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Special Section on "Reflecting on ‘The Teen Whisperer’: Twenty Years of John Green"

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 1:41pm
International Journal of Young Adult Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Call for Papers: Special Section on "Reflecting on ‘The Teen Whisperer’: Twenty Years of John Green"

Edited by Dr Jennifer Gouck

Hailed by Margaret Talbot of The New Yorker as “the teen whisperer,” John Green has arguably been one of the most influential YA authors of the twenty-first century. Yet Green was not an instant success. His debut novel, Looking for Alaska, sold only a few thousand copies – most of which, Green told Shannon Maughan in an interview for Publishers Weekly, were hand-sold. Despite garnering critical acclaim in the form of the 2006 Printz Award, Alaska did not become a bestseller until seven years after its 2005 publication.

Transnational Narratives: European Women's Fiction in the Early Modern Period

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:25pm
European Society for the Study of English, ESSE
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) CONFERENCE, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

26-30 August, 2024

Convenors:

Gerd Bayer (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, FAU, Germany) gerd.bayer@fau.de

Sonia Villegas-López (University of Huelva, Spain) villegas@uhu.es

 

Online seminar proposal:

28. TRANSNATIONAL NARRATIVES: EUROPEAN WOMEN’S FICTION IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

Book on Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:25pm
MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture  |  postcollapse.art

OPEN CALL Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989

 

We are pleased to invite artists, writers, and scholars to submit work for inclusion in Postcollapse Art: Art Since 1989,  an anthology that seeks to explore contemporary art and visual culture since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War.

Call for Nominations: Colby Book Prize

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:24pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

RSVP's Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeThe Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press. The winner receives a monetary award of up to $2,000 and is invited to speak at the following year’s RSVP conference.

Workshop on Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages in the UK

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:23pm
University of Sheffield
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 28, 2024

Call for Papers: Preserving, Producing, and Circulating Cultures, Arts and Languages of Hong Kong, 13-14 June 2024, University of Sheffield

 

With the migration of numerous Hong Kong scholars and artists, there is a pressing need to discuss and dissect the global dynamics of Hong Kong cultures and arts, and their salient impact on local and diasporic communities.

This workshop seeks to shed light on the intricate interplay of Hong Kong's rich cultural and artistic tapestry. We are particularly interested in explorations around the following potential themes within the fields of arts and humanities:

 

Call for book reviews | US Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:23pm
REDEN journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN: 2695-4168) is an open access interdisciplinary, academic, double blind peer-reviewed journal focusing on the study of the US popular culture manifestations and the representations of the United States in popular culture.

Book reviews must refer to monographs and edited volumes focused on topics fitting with the journal's scope, published in the past three years (or less recent books if put in perspective critically). The length for reviews is ca. 1000–1500 words.

CFP Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:22pm
Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 18, 2023

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Interactive Film and Media Annual Virtual Conference

 

June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom

 

 

Communities | Structures | Entanglements

 

 

Proposals Deadline: Monday, December 18th

 

The VI Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024 is thrilled to announce a Call for Proposals focused on the compelling and intricate themes of "Communities | Structures | Entanglements." These themes present a rich ground for exploration, innovation, and critical examination in the rapidly evolving interactive film and media domain.

 

AfterWords: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:22pm
Trinity College Dublin School of English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, December 18, 2023

After Words: Reconsidering Narratives of Trauma and Violence in the Humanities

School of English Postgraduate Conference

Trinity College Dublin – Trinity Long Room Hub

Online and-person and event
9th February 2024

Organizers: Ginevra Bianchini and Elena Valli, PhD Researchers TCD English

 

The way violence is represented always influences its reception and integration within the cultural imaginary. The narration of violence is ingrained in our perception of ourselves and our communities, and those who report traumatic events then carry the responsibility of how they are received and memorialised.

Reminiscence and Creation: Art as Memory Work

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:22pm
Art History Student Association at the University of Oregon
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

20th Annual University of Oregon Graduate Symposium in the History of Art & Architecture

Submissions Due: February 1, 2024

Symposium Date: April 12, 2024

Reminiscence and Creation: Art as Memory Work

What does it mean to make and break memories? Who do memories belong to? How do memories shape us and the field of art history more broadly? Because each of us has a unique relationship with memories, the way they materialize is bound to differ as well. Whereas some memories are collective, shaped by a shared narrative that manifests in numerous ways, others are more intimate, individual.

EXTENDED DEADLINE -- CFP Edited Collection on Jon Favreau's films and TV series

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:21pm
Guy Nicolucci
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, January 7, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.  

Black Performing Arts: Sound, Movement, Image, Text

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:21pm
Michael Borshuk, Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

The Black Performing Arts Area provides a scholarly forum to share and disseminate research pertaining to the Black performing arts across expressive forms.  Broadly defined, the area focuses on all forms of performing and visual arts, including jazz, blues, gospel, hip-hop, rhythm and blues, Caribbean music, dance, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and acting.  In all these contexts we are interested in investigating the merger of aesthetic technique and embodiment across Black diasporic expressivity.

Post-Magical Realism in / through Translation and Adaptation

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:20pm
Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

POST-MAGICAL REALISM IN / THROUGH TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION

Joint CCLA-ACCUTE roundtable at the Humanities and Social Sciences Congress 2024, McGill University, June 12-15, 2024

DEADLINE DECEMBER 1, 2023

Organizers: Sanjukta Banerjee, York University, Glendon College, sanj92@yorku.ca; Jill Planche, Brock University & Toronto Metropolitan University, Chang School, jillplanche@gmail.com

Juxtapositions Journal Seeks Essays on Translation and Haiku

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:20pm
Ce Rosenow/The Haiku Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks submissions about translation and haiku in the following three categories:

 

1. Full-length academic articles: 2,500-10,000 words; any focus on translation and haiku including theoretical approaches, historical overviews, specific challenges, etc. is welcome. Articles should be thesis-driven and situated their claims within the context of existing scholarship about the topic.

 

2. Personal approaches to translation: 500-1,000 words; for established translators; may focus any aspect of one’s own approach to translating haiku in general or the work of a specific haiku poet or poets; may include discussions of mentors and influences on one’s approach.

 

Morris, Religion, and Myth

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:20pm
William Morris Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 1, 2024

MLA New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

Morris, Religion, and Myth

 This MLA guaranteed session invites proposals exploring Morris’s writings on religion and myth. Topics could come from Morris’s Icelandic writings, his fantasy romance, The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere, The Defence of Guenevere, and A Dream of John Ball.

 Please include a 250-word abstract and short bio no later than Friday, 1 March 2024, to jnixon@salemstate.edu

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
American Religion and Literature Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

Religious (In)tolerance and Geopolitics in American Literature

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
William Dean Howells Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 15, 2024

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism 

The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.

Potential approaches include but are not limited to:

Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.

Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience at ALA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:19pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Carson McCullers Society (for ALA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

Panel Title: Carson McCullers and Embodied Difference

The Carson McCullers Society, in conjunction with The Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians (Columbus State University), invites proposals for a panel at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association (ALA), May 23-26, 2024, The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL 60603.

Emerson and William James at ALA 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society & William James Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

NARRATIVES OF NON-HUMAN DIASPORA: Accute 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:18pm
The 2024 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

Roundtable

The 2024 Conference CFP for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) is now OPEN. Please use the Online Submission Form on the ACCUTE website to submit your proposal. DEADLINE EXTENDED: December 1, 2023: submit via online form with the password LateSub2024 https://accute.ca/accute-2023-2024-online-submission-form

Organizers: Ben Berman Ghan, University of Calgary, Ben.ghan@ucalgary.ca; Margaryta Golovchenko, University of Oregon, Mgolovch@uoregon.edu

Representing Jerusalem in World Literature and Art: Sacred Space and Sacred History - Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:17pm
Harvard University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 15, 2023

Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.

Cather at ALA 2024: Open Call for Papers

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:16pm
The Willa Cather Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 12, 2024

The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

The Eighteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:14pm
Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

The Eighteenth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)

 

1-2 November 2024

National Taiwan University

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Community Dynamics: Urban Spaces, Rural Places, and the In-Between

 

Detecting (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives

updated: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 12:14pm
Warsaw University / Szczecin University / Siedlce University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference

Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.

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