What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.

Our meeting will be devoted to exploring the main problems of contemporary literary culture. Embracing the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and equally foundational, though alternative, suggestions by Janusz Sławiński, we perceive it as an integral part of global social/cultural communication (the roles of writers, models, and the circulation of literature) along with specialized infrastructure (publishing, institutions, magazines/media, the literary market – the so-called literary life). It is also a dynamic system of author-reader relations and a set of dispositions/skills (knowledge, taste, competence) enabling a sense-making engagement with literary texts.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Representation of Diversity in Mediated Popular Culture in the Twenty First Century.

Keynote speakers:
Nicola Abram (University of Reading, UK) Suzanne Scafe (University of Brighton, UK) Josh Toth (MacEwan University, CA)

Venue: Kaaistudio’s, Brussels, Belgium 24-26 April 2024

Editors: Somasree Sarkar (Assistant Professor, Ghoshpukur College, University of North Bengal) and Agnibha Maity (Senior Research Fellow, University of North Bengal)

Concept Note

December 12–14, 2024

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Kandice Chuh, CUNY Graduate Center, USA

Ato Quayson, Stanford University, USA

Hye-Joon Yoon, Yonsei University, Korea

(Un)Limited

Duke University Department of English Graduate Conference

February 16 & 17, 2024

Keynote Speaker: Joseph Albernaz (Columbia University)

Call for participation: “Expanded Practices: Composition in the Postsecondary Fine Arts Classroom” 

One-day hybrid symposium on March 25, 2024 @ 4th Space, Concordia University

Co-organizers: Dr. Molly-Claire Gillett (molly-claire.gillett@concordia.ca) and Dr. Sandra Huber (sandra.huber@concordia.ca) in tandem with the teaching team of FFAR 250 “Keywords: Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines”

We invite submissions for the third issue of Theatre Academy: A Journal of World Theatre which will be published electronically in March.

* Deadline is the end of January and we strongly advise the potential writers to send their manuscripts in as soon as possible.

* Original works related to theatre in any context will be considered for publication. For the third issue, alongside established academics, we would like encourage graduate students to submit their work.

You can submit your manuscript simply by clicking on the link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/journal/3958/submission/step/manuscript/new

The PopMeC Research Blog (https://popmec.hypotheses.org/, ISSN 2660-8839) is a peer-reviewed academic blog publishing short articles on a rolling basis.

ECRs and PGR students are very welcome to send their papers, as well as scholars at any stage of their career.

Full papers (about 3000 words, bibliographic references excluded) on topics related with popular culture, including (but not limited to):

>       the representation of specific ethnic / religious / gender / etc. groups in the US popular media and culture (including mainstream, alternative, and self-representations)

Department of English, Jadavpur University and

 The School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow present

A One-Day Symposium (funded by Carnegie Trust Research Incentive Grant)

Queer Cinema & Festivals in India: Production, Circulation & Politics

12 December 2023

Venue: Department of English, Jadavpur University

The Early Modern Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper proposals for its 2024 conference, “Body Matters!: Disability in English Literature to 1800,” to be held at UCSB on March 1 and 2, 2024. Attending to the presence of disability in the premodern world, this interdisciplinary conference invites proposals that address medieval, early modern, and eighteenth-century literary and cultural texts. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers, Dr. Rachael King (UCSB), Dr. Bradley Irish (Arizona State University), and poet Jos Charles. 

Sacred Cultures in Politics, a collection of scholarly articles, seeks to reveal sacred and/or religious rhetoric serving as persuasive tools in the vast arena of political activism. In his Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben challenges religious institutions to use their persuasive powers not for priestly privilege but “to make a new possible” for humanity. In a similar spirit, this collection seeks to make transparent both the rhetorical systems and their use in local, national, regional, or global political arenas.

CALL FOR PAPERS             FRAME 37.1 “Get Lit: A Celebration Issue”