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*Extended Deadline* Black Feminist Excesses

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Proposed Working Group for MLA 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Black Feminist Excesses

(MLA 2025 Proposed Working Group)

 

This working group aims to theorize excess, desire and unbridled being in Black feminist and womanist studies. How does Black feminism and womanism engage disparate, wayward, or fringe forms of identity, embodiment, materiality, affect and culture?  How can concepts like ‘indulgence’ or ‘aspiration’ be considered or troubled among current theoretical frameworks? What do you think is on the horizon for Black feminist and womanist thought in moving beyond the postfeminist moment?

 

Narratives of Health(s): Exploring Positionalities through the Medical Humanities Lens

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Midwest Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Keeping in mind the theme of MMLA 2024, “Health in/of the Humanities,” the Women in Literature panels seek ways to explore the intersection of Medical Humanities and women in literature. Particularly, it aims to highlight the variety of representations and embodiedness of queer and women’s health, dis/abilities, illness, and motherhood in multiple sites and through various forms of media, including popular magazines, newspapers, television and film, fiction, advertisements, and medical records. In terms of temporal and geographic scope, the panel solicits contributions focusing on the late-nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, with no geographical restrictions.

 

Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City (Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2024)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, 5 December 2024

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, 6 December 2024

 

This international, interdisciplinary conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of cities around the world across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.

Reconceptualizing Religion in Early African American Literature

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:54pm
Special Issue of Early American Studies (UPenn)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

For a special issue on early African American literature and religion, Early American Studies (UPenn) seek article-length contributions on how 18th and 19th century Black writers reconceptualized religion beyond the telos of the nation-state. The roles of religion and religious thought in early Black culture have often been understood within the dualistic frame of resistance whereby Christianity, the dominant religion of colonial and antebellum American society, is both employed by masters to subjugate the enslaved and employed by the slaved to resist their masters’ subjugation of them.

CFP: Submissions for The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy special issue – Labor, Political Economy, and Activism

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Journal of Interactive Technology and PedagogyThemed Issue 24:

Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy, and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

Issue Editors:

Matthew N. Hannah, Purdue University

Gabriel Hankins, Clemson University

Anna Alexis Larsson, Indiana University

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) seeks scholarly work at the intersection of technology with teaching, learning, and research for a special issue on Digital Humanities, labor, political economy, and activism. 

Conference The Global Novel: Bridging Material Objects and Forms

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
“The Novel as Global Form. Poetic Challenges and Cross-border Literary Circulation” (Spanish Research Agency, PID2020-118610GA-I00), with the collaboration of the ERC Consolidator Grant project Ocean Crime Narratives -OCN (GA 101043711), and the Arts and
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 22, 2024

The Global Novel Research Project’s final conference gathers scholars pursuing research on the contemporary novel from a global perspective, from any literary and linguistic tradition. The conference topic aligns with the project's objective. We are interested in a new, more integrated, and decentralized perspective in the study of the emergent genre of the global novel, defined as a narrative form that aspires to represent and think about the contemporary world from a global perspective. This new approach will help us better understand how the global novel contributes, discusses and builds global discourses through specific exploratory poetics. Simultaneously, it will help map the uneven circulation of these works within the literary space.

The Humanities and Social Sciences in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
The Open University of Israel- DHSS (Digital Humanities and Social Sciences) Hub
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

 

Call for Papers – DHSS Hub Conference

The Humanities and Social Sciences

in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

 https://www.openu.ac.il/en/dhsshub/conference/pages/default.aspx

 

The DHSS (Digital Humanities and Social Sciences) Hub at the Open Univesity of Israel invites you to submit proposals for our first annual conference. The conference will take place on September 8th, 2024 at the Open University of Israel, Israel, and will be followed by three days of summer school (Sept 9-11 2024). 

CfP: Form and Its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences (Duke University Press)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Form and its Discontents, a special issue of Qui Parle

 

Thus formless is not only an adjective having a given meaning, but a term that serves to bring things down in the world, generally requiring that each thing have its form. What it designates has no rights in any sense and gets itself squashed everywhere, like a spider or an earthworm. 

— Georges Bataille, Informe (“Formless”), 1929

 

Scholarly Editing Rolling Call for Submissions

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
Scholarly Editing
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 31, 2025

Rolling Call for Contributions

We have a rolling call for contributions and are happy to accept them at any time. However, if you would like your piece to be considered for publication in the next volume, please submit your piece for peer review by May 30, 2024.

Medieval Literature Panel at PAMLA (November 2024)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:53pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Abstract: Medieval Literature will study multiple aspects of medieval literature, with special consideration for work that engages with the conference theme, "Translation in Action." This panel welcomes a broad interpretation of the theme as it relates to Medieval literature as well as the field of medieval studies itself. We also welcome work that considers translation and other similar frameworks.

 

Peer Reviewed with Widening Scope

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Renascence: Essays on Literature and Ethics, Spirituality, and Religion continues to publish scholarship on a wide range of time periods, traditions, and perspectives. While welcoming essays on our longstanding concerns such as T S Eliot, Flannery O’Connor, and Graham Greene, we call attention to our recent interventions into contemporary writers like Marilynne Robinson and Carolyn Forché, into Dante studies and Shakespeare studies, and into non-Western areas of inquiry.

Scots on Screen (2025 MLA)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
MLA Scottish Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

Seeking papers that explore representations of Scotland in film and television, including literary adaptations, “tartan noir,” romance and fantasy. Please submit a 250-word abstract and 100-word bio.

Extended deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024

Scottish Pastoral: 300 Years of Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd (2025 MLA)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
MLA Scottish Literature Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

Celebrating the tercentenary of Allan Ramsay’s Gentle Shepherd, seeking papers on pastoral(ism) and development, improvement, colonialism, or class in Scotland across the long durée. Please submit a 250-word abstract and 100-word bio.

Extebded Deadline for submissions: Monday, 25 March 2024

Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Dr.Chilkhe Ganesh Nagorao (VIT-Chennai), Dr.Minu Susan Koshy (Mar Thoma College for Women, Kerala), Mr.Rajkumar (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

Original, unpublished research papers are invited for an edited volume titled Vulnerable Lives, Precarious Existence: Contemporary Narratives of Vulnerability from the Global South, scheduled to be published in 2024.

 

Call for Book Chapters on East Asian Pop Culture and Fandom Studies

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Nandini Pradeep J
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

East Asian pop culture has been increasingly in vogue across the globe since the 1990s, and the Hallyu wave of the early 2000s has further propelled the momentum of this movement. With the growth of this incredible cultural enterprise arose the global fandoms, paving way to the birth of novel fan cultures and traditions and, furthermore, to a global tribe of its own. This presence, which is felt internationally, calls for a space of parrhesia, of breaching certain boundaries, of destroying normative assumptions, of suggesting deviancies, of reclaiming spaces, and so on. The BTS revolution exemplifies this changing geo-cultural flux rather well.

“‘I have no Brother, I am like no Brother’: Shakespeare’s Outsiders.”

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Alfred J. Drake / PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Shakespeare’s dramas in all their generic types—history, romance, comedy, and tragedy—show an interest in exploring what sustains sociopolitical orders, what damages them, and what the human consequences are when such damage occurs. A great deal may be revealed about the viability of a society if we attend to those who are cast as (or see themselves as) aliens, foreigners, or non-conformists with regard to that society’s ruling order, mores, laws, and other key aspects. Bearing in mind that characters who offer the greatest difficulty in terms of identity and relation may be the most valuable objects of study, we will consider a range of Shakespeare’s “outsiders” for the understanding they can provide.

MLA 2025 - Apertures of Access: Neoliberal Grammars of White Supremacy

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Diana Molina & Sophie Ziner
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

This panel interrogates the formal and aesthetic evasions of Black texts and authors in response to the overt and obfuscated grammars of white supremacy. We welcome 250-word abstracts that explore the ways that Black writers enable or restrict the visibility of white supremacist and/or neoliberal grammars of language and grammars of living. Hidden in the etymology of the word grammar is “glamour,” suggesting the enchantment of an optical illusion. And yet, grammar is the architecture that unconsciously structures language and thought, creating the very conventions and norms that dictate how the world should be.

Call for Papers: Theatre in Iranian Society

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Istanbul University Press/ Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Call for Papers

Special Issue for December 2024 (Issue 39)

“Theatre in Iranian Society”

Guest Editor: Fatima Parchekani, Kharazmi University

Deadline for article submission: 30 June 2024

 

CFP - Journal of the Wooden O

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:52pm
Dr. Stephanie Chamberlain/Journal of the Wooden O
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 18, 2024

The Journal of the Wooden O (JWO) is a peer-reviewed academic publication focusing on Shakespeare studies. The editors invite papers on topics related to Shakespeare, including Shakespearean texts, Shakespeare in performance, the adaptation of Shakespeare works (film, fiction, and visual and performing arts), Elizabethan and Jacobean culture and history, and Shakespeare’s contemporaries.

 

Call for Papers: Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada 2nd Annual Conference

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
Punk Scholars Network USA and Canada
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Dates: August 6 & 7, 2024

Location: Chicago at DePaul University (Lincoln Park Campus)

Theme: Punk Aesthetics, Community, Culture, and Politics

Following the success of our first in-person conference in August 2023, we are excited to announce our second in-person conference sponsored by PSN Canada and PSN USA.

PAMLA 2024, Palm Springs - CFPs for Guaranteed Session on Comics and Graphic Narratives

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association 2024 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 2024 PAMLA Conference will be held in Palm Springs, CA from November 6-10. We invite abstract submissions to a guaranteed, standing session on comics and graphic narratives; abstracts can be submitted through the PAMLA conference website: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/

This session seeks proposals that explore comics and comics studies generally, and how comics and comics studies engage with the conference theme of “Translation in Action” more specifically. In particular, we are interested in drawing out two distinct resonances of thinking about translation, both literally and figuratively, in comics:

Call for submissions: new journal welcoming alternative formats!

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
SEXTANT - Sexualities, Masculinities & Decolonialities
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 20, 2024

SEXTANT- Sexualities, Masculinities & Decolonialities (ISSN 2990-8124) is open for submission for its SPRING, Volume 2, Issue 1, 2024. 

SEXTANT publishes the work of outstanding students, artists, activists, and researchers in all languages and forms (e.g. research papers, book reviews, creative writing, visual art, digital projects, etc) on the fields of gender and masculinities, sexualities, and decolonialities.

If you or someone in your network is interested in publishing in SEXTANT, submit your paper or project by Monday 20 May, 2024. 

Cormac McCarthy Studies

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

Call for Papers

Cormac McCarthy Area

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

2024 SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 20-22, 2024

Virtual Conference

https://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 25, 2024

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024

 

Native American Permanent Section (MMLA 2024)

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
Kate Beutel
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 15, 2024

The Native American Literature Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks proposals for papers addressing the Midwest Modern Language Association conference theme of “Health in/of the Humanities,” with a focus on representations of health in Native American literature. Abstracts addressing any aspect of the conference theme in text(s) of Native American literature will be considered. In particular, papers may explore literary treatments of individual physical or mental health or of social, cultural, or environmental health. The MMLA Convention will be held in Chicago, November 14-16, 2024.

Linguistic and Cultural Aspects that Revitalize Communities

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:51pm
World Anthropological Union Congress 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 6, 2024

Call for Papers:

Last day:6th May 2024.

Website: https://waucongress.org

Abstracts are invited for our panel titled‘Linguistic and Cultural Aspects that Revitalize Communities [PN 94], in not more than 250 words with 5 key words, to make presentation in WAU Congress 2024 to be conducted in Johannesburg, 11-15 November 2024.Proposals should focus on linguistic and cultural aspects that revitalize communities in post-pandemic and post-colonial contexts.

Sai Chandra Mouli Timiri

C.S. Lewis and Last Things: How the Writer of Narnia Saw the End of Our Story

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:49pm
The C.S. Lewis Institute & John Brown University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 4, 2024

C.S. Lewis and Last Things:

How the Writer of Narnia Saw the End of Our Story

 

4th November 2024

 

At Union Theological College

Belfast, Northern Ireland

 

Co-Sponsored by 

The C.S. Lewis Institute Belfast 

John Brown University

 

Rationale

Prospero 29 2024

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:49pm
Marilena Parlati
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 12, 2024

Prospero, Rivista di Letterature e culture straniere (A Journal of Foreign Literatures and
cultures) University of Trieste, Italy, invites contributions for the forthcoming general issue,
volume XXIX (2024). Prospero is a double-blind peer reviewed, printed and entirely openaccess
journal, published annually by EUT, Trieste University Press. It is indexed by MLA,
Erih+, DoAJ, ProQuest. It publishes articles and essays in the field of literary studies which
consider texts and textual analysis from a wide hermeneutic, philological and historical
perspective. It specifically focuses on literary studies considered in their interdisciplinary and

OUP Handbook on American Street Literature

updated: 
Saturday, March 23, 2024 - 8:48pm
Dennis L. Winston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The editors of the Oxford University Handbook on American Street Literature seek papers that explore the history and themes of this unique genre. Street literature, also known as urban literature, refers to a genre of writing that primarily focuses on the experiences and narratives of individuals from marginalized communities, particularly in urban areas. Street Lit often explores the struggles, triumphs, and complexities of life in poor neighborhoods, shedding light on themes such as crime, violence, poverty, and the pursuit of success. Street literature encompasses various forms of written expression, including novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction accounts.

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