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Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/mythic-muse/
Mythic Muse: Writing Poetry with Mythology
An 8-week poetic inquiry course blending creative writing with research
When: 7 Wednesdays from January 15-March 5 (no class on Feb 19), 2025
19:00-21:00 (London Time)
Where: Online
Course Overview:
Conference Panel: Faulkner and Digital Yoknapatawpha
The Digital Yoknapatawpha project is organizing a panel for Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2025: “Faulkner’s Bodies”, July 20-24, 2025, Oxford, MS. We are seeking papers from anyone who has used Digital Yoknapatawpha (https://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/) for their research or in the classroom. The presentation format is open. In years past, presentations have featured:
For sign-up forms, consult: https://beyondtrauma.yolasite.com/
The Beyond Trauma Conference (June 9, 10, & 11, 2025; Nice, France) aims to gather an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to share their research (ethnographies, theories, and clinical practice) on post-traumatic states from resistance and resilience to retribution and growth. More specifically, we propose to focus less on trauma and PTSD and more on modes of healing that so often involve the arts for trauma survivors.
Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”
A special issue of Humanities.
Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.
Conference online: 23-24 January 2025
CFP:
Conference: 23-24 January 2025 (online)
ABOUT CONFERENCE:
Call for Papers for WLA’s guaranteed panel at the 2025 American Literature Association Meeting (Boston, May 21-24) This year’s general call seeks proposals related to any aspect of the study of Western literature, regardless of period. Papers on single texts or single authors are welcome, though comparative, transnational, and/or multiethnic approaches are especially encouraged. Graduate students are encouraged to apply. For consideration, please submit an abstract (250-400 words) to Travis Franks (travis.franks@usu.edu) by DECEMBER 31, 2024.
Call for Proposals: "TRANS∗Media”Harvard Graduate Music Forum 2025 ConferenceCambridge, MA | February 28–March 1, 2025
∗Deadline extended to January 5th, 2025 at 11:59PM!∗
This call has expired!
The Human Catalyst: Ecological Crises and Their Cinematic Echoes
The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).
The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
Sino Queer Translation:
Sexualities across Languages, Cultures, and Media
Edited by Hongwei Bao and Yahia Ma
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. John Carlos Rowe, the USC Associates’ Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English, American Studies and Ethnicity, and Comparative Literature, the University of Southern California
Dr. Lan Duong, Associate Professor of Cinema & Media Studies, the University of Southern California
Dr. Long Bui, Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California, Irvine
Dr. Pheng Cheah, Professor of Rhetoric, the University of California, Berkeley
From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.
Call for Papers: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy, and Gender
The Handbook of Body Horror
UPADTE
Dear Scholars, Educators, and Practitioners,
Due to numerous requests, we are pleased to extend the submission deadline for abstracts for the book Soft Skills Unscripted: Lessons from Literature and Films to 30 January 2025.
We kindly urge all contributors to carefully review the theme of the book and ensure that your abstract aligns with the subject. The anthology seeks to explore how literature and films provide valuable insights into soft skills development, bridging the gap between academic perspectives and practical applications.
We look forward to receiving your thoughtful and subject-relevant submissions. For more details
Warm regards,
Editorial Team
April 25-26, 2025
57th Comparative Literature Symposium Going Virtual
Call for Papers
The symposium is generously funded by the TTU College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Media & Communication, The Harris Institute, Departments of English, CMLL, and History
“50 Years after the Fall of Saigon: Colonialism, Interventionism, and Critical Refugee Studies”
Keynote Speakers:
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Long T. Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California at Irvine
Dr. Patricia Pelley, Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin
Special Guest Speaker
Ms. Callie Wright, Education Director, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host the 2023 symposium on “Pandemic, Environment, and Life Writing” on campus on April 21-22, 2023.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Jennifer Ho, Eaton Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Center for
Humanities & the Arts, University of Colorado at Boulder
Dr. Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of
California at Irvine
Dr. Muhsin al-Musawi, Professor of Classic and Modern Arabic Literature and of
Comparative and Cultural Studies, Columbia University
Dr. Aretha Phiri, Associate Professor of English, University of Rhodes, South Africa
The 2024 TTU Symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited”
The Comparative Literature Program at Texas Tech University will host its 2024 annual symposium on “Transnational American Studies Revisited” on April 12-13, 2024.
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Professor of English, and Director of American Studies Program, Stanford University, USA
Dr. Alfred Hornung, Professor and Chair of American Studies, Editor-in-chief of Journal Of Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
The recent development in Digital Humanities marks a transformative era in academia, where the humanities are increasingly integrating with digital technologies, computational methods, and AI, enhancing research, teaching, and creative outputs. This conference explores how DH sees such development and the evolving relationship between humanities and digital technologies. It focuses on topics that reshape humanities scholarship, from data analysis and pedagogy to creative production. This fosters interdisciplinary dialogues and examines innovations and implications in fields traditionally centered around humanistic inquiry.
This American Studies Association 2025 panel seeks papers that consider the role of children and childhood in histories of medicine. From experiments across medical, scientific, and social scientific disciplines to issues of consent and privacy to interventions that delimit trajectories of child development, histories of medicine have helped shape childhoods–its bounds, temporalities, and norms–and children have helped to shape medicine–its protocols, rationales, and knowledges.
WITCHES IN POPULAR CULTURE
For a volume that will be part of Lexington Books' series "Villains and Creatures" that will soon be under consideration by the publisher, we are looking for chapters (6,000 to 7,000 words long) on the representation of witches in popular media such as comics, TV series and videogames. We are particularly interested in the representation of witches in the OZ films and novels as well as in Marvel comics.
Please send 300 word abstracts to Dr. Antonio Sanna at isonisanna@hotmail.com by the 15th of January 2025. Chapters will be due quite later this year.
For any further question, please do not hesitate to contact me immediately.
In the very first year of the new millennium, the world witnessed the attacks on the World Trade Center, in New York City, on September 11. We all watched it numbly on television, as if it had been an action movie or an apocalyptic dystopia. This event has remained in the collective consciousness as the most tragic terrorist attack on American soil, with more than 3,000 deaths and a list of geopolitical consequences that have changed the world.
Call for Abstracts: Edited Volume on The Politics of the Soundtrack
Editors: K. J. Donnelly (University of Southampton, UK), Jady Jiang (Wenzhou University of Technology, China), and Ling Zhang (SUNY Purchase College, US)
Papers (20 minutes) and round-tables are invited for a 1-day conference on Friday 11 July 2025 at Wilton's Music Hall, London.
The conference aims to explore theatre in the 1920s across a spectrum of genres and locations. The focus is on theatre in a broad sense, encompassing a range of performance cultures and demonstrating some of the major ways in which theatre operated within the broader culture and society of the time.
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
The dramatic legacy of WWI
Different genres (e.g. melodramas, thrillers, comedies)
Individual plays
Variety
Avant garde theatre
Grand guignol
American imports
Pageants
Revue
Censorship
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Monarch of All I Survey:” Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies
International Conference
Date: Nov. 20-21, 2025
Venue: ENS de Lyon, France
Keynote speakers:
- Julia Kühn (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
- Nicholas Spengler (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
“I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the center all round to the sea,
Bradford Arts Centre*
Saturday 6 September 2025