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CALL FOR PAPERS: American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, IL, May 23-26, 2024
Call for Submissions for Issue 2!
We are now seeking submissions for Issue 2.
The theme is: The Slant, as in …
“ Tell all the truth but tell it slant —”
Poems that explore the associations and connections of a unique mind. The poet’s eye. A perspective that only the individual could conjure. Worlds, experiences, thoughts, and events cast in a new and distinct light. Poems that focus on the strength of voice and personality. Poems that tinker with language, imagery, and unfamiliarity. We want a peek behind the curtain, to see how the poet sees.
Sharon Cameron’s Thinking in Henry James pointed up the weirdness of how consciousness works in his novels. She cites this example from The Portrait of a Lady, in which the subject of Isabel Archer’s reverie suddenly appears: “The effect was strange, for Madame Merle was already so present to her vision that her appearance in the flesh was like suddenly, and rather awfully, seeing a painted picture move.” In Mark Fisher’s account, “the weird is constituted by a presence – the presence of that which does not belong. In some cases [...] the weird is marked by an exorbitant presence, a teeming which exceeds our capacity to represent it.”
The Department of English and Communications at South Carolina State University invites proposals for individual twenty-minute papers/presentations for the 2024 Intersectional Studies Remote Conference via Zoom on Friday, March 22, 2024.
2nd Midwest Regional African American Studies Biennial Conference
Conference theme: Love Ethic
The Ball State African American Studies program and the Honors College are pleased to announce the hybrid 2nd Midwest Regional African American Studies Biennial Conference taking place on February 22-23, 2024. The conference will be virtual with an opportunity to present face-to-face in Muncie, Indiana.
Inviting short stories for an edited anthology to be published by Virasat Art Publication, Kolkata. There is no specific theme but the stories need to stand out in both form and content. The stories need to be original and unpublished and need to be between 1000 and 5000 words. Please mail the stories in word format (Times New Roman, 12 font, double spaced) to pulunishi@gmail.com within 30th April 2024. Please add a brief bio (80 words) too.
In case of any queries please email the editor of the volume, Nishi Pulugurtha, at the above email.
“We all know that the word ‘method’ is eventually derived from the Greek ‘methodos’ which again is derived from ‘meta’ meaning ‘after’ and ‘hodos’ meaning ‘way’. If method is moving after a way, then it must have been arrived at after moving wayward for some time.”-Amiya Dev, “Comparative Literature from Below”, JJCL 29
This Children and Youth Studies Caucus-sponsored panel seeks papers that consider the role of children and childhood in histories of medicine. From experiments across medical, scientific, and social scientific disciplines to issues of consent and privacy to interventions that delimit trajectories of child development, histories of medicine have helped shape childhoods–its bounds, temporalities, and norms–and children have helped to shape medicine–its protocols, rationales, and knowledges.
The Washington Irving Society (washingtonirvingsociety.org) invites proposals for any topic related to the study of Irving’s writings, reception, historical contexts, or contemporaries for the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. All critical approaches are welcome. Please send an abstract of approximately 250 words plus a brief bio to Dr. Sean Keck at skeck@radford.edu by January 25th, 2024.
Annulet: A Journal of Poetics seeks submissions of literary criticism for our seventh issue.
Among its meanings, "annulet" means a little ring. As a literary journal, we are committed to bringing into closer conjunction poetry, poetics-driven prose, and public-facing scholarship and criticism.
The University Press of Kansas has expressed interest in publishing a book of essays about representations of the multiverse in popular culture. The theory of the multiverse – the premise that our known universe if merely one iteration of an infinite number of alternate universes – has recently emerged from scientific obscurity to become a common trope of popular fiction. Everything Everywhere All at Once won 2022’s Academy Award for Best Picture, multiversal timelines are a central feature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and representations of parallel realities in television shows such as Sliders, Fringe, Dr.
In Literature and Evil, Bataille argues for a close connection between literature and "Evil" as a sovereign and productive value, which is defined against an oppressive use of reason that "flattens" all knowledge into a reductive uniformity. Bataille finds in Blake's A Marriage of Heaven and Hell "agitations", "poetic violence" and "lacerations" that occur in Blake’s drive towards human totality and death. At the same time, Bataille observes that this violence and Evil also "raise us to glory" in Blake's attribution to Evil of "the wisdom of Hell that heralds
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
Editors: Ananya Roy Pratihar(IMIS,Bhubaneswar), Saswat Samay Das (IIT, Kharagpur) & Shashibhushan Nayak(GP Nayagarh)
CALL FOR PAPERS -- EAA 2024 -- ROME, ITALY
Christina Cowart-Smith and Alexander D'Alisera invite abstract submission to session #643 ("The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies") at the 2024 annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, Italy. Please see the text below for further details. Any questions may be addressed to the organizers at christina.e.smith@durham.ac.uk and alexander.dalisera@bc.edu.
Session Title and Number
#643. The Experience of Stone II: Sculpting Comparative Phenomenologies
Challenging Structural Inequalities: Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries
--The Langston Hughes Society at the 35th ALA Convention--
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
The Langston Hughes Society invites proposals to participate in our session at the 35th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 23-26 in Chicago, IL.
Call for papers 2024
Performance and Disability Working Group CFP
“Resisting and Reclaiming Tragedy”
IFTR 2024 - University of the Philippines (our Working Group also welcomes online participation)
This issue will engage the theme of the National Communication Association’s 109th Annual Convention on freedom. The convention’s call recognizes the relationship between human communication and freedom, inquiring into the meaning of freedom and the role of communication in achieving freedom. In response to this theme, the Journal of Dialogic Ethics invites essays that consider connections between and among freedom, dialogue, and ethics, with a special focus on interfaith and interhuman perspectives.
Call for Papers: The Meta Lawsuit and the Commodification of Teen Harms
Editors: Dr. Jeff Shires, Jonathan M. Wicks LCSW, and Jonathan Bertrand
Abstracts Due: February 15, 2024
Full Papers Due: May 1, 2024
Final Notification by June 15, 2024
SMRI is looking to assemble an edited collection of scholarly works about the State Attorneys General Lawsuits against Meta. We are looking for interdisciplinary essays that cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Paper submissions are invited for the Jack London Society panel at the American Literature Association Conference The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, May 23-26, 2024. Papers may address any aspect of Jack London studies. Send a 250-word abstract for a twenty-minute presentation to Kenneth Brandt at kbrandt@scad.edu by January 27, 2024. Include a brief biographical sketch and any AV equipment needs. We also welcome proposals for innovative formats including roundtable discussion groups and panels featuring more speakers and briefer papers. Panel presenters can join the Jack London Society at http://jacklondonsociety.org/
This year’s event is scheduled for the 1st time at the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador in a hybrid format, encompassing both in-person and online sessions.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:
This is a second call for chapter manuscripts for the edited volume called “Human Rights and Indian Literary Communities”.
While most submissions are in, there is scope for more chapters ONLY in the areas given below.
This collection undertakes various explorations about the role of literary (and related cultural) communities in the acknowledgement and understanding of human rights bearing subjects. Can literary texts highlight and empathise with those on the social margins as legal subjects possessing rights? Do texts also recognise and challenge the contours of human rights? Can literary communities help imagine and reimagine the outlines of those deemed human and therefore capable of being human rights bearing citizens?
Panel Title: Blue Hawthorne: Alluvium, Riparian, Fluvial, Oceanic
The annual conference of the American Literature Association will take place at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL on May 23-26, 2024. The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society seeks proposals for the panel below. Please send abstracts of 250 words to Ariel Silver ariel.silver@gmail.com by Jan. 17.
American Literature Association Richard Wright Society
May 23-26, 2024
The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
The Richard Wright Society invites proposals to participate in two sessions on Wright to take place at the 35th Annual American Literature Association Conference, May 23-26 in Chicago, IL.
Panel: Richard Wright’s Chicago
During a 1969 conversation with Simon Karlinsky, Vladimir Nabokov stated that to write "about Pushkin and also about me" one had to know French literature. Hosted by the French Studies Department of Cornell University, this conference aims to look at Nabokov through a transnational and transcultural lens. Cornell University is a particularly fitting location for such a conference given that Nabokov lectured there not only on Flaubert and Proust, but also on Austen, Kafka, Dickens, Stevenson, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and others.
Conference CFP
We particularly encourage and welcome applications by BAME people and other groups that are underrepresented in academia, especially Black women scholars.
CFP | Rethinking the Ecological Imaginary: Decolonial Ecologies and Black Feminism
IASH, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
30-31 May, 2024
Deadline: February 14, 2024
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
We invite papers that consider how Asian American literary texts illuminate, challenge, or reimagine Asian American relationships to carceral structures. We ask, how might a deeper awareness of the Asian American subject's implication in carceral structures allow for more interethnic coalition building?
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
We welcome proposals on current debates regarding Asian American literature. Our aim is to provide a forum for new and innovative work in Asian American literary studies.
Please email your proposal (max. 250 words) and a brief CV (max. 1-page) to Timothy K. August at timothy.august@stonybrook.edu by January 23rd, 2024. Please be sure to mention any technological needs for your presentation.
American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL
Students in Writing Studies 4200, “Writing and Cultures,” at the University of Minnesota Duluth will edit a collection of creative writing (poems and nonfiction writing) about the broad theme of "Migration." As such, they solicit writings on this topic for inclusion in the collection.
Submissions could address the topic from many perspectives