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Ursula K. Le Guin's Marvelous Medievalism

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:55pm
The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Call for Papers for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 11–May 13, 2023) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, is sponsoring the following session: Ursula K. Le Guin's Marvelous MedievalismContact: Kristine A. SwankModality: In person (in Kalamazoo, MI) Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) left an unparalleled legacy of masterworks in science fiction and fantasy. Several of her imagined worlds were founded upon or enriched by global medieval influences from Europe, Asia, North & South America.

Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:55pm
The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Call for Papers for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA (May 11–May 13, 2023) is now open. Proposals of papers and contributions to roundtables are due Sept. 15, 2022. The Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic, University of Glasgow, is sponsoring the following session: Tolkien and Medieval Constructions of Race (A Roundtable)Contact: Mariana Rios MaldonadoModality: Virtual The construction of race in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth narratives, legendarium, and their adaptations represents even now a gap within Tolkien scholarship.

Expanding the Canon:Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:55pm
Monika Elbert and Lauren Hehmeyer
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Call For Papers     submitted July 20, 2022

by Lauren Hehmeyer (co-editor of The Forgotten Alcott: The Literary Life and Artistic Legacy of May Alcott Nieriker) and Monika Elbert (co-editor of American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic) for a proposed edited collection:

Expanding the Canon: Essays on the Minor Books of Louisa May Alcott  (working title)

Deadline for abstract submission:  November 1, 2022. Please limit your abstract to 350 words.

Shakespeare and Religion

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:54pm
Vernon Press
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

 

This is a call for chapters for an edited collection of essays on religion and Shakespeare. Papers may explore various powerful aspects of religion in the plays but should combine close analysis with historical documentation, originality with rigor.

NeMLA 2023 Roundtable: Mentoring Through the Pandemic

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Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:53pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

This session invites mentors and/or mentees to share their experiences in beginning, cultivating, sustaining, or–in other meaningful ways–interacting with mentoring relationships in the various pursuits of academia. The organizers are interested in the widest possible variety of mentoring relationships in both informal and formal settings: graduate student/faculty, peer or group mentorships, junior/senior faculty, as well as mentoring across disciplines, departments and even institutions.

UK Undergraduate PPE Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:53pm
UK Undergraduate PPE Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

UK Undergraduate PPE Conference is a global non-profit undergraduate conference. It welcomes submissions of student research from all areas of the humanities and social sciences—with a specific focus on issues pertaining to politics, economics, and philosophy. 

Gothic Studies Special Issue: Gothic Age and Aging

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:53pm
James Aaron Green (University of Vienna) and João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Guest edited by James Aaron Green (University of Vienna) and João Paulo Guimarães (University of Porto)

 

Muslim Women, Mobility, and Subjectivity (NeMLA's 54th Annual Convention 2023, Niagara Falls, NY, USA)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:53pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

The 2023 NeMLA conference theme is RESILIENCE, an anchor term for critical and creative work that explores how we bear up under trauma, counter ableism, redress social and racial marginalization, environmental destruction, and how we celebrate bodily, cognitive, and neurological difference, access silenced voices, recover from the pandemic, and struggle to save the humanities, and humanity itself from the maw of neoliberalism.  

Here Be Monsters: General Call for Papers for the Monsters & the Monstrous Area (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:52pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

Here Be Monsters: General Call for Papers for the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

 

“From ‘Them’ to Now: Changing Metaphors of the Monstrous Insect” (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:52pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

“From ‘Them’ to Now: Changing Metaphors of the Monstrous Insect” 

Session Organized by Eddie Guimont, Bristol Community College

Co-Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area and the  Animals and Culture Special Topic of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse (8/15/2022; NEPCA online conference 10/20-22/2022)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:51pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Monsters & the Monstrous Area of Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

“The worst monsters are the ones we create”: Monstrosity in the Witcherverse

Session Organized by Kris Larsen, Central Connecticut State University

Sponsored by the Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

2022 Annual Conference of the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association

Virtual Event to be held Thursday, 20 October, to Saturday, 22 October 2022

Proposals are due 15 August 2022

 

The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:51pm
Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century: An International Symposium and Workshop
Hosted by the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (www.global19c.com)

November 5-6, 2022
Mount Saint Mary’s University (Doheny campus), Los Angeles, USA

CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts due by September 1

Digital Platforms and Cancel Culture: Television and New Media Special Issue

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:50pm
Special Issue for Television & New Media
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, December 15, 2022

With the advent of social media and platform infrastructures, cancel culture has engendered new means of regulation through digital media platforms which appear to further silence already marginalised communities. Having roots in the Black vernacular tradition, the clear social justice agendas of culturally linked meta-networks of social media practices and community digital infrastructures are argued to have become highjacked by social elites (Clark, 2020). For some commentators this means that the viral nature of social media backlash can claim, to the detriment of democracy, various careers and reputations among well-known celebrities, political figures,

Leon Edel Prize

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:50pm
Henry James Review
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.  The prize carries with it an award of $300, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.

The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply.

Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published.  Please send the manuscript in Microsoft Word format.

Send electronic submissions to: hjamesr@creighton.edu

Looking Back on Haiti: Reexploration and Rewriting in a Diasporic Perspective

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:49pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA 2023: Niagara Falls, NY. March 23-26, 2023.

In the second half of the 20th century, Haitian society has been profoundly impacted by massive waves of exile provoked by the collective trauma of the Duvaliers dictatorships and epitomized by the internationally recognizable image of the "boat people". On the literary scene, the resulting Haitian diaspora, in North America and elsewhere, has found ways to maintain connections with the native land, reminiscing on childhood memories, revisiting Haiti both physically and metaphorically, and engaging with their shared history, myths, and traditions.

Global Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:49pm
Laura Hubner, Abigail Whittall
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 21, 2022

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

Global Atomic Horror: Fears of Nuclear Power in Gothic Literature, Film and Media

 

Overview

We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume of critical essays on horrific and Gothic representations of nuclear power. Proposals are welcome from both new and established scholars. Interest in the volume has been expressed by Palgrave Macmillan for their Gothic book series. Edited by Professor Laura Hubner (University of Winchester) and Dr Abigail Whittall (University for the Creative Arts).

Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable, Virtual), ICMS, Kalamzoo, May 11-13, 2023

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:44pm
Alexander L. Kaufman / International Association for Robin Hood Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

CFP: 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 11–13, 2023

Sponsored Session of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies (IARHS)

Robin Hood Fantasies: Beyond Realism and Verisimilitude (A Roundtable)

Contact: Alexander L. Kaufman, alkaufman@bsu.edu
Session Modality: Virtual

Disobedient Lives, Disorderly Archives: Social Justice Agency in Archival Spaces and Arts

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:44pm
Jessica Lowell Mason and Nicole Crevar
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Abstract: This roundtable will bring together scholars interested in developing and studying archives that push the boundaries of what we consider the archive. At the roundtable, through our work, we will consider questions that arise within archival practices and arts, such as: what constitutes or counts as an archive, what kinds of archival delineations should be drawn, pushed back against, or ruptured, and, perhaps most importantly, what is or should be the role of the archive in combating systemic injustice and advancing social justice?

International Conference 'Touring Travel Writing II: Between Fact and Fiction'

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:43pm
CETAPS (Nova University)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, July 31, 2022

As indicated by the number in its title, this conference is the second in a series
focused on travel writing studies.The first one, which took place in 2019,
celebrated the 300th anniversary ofthe publication of Robinson Crusoe (1719)
and its literarylegacy.This second edition will celebrate the 100th anniversary
of James Joyce’s modernist novel Ulysses (1922), which chronicles the
itinerary of Leopold Bloom in Dublinin the course of an ordinary day.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies,
Universidade Nova, Lisbon) and CELIS (Centre de Recherches sur les
Littératures et la Sociopoétique, Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:04pm
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, August 15, 2022

The ASCP provides a broad intellectual forum for scholars working within or in communication with continental philosophy and European philosophical traditions. We welcome papers from philosophers, non-philosophers and anti-philosophers working in any discipline, from diverse backgrounds at any stage of their career.

 

Details about the 2022 annual conference:

 

University of Melbourne

 

28 – 30 November

Keynote Speakers:

  • Claire Colebrook (Penn State) 

Managing Milestones: Navigating Grad School’s Hidden Curriculum (GSC Session)

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:03pm
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA 2023) Graduate Student Caucus
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

How does one move from being an undergraduate to a graduate student and then to a professional? How does one prepare for a comprehensive exam? Who would make for the best members of a dissertation committee? What are some milestones to keep track of in the final year before graduation?

Call for Book Chapters:Empowering Women in the Digital Economy

updated: 
Monday, July 25, 2022 - 12:03pm
Prof. Richard Boateng, BRIGHT Network and University of Ghana
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Empowering Women in the Digital Economy: A Quest for Meaningful Connectivity and Access in Developing Countries

The Challenge:

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