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Call for Close-Up Submissions A Wide Shot: Expanding the Frame on Melvin Van Peebles
Empathy and the Teaching of Writing
The 26th Annual Summer Conference of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
of the National Council of Teachers of English
YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO, June 15-18, 2023
“If we see each other in each other’s eyes…the walls of Jericho can come tumbling down!”
--Barack Obama
The graduate school 'Authority and Trust' (GKAT) at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies welcomes submissions for their conference "Practicing Trust and Authority" to take place in Heidelberg (Germany) on May 11-13, 2023. Submission deadline is February 5, 2023.
Get in touch: gkat-conference2023@hca.uni-heidelberg.de
Visit our website: www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/gkat/2023conference.html
“Politics is commonly viewed as the practice of power or the embodiment of collective wills and interests and the enactment of collective ideas.”
“The syntagma ‘politics of literature’ means that literature ‘does’ politics as literature…”
-Jacques Rancière, “The Politics of Literature” (2010)
For an upcoming special issue of MFS on "Women Thinking in Public," we seek essays that illuminate the way that fiction itself can serve as a mode of public intellectualism, as both depiction and enactment of women thinking, attending to the connections between gendered expression, the forms of thought, and the forms of fiction. For the full CFP, please visit:
https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/publications/mfs/call/cfp-women-...
You’ll find the full CFP below, but there are a few updates and details worth noting
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Call For Papers
2023 Steinbeck Conference: “Reading, Teaching, and Translating Steinbeck”
March 22-24, 2023
San José State University, San José CA
Work in Displacement Studies lies at the intersection of numerous interdisciplinary fields, such as migration studies, refugee studies, border studies, Indigenous studies, Africana studies, Food Studies, coastal studies, human rights, urban studies, data studies and Latinx studies. Building on that body of literature and the NEH/SSRC working group on “Converging Displacements” at Virginia Tech, this reader takes a critical approach to displacement studies. Critical displacement studies is a methodology examining disruptions of displacement where community access and contribution is essential. An increasingly common experience, being uprooted from place occurs across a range of geographic and temporal scales.
Date: September 7-8-9, 2023
Conference venue: Université de La Réunion (La Réunion, France)
Conveners: Sonja Malzner (University of Luxembourg), Corinne Duboin and Frédéric Garan (University of Réunion Island)
This conference is held within the framework of a research project, “Popkult60” (Transnational popular culture - Europe in the 'long' 1960s), which involves three European universities: University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg), University of Saarbrücken (Germany), University of Jena (Germany). The event is organized in partnership with the Observatory of Indian Ocean Societies (OSOI) at the University of Réunion Island (Réunion, France).
Politics and Art
Exploring the Intersection of Aesthetics and Political Economy
Volume 67 (4/2022)
Extended submission deadline: January 31, 2023
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our February 17 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.
The Department of Languages and Literature at Northeastern State University is organizing a special session for the Illinois Medieval Association’s spring symposium series focused on the role of space or place as broadly defined in the medieval understanding of education and learning. The focus of individual essays is largely open within the theme of the session, with preference given to those touching on broadly Catholic concerns. Papers should be limited to twenty minutes to allow for ample presentation time and sufficient time for Q&A. The session is slated for 3 p.m. Central time on 10 February 2023 (the feast of St.
The 2022-2023 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium will focus on medieval environments, with the term environment being liberally defined. We are now accepting proposals for 20-minute presentations for our February 17 session. Although we will consider proposals on any aspect of medieval studies, priority will be given to those dealing with medieval environments.
Call for Papers
“Race and Environmental Justice in the Era of COVID-19:
Rethinking ‘Social Distancing’”
Organized by Tatiana Konrad, Savannah Schaufler, and Chantelle Mitchell
Dates:
July 13-15, 2023
Abstract Submission Deadline:
January 15, 2023
Venue:
Online via Zoom
Subject Fields:
Department of English
Central University of Rajasthan
in association with
Indian Disability Studies Collective
invites papers for
IDSC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023
on the theme
Disability and the Everyday: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
In his travelogue Filibusters in Barbary(1932), the modernist painter and writer Wyndham Lewis evoked the fantasy of being ‘thoroughly unanchored’ from London, from controversy, from recognizability: from his life as he lived it at the time, in effect. The fantasy compels not only because it’s a typically contrarian move made by an unapologetic contrarian, but also because it invites reflection on the very Lewisian problem of autonomy itself.
“Politics is commonly viewed as the practice of power or the embodiment of collective wills and interests and the enactment of collective ideas.”
“The syntagma ‘politics of literature’ means that literature ‘does’ politics as literature…”
-Jacques Rancière, “The Politics of Literature” (2010)
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Long T. Bui, Associate Professor of Global and International Studies, the University of California at Irvine
Dr. Patricia Pelley, Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University
Dr. Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, the University of Texas at Austin
Special Guest Speaker
Ms. Callie Wright, Education Director, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
Overwhelming Nature: Confronting Catastrophe and the Sublime in the Arts and Humanities
Mahindra Humanities Center Graduate Student Conference
Harvard University | 25–26 March 2023
Conference Coordinators: Elaine Chen & Therese Shire
The present conference seeks scholarly contributions across disciplinary and national borders that explore accounts of the experience of facing natural catastrophes. The conference will consider the potential and limits of understanding catastrophic experiences through the concept of sublimity.
The eighteenth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will be held at Edinburgh Napier University, Thursday 13 April - Saturday 15 April 2023.
Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Laurence Talairach (University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès) andProfessor John Holmes (Birmingham).
Panel proposed at the 2023 ASLE + AESS Conference: “Reclaiming the Commons”
July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
Intra-African Migration and Kinship Structures: Reframing Afropolitanism
Afropolitanism has generated a great deal of debate and discussion, and many panels on Afropolitanism have been organized at African Literature Association conferences since the first such a panel in 2015. These discussions often point out how Afropolitan concepts can question national and geographical affiliations and dislodge fixed ideas of belonging in the contemporary world. Too often the scholarship focuses on Africans’ connections to the West, a focus that has provoked significant controversies and disagreements.
Call for Papers – CLOSURE: Kiel University e-Journal for Comics Studies #10
(November 2023)
Thematic Section: »Ocean Comics«
OPEN SECTION
At the end of autumn in 2023, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: our ninth issue of CLOSURE embraces (supports, publishes) essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.
THEMATIC SECTION: OCEAN COMICS
Call for Papers: Black Popular Culture
PCA 2023 National Conference, PCA Annual Conference
April 5-8/San Antonio, TX
We would like to invite researchers to submit their abstracts to the Political Performances Working Group at the 2023 IFTR conference, which will take place in Accra, Ghana, 24 to 28 July 2023.
In line with the established practice of the Political Performances Working Group @ IFTR, we have identified three loose strands that reflect the recent work of scholars in the wider field of political performances, but also align with the 2023 conference theme:
The Stories We Tell: Myths, Myth Making and Performance
The Political Performances Working Group therefore invites proposals for papers on the following topics:
Join the Collective
Call for Participation
Thinking, Crisis
Call for Papers: Stephen Crane Society, ALA 2023
The Stephen Crane Society will sponsor two sessions at the American Literature Association Conference at the Westin Copley Place in Boston on May 25-28, 2023.
All topics are welcome. Here, for example, are a few suggestions:
Enclosing the Commons:
Resistance and Rebellion in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
ASLE/AESS 2023 Call for Papers - Sponsored by the Oecologies Research Group
Between 1066 and the nineteenth century, the practice of enclosure transformed the economy and ecology of England, as lands traditionally held in common were, through a variety of processes both formal and informal, transformed into private property. Implicated in the development of capitalism and the Agricultural Revolution, the enclosure movement has had a profound influence on how land use is conceptualized and practiced in the modern world.
An Uncommon Exclusion: Human/More-than-Human Alliance in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations
Proposed session for ASLE/AESS, July 9-12, 2023 in Portland, Oregon
Sponsored by the Oecologies Research Group
“Bright and Beautiful and Alive”: Willa Cather’s New York Intersections
18th International Cather Seminar June 21-23, 2023 The New School | New York, NY
Despite her dominant association with the Great Plains, Willa Cather lived most of her life in New York City (1906-1947), first in Greenwich Village and later, after she had risen to the top of the literary profession, on Park Avenue on the upper east side. Though Cather only occasionally wrote about the city, it was her home for nearly forty years and a key element of her personal and professional life.