‘Shakespeare Beyond All Limits’7-9 December 2023At the University of Sydney and the State Library of NSW

The Australian and New Zealand Shakespeare Association (ANZSA) is delighted to announce its next conference will be ‘Shakespeare beyond all Limits’ hosted by the University of Sydney from 7-9 December 2023. We are now inviting proposals for scholarly papers and panels.

Our keynote speakers are:

Conference: 25-26 May 2023 (online - via Zoom)

 CFP:

          It is widely known that ideologies of racism, nationalism, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics, society, psychology, culture, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature, film, theatre or visual arts.​          

Open Call for WSA Volume 30 (2024)

Deadline: 15 October 2023

Launched in 1995, Woolf Studies Annual will publish its thirtieth volume in the spring of 2024. The editor invites submissions for this important milestone volume. 

Of particular interest would be articles that make use of the WSA Index (see vol. 28 and 29) to return to and expand/revise the insights of the scholarship and archival material published in the journal’s first 15 years. Of particular interest might be 

• Vara Neverow and Merry M. Pawlowski’s preliminary bibliography to Three Guineas’s notes (vol. 3), 

This panel aims to explore the role of futuristic bodies as spaces for addressing contemporary issues such as gender and race equity, climate change, and income inequality. Science fiction and speculative fiction confront us with the uncanny, asking us to question the boundaries between our reality and fictional-yet-possible futures. Centering the body, often porous and precarious, in these texts positions us to imagine the future of humanity, and encourages us to think critically about perspective shifts we must make today to enable a better tomorrow. As Michel Foucault (1980) states, “the body is given meaning and wholly constituted by discourse.

Literary theory has contributed towards the recovery of marginalised narratives and discourses in literature during the last three decades. The word, ‘minor’ has acquired a resonance of its own in the context of ‘national’ literature which tends to be part of a ‘great tradition’. Against such a background, the recovery of diverse indigenous traditions has become an important task of comparative studies of literature. Nations emerged as ‘imagined’ communities. However, nation-states were not ‘imagined’ in the crucible of prolonged struggles of anti-colonial resistance in Asia, Africa and Latin America, but were born of the political exigencies of imperial powers.

Thinking with Sexology in South Asia: Science at the Boundary

One of the first academic conferences devoted to videographic research was held at the Frankfurt Filmmuseum and Goethe University in Germany in 2013. Titled "The Audiovisual Essay: Practice and Theory," the conference emphasized practice in the presentation-based discussions. As the first speaker of the conference, Catherine Grant described the challenges of this then new scholarly format as "unknown, infinite, or variable" in terms of the experimentation of video production and the reception of this format in academia. 

InVisible Culture — A Journal for Visual Culture 

Call For Papers 

Issue 36: “The Matter of Whiteness” 

Call for Papers: James Bond Studies Conference

30th June – 1st July 2023

University of Roehampton, London

In association with the Centre for Literature and Inclusion and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Roehampton, the International Journal of James Bond Studies will host a 2-day international conference on the University’s beautiful parkland campus in South West London.

Call for Papers

Literature-General

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

School of Social Sciences and Languages, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Chennai in collaboration with Asian Journal of Medical Humanities announces the call for a special issue on:

Gender Medicine: Global Perspectives on the Entanglement between Biomedicine, Socio-Cultural, and Political Construct

Special Issue Editors:

Dr. Manali Karmakar and Dr. Binu Sahayam D.

Contact us: manali.karmakar@gmail.com

Abstract Submission @: gendermedicinespi@gmail.com

Concept Note:

[English below]

La literatura de crimen y sus avatares contemporáneos

Editora invitada: Dra. Ainhoa Vásquez Mejías (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Revista: Nuevas Poligrafías. Revista de Teoría Literaria y Literatura Comparada

Publisher: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Sitio web: http://revistas.filos.unam.mx/index.php/nuevaspoligrafias

Call for Papers: International Conference 

Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19

Conference Date: 7 September, 2023

National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos pr. 22, Vilnius

The conference ‘Post-Pandemic Condition: Biopolitics in the Aftermath of the COVID-19’ revisits the concept of biopolitics by asking how the pandemic has redefined the political field and what new concepts and prospects it can offer for conceptualising our post-pandemic condition. 

We are seeking contributions for a panel entitled “Infiltration Visuality” for the 2023 meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Please email a 250-300 word abstract and short bio to srvolz@uci.edu by March 30 to apply.  

Call for Papers

 “Infiltration Visuality”

Panel proposal for ASAP-14, Seattle and Bothell, WA, October 4-7, 2023

Panel Organizer: Scott Volz, University of California, Irvine

 srvolz@uci.edu