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Mediated Ruins in Contemporary Landscapes of the Americas
chairs: Paulo Lorca Fuentealba (Cornell University) and Ashley Edlund-Chescheir (Cornell University)
Join us in Boston for NEMLA, March 7th-10th, 2024
Description:
The growing potential of artificial intelligence to generate content undetectable to plagiarism checkers has created a sense of urgency across higher education. What are the pedagogical and curricular implications of artificial intelligence for writing and critical thinking? What are the pedagogical and curricular responses to this rapidly advancing technology that is both widely available and affordable?
Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing invites submissions for a special volume on Artificial Intelligence, Writing, and Critical Thinking.
Deadline for submissions: August 15, 2023.
African American literature has always been under assault and faced threat of erasure. Yet, we are experiencing a heightened moment of attack, when political activists are using legislative action to attempt to eradicate Blackness, intersecting identities, DEI initiatives, and the history of race in America from public education and consciousness. Therefore, this is an important time for us to proactively discuss how we teach African American writing and its expressive power to help us understand our pasts, presents, and futures.
We invite submissions for the second issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in September.
* Deadline is the end of July and we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.
* Original works related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication. For the second issue, alongside established academics, we would like encourage graduate students to submit their work.
You can submit your manuscript simply by clicking on the link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3958/submission/step/manuscript/new
The First International Conference on Critical South Asian Death Studies
18th-20th of April 2024 | University of Münster
csads@uni-muenster.de | https://go.wwu.de/csads
Call for Papers
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Panel: Half Knowledge: Identity, Philosophical Difficulty and the Remains of Value
Chair(s): Leo Kadokura (University of Oxford)
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 20 ***
PAMLA Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon
October 26-29, 2023
“Culture Wars 2.0” (Roundtable / Special Session)
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JULY 20 ***
PAMLA Annual Conference
Portland, Oregon
October 26-29, 2023
"Rhetorical Approaches to Literature" (Paper / Panel)
The proposed Special Issue of Journal of Asia-Pacific Pop Culture (web of science indexed; https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/720) aims to examine the everyday existential struggles in societies triggered by the exceptionalism of state-capital nexus. It will analyze the epistemes of violence, structures of rampant coloniality in different manifestations, extraction of lands, bodies, and life that underpin the self-expansionist project of cannibalistic capitalism.
Please consider submitting your proposal to the PAMLA 2023 panel “A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries”.
Special Issue of Scrutiny2 on Ecology, Decoloniality, and African Literature
Special Issue Editor
Goutam Karmakar, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
goutamkrmkr@gmail.com
Deirdre C. Byrne, UNISA
byrnedc@unisa.ac.za
*CfP still open*
Special Session
Presiding Officer/Panel Chair: Maria Mothes (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Abstract:
The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.
Description:
**DEADLINE EXTENDED to JULY 10*
Acta Ludologica (ISSN 2585-8599, e-ISSN 2585-9218) is a double-blind peer-reviewed scientific journal published twice a year in both online and print versions. It focuses on the comprehensive discourse of games and digital games, including theoretical and empirical studies, research results, and their implementation into practice, as well as professional publication reviews and scientific reviews of digital games.
Acta Ludologica is inviting manuscripts for Vol. 6, No. 2, scheduled to be published in December 2023. The submissions deadline is extended until July 31, 2023.
NEASECS 2023 “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings,”
FINAL CALL
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023
Conference hosted by the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies and Challenging Precarity: A Global Network.
University of Wollongong, Sydney Campus, Circular Quay, Sydney, Australia
29 November – 1 December 2023
Organisation websites:
ROCKING ROMANTICISM
Romanticism and Rock Music
International Conference
Université d’Artois, Arras, France
Textes et Cultures (UR 4028), équipe interne "Translittéraires", en association
avec l’ENS, la SERA, et LOOPThursday 28th-Friday 29th March 2024
Organised by Adrian Grafe (Université d'Artois) and Marc Porée (ENS/PSL)
The Kurt Vonnegut Society is seeking 250-word abstracts for a panel session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024.
Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo
All submissions must be made through the following link: View Session (cfplist.com)
Vonnegut Surplus, Surplus Vonnegut
In line with this year’s convention theme, the Kurt Vonnegut Society seeks abstracts that consider what we might call “Surplus Vonnegut” or “Vonnegut Surplus.”
Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
Seeking 250-word abstracts for a panel session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) annual convention in Boston, MA, March 7-10, 2024.
Northeast Modern Language Association - University at Buffalo
All submissions must be made through the following link: View Session (cfplist.com)
Black Rhetorics: Written and Performed
Popular cultural depictions of the 1950s often emphasise an imagined nostalgic aesthetic of excessive conformity and heterogeneity as the foil to a protagonist’s rebellion against the established order. Commonly, the setting is not explicitly stated as the 1950s, but the cultural touchstones provide a receptive allusion for the audience to place the experiences temporally and contextually. Edward Scissorhands (1990), Don’t Worry Darling (2022) and other iterations of the Stepford Wives storyline, and Pleasantville (1998) all invoke an invented 1950s atmosphere of heightened conformity with an understated element of extremism under threat of non-conformity.
We all have lists of things to do. We also have playlists, shopping lists and lists of pros and cons (not to mention lists of publications). Whether we make them on paper or with an app, lists are central to our lives. They help us make sense of the world around us, keep track of the order of things and sometimes create a whole new order altogether. Lists were just as central to the lives and experiences of medieval people. If anything, the practice of enumeration was even more common in the Middle Ages, when lists fulfilled functions which are now served by other tools sitting at the intersection of written and visual culture, such as maps and databases.
We are seeking a complete essay draft (approx. 5000-7500 words) for possible inclusion as a chapter in New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern Literature, edited by Gail Kern Paster and Nick Moschovakis. This opportunity exists because serious health considerations have recently compelled the late withdrawal of an invited contributor. The volume is currently under contract with Routledge for publication in 2024.
Call for submissions: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections
Submissions are invited for volume 16 of Cather Studies, to be published by the University of Nebraska Press. The theme for the volume will be “Willa Cather’s New York Intersections.” Submissions may address New York City as Cather knew it but also the metropolis that was present around her, though perhaps not always visible to her.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Comics and Graphic Novels Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conferenceto be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via the Zoom platform.
This area considers comics and graphic novels. Among the topics welcomed are those probing:
The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) Gender, Sex, and Sexuality Area invites submissions for NEPCA’s annual conference to be held October 12 – October 14, 2023, via the Zoom platform.
VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE
7th December 2023
Online Conference
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
“Musical tale and children’s opera in the English-speaking world”
International Conference
University of Caen Normandy, France
22-23 November 2023
Abstract
The Milton Society of America seeks to assemble a roundtable at the RSA 2024 on the shifting role of teaching and writing about the work of John Milton in the academic profession today, in different places across the world. Although some of our conversations will revolve around the serious institutional and vocational challenges that many Miltonists confront, we also hope to hear about creative responses to those challenges as well as contexts in which Milton scholarship is beginning to take hold or developing in new ways. Participants will be asked to open with brief (approximately seven-minute) prepared remarks in order to allow ample time for conversation and discussion.
The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that promotes the work of premodern disability studies. We invite paper submissions that consider any aspect of John Milton’s writings, life, historical and literary contexts, and intellectual legacy through the lens of critical disability studies. For consideration, please submit an abbreviated CV and a 200-word abstract to Eric Song at MiltonSocietySec@gmail.com, no later than July 12, 2023 (new extended deadline).
The Milton Society of America will propose a panel at the RSA 2024 that commemorates the 350th anniversary of the second edition of Paradise Lost—the twelve-book version that would become familiar to us and regarded as the great epic poem in the English language. We invite papers on any aspect of the twelve-book Paradise Lost or on the ways its significance has been reshaped between 1674 and now. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the revision of the original ten-book poem, book history, reception history, and adaptation.