The growing number of singles globally and increased attention that is paid to them within academia, public domain and popular culture has reignited many debates with regard to theory, methodology and practice thereby highlighting multiple contestations and lacunae within structural frameworks that require interrogation from new perspectives and methodologies. In the light of the above, we can ask what does it mean to be non-partnered when viewed from a normative lens that prioritizes cishet families and compulsory coupledom? 

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Romanticism

The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023,

The 2023 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.

PAMLA 2023 Conference Theme

The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites presentation submissions for NEPCA’s hybrid conference to be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 in-person at Nichols College and virtually, via the Zoom platform.

 In alignment with this subject matter area at the national level:

The Women of Color in the Academy Conference brings together women of color and their allies for a variety of interactive hands-on workshops and networking opportunities. This year's hybrid conference will be held on Friday, May 19, and can be attended remotely or on the Boston campus of Northeastern University.

The theme of this year's conference, "Community as Rebellion," is inspired by Professor Lorgia García Peña's book of the same name. We are honored to welcome Professor Peña as the keynote speaker.

To learn more and register, visit https://woc.northeastern.edu/

A New American Vein: 

Critical Essays on Contemporary Appalachian Literature

Scholarly Collection: Call for Contributions

Editors: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett and Zackary Vernon

CFP: The Annual Victoria Bloomsday Symposium and Celebration (15/3/2023; 16/6/2023)

We seek proposals for brief (~18 minutes) critical and/or creative presentations on any aspect of Joyce studies, from any perspective. We especially encourage work that approaches Joyce and his works from non-traditional (or traditionally marginalized) angles. Topics may include, but are not limited to considerations of Joyce and

• sex, gender, and sexuality
• race
• class
• Indigeneity
• the law
• translation
• cryptids
• the paranormal

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: April16th, 2023/ 16 avril 2023

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: Tales of a Transmedia Experience?

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Tales of the City d’Armistead Maupin : chroniques d’une expérience transmédia ?

17/18 novembre 2023 / November 17-18, 2023

EN PRESENCE DE L’AUTEUR

pour une conférence publique le 17 novembre à 17h

What is Humanities Leadership?

SEMA 2023:
Construction and (Re)Construction
Winthrop University, October 12-14, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: ABSTRACTS DUE JUNE 15, 2023

As we watch the new silhouette of Notre Dame rising from the burned ruins of its past, participate in vigorous debates about how the study of the Middle Ages will be pursued now and in the future, and plan to meet on a campus where medieval buildings have literally been rebuilt, we invite proposals for individual papers, whole sessions, or round tables on the conference theme of “construction and (re)construction.” Papers might consider the notions of

Special Session

Presiding Officer/Panel Chair: Maria Mothes (University of Koblenz, Germany)

Abstract:

The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.

Description:

The Western Literature Association is excited to announce that our 2023 conference will be held at the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel & Casino, situated near Pocatello, Idaho, on the Fort Hall Reservation, home of the Shoshone and Bannock Tribes. The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes live on the largest land base reservation in the state of Idaho and are one of the five Tribes of Idaho. They are well known for their museum-quality beading and brain-tanned hides, for being the Home of Indian Relays (traditional horse races), and for being designated as the first Purple Heart Reservation in the nation. The 2023 Distinguished Achievement Award Winner, Mark Trahant, the influential editor at Indian Country Today, is also an enrolled member of the Tribes.

With Volume 1 (both Issues 1 and 2) set to be published by Penn State University Press starting in 2024, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes is a new theatre studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles.

The journal operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific deadline to submit your article (though newly-accepted articles will appear in 2025 or later). Currently, the journal is especially keen on receiving “Responses” / “Response articles.”

“As a mode of being in the world, improvisation shows us that there are other ways of doing things, that social change is possible, that another world is possible.”

—Fischlin, Heble, & Lipsitz (The Fierce Urgency of Now 243)

Critical Studies in Improvisation/Études critiques en improvisation seeks submissions that represent a wide range of evolving research, practice, and scholarship in improvisation studies for a new special issue: Emergent and Convergent Scholar-Practitioner Worlds: Improvisation and Social (In)Justice.

Call for Papers: Mapping the Impossible, Special Issue ‘Boundaries and Margins’

Submission deadline: 31 July 2023

Mapping the Impossible is an open-access student journal publishing peer-reviewed early-career research into fantasy and the fantastic.

For more information about the journal and submissions click here>>

https://fantasy-research.gla.ac.uk/index.php/submissions/

Aims and Scope