GEO Conference 2023-24 Call for Papers: Displacement

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization invites proposals relating to the theme of “Displacement” for our 17th annual conference, to be held hybrid/in-person on March 8th, 2024.

Displacement can refer to the forced migration and movements of peoples across the globe over centuries. From slavery to the internal displacement of peoples and the contemporary refugee crisis, the term allows us to connect the literary with the cultural and the political in myriad ways.

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World 

International Conference

University of Turin, Italy

Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures 

March 21-22, 2024 

The Gaskell Journal

Joan Leach Memorial

Graduate Student Essay Prize 2024

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2024

The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy of the Journal.

The Game Studies area of the National Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association Conference invites proposals for papers and panels on games and game studies for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference to be held on March 27-30, 2024, in Chicago, IL.

I. Topics of Interest

The organizers seek proposals and papers covering all aspects of gaming, gaming culture and game studies. Proposals can address any game medium (computer, social, console, tabletop, etc.) and all theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

CALL FOR PAPERS (Conference)

Crises in Ibero-American Graphic Narratives: Utopia, Liminality & the Anthropocene

University of Limerick; Limerick, Ireland

2 – 3 May 2024

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 12/15/2023!!!

Send proposals to rhetoricandmemes@gmail.com

*EXTENDED DEADLINE* BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES CONFERENCECALL FOR PAPERS  BACK IN-PERSON AGAIN!     FEBRUARY 12-13 2024     DESOTO SAVANNAH, SAVANNAH GA

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Department of English, Jadavpur University and

 The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow present

A One-Day Symposium (funded by Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant)

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

12 December 2023

Venue: Department of English, Jadavpur University

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Renaissance Hybridity

Graduate Early Modern Student Society

Seventh Annual Symposium

Friday, April 26, 2024

UW–Madison Memorial Library Special Collections & Hybrid over Zoom

Keynote Speaker: Lindsey Row-Heyveld, Associate Professor of English at Luther College

Call for Papers

Submission Deadline: Wednesday, January 31, 2024

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” — Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light

UPDATE: Deadline extensions.

What cultural objects and phenomena are designated to be ugly, bad, unacceptable, and monstrous, especially in relation to gender, sexuality, disability, race, class, and caste? Whose histories are marginalized or overlooked because of their perceived bad taste, abject existence, and the taint they leave on supposedly beautiful, grand narratives of nationhood, well-being, or progress? How do kitsch, camp, and excess function in the realms of activism in contemporary politics? How do nasty, revulsive art, literature, and performances act as sites that engender questions that push boundaries of societal mores and cultural hierarchies?