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Deadline extended -- African American Literature (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 3:20pm
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Call for Papers, African American Literature at CEA 2025

 March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square

1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

215.561.7500

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on African American Literature for our 54th annual conference in Philadelphia, March 27-29, 2025.

Conference Theme: Freedom

Bloomsbury's Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:48pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:

Bloomsbury's Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:48pm
Bloomsbury Books
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Books, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

8th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 1:35pm
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 12 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

ReFocus: The Cinema of Dariush Mehrjui

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 1:24pm
ReFocus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

***Extended Deadline*** 

Nothing on Leila (1997) please!

ReFocus: The International Directors Series, published by Edinburgh University Press invites scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit papers for a title dedicated to the influential works of Dariush Mehrjui (1939-2023), a seminal figure in Iranian cinema. Known for his profound impact on the New Wave of Iranian cinema, Mehrjui’s films blend social commentary, philosophical inquiry, and aesthetic innovation. This title aims to explore the multifaceted dimensions of Mehrjui’s oeuvre, examining his contributions to film art and his role in shaping Iranian and global cinema.

Topics of Interest

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 10:37am
Illinois Medieval Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Deadline for Proposals: December 1

Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom

The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s). We welcome all aspects of teaching Arthuriana. 

2025 Louisiana Gateway English & Math Success Symposium

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 8:50am
LaGEMSS
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

Proposal Submission Deadline: January 10, 2025

Join us in New Orleans, LA, on April 11

Call for Proposals

Delgado Community College is excited to host the 2025 Louisiana Gateway English & Math Success Symposium (LaGEMSS). This symposium invites educators, administrators, and practitioners to share innovative practices, research, and strategies to improve student success in gateway English and Mathematics courses.  

Symposium Tracks

LaGEMSS welcomes proposals that focus on the following areas:

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 8:30am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished, interdisciplinary, 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.

Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 8:30am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Space is not defined objectively, but in relation to bodies, as it is a manifestation of their needs, intentions, and desires. It is not a container in which objects exist but is intertwined with the body’s orientation in the world and its movements within the space. Human body, therefore, is at the centre of all spaces, which are more than a geometrical concept in abstraction. Individual bodies apprehend and appropriate space differently and give meaning to embedded systems and institutions through established and evolving associations. Any assumption of personalised space, whether private or public, is embedded with historical, cultural, and social meanings which help curate embodied experiences.

Crip and Queer Intimacies (Call for Articles)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
University of Lodz
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Crip and Queer Intimacies

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture (https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters)

(Issue 16, 2026)

University of Lodz, Poland

 

Co-Editors of the issue:

Kateřina Kolářová, PhD (Charles University)
Katarzyna Ojrzyńska, PhD (University of Lodz)

 

African Americans and Labor

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
Morgan State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

In commemoration of the centennial of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and Maids (1925-2025), led by labor organizer and civil rights activist A. Phillip Randolph, Morgan State University, the Benjamin A. Quarles Humanities and Social Science Institute, the Department of English and Language Arts, The James H. Gilliam, Jr. College of Liberal Arts, and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGST) Program proudly announce the second one-day WGST Graduate Symposium (WGST-GS). This symposium will take place at The National Treasure, Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 3, 2025, from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

 

"Isolation/Communication": A CALS Webinar

updated: 
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 - 2:54am
Center for American Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Isolation/Communication: A Center for American Literary Studies Webinar

Join the Center for American Literary Studies at Penn State for another “Unprecedented” webinar, this one devoted to the theme of “Isolation/Communication.” The webinar will take place Tuesday, November 12 from 12 to 1 pm EST. Register (and attend) here:

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6nCPUmjSR7KA_xhRKN3cEQ

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and the elderly in Asian societies

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 8:24pm
Bernard Wilson Gakushuin University / Sung-Ae Lee Macquarie University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

CFP FOR EDITED COLLECTION (2025)

Call for abstracts for papers for edited collection on the effects of ageing populations and generational disparities in Asian societies as represented in literature, film, and other forms of media

 

Working Title for Proposed Volume: 

 

Ageing Asia: multimedia representations of ageing and the elderly in Asian societies

 

Editors:

 

Dr. Bernard Wilson

Department of English Language and Culture,

Department of International Social Sciences,

Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan

 

Dr. Sung-Ae Lee

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 6:03pm
London Arts-Based Research Centre
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 8, 2024

Unwrapping Christmas Through Arts-Based Research: A Transdisciplinary Conference
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 30, 2024
Conference Dates: December 3-4, 2024
Location: online
Fees: £90 (non-members), £76.5 (LABRC members)
(Fees apply to both presenters and attendees)

 

Conference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/07/07/unwrapping-christmas/

 

Call for Papers

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 11:22am
Moussa Pourya Asl (University of Oulu, Finland) and Manju Jaidka (Former Professor and Chair, Panjab University, Chandigarh; President, MELOW)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals

Shifting Borders, Emerging Voices: Narratives of Change in Global South Asia

Abstract submission deadline:        31 Dec 2024
Full Chapter submission deadline:    30 June 2025
Publisher:                                   Springer
Contact email:                            moussa.pouryaAsl@oulu.fi ;
                                               jaidkamanju24@gmail.com

Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature (CEA 3/27-3/29/2025)

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 10:43am
College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

NEW DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS!!!!--11/10/2024

Call for Papers, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Literature at CEA 2025 

March 27-29, 2025 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Sonesta Philadelphia Rittenhouse Square 
1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 

215.561.7500 

 

“To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.”   

Jamesian Beginnings

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:07am
Henry James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

The appeal of teleological thinking often shapes our readings of James, whether of individual works or of his career as a whole. But rather than let a sense of the ending determine our interpretation of what came before, how might James look different if we focused instead on beginnings? How does he typically begin a tale or novel—and how, if at all, do his strategies differ from those of other short story writers or novelists? How, where, or when doesn’t he begin? How is beginning thematized within the fictions, as in Isabel Archer’s practice of “beginning afresh a great many times” or Madame Merle’s wish that she could “begin again”? How did James himself begin as a writer?

Master's of English Regional Conference (MERC) 2025

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Salem State University & Bridgewater State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Please Join Salem State University and Bridgewater State University for the 5th annual Master's in English Regional Conference: New England (MERC)

The conference will take place on March 1, 2025 in person at Bridgewater State University. Directions will be uploaded on our website in the coming weeks. Accepting works in literary studies, critical theory, English education & teaching, creative writing, professional writing, communication, TESOL & Linguistics, as well as rhetoric & composition

First Person, Third Person, First/Third Person? Challenging Vision and Perspective in Narrative

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
International Society for the Study of Narrative 2025 conference
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

First Person, Third Person, First/Third Person? Challenging Vision and Perspective in Narrative

A panel to be pitched for inclusion in the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Miami, April 2–6, 2025.

Organizer: Joe McLaughlin, University of Toronto

Call for Book Chapters on Shakespeare Biofiction

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Katherine Scheil (University of Minnesota) and Edel Semple (University College Cork)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 16, 2024

This is a call for chapters on specific topics for The Palgrave Handbook of Shakespearean Biofiction, an edited collection which is under contract with Palgrave. The Handbook will be published in 2026. It will be the first book to comprehensively consider the history, state of the art, global cultures, and futures of Shakespeare biofiction; as such, it will be the definitive study of the topic, intervening at a critical juncture of development for this subject matter. Proposals are sought for the following chapters: 

 

Six Days' ICSSR sponsored Skill Development Workshop titled, "Threads of Silver: Craft Making of Rūpa Tārakasi [Silver Filigree]"

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:06am
Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (SSCTIS), and the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Sri Sri Centre for Translation and Interpreting Studies (SSCTIS), and the Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), Sri Sri University, Cuttack, Odisha, in association with Sikshasandhan, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, are going to organise a Six Days' ICSSR sponsored Skill Development Workshop titled, "Threads of Silver:  Craft Making of Rūpa Tārakasi [Silver Filigree]" as part of the ICSSR Vision VikshitBharat@2047 research project on Documenting Rūpa Tārakasi. The workshop will be conducted in a hybrid format, encompassing both online and offline participants, and the duration of the workshop is six days, from 7th to 12th November 2024.

Meddling with the Monolith: Tracing Genres of Contact through Expressions of Alterity

updated: 
Monday, November 4, 2024 - 5:05am
16th Debrupa Bal Memorial International Students' Seminar, Department of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 14, 2024

The existence of a sense of contact within a particular culture remains inherently interdisciplinary and intersectional in terms of literature, the performative arts, and the social sciences. Contact essentially entails a continuity, one that consciously evolves from the preceding line of thought to facilitate the production of the interiority of further signification. As human societies evolved, diverse communities established distinct cultural, social, and literary traditions. The resultant intersections foster and foreground the ‘unconforming’, resulting in the emergence of new socio-cultural utterances.

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