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“Once upon a time in Hollywood, Pulp Fiction turns 30”
Pulp Fiction is approaching the 30th anniversary of its release in 1994, and a special issue of South Central Review will help mark the occasion.
NEASECS 2023 Conference: “Old and New, Beginnings and Endings”
Washington Plaza Hotel, Washington DC, November 17-19, 2023
Panel: Translations, Revisions, and Adaptations in the Eighteenth Century
Panel Chair: Lina Jiang (ljiang28@fordham.edu)
Deadline for submissions: July 15, 2023
Date of conference: October 20, 2023
This panel queries the notion of “critical race theory” and how to teach racial issues whether or not one is specifically a “critical race theorist.” This topic is especially urgent during a time of right-wing “anti-‘woke’” agendas that seek to erase the very concept of race from public education and to attack as “divisive” any effort to offer a historically informed and rigorous accounting for ongoing inequality and racism in American society. Race is perversely both denied and invoked as that topic which is too disturbing to teach and yet absolutely necessary for the maintenance of normative political structures.
The University of Calgary English Department’s Free Exchange Conference committee is excited to announce our annual conference will be taking place in person on August 25 and 26th, 2023! We invite applications from any graduate student to speak to this year’s theme, “This is Fine: Existentialism, Performance, Apocalypse.”
We invite applications that seek to engage with the theme in whatever sense feels appropriate to you. What does the future look like? What will happen to the earth? How do we make sense of our time? What does art do for us? How do we make meaningful art? How does climate change affect our art-making? How do we perform apocalypse? How do we perform care?
25 May 2023
Unlearning Ableism: What is Superflex: Social Thinking?
PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE
“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
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The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
Themed Issue 23:
The Liberatory Legacy of bell hooks: Pedagogies and Praxes that Heal and Disrupt
Issue Editors:
Nikki Fragala Barnes, University of Central Florida
Summer L. Hamilton, Pennsylvania State University
Asma Neblett, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Kush Patel, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Danica Savonick, SUNY Cortland
Superman’s Cleveland Conference: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a Cultural Icon!
Call for Presentations
Conference Location: Cleveland Public Library at 325 E. Superior Ave Cleveland, OH 44114
Conference Date: October 14, 2023
In honor of the 85th anniversary of the creation of Superman in Cleveland, Ohio, Ursuline College and the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library are organizing a conference dedicated to exploring the first superhero’s connections to the city of Cleveland, his relationship to the broader cultural environment, and Superman’s legacy within the medium of comics itself.
Thinking about Intersectionality:
Minorities and diverse Dominations in the United States
International conference
April 11-12, 2024
Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient
On August 30, 2021, the United States withdrew its military forces from Afghanistan, marking the end of the longest war in American history. During the twenty years of the Global War on Terror, between two and three million American service members engaged in post 9-11 war operations. American support for veterans and their families during this period was remarkably high. Beginning in 2010, Admiral Michael Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, referred to American public and private support for veterans as a “Sea of Goodwill.”
Due to several requests, we have decided to extend the call for papers of the (Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes Human-Animal Studies Conference until the 10th of June.
Submit your abstract (max. 250 words) to uncommonworlds3@ykes.org (preferably as a word doc or a pdf file with the word “abstract” in the subject field of the e-mail). Remember to add a title for your presentation as well as your name and affiliation and contact information. Add to the abstract if the paper will be presented in-person or online.
The LGBTQ Studies Area of MAPACA welcomes proposals of relevance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communities.
Research in this area uses interdisciplinary ways of thinking to understand the development and construction of sexual identity and the diversity of sexuality in society. We seek papers from contemporary, critical, or historical perspectives.
Topics of interest include:
• Apps and dating in the digital age
• “Bury your gays,” queerbaiting, and television representation
• Drag culture and performance
• Femininities, masculinities, intersections of gender and sexuality
• Gaymers
• Globalization, tourism, and queer migration
• LGBTQ Cinema
This roundtable will be held in-person at the 2023 PAMLA conference in Portland, Oregon. The exact day and time is TBD. The conference dates, however, are Oct 26-29, 2023.
PAMLA 120th Annual Conference (Portland, OR) – October 26-29, 2023
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association
French and Francophone Film and Media in the Classroom
Call for Chapters for an Edited Volume
Human Rights in the Age of Drones: Critical Perspectives on Post-9/11 Literature, Film and Art
Editor: Muhammad Waqar Azeem, PhD (Binghamton University)
Email: mazeem1@binghamton.edu
Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2023
GENERATIVE ART 2023
C A L L - F O R - P A P E R / P O S T E R / A R T W O R K S / P E R F O R M A N C E
We are seeking proposals focusing on Shakespeare and his time, Shakespeare and/or his peers, the influence of Shakespeare on later works of literature, including adaptations, translations, and productions of Shakespeare's plays, Shakespeare and critical race theory, feminism, post-colonial or science studies, and other proposals that touch on any aspect of Shakespeare and related topics. As a standing session we welcome paper proposals on a wide variety of topics; however, papers that address the conference theme of "Shifting Perspectives" in relation to Shakespeare are particularly welcome.
Proposals should be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/
Workshop for Early Career Researchers
“Air Pollution, Plastics, and Global Health”
Organized by Savannah Schaufler
Type:
Workshop
Dates:
November 28-29, 2023
Abstract Submission Deadline:
August 1, 2023
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Subject Fields:
Environmental Humanities; Health Humanities; Discard Studies; Human Ecology; Anthropology; Sociology; Human Behavior; Art and Visual Studies; Race Studies
Humanities in the Time of ChatGPT and other forms of Artificial Intelligence
Fall 2023 Issue of Critical Humanities
Abstract submission deadline is June 15, 2023
In a recent blogpost, Bill Gates announces the beginning of the age of AI. Gates’ enthusiastic pitch for AI is not limited to it being a groundbreaking technological advancement. He sees it as a powerful tool for achieving social and environmental justice. Gates notes “achievement in math is going down across the country, especially for Black, Latino, and low-income students” and he claims that “AI can help turn that trend around.”
E X T E N D E D D E A D L I N E !
“Let me walk to the edge of the genre[1]”
Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations
June 28 - July 1 2023
Paris, France
https://benlernerparisconference2023.weebly.com/
"Hello Darkness, My Old Friend"
Darkness in the American Imagination | virtual conference 4–8 September 2023
We are very excited to share our Call for Papers for the 2023 Charles F. Fraker Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. This year’s conference will be titled, "Dis/continuities: Unsettling Memory and Time" and will take place on October 6 and 7, 2023.
Journal of European Popular Culture (JEPC)
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for articles
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
- Early submission is encouraged -
The next issue is open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
Replaying Communism: Cultural Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media
Online symposium: 1 December 2023
University of Reading, United Kingdom
Keynote Speakers: Anikó Imre, Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California; second keynote tbc.
Submission form: https://sites.google.com/view/replayingcommunism/symposium/submit-a-prop...
Speculative Fiction has become the space in which imaginings of the future proliferate, not totally free of the specter of history, but free from the fatalism that subaltern communities often are forced to cope with under the weight of that history. As such, Indigenous writers, both in the US and in the rest of the world, have turned to the genre as a way to construct futurisms of survivance and resistance. Because settler histories work towards indigenous erasure, the question of individual and communal autonomy is central. In this context, Speculative Fiction has become a key component in the Indigenous fight to regain personal and communal autonomy from narratives of erasure and abjection.
PAMLA 2023 Special Session
October 26-29, 2023
This panel is and isn’t about poetry. At its core, it is a panel about our reading habits surrounding poetry, the ways in which the definition of poetry has shifted in its capaciousness, about how we recognize a poem, what has happened to poetry’s public in the wake of Amanda Gorman’s powerful reading of "The Hill We Climb" in Joseph Biden’s presidential inauguration, and what poetry might become in a heavily digitized, perhaps even metaversal future. The specter that haunts this panel is Stanley Fish’s “How to Recognize a Poem When You See One,” but his essay is really just one starting point in how critics have been fervently trying to recognize our reading habits on poetry.
Resources for American Literary Study (RALS), a journal of archival and bibliographical scholarship in American literature, invites submissions for our upcoming 2023 issues. Covering all periods of American literature, RALS welcomes both traditional and digital approaches to archival and bibliographical analysis.
PAMLA 2023 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS -- EXTENDED DEADLINE
“Rhetorical Theory”
Portland, October 26-29th
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
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