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#DouglassWeek is excited to invite poets, writers and other creators from around the world to submit entries for the second annual #Douglassweek poetry competition. This year, the theme of “Intergenerational Conversations” may inspire your creations.
Twenty-five years after Gloria Anzaldúa published Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, the U.S.–Mexico border is still “una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds.” As Anzaldúa would have predicted, this “bleed[ing]” is both violent and vital, destructive and constructive; anytime “a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country—a border culture.” However, in ways Anzaldúa failed to see, this “blood” does not flow from a single Chicanx “country,” but rather through two settler states, dozens of Native nations, and countless migrant communities: the “blood,” in other words, does not flow from a single “border culture,” but rather through a range of border cul
Since COVID-19’s first infection, the virus has mutated. Each expected virological mutation summons increased governmental and medical surveillance, received both positively and suspiciously by the public. The instituted state of exception was most aggressively diagnosed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Agamben, however, is not alone in theorizing the pandemic. Thinkers like Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Luc Nancy, Sergio Benevenuto, and Catherine Malabou have also published reflections on the virus’s spread. In fact, a veritable sub-section of academic publishing has emerged due to the virus.
Call for Papers - Art Exhibition Symposium, Portland Oregon USA
Power Positions: A Dismantling of Phallacies
The Elisabeth Jones Art Center for Social and Environmental Justice
516 NW 14th Ave. Portland, OR 97209
Keynote Speaker: TBA
Symposium Dates: March 2022 – actual dates TBA
Exhibition Dates: January 6–March 18, 2022
Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2022
The next issue of Disegno will investigate, from the perspective of design culture, the contemporary role and significance of cinema, film, VR and moving image installations within the context of the institutional, technological, and media-related developments and lifeworld in the twenty-first century. Our basic aim is to shed more light on how critically oriented design culture studies conceive of design not as it is in the world but how it creates our lifeworlds (Lebenswelten) as seamless webs of discursive meanings and sensual experiences. On closer inspection, our particular interest lies in how this worlding (scil. es weltet) can be understood in the realms of cinema and film making.
Conference dates: 23 and 24 September 2022; to be held online via Zoom
Call for Papers
RELIGHTING THE CROSSROADS:
HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN HAITIANS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS
20-22 May 2022
A Virtual Conference
CUNY Haitian Studies Institute and the Department of Africana Studies
Brooklyn College, City University of New York
I. Conference Details
Crones, Crime, and the Gothic
In-person Conference
Falmouth University UK, 10-11 June 2022
Older women have traditionally been portrayed negatively in folklore, fairy tales, literature and film, for example. Images of witches, evil stepmothers, shrivelled, bitter 'spinsters', and vindictive, bullying women abusing positions of power are rife in Western culture. Yet,
perhaps things are changing. A new emphasis on the need to discuss and understand the
menopause seems to be at the heart of this. This conference examines historical
Since 1989, Penumbra has published the artistic and literary talents of students and creatives regionally, nationally, and internationally. As a publication, Penumbra is unique; its student-led staff personally solicits, selects, and edits its content and design. The staff at Penumbra are seeking reviews of contemporary books, films, albums, podcasts, and television shows of 600-900 words for our Spring 2022 Print Issue. Book, film, television, and media reviews of works released in the last 12 months are welcome. Works being reviewed must be recent. Reviews should be between 600-900 words long and should be in MLA format.
Call for Papers: The St. John’s University’s Humanities Review Spring 2022 Issue
“Crashing the Canon: A Spotlight for the Underrepresented in Higher Education”
Deadline for abstracts: December 22, 2021
Deadline for accepted submissions: February 22, 2022
Editors: Alexander Radison & Kainat Cheema
Contact email: alexander.radison21@my.stjohns.edu & kainat.cheema21@my.stjohns.edu
Call for Papers for a Bilingual Issue of Alternative Francophone
Edited by
Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University) & Marie-Eve Bradette (University of Regina)
“I live in a country where the two national languages are foreign languages.”
(Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Courts critiques, 2017. Our translation.)
The Dangling Modifier: Call for Papers Spring 2022 Issue
Responding in the Writing Center, the Writing Center Responding
Call for Papers
Intersections and the Anthropocene: Sustainability, Ethics, and Gender
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia
March 31-April 1, 2022
Review of submissions begins December 15th and ends February 15th.
Acting out and thinking ahead:
Art/Activism, Literary ProVocations and PerFORMativity
in Literatures and Cultures in English
Oxford Literary Review 45.1, July 2023. "What might Eco-deconstruction be?”
It is not I who deconstruct; rather, something I called ‘deconstruction’ happens to the experience of a world, a culture,
a philosophic tradition: ‘it’ deconstructs, ça ne va pas, there is something that budges, that is in the
process of being dislocated, disjointed, disadjoined, and of which I begin to be aware. Something is
‘deconstructing’ and it has to be answered for.” (Jacques Derrida, in A Taste for the Secret (2001).
Oxford Literary Review 45.1, July 2023. "What might Eco-deconstruction be?”
It is not I who deconstruct; rather, something I called ‘deconstruction’ happens to the experience of a world, a culture,
a philosophic tradition: ‘it’ deconstructs, ça ne va pas, there is something that budges, that is in the
process of being dislocated, disjointed, disadjoined, and of which I begin to be aware. Something is
‘deconstructing’ and it has to be answered for.” (Jacques Derrida, in A Taste for the Secret (2001).
Latin America encompassing South America, parts of Central America, and the Caribbean Islands is remarkable for women’s movements from time to time. While most historical genealogies trace the origin of Latin American feminism around the time period of 1960s and 1970s, a strong feminist expression is evident long before the significant decades of 1960s and 1970s. The earliest feminist expression can be traced as early as during the seventeenth century which emerged as a result of Latin American women’s encounter with the European colonisers. As a result of colonialism, Latin American women became dual victims of oppression: one at the hands of the Europeans, and other, at the hands of their own countrymen.
The Postwar Area Literature Group invites abstract submissions for our panels at the 2022 meeting of the American Literature Association. The conference will be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago on May 26-29, 2022. We will host two panels this year; please see the full CFPs below:
CFP: JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy), Special Issue #7
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding): (Hi)Stories of American Fragility
Guest Editors: Pilar Martínez Benedí and Chiara Patrizi
This seminar departs from the idea that we need a clearer understanding of elemental forms—traditional and non-traditional—that are in different stages of becoming formless (loss, disappearance, transmutation etc.). On the one hand, we build up on the critical genealogy of the formless (l’informe), a concept once popularized by Bataille in the surrealist journal Documents (1929-30) and later taken up by Bataille’s readers, most famously by Rosalind Krauss & Yves-Alain Bois (1997) and Georges Didi-Huberman (1995). While, on the other hand, we also welcome proposals that conceptualize the formless through different disciplinary vantage points and bring it to bear on the question of elemental forms.
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce that, due to numerous requests, the abstract submission deadline is extended until January 25, 2022. You can submit your abstracts until this date.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Hatay on May 11-13, 2022.
Regards,
IDEA2022 Organising Committee
15th International IDEA Conference: Studies in English
May 11-13, 2022
The Conference will be jointly hosted by
Hatay Mustafa Kemal University,
Department of English Language & Literature ,
School of Foreign Languages &
As a sport, basketball follows a certain set of rules and conventions which serve as a framework for players, coaches, and teams to play the sport. By their very nature, these rules are meritocratic which means that all participants are equal on the court, play by the same rules, and the only relevant (read as: game deciding) factors are effort, skill, and fortune. Such a perspective on basketball and sports leads certain fans and observers to statements such as “politics should be kept out of sports”.
American Comparative Literature Association 2022 Annual Meeting
National Taiwan Normal University
June 15-18
Queer Asia in Crisis
DEADLINE EXTENDED:
We are seeking chapters for an edited collection on the popular Canadian sitcom, Schitt’s Creek, which had a meteoric rise in the U.S. after airing on Netflix. Schitt’s Creek has been a cultural force with its catchphrases, meme-able moments, and Emmy awards. There is much to unpack to understand the show's popularity and its impact, and, in this edited book collection, we will focus on three central themes: love, place, and identity.
Underlying questions of the project include but are not limited to:
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report concludes, our planet’s landscapes are rapidly undergoing drastic short-term transformative changes due to anthropogenic factors. The wholesale thawing of Arctic permafrost stands to exacerbate planetary warming to runaway levels (p. 1270); droughts in arid areas are massively exacerbated by agricultural activity (p. 1984); greenhouse gas emissions disrupt natural weather systems so greatly that new microclimates emerge (p. 3514); ocean acidification threatens the viability of aquatic ecosystems (p. 1200); biodiversity is in rapid decline around the globe (p. 211); sea level rise will reclaim vast areas of low-lying land (p.
Tipping point: “the critical point in a situation, process, or system beyond which a significant and often unstoppable effect or change takes place.” Merriam Webster.
“Voicing ‘Woman’ across Media, 1500-1800”
University of California, Santa Barbara
Conference Date: February 24-25, 2022
Abstracts Due: December 31, 2021
Soap operas, wrestling, periodicals, reality television, comic books, literature, video game and film franchises, vlogging, sports, advertising campaigns, and now even politics and political journalism have harnessed the power and popularity of the serialized form to build and sustain audiences in our increasingly fractured media landscape.
Duquesne University English Graduate Organization’s Hybrid Graduate Conference:
Cultivating Dynamic Environments, April 8-9th, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA
Deadline for submissions: January 31st, 2022 Contact email: environments@duq.edu
This session seeks papers that attend to the affordances of infrastructure for aesthetics and of aesthetics for infrastructure in postcolonial/global South literature. We aim to explore infrastructure's own aesthetic capacities, the ways in which built forms and their materials produce specific aesthetic effects and social uses, or the ways in which infrastructure makes aesthetic perception available to social practice. In turn we are interested in the way aesthetic qualities like form, genre, reception, plot, narrative, or medium are themselves infrastructural and shape encounters with infrastructure.