International conference:

Hollywood Before the Code (1921-1934)

Sorbonne University and Université Paris Nanterre, Paris, France

June 27-28-29, 2024

The implementation of the Production Code in 1934 established a pre- and post-classic Hollywood era. From 1934 onward, the studios submitted their productions to some internal control to ensure the conformity of contents and guarantee their commercial viability at a time when ideological and religious elites were actively trying to enforce the respect of moral principles.

International Conference for PhD students and young doctors — “Authenticity and Heritage”
 March 7-8, 2024
 Université Bordeaux Montaigne, UR CLIMAS 4196

The Creative Writing Studies Organization (CWSO) is now accepting proposals for the 8th Annual Creative Writing Studies Conference (CWSC) – our first in-person conference since 2020! The conference offers an exciting opportunity to rebuild past connections and create new ones. It will be held the weekend of October 20-22, 2023 at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

Proposals for papers and workshops will be accepted through August 16, 2023.

We would love to see you in person. However, our world is different now, so with this conference we will continue to offer virtual options for both presenters and attendees to increase access and expand our community.

46th Comparative Drama ConferenceCall for PapersApril 4-6, 2024Orlando, Florida                         Abstract Submission Deadline:  15 October 2023

Papers reporting on original investigations and critical analysis of research and developments in the field of drama and theatre are invited for the 46th Comparative Drama Conference, hosted by Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, to be held April 4-6,  2024 . Papers may be comparative across nationalities, periods and disciplines; and may deal with any issue in dramatic literature, criticism, theory, and performance, or any method of historiography, translation, or production.

In capitalism’s surplus economy, to “have plenty” frequently appears to have no bounds. The pursuit for plenty at times indistinguishable from the insatiable appetite for excess, it takes on the (ut)optics of capitalism. To have plenty becomes synonymous with the surplus and excess only available to those who wield the most power, hoard the greatest wealth.

“Plenty,” writes Tony Morrison, “in a world of excess and attending greed, which tilts resources to the rich and forces others to envy, is an almost obscene feature of contemporary paradise. This world of outrageous, shameless wealth squatting, hulking, preening before the dispossessed, the very idea of ‘plenty’ as Utopian ought to make us tremble” (xiv).

CALL FOR PAPERS
Workshop on Migration & Health: Perspectives from South Asia
October 12 – 13, 2023
Seattle, Washington

Brief description:

Human migration is a defining issue of our time and is increasingly recognized as a global public health priority. Migration has long been linked to the transmission of diseases and health risks, especially in the era of epidemics which do not respect international borders. Scholarship on health and migration has examined the social, political, and economic production of diseases and their interaction with processes of migration, transit, legal status, and migrants’ incorporation into the places to which they migrate, over time – as well as their effects on the places of origin.

In his 2001 book The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan describes book publishing as an “alterity industry” profiting from “the commodification of cultural difference” (12), in which authors of underrepresented backgrounds must balance their authentic stories against the norms and expectations that inherently shape traditionally published work.

This session highlights interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Black satire from roughly 2013 to the present, particularly how the TV series Atlanta and related texts serve as microcosmic exemplars for Black satirists’ commentary on life in the United States after Obama. The chameleonic quality imparted by the steadfast refusal of Atlanta’s creators to cater to the demands of either its network or its audiences invites intertextual readings with a broad range of contemporary texts in various media. Therefore this panel session explores the intertextuality of Atlanta with other contemporary literary and cultural works.

he proposed session will analyze the complex images of women in Dostoevsky novels, focusing on the archetypal female characters in his major novels vis-a-vis other Russian realist novels, such as the works of Leo Tolstoy and Turgenev, investigating social and cultural gender norms of that period. The papers focusing on the image of femme fatale in the European novels will also be considered.

Pseudomorphism, a term introduced to art history by Erwin Panofsky in 1964, refers to the ostensible similarity between two works of art that actually emerge from distinct historical and artistic lineages. More recently, Yve-Alain Bois tried to revive the notion for the study of modern and contemporary art, while Pamela Lee’s work shows how the phenomena is becoming increasingly widespread, putting forth ‘a transhistorical, and perhaps transdisciplinary, agenda in the process’. This issue of re:visions invites graduate students and other scholars, researchers, writers, and artists to think through issues related to likeness/similarity and test bold comparisons, reflecting on the ambivalent nature of pseudomorphism.

Conference online (via Zoom):

21-22 September 2023

Call for papers | RCL nº. 59 | Media-Bodies: matter and imaginary 

https://rcl.fcsh.unl.pt/index.php/rcl/announcement/view/6

Submissions deadline: July 31, 2023 changed to 22 September 2023 (full articles)
Expected publication date: December 2023 

Editors: 
Aida Castro (ICNOVA / I2ADS) 
Maria Mire (CICANT / AR.CO) 

CFP: IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2
Call for Articles for the Sixth Issue of IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies (October 2023): Deadline - 15 September 2023

IDEAS: Journal of English Literary Studies, the official academic journal of the The English Language and Literature Association of Turkey, is an international, electronically published and peer-reviewed journal devoted to literary and cultural studies in English. The journal aims to provide a highly qualified academic platform for the exchange of diverse critical and original ideas on any aspect of literatures written in English, cultural studies, and literary theory.

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