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Graphic Novels as Cultural Artifacts at NeMLA

updated: 
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 4:27pm
Catherine Ross / Southwestern University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Graphic novels, due to their nature as both visual and verbal texts, occupy a fertile ground for expression. As Jonathan C. Evans and Thomas Giddens stated in Cultural Excavation and Formal Expression in the Graphic Novel (2013), “The graphic novel is a tool: of self-expression and personal identity; of cultural understanding and philosophical exploration; of history and hope. Comics and graphic novels traverse themes such as heroism, identity, philosophy, gender, history, and colonialism.” As examples, works like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Lynda J. Barry’s One Hundred Demons illustrate how graphic novels speak to their audiences through the juxtaposition of image and words.

'Melancholia' - The Polish Journal of Aesthetics Vol. 66 (3) 2022

updated: 
Friday, June 24, 2022 - 8:57am
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Call for Papers

 

Melancholia

 

Volume 66 (3/2022)

 

Submission deadline EXTENDED: July 31, 2022

 

Editors:

Anna Wysowska (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland),

Krzysztof Zanussi  (director, screenwriter and professor of cinematic arts)

 

 

Queering Disney: History of The Walt Disney Company and the Queer Community

updated: 
Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 11:00am
Brittany Eldridge
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

With Disney’s initial apathetic response to the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill which recently passed in the state of Florida, it is time to shed light on Disney’s complex relationship with the LGBTQIA2S+ community. Recently, there have been works which briefly discuss the relationship of queerness and Disney, such as Sean Griffin’s Tinker Bells and Evil Queens (2000), Melanie S. Kohnen Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race (2016), Jennifer Sandlin and Julie Garlen’s edited collection Disney, Culture, and Curriculum (2016), and Joseph Brennan’s edited collection Queerbaiting and Fandom (2019). However, the queer artist/contributor has yet to be the main topic of discussion.

Eco-Concepts: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought

updated: 
Thursday, June 23, 2022 - 9:13am
Editors: Cenk Tan, İsmail Serdar Altaç
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Please find call for chapters for our forthcoming book: ECO-CONCEPTS: Critical Reflections in Emerging Ecocritical Theory and Ecological Thought which is to be published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) in 2023.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT)

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 9:04pm
China
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 25, 2022

 

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology (IJCSIT)

Submission System.

ISSN: 2975- 382N 2974-5962 (Print)

***June Issue ***

http://flyccs.com/jounals/IJCST/Home.html

 

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Afterlives of the Antisocial

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 5:14pm
Postmodern Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

For nearly two decades, the “antisocial thesis” has enthralled queer theoretical thought, permeating a variety of debates surrounding relationality, sexuality, gender, race, psychoanalysis, and temporality. Christened by Robert L. Caserio during an infamous 2005 MLA panel, the antisocial thesis, Caserio elaborates, described a “decade of explorations of queer unbelonging” positioned against an intensifying “gay rage for normalizing sociability.” As Robyn Wiegman warns, however, the antisocial thesis “is not ‘a’ thesis.

Confluențe. Texts and Contexts Reloaded 2022

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 3:04pm
Faculty of Letters, University of Oradea, Romania
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 15, 2022

Confluente. Texts and Contexts Reloaded invites submissions for its 2022 issue on the topic of:

LOVE IN MODERN AND POSTMODERN LITERATURE

We welcome scholarly contributions written in English and French that explore and interact with the ways in which love is represented in literature, theatre, and film. 

All paper submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed and evaluated based on originality, research content, and correctness. Please read the complete submission and formatting guidelines at:
http://www.confluente.univoradea.ro/en/notes-to-contributors

Deadline: JULY 3rd 2022

Constructed Languages and Power in Science Fiction and Fantasy

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 12:09pm
Matt Barton
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

We have extended our deadline for submissions.

We invite essays for a collected edition that investigates constructed languages (e.g., Klingon, Trigedasleng, Valyrian, Na'vi, Dothraki, Belter, Tolkien's Elvish) in the contexts and functions of socio-political power within the broad category of science fiction, speculative, and fantasy encompassing film, tv, games, and comics. How are conlangs in a work used to "other" groups of people or to construct their subjectivity? How do they reveal power relations in a geo-political system? How does the analysis of conlangs and power help us understand the world that we live in?

Black Literature and Black Heroes

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 8:19am
African American Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Call For Papers- Black Literature and Black Heroes

 

Women of the World: Literature, Language, and Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, June 22, 2022 - 3:00am
Doaa Omran
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

                       Women of the World:

                        Literature, Language, and Translation

 

The Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt cordially invites you to attend its international conference on “Women of the World: Literature, Language, and Translation.” It is an onsite conference that will take place between March the 10th and 11th 2023.

NeMLA 2023 Seminar: Rethinking Resilience: Ways of Seeing and Being in the Pandemic

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 9:51pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2023)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

The process that is central to the development of language is the critical encounter between different groups (marked by their "physical, cognitive, neurological differences," as NeMLA's note on "resilience" suggests) in possession of different kinds of valuation in the course of which "certain words, tones, rhythms, meanings are offered, felt for, tested, confirmed, asserted, qualified, changed" (Keywords 12). This process of evolution/metamorphosis, as demonstrated by Raymond Williams in his Keywords,  is often accelerated in periods of unprecedented crisis.

Call for Papers: "Minimalisms Now: Race, Affect, and Aesthetics"

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 8:45pm
Contemporaries at Post45
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Less is more. Unclutter the mind. Spark joy. More than a generation has passed since Columbia University’s 1988 Summer Writers’ Festival brought together a roundtable for “Throwing Dirt on the Grave of Minimalism,” but it seems minimalisms are alive and well both in aesthetics and in lifestyles in the twenty-first century. What are the forms, styles, and genres of minimalism today? What is their relation to the heyday of minimalist sculpture, music, literature, and architecture in the 1960s through 1980s? Who are the practitioners of minimalism, and how are various minimalisms gendered, racialized, sexualized, and classed? And under what social, political, and economic conditions are these practitioners drawn to minimalism now?

Queer and Trans Theologies in American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 4:52pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Queer and Trans Theologies in American Literature

MMLA

Minneapolis

November 17-20, 2022

“Let me walk to the edge of genre ” Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations June 28 - July 1 2023 Paris, France

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 4:36pm
Cergy Paris/ Université de Paris Cité / University of Warwick
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 5, 2022

 

 “Let me walk to the edge of genre[1]”

     Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations

June 28  - July 1 2023

Paris, France

 

 

Guest of Honor: Ben Lerner

 

Keynote speakers:

Daniel Katz, University of Warwick, UK

43rd Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:57pm
International T. S. Eliot Society
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

43rd Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society

23-25 September 2022

This cfp can also be found at our website. You can help us to advertise this easily attended conference far and wide: please distribute widely and post this link on your own social media sites.

Call for Papers

Collective Memory & Oral tradition: Explorations and Interpretations

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship B.V.
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Collective Memory & Oral tradition: Explorations and Interpretations

International Conference
20-21 July 2022
(Zoom sessions:2 days-Virtual platform:5 days)

Thematic Approach

GIRES is committed to creating a welcoming space for discussion, collaboration, and exploration of oral history’s potential as a tool for local, national, and international projects that would enrich and even revise chapters of history. 

Poverty: Interpreting the World’s Dividing Line

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship B.V.
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Poverty: Interpreting the World’s Dividing Line

International Conference
14-15 July 
(Zoom sessions: 2 days/Virtual platform: 5 days)

Thematic Approach

Special Issue: Nuclear Ghosts

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
Jenny Stümer Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Call for Papers

Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University. 

Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest and Jenny Stümer

Deadline: Abstracts (250 words) are due Tuesday 9 August 2022 

Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de

 

Special Issue: Nuclear Ghosts

Enlightenment and Modern Ireland Legacies & Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:55pm
ISLE research project
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 17, 2022

Special Issue: “Enlightenment and Modern Ireland:  Legacies and Afterlives”

 

Guest Editors:

James Ward, Ulster University, Northern Ireland, jg.ward@ulster.ac.uk

Joe Lines, Chang'an-Dublin International College, China, joe.lines@ucd.ie

 

Please submit 250 word abstracts to the editors by 17 October 2022

 

Whether we praise or deride it, we now live in its shadows and must reckon with what it has bequeathed us. Western thought is haunted by the Enlightenment

(Genevieve Lloyd, Enlightenment Shadows, 2013)

NeMLA Roundtable CFP: Resilience, Failure, and Academic Identity (WGSC Session)

updated: 
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 - 3:54pm
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

This roundtable session is interested in resilience as a form of individual emotional labor that, like all emotional labor according to Arlie Russell Hochschild, places unequal demands on faculty who are untenured, contingent, or who identify in historically-marginalized identity categories. Academic identities are tied to the production of scholarly projects, and, according to Skovholt and Trotter-Mathison, one of the many benefits of resilience is that it can “stabilize or even increase work productivity” (Rozelle-Stone, 2020). Thus resilience focused on scholarly output can exacerbate already-exploited academic labor (Brouillette, 2014; Tokumitsu, 2015).

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