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Call for Proposals: “Is Abundance A Luxury?”
We welcome submissions for a seminar at the 2024 Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference, October 17-19 in New York City.
Full conference information: ASAP/15: Not a Luxury
Since the Modern age, democracy stands as the characteristic Western form of government. We cannot consider such a political regime as just one among other possible ways of understanding the organization of power. Rather, it is the accomplishment of a certain culture and a certain anthropological vision. As a matter of fact, in its multifaceted variants, democracy is the most evident outcome of modern political thought, rooted in the theoretical bedrock of the natural law doctrine.
Baltic Horror (Edited Collection). Call for two additional chapters
deadline for submissions:
June 30, 2024
full name / name of organization:
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
contact email:
Baltic Horror (Edited Collection)
Editor: Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Not being seen for who one is has always been a problem in society; conversely, having difficulty seeing what is hidden beneath surface appearance is a constant challenge. This traditional session will explore how characters’ identities are both concealed and revealed in literature, television, and film. A variety of approaches are possible, including (but not limited to) the questions that follow: When/why do characters find it difficult to let themselves be seen for who they are? When do plots rely on a character’s mysterious identity, and how do both characters in the story and the audience discover (some) of the hidden truths?
CFP: Rethinking South Asia: Postcoloniality & Decolonial Frames and Praxis
24th Annual South Asian Literary Association (SALA) Online Conference
January 18th and 19th, 2025
Call for Articles
L’Histoire: A Social Sciences Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 1
About L'Histoire: https://www.voyagesintothepast.com/l-histoire
Voyages into the Past is pleased to announce the call for papers for the first issue of Volume 3 of L'Histoire. We have been thankful for the contributions we have received in the past, and we encourage individuals who are interested in the social sciences and creating discussion and discourse to send in their writings.
Issue Theme: Fluid Borders: Exploring East and South Asian Interactions
Lost and Found in the Long Eighteenth Century
The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the James Smith Noel Collection invite you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century. Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one’s bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations. Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us -- and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown. We look forward to hearing your guiding perspectives.
The early modern world was shaped by significant cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia. This roundtable seeks to broaden the scope of Renaissance studies by exploring the immense contributions of East, Southeast, and South Asia to global developments in Europe and beyond. We invite presenters to examine the dynamic interactions between Asian and European societies, emphasizing the multi-directional flow of ideas, goods, and artistic practices.
The 2025 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Annual Conference
March 21–22, 2025
New York, NY
China Keywords / 中国关键词
About the Conference
The 2025 annual conference of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute will culminate the first year of a five-year program—the Telos China Initiative—that has aimed to set Telos on a distinct intellectual course.
Mythos and Masks: Eugene O’Neill in Ancient and Modern Contexts
This CFP is a call for essays for a forthcoming edited collection.
Consent is often deemed a prerequisite to ethical interactions—particularly sexual ones. A nonconsensual act is viewed as an affront, a violation, an oppression. For an act to seem permissible, one requires what Heidi M. Hurd calls the “moral magic” of consent.
Conference on Race, Racialization, and Resistance: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Humanities ● Call for Abstracts
Seattle University, April 25 – April 27, 2025 (Friday through Sunday)
Full Name/Name of Organization:
Seattle University
There will be no registration fee for this conference.
The funding for this conference is provided by the Mellon Foundation, for the “Race, Racialization and Resistance in the US” curricular project at Seattle University.
2024 Conference of Mid-Atlantic Popular / American Culture Association (MAPACA)
MAPACA War Studies Area
Thursday, November 7 -- Saturday, November 9, 2024
Tropicana Casino and Resort
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Proposals due to http://www.mapaca.net by June 30, 2024
As an aesthetic and cultural movement, Afrofuturism began with Mark Derry’s 1993 essay, “Black to the Future.” Derry poses a difficult question: “Can a community whose past has been deliberately rubbed out, and whose energies have subsequently been consumed by the search for legible traces of its history, imagine possible futures?” The clear answer is a resounding, “YES!” Not only can Black folk imagine possible futures, but they can also write, paint, and sculpt them into being. In this special issue we invite contributors to explore what these possible futures look like. How do Afrofuturist artists reimagine a world where Black folks can be/are free? What is the cost of such freedom?
African American Review CFP
Black Literature+: African American Literature in Dialogue with the Other Arts
Guest Editors: Brittney Michelle Edmonds (University of Wisconsin) and Hayley O’Malley (Rice University)
In 2004, in a speech about the painter Romare Bearden, Toni Morrison argued that critics must appreciate the “liquidity” between Black art forms, the “resonances, alignments, the connections, the inter-genre sources of African American art... the resounding aesthetic dialogue among artists.” “Locating instances of this liquidity,” Morrison explained, “is vital if African American art is to be understood for the complex work that it is and for the deep meaning it contains.”1
The Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) will host its 2024 annual conference this Fall as a hybrid conference from Thursday, October 3 – Saturday, October 5. Virtual sessions will take place on Thursday evening and Friday morning via Zoom, and in-person sessions will take place on Friday evening and Saturday morning at Nichols College, Dudley, Massachusetts.
Call For Papers
ANNE FOR EVERYONE:
GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS
Edited by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas and Sarah Park Dahlen
Under contract with the University Press of Mississippi
Call for Papers: Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration
Special Issue: ‘Casteism Across Borders: Mapping the Diasporic Reproduction of Caste Discrimination and Anti-Caste Struggles’
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/transitions-journal-of-transient-migration#call-for-papers
Guest editors: Dr Vikrant Kishore, Dr Stephen Goulding, Dr Ratan Lal
Call for book chapters for the edited volume: Cyberpunk and digital rebellion of AI
Newly launched by Chongqing University and De Gruyter, Digital Studies in Language and Literature (DSLL, ISSN: 2943-0607) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary publication dedicated to advancing research on the intersection of digital technology, language, and literature.
DSLL welcomes all submissions in line with the aims and scope below. Accepted articles will be published via fully sponsored Open Access through a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-4.0) License, so your research will be freely available for all to read and download.
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Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have played a pivotal role in higher education in the United States of America by serving as institutions of excellence and opportunity for African American students and others wishing to obtain an education. HBCUs have a rich history of fostering a culture of academic achievement, leadership development, and empowerment. In recent years, discussions around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging have brought a renewed focus on the value that HBCUs bring to higher education and their unique contributions to preparing students for the ever-changing demands of the workforce.
Call for Papers
Small Forms in Circulation: Infrastructures, Practices, Publics
Humboldt University of Berlin, November 28-30, 2024
Submission deadline: June 12, 2024
Acceptance letters in August
METU BRITISH NOVELISTS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
BUCHI EMECHETA AND HER WORK
5-6 December 2024
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
CALL FOR PAPERS
Usually, the narratives around food habits and culinary practices are structured around individual tastes. However, the narratives can be and need to be structured much beyond individual tastes. Historically, it has been observed that individual and collective food habits and culinary practices are driven by various social, cultural, gendered, sexual, racial, caste, geographical, commercial, and political factors. These factors provoke us to go beyond the stereotypical scientific narratives of consumption and unpack the various social dynamics and power structures that are associated with our daily food habits and culinary practices.
Over the past few years, the Victorians Institute Journal has recommitted to publishing rare and previously unpublished Victorian and Edwardian primary texts. We’re currently seeking submissions of such texts for publication in upcoming volumes of the journal!
For complete submission instructions, please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/vij and follow the steps given by the online system.
Medieval Comics Team-Up: The Values of Comics for Medieval Studies
Session proposed for The Medieval Academy at 100: The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, from 20-22 March 2025)
Sponsored by Medieval Comics Project, an outreach effort of the Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture
Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa
Paper Proposals due 1 June 2024
Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association 2024 (Palm Springs, CA)
Conference Theme: Translation in Action
November 7-10
Screen Bodies invites submissions to be considered for a forthcoming general issue. We are particularly interested in research on:
Cyberfeminism
Health Humanities
Biomedical Ethics / Bioethics
Ethics of AI
Research articles are typically between 6k–9k words. Please see our website for details about the inclusion of artwork/images (www.berghahnjournals.com/submissions).
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) in Saudi Arabia announces a call for submission:
Echoes of the Earth: Interplay of Literature and Landscape
Throughout history, terrestrial landscapes have captivated human curiosity, serving as a significant muse for creative practitioners. Whether it be the enigmatic allure of towering mountains, the mystical charm of dense forests, or the vast expanse of oceans, the natural environment has served as a symbolic platform for portraying human existence, emotive expression, and contemplation of the human condition.