Liberalism’s nebulous contours have long animated studies of nineteenth-century British literature and culture. This roundtable seeks to extend these discussions by turning to this tradition’s imprint upon our practices and conceptions of teaching and scholarship. We invite papers that trouble the continued privileging of the “liberal subject,” a term that encompasses ideas of individualism, originality, and progress–values whose peculiar Victorianism has been analyzed by Elaine Hadley, Amanda Anderson, and Lauren Goodlad, among others.

L.M. Montgomery and the Politics of HomeThe L.M. Montgomery Institute’s 16th Biennial International Conference
University of Prince Edward Island, 19-23 June 2024

“Oh, I’ve got such a lovely home,” breathed Pat, clasping her hands. “It’s such a nice, friendly house.”
—L.M. Montgomery, Pat of Silver Bush (1933)

It’s the home of my heart, this little room—the spot I love, for here I am happiest.
—L.M. Montgomery, 30 April 1903

"Reframing Postcolonialism and Cinema"

Links among scientific modeling, visualization, and the literary: literary dimensions of scientific models (climatology, epidemiology, etc.); literary engagements with models and visualization; relationships between scientific and literary representations of and speculations regarding complex systems.

Sponsored by the Science and Literature Forum.

Abstract + brief bio to Rebecca Evans (evansr@southwestern.edu) by March 15, 2023.

Call for paper “Doctor Virtualis” 19

Fragments of order and disorder in the Middle Ages

«Sosteneva, fra l’altro, che le inopinate catastrofi non sono mai la conseguenza o l’effetto che dir si voglia d’un unico motivo, d’una causa al singolare: ma sono come un vortice, un punto di depressione ciclonica nella coscienza del mondo, verso cui hanno cospirato tutta una molteplicità di causali convergenti. Diceva anche nodo o groviglio, o garbuglio, o gnommero, che alla romana vuol dire gomitolo»

(C.E. Gadda, Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ninth Annual Queens College English Graduate Conference

IN OTHER WORLDS

Conference Dates: March 29/30, 2023

Submission Deadline: March 6, 2023

INTERNATIONAL SIDNEY SOCIETY at the SIXTEENTH-CENTURY-SOCIETY CONFERENCE

26-29 October 2023

Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. (Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel)

The International Sidney Society will sponsor three panels at the 2023 Sixteenth-Century-Society Conference and invites paper proposals related to Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney Herbert (Countess of Pembroke), Lady Mary Wroth, other members of the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley family, or associates of the broader Sidney circle.  

The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fairy Tale will host an online conference via Zoom on March 31-April 1. The theme is "Beginnings," and we will be exploring how, in many ways, the nineteenth century saw the birth of science fiction and fantasy as we know them, as well as the scholarly study of folk and fairy tales.  Suggested topics may include, but are not limited to:

The MLA’s Forum on Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Literature solicits abstracts for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2024 MLA Convention in Philadelphia on psychoanalysis and decolonization. Psychoanalysis is often critiqued for its silence on the phenomena of colonialism and its legacies in the present and decoloniality as discourse and praxis. In recent years there have been calls as well to decolonize psychoanalysis and/or resurrect psychoanalysis for the people, the collective, the subaltern, and those without economic or social advantages for accessing the clinic.

CFP for the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA)

Conference Dates: January 4th to 7th 2024

As If, But Differently: Meditations on the Realisms of Our Times

01 – 02 December 2023

St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

A forum dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the

Department of English and American Studies &

the 135th anniversary of St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia

[Edited Collection]:  Wars We Never Fought:  Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction   

Deadline for Essay Proposals  June 1, 2023
Deadline for Essay Drafts:   March 1, 2024

Overview:

Critical essays are requested for Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction.  This collection will examine the use and function of war as a central thematic or formal element in science / speculative fiction and fantasy texts in a variety of popular culture media, from narrative fiction to film and television to video games and new media.  

The Sixth Annual Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference at StokerCon 2023

Conference Date: Friday, June 16, 2023

Conference Location: Station Square Hotel, 300 W Station Square Dr, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

Conference Website: https://www.stokercon.com

The 2023 StokerCon ® convention in Pittsburgh promises to be a banner event. In addition to
celebrating the birthplace of many aspects of modern horror, this year also represents the
bicentenary of Ann Radcliffe’s death, and the publication of the 2nd edition of Frankenstein, the
first to bear Mary Shelley’s name.

Going against tenacious perceptions of the south as firmly rooted to the past, we argue for a vision of multicultural, diverse souths oriented towards the future. At times, southern futurism has been a force of oppression, including the technological innovations of the plantation; the rebranding of Atlanta as a place where commerce could ignore racism or complicate it as a model of true global exchange; or the militaristic and privatized response to Hurricane Katrina that foreshadows a disaster-capitalist approach to climate change. However, the south’s overlapping histories of decolonial and anti-racist activism have always imagined progressive futures.