In line with ChLA’s fiftieth anniversary and a conference themed “Looking Back, Looking Forward: 50 Years of ChLA," this hybrid session invites brief (5-minute) talks and/or posters about applying crip time to the teaching or studying of children’s literature. Disability scholars explore what has been termed crip time: the kind of time experienced by people whose disabilities mean that they engage with the world at a different pace than normative time. As Alison Kafer claims: “Rather than bend disabled bodies and minds to meet the clock, crip time bends the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds” (Feminist, Queer, Crip 27). 

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Literary Theories/Analysis

This panel seeks to examine historical and contemporary iterations of feminist and queer coalition building, focusing on the capacities and frailties of political work to build community and power across time and space. Topics of interest include social movement memory and archives as political tools, intersections of academic and activist feminisms and queer politics, the incorporation and institutionalization of grassroots politics, and neocolonial discourses and practices within American feminist and queer projects globally. Drawing on the conference theme, the panel invites papers which examine grounded knowledge production from a variety of perspectives.

The August Wilson

Author Society

of the

American Literature Association

announces its

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the

35th Annual ALA Conference

May 23–26, 2024 

The Palmer House Hilton

17 East Monroe Street

The Journal of Critical Race Inquiry (JCRI) accepts submissions for unthemed issues (1–2 annually) on a rolling basis, and invites scholars, activists, and artists to submit. We are currently seeking submissions for our summer 2024 issue and we reccommend submission before the end of January 2024 for consideration. 

The John Dos Passos Society is proud to announce its 2024 biennial conference in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, at the stunning fifteenth-century Villa Cà Erizzo Luca, where Dos Passos was stationed as an American Red Cross ambulance driver in the winter of 1918.

Rupkatha Translation Project (RTP 2024)

In collaboration with
Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania
Université d’Artois, France
Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (Deemed to be University), Odisha, India
Belarusian State Economic University

[Download the Brochure in PDF]

About the Project

Introduction

Global Modernism and Simultaneity

The University of Tokyo

September 14-15

Keynotes

Josephine Park (UPenn)

Christopher Bush (Northwestern)

With a special talk by Peter D. McDonald (Oxford)

Verge: Studies in Global Asias Issue 12.1

Special Issue: Trade in Humans

Edited by Kristin Roebuck, Johanna Ransmeier, and Jessamyn Abel

Deadlines | Convergence proposals: March 15, 2024 | Essays: August 30, 2024

A PDF of this call is available here. Please direct all questions to verge@psu.edu.

Fall 2024 Issue of Critical Humanities examines narrative innovations and new scholarly approaches in representations of contemporary and/or day-to-day struggles against climate change and extraction. How do narratives from the Global South ― in literature, print, film and media ― understand the impacts of climate change and industrial extraction on minority communities? In what ways do representations of climate change highlight its intersections with colonial, neo-colonial and postcolonial forms of extraction? What are the new and innovative methods for us to theorize responses, struggles, and resistance efforts against the hostile conditions of extraction in the context of climate change?

Teaching Alcott’s Writings/ Teaching in Alcott’s Writings (Deadline Extended)

 ALA 2024/ Chicago

The School explores the legacy of Fascism in Italy blending unique in situ visits to art, architecture and historical monuments led by international experts and classes on literature, film and culture led by Sapienza faculty. The goal is to broaden the scholarly assessment of the period and to suggest innovative curricula for students in the humanities, who are also interested in working in museums and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad. The heritage of Fascism in Rome and Italy will be approached in the context of Nazism and Stalinism, and framed within the broader scenario of European colonialism.

THE SPENSER REVIEW Summer/Fall 2024 Issue CFP

Contacts: Michael Ullyot, ullyot@ucalgary.ca; Bethany Dubow, bethany.dubow@new.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers: ALGORITHMIC SPENSER

The Spenser Review invites submissions for its 2024 Summer/Fall Issue on the subject of ‘Algorithmic Spenser’ – an issue about patterns, procedures, and problem-solving. What premodern precedents are there for modern algorithms of making and interpreting literary texts and worlds?

                                                                         Call for Papers
                                                  Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures
                                                                 International Conference
                                                               University of Thessaly, Volos
                                                                          7-8 June 2024
                                 Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Dr. Monica Jansen, Utrecht University

 fresnostate.edu/woolf2024

“On or about December 1910 human character changed.”
— Virginia Woolf,  Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.

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“On or about December 2022 human character was called into question.”
— Informed by the emergence of ChaptGPT and evolving AI