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Connections, Interconnections and Disconnections in Festive and Celebratory Culture

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 3:19am
Festival Culture Research and Education
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Online Conference Date: TBA

Registration is free to attend.

Call for papers

A one-day, inter-, multi-, trans-, and cross-disciplinary event that explores the theme of “connections, interconnections and disconnections” in festive and celebratory culture.

The Paradox of Emotion in Modern Poetry (MLA 2024)

updated: 
Monday, March 20, 2023 - 12:43am
Ariana Lyriotakis / Trinity College Dublin
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, March 20, 2023

How does modern poetry enact a paradox of emotion? This MLA 2024 special session invites proposals exploring ambivalence, co-existence or contradiction of emotive states in modern/late modern/postmodern poetics. Broader interpretations of the theme are certainly welcome. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

  • Joy/Sorrow
  • Emotional valences
  • Mood
  • Somatic/Carnal
  • Intimacy
  • Hope/Loss
  • Pride/Shame
  • Emotion/Logic
  • Trauma
  • Embodied knowledge
  • Perception
  • Temporality
  • Phenomenology of emotions

Kindly submit your abstract (250-350 words) as well as a short bio by Monday, March 20th to:

Race & Ethnicity Studies: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 2:16pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association/ Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Annual Conference

Race & Ethnicity Studies

 

Deadline: April 30, 2023

 

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

East Asian Popular Culture Studies: Call for Conference Presentations

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 2:15pm
Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/

Midwest American Culture Association

2023 Conference

East Asian Studies

 

Deadline: April 30, 2023

 

Event Dates: Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

Location: DePaul University, Chicago, IL (in-person)

SUBMISSION WINDOW CLOSED - Time and Its Influences - IUP EGO Spring Conference 2023

updated: 
Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 9:21am
Indiana University of Pennsylvania English Graduate Organization
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 17, 2023

While we sometimes feel like life is moving around us rather than with us, it is essential to take a moment and consider how we got where we are. Over time, attitudes, opinions, and feelings have shifted along with what we choose to carry with us. To avoid leaving important things behind or risk forgetting them altogether, it is time to ask ourselves why we leave certain things behind and what it means when we do.

Doris Lessing and Contemporary African Critiques of Colonialism/Neocolonialism

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for our 2024 MLA Convention session examining Lessing’s critiques of colonialism and/or neocolonialism, especially in conversation with post-colonial African women writers from Aidoo, Gordimer, Dangarembga, and Vera to Gappah, Bulawayo, and Mbue. 250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

The Griot in Doris Lessing and African/Postcolonial Diaspora Writers

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:14pm
Doris Lessing Society/MLA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

We invite papers for an MLA 2024 session exploring figures of the griot—as chroniclers, poets, songmakers, and Memories—in Doris Lessing’s later works and in the works of writers from Africa and throughout the postcolonial diaspora. This topic has been designed to fit in with the MLA's 2024 Presidential Theme, "Celebration: Joy and Sorrow." For more details on the theme, see: <https://www.mla.org/Events/2024-MLA-Convention/Presidential-Theme-for-th....
250-word abstracts and brief bio requested.

Constructions of Identity 11 - Transmission

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 12:29pm
Department of English Language and Literature Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

Constructions of Identity 11 - Transmission

Department of English Language and Literature

Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania)

 

 

Conference dates: 18-20 May 2023

Conference venue: Faculty of Letters, 31 Horea St., Cluj-Napoca

Conference website: Transmission: Constructions of Identity XI – Event Landing Page (ubbcluj.ro)

Extended deadline for proposals: 10 April 2023

 

Adaptation

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 7:05am
Timothy Ryan Day / Saint Louis University Madrid
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Adaptation

Saint Louis University—Madrid April 21-22

Adaptation is a term that bridges the divide between literature and evolution. Texts are adapted to speak to new circumstances as time advances and younger writers, directors, actors, artists, and audiences seek connections to a mutable culture. Likewise, organisms adapt over generations to better suit their circumstance.

Springer Encyclopaedia: New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 4:22am
Christ University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE: We require five more short essays (1,500 words); the deadline is extended until March 22, 2023. A limited amount of space is also still available for long essays (3,000 words). Please inquire at the earliest if interested.

Springer Encyclopaedia of New Populism and Responses of the 21st Century

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700: DEADLINE EXTENDED

updated: 
Friday, March 17, 2023 - 3:34am
University of York (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Transgender Embodiment: 1400-1700 (June 2nd): DEADLINE EXTENDED

University of York, UK (Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies)

Keynote: Prof Melissa Sanchez (University of Pennsylvania)

America in the Global World (Student Conference)

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:21pm
Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Center for American Studies at the University of Bucharest 

and the Romanian-U.S. Fulbright Commission

invite proposals for their annual student conference on the topic

America in the Global World 

to be held online and in person

Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia and India's North-East Region

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:10pm
Rising Asia Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Rising Asia Journal invites Research Articles on Southeast Asia, East Asia (Japan, China, the Koreas, and Taiwan), and India's North-East Region, on all aspects of these Asian societies, in particular literature, poetry, music, art, society, as well as politics and diplomacy. We are interested in the use of diplomacy in the arts as well.

Articles should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words in length, with footnotes, and Works Cited.

Authors are urged to visit the journal's website at www.rajraf.org to read the submission guidelines. 

Articles should be original, and should offer a new and innovative perspective.

Mechanization and the Child

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:07pm
JOCPC: Journal of Children in Popular Culture
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

JOCPC is now accepting article submissions for the Fall 2023 issue focusing on the broad theme of the mechanized child. We have kept the theme open-ended and invite works across a wide range of disciplines where researchers are exploring representations of the intersection between the child figure, childhood and mechanization. This may include robotics, automatons, cyborgs, AI, VR, and other emerging technologies, both historical and future forward, real and fictional, and how these are used by, to, on and for children. Born alongside new and emerging technologies, children have an innate fluency with new technologies that often leave their adult counterparts behind, reinforcing the notion of children as symbols of futurity.

“Navigating Cultural Crossroads: Exploring the Experiences of Transnational Travelers in the Americas”

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:05pm
11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA) “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023.
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 14, 2023

Call for Panel Contributions

 

“Navigating Cultural Crossroads: Exploring the Experiences of Transnational Travelers in the Americas” 

 

Organizers:

Univ.- Prof. Dr. Stefan Brandt (University of Graz, Austria)

Dr. Saptarshi Mallick (Sukanta Mahavidyalaya, University of North Bengal, India)

 

Planned venue:

11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA)

“Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives”

University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland, Sept. 7-10, 2023.

 

Brontë Studies: Material Culture

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:04pm
Brontë Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, January 9, 2023

Inspired by the Brontë Parsonage Museum’s 2022 exhibition Defying Expectations: Inside Charlotte Brontë’s Wardrobe, Brontë Studies invites new and original articles for a Special Issue devoted to the Brontës and material culture. The exhibition, co-created with historical consultant Dr Eleanor Houghton, featured more than twenty pieces of Charlotte’s clothing and accessories and offered intimate insight into both her domestic and literary lives.

Insecure Ecologies: Resource Exploitation in Postcolonial Ecospheres

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 11:02pm
South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The climate crisis posits a major threat to the anthropocene regardless of geopolitical boundaries. However, Eurocentric discourses seldom acknowledge the resource exploitation that fuels climate change. This panel seeks to explore works of literature that highlight such instances of resource exploitation in the postcolony vis-à-vis the ideas of security and insecurity in the times of an emergent climate crisis. With a special focus on the specters of neocolonialism that threaten the security of postcolonial ecospheres, this panel seeks to decolonize the discourses of climate change that refuse to address the role played by Western ideology and capital in the rendering insecure of ecologies in the postcolony.  

 

Rereading Elden Ring

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 10:50pm
The University of Virginia Department of English Speakers’ Committee
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 7, 2023

With its massive world, open-ended quests, and near-limitless options for customization, Elden Ring––the most critically acclaimed video game of 2022––is designed to be replayed. But it is also a text that demands to be reread. Whether we study its environmental storytelling or the lore in item descriptions, the game’s fragmented narrative fuels exegeses that resemble the long history of Biblical interpretation, midcentury criticism of modernist enigmas like Ulysses, and hermeneutic fandoms surrounding popular culture like Twin Peaks. Its spatiotemporally disjunctive universe frustrates efforts to interpret its world “realistically” and prompts one to place it in dialogue with theories of unconventional space and time.

Borders in the English-speaking world: Mapping and Countermapping

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:52pm
University of Strasbourg, SEARCH research group
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

Borders in the English-Speaking World: Mapping and Countermapping

 

International conference organized by UR SEARCH

9-10 October 2023

University of Strasbourg

 

Keynote speakers:

 

Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité/LARCA)

Michael Darroch (York University) and Lee Rodney (University of Windsor) - The research-creation hub IN/TERMINUS

Donna Akrey and Taien Ng-Chan (Artists, Hamilton Perambulatory Unit)

 

CFP Call for Conference Papers - Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of UP Education (Australia and New Zealand)

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:52pm
Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Head of Research & Postgraduate Studies, Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, New Zealand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of UP Education (Australia and New Zealand)

Event Dates: 25 – 27 October 2023, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023

Call for Book Chapters on Digital Rhetoric and Borders

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:51pm
Tecnológico de Monterrey
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 31, 2023

Digital Rhetoric and Borders: Human Mobility Between Mexico and the United States

Editors:

Dr. Rubria Rocha de Luna

Postdoctoral Researcher in Digital Humanities

Dr. Paloma Vargas Montes

Professor-Researcher in Ethnohistory and Philology 

Dr. Maricruz Castro Ricalde

Professor-Researcher in Cinema and Visual Culture

Histories of Earth Sciences: visual and interdisciplinary approaches amid an environmental crisis

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:51pm
University of Insubria (Italy)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, April 10, 2023

Histories of Earth Sciences:

visual and interdisciplinary approaches amid an environmental crisis

 

For decades now, the history of Earth sciences has been a ground for the development of interdisciplinary research. Historians and scientists from different disciplines have been contributing with methodologies coming from the history of institutions, art history, visual studies, material studies, geoscientific fields (such as integrating geoscientific iconography or retreating historical fieldwork), philosophy, gender studies, the history of literature, political and colonial histories, disciplinary histories, and history of fieldwork.

"The monstrous mother: images of unexpected evil" - CFP for an edited volume

updated: 
Thursday, March 16, 2023 - 9:49pm
Anna Chiara Corradino, Alessandro Grilli, Sofia Torre
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

The monstrous mother: images of unexpected evil (Edited Volume)

Editors: Anna Chiara Corradino; Alessandro Grilli; Sofia Torre

The monstrous mother, a peculiar subset of the ‘monstrous feminine’ (Creed 1993), is a recurring figure in cultural representation – in mythology, literature and the arts. Its multifaceted profile symbolizes the dangers and anxieties associated with motherhood and the maternal. 

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