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The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:
Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Contact Person: Nhan Huynh
Meeting Email: glocal@soas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2024
Official Website: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/afala2024/cfp/
STAGING SILENCE FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE
3–4 July 2025 / St John’s College, Cambridge
This two-day, in-person conference will explore developing traditions of silence in dramatic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance. Papers are sought from scholars across a range of fields, including classical reception, comparative literature, and medieval and/or early modern English literature. Topics may include:
- mute characters and/or characters who never appear on stage;
- characters who gain or lose the power of speech (welcoming perspectives e.g. from disability studies);
From an early stage, the modern African novel has recognized the unjust challenges faced by African women. Even novels of the 1950's, such as Cyprian Ekwensi's People of the City (1954), bear witness to the difficulties that women face in transcending traditional norms as well as modern forms of objectification and exploitation. Even though these novels gesture to the need for better physical and societal realities for women, we may not find in the early novels a plan or vision of what exactly is needed for women to surmount various cultural hurdles and to fully actualize their potential in the modern realm.
From the popularity of superhero comics to cult movements around religious leaders, from venerating political figures to idolizing pop-culture celebrities, images and constructions of ‘heroes’ play a significant role in US culture. Simultaneously, there are people and actions outside of the limelight that have been revered as heroic, for example the voluntary work of nurses in homeless shelters and hospitals. While often tied to individuals, heroism occurs not just in these personified forms but can be attached to larger movements, events, or groups in more abstract ways as well. Both the figure of the hero and heroization more generally have equally frequently been weaponized throughout US history or used as a tool for political manipulation.
Conference: International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 8-10 2025. Kalamazoo, Michigan.
"Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanitie Text Analysis" Seminar at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). Call for Papers #nemla2025 Submit your abstract https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20988 Maryann Pasda DiEdwardo is the Chair of a Seminar "Interdisciplinary Research, Digital Humanities, Text Analysis" for inclusion in the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA). https://www.nemla.org/convention.htmlNeMLA's 56th Annual ConventionHotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown Cultural Studies and Media Studies
AMP: American Music Perspectives seeks articles associated with Bruce Springsteen’s groundbreaking 1975 album Born to Run. The journal is open to a wide range of cultural and theoretical perspectives, as well as to essays that address the artist’s earlier work in relation to Born to Run. For best consideration, please submit your work by October 15, 2024. This special issue will be co-edited by Kenneth Womack (Monmouth University) and Carlee Migliorisi (Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music) to commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary.
Event :
NeMLA's 56th Annual Convention, March 06-09 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The panel "Abortion, Single Motherhood, and Adoption Schemes in Magdalene Literature" will take place at the 56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) organised from March 6 to March 9 in Philadelphia, PA.
Magdalenism is a structure which was implemented from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth century in about 60 European and Europeanised countries around the world. Its objective was to control and fashion femininity, women’s social behaviours, and their sexuality. At a time when abortion was illegal in most countries, Magdalene Laundries and Mother and Baby “Homes” were often seen as a “solution” for unmarried pregnant girls and women.
300 Word proposals
“Sketching the Spectral: Ghosts in French-language Graphic Novels”
56th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Philadelphia, PA
March 6-9, 2025
Deadline for abstracts: September 30, 2024
The Eudora Welty Society seeks submissions for its 2024 SAMLA panel, “Mirrors and Magnifications: Eudora Welty and Shifting Perspectives.” In alignment with this year’s SAMLA theme, Seen and Unseen, the panel aims to investigate the methods that Welty uses to mirror, frame, magnify, and even distort the vision of her characters and/or readers. Welty’s work displays a creative use of varying avenues of sight with material, political, and epistemological consequences—some examples from her fiction may be the dimmed lamp that contributes to R.J.
Call for papers for the volume on Ecodramaturgies for Routledge Focus on Dramaturgy series, edited by Magda Romanska:
https://www.routledge.com/Focus-on-Dramaturgy/book-series/RFOD
Bodies of Feminist Resistance: Archives and Practices in Spain and Latin America - Panel Discussion at NeMLA 2025, "(R)EVOLUTION"
Host Institution: La Salle University
Hotel & Convention Site: Philadelphia Marriott Downtown
Dates: March 6-9, 2025
Departing from 'the body' as a terrain of feminist analysis and resistance, this panel seeks to explore the wide range of interventions re-imagining 'the political' in contemporary Spain and Latin America.
Seminar 3 of European Shakespeare Research Asociation Conference in Porto, 9-12 July, 2025
Shakespeare and Music: Between Time and Timelessness
Supported by the RMA Shakespeare and Music Study Group
Convenors:
Michelle Assay, University of Toronto, Canada (michelle.assay@utoronto.ca)
Alina Bottez, University of Bucharest, Romania (alina.bottez@lls.unibuc.ro)
CALL FORPAPERS Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal Special Issue on the Women of IMAX
Guest Editors: Jessica Mulvogue and Allison Whitney
PoP Moves, an international network of popular dance researchers, invites proposals for a Special Topics Issue of The Journal of Popular Culture on the topic of mediating popular dance histories. For well over a century, popular dance has been present across changing media technologies: from printed instruction manuals in magazines and newspapers to radio, film, and television to digital platforms and social media, dancing has circulated between different bodies, cultural communities, and across geographical and social boundaries.
Adaptation, widely regarded outside the academy as a conservative practice, has been compared to biological evolution by Gary R. Bortolotti, Linda Hutcheon, and Brian Boyd. Although the evolutionary model embraced by these scholars sets itself against reviewers who continue to judge new adaptations as more or less successful copies of familiar texts, it still emphasizes continuity rather than disruption as the rule for textual and cultural adaptation.
Human bodies and, by extension, human subjectivity have long been contested spaces. Against traditional Eurocentric and anthropocentric definitions of the human as a stable identity abstracted from its surrounding environment, movements like feminism, anti-racism, anti- and post-colonialism, and ecocriticism have called out the human’s complicated entrenchment in and with other/othered bodies and landscapes. Posthumanist scholars like Rosi Braidotti define the (post)human body as necessarily relational, nomadic, ever-changing with and in response to others. As such, the body becomes a site for radical transformation through which we may interrogate contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, income inequality, and climate change.
Call for Papers
New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures
An International Conference, 28 and 29 March 2025
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany
A recent New York Times article, “Are We in the ‘Anthropocene,’ the Human Age? Nope, Scientists Say,” reported on the ongoing debate among scientists about classifying the Anthropocene as an epoch or an event. Regardless of its definitive place on the geologic time scale, the Anthropocene is a significant marker of history, signifying humans’ profound impact on the environment and the course of evolution. This raises critical questions about the nature of evolution in the Anthropocene. How do we define evolution in this age? The Anthropocene is characterized by human achievements and significant challenges, including wars and climate destruction. These crises force us to question: what kind of Anthropocene are we striving to preserve?
EXTENDED DEADLINE
We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission deadline for Alizés 45 - Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments, has been extended to September 1, 2024.
Learning and Teaching English in Multilingual Educational Environments
Deadline for abstracts (400 words) and short biographical notes (150 words):: Sptembre 1, 2024
Notification of acceptance: September 16, 2024
Submission of full draft papers: January 31, 2025
Submission of final papers: June 15, 2025
Languages: English, French
The call for papers for the next general issue of the Australasian Journal of Popular Culture (ISSN 20455852 , ONLINE ISSN 20455860) is now open.
The deadline for submissions of full articles (5-6k words) is August 31 2024. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (among others), and its remit is broad and international. Please submit your articles for consideration (together with a short bio and institutional affiliation) to both Professor Lorna Piatti-Farnell (lorna.piatti-farnell@aut.ac.nz) and Dr Ashleigh Prosser (ashleigh.prosser@murdoch.edu.au).
FIRST FORUM CONFERENCE 2024—CALL FOR PROPOSALS
DIVISION OF CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
SEPTEMBER 27TH AND 28TH
This year’s keynote presentation will be given by Dr. Mal Ahern (The University of Washington). The conference will also feature a virtual roundtable with Dr. Shannon Mattern (The University of Pennsylvania) and Dr. Nicole Starosielski (The University of California, Berkeley).
Infrastructure and Abstraction
“The immaterial has become… immaterial.”
– Lord Cutler Beckett, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
With apologies for cross-posting, please consider submitting, and please share widely.
We seek proposals for the 6th edition of Race/Gender/Class/Media (Routledge). This reader contains upwards of 50 relatively short, tightly-written, good-quality research reports. We're looking for the same wide range of content as in prior editions, preferably focusing on contemporary media content.
The Franciszek Karpinski Institute of Regional Culture and Literary Research has the pleasure to invite you to
The First International Scientific Symposium
T H E L A N G U A G E S O F C O N T E M P O R A R Y L I T E R A R Y S T U D I E S
Date: 26–27th September 2024
Venue: the Pedagogical Library in Siedlce, 2 Aslanowicz(a) Street, Siedlce (Poland)
Details are in the attachments below ↓
Bandung to Berlin explores the radical imagination of the global Cold War, the aesthetics of Non-Alignment, and the role of art in the era of decolonization. Though these topics are often treated as separate paradigms, their points of interconnection are deeply entangled. As former colonies across Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean fought for and gained independence, new national agendas navigated the competing pressures of the Cold War and resisted a dichotomous world order. This conference will explore transnational artistic exchanges and cultural diplomacy in the years 1947-1989, especially across regions in the Global South. We hope to foster new conversations about the confluence of art and politics in larger cultural imaginaries.
The Student Scientific Circle of Cooperation and Dialogue with The East (the Faculty of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw) & the Eastern House Show-Window of the KARTA Centre Foundation have the pleasure to invite you to
The First Scientific Conference
P O L I S H & R U S S I A N C I N E M A S
Date: 25–26th October 2024
Venue: The Eastern House Show-Window,
Warsaw (Poland), 6 plac Konstytucji
Details are in the attachment below ↓
How are Asian American and Pacific Islander bodies figured across different media—in contemporary novels, poetry, and visual arts? How do the transits and residues of US empire across the Pacific inform these representations? This panel investigates texts that center AAPI bodies and their varying materialities, wherein racialized bodies take on other-than-human forms (i.e., paper, digital, textual, watery, earthy, animal, etc.). The panel aims to explore how these embodiments are shaped by the residual and ongoing violences of US empire and/or war in the Pacific.