language, thought, and mimesis ultimately have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our natural environments, and do these environments in turn have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our words and ideas? Taking such questions as a starting point, this panel aims to explore how the relationship between the human community and the environment has occupied a central space within literature and thought across various epochs and epistemological arenas. 

Edited Collection: Global History of Astrology 1900-2021

updated: 
Wednesday, June 8, 2022 - 10:32am
William E. Burns/George Washington University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

 I am recruiting contributors for a collection of scholarly essays with the working title Starcrossed Century: Astrology in Global Society from World War One to Covid. The book is designed to address the identification of the history of astrology with "premodern" history. The historiography of astrology is very active and intellectually exciting, but it focuses almost entirely on the period before 1800. Yet never have there been more astrological believers and practitioners than today.

Dante Decolonizer—Poet of Justice: Epistemic Plurality and the Ethical Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 10:02pm
Catherine Adoyo
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Dante Decolonizer: Poet of Justice

Epistemic Plurality and the Ethical Imagination

 

…ché, per quanti si dice più li ‘nostro’… (Purgatorio, 15.55)

 This NeMLA sponsored seminar is designed to engage Dante’s interrogation of justice as an epistemically rooted, ethical imperative. This year’s speaker’s panel and subsequent roundtable seek to explore Dante’s attention to the centrality of epistemic plurality in the ethical imagination with respect to justice, as exemplified in key passages like: Inferno 3–5, 8, 26, 32–33; Purgatorio 10–11, 13, 15–18, 30–31; and Paradiso 3, 10–12, 17–21. 

NeMLA CFP: Manifesting Joy Through Posthumanist Praxis

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 10:02pm
Mimi Rowntree and Sarah Shelton
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

 

In her most recent book, Posthuman Feminism, Rosi Braidotti calls on posthumanist educators to develop “an affirmative ethics that acknowledges the shared desire of all entities to persevere in their collaborative interdependence and to increase it for the common good” (118). She advocates for pedagogical praxis as a methodological innovation (and challenge) that draws on new materialism as a foundational theory and carnal empiricism as a method.

We hope to consider the following questions with a collaborative group of participants:

*What are concrete, shareable ways to put posthumanist/feminist/new materialist theory into practice (praxis) in the everyday higher ed classroom?

Call for Chapters: Who Was that Masked Woman? Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 5:01pm
Editors, Gregory Bray (SUNY New Paltz) and Andrew Ball (Harvard)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2022

Who Was that Masked Woman? Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

We are looking for two chapters to complete a manuscript currently in development with a publisher.  We invite chapter proposals for a collection of critical essays that examine how women vigilantes, anti-heroines, and outlaws were represented in movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, and pulp fiction in America at the turn of the century.  

"The Art of Losing": Loss in Literature and Film (NeMLA Panel, Niagara Falls, March 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 5:00pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

“The Art of Losing”: Loss in Literature and Film

Panel Session, NeMLA’s 54th Annual Convention in Niagara Falls, March 23-26

 

In her iconic poem “One Art,” Elizabeth Bishop writes of “the art of losing.” The poem’s speaker first recounts the loss of small things such as “lost door keys” and “an hour badly spent”; then, the losses grow in import: “my mother’s watch,” “three loved houses,” “two cities,” “two rivers, a continent,” and finally, “even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love).”

 

Creativity and Innovation in French and Francophone Curricula

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 5:00pm
Shanaaz Mohammed
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

CFP – Roundtable

 

Creativity and Innovation in French and Francophone Curricula

 

54th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention

Niagara Falls, NY

March 23-26, 2023

 

Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2022

 

NeMLA 2023 Panel: Fandom And/As Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 5:00pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Fandom flourishes thanks greatly in part to the contributions made by members of marginalized communities. From fanfictions based on queer readings of the original material, to fan art depicting BIPOC character headcanons, fandom has given people the opportunity to engage with media in ways that are oftentimes more inclusive than the original text itself. 

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