Call for Papers

Disability at the Intersection of History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Health

 Date: March 3-4, 2022

Place: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Migration is one of the most prominent cultural, socio-political, and economic questions of our time. In both industrialised and less developed countries, it would be hard to find people who do not have a personal experience of migration and its effects, which ultimately ‘become the hallmark of the age of migration’ (Castles et al., 2013). According to the World Migration Report 2020, international migrants consist of only 3.6% (281 million) of the world population, and they make ‘significant sociocultural, civic-political and economic contributions in origin and destination countries and community’ (WMR, 2020). However, a great majority of people do not migrate across borders; instead, a large number of people migrate within countries.

This board-sponsored session welcomes presentations that deal with literature from the Middle Ages (pre-16th century). Topics can cover a wide variety of aspects related but not limited to gender, sexuality, feminism, global history, etc.

Please submit abstracts of 200-250 words and indicat if any A/V equipment is required. Upload your proposal via the NeMLA website: https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19473

James Joyce’s Ulysses, “a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape,” T.S. Eliot wrote, turns one hundred in 2022. The proposed session would be an occasion to explore it anew, both in its own right, and in terms of its enduring influence and importance.

 Any and all approaches welcome.

 Submission guidelines: Abstracts should be submitted directly to the NeMLA site, at https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/19596, by October 15, 2021. Questions, concerns, and inquiries generally may be forwarded to: trip@mccrossin.org.

The virtual conference explores  how contemporary cinema negotiates the spaces at international film festivals. Our scope includes contemporary cinema from different parts of the world, including India and non-English speaking countries. The growing presence and proliferation of film festivals in their varied manifestations leads us to posit: What is the nature of contemporary transnational cinema that is attracting international attention? How does  this intersection play out in global reception, marketing, exhibition and  distribution? What kinds of academic and theoretical interventions can emerge from this development?

American Comparative Literature Association 2022 Annual Meeting

National Taiwan Normal University

June 15-18

Event, Nonevent, Unevent

Organizer:

Gabriel Quigley, New York University (gabriel.quigley@nyu.edu)

“the event...brings to pass ‘something other’ than the situation, opinions, instituted knowledges...a hazardous, unpredictable supplement, which vanishes as soon as it appears.” – Alain Badiou, Ethics

Call for Proposals: Film History Book Series

We are seeking proposals for complete/in-progress/planned manuscripts and edited collections for a proposed book series. The series will focus on film history: both the history of film as media texts and the history/evolution of the cinematic apparatus. 

RIT press has expressed interest in this series and has asked that we secure some projects before moving forward with approval.  

Potential topics include but are not limited to: 

The 53rd annual NeMLA Convention will be held March 10-13, 2022 in Baltimore, MD. More information here: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

This seminar invites 250-350 word abstracts for papers that will be circulated in February 2022, prior to the convention. During the seminar itself, session participants will briefly present their work before participating in a discussion with other panelists. Proposed papers should situate Soviet literature and/or other cultural products within a postcolonial context, or explain how postcolonial theory must be modified when applied in post-Soviet spaces. Please read the detailed CFP below:

CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS

DEADLINE EXTENDED: 10/16/2021

Moving Words: Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies and Practices

We are seeking 350-word abstracts for approximately 5,000-word chapters for an edited book collection that explores the impact(s) of multimodal and digital media on both the teaching and the craft of creative writing.

Call for Papers

We invite abstracts for a new book of original essays which explore the meaning and/or function of still or moving bodies of water -- lakes, rivers, the sea, gulfs, streams, ponds, canals -- in narratives by African Americans.

This issue of Between aims to investigate the phenomenology of simulacra and their range of functions (conceptual, cultural, literary, aesthetic, and in the media). What is meant here by “simulacrum” is any artificial creature that imitates or replicates the outward form and/or behaviour of living beings, especially human beings. When it comes to artefacts produced by technology – conceived in its broader sense as techne, and therefore also including magic and art – the simulacrum reveals itself as marked by operational autonomy and a variable degree of awareness.

Plato and Aristotle disagreed about the value of mimetic representations, but they agreed that humans are mimetic animals—for good and ill.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION

The 2022 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference Committee and the University of Tennessee Graduate Students in English invite proposals for presentations for the 2022 NEXUS Interdisciplinary Conference: “Community and Collaboration: How the Light Gets In.” NEXUS is a biennial, interdisciplinary conference hosted by the graduate students in the University of Tennessee’s English Department in Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference will be held March 4-6, 2022 and will feature keynote speakers Ross Gay, Maren Linett, and Josh Eyler.