New Research and Perspectives on Pauline E. Hopkins: “In the West” and Elsewhere

Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature

Date: May 24th and 25th 2024

Call for Papers | Divergence: Departures from the Canon

DEADLINE EXTENDED!

Call for Abstracts/Proposals for Essays for an Edited Collection 
SCREEN STORYTELLERS: The Works of Jon Favreau
Edited by Guy Nicolucci

This edited volume on the works of Jon Favreau will be the fourth book in a new series to be published by Bloomsbury Academic. Seeking 250-word abstracts for previously unpublished essays on films and television series created or produced by Favreau. Final essays will be 3,000-3,500 words, written for an audience of student readers, and will be due Summer/Fall 2024.  

MIND MATTERS: LITERATURE, CINEMA AND CULTURE

International Conference
organised by
Department of English
Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE)
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata

Conference Dates: 19-20 January, 2024 (OFFLINE mode)
Venue: Rabindra Bhavan, Centre for Distance and Online Education, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
(Address: EE 9 & 10, Sector II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, West Bengal - 700 091)

Juxtapositions: Research and Scholarship in Haiku seeks submissions about translation and haiku in the following three categories:

1. Full-length academic articles: 2,500-10,000 words; any focus on translation and haiku including theoretical approaches, historical overviews, specific challenges, etc. is welcome. Articles should be thesis-driven and situated their claims within the context of existing scholarship about the topic.

2. Personal approaches to translation: 500-1,000 words; for established translators; may focus any aspect of one’s own approach to translating haiku in general or the work of a specific haiku poet or poets; may include discussions of mentors and influences on one’s approach.

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL 

American Literary Naturalism and Religion

American Literature Association
35th Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2024
Chicago, IL

William Dean Howells and the Legacy of American Literary Realism 

The William Dean Howells Society invites proposals for presentations that examine William Dean Howells’ contribution to American Literary Realism and his enduring influence on subsequent literary and cultural developments.

Potential approaches include but are not limited to:

Howells and American Literary Realism – Authors could examine Howells’ role in shaping and defining American Literary Realism, offering comparative analyses of his works with those of other realist writers.

The Emerson Society is sponsoring a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

The Margaret Fuller Society will sponsor two panels on relationality at the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association, to be held 23–26 May 2024 at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago. Please help circulate our CFPs far and wide across your circles of shared interest.

Send 250-word proposals (indicating AV needs) that respond to the calls below, along with brief biographical statements, to Jana Argersinger, 1st Vice President, at argerj@gmail.com. Submissions from graduate students and folks in non-academic fields are very welcome.

The Emerson Society and the William James Society will co-sponsor a panel titled "Emerson & Varieties of Religious Experience" at the American Literature Association Annual Conference, May 2024.

Jerusalem is the most sacred space in the world uniting mainstream religious traditions and representing various cultures and ethnicities; this city is the holiest for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Holy Jerusalem Itself is also a hierotopic place, presenting a spatial icon associated with God’s presence and the sacredness of history. Human history is not only the history of constant wars. It is the history of creation and ongoing spiritual work. Central to the Old and New Testaments, the Hebrew Bible emphasizes the Jewish sacred connection with the city. This holy space is also a cradle of Christianity. In this edited volume, Jerusalem and its representations will be explored through the lens of world literature, art, and films.

The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)

Working languages: French, English

DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference

Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.