Saints English Graduate Conference 2025 at the University of St Andrews 

Theme: Obsession

Dates: 11th - 12th April, 2025
Location: St Andrews, Scotland (UK) 

‘Without obsession life is nothing’ — John Waters

Mentoring for Schlars of Color: A Roundtable Session at the 56th NeMLA Annual Convention

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

NEMLA 2025 theme is "(R)EVOLUTION”, submission deadline (UPDATED): October 15, 2024

The goal of this roundtable is to create a safe space for scholars of color to meet and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area of mentorship among scholars of color. This session is sponsored by the Diversity Caucus and welcomes proposals from scholars at any level of their career, from graduate students to senior scholars.

CLASS CON 2025 Call for Papers/Voices/Participation

March 14-15, 2025

Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library

Deadline to Submit December 1st, 2024

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:

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

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)

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."

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.

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?

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.

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 

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). 

Call for Papers for an Edited Book

Virtual Reality Literature

Ratul Nandi and Anik Sarkar

NeMLA meets next during the centennial of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the sesquicentennial of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina’s initial serialization. Central to both storylines is their eponymous characters’ differing relationships to suicide. From a less literary perspective, the moment comes relatively quick on the heels of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on June 24, 2022, undermining reproductive rights by undermining substantive due process rights generally, and so also euthanasic rights. The convergence is an auspicious occasion to explore women’s historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives on suicide.

All disciplines, methods, and perspectives welcome.