The Sports Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historic sports media texts, players, teams, broadcasting personalities and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.

Please submit a 250-word abstract at  https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels . The deadline for submission is April 30, 2023.

I am proposing an MLA 2024 special session on "Political Oratory and African American Literature."  Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse.  Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.

CfP: Public History in European Historical Perspectives | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History

14-15 September 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, followed by a book publication. Deadline: 1 April.

In this two-week in-person NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty from 16 July to 28 July 2023, twenty-five participants will explore place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, participants will have access to unparalleled archival holdings of Cather materials and the expertise of a leading center for digital humanities. At the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, they will experience landscapes and buildings represented in Cather’s fiction that function as a kind of archive.

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2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference | Television Area

Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023

DePaul University, Chicago, IL

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 | Phone: (312) 362-8000

The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2023 conference in Chicago on the campus of DePaul University.

We are looking for papers that examine any aspect of television, from any time period and using any number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are not limited to:

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Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023

DePaul University

Address/Phone:

DePaul Center

1 E. Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 362-8000

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

DePaul University, Chicago, IL 
DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 362-8000

The Philosophy and Popular Culture Subject Area welcomes submissions to the 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Pedagogy or Community Project Award

Provides $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of projected expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Undergraduate Student Essay Prize

Undergraduate students are welcome to submit 1,000-1,500-word academic essays on any topic relevant to the study of Emerson—his life, work, national and transnational reception, importance within and beyond U.S. literature and culture, and/or contemporary relevance. Winning essays will demonstrate originality, clarity, and rigorous engagement with Emerson. Selected essays may be returned to applicants with suggested revisions. The winning essay will be published in The Emerson Society Papers and the writer awarded $100. 

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, January 4-7th, 2024. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and/or sphere of influence. Send abstract and short bio by 17 March 2023 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Guaranteed Session at MLA 2024: 4–7 January, Philadelphia, PA

We welcome 10-minute papers on any aspect of care in early modern literature and culture. How do texts portray the attachments, solidarities, labors, costs, vulnerabilities, hierarchies, etc. implicated in care? Please submit a 200-word abstract and CV to nazarian@northwestern.edu 

Over the centuries, there has been a connection between pessimism and poetry/song. We invite proposals examining this connection sent to jdailey@gts.edu. Include your name, phone number and e mail in an e mail--not as attachments.

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Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging

The biennial conference of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschappen (NGG) - the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion

Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 1-3 2023

Keynote Speakers include Dr. Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven), Dr. Basit Iqbal (McMaster University), Dr. Carly Crouch (Radboud University) and Dr. Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University).

Intro

In recent years, there has been a flurry of new interest in the work of Mina Loy (1882-1966) resulting in a steady output of monographs, new translations, and republications that present Loy from increasingly diverse perspectives. As Sarah Hayden writes in the introduction to the republication of Insel (2014) ‘there have been many Loys; more are emerging’.