The goal of this seminar is to provide a forum in which to discuss how TV shows (reality shows, true crime shows, documentary broadcasts, docufictions, and web series) bridge the gap between factual knowledge and myths, and how it facilitates the transfer of ordinary knowledge into the implausible, especially in Iberia and Latin America. Entertainment business and journalism intertwine to engage an audience oriented to the consumption of serialized narratives.

This is a call for paper submissions to a special issue of the open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Literature.  Here is the topic description:

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cultures of the Political Left in Modern India

12-13 December, 2022

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay

Call for Papers for a Session at the 29th Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference

March 9-11, 2023, Boise State University, Boise Idaho

Session focus: Queer/Trans Historical Linguistics

Session organizers : William Leap (American U/Florida Atlantic U) and David Peterson (U Nebraska at Omaha)

Queer and Trans Historical Linguistics (QTHL) is a rapidly emerging subfield in Language, Gender and Sexuality Studies. We now have a rich archive of information to show queer language can be explored historically, and to show that historical linguistic inquiry can address queer themes relevant to discussions of discourse and text in the present time.

Dear Colleagues,

We are looking for proposals for the second volume of Screening Sex: The Sex Scene.

The Sex Scene: Representation, Performance, Aesthetics is the second of two volumes that will launch the Screening Sex book series with Edinburgh University Press (the first: The Sex Scene: Space, Place, Industry). We are open to essays that will interrogate the form, function, politics and significance of the sex scene in film, television and beyond. Taking the ‘sex scene’ as a critical starting point for the book series, the two edited collections offer a critical exploration of the significance of sex on screen and in sexual cultures, combining original research with a review of existing and current literature and debates.

GLQ Special Issue: Queering the Domestic

Editors

Lauren Jae Gutterman, University of Texas, Austin

Martin F. Manalansan IV, University of Minnesota

Stephen Vider, Cornell University

Call for Papers: St. John’s University’s Humanities Review Spring 2023 Issue

“Keeping the ‘Human’ in Humanities: The Past, Present, and Future of Humanities Scholarship”

Deadline for abstracts: December 23rd, 2022  

Deadline for accepted submissions: February 17th, 2023

Editors: Andrew Schlosser & Sana Younis

Please send all submissions to sjuhumanitiesreview@gmail.com  

“A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.”

Joy Harjo, Crazy Brave 

Eudora Welty Society 

American Literature Association Conference

May 25-28, 2023 / The Westin Copley, Boston, MA

Subject: Call for Papers: Confluence at CEA 2023

Call for Papers, Confluence at CEA 2023

March 30-April 1, 2023 | San Antonio, Texas

Sheraton Gunter Hotel, San Antonio | 205 East Houston Street, San Antonio, TX 78205

The College English Association, a gathering of scholar-teachers in English studies, welcomes proposals for presentations on Confluence for our 53nd annual conference. Submit your proposal at www.cea-web.org

The Present is the Future in Motion: Afropresentism as Verb and Aesthetic 

The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) 2023 Conference, York University – Toronto, 27-30 May 2023 (part of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Conference)

Panel Organizer: Jasleen Singh (she/her), University of Toronto, ja.singh@mail.utoronto.ca

International TESOL Conference 2022 (Hybrid)

English Scholars Beyond Borders and the Faculty of Foreign Languages at Ton Duc Thang University are pleased to announce the International TESOL Conference (ITC) 2022 themed “Envisioning Possibilities”.

We invite presentations of research papers and theoretical papers, workshops (pedagogy, etc), and poster sessions from inter-and multidisciplinary themes related to pedagogy, materials, research, networking, and professional development to support and inspire the envisionment of present and future possibilities.

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA

YOUNG RESEARCHERS’ CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS

Panorama of/and the Pandemic: Literary and Cultural Responses (17-18 December, 2022)

T.S. Eliot considered Dante to be his stylistic and existential model and his Commedia a fundamental reading for the appreciation of modern poetry in any language. He maintained that Dante appealed to universal concepts, which is the aspect that made his poem successful throughout the centuries and across the world. According to the festival Dante nel mondo, realized by the municipality of Ravenna in 2016, there are 58 complete translations of the Commedia in European, Asian, African, and South American languages.

Baltic Horror (Edited Collection)

Editor: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Horror cinema and nationhood are inextricably linked together. As Robin Wood stated in his now classic essay “American Nightmare”, the horror film is the nightmarish meeting of director and audiences, both acknowledging that the film is the enactment of national repressed fears and anxieties. Wood’s thesis has been applied to other geographies, including Latin-America, Asia or part of Europa. Regarding the latter, Italy, Spain or UK have been object of different studies, essays and monographies. Yet, there are European geographies still lacking critical attention