MLA: 5–8 January, 2023, San Francisco, CA

 Not Quite Human: Crakers, Pigoons, and Other Others in Margaret Atwood’s Works

 Following recent bioengineering marvels and the first successful pig-to-human heart transplant, the Margaret Atwood Society panel welcomes proposals for papers on depictions of the nonhuman in Atwood’s works.

 250-word abstract and bio are due to Lee Frew, leefrew@yorku.ca, March 15, 2022.

FORUM: Issues about Part-Time and Contingent Faculty is a peer-reviewed publication concerning working conditions, professional life, activism, and perspectives of non-tenure-track faculty in college composition and communication. It is published twice annually (alternately in the September issue of CCC and the March issue of TETYC) and is sponsored by the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

This MLA Special Session panel invites papers that interrogate the affordances and stakes of mobilizing marginalized affects, or elucidating affects that move between marginalized bodies in contemporary American literature and culture. 

Lauren Berlant characterized affect as the “body’s response to the world, something you’re always catching up to.” And yet critics often overlook the role of material bodies and embodiment in the circulation and impact of affect. How can we put the questions of embodiment and materiality back into the study of affect theory? What can be gained from studying bodily affectations in marginalized lives? 

Other questions/topics to consider:

Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 2023

“Queer Faulkner”

July 23-27, 2023

University of Mississippi

Announcement and Call for Papers

http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner

Call for Papers

Archipelagic Memory: Intersecting Geographies, Histories and Disciplines

University of Mauritius, 2 – 4 August 2022

http://www.archipelagicmemory.wordpress.com 

Confirmed keynote speakers

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, King’s College London | Stef Craps, Ghent University | Anwar Janoo, University of Mauritius

George Abungu, Archaeologist and International Heritage Consultant | Ari Gautier, Novelist

Enchanting Literatures

The 26th Annual Comparative Literature Intra-Student Faculty Forum (CLIFF)

University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

May 20-21, 2022

Keynote Speaker: Professor Michael Allan

Submission Deadline: March 1, 2022

CFP: 56th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference

Culture Jamming and the Art of Subversion: A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Mainly in person with a handful of sessions on zoom.

Dates: April 13 and 14, 2022 

ASAP/13 Call for Papers

http://www.artsofthepresent.org/2021/11/29/asap13-call-for-papers/

Psychoanalysis on the Edge / Of Nervous Breakdown

Teaching and learning are always a series of voyages and returns.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, swaths of books about the pivot to online learning have emerged, many focused on practical classroom instruction as a much-needed kind of spiritual manna in a time comprised of uncertainty and abrupt shifts in normative praxes. These contributions capture a historical watershed moment where the voyage is key (e.g., Chan, Bista, and Allen, 2021; Jansen and Farmer-Phillips, 2021; Lemov, 2020; Reimers et al., 2020; Grays-Wiley, 2020).

WORLD LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Pamukkale University, School of Foreign Languages hosts the “World Languages and Literatures Research Symposium” to be held online from June 1 to June 3, 2022.  We are interested in receiving proposals on a wide range of topics relating to the many long-running currents of thought and new waves of thinking about several language teaching and learning contexts, including:
Eastern Languages and Literatures, Western Languages and Literatures, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, Ancient Languages and Cultures, Turkish Language and Literature, Foreign Languages and Literature.

Algorithmic technologies are nowadays proliferating in various sectors of the economy and, more generally, in society. Yet, while their widespread development already occupies several areas of contemporary life, their material configuration often remains opaque and difficult to comprehend, especially when it comes to how algorithms shape the futures of people and societies at large. Often, algorithms and AI technologies are conceived by their users and creators as “magic” that is beyond comprehension — an understanding that has a range of political and cultural implications for society (Campolo & Crawford, 2020) and has been consequently recognized in the theorizations of economy and politics (Pignarre & Stengers, 2012).

This is our final CFP for the volume we are working on and 4-5 chapter topics remain open for suitable contributions:

1. Praxis Chapter: Case Study of Social Movement of Anti-Imperialism.

2. Pedagogy Chapter: Teaching Marxism, Worker's Movement, and Distributive Justice.

3. Praxis Chapter: Case Study of Social Movement in Distributive Justice.

4. Praxis Chapter: Case Study of Social Movement for Civil Rights and Democracy.

5. Literary Analysis in Disability Studies.

Online Conference: Women and Comedy 1890 - 1950

(Sponsored by the International Conference of The Elizabeth von Arnim Society)

17th- 18th September 2022

Having accepted papers on a range of fascinating writers and topics, we have responded to feedback from international participants and have decided to convert this conference from a face-to-face event in Cambridge to a fully-online event.

As a result, we’re delighted to open the conference to those who were unable to join us in person but are interested in participating online, via this supplementary call for papers.

Call for Papers: DEADLINE EXTENDED
COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY CONFERENCE, JULY 28-30, 2022
In collaboration with Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI