Amidst a growing insistence on disability futures, this panel centers the future of feminist disability scholarship. Taking up the conference sub-theme of Revisiting, Reclaiming & Re-imagining, panelists propose new directions for feminist disability thought not by looking forward, but through a transformative turn to alternative pasts. Recent critical disability scholarship reimagines the field’s scholarly origins and objects, including Sami Schalk and Jina B. Kim’s call for feminist-of-color disability studies and the Crip Genealogies edited volume. This panel foregrounds this twinned intervention in field-narration and analytic objects--insisting that both are necessary for transformative feminist disability thought.

Chapter proposals are sought for a volume of critical essays on Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Proposed chapters should ideally also connect to contemporary lives of the play, adaptations, influence on later works, translations, and/or connections with cultural studies' paradigms. The target readership for the volume includes teachers/instructrors, and students, which should bear upon the accessibility and adaptability of the essays themselves.

CALL FOR PAPERS: RADICAL CHILDREN’S FILM AND TELEVISION EDITED COLLECTION

Edited by Dr Noel Brown (Liverpool Hope University)

Deadline for proposals: 30 April 2023

I am seeking chapter proposals for possible inclusion in a forthcoming volume exploring radical children’s film and television. This edited collection is intended as an inaugural volume in the new ‘Children’s Film and Television’ book series, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The Text, an International Peer Reviewed Online Journal of Language,
Literature and Critical Theory (ISSN: 2581-9526)invites original,
unpublished research papers for July 2023 issue.

Indexed in:
1.      ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.      IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communication Research)
3.      Citefactor (Directory Indexing of International Research Journals)
4.      DRJI (The Directory of Research Journal Indexing)

LAMBDA PI ETA NATIONAL COMMUNICATION HONOR SOCIETY CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR NCA CONVENTION AT THE NATIONAL HARBOR, NOVEMBER 16-19, 2023.

Who’s Eligible: Undergraduate students with current LPH membership
Submissions Due: March 29, 2023 at 11:59 PM Pacific time

LAMBDA PI ETA (LPH), the National Communication honors society, invites outstanding papers authored by undergraduate students in all areas of communication scholarship. Papers may be co-authored, as long as at least one co-author is an LPH member. All contributors must be undergraduate students at the time the paper is written. Only completed papers will be considered.

The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University is pleased to announce its annual Graduate Student Conference to be held on 20th and 21st of April, 2023. This conference is a space for graduate scholars, activists, artists, and others to think through and confront colonial systems.

Our conference this year is interested in “Decolonizing Cartographies” – or, stated broadly, how do we challenge colonial regimes of knowledge and the ways they divide the world.

There is a common adage that labour is invisible in Victorian literature. From Bruce Robbins’s discussion of the servant’s spectral “hand” to Carolyn Lesjak’s claim that labour is often hidden in the Victorian novel, scholars have often asserted that labour is rarely made visible. Yet, in the Victorian period itself, as Tim Barringer suggests, certain types of labour were made increasingly visible through aesthetic means. Whether it was paintings of farmers and other agricultural workers, Ford Madox Brown’s painting “Work,” or the Great Exhibition “of the Works of Industry of All Nations,” where audiences watched printmakers and seamstresses create new pieces and engineers fine-tune machines, labour was something highly visualized.

CFP: Robert Graves and The ‘60s: “All You Need is Love”?

British writer Robert Graves (1895-1985) associated with multiple counterculture movements, including the modernist vanguard and anti-war poets, made forays into Eastern mysticism, reimagined the Classical period, contemporized ancient myths and rituals, experimented with hallucinogens, and managed to publish over 140 books, including what some might term his magnum opus, The White Goddess, an encyclopedic work he subtitled “A historic grammar of poetic myth.” Above all else, he is remembered as a poet of Love, exploring the subject across his long career in its many iterations: romantic, allegorical, ritualistic, the literary—the coupling of Poet and Muse.

*** Please note that special issue proposals for Verge: Studies in Global Asias 12.1 are due *March 20, 2023*. A previous announcement included an incorrect due date.***

Verge: Studies in Global Asias invites proposals for special issue 12.1, which will be published in Spring 2026.

CFP: 57th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference

On Digital Pasts and Futures: New Perspectives in Literature, Technoculture, and Media  

Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Mainly in person with some Zoom participation.

Dates: Wednesday and Thursday, April 19 and 20, 2023

Keynote Speaker: Cassius Adair (Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The New School), “Reverse Engineering: From Trans Tech Histories to Radical Trans Futures.”

This edited volume collects essays from those writing about the experience of reading, studying, teaching, and interpreting James Joyce. The essays form a picture of how Joyce’s writing serves its reader by reflecting dimensions of human experience.

Updated Call for Chapter contributions to proposed book on The Who’s Tommy:

See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Heal Me: Tommy, Rock Opera and Twentieth Century Britain

Edited by Keith Gildart, Christopher Weedman and Benjamin Halligan

*SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED*

Pennsylvania College English Association Annual Conference

Lackawanna College, 

501 Vine St., Scranton, PA

May 24-26, 2023

The Work of English Studies: Digital Adaptation and Expansion in the Post-Pandemic Age

Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production

Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. Indeed, although Imazighen have one of the oldest writing systems in North Africa, known as Tifinagh, the latter is not associated with a body of written literature, an Amazigh literary canon. On the other hand, the Amazigh peoples have an extensive and rich oral literature that includes poetry, myths, fables, songs, proverbs, sacred rituals, and tales, which are excluded from a simple textualist notion of culture and communal identity.