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Intersectional Singularity: A Speculative Fiction Discourse on Race, Sex, and Gender from Machine Learning to Sentient Droids
Due date extended...
Food has always had meaning. In terms of literary analysis, food has a symbolic and culturally significant meaning. Historically speaking however, studies about food have traditionally been connected to disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and history but recent shifts in literary and cultural thought, food studies have widened to include disciplines such as English, World Languages, Art, Film studies, etc.
Event 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences.
Dutch Colonialism and Its Afterlives: Anglophone Literary Perspectives
June 14, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
2024 Biannual Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi
“Reconstructing” Flannery O’Connor
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstract submissions for a proposed panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s biannual conference in Gulfport, Mississippi from June 23-26th, 2024. This panel’s theme is, broadly, “‘Reconstructing’ Flannery O’Connor,” in line with SSSL’s conference theme of “Reconstruction(s).”
Deadline: January 26, 2024
Guest curator: Karen Bosy
Following the format of the 2021 Literary Geographies collection of essays on ‘Literary Geographies of Isolation’ (https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/issue/view/13) the journal’s editors are now seeking short contributions which engage with the theme of ‘Conversations’ from a literary geography perspective for the 2024 October issue.
We welcome submissions of approximately 1500 words which engage with the theme of ‘conversations’ in relation to theory and practice in and for literary geography.
Topics might include, for example:
"The Material Lives of Logistics" - As part of a panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association (ALA) Conference (Chicago, IL - May 23-26, 2024), we invite paper abstracts that explore logistics and infrastructures in literary texts. The global supply chain accounts for the movement of 90% of everything and over 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions (George 2013, MIT Climate Portal). The organizational imperatives enabling the ecocidal acceleration of commodity circulation, Alberto Toscano reminds us, encompass “a deeply incoherent, contradictory, conflicted and competitive domain” (2014). Literary forms are particularly apt for dealing with contradiction and incoherence.
MSA 2024 Panel
Transcendental Homelessness or Transcendental Localism: Topographies of Late Modernist Poetry
Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Poverty in Academia
Issue 8: A Special Issue guest edited by Bruce Kovanen and Andrew Bowman
Nothing stops the Stones! With a new album Hackney Diamonds and a major global tour planned for 2024, The Rolling Stones remain a vital part of contemporary culture and history. In the 60 years since the band released its first albums in the UK and US, it has stirred the hearts and minds of generations.
Yet, there is still so much more to say about the Stones.
Goal
This anthology aims to investigate and analyze the music and influence of The Rolling Stones and the band’s impact on contemporary culture.
CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):
Nabokov, Blackness, and Whiteness
In line with ChLA’s fiftieth anniversary and a conference themed “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 50 Years of ChLA," this hybrid session invites brief (5-minute) talks and/or posters about applying crip time to the teaching or studying of children’s literature. Disability scholars explore what has been termed crip time: the kind of time experienced by people whose disabilities mean that they engage with the world at a different pace than normative time. As Alison Kafer claims: “Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds” (Feminist, Queer, Crip 27).
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Literary Theories/Analysis
The 19th bi-annual International Virtual Conference on "Discrimination, Bias, and Repudiation"
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde
CFP: The 19th bi-annual International Virtual Conference is pleased to present the theme of this May’s conference: "Discrimination, Bias, and Repudiation"
Venue: Online (Join us at www.dialogo-conf.com/)
Dates: May 20-28, 2024
This panel seeks to examine historical and contemporary iterations of feminist and queer coalition building, focusing on the capacities and frailties of political work to build community and power across time and space. Topics of interest include social movement memory and archives as political tools, intersections of academic and activist feminisms and queer politics, the incorporation and institutionalization of grassroots politics, and neocolonial discourses and practices within American feminist and queer projects globally. Drawing on the conference theme, the panel invites papers which examine grounded knowledge production from a variety of perspectives.
Call For Papers: Narrative Matters
“Spaces can be real and imagined. Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories. Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice.”
~bell hooks
The August Wilson
Author Society
of the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
35th Annual ALA Conference
May 23–26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Call For Papers: "The Silencing of Racial Inequality in Post-1994 South Africa"
A special issue of Politikon
Guest Editors: Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Mandisi Majavu, and Marzia Milazzo
The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) accepts submissions for unthemed issues (1–2 annually) on a rolling basis, and invites scholars, activists, and artists to submit. We are currently seeking submissions for our summer 2024 issue and we reccommend submission before the end of January 2024 for consideration.
General Call for Papers
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers the study of African American/Вlack, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and other women of color, genders, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. It welcomes a range of comparative and transnational research as well as analyses of domestic social, cultural, political, and economic policies and practices from new
and established authors.
Topics and subject areas of interest include but are not limited to:
The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of 1918.
International Conference – Reimagining Africa: Prospects and Opportunities
Rupkatha Translation Project (RTP 2024)
In collaboration with
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Université d’Artois, France
Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India
Belarusian State Economic University
[Download the Brochure in PDF]
About the Project
Introduction
Call for Papers
CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE:
APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth issue of CURRENTS: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review. CURRENTS is an open access, peer-reviewed, yearly interdisciplinary journal, based in Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University), addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies.
Global Modernism and Simultaneity
The University of Tokyo
September 14-15
Keynotes
Josephine Park (UPenn)
Christopher Bush (Northwestern)
With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)
The International Journal of the History of Sport – Special Issue Call for Papers
The History of Sport in the Arab World
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1
Special Issue: Trade in Humans
Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel
Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024
A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 11.2
Special Issue: The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media
Edited by Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen
Deadlines | Essays: May 1, 2024
What is the Asian Century? Are we living in it? Do its recent invocations—by writers and readers, politicians and pundits, journalists and academics—mark a return to earlier eras of relative Asian centrality on the world stage or announce a future we have yet to inhabit? Is it a paranoid, U.S.-centered discourse of Western decline or a triumphant announcement of Asian economic-semiotic arrival? Is the Asian Century an aspiration or a threat—and to whom?
Fall 2024 Issue of Critical Humanities examines narrative innovations and new scholarly approaches in representations of contemporary and/or day-to-day struggles against climate change and extraction. How do narratives from the Global South ― in literature, print, film and media ― understand the impacts of climate change and industrial extraction on minority communities? In what ways do representations of climate change highlight its intersections with colonial, neo-colonial and postcolonial forms of extraction? What are the new and innovative methods for us to theorize responses, struggles, and resistance efforts against the hostile conditions of extraction in the context of climate change?
Call for Book Chapters
The Afterlives of British Drama and Performance:
Adaptation and Appropriation in 21st Century