CFP—“Exercises in Joyful Improvisational Practice”

liquid blackness: journal of aesthetics and black studies issue 9.1, Spring 2025

This Special Issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787) seeks to elicit original essays examining the intersections of medicine and literature (broadly understood). Essays exploring any cultural context from c. 1800 to the present day are welcome. Possible contributions might address, but are not limited to, topics such as:

Hongyang Ji, and Wei Zeng hji4@ualberta.ca; wzeng4@ualberta.ca

Penal Proposal for MLA conference

The Contemporary Traveling of Pre-14th Century Chinese Classical Texts

Technology can both protect and violate human rights. How does such paradox inform imperialism, and appear in the post-9/11 cultural representations including film, literature, music, and visual arts? Email 300 words abstract with bios.

Deadline for submissions: Friday, 17 March 2023

Muhammad Waqar Azeem, Binghamton U, SU of New York (mazeem1@binghamton.edu )

This CFP is posted on MLA Website here: https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper23490.html

Celebrating Virginia Woolf's Eighteenth Century

Beyond her call to lay flowers on Aphra Behn’s grave or taking her “Common Reader” from Samuel Johnson, Woolf’s engagement with the eighteenth-century was profound. Proposal might consider aesthetics, visual and literary history, fashion and decor, print culture and/or printing technology, waxworks, politics, etc.
 

ASECS/IVWS joint-session

Modern Language Association MLA 2024, Philadelphia

Miriam Wallace, New C of Florida (mwallace@ncf.edu ) Laura Engel, Duquesne University (engell784@duq.edu )

Dr. JT Torres of Quinnipiac University and I will be moderating an inclusive pedagogy roundtable at PAMLA in Portland, OR. The conference, which will be held in person, will take place from October 26-29, 2023. The deadline to submit abstracts to the roundtable is May 31st.

A brief description of the session is below,, and the full panel description, with a link to submit an abstract, can be accessed here. (To submit an abstract, I believe you'll need to create a PAMLA account and log in.) 

CFP: Langston Hughes Society Panel at the Modern Language Association

January 4-7, 2024, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Not Without Laughter: Langston Hughes and His Contemporaries

The Langston Hughes Society is pleased to invite proposals for a guaranteed session to be held at the 2024 Modern Language Association Convention (MLA2024) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:

The Australasian Journal of American Studies or AJAS (ISSN 0705-7113) is the official journal of the Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association. It aims to publish the best submissions from around the world on all themes and all periods relating to United States history, culture, politics, film, literature, and society. We are currently seeking book and film, documentary and television reviews for our 2023 issues, scheduled for July and December. We also invite EoIs from prospective contributors to our peer-reviewed section of articles, though these would be scheduled for our late 2023 or 2024 issues.

Call for proposals for a rountable at MLA 2024 (Philadelphia)

LIT Special Issue CFP: Beyond Binaries: Theoretical Approaches to Decolonization in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures of the Global South

Deadline for submissions of papers: July 15, 2023

Full name / name of organization: LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

Contact email: litjourn@yahoo.com

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multicultural Connections

When:  April 13 and 14, 2023

Where:  Zoom video conference

Submission Deadline:  April 2, 2023

Notification:  April 5, 2023

Octave Mirbeau : vie et fiction, théâtre, critique d'art et amitiés
Octave Mirbeau. Life and Fiction, Drama, Art Criticism, and Friendships

2023 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention

CALL FOR PAPERS / Appel à contributions

Deadline for Abstracts: April 1, 2023
Conference Dates: October 11-14, 2023
Conference Location: Denver, Colorado

Frederic Leveziel, University of South Florida, fleveziel@usf.edu

Welcomes proposals of 50 to 100 words on Mirbeau’s Fiction, Drama, Art Criticism, and Friendships in French or English. Please include name, affiliation, address, telephone, and email.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute to the progress of our society.

Nelson Mandela******

Organization: Benedictine University Mesa

Event: International Interdisciplinary Conference “Achieving Stability during Unstable Times”

Keynote Speaker: Professor Fernando Romero

DEADLINE EXTENDED - deadline for submissions: March 24 2023

Contemporary Modernisms - Call for Papers 

Institute of English and American Studies and the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform

Goethe University Frankfurt

25th–27th May 2023 

Confirmed Speakers:

John Brannigan (University College Dublin)

Julie McCormick Weng (Texas State University)

Václav Paris (City University of New York)

Barry Sheils (Durham University)