The Shared Language of Sex and Violence in Literature

2024 Acacia Group Annual Academic Conference

California State University, Fullerton

March 15-16th, 2023

Affect theory turns our attention towards a re-contextualisation of emotional and affective experiences within past and contemporary constructions of race, gender and sexuality. It leads us towards the para-rational zones of lived experience (sensations, disturbances, intensities, etc) and offers new interdisciplinary methodologies. The study of emotionality interrogates the boundary between human and non-human, with contemporary research in ecological feeling playing with the border between humans and other species, nature and geological formations. This issue is interested in how these contemporary and modern affective debates have impacted, and continue to impact, the ways in which we think about feeling.

CALL FOR PAPERS 

Beyond Nationalism and Populism: National Identities Studies in the 21st Century

                                                               National Identities 25th anniversary conference

A special conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the founding of the journal National Identities will be held at the University of Westminster, London on 12-14 September 2024.

2024 – Virtual – Call for Proposals – #ELOnline

We invite submissions for presentations, performances, and exhibition pieces at the annual Electronic Literature Organization Conference and Media Arts Festival (ELO), to be hosted fully online July 18-21, 2024 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.

Victorians CFP 2024 

Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature is one of the longest running journal publications in the field of Victorian literature. It began in 1952 under the title The Victorian Newsletter, and its transformations over the last 70 years reflects the continued growth and reputation of the journal as a key professional publication that participates in the most recent and important conversations in the discipline of Victorian studies. Victorians is published in partnership with Ohio State University Press / Journals, and is available both in hardcopy and online, hosted by Project Muse. 

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: 12 February 2024

Conference Meeting: 19 April 2024  

Host: English Graduate Student Association at the University of Texas at Arlington  
Location: Arlington, Texas

Conference Website: www.egsaconference.com

Reconstructing Race, History and Subjectivity after the 1960s

The editors of the Elizabeth Bowen Review are seeking scholarly and innovative essays for publication in the sixth volume of the journal in December 2024.

For this issue, the editors are interested in essays on any aspect of Bowen’s writing – fiction, reviewing and criticism, biography and travel writing, or work discussing Bowen criticism. 

Essays should be 6-7,000 words including citations, and use Harvard referencing. Please attach a 150-word abstract and short biography.

Completed essays should be submitted by July 1st 2024.

More information about the journal is available at http://www.bowensociety.com/elizabeth-bowen-review/

Queer Africa: New Directions in Art, Film, and Literature

This special issue of The Thinker sets out to examine the rapidly expanding field of queer artistic production in Africa. The special issue aims to shine light on the rich and dynamic cultural production that explores and subverts conventional narratives and adds to the continuing conversation about queer representation and visibility by highlighting the various ways queer identities are portrayed across the continent. The goal of this special issue is thus to showcase the various ways that African queer voices are redefining and shaping the cultural landscape by looking at how queerness intersects with and is expressed in art, film, and literature.

We invite chapter proposals for a new edited book, Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence, to be published by IGI Global. In an era of technological advancements rapidly reshaping industries, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cinema industry marks a climactic transformation. The swift integration of AI technologies has revolutionized filmmaking processes and opened new vistas for creative expression and audience engagement. This book, “Transforming Cinema with Artificial Intelligence," aims to delve into the dynamic intersection of AI and cinema, highlighting how AI is redefining the art and science of filmmaking.

Martineau Society Conference 2024 in Lewes, England    06/24/2024-06/27/2024; deadline 04/19/2024

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in the historic town of Lewes, East Sussex, England. The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).

Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.  

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Conference Details

The University of Buckingham is proud to host a two-day conference on 20-21 June 2024 exploring the dynamic between Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens to commemorate the bicentenary of Collins’s birth. 

NEW DEADLINE: 3rd February 2024

“I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man. I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs. When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” - Frankenstein, Mary Shelley

Invitation 

The University of Exeter’s AHRC-funded “The Art of Fiction” project invites proposals for 15-minute papers on the theme of “patchwork and authorship”.