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10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference (UBC-Vancouver)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 11:40am
Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies at the University of British Columbia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 18, 2023

10th Biennial Graduate Student Conference

Impending Catastrophes Through the Ages: Literature and the Arts in the Context of Doom

Department of French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Hybrid Conference

October 26-27, 2023

Call for submissions: Special Issue on Yellowstone (2018) (Journal of Literary Studies)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 2:52am
Journal of Literary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024

Yellowstone (2018, Paramount Network), Taylor Sheridan’s neo-Western television series that premiered in 2018, has grown into a cultural phenomenon. Not only has the show itself been enormously popular (as measured by its ratings and fan following within the United States and South Africa, for example), but its characters, and the Dutton family that are central to the story, have since been incorporated into a shared story universe covering a period from 1881 to the present day. This story is centred around the fictional Yellowstone ranch in Montana, which is both the main setting and metaphorical heart of the show.

OVSC: Shakespeare, Social Justice, & Human Rights

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 4:48pm
Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Location: The University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Dates: October 26-28, 2023

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Patricia Akhimie-Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Director of the RaceB4Race Mentoring Network, and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark

New Scholar Plenary Speaker: Dr. Amrita Dhar, Assistant Professor of English at The Ohio State University

Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture: Deadline approaching!

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 12:10pm
Edited by Elizabeth Podnieks (Toronto Metropolitan University) and Helena Wahlström Henriksson (Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

As editors of the Palgrave Handbook on Parenthood in Popular Culture, which is under contract and has 15 commissioned chapters, we seek approximately 25 additional chapters (6,500-7,500 words) on topics related to parenthood in popular culture. We aim to foreground Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ+ and non-normative experiences, in contributions that explore popular cultural representations of parental identities from intersectional perspectives, and from diverse cultural and geopolitical locations. Chapters may focus on either mothers/mothering/motherhood or fathers/fathering/fatherhood, or interrogate parents/parenting/parenthood as more comprehensive terms, across genders and in non-binary contexts.

Concentration and Distraction: Education,Literature and Mass Communication in the 21st Century

updated: 
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 6:55am
GIRES-Global Institute for Research Education & Scholarship
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Concentration and Distraction: Education,Literature and Mass Communication in the 21st CenturyInternational Conference
4-5 November 2023
(Zoom sessions:2 days/Virtual platform:5 days)  Organizing Committee John Dean  –  Gerhard Finster  –  Laura Gimeno-Pahissa   

Thematic Approach

Narratological Perspectives on the Public Faces of Science

updated: 
Sunday, August 27, 2023 - 5:39pm
International Society for the Study of Narrative
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

The intersection of narrative and science has become a major area of theoretical and practical interest in communication studies, journalism, literary studies, education, evidence-based policymaking and, of course, science itself.

Considerable attention has been paid to narrative as a tool that can facilitate the communication, reach, persuasiveness and comprehension of scientific information (e.g., Dahlstrom 2021; Olmos 2020; ElShafie 2018; Suzuki et al 2018). While we are interested in this topic, it already enjoys ample theoretical, empirical and pedagogical attention. We are therefore most interested in other ways of thinking about the nexus of narrative studies and public science.

NeMLA 2024 - Surplus Selves: Whitmanian Multiplicities

updated: 
Sunday, August 27, 2023 - 8:47am
NeMLA 2024
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The line, encased by parentheses in the 1892 version of Leaves of Grass, famously runs: “(I am large, I contain multitudes.)” Extending and containing the self conceptually and syntactically, Whitman proclaims his potential for contradiction as well as the creation of a protean lyric psyche.

Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia (Panel)

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 1:59pm
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Update: Panel for NeMLA 2024. Abstract submission deadline 30th September 2023

Please submit your abstracts for the panel Cracking Impossible Silences: Women's Narratives of Political Conflicts in South Asia, which will feature at the 55th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association, March 7-10, 2024 in Boston.

All abstracts need to be uploaded through the portal: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/20560


 

The Rise of Autoliterature (NeMLA 2024 panel)

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 11:42am
Northeast Modern Language Association / NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

This panel will analyze autofiction and autotheory as contemporary literary genres still on the rise, with particular interest in putting the two in conversation with each other. 


Autofiction and autotheory continue to grow in popularity as forms of contemporary life writing. Despite their differences, these two genres share a concern in representations of selfhood and subjective experience that explicitly engage and are shaped by other literary and philosophical texts. Moreover, by emphasizing the intertextuality of lived experience, they both challenge (1) the perceived conventionality of more established life writing genres, such as memoir, and (2) everyday assumptions of unmediated, individual self-expression. 

Call for Chapters: Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 11:41am
DuEwa Frazier / Coppin State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS - DUE SEPTEMBER 1, 2023 

Link: Call for Chapters: Teaching Humanities With Cultural Responsiveness at HBCUs and HSIs | IGI Global (igi-global.com)

NOTE: We will consider submissions from scholars who teach at institutions outside of HSIs and HBCUs if the submission is focused

on any of the below topics for culturally relevent pedagogy. We will also consider scholars who have completed studies on the bridge in culturally responsive teaching from K-12 to higher education. 

Transcending Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

updated: 
Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 8:13am
Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Call for Papers

Transcending Boundaries – Interdisciplinary Insights in Transpacific Studies

TPSN Hybrid Conference

February 9-10, 2024 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany and Online

 

Terisa Siagatonu knows a thing or two about not being afraid to rile up her audience. The Samoan American poet and Pacific Islander activist pushes listeners to reflect on what it means to come from a region of the world that is often misunderstood, if not altogether ignored. In “Atlas” (2018) she memorably writes:

If you open up any atlas

C19 2024: "The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI"

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 12:17pm
Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 28, 2023

[The deadline for submissions is Monday, August 28th, 2023. If you have questions, please contact markgallagher@ucla.edu]

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society will sponsor a panel at the seventh biennial conference for C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists taking place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California.

The End(s) of Originality?: The Transcendentalists and AI

Perspectives Issue 4: Climate Change and Sustainability

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Perspectives – A Peer-Reviewed, Bilingual, Interdisciplinary E-Journal

Janki Devi Memorial College 

University of Delhi 

eISSN 2583 - 4762 

 

Perspectives is a bilingual double-blind peer-reviewed, annual E-journal published by Janki Devi Memorial College, University of Delhi with eISSN 2583 - 4762. 

Economies and Poetics of the Forest

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:50am
American Society for 18th Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

“To the uncultivated eye a forest appears simply as uncultivated land—an expanse of woodland and heath which has been left ‘wild’ ... But a forest has its own complex economy.” —E.P. Thompson, Whigs and Hunters

EDITED BOOK: Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:49am
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Call for Book Chapters to the forthcoming edited volume, Deconstruction in Action: From Theory to Praxis, edited by Dr. Raisun Mathew, Assistant Professor of English, Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University), India. The publisher of the edited volume is Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

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Call for article submissions for New Horizons in English Studies - Literature, Media and Culture Here and Now (open access peer reviewed journal)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:49am
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

New Horizons in English Studies vol. 9/2024

LITERATURE, MEDIA AND CULTURE HERE AND NOW

New Horizons in English Studies (https://journals.umcs.pl/nh, indexed in MLA International Bibliography and ERIH+) invites submissions to the 9/2024 issue, welcoming previously unpublished research papers and reviews in the broadly understood field of literary, media and cultural studies (L, M & C). The scope of subjects includes but is not limited to the following:

Conference in education, linguistics, and digital technology

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:45am
European Scientific Institute
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Call for papers:

Conference in education, linguistics, and digital technology

Possibility for Scopus indexed publication.

 

Venue: Grigol Robakidze University, Tbilisi- Georgia ( also on-line session)

Date: 22 September 2023

 

https://emf.euinstitute.net/

 emails: contact@eujournal.org Subject: EMF 2023

 

Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present, and Future

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:44am
IAMAS and Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Mothering and Motherhood: Past, Present, and Future  

 

Location: Boston, Mass. (USA) and online 

Dates: June 21-23, 2024

Abstract due date: Oct. 15, 2023

 

Batman… Also Starring: Essays on the Caped Crusader’s Supporting Cast

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:43am
Christopher Maverick
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, December 1, 2023

The editor of Batman… Also Starring is seeking abstracts for essays that could be included in the upcoming collection. Many academic texts focus on Batman as a cultural figure in comics as well as in films, television programs, and video games. However, like all great superheroes, Batman is as much defined by his supporting cast as he is by his costume, abilities or origin. While there is no shortage of scholarship devoted to his most famous sidekicks — such as Nightwing, Batgirl or the many Robins — and his most popular villains — like Joker, Catwoman, and Harley Quinn — little critical attention has been paid to the majority of his cast.

International Ph.D. Seminar in American History / American Studies

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:43am
Roosevelt Institute for American Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 29, 2023

Call for Papers

International Ph.D. Seminar in American History / American Studies

Middelburg, The Netherlands, 6-8 December 2023

The Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) is a leading research center and graduate school, partnered with Leiden University, dedicated to the study of American history, politics, and society. Since 2003, the Institute has organized regular seminars for doctoral students pursuing research in its areas of interest.

New Directions in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:42am
ASECS 2024 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

During a roundtable discussion (now published in Journal18), scholars pointed out that visual culture emerged as a distinct methodology. Visual culture aims to problematize the Eurocentric, colonialist, racist, heteronormative, and patriarchal assumptions that enforced and continue to enforce the art historical discipline. This panel continues and expands these crucial conversations by exploring the relationship between art history and visual culture during the long eighteenth-century.

NeMLA 2024 CFP - Corporeal Technologies: Modifying and Augmenting the Body

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:41am
Noran Mohamed
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The intersection of technology and the human body has given rise to a myriad of possibilities, transforming our perception of self, relationships, and the world around us. In this panel, we will delve into representations of corporeal technologies in literature and the impact on understandings of memory, body, and lived experiences. Panelists are invited to explore the ways in which corporeal technologies influence the formation, preservation, and retrieval of memory, ultimately shaping subjective experiences. 

Panel topics may include but are not limited to:

"Awash in Digital Imagery: what next for traditional art and museums?" (College Art Association 2024)

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:41am
College Art Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

Awash in Digital Imagery: what next for traditional art and museums?
In this panel, we explore provocative questions related to the inevitable shifts that art makes in order to survive and thrive in the digital era. We consider the changes to our perceptions of art this shift enacts. We look for answers to the question of where art history finds itself as a discipline when some argue that art may have lost its Heideggerian thinginess?

Ray Bradbury: A Companion

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:39am
Kevin Wetmore / Peter Lang Publishers
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Call for Essays: Ray Bradbury: A Companion

 

Even eleven years after his death, Ray Bradbury remains one of the most celebrated and significant twentieth century cultural figures. He worked in a variety of modes, genres, media, and places.  His is a lasting legacy of science, fantasy, wonder, and an optimism for the future.

As part of Peter Lang’s “Companion” series, the proposed volume is a collection of essays on Ray Bradbury, his life, works and cultural impact.

The series: https://www.peterlang.com/series/gffc

We are looking for proposals for 25-30 essays of 2500-3000 words (all inclusive) for the volume.

 

Making the Invisible, Visible

updated: 
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 - 10:39am
Indiana College English Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 15, 2023

The Indiana College English Association invites papers for its 88th Annual Conference that engage conversations about “Making the Invisible, Visible” through the discipline of English and its subfields. How do we encourage the sharing of stories, of research that shines light on disparate truths through reading, writing, analysis, discussion, epistemology? How do we engage English Studies to resist restrictions on bodies, identities, teaching and learning, to resist the banning of books and canonical literature? How do we make the invisible visible, from the unpaid labor of adjunct faculty to the unrecognized work of English students, faculty, and Writing Program Administrators? How do we compose and converse about texts of all kinds?

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