The distinction between East and West once held significant influence in knowledge production, ranging from voluminous travelogues from Western authors to the prosperity of Oriental Studies in academia of the 18th and 19th centuries. Postcolonial scholarship since the 1970s, including Said’s Orientalism and Spivak’s subaltern studies, sheds new light on the East/West distinction as a dynamic relationship, instead of two settled categories. As globalization significantly boosts the movement of humans, material goods, cultural products and texts, it gives rise to a wide range of imaginations, potentials, intellectual tools but meanwhile crises, conflicts and unequal distribution of power in the constantly changing geo-political landscapes.

For questions, contact verge@psu.edu.

Convergence Proposals—due September 30, 2024
Essays—due June 1, 2025 [abstracts/proposals NOT required in advance of manuscript submission]

Edited by Andrea Miller, Cindy Lin, and Tina Chen

The symposium will take place on October, 24/25, 2024, at Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne, France.

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference: Adaptations Area

Friday-Sunday, 4-6 October 2024

DePaul University—Loop Campus, Chicago, IL

Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 Phone: (312) 362-8000

The Art of Storytelling: Archetypes in Focus
A Transdisciplinary Conference

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/11/storytelling/

May 27-28, 2024

Where:

May 27: In person participation at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh (and online)
May 28: Fully online

The London Arts-Based Research Centre

Presents:

Sacred Arts: Exploring the Spiritual Dimensions of Artistic Expression and Ritual

Birkbeck, University of London

May 11-12, 2024
May 11 will be at Birkbeck (for both in-person and online presentations)
May 12 will be held fully online.

COnference webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/02/09/sacred-arts/

Time Travellers: Transtemporal Movement in Queer Feminist Modernisms

Modernist Studies Association Conference

The Drake Hotel

Chicago, IL, Nov 7-10, 2024

Seeking paper proposals for PAMLA 2024 - in Palm Springs, CA November 6-10! Abstracts due 4/30/24. Please include short bio in submission. 

Please use this link to submit your proposals! https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19169

Proposals must be submitted through the PAMLA system to be considered, but feel free to reach out to me with any questions: Jamiee Cook, jcook@ucsb.edu or jamieencook@gmail.com 

Queer and Trans Literary Embodiments 

 Call for Papers

  Taylor Swift & Swiftie Studies

 Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

  2024 SWPACA Summer Salon

  June 20-22, 2024

  Virtual Conference

 https://www.southwestpca.org

  Submissions open on March 25, 2024

  Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2024

Call for Chapters: Qualitative Research Methods for Dissertation Research

While it takes copious research to get into a graduate program, it is also impossible to fully encompass the experience of being within a graduate program from the outside looking in. Given that so much of graduate school can often be a mystery, and given that there are also many ways one can be a graduate student, those who are newer to the experience of graduate school may find themselves wondering what to do when faced with handbooks, seminar syllabi, or even teaching for the first time. While these resources from your program will always be helpful, there remain aspects of graduate education that can seem rather opaque and mysterious to the point of being intimidating.

Overview 

The Early Scholars Publication Grants, offered through the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) are intended to facilitateand support the publication and dissemination of outstanding graduate-level researchin a peer-reviewed academic publication. The Chair seeks to encourage graduate students to share their research and enhance intercultural dialogue as it relates to the Chair’s annual themes.  

This Comparative Literature session, like its namesake discipline, strives to be broad, inclusive, and interdisciplinary. We therefore welcome proposals that touch on multiple works of literature and strive to make use of more than traditional comparative studies, borrowing analytic or interpretive practices from other disciplines such as philosophy, film and media studies, digital humanities, cultural or art history, etc.

This session seeks papers engaging with a wide variety of Comparative Literature topics, including perhaps, but not necessarily, papers exploring the main theme of this year's PAMLA conference, "Translation in Action," and/or other topics beyond that. The session also invites papers focusing on:

· World Literature

Inactivity

Between Aesthetic Practice and Sociopolitical Challenge

11–12 July 2024
ICI Institute for Critical Inquiry Berlin
In English

Organized by Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler, Antje Kempe, and Barbara Kristina Murovec

A workshop organized by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute, Research Group ‘Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual’ and University Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin