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Inviting proposals on the “East” or the “Middle East,” broadly construed, in Lessing’s oeuvre, exploring politics, sources, representation, or questions of definition. We welcome comparative approaches with other 20th-century writers. Send 250-word abstract and bio.
Inviting proposals on confinement and freedom, prisons visible and invisible, in works by Lessing or in conversation with another 20th-C world writer. Papers may adopt various perspectives—theoretical, philosophical, political, allegorical. Send 250-word abstract and bio.
Renaissance Resonances: Across Time, Across Disciplines
A Transdisciplinary Conference
April 20-21, 2024
April 20: in person and online at Birkbeck, London (hybrid presentations)
April 21: fully online
Fees:
In person: 165 GBP
Online: 90 GBP
Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/04/renaissance/
Astrology: Creative Inspiration, Epistemic Pathways, and Arts-Based Research
Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/07/astrology/
A Transdisciplinary Conference
April 9-10, 2024
Call for Papers:
Proposal Submission Deadline: March 20, 2024
World Futures Review – Special Issue
Title: Environmental Futures – Advancing Images of Mutual Human-Nature Relationships
Guest Editors:
Ludwig Weh
Fraunhofer IMW Center for International Management and Knowledge Economics
Allie E.S. Wist
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute & New York University
Dr. Kasper Kok
Wageningen University
Dr. Manjana Milkoreit
University of Oslo
Prof. Bethany Wiggin
CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following theme for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):
Nabokov and Musicality
Making Visible: Conrad, Poland, and World Literature
Special Session MLA25 New Orleans
Joseph Conrad: Tyranny and Revolution
Joseph Conrad Society of America (MLA Allied Organization) MLA 2025 New Orleans
The D.H. Lawrence Society of North America is pleased to share the CFP for the next Virtual Graduate Conference in D.H. Lawrence Studies. It is scheduled for Saturday, 18 May 2024 and will take place over Zoom. The theme for the event is “Lawrence & Ecology.” Please circulate the poster (attached) and the information below widely.
Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis, Call for Chapters
An edited collection tentatively titled “Going to the Movies with C.S. Lewis” is seeking chapter submissions.
Having been born many years after C.S. Lewis died I of course never had the opportunity to watch a movie with the man. However, over the years I feel, as many others probably feel as well, like Lewis accompanies me as I watch movies, read books, attend church services, and make other daily pursuits. Lewis’ works shape my thinking on many theological, educational, and cultural matters like few other authors’ works do.
Keynote Address
Matthew Biberman
University of Louisville
Teaching Milton Reading Shakespeare
The Mid-Atlantic Review is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually by the College English Association Mid-Atlantic Group (CEAMAG). The journal specializes in literary and cultural criticism, discussions of pedagogy, public humanities work, reviews of scholarly books, personal essays concerned with the teaching of English, and creative writing related to the humanities, teaching, or the craft and art of writing. For those who would like a theme to inspire their writing or artwork, you can use this year’s conference theme: Transformations.
The Mid-Atlantic Review believes that scholars and creative writers should be paid for their labor. Authors of published pieces will receive a $20 honorarium and a physical copy of the journal.
EXTENDED Submission Deadline: April 1, 2024
One Day symposium
April 18, 2024
10am - 5pm
Deadline: March 20, 2024
Venue: 320 Pomerene Hall, Ohio State University
Supported by: Translational Data Analytics Institute, OSU
The Circus Historical Society invites proposals from scholars of all levels for presentations on any subject related to circus history for Convention 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia, August 4-7. Papers/presentations by a single speaker should be limited to 25 minutes including questions. Panel/group presentations should be limited to 45 minutes including questions. All presentations must be delivered in person (no Zoom).
Submission Details
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Rethinking Body in Medical Humanities
Fraught with moral, religious, racial, sexual, and transgressive configurations, the body is a potent site for reflective practices within popular culture. The self-reflexive matrix of popular culture’s representations of human body functions as a site for materializing possibilities of varying forms of living. As a cultural sign, body features in both normative and non-normative debates on identity, selfhood, social relations, power, institutional surveillance and regulation. The practice of its representations, on the other hand, traditionally enables a culture of shared meaning-making which shapes how an individual perceives, thinks, feels, and acts amidst the production and circulation of discourses.
Gloria Naylor’s fictionalized memoir 1996 (2005) remains the least studied but most controversial selection in her decades-long literary output. Published by Third World Press at the tailend of her illustrious career, 1996 stands in stark contrast to Naylor’s iconic tetralogy — which includes Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), and Bailey’s Cafe (1992), as well as the sibling text Men of Brewster Place (1998) — by centering the author herself in its bold critiques of state power and the ways marginalized communities fight to uphold it.
Slayage: The International Journal of Buffy+ and the Association for the Study of Buffy+ invite proposals for the twentieth anniversary Slayage Conference—the tenth biennial (SC10). Devoted to creative works and workers of the ‘fuzzy set’ surrounding Buffy the Vampire Slayer, SC10 will be held on the campus of California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, on 18-21 July 2024. This twentieth anniversary conference will be organized by Local Arrangements Chair Lewis Call.
Digital platforms’ ubiquity and pervasive nature have ignited discussions around the boundaries between what is considered private and what is rendered public. Cohen’s (2012) exploration of privacy in the digital age highlights how technological advancements challenge the conventional norms we attribute to personal space and information. Privacy also seems to be a buzzword of any privately deployed enterprise built upon collecting and distributing personal information (Strauß & Nentwich, 2013). While traditional conceptualisations of privacy and its value consider personal information as something to protect or own while focusing on how information is handled, recent accounts take ontological and contextual perspectives (Solove, 2008; Marmor, 2015).
This cfp is for the panel that I am hosting at PAMLA, 2024. Kindly consider sending your abstracts. Link https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19110
Closeted & Uncloseted: Narrating Queer Spaces and Identities
This year's South Atlantic Modern Language Association conference will be held November 15-17 in Jacksonville, Florida. Please share the following Queer Studies CFP with colleagues, grad students, and others who may be interested in participating:
New Orleans and Black Literature The College Language Association invites papers for a proposed panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA) on "New Orleans and Black Literature." Interested scholars are invited to submit 350-word abstracts that explore the influence of New Orleans (emphasizing food, music, history, art, and language) on Black literature and culture, in U.S. and diasporan contexts.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 22 March 2024
Janaka Lewis, The College Language Association (janakabowman@gmail.com )
The African American Literature Forum and the College Language Association, collaboratively, invite papers for a panel at MLA 2025 (January 9-12 in New Orleans, LA).
We invite scholars to submit 250-word abstracts that reflect on the lasting significance of The New Negro: An Interpretation, in recognition of the centennial anniversary of its 1925 publication.
Please submit abstracts and brief (250-word) speaker biographies to McKinley E. Melton (mmelton@gettysburg.edu) by Friday, March 22nd for consideration.
Call for Papers: Michigan College English Association Conference on Zoom
Saturday, October 5, 2024
Themes: Crisis and Resilience
Featured Speaker: Dawn Burns, fiction writer and memoirist
Call for Papers: JAWS Volume 9
We invite contributions to this hybrid issue of JAWS, which combines both a themed section and an open section.
Theme: 'On Resonance'
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/jaws-journal-of-arts-writing-by-students#call-for-papers
CFP: Literature and Popular Culture – Northeast Popular & American Culture Association
Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and cultures) University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue, volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer-reviewed, printed and entirely open-access journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA, Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical perspective.
Call for Abstracts for Issue 18 (Spring 2025)
Frames
Frames are ever-present. We read, use, and propagate them in our daily, as well as academic life. Their definition is difficult to put into words, just like it boggles the mind to imagine in how many ‘frames’ we are entangled ourselves. Frames serve many functions. They reduce the complexity of the world through the art of selection. Be it four pieces of ornamented wood that surround the canvas, an imaginary line on a map dividing one nation from another, or a set of tools used to present an argument, innumerable frames (‘models’, ‘schemas’, or ‘attitudes’) organize our experience.