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Care, hope, resilience: critical emojis in the age of permacrisis

updated: 
Friday, April 21, 2023 - 12:07am
Vilnius University (Lithuania) and York University (UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Care, hope, resilience: critical emojis in the age of permacrisis 

What is the connection between the current state of permanent crisis, now expressed in its own brand-new word,*  and the proliferation of critical buzzwords in contemporary culture? Care, hope, resilience: ubiquitous in social commentary from academic research to popular journalism and social media, these terms behave more like emojis than elements of systematic thought.  Are they useful short cuts to a comprehension of shifting social imaginaries in the age of permacrisis?  Or a dangerous limitation of the mental energies we need to think our way to a more positive of future?  

 

Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times

updated: 
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 10:59am
MELOW: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the World
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 1, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

23rd MELOW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

To be held in Chandigarh on

6-8 October 2023

Borders, Boundaries, Lines of Control: Literature across Disciplines in Contemporary Times

 

Sons & Daughters of Narnia: Tracing CS Lewis's Literary Influence into the 21st Century

updated: 
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 - 5:51am
Ulster University
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 4, 2023

                                                                     

This will be the 2nd Annual CS Lewis Symposium at Ulster University 

To be held: 13-14, November 2023 

Location: Ulster University, Coleraine, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom)

*Please Note: this will be an in-person event; at present, we cannot accommodate virtual/remote participation.

Keynote: to be delivered by Dr Malcolm Guite (Cambridge University) and Professor Jerry Root (Wheaton College)

120th Annual PAMLA Conference (2023): Portland, OR - Special Session CFP

updated: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 4:20pm
Craig Svonkin, Metropolitan State University of Denver
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 15, 2022

The 120th Annual PAMLA Conference

The PAMLA 2023 Conference will be held at the Hilton Portland Downtown in Portland, Oregon between October 26-29, 2023,

The 2023 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.

PAMLA, founded as the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast in 1899, and the western affiliate of the Modern Language Association, is dedicated to the advancement and diffusion of knowledge of ancient and modern languages, literatures, and cultures.

Mind The Gap LGBTQIA+ Conference 2023: Disrupting Divisions (29 and 30 July 2023)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 11:17am
Mind the Gap Conference 2023
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, April 30, 2023

Mind the Gap 2023 is a free hybrid conference held on Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th of July 2023 at King’s College London. With this interdisciplinary conference we want to provide a space to enable the building of bridges between what is written in theory and what is experienced in practice. 

Last year we addressed and explored the gaps between academic research and everyday LGBTQIA+ realities, by combining academic presentations with community speakers. This year we’re going one step further, by thinking about what it means to cross these gaps, and bring seemingly-separate dichotomies together.

Original Cast Recordings: art, artefact and analysis

updated: 
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 10:50am
AHRC Research Network (University of Portsmouth/National Science and Media Museum, UK)
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, April 21, 2023

ORIGINAL CAST RECORDINGS: ART, ARTEFACT AND ANALYSIS

 

An international, interdisciplinary, virtual conference organised by the
AHRC-funded ‘Original Cast Recordings: Musical Theatre and/as Sonic Heritage’ Network

 

Tuesday 5th - Wednesday 6th September 2023

Online platform to be announced

 

Keynote speaker: Professor Laurence Maslon (Tisch, New York University)
Author of Broadway to Main Street: How Showtunes Enchanted America (Oxford University Press)

 

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DEADLINE EXTENDED Esotericism, Occultism, and Magic online at SWPACA conference June 8-9, 2023

updated: 
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 6:49pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 22, 2023

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Papers

ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, AND MAGIC

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

 SWPACA Summer Salon  

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2023

THE UNEXPECTED|UCL English Graduate Conference 2023 EXTENDED DEADLINE

updated: 
Monday, April 17, 2023 - 4:45am
University College London (UCL) English Department
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 5, 2023

EXTENDED DEADLINE

The UCL English Graduate Conference will take place in person at UCL on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. This year’s conference theme is ‘The Unexpected’. Abstracts of 250 words should be e-mailed to theunexpected.conference@gmail.com by May 5, 2023, along with a short biography.

“There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled, foreseeable. But there is a future...which refers to someone whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is the real future.That which is totally unpredictable.”

–Derrida in Derrida (2002)

International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity

updated: 
Sunday, April 16, 2023 - 3:21am
The Department of English, East West University and Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh (ATLEB)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 7, 2023

Call for Papers

International Conference on Teaching English Literature and Interdisciplinarity

Organised by

East West University and Association of Teachers of Literatures in English, Bangladesh 28 & 29 July 2023, Dhaka

 

Kala pani Crossings #3: Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 2:08pm
French Institute of Pondicherry
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, July 1, 2023

Kala pani Crossings #3:

Across the Oceans: Post-Indentureship Trans-Oceanic Transformations

 

Institut Français de Pondicherry / French Institute of Pondicherry

 

in partnership with

EMMA, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France

DIRE, Université de La Réunion, France

IHRIM, ENS-Lyon, France

VALE, Sorbonne University, France

 

Historical Fictions Research Network Conference 2024

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 2:08pm
Historical Fictions Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 1, 2023

 

Call for Papers
Historical Fictions Research Network Conference
(23 to 24 February 2024, University of Malmö, Sweden)

Conference Organisers: Cecilia Trenter (University of Malmö), Kristina Fjelkestam (University of Stockholm) and Claudia Lindén (University of Södertörn)

2nd International Humanities–Society–Identity Congress: Evolution/ Revolution

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 2:07pm
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Modern Languages
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 31, 2023

The 2nd International Humanities–Society–Identity Congress: Evolution/ Revolution Programme Committee is looking forward to welcoming you to Warsaw. The Congress embraces the study of all aspects pertaining to the notions of Humanities – Society – Identity. The focus is on the changes observed in those three areas with the main question being whether they should be perceived as evolutionary or revolutionary. The Congress Programme comprises two plenary lectures, a debate, general sessions and theme panel sessions.

Philosophy and the Existential Challenges of the 21st Century

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 2:06pm
Essence Journal: Interdisciplinary-International Journal of Concerned African Philosophers
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, June 30, 2023

The challenges of the 21st Century are the subject matter of this special issue of Essence, Interdisciplinary- International Journal of Concerned African Philosophers is to maintain and continue the ancient Greek and African traditions of philosophical reflections on moral, metaphysical and existential challenges of humankind. In other words, this is an open-ended and historical question which
continues to confront generations and centuries of humanity as they search for what constitute reality and solutions to human
curiosity and predicament. An ever recurring theme and question in the history of philosophy and thought , the existential challenges

“Wasted Lives in Contemporary Fiction: Bodies That Do Not Matter”

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:59pm
European Journal of English Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, November 30, 2023

CFP for Volume 29 of the European Journal of English Literature to be published in 2025

 

“Wasted Lives in Contemporary Fiction: Bodies That Do Not Matter”

 

Guest editors:Maria Isabel Romero-Ruiz (University of Málaga, Spain) and

Simonetta Falchi (University of Sassari, Italy)

Life Narrative and the Digital

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:58pm
Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 26, 2023

26-27 September 2023

Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH)

Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

CfP open until: 26 May 2023

https://digital-bio-2023.acdh.oeaw.ac.at

Trans-Futurisms

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:54pm
Aparajita Nanda/University of California, Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, August 1, 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and representation in the here and now, as far as cultural productions are concerned, have been supported and/ or undermined by visions of the future in literature, performative arts, or cinema. Authors and performers have offered to audiences their concerns, hopes, and expectations about possible futures via either utopian or dystopian narratives. In 2007, Ann Brooks was talking about a new modality of acknowledging cultural and ethnic identity from a transcultural and transnational viewpoint. In her words, “[t]hese new cultural and ethnic identities carry with them the need for new conceptions of subjectivity and require the opening-up of new subject positions and new spaces and places from which to speak” (184).

Call For Papers: Blackfriars Conference 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:50pm
American Shakespeare Center
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, May 15, 2023

For the 2023 Blackfriars Conference, we are soliciting three different types of submissions:

Plenary papers – Since 2001, we have featured papers that explore the performative conditions of early modern plays, the effect of place on those performances, the practices of the players, and the texts themselves through time. These 10 minute (13 minutes for presenters employing actors to demonstrate a point) plenary presentations take place on the Blackfriars Stage. To present a plenary paper, please submit a 250-300 word abstract outlining your topic.

Call for Conference Presentations: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:49pm
University of Southampton, Faculty of Arts and Humanities
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, May 20, 2023

Call for Papers: Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts, 7th July 2023

Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF

 

With the support of the Doctoral College and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton, we are pleased to invite proposals for the ECR-led conference ‘Virtual Space and Interactivity in Streaming Media within Transnational Contexts’.

[Deadline Extended] AICED-24: Humour and Pathos in Literature and the Arts

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:49pm
Dragoș Manea, University of Bucharest
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 29, 2023

AICED-24

 

 

THE 24th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT,

UNIVERSITY OF BUCHAREST

LITERATURE AND CULTURAL STUDIES SECTION

 

9-11 June 2023

 

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

Call for Chapter Proposals - Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:45pm
Mary Zaborskis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 15, 2023

We are seeking chapter proposals for The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. This volume will explore children’s gender identities, expressions, and embodiments across historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. It will consider this multiplicity of gendered childhoods alongside the intense preoccupation with children’s genders across a range of medical, political, legal, educational, and cultural spheres that span the globe.

Antifascist Education

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:44pm
Dr. Tyson E. Lewis
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, June 1, 2023

Antifascist Education

Special Issue for the journal Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

Editors:

Dr. Tyson E. Lewis, PhD, University of North Texas

Silas Krabbe, PhD in progress, University of British Columbia 

CFP: Stardom and Fandom, Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Summer Salon Virtual Conference

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:43pm
Southwest Popular/American Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Call for Papers

STARDOM AND FANDOM

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

SWPACA Summer Salon

 

June 8 & 9, 2023

Virtual Conference

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions open on March 18, 2023

Proposal submission deadline: April 15, 2023

 

Studies in Hogg and his World

updated: 
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 1:42pm
James Hogg Society
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

(Update: Deadline Extended)

 

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