MMLA 2023 Permanent Session: Old and Middle English Language and Literature

“Modern Meets Medieval: Scholars and the Public, Then and Now"

The General Call opens with an analogy between now-times and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, invoking an approach that is both medieval and modern by looking at how the arts, the academy, and general society should, can, and do interact. In that spirit, the general question for this panel is “what is the value of studying medieval history, culture, art, and/or literature in today’s world?”

The Rebecca Harding Davis Society welcomes proposals for two sessions at the next meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held May 25-28, 2023 in
Boston, MA.

New Directions in Davis Scholarship (2 panels)

We are interested in proposals that engage in any aspect of Davis’s work. We particularly encourage proposals that address some of Davis’s lesser known works, and we also welcome new readings of the canonical “Life in the Iron-Mills.”

Please send a 200-250 word abstract to Aaron Rovan (ajrovan@gmail.com) by January 15, 2023.

Call for Abstracts: Theology, Religion, and Dungeons & Dragons

Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens and Brandon Simonson

August 7-9, 2023

Southern Utah University - Utah Shakespeare Festival

The 2023 Wooden O Symposium invites panel and paper proposals on any topic relating to Shakespeare and his plays:

• Literary Analysis & Theoretical Approaches
• Shakespeare and Adaptation
• Shakespeare on Screen
• Shakespeare and History, Culture, and Society
• Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
• Shakespeare and Rhetoric
• Shakespeare in Performance
• Shakespeare and the Arts

We encourage papers and presentations that speak to the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s 2023 summer season: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, and Romeo and Juliet. 

TOPOGRAPHIES OF MEDICINE

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN TRANSATLANTIC STUDIES

April 28th – 29th 2023

Real Colegio Complutense at Harvard (Cambridge, MA)

New Perspectives on Cormac McCarthy: Encountering The Passenger and Stella Maris 

Edited by Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore

Where Is Academic Work?

In-person Conference

Friday May 5th, 2023

The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY

You know what work is—if you’re

old enough to read this you know what

work is, although you may not do it.

–  Philip Levine, “What Work Is”

The room changes but the work continues. This conference seeks contributions to a day-long process of consensus-building and new ideas around the subject of location in intellectual work in all of its many contexts.

On 29 -30 May 2023, Canada’s bibliographical and book studies community will gather for the Annual Conference of the Bibliographical Society of Canada at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences for our first in-person conference since 2019.

Forum is published twice a year by the Conference on College Composition and Communication. We invite you to submit 3,000-word essays related to the teaching, working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty. Faculty and scholars from all academic positions are welcome to contribute. Of special interest are research, analyses, and strategies grounded in local contexts, given that labor conditions and the needs of contingent faculty vary greatly with geography, institutional settings, and personal circumstances. Essays should be approximately 3,000 words and address theoretical and/or disciplinary debates. They will go through the standard peer-review and revision process.

In their Introduction to the Special Issue of Social Text, David L. Eng, Jack Halberstam, and José Esteban Muñoz demanded “a renewed queer studies ever vigilant to the fact that sexuality is intersectional, not extraneous to other modes of difference, and calibrated to a firm understanding” (1).

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2023)

Working Title for Proposed Volume:  The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Traditions, Traversals, and Trajectories

Editor:

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Sharifah Aishah Osman

Department of English

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Universiti Malaya

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Cadernos de Fraseoloxía Galega (CFG), an international journal of phraseological and paremiological research published by the Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (Xunta de Galicia), is calling for contributions for issue 25, which this time will be a monographic issue about the metalanguage in the field of Phraseology, a relevant topic due to the imperative need, in the 21st century, to homogenise the intralinguistic and interlinguistic terminology of phraseology.

A Call Contribution on Book Chapters

To be published by Palgrave Macmillan in December 2023

In 2015, the United Nations approved the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which came to give continuity to the process of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The SDGs cover all possible social, economic and natural aspects, both in a global and local space. It is a complex process of political and economic discussion, with different views, which must be addressed from all areas of society (UN, 2022).

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 

CURRENTS NO. 9

SOLIDARITY - CONFLICT

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the ninth issue of CURRENTS: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review. CURRENTS is an open access, peer-reviewed, yearly interdisciplinary journal, based in Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University), addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies.