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The New Ray Bradbury Review Issue 8 (2024)
For the next issue of The New Ray Bradbury Review (NRBR), we invite articles which examine the theme of space, broadly construed.
The deadline for the 2024 Women in French 11th International Colloquium, to be held at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on March 28-30, 2024, has been extended until SEPTEMBER 30, 2023.
Please find the original CFP below.
11TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN FRENCH CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS
University of Alabama
Precarious Lives/Vies précaires
28-30 March 2024
The work of Bernardo Bertolucci (1941-2018), in its preoccupations, scope and politics, exemplifies that of the post-war generation of radical European auteurs: initial films made in the shadow of Neo-Realism, and under the influence of the French New Wave (The Grim Reaper, Before the Revolution); a full embrace of the events of 1968 (Partner, Agonia); a late modernist art cinema that interrogated the scandal of Italian war-time history and exerted a profound influence on other film-makers – particularly those of New Hollywood (The Conformist, The Spider’s Stratagem); a global “success de scandale” with Last Tango in Paris, which was still in the headlines half a century later, via #MeToo; a particularly 1970s
In her work, A Theory of Adaptation, Linda Hutcheon describes the term “adaptation” as “[a]n acknowledged transposition of a recognisable other work or works” (2016, p. 8), pointing out that adaptations attract the audience by arousing pleasure and encouraging a reevaluation. One can easily perceive and interpret the original literary work’s intricate relationship with its adaptation through his/her experience and knowledge of the earlier. Adaptations are relished as they revive recognised narratives and stories in a new format, genre and medium. However, “the adaption is not an act of sly plagiarism; it is a deliberate and self-conscious attempt to engage with an original text and offer a new approach or direction.
In Dark Matter (2013), Andrew Sofer observes that “[s]taging trauma poses a representational conundrum because trauma confounds chronology and eludes comprehension” (118). Yet the theatre has long been a site for exploring the effects of collective trauma from genocide, slavery, war, environmental disaster, and forced displacement. Building on existing trauma studies scholarship and the work of psychologists such as Cathy Caruth and Judith Herman, whose research highlights trauma’s resistance to coherent, chronological narrative and simple representation, we are seeking papers for a special panel focusing on transgenerational trauma as it is expressed in dramatic literature and performance.
M. Butterfly at 35
Sponsored Panel by the David Henry Hwang Society for the Comparative Drama Conference
2023 marks the 35th anniversary of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly. We welcome papers that engage with Hwang's Tony-winning play, the David Cronenberg 1993 film as well as the 2017 rewritten Broadway revival. We also encourage discussion of various productions of either play.
Call for papers on the pastoral, cottagecore and solarpunk, regarding an upcoming 1-day symposium, organised by Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone (EMMA) in Montpellier, France (Université Paul Valéry). Date : November 17, 2023.
Call for papers :
Dear Scholars and Researchers,
We are pleased to announce an exciting opportunity to contribute to the advancement of scholarly discourse in the field of contemporary poetics. The Journal of Contemporary Poetics is seeking enthusiastic and dedicated individuals to join our esteemed editorial team as Co-Editors.
The Mediterranean has often been considered a transitional space—a rite of passage, an interval between borders, a route to conquest. But what of the Mediterranean as a context and a framework in itself? How might notions of ‘man,’ ‘nation,’ ‘empire,’ ‘center,’ and ‘periphery’ be reformulated when looked at from the perspective of the sea? What does comparative literature look like when the Mediterranean is viewed not only as a sea in which cultures exist and literatures are produced but also as a context or a framework in which they can be reassessed?
The themed issue on “The AI Revolution” aims to discuss and disseminate the latest research on the impact of artificial intelligence on human life, its representation in art and literature and its academic possibilities. With our declared orientation to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, the issue will look forward to sharing research on how the Goals can be achieved through holistic multidisciplinary approaches.
Authors from any discipline can submit papers. But the journal will not publish papers that belong purely to the disciplines of science and technology, medicine, and business management. We will publish papers that are interdisciplinary in nature engaging in discussion relevant to humanities and social sciences.
ACLA, Montreal, March 14-17, 2023
Thanatic Ethics: The Circulation of Bodies in Migratory SpacesInternational Conference #3
Death “Matters”: The (Im)material and the Sensory in Death in Migration
Venue: The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Dates: January 7-9, 2024
Language: English
Deadline for submitting proposals: Oct 1, 2023
Notification of acceptance: Oct 15, 2023
● This conference will be held in person and participants will be expected to travel to the venue and book accommodation at their own cost, obtaining their visa as applicable.
International Thomas Merton Society
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College English Association
53rdTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Westin Buckhead Atlanta
March 21-23,2024
Call for Papers
Trans LiteraturesA special issue of College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies
Call for Proposals
Co-edited by: Alex Brostoff (Kenyon College) & RL Goldberg (Princeton University, Prison Teaching Initiative)
Vernon Press invites book chapters for a forthcoming edited volume on the subject of disability narratives in nineteenth century British fiction.
Call for Papers: Composition and Rhetoric: Practice at CEA 2024
March 21-23 Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Composition and Rhetoric: Practice for our 53rd annual conference.
The special topics chair for Composition & Rhetoric: Practice invites submissions on a range of topics exploring writing pedagogies and practices focused on the conference theme of Transformations. Proposals may address the following topics:
- What are successful transformations of your curriculum that have supported student success in writing?
In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 9/15/23.
Call for Papers
War & Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Papers
American Studies and American History
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Papers: Buffy and Beyond at the Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
Annual Conference
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Papers
Horror (Literary & Cinematic)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
Celebrating the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance: Legacy, Influence, and Contemporary Perspectives
International Hybrid Conference
17-18 February 2024
University of Delft, The Netherlands
(In-Person/Physical Presence and Online Presentation sessions: 2 days)
(Virtual platform for pre-recorded presentations: 5 days)
Thematic Approach
GIRES, the Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship dedicated to interdisciplinarity commemorates the Centenary of the Harlem Renaissance and explore the diverse aspects of the movement, highlight its lasting impact, and examine its relevance in contemporary society.
Call for Papers
Medievalisms Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
45th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2024
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Submissions open on September 1, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2023
THREAD: MATERIALITIES AND PERFORMANCE
Organized by Clint Morrison, Jr., and Jeffery G. Stoyanoff
38. Teaching the Performative Middle Ages
Organizer: Christina M. Fitzgerald (christina.fitzgerald@utoledo.edu)
Session Format: Lightning Talks
The Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society (MRDS) will honor V. A. Kolve (1934-2022) with a panel of topics on medieval drama at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, May 9-11, 2024. The Play Called Corpus Christi has been especially influential in medieval English drama studies, and its arguments about the significance of laughter, play, game, comic action, and time and space in the English biblical plays continue to shape the critical conversation. The MRDS invites those who have been influenced by Kolve’s work on early drama, or who studied or worked with him, to celebrate his legacy with papers that respond to or converse with Kolve’s contributions to the field.
Call for Papers: Leeds IMC 2024, 1-4 July 2024
The Experience of Local Officialdom in Europe and the Mediterranean, c.1000-1500: Between Order and Disorder