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.

HCIS Journal (2024 Edition)

(Call for Papers & Published Papers)

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS)

ISSN: 2192-1962, Editor-in-Chief: Jong Hyuk Park

Impact Factor: 3.9

http://hcisj.com/

Culture and Dialogue

Call for Contributions to Special Issue, “The Aesthetics and Ethics of the Toxic”

Guest Editor: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait

New Approaches to Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Spanish-language Texts

In the often-quoted line from her groundbreaking Borderlands/la frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa identifies the US/Mexico borderlands as a site of pain and creation: “The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country — a border culture” (25). While Anzaldúa uses the geo-political border as a means of illustrating the unnatural divides governments impose on peoples, she also recognizes that we create many borderlands within ourselves and our own communities: psychological, sexual, and spiritual.

The African American Literature and Culture Society invites abstracts (of no more than
250 words) for presentations at the annual conference of the American Literature
Association (http://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We will also consider a limited
number of panel proposals (of no more than 500 words).

We invite abstracts for a proposed edited collection of scholarship on Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology.

Topics of interest include gender, sexuality, race, regionality, reception, pedagogy, performance, and adaptation.,

Congrès de l’Institut des Amériques

Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, October1-3, 2025

https://congresida2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

Workshop:

LITERARY AND ARTISTIC MAGAZINES IN THE AMERICAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: A TRANSAMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

While the literary and artistic magazines from various regions of the Americas and the Caribbean have been the topic of books, monographs and case studies, often in connection with Europe —particularly since the “material turn” in the humanities— they have seldom been examined from a trans-American angle.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the British Popular Culture(s) Network, with an inaugural annual conference taking place at Falmouth University, between 5-7th June 2025.

Why Shakespeare? Why now? Why here? These important questions come up time and again in academic and performance discussions of the Bard as we grapple with the inherent tensions of studying and producing Shakespeare today. Even the encyclopedia Britannica participates in the ongoing dialogue with an entry—albeit a short one—defending “why is Shakespeare still important today?” In the midst of an ongoing (r)evolution, this roundtable seeks to address the pressing why-now-here questions as they apply to considerations of Shakespeare in all forms with a focus on adaptation, performance, and pedagogy.