The New Daydream Imaginary – On the Ethico-Aesthetics of Spontaneous and Non-productive Thought

Simon Fraser University — School for the Contemporary Arts, 16-17 June 2023

The Martineau Society will be hosting its annual conference in Norwich, England.  The Martineau Society conference is an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the lives, work, and contributions of the Martineau family, including its two most famous and influential members, Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and James Martineau (1805-1900).

Started by Norwich Unitarians in 1994, the Martineau Society encourages scholarship on the Martineau family and their nineteenth-century context as well as their continuing influence.  

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

Theology and Religion

Literature (all genres, including Children’s Literature and Travel Writing)

Language and Linguistics

STREAM ORGANISER: SUBHAM MUKHERJEE AND CRAIG LUNDY

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT (250 WORDS) SUBMISSION: MARCH 13, 2023

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association

Poets and Prose Authors Read their Works in English, Session II Prose.

Audra Spicer, Colorado State University Global audra.spicer@csuglobal.edu

Location: Golden/Denver, CO

Dates: October 11-14, 2023

Costs:

RMMLA membership: $35/year

Conference registration: $85 by April 1

Friday luncheon: free of charge for presenters ($35 for guests)

Hotel room: $147/night and sleeps four

The LGBTQ+ and/in Popular Culture caucus of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Studies Association is proud to announce the call for papers for the 2023 MPCA/MACA conference at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, October 6-8. Papers pertaining (but not limited to) to current and historical issues of the LGBTQ+ community and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.

2023 marks the anniversaries of Jerzy Grotowski's 90th birthday and Krystian Lupa's 80th birthday.  On this occasion, Pamiętnik Teatralny, a bilingual Polish-English academic quarterly, invites scholars to reflect on the international presence of these two Polish directors in different cultural contexts around the world.  

Hard Times

The 2023 Conference of the Victorians Institute
NC State University and Methodist University
Raleigh, NC
Sat-Sun October 7-8, 2023

https://victoriansinstitute2023.wordpress.com/

"Hard Times" was a frequent Victorian refrain, perhaps most famously in the title of Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel but also in Stephen Foster’s 1854 song "Hard Times Come Again No More"; in the title of Hubert von Herkomer’s 1885 painting; and throughout the century as an experience of socioeconomic difficulties, political oppression, and personal suffering.

This non-guaranteed panel invites contributions that explore notions of health, care, and disability in early modern Francophone spaces in various contexts and perspectives. Potential topics might include (but are certainly not limited to): the relation between care, charity, and religion in the early modern; literature featuring characters with disabilities; texts that challenge gendered notions of care; the various ways bodily ability are articulated in different spaces within the early Francophone world. We especially welcome papers engaging with these topics from global and/or intersectional perspectives, as well as those considering diachronic and transtemporal approaches.

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS

Submission link: https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference

Friday-Sunday, 06-08 October 2023

DePaul University

Address/Phone:

DePaul Center

1 E. Jackson Blvd.

Chicago, IL 60604

(312) 362-8000

CALL FOR PAPERS, ABSTRACTS, AND PANEL PROPOSALS 

Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference 

Friday-Sunday, 6-8, October 2023 

DePaul University, Chicago, IL 
DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 362-8000

The Philosophy and Popular Culture Subject Area welcomes submissions to the 2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference.

The John Clare Society of North America invites paper proposals for its guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, January 4-7th, 2024. Scholarship on any aspect of Clare’s poetry, prose, life, and/or sphere of influence. Send abstract and short bio by 17 March 2023 to Erica McAlpine at erica.mcalpine@ell.ox.ac.uk

Guaranteed Session at MLA 2024: 4–7 January, Philadelphia, PA

We welcome 10-minute papers on any aspect of care in early modern literature and culture. How do texts portray the attachments, solidarities, labors, costs, vulnerabilities, hierarchies, etc. implicated in care? Please submit a 200-word abstract and CV to nazarian@northwestern.edu 

Over the centuries, there has been a connection between pessimism and poetry/song. We invite proposals examining this connection sent to jdailey@gts.edu. Include your name, phone number and e mail in an e mail--not as attachments.

WRITING WORLDS, WORLDS WRITING: NEW TEXTUALITIES AND THEIR ONLINE LIVES 

20 – 25 March 2023 

A national conference organized by  the Department of English, St. Joseph’s University, Bangalore 

Call for Papers/Posters