From the rapes of Lucretia and Beatrice Cenci in Ancient Roman art and literature to the #MeToo movement, women have long faced oppression that often engenders the sense of trauma and defiance. Reflecting on the 2023 NEMLA Convention theme “Resilience,” this seminar welcomes papers that explore how the above scenarios are depicted, and resisted, in British literature. Topics may include but are not limited to the Gothic and usurped female agency, female Gothic oneirocriticism, feminist interventions, spectrums of mentation, rectification of misunderstanding and stigmatisation, resilient female characters, and trauma in relationships (familial, romantic, professional, etc.).

North South University

Dhaka, Bangladesh

International Conference in English Studies

Ruptures and Resilience: English Studies in the Now

November 4-5, 2022 

Organized by the Department of English and Modern Languages

~“You may make a rupture, draw a line of flight, yet there is still a danger that you will reencounter organizations that restratify everything, formations that restore power to a signifier, attributions that reconstitute a subject . . .” (Deleuze & Guattari, 9)

Details:

March 2-3, 2023

Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities, Bard College

Keynote Speaker:

Linda Zerilli (The University of Chicago)

Organisers:

Nicholas Dunn (Bard College)

Nirvana Tanoukhi (Dartmouth College)

Description:

South Asian literary works have given us a memorable array of complex portraits of women and men and the relations between them. Some characters favor traditional modes of understanding the roles and behaviors of the sexes and their interrelations, others seem oriented to a progressive outlook on gender and the relations relations between women, men and non-binary individuals, while still others apparently embody a mixture of these attitudes. May we discern patterns or differences in matters of gender and gender relations when taking into account whether the authors in question identify as female, male, or non-binary?

Special Issue: Narratives of Care, Caring Materials, and Materializing Care in the 19th, 20th and 21st Century

The Syon Abbey Society and the ReVision Project

Birgittine Texts and Networks

International Medieval Congress, 3-6 July 2023 in Leeds.

https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2022/04/18/osmosis-interdiscip...

The deadline for submission has been extended to 14 August 2022. Authors will be notified by 31 August 2022.

Keynote Speakers: 

Day 1 - Professor Michael Keith, PhD

            School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, UK

Day 2 - Professor Kaiser Hamidul Haq, PhD 

            Poet, Translator, and Critic 

            Former Professor, Department of English, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT

Call for Papers: Cine-Excess 16 International Film Festival & Conference

Cine-Excess 16 International Film Festival & Conference

Reframing the Monsters Outside: Mavericks, Rebels and Rule Breakers in Cult Film  18th - 23rd October 2022

ABSTRACTS DUE 22 AUGUST 2022

Online conference with accompanying physical/virtual guests and screenings ​ - presented by Birmingham City University, MAC Birmingham, The Electric Cinema and Mockingbird Cinema.

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Confirmed Guests of Honour:

Ain-Shams University

Faculty of Al-Alsun (Languages)

Department of English

4th International Conference

19th -21st  March 2023

Beyond Boundaries: Paradigm Shifts in Literature, Linguistics and Translation

Streaming a movie. Waiting in line for gas. Drinking a tall glass of water. These are day-to-day experiences that rely on forms of energy and natural resource extraction that are often hidden in plain view, entangled with dynamics of colonialism, transnational flows, digital assemblages, stock markets and neoliberalism. The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly made these entanglements more felt. As such, we are tasked with unraveling these complex embodied and sensorial daily experiences of energy and extraction.

CALL FOR PAPERS

NORTHEAST POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION, Virtual, October 20 to October 22, 2022
AREA: ROMANCE/POPULAR ROMANCE FICTION
Deadline: August 15, 2022

            The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) is seeking paper proposals on the topic of Romance/Popular Romance Fiction for its annual conference. NEPCA’s 2022 online conference will be held Thursday October 20 – Saturday October 22, 2022. The extended deadline for proposals is August 15, 2022. 

Pop Cultures: Cultural and Creative Industries, Concepts and Problems
A Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference

Sunday 19th March 2023 - Monday 20th March 2023
Prague, Czech Republic

This inclusive interdisciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past four decades, scholarship in thanatology and palliative care has increased dramatically. Our conversations seek a broad array of perspectives that explore, analyse, and/or interpret the myriad interrelations and interactions that exist between death and culture. Culture not only presents and portrays ideas about “a good death” and norms that seek to achieve it, it also operates as both a vehicle and medium through which meaning about death is communicated and understood. Sadly, too, culture sometimes facilitates death through violence.