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Celebrating Firebrand Books

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 10:51am
Katharine O. Kittredge
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Firebrand Burns On!

Conference to Celebrate Firebrand Books

Ithaca College

April 18-19, 2025

 

From 1984 to 2000 editor Nancy Bereano working out of a tiny office in Ithaca, New York published 104 books, including some of the most influential LGBTQIA+ titles ever produced.  This two-day conference celebrates the achievements and legacy of Firebrand Books.  For a complete overview of Firebrand publications see https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM07670.html. We invite papers on a variety of topics:

Discussions of the work of Firebrand authors, including:

Training Translators and Interpreters Today: Perspectives and Evolutions

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 10:23am
Iulm University, Milan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

In the last few years, increasing recourse to ever more efficient technologies and artificial intelligence has radically changed the interpreting and translating professions, triggering an evolution process whose outcomes are currently difficult to predict, but what is certain is that translators and interpreters have to do their best to respond to the changing requirements of a highly diversified market.

The Romantic (R)Evolution: De-bordering Romanticism

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 5:50am
NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel seeks proposals to approach Romanticism as a (r)evolutionary mode of thinking. We invite abstracts to revolutionize and de-border the conventional Eurocentric Romantic boundaries in genres, forms, styles, themes, cultural legacies, and critical methods. Proposals are invited to transcend Romanticism of the Romantic Era to a new timeless global Romanticism of both historicity and modernity that contributes to ideological diversity. From the old pan-European Romanticism to a new international Romanticism, reading Romantic Literature as World Literature, this panel welcomes new creative approaches to interpret works by the Romantics.

18th-Century Cats!

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 5:50am
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 20, 2024

Eighteenth-Century Cats! [ID 68]
Chair: Taylin Nelson, ASECS Graduate and Early Career Caucus, Rice University, tpn2@rice.edu

Weekend: March 28/29

What is an Internet-based conference without addressing the Internet’s favorite topic: cats!? This panel seeks papers interested in exploring eighteenth-century cats in their many facets and figurations. Cats abound during this period: from big cats in the natural histories, moralizing cats in fables and children’s stories, mysterious and symbolic cats in the art of Fragonard or Chardin, to real-life cats in the lives of Samuel Johnson or Horace Walpole.

Call for Reviews on Free Speech and Censorship

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 5:50am
Randy Robertson / Modern Language Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 1, 2025

Modern Language Studies, the journal of the Northeast Modern Language Association, is seeking reviews for the summer 2025 issue. In recent years, the temperature has risen around free speech debates, and books on censorship and free speech come out with such frequency that it is hard to keep abreast of the new scholarship. I am interested in receiving reviews and review essays on academic books published in the last several years that are in some way related to free speech. The books to be reviewed can center on any historical, geographical, or disciplinary context, and the reviews and review essays can be written from (almost) any theoretical perspective.

Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, September 16, 2024 - 5:50am
Ben Alexander. Columbia University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 20, 2024

Call for Papers

 

New Volume: Remembering and (Re)remembering Social Justice in the 21st Century 

Publisher: FACET

Please Submit a 500 word Abstract by October 20.    

Ben Alexander: Bea3@columbia.edu

 

We are looking for 3, maybe 4, chapters to complete our volume that is in-contract with FACET.  Verne Harris will be authoring our Forward, Trudy Peterson our Introduction and Verne Harris our Afterword.  Chapter titles include:

 

Call for themed submissions: The "Freak" Issue (creative writing)

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 4:47pm
Puerto del Sol Literary Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 17, 2024

Call for themed submissions: the "freak" issue (creative writing only - we do not accept academic writing) Puerto del Sol is seeking work which engages with the theme of freak. Freaking, to freak, to be freaked. A freaky thing. Freak has a past: a rotten one. Freak as a scorn, as a label tied around necks by hierarchy, ableism, transphobia, racism. Freak as pushback. Freak getting freaked the freak up. The grotesque growing despite. Revel in it. Leather-clad tunnel vision. Maximalism. That house in the woods we all want to see. Who is brave enough to look? And let me see your browser history. What are you hiding? What is it that lives behind those walls, under the skin, in the darkest corner of the attic?

Narrative Fracture in East and Southeast Asian Art and Literature

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:24am
American Comparative Literature Association / ACLA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

For the 2025 Annual ACLA Conference (May 29th-June 1st 2025, held virtually)

This panel asks presenters to consider the logics of fracture, at the level of idenity, artisitic production, and national scales as it realtes to East and Southeast Asian art and literature. 

ACLA Remote Panel Interdisciplinary Study of Homemaking: Mapping the Places, Routines, Memories, and Locales We Call Home

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:24am
May 29 - June 1, 2025 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

Please submit an abstract and bio on the ACLA Portal link by October 14, 2024 https://www.acla.org/node/add/paper?destination=/interdisciplinary-study-homemaking-mapping-places-routines-memories-and-locales-we-call-home&seminar=47603  We welcome papers that reflect on the diverse, layered, and fluid representations of homemaking for a seminar focused on three key thematic units: Homemaking: Spaces, Architecture, and Urban Geographies; Mapping the Everyday: Visual Arts, Objects, and Media; Gendered Spatial Configurations.

Call for thematic issues for Film Journal

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:23am
Film Journal SERCIA
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, March 31, 2027

Film Journal invites submissions for thematic issues to be published in 2026, 2027, 2028. We are looking for thematic issues that offer new perspectives on film history, theory, narrative and aesthetics.

Call for English Translations of Telugu Short Stories

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:23am
Antonym Publications
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Inviting English translations of Telugu short stories for an edited anthology of Contemporary Telugu Short Stories (published between 1975-2024) to be published by Antonym Publications, Kolkata. The translated stories need to be between 1000 and 5000 words.Please mail details of the story you plan to translate by the 15th of October 2024.The translated stories need to be mailed in word format (Times New Roman, 12 font, double spaced) to pulunishi@gmail.com within 31st December 2024. Please add a brief bio of both the author and the translator.

"Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship."

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
Rachel Terman/Ohio University
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 17, 2024

We invite abstract submissions for contributions to a themed issue of the Journal of Appalachian Studies (JAS) on "Women, Gender, and Feminism in Appalachia: Intersecting and Emerging Scholarship." Co-Edited by Krystal Carter, Tammy Clemons, and Rachel Terman, we especially invite contributions from authors who identify as early-career and/or underrepresented scholars, but submissions from all are welcome.

 

Defiant Narrativity: Risk, Resonance, and (R)evolution

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
56th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This creative session invites readings or performances of original work that experiments with, challenges, and/or disturbs received notions of structure and narrative form. Short fiction, novel excerpts, creative non-fiction, diaries, fragments, literary collages, project-books, graphic commentaries, prose poetry, and other stylized word-beings that purposefully question, expand, and/or play with what narrativity is and can do are welcome here. 

2025 ACLA Conference - CFP: Seminar "The Flow of Performing Arts Between Periphery and Center: Tensions and Potentialities"

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
American Comparative Literature Association (2025 Virtual Meeting)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

In 1931, Antonin Artaud envisioned a radically innovative form of theatre after witnessing a performance by a Balinese troupe at the Colonial Exposition in Paris. While this event is widely acknowledged among arts and humanities scholars, its specific details – such as the precise content of the performance and the identities of the performers – are overlooked, thus exemplifying the ambivalent nature of the circulation of performing arts from colonized and/ or marginalized regions. Throughout history, how have conflicting global power structures and unequal socio-political conditions shaped the flow, interpretation, and reception of works, artists, aesthetics and practices from the so-called peripheries in Europe and the United States?

Seeking writers for new higher ed magazine

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
UniNewsletter
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

UniNewsletter is a new digital magazine dedicated to sharing higher ed news and research innovations, as well as establishing connections between diverse global educational institutions. We publish general issues quarterly (September; December; February; June) with additional special editions on specific topics. Each issue we engage academic, industry, leadership, student  and more voices to foster intercultural dialogue and showcase developments, pedagogies, and campus life at some of the world’s most eminent universities.

British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2025: Call for Papers

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:16am
British Society for Literature and Science
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

The twentieth annual conference of the British Society for Literature and Science will take place at Lancaster University, on 10th – 12th April 2025 in person.

The BSLS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers, or panels of three papers, or roundtables, on any subjects within the field of literature (broadly defined to include theatre, film, and television) and science (including medicine and technology). The BSLS remains committed to supporting and showcasing work on all aspects of literature and science.

Myth and Fairy Tales Area of SWPACA: 46th Annual Conference

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:15am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

Myth and Fairy Tales 

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 

 

46th Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2025 

Marriott Albuquerque 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 

https://www.southwestpca.org 

Proposal submission deadline:October 31, 2024 

 

Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenilia & Surviving Letters--JASNA AGM 2025 (Baltimore)

updated: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024 - 3:15am
Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA)
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

2025 will be a milestone year celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. Through this Call for Papers, the JASNA Maryland Region invites submission of proposals for breakout sessions at the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA) and applications for the New Voices Breakout Speaker Grant.

The AGM theme: Austen at 250: Austen's Life, Novels, Juvenelia, & Surviving Letters

Date: Oct. 10-12, 2025

Location: Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore MD

American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference (Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality)

updated: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 2:47am
American Academy of Religion, Western Region (Religions of Asia Unit)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

We are officially extending the Due Date for CFP to OCTOBER 31, 2024

 

The American Academy of Religion, Western Region (AAR-WR), is delighted to announce its annual Call for Papers (CFP) for its 2025 Conference, which will be held at Arizona State University. It will be an in-person conference with some hybrid capabilities.

 

Call for Papers: American Academy of Religion, Western Region 2025 Annual Conference - "Performing Religions, Faith, and Spirituality"

Dates: March 14-16, 2025

Location: Arizona State University

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2024

2025 ACLA_virtual meeting_CFP: World literature as a mode of doing and experiencing

updated: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024 - 1:51am
2025 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting (online conference)
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 14, 2024

David Damrosch (2003) describes world literature as “a mode of circulation and of reading” (5) and “writing that gains in translation” (281). This perspective has long dominated the discourse on world literature and has been widely expanded upon by scholars. Building on this foundation, Tong King Lee (2024) proposes that in today’s globalized context, circulating literature necessitates not only a mode of reading but also a mode of doing. In this view, a literary work becomes a Barthian Text—an interconnected network of “texts” that manifest in various forms (multilingual, multimodal, or multimedial), shaped by users rather than just readers.

CFP: “Provocations” Essays for American Gothic Studies

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 2:37pm
American Gothic Studies/Society for the Study of the American Gothic
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

CFP: “Provocations” for American Gothic Studies

 

American Gothic Studies is seeking short essays for its “Provocations” section. These pieces (2,000 words) are meant to question conventional wisdom, tackle compelling issues, or advance new theses about the American Gothic as an academic field or pedagogical subject.

 

Among other things, authors might:

Afrifuturism

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
African Literature Today
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

African Literature Today plans to publish a special issue (ALT 43) with a focus on “Afrifuturism” and hereby calls for well-researched articles for the volume. One of the more recent genres in African literature is Afrifuturism. It is a relatively new concept introduced by the Nigerian American science fiction and fantasy novelist, Nnedi Okorafor. The issue seeks to appraise crucial developments in the thematic engagement of writers in this field of writing. 

Expanded Practices: Writing, Pedagogy, and Creative Arts

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Dr. Sandra Huber, Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett / Concordia University Faculty of Fine Arts
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, November 4, 2024

Writing has always been one step in the future. From emojis to slang to song, writing has momentum, and it is up to us - as artists, researchers and educators - to find ways of moving with it. In the light of emerging concerns about technology’s cultural impact, and the changing relevance of traditional writing techniques, how might our practices and pedagogies adapt to this shifting interdisciplinarity? What might this look like in contexts where writing exists alongside other forms of artistic communication, such as classrooms, institutions and interdisciplinary practices? How do preexisting notions of art and writing change as technologies and platforms demand new forms of engagement?

Berkeley Graduate Conference in Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800)

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
UC Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 10, 2024

We are pleased to announce that the Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought (1400-1800) will take place on Saturday May 3rd, 2025.

Alison McQueen (Stanford University) will deliver the keynote address.

We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words on any topic or geographic area so long as it substantively engages with the timeframe. Applicants must hold a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, and they must not yet have a PhD.

Submission deadline: January 10th, 2025 at midnight PST. Accepted speakers will be notified in February 2025.

PCA True Crime Area CFP - Special Topics 2025

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, November 30, 2024

PCA True Crime CFP – Special Topics 2025

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30th, 2023

PCA/ACA will be held from April 16-19th, 2025 in New Orleans, LA

Nonhuman Cultures of the Air and Oceans at ASLE 2025

updated: 
Friday, September 13, 2024 - 6:04am
ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres, College Park, MD, July 8-11 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Paper jam: Nonhuman Cultures of the Air and Oceans

 

Looking back from 2014, when ecocriticism discussed “culture as such in the last decade and a half, it has often been in the process of contesting a view of nature as a cultural construction. …In this tired debate, ecocritics, busy refuting an erasure of nature, and other theorists, busy asserting the primacy of culture, both end up affirming the essentialist idea of culture at the core of this binary and the humanities. The persistence of this formulation of culture is the most pressing philosophical problem for ecocriticism and green studies, and critical and cultural theory generally” (Ecocriticism and the Idea of Culture).

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