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"Beyond the Capitals of Decadence" - Seminar @ ACLA 2024
Organizers: Florian Zappe &James Dowthwaite
Nature in Contemporary African American Literature
The proposed book looks for chapters exploring the contemporary Pulitzer Prize winning American women-authored plays and their engagement with post-millennial cultural dynamics. This volume / book wants to showcase women playwrights’ responses to and shaping the cultural landscape of American society of the 21st century. By examining themes, characters, narratives, and dramatic techniques, the chapters want to address a nuanced understanding of how American women drama reflects and challenges the complexities of changing times of the society.
Chapters proposals invited on the following plays and themes:
CFP ACLA2024: Seminar "The Evolution of Interactivity in Storytelling"
American Comparative Literature Association
Montreal, Canada, March 14-17, 2024
Abstract deadline: September 30, 2023
The ongoing evolution of interactivity in novels, films, games, and digital media forms a continual dialogue between human creativity and technological innovation. Interactivity has long been a cornerstone in storytelling, engendering a dynamic relationship between creators, writers, readers, players, and interactors.
The New York Metro American Studies Association (NYMASA) invites applications for a week-long summer institute June 24-27, 2024, exploring the multiple manifestations of abolition and abolitionism in the United States.
Higher education faculty at all levels (including adjuncts and contingent faculty), graduate students, K-12 teachers, independent scholars, artists, activists and community organizers, journalists, librarians, archivists, and other cultural workers are highly encouraged to apply.
Roopika Risam in her New Digital Worlds (2019) argues that the postcolonial digital pedagogy aims to show “how print culture has played a role in constructing a world that privileges the stories, voices, and values of the Global North and how digital cultures in the twenty-first century reproduce these practices, contributing to the epistemological marginalization of the Global South” (89).
This collection aims to continue the work of diversifying the 19th-century British literary canon. Many authors who were revolutionary and popular during their time are now underrepresented in the current scholarly field. The essays in the collection will touch on underread texts and authors as well as underappreciated characters in more traditionally canonical works. We welcome essays using lenses such as disability studies, trauma theory, critical race theory, queer theory, postcolonial studies, and more.
Chapter proposals can include but are not limited to:
Underread 19th-century British authors
19th-century diaries or letters that have been critically ignored
Call for Papers:
Competing Christian Identities
Literary Theory at CEA 2024
deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2023
full name / name of organization:
College English Association (CEA)
contact email:
Call for Papers, Literary Theory at CEA 2024
March 21-23 | Atlanta, Georgia
The Westin Buckhead Atlanta
The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Literary Theory for our 53rd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org.
Recently, we have seen a growing number of unconventional female characters in literature, film, and on TV – characters that do not conform to patriarchal and capitalist constructions of femininity, that defy our expectations and refuse to follow the (written and/or unwritten) rules. In her monograph The Unruly Woman: Gender and the Genres of Laughter (1995), Kathleen Rowe focused on the representation of “unruly women” in comedy. According to Rowe, the romantic comedy genre has “provided one of the few outlets for representations of female unruliness in Hollywood film” (Rowe 19).
Film and Politics in Africa
Concept Note
North American academia in the last few decades has been forced to confront Caste as a crucial analytic in the study of the local and the global through various disciplinary perspectives. With groundbreaking work such as Yashica Dutt’s Coming Out as Dalit (2019), Divya Cherian’s Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-Century South Asia (2022) and so on, Caste has become, rightly so, an avoidable part of the global-postcolonial-neocolonial world of scholarship. Recent work by scholars like Nico Slate and Isabel Wilkerson seeks to compare and connect modern racial structures in the US and Europe to the ancient system of Caste in India.
Zines are extremely versatile and shapeshift across various historical and cultural contexts. The term covers a wide range of objects with different aesthetic and material qualities as well as contexts of production and reception: Zines accommodate the collective concerns of fans and activists (zintivism) and the personal voice of the diarist and letter writer. Since the rise of digital media, zines and their aesthetics have become portable: Digitised and digital zines exist alongside blogs, social media, podcasts, and substacks, which seem to exhibit zine-y tendencies, while digital infrastructures have changed the ways that print zines are produced, distributed, and archived.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Embodied Histories: Cultural History of, in, and through the Human Body
September 4-6, 2024, Potsdam, Germany (on site)
Call for Papers
Chapters for The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries
We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines: Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries. It is a collection of academic essays that scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives and in the context of Asia. Contributors can explore relevant notions in the topics of mythologies, folktales, literature, theatre performance and any other forms of arts/genres etc.
Memory and Trauma Studies have emerged as a key paradigm in the field of humanities, social and cultural studies, especially towards the end of the 20th century. The intersections and interactions between these two fields have been employed by contemporary scholars to study human histories of war, atrocities, genocides, partition, displacement and discrimination. Building upon this enriched understanding of the intricate relationship between memory and trauma, scholars have extended their inquiries to explore the mechanisms through which societies and individuals navigate the aftermath of traumatic experiences.
The College English Association’s 53rd national conference, from March 21-23 in Atlanta, will focus on the theme of transformations. CEA invites proposals from academics specializing in Medieval and Early Modern literature or cultural studies. We especially welcome presentations that focus on the theme of transformations in texts, disciplines, culture, media, education, and pedagogy. But in addition to our conference theme, we happily accept proposals on other topics of interest.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted electronically by November 1, 2023, through our conference management database housed at the following web address: https://www.conftool.pro/cea2024/.
Cet atelier se veut un creuset d'échange et de réflexion sur les stéréotypes liés au genre dans les différents domaines de la société.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Writing Faith and Place in Early Modern Britain
17th–19th April, University of Exeter
4th International e-Conference
On
Exploring Crisis in Literary and Cultural Studies
Date: 19th & 20th October, 2023
To be Organized by
New Literaria- An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
in collaboration with
Department of English, Central University of Rajasthan (CURaj), India
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANEL PROPOSALS
Mode: Online
Humour across Victoriana
To be published as part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2023-2025).
This volume will attempt to explore the prevalence and function of humour across all levels of Victorian society by focusing on how humour is expressed, encountered, and experienced in all forms of media and expression.
IL PARLAGGIO
ISSN 2280-6849
This section of the academic journal “Sinestesieonline” is open to contributions about theatre and performing arts in all historical ages, forms and variations, in English, Italian and foreign languages. We use double blind peer review.
“Il Parlaggio” is the name created by Gabriele d’Annunzio for the amphitheatre in Vittoriale – a place of empathy, a cradle of emotions, a crossroads of cultures, a connection between antiquity and contemporaneity, an emblem of the “neverending show”.
Dear Scholars and Researchers,
We are delighted to announce the Call for Chapters on Dalit Life Narratives: The Context, Text and Praxis a timely and significant initiative that seeks to explore and highlight the contemporary relevance of Dalit experiences. This compilation aims to shed light on the lived realities, struggles, triumphs, and aspirations of the Dalit community through the medium of life narratives.
Gaston Bachelard asserts that "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." How does one define "home"? Is it a materially constructed shelter, or a psychological space that holds one's memories, imaginations, and, essentially, a space that "protects the daydreamer" (The Poetics of Space, 5)? Furthermore, what does it mean to exist in a "body"? And what does it feel like to be "at home" in a body? How does one traverse these inhabited spaces, both in public and in private? Or, how are spatial boundaries reinstated when the home and the body is misaligned?
Call for Papers
2024 AAAS Annual Conference
April 25-27, 2024
Seattle, WA
Asian American Studies in the 2020s: Disciplinary, Ethnic, Diasporic Identities
Panel Title:
How We Do Asian American Studies: AAPI Narratives of Shared Vulnerability and Care Communities
Type: Paper Presentation (3-4 presenters)
CFP Overview:
Reiterating Urbanisms: Staging the City in Literature and Media from the Global South
CALL FOR CHAPTERS
The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora
Submission Deadline – December 15th, 2023
Notification of selection – January 15th, 2023
Full Chapters Due – May 30th, 2024
Editor
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY)
SEEKING CHAPTER PROPOSALS FOR EDITED VOLUME-
Description
Call for papers
“‘Nor thou nor thy religion dost controule, The amorousnesse of an harmonious Soule’: Rethinking Devotional Works and Practices in the British Isles (16th-18th c.)”
(Scroll down for the French version, scientific committee and selected bibliography)
A one-day preparatory seminar will take place on April, 5th 2024 (as a hybrid event) to enable scholars to present their research. The conference will then take place at Université Paris Nanterre on April 3-4, 2025.
CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL SPACE AND NEW MEDIA
Studies in Theatre and Performance Special Issue Call for Papers