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Poetry and Place: From Black Mountain College, Out

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:31pm
The Charles Olson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, July 19, 2024

The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, October 25th – 27th.

DEADLiNE APPROACHING Call for Papers MMLA 2024 conference Chicago Postcolonial Studies permanent section

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 2:04pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:

-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?

How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?

(CFP: PAMLA 2024) Animal Studies and Literature

updated: 
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 10:34pm
Toshiaki Komura / Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 121th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024) will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars). We will be opening our conference with a welcome event on Thursday, November 7, and continuing the conference through Sunday, November 10, 2024.

Aestheticizing Politics/Politicizing Aesthetics: St. Louis Symposium on Radicalism in U.S. Arts

updated: 
Thursday, April 18, 2024 - 5:05pm
Saint Louis University and Washington University in St. Louis
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures. 

Bodies in Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 - 10:15pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.

Narratives of Disease in Literature and Culture: second call

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:40pm
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES

FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY

UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD

 

is happy to announce

 

THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 7)

 

Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and of the English Department

 

October 26-27, 2024

The conference will be held ONLINE and is FREE OF CHARGE

Conference topic:

DEADLINE EXTENDED! CALL FOR PAPERS: 2024 Southwest Popular/American Culture Conference Association (SWPACA) Summer Salon

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:40pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024

Speaking the Unspeakable: Representing Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Allie Wood Reichert / PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of language can inadvertently silence, restrict, and ignore the material and corporeal existence of suffering. This session invites panelists to consider representing and witnessing trauma as acts of translation across the border of un/representability. Although our central question originates in discussions of language and texts, panelists are also encouraged to consider trauma’s appearance across disciplines and forms, such as visual culture, media, and/or performance.

Call for Papers: ‘Consensual Play’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds

Special Issue: ‘Consensual Play’

Deadline: 30 April 2024 for long articles; 15 May 2024 for short articles

Wordcount: 5,000–8,000 words for long articles; 3,000–5,000 words for short articles

Contact: Kathleen Morrissey,kmorrissey1@wpi.edu

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers

 

Call for Papers: ‘The circulation of the Italian cinema in the United States between 1945 and 1975: Distribution, reception, impact’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Call for Papers: ‘The circulation of the Italian cinema in the United States between 1945 and 1975: Distribution, reception, impact’

Guest-editors:

Federico di Chio, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università degli Studi di Bologna

Marina Nicoli, Bocconi University

Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Julie Ripley, Falmouth University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 29, 2024

Dress Devolution 2 Conference. 

9-11 July 2024

Falmouth University

Conference theme: Seaside Style: Coastal Fashion, Textiles and Costume 

Dress Devolution investigates styles, practices and representations around dress and textiles outside of metropolotan contexts.  The beach as a liminal space has long been a site of leisured, risque, specialised and defiantly un-urban dress and textile parctices which this conference aims to explore.

Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:39pm
Esferas Literarias
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS: Esferas Literarias nº 7 (2024)

Monograph: The monstrous mother in Literature 

Young Scholar Prize - William James Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
William James Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 20, 2024

The William James Society (WJS), in conjunction with William James Studies, would like to announce that it will be offering its annual Young Scholar Prize to the young scholar (within five years of the Ph.D.) who submits the essay that best explores the thought and work of William James.

The prize will include: (1) the opportunity to read the paper during the WJS session at the meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy in March 2025, (2) $750 to subsidize travel to that meeting, and (3) publishing the paper in William James Studies.

Journal of Dracula Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Journal of Dracula Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We invite manuscripts of scholarly articles (4000-6000 words) on any of the following: Bram Stoker, the novel Dracula, the historical Dracula, the vampire in folklore, fiction, film, popular culture, and related topics.
Submissions should be sent electronically (as an e-mail attachment in .docx). Please indicate the title of your submission in the subject line of your e-mail.
Please follow MLA style.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining any necessary permissions and ensuring observance of copyright.
Manuscripts will be peer-reviewed independently by at least two scholars in the field.
Copyright for published articles remains with the author.

PAMLA conference 2024: SF/speculative or imaginative fiction/fantasy in French

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Annabelle Dolidon, Portland State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, November 6, 2024

In this roundtable session, we invite presenters to share their work in French or in English pertaining to science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy in texts, film, or comics originally published in the French language. These narrative genres are often ways to comment on social change by placing characters in other contexts through world-building or imagined interactions between humans and non-human entities.

 

Visualizing Hidden Meanings: Symbolism and Cryptography in the Writings of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:28pm
Caterina Agostini/ University of Notre Dame
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Please consider submitting papers to Visualizing Hidden Meanings: Symbolism and Cryptography in the Writings of Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei.

This workshop provides an excellent platform for scholars to share their latest findings and insights in the early modern history of science. The deadline for paper submissions has been extended to April 25

We welcome submissions on a wide range of topics related to Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei. Whether you're presenting current research, innovative methodologies, or theoretical frameworks, we want to hear from you.

Call for Papers: ‘With no mere will to mastery: Practices of Feminist Writing’

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:27pm
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 29, 2024


Call for Papers: Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

Special Issue: ‘With no mere will to mastery: Practices of Feminist Writing’

Guest edited by Dr Jude Browning

Deadline for Articles (3-5000 words): 29 June 2024

View the full call here>>

2024 Dress and Body Association Conference, 2-3 Nov (Abstracts due: July 1)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:23pm
Dress and Body Association Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

2024 Dress and Body Association Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
 

The Dress and Body Association invites submissions for the organization’s fifth annual conference, which will be held on November 2-3, 2024. Consistent with our long-term goals for inclusivity and sustainability, all activities will be 100% online, including keynote speaker(s), research presentations, and opportunities for virtual networking. Visit the DBA website—www.dress-body-association.org—to learn more about this organization and consider becoming a member.

Summer Institute: Waste Worlding

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Jeremy Chow | Bucknell University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Waste Worlding

June 3-6, 2024

Virtual Summer Institute

Bucknell Humanities Center

 

Application Deadline: May 10, 2024

Decisions by May 15, 2024

 

PAMLA 2024 Panel CFP: Voices of Palestinian Liberation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 121st Annual Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

VOICES OF PALESTINIAN LIBERATION 

 

PAMLA Conference

7-10 November 2024 in Palm Springs, California 

Session Format: Panel of 3-4 presenters, 15-20 minutes each and a 30-minute group Q&A afterward

 

This panel centers the literary and artistic expressions of Palestinians by exploring how writers, artists, journalists, historians, and activists navigate themes of abject loss, violence, and trauma; the aim is to offer a multifaceted perspective on the Palestinian experience, one that transcends problematically uncomplicated narratives and foregrounds the power of language and media in shaping identity, fostering solidarity, and demanding justice.

The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:22pm
PAMLA Annual Conference 2024, Nov. 7-10, Palm Springs, California
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 5, 2024

« The Translator at Work: Neutrality in Translation and Interpreting »

Translators and interpreters are expected to be neutral mediators who facilitate dialogue and enable understanding and cooperation between speakers who do not speak the same language. Research has shown, however, that the transfer of information from one language to another is rarely performed without making certain contributions that go beyond the mere rendition of the message being transferred. Translation is a product of cross-cultural interactions that requires linguistic and at times, sociopolitical or even ideological changes.

Global Film Symposium: Engaging Global Cinema Cultures - Discourses and Disruptions

updated: 
Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 4:21pm
Bass Jr. School, University of Texas at Dallas
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Engaging Global Cinema Cultures: Discourses and Disruptions

In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading)

Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)

Special guests include Dr. Iggy Cortez (University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Shekhar Deshpande (Arcadia University), and Dr. Meta Mazaj (University of Pennsylvania).

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