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,

“WE THE PEOPLE:” Black People and Politics, From Past to Present

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Tuskegee University invites you to participate in our annual Black History Month International Symposium on Friday, February 21, 2025.

The symposium desires papers and panel proposals from students, faculty and independent scholars of all disciplines. We encourage you to present research on black people’s involvement in politics, political movements, literature, and the black experience throughout the globe.

Information for Potential Presenters:

Abstract: 200 words maximum

Deadline Extended: Submissions Now Due December 1, 2024 The Journal of the Midwestern Modern Language Association invites submissions for its fall 2024 issue on the 2023 MMLA convention theme of “Going Public.” The MMLA’s 2023 convention theme, “Going Public: What the MMLA Owes Democracy,” asked convention attendees to explore the following questions:

Banned Ideas: Challenges and Opportunities in the Current Political Climate 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

This session is sponsored by the Diversity Caucus.

The Richard D Gooder Essay Prize

The Cambridge Quarterly is a journal of literary criticism which also publishes articles on cinema, the visual arts, and music. This prize, named in memory of Richard Gooder (1934-2017), one of the journal’s founding editors, is aimed at doctoral students.

In recent decades, poetry performance has been one of the fastest growing arts practices internationally. Since movements such as Beat poetry, jazz poetry, and poetry slam have inspired performance scenes across the English-speaking world and beyond, innovative performance styles have emerged alongside new genres and styles of composition geared towards oral performance. The global reach of spoken word poetry has become highly noticeable in the arena of slam, evidenced by the diverse programmes of initiatives such as the 2005 ‘Poetry International World Slampionship’ in Rotterdam, the ‘Coupe du Monde de Poésie’ in France (since 2007), and the recently established ‘World Poetry Slam Organization’.

CLASS CON 2025 Call for Papers/Voices/Participation

March 14-15, 2025

Bowling Green State University, Jerome Library

Deadline to Submit December 1st, 2024

The Cultures of Philosophy project at the University of Exeter in the UK invites proposals for our first conference, ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’ to be held at Reed Hall, the University of Exeter, 2-4 June 2025.

Confirmed speakers:

WOMEN, GENDER AND FAMILIES OF COLOR -- CALL FOR PAPERSCare Work for Communities of Color in Higher Education: Reimagining Professional Pathways and Well- Being New and Old Challenges for Communities of Color in Higher Education

CSA 2024 Call for Papers (20%~40% of Papers will be recommended to SCIE or SCOPUS Journal)

The 16th KCIA International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications (CSA 2024)

Pattaya, Thailand, Dec. 18 - 20, 2024

Springer-LNEE (indexed by SCOPUS and EI)

http://csa-conference.org/2024

Expanding on the NeMLA’s theme of (R)evolution, this panel seeks proposals that examine the role that women of color authors and artists have played (throughout the centuries) in helping to change and revolutionize literature by and about, literary representations of, and literary studies focused on women of color in the United States.  It seeks work that examines how women of color have addressed and used their intersectional identities to change the American literary landscape, challenge the American literary canon, and changed how they and their communities have been viewed in the United States.  Proposals can also include how women of color have challenged issues within their own communities and used a multiethnic approach to help literature and liter

STaPs, as a conference by Ph.D. students for Ph.D. students, is unique among PhD conferences in that it welcomes both work in progress and work in the planning phase, as well as work that focuses on methodological issues/challenges rather than on completed research projects/ attained results. Projects of any area of linguistics can be presented (theoretical and descriptive linguistics as well as language acquisition, phonetics, psycho-, neuro-, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and computational linguistics; synchronic or diachronic).

The following categories are welcome:

Oral Presentations (15 min. + 10 min. Q&A) and Posters (30 min.)