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Bodies in Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 10:15pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.

Narratives of Disease in Literature and Culture: second call

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:40pm
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY

UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD

 

is happy to announce

 

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 7)

 

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and of the English Department

 

October 26-27, 2024

The conference will be held ONLINE and is FREE OF CHARGE

Conference topic:

DEADLINE EXTENDED! CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference Association (SWPACA) Summer Salon

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:40pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024

Speaking the Unspeakable: Representing Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Allie Wood Reichert / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of language can inadvertently silence, restrict, and ignore the material and corporeal existence of suffering. This session invites panelists to consider representing and witnessing trauma as acts of translation across the border of un/representability. Although our central question originates in discussions of language and texts, panelists are also encouraged to consider trauma’s appearance across disciplines and forms, such as visual culture, media, and/or performance.

Call for Papers: ‘Consensual Play’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Consensual Play’

Deadline: 30 April 2024 for long articles; 15 May 2024 for short articles

Wordcount: 5,000–8,000 words for long articles; 3,000–5,000 words for short articles

Contact: Kathleen Morrissey,kmorrissey1@wpi.edu

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers

 

Call for Papers: ‘The circulation of the Italian cinema in the United States between 1945 and 1975: Distribution, reception, impact’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Call for Papers: ‘The circulation of the Italian cinema in the United States between 1945 and 1975: Distribution, reception, impact’

Guest-editors:

Federico di Chio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università degli Studi di Bologna

Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University

Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Julie Ripley, Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 29, 2024

Dress Devolution 2 Conference. 

9-11 July 2024

Falmouth University

Conference theme: Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume 

Dress Devolution investigates styles, practices and representations around dress and textiles outside of metropolotan contexts.  The beach as a liminal space has long been a site of leisured, risque, specialised and defiantly un-urban dress and textile parctices which this conference aims to explore.

Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Esferas Literarias
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: Esferas Literarias nº 7 (2024)

Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature 

Young Scholar Prize - William James Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
William James Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The William James Society (WJS), in conjunction with William James Studies, would like to announce that it will be offering its annual Young Scholar Prize to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought and work of William James.

The prize will include: (1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in March 2025, (2) $750 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) publishing the paper in William James Studies.

Journal of Dracula Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Journal of Dracula Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.
Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
Please follow MLA style.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field.
Copyright for published articles remains with the author.

PAMLA conference 2024: SF/speculative or imaginative fiction/fantasy in French

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Annabelle Dolidon, Portland State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

In this roundtable session, we invite presenters to share their work in French or in English pertaining to science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy in texts, film, or comics originally published in the French language. These narrative genres are often ways to comment on social change by placing characters in other contexts through world-building or imagined interactions between humans and non-human entities.

 

Visualizing Hidden Meanings: Symbolism and Cryptography in the Writings of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Caterina Agostini/ University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Please consider submitting papers to Visualizing Hidden Meanings: Symbolism and Cryptography in the Writings of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei.

This workshop provides an excellent platform for scholars to share their latest findings and insights in the early modern history of science. The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to April 25

We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei. Whether you're presenting current research, innovative methodologies, or theoretical frameworks, we want to hear from you.

Call for Papers: ‘With no mere will to mastery: Practices of Feminist Writing’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:27pm
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024


Call for Papers: Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

Special Issue: ‘With no mere will to mastery: Practices of Feminist Writing’

Guest edited by Dr Jude Browning

Deadline for Articles (3-5000 words): 29 June 2024

View the full call here>>

2024 Dress and Body Association Conference, 2-3 Nov (Abstracts due: July 1)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:23pm
Dress and Body Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

2024 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
 

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s fifth annual conference, which will be held on November 2-3, 2024. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking. Visit the DBA website—www.dress-body-association.org—to learn more about this organization and consider becoming a member.

Summer Institute: Waste Worlding

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Jeremy Chow | Bucknell University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Waste Worlding

June 3-6, 2024

Virtual Summer Institute

Bucknell Humanities Center

 

Application Deadline: May 10, 2024

Decisions by May 15, 2024

 

PAMLA 2024 Panel CFP: Voices of Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 121st Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

VOICES OF PALESTINIAN LIBERATION 

 

PAMLA Conference

7-10 November 2024 in Palm Springs, California 

Session Format: Panel of 3-4 presenters, 15-20 minutes each and a 30-minute group Q&A afterward

 

This panel centers the literary and artistic expressions of Palestinians by exploring how writers, artists, journalists, historians, and activists navigate themes of abject loss, violence, and trauma; the aim is to offer a multifaceted perspective on the Palestinian experience, one that transcends problematically uncomplicated narratives and foregrounds the power of language and media in shaping identity, fostering solidarity, and demanding justice.

The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
PAMLA Annual Conference 2024, Nov. 7-10, Palm Springs, California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 5, 2024

« The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting »

Translators and interpreters are expected to be neutral mediators who facilitate dialogue and enable understanding and cooperation between speakers who do not speak the same language. Research has shown, however, that the transfer of information from one language to another is rarely performed without making certain contributions that go beyond the mere rendition of the message being transferred. Translation is a product of cross-cultural interactions that requires linguistic and at times, sociopolitical or even ideological changes.

Global Film Symposium: Engaging Global Cinema Cultures - Discourses and Disruptions

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:21pm
Bass Jr. School, University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Engaging Global Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions

In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading)

Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)

Special guests include Dr. Iggy Cortez (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Shekhar Deshpande (Arcadia University), and Dr. Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania).

Call for Papers & Guest Editor Proposals: Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:21pm
Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Papers & Guest Editor Proposals: Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture

This is a general call for papers, as well as for proposals for guest edited issues, for Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture(ISCC), published by Intellect Books (ISSN 17572681, Online ISSN 1757269X).

Papers will be considered for publication in our Autumn 2024 issue as well as for 2025 and beyond, while proposals for guest edited issues will be considered for publication from early 2025.

View the full call here>>

[CfP] Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:20pm
Dr. Joel White, University of Dundee
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 24, 2024

Call for Papers

Contested & Erased Energy Knowledges  

A Trans-Disciplinary Conference 

31 Oct – 2 Nov 2024

University of Dundee & University of Edinburgh 

Edinburgh, Scotland 

 

Masculinity Studies in Ireland: Mapping the Field

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:19pm
Angelos Bollas / Maynooth university
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

As an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to examining and critiquing the social, cultural, and historical constructions of masculinity, masculinity studies explores how masculinity is defined, performed, and experienced across different societies and time periods. This field intersects with various disciplines, including sociology, gender studies, psychology, cultural studies, and history, among others. This often leads to the absence of dedicated departments or research centres in academic institutions focusing exclusively on masculinity studies which, in turn, makes it challenging to enable productive dialogues among disciplinary boundaries.

Call for paper abstracts for the Thematic issue “Notions of Responsibility in Contemporary Discourse: Ethics, Law, Politics” (“Athena: Philosophical Studies” No. 19, 2024)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:18pm
Department of Contemporary Philosophy at Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

“Athena: Philosophical Studies” No. 19, 2024

Indexed in: Scopus (2023), CEEOL (Central and Eastern European Online Library) (2006), EBSCO Publishing, Humanities International Index (2006), The Philosopher’s Index (2006).

Chênière journal call-for-papers (undergraduate)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:18pm
Chênière
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Chênière journal call-for-papers

Volume 8

 

Chênière, an online, interdisciplinary undergraduate journal based at Nicholls State University, invites papers for its eighth volume. Chênière is an MLA-indexed journal that welcomes submissions from any humanities field, broadly speaking, from history, communication, English, religion, art, music and everything in between. The journal welcomes submissions from any undergraduate work but particularly caters to students from the Gulf Coast and the American South, broadly speaking. The subject matter for this issue is completely open topic.

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