“Lesbian Aesthetics: Living Queer Lives With Ali Smith”

Proposals are due August 15, 2022; the Full manuscripts due December 15, 2022.

Editors 

Jaime Harker, 

Director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi; jlharker@olemiss.edu

Turner Nat Byrd, University of Mississippi; tbyrd1@go.olemiss.edu

Ali Smith is an anomaly in the contemporary publishing scene: an experimental writer

popular enough to be interviewed by the prime minister of Scotland; a lesbian writer lauded as

2022 Conference

“Futures”

2022 Meeting of the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts

October 6-8, 2022

Xavier University

Cincinnati, Ohio

Keynote Speaker: Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Afrofuturist Film Director 

Call for Proposals

**Please note the updated deadline for submissions***

In his Timaeus, Plato hypothesizes that human beings participate in the same world-soul that animates the cosmos, a microcosm of the wider macrocosm. This analogy proved stimulating for the inhabitants of the Middle Ages and inspired them to explore the connections between the body and the wider universe, as well as the relationship between bodies. This conference likewise encourages scholars across the fields of medieval studies to examine the body, the human, and the spaces in-between.

Spaces/Places of Growing Up:

Mapping the Geographies of Childhood

International Phygital Conference organized by

The Department of English,

Ramakrishna Sarada Mission Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, Kolkata.

In collaboration with

The Critical Childhoods and Youth Studies Collective 

15th and 16th September 2022

For SAMLA 94 (Friday, November 11 to Sunday, November 13, 2022; Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront | Jacksonville, FL). (12-15min papers)

Radical changes have been felt nowhere as intensely as in Berlin throughout the long twentieth century: shifting from Weimar liberties to Nazi oppression, and from Cold War fragmentation to an unsteady reunification in 1990 and after, Berlin has often transformed into a space in flux focalizing emergence. Many texts like to channel Berlin's role as a precarious playground of transgressive unsettlement.

UP Education Inaugural International Academic Conference

Yoobee College of Creative Innovation

Auckland City Campus, Auckland, New Zealand

14 – 16 December 2022

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

Asian Folklore, Folk Horror and the Gothic

Conference dates: 14-15 September, 2022Conference venue: NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan // Online (hybrid)

Conference website: https://gothicfolklore.wordpress.com/

Verge will be sponsoring Global Asias panels and roundtables at the upcoming AAS and AAAS conferences. Our goal is to help generate and support work that straddles or otherwise navigates the differences and overlaps between Asian Studies, Asian American Studies, and Asian Diaspora Studies as intellectual formations and interdisciplines.

Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's "Not I" this November! Join us for a three-day event to discuss Beckett's short play and meet renowned Beckett scholar S. E. Gontarski, who will be the special guest.

The deadline for abstracts has been extended to July 31, 2022. Papers may focus on "Not I" or any theme in Beckett's work. We encourage graduate students and independent scholars to send their work. Please submit your 250-word proposal to noti50th@gmail.com. All panels will be plenary and presenters will have 15-20 minutes to speak.

Birthing the Future: Eighteenth-Century Midwifery and Obstetrics

We invite submissions on long 18th-century midwifery and obstetrics studies to be presented as a panel at the 16th International Congress for 18th-Century Studies, July 3-7, 2023 in Rome (ISECS 2023). Investigations can include, but are not limited to:

• understandings of pregnancy, labor, and postpartum processes and practices;

• analyses of textual and visual rhetoric in midwifery manuals and obstetrics works;

• readings of material artifacts (e.g., medical instruments, birthing spaces, pharmaceutics); 

The term avant-garde usually applies to works of art, literature and music characterized by their radical experimentation and opposition to institutionalized culture. Leading unconventional and non-conformist lives, the avant-gardists antagonized the bourgeoise by attacking their social values, mediocrity and material interests. Instead, these iconoclastic artists engaged in acts of dissidence promoted in soirées, manifestos, journals and exhibits that interfered with public life. For instance, Marinetti paraded with the Suffragettes smashing windows through the streets of London, an act that echoes his fervor to destroy museums and academies, as described in the 1909 Futurist Manifesto.

Call for Papers for an Edited Volume

Editors: Dr Meenu A. Gupta and Dr Kamalpreet Kaur

We invite chapters for an edited volume of essays dedicated to the glorious event of 75 years of Indian Independence with a look back at the history of the umbrella term ‘Indian English Literature’.

Concept Note

Call for Papers: International Conference

Immunity and Contagion: Philosophical and Biopolitical Approaches Toward the Pandemic 

29-30 September 2022, Vilnius

The conference “Immunity and Contagion: Philosophical and Biopolitical Approaches toward the Pandemic” will seek to reconceptualize the notions of immunity and contagion and redefine the concept of biopolitics in the current crisis caused by the COVID-19. We invite scholars from different philosophical backgrounds to consider key questions that constitute and are constituted by the concepts of immunity and contagion.