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The Fourth International Conference of the Modernist Studies in Asia Network (MSIA)
MSIA 2025 – Modernism and Language
June 26-27, 2025
Ewha Womans University
Keynote Speakers
Call for Papers
Date: 8th Jan 2025 to 10th Jan 2025
Venue: Pembroke College, Oxford
What does it mean to observe the world from within? How might we account for subjective experience in our conceptions of scientific fact? If we read the world as the “reciprocal reflection of perspectives,” as theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli urges us to do, how will our definitions of objectivity change? This panel invites papers that examine the central questions of quantum mechanics in the context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period when our original empiricist frameworks took emphatic shape.
UCI Premodern Graduate Humanities Conference 2025: February 14, 2025
Call for Papers
Corporeality and Incorporation: The Body in Literature and Culture Pre-1800
Keynote speaker: Professor Maggie Vinter (Case Western Reserve University)
“By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world.”
- Portia, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Young Scholars Literary SymposiumShenandoah University’s Arts and Humanities Conference
Call for Proposals
The Harlem Renaissance: Community and Convergence
Saturday, November 9, 2024: 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST
Hosted by Shenandoah University’s Department of English in Winchester, Virginia
The SU Young Scholars Literary Symposium is a one-day conference held on SU’s Winchester campus. This event brings together outstanding high school and undergraduate students from the region to share their academic and creative work related to the symposium’s annual theme.
Shakespeare, the journal of the British Shakespeare Association, invites contributions to a special issue on ‘Unseen Shakespeares’, broadly conceived. Topics covered might include (but are not limited to) bedtricks; things that happen off or under the stage; invisibility; ‘ghost’ characters; events which the audience is called upon to imagine; lines or scenes which are frequently cut in performance; and topics, issues or characters which have historically been marginalised or have failed to attract critical attention. Please send abstracts of c.
Fandom | Cultures | Research is the first international journal based in Germany for scholarship in the fields of Fan, Audience, Media, and Cultural (Data) Studies. With its different formats – ranging from full papers to reviews, conference reports, and data papers – the journal fosters academic discussion across these disciplines, especially regarding methodological questions: Each issue will consist of double-blind peer-reviewed full papers, alongside with an editorially reviewed section consisting of data papers (data sets and complementary text), reviews, conference reports, and a “Method Lab” section with shorter papers and interviews that provide insight into work-in-progress, methodological challenges, as well as best practices.
Call for Papers
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
South-South Connections in the Eighteenth Century (sponsored by the Race & Empire Caucus) [ID 95]
Co-chairs: Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University, j.chow@bucknell.edu, Mona Narain, Texas Christian University, m.narain@tcu.edu
The Critical Question of Animal Cultures
Call for Papers
Poetry & Poetics (Critical)
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
Breathing in the Global South
Panel proposed for ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park
Call for Papers: Journal of Digital Media & Policy
Special Issue: ‘Artificial Intelligence and Policy’
Guest-Editors: Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Michael Klontzas, Krisztina Rozgonyi
View the full call here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-digital-media-policy#call-for-papers
CFP for JWLS 2025
Wyndham Lewis: Collaboration, Influence, Impact
From his uneasy alliance with first-wave feminists to his role as a frontman for state-sponsored attempts to popularise the inter-war avant-garde in 1950s radio, Wyndham Lewis’s collaborative endeavours are as varied as they are surprising.
“It matters what matters we use to think other matters with; it matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; it matters what knots knot knots, what thoughts think thoughts, what descriptions describe, what ties tie ties. It matters what stories make worlds; what worlds make stories.”
Donna Haraway, Staying with the Trouble.
In her introduction to Living with the Weather: Climate Change, Ecology, and Displacement in South Asia, Piya Srinivasan emphasizes that the focus of the essays in the collection is to “imagine and investigate non-human spaces: charlands, crumbling coastlines, land facing desertification.” (Srinivasan 7) In a reportage-based essay in this anthology, investigating climate migration from the Sundarbans, Dipanjan Sinha discusses the present condition of these marshlands. He argues that the unique ecological and economic challenges faced by the land and its people include salination of water, challenges of relocation in fast-disappearing island communities, and climate migration – all being results of colonial policies of land degradation.
“An ingenuity too astonishing”: The Poetry of Amy Clampitt
36th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, May 21-24, 2025 (Boston)
We are seeking 15–20-minute paper proposals on the work of Amy Clampitt for a session at the annual American Literature Association Conference, to be held in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. We are interested in abstracts that examine Clampitt’s work from a variety of perspectives. As such, we have kept this call fairly capacious. Potential topics may include but are in no way limited to:
American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Conference
"Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality" -- Arizona State University March 14-16, 2025
https://www.aarwr.com/call-for-papers.html
Proposals Due October 31, 2024
Religious Studies intersects with every aspect of our lives: political, spiritual, pastoral, creative, performative, and relational. The study of religious life, thought, and practice touches upon our identities, responsibilities, and cultures. It can help us to explore our own selves as we acknowledge the diversity of religious expression across time and space
To apply to this ACLA seminar, please go to: https://www.acla.org/node/47634
Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025
Marriott Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024
This seminar invites submissions that explore intentional illegibilites deployed in literary and visual forms in the African diasporas of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds. Despite their intertwined histories of slavery and colonialism, these regions have typically been understood as hermetically sealed off from one another in the humanities. The fields of literary studies and visual culture, however, illustrate how racialized subjects across these aqueous geographies have relied on shared strategies of opacity and obfuscation, leveraging forms such as the photograph and the novel whose histories and development were imbricated in colonial processes.
Call for Chapter Proposals - Refocus: The Films of Agnès Varda
Edited by Melissa Oliver-Powell and Natasha Farrell
• Deadline for proposals: November 29, 2024
• Notification of acceptance: December 17, 2024
• Deadline for chapters: September 20, 2025
This roundtable invites proposals that explore the intersection of visual, aural, and verbal frontiers. Although ekphrasis and musical form mirror words, they directly affect the emotions at a primordial level not available to verbal articulation. Ekphrasis translates words into visual images, whereas musical form translates them into sounds and rhythms. What are the differences between these modes of expression and how they affect their audiences?
This roundtable is part of NeMLA's 56th annual convention, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, March 3-6, 2025. To submit propoosals, follow these steps.
Navigate to nemla.org
Navigate to Convention>Call for Proposals>Ekphrasis and the Music of Literature
Call and Response – A Special English in Africa edition dedicated to South Africa’s revolutionary poet and activist-scholar, Keorapetse Willie Kgositsile.
[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Call For Paper
“History provides numerous examples of people who were convinced that they were doing the right thing and committed terrible crimes because of it.”
---Christopher Paolini
The Charles Olson Society and the Jonathan Bayliss Society are pleased to announce a collaborative panel to be held at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May 21-24, 2025. This panel will focus on writers who were inspired by Gloucester, Massachusetts and Cape Ann. The richness of Cape Ann, its history, people, and geography, deeply influenced poets Charles Olson and Vincent Ferrini as well as novelist Jonathan Bayliss. How did these figures incorporate Gloucester’s geography, history, population, ecology, or other distinct elements in their work? How does place influence and determine the nature of a poet’s or novelist’s writing?
The MELUS Women of Color Caucus (WOCC) seeks scholars whose literary analysis (i.e., the examination of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, plays, film, music, and/or TV) of works by women of color centers approaches to literary research, especially work that makes visible or accounts for women of color’s invisibility and/or seeks to fill gaps in the canon and archives around experiences. Our models for this work include scholars and theorists such as Saidiya Hartman, Christina Sharpe, and Audre Lorde, and essayists such as Cathy Park Hong, Claudia Rankine, Elissa Washuta, and Carmen Maria Machado. These approaches can include:
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming every aspect of modern life. From fashion and art to political science and history, AI’s influence is reshaping the way we interact with the world around us. In the realms of writing and social media, AI offers new opportunities for content creation, while posing questions about authorship, originality, and ethics. Fashion designers are now using AI to predict trends, create unique designs, and streamline production. Artists employ AI to create cutting-edge digital works that blur the lines between human and machine creativity. Meanwhile, AI is making waves in political science, helping to predict voting trends and offering new insights into historical patterns.
SEXTANT (ISSN 2990-8124) is an online journal which navigates the lenses of masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.
SEXTANT aims to shift our understanding of these subjects while looking at the ways they intersect, especially in areas that are often overlooked.
SEXTANT features the work of students, activists, artists, and researchers, welcoming submissions in a wide variety of mediums, such as research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, and digital projects.
Now accepting submissions for Volume 2, Issue 2.
Dr Katarina Gregersdotter and Dr Berit Åström, Umeå University, Sweden invite original essays for an edited volume on fungal horror in popular culture. Palgrave Macmillan have expressed a provisional interest in publishing the volume.
Fungi are entangled in our lives, as food, as medicine or drugs, but also as parasites and agents of destruction, such as black mould, dry rot and cordyceps, the zombie fungus. This entanglement carries over into popular culture, where fungi are used to carry out different kinds of work, articulating deep seated fears and desires, functioning as a threat to, but perhaps also a saviour of, an embattled humanity at the brink of possible extinction.