Abstract This panel will seek to explore the changing relationship between scientific paradigms and society’s self-understanding as it is manifest in the novel form. If the novel itself has functioned as a record of the social imagination—a narrative ideologeme as Jameson describes it – this social imagination often borrowed its models from contemporary natural philosophy and later the social sciences. We see examples of this in Balzac’s use of taxonomical zoology, Sterne’s use of Cartesian “animal spirits,” or Joyce’s phylogenetic process in “Oxen of the Sun.” Some of the questions this panel will ask include: how do naturalistic sociological models help to mediate political and aesthetic theories? How do these models affect stylistic developments?

What is boredom and why do we feel bored? Recently, research on boredom has gained momentum in the scientific community, particularly in neuroscience and clinical psychology, where the symptoms of boredom and the behavioral patterns of the bored person are scrutinized (i.e. Boredomlab). Boredom, however, has been explored by philosophers for centuries and has been making a persistent appearance in the modern novel from nineteenth and century to present, in the moments of contemplation, waiting, idleness or complaints of bored characters.

Sacrifice 

Call for Papers

Princeton University Department of French and Italian

Virtual Graduate Conference

December 3, 2020

Keynote speakers: Andrea Frisch (University of Maryland), Vincent Message (Université Paris 8)

Need additional chapters for “Posthuman Animals" ***deadline for abstract:September 30, 2020    

Need additional chapters on

“Posthuman Animals: Readings in Literary and Cultural Texts”

***If interested, send us an email ASAP.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AMERICAN STUDIES

2023 SPECIAL ISSUE

THE BOREDOMS OF LATE MODERNITY

 Twożywo, Kiedy wreszcie będzie wojna (When there will finally be a war), 2001

CALL FOR PAPERS

For its American Literature Association 2021 panel, the Robert Frost Society seeks papers offering fresh insights into the writing and life of Robert Frost.  All paper topics will be considered. 

Proposals should be sent to Professor Daniel Toomey by January 15, 2021.  E-mail address is dtoomey@landmark.edu 

The conference is planned for May 27-30, 2021.  Full information about the conference can be found at https://americanliteratureassociation.org/ala-conferences/ala-annual-con...

Call for Papers

 LAWYERS AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM IN POPULAR CULTURE

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

42nd Annual Conference, Week of February 22-27, 2021

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submissions Open September 1, 2020

Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020

Applications to the Co-Incidence Festival are due October 4, 2020.

The Co-Incidence Festival is an annual gathering of thinkers, artists, activists, etc. at the intersection of experimental music, speculative philosophy/theory, and radical politics. We seek to experiment, in practice, with modes of thinking and being beyond the domination and logic of capital.

It will be held in-person and virtually in Boston, US, January 2-10, 2021. You may apply with a project or without a project.

Funding is available to those with projects.

RESIDENT ARTIST: NINA POWER.

MORE INFORMATION: http://www.coincidencefestival.com/

Call for Papers for Session Proposals
at the International Medieval Congress (IMC 2021)
Sponsored by the Oecologies Research Cluster
05–08 July 2021
University of Leeds

Description: 

This session will analyze representations of armed conflict in contemporary media, exploring how these representations might influence the popular understanding of global and civil conflict and the way that these representations of conflict might be read as an attempt to change (or maintain) a certain world. We welcome a broad range of papers, particularly aiming for a global perspective on the ethical debate of representing armed conflict in stylized media, as we interrogate how these representations might affect popular imaginations of conflict and how we as researchers might form an analytical approach to representations of conflict.

Abstract:

This panel - for NeMLA's 2021 Convention - explores past and current South Asian cinema's use of Shakespearean drama to respond to three questions. First, to what extent are South Asian filmmakers concerned with reenacting the Western dramatic canon? Second, at what point and why do South Asian filmmakers use Shakespeare as a springboard to explore problems and values that are only tangentially Shakespeare's? Third, what are these problems and values and how to they resonate for today’s global, wired audience?

Call for Papers

Poetry & Poetics (Critical)

Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA)

42nd Annual Conference, Week of February 22-27, 2021

http://www.southwestpca.org

Submission Deadline: November 13, 2020

For the 2021 Conference, SWPACA is going virtual! Due to concerns regarding COVID-19, we will be holding our annual conference completely online this year. We hope you will join us for exciting papers, discussions, and the experience you’ve come to expect from Southwest.

Deadline extended to Oct. 11 2020. NeMLA 2021 will now be entirely online with a reduced registration fee.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS (extended deadline)

Theme: Building Diverse Communities through Writing

University of Southern California | Los Angeles, CA | December 18-19, 2020 (online meeting)

Website:  https://dornsife.usc.edu/the-writing-program/ccccs-at-usc/

Deadline: October 22, 2020, 11:59 p.m.