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Critical Plant Studies Book Series

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:10pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Critical Plant Studies, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, calls us to re-examine in fundamental ways our understanding of and engagement with plants, drawing on diverse disciplinary perspectives. A sampling of topics appropriate for this series includes but is not limited to:
• Representations of plants in literature, art, film, and popular culture
• Relationships between humans and plants
• Boundaries and distinctions between plants and animals
• Plants and the environmental crisis

Environment and Society Book Series

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:09pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Environment and Society, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals covering a broad range of topics in environmental studies from the perspectives of the social sciences and humanities. Learn more about the 30 books already in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXES

Ecocritical Theory and Practice Book Series

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:09pm
Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

Ecocritical Theory and Practice, a book series published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, is seeking proposals at the interface of literary/cultural studies and the environment. Learn more about the 90+ books already published in the series on the publisher’s website: https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/ETAP/Ecocritical-Theory-and-Practice

Post-Pandemic Imaginaries : Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 6:56pm
Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Post-Pandemic Imaginaries : Space, Culture and Memory after Lockdown (updated)

A two day conference on the 5th and 6th September 2024

Organised by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life at the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool, UK

 

Keynote speakers:

Professor Stef Craps (Ghent University)

"Modern?"

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 3:42pm
Saint Louis University Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

“Modern?” CFP

 

Saint Louis University—Madrid, June 7-8, 2024

 

The OED defines “modern” as “being in existence at this time; current, present,” but also as something that is “opposed to the remote past.” Given that the concepts of “past,” “present” and “future” are not fixed, but, to paraphrase Einstein, illusory, the meaning of “modern” itself is hard to pin down. 

Contemporary Latin American Feminist Activisms in Translation

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 3:25pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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.

Last book chapters needed – Anaïs Nin in Context by Cambridge University Press

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 10:11am
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain and University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Anaïs Nin is a 20th-century diarist and writer who endlessly inspires other authors while generating interest, enthusiasm, and debate among many literary critics and readers.

Cambridge University Press (CUP) has shown interest in the future edited volume Anaïs Nin in Context. This collection aims to delve even further into the exploration of Anaïs Nin as a woman and a writer, her cosmopolitanism, and her influence. In addition, as part of CUP In Context book series, the future Anaïs Nin in Context must have around 30-35 book chapters arranged in different sections and explore contextual aspects of Nin’s life and literary production, instead of the close reading and examination of her literary production.  

Call for Papers: Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 12:06am
Theatre Academy: Journal of World Theatre
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

We invite submissions for the fourth issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September. Theatre Academy is indexed in MLA International Bibliography.

* Deadline is the end of July but we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works, not published elsewhere or related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication.

* Please note that all manuscripts will be closely examined through Turnitin once they are received by the journal.

Representations of Ageing in Literature

updated: 
Monday, April 22, 2024 - 12:03am
Atatürk University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024

Abstract proposals for 20-minute paper presentations are invited for a two-day conference hosted by Atatürk University in Erzurum, Türkiye. This international conference on ageing and its representations in literature will be held on 18-19 April 2024.

Call for papers for Open Issue

updated: 
Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 12:52am
New Literaria
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR OPEN ISSUE

VOLUME 5 ISSUE 2

NEW LITERARIA invites the submission of articles, shorter essays, interviews, and book reviews offering historical, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and cultural approaches to literature and related fields for its Volume 5 Issue 2. 

Submissions should be emailed to newliteraria@gmail.com by no later than 30th May 2024.  All submissions must include a cover letter that includes the author’s full mailing address, email address, telephone number, and professional or academic affiliation.

CfP: Form and Its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

updated: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 9:01pm
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences (Duke University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Form and its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

 

Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. 

— Georges Bataille, Informe (“Formless”), 1929

 

Mediation and Remediation

updated: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 5:16pm
The Department of Languages at the Higher Institute of Applied Studies in the Humanities of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia in partnership with “l’Association de la Creation Culturelle” and the Language Village of Mahdia , Tunisia organize
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

 

 

Mediation and Remediation

 

Venue: the Language Village of Mahdia, University of Monastir, Tunisia. November 14-15,  2024

Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice

updated: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 2:38pm
Money on the Left
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

We are pleased to invite contributions to Money on the Left: History, Theory, Practice. Money on the Left publishes peer-reviewed articles about monetary arrangements, knowledges, and cultures with the aim of promoting ecosocial justice. This open-access journal understands money creation as a situated political problem that constitutes societies. It moves away from claims that money is a scarce instrument of barter, an inherent (if necessary) evil, or the infamous commodity-form and toward actualizing money’s unrealized potentials to shape collective life in emancipatory ways.

Gloria Naylor’s 1996: A Teaching Companion (Edited Collection)

updated: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 12:32pm
Tarshia Griffin, Isaiah Frost Rivera
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

Gloria Naylor’s fictionalized memoir 1996 (2005) remains the least studied but most controversial selection in her decades-long literary output. Published by Third World Press at the tailend of her illustrious career, 1996 stands in stark contrast to Naylor’s iconic tetralogy — which includes Women of Brewster Place (1982), Linden Hills (1985), Mama Day (1988), and Bailey’s Cafe (1992), as well as the sibling text Men of Brewster Place (1998) — by centering the author herself in its bold critiques of state power and the ways marginalized communities fight to uphold it.

Exploring the Murky Depths: A Conference on Dark Tourism in Modern Societies Where Historical Narratives Encounter Geographical Landscapes

updated: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 10:44am
Department of Tourism and Aviation Management Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India- 722101
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

Call for abstract

International Conference on Dark Tourism (ICDT)

Hybrid Mode

 

Theme:

Exploring the Murky Depths: A Conference on Dark Tourism in Modern Societies Where Historical Narratives Encounter Geographical Landscapes.

Date-14-16 September, 2024

Organized by: Department of Tourism and Aviation Management, Midnapore College (Autonomous), West Bengal, India- 721101

Indian Migration During The British Empire: A Literary Scrutiny

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 10:16pm
Kochar and Khan
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, April 25, 2024

Note: Springer has shown interest in publishing this book.  We are short of just 3 Chapters - One in Category 3 and two chapters in Category 4

Concept Note:

Ninth International Gender and Sexuality Conference September 28–29, 2024

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 7:23pm
University of Central Oklahoma
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 26, 2024

The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is presented by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the University of Central Oklahoma with assistance from the UCO chapter of the National Organization for Women. In tandem, these organizations promote engagement with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality issues.

Reckoning with October 7: Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Critical Theory

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 4:04pm
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

Reckoning with October 7:
Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Critical Theory

A TPPI Conference
November 8–9, 2024
New York City

The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute welcomes paper proposals for a conference that reckons with the response, both within higher education at large and especially from the precincts of critical theory, to the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas on October 7, 2023. The conference will cap a year of webinars, podcasts, blog posts, and publications about the topic, and will form the basis of a special memorial issue of the journal Telos. Full papers intended for that special issue will also be considered at this time.

ILLUSION/DISILLUSION

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:46pm
Graduate Center, CUNY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 14, 2024

The MA/PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY

invites applications for the annual Graduate Conference to be held on

 

Friday November 15th, 2024

At the CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 

 

Special issue of the ADE Bulletin: Undergraduate English Major Advising

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:44pm
Janine Utell / Association of Departments of English / MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

The ADE Bulletin is the refereed journal of the Association of Departments of English, published annually by the Modern Language Association. The bulletin is soliciting abstracts for a special issue on advising and mentoring in the undergraduate English major. Publication is scheduled for 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024. Deadline for submission of selected essays: 30 September 2024. Special issue editor: Felicia Jean Steele, associate professor and associate chair of English at The College of New Jersey and Eastern Regent for Sigma Tau Delta.

 

Air India Flight 182: A 40th Anniversary Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:41pm
McMaster University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is little known in national public memory (Angus Reid Institute 2023). Institutional narratives and failings have framed the Air India bombing as a “non-Canadian tragedy involving non-Canadian citizens” (Seshia 2017), leaving the victims’ families suffering and ignored in the wake of such loss.

Call for Articles: “Revisiting Tennessee Williams’s ‘Weird Tales’”

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:39pm
Journal of the Short Story in English
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Articles are invited for a special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English on Tennessee Williams’s Short Fiction, to be published in 2026.

More info: https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/4005 

Suggested areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following topics in relation to Williams's short fiction:

  • Narrative voice and narrative strategies.

  • Repeated motifs, images, settings, characters, situations, etc.

  • Intertextuality.

The Public Dimension of Dwelling

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:38pm
Between Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

Between Journal  Vol. XV, N. 28 (November 2024) The Public Dimension of Dwelling

edited by Clotilde Bertoni, Massimo Fusillo, Giulio Iacoli, Marina Guglielmi, Niccolò Scaffai

(https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/11)

 

Submission deadline: 2024-05-31 (Friday)
Estimated review date: 2024-07
Publication date: 2024-11-30 (Saturday)

 

The Limits of Communication and the Ethics of Suicide in Cultural Representations

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:38pm
Middle Tennessee State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

In the past two decades, there has been a distressing rise in suicides worldwide. In what has been termed an “age of crisis” – encompassing economic, environmental, and health crises – these rising statistics may underscore the urgency of acknowledging the intersectional impact of these potential risk factors and may even require social and individual countermeasures.

The Seen and Unseen in Asian / Asian American Literature and Studies (SAMLA 96 panel)

updated: 
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 3:37pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

In the U.S., immigrants of Asian origin have historically fallen victim to both extreme violent legal measures and racist stereotype labels—such as the infamous “Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882” and/or other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934, as well as the notorious use of Orientalist terms such as “inferior race,” “yellow peril,” “perpetual foreigner,” and “model minority,” etc—all of which either aim to “unsee” or to “wrongfully see” Asian presence in the United States of America. Yet, even now two decades into the 21st century, this issue is clearly still ongoing, as the title of scholar Sharon S.

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