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Call for Papers:
Voyages: Traversing the White Space
Deadline: May 21, 2023, 11:59 pm EST
Pivot magazine would like to invite you all to share your work! We are so excited to share that the theme for our 2023 edition is Voyages: Traversing the White Space.
Please consider submitting your proposal to the PAMLA 2023 panel “A Leap Over: Formation and Dissolution of Urban Boundaries”.
Approximately one year ago, on May 2, 2022, a draft decision leaked from the US Supreme Court confirmed what many had feared: that the highest US court was set to overturn the 1973 decision Roe vs. Wade and roll back protections governing women’s rights. Almost immediately after, appointment books and clinics began to close in multiple US states. This situation was far from isolated; in the U.K., for example, pandemic gains for women in access to early at-home abortion rolled back on August 29th, 2022. As these and other examples from around the world demonstrate, the present moment appears to be one of regression and regulation.
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism is a new peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective [https://migratingminds.georgetown.edu].
It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.
Foreign Bodies: Becoming Apart, Becoming a Part in Contemporary British Literature
12-13 0ctober, 2023
International conference EMMA (EA741)
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3 - Site Saint Charles
Organizers: Katia Marcellin and Carine Nibakure
Keynote speakers: Professor Catherine Bernard (Université Paris-Cité)and Harry Parker (author of Anatomy of a Soldier and Hybrid Humans)
Call for PapersLitinfinite JournalJuly 2023(Vol 5 Issue 1)
On
Himalayan Studies: Literature, Society and Globalization
E-ISSN: 2582-0400 | CODEN: LITIBR
All the manuscripts should be mailed to litinfinitejournal@gmail.com
Final papers of 4500-6000 words (including citations) should be submitted by 15th June 2023.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Ranajit Guha and the Global South
Kairos Special Issue 8 (2) 2024
Ranajit Guha, the figure behind the Subaltern Studies Collective completed hundred
years last year. This commemorative issue of Kairos proposes to critically engage
with his ideas and seminal contribution as a thinker from the Global South.
Although Guha started off as an academic saboteur within the field of Indian
historiography, his radical questioning of elitism characteristic of political, cultural
and sociological understanding of Indian society radically redirected us to ‘the small
Website: https://themuse.webs.com/newsandevents.htm
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : 'CONTEMPORARY POETRY' (VOLUME 6)
1 Authors may submit up to five (5) poems.
2. ANTHOLOGY seeks honest, thoughtful, well-written poetry.
3. Poems must be submitted in the body of email.
4. While submitting your poems write subject line of email as
“CONTEMPORARY POETRY VOLUME 6 SUBMISSION”
5. Send your submission to contemporarypoetryanthology@gmail.com .
Last date for submission is June 10, 2023.
6 No royalty will be paid to the contributors.
Accepting abstract submissions for a roundtable session, as part of the lineup for the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) conference, Oct. 26-29, in Portland, OR.
Deadline for abstracts: May 31, 2023
Submit at: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18862
15 July 2023: 1pm-4pm (UK Time GMT+1)
The online workshop is designed for students, young scholars and independent researchers in humanities and social sciences who would like to improve their academic writing skills in order to succeed in studies and in career.
It is organised to provide maximum hands-on practice for participants. Each session will include explanations, examples, exercises, and texts to help the participants develop techniques for working productively at different stages of the scholarly writing process.
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Topics will include:
This conference will provide a deeper look into the dynamic and complex relation between construction, codes, language, expression, on one side and the crisis of representations, traumas, discontinuities and tensions in discourses, on the other. This will be conducted according to three research areas:
The anachronism
Narratives and discourse
The temporality of trauma and subjectivity
Poetry is a constant, being produced by all known civilisations from ancient to modern times. Throughout its extensive history, the individual art of high emotions sublimated into perfect language has approached a vast array of subject matters, including love, war, social issues, the beauty of nature, etc. A particular exercise of the mind and soul, and a unique way of apprehending reality, poetry is a self-sufficient universe that intensifies and enlarges life experience. Pointing to inner knowledge rather than real circumstance, it activates different layers of perception, sweeps away human thoughts, feeds emotions and soothes suffering.
The conference seeks to explore the narratives of displacement and to demonstrate the validity of a cross-disciplinary approach which brings together the historical, cultural, social and literary expertise in the handling of text. The conference will particularly focus on time and space representations and on treatment of the theme of cultural ambivalence and identity conflict. The subject of displacement will be regarded as both a migration, voluntary or forced, and a sense of being socially or culturally “out of place”.
Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
Postgraduate Conference
Trinity College Dublin
School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies
5 – 6 October 2023
From Homer to Hate Speech: A Humanities View on Language in Conflict
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Special Issue of Amerikastudien / American Studies
“Queer Politics in Media and Legal Cultures”
In 2022, the Floridian Parental Rights in Education bill, commonly known as “Don’t Say Gay Bill,” heralded a new era of legal censorship specifically targeting LGBTQ persons. Later that year, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis punished the Walt Disney Company for publicly speaking out against the state’s increasingly hostile anti-queer stance. By dissolving Disney’s special status as an independent governing district, DeSantis retaliated for the company’s public criticism.
Writers and critics have in recent years hailed for a “return” of realism to the literary arena with revised notions of what constitutes realist representation to take account of the experiences that are unique to our new era, e.g. “speculative realism”, “metonymic realism”, “ecocritical realism”, and “quantum realism”, to name just a few. Indeed, realism has neverbeen away from the academic limelight despite its accused naivety in aspiring to represent reality objectively, unabashed interpellation of readers into dominant ideologies or as a symptom of the waning of affect in late capitalism.
Registration is now open. Reader and Program are available online: https://jorlitsaf.event.univ-lorraine.fr/
The editor of the Oxford Handbook of George Santayana is looking for two essays in order to complete the edition of the Oxford Handbook of George Santayana:
- The first must focus on Santayana and the idea of “post-truth.” The aim of the chapter is to explore how Santayana’s ideas of communication and truth may help us understand this recent phenomenon, especially in the field of politics.
- The second must focus on Santayana and Romanticism (German, but not exclusively) and explore the philosopher's attitude to the philosophical principles and ideals of Romantic culture (his relation to Romantic poetry is the object of a different chapter.
Updated CFP
Symposium: Petro-Logic/Machine Intimacy
Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2022 exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe, Brontë Studies invites new and original articles for a Special Issue devoted to the Brontës and material culture. The exhibition, co-created with historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, featured more than twenty pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories and offered intimate insight into both her domestic and literary lives.
The South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Annual Conference "(In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies" will take place from November 9-11, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. For conference information, check out SAMLA's website (https://samla.memberclicks.net/)
Addressing Colonial Insecurities Through Radical Forms:
Proposed Special Sessions Panel
VISIONS OF THE AFTERLIFE
7th December 2023
Online Conference
Call for Papers
Abstract Submission:https://humber.ca/tifa/call-proposals
Contact: tifa@humber.ca
Submission Deadline: May 14, 2023
Conference Date: September 29-September30, 2023
Conference Fee: $250.00plus taxes(includes registration,some meals, snacks and a reception)
An international conference
***Postponed until the Autumn 2023***
The University of Wolverhampton, UK
Kazuo Ishiguro’s dystopian novel Klara and the Sun (2021) tells the story of an A.I.-powered “artificial friend” who serves as a companion to a young girl, Josie, a privileged child “lifted” in order to secure the best opportunities whilst resentful masses are left behind. Ishiguro’s novel extrapolates the economic and socio-cultural divisions that haunt our present moment to understand how digital technology engenders and exacerbates old and new socio-economic and cultural inequities, including access to education and medical healthcare.
Queer Environs
Special Issue of Diacritics
Edited by Austin Lillywhite and Nicole Seymour
Call for Proposals
Both noun and verb, “environ” points to what’s “out there,” one’s milieu or surrounding world, the assemblage of human and more-than-human beings in which one finds oneself situated, as well as the activity of encircling an area to enclose, circumnavigate, or occupy it. So too, “queer,” as noun and verb, derives its original meaning from space, referring to something that is oblique, slanted, or off-center.
South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Conference:
Pre-1900 American Literature Panel: “Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America.”
~ DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 5TH ~
The activist/aesthetics reading group invites paper proposals for a one-day hybrid conference to take place on June 2, 2023 in Cambridge, England.
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe and His Contemporaries welcomes articles exploring any area relating to Defoe and/or his contemporaries (broadly conceived). In addition to traditional scholarly papers (roughly 4000-7000 words), we welcome essays on fresh pedagogical approaches to the works of Defoe and other writers of his era.
We also encourage the submission of innovative digital and multimedia projects, as well as experimental non-peer reviewed essays.
Scholarly essays may be eligible for essay prizes awarded by the Defoe Society.
https://www.defoesociety.org/awards/
Call for Book Reviews
We are pleased to announce a call for book reviews.
We invite book reviews (700 - 1,200 words) on work on the following topics but not limited to:
Carnivals (business, entrepreneurship, combined arts, performance)
Online Conference Date: 11 June 2023
Registration is free to attend.
Call for papers
In our fourth annual event, we will examine the theme of 'connections, interconnections, and disconnections' in festive and celebratory culture.