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International Conference on Communication and Media Studies: "Media and Development"

updated: 
Monday, March 28, 2022 - 6:09pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Higher Institute of Languages, Gabes & TAELS (Tunisia)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

*Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume.

 

In an ever-changing world swept by online news, global flows of information and stories, entertaining platforms of films and music, understanding media products and outlets has become urgently important and simply fundamental. The steady development of the world has brought a 24/7 attachment to TV sets, mobile phones, PCs, Tablets and all other gadgets and devices.

International Summer School: Gender in Cinema

updated: 
Monday, March 28, 2022 - 6:09pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Spend an amazing week learning about gender, psychoanalysis and cinema!

In this course, we will explore cinematic representations of gender, in themes linked to identity formation, femininity, masculinity, gender bending, beauty, and ontology. It will include 6 two-hour online lectures and seminars covering the following topics and discussing the following films:

 

DAY 1: IDENTITY FORMATION

Eyes Without a Face (1960) Georges Franju

The Stepford Wives (1975) Bryan Forbes

Boys Don’t Cry (1999) Kimberly Peirce

 

DAY 2: FEMININITIES

9 Songs (2004) Michael Winterbottom

Professional Writing Panel

updated: 
Monday, March 28, 2022 - 1:54pm
South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

The Professional Writing Panel with SCMLA's 79th Annual Hybrid Conference held in Memphis, Tennessee from October 13-15, 2022 is accepting proposals/abstracts for the Fall 2022 Conference. The virtual conference offers options for both In Person and Virtual presentations.

Location: Sheraton Downtown Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee

Days: October 13-15, 2022

URL: https://www.southcentralmla.org/conference/

Contact: Professor Julie Garza-Horne, Professional Writing Panel Chair, julieanngarza@gmail.com

(Extension granted for proposals. New Deadline: April 15, 2022.)

UPDATED The Uses of Form: Theory – Methodology – Pedagogy

updated: 
Friday, March 25, 2022 - 2:44am
Julia Ditter & Anne Korfmacher
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 18, 2022

The Uses of Form: Theory – Methodology – Pedagogy

A Digital Workshop, 1 & 2 July 2022

UPDATE: Proposal Deadline now 8 April

Timeline:

Initial proposal deadline: 18 March

UPDATED extended deadline: 8 April

Acceptance Rejection: 1 April (postponed to 11 April)

Prerecorded papers / texts deadline: 3 June

Papers will be made available to participants two weeks before the workshop.

Workshop schedule (CET, Berlin/Paris/Amsterdam):

Friday, 1 July: 9.30 - 15.30h

Saturday, 2 July: 9.30 - 13h

Academic Writing Workshop

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 5:00pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Academic LAB
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

5 June 2022: 2pm-5pm (London Time)

The workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers in humanities and social sciences who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.

It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.

    Topics will include:

Anglo Saxonica

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:08pm
University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Anglo Saxonica is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes original and innovative research on a variety of issues relevant to the study of English(es), broadly understood both as language and as all the literatures and cultures of the English-speaking world. In so doing, Anglo Saxonica also promotes dialogue among English-speaking geocultural areas. Its editorial policy promotes the thematic cohesion of each volume, open to different academic approaches on current issues in English and American studies, including original research articles, reviews, interviews and selections of creative writing. The journal also publishes special issues with a particular thematic focus that are guest-edited by leading scholars in the field.

Call for book proposals: Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

The Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies (www.global19c.com) and Liverpool University Press are delighted to announce a new book series. Proposals are warmly invited:

 

Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century

Post-Now: Futures of the Short Story, the Short Story of the Future

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

Recent discussions and debates in literary and creative writing studies have invited fiction writers, scholars, and readers alike to re-evaluate the form and the function of the short story. The rise and prominence of online literary magazines and e-texts have forced writers to adapt to lower word counts and the challenges of on-screen reading: writers have responded with fragmented and braided narratives that eschew the “long-read” short story published in venues like The New Yorker or Paris Review. Handheld gaming on consoles like Nintendo’s 3DS and Switch systems have brought genres like the visual novel to the West—transforming short-form narratives into portable and interactive hybrid works of literature.

American Literature 1945- present (PAMLA 2022 panel)

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
Nancy Carranza / UC Riverside
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

You are invited to submit a proposal for the standing session "American Literature from 1945- Present" at the 2022 PAMLA Conference, scheduled for Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel.

Poetry and Politics (PAMLA, November 11-13, Los Angeles)

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
Dr. Andrew Lyndon Knighton / Cal State LA Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

In anticipation of the 2022 Annual Convention of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association (to be held at UCLA, November 11-13, 2022), we seek proposals on the intersections of politics and poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.  This session affords a space to assess the past century’s poetic/political interventions, exploring how poetry and poetic experience have lent themselves to critiquing the status quo, imagining radical futures, mobilizing collectivities, and resisting the present in various ways.  Of particular interest are abstracts that are adjacent to the conference theme –“Geographies of the Fantastic and Quotidian” –or which specifically engage with the poetry of Los Angeles as

South Atlantic Review: General Call for Contributions

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
South Atlantic Review: The Journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Since its establishment in 1935, South Atlantic Review (SAR) has been the official journal of SAMLA. Published quarterly and distributed electronically to SAMLA's large membership, SAR welcomes submissions of essays, clusters of essays, special issue proposals, and book reviews concerned with the study of language, literature, rhetoric and composition, film and television, and other topics of scholarly interest in the humanities.

Trauma in the Age of Trauma

updated: 
Thursday, March 24, 2022 - 1:07pm
MMLA 2022 in Minneapolis
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 15, 2022

Recent essays and articles in publications like The Atlantic and Vox have voiced growing concerns about the increasing elasticity of “trauma.” Even so, those same texts note the value of recognizing others’ trauma and of responding ethically to their stories. This worth is particularly evident in the wake of the many Covid-related traumatic events and the most recent racial reckonings (that may or may not have occurred) in the US and around the world.

SAMLA 94: Change

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:47pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 1, 2022

SAMLA 94: CHANGE

November 11-13, 2022

Jacksonville, FL | Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Hotel

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Photography

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:07pm
Intellect Books
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 30, 2022

The editors of Philosophy of Photography invite contributions to a special issue: Violence!

 

Full call for papers here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/65396/1/POP_CfP_2022.pdf

 

Photography’s ubiquity means that it touches all realms of life. Indeed, it has arguably taken on a new and fundamental characteristic as the way that things emerge in heavily technologized societies. Violence is undoubtedly a determining category of this mode of society. Is violence, then, photographic? If so, is this a contingent fact or a necessary condition?

 

Bronte Studies - The Brontes and Material Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:07pm
Bronte Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Call for papers – Brontë Studies special issue on Material Culture

 

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s new exhibition  Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe (2022), Brontë Studies is inviting papers for a special issue on the Brontës and material culture. The exhibition, co-created with historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, features more than twenty pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories, and offers intimate insight into both her domestic and literary lives. 

The Times They Are A-Changin’: Temporal Shifts in Early Modern Drama

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:06pm
Lisa Hopkins / Sheffield Hallam University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Sir John Falstaff enters the Shakespearean stage asking what time of day it is and leaves it at the turning of the tide.  This collection of essays is interested in ideas about temporal shifts in early modern drama. Topics could include (but are not limited to) changing seasons; the representation of individual seasons in plays; holidays and ritual markers of time; the ebb and flow of tides; measurement of time and perceptions of temporal change; day, night, dawn and dusk; understandings of different time zones; the ageing process; saints’ days, quarter days, anniversaries, and other calendrical markers; accession days; and whether there was any awareness at the time of what we would now call the Little Ice Age.

Perspectives on the Arts in Peace Pedagogy

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:05pm
Laurence J. Stacey and Jonathan Taylor Downs / Kennesaw State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Peace and justice educators have long recognized the value of the arts in helping students identify, critique, and reimagine themes related to conflict, peace, and efforts toward social justice. Using various creative elements, literary, visual, and/or auditory arts can explore complexities of the human condition in ways that are often overlooked in fields associated with the social sciences. By exploring people’s lived experiences of conflict, artistic works can provoke us to reconsider questions of social justice and our standpoints in relation to others.

Performing Tutankhamun: One Hundred Years of Retellings

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:05pm
Dr Eleanor Dobson and Dr Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 25, 2022

The year 2022 marks the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, unearthed by a team of Egyptian excavators led by Howard Carter and financed by the fifth Earl of Carnarvon. In the hundred years that followed, in what ways have media and performance contributed to the retelling and reshaping of this historic moment and the discovery’s cultural aftermath? Whose voices have been amplified, and whose marginalised? Where has historical accuracy given way to creative license? What audiences have been catered to, and what does this tell us about the ways in which Egyptology is ‘consumed’?

Digital Learning: Pedagogy, Philosophy & Praxis [ Panel discussion ]

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:05pm
National Institute of Technology Silchar
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

 

Panel Discussion on Digital Learning: Pedagogy, Philosophy & Praxis 

 

This event is being organized by the National Institute of Technology Silchar with financial support from the Indian Council for Philosophical Research

 

 

PAMLA 2022 | Los Angeles | CFP: “Languages and Linguistics”

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:05pm
Elena Sharafutdinova / CSU, Fresno
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

Dear All,

You are invited to submit a proposal for the standing session "Languages and Linguistics" at the 2022 PAMLA Conference, scheduled for Friday, November 11 – Sunday, November 13, 2022 in Los Angeles, California at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center and Hotel.

This session brings together scholars to exchange and share their research results on any aspect of Language and Linguistics. This includes papers on language teaching and learning, as well as the analysis of language structure and meaning. Submissions are not limited to the theme of this year's conference, “Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian.”

CFP - Medieval and Early Modern Studies Summer Festival

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:04pm
MEMS Festival 2022
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 29, 2022

Join us in Canterbury and online for the eighth annual MEMS Festival at the University of Kent. This two-day event celebrates medieval and early modern history from c. 400 – 1800, and welcomes a wide range of interdisciplinary research topics, including but not limited to, politics, religion, economics, art, drama, literature, and material culture. MEMSFest aims to be a friendly space in which postgraduate students, early career researchers, and academics can share ideas and foster conversations, whilst building a greater sense of community. Undergraduates in their final year of study are also welcome at the conference.

 

The Imaginary Voyage. New, Other, Virtual Worlds, from Thule to the Cyberspace.

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:04pm
Riccardo Antonangeli / University of Rome "Sapienza"
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022

The Imaginary Voyage. New, Other, Virtual Worlds, from Thule to the Cyberspace. 

 

 

 

«Onore e gloria a questa moltitudine di viaggiatori e gubernetes dell’immaginazione, nocchieri e piloti sconosciuti, o conosciuti come profeti,filosofi, scrittori, poeti; quasi nessuno di loro ebbe a subire danni, essendo il solo incidente possibile una panne della fantasia.»

 

Daniele Del Giudice, Meccanica per viaggi al limite del conosciuto.

 

 

 

From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:03pm
Chris Shei / Swansea University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, December 31, 2022

From Language to Psychology and from Ideology to Destruction: Exploring the Fossilization and the Liberation of the Mind

Call for chapter proposals

Dr Chris Shei

[Update] Reason: Special issue of The Comparatist

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:03pm
The Comparatist
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

                                                                 Call for Papers: Special Issue, The Comparatist 

Topic: Reason

General Editor: Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College)

Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature

updated: 
Wednesday, March 23, 2022 - 2:03pm
Ben Clarke, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 1, 2022

I am currently soliciting chapters for the Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, which is under contract and scheduled to appear next year. Most of the contributors are already confirmed, so I am looking for essays on particular subjects. These include:

 

• theories of working-class literature

• pre-industrial literature by workers

• working-class literature in the Global South

• African-American, Asian-American, and Latinx working-class literature

• queer working-class literature

• the future of working-class literature and literary studies

 

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