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Rethinking the Sentimental Eighteenth Century
Special issue 3/2023
StudiaUniversitatisBabeș-BolyaiPhilologia
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The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 25-28. We are interested in abstracts that examine the influence of Charles Olson and/or other Black Mountain Poets on poetic practices and their developments up to the present. A variety of poets took up the innovative practices of figures like Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Robert Duncan, John Wieners, and others associated with Black Mountain. How have the practices of this fundamentally important school of poetics been extended, transformed, and/or resisted by other poets?
The Postwar Area Literature Group invites submissions on the following postwar + contemporary topics for the 2023 American Literature Association Conference, which will be held in Boston, MA from May 25-28, 2023. Please send abstracts by January 15th, 2023 to Jacqueline Foertsch at Jacqueline.foertsch@unt.edu.
Postwar Gothics – Discussions of post-WWII poetry, drama, or prose that draws on the romance/horror tradition are welcome. The uncanny in postwar literature; states of uncertainty or indeterminacy in postwar literature; violence, haunting, or nightmare in postwar literature.
International Conference: “Infrastructures of Racism and the Contours of Black Vitality and Resistance.”
University of Torino (Italy), 23-25 March 2023
The Humanities Center at Texas Tech Annual Conference 2023:
“Health”
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
April 28-29, 2023
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Rebekah Lee,
Associate Professor of African Studies,
Oxford University
Author of Health, Healing and Illness in African History (2021) &
African Women and Apartheid: Gender and Urbanisation in Southern Africa (2009)
Call for Papers:
Margaret Fuller: Westward to the Lakes, Eastward to Europe
In keeping with HERA’s mission of promoting the study of the humanities across a wide range of disciplines and interdisciplinary studies, we invite presentations for the 2023 conference. Submissions are encouraged from educators at all levels (including undergraduate and graduate students) as well as all those with an interest in the arts and humanities.
Undergraduate Diversity Prize: A prize of $500 will be awarded to the best undergraduate conference paper that addresses race, ethnicity, gender, or sexuality.
Undergraduate Research Prize
The term “gaslighting” has reentered the popular lexicon with a vengeance in recent years, appearing in countless news stories and opinion pieces on the subjects of sex, race, politics, medicine, and emotional abuse. It refers to “the experience of having your reality repeatedly challenged by someone who holds more power than you do,” as one Washington Postcolumn recently articulated it. Such pieces often note that the term is drawn from a specific twentieth-century source text: George Cukor’s 1944 film Gaslight, based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play of the same name, which tells the story of a sadistic husband actively working to make his wife believe she is losing her mind.
Translating Travel Writing in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
French/British Connections and Continuums
Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures et la Sociopoétique (CELIS)
Institut d’Histoire des Représentations et des Idées dans les Modernités (IHRIM)
Société d’étude de la Littérature de Voyage du Monde Anglophone (SELVA
19th-20th October, 2023
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Clermont-Ferrand
France
We are excited to announce that submissions for the GCLR graduate conference LANDSCAPE & GARDEN IN ART, LITERATURE, AND FILM are now open. The graduate conference will be held in person at UCSB on Saturday, May 27, 2023.
We are currently accepting proposals from graduate students, postdoctoral, and emergent scholars from UCSB and other institutions who are interested in giving a 20-minute paper. Please send a title and abstract to gclr@complit.ucsb.edu with the subject line "Landscape & Garden" by March 3, 2022.
Call for Papers
Chapter for "The Multisensorial Animal" section in Creaturely Fear: Animality and Horror Cinema
CALL FOR PAPERS
Projecting the Past and Recalling the Future: Orienting the Self in Time
15th annual Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
April 7-8, 2023
Keynote lecture to be delivered by: Dr. Rebecca Futo Kennedy, Denison University
The Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at Rutgers University- Camden invite proposals for “The Girl in Theory,” a virtual symposium to be held March 29-31, 2023.
Call for Applications: Colby Book Nominations
The Robert and Vineta Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers, of the kind that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to a book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press.
See https://rs4vp.org/awards/colby-prize/ for more details.
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Generally, multiple awards are given each year. The fellowship is made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals.
See https://rs4vp.org/awards/curran-fellowship/ for more details.
Call For Submissions – Creative Collection - Fears and Phobias – Sunderland Creative Press (University of Sunderland)
Tip-tap on your window, a nightmare comes to taunt you. It starts slowly, softly, building intensity through the dead of night. A thunderbolt of fright strikes through you; you tremble under the covers alone in the dark with creatures of the night, the perpetrators of your restless, anxiety-ridden slumber. Are you brave enough to explore fear a little closer? If you are, then we want to hear about which monsters lurk in your closet, and even the ones that hide under your bed and inside your head.
Deadline for abstracts: December 21, 2022
Deadline for accepted submissions: February 19, 2023
Editors: Sana Younis and Tess Patalano
*Please send all submissions to sjuhumanitiesreview@gmail.com
As Russia began its invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, we saw a massive outpouring of
support and statements of solidarity from different corners of the globe. This news brought
conflict to the fore of white, US- and Euro-centric consciousness in a way that Palestine,
Kashmir, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan, and Armenia had failed to do. This impulse to
selectively engage and empathize invites a careful consideration of which conflicts find space
and articulation in particular discourses and, perhaps more importantly, which do not. We invite
you to think with us on conflict - excavate the ways in which it challenges or reinforces
Call for Close-Up Submissions A Wide Shot: Expanding the Frame on Melvin Van Peebles
Empathy and the Teaching of Writing
The 26th Annual Summer Conference of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
of the National Council of Teachers of English
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO, June 15-18, 2023
“If we see each other in each other’s eyes…the walls of Jericho can come tumbling down!”
--Barack Obama
The graduate school 'Authority and Trust' (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies welcomes submissions for their conference "Practicing Trust and Authority" to take place in Heidelberg (Germany) on May 11-13, 2023. Submission deadline is February 5, 2023.
Get in touch: gkat-conference2023@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Visit our website: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/gkat/2023conference.html
“Politics is commonly viewed as the practice of power or the embodiment of collective wills and interests and the enactment of collective ideas.”
“The syntagma ‘politics of literature’ means that literature ‘does’ politics as literature…”
-Jacques Rancière, “The Politics of Literature” (2010)
For an upcoming special issue of MFS on "Women Thinking in Public," we seek essays that illuminate the way that fiction itself can serve as a mode of public intellectualism, as both depiction and enactment of women thinking, attending to the connections between gendered expression, the forms of thought, and the forms of fiction. For the full CFP, please visit:
https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/publications/mfs/call/cfp-women-...
You’ll find the full CFP below, but there are a few updates and details worth noting
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Call For Papers
2023 Steinbeck Conference: “Reading, Teaching, and Translating Steinbeck”
March 22-24, 2023
San José State University, San José CA
Work in Displacement Studies lies at the intersection of numerous interdisciplinary fields, such as migration studies, refugee studies, border studies, Indigenous studies, Africana studies, Food Studies, coastal studies, human rights, urban studies, data studies and Latinx studies. Building on that body of literature and the NEH/SSRC working group on “Converging Displacements” at Virginia Tech, this reader takes a critical approach to displacement studies. Critical displacement studies is a methodology examining disruptions of displacement where community access and contribution is essential. An increasingly common experience, being uprooted from place occurs across a range of geographic and temporal scales.
Date: September 7-8-9, 2023
Conference venue: Université de La Réunion (La Réunion, France)
Conveners: Sonja Malzner (University of Luxembourg), Corinne Duboin and Frédéric Garan (University of Réunion Island)
This conference is held within the framework of a research project, “Popkult60” (Transnational popular culture - Europe in the 'long' 1960s), which involves three European universities: University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Saarbrücken (Germany), University of Jena (Germany). The event is organized in partnership with the Observatory of Indian Ocean Societies (OSOI) at the University of Réunion Island (Réunion, France).
Politics and Art
Exploring the Intersection of Aesthetics and Political Economy
Volume 67 (4/2022)
Extended submission deadline: January 31, 2023
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our February 17 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.
The Department of Languages and Literature at Northeastern State University is organizing a special session for the Illinois Medieval Association’s spring symposium series focused on the role of space or place as broadly defined in the medieval understanding of education and learning. The focus of individual essays is largely open within the theme of the session, with preference given to those touching on broadly Catholic concerns. Papers should be limited to twenty minutes to allow for ample presentation time and sufficient time for Q&A. The session is slated for 3 p.m. Central time on 10 February 2023 (the feast of St.
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our February 17 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.