The Willa Cather Foundation will sponsor 1-2 panels at the American Literature Association’s 35th Annual Conference, to be held at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, May 23-26, 2024. Proposals on any topic related to Cather’s life and writing will be considered, including but not limited to:

- New approaches to Cather studies 

- Cather and her contemporaries

- Cather and authorship, circulation, reception, and/or publishing

- Teaching Cather 

- Environmental and ecocritical themes 

- Material culture

- Digital/computational approaches to Cather studies

- Cather's correspondence

Conference, 13-14 June 2024, Université de Haute-Alsace, France | Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures Européennes (ILLE)

Working languages: French, English

DETECTING [SERIAL] KILLING
14-16 NOVEMBER 2024
Interdisciplinary online conference

Our 2022 Framing (Serial) Killing: Changing Narratives conference demonstrated that the turns in the (serial) killing narratives, including the decline of the celebrity-like status the perpetrators enjoyed in the 1980s and 1990s, growing popularity of police professionals, more pronounced female characters, or victim-oriented discourse, are a work in progress.

The Association of Adaptation Studies 19th Annual Conference

TIME AND SPACE IN ADAPTATION

5-7 June 2024

Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, Poland

 The conference will address the themes of temporality and spatiality and their relation to adaptation.

What scares us? Why do we sleep with the lights on? What creatures wait to grab a foot sticking out from under the covers? Why do we avoid the woods after dark?

This special issue of Humanities is themed on “Re-Imagining Classical Monsters.” Acrossall cultures, there have been monsters that have terrified, taught, othered, and much more. This issue will take a broad look at how modern authors and artists across genres conceptualize creatures—non-human as well as human—that haunt the imagination.

CFP: Law, Culture, and Humanities 26th Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, May 17-18, 2024

Senses of Law

Law is heard, seen, experienced, felt, and understood in many ways. This year’s theme invites submissions on legal senses, sensibilities, and sensations. What satisfies “the sense of justice”? What makes for a legal sensation? How does law depend on, appeal to, or defy common sense(s)? What are the different sensibilities that law creates, cultivates, challenges, and ignores? How do the meanings that law takes for granted, or brings into being, fall differently on different ears?

McGill University, English Graduate Student Association’s Annual Conference

April 6-7, 2024, Montréal QC

“Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing,

in whatever arena we choose.”

–Audre Lorde (“Learning from the 60s”)

The English Graduate Student Association of McGill invites proposal submissions of academic

papers on the topic of “Metamorphosis” for its’ 2024 annual conference.

A term commonly associated with biological processes, mythical transformations, and uncannily

large insects, “metamorphosis” may refer to many kinds of change, whether physical, formal,

Sex, Scandal, and Sensation

Tuesday 2 July 2024 to Thursday 4 July 2024 

Falmouth University, UK, in partnership with City University, Hong Kong

In 2014 Falmouth University hosted the hugely successful Haunted Landscapes conference, which was followed in 2023 by Haunted Landscapes: Nature, Super-Nature, and Global Environments. Sex, Scandal, and Sensation is the third conference in this series. It will, like its predecessors, be held in beautiful Cornwall on the Falmouth Campus amidst lush tropical gardens, only a short walk from the picturesque town and its beaches.

Open Section

 At the end of autumn 2024, the e-journal CLOSURE once again offers a forum for all facets of comic research. From cultural, visual and media studies to social or natural sciences and beyond: issue eleven of CLOSURE will publish essays and reviews that deal with the ›state of the comic‹. Whether detailed analysis, comic theory or innovative new approaches – our open section welcomes a diverse range of interdisciplinary studies of all things ›comics‹.  

 Thematic Section: »The End is Here«

Call for Papers on James Joyce and Emerging Fields of Study

Following a year’s hiatus, Joyce Studies Annual has begun reviewing submissions for future issues. Under the new editorial direction of co-editors Keri Walsh and Christopher GoGwilt, JSA seeks to nurture a diverse range of creative and scholarly work intersecting with Joyce studies.

GEO Conference 2023-24 Call for Papers: Displacement

The University of Maryland’s Graduate English Organization invites proposals relating to the theme of “Displacement” for our 17th annual conference, to be held hybrid/in-person on March 8th, 2024.

Displacement can refer to the forced migration and movements of peoples across the globe over centuries. From slavery to the internal displacement of peoples and the contemporary refugee crisis, the term allows us to connect the literary with the cultural and the political in myriad ways.

Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World 

International Conference

University of Turin, Italy

Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Modern Cultures 

March 21-22, 2024 

What is left of myths in contemporary arts and literature?

As founding narratives or idealized representations of historical figures, myths have, from time immemorial, tied humans together, creating communities that grow into organized societies. They have therefore become the safeguards of a vision of History that the arts and literature have ceaselessly spun into stories, in order to better transgress, deconstruct or simply revisit an ever-changing mythos. Contemporary stories reshape the contours of an all-too-often glorified past and they question our cultural heritage at the same time as rekindling it.

Our meeting will be devoted to exploring the main problems of contemporary literary culture. Embracing the foundational principles of Stefan Żółkiewski and equally foundational, though alternative, suggestions by Janusz Sławiński, we perceive it as an integral part of global social/cultural communication (the roles of writers, models, and the circulation of literature) along with specialized infrastructure (publishing, institutions, magazines/media, the literary market – the so-called literary life). It is also a dynamic system of author-reader relations and a set of dispositions/skills (knowledge, taste, competence) enabling a sense-making engagement with literary texts.