Beyond the Capitals of Decadence

Title: Beyond Backwardness: Revisiting Rural Spaces as Sites of Resistance, Renewal, and Radical Potential Organizers: David Delgado López (Visiting Assistant Professor, Carleton College), Kelly Ferguson (Assistant Professor, Miami University), Brittany Frodge (Lecturer, Ohio State University) Description: Due to varied complex historical processes such as industrialization, urbanization, and colonization, the rural has often been articulated in literature and other cultural products as an underdeveloped space tied to the past that can only progress through civilizing acts of modernization; Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s Facundo or Civilization and Barbarism (Argentina, 1845), Camilo José

Theatre Topics Call for Paragraphs on the Pedagogy of the Now

Theatre Topics invites submissions of short reflective descriptions of activities, exercises, assignments, and scripts currently used in the theatre and performance classroom for a March 2025 special section on the pedagogy of the now. We seek paragraphs of no more than 300 words about how theatre educators are meeting the needs of today’s students.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of

Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture

invite submissions for the 24th meeting of the Law and Humanities Workshop for Junior Scholars,

to be held at Stanford University on June 9-10, 2025.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The workshop is open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral

scholars, and independent scholars working in law and the humanities. In addition to drawing

from numerous humanistic fields, including Black and Indigenous studies, history, literature,

What effect has Asian thought or culture had in/on American poetry? How has it diversified or failed to diversify that poetry or its epistemology? This panel seeks papers on connections between American poetry/poetics and Asian culture, philosophy, and/or religion. Any connection is welcome including how poets have (mis)used Asian culture and/or thought in their poetry and thinking about poetry. However, in keeping with NeMLA’s theme of “(R)EVOLUTION,” I am particularly interested in affinities between ways of knowing in Asian thought and American poetry and how such affinities may disrupt traditional Western epistemologies or cause American and European readers to rethink their connection to the world.

Saints English Graduate Conference 2025 at the University of St Andrews 

Theme: Obsession

Dates: 11th - 12th April, 2025
Location: St Andrews, Scotland (UK) 

‘Without obsession life is nothing’ — John Waters

Mentoring for Schlars of Color: A Roundtable Session at the 56th NeMLA Annual Convention

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

NEMLA 2025 theme is "(R)EVOLUTION”, submission deadline (UPDATED): October 15, 2024

The goal of this roundtable is to create a safe space for scholars of color to meet and discuss the challenges and opportunities in the area of mentorship among scholars of color. This session is sponsored by the Diversity Caucus and welcomes proposals from scholars at any level of their career, from graduate students to senior scholars.

The editors invite scholars and practitioners with interests and/or experience in justice studies to contribute chapters to Research Methods for Qualitative Justice Studies. We are seeking originally authored chapters that focus on specific qualitative research approaches aligned with justice studies-oriented research. Each chapter should cover one primary method of qualitative research. 

See full CFP at link for further details. 

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Ghosts: Hauntings, Folklore, History, Tourism, and Film

The University of Texas, Permian Basin | 5th Annual Halloween Conference 2024

The Department of History, Literature & Language at the University of Texas Permian Basin is pleased to announce its annual Halloween conference for 2024. This year’s theme, "Ghosts: Hauntings, Folklore, History, Literature, Tourism, and Culture," invites scholars, students, and professionals from all disciplines to explore the cultural, historical, and artistic significance of ghosts across various mediums and practices.

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

https://www.southwestpca.org

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2024

CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Towards the History of a Heterodox Tradition in Analytic Philosophy:

Transformative, Humanistic, Conversational

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

Milan, March 20th – 21st , 2025

Keynote Speakers:

Adrian William Moore (University of Oxford)

Naoko Saito (University of Kyoto)

Organizers:

About the Conference

56th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 6-9, Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown.

Primary Area / Secondary Area
Cultural Studies and Media Studies / Interdisciplinary Humanities

Chair(s)
Aíne Norris (Old Dominion University)
Kara McCabe (Tufts University)

NB: deadline extended to 10/15!

For Adrienne Rich, those who watch “will never act,” yet therein lies the enactive potential of poetry, which “appears as a rift, a peculiar lapse, in [this] prevailing mode” of “managed spectacles and passive spectators.” As Sean Bonney insists, “The deep truth is imageless. When you know that, you know there’s everything to play for.” And “everything”? It is, per Diane di Prima, that for and after which we must ask: “you can have what you ask for, ask for / everything." To tap Bonney once more, “All else” — indeed, anything short of everything! — “is madness and suffering at the hands of the pigs."