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That "Peculiar Lapse": Toward a Poetics of Uncommon Sense(s)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 5:30pm
NeMLA 2025: (R)Evolution | Philly | March 6-9
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

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."

STaPs-22: The 22nd STaPs (Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende – ‘Linguistics Conference for Ph.D. students’)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:45pm
STaPs-22
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

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.)

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:12pm
Vernon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: “The interrelation of social concepts and biodiversity conservation: Breaking down disciplinary silos to create a better planet.”

 

https://vernonpress.com/proposal/332/ef93e9a3eab3e230c347e9e0ed30d51b

Extended Deadline - American Afterlives

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 4:09pm
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 18, 2024

 

Please consider submitting a proposal for our third edition of “American Afterlives” @ the 52nd annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, February 17-18, 2025 (virtual) and February 20-22, 2025 (in person).

The LCLC seeks submissions for “American Afterlives,” a dedicated panel stream that crosses the pre-1900/post-1900 divide. Presentations will focus on ways of rethinking the chronologies by which we structure stories and studies about American literature and culture. Previous panels and papers have considered aesthetic experiments and traditions, remediations of early American texts, speculative and historical fiction, cultural histories of technology, and more.

*Deadline Extended* NeMLA Panel (March 6-9, 2025 in Philadelphia): Landscapes of Trauma

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 3:31pm
Joe Larios
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

How should we understand the relationship between land and trauma? In what senses can we think of a landscape as traumatic or traumatized? There are the traumas that may happen upon a landscape through the dispossession of peoples from a piece of land or through war and destruction. There is the direct harm done to a landscape that might not even have human occupants on it through the effects of pollution or clearcutting. And there are the transformations that landscapes go through when storms, wildfires, and floods happen upon them. Are these also types of trauma? How shall we distinguish between different kinds of events? How shall we identify the traumatized parties? Can a landscape itself be traumatized or only its inhabitants?

**DEADLINE EXTENDED** Many Tongues, One Mouth – the Expansive Challenge Faced by Multilingual Poets @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 3:22pm
Rachel Martin (NeMLA Session)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

 Multilingual poets write at the intersection of language, identity, and cross-cultural communication. Not only does the work of multilingual poets naturally create a space for innovation, but it also often serves as a broader commentary on the interplay between language and power. Every multilingual poet combines, leverages, or silences pieces of their complex identities, negotiating deeply personal nuances as well as socially constructed codes. Multilingual poets may choose to employ self-translation or multiple languages within a single poem, they may write separate works in different languages, or they may confine their work to a single language.

*DEADLINE EXTENDED* NeMLA 2025 Panel - “Theory in the Flesh”: The Function of Praxis in Resistance

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 1:35pm
Marina Malli, Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Focusing on the intersection of theory and practice, this panel calls for contemporary discussions of “theory in the flesh,” i.e., theory considering the material conditions of existence. While the panel is particularly interested in women of color writing, other engagements with the place of material reality in academia will be considered.

 

Broadening Our Research Horizons: Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 12:32pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Our dependence on the past’s valuation of its own cultural products has become increasingly obvious in our ongoing interests in reshaping the canon and in decentering our humanities’  disciplines.  Certainly, the availability of digitized primary-source materials increases the range in newly available, even newly discovered texts.  However, our reliance on the digitized brings with it an obvious quandary as it can narrow the scope and constrain investigation of other exciting sources crucial to our scholarship but not deemed worthy of archiving.  They might be fragile, incomplete, or ill-preserved; they might be undocumented and uncatalogued.

NeMLA 2025 Session: “Time Warp” at 50! Critical Approaches to The Rocky Horror Picture Show

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:00am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Conference dates: March 6-9, 2025

Conference location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvia (IN PERSON ONLY)

Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED)

Submit through: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21014

Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

NeMLA 2025 Session: Horses at 50: Critical Approaches to the Works of Patti Smith

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 11:00am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Conference dates: March 6-9, 2025

Conference location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IN PERSON ONLY!)

Deadline for abstracts: October 15, 2024 (EXTENDED)

Submit through: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21015

Contact panel chair for inquiries: Noah Gallego (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) @ noahrgallego@gmail.com 

 

Reading Reading: Contemporary Literary Practices - NeMLA: March 6-9, 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 10:08am
Malaika Sutter and Sofie Behluli
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

We are constantly engaged in processes of reading. We read literary texts, historical sources, films and other media, political moods and affects, and shifting social formations. Amongst the plethora of reading strategies available to us, close reading is perhaps the most widely known and most accepted one in literary studies (cf. I.A. Richards and William Empson). Other approaches to texts include ‘paranoid’ and ‘reparative reading’ (Sedgwick 1997), ‘distant reading’ (Moretti 2000), ‘wide reading’ (Hallet 2010), and ‘surface reading’ (Best and Marcus 2009), to name just a few. More recent research has examined intermedial reading practices (Rippl 2015), the reading of affects (Brinkema 2014), and non/institutional readers (Emre 2017). 

Contemporary Cyberfeminisms - DEADLINE EXTENDED (NeMLA 2025 Roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 9:53am
Northeast Modern Language Association / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

“Rooted as it is by feminism, cyberfeminism is an imperfect umbrella term,” Mindy Seu frames her archival project Cyberfeminism Index. Though it traces the same exclusions and western biases of feminist history, she writes, the Web 1.0 term “cyberfeminism” also provides a quick shorthand for the much broader expanse of art, activism, community, and scholarship of its many branches, including “Cyberfeminism 2.0, black cyberfeminism, xenofeminism, post-cyber feminism, glitch feminism, Afrofuturism, and hackfeministas, transhackfeminism, 넷페미 (netfemi), 女权之声 (feminist voices), among others" (https://cyberfeminismindex.com/about).

The Afterlives of Absurdism @ NeMLA 2025

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:44am
Daniel Amaral / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Northeast Modern Language Association 

March 6-9, 2025

Philadelphia, PA

 

Panel: The Afterlives of Absurdism 

 

Literary absurdism is a haunting and forgotten specter. This panel interrogates the absurd, an encounter with a meaningless world. 

 

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Women’s Perspectives on Suicide (NeMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

NeMLA meets next during the centennial of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and the sesquicentennial of Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina’s initial serialization. Central to both storylines is their eponymous characters’ differing relationships to suicide. From a less literary perspective, the moment comes relatively quick on the heels of the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, on June 24, 2022, undermining reproductive rights by undermining substantive due process rights generally, and so also euthanasic rights. The convergence is an auspicious occasion to explore women’s historical, literary, and philosophical perspectives on suicide.

All disciplines, methods, and perspectives welcome.

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Don DeLillo’s White Noise at Forty (Don DeLillo Society Session) (NeMLA, roundtable)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:17am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

NeMLA meets next during the fortieth anniversary of Don DeLillo’s celebrated novel, White Noise (1985). His ninth of eighteen, it begins the two periods that make up the work for which he is best known—the first including Libra (1988), Mao II (1991), and Underworld (1997), the second The Body Artist (2001), Cosmopolis(2003), Falling Man (2007), Point Omega (2010), Zero K (2016), and The Silence (2020).

EXTENDED LAST CALL: Terrence Malick’s filmography at Fifty Plus (NeMLA, panel)

updated: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 - 8:16am
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) (Annual Convention, Philadelphia, March 6-9, 2025, https://www.buffalo.edu/nemla.html)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Famed and enigmatic filmmaker Terrence Malick’s remarkable filmography turned fifty recently. It begins with Badlands, that is, which appeared on October 15, 1973, followed five years later by Days of Heaven (1978). He returns after a twenty-five year hiatus with a triptych of literary and historical adaptations, including The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and The Tree of Life (2011).

Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Monday, September 30, 2024 - 12:50pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James Studies and archives for a special Fall 2025 Forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.”

 Topics could include, for example:

 • Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

• Collecting or collections of Henry James-related material(s)

• Overlooked or forgotten archives or archival research methods for Henry James scholarship

• James’s use of archives, archival concepts, and/or the archival in his fiction or non-fiction

• Henry James as archivist

Indigenous Ecocriticism: Paradigm Shifts in Environmental Literature * 56th NeMLA Convention

updated: 
Monday, September 30, 2024 - 9:24am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

The Environmental Humanities is currently experiencing an unprecedented influx of creative and critical works from writers of Indigenous literature. This literary revolution, closely linked to climate change and environmental discourse, is a contributing factor, and writers are at the forefront of this contemporary debate. This session offers a unique opportunity for presenters to contribute to a significant academic debate by exploring paradigm shifts in Indigenous environmental discourse. The works will delve into the intersection of gender, class, race, and the Anthropocene, offering a comprehensive understanding.

Climate and the Limits of Narratability

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 4:42pm
International Society for the Study of Narrative 2025 conference
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 13, 2024

Climate and the Limits of Narratability

A panel to be pitched for inclusion in the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative in Miami, April 2–6, 2025.

Organizer: Daniel Aureliano Newman, University of Toronto

Call For Qualified Guest Reviewers - Creative Industries (Business, Crafts, New Technologies, Theater, Video Games, Etc)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:54pm
Creative Industries Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Call for Well-Qualified Guest Reviewers

The international peer-reviewed Creative Industries Journal [CIJ] (Routledge/ Taylor and Francis), now in its 17th volume and approaching its 16th year, seeks to create a pool of guest reviewers, who possess the requisite expertise, to complement our Peer Review Board and Editorial team.

Specifically, the journal is currently looking for those with expertise in the business of the creative industries, music, architecture,  software, media and digital media, film, video games, art, crafts, design, fashion.

New Writing Journal seeks articles, creative work, articles on pedagogy, genre and more

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:50pm
New Writing journal (Routledge/Taylor and Francis)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Routledge) seeks high quality articles, as well as creative work 

Articles submitted might focus on any aspect of Creative Writing Studies, including, for example:

• Creative Writing in universities and colleges
• pedagogy, practice or research topics
• the processes of creative writers, their drafts and completed works
• the history of particular writing forms
• analysis of particular creative works

Submission length is open. 

CFP: Guest Reviewers, New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 1:46pm
New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Guest Reviewers

New Writing: the International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creaive Writing (Taylor and Francis / Routledge) seeks guest reviewers with the requisite expertise for its registry of esteemed guest reviewers.

New Writing is one of the world's leading journals in Creative Writing and Creative Writing Studies.. The Peer Review Board - appointed after extensive international review - deals with the range of submitted material (creative and critical). Occasional additional opinions are sought from guest reviewers with the requisite expertise. 

The journal can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rmnw20/current

NeMLA 2025- Embodying the Revolution: Storytelling and Performance for Social Resilience (UPDATED DEADLINE)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 12:42pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

Embodying the Resolution: Storytelling and Performance for Social Resilience

(A Creative Panel Session of 56th NeMLA Annual Convention| March 6-9, 2025| Philadelphia, PA)

Abstract submission link: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21022


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

LAST CALL: New Perspectives on Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 Correspondence with Immanuel Kant (ASECS, panel)

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) (Annual Convention, On-line, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025, https://asecs.org)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Maria von Herbert’s 1792-94 correspondence with Immanuel Kant—arising out of her despair and suicidal ideation, coupled with her commitment of his philosophical perspective, including his famously uncompromising prohibition of suicide—has enjoyed increasingly careful attention in the roughly forty years now since Beverley Brown and Rae Langton’s invitations to this effect, in the mid-eighties and early-nineties—most recently as the subject of the annual Kant Reading Party at the University of St Andrews, in July and August of 2023, out of which a volume of new translations and critical materials will soon emerge.

Henry James Review special issue: Henry James and the Archive

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:37am
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

Henry James and the Archive

 

 

The Henry James Review invites essays between 1,000 and 12,500 words on any aspect of Henry James studies and archives for a special fall 2025 forum issue on “Henry James and the Archive.” 

 

Topics could include, for example:

 

• Using archives for Henry James scholarship

• Changes in how we understand the nature of the Henry James archive

• New archival sources for Henry James scholarship

George Saunders Society, ALA, Boston, MA, May 21-25, 2025

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
George Saunders Society / American Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 10, 2025

The George Saunders Society invites prospective participants for one or two panels at the 2025 American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, to be held May 21 to 25, 2025. We are interested in presentations on any aspect of George Saunders’s life and work; in this, our fifth year of activity at ALA (returning after an absence in 2024!), we continue to be interested in papers that challenge, complicate, or go beyond the most common (particularly religious, ethical, or new sincerest) readings of the author’s work in the critical literature to this point. The topic is therefore open, but possible approaches might include:

Navigating the Sahara Desert: African Migrants’ Precarious Journeys and Restricted Mobilities

updated: 
Sunday, September 29, 2024 - 7:36am
Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Ìrìnkèrindò: A Journal of African Migration

(http://www.africamigration.com)

Organizes

A One-Day Virtual Conference on

 

Navigating the Sahara Desert: African Migrants’ Precarious Journeys and Restricted Mobilities

 

-January 18, 2025-

 

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