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Critical Perspectives on the Intersection of Breast Cancer and Academic Identity Abstract Proposal
“Insiders and Outsiders”
The International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites early-career scholars active in eighteenth-century studies to apply to take part in the ISECS ECS seminar, to be held over one week in central Barcelona. The Seminar, which is held yearly, is known for its role in fostering and consolidating scholarly vocations in eighteenth-century studies, as well as for attracting participants from all around the world. The 2024 seminar, to be chaired jointly by Dr John Stone (Universitat de Barcelona) and Prof Fernando Durán (Universidad de Cádiz), will be sponsored by the Spanish association for eighteenth-century specialists, the Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, responses to the injunction to ‘wear a mask’ reflected tensions over attitudes towards individual freedoms, or lack of, in American culture. For some, masks limited the spread of the virus. They protected the individual and (or over?) others. For some, masks were ineffective medically, and / or an intolerable intrusion into individual rights. Wearing a mask might signify that an individual took the virus seriously and heeded the state (via medical advice, scientific expertise and laws); refusing to wear one might indicate the opposite. Paradoxically, but no less powerfully, for some mask wearing itself presented unexpected freedoms; from the pressure to engage in social norms, to smile for strangers.
The ASAP conference theme “Not a Luxury,” (10/17-10/19 in New York City) borrows Audre Lorde’s assertion that in times of crisis, poetry and creative expression are not extraneous to survive but necessities. Known for her community building and work with Kitchen Table Press, Lorde positioned her sense of self as developing from and within her social and artistic circles. This panel asks what contemporary forms of community building--for example: edited collections, across-campus coalitions, unions, friend groups—are necessary for Black feminist survival and thriving in precarious times.
Call for Proposals to the Spring 2024 CCAM Ultra Space Symposium: Adaptation/s Second Annual Printed Volume
Deadline: March 20, 2024, 11:59pm EST
Apply here!
Application Instructions:
National Institute of Technology Patna, India
in collaboration with
University of California, Davis, USA
May 17-18, 2024
This panel aims to address the question of the representation of disability in world cinema (fiction and documentary), while moving away from a purely historical approach that would primarily focus on the evolution of representation of disability to consider how Disability Studies have enabled us to reconsider the cinematic representations of disability. This panel hinges on the assumption that Disability Studies have given rise to a series of critical and theoretical tools, as well as to a renewed perception of disability that no longer sees it as a hindrance, but rather as a driving force for creation.
Call for Submissions
Movement Beyond Limit(s): CCLPS Postgraduate Conference 2024
“We live in an age of movement. [...] which huge amounts of materials are now in wide circulation around the globe. There are more humans, circulating and consuming more [...] Portions of the planet are literally moving more quickly and more unevenly– around axes of gender, race, and class.” (Thomas Nail, “Forum 1: Migrant Climate in the Kinocene” 2019: 375)
MLA 2025 – New Orleans
Early American Literature LLC
Queer Infrastructures of/in Early America
Special Issue Call for Papers
Planetary Fiction: African Literature and Climate Change
Guest Editors: Nedine Moonsamy (Johannesburg) and David Shackleton (Cardiff)
Deadline for Submissions: 1 February 2025
Refocus: The Films of Peter Weir
Only 3 more weeks!!! submissions close 31 March 2024.
Watermark is dedicated to publishing original critical and theoretical papers concerned with the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literature of all genres and periods. As this journal is intended to provide a forum for emerging voices, only student work will be considered. (https://cla.csulb.edu/departments/english/watermark-journal/)
ReFocus: A Series of Film/American Studies Anthologies
Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press
contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com
ReFocus: A Series of International Film Studies Anthologies
Full name / name of organization:
Edinburgh University Press
contact email:
Dr. Robert Singer, rlsngr99@gmail.com
Deborah E. McDowell’s 1993 essay, “In the First Place: Making Frederick Douglass and the Afro-American Narrative Tradition,” issues a call to “start putting an end to beginnings even those that would put woman in the first place” or a “reformulation or refocusing of genealogy as a concept of analysis” (56-7). This roundtable seeks papers that complicate how and in which ways we make visible the roots, sites, and lineages of Black women’s literary and historical production from the eighteenth century forward. Papers can interrogate visibility as a practice or theory of recovery, recentering, and resituating that we also must remain critical of even when establishing “firsts” or origins of Black women’s historical and literary traditions.
Call for Chapters: IRB, Human Research Protections, and Data Ethics for Researchers
Proposal submissions due date extended to March 31, 2024
Chapters in this collection will present information relevant to new investigators for IRB, Human Research Protections, Data Ethics, and Data Privacy for Human Subjects. As an essential guide for new researchers, the book audience is also appropriate for new investigators such as doctoral students, dissertation mentors, and doctoral research supervisors.
For details and submission link, visit https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/7175
Studia austriaca (founded in 1992)
An international journal devoted to the study of Austrian culture and literature
Published annually in the spring
p-ISSN 1593-2508 | e-ISSN 2385-2925
http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/StudiaAustriaca/
Editor-in-chief: Fausto Cercignani
Co-Editor: Marco Castellari
This guaranteed panel of MLA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities (CSGSH) seeks presentations on the problems faced by non-STEM graduate students for starting their careers in the US, including visas, mentoring, and job search. How do they handle their 1-year OPT as opposed to the 3-year STEM OPT?
The 2025 MLA Annual Convention will be held from 9 to 12 January in New Orleans, LA.
Please send 250-word abstracts with a short CV to jahidul.alam1@louisiana.edu by Wednesday, 20 March 2024
The Nagoya local chapter of JALT (Japan Association of Language Teaching) journal is seeking papers for volume 5(1).
Papers may be one of the following:
English Featured Article (Long: 6,000-10,000 words), English Featured Article (Short: 3,000-5,000 words), Students' Research Papers, Graduation Thesis Summary, Book Reviews, My Share. Papers must be related to teaching EFL (English as a foreign language) contexts. For more information, please email Camilo Villanueva at camilov@nufs.ac.jp. Deadline: March 31, 2024. Submit manuscripts using the Google Form on the publication page below:
The cinematic horror genre depends on a system of oppression, domination, and subordination. Although horror is deeply embedded within the politics of representation and social subjugation, we recognize an explicit lack within its scholarship (across disciplines) regarding class and historical materialism. This collected volume, which has emerged after years of collaboration and collective conversations, wishes to remedy this absence: we call for a comprehensive examination of horror as it intersects socio-economic class issues, brutal capitalism, cultural systems of excess, and rugged individualism.
Across English and related fields, graduate students are developing engaging, inventive, and transformative projects that envision their disciplines in new and exciting ways. In an effort to highlight this “next-gen scholarship,” this session will feature eight (8) 5-minute lightning round presentations to offer a snapshot of where the field is headed. (Please visit the MLA website for more information on innovative sessions at the MLA annual convention.)
Examples include, but are not limited to:
Following methodological interventions in ecocriticism's nostalgic appeals to "nature," this session invites formal analyses and other close readings of texts that gesture toward, illuminate, or articulate liberatory socio-environmental futures. Any period, genre, language.
Please send 250-word abstracts to Sarah-Nelle Jackson, sarah-nelle.jackson@ubc.ca, by March 22, 2024. Graduate students and early-career scholars are encouraged to apply.
What happens when an author, playwright, or filmmaker choses to embed a translation in a fictional setting? This panel will consider the many forms of fictional, imaginary, and somewhat deceitful translations - from pseudotranslation (a text written as if it had been translated from a foreign language, even though no foreign language original exists) to self-translation (when an author composes a text in one language and translates it into another) - to interrogate the act of translation as both a motor and an obstacle in a work of fiction.
Conference: 25-26 April 2024 (online - via Zoom)
Scientific Committee:
Professor Wojciech Owczarski – University of Gdańsk, Poland
Professor Polina Golovátina-Mora – NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
CALL FOR PAPERS:
We kindly invite Authors to submit proposals to a special issue of The Polish Journal of Aesthetics- "The Beauty of Storytelling and the Story of Beauty", Vol. 75 (2/2025), edited by Joanna Szczepanik (Faculty of Architecture, West Pomeranian Technological University in Szczecin, Poland) and Kalina Kukiełko (Institute of Sociology, University of Szczecin, Poland)
Submission deadline: 31 March, 2025
The Cultural History panel seeks to revivify the political or social intersections that exist between text and context, including interdisciplinary aspects of culture. While papers that explore the continuities between history and film, history and literature, or history as it interweaves with marginalized aesthetic traditions would receive preference, excerpts of longer, ongoing projects that examine how cultural formations are “translated” or subsumed into historical trajectories would be particularly welcome. Submissions that not only practice cultural history by invoking the liminality of borderlands, but also critically reflect upon that practice are also encouraged.
“Sounding Hawthorne: Silence, Acoustics, and Aurality”
MLA Panel for The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society
9-12 January 2025
***Please see link to full CFP for more information.***
What is the Young Rhetoricians' Conference?
The Young Rhetoricians’ Conference (YRC) began in 1985 at San Jose State University. From its inception, YRC has been a place for those who teach rhetoric at the university level to share research about teaching rhetoric and techniques for teaching rhetoric. “Young” refers not to the age of the rhetoricians but refers instead to rhetors with a willingness, in the mind, to dance whenever possible. You can learn more about YRC at our website.
PAMLA 2024 RHETORICAL THEORY PANEL
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Rhetorical Theory”
Palm Springs, CA, Nov. 6-10
Chair: Dr. Ryan Leack (USC)
Abstract
This panel will explore recent movements in rhetorical theory writ large, either in connection with or apart from composition theory and practice. Special attention will be given to proposals that engage with the conference's theme.
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