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Call for Chapters: Golden Age Detection Goes to War
Editors: Dr J.C. Bernthal (Visiting Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Suffolk) and Dr Rebecca Mills (Senior Lecturer in Communication and English, Bournemouth University).
Call for Proposals
ACQL's 2024 annual conference at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec from June 14 to 16.
Resurgence of Epistemologies of Gender in Contemporary Indigenous Literatures
Panel organized by Isabella Huberman (UBC), Marie-Eve Bradette (U. Laval) and Sophie Larue (U. Laval)
Ideas in Pop Culture – Potential and Risks
Special Editors: Agnieszka Mikrut-Żaczkiewicz (Jagiellonian University in Krakow) and Paweł Dybała (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
"The Polish Journal of Aesthetics" Volume 72 (1/2024)
NEW Submission deadline: March 31, 2024
Ideas, multifaceted in nature, embody thoughts, beliefs, and abstract representations of concepts or entities. Their manifestation and propagation occur through diverse techniques across various media. This special issue aims to delve deep into the intricate relationship between ideas and their portrayal within popular culture.
Jonathan Bayliss Society
Tangents and Divigations
Jonathan Bayliss Society
The Jonathan Bayliss Society is sponsoring two roundtable panels for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held May 23-26, 2024, at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 East Monroe, Chicago, IL. For additional information about the conference see https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-conference.
Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to Gary Grieve-Carlson at grieveca@lvc.edu or info@jonathanbayliss.org by January 29, 2024.
CFP: The California Ideology Conference
Submission Deadline (updated): February 1st, 2024, by midnight PST.
Speakers: Alberto Toscano, Banu Bargu; Massimiliano Tomba
The California Ideology Project (UCHRI) welcomes submissions for an upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the theme of “The California Ideology” at UC Santa Cruz on April 6-7, 2024.
In the seventh edition of the Crossroads Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, we aim to foreground indigeneity as a key theoretical framework for investigating and challenging systems of oppression and as an invaluable component of studies in literature, film, and other media. Indigeneity unsettles colonial mechanisms and intervenes in such contentious discourses as subjectivity, domination, and environmental collapse. By looking at indigeneities comparatively, the conference seeks to underline the intrinsic pluralism and inclusivity of such modes of thinking, to consider indigeneity as a series of non-systems rather than a monolith, and to bring to the forefront the possibility of vibrant solidarity.
30 November 2024 will mark 150 years since the birth of internationally celebrated writer L.M. Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables, twenty other novels, short stories, poetry, diaries, memoir, journalism, textiles, photography, and collage.
Description: As the AATSP’s guaranteed session at the MLA Convention, this session seeks to explore representations of health, well-being, and illness in Lusophone and Hispanophonecontexts from a variety of perspectives that include social justice, pedagogy, cultural production, linguistics, and cultural analysis across places and through time. Topics may include, but are not limited to:
Call for Proposals
Mirrors, Shadows, Simulations, and Other Uncanny Doubles
Editors: Pamela Bedore and Anita Duneer
In our cultural moment, we are constantly faced with questions about the very nature of reality. How can we grapple with rapid developments in the power of AI to impersonate, simulate, and replicate personal identities and virtual images? How can we teach our students to identify originals from their copies and to create a sense of their own unique identities?
CFP: “What my Granny once told me…” - International Conference on Urban Legends, Myths, and Horror
Call for Papers
Unruly Borders
“Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is in a constant state of transition. The prohibited and forbidden are its inhabitants.” Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera
The English Graduate Students Association of the University of Ottawa is excited to review your submissions for our 2024 Conference
After a successful symposium that took place on 1 December 2023, the co-founders of the multi-disciplinary ‘Replaying Communism’ project (which received funding from the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council) are looking for contributors to an edited collection entitled: Replaying Communism: Memories of Soviet Occupation in European Media and Culture.
Update: The EGSS is pleased to announce that Professor Mayurika Chakravorty (University of Carleton) will be the keynote speaker for the conference! Her presentation will explore the question of identity in relation to the diaspora in contemporary YA and speculative fiction.
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Call for Papers
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
April 17–19, 2024
***Deadline Extended! New Deadline 29 February, 2024***
The American Association of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS) invites paper proposals for its 2024 Annual Conference, to be held live online via Zoom. Papers addressing any aspect of the literature, film, and/or culture of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand are welcome. Proposals from graduate students are encouraged and will be considered for the Wertheim Prize.
Waste(d) Worlds
Keynote: Jesi Taylor
March 22nd, 2024
The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) at The George Washington University invites submissions for our virtual conference
PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for submissions to The Lamp has been extended to Monday, 29 January 2024.
Call for Submissions! The Lamp is seeking submissions for its 2024 issue (Volume 14)!
The Lamp is an international literary journal dedicated to showcasing the creative writing of graduate and professional students. If you write poetry, short fiction, scripts, creative nonfiction, or any other form of textual art, please submit your work to The Lamp at thelampeditor@gmail.com. The deadline is Friday, 12 January 2024. Please follow our submission guidelines below.
Submission Guidelines:
CFP: 58th Annual Comparative World Literature Conference
Writers of Extreme Situations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Venue: California State University, Long Beach. Hybrid
Dates: Tuesday and Wednesday, April 16-17 (in-person presentations only with Zoom projections), Thursday, April 18, 2024 (Zoom presentations only)
Plenary Speaker: Christopher Goffard, author and senior staff writer, Los Angeles Times
EXTENDED DEADLINE for submission of abstracts of the conference, now ICSSR sponsored, till 26.01.24:
Concept Note:
Intersectional Singularity: A Speculative Fiction Discourse on Race, Sex, and Gender from Machine Learning to Sentient Droids
Due date extended...
Food has always had meaning. In terms of literary analysis, food has a symbolic and culturally significant meaning. Historically speaking however, studies about food have traditionally been connected to disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and history but recent shifts in literary and cultural thought, food studies have widened to include disciplines such as English, World Languages, Art, Film studies, etc.
Event 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences.
Dutch Colonialism and Its Afterlives: Anglophone Literary Perspectives
June 14, 2024
CALL FOR PAPERS
Flannery O’Connor Society
Society for the Study of Southern Literature
2024 Biannual Conference
June 23-26, 2024
Courtyard by Marriot Beachfront | Gulfport, Mississippi
“Reconstructing” Flannery O’Connor
The Flannery O’Connor Society invites abstract submissions for a proposed panel at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature’s biannual conference in Gulfport, Mississippi from June 23-26th, 2024. This panel’s theme is, broadly, “‘Reconstructing’ Flannery O’Connor,” in line with SSSL’s conference theme of “Reconstruction(s).”
Deadline: January 26, 2024
Guest curator: Karen Bosy
Following the format of the 2021 Literary Geographies collection of essays on ‘Literary Geographies of Isolation’ (https://www.literarygeographies.net/index.php/LitGeogs/issue/view/13) the journal’s editors are now seeking short contributions which engage with the theme of ‘Conversations’ from a literary geography perspective for the 2024 October issue.
We welcome submissions of approximately 1500 words which engage with the theme of ‘conversations’ in relation to theory and practice in and for literary geography.
Topics might include, for example:
"The Material Lives of Logistics" - As part of a panel proposal for the upcoming American Literature Association (ALA) Conference (Chicago, IL - May 23-26, 2024), we invite paper abstracts that explore logistics and infrastructures in literary texts. The global supply chain accounts for the movement of 90% of everything and over 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions (George 2013, MIT Climate Portal). The organizational imperatives enabling the ecocidal acceleration of commodity circulation, Alberto Toscano reminds us, encompass “a deeply incoherent, contradictory, conflicted and competitive domain” (2014). Literary forms are particularly apt for dealing with contradiction and incoherence.
MSA 2024 Panel
Transcendental Homelessness or Transcendental Localism: Topographies of Late Modernist Poetry
Call for Proposals: Special Issue on Poverty in Academia
Issue 8: A Special Issue guest edited by Bruce Kovanen and Andrew Bowman
Nothing stops the Stones! With a new album Hackney Diamonds and a major global tour planned for 2024, The Rolling Stones remain a vital part of contemporary culture and history. In the 60 years since the band released its first albums in the UK and US, it has stirred the hearts and minds of generations.
Yet, there is still so much more to say about the Stones.
Goal
This anthology aims to investigate and analyze the music and influence of The Rolling Stones and the band’s impact on contemporary culture.
