Robert Lowell session, American Literature Association, 21-24 May 2025 in Boston

The Robert Lowell Society welcomes proposals for one session at the American Literature Association's annual conference (Boston, MA, 21–24 May 2025).

We are especially interested in proposals that consider Lowell's work in light of today's "death studies." For example: Lowell’s own elegies, his memories of and reconstructions of predecessors and peers, his cemetery poems, his care poems, his commemorative publishing projects, his imitations of elegies by others, his prose about others. Panelists might also consider poems about Lowell, including but not limited to elegies. 

OGOM Conference 2025: CFPSea changes: The fairytale Gothic of mermaids, selkies, and enchanted hybrids of ocean and river

Conference page: https://www.opengravesopenminds.com/sea-changes-2025/

Venue: The British Library, London, UK (and online) Date: 5–6 September 2025

American Literature Association

May 21-24, 2025

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA

The Richard Wright Society announces two sessions on Wright to take place at

the 36th Annual American Literature Association Conference.

Roundtable: Richard Wright’s Contributions to Postcolonial Studies

In his introduction to AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, Vijay Prashad tells

the story of how Richard Wright came to attend the historic Bandung Conference in

Recent developments in the study of theatre festivals (Knowles 2020) highlight the importance of investigating festivals as key events, both for the field of theatre and, more broadly, for cultural life. These contributions demonstrate the value of examining festivals from transnational perspectives and exploring their impact on the artistic and social communities that have designed, produced, and hosted them. As recurring events that create a distinct time and space, festivals can be seen as a lens through which processes of negotiation between socio-political positions and artistic perspectives can be investigated, often within a context that is simultaneously local and global.

Call for Proposals: Conference on Creativity, Creative Arts, and Neurodivergence, June 2025

Hybrid in-person/Online: June 18 - 20, 2025 (dates tentative at this stage, will be confirmed)

Online pre-sessional: Thursday, June 18 (2 - 6pm GMT)

In person: Friday & Saturday, June 19-20 (2 - 5pm and 9am - 5pm)

Call for Papers: ‘Nordic Film Culture in the 21st Century’

Special Issue of Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 

Guest editors: Eva Novrup Redvall (University of Copenhagen), Anders Grønlund (Lund University) and Pietari Kääpä (University of Warwick)

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-scandinavian-cinema#call-for-papers

2025 WAR AND MEDIA STUDIES GRADUATE STUDENT WRITING AWARD 

The War and Media Studies SIG is holding its annual graduate student writing award competition to showcase innovative work in the field by our graduate student members. We will again be partnering with the Sage journal Media, War & Conflictand the winning author will have the opportunity to be published in the journal in addition to receiving a $100 cash prize.  

This panel aims to provoke discussion of “trauma” and the critical paradigm that has grown up around it in our time. Especially since the publication of Cathy Caruth’s Unclaimed Experience in 1996, “the traumatic” has grown from a specialist analytic discourse to a catch-all framework that informs how we talk about everything from politics, to art, to personal relationships. In short, the concept of trauma today enjoys a culturally dominant status. In recent years, however, the narrative trope of trauma has served as a target for critics increasingly frustrated with its seeming omnipresence.

                                           INSAP 2025 – Celestial Connections Across Time and Space  

Dates: 8-13 June 2025  
Location: Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK  

Subject Fields: Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Environmental History / Studies, History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Humanities, Literature, Anthropology, Cartography, Geography

Abstract Deadline: 22 December 2024

Representing Bridgerton:

Intersectional Perspectives on the Popular Phenomenon

Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Lisa J Hackett, Jo Coghlan and Huw Nolan

Editors:

• Dr. Muhsin Yanar, Visiting Researcher, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr. Grace Halden, Senior Lecturer, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, Birkbeck, University of London
• Dr. Pelin Kümbet, Department of Literatures in English, Visiting Researcher, Cornell University
• Dr. Russell Kilbourn, Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University

 contact email:

sciencesandfictions@gmail.com

 Presentation

Deadline now extended to December 14, 2024.

[W]e need to contest this understanding of emotion as ‘the unthought’, just as we need to contest the assumption that ‘rational thought’ is unemotional…
Sara Ahmed, The Cultural Politics of Emotion

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAPS (formerly CACLALS) 2025 from June 1 to 3, 2025
Proposals due: January 15, 2025

Keynote Speakers: TBA

Conference Theme: Postcolonial Studies, Sustainability, and Shared Futures

The Canadian Association for Postcolonial Studies (formerly CACLALS) will host its annual conference from June 1 to 3, 2025, at (TBA) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The editors of Translation Review are inviting submissions. We are particularly interested translations of contemporary international writers into English and submissions that discuss the process and practical challenges of translating.

We would also be happy to consider and interviews with translators, manuscripts that address the concept of translation in the visual and musical arts (intersemiotic or multimodal translations), as well as submissions that address issues of machine translation, AI translations, and translation in the digital age in general. Proposals for special issues are also welcome.