XXVII AISNA Biennial Conference

University of Perugia

Call for proposals – panel #20 on “Affective and Relational Responses to Vulnerability in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Narratives”

Coordinators: Virginia Pignagnoli and Laura Roldan-Sevillano 

Proposal deadline: 7 May 2023

This interdisciplinary volume seeks to bring multiple fields together in order to investigate diaspora, food, and memory. 

This volume takes a multi-field approach to answer the following three questions:

1. How do diasporic communities use food to navigate a relationship with their homeland? 

2. In what ways do diasporic foodways sustain and/or rupture cultural legacies?

3. What are the relationships between food and cultural memory?

Proposal Notes

Inspired by Pascale Casanova's world literary system, this panel seeks to challenge national paradigms by investigating transnational mediators. We welcome papers addressing writers who specialize in international mediation strategies (adaptation, translation, mimesis, extraction), specific moments of cultural brokerage, or literary works that are considered to have global influences and international linguistic-literary value. Please submit a 250-word abstract directly to the conference website - https://pamla.ballastacademic.com - by May 31.

We are currently accepting submissions for the Renaissance Literature Excluding Drama panel taking place at the 2023 South Central Modern Language Association annual conference. The conference will be held in Corpus Christi, TX, on October 12-14. We welcome papers on any and all non-dramatic literary Renaissance works, including works from the English Renaissance/Early Modern period. From Machiavelli to Milton and Cervantes to Stanley, all works of poetry and prose are open for consideration. Neither the conference nor the panel have a theme, so we welcome papers with a wide range of topics. The deadline to submit abstracts is July 10, 2023. Please email your 250-word abstracts to chair Nicholas A. Brush.

Cultural Intertexts, an academic journal of Literature and Cultural Studies, ISSN 2393-0624, E-ISSN 2393-1078, invites proposals of original articles related to the theme: “Representations of the Danube in Literature and the Arts”.

From the Black Forest to the Black Sea, the Danube crosses ten countries and four capital cities, forming a site of cultural memory, both fluid because of the natural features of the river and static because of the lands it connects. From epoch to epoch, the Danube has sparked the imagination of many writers and artists that left us a rich artistic heritage, whose disparate locations invite us to travel and explore.

The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran are organizing the 2023 Media and Information Literacy Seminar with the main theme of “A Collective Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 25 October 2023, which coincides with the World Development Information Day and United Nations Day.

The Sixth Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar commemorates the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (24 – 31 Oct) that highlights the 13th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference and the seventh Youth Agenda Forum.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.

    Historically in the United States of America, immigrants of Asian origin have been the subject of extremely violent legal measures—one need only recall the 1882 “Chinese Exclusion Act” or the other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD November 9-11, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism

***VIRTURAL Travel and Tourism! How has lockdown affected travel around the globe?***

America and Deep Time: Alternate Geographies, Temporalities, and Histories

25-27 October 2023

We are pleased to invite you to submit papers for the third issue of Living in Languages Journal, an online open-source, peer-reviewed graduate journal devoted to translation studies at the University at Albany. We are inviting papers on topics ranging from translational identities to the sounds of the foreign, from Technik/technology to translational memory, from translating trauma to reflections on translation as a process, in sum, from and to Babel and its literary and political cascades.  

Submission guidelines:

Serial Repetitions: Retheorizing Fantasy in TV and Other Media

Special Issue -- Science Fiction Film and Television

Guest editors: Michelle Anya Anjirbag (maa93@cantab.ac.uk) and Timothy S. Miller

(millert@fau.edu)

Abstracts of 500 words due by July 1, with indicative bibliography

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by July 15, with complete drafts of 6000 words due by

November 1

We invite essay submissions for an upcoming special issue of the journal Science Fiction Film

Cyberwit is now accepting articles for the book "Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - A Critical Study" Cyberwit is planning to publish a book on Mark Twain work, his imperishable contribution to World Literature. This book of criticism on Mark Twain will include several essays and reviews about his work. MAXIMUM 15000 WORDS per author If you want to be a part of this project you may please write and send us a critical article revealing emotional depth in Mark Twain's writings. If you need Mark's book, please email me, I will send you book in PDF file. A reply will oblige. Email: info@cyberwit.net 

Since people with certain deformities have been part and parcel of mankind then why they should be ignored, oppressed, and marginalized. They have even outshined in every field including literature, science, music, dance, sports, and politics. Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, George Washington, Hellen Keller, Franklin D Roosevelt, Frida Kahlo, Ludwig Van Beethovan, Walt Disney, Sudha Chandran, Ravindra Jain, Arunima Sinha are a few names who never allowed their physical weakness to take over their spirit. They successfully created their own history.