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MMLA 2021: Countering the Culture in Contemporary Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 10:48am
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 1, 2021

Marginalized groups may be contrary to the dominant culture within a society through their very own existence. In cultures where those who reinforce divisions may seek to ostracize the Other by portraying them in a negative light, counter-hegemonic representations of the marginalized can be revolutionary. This panel will examine how non-dominant cultures in contemporary literature are depicted in the context of the dominant. 

 

Central questions include:

  • What makes something (e.g. an action, a person's/group's identity) within a dominant culture subversive?

  • What are the benefits and repercussions of acting against the collective conscience?

VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

updated: 
Thursday, April 22, 2021 - 6:23am
Adrian Grafe
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 3, 2021

VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE IN ENGLISH LITERATURE OF THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY

INTERNATIONAL ONLINE CONFERENCE

Co-organised by Raffaella Antinucci, Università Parthenope, Naples, and Adrian Grafe, Université d’Artois (Research Lab “Textes et Cultures”).

16th-17th December 2021

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Open Borders: Translation and its Perils

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 8:41pm
Amin Erfani - City University of New York
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

“Open Borders: Translation and its Perils”

Conference Organizers: Professors Alexandra Coller and Amin Erfani 

(Languages and Literatures, Lehman College, CUNY)

Location: Virtual via Zoom 

Date: October 15-16, 2021

(EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 

JUNE 1, 2021)

 

 

The Impact and Importance of Anniversaries in Shaping, Preserving and Affecting Collective Memory - Parapraxis (Issue 2)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:58pm
The Parapraxis Project
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Call for Entries: Parapraxis (Issue 2)

 

The Parapraxis Project is pleased to announce that the second issue of our magazine is going to be released soon. It will be a special edition on “The Impact and Importance of Anniversaries in Shaping, Preserving and Affecting Collective Memory”.

The Dominican Republic in the Global Context

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
Voces del Caribe
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 1, 2021

 VOCES DEL CARIBE, a blind, peer-reviewed journal, will publish its 14th issue in the Fall 2022. We invite everyone who is interested to submit articles, especially for the journal’s special section, whose focus will be “The Dominican Republic in the Global Context.” In addition, the general section will encompass all the Spanish speaking Caribbean’s past and present cultural manifestations (literature, poetry, theater, film, music, plastic and digital arts, etc.), and that of its Diaspora. Articles should be unpublished, original, in Spanish or English, not exceed 25 pages (approximately 7,000 words or less), be double spaced, and in 12 pt. font, including notes & references).

Baptists and the Literary Imagination

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
Perspectives in Religious Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 30, 2022

Established in 1972, Perspectives in Religious Studies (PRSt) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed journal produced for the National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion, and it welcomes contributions for a special issue (early winter 2023) on “Baptists and the Literary Imagination,” guest edited by Elizabeth H. Flowers (Baylor University) and Darren J. N. Middleton (Texas Christian University)

International Review of Literary Studies JUNE 2021 ISSUE

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
International Review of Literary Studies- IRLS
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Call for Papers

International Review of Literary Studies-IRLS Vol. 3, Issue 2

LAST DATE: 15 MAY 2021

ISSN: Online (2709-7021), Print (2709-7013)

International Review of Literary Studies (IRLS) is an International peer-review journal of literary studies that publishes original research articles, review papers, and book reviews, and cutting-edge research informed by Literary and Cultural Theory. Acceptable themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area for #NEPCA2021

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 1, 2021

CFP: Politics, Civic Life, and Pop Culture Area for #NEPCA2021

  • 2021 Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) Conference

  • Virtual

  • Thursday, October 21-Saturday, October 23, 2021

  • Proposal due: August 1, 2021

Papers for the Politics, Civic Life and Culture area of NEPCA explore the role of political actors, institutions, ideology, rhetoric, and satire in popular culture. Topics and themes may be drawn from all policy domains – both foreign and domestic. Recent conferences featured panels on:

9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES “DAYS OF JUSTINIAN I", Skopje, 12-14 November, 2021, Keynote Speaker: John Haldon, Special thematic strand: Ideology

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
Institute of National History - Skopje
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 15, 2021

9th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES “DAYS OF JUSTINIAN I", Skopje, 12-14 November, 2021

Special Thematic Strand for 2021: Ideology

Keynote speaker: Professor JOHN HALDON

Organized by the Institute of National History, Skopje, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje and University of Bologna, in partnership with Faculty of Theology "St. Clement of Ohrid", Skopje and AHRM, with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture

 

International Conference on Myths, Archetypes and Symbols: “Models and Alternatives”

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 10, 2021

Humankind has always sought to explain its origins and the mysteries of life to map personal and collective boundaries, and to secure its sense of identity through the power of everyday events and occurrences. Exemplary accounts of imaginary happenings and supernatural creatures from a time beyond history and memory explain the genesis of the universe, the making of a living thing, the formation of an attitude or the inception of an institution. The essence of these traditional narratives reflects a certain system of values and code of self-conduct of a group of individuals bound together by social and cultural ties, and the cardinal virtues and vices of human nature captured in a conventional configuration.

International Conference on Poetry Studies: “Poetry Between Creation and Interpretation“

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.

International Conference "Mirror, Mirror: Perceptions, Deceptions, and Reflections in Time"

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 25, 2021

Since ancient times, mirrors have been viewed as place where the dual worlds of soul and self merge. In ancient Mexico, polished obsidian mirrors were viewed as magical portals through which sorcerers traveled to reach the world of the gods. The fictitious mirror of 18th-century author, Oliver Goldsmith, revealed the inner workings of the mind rather than the surface.  In the 21st century, our reflections may obscure rather than uncover the truths we once searched for.  Through technology, we can recreate ourselves and the world around us. We see our altered, perfected reflections in our photos, on our web cams, and in advertising. Images may come to show not necessarily our realities, but visions of the world that we prefer.

International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:57pm
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Multiple environmental crises are increasingly inescapable at both transnational and local levels and the role of the humanities in addition to technology and politics is more and more recognized as central for exploring and finding solutions. Representations of nature’s agency have become central to many studies conducted in literature, culture studies, philosophy, history, sociology or political science. This conference aims to explore the relationship between the physical environment and text in its broader meaning as well as analyse the social concerns raised by environmental crises.

Conference panels will be related, but not limited, to:

Special Issue (2022): The Work of Haruki Murakami

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Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:56pm
In Statu Nascendi: Journal of Political Philosophy and International Relations
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Call for Papers

Special Issue: The Work of Haruki Murakami (2022)

 

CFP: Submissions for JITP Special Issue -Surveillance in Education

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:56pm
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue
Surveillance in Education

Issue Editors:
sava saheli singh (University of Ottawa)
Chris Gilliard (Shorenstein Center, Harvard Kennedy School)

Editorial Assistant:
Chanta Palmer (Lehman College, CUNY)

 Call for submissions URL: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/

Decolonizing Travel(ing) Theory: Explorations in the ‘Indian’ Analytic Traditions

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:56pm
National Institute of Technology Silchar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 18, 2021

Traveling, both as a concept and performativity, has yielded a diverse range of criticalliteratures that probe into the epistemological, ethical and aesthetic dimensions oftravel and mobility. However, much of the critical theories on travel (and, of late,nomadology) draw on the Western canon, while there appears to be a dearth ofproportionate research on and/or documentation of the indigenous analyticalframeworks that engage with travel(ing) theory.

Never Move Alone: Roger Corman and the Collective

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Midwestern Modern Language Association 2021 Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 15, 2021

 

Never Move Alone: Roger Corman and The Collective  

 

 

 

Individual paper proposals sought for a Roger-Corman-focused panel that considers the roles cooperation and collaboration play in low-budget independent filmmaking. Potential topics: New World Pictures, acting teams, rock bands in Corman movies, Corman and unions. Submit abstract by May 15, 2021, to Stephen B. Armstrong at armstrong@dixie.edu. 

 

Special Issue: Indigenous Young Adult Novels

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Studies in the Novel
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 1, 2021

Studies in the Novel seeks submissions for a special issue on “Indigenous Young Adult Novels,” guest-edited by Christopher Pexa (University of Minnesota), Angela Calcaterra (University of North Texas), and Eric Gary Anderson (George Mason University), to be published summer 2022.

 

What is the Role of Literature Now?

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Literature [a new periodical by mdpi] Special Issue
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 30, 2021
  • LITERATURE
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  • AN OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL 
  • literature@mdpi.com
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  • SPECIAL ISSUE of LITERATURE
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  • What is the Role of Literature Now?
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  • Guest Editor:
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  • Prof. Jerome Bump
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • bump@utexas.edu
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Classrooms, Libraries, and the Academy at #NEPCA21

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 31, 2021

Greetings all,

I just wanted to share this CFP for the Northeast Popular Culture Association's 2021 Fall Virtual Conference.  There are lots of different areas that might be relevant to folks on this list (https://nepca.blog/conference/conference-areas/) but in particular, I wanted to highlight the Classrooms, Libraries, and the Academy area to which I am co-chair.  
This section focuses on 

Literary Geographies: Space, Place, and Environments

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Conference on Christianity & Literature, April 7-9, 2022 (Biola University, La Mirada, CA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 15, 2021

Literary Geographies: Space, Place, and Environments

Biola University

La Mirada, CA

April 7–9, 2022

 

“All theology is rooted in geography.”

—Eugene H. Peterson, Under the Unpredictable Plant: an Exploration in Vocational Holiness

 

Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy (MMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 6:55pm
Matthew Horton / University of North Georgia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 31, 2021

CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel

MMLA 2021, November 4-7, Milwaukee, WI
Abstract Deadline: May 31, 2021

General Conference Topic: “Cultures of Collectivity”

The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme “Cultures of Collectivity” for the 2021 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here: 

https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/

"The Legacy of Toni Morrison" African American literature at SCMLA Conference, Oct 7-9, 2021 (Houston, Texas)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 2:10pm
South Central Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 10, 2021

In addition to the overall conference theme of “Politics of Protest,” the SCMLA African American Literature Regular Session encourages students, researchers, and scholars to submit presentations that explore the Legacy of Toni Morrison. As the author of eleven novels, five children's books, two plays, and nine non-fiction texts, Morrison stands tall as one of the most well-known, well-read, and often-taught authors of the twentieth (and 21st) century.

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