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Victorian Energies: Special Journal Issue CFP

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:31am
Victorian Review
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 1, 2024

“Victorian Energies: Sucrocultures, Carbocultures, and Petrocultures in the Long Nineteenth Century"Victorian Review Special Issue 

Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2024
Paper Submission Deadline: April 1, 2025

Blackface Performances in Latin America and the Caribbean

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:29am
2025 NeMLA Panel Philadelphia
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

This panel, organized by Chisu Teresa Ko (Ursinus College) and Danielle Roper (University of Chicago), invites papers that further the study and theorization of blackface and racial impersonation in Latin America and the Caribbean across various historical periods, genres and forms. As both a racial archive and racial project, blackface performance is the instrument through which people make sense of changes around them— advancements and reversals in racial equality, demographic and political shifts, and (re-) imaginations of national identity.

Twenty-third Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:29am
Claflin University
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 14, 2024

Call for Papers

 

 

Twenty-third Claflin University Conference on English and Language Arts Pedagogy in Secondary and Postsecondary Institutions (In-person on the campus of Claflin University) *

October 22-23, 2024

THEME: BORDERS AND MIGRATIONS

Tuesday, October 22, 2024, Concurrent sessions

 

11 AM EST Keynote address: “Passport Power: Time, borders, and migrations”

                   Noora A. Lori, Ph.D., Associate Professor of International Relations,

                   Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University, Boston, MA

 

Let’s Talk about the ‘Hidden Curriculum’: Graduate Student Q&A

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:28am
Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

CfP: Let’s Talk about the ‘Hidden Curriculum’ (Roundtable) 

Northeast Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) annual convention

Philadelphia, PA

March 6 - 9, 2025

Submission Deadline: September 30, 2024 through NeMLA portal: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21038

 

Subtle Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirabilis at NeMLA

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Dr. Galen Bunting (Northeastern University) and Dr. Jared Young (SUNY Orange Community College) / Northeast Modern Language Association
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

"Suble Modernist Revolutions: 1925 as Annus Mirablis" invites abstract submissions for our panel at NeMLA 2025 (March 6-9, Philadelphia). A centennial has passed since 1925, a watershed year of subtle Modernist revolution. If we look to 1925 as a year of subtle Modernist revolution, where Modernist literature found its footing as a revolutionary art movement, what symbols, patterns, or commentaries emerge through the exercise of Modernist techniques? Moreover, where has this revolutionary movement engendered revolutions–the cycling and recycling of certain formal interventions? What writing practices still echo through contemporary literature today and what are their implications?

NeMLA 2025 Seminar CfP: Research Colloquium for Graduate Students in German Studies (Philadelphia, PA)

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Veronica Williamson / University of Michigan
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Call for Papers:

Writing both shorter (forum posts, book reviews, and seminar papers) and longer pieces (dissertations and book-length manuscripts) is an integral part of any graduate program in the Humanities. Yet many candidates find themselves completing these pursuits as an end point, rather than as part of a larger journey. Some, for example, may find the process too focused on traditional methods of publishing, while others may find themselves yearning to submit selected works to academic journals. As a result, researching and writing do not look or feel the same for everyone, and no single mentor can fulfill every need of any single candidate or scholar.

Narrative: Identity, Temporality, and Interdisciplinarity

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
56th NeMLA Annual Convention
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

Scholars of postmodern philosophy have developed a notion that “narration constitutes an act of forming identity further and suggests that a human being needs a life story in order to develop fully as a person” (Meyers 2018). Postmodern literature challenges traditional narrative conventions by embracing a more fragmented, non-linear, and self-referential narrative style (Zaidi & Khurram (2020). This shift can be viewed as a revolutionary dissent against modernism's emphasis on coherence and narrative closure or evolving narrative forms to reflect changing temporal experiences.

Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Anna Dini, UC Berkeley
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Please consider submitting an abstract to the following panel at the International Congress on Medieval Studies sponsored by Italian Studies@Kalamazoo. The deadline for submissions is September 15, and the conference will take place from May 8-10, 2025 on the campus of Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Please note that this panel is a traditional in-person session.

Session #5940

Bad Bodies: Materiality and Performativity in the Medieval Mediterranean

Organizers: Catherine Bloomer and Anna Dini

CFP Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:27am
Michael A Torregrossa /Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

 

Session Information

The Arthurian story is one of rise, fall, and promised return. 

 

SCMS 2025 roundtable CFP: De-centering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) Chicago April 3-6, 2025
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

This roundtable titled Monster on the Hill: Decentering Whiteness in Contemporary Horror is interested in questions facing the Horror Genre in its new contemporary era. In the wake of “Black Horror” being deemed “America’s Most Powerful Cinematic Genre” by the New York Times, and the success of auteurs such as Jordan Peele, Nia Dacosta, Iris K. Shim, and more, we seek to think through what are the most important questions facing those reinventing the horror genre in ways that de-center a white western lens? How might we conceptualize horror as a genre that demands both solidarity and betrayal from its viewers, while unifying marginalized populations across the global south and north?

Emerging Scholars: Knowledge Production in Crisis

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 9:26am
Canadian Literature
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, February 28, 2025

Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 (Pacific Time)

Submission length: 5,000-8,000 words (including works cited and notes)

Guest Editors: Z. N. Dylan Jackson, amanda wan, Emma Gilroy (University of British Columbia)

 

“London Calling”: The British Capital in Popular Culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:02am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the city that is London. Held online on Thursday 5th and Friday 6th of December 2024.

London is one of the great cities of the world and has witnessed many events, both fictional and real. This conference aims to explore the multiple ways London has been depicted in popular culture, from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

“Love Conquers All”: Exploring the Popular Culture Phenomenon of Bridgerton

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual conference exploring all things Bridgerton to be held online on Thursday 30th January 2025.

From a popular book series to the Netflix phenomenon, Bridgerton has captured the public imagination, courted scandal and dazzled readers and audiences with a glittering reimagining of regency London.

We welcome papers from researchers across the academic spectrum and encourage papers from postgraduate researchers and early career researchers. We welcome individual papers, panels and round table submissions. Papers from this conference will have the opportunity to be in our sister journal The International Journal of Popular Culture Studies.

History and Nostalgia: The 1950s in popular culture

updated: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024 - 3:01am
PopCRN - the Popular Culture Research Network
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, January 31, 2025

PopCRN (the Popular Culture Network) will be holding a free virtual symposium exploring the 1950s in popular culture. Held online on Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of March 2025.

The 1950s was the decade where the world began to recover from the tragedy of the Second World War. This conference aims to explore both the popular culture of the 1950s, and how the 1950s have been depicted in the popular culture of other eras.

“Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh Discourse”

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 6:24am
Sikh Formations Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Special Forum on “Locating Nikki Haley in Sikh and South Asian Discourse”

Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture and Theory

 

Edited by Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UC Irvine and 

Rishi Ramesh Gune, Doctoral Student in Culture and Theory, UC Irvine 

Submissions Due: October 1st, 2024

Publication: Rolling Basis 

 

General Call for Papers

updated: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 - 12:48am
Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies
deadline for submissions: 
Thursday, August 15, 2024

Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies (LLIDS), an open-access peer-reviewed academic e-journal, invites original and unpublished research papers and book reviews from various interrelated disciplines including, but not limited to, literature, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, sociology, law, ecology, environmental science, and economics.

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:41pm
Brooke Cameron and Noah Gallego
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 13, 2024

Dark Entries: Rethinking the Horror in Folk Horror

 

Deadline: Friday, September 13, 2024

Symposium Date: Friday, October 11, 2024

Format: Online (via Zoom, EST)

Abstract: 150 words + short biographical statement + time zone

Submit to: brooke.cameron@queensu.ca and noahrgallego@gmail.com

Organizers: Brooke Cameron, Ph.D. (Queens’ University at Kingston, Ontario, CA) and Noah Gallego, M.A. (California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, USA)

“What about It?”: Science, Nature, Self, and Cummings' Modernist Aesthetics  (9/5/16; Louisville, 2/23-25/17)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:13pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Monday, September 5, 2016

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 45th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2017, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). This session welcomes papers on elements of Cummings’ modernism, cultural aesthetics, genre issues and visual effects, critical reception, and interactions with other modernists.

“living said”: Modernist Rhythm, Visual Form, and Cummings' Cultural Aesthetics

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
E.E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 8, 2017

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society's journal, Spring, invites abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 46th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2018, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).  Taking up what Cummings means by “my specialty is living said,” this session explores Cummings’ various modernist/avant-gardist experiments with rhythm and sound that came to shape his new art and new poetry.

“)one’s eye / / perceives”: New Approaches to E. E. Cummings (deadline extended)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 49th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 24-26, 2022, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). Recent criticism of the works of Cummings has gone beyond his well-documented engagement with modernist aesthetic and poetic innovations. From Cummings’ visual and temporal poetics, to iconic meta-sonnets and rhythmic portraiture, to iconicity and ecology, and even to disability studies, the iconoclasm of Cummings in art and language presents a multi-dimensional i/eye that perceives and receives.

“(i salute thee”: Receptions and Translations of E. E. Cummings (deadline 10/8/22; Louisville, 2/23-25/23)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:12pm
The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, September 9, 2022

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 50th annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 23-25, 2023, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com). 

“precision which makes movement”: E. E. Cummings’ Affective, Kinetic Modernism (deadline 9/30/23; Louisville, 2/22-24/24)

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
The E. E. Cummings Society
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, September 30, 2023

The E. E. Cummings Society and the Society’s journal, Spring, invite abstracts for 20-minute papers for the 51st annual Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, February 22-24, 2024, at the University of Louisville (http://www.thelouisvilleconference.com).

Special issue of Theatre Journal on the Transnational Erotic

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:08pm
Laura Edmondson/Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Saturday, February 1, 2025

This special issue, “The Transnational Erotic,” aims to challenge and refuse Western-centric understandings of sexuality, gender, and desire in the context of theatre, dance, and performance studies. Theatre Journal has cultivated a distinguished tradition of making theoretical and historiographical interventions vis-à-vis gender, sexuality, and performance; this issue aims to expand upon and complicate that tradition through an emphasis on diaspora, decolonization, and the Global South.

Special issue of Theatre Journal on Magic

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:07pm
Laura Edmondson/Theatre Journal
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

For this special issue on “Magic,” Theatre Journal invites submissions that consider magic as concept and practice, broadly construed, with a particular interest in how magic aligns with other terms like alchemy, transformation, trickery, prophecy, conjuring, and ceremony. Magical practices, phenomena, practitioners, and events are not often at the forefront of theatre, performance, and dance studies’ scholarship. Through categorization as, on the one hand, popular entertainment, and, on the other hand, a component of spiritual or ritual practice, magic has seemed beyond the scope of the concert and/or avant-garde traditions that have tended to dominate Eurocentric theatre history and theory.

Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations

updated: 
Tuesday, August 13, 2024 - 12:27am
Chongshin Univ, Korea National Open Univ, Seoul National Univ
deadline for submissions: 
Friday, November 15, 2024

Shakespeare first travelled to the Korean peninsula at the turn of the twentieth century and has since enjoyed enduring popularity in classrooms, on the stage, and far beyond. The playwright's work has provided and continues to provide fertile ground for performance, from direct Korean-language stagings to hybrid productions which marry the Shakespearean text to Korean cultural forms such as operatic changgeuk and the traditional musical storytelling medium of pansori. Our proposed collection of essays, Hanguk Shakespeare: Korean Receptions and Transformations, aims to explore the rich tradition of Shakespeare in Korea from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day in all its various forms and manifestations.

CFP Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 12:00pm
Michael A Torregrossa / Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association
deadline for submissions: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Medieval Monsters as Modern Monsters: Exploring Continuums of the Monstrous (virtual)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture and Monsters & the Monstrous Area of the Northeast Popular Culture Association

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa

 

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

 

Session Information

 

(Deadline Extended) Man and the Machine: Exploring the Future of AI Literature

updated: 
Monday, August 12, 2024 - 10:33am
Dr. Sourav Kumar Nag, Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Onda Thana Mahavidyalaya, Bankura University
deadline for submissions: 
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

The primary aim of this edited volume is to explore the word ‘Literature’ in the age of AI. Etymologically, the Latin word litteratura is derived from littera (Latin) meaning the ‘smallest element of alphabetical writing’ (Klarer 1). The word ‘literature,’ then means, any writing e.g., a medical prescription, usage instruction written on the bottle of shampoo or maybe a cautionary warning on the packet of cigarettes. To specify the particular type of literature we use the term ‘Creative Literature’ (called the Literature of Power by Rees).

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