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OUP Handbook of American Street Literature

updated: 
Monday, May 6, 2024 - 12:55pm
Dennis L. Winston
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The editors of the Oxford University Handbook of American Street Literature seek papers that explore the history and themes of this unique genre. Street literature, also known as urban literature, refers to a genre of writing that primarily focuses on the experiences and narratives of individuals from marginalized communities, particularly in urban areas. Street Lit often explores the struggles, triumphs, and complexities of life in poor neighborhoods, shedding light on themes such as crime, violence, poverty, and the pursuit of success. Street literature encompasses various forms of written expression, including novels, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction accounts.

Translation as an Art of Failure

updated: 
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 4:44pm
Michael Roberson
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED:  JUNE 16, 2024

PAMLA 2024:  Palm Springs, November 7-10, 2024 "Translation in Action"

Translation as an Art of Failure

Imagining the Ordinary City: Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives

updated: 
Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 6:41am
University of Kent / University of Cape Town
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 30, 2024

Imagining the Ordinary City: Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives

Date/Location: 28-29 October 2024, Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT

Keynotes: Professor Jennifer Robinson (University College London); Dr Thembinkosi Goniwe (Rhodes University) ; Professor Lynda Gichanda Spencer (Rhodes University) 

Contemporary Cultural Responses to a Neoliberal World

updated: 
Friday, May 3, 2024 - 11:08am
University of Northampton
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Keynote Speaker: Professor Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at The University of Edinburgh.

The Centre for Cultural and Literary Studies (CCLS) is hosting a one-day, in-person symposium to be held on 13 June 2024 at Waterside Campus, University of Northampton, UK.

Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces - Extended Deadline

updated: 
Friday, May 3, 2024 - 9:24am
Katherine Mansfield Society / IADT Dun Laoghaire
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

UPDATE: Unfortunately, the conference Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces will not be going ahead as originally planned in June 2024. The conference organisers are exploring the possibility of rescheduling to a later date and will circulate further details if/when they become available.  

 

Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces

IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin

June 14th–16th 2024

 

An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society

Contemporary Latin American Feminist Activisms in Translation

updated: 
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 3:50pm
PAMLA
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

This session at PAMLA (Pacific and Ancient Modern Langauge Association) this year (November 7-10, 2024) welcomes paper proposals in English, Spanish, and Portuguese that consider any aspect of contemporary feminist activisms and cultural and artistic production in the Latin American context. Topics may include but are not limited to digital and hashtag feminist activisms, transnational feminist activisms, Black and Indigenous feminist activisms, Global South feminisms, street activisms, performance activisms, activisms and affect, and protest and artistic production within a broad conceptualization of “translation in action,” the theme of this year’s conference.

4th AISNA Graduates Conference: “What is an American?” (1782-2024) Narratives and Counternarratives of an Imagined Nation

updated: 
Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 9:36am
AISNA Graduates
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

In a period of tumultuous changes like the ones brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic, the rise of far-right governments, racism, and international tensions caused by the war in Ukraine and Gaza, a great reckoning is happening in the Western cultural context, especially with regard to the Atlantic and Transatlantic world. No nation has undergone more rapid and sometimes contradictory transformations than the US, showing tensions between its foundational narratives and counternarratives rising from its too often neglected socio-cultural realities. Culturally embedded American ideals have always emphasized a single unifying narrative capable of synthesizing the plurality of voices on US soil.

“`Do This In Remembrance of Me’: Religion, Memory, and Art”

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 11:12pm
Religion and the Arts Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 15, 2024

Call for Papers

“`Do This In Remembrance of Me’: Religion, Memory, and Art”

A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts

Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden

 

Call for Applications: VPR Expanding the Field Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize

The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:

Sophia Luminous 2024-25

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Sophia Women's College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

Hello everyone! We are finally inviting abstract submissions for the third issue of Sophia Luminous. ️ Sophia Luminous is a national level, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary online research journal for students initiated by the IQAC cell of Sophia Women's College, Mumbai.

The Concept of Visual Translation

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Johanna Drucker, PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association)
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 16, 2024

CFP for PAMLA: Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Thursday November 7 through Sunday November 10, Palm Springs, California (Margaritaville Resort) 

 

Session Title: The Concept of Visual Translation, Johanna Drucker, Chair 

 

Abstract: The translation of texts is a familiar, if fraught, act that is the subject of considerable thoughtful examination. But is there an equivalent for visual works? This panel looks at examples of cross-cultural or temporal reworkings of images to challenge certain assumptions about self-evident nature of images and even of vision itself. 

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism -- Call for submissions for Vol. 3, Issue 2, Fall 2025

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:23pm
Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Migrating Minds: Journal of Cultural Cosmopolitanism (ISSN 2993-1053) is a peer-reviewed, open-access scholarly journal devoted to interdisciplinary research on cultural cosmopolitanism from a comparative perspective. It provides a unique, international forum for innovative critical approaches to cosmopolitanism emerging from literatures, cultures, media, and the arts in dialogue with other areas of the humanities and social sciences, across temporal, spatial, and linguistic boundaries.

Call for Papers: The Neutral Graduate Journal of Cinema and Media Studies - 'Inheritance'

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:22pm
The Neutral
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, July 1, 2024

The Neutral is a peer-reviewed media studies journal based out of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. The Neutral is committed to a diversity of disciplinary approaches and media objects of study. It is published online at: www.theneutraljournal.com

For its fourth issue, The Neutral is soliciting contributions for ‘Inheritance‘.

“writing philosophy is for me finding a language in which I understand philosophy to be inherited, which means telling my autobiography in such a way as to find the conditions of that language.”

Stanley Cavell, A Pitch of Philosophy

“But as for me, who am I (following)?”

TITANIC OPTIMISM: Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:11pm
Timothy Francisco Youngstown State University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

CFP:  Titanic Optimism: Shakespeare in Tempestuous Times

Editors: Craig Dionne, Tim Francisco, and Sharon O’Dair

 

Seeking essays for an edited collection

 

 

Call for Proposals: ChLA-Sponsored Sessions at MLA 2026

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:10pm
Children's Literature Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 22, 2024

The Children's Literature Association is seeking proposals to review for inclusion as a session at MLA 2026.

Each year, ChLA is guaranteed one session at the MLA Convention and can submit proposals for up to two more. If you would like to submit a panel topic, please send the following to jill.coste@gmail.com by May 22, 2024: (1) A short description (300-500 words) of your proposal idea, and, if relevant, (2) the name of another MLA-affiliated entity (forum or allied organization) you plan to seek as a co-sponsor.

Call for Applications: The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:10pm
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, June 15, 2024

The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies.

The winner of the VanArsdel Prize receives $500 and publication of their submission in Victorian Periodicals Review

Applications open May 1 and are due June 15.

Food Studies Research Panel at PAMLA

updated: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 - 12:06am
Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Conference Dates - November 7th to 10th 2024

Location - Palm Springs, California U.S.A.

Topic - Food Studies Research on Culture, Literature, and Media

Conference organizers - Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association

Overview - This Food Studies session aims to bring together a range of perspectives for the sake of examining the roles of food in literary and media texts. We seek abstracts that speak to the following questions: What roles do food and food studies play in our analyses of culture, literature, and media? How does food experience shape our creative expression and daily lives?

“American Hospitality” – PAAS/IASA 2024 - September 25-27, 2024

updated: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 3:05pm
Polish Association for American Studies / International American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

In today’s rapidly changing global landscape, hospitality emerges as a pivotal focus in academic discourse, especially within Western geopolitical contexts. Hospitality, as a mode of conduct, garners both ardent enthusiasm and staunch opposition. As a concept, it presents both notable limitations and diverse modalities. This multidimensional notion encompasses a right, a privilege, an obligation, an act of sympathy, and an expression of charity. It shapes and is shaped by various environments, from tangible spaces and places to non-places and heterotopias (as articulated by Marc Augé). Its expansive research potential warrants a thorough, interdisciplinary exploration.

CFP - Film/Television/Media Reviews and Essays - Middle West Review (Fall 2024 issue and beyond)

updated: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 - 11:51am
Adam Ochonicky / Middle West Review
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024

CFP: MEDIA REVIEWERS and SCHOLARLY ARTICLES – MIDDLE WEST REVIEW

 

 

Middle West Review (MWR) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that examines the American Midwest. The journal is published biannually by the University of Nebraska Press.

 

MWR is seeking scholars to review media texts that engage with midwestern identity, history, and/or culture. From popular films and television series to online exhibitions and digital archives, MWR spotlights Midwest-oriented media texts in each issue.

 

CFP - ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 2:54pm
Jessica Siu-yin Yeung / Lingnan University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

Call for Papers

ReFocus: The Films of Chor Yuen

Editors: Jessica Siu-yin Yeung, Tom Cunliffe, and Raymond Tsang

Call for Papers: The Pagan Beowulf: Alternatives to the Usual Beowulf

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Deadline for Submissions: June 30, 2024

Odin asked, “Can you Read the Runes?” How to Read the Runic Letters in Part I of Beowulf

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) 77th Annual Convention

October 10-12 (Thur.-Sat.) at the Westgate Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada

Join us in Las Vegas this October, where we will defy the odds and time, and you can learn how to read some of the 418 (and counting) letter runes found in the first third of Beowulf.

This groundbreaking, ninety-minute session is the first of its kind in teaching how one can detect and decipher between two alphabets that use the same letters, with one being just a letter and the other being a letter that represents a word. Unlike Odin, you will not have to give up an eye.

All attendees will receive a letter rune chart.

CFP eTEXTS 14: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference.

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

eTEXTS 14: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference. (June 3, 2024)

Since 2014 TEXTS: Literary and Cultural Studies Conference has been a venue for the examination of various “texts” of English-speaking countries and stimulating scientific debates. Our conferences promote the development and dissemination of original research and critical thinking about various social, cultural, philosophical and historical issues reflected in countless "texts" of English-speaking countries.

You are cordially invited to submit an abstract (150 words) along with a short academic bio. Conference papers (15-minute presentations) should be in English.

PROMISE | UCL Moveable Type Journal Call for Submissions

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
University College London (UCL) English Department Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, June 17, 2024

Moveable Type is the graduate, peer-reviewed journal of the University College London (UCL) English Department. The theme for this year's journal is 'Promise'. We welcome all academic articles; book, art, music or film reviews; creative writing; and original art or film which respond to this year's theme.

Plant Studies in Indian Literature (DEADLINE EXTENDED)

updated: 
Monday, April 29, 2024 - 1:55pm
Jaishmitha Riny R
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, May 12, 2024

Plant Studies in Indian LiteratureCall for Book ChapterDeadline Extended: 12/05/2024 Introduction: Indian literature is a rich and diverse tapestry woven from the threads of countless languages, cultures, traditions, and encompasses a vast array of literary forms, genres, and themes, reflecting the complex tapestry of Indian society, its history, spirituality, and cultural heritage. From the ancient Vedas to contemporary works exploring modern Indian identity, Indian literature offers a window into the soul of a nation characterized by its diversity and complexity.

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