Censorship/Public Censure and Performance Today, a special issue of Journal of American Drama and Theatre

Spring 2025

Submissions due December 1, 2024

Call for Papers: Collective Storytelling in the Anthropocene

Panel proposal for the 2025 conference of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Miami, April 2-6 2025

Organizer: Shannon Lambert, Ghent University

Call for Proposal for Edited Book

Dr. Prabhu Aloke N (O P Jindal Global University)

Dr. Lisa Thomas (Jesus and Mary College, Delhi University)

Untangling Bioethical Dilemmas: Narrative Ethics and Bodily Rights

In the recent past, the study of ethics has diversified into emerging branches with interdisciplinary areas of studies. While such studies require specialization in different disciplines, they also demand application of theoretical and empirical knowledge. In a quest to broaden the understanding of ethics to its sub- field of bioethics, this book proposal seeks to collate works that center on narrative ethics within the discourse of bioethics.

Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies

Special Issue Call for Abstracts: “Collaborative Worldbuilding”

From campaigns against disenfranchisement to protests against sexual and gender-based violence, feminism has historically combined dissent—against exclusion, subordination, and prevailing power structures—with a focus on the imperative for social and political transformation. This issue of Rejoinder explores the history of feminist dissent and how it has shifted through the decades, both for activists and academics. In addition to a historical focus, we seek to address contemporary manifestations of dissent within feminism, exploring who successfully forges narratives that challenge feminism’s dominant iteration(s)—and what accounts for their success.

The 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association will be held virtually, May 29 - June 1, 2025.

Seminar Description:

“Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research”

A Transdisciplinary Conference

Date: November 9-10, 2024
Location: University of Oxford, UK
Online option available
Cost:        180 GBP
90 GBP (Online)
Abstract Deadline: Sep 30, 2024

Conference Webpage: https://labrc.co.uk/2024/04/21/alchemy/

Conference Theme: Vulnerable Bodies in Literature and Culture (In-person/Offline)

Name of organization: Department of Liberal Arts, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

Conference coordinators: Srirupa Chatterjee (Associate Professor and Chair, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH) and Anandita Pan (Assistant Professor, Dept of Liberal Arts, IITH)

Conference dates: Feb 28 - March 1, 2025, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India

"Mind-Game" is film theorist Thomas Elsaesser's name for the wide variety of films made since the 1990s that present puzzling, complex, and/or impossible narrative devices and structures that play games with spectators' expectations for how traditional narrative films work. For familiar Hollywood examples, think Christopher Nolan (Inception) and M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense), but perhaps more emblematic are the films of David Lynch and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and cult classics like Donnie Darko and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

"The Future of the American Literary Archive" panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia) invites panelists to share archival discoveries in American literature while also engaging in broader methodological reflections on the state of archival research in the humanities. In the context of explaining their own archival work and/or pedagogy, panelists will discuss how archival research has been impacted—for better or for worse—by tectonic shifts in the US humanities landscape including technological developments (AI, digitization), declining undergraduate humanities enrollments, and calls for more public-facing humanities scholarship readable to a general audience.

Call for Abstracts - The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2024
(The GLOCAL African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology)(SCOPUS / ISI (AHCI / SSCI / CPCI) indexed)

Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics

Date: 04-Dec-2024 - 07-Dec-2024
Location: University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

"Code and Commodification, as the New Decolonization"
The (SCOPUS/ISI) GLOCAL AFALA 2024, December 4-7, 2024, University of South Africa

Culture and Dialogue

Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “Cultural and Ethical Shifts in Digital Parenting”

Guest Editor: Suyasha Singh Isser, Amity University, Noida

American Literature Association
36th Annual Conference
May 21-24, 2025
Boston, MA

The Ever-Evolving Marketing of Language Programs: Searching for Strategies that Fit