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This proposed session at next year's MLA conference invites presentations on the role of labor and working in African-American literature across all historical periods and fields of labor. 250 word abstract to Jacob DeBrock.
Special Session: Moderln Language Association Conference, New Orleans. January 9-12, 2025.
Dear all
Please note we have had to alter the format our conference slightly - we are now hosting a 2 day conference based on 15 minute presentations rather than a day of presentations and a day of performances.
We are especially inviting female contributors as well as new researchers and early researchers in the field of Artaud studies.
Antonin Artaud: New Critical Reflections
Dates: July 30th and 31st 2024, Kingston University, Town house Building (Penrhyn Rd Campus, 30th-31st July)
Eleventh International Iris Murdoch Conference
University of Chichester, 30 August -1 September 2024: First Call for Papers
The Eleventh International Conference on Iris Murdoch studies will take place at the University of Chichester in 2024. The conference will showcase ongoing, and published, Murdoch scholarship with a particular focus on Aspirations and Inspirations.
Website link of the CFP:
https://www.bankurauniv.ac.in/uploads/tempimagepdflink/1707328115.pdf
Focusing on the interplay between “Desire and Collectivity,” the third symposium of The Association of Postcolonial Thought gestures to the many political, personal, and affective drives that structure our orientation to the past and to the possibilities of the present. It likewise speculates about the collectivities such desires engender and the futures they call into being. While the 2022 APT rubric, “Anticolonialism as Theory,” reconsidered the past through the foundations of postcolonial thought, and the 2023 APT topic, “Crisis,” contemplated the calamities of our present, the 2024 theme asks us to envision the possibilities of what could be.
PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) is back with a virtual symposium exploring the criminal in popular culture. To be held online on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd of May 2024.
Crime is one of the most popular genres across the popular culture spectrum. Celebrated detectives, true crime podcasts, police procedurals, the fashion of crime and deviancy, spy, war, political and corporate crimes in film, sport cheats, pickpockets and con artists, glamourous lawyers, innocent victims, and grumpy Judges are just some of the ways crime is represented in popular culture. This conference aims to examine the crime genre in popular culture.
Keynote Speaker
CFP: Small Screen Food: American Identity Through a Culinary Televisual Lens
Salman Rushdie characterized the serial television show “as the novelistic medium of the 21st century,” signifying its emerging importance and elevating its status to a realm traditionally occupied by novels. This shift, propelled by technological advancements and new patterns in media consumption like streaming and binge-watching, highlights televisions’ artistic and cultural importance. Rushdie’s view acknowledges television series as valuable cultural artifacts of considerable artistic depth and cultural weight.
Journal of European Popular Culture (JEPC)
Intellect Publishers
Next issue - call for article/s
This peer-reviewed journal seeks lively submissions for its latest issues on any aspect of European cultural and creative activity.
The next issue is open at present
This peer reviewed journal is interested in contemporary practices, but also in historical, contextual, biographical or theoretical analyses relating to past cultural activities in Europe.
Forthcoming Book Series: Global Historical Fictions
Defining historical fictions as encompassing of many media forms, this book series invites contributions that consider the multiple ways in which we shape history for diverse purposes, and that investigate popular history in a variety of contexts, and modes.
Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, April 26, 2024
Conference Date: Saturday, May 18, 2024
Format: Online (via Zoom)
Abstract: 200-250 words + short biographical statement + time zone
Submit to: wgsebald80conference@gmail.com
EXTENSION OF DEADLINE On account of a technical fault on the British Shakespeare Association website that people were asked to use to submit proposals for papers at this conference, which prevented some people from making their submissions, the organizers of this conference are extending the deadline for submissions to 29 February 2024. Everything else stated below still stands.
British Shakespeare Associatoin 2024 Conference
'Shakespeare's Writing Lives' commemorating the 20th anniversary of the BSA's journal, Shakespeare, 26-28 June 2024, De Montfort University, Leicester.
Arcastar Lerinosse: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Arda. Tolkien Workshop at the University of Freiburg, 28. June 2024
Extended Deadline: March 03 2024.
(Un)Pretty: Interrogations of Beauty in Literature
Call for Proposals
York University English Graduate Students Association Conference
May 10th, 2024
In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry writes:
CFP: Special Issue on Queer Texts for Youth in The Lion and the Unicorn
Academic workshop at the University of Tübingen, Germany
10-12 June 2024 (in person)
In an increasingly globalized world, where a combination of digital technologies and multiple possibilities for migration, as well as the unfortunate realities of regional conflicts and climate change, people are brought together not just across geographical but also socio-cultural barriers. Race, class, gender, and creed, among other factors, come into collusion and synchrony in the most stunning ways to produce more and more questions about the value and meaning of a human life. In this context, the question of authentic voice and its representation looms paramount and the writing of literature its biggest ally.
CALL EXTENDED!!!
Penumbra Journal of Literature and Art at California State University, Stanislaus
Invites Writers and Artists to submit to the following:
The New York City College of Technology (City Tech) Interdisciplinary Studies Committee will host a full-day conference, Common Ground: Making Connections in Interdisciplinary Place-Based Learning,on Friday, October 18, 2024. This conference invites individual presentations, panel presentations, short talks, and workshop proposals that include, but are not limited to, the following topics as they relate to interdisciplinary exploration of the latest educational strategies, innovations, and practices.
Noted Marxist scholar, Kohei Saito in his book, Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy (2018) rightly pointed out that the evolution of society is in close correlation to the trajectory of the progress of technology. Drawing upon the principle of thermodynamics, another notable Marxist scholar, Amy E. Wendling argued in Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation (2009), that purpose of labour had undergone a radical transformation following the progression of technology, allowing for a re-valuation of all material objects. Hence, the use of labour for harnessing natural resources, chiefly for the purpose of sustenance of human life, had been deeply altered by technology.
Women Writing War: Visibility and Representation in South Asian Literary Fiction Abstracts solicited for an MLA 2025 session to explore women's role in writing violence in S Asia. How has the question of visibility and representation affected women's voice and agency? 250-word abstracts, 100-word bios.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Aparajita De, University of the District of Columbia (de.aparajita@gmail.com )
Literary Druid is a journal that fosters research and creative writing in English. It welcomes all nationals to contribute for learning and research purposes. The perspective of Literary Druid is to create a niche platform for academicians and patrons to share their intellect to enrich the English language and Literature. I welcome all to learn and share.
The scientific journal Studia Polensia, published by the Department of Italian Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Pula/Pola, Croatia, is seeking articles for the 2024 issue. The journal publishes theoretical, research and methodological articles in Italian, English and Croatian languages in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary research. The journal follows Open Access politics for all of its content. By submitting an article to the journal, the author implicitly accepts its publication under the license Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). The Authors retain their copyright of the work.
“In a time of destruction, create something”
Maxine Hong Kingston
This year, our theme is “The Resilience of Imagination.” Imagination intrinsically ties into stories and the creative work that creates the world and characters contained within said stories. Imagination does not limit itself just to writers though – anyone who creates or interacts with art relates to imagination. What does imagination mean in a story? How do you use imagination? What does it encompass?
CfP: Decolonizing African Cinema in the Age of Media Streaming: Conference in Honor of Onookome Okome
Date: May 22–24, 2024
Venue: University of Abuja, Nigeria
Abstract Deadline: March 30, 2024
Feedback: April 15, 2024
Registration: May 1 – 21, 2024
Keynote Speaker: Professor Sheila Petty, Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance,University of Regina, Regina, Canada
First Lead Paper Presenters: Dr. Peter Sylvanus Emaeyak, Department of Music, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Call for Papers: ‘Beyond the messy millennial woman: televising perfection, imperfection and resilience’
Abstracts are sought for a proposed special journal issue, for which strong interest has been secured from a Q1 cultural studies journal.
Special issue editors: Dr Laura Minor (University of Salford) and Dr Claire Perkins (Monash University)
Deadline for abstracts: March 28, 2024.
In Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017), James Phelan suggests a transformative approach to narrative theory, shifting the focus from seeing narrative as a mere structural entity to understanding it as a rhetorical act. In this act, the narrator strategically utilizes storytelling tools to achieve specific goals for specific audiences.
The Department of Comparative Indian Language and Literature, University of Calcutta
organises
A Two-Day National Seminar
on
History of Translation of Tribal Literature in India
March 21-22, 2024
Concept Note
State Authoritarianism, Anti-Feminist Movements, and Transnational Feminist Futures
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2024
Organizers: Anat Schwartz (California State University) and Iqra Shagufta Cheema (Graceland University)
We invite paper proposals for the 2024 National Women’s Studies Association’s annual conference in Detroit, MI. The papers may focus on any aspect of the transnational relationship between state authoritarianism, anti-feminist movements, and feminist connections.
AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENTS OF TURKEY JOINT GRADUATE/UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
May 16-17, 2024
Online Conference
Digital Games as Cultural and Literary Narratives
Hosted by
Hacettepe University’s American Studies Department
In collaboration with
the American Studies Departments of Ankara University, Atatürk University, Başkent University, Bilkent University, Dokuz Eylül University, Ege University, Haliç University, and İstanbul University
Call for Papers
Cultural Appropriation, Pedagogy and Higher EducationDebates, Dilemmas, and Future Directions Editors: Dr. Taiwo Afolabi and Dr. Marthinus Conradie Call for Papers Based on the article titled, The fear of cultural appropriation is the beginning of wokeness in learning? Reflections from teaching in Canada (Afolabi 2023), this edited volume investigates cultural appropriation within the context of higher education across cultures and disciplines. In this call for chapters, we proceed from three foundational principles.