Music in Difficult Times: Global—Plural Temporalities Concordia University, Montreal. May 3–5, 2024Deadline: February 15, 2024

“May you live in interesting times!” 

Apocryphal Chinese Curse

In her 2020 publication Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto, Legacy Russell explores the notion of “glitch-as-error with its genesis in the realm of the machinic and the digital.” With this framing, she argues that glitches might “inform the way we see the AFK [Away-From-Keyboard or real] world, shaping how we might participate in it toward greater agency for and by ourselves” (8-9). With her sights set on social systems of gender, race, and sexuality in particular, Russell asks how embodied subjects who defy patriarchal white supremacist cisheterosexist norms are positioned or appear as glitches, as errors, in digital and AFK spaces.

Themed Issue: Consent is an Access Issue: Rethinking Disability, Accessibility, and Consent-Based Theatre Practices

Call for Papers Deadline: March 31, 2024

Submission Guidelines

“Disabled people’s liberation cannot be boiled down to logistics.”

–Mia Mingus

The deadline for submissions for Volume 9 of Chiasma: A Site for Thought has been extended until March 31st. 

Please see the call for papers for more information.

Previous submission, here.

Briefly: 

Chiasma: A Site for Thought, the International Journal of Theory and Philosophy at Western University’s Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism is soliciting papers on the relationship between philosophy and Fascism (broadly understood).

Chapter proposals are invited for an edited volume tentatively titled Going Home Again: Revisiting American Literature of Suburbia. We are aiming for a balance of revisionary views of “classic” suburban literature of the post-war decades informed by current critical approaches; explorations of how 21st century American literature has represented and revised ideas about suburbia; and arguments looking comparatively at both. We hope that putting newer and older works of American suburban literature in dialogue may suggest ways in which the genre and its history can be redefined.

Call for Papers: Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies

Special Issue: ‘Eco-Artivism in Oceania’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-new-zealand-pacific-studies#call-for-papers

The 2024 Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 8-9, 2024, in Toronto, Ontario, at York University.

This year's keynote speakers are Dr. Larissa Lai and Dr. Nicholas Ruddick.

We invite proposals for papers in any area of Canadian science fiction and fantasy, including:

    -studies of individual works and authors;
    -comparative studies;
    -studies that place works in their literary and/or
     cultural contexts.

Black women view their hair as a problem. To enjoy black hair, such negative thinking has to be unlearned.   --bell hooks
 
Don’t remove the kinks from your hair. Remove them from your brain.  --Marcus Garvey
 
It takes care and attention and time to handle natural hair. Something we have lost from our African culture are the rituals of health and beauty and taking time to anoint ourselves. And the first way we lost it was in our hair.   --Hariette Cole, in Hair Story
 

Extended Submission Deadline (2/1/24): 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

About SSML and The Writing the Midwest Symposium: The Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature (SSML), founded in 1971, exists to support the study and dissemination of work in Midwestern literature, art, film, and scholarly study. 

Call for papers

International conference:

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, 7-8 November 2024

Imagining Italy: Space, Gender and Discourse in Women’s Writing 1789-1914

L’Italie sous la plume des femmes : espace, genre, discours 1789-1914

Antonella Braida (IDEA), Claire McKeown (IDEA), Kerstin Wiedemann (CERCLE) 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

Twenty-Eighth Annual Meeting 22–24 May 2024 ONLINE ONLY

The IAEP Executive Committee is excited to announce our 2024 annual meeting. As announced at the 2023 meeting we plan to hold conferences in-person in the spring of odd-numbered years and remotely in the spring of even-numbered years. While we recognize the value of in-person conferences, we are also mindful of the importance of reducing the environmental impact of our environmental philosophy conferences.

For this year’s online conference we invite proposals for individual papers as well as organized panels on any aspect of environmental philosophy.

CALL FOR PAPERSTheme: “On the Frontiers of Literary, Linguistic, and Theoretical Criticism” Revered Professor John Nkemngong Nkengasong, one of Cameroon’s most exceptional scholars and academics cum distinguished writer, passed away on June 11, 2023. He would have retired from the Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences, University of Yaounde 1 on August 19, 2024 - his birthday. As Professor of Literature, Literary Theory, and Cultural Studies, John Nkengasong taught a variety of courses and supervised a multitude of postgraduate dissertations and theses. His many years of research and professional experience took him to many countries in Africa, Europe, Asia, and America.

American Futurisms

SANAS Biennial Conference 2024

Swiss Association for North American Studies

University of Geneva, November 7-8, 2024

Conference Director: Prof. Deborah Madsen

Assisted by: Ms. Caroline Martin, Ms. Aïcha Bouchelaghem

Call for Papers

The Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association invites submissions to three proposed sessions at the ASA’s Annual Meeting (Baltimore, Maryland, November 14-17, 2024). We encourage proposals that connect meaningfully with the conference theme: “GROUNDED ENGAGEMENTS IN AMERICAN STUDIES.”