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Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South

updated: 
Tuesday, August 6, 2024 - 7:00am
Bandung: Journal of the Global South (BRILL)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

 

Special Issue Call for Papers 

Bandung: Journal of the Global South  

Link to download the CFP: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37598_BJGS_CfP_2024.pdf 

Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South

 

 

Goutam Karmakar (lead guest editor)

Honorary Research Associate

Faculty of Arts and Design

Durban University of Technology

Call for Paper and Creative Works

updated: 
Monday, August 5, 2024 - 9:45pm
University of Southern California
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

“Revolutions are the locomotives of history,” wrote Marx 175 years ago in The Class Struggles in France, where the working and peasant classes were struggling against the capitalist system. Today, not only have the conditions of human beings failed to improve, but the rise of neo-capitalism and its imperial power has led to the rebirth of slavery in countries such as Congo and Libya, the complete destruction of third-world nations like Palasteine and Haiti by neocolonialism, and the further isolation of the working class across the globe.

Gothic Practice

updated: 
Monday, August 5, 2024 - 6:09am
Gothic Studies Journal (Edinburgh UP) and the Internet Ghost Collective
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

A special issue of Gothic Studies guest edited by the Internet Ghost Collective (Chera Kee, Erika Kvistad, Line Henriksen, and Megen de Bruin-Molé)

 

Biographies for Digital Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature

updated: 
Sunday, August 4, 2024 - 4:47pm
Luz Elena Ramirez
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Greetings.

As the editor of the digital edition of the Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature (Facts on File), I'm inviting scholars to contribute essays of approximately 1500-2000 words on one of the authors listed below. The digital edition has been contracted with Facts on File and is a peer-reviewed volume scheduled to be published in 2025. Much of the volume is completed, with a few outstanding biographies that need to be assigned.

Call for short stories in English Translation from Indian Languages written by women on Alcohol and Alcoholism

updated: 
Sunday, August 4, 2024 - 2:17am
Nishi Pulugurtha & Nabanita Sengupta
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

 

Alcoholism has ruined many families, individuals and relationships. Its impact has not been restricted to just the physical health of the person but has often caused irrevocable harm to the mental health of the individual as well as those associated with the individual, making it as much a health hazard as a social concern. There are several states in India that ban the sale and use of alcohol and are designated dry states. Hooch tragedies are commonly reported.

ASAT's 67th Annual Conference: “Harmony & Discord”

updated: 
Saturday, August 3, 2024 - 11:43am
American Studies Association of Texas
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

 

Call for Papers

ASAT's 67th Annual Conference

“Harmony & Discord”

 

Now Open: Submissions of abstracts for presentations and panels are now open for the 2024 ASAT conference, which will take place from November 14 - 16 on the campus of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. 

 

Women in the Black Fantastic

updated: 
Friday, August 2, 2024 - 6:44pm
Science Fiction Foundation
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, August 2, 2024

Following the success of our conference in 2022, the SFF will be organising a further two-day online event in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University on 7-8 December 2024.

The theme of the conference will be Women in the Black Fantastic and will mark the 40th anniversary of Octavia E. Butler winning both the Hugo Award for Best Short Story and the Nebula Award for Best Novelette.

Keynote Speakers: Nyasha Mugavazi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas

EXTENSION: Forum Prize 2024 – ‘The Art(s) of Delight’

updated: 
Friday, August 2, 2024 - 11:53am
Forum for Modern Language Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Entries are invited for the 2024 Forum Essay Prize, on the subject of: ‘The Art(s) of Delight’

Forum for Modern Language Studies are looking for bold, visionary and persuasive essays that use academic research to pursue innovative questions. The winning essay will be that judged by the panel to have best addressed the topic with flair, ambition and resonance.

Call for Chapters: Phantom of the Paradise Edited Collection

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 12:45pm
Sean Woodard
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Abstract Deadline: Friday, November 15, 2024

Chapter Drafts Deadline: June 15, 2025

Essays sought for a peer-reviewed edited collection focused on Brian De Palma’s film, Phantom of the Paradise.

Epitaphs Issue 1

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:50am
Epitaphs
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for papers: 

For the first edition of Epitaphs, we invite writers, artists and academics to submit their short form Gothic or Horror work on the following theme: 

Dark Ecologies. 

Reconceptions of European Literary History, ICMS 2025

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:50am
Olivia Colquitt, University of Düsseldorf
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Welcoming submissions to 'Reconceptions of European Literary History' at ICMS Kalamazoo, 8-10 May 2025. This 2-part series will comprise of the following sessions:

I. How Do We Study Historical Text Traditions? (Paper Session)

“The archives are full of voices”: Decolonising the Archive in the English-Speaking World

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:50am
Université de Reims
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Archives have become a site of contestation because of their status as “an imperial project of domination and affirmation” (Ištok 2016). It is specifically the case in the English-speaking world. The revelation in 2011 of the hiding and culling by British colonial authorities of “incriminating documents from former colonies in the months before each one became politically independent” (Diptée 2024) is a case in point. In this deliberate and pernicious meddling with archives, now known as “Operation Legacy”, the “mother country” aimed to tone down — if not silence — colonial violence and display a more humanist facet that was supposed to undergird the liberation of British territories from colonial shackles (Cobain 2016).

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:49am
ACLA 2024 Seminar Stream
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Seminar Stream proposed for the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, which will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.Kindly note that in the ACLA format, you are expected to attend and engage with other presentations in your seminar. This entails a commitment of circa 2 hours over the course of 2-3 days on the dates above. Please do not submit a paper if you are not willing to make this commitment.  


 

Children As the Future: Rights & Representations

A Time Such as This

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:43am
Institute of Faith And the Academy
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Being good makes one a target. History rattles off instances of virtuous individuals cracked by circumstance and at the mercy of a world that seeks its own ends apart from a universal pattern anchored in the Divine. Should one register shock, then, at the violence directed at those whose faces reflect the goodness of God, for the world “hated me first” Christ reminds his disciples. No, we cannot feign surprise. Nor can we fail to act. When Mordecai implored Esther to approach the king on pain of death, he did so with the assurance that God would provide regardless of her choice, and yet, he asked her, “... who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such as time as this?” Yes, God will provide, and perhaps we are that provision.

CFP: Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes [Rolling Submissions]

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:41am
Michael Y. Bennett, Editor
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, July 31, 2025

Published by Penn State University Press, Theatre and Performance Notes and Counternotes(TPNC) is a theatre and performance studies generalist journal of short-to-medium length research articles, response articles, and discussion articles.

[NOTE: Our first issue, 1.1, has been published (and you can access this issue here: https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/tpnc/issue/1/1). Our second issue, 1.2, is currently in production and will come out later this year.]

 

TPNC operates via rolling submissions, so there is no specific deadline to submit your article.

Belvedere Research Journal, New Issue

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:41am
Belvedere, Vienna
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

The Belvedere Research Journal (BRJ), a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, invites new submissions. We are interested in articles that shed light on the visual culture of the former Habsburg Empire and Central Europe broadly defined from the medieval period to the present. Contributions that position Austrian art practices within a wider international framework are particularly welcome. We value innovative art historical approaches, such as challenging established narratives or exploring transnational exchanges that highlight the interconnected and cross-cultural nature of the art world.

FOUNDATION MYTH ACROSS BORDERS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: Session at the Society for Renaissance Studies conference 2025

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:40am
Mary Bateman
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 2, 2024

The origin myths of nations, regions, and cities provided an obvious appeal in the Middle Ages and Renaissance to those interested in the deep histories of the places where they lived and were born. While such stories were used to bolster local or national prestige, many origin myths also stretch across borders, inscribing deep connections between places: Britain claimed Trojan origins through Brutus’ foundation, but so too did the French, the Norse, and even the Dutch; and Noah’s offspring were believed to have been the originators of different peoples across Europe.

"Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era"

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:40am
Howard University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

                        Call for Papers: "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Era"

Hosted by the Department of English, Howard University

The Department of English at Howard University invites scholars, researchers, and educators to submit abstracts for our forthcoming virtual conference on "Womanism, Afrofuturism in the Paradigm Shift Era." This second annual conference will explore contemporary approaches to the study of Womanism and Afrofuturism during this transformative period in American history.

Conference Themes:

We encourage submissions on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

  1. Literary Works and Authors:

Screen, Image, Psyche: On Film, Psychoanalysis, and Becoming Other

updated: 
Thursday, August 1, 2024 - 10:39am
Julia Brühne / University of Bremen; Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

NeMLA's 56th Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 6 to March 9, 2025

Chairs:

Julia Bruehne (University of Bremen)

Matthew Lovett (University of Pittsburgh)

 

NEW DATE & DEADLINE: Fall 2024 Conference on Christopher Marlowe’s Plays—“A Marlowe for All Seasons”

updated: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 7:00pm
Resurgens Theatre Company / Georgia State University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 26, 2024

Resurgens Theatre Company, along with the Georgia State University Department of English, is pleased to announce our third biennial conference on early modern verse drama by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, “A Marlowe for All Seasons.” We’re calling for papers that examine some aspect of Christopher Marlowe’s plays in performance, from the Elizabethan era through the current day, but also welcome topics involving Marlovian influence on the development of Renaissance drama and/or early modern print culture. The conference will be held on its NEW DATE, September 13 and 14, 2024, at the historic Pythagoras Masonic Temple (108 E.

Global Modernism and the Global Philosophy of Mind

updated: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 5:01pm
Shaj Mathew / ACLA 2025 Virtual Seminar (May 29-June 1)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

This ACLA 2025 virtual seminar convenes scholars working in philosophy and literature, broadly construed. It harnesses the frisson between global modernist literature and global philosophies of mind. Seemingly remote from reality, how might the philosophy of mind illuminate the modern global metropolis? Do idealist theories of reality—German, French, or Indian—have a place in accounts of modernity that are so often dominated by Marxian materialism? How might philosophy reconcile, or extricate us from, the impasse between singular and multiple theories of modernity? How does non-European philosophy complicate our extant understanding of this concept?

ICSSR-ERC Sponsored Two-Day International Conference on “Literature & Heritage: Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, 20-21 September, Organised by the PG Section of Malda College, Malda, West Bengal-7322101

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 9:25pm
Malda College
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

The intersection of literature and heritage provides a rich tapestry for a nuanced interdisciplinary exploration  of cultural narratives, historical contexts, and societal evolution. This symbiotic bond intertwines the text with the material and immaterial facets of the cultural identity. Literature engages in re/negotiating identity and re/imagining heritage in complying with the transformations of community over the ages owing to various factors. These narratives, having fictional or realistic bases, are the spaces that mirror the intricate collective memory of a community, regulating a dynamic reciprocity with the past and the present.

Watching Eyes: Literature, Religion, and Surveillance

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 3:05pm
Department of English, St Berchmans College, Changanacherry
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

This proposal is for the Palgrave Studies in Global Literatures and Religion Series, edited by Heather Ostman and devoted to the literary examination of religion. The series intends to look into how literature has depicted and transformed the role of religion and divinity. However, this proposed book aims to contribute to the series by looking at how literary texts engage with religious ideology and their implications for surveillance.

Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Brandon Hutchinson/Southern CT State University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Abstract

What role do the genres autoethnography and/or memoir play in the revolution and evolution of Black women in the academy? How can they help instigate radical change and encourage sustainable practices for Black women who seek to thrive in higher education?

In a roundtable format, "Write Smack In the Middle: Black Women, Autoethnography, Memoir, and the Academy" will shift the conversation from studying others to reflecting on oneself. This interactive session aims to create an intentional space for Black women who serve in academia to reflect and center on their daily experiences in their own words. 

Call for Papers: 'The Author'

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Book 2.0
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Call for Papers: Book 2.0

Special Issue: ‘The Author’

View the full call here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/book-20#call-for-papers

Authors mean different things at different times and in different contexts. For example, the authoritative Oxford English Dictionary conceives it as ‘[a] writer, and senses relating to literature’ and ‘[a] creator, cause, or source’. In 2004, Andrew Bennett suggested that ‘questioning the nature of authorship’ can be a hallmark of crises and turning points in literature.

Revolutionary Educations: Literary Responses to Colonial Education Around the World

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
Gayathri Goel
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

From the Indian boarding schools of North America to the English curriculum mandate of the British empire, formal education, and the various guises it assumed, was an important instrument for colonial powers to exert dominance over its colonized subjects. The afterlives of such an education continue today through dominant knowledge systems that benefit the few at the expense of the many. This panel seeks papers that aim to disentangle and liberate education from colonial control, so that education can be a vehicle for vital knowledge production and empowerment.

CFA: 90s Alternative and Philosophy

updated: 
Tuesday, July 30, 2024 - 1:13pm
McFarland and Co. Publishers Inc.
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 18, 2024

Call for Abstracts!

90s Alternative and Philosophy: Thinking Outside the Heart-Shaped Box

Edited by Joshua Heter and Richard Greene

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