Faculty of Foreign Languages is pleased to announce that its 13th International Conference on Language and Literary Studies will be held on 24 and 25 May 2024. The topic for this edition of our annual conference is

LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND DIALOGUE

The relation between ethics and literature became a topic of intense academic debate at the end of the twentieth century—at a time, that is, when that relation was no longer self-evident after the challenges of postcolonial, feminist, and deconstructive critique. Humanist proponents of literature’s role as an empathy engine (Nussbaum, Rorty) entered into conversation with theorists who took inspiration from the work of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas to valorize literature as a site of singular otherness—as an occasion of ethical encounter rather than moral instruction (Attridge, Eaglestone, Miller).

Call for Nominations:

2024 SSAG Award for Best Scholarly Monograph on the American Gothic

The recently-launched Society for the Study of the American Gothic (SSAG) invites nominations for its inaugural Award for Best Scholarly Monograph. This award is open to all scholarly monographs published in the past two years that focus on some aspect of the American Gothic. The winner of the award will be announced at the Society for the Study of the American Gothic business meeting, at the American Literature Association conference in May 2024 (exact date TBA).

This panel invites researchers to consider how African American writers deploy humor within what critics have termed the “post-soul,” “post-Black,” “Black post-Blackness,” and “New Black Aesthetic” movements. Derek C. Maus, in Post-Soul Satire (2014), notes that the propensity for Black satirists to turn their critiques inward at the Black community rather than outwardly toward white institutions marks a key shift from ‘soul’ to ‘post-soul’ aesthetics.

Every community craves a sense of identity in this world, and continuity with the cultural past. This is more so with the communities whose language, literature and culture are on the verge of extinction on account of multiple factors. Literature and culture can offer indigenous communities a sense of belonging and promote social cohesion, respect for diversity, human creativity as well as help people connect with each other. Hence, the call to preserve endangered folk cultural heritage of communities such as the Jetor, an indigenous nomadic community of Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram settled on the edges of Kangsabati and Subarnarekha. UNESCO has declared 2022-2032 as the decade of indigenous languages.

Call for Papers/Presentations: Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU)

Theme: Speculative Fiction and Society

Violent Femmes: The Ongoing Popular Relevance

of Psycho-Biddies and Hagsploitation Heroines

Dusty Perez

Jessica McKee

Taylor Joy Mitchell

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstract due date: December 11, 2023 via email (dalconsilience@gmail.com); Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Every year, Dalhousie’s Graduate History Society hosts a conference to foster critical thinking and meaningful discussion on the discipline. This year’s theme of consilience hopes to spark discussion on the importance of interdisciplinary research. The importance of consilience is fostering a dialogue between disciplines that traditionally have little interaction.

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Semiotics of Animation. From TraditionalForms to Contemporary Innovations
Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 10:1 (2024)
GUEST EDITORS: Maria Ilia Katsaridou & Loukia Kostopoulou
The study of animation as a semiotic system has gained significant scholarly attention
in recent years. From traditional hand-drawn animation to contemporary computergenerated
imagery (CGI) and experimental forms, animation has become a dynamic
field that offers valuable insights into how meaning is constructed and communicated.
Animation as a medium of communication relies on the manipulation of movement

Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents

AI and the Labor(s) of Writing

Friday, December 8, 2023, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom

 Register here

https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rlY0Iq8HS_S_eSJxupaJrQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email

Fantastical Constellations After Magical Realism research group (formerly known as Post-Magical Realist Worlds research group) of the Canadian Comparative Literature Association (CCLA) invites submissions to our session in the coming CCLA 2024 conference at the Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The editors of this important volume are putting together a collection of essays on Dark (2017-2020) for publication which is currently entitled Dark Reflections. Created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese, Netflix's groundbreaking German original series, Dark, premiered in 2017, and spanned three thought-provoking seasons. Set in the small town of Winden, the series revolves around the mysterious disappearance of a child and the subsequent unraveling of family secrets spanning several generations. As the story unfolds, intricate time loops and paradoxes emerge, propelling the characters into a tangled web of interconnected destinies.

The College of Arts and Humanities at Bethune-Cookman University welcomes proposals for the annual Zora Neale Hurston Conference to be held virtually on February 15-16, 2024. Hip Hop Hurston recognizes the 50th anniversary of Hip-Hop as well as Hurston’s celebration of African American vernacular and culture as a precursor to this movement.

You are invited to submit abstracts for individual or panel presentations on Hip-Hop, Zora Neale Hurston, or any of her multidisciplinary interests. Presentations can be scholarly, pedagogical, and/or creative and should not exceed 15 minutes. We are also interested in student panels.

What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

International Conference in Toulouse (France) - December 6-7, 2024

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.