The Marilynne Robinson Society will be hosting a panel on a wide variety of topics connected to Robinson’s essays and novels at the annual conference of the American Literature Association.

The annual American Literature Association (ALA) conference will take place in Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2023. 

Please submit a 350-word proposal and short bio to haein.park@biola.edu by November 15, 2020.

UPDATE 22 September

Dear colleagues, 

We are looking for one chapter on Voodoo death as a culture-bound syndrome in (African) popular culture(s): Nollywood, literature, media etc. 

We have secured a contract offer with Routledge. 

Please send your abstract proposal (400 words) + a short bio (200 words) to the editor at prof.irina.pelea@gmail.com

In case of any queries prior to your submission, please contact the editor.

Many thanks for your interest. 

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Dear colleagues,

CALL FOR PAPERS

Body and Sexuality: Beyond Cultural Binaries

Marilynne Robinson, Jesus and John Wayne, and the American Evangelical Tradition

International Thomas Merton Society 

at the

College English Association

52nd ANNUAL CONFERENCE

San Antonio, TX - Sheraton Gunter Hotel

March 30-April 1, 2023

Call for Papers

 CENTERS AND PERIPHERIES: THE GLOBAL PREMODERN CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS April 20-22, 2023

EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 14, 2022

Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas

Featuring Keynote Speakers: Jonathan Hsy, George Washington University and Ulinka Rublack, University of Cambridge 

Jonathan Hsy will be speaking on “Crafty Mobilities: Disabled Travel Writing and a Global Middle Ages”

Ulinka Rublack will be speaking on "The Triumph of Fashion in the Early Modern World"

CFP: Special Issue on Memories of Antiquity 

We invite prospective contributions for a special journal issue centred around modes of remembering antiquity (including the reception of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, the Near East, and other cultural contexts). 

SPECIAL ISSUE: SARE, VOL. 60, No. 1, JULY 2023

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Religion, Secularism and Nationalism: Literature of South Asia” for the journal, SARE: Southeast Asian Review of English (International peer-reviewed journal indexed in Elsevier's Scopus, and Clarivate Analytics' Emerging Sources Citation Index) 

Guest Editors: Nukhbah Taj Langah and Goutam Karmakar

Hey everybody, The 19th annual Tolkien @ UVM conference will be held on April 1st 2023.   Abstracts are due by January 15th 2023. Please keep them to about 200 words. And send them to Chris Vaccaro at cvaccaro@uvm.edu We are accepting papers on all things concerning the Second Age of Middle-earth. Topics will vary and some papers not on this theme will also be accepted. Priority will be given to enquiries into history, historiography, and the historicity of race, gender, sexuality. This is a hybrid conference, so presenters can attend in person (preferred) or virtually. Our keynote will be the amazing Gergely Nagy!

Since its emergence, medieval disability studies has asked questions about the meanings of disability in the Middle Ages, the lived experiences of people with disabilities, and how scholars can apply the frameworks of disability studies to medieval texts. Although these questions have led to insightful and field-changing scholarship, much of this work centers the Western tradition. In order to explore a broader and more accurate view of disability in the global Middle Ages, we ask these same questions but with a focus on non-Western texts. This panel seeks presentations on any aspect of disability in the global Middle Ages, and we welcome submissions from across disciplines, including literature, art, history, religion, and philosophy.

Organisers: Lilith Todd (Columbia) and Christopher Geary (UC Berkeley)

Call for Abstracts for Issue 15 (Autumn 2023)

Present Futures

The present is great with the future.

—Gottfried Leibniz, 1703

In times when the present seems to be facing an imminent – and immanent – crisis, we want to take a step forward and investigate how various concepts and imaginaries of the future can be made fruitful for the present. The 15th issue of On_Culture seeks to explore forms of present futures – futures that manifest in the present and a/effect it – to provide new approaches and critical perspectives to thinking about the future in the study of culture. 

Consolation in contemporary British and postcolonial literatures

6-7 April 2023 

École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

Amphitheatre Descartes, 15 Parvis René Descartes, 69007 Lyon 

Keynote speaker: Professor David James (University of Birmingham)

SCMS Translation/Publication Committee
Call for Translations
2022-2023

*DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 30th, 2022*

The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies publishes translations of outstanding scholarly and creative work on cinema. The originals may be in any language and come from any period or geographic region. We welcome two types of proposals: (1) a single text such as a journal article, book chapter, or self-contained section of a book that focuses on a particular topic in a unified, coherent way; and (2) a group of smaller texts that are linked thematically, geographically, or otherwise.