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Fugly: Aesthetics, Activism, and Politics

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 11:14pm
The 15th Annual Research, Art, Writing Conference/The University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?

Femspec - Call for Scholarly and Creative Submissions on Transgender Issues

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
Femspec
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 1, 2024

Discourse surrounding issues related to the transgender community is currently dominating the contemporary cultural conversation in the United States in an unprecedented way.  Against the backdrop of this discursive moment, Femspec calls for submissions for a special issue (Volume 24, Issue 1) dedicated to exploring speculative approaches to gender, and particularly to transgender identity and embodiment.  Femspec is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed feminist journal dedicated to science fiction, fantasy, magical realism, surrealism, myth, folklore, and other supernatural genres.  Femspec publishes both academic scholarship and creative writing.  For this issue, we seek both scholarly and creative work that interrogates the co

Chiasmi. Contested Bodies in Italian Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
Brown University and Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

 

The 15th Annual Harvard-Brown Graduate Student Conference in Italian Studies

 

Brown University, April 5 - 6, 2024
“Contested Bodies in Italian Studies”

 

On behalf of the graduate students of the Department of Italian Studies at Brown University and the Italian
Section of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, we are pleased to
announce the fifteenth edition of Chiasmi – Graduate Students conference, to be held on 5-6 April 2024, at
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

NYU 2024 Cinema Studies Conference: holding the gaze

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:30pm
NYU Tisch Cinema Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 8, 2023

Since the fin de siècle, the ubiquity of the camera has disrupted notions of gazing at others and ourselves. Moving from the 20th century to the 21st, the camera’s gaze has taken on many overlapping and at times antagonistic roles: it archives, captures, testifies, interrogates, interrupts, imagines, distorts, exposes, imposes, and surveils.

CALL FOR ARTICLES | JOURNALISM AND FICTION

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
ICNOVA - Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Editors:

Mar Chicharro-Merayo (Universidad de Burgos) 

Javier Mateos-Pérez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Lorena Antezana (Universidad de Chile)

 

Important dates:

Article submission deadline: January 15, 2024

Editors’ decision: May 2024

Expected publication date: May/June, 2024 

 

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

Call for Papers for Peer-Reviewed Edited Volume

 

 

Metamodernist Fiction: Literary Manifestations

of the Ongoing Cultural Shift

 

edited by Magdalena Sawa and Joanna Klara Teske

 

 

Roots on Routes: Environment, Identity, and Space

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
University of Western Ontario
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Graduate Student Conference Committee 

of the Comparative Literature & Hispanic Studies Programs 

& the Migration and Ethnic Relations Collaborative Graduate Specialization 

at Western University 

is pleased to invite submissions for this year’s joint Graduate Student Conference

 

«The interior landscape responds to the character and subtlety of an exterior landscape; 

the shape of the individual mind is affected by land as it is by genes»

The Legacy of The Tragically Hip

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
Michael Truscello / Mount Royal University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 17, 2024

CFP: The Legacy of The Tragically Hip

Critical Imprints, Volume XI: Literature and Architecture

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
Journal of the Department of English, Loreto College, Kolkata
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Call for Papers: Volume XI

CRITICAL IMPRINTS
THE JOURNAL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH,
LORETO COLLEGE, KOLKATA

ISSN: 2319-4774
VOLUME XI 2023: LITERATURE AND ARCHITECTURE
Last Date of Submission of Abstracts: November 30, 2023

 

Concept Note:

Modernism between Past and Future - The Third International Conference of MSIA

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
MSIA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Modernism between Past and Future

The Third International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)

 

31 May – 2 June 2024

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 

Keynote Speakers:

 

Jed Esty (The University of Pennsylvania)

 Christopher Bush (Northwestern University)

 

Roundtable Speakers from Various Locations

 

 

Growth After the Trauma of Partition: A Critical Study

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:26pm
Dr. S. Panigrahi,Dr. S. K. Dutta, Dr. G. Khutia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 31, 2023

Growth after the Trauma of Partition: A Critical Study (Working Title)

Editors:

  1. Dr. Sambit Panigrahi, Professor  & Head, Deptt. of English, Ravenshaw  University,   Cuttack
  2. Dr. Sanjoy K. Dutta, Asst. Prof. in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College, Bhadrak
  3. Dr. Gopinath Khutia, Asst. Prof.(TE) in English, Bhadrak (Auto.) College,  Bhadrak

 

Concept Note:

Charles W. Chesnutt Association panels ALA (Chicago, May 23-26 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Bill Hardwig, Charles W. Chesnutt Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 20, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS
Charles W. Chesnutt Association
https://chesnuttassociation.org/
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Chicago, IL 60603

The Charles W. Chesnutt Association welcomes abstracts of no more than 300
words for presentation at two sessions on the work of Chesnutt at the 2024 ALA
conference in Chicago.

CFP: 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference - London UK

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 14, 2024

Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference

Saturday July 13 – Sunday July 14, 2024

University College London

This is the 27th Annual Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference.

Great Writing includes research, teaching and creative writing practice topics. And more! The conference takes place right in the heart of Bloomsbury, close to the British Library, in London’s fabulous ‘Knowledge Quarter’ – https://www.knowledgequarter.london/  - with a great many wonderful accommodation and restaurant options.

Peripheral Modernisms in Theory

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Pavel Andrade / Texas Tech University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

Peripheral Modernisms in Theory

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Cluster

Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2024
Editor: Pavel Andrade, Texas Tech University
Contact email: pavel.andrade@ttu.edu

Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
NON A Journal of Alternative Sexualities in Ancient and Modern Literature and the Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

***Italian below*** ***Bibliography at the bottom of the page***

 

Stigmatised identities: Alternative Sexualities in/out of Normative Representations

 

The concept of ‘stigma’, including the many perspectives on stigmatised identities and processes of stigmatisation, is a crucial tool to focus on alternative sexualities and their representation. The issue has been addressed in numerous disciplinary fields, with studies attempting to understand stigma both generally in terms of social dynamics (Goffman 1963 and 1969; Becker 1963; Jones et al. 1984), and in its specific relation to sexuality (Herek 1998; Evans 2002).

Special Panel on Witchcraft and Sexuality: Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 21-24, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic Area of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites paper proposals for a special panel addressing intersections of witchcraft and sexuality in practice and representation through tradition and cultural media, to be held in the forthcoming annual conference this February 21-24 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Digital Infrastructures and Contemporary Urbanities 2.0

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:25pm
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

We inhabit a moment of accelerated urbanization primarily driven by the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in urban planning and management, most ambitiously articulated in the promises of the ‘smart city’. The ubiquity of digital information infrastructures has reshaped the form, shape, and texture of cities. Contemporary urbanity has come to be defined by ICTs. As the social, experiential and physical spaces in the city are increasingly being experienced with and through data generated by networked digital devices, digital mediations exert profound impact on how urban spaces are being reconfigured, curated and navigated.

Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic in Art & Art History at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association, Feb 21-24, Albuquerque, New Mexico

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:24pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

The Area for Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association invites presentation proposals for this special panel addressing the relationship of esotericism, occultism, and magic to art, particularly in the context of art history.  A brief panel description is below, but any related proposals will be considered.  Even if your proposal is not selected for this special panel, the Area welcomes any proposals relating to esotericism, occultism, magic, and associated areas of culture.  For further details or to inquire about sending an abstract for this special panel, please contact the Area Chair, Dr.

Call for Participants Translation Training Programme

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:24pm
Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature University of Calcutta
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Translation Training Programme

19th December- 23rd December, 2023

Organised by 

Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature

University of Calcutta

Sponsored by RUSA 2.0

Call for Participants

Conference: Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:24pm
Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion UC Davis Comparative Literature Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Post/Modern Subversion and Textual Rebellion

 

Materialities of Thinking

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:24pm
Mosaic
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Call for Submissions:

Materialities of Thinking

 

Sequestered Places, Heaving Seas: The Life and Works of M. R. James

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:23pm
Dr Lindsey Scott and Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker / University of Suffolk
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Sequestered Places, Heaving Seas: The Life and Works of M. R. James

A One-Day Symposium, Tuesday 30 April 2024

Centre for Culture and Heritage, University of Suffolk

 

Keynote Speakers

Simon Loxley – M. R. James and the Suffolk Landscape

Professor Matt Hills – M. R. James and Adaptation

 

Phantasmagoria: In Conversation with Ghosts

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:23pm
Centre for Culture and Heritage, University of Suffolk
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 29, 2024

Centre for Culture and Heritage, University of Suffolk, Monday 29 April 2024

Phantasmagoria: In Conversation with Ghosts

This one-day Graduate Conference precedes the M. R. James Symposium on Tuesday 30 April 2024

 

From Home to Horizon: Women Writers of Indian Diaspora

updated: 
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 2:22pm
Dr. Bijender Singh
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Title: From Home to Horizon: Women Writers of Indian Diaspora

Editors:

•             Dr. Bijender Singh

•             Dr. Protibha Sahukar

•             Dr. SK Sao

•             Dr. Anurag Ambasta

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2023

Concept Note:

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