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The Richard D Gooder Essay Prize
The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism which also publishes articles on cinema, the visual arts, and music. This prize, named in memory of Richard Gooder (1934-2017), one of the journal’s founding editors, is aimed at doctoral students.
The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research.
See full CFP at link for further details.
In recent decades, poetry performance has been one of the fastest growing arts practices internationally. Since movements such as Beat poetry, jazz poetry, and poetry slam have inspired performance scenes across the English-speaking world and beyond, innovative performance styles have emerged alongside new genres and styles of composition geared towards oral performance. The global reach of spoken word poetry has become highly noticeable in the arena of slam, evidenced by the diverse programmes of initiatives such as the 2005 ‘Poetry International World Slampionship’ in Rotterdam, the ‘Coupe du Monde de Poésie’ in France (since 2007), and the recently established ‘World Poetry Slam Organization’.
The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.
CLASS CON 2025 Call for Papers/Voices/Participation
March 14-15, 2025
Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library
Deadline to Submit December 1st, 2024
Ghosts: Hauntings, Folklore, History, Tourism, and Film
The University of Texas, Permian Basin | 5th Annual Halloween Conference 2024
The Department of History, Literature & Language at the University of Texas Permian Basin is pleased to announce its annual Halloween conference for 2024. This year’s theme, "Ghosts: Hauntings, Folklore, History, Literature, Tourism, and Culture," invites scholars, students, and professionals from all disciplines to explore the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of ghosts across various mediums and practices.
The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for our first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’ to be held at Reed Hall, the University of Exeter, 2-4 June 2025.
Confirmed speakers:
Call for Papers
Apocalypse, Dystopia and Disaster
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
WOMEN, GENDER AND FAMILIES OF COLOR -- CALL FOR PAPERSCare Work for Communities of Color in Higher Education: Reimagining Professional Pathways and Well- Being New and Old Challenges for Communities of Color in Higher Education
CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:
Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025
Keynote Speakers:
Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)
Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)
Organizers:
CSA 2024 Call for Papers (20%~40% of Papers will be recommended to SCIE or SCOPUS Journal)
The 16th KCIA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2024)
Pattaya, Thailand, Dec. 18 - 20, 2024
Springer-LNEE (indexed by SCOPUS and EI)
http://csa-conference.org/2024
About the Conference
56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.
Primary Area / Secondary Area
Cultural Studies and Media Studies / Interdisciplinary Humanities
Chair(s)
Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University)
Kara McCabe (Tufts University)
Expanding on the NeMLA’s theme of (R)evolution, this panel seeks proposals that examine the role that women of color authors and artists have played (throughout the centuries) in helping to change and revolutionize literature by and about, literary representations of, and literary studies focused on women of color in the United States. It seeks work that examines how women of color have addressed and used their intersectional identities to change the American literary landscape, challenge the American literary canon, and changed how they and their communities have been viewed in the United States. Proposals can also include how women of color have challenged issues within their own communities and used a multiethnic approach to help literature and liter
NB: deadline extended to 10/15!
For Adrienne Rich, those who watch “will never act,” yet therein lies the enactive potential of poetry, which “appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in [this] prevailing mode” of “managed spectacles and passive spectators.” As Sean Bonney insists, “The deep truth is imageless. When you know that, you know there’s everything to play for.” And “everything”? It is, per Diane di Prima, that for and after which we must ask: “you can have what you ask for, ask for / everything." To tap Bonney once more, “All else” — indeed, anything short of everything! — “is madness and suffering at the hands of the pigs."
STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).
The following categories are welcome:
Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)
Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”
https://vernonpress.com/proposal/332/ef93e9a3eab3e230c347e9e0ed30d51b
Please consider submitting a proposal for our third edition of “American Afterlives” @ the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, February 17-18, 2025 (virtual) and February 20-22, 2025 (in person).
The LCLC seeks submissions for “American Afterlives,” a dedicated panel stream that crosses the pre-1900/post-1900 divide. Presentations will focus on ways of rethinking the chronologies by which we structure stories and studies about American literature and culture. Previous panels and papers have considered aesthetic experiments and traditions, remediations of early American texts, speculative and historical fiction, cultural histories of technology, and more.
Panel sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Caucus, NeMLA
March 6-9, 2025
How should we understand the relationship between land and trauma? In what senses can we think of a landscape as traumatic or traumatized? There are the traumas that may happen upon a landscape through the dispossession of peoples from a piece of land or through war and destruction. There is the direct harm done to a landscape that might not even have human occupants on it through the effects of pollution or clearcutting. And there are the transformations that landscapes go through when storms, wildfires, and floods happen upon them. Are these also types of trauma? How shall we distinguish between different kinds of events? How shall we identify the traumatized parties? Can a landscape itself be traumatized or only its inhabitants?
Multilingual poets write at the intersection of language, identity, and cross-cultural communication. Not only does the work of multilingual poets naturally create a space for innovation, but it also often serves as a broader commentary on the interplay between language and power. Every multilingual poet combines, leverages, or silences pieces of their complex identities, negotiating deeply personal nuances as well as socially constructed codes. Multilingual poets may choose to employ self-translation or multiple languages within a single poem, they may write separate works in different languages, or they may confine their work to a single language.
Focusing on the intersection of theory and practice, this panel calls for contemporary discussions of “theory in the flesh,” i.e., theory considering the material conditions of existence. While the panel is particularly interested in women of color writing, other engagements with the place of material reality in academia will be considered.
Our dependence on the past’s valuation of its own cultural products has become increasingly obvious in our ongoing interests in reshaping the canon and in decentering our humanities’ disciplines. Certainly, the availability of digitized primary-source materials increases the range in newly available, even newly discovered texts. However, our reliance on the digitized brings with it an obvious quandary as it can narrow the scope and constrain investigation of other exciting sources crucial to our scholarship but not deemed worthy of archiving. They might be fragile, incomplete, or ill-preserved; they might be undocumented and uncatalogued.
Against the backdrop of a 21st-century addicted to ‘origins’ and ‘ends,’ this ACLA seminar uses the work of Gillian Rose (1947-1995) to explore the possibilities of the ‘broken middle’. Contemporary politics and literature too often eschew the middle in favour of posited utopias: perceiving in the crisis of the present an imminent transcendence towards redemption (the nation-state made great again) or catastrophe (climate apocalypse); attempting to circumvent social institutions and the media in favour of direct relationships with the other; believing fervently in materiality, affect or corporeality ‘beyond’ the mediation of language (even as its residue).
Conference dates: March 6-9, 2025
Conference location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvia (IN PERSON ONLY)
Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED)
Submit through: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21014
Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
Conference dates: March 6-9, 2025
Conference location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IN PERSON ONLY!)
Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED)
Submit through: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21015
Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) @ noahrgallego@gmail.com
We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close reading is perhaps the most widely known and most accepted one in literary studies (cf. I.A. Richards and William Empson). Other approaches to texts include ‘paranoid’ and ‘reparative reading’ (Sedgwick 1997), ‘distant reading’ (Moretti 2000), ‘wide reading’ (Hallet 2010), and ‘surface reading’ (Best and Marcus 2009), to name just a few. More recent research has examined intermedial reading practices (Rippl 2015), the reading of affects (Brinkema 2014), and non/institutional readers (Emre 2017).
“Rooted as it is by feminism, cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term,” Mindy Seu frames her archival project Cyberfeminism Index. Though it traces the same exclusions and western biases of feminist history, she writes, the Web 1.0 term “cyberfeminism” also provides a quick shorthand for the much broader expanse of art, activism, community, and scholarship of its many branches, including “Cyberfeminism 2.0, black cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, post-cyber feminism, glitch feminism, Afrofuturism, and hackfeministas, transhackfeminism, 넷페미 (netfemi), 女权之声 (feminist voices), among others" (https://cyberfeminismindex.com/about).
Call for Papers for an Edited Book
Virtual Reality Literature
Ratul Nandi and Anik Sarkar
Northeast Modern Language Association
March 6-9, 2025
Philadelphia, PA
Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism
Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world.
“In olden days a glimpse of stocking / Was looked on as something shocking. / Now, heaven knows, Anything goes.” This epigraph begins Chris Jenks’ 2003 work Transgression, exemplifying the sense in which acts of transgression can have real, tangible, palpable effects on society. Jenks defines “transgression” as violating, infringing upon, or going beyond the limits set by a boundary or convention (2). Transgressive fiction, then, is the genre of literature that depicts various acts of boundary-crossing in order to analyze and criticize them for the purpose of reflecting upon the ideological constructions that its characters react against or wholly reject.