International Brecht Society
Call for Papers
German Studies Annual Conference
5-8 October 2023 (Montréal, Quebec)

Of Robbery and Revolution: 100 Years of Im Dickicht der Städte and Trommeln in der Nacht

Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.

We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental essays.

Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.

https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/

Utpictura18.      Call for papers.           Issue on Shakespeare

https://utpictura18.univ-amu.fr/rubriques

Coordination of the volume by:

Jean-Louis Claret, Aix-Marseille Université, LERMA

Jean-Jacques Chardin, Strasbourg Universioty

Anne-Valérie Dulac, Sorbonne Université, VALE

Estelle Rivier-Arnaud, Université Grenoble-Alpes, ILCEA4

CFP: Queer Comics of Color for Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference

Call for papers for a roundtable session organized by Joanna Davis-McElligatt and Margaret Galvan for the Comics Studies Society 2023 “Comics on the Margins” Conference on July 27-29, 2023 at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX (https://comicsstudies.org/2023-cfp/).

POST-PANDEMIC FUTURES: CULTURAL MEETING POINTS

Hybrid Conference: Maynooth Campus and Zoom

Organized by Loïc Bourdeau (Maynooth University) 

and Steven Wilson (Queen’s University Belfast)

OCTOBER 5-6, 2023

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

Eivind Engebretsen, Professor of Interdisciplinary Health Science (University of Oslo)

Lucille Toth, Dance Scholar & Assistant Professor of French (Ohio State University)

This special issue of the ZAA: A Quarterly of Language, Literature and Culture will explore the aesthetics and politics of psychotherapy from the point of view of Anglophone literary, cultural, and media studies. In particular, we seek contributions that fall into at least one of the following three strands:

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTORS: Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance  

We are writing about a call for contributors to an exciting new series at Bloomsbury. Women’s Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance aims to capture the innovations women have made to the performing arts in their historical, geographical, and disciplinary diversity. This series seeks to broaden, celebrate, and recover historical awareness of these performance-based artmakers and their contributions; as such, it will showcase innovative, intersectional feminist historiographical approaches along with a history of women’s innovation in the field.

Transgression

The Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Graduate Student Conference

April 17th

University of California Los Angeles

Submission Deadline: January 30th, 2023, 5:00pm (PST)

The Beat Studies Association welcomes papers on any aspect of Beat writing, including centennial writers (Philip Whalen, Carolyn Cassidy, and Norman Mailer). Papers on the impact of Beat writers on subsequent writers and on the relevance of countercultural poetics to the current moment will also be welcome. Representations of writers and texts in televisual and cinematic media and ecocritical approaches are also possibilities. Send 100 word abstract, title, and a few lines identifying yourself to John Whalen-Bridge at ellwbj@nus.edu.sg.

American Literature Association Annual Conference - Boston May 25-28, 2023

 
The Sea in American Literature

deadline for submissions: January 25, 2023

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites submissions for a panel on The Sea in American Literature. Potential subjects for this panel range from Melville and Richard Henry Dana to Stephen Crane, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Barry Lopez, and Jonathan Bayliss, but others will occur to you as well. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu by January 25, 2023. Please indicate if you have AV requirements.

International Conference on "Exile" 

(Online and in-person)

2-4 May 2023 

Faculty of Arts and Humanities - Sousse, Tunisia 

Exile as a broad term denotes a force of (un)voluntary escape from one’s land to a foreign space, and it connotes a sense of estrangement and nostalgia. Exile in literature, culture studies and linguistics is more problematized, as it takes different forms and orientations. Indeed, Exile negotiates complex issues related to historical events that have marked human existence such as the Industrial Revolution, the two world wars etc…

The present realities of decolonization, immigration, and refugee migration require critical enquiries into the provision of liberal studies in higher education. The aims and methods of liberal education as a pedagogical exercise and a cultural practice need to be examined within the dynamic intellectual, social, economic, and political contexts created by today’s unprecedented movement of peoples and intersections of cultures. Variously seen as forced migration, exile, dislocation, statelessness and even environmentally induced displacement, the Global refugee crises present multilocational and multilayered challenges.

Currents in the Periodical Press (Deadline Extension)

2023 RSVP Conference
Caen, France, July 6-9, 2023 (with some hybrid & online options)

Special dossier | edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic

A fundamental element of the American imaginary, superhero and heroic narratives have seen a new apogee since the turn of the century. New and old heroes and heroines have populated popular culture, giving rise to a variety of texts that tackle diversity, nostalgia, and the need for imaginaries and narratives that help us deal with the struggles inherent to our current times.

This two-part dossier, co-edited by Marica Orrù and Igor Juricevic, will collect essays on (super)hero figures in twenty-first century US popular culture, with a specific focus on diversity, cross-genre texts, and transmedia representations.