Socio/Criticism XXXII-2

Thematic Issue : « Oppositional Gazes »

Independent Cinema in the Americas in the XXIst Century

Coordination : Michèle Soriano (CEIIBA), Cristelle Maury (CAS), Laurence Mullaly (ICD), Émilie Cheyroux (CAS).

Call For Papers

Caesura—Journal of Philological and Humanistic Studies

Special Issue: 21st century Fiction and the City

Guest editor: Prof. Mavis Tseng

Call for Papers: Collection of Essays on 21st-Century Fiction and the City

The Rutgers Program in Comparative Literature Graduate Student Conference: 

(de)composition

Keynotes:

Prof. Ana María Ochoa, Tulane University

Prof. Karen Redrobe, University of Pennsylvania

March 3, 2023

Call for Papers:

Special Issue "Religion and the Working Class in Film"

edited by Sérgio Dias Branco (University of Coimbra)

Dr Adam Hansen and Dr Paul Frazer (Northumbria University, UK) invite submissions for a special edition of the international, online publication, The Journal of Marlowe Studies, on the subject of Teaching Marlowe.

The Marilynne Robinson Society and the American Religion and Literature Society (ARLS) will hold a joint panel at the annual American Literature Association Conference (May 25-28, 2022; Boston, MA).  We are seeking papers that examine the author’s relationship to American evangelicalism.  Robinson’s spiritual vision has been shaped by the writings of Jonathan Edwards, who is considered to be the founding father of American evangelicalism.  How does Robinson’s body of work lead us to think critically about the evangelical tradition in the United States?  How do her essays and novels, particularly Gilead, provide a counter-narrative to the discourses found in modern and contemporary American evangelicalism?  In what ways can they respond to the inc

International Conference

on

Crime and Punishment in Colonial India: History, Literature and Testimony

• The deadline has been extended to 25 November 2022. 

A One-day In Person International Conference on Crime and Punishment in Colonial India

Organised by the Department of English & I. Q.A. C., K. K. Das College, Kolkata

in collaboration with New Alipore College & Maheshtala college, Kolkata

Date: 9 December, 2022

Deadline of Abstract Submission: 20 November, 2022

Artists and writers have long been deconstructing dominant notions of the American West. In 1957, jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins released Way Out West, a record that drew inspiration from California landscapes, TV Westerns, and overlooked Black cowboys. The album cover depicts Rollins outfitted as a gunfighter in desert surrounds, complete with cacti and a sun-bleached cattle skull. Where you might expect to find a big iron on his hip, he cradles his tenor sax. Today, artists like Orville Peck continue to revise, rewrite, and expand the boundaries of what we might consider the story of the West both in sound, style, and location—the South African-born crooner, now based out of Canada, has gained major success on the U.S.

2023 LAW AND HUMANITIES INTERDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR SCHOLARS Call for Participation

Georgetown University Law Center, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 22nd meeting of the Law and Humanities Interdisciplinary Workshop for Junior Scholars, to be held at Georgetown Law Center, Washington, DC, on May 24-25, 2023.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

Beyond the Culture II 

Conference online (via Zoom)

19-20 January 2023 

Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

CFP: 

This is a Call for Papers for a special issue of [Inter]sections, the annual double-blind peer reviewed journal of American Studies at the University of Bucharest (ISSN 2068 – 3472). The journal is open access (www.intersections-journal.com) and it is indexed in the MLA Directory of Periodicals, Ulrichsweb, DOAJ, CEEOL, EBSCO, and ERIH PLUS. 

Considering Rochester’s vibrant culture of museums and long association with photographic technologies pioneered by Kodak and Xerox, the theme of the 2023 Dickens Society Symposium will be “Dickens under Glass.” The organizers invite you to interpret this theme broadly.

CALL FOR PAPERS – LEA 12 (2023)

Deadline for submissions: May 8, 2023

Publication: December 2023

LEA is a peer-reviewed international scholarly journal based at the University of Florence that publishes original research papers in all areas of literature, linguistics, and philology.

We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for LEA 12 (2023):

Past and present changes in gender dynamics