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EXTENSION: SpokenWeb Symposium 2023: "Reverb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space"

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:51am
University of Alberta
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 16, 2022

SpokenWeb Symposium 2023 Call for Papers

We've extended the deadline to Friday, September 16, 2022!

The SpokenWeb Research Network (www.spokenweb.ca)  is hosting the 2023 SpokenWeb Research Symposium at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada from May 1-3, 2023. We invite those from inside and outside the Network who engage with sound in their research and/or creative practice to submit paper or panel proposals that respond to the conference theme of:

Reverb: Echo-Locations of Sound and Space

CFP: Film Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:28am
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Call for Papers

Film Studies

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on August 15, 2022

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2022

Graduate Student Call: Judith Yaross Lee Publication Grant in American Humor Studies

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:28am
American Humor Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 23, 2022

American Humor Studies Association

Judith Yaross Lee Publication Grant in American Humor Studies

 

Sponsored and funded by the American Humor Studies Association, the goal of the Judith Yaross Lee Publication Grant is to provide graduate students and emerging scholars with professional guidance and support in publishing an article on comedy and humor studies. Graduate students and those who earned their Ph.D.s in 2022 are welcome to apply. 

Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:26am
Eloise Forestier/ Ghent University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations

 

Ghent University, Belgium

14– 15 September 2023

 

In partnership with Antwerp University (Belgium), Gothenburg University (Sweden), Leuven University (Belgium) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) (Belgium)

 

 

Islands

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:25am
Children's Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

The International Committee of the Children’s Literature Association has chosen to alternate its annual panels between specific geographic focal points and themes that encourage transnational discussions. In conjunction with the 2022 ChLA conference, we hosted a themed virtual panel on “Dreams in Children’s and Young Adult Literature.” For the 2023 ChLA annual conference to be held in Bellevue, Washington from June 15 to 17, we seek paper proposals with a focus on “Islands.” We are interested in studies of islands, archipelagos, and waterways – literal and metaphoric – in children’s and young adult literature.

NeMLA 2023 -- The Body that Remains

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:24am
Marina Malli, Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

The theme of NeMLA 2023 is Resilience, and on a fundamental and visceral level resistance is located in the body that suffers or is threatened with disappearance.

Thinking with a River: Housatonic Valley History and Culture

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:24am
Jacob Remes and Sheila Liming
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Thinking With a River: Housatonic Valley History and Culture
Edited by Sheila Liming and Jacob A.C. Remes

Abstracts due February 1, 2023

ECOCRITICAL RESPONSES: HUMAN RIGHTS OVER EXTRACTIVISM

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:23am
Diana Aldrete
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

NeMLA 2023 (March 23 - 26, 2023; Niagara Falls, NY)

 

ECOCRITICAL RESPONSES: HUMAN RIGHTS OVER EXTRACTIVISM

Co-Chaired: Diana Aldrete (Trinity College) and Melissa McCarron (University at Buffalo)

'Living fame no fortune can confound': Richard Barnfield's Legacy

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:23am
Sapienza University of Rome
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

“Living fame no fortune can confound”: Richard Barnfield’s Legacy
Sapienza University of Rome, 9-10 February 2023

Co-organized by:

Camilla Caporicci (University of Perugia)
Fabio Ciambella (Sapienza University of Rome)
Cristiano Ragni (University of Verona)

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Tania Demetriou (University of Cambridge)
Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex)

Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) Winter 2022

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:22am
Patricia Bostian / Central Piedmont Community College
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

The online peer-reviewed journal Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice (TALTP) is seeking articles for its Winter 2022 issue. Deadline for article submission is November 15. Visit the web site at 

https://www.cpcc.edu/teaching-american-literature-journal-theory-and-practice

for submission guidelines and send manuscripts to Patricia Bostian at Patricia.Bostian@cpcc.edu.

International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies III: A Tribute to Professor Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, OBE (1932-2021)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:21am
International Conference on Anglo-Portuguese Studies III, CDETAPS, Universidade Nova
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, October 15, 2022

International Conference onAnglo-Portuguese Studies III: a tribute to Professor Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa, OBE (1932-2021)

Venue: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais eHumanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Campus de Campolide

Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 November 2022

CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is pleased to announce its 3rd International ConferenceonAnglo-Portuguese Studies, a 3-day conference on topics related to Anglo-Portuguese historical, literary and cultural relations. We also welcome papers on Luso-American exchanges, Anglo-Iberian relations and papers that make comparisons and connections between Portuguese- speakingand Anglophone countries.

Affective Possibilities of Post/Decolonial Eco-literature

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:21am
Valerie Fryer-Davis
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

As more climate doomsday predictions continue to surface from scientists, journalists, and scholars, the fight to combat global climate collapse can sometimes feel hopeless—petrified by the saturation of negative affects in literary, theoretical, and cultural production. While continuing with neoliberal business-as-usual is untenable, scholars have begun to recognize that doom and gloom predictions alone actually make individuals less likely to act.

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster Area

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:21am
Shane Trayers/ SWPACA
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Call for Papers

Apocalypse, Dystopia, and Disaster

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 

44th Annual Conference, February 22-25, 2023

Marriott Albuquerque

Albuquerque, New Mexico

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on August 15, 2022

Proposal submission deadline: October 31, 2022

 

Manuscripts and Premodern Performance: Reassessing the Evidence

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:20am
Alexandra Atiya / Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Manuscripts and Premodern Performance: Reassessing the Evidence

Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society

Leeds International Medieval Congress

July 3-6, 2023

 

The relationship between manuscript and performance in medieval drama has long been a subject of debate. Do extant premodern play texts bear witness to actual or idealized performances? What function did early drama manuscripts serve? What role should drama manuscripts play in determining our understanding of the world of medieval performance?

Chapters for The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:20am
Dr Kelly Chan
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 9, 2022

Chapters for The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations

We are inviting chapter proposals for the edited book The Poetics of Grief and Melancholy in East-West Conflicts and Reconciliations. It is a collection of academic essays that examines the representation, aesthetics, dilemma and/or dichotomy of the notions of grief and melancholy in East-West exchanges and cultural dialogues. Contributors can explore the topic in the dimensions of individual behaviors under specific social norms and cultural products such as literature, film, music, art, theatre performance and any other forms of arts/genres etc.

Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas, 1900s-2000s

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:19am
Stockholm University / KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 15, 2022

With the turn towards extractivism and energy as objects for critical inquiry, minerals and fossil fuels have become crucial additions to categories of cultural, political, and materialist analyses. The international workshop Archives of the Planetary Mine will explore the intersections between culture, materiality, politics, energy consumption, and extractivism across the Americas, throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its purpose is to address the geohistorical magnitudes of energy consumption and critical engagements with the logic of extraction as a condition of possibility for cultural production.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Thinking Gender 2023, "Transforming Research: Feminist Methods for Times of Crisis and Possibility"

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:09am
UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 23, 2022

 UCLA Center for the Study of Women | Barbra Streisand Center PresentsTHINKING GENDER 2023
TRANSFORMING RESEARCH:
FEMINIST METHODS FOR TIMES OF CRISIS AND POSSIBILITY
Thursday, February 23, 2023 (Virtual) and
Friday, February 24, 2023 (In Person)
UCLA
 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Submission deadline: October 23, 2022, at 11:59PM PDT

Genres of the Atlantic

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:08am
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 3, 2022

In his seminal work, Poetics of Relation (1990), Édouard Glissant posited the term “commonplace” as a means to rethink the role of genre in a transatlantic frame. Taking as its object the "flood of convergences, publishing itself in the guise of the commonplace,” this formulation complicates any attempt to read genre as a closed system of inherited traits. Rather, the notion of the commonplace draws our attention to the unspoken norms that sustain literary communities across time and space. Positive in Glissant’s account, commonplaces have also worked to police the boundaries of what counts as literature and who is counted within its canons of literary value.

ASECS 2023 Panel: Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in Enlightenment France

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:08am
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, October 3, 2022

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

53rd Annual Meeting

Hyatt Regency St. Louis at the Arch

March 9-11, 2023

Full conference CFP and Submission Information: https://www.asecs.org/2023-call-for-papers

Panel #107. Women Writers and Scientific Fiction(s) in Enlightenment France 

Chair: Charlee Bezilla, George Washington University, cbezilla@gwu.edu

Asian Diaspora and Nation in Modern and Contemporary British Literature (CFP part of NeMLA)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 - 11:08am
NeMLA 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Is the UK a country of immigration? British immigration historian Panikos Panayi says yes. Although its history and founding are not comparable to that of the United States, which is synonymous with the history of immigration, the history of Britain is also not unrelated to immigration. On the contrary, for the past 200 years, immigration has been a major driving force in history, leading to significant changes in British society. In the context of the dissolution of the British Empire and the decline of the British economy after World War II, Englishness has emerged as a public concern by British people who ask themselves, “What is British?” or “What is English?”.

Moving in with Trauma (NeMLA 2023)

updated: 
Sunday, August 28, 2022 - 9:56am
Michelle Zheng/ NeMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

We have always lived with trauma, but how do we embrace trauma into our lives and create a meaningful life in the world we live in?

In recent years, critical considerations of aesthetics or beauty have been de-emphasized in literary criticism. There is a certain taboo about the notion of beauty, as Elaine Scarry has neatly pointed out: “many people have either actively advocated a taboo on beauty or passively omitted it from their vocabulary, even when thinking and writing about beautiful objects such as painting and poems” (117). There has been many talks about how aesthetics demeans a work’s values—serving as Bourgeois distractions from the real social issues we face, which rightfully remains as an important critical consideration.

NeMLA: Resilience and Resistance: Embracing Disability Narratives in 19th-century Fiction

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 5:57pm
NeMLA 2023 Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Resilience and Resistance: Embracing Disability Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Fiction proposes a space for scholars to present research on disability studies and narrative agency in British fiction from the period. Disability studies is concerned with altering the contemporary political landscape to procure protections for disabled individuals and communities, question structures which uphold barriers to equal access, and challenge ideologies of ability that affirm ableist notions of social participation. Disability studies also challenges individuals and scholars to analyze the historical, literary, medical, and social understandings of disability to dismantle ableist structures.

Earth, Water, Air, And Fire: The Four Elements Of Fashion

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 10:13am
Università Iuav di Venezia
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, October 16, 2022

INTERNATIONAL FASHION CONFERENCE

Organised by Università Iuav di Venezia

March 16-17, 2023

Venice, Italy

 

Open call for contributions

Deadline for abstract submission: 16 October 2022

 

EARTH, WATER, AIR, AND FIRE: THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF FASHION

Convenors

Anneke Smelik, Radboud University of Nijmegen

Alessandra Vaccari, Università Iuav di Venezia

  

Reminder -- Historical Fictions Research Network Online Conference (17 to 19 February 2023)

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 10:12am
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Call for Papers
Historical Fictions Research Network Online Conference
(17 to 19 February 2023, Zoom)

The Historical Fictions Research Network (see https://historicalfictionsresearch.org/) aims to create a place for the discussion of all aspects of the construction of the historical narrative. The focus of the conference is the way we construct history, the narratives and fictions people assemble and how. We welcome both academic and practitioner presentations.

Representing a (Post)Pandemic World (1722-2022)

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 9:34am
University of Toronto Quarterly
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, October 7, 2022

Special Issue of University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2024)

Representing a (Post)Pandemic World (1722-2022)

This special issue of the University of Toronto Quarterly asks: What is the role of art in a (post)pandemic world? How do representations of a virus/pandemic bear witness to, diagnose, and remediate the (post)pandemic world? How do we define (post)pandemic writing and the arts throughout their long histories?  

Intersectionalities of the SWANA Bodies, Borders, Literatures

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 9:34am
Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

This panel invites interdisciplinary proposals that bring to attention the multiple, contradictory, and shifting approaches that encompass the studies of the Southwest Asia North Africa (SWANA) region. The overarching aim of this panel is to shed light on the theoretical and political significance of intersectionality for critical engagement with the SWANA region. We invite contributions examining how the relationalities of bodies, cultures, and cultural productions in the SWANA region and its diasporas shape discourses across nations, re(li)gions, and languages as they converge and diverge in their religious, racial, ethnic, and gender*sexuality-based identities.

CfP (NeMLA 2023): The Nature of Things: Ecology, Philosophy, and Poetics

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 9:30am
Alexander Sorenson/Binghamton University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 30, 2022

Call for Papers -- 54th annual NeMLA conference (23-26 March 2023, Niagara Falls, New York USA)

What does it mean to write and think about nature? Do language, thought, and mimesis ultimately have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our natural environments, and do these environments in turn have the capacity to impact (and possibly cultivate) our words and ideas? Taking such questions as a starting point, this panel aims to explore how the relationship between the human community and the environment has occupied a central space within literature and thought across various epochs and epistemological arenas. 

CFP: “Cognition, Stigma, and Inclusivity,” a Special Issue of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind

updated: 
Thursday, August 25, 2022 - 9:30am
Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Margrethe Bruun Vaage, and Catalin Brylla
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Call for Papers: “Cognition, Stigma, and Inclusivity,” a Special Issue of Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind

Eds. Wyatt Moss-Wellington, Margrethe Bruun Vaage, and Catalin Brylla

Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 November 2022

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