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CALL FOR PAPERS – MLA 2025 – New Orleans
The International Vladimir Nabokov Society seeks paper proposals for presentations on the following themes for the Modern Language Association’s Annual Convention (January 9-12, 2025, New Orleans, LA):
Nabokov, Blackness, and Whiteness
In line with ChLA’s fiftieth anniversary and a conference themed “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 50 Years of ChLA," this hybrid session invites brief (5-minute) talks and/or posters about applying crip time to the teaching or studying of children’s literature. Disability scholars explore what has been termed crip time: the kind of time experienced by people whose disabilities mean that they engage with the world at a different pace than normative time. As Alison Kafer claims: “Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds” (Feminist, Queer, Crip 27).
Topics may include but are not limited to:
Literary Theories/Analysis
The 19th bi-annual International Virtual Conference on "Discrimination, Bias, and Repudiation"
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences." - Audre Lorde
CFP: The 19th bi-annual International Virtual Conference is pleased to present the theme of this May’s conference: "Discrimination, Bias, and Repudiation"
Venue: Online (Join us at www.dialogo-conf.com/)
Dates: May 20-28, 2024
This panel seeks to examine historical and contemporary iterations of feminist and queer coalition building, focusing on the capacities and frailties of political work to build community and power across time and space. Topics of interest include social movement memory and archives as political tools, intersections of academic and activist feminisms and queer politics, the incorporation and institutionalization of grassroots politics, and neocolonial discourses and practices within American feminist and queer projects globally. Drawing on the conference theme, the panel invites papers which examine grounded knowledge production from a variety of perspectives.
Call For Papers: Narrative Matters
“Spaces can be real and imagined. Spaces can tell stories and unfold histories. Spaces can be interrupted, appropriated, and transformed through artistic and literary practice.”
~bell hooks
The August Wilson
Author Society
of the
American Literature Association
announces its
CALL FOR PAPERS
for the
35th Annual ALA Conference
May 23–26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton
17 East Monroe Street
Call For Papers: "The Silencing of Racial Inequality in Post-1994 South Africa"
A special issue of Politikon
Guest Editors: Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Mandisi Majavu, and Marzia Milazzo
The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) accepts submissions for unthemed issues (1–2 annually) on a rolling basis, and invites scholars, activists, and artists to submit. We are currently seeking submissions for our summer 2024 issue and we reccommend submission before the end of January 2024 for consideration.
General Call for Papers
Women, Gender, and Families of Color
Women, Gender, and Families of Color is a multidisciplinary journal that centers the study of African American/Вlack, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian American, and other women of color, genders, and families. Within this framework, the journal encourages theoretical and empirical research from the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. It welcomes a range of comparative and transnational research as well as analyses of domestic social, cultural, political, and economic policies and practices from new
and established authors.
Topics and subject areas of interest include but are not limited to:
The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of 1918.
International Conference – Reimagining Africa: Prospects and Opportunities
Rupkatha Translation Project (RTP 2024)
In collaboration with
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Université d’Artois, France
Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India
Belarusian State Economic University
[Download the Brochure in PDF]
About the Project
Introduction
Call for Papers
CURRENTS NO. 10: POLITICS AND POETICS OF DIFFERENCE:
APPROACHES IN ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE, CULTURE, AND LINGUISTICS
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the tenth issue of CURRENTS: A Journal of Young English Philology Thought and Review. CURRENTS is an open access, peer-reviewed, yearly interdisciplinary journal, based in Toruń (Nicolaus Copernicus University), addressed to young researchers in the field of English studies.
Global Modernism and Simultaneity
The University of Tokyo
September 14-15
Keynotes
Josephine Park (UPenn)
Christopher Bush (Northwestern)
With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)
The International Journal of the History of Sport – Special Issue Call for Papers
The History of Sport in the Arab World
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1
Special Issue: Trade in Humans
Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel
Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024
A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.
Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 11.2
Special Issue: The Asian Century: Idea, Method, and Media
Edited by Christopher T. Fan, Paul Nadal, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, and Tina Chen
Deadlines | Essays: May 1, 2024
What is the Asian Century? Are we living in it? Do its recent invocations—by writers and readers, politicians and pundits, journalists and academics—mark a return to earlier eras of relative Asian centrality on the world stage or announce a future we have yet to inhabit? Is it a paranoid, U.S.-centered discourse of Western decline or a triumphant announcement of Asian economic-semiotic arrival? Is the Asian Century an aspiration or a threat—and to whom?
Fall 2024 Issue of Critical Humanities examines narrative innovations and new scholarly approaches in representations of contemporary and/or day-to-day struggles against climate change and extraction. How do narratives from the Global South ― in literature, print, film and media ― understand the impacts of climate change and industrial extraction on minority communities? In what ways do representations of climate change highlight its intersections with colonial, neo-colonial and postcolonial forms of extraction? What are the new and innovative methods for us to theorize responses, struggles, and resistance efforts against the hostile conditions of extraction in the context of climate change?
Call for Book Chapters
The Afterlives of British Drama and Performance:
Adaptation and Appropriation in 21st Century
Teaching Alcott’s Writings/ Teaching in Alcott’s Writings (Deadline Extended)
ALA 2024/ Chicago
The Review of English and American Literature
Call for Papers
The School explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.
2nd UTAD Conference Existence, Tradition and Future (5-7 September 2024, İstanbul, Türkiye)
Turkish Society for Theatre Research and Bahçeşehir University Conservatory
Call for Papers and/or Applied Workshop
THE SPENSER REVIEW Summer/Fall 2024 Issue CFP
Contacts: Michael Ullyot, ullyot@ucalgary.ca; Bethany Dubow, bethany.dubow@new.ox.ac.uk
Call for Papers: ALGORITHMIC SPENSER
The Spenser Review invites submissions for its 2024 Summer/Fall Issue on the subject of ‘Algorithmic Spenser’ – an issue about patterns, procedures, and problem-solving. What premodern precedents are there for modern algorithms of making and interpreting literary texts and worlds?
SPECIAL ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS
'THE HUMAN AND THE MACHINE: AI AND THE CHANGING WORLD'
If we are to believe the entertainment media, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is destined to go rogue and take over the world, destroying humanity as we know it. In reality, the growing accessibility of AI is seeing its use normalised and it is becoming a useful tool to improve and alter society. Artificial Intelligence has been an area of research since the 1950s and hinges on machine functions that learn from humans or independently. Despite its long history,
Call for Papers
Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures
International Conference
University of Thessaly, Volos
7-8 June 2024
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University
Studies by scholars including Greg Lambert, William Egginton, Omar Calabrese, David Castillo, Helen Hills, Monika Kaup and Lois Parkinson Zamora indicate that the Baroque is more than merely a period in art of and around the 17th century that derives its name from an irregular and odd-shaped pearl and refers to something strange, bizarre, irregular and disproportionate, hence, imperfect. Neobaroque stems from the baroque tradition and accommodates the baroque as a historical period with its complexity and proliferation. It is appropriate for the instances of reproduction and/or transformation of the ideas and the strategies of the Baroque in contemporary culture.
“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.
--- Redux: ---
“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI
The twenty-first century is nearly a quarter done. The contemporary – that category which has so often been theorised, following Barthes and Agamben, as fundamentally out of step with its own time – is starting to synchronise its watch with the temporal bounds of the current century.
Call for papers: The State of the Nation in film and television, London Metropolitan University, online conference, 3rd July 2024.