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CRAFTING LONGEVITY: LITERARY ARTS, AESTHETIC INQUIRIES, AND LEGACIES

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 4:19pm
THE GREGORY J. HAMPTON GRADUATE ENGLISH STUDENT ASSOCIATION OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Half a century later, the seeds Alice Walker planted with her seminal essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” (1974) continue to  blossom today in aesthetic conversations. In Search of a Beautiful Freedom: New and Selected Essays (2023), whose title is inspired in part by Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Farah Jasmine Griffin asserts, “That book helped to shape many of us formed as intellectuals and writers in its wake.

The Handbook of Trans Cinema

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 12:07pm
Douglas Vakoch
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, January 30, 2025

Chapter proposals are invited for The Handbook of Trans Cinema. Join confirmed contributors like Cáel M. Keegan, author of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: Sensing Transgender. We seek a broadly international group of scholarly contributors. 

Activating LGBT+: An Online Symposium for LGBT+ History Month

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 10:10am
Canterbury Christ Church University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

A popular t-shirt claims the first Pride was a riot.

During a police raid on the Stonewall Inn on 28 June 1969, some customers fought back. Resistance continued for several nights. Whilst this may have inspired the first Pride march, it was not the first LGBT+ protest.

 

Call for Book Chapters (Peter Lang series)

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 10:09am
Bidisha Pal and Biraj Biswas
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Call for Book Chapters

(Peter Lang International Academic Publishers)

Call for Chapters for the anthology Performing Dalits: Theatre of the  Marginalized Communities of Bengal

 

Call for Book Chapters

updated: 
Saturday, January 18, 2025 - 7:12am
The Postmillennial Urban Cinema of Srijit Mukherji
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Editors:

Reffat Ferdous, Assistant Professor, Department of Television, Film and Photography, Dhaka University

Sreejata Paul, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University Delhi-NCR

Subham Dutta, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Gokhale Memorial Girls’ College (Affiliated to University of Calcutta)

 

Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:27pm
Department of English Literature, Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

One-Day International Conference

Pakistani English Literature and the UN 2030 Agenda

Conference Date

February 20, 2025

(Hybrid Mode) 


  

Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:24pm
Ottawa University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference on Baseball in Literature and Culture

Friday, March 21, 2025

On the campus of Ottawa University, Ottawa, Kansas

Morning plenary speaker: David Block, author of Baseball before We Knew It and Pastime Lost

Luncheon keynote speaker:  Bobby Dernier

Latinx Marxisms: Revolutionary Nationalism, Socialism and Communism in Latina/o/x History, Politics & Culture

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 10:46pm
Michael A. Parra and Ted Giardello
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Latinx Marxisms: Revolutionary Nationalism, Socialism and Communism in Latina/o/x History, Politics & Culture Editors Jaime Acosta Gonzalez, Ben Valdez Olguín, Jennifer Ponce de León This anthology seeks proposals for original scholarly essays, as well as testimonials, oral histories, and interviews, in addition to historical photos and images, that explore the long and complex legacies of Marxism and revolutionary praxis in U.S. Latinx history, politics, and culture.

International Seminar on Indigenous Studies

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 9:36pm
Dr. Amitayu Chakraborty, Durgapur Women's College
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Call for Papers
International Seminar on Indigenous Studies: Envisioning Janjatiya Gaurav: The Legacy of Birsa Munda and the Decolonisation of ‘Global’ Indigenous Studies
Date: March 26-27, 2025
Venue: Durgapur Women’s College, Durgapur, West Bengal, India

Event URL: https://durgapurwomenscollege.ac.in/seminars/

Papers can be presented online/in-person

**DEADLINE EXTENDED**University of Southern Mississippi CFP - Mississippi Graduate Student Conference

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 9:20pm
University of Southern Mississippi English Graduate Conference
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 7, 2025

The University of Southern Mississippi’s English Graduate Organization (EGO) invites abstracts and proposals from Mississippi and Gulf States graduate students for its annual spring conference, a two-day, in-person event on April 4th and 5th at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, MS. 

Mapping Memory:Embodied Testimonies of Trauma and Resistance

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 3:12pm
The Literature, Media, and Culture Program & Graduate Literature Organization at Florida State University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

The body functions as an active agent in generating knowledge, memory, and stories. This year's conference places the relationship between memory and the body at its core, emphasizing how the latter serves as a site of cultural, political, and historical negotiation. The body exerts significant influence on the creation and retrieval of memory, compelling us to critically examine the individual and collective memories produced and transmitted through the embodied experiences of culture, politics, trauma, and (post)nation.

(Un)Narrating the West: Literature, Politics, and the Frontier Unconscious

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 1:33pm
Virginia Pignagnoli/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Marco Petrelli/University of Pisa
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

XXVIII AISNA Biennial Conference

“Facing West: Thinking, Living, Outliving the American West”

(Bergamo, 11-13 September 2025) Deadline: February 28 2025

 

Panel 19. 

(Un)Narrating the West: Literature, Politics, and the Frontier Unconscious

 

Coordinators:

Marco Petrelli (Università degli Studi di Pisa), marco.petrelli@unipi.it

Virginia Pignagnoli (Universitat autònoma de Barcelona), virginia.pignagnoli@uab.cat

 

American Experimental Fiction

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 1:02pm
Jonathan Bayliss Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, January 25, 2025

The Jonathan Bayliss Society invites proposals for a roundtable on American experimental fiction. Beginning at least as early as Moby-Dick, American experimental fiction flourishes in the work of Stein, Burroughs, Pynchon, Gass, and Bayliss, and continues today with such writers as Giannina Braschi, Karen Russell, Colson Whitehead, Lance Olsen, and Mark Danielewski. Such writers disrupt conventions of genre, style, syntax, diction, propriety, narrative form, page layout, and much more. We are interested in papers devoted to particular works or authors as well as more wide-ranging or theoretical approaches to the topic.

Open call for articles on interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 12:31pm
Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning / Boston University
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Call for Articles: Volume 14, Issue 2 (2025)

The editors of Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce an open call for articles for a forthcoming issue.

Impact is a peer-reviewed biannual online journal devoted to interdisciplinary teaching, learning, and scholarship.

The editors especially value pieces that demonstrate the need for interdisciplinary solutions to twenty-first-century problems. Articles of interest will engage the advantages, challenges, and modes of interdisciplinary work.

8th World Conference On Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and Education May 13 - 14 , 2024 | Vienna, Austria

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:33am
Eurasia Conferences
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Call for Abstracts: 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education

Dates: May 22 - 23, 2025

Venue: ARCOTEL Wimberger Wien, Neubaugürte, 34-36, 1070, Vienna, Austria

CPD Accreditation

As a Certified CPD Accredited Provider (Provider Number #785414), this conference offers 18 CPD credit hours, providing attendees with valuable recognition for their professional development. Verification is available at https://thecpdregister.com/view/eurasia-conferences-816429.

Proposed Panel for ASA 2025: "Tourism and Self-Help Culture"

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:10am
American Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

I'm an Assistant Professor of English at The University of The Bahamas looking to put together a paper panel for the American Studies Association 2025 meeting in San Juan, Puerto Rico, held Nov. 20-22, 2025, on the following topic:

Proposed Session Title: Tourism and Self-Help Culture

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:10am
CETAPS / University of Porto
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, May 16, 2025

 

MORE PRIDE, LESS PREJUDICE: JANE AUSTEN AT 250

Faculty of Arts and Humanities I University of Porto

2-3 October 2025

 

Keynote Speakers 

John Mullan (University College London) 

Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)

 

Contemporary American Paranoias

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:10am
MLA 2026
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

Accepting 300-word abstracts proposing 15-minute papers on paranoia in contemporary American literature and/or film. Topics may include but are not limited to: conspiracy fiction, paranoid reading, racial paranoias, queer paranoias, surveillance, paranoid genre, and ecoparanoias.

Criterion: An Undergraduate Journal of Literary Criticism

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:10am
Brigham Young University
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 14, 2025

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism seeks original, well-researched, and intellectually rigorous papers about texts from any time period and literary tradition. We are now accepting submissions for the Fall 2024 issue. Submissions are due by September 22, 2024.

 

Theorizing the Black Box - ASAP/16, Oct. 2025

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:09am
ASAP - The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, March 14, 2025

CFP for ASAP/16, convening in Houston, TX, 22-25 October 2025

https://www.artsofthepresent.org/conference/asap-16-worldmaking-worldbre...

 

A black box is an abstraction. In systems theory, it names a model for complex exchanges in which mysterious, secret, or unknowable processes alter input stimuli and produce output reactions. The black box’s inner workings cannot be observed directly, only inferred through hypotheses about causes and effects.

FSNNA call for committee members

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:09am
Fan Studies Network North America
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) is excited to announce that we are seeking new members of our organizing committee. 

 

FSNNA held its first conference in October 2018 to gather fan studies scholars in one place to meet, share new research, and promote the study of fanworks and fan cultures. During the Covid-19 pandemic, we ran successful online conferences with a focus on accessibility and community. Since then, we have continued implementing new online conference formats that allow us to bring together fan studies scholars from North America and around the world every year. 

PJSA2025: Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuilding in a Precarious Time

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:09am
the Peace and Justice Studies Association
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, May 1, 2025

Leveraging Legacies of Peacebuildingin a Precarious Time

The annual conference of The Peace and Justice Studies Association 

Hosted by the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Swarthmore College

OCTOBER 9-12, 2025 | Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA


Proposal Submission Deadline: May 1, 2025

Early Bird Registration: May 15 – June 15, 2025

Draft Schedule Released: June 1, 2025

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

updated: 
Friday, January 17, 2025 - 11:08am
Editorial Office of Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, February 16, 2025

Perspectives in Architecture and Urbanism

Call for Papers: Studies in Materialistic Historiography

 

Virtual Special Issue

Guest Editor: K. Michael Hays

 

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