International ConferenceFAILED STATE: Boundaries, Current Cases, Practical Issues

6-7 October, 2023
Istanbul University Faculty of Political Sciences
Istanbul, Türkiye

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the journal Shakespeare (the organ of the British Shakespeare Association, published by Routledge) on the Topic of "The Shakespeare First Folio: 1623 to 2023"

The guest editors of the journal Shakespeare, Miranda Fay Thomas (Trinity College Dublin) and Gabriel Egan (De Montfort University), invite papers for a special issue on the topic of the 1623 Shakespeare First Folio. The special issue will appear in late 2023 to coincide with the book's 400 anniversary. The special issue is open to any study that focusses on the significance, understanding, and reception of this important book in its own time and/or at any time between 1623 and now.

We're reloading our call for short articles on color!

A dark urban setting scattered with dots of light. Yellow gas flames shoot up against a glowing red horizon, creating an almost hellish feel. Flying cars pierce the atmosphere, revealing the orange smog haze that reappears in urban sequences throughout the movie. As the camera moves closer to futuristic, monumental buildings, cold white beams of light transition to interiors dominated by blue hues. Sequences in the Tyrell Corporation are marked by cool tones as opposed to Deckard’s warm-toned private spaces. How would we feel and think about a cult film like Blade Runner (1982) if cinematographic choices about color had been made differently?

Illinois Medieval Association Annual Symposium: Medieval Monstrosities
October 27, 2023, 3:00 pm via Zoom

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Republic of Turkey, Nesir: Journal of Literary studies will dedicate its fifth issue to the theme of “Republic of Literature, Literature of Republic.” In this issue, the journal delves into Turkey’s republican experience and its manifestations and effects on fictional and non-fictional literary productions, as well as their reception, in comparison to similar experiences in other countries. In addition to examining the relationship between literature and politics, the issue encourages critical, historical, and interdisciplinary perspectives to be applied to the concept of the “autonomy of literature.”

SCMLA – Fall 2023, Corpus Christi, TX  Omni Hotel  

Oct. 12-14th in Corpus Christi, TX.   

Proposal submissions for the Interdisciplinary Studies panel at South Central Modern Language Association's 2023 conference are currently being accepted. We encourage graduate students at the MA and PhD level to submit as well. There is no theme this year for the conference or the panel. A variety of approaches and topics may be submitted for this panel. The 2022 conference's topics were wide ranging.  

Call for Papers

South Asian Review Special Issue on Sri Lanka

 “Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture”

We are seeking contributors to a special issue or edited volume on representations of ethnic deportations from Eastern and Central Europe to the Soviet Union (1930-during and after WWII) favoring representations from ethnic minority groups. Articles are not limited to but can focus on:

• First and second generation memory, postmemory (Hirsch) as expressed in life-writing, literary representations of all genres, art of all genres

• On “portable monuments” (Rigney), narratives/stories/histories that could be re-written, appropriated, and transformed in new contexts

Read full call here: https://csalateral.org/upcoming/#digital-platforms-agency

How do digital platforms shape our agency, and how do we shape digital platforms in turn? What is the role of digital platforms in forming our social, cultural, and political practices?  How and whom do digital platforms (dis)empower? This special section of Lateral invites scholars from diverse fields to advance critical cultural inquiry at the convergence of platforms and agency on digital, networked, and/or new media. 

Call for Papers

Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

A Special Symposium

Sponsored by the Cormac McCarthy Society

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

Sept 21-23, 2023

Papers are welcome on any aspect of McCarthy’s most recent novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. Submit one-paragraph abstracts to cormacmccarthysociety@gmail.com b

TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses welcomes submission of research articles on creative and professional writing and processes, the teaching of writing and related issues. TEXT also welcomes the submission of creative work, book reviews, and scholarly interviews providing that the matter of the creative work concerns exploration of creativity, or the nature and processes of creative writing, or the nature and processes of the teaching of writing, or investigation of creative practice research in a creative writing context. Our southern winter reading period is open 1 May to 31 July 2023. TEXT occasionally publishes specific-topic collections or longer works in its Special Issue Series.

The 2023 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Literature and Science Hub at the University of Liverpool. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the world.

Response and Responsibility: Reframing Women’s Literature in the Age of Precarity

MMLA 2023

 “Precarity is a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support.” (Butler, “Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity,” 25)  

XXVII AISNA Biennial Conference

University of Perugia

Call for proposals – panel #20 on “Affective and Relational Responses to Vulnerability in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Narratives”

Coordinators: Virginia Pignagnoli and Laura Roldan-Sevillano 

Proposal deadline: 7 May 2023