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Proposals are currently being assessed but we will continue to accept submissions throughout May if you are interested in this conference.
Australasian Modernist Studies Network 2024 Conference
AMSN6: Modernism and modernity at the edge
University of Tasmania, Hobart, 11-13 December 2024
This allied session on work in multi-ethnic literature of the United States (co-sponsored by MELUS) invites papers that explore work as a component of identity formation, especially as it intersects with gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, and citizenship. In the spirit of Moishe Postone’s antiproductivist Marxism, this panel is particularly interested in papers that present a “critique of labor in capitalism” rather than a “critique of capitalism from the standpoint of labor.” While papers that engage with work broadly from the traditional Marxist position are welcome, we are particularly excited about scholarship that theorizes work itself.
The editors of the Oxford University Handbook of American Street Literature seek papers that explore the history and themes of this unique genre. Street literature, also known as urban literature, refers to a genre of writing that primarily focuses on the experiences and narratives of individuals from marginalized communities, particularly in urban areas. Street Lit often explores the struggles, triumphs, and complexities of life in poor neighborhoods, shedding light on themes such as crime, violence, poverty, and the pursuit of success. Street literature encompasses various forms of written expression, including novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction accounts.
–deadline extended to May 13th–
UCL Graduate Conference 2024
Close Reading in the Digital Age
Dear colleagues,
DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 16, 2024
PAMLA 2024: Palm Springs, November 7-10, 2024 "Translation in Action"
Translation as an Art of Failure
Imagining the Ordinary City: Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives
Date/Location: 28-29 October 2024, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT
Keynotes: Professor Jennifer Robinson (University College London); Dr Thembinkosi Goniwe (Rhodes University) ; Professor Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University)
Keynote Speaker: Professor Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at The University of Edinburgh.
The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies (CCLS) is hosting a one-day, in-person symposium to be held on 13 June 2024 at Waterside Campus, University of Northampton, UK.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces will not be going ahead as originally planned in June 2024. The conference organisers are exploring the possibility of rescheduling to a later date and will circulate further details if/when they become available.
Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces
IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
June 14th–16th 2024
An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society
This session at PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Langauge Association) this year (November 7-10, 2024) welcomes paper proposals in English, Spanish, and Portuguese that consider any aspect of contemporary feminist activisms and cultural and artistic production in the Latin American context. Topics may include but are not limited to digital and hashtag feminist activisms, transnational feminist activisms, Black and Indigenous feminist activisms, Global South feminisms, street activisms, performance activisms, activisms and affect, and protest and artistic production within a broad conceptualization of “translation in action,” the theme of this year’s conference.
In a period of tumultuous changes like the ones brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of far-right governments, racism, and international tensions caused by the war in Ukraine and Gaza, a great reckoning is happening in the Western cultural context, especially with regard to the Atlantic and Transatlantic world. No nation has undergone more rapid and sometimes contradictory transformations than the US, showing tensions between its foundational narratives and counternarratives rising from its too often neglected socio-cultural realities. Culturally embedded American ideals have always emphasized a single unifying narrative capable of synthesizing the plurality of voices on US soil.
Call for Papers
“`Do This In Remembrance of Me’: Religion, Memory, and Art”
A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts
Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden
_LIT_ Special Issue CFP: “The Booker Prize: Prize Culture and Global Literary Fiction”
Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize
The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:
Hello everyone! We are finally inviting abstract submissions for the third issue of Sophia Luminous. ️ Sophia Luminous is a national level, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary online research journal for students initiated by the IQAC cell of Sophia Women's College, Mumbai.
CFP for PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Thursday November 7 through Sunday November 10, Palm Springs, California (Margaritaville Resort)
Session Title: The Concept of Visual Translation, Johanna Drucker, Chair
Abstract: The translation of texts is a familiar, if fraught, act that is the subject of considerable thoughtful examination. But is there an equivalent for visual works? This panel looks at examples of cross-cultural or temporal reworkings of images to challenge certain assumptions about self-evident nature of images and even of vision itself.
The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at: www.theneutraljournal.com
For its fourth issue, The Neutral is soliciting contributions for ‘Inheritance‘.
“writing philosophy is for me finding a language in which I understand philosophy to be inherited, which means telling my autobiography in such a way as to find the conditions of that language.”
Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy
“But as for me, who am I (following)?”
CFP: Titanic Optimism: Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times
Editors: Craig Dionne, Tim Francisco, and Sharon O’Dair
Seeking essays for an edited collection
The Children's Literature Association is seeking proposals to review for inclusion as a session at MLA 2026.
Each year, ChLA is guaranteed one session at the MLA Convention and can submit proposals for up to two more. If you would like to submit a panel topic, please send the following to jill.coste@gmail.com by May 22, 2024: (1) A short description (300-500 words) of your proposal idea, and, if relevant, (2) the name of another MLA-affiliated entity (forum or allied organization) you plan to seek as a co-sponsor.
The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies.
The winner of the VanArsdel Prize receives $500 and publication of their submission in Victorian Periodicals Review.
Applications open May 1 and are due June 15.
Organizers:
Faculty of Mass Communication, AAB College, Pristina
Department of Journalism and Communication, FHF, University of Tirana
Communication Institute of Greece
Type: Online (google meet) Scientific Conference for Communication Students and Professionals
Conference Dates - November 7th to 10th 2024
Location - Palm Springs, California U.S.A.
Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media
Conference organizers - Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
Overview - This Food Studies session aims to bring together a range of perspectives for the sake of examining the roles of food in literary and media texts. We seek abstracts that speak to the following questions: What roles do food and food studies play in our analyses of culture, literature, and media? How does food experience shape our creative expression and daily lives?
In today’s rapidly changing global landscape, hospitality emerges as a pivotal focus in academic discourse, especially within Western geopolitical contexts. Hospitality, as a mode of conduct, garners both ardent enthusiasm and staunch opposition. As a concept, it presents both notable limitations and diverse modalities. This multidimensional notion encompasses a right, a privilege, an obligation, an act of sympathy, and an expression of charity. It shapes and is shaped by various environments, from tangible spaces and places to non-places and heterotopias (as articulated by Marc Augé). Its expansive research potential warrants a thorough, interdisciplinary exploration.
CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW
Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.
MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.
Call for Papers
ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen
Editors: Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Tom Cunliffe, and Raymond Tsang
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention
October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention
October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada
Join us in Las Vegas this October, where we will defy the odds and time, and you can learn how to read some of the 418 (and counting) letter runes found in the first third of Beowulf.
This groundbreaking, ninety-minute session is the first of its kind in teaching how one can detect and decipher between two alphabets that use the same letters, with one being just a letter and the other being a letter that represents a word. Unlike Odin, you will not have to give up an eye.
All attendees will receive a letter rune chart.
eTEXTS 14: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. (June 3, 2024)
Since 2014 TEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has been a venue for the examination of various “texts” of English-speaking countries and stimulating scientific debates. Our conferences promote the development and dissemination of original research and critical thinking about various social, cultural, philosophical and historical issues reflected in countless "texts" of English-speaking countries.
You are cordially invited to submit an abstract (150 words) along with a short academic bio. Conference papers (15-minute presentations) should be in English.
Call for Papers
Special Issue: Towards Global Public Literary Humanities
For Public Humanities (Cambridge UP)
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities
Edited by Tim Lanzendörfer and Pavan Malreddy (Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Moveable Type is the graduate, peer-reviewed journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Promise'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme.