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The MA/PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY
invites applications for the annual Graduate Conference to be held on
Friday November 15th, 2024
At the CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, New York, NY
Deadline to send an abstract and a mini-biography: June 1, 2024
Deadline to send the full article: July 20, 2024
The ADE Bulletin is the refereed journal of the Association of Departments of English, published annually by the Modern Language Association. The bulletin is soliciting abstracts for a special issue on advising and mentoring in the undergraduate English major. Publication is scheduled for 2025. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024. Deadline for submission of selected essays: 30 September 2024. Special issue editor: Felicia Jean Steele, associate professor and associate chair of English at The College of New Jersey and Eastern Regent for Sigma Tau Delta.
On June 23rd, 1985, a bomb detonated on Air India Flight 182, enroute from Toronto to Delhi. All 329 passengers and crew aboard were killed, most of whom were Canadians of South Asian descent. Though this tragedy remains the largest mass murder in Canadian history and resulted in Canada’s longest and most expensive criminal investigation, it is little known in national public memory (Angus Reid Institute 2023). Institutional narratives and failings have framed the Air India bombing as a “non-Canadian tragedy involving non-Canadian citizens” (Seshia 2017), leaving the victims’ families suffering and ignored in the wake of such loss.
Articles are invited for a special Issue of the Journal of the Short Story in English on Tennessee Williams’s Short Fiction, to be published in 2026.
More info: https://journals.openedition.org/jsse/4005
Suggested areas of research include, but are not limited to, the following topics in relation to Williams's short fiction:
Narrative voice and narrative strategies.
Repeated motifs, images, settings, characters, situations, etc.
Intertextuality.
Between Journal Vol. XV, N. 28 (November 2024) The Public Dimension of Dwelling
edited by Clotilde Bertoni, Massimo Fusillo, Giulio Iacoli, Marina Guglielmi, Niccolò Scaffai
(https://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/announcement/view/11)
Submission deadline: 2024-05-31 (Friday)
Estimated review date: 2024-07
Publication date: 2024-11-30 (Saturday)
In the past two decades, there has been a distressing rise in suicides worldwide. In what has been termed an “age of crisis” – encompassing economic, environmental, and health crises – these rising statistics may underscore the urgency of acknowledging the intersectional impact of these potential risk factors and may even require social and individual countermeasures.
SPECIAL ISSUE – Translation & Philosophy: Disciplines in Need of Dialogue
Guest Editor: Byron Taylor (Shanghai International Studies University, China)
Western Literature Association Annual Conference
Tucson, Arizona, October 2-5, 2024
Call for Papers: Deadline for submissions, June 5th, 2024
While this year’s theme is focused on the speculative West and the re-inscription of territory, we also welcome proposals for individual papers, organized panels, workshops, posters, performances and other forms of academic engagement on all themes relative to the literary culture of the American West.
Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism is helpful in understanding how the fetish animates produced commodities to have a mysterious power of their own, in which power is obscured, mystified, and alienated, holding sway over people in the dominion of capitalism. In Translating Blackness: Latinx Colonialities in Global Perspectives, Lorgia García-Peña asserts that “to translate thus presents us with the possibility of seeing the Other. This act of seeing is also an act of recognition that can contradict hegemonic knowledge.” The work of translating the fetish can thus be presented as a means of revealing real relations hidden by the fetish, an antihegemonic project of deconstructing systems of capitalism and oppression.
In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, the editors welcome chapter proposals for selection and inclusion into The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies, for which a contract has already been signed.
The volume will be a part of the prestigious Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Media-and-Cultural-Studies-Companions/book-series/RMCSC.
Deadline: Submissions due June 30, 2024 to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
Call for papers and proposals. All disciplines invited!
ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 15
October 25-27, 2024 in Asheville, North Carolina
An annual conference exploring the history and legacy of Black Mountain College
Hosted and sponsored by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) and The University of North Carolina Asheville
Thematic Focus: Black Mountain College / Living with the Land
Call for Papers
Religious Communities in the Virtual Age:
Practices, Values, Technologies, Boundaries
28 October 2024, Manchester, England
Keynote Speaker: Prof Linda Woodhead, King’s College London.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the
digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online
worship and gathering as a tool for widening or enriching a sense of community. Others have used social
CFP: The Atmospheres and Ambiences of Modernist Literature
Université Paris Nanterre (CREA)
10-11 April 2025
Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2024
Keynote Speakers:
Bruce Bégout (Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
Birgit Breidenbach (University of East Anglia)
Abstract
We’re excited to announce a Call for Contributors to the Handbook of Humanities Podcasting, under contract with Palgrave MacMillan. Contributors will explore how the present-day humanities look different from the perspectives of people who create podcasts and teach podcasting, and what futures for the humanities and its disciplines podcasting can open up. Contributions will consist of a short essay (3000 words) and participation in a podcast recording.
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
ESOTERICISM, OCCULTISM, and MAGIC
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024
The Charles Olson Society will sponsor a session at the upcoming Re-Viewing Black Mountain College Conference, to be held in Asheville, North Carolina, October 25th – 27th.
The Postcolonial Studies Permanent Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) seeks abstracts in line with this year’s conference’s theme: “Health in/of the Humanities.” We seek scholarly work within the realm of postcolonial studies that intersects with the topics of physical health, mental health, disparities in access and care, communal health, and racial disparities. The following questions are areas of interest for the section:
-How does the power imbalance between the Global North and Global South affect one’s access to and quality of one’s healthcare?
How do these factors impact one’s health outcomes?
The 121th annual conference of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA 2024) will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars). We will be opening our conference with a welcome event on Thursday, November 7, and continuing the conference through Sunday, November 10, 2024.
The past seven years have seen a resurgence of the radical right. In this resurgence, art and literature have played a prominent role. Senior advisors to the Trump administration cited novels as specific influences on federal policy; Jordan Peterson has disguised right-wing manifestos as self-help volumes, hoodwinking young men to the tune of millions; the internet has seen an overwhelming explosion of white supremacist digital art. Walter Benjamin’s dictum that fascism seeks to “aestheticize politics” endures.
Conference online: 23-24 May 2024
All details: https://www.inmindsupport.com/racism-conference
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Paulo Endo – University of São Paulo, Brazil
CALL FOR PAPERS
From the blazon of Elizabethan poetry to the Human Genome Project, humans have been writing the body for centuries. In his book Barthes, Roland Barthes ponders the translation of the body from flesh to paper, stating, “To write the body. Neither the skin, nor the muscles, nor the bones, nor the nerves, but the rest: an awkward, fibrous, shaggy, raveled thing, a clown’s coat” (180). In his process of writing the body, Barthes strips away surfaces to reveal something other, something that he finds more representative of himself or his essence.
Performance and Migration in the Nordic and Baltic Regions
A special journal issue of Nordic Theatre Studies
Edited by Rebecca Brinch and Dirk Gindt
Editors-in-chief: Rissa L. Miller, Federico Bossone
Call for Papers | ‘You are What you Eat’: On Food, Culture(s), and Identity
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES
FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY
UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD
is happy to announce
THE 7TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURES TODAY (ELALT 7)
Celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad and of the English Department
October 26-27, 2024
The conference will be held ONLINE and is FREE OF CHARGE
Conference topic:
This is a call for co-panelists in the Historical Materialism Conference scheduled to be held in Cluj, Romania, between August 29-31, 2024.
EXTENSION: Call for Papers
Children’s/Young Adult Culture
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
2024 SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
EXTENDED Proposal submission deadline: April 22, 2024
DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Call for Papers
Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)
SWPACA Summer Salon
June 20-22, 2024
Virtual Conference
Proposal submission deadline: EXTENDED to April 22, 2024
The representation of traumatic experience is a fraught conversation in literary and media studies. Cathy Caruth famously argued for the “unspeakability” of trauma; other scholars such as Naomi Mandel argue that emphasizing the limits of language can inadvertently silence, restrict, and ignore the material and corporeal existence of suffering. This session invites panelists to consider representing and witnessing trauma as acts of translation across the border of un/representability. Although our central question originates in discussions of language and texts, panelists are also encouraged to consider trauma’s appearance across disciplines and forms, such as visual culture, media, and/or performance.