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Call for Papers - Linguaculture, vol. 15, no. 2, 2024
Posted on 2024-03-15
Linguaculture Thematic issue: Pop Culture and Audience Reception in a Transnational Context
The English Department at the University of the Incarnate Word welcomes presentation proposals for its inaugural international interdisciplinary symposium on “Social Justice and the Teaching of World Literature.” The study and teaching of global texts actively allows for an inclusive representation of diverse voices and perspectives. This symposium seeks to explore more deeply the intersection between teaching world literature and social justice issues as they emerge in the 21st century.
Call for Contributions to edited volume
Reconciliatory Spaces: Post-Conflict Interventions in Anglophone Women's Writing
Ed. Lourdes López-Ropero (University of Alicante, Spain)
Special Issue Call for Papers
Bandung: Journal of the Global South
Link to download the CFP: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/37598_BJGS_CfP_2024.pdf
Coloniality, (In)justice, and the literature of the Global South
Goutam Karmakar (lead guest editor)
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Barabazar Bikram Tudu Memorial College,
Sidho-Kanho-Birsha University,
This year's theme is “Translation in Action.” While most scholarship about translation deals with the interlingual, we welcome scholarship on the other areas discussed by Roman Jakobson such as intralingual and intersemiotic translation. We plan on celebrating the work of a wide range of scholars and translators such as Michael Cronin, Moira Inghilleri, and many others. We seek proposals dealing with translation as a diverse set of practices, a dynamic field of study, and a set of complex networks that affect our lives. Once again, we are open to a variety of interests, but for this year, we are especially interested in proposals on the theme of “Translation in Action.”
Special Issue: Blaga the Poet and/or/vs. Blaga the Philosopher, December 2024
Submission Deadline: 1 October 2024
Guest Editor:Michael Jones (Liberty University, USA),msjones2@liberty.edu
Call for Chapters
Teaching literary analysis invariably includes learning activities involving reading, deciphering, and applying theory to a text understudy. For many undergraduate and dual- or cross-enrolled students, this activity is no small feat. Rather than tossing critical theory to the wayside as "too tough," we persevere! This session seeks presentations from educators who have had varying degrees of success bringing critical theory into their humanities courses. In order to render accessible to students the complex and insightful ideas sandwiched within the academic jargon of critical theory, how are we translating the rigor into palpable bites?
2024 University of Pittsburgh Grad Student Conference
Film and Media Studies
“Crisis and the Everyday”
Keynote Speaker: Gil Hochberg, Columbia University
Date: September 21-22, 2024
Surveying the absence on her shelf where Elizabethan women’s writing ought to be, Virginia Woolf (in)famously dismissed the possibility of Shakespeare’s sister ever finding “a room of her own” to develop her voice. Recent decades of literary scholarship have shown the invention with which early modern women built out their own textual “rooms,” finding voice in surprising places and forms (even in silence, as Christina Luckyj heard [2002]), in visions of new political subjectivities (in a radically equal imaginary, as seen by Mihiko Suzuki [2003]), and through networks of overlooked community (in coteries and in letters, as traced by James Daybell [2006]).
Call for Papers: Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds
Special Issue: ‘Time, Play and Games’
Guest Edited by Federico Alvarez Igarzábal and Chris Hanson (jgvwtime@gmail.com)
Deadline for Submissions: 15 May 2024
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-gaming-virtual-worlds#call-for-papers
Memory in Exile: 80 Years since the Liberation of the Nazi Camps
Special issue of Word and Text, publication in December 2025
In 2025 there will be 80 years since the Nazi camps were liberated.
Penn State’s Center for American Literary Studies presents
American Working-Class Art and Literature Now
Friday, April 19, 2024, Noon—1:00 p.m. EDT via Zoom
Register here
https://psu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9UMcE5aFRHqzqZZfW6VL6w
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email
Critical Companions to Contemporary Directors SERIES
TRANSMEDIA VILLAINS AND CREATURES
This new series by Lexington Books aims to cover the fascinating subject of villains and threatening creatures through an interdisciplinary perspective represented by fields as different as literary, film, religious, gender and art studies as much as philosophy and sociological and ecocritical approaches. Each volume will focus on a single figure (or group of figures) and examine it in its multiple incarnations, from their origins in myth, folklore and history as well as in a literary text, to their various adaptations in different media, including comics, graphic novels, cinema, TV, exhibitions, the visual arts, merchandise, fandom and tourist attractions.
FILM REVIEWS FOR THE QUINT
We invite proposals for papers dealing with American Literature from 1945 to the present to be shared at the Pacific Modern Lanugage Association, held this year from November 7-10 at the Margariaville Resort in Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held completely in person.
Our panel organizers believe in a capacious understanding of post-1945 American Literature. The category of “literature” includes imaginative works (fiction, poetry, drama) but also essays, memoirs, or creative nonfiction. Texts that are written by American-identifying authors or texts about America or American life are welcome.
AICED-25
THE 25th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,
UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST
LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION
14-16 June 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
The English Department of the University of Bucharest invites proposals for
the Literature and Cultural Studies section of its 25th Annual International Conference:
The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:
-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?
How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?
FSNNA24 Call for ParticipationFan Studies Network North America Conference 2024 (virtual)October 17-20, 2024
*taps microphone*
Coming this October!
The greatest fan studies event of this year, or any other.
An academic event of such magnitude, its like will never be seen again.
Four days of research … discussion … and community building!
Hold onto your webcams and get ready for…
FSNNA PRESENTS:
THE MONSTERS OF FAN STUDIES
WORLD TOUR ’24
Submissions for the 2024 FSNNA Conference
121st PAMLA ConferenceThursday, November 7 - Sunday, November 10, 2024
Proposals:
Please use the PAMLA CFP page and submission system, which can be found here: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/CFP.
Call for Papers
PAMLA 2024 Conference: November 7-10, at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California, completely in-person
19249. Ecocriticism (co-sponsored by Association for the Study of Literature & Environment) (Panel / In-Person)
Ecocriticism and Science / Historical and Political Studies
Presiding Officer: Beatriz Rivera-Barnes (Pennsylvania State University - Penn State Worthington Scranton)
Call for Papers
2024 Situations International Conference
22-23 November, 2024
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Asian Diaspora in the 21st Century:
Transnational Hauntology and Affective Production
Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies
Vol. 51 No. 1 | March 2025
Call for Papers
Reorienting Singapore Literature
Guest Editors
Angelia M. C. Poon (Nanyang Technological University)
Iping Liang (National Taiwan Normal University)
Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2024
In accordance with the conference theme, “Translation in Action,” the work of French philosopher Henri Bergson is more than relevant. Bergson’s work was written in French and translations are often offered with notes about the richness of his words and potential loss of meaning. Questions of translation surround and even permeate Bergson philosophy.
From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.
Abstract Deadline: Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Conference Dates: Thursday-Sunday, November 7-10, 2024
Conference Location: Palm Springs, California
Format: In Person (no virtual option available!!)
Submit abstracts to: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com
Contact for inquiries: Noah Gallego @noahrgallego@gmail.com
SAMLA 96: CFP for “Teaching Writing in College” Session
November 15–17, 2024
Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, Jacksonville, FL
CFP for Peace, Literature, and Pedagogy Panel
MMLA 2024, November 14–16, Chicago, IL
General Conference Topic: "Health in/of the Humanities"
The Midwest Modern Language Association welcomes, especially but not exclusively, proposals dealing with any aspect of the theme "Health in/of the Humanities" for the 2024 conference. Please find a general description of this theme here:
https://www.midwest-mla.org/call-for-papers
Please consider submitting a proposal to our panel "Teaching Against the Anthropocene," to take place at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention in Palm Springs California (Nov. 7-10, 2024), and please share the cfp with colleagues who might also be interested!
Submit your proposal at this link before April 30th: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19097
"Teaching Against the Anthropocene" will explore how we translate environmental media into our teaching practices and how we can encourage our students to reflect critically about environmental concepts like the Anthropocene.