The growing number of singles globally and increased attention that is paid to them within academia, public domain and popular culture has reignited many debates with regard to theory, methodology and practice thereby highlighting multiple contestations and lacunae within structural frameworks that require interrogation from new perspectives and methodologies. In the light of the above, we can ask what does it mean to be non-partnered when viewed from a normative lens that prioritizes cishet families and compulsory coupledom? 

The 5th Heidelberg Graduate Students Conference in English Studies will take place on June 2-3, both in person and online.

The conference offers 11 panels on a diverse range of subjects including (but not limited to) variational linguistics and language change, gender studies, urban studies, ecocriticism, speculative fiction, AI and technology in fiction, conspiracies in fiction, and travel narratives.

The Women of Color in the Academy Conference brings together women of color and their allies for a variety of interactive hands-on workshops and networking opportunities. This year's hybrid conference will be held on Friday, May 19, and can be attended remotely or on the Boston campus of Northeastern University.

The theme of this year's conference, "Community as Rebellion," is inspired by Professor Lorgia García Peña's book of the same name. We are honored to welcome Professor Peña as the keynote speaker.

To learn more and register, visit https://woc.northeastern.edu/

A New American Vein: 

Critical Essays on Contemporary Appalachian Literature

Scholarly Collection: Call for Contributions

Editors: Nicole Drewitz-Crockett and Zackary Vernon

Screening Social and Economic Transformations in East-Central Europe: Film and
Television as Writers and Rewriters of post-1989 History

Cluj-Napoca, Babes-Bolyai University, November 10-11, 2023

Abstracts submission deadline: August 15, 2023
Conference dates: November 10-11, 2023

The Technical Rhetoric Symposium is pleased to announce its second annual conference, to be held virtually on June 3, 2023.

We invite researchers and practitioners in all fields to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Graduate students and early-career scholars are especially encouraged to apply!

The theme of this year's symposium is "Effective Communication in the Digital Age." We are particularly interested in presentations that explore the challenges and opportunities of communicating technical information in the digital world, and that offer practical solutions for addressing these challenges. Some topics of interest include:

Call for Papers

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

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Pasadena, California, March 14-16, 2024

C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks submissions for its seventh biennial conference, which will take place March 14-16, 2024, in Pasadena, California. We invite individual papers or group proposals on literature and culture in and beyond the United States during the long nineteenth century.

REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE
International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture

22-23 Sept 2023 [Virtual event]

Keynote & Guest Speakers
Prof. Anna María Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Sara Callahan, Stockholm University, Sweden
Emeric Lhuisset, Visual artist, France
Pedro Lagoa, Visual artist, Portugal

Archivo Platform and the Archivo Papers Journal, are pleased to announce the 4th edition of Reframing the Archive – International Conference on Photography and Visual Culture.

Veterans Studies is a growing field of research that addresses the significant impact of military personnel transitioning from active duty to civilian life with an emphasis on the veteran experience. This panel invites papers that explore various aspects of military service and/or the veteran experience, including those that reflect the conference theme of “Shifting Perspectives." This session invites papers that explore the many facets of military life exhibited in literature, theater, film, and poetry written about or by military veterans as well as scholarly explorations of the veteran experience.

Some topics of particular interest include but are not limited to:

· Transition from military service

(Re)Imagining the Indian Ocean World: A Symposium on Literature and Culture

October 24-25, 2023 

Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC, Canada (Greater Vancouver)

Keynote Speaker: TBA

We respectfully acknowledge that at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, we live, work and study in a region that overlaps with the unceded traditional and ancestral First Nations territories of the Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem; and with the lands of the Kwantlen First Nation, which gifted its name to the university.

SAMLA’s 95th annual conference, (In)Security: The Future of Literature and Language Studies, will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia this year from November 9-11.  Those accepted must be members of SAMLA to present. You can find more information at: https://samla.memberclicks.net/

Literary Monsters Panel

We invite proposals for individual papers exploring any aspect of Asian American literary or cultural studies. We have a particular interest in presentations that: engage across disciplinary boundaries (critical race theory, postcolonial studies, feminist and queer studies, etc.); make connections to issues in the field at large (transnationalism, biopolitics, aesthetics, memory, etc.); focus on texts not often discussed; or attend to genres not often represented in Asian American literary and cultural studies.

The 120th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient & Modern Languages Association (PAMLA) will be held in Portland at the Hilton Portland Downtown, from Thursday, October 26, to Sunday, October 29, 2023.

Currently soliciting abstracts (approximately 250-300 words with additional 100 words of author bio) for an edited collection discussing the role of cultural trauma in early modern English society. I am interested in essays focusing on Shakespeare/early modern theater as well as other realms of early modern life – political, religious, etc. Of particular interest are projects focusing on the role of race/racism in making traumatic meanings on the early modern stage. Collection has tentative interest from a major publisher. If the proposal is  accepted, final drafts will be due in/around January 2024. Final drafts should be 5000 – 7000 words inclusive of notes/bibliography.