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Breaking Convention: Diasporic Fiction and the Re-Making of Genre
A one-day workshop
16 May 2023, King’s College London
Deadline for abstracts: 22 Feb 2023
South Atlantic Modern Language Association’s 95th Conference:
Pre-1900 American Literature Panel: “Writing with Security and Insecurity in Early America.”
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 Sports 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 historic sports media texts, players, teams, broadcasting personalities and their representation in popular culture are encouraged.
Please submit a 250-word abstract at https://www.mpcaaca.org/submit-panels . The deadline for submission is April 30, 2023.
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.
I am proposing an MLA 2024 special session on "Political Oratory and African American Literature." Papers will examine speeches by elected officials as contributions to African American literary discourse. Please email 300-word abstracts to matthewcalihman@missouristate.edu by March 13.
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.
CfP: Public History in European Historical Perspectives | C2DH | Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
14-15 September 2023 at the University of Luxembourg, followed by a book publication. Deadline: 1 April.
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.
In this two-week in-person NEH Institute for Higher Education Faculty from 16 July to 28 July 2023, twenty-five participants will explore place-based and archival approaches to the life and works of American novelist Willa Cather. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, participants will have access to unparalleled archival holdings of Cather materials and the expertise of a leading center for digital humanities. At the National Willa Cather Center in Red Cloud, they will experience landscapes and buildings represented in Cather’s fiction that function as a kind of archive.
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
2023 Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Conference | Television Area
Friday-Sunday, 6-8 October 2023
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Address: DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604 | Phone: (312) 362-8000
The Television area of the Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association is now accepting proposals for its 2023 conference in Chicago on the campus of DePaul University.
We are looking for papers that examine any aspect of television, from any time period and using any number of methods. Potential topics for paper or panel proposals include, but are not limited to:
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
Henry James and the Visual Arts
University of Reading, Thursday 29 June 2023
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 Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Subvention Award
Provides $500 to support costs for the publication of an upcoming scholarly book or article on Emerson. Submit a confidential letter of recommendation from an academic mentor or colleague, and a 1-2 page single-spaced proposal, including an abstract of the forthcoming work and a detailed description of expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Pedagogy or Community Project Award
Provides $500 to support projects designed to bring Emerson to a non-academic audience. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of projected expenses, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton (g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Research Grant
Provides $500 to support scholarly work on Emerson. Preference is given to junior scholars and graduate students. Please submit a confidential letter of recommendation and a carefully crafted 1-2 page single-spaced project proposal, including a description of expenses needed to complete the project, to Austin Bailey (abailey2@gradcenter.cuny.edu) and Georgia Walton(g.a.walton@leeds.ac.uk) by April 1, 2023.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites applications for the 2023 Undergraduate Student Essay Prize
Undergraduate students are welcome to submit 1,000-1,500-word academic essays on any topic relevant to the study of Emerson—his life, work, national and transnational reception, importance within and beyond U.S. literature and culture, and/or contemporary relevance. Winning essays will demonstrate originality, clarity, and rigorous engagement with Emerson. Selected essays may be returned to applicants with suggested revisions. The winning essay will be published in The Emerson Society Papers and the writer awarded $100.
Publicly available text-generating engines like ChatGPT make large language models (LLMs) “writers” in their own right. How can we interpret the changing status of the writer in the age of machine learning? What does the success of AI-generated textuality ask us to reconsider, revisit, or reinvent in the context of literary theory and the digital humanities more generally?
This panel is a guaranteed panel, sponsored by the TC Digital Humanities executive forum for the 2024 MLA conference in Philadelphia (January 4-7).
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
CFP: MLA Annual Convention 2024 (4-7 January)
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
MLA 2024 SolarpunkCFP
Philadelphia, PA January 4-7
Panel Organizers
Phoebe Wagner | Lycoming College | wagnerp@lycoming.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.
Catherine Bush’s 2019 novel Blaze Island opens with the following epigraph from Elena Ferrante: “Pressing changes are underway. Everything is becoming something else, unpredictably. A completely new outlook is required. The challenge now and for the foreseeable future is to extract ourselves from what men have engineered, a planet long on the edge of catastrophe.” Throughout the novel, Bush underscores the importance of thinking critically about boundaries, specifically those of gender and geography, as she reworks Shakespeare’s The Tempest to particularly Atlantic Canadian purposes.
Call for Papers
Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging
The biennial conference of the Nederlands Genootschap voor Godsdienstwetenschappen (NGG) - the Dutch Association for the Study of Religion
Nijmegen, the Netherlands, November 1-3 2023
Keynote Speakers include Dr. Nadia Fadil (KU Leuven), Dr. Basit Iqbal (McMaster University), Dr. Carly Crouch (Radboud University) and Dr. Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University).
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
Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 4-7, 2024)
Proposed Joint Panel of Dickens Society and D. H. Lawrence Society of North America
JOYS AND SORROWS OF ATTACHMENT: DICKENS AND LAWRENCE
International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences
Theme - Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
28-29 April 2023 - Online
About The Conference