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The Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale (2017-2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Northumbria University at Newcastle Upon Tyne / UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 6, 2024

The Hulu adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has enjoyed unprecedented academic and popular international success, with the first season winning eight out of thirteen Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Elizabeth Moss. Therefore, there will be a variety of papers presented, from the fields of literature, language, film studies, and fashion, by postgraduate students and academics at various stages in their career. The Symposium is supported by research funding by Northumbria University and represents two research groups, ‘Gendered Subjects’ and ‘Modern and Contemporary Writings’. It is also endorsed by The Margaret Atwood Society.

 

AGEING, PROGRESS, and DECLINE in the Victorian Period

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
James Aaron Green / DACH Victorianists
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

6 December 2024, Online

 

Keynote Speaker: Jacob Jewusiak (Newcastle University, UK)

 

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions

One-Day Online Workshop of the Historical Fictions Research Network

30 November 2024 (online in Zoom) ca 8 am to 5 pm (GMT)

15 min talks

The Historical Fictions Research Network, an interdisciplinary and international network of scholars examining historical fictions, i.e. narratives of the past in a variety of popular media, is happy to organise its second one-day workshop on the topic of “Pleasure and / in Historical Fictions”.

 

Edited Volume on Periodization

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:51am
Lee Bebout
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Edited Volume on Periodization

Periodization, the act of chunking up time to make units of study, is a fraught practice undertaken by scholars, educators, media professionals, and everyday people. Although largely arbitrary, the ending and beginning dates of a period do much to influence how people outside of the historical profession think about topics such as progression, regression, and the present’s current location in a larger human narrative.

Medievalism and Game Studies Panel @ Kzoo 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:50am
Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies/Critical Game Studies Initiative - UNC Chapel Hill
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Looking for scholars in game studies and or medievalisms to submit papers to our panel at the 60th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, May 8 - May 11, 2025. See CfP below. Submissions can be made at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=5919

 

Rædy Player One: Participation, Subjectivity, and the First-Person in Medievalist Games

 

Organizer: Antonia DiNardo

 

Delivery Mode: In-Person

 

Principal Sponsoring Organization: Program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS), Univ. of North Carolina–Chapel Hill

 

“Of Paradise Terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:49am
International Lawrence Durrell Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 5, 2024

 “Of paradise terrestre”: Secular and Spiritual Modernisms

 

Session sponsored by the International Lawrence Durrell Society

 

Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture after 1900

 

 

The International Lawrence Durrell Society requests proposals for 20-minute presentations on the relationship of the profane and the holy in the modernist era.

 

Potential topics include:

 

Call for Chapters: Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:49am
Margie Judd/University of Nevada, Reno
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 1, 2024

Frontier Mythology and Poverty, 1885 to 1923: Reading the Dark Side of the Progressive Era explores the complex relationship between the rise of frontier mythology and the acceptance of social inequality in America. This interdisciplinary collection under considertion by Vernon Press explores how western mythology, spread through popular media, may have eclipsed late 19th-century movements for equity, such as the Knights of Labor's efforts to promote racial and gender equality, alongside workers' rights.

Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:36am
Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 15, 2024

Call for Papers – Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025
Doha, State of Qatar
7-8 February, 2025
 
The 3rd international conference on Medical and Health Humanities: Global Perspectives 2025 in Doha, Qatar on February 7-8, 2025 invites abstracts for oral presentations and posters on the topics of: narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, arts therapies and arts-in-health, healthcare communication, the history of medicine and other humanistic initiatives in health and medicine.
 

Celtic Flaneur: The Humanities in Irish Street Life (NeMLA 2025)

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
New England Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024

Presentations are invited on any subject concerning the intersection of Irish culture and the humanities, provided its source is located outdoors and it functions as a free, democratic, inclusive space. Possible topics include the Irish busker tradition, street art, outdoor sculptures, walking tours, parks and greenspaces, cemeteries, memorials – even the recent Dublin-New York Portal. 

10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Autonomous), Narendrapur

10th Inter-University Students’ and Researchers’ Conference 2024

November 1920, 2024

Off the Stage: Performance Practices in Postcolonial India

Writing Gender Violence: Ethics, Challenges, Possibilities

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:34am
Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Panel for the 2025 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) annual meeting (online, May 29 - June 1, 2025).

Organizers: Ragini Chakraborty (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) and Sofía Forchieri (Radboud University)

Deadline for proposing a paper: October 14, 2024

To propose a paper, please visit the ACLA website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting (the portal for submitting an abstract will open on September 13)

Women's & Gender Studies Fall Colloquium

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:33am
Texas Tech University Women's & Gender Studies Program
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

Texas Tech University’s 2024 Women’s & Gender Studies Fall Colloquium, to be held in person in Lubbock, Texas, on October 17, invites research proposals for individual papers or panels on topics relevant to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies in contemporary society.  

The colloquium is interdisciplinary. Perspectives from anthropology, art, business, communication, education, economics, film, history, journalism, languages, law, linguistics, literature, medicine, music, philosophy, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and other humanities and social science disciplines are welcome. 

CfP: Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research - Issue 2025/1

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:33am
Finnish Society of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research

 ISSN: 2342-2009

Issue 2025/1

Fafnir – Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal published online twice a year. Fafnir is a completely open-access, non-profit publication of the Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research (FINFAR). Fafnir publishes various texts ranging from peer-reviewed research articles to short overviews and book reviews in the field of science fiction and fantasy research.

Al-Kīmiyā - Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation (FdLT) Call for Papers for Issue Number 26

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:32am
Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Call for Papers for Issue Number 26

 

The issue 26 of Al-Kīmiyā, the Journal of the Faculty of Languages and Translation of Saint Joseph University of Beirut will receive, under the sign of diversity, articles covering various fields of research in translation and in language. Proposals can deal with issues that currently concern research in translation studies and language sciences. The choice of themes is left to researchers who will thus reflect in their articles the diversity of approaches and perspectives paving the way to dismantle the barriers among the disciplines.

Submission Guidelines

Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature

updated: 
Saturday, September 7, 2024 - 3:30am
Ben P. Robertson / Troy University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

Submissions are invited for a scholarly conference on domestic cats in literature to be hosted online 13-15 March 2025 by the Troy University Department of English.  

Papers may address any aspect of the subject, including—but not limited to—the following:

[POSTPONED] Osmosis 2024: Sustainability and the 5Ps for a Comprehensive Future

updated: 
Friday, September 6, 2024 - 11:32am
Department of English, School of Liberal Arts and Social Science, East Delta University, Chattogram 4209, Bangladesh
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 30, 2024

Due to some unavoidable circumstances, Osmosis 2024 is hereby postponed. Further updates will be published duly.

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS


Osmosis 2024: Sustainability and the 5Ps for a Comprehensive Future

Call for Papers for NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction

updated: 
Friday, September 6, 2024 - 10:48am
NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 1, 2025

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is accepting submissions. Founded in 1967 at Brown University, Novel is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the best new criticism and theory in novel studies. After several decades under the editorship of Nancy Armstrong, Kevin McLaughlin took over as the chief editor in Summer 2023. Novel holds to these general principles:

Georgia Philological Association CFP

updated: 
Thursday, September 5, 2024 - 12:14pm
Georgia Philological Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The GPA is accepting submissions for a special edition of The Journal of the Georgia Philological Association on the 19th century.  Papers focused on literature, language, composition, history, philosophy, translation, the general humanities, interdisciplinary studies, and pedagogy as they relate to the 19th century will be considered.

 

Please send submissions to Nate Gilbert, Editor-in-Chief, at jgpasubmissions@gmail.com by December 31, 2024.

 

Please visit our website for information on submitting to the journal: https://www.mga.edu/arts-letters/english/gpa/index.php

Archival Discoveries and Scholarly Bibliographies

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - 6:36pm
*Resources for American Literary Study* (Penn State UP)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Resources for American Literary Study, a peer-reviewed journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship published by Penn State UP, invites submissions for upcoming volumes. Covering all periods of American literature, Resources for American Literary Study welcomes both traditional and digital humanities approaches to archival discovery. The journal also publishes scholarly bibliographies and other bibliographical overviews. Typical contributions include newly discovered letters and documents, checklists of primary and/or secondary writings about American authors, and biographical and compositional studies drawn from archival materials.

Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation

updated: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2024 - 1:35am
Journal of Postcolonial Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Journal of Postcolonial Writing

Special Issue on

Decolonial Hope: Planetary Sustainability, Solidarity, and Transformation

 

Link to the CFP on the journal's website: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/decolonial-hope-planet...

 

Special Issue Editor(s)

Goutam Karmakar, Durban University of Technology, South Africa

Anthologising Irish Writing from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

updated: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - 6:10am
Review of Irish Studies in Europe (RISE)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

'[...] the seas of literature are distraught with storms and currents, and full of the wrecks of Irish anthologies’. W. B. Yeats A Book of Irish Verse (1895)

Everyday Reading of Literature (EROL)

updated: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2024 - 6:09am
PoKUS / Remembering Literature in Everyday Life
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

The most common activity pertaining to literature—being read by real people in everyday settings—has been the least researched when considering its sheer volume, spread and diversity of practices. As an opportunity to make up for that lack of academic research, our symposium is inviting submissions for presentations dealing with any aspect of reading literature performed by or involving specific readers in their everyday environments. 

The 12th International Conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)

updated: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024 - 12:32pm
Department of Modern Languages and Business Communication of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (ASE)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 10, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 12th International Conference Synergies in Communication (SiC 2024)

                                            31 October- 1 November 2024

(hybrid format)

 

 

Investigating Textual, Sonic, and Cinematic Atmospheres/Moods/Tones

updated: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024 - 12:31pm
NeMLA -- Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Panel on Affective Tonalities and Aesthetic Moods

In academia, what has come to be called “the affective turn” of the 1990s—surfacing in the wake of a “performative turn” that arguably originated in the 1940s and 1950s— was first used in the works of feminist scholars such as Patricia Clough and Lauren Berlant. Indeed, the affective turn has sparked generative debates, consonances, dissonances, and intense exchanges of views on a broad range of issues such as (post)critique, (non)intentionality, rational actor theory, and agency across disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.

Decoding Lynching: Reading of African American and Dalit Literature

updated: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024 - 2:12am
African American and Dalit Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Decoding Lynching: Reading of African American and Dalit Literature

Note: Brill has shown interest in the concept of this project and will publish it in one of their series provided the contributions are positively assessed during the peer review process.

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