Call for Papers

South Asian Review Special Issue on Sri Lanka

 “Global Sri Lankan Literature and Culture”

We are seeking contributors to a special issue or edited volume on representations of ethnic deportations from Eastern and Central Europe to the Soviet Union (1930-during and after WWII) favoring representations from ethnic minority groups. Articles are not limited to but can focus on:

• First and second generation memory, postmemory (Hirsch) as expressed in life-writing, literary representations of all genres, art of all genres

• On “portable monuments” (Rigney), narratives/stories/histories that could be re-written, appropriated, and transformed in new contexts

Read full call here: https://csalateral.org/upcoming/#digital-platforms-agency

How do digital platforms shape our agency, and how do we shape digital platforms in turn? What is the role of digital platforms in forming our social, cultural, and political practices?  How and whom do digital platforms (dis)empower? This special section of Lateral invites scholars from diverse fields to advance critical cultural inquiry at the convergence of platforms and agency on digital, networked, and/or new media. 

Call for Papers

Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger and Stella Maris

A Special Symposium

Sponsored by the Cormac McCarthy Society

Creighton University

Omaha, Nebraska

Sept 21-23, 2023

Papers are welcome on any aspect of McCarthy’s most recent novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris. Submit one-paragraph abstracts to cormacmccarthysociety@gmail.com b

TEXT Journal of Writing and Writing Courses welcomes submission of research articles on creative and professional writing and processes, the teaching of writing and related issues. TEXT also welcomes the submission of creative work, book reviews, and scholarly interviews providing that the matter of the creative work concerns exploration of creativity, or the nature and processes of creative writing, or the nature and processes of the teaching of writing, or investigation of creative practice research in a creative writing context. Our southern winter reading period is open 1 May to 31 July 2023. TEXT occasionally publishes specific-topic collections or longer works in its Special Issue Series.

The 2023 conference for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, UK and Ireland (ASLE-UKI) will be hosted by the Literature and Science Hub at the University of Liverpool. ASLE-UKI welcomes participation from scholars, readers, and creative practitioners interested in the relationships between literatures, environments and cultures – past, present, or future from anywhere in the world.

Response and Responsibility: Reframing Women’s Literature in the Age of Precarity

MMLA 2023

 “Precarity is a politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support.” (Butler, “Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity,” 25)  

XXVII AISNA Biennial Conference

University of Perugia

Call for proposals – panel #20 on “Affective and Relational Responses to Vulnerability in Twenty-First-Century U.S. Narratives”

Coordinators: Virginia Pignagnoli and Laura Roldan-Sevillano 

Proposal deadline: 7 May 2023

Call for Submissions

Sankofa: A Journal of African Children’s and Young Adult Literature is accepting scholarly article submissions for its Spring 2024 (Vol. 14) publication. Sankofa welcomes articles that relate to one of the following areas:

(1)    “The African Scene,” which provides critical, scholarly articles about African children’s book authors and illustrators, trends and development in book production for children in Africa, or an examination of a specific genre or theme within African children’s, adolescent, or young adult literature (4,000-8,000 words).

Call for papers for an international in-person conference on speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy fiction to be held in Milan, Italy, October 18-20, 2023. The conference is organized and hosted by IULM University of Milan, in collaboration with Complutense University of Madrid and the HISTOPIA research group.

Fields of interest: literature, cinema, TV series, comics, games/videogames, new media, cultural studies.

The UNESCO Chair on Cyberspace and Culture and University of Tehran are organizing the 2023 Media and Information Literacy Seminar with the main theme of “A Collective Global Agenda” on Wednesday, 25 October 2023, which coincides with the World Development Information Day and United Nations Day.

The Sixth Media and Information Literacy (MIL) Seminar commemorates the 12th Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (24 – 31 Oct) that highlights the 13th Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue Conference and the seventh Youth Agenda Forum.

Henri Bergson was a French philosopher and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1927. Bergson’s lectures were popular with not only academia, but public audiences as well. Bergson influenced the literary work of authors like Borges, Proust, and Woolf as well as the philosophical work of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Deleuze. In addition, Bergson, a talented mathematician, debated Einstein on the nature of relativity. Bergson’s work has had instrumental influence in the virtual reality gaming industry. Considering Bergson’s influence in art and science, this panel offers unbounded opportunities to explore and unpack his narratives as they relate to any number of themes related to shifting perspectives.

    Historically in the United States of America, immigrants of Asian origin have been the subject of extremely violent legal measures—one need only recall the 1882 “Chinese Exclusion Act” or the other major laws against the naturalization of Asians voted in 1924 and 1934.

CONFERENCE TO BE HELD November 9-11, 2023 in Philadelphia, PA, USA

Travel and Tourism Studies as a discipline continues to gain popularity in academia, in part because of its inter-disciplinary nature. The Travel and Tourism area seeks papers that discuss and explore any aspect of travel and/or tourism. Topics for this area include, but are not limited to, the following:

- travel and gender/race/class
- travel and religion
- travel and war
- personal travel narratives
- heritage tourism
- material culture and tourism

***VIRTURAL Travel and Tourism! How has lockdown affected travel around the globe?***