Media, art and literature in the late-twentieth and early twenty-first century have been inundated with the memories and portrayals of wars, upheavals, declarations, political persecutions, colonial struggles and religious/ideological wars and terror acts. The spectacles of the industrial and global world as well as digitalised life, ruthless socio-economic dynamics, widening rich/poor gap, generational discrepancies and pandemics have left lasting marks on the human psyche and fostered art and literature to tackle the stigmas and impacts of the long century on contemporary life. Dystopias and anti-utopias of the modern world also made the past a space for (social, political, artistic) exploration, reconsideration, reclamation and reconciliation.

Call for Papers:  

Where in the World is Margaret Fuller?  

The Margaret Fuller Society invites your participation in the Thoreau Gathering (July 6-10, 2022, live in Concord, MA).  For this conference whose major theme is Thoreau and Globalism, we will consider his colleague Fuller as part of world cultures through her reading, writing, travel experience, and transnational influence.    

Agency, Community, Kinship – Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood

Interdisciplinary Online Symposium, February 23–24, 2022 University of Wuppertal, Germany (online)

“Over the Horizon: Comparative Perspectives on Literature” International Conference

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with an ISBN.

London/Online: 4-5 June 2022
Conference website: https://comparativeliterature.lcir.co.uk

2022 LAW AND HUMANITIES JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP Call for Papers

Columbia Law School, Georgetown University Law School, Stanford Law School, UCLA School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Southern California Center for Law, History, and Culture invite submissions for the 21st meeting of the Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop, to be held at USC School of Law in Los Angeles, CA, on Tuesday, May 24, and Wednesday, May 25, 2022.

Greetings,

The CFP to follow is for a prospective panel at the American Literature Association’s 2022 meeting in Chicago (more information on the conference is linked here). To supplement the panel pitch, we would like four individual papers to submit to the conference organizers as an indication of interest in the panel; unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the panel will be accepted by the organizers. Nevertheless, after receiving and deciding on individual paper proposals, we will communicate our decisions by early-November with the aim of submitting the panel pitch to ALA by 12/1.

PSi#27: Hunger 2022

“The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place” International Conference

Selected papers will be published in a post-conference volume with an ISBN number.

Oxford/Online: 17-19 June 2022
Conference Venue: St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Conference website: https://memory.lcir.co.uk

                                                             Institut Supérieur des Langues de Tunis

                                                                          Department of English

                                                                  Call for Papers and Participations

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

“Other Times, Other Spaces”

16-17 March 2022

Venue: ISLT

CALL FOR PAPERS

Legacies of Trauma: The Tragedy of Before and After

A C3 New Scholars Symposium at Davidson College

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics, Princeton
arthistory2060.davidson.edu

Submission Deadline: November 30, 2021

The North American Dostoevsky Society invites proposals for blog posts on the topic of “Global Dostoevskys: Influences and Receptions” for our official blog The Bloggers Karamazov. Posts for this limited series should focus on an aspect of Dostoevsky’s influence and reception outside of Russia. Less researched sites of influence and unexplored areas of reception are especially welcome.

Potential blog topics could include, but are not limited to:

• Translations of Dostoevsky’s works

• Shifts in his acclaim or censure within a culture

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH

This goes out to scholars working in the field of Indian Writing in English.

You are invited to contribute articles for a forthcoming ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH to be published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.  This volume will focus on writers of fiction, poetry, drama, select literary works and non-fiction, from India (specifically, by writers of Indian origin writing in English). Translations will not be included. 

If you would like to contribute an entry for this reference work, please respond at the earliest, in any case, not later than 30 November 2021. 

Shortly after the end of WWII, the literary cultures of East-Central Europe were compelled to import the doctrine of socialist realism, which had already been active in the USSR for more than a decade. A malfunctional grafting of a would-be idealizing aesthetics and a formal pattern typical of traditional realism, the socialist realism brought along a new political novel with a limited collection of characters, narrative situations, and denouements, all projected against a overly simplified social background, painted in black and white.