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Trans-Futurisms

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Aparajita Nanda/University of California, Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and representation in the here and now, as far as cultural productions are concerned, have been supported and/ or undermined by visions of the future in literature, performative arts, or cinema. Authors and performers have offered to audiences their concerns, hopes, and expectations about possible futures via either utopian or dystopian narratives. In 2007, Ann Brooks was talking about a new modality of acknowledging cultural and ethnic identity from a transcultural and transnational viewpoint. In her words, “[t]hese new cultural and ethnic identities carry with them the need for new conceptions of subjectivity and require the opening-up of new subject positions and new spaces and places from which to speak” (184).

Call For Papers: Blackfriars Conference 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:50pm
American Shakespeare Center
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

For the 2023 Blackfriars Conference, we are soliciting three different types of submissions:

Plenary papers – Since 2001, we have featured papers that explore the performative conditions of early modern plays, the effect of place on those performances, the practices of the players, and the texts themselves through time. These 10 minute (13 minutes for presenters employing actors to demonstrate a point) plenary presentations take place on the Blackfriars Stage. To present a plenary paper, please submit a 250-300 word abstract outlining your topic.

Call for Conference Presentations: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:49pm
University of Southampton, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Call for Papers: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF

 

With the support of the Doctoral College and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton, we are pleased to invite proposals for the ECR-led conference ‘Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts’.

[Deadline Extended] AICED-24: Humour and Pathos in Literature and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:49pm
Dragoș Manea, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 29, 2023

AICED-24

 

 

THE 24th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

 

9-11 June 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Chapter Proposals - Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:45pm
Mary Zaborskis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

We are seeking chapter proposals for The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. This volume will explore children’s gender identities, expressions, and embodiments across historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. It will consider this multiplicity of gendered childhoods alongside the intense preoccupation with children’s genders across a range of medical, political, legal, educational, and cultural spheres that span the globe.

Antifascist Education

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:44pm
Dr. Tyson E. Lewis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Antifascist Education

Special Issue for the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Editors:

Dr. Tyson E. Lewis, PhD, University of North Texas

Silas Krabbe, PhD in progress, University of British Columbia 

CFP: Stardom and Fandom, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon Virtual Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:43pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

STARDOM AND FANDOM

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

 

Studies in Hogg and his World

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:42pm
James Hogg Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

(Update: Deadline Extended)

 

2023 MAPACA War Studies Area

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:42pm
Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Assn
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

2023 Conference of   Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAPACA)

MAPACA War Studies Area

Thursday, November 9 -- Saturday, November 11, 2023
Sonesta Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Proposals due to http://www.mapaca.net  by  June 30, 2023

The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:41pm
Yasmin Y. DeGout
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

We seek your expertise on the work of James Baldwin for a forthcoming volume entitled The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin. The volume will contain forty articles on this author and his work, and it promises to be the touchstone volume on Baldwin for some time to come. It seeks to be comprehensive in its treatment of Baldwin’s work and seeks to present cutting-edge scholarship on this author.  Suggested chapters for the volume are below.

 

                                       Suggested Chapters for The Routledge Companion to James Baldwin

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:39pm
Brigham Young University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 16, 2023

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous essays written from diverse critical perspectives and about texts from any time period or literary tradition.

Submissions should be between 3,000 and 6,000 words (not including the works cited). All submissions should be double-spaced, written in English, and formatted according to the most recent MLA guidelines. Submissions should be uploaded as MS Word files through our website and online submission system (https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/criterion/).

We are now accepting submissions for our Fall 2023 issue.

Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, and The Bardic Tradition

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:39pm
Mark Bayer and Robert Sawyer
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 23, 2023

Shakespeare, Bob Dylan, and the Bardic Tradition

Proposed Essay Collection

 

Join Us (any presentation genre) Health & Wellness Session at 120th PAMLA Annual Conference in Portland Oregon Oct 26-29 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:33pm
Marja Mogk/PAMLA Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Join us for the Pacific Modern Language's (PAMLA) 120th Annual Convention in Portland, Oregon at the Hilton Portland Hotel, October 26-29, 2023. Seeking presentations/papers in any genre for a session on the theme of health and wellness! 

Submit your proposal using PAMLA's online submission form. Go to https://pamla.ballastacademic.com to login or create an account first. Decisions on proposals will be made directly after the May 31st deadline so that all proposals are considered at the same time.

Session Title: Perspectives on Health & Wellness 

Abstract:

Call for Papers: New Perspectives in Africana Studies*

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:32pm
Drs. Crystal L. Edwards and Abul Pitre/ San Francisco State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Scope:

 

Established in 1968 as a direct result of Black student struggle on campus, the Black Studies Department—now Africana Studies Department— at San Francisco State University was the first Black Studies department in the nation. The establishment of the department also marked the institutionalization Black Studies “as a ‘scientific discipline’ rooted in racial redemption, liberatory scholarship and community revitalization, the discipline of Africana Studies is a body of systematized knowledge, theories, methods, and laws, which are congruent with the African centered paradigm and philosophy.” (Tshaka, 2012, p 29).

 

Queering Postcolonial Worlds

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:29pm
Postcolonial Narrations Postgraduate Forum
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

CFP - Postcolonial Narrations Forum 2023: Queering Postcolonial Worlds

6th & 7th of October, 2023 - University of Bremen

(Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocene

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:29pm
Eeva Kuikka/Finnish Society for Human-Animal Studies & The University of Oulu
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

(Un)Common Worlds III - Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocene

A human-animal studies conference at the University of Oulu, 4-6 October 2023

 

The year 2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rio Convention on Biological Diversity, and so little has happened that the fourth decade begins with the recent UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) declaration that we are now dealing with an existential crisis. One of the identified root causes of biodiversity loss is said to stem from people’s perceptions of other species – a realm of inquiry addressed widely in human–animal studies and critical animal studies.

 

Muslims in America

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:25pm
SAMLA / South Atlantic Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

Muslims in America

The SAMLA 95 Conference - (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies - will be held from November 9-11, 2023, at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA

 

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* V International H/Story Conference. Sense and Sexuality: Erotic Discourses in/of History

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:25pm
H/Story Research Group
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 21, 2023

NEW DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 21, 2023

The aim of the conference is to consider the points of intersection between broadly understood ideas of eroticism, sexuality, and history, and the ways their senses have been woven into narratives of the past as well into the ways of narrating the past. Please visit our website at www.hstory.us.edu.pl/erotic-discourses for the full CfP.

CFP, BIPOC Female Detectives (theme issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 1:44pm
Elizabeth Foxwell / McFarland & Co.
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Seeking to illuminate an often marginalized space, this Clues theme issue will focus on female detectives who are BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color); span eras, genres, and geographical locations; and appear in texts, TV programs, films, and other media. Of particular interest are intersections among race, indigeneity, gender, age, class, or sexuality in these works, as well as projects that center BIPOC authorship and scholarship.

Some Suggested Topics:  

Deadline approaching: Sports and Games in the Renaissance

updated: 
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 11:49am
Francesco Brenna - Towson University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

CFP: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Baltimore, MD – 26/29 October 2023

Sports and Games in the Renaissance

Encounters: memory, community, futurity (Hybird Conference in Glasgow, UK 2023)

updated: 
Wednesday, April 12, 2023 - 10:22am
College of Arts, University of Glasgow
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

A transdisciplinary PG research conference at Glasgow University and online, 12-13th June 2023

ʻAn encounter is perhaps the same thing as a becoming [...] You encounter people [...] movements, ideas, events, entities [...] It designates an effect, a zigzag, something which passes or happens between two as though under a potential difference [...] a single becoming which is not common to the two [...] but which is between the two, which has its own direction, a bloc of becoming, an a-parallel evolution.ʼ

Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues II: 6

CFP Call for Conference Papers - Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of Yoobee College of Creative Innovation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 11:41pm
Dr. Kathryn A. Hardy Bernal, Head of Research & Postgraduate Studies, Yoobee College of Creative Innovation, New Zealand
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

Retro-futuristic Visions: Looking Back to Look Forward. The 2nd International Academic Conference of Yoobee College of Creative Innovation

Event Dates: 25 – 27 October 2023, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2023

PAMLA 2023 Panel: Changing perspectives on migration through literature in translation

updated: 
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 - 2:29pm
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Migration has become a global phenomenon that indicates complexity and diversity. The mobility of people has also influenced how texts are migrated through translation and how it could influence cultural production. Translation, which facilitates “communication, understanding, and action between persons or groups who differ in language and culture” (Bassnett 5), plays a vital role in the migration diaspora. Texts like people, want to seek new opportunities, they search for a new life in a new place and time, as Moira Inghilleri points out in her book entitled Translation and Migration published in 2017, migration is a “continuous becoming”, it “necessitates movement” (1 & 3).

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