The Northeast Popular/American Culture Association (NEPCA) The Body, Fashion, and Popular Culture Area invites presentation submissions for NEPCA’s hybrid conference to be held October 12 – October 14, 2023 in-person at Nichols College and virtually, via the Zoom platform.

 In alignment with this subject matter area at the national level:

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

CFP: The Annual Victoria Bloomsday Symposium and Celebration (15/3/2023; 16/6/2023)

We seek proposals for brief (~18 minutes) critical and/or creative presentations on any aspect of Joyce studies, from any perspective. We especially encourage work that approaches Joyce and his works from non-traditional (or traditionally marginalized) angles. Topics may include, but are not limited to considerations of Joyce and

• sex, gender, and sexuality
• race
• class
• Indigeneity
• the law
• translation
• cryptids
• the paranormal

CALL FOR PAPERS

DEADLINE: April16th, 2023/ 16 avril 2023

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City: Tales of a Transmedia Experience?

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Tales of the City d’Armistead Maupin : chroniques d’une expérience transmédia ?

17/18 novembre 2023 / November 17-18, 2023

EN PRESENCE DE L’AUTEUR

pour une conférence publique le 17 novembre à 17h

What is Humanities Leadership?

SEMA 2023:
Construction and (Re)Construction
Winthrop University, October 12-14, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS: ABSTRACTS DUE JUNE 15, 2023

As we watch the new silhouette of Notre Dame rising from the burned ruins of its past, participate in vigorous debates about how the study of the Middle Ages will be pursued now and in the future, and plan to meet on a campus where medieval buildings have literally been rebuilt, we invite proposals for individual papers, whole sessions, or round tables on the conference theme of “construction and (re)construction.” Papers might consider the notions of

Special Session

Presiding Officer/Panel Chair: Maria Mothes (University of Koblenz, Germany)

Abstract:

The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.

Description:

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.