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From Medical to Health Humanities: Evolving Interventions (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:12pm
Natalie Mera Ford / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The fields of medical and health humanities often aim to intervene in socially embedded systems of care and advance health justice. This roundtable explores ways to work toward that goal through pedagogy, research, and community partnership.

NeMLA 2025 CFP - Revolutionizing Perspectives: Navigating Paradigm Shifts in Interdisciplinary Humanities Research

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:12pm
56th NeMLA Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

With the changing social realities alongside rapid innovation in science and technology, there is a sharp paradigm shift in academia in terms of research, especially in humanities. This shift can be considered a radical change in the core concepts. It is imperative to absorb the very meaning of paradigm shift. The term paradigm shift was coined by Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, in the context of revolutions in natural science. What is remarkable about Khun’s thought process is that in his book, Kuhn propounded the idea that theories have a social character and approaches them as social constructions that contain historical traces of the time and place in which they were generated.

"(R)evolutionary Feminist Politics in Contemporary Irish Women's Literature" (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:12pm
Leah Fry (University of Connecticut-Hartford)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In 21st-century Ireland, women have experienced several (r)evolutions in their political rights that have, in turn, shaped the imagination of the nation. Irish abortion law faced a major public challenge with the 2012 death of Savita Halappanavar after she was denied an abortion while suffering a septic miscarriage; in 2018, lawmakers passed a law that allows abortion up to week 12 of pregnancy, a small victory in a nation where abortion under any circumstances beyond saving the life of the mother was forbidden.

Universal Declaration of (Post)Human Rights: (R)evolution of the Clones, Robots & AIs--NeMLA 2025 Panel

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:12pm
Martha Zornow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Speculative fiction creators regularly interrogate the question of who/what is entitled to human rights. As the created, grown, augmented, and manufactured beings of imagination become more sentient, is it ethical to maintain them as labor-saving devices or will they start to become entitled to, or even demand, rights? Is there a Posthuman Rights Movement in our future or a post “human rights” movement? How will this movement accommodate already-existing arguments for the rights of non-human beings, such as the rights of animals, corporations, and even fetuses, while accounting for humans who are not entitled to human rights? Does one need a human-ish form to deserve rights including around one’s labor?

The Right to Read/The Right to Speak and Academic Freedom in the Classroom NeMLA (20978)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In educational settings, safeguarding free speech is crucial for upholding democratic principles, yet campuses increasingly face censorship and suppression of dissenting voices. By fostering an environment that values free expression and respectful dialogue, educators can prepare students to become informed citizens who think critically and contribute positively to the (r)evolution of democratic society. How do educators include censored, controversial and diverse perspectives into their curriculum and classroom?

https://cfplist.com/nemla/User/SubmitAbstract/20978

 

Mindfulness and the Humanities (Roundtable -- Nemla 2025)

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Matthew Leporati / Donetta Hines / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This roundtable session will discuss mindfulness practices that instructors of writing and literature can incorporate into classrooms, and it will focus especially on the implications of mindfulness for the humanities and for its/their roles in education and society in honoring human, cultural, and global diversity in all its dimensions, enacting equity and inclusivity, and affecting change.

NeMLA 2025 - Religious Revolutions in and through 19th-Century Literature

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis,” Victor Hugo declares in Les Misérables (1864); “People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning them they learn this: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.” Nineteenth-century culture is marked by intertwined revolutions in literature and religion. Across the globe, just as religion became increasingly questioned, it also became fuel for social change and cultural reformation.

Special Issue: Queer Studies and Professional Wrestling

updated: 
Monday, July 22, 2024 - 12:11pm
Professional Wrestling Studies Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Anticipated Publication: Volume 5, November 2025

Guest Editors: CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Christopher J. Olson, and Hannah Steele

 

Purpose: Articles that explore the intersection of queer studies and professional wrestling studies to address a scholarship gap on the application of queer theory to explore professional wrestling individuals, texts, practices, and fandoms.

 

Submissions: Seeking empirical articles aligned with the special issue’s purpose that may include, but is not limited to, the following topics:

Narrative Nonfiction in the Creation and Understanding of Identity in Turbulent Times

updated: 
Sunday, July 21, 2024 - 10:22pm
Dr. Amy Leshinsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Educators empower students through narrative nonfiction and writing that allows for empathy, candid discussion, and articulation of self. This roundtable will seek to examine how narrative nonfiction literature and writing is used in a variety of contexts and courses to engage students and empower them to embrace facets of their identities and strengthen their ties to our national and international community.

This roundtable seeks collegiate voices that will contribute to a robust conversation on narrative nonfiction literature and writing with a focus on how we use narrative nonfiction and writing to help students navigate conceptions of their identity and negotiate their place in the world. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

PAMLA Undergraduate Forum

updated: 
Sunday, July 21, 2024 - 12:07pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

NEW DEADLINE! Rolling until 8/15.

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference

7-10 November 2024, Palm Springs, CA

Submissions should be sent through the link below. You may need to create an account if you have not already presented with PAMLA. Undergraduates are invited to share their research following the guidelines below:

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 1:44pm
Mohsen HAMLI
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Essays

Studies in Memory of Donald C. Baker (1928-2019)

 

Call for essays for a book on the late medievalist Donald C. Baker who left us in 2019.

Donald C. Baker taught English Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder, for twenty years then pursued teaching opportunities in Finland, England, Tunisia, Jordan, and Macau. 

Donald C. Baker published or co-published a variety of books and articles (in PMLA, Studia Neophilologica, Speculum, Studies in Philology, Philological Quarterly, The Literary)  on Geoffrey Chaucer and Beowulf in particular.

All forms of liteary studies (around 6,000 words using APA style) are welcome.

*Deadline extended* Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 10:11am
McMcMaster Universty (Hamilton, Canada) and Toronto Metropolitan University (Toronto, Canada).
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Austin Clarke, Black Studies and Black Diasporic Memory”

Conference Dates: September 26 - 27, 2024,

Deadline for abstracts: July 31, 2024

Notification of decisions by: August 15, 2024

 

Co-organizers: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Darcy Ballantyne (Toronto Metropolitan University), 

 

Keynote Speaker: Rinaldo Walcott, 

Professor and Chair in Africana and American Studies, University at Buffalo

 

Security, Peace, and Sustainable Development in a Troubled World

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 7:55am
AAB College, Kosovo
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

International online conference (free of charge)

September 12, 2024

Organizers:

Faculty of Public Administration, Faculty of Law & Faculty of Economics
AAB College, Pristina, Republic of Kosovo

in partnership with:

University of Southeast Europe, North Macedonia
University of  Vlora "Ismail Qemali", Albania

Keynote Speaker: 

Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices - NeMLA: March 6-9, 2025

updated: 
Friday, July 19, 2024 - 5:59am
Malaika Sutter and Sofie Behluli
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close reading is perhaps the most widely known and most accepted one in literary studies (cf. I.A. Richards and William Empson). Other approaches to texts include ‘paranoid’ and ‘reparative reading’ (Sedgwick 1997), ‘distant reading’ (Moretti 2000), ‘wide reading’ (Hallet 2010), and ‘surface reading’ (Best and Marcus 2009), to name just a few. More recent research has examined intermedial reading practices (Rippl 2015), the reading of affects (Brinkema 2014), and non/institutional readers (Emre 2017). 

Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

updated: 
Thursday, July 18, 2024 - 9:32am
Cenk Tan & Mikail Boz
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapters: Class Conflict in 21st Century Science Fiction Film

CFP CLOSED! - THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Under Strong Interest by McFarland’s Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy series

Editors’ Introduction

Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature * 56th NeMLA Convention

updated: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 9:12pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Environmental Humanities is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of Indigenous literature. This literary revolution, closely linked to climate change and environmental discourse, is a contributing factor, and writers are at the forefront of this contemporary debate. This session offers a unique opportunity for presenters to contribute to a significant academic debate by exploring paradigm shifts in Indigenous environmental discourse. The works will delve into the intersection of gender, class, race, and the Anthropocene, offering a comprehensive understanding.

Unreal Prisonscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 11:10am
SAMLA / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

SAMLA 96 Convention, "Seen and Unseen," will be held Friday, November 15 to Sunday, November 17, 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, FL

Unreal Prisonscapes (panel--in-person)

New Directions in Partition Studies: ECSAS 2025 panel

updated: 
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 - 6:04am
ECSAS 2025, Heidelberg
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 18, 2024

2027 would mark 80 years of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent of 1947. For South Asia, independence from over two centuries of British rule in 1947 was accompanied by a violent and bloody partition - a territorial division of two provinces of British India, Punjab and Bengal  - on the basis of religious majority, which led to a million people dead in bloody communal riots and fifteen million people uprooted and displaced across the newly-formed borders.

: "My Dungeon Shook": A Century of James Baldwin

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:42pm
Morgan State University-Department of English and Language Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Call for Papers: 7th Annual Benjamin A. Quarles Conference

Theme: "My Dungeon Shook":  A Century of James Baldwin

Date: October 24-26, 2024

Venue: Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024

 

« Traversée du Tout-Monde »: a roundtable for Maryse Condé

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 5:35pm
Stève Puig / St John's University (NYC)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Maryse Condé’s œuvre has tremendously impacted our understanding of the French Caribbean and Africa, but also of postcolonial France and the Americas as a whole. In a sense, she is truly « a writer for our times, » as the title of a recent tribute in Paris suggested. 

All That Remains Is Madness: An Examination of the Tragic Outcome for Women in A24 Films

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:06pm
Dr. Erica Joan Dymond / NeMLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Summary: MidsommarSaint MaudFalse PositiveHereditaryThe Hole in the GroundThe Witch, etc. All of these A24 horror films feature women in crisis. Most are struggling with their mental health, most are betrayed by their loved ones, most are literally or emotionally isolated, and most are victims of an uncaring world. In all cases, the films end with the physical or figurative destruction of woman. She is insane, incinerated, beheaded, broken, forever haunted ... The question remains, should viewers accept these endings? Should they be viewed exploitative or unnecessarily shocking? Or is there room to view these as a warning?

Emplotting Black Vindication as Literary Activist-Self

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:06pm
NeMLA Conference - March 6-9, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel includes various African American writers who used literature, art, history, or social scientific writings to oppose faulty presentations of an inferior tertium quid, i.e., subhuman capability. This panel welcomes review of writers and artists alike who endeavored through artistic, literary, historical, musical, filmic, or other means to contend with pseudo social scientific Untermensch designation. Writings and other media at various times and through varying genres and artistic forms, fashioned to make a case for full cultural and intellect parity.

Broadening Our Research Horizons: Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:06pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Our dependence on the past’s valuation of its own cultural products has become increasingly obvious in our ongoing interests in reshaping the canon and in decentering our humanities’  disciplines.  Certainly, the availability of digitized primary-source materials increases the range in newly available, even newly discovered texts.  However, our reliance on the digitized brings with it an obvious quandary as it can narrow the scope and constrain investigation of other exciting sources crucial to our scholarship but not deemed worthy of archiving.  They might be fragile, incomplete, or ill-preserved; they might be undocumented and uncatalogued.

Joyce Studies Annual Special Cluster James Joyce and Networks of Transnationality

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 4:01pm
Joyce Studies Annual
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The transnational turn in modernist studies has helped generate important scholarly works— Modernist Fiction, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Community (Jessica Berman, Cambridge UP, 2001),  Geomodernisms: Race, Modernism, Modernity (edited by Laura Doyle and Laura Winkiel, Indiana UP, 2005), Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation (Rebecca Walkowitz, Columbia UP, 2006), The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (edited by Mark Wollaeger and Matt Eatough, Oxford UP, 2012), Chimeras of Form (Aarthi Vadde, Columbia UP, 2016), and many other publications— over the last two decades which have examined how modernism transcends national borders and reveals the aporias of nationhood.

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:39pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024
Conference Dates: December 3-4, 2024
Location: online
Fees: £90 (non-members), £76.5 (LABRC members)
(Fees apply to both presenters and attendees)

 

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/07/unwrapping-christmas/

 

Call for Papers

The Implications of Generative AI for Human Creativity, Originality—and Deception

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:39pm
Haoqing Yu
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence (AI) are currently transforming literary and visual studies—raising issues that range from copyright infringement; to human-computer interaction and collaboration; to the inspirations for human creativity. More broadly, this new technology can lead us to reconsider key issues in the fields of education, media, visual arts, music—and the future of the humanities.

Pedagogical Responses to Whatever's Happening Now (Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:39pm
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 25
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Humanities programs, and the writing programs often housed within, are under threat for reasons that are as much political as they are economic. It is not simply a question of whether humanities degrees or writing skills reward students with economic value or how much revenue humanities faculty bring to an institution, but of what humanities programs and writing classes teach: critical histories, texts that capture the perspectives of the oppressed, and how to think critically about complicated social, political, and historical events.

Family Abolition and Social Revolution: Theories of Social Reproduction Now (Panel)

updated: 
Monday, July 15, 2024 - 2:38pm
Joshua Gooch / NeMLA 25
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The last twenty years have marked a wave of renewed interest in social reproduction theory, from the republication of work associated with the 1970s Wages for Housework campaign from theorists like Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Selma James, and Silvia Federici, to new works by Federici and a host of new thinkers focused on questions of social reproduction including Kathi Weeks, Nancy Fraser, Sophie Lewis, M.E. O’Brien, and Premilla Nadasen. Lewis, O'Brien, and Weeks have helped return attention to Marx and Engels's call for "the abolition of the family," and elaborated the history and scope of this demand for social revolution.

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