The research group CULIVIAN (“Culturas Literarias y Visuales del Animal” / “Animals in Literary and Visual Cultures”) is hosting the international conference “The Factual Animal: Audiovisual Representations of Real Other-than-Human Animals.” The conference will be held face-to-face at the Facultat de Filologia, Traducció i Comunicació at the Universitat de València (Spain) on November 29 – December 1, 2023. The conference is organized as part of the CIGE/2021/100 research project, funded by the Conselleria d’Innovació, Universitats i Societat Digital, and is additionally sponsored by the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València, and the Friends of Thoreau Program at the Instituto Franklin

The Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children was established in 1739.  It was the ‘darling project’ of Thomas Coram who saw the need to care for infants when their parents were unable to.  The Hospital underwent great changes between 1739 when its opening was a watershed event in British child welfare and 1954 when it ended its practice of institutional care.  This conference aims to bring together the global community of Foundling Hospital researchers for the first time to discuss all aspects of the charity’s history, and stimulate new avenues of investigation in the institution’s archives.

PAMLA 2023 Los Angeles: “Shifting Perspectives”

October 26–29, 2023

Panel: "Emersonian Perspectives"

Sponsored by the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites papers that explore the conference theme “Shifting Perspectives” in the context of Emerson’s work and reception. Contributions may address how perspective informs Emerson’s philosophy, aesthetics, poetics and politics. They may also explore in what ways Emerson’s work teaches us to shift our approaches to reading, thinking, feeling, writing and teaching. Finally, they may also show how other philosophers, poets and artists shift our perspective on Emerson.

Description

We are a group of international scholars looking for additionalchapters to complete our anthology on the topic of nostalgia.This anthology will broadly explore the function of nostalgia in culture. Some topics our authors are currently writing on include the relationship between nostalgia and literature;music; object ontology; personal, cultural, and familial identity; sense of longing for place; posthumanism; sexuality; game studies; and the commodification of nostalgia in culture. We welcome proposals on any of these topics or otherwise.Creativity and multimodal projects are also encouraged that appeal to a wide audience. Completed chapters should be approximately 10,000 words.

The International Conference ‘Translation and the Periodical’ will be hosted from 13-15 September 2023 at Ghent University in Belgium.

It will start with a postgraduate workshop on 13 September, followed by the main conference on 14 and 15 September.

Keynote Speakers
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar (Glendon College York University, Canada/ Boğaziçi University, Turkey)
Evanghelia Stead (Versailles Saint-Quentin University, France)

Call for Papers
Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Deadline: August 15, 2023

Must We? The Discourse of Student Need

Writing studies, in its aims to meet “student need,” has always been teleological in its orientation. But should we continue to assume that we know what future we are preparing our students for and maintain confidence in what best serves them? This special issue asks for a critical reappraisal of our reliance on those discourses of goals, needs, and assessments and how they have shaped and continue to shape our fields, especially given emerging transnationalism and globalism in teaching and scholarship.

Novel Thinking: Representations of Mind in Literature and Culture

A One Day Hybrid Conference at the University of Queensland

Monday, 26th June 2023

ANGLES: Call for Guest Editors

Angles (https://journals.openedition.org/angles/) is seeking guest editors for the thematic sections of its upcoming issues, due to be published in 2025 and 2026.

Angles is an international online peer-reviewed journal published bi-annually by the SAES (Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur).

It is indexed by MLA, EBSCO, ERIH Plus, etc.

Each thematic issue contains 8–12 articles selected by a guest editor after a double-blind peer-review process.

The Polish open-access journal Didaskalia (https://didaskalia.pl/en) invites submissions that reflect on the actual and potential power of disability to transform performing arts, and theatre and performance studies. We wish to approach this issue from the perspective that sees disability as a generative artistic force and a critical lens. As a creative, academic, and cognitive category, disability has been changing the face of theatre, dance, music, and performance art.

I am delighted to invite submissions for an edited volume by Dr Serena Clark titled Reclaiming Humanitarianism, Development, and Peace After Crises: Responding Through Disruption and Adapting to the New Normal, with the Helsinki University Press series, The Impact of Pandemics. The proposal has tentatively been approved, and I am now seeking chapter abstracts for a final proposal review.

I welcome submissions from all disciplines and/or theoretical perspectives; I am particularly seeking research by early career and first-generation contributors, and historically underrepresented scholars, such as women of color (e.g., Black and African-American, Asian and Asian-American, Indigenous, and other minority communities), and LGBTQ+.

Call for Papers

“Identity and Difference Research Group”

in collaboration with

“Strategies of Cultural Industries, Communication and Social Research Lab”

Is hosting an International conference on:

“ The Post-Pandemic and the digital turn in Higher Education”

CFP: Special Issue for the journal Sexualities

Dr. Linda Roland Danil

Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge

Email: lindarolandd@gmail.com

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 30 June 2023

Deadline for the submission of manuscripts: 30 September 2023

Queer Immunities/Immunologies, Queer Virology

Australia-India Encounters: Past, Present, Future

3-4 May, 2023

Organised by

The Centre for Australian Studies, Department of English and Culture Studies,

The University of Burdwan

in collaboration with

Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University, Canberra

Where is the spring that rose where St. Alban’s blood fell? Who cares for Cuddy Ducks? Can we see Enoch and Elijah? When the Virgin fell in labour, was Romani St. Sarah at her side? How did St. Sebastian become a gay icon? Who were the Twin Saints, the Three Pure Ones, the Four Friends and the Five Major Prophets? What goes into a Dumb Cake for St. Agnes’ Eve? Does a wet St. Swithun’s day really foretell forty days of rain? Do girls still appeal to St. Andrew of the fishermen for a good catch in marriage? Can we still hear Old Clem at the hammer and the thunders of St. Barbara? Whether you weave a cross of reeds for Lá Féile Bríde, wear a daff for Dewi Sant, or bear a rose for St. George, come and join our day or we may have to call on St.