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Reading Tolkien in the 21st Century
(7–8 September, 2023 – University of Bonn, Germany)
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics - 'Aesthetics, Environment, and Sustainability', No.
We are pleased to announce the A Cross-Cultural Mediterranean: The 2023 Studia Mediterranea Conference, to be held in-person on September 15-16, 2023, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Split, Croatia. This interdisciplinary is held by the Studia Mediterranea Centre, along with support from the Centre for Cross-Cultural and Korean Studies. The conference aims to explore the cultural, historical, and artistic connections and exchanges across the Mediterranean region and their connection with the world beyond.
In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
UCLA European Languages and Transcultural Studies
3rd Annual Graduate Student Conference
Speculative Futurities, Past and Present
November 13-14, 2023
The graduate students of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles are inviting submissions to the third annual ELTS Graduate Student Conference. Our keynote speakers will be Prof. Lydie Moudileno (University of Southern California) and Prof. David Bates (University of California, Berkeley).
Consider submitting an abstract to the permanent Italian Cinema session for PAMLA 2023. Please upload your file (300 words max) directly to the Session CFP linked below.
CFP Deadline: May 31st, 2023
Session CFP: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18828
Decision Date: June 11th, 2023
Conference Dates: Oct. 26-29, 2023
Location: The Hilton Portland Downtown Hotel
This panel invites papers focusing on various aspects of Italian film history and contemporary film culture.
Dans cette session de Women in French (WIF), nous invitons des interventions explorant des productions du 21ème siècle par des femmes (romans, films, poésie, bande dessinée) qui prennent le biais d’une autre réalité pour réfléchir sur notre contemporanéité. Fables, contes, récits de science-fiction ou de fantasy sont souvent les reflets de nos désirs et de nos peurs en matière de régime politique, abus des corps et de la technologie, relations entre les humains et les animaux et la planète. La session se veut à la fois formelle et informelle, ancrée dans la recherche des participant.e.s et l’interaction entre les expériences plutôt qu’une présentation formelle.
Disability Studies is a vibrant field of interdisciplinary academic inquiry that examines the ways disability has been constructed in society, culture, and history. This session invites papers focused on texts from a wide variety of genres, media, cultures, and historical periods whose analyses are informed by disability theory and/or experiences of disability. Papers may address physical and/or mental disabilities, as well as issues surrounding pain, illness, and invisible disabilities.
“Emerging from the Rubble: Asian/ American Writings on Disasters”
Call for Chapter Proposals
Barbie in the Media: The Cultural Impact of Mattel’s Celebrity Doll
Edited by Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez and Rebecca C. Hains
Abstracts invited by May 1, 2023
Deadline Extended: June 1, 2021
Call for Chapters for Edited Volume: The American South in Ten Recipes
Edited by Christopher L. Ballengee
IX Edition: 1 - 24 September
Desire.
The InSophia Cultural Association, the non-profit creator of the
festival, in collaboration with the Municipality of Ischia, the CRF
- International Center for Philosophical Research, the University
of Toronto (Visual Studies, Mississauga campus) and with the
Liceo “A. Canova” in Treviso, with the patronage of the
Campania Region, the FISP (International Federation of
Philosophical Societies), of the XXV World Congress of
Philosophy Rome 2024, of the “G. Sadoul Circle,” of the Italian
Institute for Philosophical Studies, of the Department of
Humanities of the University of Palermo, of the SFI (Italian
The Spanish I (Peninsular Literature before 1700) permanent section of the Midwest Modern Language Association seeks proposals for the upcoming MMLA conference in Cincinnati (November 2-5, 2023). Though proposals on any topic related to Medieval and Early Modern Spanish Literature are welcome, we also seek proposals that specifically engage with the MMLA conference theme of “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy.” Please submit a 250-word abstract and a brief bio (or brief CV) to John Giblin at jgiblin@ksu.edu by May 15th, 2023. Papers may be in Spanish or English.
Crossings is an open-access, peer reviewed publication that is inspired by M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossings, which takes as its basis the concept of the Middle Passage, the Crossing, to understand Black transnational feminism’s erosion of boundaries—disciplinary conventions, respectability politics, national borders, and bodies that are gendered, sexualized, and racialized, among others kinds of categories—in relation to empire and postmodernity.
Care, hope, resilience: critical emojis in the age of permacrisis
What is the connection between the current state of permanent crisis, now expressed in its own brand-new word,* and the proliferation of critical buzzwords in contemporary culture? Care, hope, resilience: ubiquitous in social commentary from academic research to popular journalism and social media, these terms behave more like emojis than elements of systematic thought. Are they useful short cuts to a comprehension of shifting social imaginaries in the age of permacrisis? Or a dangerous limitation of the mental energies we need to think our way to a more positive of future?
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
Can Sports Save the English Department?
Friday, April 21, 2023, Noon—1:00 p.m. EST via Zoom
Register
here.
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9ZA0bJrmR7GIDWTvA-pWvA
CALL FOR PAPERS
23rd MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
To be held in Chandigarh on
6-8 October 2023
Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times
This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University
To be held: 13-14, November 2023
Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)
*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.
Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)
The 120th Annual PAMLA Conference
The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023,
The 2023 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.
PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.
Mind the Gap 2023 is a free hybrid conference held on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of July 2023 at King’s College London. With this interdisciplinary conference we want to provide a space to enable the building of bridges between what is written in theory and what is experienced in practice.
Last year we addressed and explored the gaps between academic research and everyday LGBTQIA+ realities, by combining academic presentations with community speakers. This year we’re going one step further, by thinking about what it means to cross these gaps, and bring seemingly-separate dichotomies together.
ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: ART, ARTEFACT AND ANALYSIS
An international, interdisciplinary, virtual conference organised by the
AHRC-funded ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’ Network
Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023
Online platform to be announced
Keynote speaker: Professor Laurence Maslon (Tisch, New York University)
Author of Broadway to Main Street: How Showtunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press)
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Special Issue “World Mythology and Ecocriticism: Remembering Nature as a Sacred Teacher”
A special issue of Humanities.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 8 & 9, 2023
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 18, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023
EXTENDED DEADLINE
The UCL English Graduate Conference will take place in person at UCL on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. This year’s conference theme is ‘The Unexpected’. Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to theunexpected.conference@gmail.com by May 5, 2023, along with a short biography.
“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future...which refers to someone whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future.That which is totally unpredictable.”
–Derrida in Derrida (2002)
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
“Horror”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 8 & 9, 2023
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 18, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
“War & Culture”
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 8 & 9, 2023
Virtual Conference
Submissions open on March 18, 2023
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023
Call for Papers
International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity
Organised by
East West University and Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh 28 & 29 July 2023, Dhaka
Modernist Continuities: Virginia Woolf and Women in Turkey
Kala pani Crossings #3:
Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations
Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry
in partnership with
EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France
DIRE, Université de La Réunion, France
IHRIM, ENS-Lyon, France
VALE, Sorbonne University, France
Call for Papers
Historical Fictions Research Network Conference
(23 to 24 February 2024, University of Malmö, Sweden)
Conference Organisers: Cecilia Trenter (University of Malmö), Kristina Fjelkestam (University of Stockholm) and Claudia Lindén (University of Södertörn)