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DEADLINE EXTENDED: September 30, 2024
How the World Turns: Scientific Revolutions and Colonization
We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024!
The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.
Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"
Dates: March 14-16, 2025
Location: Arizona State University
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024
David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on world literature and has been widely expanded upon by scholars. Building on this foundation, Tong King Lee (2024) proposes that in today’s globalized context, circulating literature necessitates not only a mode of reading but also a mode of doing. In this view, a literary work becomes a Barthian Text—an interconnected network of “texts” that manifest in various forms (multilingual, multimodal, or multimedial), shaped by users rather than just readers.
CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies
American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject.
Among other things, authors might:
African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 43) with a focus on “Afrifuturism” and hereby calls for well-researched articles for the volume. One of the more recent genres in African literature is Afrifuturism. It is a relatively new concept introduced by the Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy novelist, Nnedi Okorafor. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the thematic engagement of writers in this field of writing.
Writing has always been one step in the future. From emojis to slang to song, writing has momentum, and it is up to us - as artists, researchers and educators - to find ways of moving with it. In the light of emerging concerns about technology’s cultural impact, and the changing relevance of traditional writing techniques, how might our practices and pedagogies adapt to this shifting interdisciplinarity? What might this look like in contexts where writing exists alongside other forms of artistic communication, such as classrooms, institutions and interdisciplinary practices? How do preexisting notions of art and writing change as technologies and platforms demand new forms of engagement?
We are pleased to announce that the Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) will take place on Saturday May 3rd, 2025.
Alison McQueen (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address.
We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words on any topic or geographic area so long as it substantively engages with the timeframe. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and they must not yet have a PhD.
Submission deadline: January 10th, 2025 at midnight PST. Accepted speakers will be notified in February 2025.
Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal Janki Devi Memorial College
University of Delhi
eISSN 2583 - 4762
Call For Papers
Issue V: Disability Studies
Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762.
War is hell but can also be funny, whether as a safety valve from pressure or catharsis after tragedy, as subversion, as efforts to build and maintain morale, or as exercises in nostalgia. Cinema early discovered the comedy inherent to conflict including the immensely successful 1920 film Alf’s Button, made just after and set during the First World War and notable as being popular despite (or because of) making comedy about the recent war. Comedy about war has since proliferated and writing and themes continue to respond to and adapt themselves to changing global and political circumstances including comedy responding to the Global War on Terror.
Here come the clowns: critical essays on the circus of popular culture
CFP 35th LSU Mardi Gras Conference - Spectral Landscapes: Hauntology in Place and Space
Lousiana State University | February 26-28, 2025 | Hybrid Format
It was haunted; but real hauntings have nothing to do with ghosts finally; they have to do with the menace of memory.—Anne Rice
The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.—Nikola Tesla
AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium
Date and Location: April 16-18, 2025 at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois
Abstracts: 150 word abstracts are due November 1, 2024. Send to Dr. Katherine Ellison at keellis@ilstu.edu
The Mystery & Detective Fiction Area of the Popular Culture Association invites proposals for the 2025 annual conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 16-19, 2025.
We seek proposals from researchers, academics, graduate students, and independent scholars for scholarly discussions on all aspects and periods of mystery and detective fiction. Interdisciplinary approaches are strongly encouraged, including cultural studies, visual arts, media studies, audience reception and fan studies.
Call for Papers
Special Topic: Happiness and Popular Culture
National Conference
of the Popular Culture Association (PCA)
New Orleans
April 16-19, 2025
Title: "Future Memory: Intersections of Memory, Technology, and Narrative in Literature and Film"
This seminar explores the concept of "future memory" across literature and film. We will examine the impact of memory, trauma, and technology on human cognition. We will analyze texts that challenge traditional notions of temporality and consciousness. We will question how memories shape identity, and how technological advancements might alter our understanding of lived experience.
In an ideal situation, learning leads to knowledge and knowledge raises awareness. Set within the context of the past, this simple statement leads us to consider a range of different questions. How did medieval and early modern people learn and what did they learn? How did they teach and what did they teach? Who was taught and who was not? Who decided what was to be taught? Such questions, among others, help us understand the process of how learning and knowledge was acquired in the premodern world. But it also helps us better appreciate what we know about the premodern world and what people were trying to achieve when they set out to gain knowledge about their world and the society they lived in.
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference 2025
Philadelphia, PA
6-9 March 2025
Description:
This panel will consider Black diasporic literary and/or legal texts in relation to the interdisciplinary field of ‘Law and Literature.’ An emphasis will be placed on the relations and intersections of race, class, and gender, and the historical experience of capitalist modernity, as well as materialist approaches employing ‘world-literary’ perspectives.
Abstract:
Introduction and Scope:
The Mississippi River, often regarded as America’s central artery, has been instrumental in shaping the nation’s geography, culture, and history. This edited volume, The Mississippi: Soundings on America’s Arterial River, aims to explore the river’s vast influence, tracing its course from the headwaters at Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its expansive delta at the Gulf of Mexico.
Call for Papers
Medievalisms Area
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
UNIVERSITY OF ZULULAND
2nd International Interdisciplinary Conference
Theme: Language, disciplinarity and knowledge production in Africa
Hosted by the Department of English, UNIZULU
From election campaigns to marches for equal rights in a patriarchal society, the digital landscape in South Asia has commanded a space which was not easily possible before the digital revolution. In the same breadth, fake news and propaganda narrative has also marred noble causes which hinders this evolutionary social mobility enabled by the digital media. In this scenario, the digital space becomes a double-edged sword where the dominant narrative can be deemed as the ‘truth’. Weaving through the complexity created by opposing narratives, this panel would involve discussions about the medium and culture of the digital world as well to further contextualize echo chambers and shadow bans, which act as filters of information.
Conference Dates: 29 May - 01 June 2025
The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting two panels at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 21-24, 2025; Boston, MA). The first panel will focus on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels.
Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2024.
The Fifteenth Biennial
HOLOCAUST STUDIES CONFERENCE
At Middle Tennessee State University
March 6-7, 2025
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Keynote Speaker: Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
See ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) listing for submission portal: https://www.acla.org/giving-literature-criticism-politics
Paper proposals cannot be accepted via email.
ACLA conference will take place May 29–June 1, 2025, via Zoom.
Special session hosted by the Society for Queer and Trans Meival Studies at the International Congress for Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI in May 2025 seeks submissions for the panel "Medieval Performances of Chastity and Gender."
Following the inaugural Henri Nouwen Lectureship, the Henri Nouwen Society, in partnership with the Oblate School of Theology, is pleased to announce an Academic Symposium dedicated to the life, work, and enduring influence of Henri Nouwen, a profound thinker and writer whose contributions to theology, spirituality, and pastoral care have inspired countless individuals and communities. This symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners to explore and critically engage with Nouwen’s rich body of work.
This session seeks to examine how Dostoevsky's portrayal of love and death reflects his broader philosophical concerns and how these themes interact within his narrative structures. Although this session primarily aims to explore the themes of love and death in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, papers on other Russian authors will also be considered.
The journal Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research announces a call for papers for the special issue "Sex Work From Feminist and Queer Perspectives". Issue editors are Barbora Doležalová (FSV UK), anna řičář libánská (FF UK) and Isotta Rossoni (Leiden University).