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Global Cinema Symposium
Organized by the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities, and Technology
Nov. 1-2, 2024
In-person at the University of Texas at Dallas
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Lúcia Nagib (University of Reading)
Dr. Lalitha Gopalan (University of Texas at Austin)
Philip Roth Studies is now accepting submissions for a special Spring 2025 issue on the topic of “Roth’s Redemptive Aesthetics.” Approaches to this subject might include but are not limited to the nature of redemption – its possibilities, its limitations, its origins—as represented in any of Roth’s works of fiction; Roth’s managing of literary legacy; the use of alternative histories (personal or social/political) in the interest of redemption; art, literature, music as a vehicle for redemption in Roth’s fiction; the redemptive possibilities of Roth’s prose style. Other approaches and interpretations are welcome.
Purpose: To provide support for graduate student travel to present or conduct research (such as, but not limited to, archival or ethnographic) related to theatre and performance in the Americas. Awardees will receive $500, a one-year free membership to ATDS, and recognition during ATDS’s 2024 awards ceremony/annual membership meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.
Eligibility: Any student currently enrolled in a graduate program in theatre/performance studies (or related studies) is eligible. Students need not be members of ATDS at the time of application but preference will be given to ATDS members. Please note that the applicant must still be in graduate school during the proposed time of use for the award.
Call for papers
Narratives and the Social Sciences. Interdisciplinary Perspectives
University of Palermo, Italy
Department Cultures and Societies
International Conference
26th, 27th, 28th June, 2024
Building 16, Room D2
Viale delle Scienze, Palermo
Deadline for abstracts: April 20th, 2024
In the opening of When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold (2022), Alia Trabucco Zerán meditates on the still-prevalent taboo surrounding violence committed by women: “A woman who kills … is twice outside the law: outside both the codified laws and the cultural laws that define and regulate femininity.” In identifying violent women’s twofold transgressiveness, Trabucco Zerán also articulates a desire to justify her own interest in writing about violent women, framing the book as a feminist project through which women’s rage, disobedience, and brutality are recovered and reconsidered to broaden conceptualisations of womanhood.
In The Psychology of Clothes (1940), the psychoanalyst John Carl Flügel contends that there is a central tension in human psychology between the desire for modesty through concealment of the body and the desire for exhibitionism through decoration of the body.
Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship
FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic, August 23, 2024; hybrid
Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2024
Petra Dominkova
Cfp Between XV.29 (May 2025). “Gothic Technologies”
Edited by Anna Chiara Corradino (University of Potsdam), Massimo Fusillo (Scuola Normale Superiore), Marco Malvestio (University of Padua)
Submission deadline: September 30, 2024
Publication date: May 30, 2025
In keeping with the conference theme “Health in/of the Humanities” the permanent session of the Shakespeare and Shakespearean Criticism panel is soliciting presentations that address illness and health in the work, criticism, or teaching of Shakespeare. The panel welcomes papers that approach illness and health expansively, including mental health, the body politic, and the place of Shakespeare (without presupposing there is one) in the health of the humanities.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and brief bio or c.v. to Jeanette Goddard at goddardj@trine.edu by April 15.
The MMLA conference will be held in Chicago, IL November 14-16, 2024.
Call For Papers
Dedication: Unfurling Vernon Lee’s Kinship Networks
An International Vernon Lee Society Symposium
Online, 16 & 17 October 2024
In the essay ‘New Friends and Old’ in Hortus Vitae: Essays on the Gardening of Life (1903), Vernon Lee writes:
Scalability, Commodity Liveliness, and Difference: Recent Transformations in South Asian Economies, Environments, and Politics
Call for Papers: Eudora Welty Review
Special Topic: “Welty and Children”
Submission deadline: September 1, 2024
Call for Papers Apocalyptica
Apocalyptica is an international, interdisciplinary, open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at Heidelberg University.
Editors: Robert Folger, Felicitas Loest, and Jenny Stümer
Article length: 8,000-9,000 words
Deadline: Year-round – 1 September 2024 (for our next issue)
Contact: publications@capas.uni-heidelberg.de
I'm thrilled to invite submissions for a volume entitled Trespassing in the Archive: Poetry in Conversation with History, which is under contract with Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
CFP for Volume 30 of the European Journal of English Studies to be published in 2026
“Medical Objects in Illness Narratives”
Guest editors: Polina Mackay (University of Nicosia), Cristina Hurtado-Botella (University of Murcia), Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley (University of the Arts London)
The American Folklore Society invites you to submit a proposal for its 136th Annual Meeting November 6-9, 2024 online and in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Call for Papers (Issue 35): Emotion and Affect
Deadline extended to the 15th of April
Call for Papers: Regular Issue July 2024
International Review of Literary Studies
Deadline: May 30, 2024
The International Review of Literary Studies (IRLS) invites scholars and researchers to submit their original contributions for publication in our peer-reviewed open-access journal with no submission/publication fee. IRLS is dedicated to advancing the literary studies field by publishing high-quality research articles, review papers, and book reviews informed by Literary and Cultural Theory.
Katherine Mansfield: Spaces, Places, Traces
IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
June 14th–16th 2024
An international conference organised by the Katherine Mansfield Society
Hosted by the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire
The Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities at Kaunas University of Technology together with the Lithuanian Museum of Education are organizing a scientific research conference that is aimed to discuss various aspects and issues about the rapid development of language industry and possibilities of artificial intelligence application that change the turn of scientific research, methodological approaches and, at the same time, increase the access of the society to information in native and foreign languages.
The Permanent Section for African Literature of the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) requests abstracts for this year’s conference which will be in-person in Chicago, Illinois.
We are soliciting manuscripts for monographs or edited collections that examine the topic of Generation X for our new series titled Generation X : Studies in Culture, Demographics, and Media Representation. Academics and non-academics alike from all generational backgrounds are welcomed to submit abstracts and/or completed manuscripts for review. Projects will be published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Moving from silence into speech is for the oppressed, the colonized, the exploited, and those who stand and struggle side by side, a gesture of defiance that heals, that makes new life, and new growth possible. It is that act of speech, of “talking back” that is no mere gesture of empty words, that is the expression of moving from object to subject, that is the liberated voice.’
bell hooks, “Talking Back.” Discourse (1986), p. 128.
Call for Book Chapters to Complete Collection:
Louisiana and the Caribbean: Interrogating Contemporary Literary and Cultural Connections
**A press has already expressed interest but we just need a few more chapters to complete the collection**
The 121st Annual PAMLA Conference
The PAMLA 2024 Conference will be held at the Margaritaville Resort in Palm Springs, California (formerly the Riviera Resort, a favorite hangout of Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and other Hollywood and musical stars) between Thursday, November 7 and Sunday, November 10, 2024.
The 2024 PAMLA Conference is being held entirely in-person. We won’t be having any virtual or hybrid sessions or papers.
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
deadline for submissions:
April 05, 2024
full name / name of organization:
Shubhanku Kochar (Ph.D.) and Shehnaz Kabir (Ph.D. Fellow)
contact email:
The Representation of Famines in Indian literatures
The Proposed work will be submitted to Routledge under its ongoing series “South Asian Literature in Focus”
Women and Turkish Shakespeares (Edited Volume)
Contact email: turkishshakespeares@gmail.com
Call for Chapters
Turkey has a long tradition of reading, translating and staging William Shakespeare’s plays as part of the country’s modernisation process. Yet, this long tradition has remained relatively obscure for the majority of both Turkish and non-Turkish academic and non-academic circles.
Description: John Milton is mostly known for writing one of the greatest epics in English, Paradise Lost, but his shorter poems and treatises also contributed greatly to the political and religious conversations of the seventeenth century. The sphere of Milton’s influence was not limited to his time period, but also shaped later periods, including the Romantics, who were fascinated with what they deemed a sympathetic portrayal of Satan.
The Shakespeare session at the RMMLA Conference 2024 is currently accepting submissions for papers on all topics related to Shakespeare. Submissions from Ph.D. candidates and early career scholars are especially encouraged.
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) is a non-profit membership organization, established in 1947, that promotes the study and teaching of language, literature, and culture. The Secretariat and Directorate of the RMMLA is hosted by the University of Wyoming and maintains The Rocky Mountain Review, a scholarly journal included in the JSTOR project and ProjectMUSE at Johns Hopkins University.
Papers (3500-5000 words, following the latest MLA guidelines) are invited on the following broad themes: