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The Richard D Gooder Essay Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:23am
Cambridge Quarterly (Journal)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

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.

Call for Chapters - Qualitative Research and Justice Education

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:23am
Co-Edited Volume
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

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. 

Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:23am
Advances in Poetry Performance Research
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 20, 2024

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’.

American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:22am
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

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 III: A Conference on Class and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:22am
Ray Browne Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

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, Literature, Tourism, and Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 10:22am
Dr. Jennifer Paxton / University of Texas - Permian Basin
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 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.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 6:46am
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

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

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

 

WOMEN, GENDER AND FAMILIES OF COLOR -- CALL FOR PAPERS Care Work for Communities of Color in Higher Education: Reimagining Professional Pathways and Well- Being

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 6:46am
Penn State: The Pennsylvania State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 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

ONE MONTH TO DEADLINE - Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy: Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 6:45am
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

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-The 16th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications

updated: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024 - 2:41am
KCIA : Korea Computer Industry Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

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

 

[DEADLINE EXTENDED] This Magick Moment: Revolutionary Witchcraft and Cultural Change (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:35pm
NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 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)

Women of Color (R)evolutionizing American Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 5:42pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

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

That "Peculiar Lapse": Toward a Poetics of Uncommon Sense(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 5:30pm
NeMLA 2025: (R)Evolution | Philly | March 6-9
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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-22: The 22nd STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende – ‘Linguistics Conference for Ph.D. students’)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:45pm
STaPs-22
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

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.”

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:12pm
Vernon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

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

Extended Deadline - American Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:09pm
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 18, 2024

 

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.

*Deadline Extended* NeMLA Panel (March 6-9, 2025 in Philadelphia): Landscapes of Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 3:31pm
Joe Larios
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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?

**DEADLINE EXTENDED** Many Tongues, One Mouth – the Expansive Challenge Faced by Multilingual Poets @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 3:22pm
Rachel Martin (NeMLA Session)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

 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.

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* NeMLA 2025 Panel - “Theory in the Flesh”: The Function of Praxis in Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 1:35pm
Marina Malli, Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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.

 

Broadening Our Research Horizons: Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 12:32pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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.

Broken Middles [ACLA 2025, Virtual]

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:41am
George Mather, University of Oxford; Robert Lucas Scott, University of Cambridge
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

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).

NeMLA 2025 Session: “Time Warp” at 50! Critical Approaches to The Rocky Horror Picture Show

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:00am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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 

NeMLA 2025 Session: Horses at 50: Critical Approaches to the Works of Patti Smith

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:00am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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 

 

Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices - NeMLA: March 6-9, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10:08am
Malaika Sutter and Sofie Behluli
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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). 

Contemporary Cyberfeminisms - DEADLINE EXTENDED (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 9:53am
Northeast Modern Language Association / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“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).

The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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. 

 

‘A Rebel with a Cause’: The Real Subversive Potential of Transgressive Fiction

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:31am
Rebecca Warshofsky / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“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.

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